Chapter 22: Windfall

"Cui'er, I can go, I can go again!" Lian Qingshan, who walked around the house twice, almost threw away his crutches in excitement, and he said with tears in his eyes, his voice couldn't help choking.

"Great, great!" Cui'er also said repeatedly, "As long as we apply the medicine well, it won't be long before you don't even need crutches." ”

"Well, that's great!" Lian Qingshan couldn't stop talking, although his leg hurt, he loved the taste of being able to walk again, and he walked around the house three more times before he was reluctantly persuaded by Cui'er to rest on the kang.

In the days that followed, Cui'er would go up the mountain every day or two, either with Aunt Lu and them, or by herself, picking up some wild vegetables and mushrooms to improve the family's food.

What worries Cui'er the most is that she can't even keep up with Qingshan's nutrition, I don't know why, there are no chickens in the backing mountain, let alone eggs, so there are no ordinary nutritional products, which makes Cui'er very worried about Lian Qingshan's body.

And Lian Qingshan rested on the kang most of the time, polishing his crutches, and then walked around the house with crutches three times a day, from the first three or five circles, to the later ten circles, he could walk more and more time, but after each walk, he was tired and sweaty.

Since Lian Qingshan was able to go to the ground, even Qingshan was able to get all the work, all the work was taken over by him, although there was no work, but Lian Qingshan's attitude of never being lazy if he could work made Cui'er very pleased.

Just being able to walk on crutches for a short time can't satisfy Lian Qingshan, of course, this is not the goal that Cui'er wants to achieve. When Cui'er went up the mountain, she would still follow the earthwork taught by Aunt Lu, find those bone grasses, raw tendon grass or something, mash them and put them on Lian Qingshan's legs, and watch Lian Qingshan get better day by day.

"Big girl, take good care of your dad at home, I'll go up the mountain to pick some wild vegetables." That morning, when the family had finished breakfast, Cui'er lifted the basket, took the sickle and the little hoe, and went up the mountain.

After Cui'er followed Aunt Lu to the mountain a few times, she was familiar with the terrain of several nearby mountains, and in the several mountains around the backing mountain, because of the large population and the number of hunters, there are few wild beasts in ordinary times, which is why Cui'er was not attacked by wild beasts on the first night she came.

There is no danger in the mountains next to it, but there are many tall old forests further north, there are wolves and bears there, and even the tigers encountered in Qingshan are also there.

Of course, Cui'er didn't dare to go north, the mountain where Lian's home was located was to the south of the mountain, and Cui'er's range of activities was also on a few mountains around her home, although the people in the village didn't go often, but there was no danger.

Cui'er took a branch and pulled the grass in front of her, the spring is warm, reptiles and beasts have come out, Cui'er pulls the grass like this, although it will scare away some hares or something, but it will also drive away the snakes that were originally hiding in the grass or something.

On this day, Cui'er dug half a basket of wild vegetables and picked a large field of wild mushrooms, and when she was happy, she suddenly heard a cooing sound next to her, which was a bit like the cry of an old hen and a bit like a bird's call.

"This ...... Could it be some pheasant? Because she was worried about Qingshan's nutrition, Cui'er was looking forward to an old hen or something, and her eyes were green, and now that she heard this voice, she naturally refused to let it go easily.

Cui'er looked at no one on the left and right, put down the basket in her hand, and then took off her coat lightly...... It's not that Cui'er is afraid of the heat, and it is useful to take off this clothes.

Cui'er knew that her hands and feet were not dexterous, and she would definitely not be able to catch something similar to a pheasant with her bare hands, but it was different with clothes, so she put the clothes on the grass where the pheasant was, and then beat them down with a stick, and the pheasant was stunned, and it was done!

Thinking of this, Cui'er felt that her plan was feasible, so she slowly approached the place where the cooing sound came from, and when she approached a bush of dense grass, she saw a clump of beautiful multicolored feathers, "Sure enough, it's a pheasant!" Cui'er couldn't help but praise her luck in her heart.

Three-step, two-step, one-step...... Cui'er slammed her coat over the grass, and then hit the pheasant's position with the stick in her hand, and the pheasant wanted to flapping its wings and fleeing away at first, but it was helpless to be wrapped in Cui'er's clothes, and it was futile to struggle.

I don't know if it was suffocated by the clothes or knocked by Cui'er's stick, but by the time Cui'er found that the grass was no longer fluttering and carefully collected the fruits of victory, she had already fainted in the grass.

Cui'er carried the fat pheasant that had fainted to the ground, and didn't care about the pheasant's dirt or anything, pulled a handful of tough strips of weeds, and tied the pheasant's legs and wings, thought about it, and felt that this was not enough insurance, so she carried the pheasant to her vegetable basket, took out the rope for tying firewood from the basket, tied the pheasant again, tied it to the basket, and then clapped her hands with confidence.

After harvesting a pheasant, Cui'er's heart was full of how beautiful it was, thinking about using the pheasant and stewing chicken soup a few times to make up for Lian Qingshan's body, the corners of Cui'er's mouth couldn't help but turn up. Carrying the basket and the pheasants in the basket, she walked back to the place where she had caught the pheasants just now, and Cui'er picked up the clothes that were still spread out in the grass and put them on, and when she looked back at the grass, she found a few light brown eggs!

"God help me, I actually gave this pheasant a nest today!" Cui'er's eyes narrowed into a line with a smile, and she happily picked up the wild eggs carefully, put them under the basket, and covered them with wild vegetables before putting the pheasants on them again.

"Today's harvest is really not small!" Looking at the pheasants in the basket, Cui'er couldn't care about picking wild vegetables anymore, so she hurried home, thinking about how to make full use of the pheasant.

"This chicken is so big, it can be divided into three parts, eat one first, marinate the other two, and make up for Qingshan in two days...... There is also this egg, which can be kept for a longer period of time, at least ten days and half a month, and there is no need to worry about nutrition. Cui'er is relaxed in her heart, she walks fast under her feet, she usually needs to walk for half an hour, but today she walked in half an hour.

"Qingshan, girl, I'm back!" Cui'er stood outside the gate with the basket, shouted into the yard, and then opened the courtyard door and entered the courtyard.

"Come back...... " The big girl said timidly, compared to the first day she ran away when she saw Cui'er, now she can answer Cui'er normally, and the girl's progress has been very great.

However, there is one thing that makes Lian Qingshan very worried, I don't know if the big girl is intentional or unintentional, since Cui'er came to Lian's house, Lian Qingshan has never heard her call Cui'er Niang.