Chapter 7: Catching Sparrows
"Oh, catch the sparrows! Okay, I'll change my shoes. This is another person who agreed unconditionally, and he didn't ask Cai Zijun what he was going to do when he caught the sparrows, so he turned around and went back to the house to change the cotton shoes on his feet.
The brother and sister found a large, wide-mouthed and dense bamboo basket, a long rope tied to a bamboo stick, found a good burlap bag in the utility room, grabbed some corn and millet to lure the sparrows, and went out the door.
"Sister-in-law, uncle......"
A timid voice came from behind the two, it was Cai Mingzhen and Cai Mingzhu.
"Huh?" Cai Zijun looked back and saw that it was the two sisters, and looked at the two with a gentle attitude, "What's wrong?" Mingzhen, what's wrong with Mingzhu? ”
"Sister-in-law, I'...... Can Mingzhu and I follow you and Uncle to catch sparrows? The timid appearance of the two made Cai Zijun complain again in his heart, how can a niece be afraid of her aunt like a mouse is afraid of a cat.
"Okay, you can go if you want." Cai Zijun nodded, "However, you two have to go and talk to your two mothers, change your shoes and come back." Cai Zijun pointed to the cloth shoes on the feet of the two children.
"Oh, here we go." The two children immediately ran back to the second room.
Cai Qigui has been watching the two sides talk, he found that his sister's attitude towards them has not only changed, but also his attitude towards the two children, before, the two little nieces in the second room were completely called by the little sister to wait for her two little girls, this kind of going out to play, definitely not with them, they want to beg, the sister roared, and then added the old lady's scolding.
"My Sister's ......"
"Fourth brother? What's wrong? ”
"You...... You seem to be a little ...... than before. Something is different. Cai Qigui hesitated.
"Really? People who have died once are always a little different. Cai Zijun smiled.
“……”
At the mention of this stubble, Cai Qigui didn't dare to say anything, he couldn't imagine what his father and mother would have become if his little sister hadn't come back to life, especially his mother, who was probably crazy, and then the family would not be at peace for a moment.
"Let's go."
The two little girls changed their shoes and ran over, followed the two out of the door, their little faces were red with excitement, the child's heart was pure, and he could feel the change in other people's attitudes towards him the most.
In the morning, Cai Zijun smiled at Cai Mingzhen friendly, which scared Cai Mingzhen into tears, but then she was not punished or beaten, the little guy pondered for a long time, she felt that the sister-in-law really smiled at her in the morning, not to punish her, so there was just the two of them begging for Cai Zijun, in the past, Cai Mingzhen must not dare.
Cai Mingzhen glanced at the obese sister-in-law who was walking in the front and shook three times, and felt that she was right, and after the sister-in-law fell into the river and woke up, it seemed to ...... Something is different.
In the big house, Cai Mingjuan followed Tian to learn embroidery, the life of the Cai family is not bad, Tian's maiden family also has a small surplus of silver, and she does not need to subsidize her mother's family, so Cai Qirong and Tian have put a lot of effort into the cultivation of the three children, the eldest son and the second son are all studying in the town, even Cai Mingjuan's daughter, Cai Qirong taught her to read and write, and Tian taught her to be a female celebrity, tea and rice, which makes ten-year-old Cai Mingjuan a good hand in everything.
Listening to the movement outside, everyone seemed to be gone, Cai Mingjuan pouted and said: "In addition to eating, it is sleeping, now it's better, it's more playful to die once, such a cold day, such a thick snow, I want to catch sparrows to play, and my grandmother also asked my uncle to accompany me to play." ”
This time, Tian didn't refute his daughter, and shook his head, "What do you care about her?!" I'm thirteen, and I have to get married if I stay at home for less than two years! Let her go, she almost died yesterday, and I don't know what tricks she will make in the future, and when she dies again, she won't be so lucky to come back to life every time! ”
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In the third room, Hu is also doing needlework, today it is the turn of the second room to cook, she has nothing to do, and she can't do anything else on a snowy day, so she is making a pair of shoes for each of the two children, just to wear for the New Year.
"Mother, the second sister and the third sister followed the sister-in-law and uncle to catch the finch and play!" Cai Mingliang pouted and looked at the mother who took the soles, and her eyes flashed, "I want to go too!" ”
"Bright and well-behaved, it's cold outside, let's not go, you play hide and seek with your sister, okay?" Hu coaxed his youngest son and gave his daughter Mingxiu a look.
"Brother, let's go, let's play hide and seek, you have to find my sister today." Mingxiu is very sensible, and when she saw her mother's eyes, she immediately went to coax her younger brother.
With his sister playing with him, Mingliang immediately forgot about catching sparrows and followed his sister to play hide and seek.
Hu Shi looked at the small figure of the two children with relief, her husband Cai Qifu is a prodigal, when he first got married, he was stable at home for two years, and later, he couldn't bear his temperament, and ran out all day long, and now he simply doesn't go home once a year and a half, which provokes her mother-in-law to often scold her, saying that she can't look at men and is useless.
Fortunately, the two children are sensible, well-behaved and obedient, and their stomachs are also angry, and in the two years that they were at home, they gave birth to a daughter in the first year, and then gave birth to a son in the second year, which only gained a firm foothold in the Cai family.
Alas......
Hu Shi retracted his eyes, sighed secretly, and lowered his head and seriously picked up the soles of his shoes, two children are her life, and with two children, there is hope for her life.
"The second family, it's time for lunch!" The mother-in-law's loud voice outside came again, making Hu's body shake habitually.
"Got it, mother, I'll come right away." The voice of the second sister-in-law, Wang, came from her room.
"At noon, I burned the pork that your father cut back in the morning, and the fat boiled oil and dried vegetables burned a big dish together, everyone ate together, the thin ones were all cut into slices, burned into meat slices soup, and gave my sister to eat to replenish her body, she froze in the loach river for so long yesterday, and her body was empty......
"Mother, I see."
People in the room: ......
Whoever is weak in this family will not be weak in that person!
Outside in the snow.
Cai Zijun sprinkled corn and millet on the snow as bait, and used a stick to support the wide-mouthed bamboo basket diagonally, just waiting for the sparrow to enter and eat the bait, and then quickly pulled the long rope tied to the stick, and the greedy sparrow was covered by the bamboo basket underneath, fluttering inside and trying to escape.
"Sister-in-law, cover it again, cover it again......" The two little girls screamed excitedly, and Cai Zijun also smiled and opened her eyebrows, "Fourth brother, go, go, catch the sparrows and put them in the sack, don't let them run away, I'm still waiting to eat the sparrow meat!" ”
Yes?
The other three looked at her in unison, their eyes were all surprised, "Sister, are you catching sparrows not for fun, but for eating?" ”
"Yes, yes, fourth brother, you don't know, the sparrow meat is very fragrant!" Cai Zijun nodded again and again to explain, and his saliva almost flowed out.
"Sister-in-law, the sparrow is a little bigger, it seems to be ...... There wasn't much meat, and no one in the village had ever eaten sparrow meat. Cai Mingzhen also looked at her sister-in-law who had become a little cute and kind with some doubts.
"Well, yes, it is precisely because there is no one in the village to eat that we can catch more and go back to kill and burn to eat, and then my sister-in-law will cook and eat for you, to ensure that you think it is delicious, although there is little sparrow meat, but it is also meat." Come, come, fourth brother, keep catching, catch more, there are many people in the family, and a dozen is not enough. ”
"Okay, I'll go get the sparrows in the bag and go on." I heard that it was not for fun, but for food, and Cai Qigui and the two little girls were even more energetic.