Although it is a temporary place to spend the night, the house is still very large, first, there should be enough space for firewood for the night, second, there should be a place for people and dogs to move and sleep and rest, and when sleeping, it should not be too close to the wall, so that no animal can come in from the wall that is not strong and there are holes everywhere, and third, it must be able to pile up all their things, which cannot be left outside the house, in the mountains, nothing is superfluous, nor can it be discarded casually.

The house was full of firewood stacked neatly by the children, the mother and the sister had arranged things in an orderly manner, the broth and rice could already smell the fragrance, and the floor of the house was covered with a thick layer of dead grass, and sleeping on it would definitely not get wet and cold. The children asked their father and mother, "Is it time to eat?" and the father said, "Don't worry, everyone, there is something delicious." ”

After saying that, he called his two sons and set off with his two dogs. Instead of going any further, they turned a corner and came under the big tree.

The father took up the killing knife and scraped the white pulp that flowed down from the tree, and said as he scraped, "This is the maple tree, this is the maple sugar, and it is very sweet."

When the son heard that it was sugar, he licked his tongue so greedily that he picked off a piece of white pulp with his hand and sent it to his mouth, but as soon as he took a bite, he opened his mouth wide and spit it out, and his eyes were exaggerated as if he was about to cry, "Father, what kind of sugar is this, it's not sweet at all, it's not only bitter, but also numb the tongue." ”

But my father smiled and said, "Look at your gluttony." I said it was sugar, but I didn't say I could eat it right now. This must be boiled over a fire and the bitterness and astringency in the sugar can be removed before eating. Hahahaha. ”

The children cried and said aggrievedly, "Father, why didn't you say it earlier." ”

Then everyone stopped talking, and they all concentrated on scraping the white pulp with their knives.

There was a lot of maple pulp, some thick places, scraped layer after layer, as if it could never be finished, the father simply cut it up with an axe, a large piece of white pulp fell to the ground with the sound of the father's axe, and the children only had to pick it up with their hands.

After loading a large basket, there was still a lot of white pulp on the tree that had not been scraped off, and the children wanted to finish it before leaving.

But my father said, "These are enough for us to eat, and besides, this thing is easy to have diarrhea if we eat too much, and it is not too good a thing." It's been a long time since you've eaten candy, and I'm just here to give you a taste. ”

With that, they took their baskets and went back.

When he was almost at the thatched hut, my father said that there was still something to eat.

So saying, he found a hoe and found in the grass a few vines that looked a little like sweet potatoes, which his father had discovered when he first arrived, and the hunter should not waste time when he walked, but should always observe the danger around him to see what he could eat.

My father smoothed the sweet potato vine and dug directly at the root of the vine, and dug out a slender and slender thing that did not look like a sweet potato.

My father said, you guessed it right, this is a sweet potato, but it is a wild sweet potato, and the tuber is not as big as the sweet potato at home.

After listening to my father's words, everyone looked for wild sweet potatoes nearby.

After a while, my father dug up a dozen of them, enough for them to eat.

While digging, my father said that the sweet potatoes grown by the family can be eaten raw or cooked, but wild sweet potatoes can only be eaten cooked, and the raw ones are not only bitter and difficult to swallow, but also poisonous, and very toxic.

You wouldn't expect that there are so many delicious things to eat here.

After digging the wild sweet potatoes, it was already dark, and the mother and the full sister shouted to everyone in the thatched hut to eat.

But my father smiled and said, wait a while, there will be delicious food.

The children thought that there was so much to eat, it was already good, and what else could their father conjure up to eat, not to mention that it was already dark, where to find it.

The father poured out the maple syrup from the basket, explained to the mother how to do it, and went out with the basket, letting the two sons watch with the dog, and the other with a torch to follow him.

When it got dark, the little valley that had looked warm and pleasant became dark and swarthy, and it seemed a little inexplicably frightened, and the son walked behind his father, beating the little drum in his heart.

After walking a dozen steps, they came to the stream not far away, and the father pulled up his trouser leg and walked into the water, and the son had to follow, the water was not icy but a little cold.

The father whispered, I gently put the basket into the water, and you put the torch on the water above the basket.

The son didn't know what his father was going to do, but when he saw his father whispering, he knew he couldn't talk too much, so he did it.

After the torch was set for a while, the son felt something pass between his legs and startled him, he had seen many strange things along the way, and knowing that his father had arranged it this way, there must be a reason for him, and there would be no danger.

While he was pondering, he saw my father lift the basket out of the water, and many fish bounced out of the basket and threw themselves into the water, and the basket was half a basket of fish.

The father said, "That's enough." With that, he strode to the shore.

It was only then that the son learned that his father had caught fish in this way, and that these fish were phototaxis, and they all swam when they saw the light in the night, and it must have been these fish that were scurrying between their legs just now.

The children could not have imagined that tonight's dinner would be so sumptuous, and there were so many tricks, that they were so happy that they couldn't keep their mouths together.

Man Mei said happily, "Father is amazing!"

But the mother said, "Your father is an old naughty boy who plays and eats all the time." ”

The thatched hut was filled with laughter.

The mother said, "You eat the broth and the cooked wild sweet potatoes first, and I will bake the fish for you, and the maple syrup is ready, and you will eat it after eating." ”

The sons hurriedly asked how maple was made, and the mother said, "It's easy." It is to put the maple syrup in a pot and boil it in water, and the sugar will dissolve into the water. Then slowly boil the water over low heat. ”

Several children were busy trying to taste the sugar first, but the father said, "You can't eat this kind of candy on an empty stomach, because if you eat it on an empty stomach, your stomach will cramp, and it hurts a lot." You have to eat something first. ”

Subsequently, the father said that the place is very safe, there are no big animals coming, and it is enough for a few dogs to stand guard, so everyone can eat with confidence.

When the owners were eating, the dogs stood beside their owners one by one, and it turned out that the mother had already fed the dogs while cooking.

Having said that, after eating, everyone still did not dare to be careless, according to the ratio of two to two, arranged to stand guard, the dog lay next to it, ready to be on standby, a few steel drills were placed in the fire and burned, as long as there was danger, they could be picked up and used at any time.

As my father said, the night was peaceful, nothing happened, and there was no unnecessary noise.