Chapter 2: Foraging for food and repairing a house

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It's not far from back, and it's not all dark when I get home. "Wei Cong, do you know how to wash vegetables? It's dark, let's eat early, can you help your mother? "Actually, it's nothing to do with him, I just want Xiao Baozi to cook together." Don't worry, mother, Wei Cong will wash vegetables. Xiao Baozi nodded, "Just wash this dandelion, and kiss the potatoes and sweet potatoes." ”

Xu Yueqing came back with sweet potatoes and potatoes, and saw Xiao Baozi sitting on a stool washing vegetables seriously, it was so cute. "Okay, mother, come on. You go to play, and I'll call you when the meal is ready. Xu Yueqing let Xiao Baozi play, picked up the dishes that had been washed once, and put the sweet potatoes and potatoes in to wash. Xiao Baozi didn't go to play, just sat next to him and watched, "Wei Cong, is there a bucket at home, just don't leak it." "Since we have to carry water every day, we must not waste it, and we can use it to water the trees. When Xiao Baozi heard this, he ran to get a piece of wood and poured water into it.

Xiao Baozi was puzzled, "Mother, what are you doing with this water?" "The vegetables and sweet potatoes that have been washed again are ready, and we are ready to make a fire to cook." This water can be used to water vegetables and trees. Xiao Baozi looked suddenly realized, "Take me and pour this plate into it." Xu Yueqing was going to use it to wash the dishes for the first time, "Put it away, and use it to wash the dishes later." Will there be firewood? Come here. ”

Xu Yueqing took out the blanched dandelions, put the grate and put the sweet potatoes and potatoes in, and took advantage of this time to mix the dandelions cold. "Okay, you burn it again, my mother will put the table under the tree, and we will eat there." Wait for Xu Yueqing to move the table and bench, just enough to eat.

"Son, is it delicious? There's nothing to eat today, and tomorrow we're going up the mountain. "Actually, if you don't eat rice, Xu Yueqing is afraid that it will be gone after eating, so let's eat a meal of multigrain porridge tomorrow." Mother, I think it's usually delicious. "This stupid boy usually doesn't have any oil, but this time it's enough to put oil in the cold salad." Eat quickly, you'll be full in a while, and your mother will wash your white. "After bathing the little buns, I will be ready to go to bed after washing myself, and tomorrow I will go to fetch water as soon as possible and go up the mountain to find food. I just woke up today, and my body is still very weak, so it's better to rest early.

I don't know if it's because of habit, as soon as the sky dawned, Xu Yueqing woke up. Put a handful of brown rice, corn, and sweet potato grains in the pot, add firewood, and go out to fetch water. Needless to say, where to carry water, Xu Yueqing knows that there are many people on the road.

When they arrived at the place where the water was fetched, someone was noisy, and the villagers saw Xu Yueqing and gave way, "If it weren't for you, would Yueqing kowtow?" An eldest lady saw Xu Yueqing, "Yueqing, are you okay?" Listen to my dad, you have forgotten? I'm your fifth aunt. So it was, and everyone looked at the woman.

"I said Wang Xiuhong, you shouldn't be a from a popular family, right? The village chief said that every family has a load of water, and people come to carry water and it doesn't hinder you, and besides, don't come every day. It was the neighbor's brother-in-law who spoke, in fact, he really said it right, and they all came to fetch water, but Xu Yueqing's family is only two people, and Xu Yueqing has a child out of wedlock, so it is inevitable to speak.

"I'm here to fetch water, and it doesn't affect you if you don't have water to drink. Besides, I found this water source, and if I don't tell me, will you still be alive, huh? Xu Yueqing looked coldly at the onlookers.

The sound of squirming is gone, and if there are no, it is estimated that this village is gone. Now that water is scarce, some people are inevitably restless. "Yue Qing, you go and call your fifth uncle to come over, and let your fifth uncle pick it for you later, this one is not good."

"No need, I'll fetch water today, if anyone has an opinion, I'll come every day, anyway, I have a small family, and there are quite a lot of tanks for water." After speaking, Xu Yueqing carried water and prepared for HP's strange show, "Fifth aunt, I want to leave Wei Cong at home for a while, I will go up the mountain, and I will pick him up at home when I come back." "Cheng, let's go back, send Xiao Cong over in a while."

Before I got to the door, I heard Xiao Baozi crying, "What's wrong?" Xiao Baozi hugged his thighs again, "Mother, I thought you were gone." He was frightened yesterday, "Okay, let's wash up and go eat." After a while, you will go to your grandfather's house, and your mother will go up the mountain. ”

"Won't my mother take me? I want to go too. Xiao Baozi drank porridge and asked unhappily, stirring in the bowl with a spoon in his little hand. You are still too young, your mother is not at ease, you go to your grandfather's house to play, and I will pick you up when my mother comes back. After speaking, he touched the head of the little bun, "Eat it quickly, and come back at noon." "Now that the yard is covered with grass ready for the roof, it should be almost enough to dry in the morning.

Xu Yueqing went home after sending the buns to the village chief's house, and no one saw him when he went out of his backyard. Marking along the way, I found pheasants in the bamboo forest. Xu Yueqing was excited, God knows what meat tastes like, although there are wild vegetables, but the little bun is still growing its body, so it's right to eat more meat. Xu Yueqing prepared the basket buttoned chicken, and the pheasant walked around leisurely, probably because he didn't think that someone would go up this mountain.

A button buckled the pheasant, and when he took the chicken, he almost flew away, but fortunately he caught the feathers of the chicken's wings, and found its nest not far away, and there was a chicken incubating eggs in it, and he realized that he did not bring the chicken over, but tied it up and put it in place. The chicken was caught in the same way, and Xu Yueqing tied the chicken.

I dug two bamboo shoots and bamboo leaves and put them together at the bottom of the frame, and took away the whole chicken nest, put the two chickens in, put the previous vegetables in together, and walked inside, and actually found chestnuts, and the ground alone was full of back baskets. Xu Yueqing felt very satisfied, no matter what, today is like stepping on shit luck, two chickens, a nest of eggs, if the chickens don't eat it, there will be eggs, it's so beautiful.

Go home from the back door and put down your things, and go out from the back door with a basket on your back to pick up your son. Fortunately, the nearest neighbor was far enough away that no one would know about the mountain where she went to the backyard, and in the basket was some shepherd's cabbage and dandelions. There was no one on the road at noon, so he gave the village chief's family a handful of shepherd's cabbage and went home with a small bun.

At noon, I still eat porridge in the morning, and Xiao Baozi is very excited to see the pheasant. Xu Yueqing is going to see if there is a chicken coop at home, and it is not appropriate to tie chickens all day long, but she can only use nails to make it, where do you get nails at home. The only way to do this is to put the chicken coop under the tree with the chickens.

After having a meal, Xu Yueqing sat in the hall weaving straw mats, preparing to renovate the roof, and put a straw mat first, so there should be no rain leakage. "Mother, isn't there a straw mat at home?" Xiao Baozi sat next to him and learned Xu Yueqing to weave straw mats, "My mother knows, but there is still a need to prepare some at home, is Wei Cong sleepy?" Why don't you take a lunch break, so you can grow up. ”