Chapter 4: Digging bamboo shoots up the mountain

Before going up the mountain, Liu Yiyu asked his fifth brother to go to Aunt Wang's house at the foot of the mountain, borrowed two hoes, and then the group of four people entered the bamboo forest again.

"Sister, where is there food in this bamboo forest?" This bamboo forest is not far from the cave where he lives, on the mountainside, Liu Yishuang has been here many times, except for some bamboo, there is no other vegetation in it, even there are few weeds, the third sister Liu Yishuang looked around with her eyes, and after seeing that there was no edible wild vegetables and other food, Liu Yisa asked her eldest sister with some puzzlement.

"Far away, close at hand". Liu Yiyu smiled mysteriously.

"Eldest sister, didn't you say last night, these bamboos can be eaten! These bamboos are inedible, very hard." Liu Yiya thought of her eldest sister's words yesterday and said loudly.

"It's true that bamboo is hard and can't be eaten, but these can be eaten." Liu Yiyu walked around a bamboo shoot that had just emerged from the yellow soil.

"Sister, this is also bamboo! Can you eat it? ”。 Liu Yiya asked with some disbelieving.

"Third sister, you said that your mother-in-law Ding Nen is delicious, or the old one is delicious."

"Eldest sister, how can my mother-in-law Ding Lao's eat, it's hard, eat the inside of the stomach, indigestion, it will make a stomach, eldest sister, it's difficult, this bamboo is also tender and can be eaten, and the bamboo that grows into green can't be eaten." The fifth brother Liu Yihao didn't know what he thought, and his eyes were shining brightly at the spring bamboo shoots that emerged one by one.

"Or is our fifth brother smart, that's the reason, hurry up, dig up all of these and move them home, these, but for our family to eat for more than a month?

Can you eat this, doesn't the eldest sister know? When did the eldest sister lie to you". After Liu Yiyu praised Liu Yihao, Liu Yihao smiled and was a little embarrassed.

Liu Yishuang and Liu Yiya were still a little unconvinced, but after seeing that their eldest sister and fifth brother had begun to dig these 'bamboos', they were also busy holding hands on the side.

Spring bamboo shoots are big and small, and, in the spring rainy season, the growth is very fast, Liu Yiyu also dug out the older ones first, Liu Yiyu is afraid that it will be too late to dig out, these spring bamboo shoots grow into bamboo, which can not be eaten.

Now in the war era, every family is tight to eat, even the era of no food, plus their own family is ten screaming to be fed to eat, these can not be wasted, four people worked for nearly two hours, the four people carried the bamboo basket full of spring bamboo shoots, each bamboo basket, no less than five half meters in size of spring bamboo shoots.

"Gone, home, the hour is not early". Liu Yiyu picked up the heaviest basket on his back and looked around the bamboo forest with his eyes.

This bamboo forest is not big, the square circle is wide that is, six or seven zhang size, after digging this spring bamboo shoots, come twice, you can dig up the spring bamboo shoots in this bamboo forest, as for the spring bamboo shoots that grow out again in the future, you can also eat the late spring bamboo shoots, but the late spring bamboo shoots are not as delicious as the early spring bamboo shoots, the late spring bamboo shoots taste harder, and the early spring bamboo shoots taste so sweet, if you fry them with fatty pork, the taste, the taste, not to mention how sweet it is.

Second, the bamboo shoots in late spring are generally used to grow bamboo, and Liu Yiyu will not do the thing of killing chickens and taking eggs, after all, I don't know what the situation will be next year, leave one more way back, and one more way to go in the future.

"Ah, big sister be careful". Liu Yiyu picked up the bamboo basket on his back, and after not walking a few steps, one high and one low under his feet, the person rushed to the front.

If it weren't for the third sister Liu Yishuang next to her, she saw the opportunity quickly and helped Liu Yiyu, I was afraid that if she fell this time, Liu Yiyu would have suffered.

"How can there be a hole here". When Liu Yiyu was digging spring bamboo shoots just now, he instructed his younger brothers and sisters to dig the holes of spring bamboo shoots, and they needed to fill these holes again, just in case they were afraid that someone would step on these holes and fall down.

"Eldest sister, this hole is afraid that it is a cave made by gophers, rabbits and the like." After the third sister Liu Yishuang helped Liu Yiyu up, she patted the dust on Liu Yiyu's body.

"Gophers and rabbits hit the cave". Hearing this, Liu Yiyu suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and suddenly, Liu Yiyu didn't know what he remembered, his face showed joy, and then he turned his head to his fifth brother Liu Yihao and said, "Fifth brother, the cloth bag that the eldest sister told you to bring can be brought."

"Bring it, what is the use of the eldest sister". Liu Yihao took out a few gray burlap bags from the back basket and handed them to Liu Yiyudao.

"Third sister, fourth sister, fifth brother, go and take a look around the bamboo forest to see how many of these holes there are."

"Big sister, what are you doing with this". The third sister Liu Yiya was a little puzzled, but she still listened to Liu Yiyu's words, and walked around the bamboo forest to see if there were any of these holes that the eldest sister said.

"Big sister, there's one here." Liu Yihao said.

"Sister, I also have a hole here." The third sister Liu Yishuang said.

"Eldest sister, I also have one here." The fourth sister Liu Yiya said.

"Okay, let's see if there are any other holes?" As Liu Yiyu spoke, he swept a large pile of fallen bamboo leaves from the bamboo forest and piled them in front of the door of the cave where he almost fell just now.

"Eldest sister, it's gone, eldest sister, what are you doing." After the third sister Liu Yishuang saw her eldest sister sweeping a bunch of dead bamboo leaves in front of the cave, Liu Yishuang said to her eldest sister with some puzzlement.

"Eldest sister, this is a smoke hole, and I don't know if there are mountain rats and rabbits in this hole, if there is, whether it is a poisonous snake or a beast, they are very afraid of smoke, and they can't stand the smoke, and they will be forced out of the hole for a while, and when the time comes, you will cover it with this burlap bag in front of the other holes, and if there are mountain rats or rabbits in it, if you can't stand the smoke, you will automatically run into the bag you are covering." Liu Yiyu explained.

"Big sister, how did you think of it". After the fifth brother Liu Yihao heard Liu Yiyu's words, he looked at Liu Yiyu with sparkling eyes, revealing a look of worship.

After Liu Yishuang and Liu Yiya heard Liu Yiyu's words, their eyes lit up.

"Go to the cave you found, cover it with a burlap bag, and the eldest sister will light the fire." Fortunately, this time up the mountain, Liu Yiyu brought the flint and steel, and after lighting the fire, Liu Yiyu got a bunch of bamboo leaves that were wet with rain and piled them in front of the cave.

The wet bamboo leaves are not easy to burn, and after a while, bursts of thick white smoke came out, and Liu Yiyu didn't know that he found a huge leaf there, fanned the leaf with one hand, and blew in his mouth, trying to pour the thick white smoke into the hole.

After a while, Liu Yiyu vaguely heard the sound of Xixisuo in the cave, and Liu Yiyu, who heard this voice, shouted to Liu Yishuang, Liu Yiya and Liu Yihao who were standing not far away, "The things in it come out quickly, you have pressed the cloth bag."