Chapter 6: Catching Sparrows for Meat
In winter, snow begins to fall in the winter moon, and by the wax moon, the snow has closed the roads.
Families hardly go out, and families of all ages stay in the house. Even Huang Lao and his family in the town closed their doors in the lunar month and came back to wait for the New Year.
Soybeans can't tell the area of the section, so they can only be sure that this is not the Northeast, because the four seasons are distinct, and there is no kang.
There is no kang, in winter, every family lights a brazier, and a brazier is placed in the house, in which you can roast yams, potatoes, fried corn kernels, and rice kernels.
Pineapple can already walk, swaying, it's easy to fall on her heels, no one can get up for a long time, and she wears too much!
After I came, my grandmother took it for more than ten days, but my grandmother was sick, and Huang Pear came to the third uncle's house to follow the two sisters of Huang Tao and Soybean.
Soybeans belong to the type that likes children and is afraid of children, nothing to tease for a while, idle and bored for a while, if she is brought to the evening doll one day, she will be anxious.
Yellow peaches have a good temperament, and soybeans and pears are basically big with yellow peaches. Dressing and combing hair, eating and bathing......
"Little Yellow Bean, what did you say was catching sparrows today?" As soon as the door curtain was lifted, a cold air rushed in, and Huang Guigui walked in.
"It's too cold, wait until the snow melts a bit." Soybeans are afraid of the cold and do not leave the brazier every day.
"No, you push tomorrow today, tomorrow the day after tomorrow, and wait for the snow to melt, then it will be spring, and it won't melt in two or three months." Everyone in the family can fool around, but the uncle can't fool him.
Little Yellow Pear also said on the side: "Eat meat......"
Huang Dou looked at his brother, sister and uncle, and then looked at the pineapple with a long saliva, and stood up helplessly: "I'll wear another jacket." ”
When the soybean added another jacket, put on a hat, and put on a big scarf, the whole person was like a clumsy little fat bear, and it was estimated that if he fell, he would be like a pineapple, and no one would be able to pull it up.
Huang Dou instructed his brother Huang Delei to find a wooden stick and a rope, and instructed his sister Huang Tao to find out the nest of the little yellow pear. He also instructed the old man to sweep out a clearing outside the courtyard and sprinkle a small handful of rice.
Four people tied ropes to the sticks, and the bamboo baskets were propped up with sticks and covered with the rice, which was close to the inside of the bamboo basket. The other end of the rope was held in their hands, and four people, hid in the courtyard, behind the fence.
After a while, a flock of sparrows flew in, looking left and right, eating and walking, and after a while, several of them walked into the basket.
Huang Guigui was anxious and pulled the rope, but the sparrows did not fly into it, and only three sparrows fell in the bamboo basket.
Huang Delei looked interesting and asked to try it next, Huang Dou nodded, in order of size, it was my brother's turn.
Huang Delei was bold and careful, and when a group of sparrows basically went in, as soon as he pulled the rope, the stick fell, and nine sparrows were deducted from the basket.
Everyone rejoiced, and one by one they were grabbed and tied together with fine hemp rope.
When it was Huang Tao's turn, Huang Tao was a little flustered, used too much force, and moved the basket to a different position, but the sparrows were not caught, and they were all scared away.
As Huang Tao's annoyed voice sounded, the uncle's originally unhappy face turned out to be happy, he was not the last one, no matter what happened later, there was a yellow peach for him at the bottom, and his heart was much better.
Soybeans caught six, and she felt that the sparrows were a little alarmed, and they all turned outside the basket and did not go inside.
Xiao Huang Tao also gave the heavy responsibility of pulling the rope once, with the help of everyone, she even caught two, and looked at the uncle and brothers and sisters with big ignorant eyes, she didn't understand what they were happy about, this was still a doll who didn't know anything.
It's strange that running around in the snow is not cold, it's warmer than sitting in front of a brazier, and everyone has a fine sweat on their foreheads.
