Chapter 14: Pheasant
"Eldest sister, we also have a home." The second sister Liu Yisa hugged Liu Yiyu and cried with joy.
Liu Yiyu looked at the bamboo house in front of him, surrounded by his own family with one hand and one foot, and the fruits of hard work, his eyes were slightly hot, and then his eyes swept his grandmother, mother, and younger siblings, and he was also excited and honored.
"Grandma, these days our family around this bamboo house, are tired, tomorrow grandma, aunt, you rest at home, the eldest sister plans to take the second sister, the third sister and the fifth brother to the mountains farther away, see if you can find more food back." Now the periphery of the mountain in the mountain of Shangou Village, I am afraid that it can be eaten, and it has been picked by the villagers of Shangou Village, during this time, Grandma They are responsible for picking wild vegetables for their own food, and they do not pick much every day, plus this time, their own family is in the bamboo house, doing manual labor, eating much more than in the past, Ah Niang They picked food some time ago, it is only enough for their own family to eat, and they did not save excess food, and they also ate more than half of the ten catties of black noodles that Liu Yiyu bought from the market.
"Well, then you should be careful, remember, don't go into the deep forest, some villagers in Shangou Village entered the deep forest, and they were eaten by the tigers and leopards in the deep forest, the deep forest is not something you can get into, you know." Liu Li instructed with some unease.
"Auntie, we know". Liu Yiyu's eyes flashed slightly.
Early in the morning of the second day, Liu Yiyu took Liu Yishuang, Liu Yisa, and Liu Yihao with bamboo baskets, kitchen knives, hoes, and firewood knives, and set off to go up the mountain again.
Liu Li was afraid that they would be hungry on the way, so he branded a black flour cake for each of Liu Yiyu and told them to eat on the road.
The ravine mountain is divided into the outer mountain and the inner mountain, the cave where Liu Yiyu lives is the halfway of the outer mountain of the ravine mountain, as for the inner mountain, it is said that the villagers of the ravine village said that the trees in it are tall, covering the sky and the sun, and the swamp fog is often there, and there are bursts of tiger and wolf roars from time to time.
Last year, the villagers of Shangou Village were hungry and took a risk to go to the inner mountain of Shangu Mountain, and it is said that they were taken away by a big insect in the inner mountain.
Since then, the inner mountain of the ravine mountain is silent for the villagers of the ravine village, even if there is no food, they will not enter the inner mountain of the ravine mountain, compared to eating, or their own life is important, don't eat when the time comes, but they will be eaten by the belly of a wild beast.
Liu Yiyu led Liu Yisa, Liu Yisa and Liu Yihao all the way to the ravine mountain, the mountain is full of thorns, and there are trails, which means that there are many pedestrians coming and going, and they often take this path.
Liu Yiyu led Liu Yishuang and the three of them, and specially picked the kind of thorny and overgrown places to walk, these places were not walked, but Liu Yiyu's four sisters and brothers found a lot of mothers-in-law, purslane, and camellia.
"Giggles". "Giggles".
"Second sister, listen, do you hear any sound?" Liu Yiyu and the others passed by a place overgrown with weeds, and there were weeds more than a person tall in the middle and back, and the weeds in front of them were shaking, and there were constant sounds.
"Eldest sister, that's the sound of a chicken, it's a pheasant." The third sister, Liu Yishuang, lowered her voice and said with joy on her face.
"Be careful, let's go slowly." Liu Yiyu and the four of them walked forward with their waists bent, carefully removing the weeds in front of them.
I saw a hen nesting in the grass in front of me, and the lower abdomen occasionally exposed white eggs, and by the way, there was a 'chirping' sound, and there was a rooster patrolling back and forth next to the hen, as if protecting the hen.
"This is a hen hatching chicks, the second sister, the third sister, the fifth brother, the three of you go to catch the rooster, the eldest sister goes to catch the hen, let's use the back basket cover, the speed must be fast."
After Liu Yiyu made a gesture, the four sisters and brothers jumped up from the grass, Liu Yiyu had not yet reacted to the hen, and the back basket in his hand directly covered the hen's nest, and the eggs including the hen and the hatched chicks were all covered.
As for Liu Yisa, the three of them pounced, and after the back basket was not covered, the frightened rooster held a fan and flew high, and after the rooster wings flapped a few times, it did not enter the weeds that were more than one person high, and disappeared in an instant.
"Big sister, run away for that wild rooster." Liu Yihao said a little sullenly.
"Although the pheasant is not a bird, it can't fly, but the pheasant's wings are flapping, and we can't catch up, it's excusable, don't be discouraged, big sister, didn't you catch another one?" Liu Yiyu first comforted Liu Yihao, and then, opened a thin slit in the back basket, put his hand in, and caught the hen out, the second sister Liu Yishuang took out a rattan rope from the back basket and tied the hen.
After that, Liu Yiyu opened the back basket and saw that under the covered back basket, there were five eggs and four hatched pheasant cubs.
"Eldest sister, great, not only pheasants, but also pheasant cubs?". Liu Yihao said happily.
"Or the second sister and the fifth brother, the two of you will take this box of wild vegetables and pheasants back first, and then, the second sister and the fifth brother will make a chicken coop on the right side of the cave, and deal with the hen and a few little pheasants first, and then the eldest sister and the third sister will go into the mountain to take a look."
"Well, big sister, be careful." The second sister Liu Yisa hesitated a little, thinking that the chicken coop would also have to be dealt with, so she nodded immediately.
After Liu Yisa and Liu Yihao left, Liu Yiyu took Liu Yishuang and the two to continue to go up the mountain, and after catching a pheasant, it seemed that Liu Yiyu's luck had run out, and he didn't see any wild vegetables to eat along the way.
"Third sister, in this weed, pheasants fly out from time to time, maybe there will be wild eggs in the weeds somewhere? Let's see."
"Right? How I didn't think of it".
This weed is not big from it, it is only about ten zhang wide, and when going up the mountain, it is passing through the inner mountain of the ravine village, and in the end, Liu Yiyu and Liu Yishuang found three nests of wild eggs in this weed, and there are about seven or eight wild eggs in each nest, and a total of twenty wild eggs were found.
"Third sister, we're going to take a closer look."
"But eldest sister, if you go deeper, it's the inner mountain, A-Niang won't let us enter the inner mountain, what about the danger of the inner mountain?" After Liu Yishuang heard Liu Yiyu's words, he hesitated and said.