Du Mei soaked in the hot springs, saw the sun rise for a while, and quickly disappeared. The mountain was dark, the fog was shrouded up again, and the black girl kept screaming uneasily. So, she quickly put on her clothes, carried a bamboo basket on her back, and made marks along the way. After going down the mountain, Du Shu was still cutting reeds on the river beach and waiting for her.

"Brother Shu, look." Du Mei took out the nest and eggs and showed them to Du Shu.

"Well, how did it take so long? I'm worried about you. Du Shu looked at Du Mei who was laughing, his eyes were shining.

"I climbed a very high mountain, and I went to other places to look for it." Du Mei reached out and pointed high. I don't know why, she didn't tell Du Shu that she found a hot spring in the mountains.

"Go back quickly, this is the wild vegetable I dug for you, otherwise your grandmother will scold you again." Du Shu pointed to a green stall on the ground and said.

"I dug it up in the morning, you can keep it and eat it with Uncle Zhong." Du Mei is embarrassed to ask for Du Shu's wild vegetables, their father and son's life is more difficult than them.

"We can't eat so much, you take it." Du Shu couldn't help but say, and put all the wild vegetables in Du Mei's bamboo basket.

Du Mei took out 5 wild eggs and handed them to Du Shu: "My mother is in confinement, I can only give you 5, thank you for the fish you helped me catch last time." ”

"I don't want it, I don't want it, you take it back and make up for your aunt." Du Shu resigned again and again.

"Give it to Uncle Zhong, I see that he always coughs." Du Mei put the egg on the ground, pulled his legs and left.

"Hey......" Du Shu was helpless.

The black girl sent Du Mei to the big poplar tree outside the courtyard, and went back to find Du Shu again.

Du Ying was standing at the door of the kitchen looking anxiously, and when she saw Du Mei coming back, she hurriedly greeted her.

"Sister, you really make me anxious, what do you do for my mother at night?" Du Ying asked quietly.

"Go back to the kitchen." Du Mei grabbed Du Ying's wrist and walked away.

I saw Du Mei take out wild vegetables, wild eggs and grass nests from the bamboo basket as if playing a trick, and finally dragged out a fat pheasant. All three little eyes are straight!

"Mom, it's the first time I've seen such a big fat chicken." Du Gui carefully touched the glossy feathers of the pheasant and swallowed his saliva unconsciously.

"If this is a pot of soup, we can't grab the big house." At noon, it was a bowl of egg custard, and it was restless. After boiling another pot of soup this night, Du Ying couldn't imagine what it would be like.

"Don't be afraid, Grandpa has already taught Brother Bolt a lesson, and they don't dare to make trouble again." Du Mei began to boil water, ready to kill the chicken.

The four sisters happily got busy, and soon the enticing smell of chicken soup wafted from the kitchen.

This fragrance was smelled by the entire Dujiagou people.

"Loser, is it the New Year or what?" Wei came out of the room with a smell.

"You stewed my chicken!" Wei Shi lifted the lid of the pot and saw butter floating on a pot of white chicken, and the flesh hurt in his heart.

"Grandma, it's the pheasant I caught on the riverbank." Du Mei doesn't want to involve Du Shu and the black girl, she wants to beat and scold, she just needs to suffer alone.

"This pheasant is no better than a domestic chicken, it can fly, you say you can catch it?" Wei's drooping triangular eyes were full of suspicion.

"Look at the hands of the eldest sister." Du Gui pulled Du Mei's sleeve up in distress, and his hands were full of blood.

"Grandma, don't believe it, you see." Du Ying ran to the root of the kitchen wall, grabbed a handful of wet pheasant feathers and handed them to Wei's eyes.

Wei raised her hand and slapped the chicken feathers off, but she was still not at ease, so she hurried to the chicken coop to count. Because it was dark, and the chickens had gone into their nests, she put her head in and looked, and her head was covered with cobwebs and dust. Fortunately, there were a lot of them, so she was relieved.

Dafang was set up a rule for a bowl of egg custard at noon, and Zhou didn't dare to come to the kitchen to make trouble, but the taste of the chicken soup was too tempting. Even Du Zhuan, whose stomach was so swollen that he didn't want to eat anything, swallowed his saliva.

Dinner was a puree of camellia and corn, and there were more than a dozen people in a large family, except for the Du Mei sisters, everyone else ate absent-mindedly, who wanted to eat the corn dregs that pulled the throat in a room of chicken soup.

"That, Meizi, the day after tomorrow is your father's first seventh, leave some filial piety to him." Du Shicheng pulled the bowl clean, licked his lips and said.

"Whoa." Du Mei muffled.

Zhou looked up at her father-in-law and mother-in-law, they didn't want to eat, and she didn't dare to speak, the cigarette stick on Du Xuan's forehead in the morning was still swollen.

"Kill a thousand knives, you want my life!" An old woman's crying and scolding came from outside the courtyard gate.

Zhou was the first to run outside to look, only to see Cao's mother, a scoundrel in the village, beating her chest at his house.

"What are you doing here?" Zhou asked with a frown.

Don't look at Cao's nearly fifty years old, but he is the same age as the Zhou family, her man and eldest son fell ill and died a few years ago. She was originally a strong and spicy person, but because she was poor, she became more and more unreasonable, and even taught her younger son badly. The serious people in the village would rather suffer a loss than provoke this troublemaker.

"The chicken you eat is mine! My good girl, you died so miserably. When Cao saw someone coming out, he was energetic, sat on the ground with one butt, and kicked his two legs around. I don't know, I thought her family was stunned and died.

