Chu Xia finished delivering the planks, and transported a few truckloads of loess with Ge Changlin, and then returned to the foot of the mountain.

Chu Xia thought that her sister had gone up the mountain first, and then ran to the pine forest where she was picking pine needles, but there was still no shadow of her sister, so she was really scared now.

Ran back to the edge of the woods again, calling Xiangling's name one by one.

"Brother, I'm here!" Xiangling walked out of the deep mountain intersection.

"How can you run inside, didn't you tell you that it was dangerous inside?" Chu Xia's split head and face is a reproach.

Xiangling's aggrieved eyes were red, and she murmured: "I don't want to either, I met Zhang Ren, and he didn't dare to chase him when he ran into the deep woods." ”

"What? Zhang Ren? Chu Xia was taken aback.

Grabbing my sister's shoulders, looking up and down, left and right, I let go after making sure there was no big problem, and said angrily: "It's all my brother's fault, I've been away for too long, and I can't let you go up the mountain in the future. ”

The last time I went up the mountain, I was digging wild vegetables with Jiang, but because I came down late, I was dragged into the sorghum field by Zhang Ren.

Xiangling hit and bited until Jiang arrived, and then rushed Zhang Ren away, and since then Jiang rarely let her go out.

"It's okay, big brother, I'm not stupid Xiangling now, not only didn't let Zhang Ren succeed, but also got delicious food from him!"

Xiangling took out the roast chicken from the back basket like a treasure.

Chu Xia is still worried, this Zhang Ren is really not a thing, but everyone knows that others are not good, but no one has caught the real evidence.

"I'll take you home first."

"I can't go back, I have to hurry up and pay off the medicine money."

Chu Xia couldn't twist Xiangling, so she had to let her go, but this time, Chu Xia didn't dare to go too far and chop wood in the sight of his sister.

Chu Xia looked at the sky, tied two bundles of firewood to the burden, and said to Xiangling: "Xiangling, it's time for us to go home." ”

"Okay, brother, you wait for me for a while." Xiangling replied crisply, not picking pine needles on the trees, but picking something among the grass.

When Chu Xia saw it, he said angrily: "Xiangling, what are you doing with these old warehouses, it's strange." ”

"It's useful." Xiangling's eyes flashed with a hint of cunning.

The brother and sister went home and found that the firewood outside the door was indeed missing another bundle.

The people of the old mansion have thicker skin than the bricks of the city wall.

Xiangling asked Chu Xia to bring today's newly beaten firewood and pine needles into the house, leaving only a bundle of firewood outside the house, and gluing the two handfuls of old cangzi (Cang'er Zi) to the firewood, and then entered the house.

I couldn't wait to open the oil paper packet, took out the roast chicken, and tore off a chicken thigh and gave it to Xiao Xianglian.

Jiang was taken aback: "Where did you get the roast chicken?" ”

Xiangling hurriedly replied: "Mother, it was a carriage running from the direction of the county seat, maybe it was to see the rain and hurry away, and an oily paper bag fell from the car, I opened it and saw that it was a roast chicken, so I took it back." ”

"Isn't it, do you have to pay it back?" Jiang Shi was stunned and said, I have heard of picking up money, and it is the first time I have heard of picking up roast chicken, and I instinctively feel that I am not sure that I have won the cheap price of others.

Chu Xia received her sister's eyes, and said, "Mother, people are in a carriage, they must be rich, can they run back for a roast chicken?" ”

Hearing that there was no need to send it back, Xiao Xianglian opened her big mouth and tore off a piece of chicken, puffed out her cheeks and chewed, and said while chewing: "Sister is so good, yesterday's eggs, today's roast chicken ........."

Xiangling stroked the little guy's head and laughed, "Sister is amazing, right?" Tomorrow my sister will guard the road again, maybe she can guard the bigger guy......"

Chu Xia's eyes widened and he said dissatisfiedly: "What are you keeping?" Do you think that there are people who are 'in a hurry' every day? ”

Xiangling was afraid that Chu Xia would say it, so she didn't dare to squeak anymore, and tore off two chicken wings, one for Chu Xia and one for Jiang.

Jiang pushed back and said, "You eat chicken wings, this is live meat, delicious!" ”

Xiangling smiled and said, "Mother, I ate a chicken thigh first on the mountain, and the chicken wings are for you." ”

Jiang knew that if he let it go like this, the final result would be like an egg, and he still had to eat it, like a little daughter-in-law who had just married, and took a small bite of shredded meat under the gaze of his children.

As soon as she moved, the three brothers and sisters began to move, and suddenly the meat was fragrant and the aftertaste was endless.

Chu Xia only ate one chicken wing and didn't want to move anymore.

The seventeen-year-old boy had two more bundles of firewood, and it was impossible not to be hungry, and he was reluctant to eat.

Xiangling tore the chicken breast and even the meat and bones to Chu Xia and said: "Big brother, Chu Dong's nose is smarter than a dog's nose, and you have to worry about it when you know it, the chicken is not big, so it's all over the meal." ”

Chu Xia glanced at the Jiang family in embarrassment, in his heart, there was something that should be stored, and there was always a sense of guilt after eating the last meal like this, regardless of the next meal.

Jiang nodded and said, "Eat, your leg is injured, eat more good supplements to recover, eat more." ”

Jiang pushed all the remaining chicken in front of Chu Xia, and looked at Chu Xia with blazing eyes, as if Chu Xia was not eating chicken, but a good medicine to cure diseases.

Chu Xia's eyes flashed dark, and he couldn't bear to tell his mother that his legs were afraid that they wouldn't get better, so he could only tear the chicken into a few pieces, hand them to his two younger sisters, and gnaw on the bones with his head down.

The chickens in ancient times were all free-range chickens that grew up eating insects, the meat was very fragrant, but very thin, and the four people ate it separately, and they were eaten quickly.

Xiangling wrapped the bones in oiled paper, wiped the oil stains on her lips, jumped off the kang, put on her shoes and said, "I went out and threw the bones." ”

Just about to push the door, he heard Liu's "ah" scream from the door, the corners of Xiangling's mouth rose, and her mood became more pleasant.

Xiangling deliberately shouted loudly: "Mother, I'm out!" ”

Outside the door came the sound of crackling and struggling to escape.

When I opened the door, the bundle of firewood was still there, and it was pushed down in a hurry, and the Liu family must have seen that the second room had chopped firewood again, and wanted to take another bundle.

Xiangling called out to Chu Xia, asked him to wrap his hands in strips of cloth, and moved the sticky firewood into the house to prevent Liu from stealing it again after thinking of a stab-proof way.

Afraid that the people in the old mansion would stare at her, Xiangling decided to throw the chicken bones farther away, and if necessary, bury them.

As soon as she walked a dozen steps away, she found that the three children walking in front of her were Xiaoshan, Xiaosong and Guoguo, who had fought with her.

The three children were leading a big yellow wolf dog behind them, not to mention how energetic.

Seeing Xiangling, Xiaoshan patted the head of the big wolf dog, and said with a grand momentum: "Rhubarb, bite the big fool!! ”

The big wolf dog rushed up as soon as he rubbed it, and ran back when he was scared of Xiangling, scolding "little rabbit cub" in his heart.

Seeing Xiangling so embarrassed, the three children chased after her and slapped her.

The big wolf dog was very fast, and Xiangling was nervous, so he fell to the ground and was bullied by the big wolf dog.

Xiangling clutched the awl in her cuff tightly and decided that if the big wolf dog pounced, she would prick it in the eye with an awl like she would stab Zhang Ren.