"You go to Liu's house in the afternoon, most of the people in the village who are idle will go up the mountain with the official family." Cheng Wei put the ground rice noodles on the table in the hall room, and as he spoke, he poured the remaining brown rice into the jar.

Today's milled rice he divided a small half out and grinded it into rice noodles, in the end it was new rice, he planned to steam some crystal cake to eat.

Gu Xicheng took a cloth to wipe his sweat and asked, "How many people will come from the official family?" ”

"Normally there are about ten people, but if the hunting party from the town comes along, there will be more." If you bring a hunting team, I'm afraid you will also bring a few hunting dogs, and by the way, you will hunt the large beasts around the village.

"What am I going to take with me?"

"No, just follow along, and they'll walk around the mountains in the village. I'll bring you a small cloth bag, and I'll walk to the place where there is an osmanthus tree in a while, and you can help me pick some osmanthus flowers and come back. Cheng Wei covered the jar of rice, thought about it, went into the back room, turned out a cloth bag, and handed it to Gu Xixuan.

Gu Xicheng took it, he tilted his head and asked, "What does osmanthus look like?" Do you know everyone in the village? "The animals are better, but he really can't tell the difference when he encounters plants.

Cheng Weicai remembered that Gu Xicheng had never seen osmanthus before, so he gestured and said: "Everyone in the village recognizes that it is a big tree, and now it is blooming with small yellow flowers as big as rice grains, and you can smell the fragrance from a distance." ”

There are three or four osmanthus trees around the village, this season is a good time to pick osmanthus flowers, and then I am afraid that it will rain for a while, and then the weather will turn cool and rain a dozen osmanthus flowers will fall.

Gu Xixuan nodded, he stuffed the small cloth pocket into his waist and said, "As long as someone recognizes it." "Since there will be a lot of people going, he can ask others if he doesn't know him.

Gu Xicheng went to Liu's house after lunch, Cheng Wei washed the dustpan, found a clean cloth and washed it and took it to the yard to dry, which was used for filtration.

"I saw you grinding rice in the field, and you are going to make crystal cakes?" Cheng Weicai hung the cloth on the fence when he heard Wei Xiaopa's voice.

"Well, I haven't done it for a long time, and I don't know if I can do it." Cheng Wei turned his head, a little embarrassed. His cooking skills are really not very good, so he bullied Gu Xixuan, who can't eat taste, and he didn't know how many times others said about him.

"What's so difficult about this, don't get cold when the fire is hot." Daddy Wei also smiled, moved a stool and sat in the yard to pluck corn leaves.

Cheng Wei is good anywhere, and cooking is exactly the same as his father, he tied two corns together and hung them on the shelf, and then said, "I just saw Gu Xiaozi go out, you let him go to Liu's house?" ”

Cheng Wei was stunned for a moment before nodding and said, "Yes, I heard Uncle Jiang say that the official family is here, so I'll let him follow and take a look." ”

"I heard from your Uncle Wei that the hunting team from the town came together, and a total of twenty people came along with the official family, and they also brought seven or eight hunting dogs."

Father Wei sighed and said with some worry: "According to me, they are going to enter the mountain, your Gu boy is tall, so he has to go with him, you tell him to be careful." ”

"Okay, I'll save it." Cheng Wei thanked him, but he also knew in his heart that the hunting team in the town was only taking this opportunity to hunt. And the last time he went to sell snake skins, the man was very interested in Gu Xixuan, and this time he was about to be tripped up.

The two of them were talking about the shortcomings of the east and the west in the courtyard, and Gu Xicheng went to Liu's house according to Cheng Wei's words, and when he arrived, there were nearly thirty people from the village standing in the courtyard of the Liu family. Dressed in official uniforms and the Liu family's family members, a total of more than 60 people, crowded the entire courtyard.

"Big guy quiet! There are more people here today, let's score into two teams, one team to the east and one team to the west, and come back as soon as possible before the sun goes down! The leader who stood in front of him was an official man, who looked to be in his forties, wearing a dark blue official uniform, a hat on his head, and a knife around his waist.