Soon, the sparrow catching team gradually grew, and the brothers of the eldest and second uncle's family also came, so everyone simply walked away and went to the field to open a bamboo basket.
Almost every family has such a bamboo basket, when the child is small to make a cradle, when the child is older to make a straw basket, the straw in the countryside wheat field is more scattered, with a bamboo basket to hold a large basket to the stove room, will not be sprinkled all over the ground, very practical.
In the end, almost all the children in the village came out, and in front of the village and behind the house, there were bald spots everywhere.
In the end, even the sparrows learned to be wise, and when they saw something to eat, they chirped far away from the treetops and watched, but did not come down.
At this time, it takes a lot of patience, it snows in winter, sparrows can't find food, they are hungry, and their IQ can only last for a short period of time, and finally they can't help but go in.
In winter, it is so lonely, Huang Dou thinks that she still likes spring and autumn, neither hot nor cold, there are flowers in spring, fruits in autumn, and the climate is pleasant.
After catching sparrows, I came back and fried a pot of yellow peaches, and everyone ate them as snacks, and wanted to eat them, so they put them on the fire and roasted them slightly when they were cold.
More than 20 careful yellow peaches were frozen, and they were said to be kept for the guests to eat during the New Year.
Huang Dou thinks that Huang Tao is really a virtuous little lady of IKEA.
The winter is too depressing, and my mother learned needlework for a few days, barely able to twist and sew a straight line, and can also nail the button by yourself, soybeans are put down, after all, it is still young, learning is to learn, but not in a hurry.
On this day, the snow stopped, and it was difficult to find the sun, Huang Delei and his uncle got up early in the morning to clear the snow in the yard, and built a snowy mountain next to the big snowman.
The uncle and nephew went to Huang Laohan's yard to help clear the snow, and when they went to the yard, they saw that Huang Laohan's yard was clean and clean, and it was swept in the morning.
Although Huang Guigui has been sleeping with Huang Delei, he still goes home to eat every day.
After breakfast, Huang Guigui went to the third brother's house to find Huang Delei and soybeans to go ice skating in the river.
The downstream of the stream in the east of the village is a channel river, which is a tributary, a big lake on the other side of the South Mountain, the big river is called the East Lake, and no one can say where it originates, only that the other end of the East Lake is the sea.
The snow was falling so thick that the stream was no longer visible and covered with snow.
There was already a thick layer of ice in the canal river, and some naughty children couldn't break it with stones.
However, adults will not allow children to go ice skating in the channel river, because the channel river is an artificial river and the river water is too deep.
All the children skate at the end of the stream at the bend of the channel, and the river formed by the natural impact of the river is relatively shallow, and the stream on the mountain passes through this channel of more than 40 meters into the channel river.
Huang Dou took his sister Huang Tao's hand and walked on the ice carefully, not afraid of wrestling but afraid of the ice cracking and falling.
After walking for a while and studying the ice, Huang Dou felt that even if a hundred children walked on the ice, the ice would not collapse, and he began to show off his skills boldly and confidently.
It's a pity that there are no skates, and the cloth shoes are also non-slip, so the best way for Huang Dou to think of is to find a smooth board, tie it up with a rope, and let the child sit on the board and let the big child drag it away.
After playing for two days, everyone lost interest and ran back to the house to hide and refused to come out.
On this day, Huang Laosan and Huang Laosan rushed back from the market together, one foot deep and one foot shallow, and they arrived home after lunch.
Huang Laosan said during the meal that there were no vegetables or live fish to sell in the town, and the only thing he saw was meat, pork, live chickens, and wild game from the mountains.
Now the price of live fish has doubled, and it is more expensive than meat, although the East Lake is not frozen, but the boats that fish in the snow and cold weather have stopped.
Most of the big ships that went to sea were out of service, and they could not set sail until the snow melted in the spring.
