The Liu family gathered around the kitchen.

Liu Yiya added firewood to Liu Yisa and stewed potatoes and hares, and Liu Yiyu and Liu Yishuang boiled lard.

The three little ones were playing on the side, and the grandmother and the mother were sitting on the stone pier, drinking sugar water with a bamboo tube in their hands, and looking at the children quietly with a smile on their faces.

The ordinary life of the family reveals the strong family affection and warmth of the family.

On this day, the Liu family at night, eating rabbits and stewed potatoes with cakes and drinking egg and vegetable soup, eating a family full of oil, this meal is the best day of the Liu family's wandering days, eating the best day, a few small shouts delicious.

After dinner, the dishes were washed, and the stove was cleaned up, Liu Yiyu took Liu Yihao to take the hand of the back basket and asked Liu Yihao to sit down.

Liu Yiyu said, "Everyone is tired today, fifth brother, let's get up early tomorrow and pick honeysuckle, the eldest sister is thinking, now the weather is getting hotter and hotter, starting tomorrow in the morning, we will start to pick honeysuckle, I and the third sister cut the honeysuckle vine, the mother took the second sister, the fourth sister, the fifth brother, the sixth sister to pick the honeysuckle, grandma and the seventh brother and the eighth sister stayed at home, the honeysuckle we picked down was classified, the honeysuckle root was cut into sections, and then dried, and then picked to the beginning of the day will not be picked, at that time the sun also rose high, It's too hot for us to stand it, and at night, we never dry until the end of the unitary hour, and the honeysuckle we pick is dried and sold at the pharmacy in the town every seven days.

"Eldest sister, if this honeysuckle is not plucked earlier, the flower will be gone, all this is silver? The fifth brother is strong and not afraid of heat stroke, and when the time comes, the fifth brother will be fine tomorrow when he picks more hours."

"Eldest sister, third sister can also be".

"And my eldest sister, I can do it too."

"Grandma, mother, what do you two say?" Liu Yiyu did not answer Liu Yihao's words, but turned his head to Liu Zhang and Liu Li.

"The eldest sister is thoughtful, everything is arranged, just do what the eldest sister says." Liu Zhang's voice sank and then replied.

"Since grandma also agrees with the eldest sister's arrangement, this family, grandma and mother hand over to the eldest sister to be the master, tomorrow, all according to the eldest sister's words, after the hour comes, they all go home, if anyone wants to go to pick honeysuckle under the scorching sun, our family will accompany to pick together, no one in our family hides behind others to be lazy, greedy for enjoyment."

"Big...., big sister, I'm not .....".

"Fifth brother, the eldest sister knows that you don't mean this, and she knows your thoughts, but the weather is so hot, in case of heat stroke, this is not a joke, when it is serious, but it will kill people? There are ten people in our family, and now we can't miss any of them, you know? The eldest sister is the most reluctant to let you do this kind of work, it is bitter and tiring, the eldest sister can't wait to put the best things in the world in front of you and enjoy your happy childhood, instead of running around every day for the firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea in life, it is the eldest sister who has no ......."

"No, eldest sister, you are the best sister in this world, tomorrow, no, the fifth brother will listen to the eldest sister in the future." After Liu Yihao heard Liu Yiyu's words, he shed tears and threw himself into Liu Yiyu's arms and said in a muffled voice.

"Eldest sister, you are the best, our family used to eat wild vegetables to survive? At least today we have eaten meat, with rice, noodles and copper plates? Eldest sister, in the second sister's heart, you are the best sister, the best? ”。 The second sister Liu Yisa wiped her tears and said to Liu Yiyu.

"Big sister, mother......".

"Mother, my daughter knows in her heart, okay, let's have a good rest today, get up early tomorrow, don't be lazy, you know?"

"Eldest sister, I promise not to be lazy, pick more honeysuckle tomorrow, and sell more silver." Hearing this, Liu Yimeng hurriedly raised his hand to Liu Yiyu and assured.

"Eldest sister, and me, I will also help Grandma pick honeysuckle tomorrow." Liu Yiyang followed up

"And me? Eldest sister, don't look at me as the youngest in the family, I can not only help grandma pick honeysuckle, but also serve tea and pour water for eldest sister? Don't you underestimate the eighth sister? ”。 Liu Yile was not willing to be ignored, and hurriedly raised his hand.

"Actually, I did the work of serving tea and pouring water every time, and I robbed it for the eighth sister every time." Liu Yiyang muttered.

When Liu Yiyu's family heard it, they laughed out loud one by one.

"Okay, the eldest sister knows how capable the eighth sister is, how much honeysuckle she can pick tomorrow, what she can buy and sell how much silver she can sell in the future, and most of the credit belongs to the eighth sister?" Liu Yiyu pinched Liu Yile's little face and quipped.

That night, Liu Yiyu slept soundly, dreamless all night, and when he woke up, it was the beginning of the day.

After Liu Yiyu woke up, the whole family woke up, and they were all on their own.

"Sister, are you awake, I just want to wake you up for breakfast?" Liu Yiyu, who went out, happened to meet Liu Yihao, and Liu Yihao said to Liu Yiyu.

"Well, the eldest sister knows". After Liu Yiyu agreed, he went to the thatched hut where he was washing.

This morning, Liu Zhang and Liu Li knew that today's labor was intensive, and they were not reluctant to do anything, so they baked cakes, cooked a pot of porridge with the brown rice they bought yesterday, and then fried a wild vegetable for the family to eat.

The family ate very quickly, and after a short period of effort, after each of them had filled their stomachs, they carried bamboo baskets on their backs and held firewood knives, and went to the mountain.

There are a lot of honeysuckle flowers growing in the mountain, and the distribution is wide and sparse, and the Liu family has finished picking one place, and then they will pick it to the next place where there is honeysuckle, like locusts crossing the border, and the picking is clean.

After the honeysuckle in the basket was almost picked, Liu Yiyu instructed Liu Yimeng, Liu Yiya and Liu Yisa to carry back and forth twice back to the bamboo house.

Next, Grandma took the seventh brother and eighth sister to pick the honeysuckle at home, and cut the honeysuckle vines cut by Liu Yiyu and Liu Yishuang into sections, removed weeds and roots, and then spread them on burlap bags and dried them.

By the time the morning came, the sun had risen hot.

Seeing that the hour was almost there, Liu Yiyu beckoned the family to go back.

After Liu Yiyu and the others returned to the bamboo house, the eighth sister walked on her short legs, with a smile on her face, calling her brothers and sisters, and brought Liu Yiyu the melted sugar water back and forth.

After drinking the sugar water and resting for a while, the family sat on the stone pier and picked the honeysuckle.

The work of picking honeysuckle is a bit tedious, not only to pick out the honeysuckle that has not been ** and the honeysuckle that has bloomed, but also to pick out some branches and leaves when picking honeysuckle, and throw some branches and leaves into the back basket, and bring them back together.