Gu Xixuan stood quietly behind and waited for a while, and saw that the official family and the hunting team were divided into two teams, each with thirty people and went up the mountain separately.

"Brother Wei didn't come?" Gu Xicheng followed the team going to the east of the village, and it happened that Jiang Hao was also on the same team, so he caught up with Gu Xicheng in three or two steps and put his hand on his shoulder.

"It's not very safe." Gu Xixuan answered him, and quietly glanced at the hand on his shoulder. Jiang Hao is not as fat as Bai Chang, and the hand that pressed on his shoulder was very strong.

"Hahahaha! Your brother is not a delicate female doll, he is bold! Jiang Hao laughed loudly when he heard it, although the two of them were far apart, Cheng Wei's reputation spread far away.

It's just that his kid is not angry, he had the intention to let his second boy ask Cheng for the future, but unfortunately that stinky boy was beaten by Cheng Wei when he was a child, and he refused to say anything.

In the end, Cheng Wei is a few years older, even if he asks Cheng Wei to come back, his kid may not be able to hold it back. He pondered for a long time, but in the end he regretted it.

"Don't say it, Brother Wei is crazier than my boy. He dared to go to the mountains to beg for food, and when this kid in my family was his age, he was so scared that he wouldn't move when he saw a snake. Saying this, Lao Zhang, who was leading the dog in front, also turned around and smiled and agreed.

"Dad, you still said it was a few years ago!" The boss of the Zhang family, who was walking aside, protested, he was scared by a snake when he was a child, and that time was completely because the snake suddenly poked its head out of the tree and came to his face, and everyone had to be scared!

Everyone laughed when they heard this, Lao Zhang is one of the best old hunters in the village, he has no land, but after he has a son, his son has a land. Although he forced his boy to learn his craft, he was not interested in it, and he couldn't learn ten out of ten.

"Don't be patronizing and laughing, those who bring knives chop the grass along the road, and after a while, each family will go up the mountain to pick sweet dates, and then there will be snakes hidden everywhere, but don't suffer." Lao Zhang Le reminded everyone and led the dog to the front.

Laughing and laughing, the person with the knife consciously cut the grass on both sides of the road, this time is the time for the snake to shed its skin, and from time to time you can see the white snake molting in the grass.

The snakes of these little snakes are not worth much, but they have all picked up everything they see, and Gu Xicheng saw that many people came out with baskets on their backs, and they were rummaging in the roots and grass while scattering in twos and threes.

"Let's rest in front for a while, which brother let the osmanthus pick hurry up, don't go back empty-handed when the time comes, Ming'er will come to my house to lift the tiles." Old man Zhang happily finished speaking to everyone, and led the dog to talk to the people of the official family.

This was cheaper Gu Xixuan, he followed the four or five people who went to pick osmanthus and walked forward for a short time, and then he saw the osmanthus tree on the slope.

"I don't know how long this mountain ban will last." The osmanthus pickers on the side chatted in a low voice.

"At least it will take a month, this time the official family is here, and the hunting team in the town is also here, it seems that they are going to the mountains to hunt some wild boars or mountain tables." The one who climbed the tree to pick it answered from above.

"If you want to hunt this big thing, Old Man Zhang has to call the people in the village again."

"It's a good thing if you can hunt it, but if it doesn't take a month, the boar may have to come down and nibble on sweet potatoes again." The man on the tree broke a small branch and sat on it and picked it slowly, followed by a hunting party, as long as he did not encounter wolves, even tigers, he was not afraid of it.

"You're afraid you're crazy about meat." The person who heard their conversation said with a smile.

"You don't want to eat the meat you hunted another day." The man in the tree laughed, they were all pure crop men, and they had nothing but brute strength.

Their village was in a nest in the mountains, so every year when the hunting party from the town came, the people they followed got some meat.

It's a lot more cost-effective than shelling out money to buy it.

The big guys were talking and laughing, but Gu Xixuan, who was picking osmanthus flowers, suddenly stopped. He tilted his head to look at the yellowing thatch on the hill, and his brow furrowed.

He just ...... Looks like you see a tail?