You must know that the most important thing in Nanshan Town is fish and shrimp all year round, people here like to eat fish and shrimp, and there are many fish and shrimp and cheap.
In winter, there is the courage to fish in the Lower East Lake, and there is not much of it, and the supply exceeds the demand.
Real fishermen are not poor and can't open the pot, and they basically rarely catch fish in winter.
Huang Dou shook his head: "Dad, let's go catch fish and sell it." ”
Huang Laosan smiled and touched the little girl's soft head: "I can't catch the fish, the ice is too thick, and the fish have sunk to the bottom of the water to sleep." ”
"Dad, let's go to the channel river to catch fish, go a little to the East Lake, let the second uncle and the fourth uncle smash together, and if you smash it, you can catch the fish."
"No, even if my father and uncles smash it together, they can't smash a piece as big as a soybean bed in half a day, and they have to smash all the ice in the river to catch fish. But when we smash it today, it will freeze again at night. ”
"Daddy, you can catch fish by smashing such a big piece of the table." Huang Dou said and gestured with both hands: "Smash the fish and come by yourself." ”
Huang Laosan felt that his daughter just wanted to eat fish, and he thought that it would be okay anyway, so he simply called a few brothers, went to smash them together, and got a few fish to satisfy the children's hunger.
"Okay, dad went to call the uncle after eating, and they helped to smash it together, and smashed the fish to make fish for my soybeans."
Huang San's sister-in-law couldn't help but shake her head when she looked at her daughter and her father, anyway, it's okay to be idle, so let them get it.
In the afternoon, the snow fell again, and it was not heavy, but it drove all the adults and children who were playing outside home.
Huang Laosan looked at the snowflakes floating in the sky and hesitated again. Huang Dou saw that this was going to regret it, and dragged his father out of the door.
When Huang Delei saw it, he and Huang Tao hurriedly picked up the two buckets of water that Huang Dou had instructed them to bring, and followed his father to call the uncles and the uncle's brothers and sisters down the canal river together.
There are five brothers in the Huang family, plus a few little brothers and sisters of Huang Dou's generation, and a group of people brought tools to smash the ice.
The Huang family lived in the east of the village, and a group of them came out, and the whole Zhuangzi was not alarmed.
Hammerheads, shovels, crowbars, the four brothers of the Huang family took turns to fight, Huang Guigui took a few nephews and nieces to help on the side, and smashed it for a while before the ice was chiseled.
Huang Laosan dug a place by the river embankment, stood on the side of the river embankment and began to smash it.
Soon, the ice cracked more and more, and the cracks became more and more.
The four brothers took turns to go up and smash it, and finally, with a bang, a small piece of ice broke and gushed out of the river.
Along the ice that emerged from the river, the ice was knocked in all directions, and more and more ice pieces were broken, and the surface of the river slowly emerged.
"Uncle, drive away the ice, don't float on the water." Soybeans shouted at the top of his voice.
At this moment, it was Boss Huang who was smashing the ice, and when he heard his niece's command, he agreed with a smile, changed the shovel and began to fish for ice, the large pieces were pushed under the ice, and the small pieces were fished to the river embankment with a shovel.
"Big brother, you rest, come for me." Huang Guigui stomped his feet excitedly, if it wasn't too cold, he really wanted to jump into the river to swim twice.
"You stand aside, big brother, I'll come." Huang Laosi said, lifted his youngest brother Huang Guigui aside, and slid down the embankment to replace Huang Laosi.
Huang Laosan also skated in the afternoon, and dug another place where he could stand with a shovel, and helped Huang Laosi clean up the broken ice together.
The shattered ice was quickly cleared out, revealing a piece of the river about a meter or so.
Huang Laosi was still trying to widen a little to the side, when he saw a fish suddenly jump out of the water and land on the cracked ice next to him.
"Ah, fish." Everyone screamed.
For a moment, the whole empty field resounded with shouts and laughter.