My father didn't pick all of them, but picked a small portion, enough for two meals.

The children were a little strange, so they asked their father why, and he said that we still have to wait for the seeds of these vegetables to bear next spring, and this is the hope that we will live here for a long time, without these vegetables, we will not be able to survive for long by hunting alone, not to mention picking too much, and it is a pity that if we can't eat them, they will spoil.

As he spoke, the children found a few more turnips, and as mentioned above, they plucked only two, leaving most of them.

In this way, the children said, not only can they no longer be eaten, but they also need to be protected from other animals and insects.

After a while, the basket was full, and everyone decided not to pick it anymore.

This is two arrows away from home, so the father asked a son to take it back, and they cut down some tall thorn trees nearby, and removed the weeds in the vegetable field, and then sharpened the roots of the thorn trees, and stuck them around the vegetable garden, forming a thorn wall.

After doing all this, they piled up the weeds removed from the vegetable field and burned them in a fire, and the grass ash was a good fertilizer after the beginning of spring.

After finishing these tasks, the father and his two sons were exhausted, sitting on the edge of the ridge to rest, and using thorns to pick each other the thorns that had been plunged into the thorns when they had just planted them, making a few hands bloody, but the peasants in the mountains were used to these, and it was nothing to shed a little blood when working, and the annoying thing was that some of the thorns were pierced deep through the calluses, and it was not easy to pick them out, so I heard the full sister in the distance shouting, "Father, where are you?"

The sons quickly stood up and saw that Man Mei came over with a basket of things, which turned out to be a meal delivery.

If you don't have enough food in the morning, you'll be really hungry.

Opening a leaf on the top of the basket, everyone saw that in addition to the vegetables they had just picked, there was also a pot of meat, and hurriedly asked what was going on, what kind of meat it was, they knew that the previous meat had been eaten, and all they had to eat was some rice and flour brought out from home.

Just when she was puzzled, Man Mei smiled mischievously and had already said the answer: "Don't guess, let me tell you." When the third brother was mowing the grass, he found a hole, so he dug it open and looked at it, and found that there were two snakes hibernating inside, so he knocked him out with a hoe. This is snake meat, it's very fragrant, eat it quickly, it's not delicious when it's cold. ”

As soon as everyone heard this delicacy, how could they wait, took the basin and chopsticks, picked up the pieces of meat and sent them to their mouths, causing my father to tell everyone to be careful of snake stings.

After only a while, everyone ate cleanly.

After eating, my father said, let's go home, let's do so much today, and continue to do it tomorrow, there is a lot of work, take your time.

Halfway there, they noticed a pile of smoke rising from the yard in front of the stone house, and knew it was burning weeds.

When I returned to the courtyard, the whole yard had been cleaned up and smoothed, and then I saw clearly that there was a circle of courtyard walls outside the yard that had collapsed into shape, and my mother also cleaned up the stone cave house, and the stone slabs inside were carefully swept with a broom made of dry grass.

It's just that the son who is in charge of tidying up the yard hasn't had time to chop wood, and it seems that the work of tidying up the yard has exceeded their expectations, and perhaps it took him some effort to catch the two snakes.

The three dogs watching the yard saw that their masters had returned, and pounced on them happily, rubbing hard against them, and a fluffy tail wagged like a fan, and looked very affectionate.

After returning home and resting for a while, Man Mei brought a bowl full of snake blood to her father and brothers to drink, which is a good thing to replenish blood and boost qi, and it is a rare big tonic in the wild, especially the snake blood that hibernates in winter and spring, which is more nutritious.

After taking a sip, my father said that my mother was also old and should pay attention to her body, and let her drink a few sips, and then everyone drank some.

As soon as Man Mei picked up the bowl, she smelled a pungent fishy smell, and she was so disgusted that she wanted to vomit, but looking at everyone's encouraging eyes, she closed her eyes and drank the snake blood that was already a little black into her mouth, and swallowed it with bated breath.

After drinking the snake's blood, everyone fetched some water and washed the blood from their mouths in the yard.

Seeing that it was still early and that the food available for dinner was a bit monotonous, my father said to the dogs, "Go find something to eat." ”

After speaking, he patted the dog's back lightly, and the dog jumped happily and rushed out.

Father said, let them go out and play, and we'll clean up the walls.

The stone house is built against the mountain, directly carved out of the steep rock wall, and the roof happens to be a small platform, which becomes the roof from a distance, and the wall that has mostly collapsed is in a semicircle, tightly enclosing the stone house.

The eldest son and the second son used hoes to level the foundation of the courtyard wall, the father Lei wall, and the third son handed stone bricks.

What is rare is that after many years, these stone chiseled bricks are still in their original state, rarely cracked and broken, and the collapse is only due to the unstable foundation or other animals and plants, so that they can repair the wall and save a lot of trouble, after leveling the foundation, just take the stone bricks and pile them up, and they don't even need mud.

When my mother and sister saw that the sun was about to go down, they went into the house to prepare dinner.

There are no meat dishes or other things tonight, so I can only eat a cabbage porridge, or a meal without any oil and water, only sprinkled with a little salt, and it has a faint taste.

Since entering the mountain, they have not eaten such a simple and simple meal, the mother while preparing, at the same time a little uncomfortable, feeling that the father and children have suffered, but the clever woman is difficult to cook without rice, just come here has not much harvest, and this can only be the case.

"Wangwang, Wangwang......". When the mother was worried about the simplicity of dinner, there was a dog barking outside the house, and the mother's constricted eyebrows immediately relaxed, she knew that these dogs must have gained something, otherwise they would not have come back so soon, and listening to this bark indicated that the dog was very excited.

When I came out to take a look, I found that there was a dog with something in its mouth, and at this time, the father and son who were building the wall also found it, and rushed over to take down the things in the dog's mouth to see, it turned out to be two voles, and the children jumped up happily, "There is meat to eat tonight." ”

But it's a little regrettable that these two mice are not enough for the six of them to eat for six dogs, but it's better than nothing, the dog is still good, and it's not easy to catch two voles in just half an hour.

The attentive youngest son found that there were a few blood stains on two of the dogs, and his heart immediately tightened, picked up the dog, pulled the hair on the dog's body to find out where the injury was, and after a closer look, he found that the dog was not injured, it should be the blood of other animals.