Cao's scolding and crying attracted all the neighbors who were eating, and some people directly held the rice bowl and watched while eating. In the countryside, watching people quarrel is also a pleasure.

When Zhou heard that he was here to fight, he was holding back his joy in his heart, and he couldn't wait to see the jokes in the second room. She went back to the kitchen in a hurry, pretended to be scared and said, "Dad, mother, it's not good, Mrs. Cao came to make trouble, saying that the chickens belong to hers." ”

"Ignore her!" Du Shicheng looked at the gloating thief in Zhou's eyes, and said with a face.

Zhou touched the nail, so he had to sit abruptly, and from time to time he looked back to listen to the movement outside.

"What's the matter, it's dead? I have the courage to steal my chicken, but I don't have the courage to come out. The second stunned man who followed was even more unbearable than his mother's scolding.

The words of the second stunned suddenly poked Du Mei's pain point. She scrambled to her feet and came out in a huff.

"Keep your mouth clean, who stole your chicken?" Du Mei said as he stood in the courtyard gate.

"My chickens are gone, you stole them!" The second stunned was not ambiguous, and craned his neck and shouted.

The second stunned man is 30 years old, he was stiff when he was a child, and his thin height is only equivalent to a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy, but he has an adult's head, like a big dough on a chopstick, top-heavy, and looks very funny.

"Do you have chickens?" A neighbor interfaces.

"Your family has even moved with rats, and you still have chickens to eat?" Another neighbor teased.

"Go, go, what's the matter with you. My chicken is my brother, and I don't eat it, so I have to feed it. The second stunned man said something serious, causing others to laugh.

"Then you say, what color is your chicken?" Du Mei knew that he couldn't tell this scoundrel, so it was better to let them show themselves.

"Black." "Yellow." The mother and son rushed to say that a chicken with two colors was ridiculed by the neighbors again.

"My stew is a pheasant I caught on the riverbank, which is neither black nor yellow." Du Mei grabbed a handful of chicken feathers and threw them outside the courtyard.

"Hmph, my chicken is gone, you stole it. Live to see chickens, dead to see soup. It's useless for you to say anything, hurry up and give me back the chicken soup...... Yes! ......" Before the second stunned man finished speaking, he let out a ghost scream.

I saw a black thing with two paws on him, and a long tongue was panting at his face. The hot breath in the black girl's nose just sprayed on the second stunned nose, and I was afraid that in the blink of an eye, my nose would be bitten off by it and eaten as a snack.

"Brunette." Du Mei screamed, this rogue is not worth catching a black girl.

"Niece and daughter-in-law, you save some face for Lengzi's father. It's a big night, big guy, don't watch the big show, let's go back. Du Shicheng came out wearing cotton clothes and smoking cigarettes, and the smoke pot was bright and extinguished in the dark night.

The second stunned son was originally named Du Leng. Cao Shi was finally a little embarrassed by Du Shicheng's words, she got up from the ground, dusted off the ashes on her body, and still muttered in her mouth.

The second stunned man was so frightened by the black girl that he almost peed his pants, he couldn't care about his wife, so he hurriedly turned around and fled.

The chicken soup with astragalus was boiled for an hour, and the soup was thick and rotten. Xu Shi held the fragrant chicken soup and looked at the four daughters standing on the ground, tears pouring down his face.

"Mother, what's wrong with you?" Du Gui came up.

"It's okay, my mother is happy." Xu wiped his tears with one hand.

"Mother, you're in confinement. Don't cry, you're going to get sick. Du Mei handed the towel to Xu.

"What's wrong with your hand!" Du Mei's hands crisscrossed the small mouths, all of which were open because of the wind and water, and some of them oozed blood.

"It's okay, Ashiba rowed." Du Mei saw that Xu was about to be sad again, so he hurriedly clasped his hands and held them with the back of his hands facing down.

"There is hala oil on the table, wash it at night, wipe it on your hands, and the girl's hands can't hurt." Xu endured and endured, forced back the tears, and said slowly.

"Hmm. Mother, drink quickly. Du Mei watched Juniper fall asleep quietly in the quilt, and felt that it was not hard to do anything. Because she promised her father that she would take care of her mother and take care of her younger siblings.

There was no other condiment in the chicken soup except for a little salt, not that Du Mei didn't put it, but that there was nothing in the kitchen at all. But that's it, the chicken soup is still delicious. Xu drank a full bowl and ate some chicken.

Du Ying put the rest of the chicken soup in a sand bowl and brought it to the house, she was very afraid of the big house, afraid that they would get up in the middle of the night and steal the chicken soup.

"Du Gui, you can also drink a bowl of soup." Dume scooped a bowl.

"I have a full dinner meal, I don't eat it, I leave it for my mother to eat." Du Gui is only 7 years old, she obviously wants to it very much, but she endures it sensibly.

"Guizi, eat more, grow up, and you can help the eldest sister work." Du Mei coaxed her and handed the soup to her hand.

Du Gui lowered her head and took a sip, a fresh fragrance went straight to her throat, she had grown so big, she had never eaten such a delicious soup.

The bowl of chicken soup passed through the hands of the four sisters one by one, and finally fell into Du Mei's hands.

"Eldest sister, you take a sip, it's really fragrant." Du Gui saw that Du Mei was just watching, but did not eat.

"Okay, sister, take a sip, and you can eat the rest." Du Mei took a sip, and sure enough, his mouth was delicious.

Du Gui was small after all, and she happily ate the remaining half bowl. Du Mei secretly thought in her heart that she must let her mother and sister live a good life, and there will be more than just a bowl of chicken soup!

"Oh no, there's a fire, it's not good, it's a fire!" Suddenly, there was a thunderous shout outside.