The temperature difference between day and night on the Loess Plateau is large.

Especially now that it is late autumn, don't look at more than 10 degrees during the day, it can reach below zero at night.

Therefore, at night, many wild birds will find a leeward place to stay warm for the night, and the firewood and haystack is their favorite place to stay.

Listen to the call is familiar, like a sparrow.

If there are many birds on the Loess Plateau, of course, they are sparrows.

These guys are chattering, often in groups. Throughout the year, sparrows can be seen in both fields and village caves.

They are almost the most hated birds of the peasants, and they are not enough to harm the crops. It is known as one of the four evils, and it is definitely not wronged.

Especially in the autumn harvest season, a large group of gray suddenly flew to the field, eating and pecking.

Half a day's work can destroy a large area of crops.

However, these guys make nests very simply, and they don't pay attention to the location, just find a gap in the gap, and get some feathers and weeds.

Even in the cracks in the walls of the caves where people live, there are many sparrow nests.

There are also some nests that don't do anything, and hide directly in the firewood and straw stacks for the winter.

In this era of lack of meat, sparrows are also one of the few things that can make farmers sacrifice their teeth. When it snows in winter, many families will set up bamboo screens or pots to catch birds in the open field in front of the cave door.

Since Wang Manyin has met it, he naturally will not miss it.

In the dim moonlight, he crept to the wheat straw stack to find out, and soon found many, many crevices drilled in the leeward.

Sound. It's coming through the cracks.

He tugged at the straw a few times, reached out and pulled inside, grabbing a clump of warm tropical feathers.

It was a sparrow the size of an egg, trembling in the palm of his hand. Because of the pinched beak, the thing couldn't scream, but it didn't alarm the other kind.

Next, Wang Manyin was a little worried, and he didn't know how to place this thing.

Throw it directly into space, the real thing will fly, and it will be difficult to catch it again in the future.

Wang Manyin also fought, first entered the space and poured a bag of grain on the yellow earth, and then carried an empty cloth bag to catch sparrows, and each time he caught, he was directly sent to the cloth bag.

One, two...... After finding a stack of wheat straw, I touched eight of them.

Then, we walked to the second straw stack......

When Wang Manyin touched a crack in wheat straw, he immediately felt that something was wrong.

It's a bit big, and it's definitely not a sparrow...... When I took it out and looked in the moonlight, I found that it was a wild pigeon. The unique rock pigeon of the Loess Plateau is very similar in appearance to the domestic pigeon, and the coat color is slightly white.

Blessed.

Wang Manyin lifted his spirits, put the wild pigeon into the cloth bag, and continued to reach out and grope.

After about ten minutes, the entire wheat straw stack was searched, and the results were quite remarkable. Three pigeons, more than thirty sparrows, enough for a beautiful meal.

However, the wild pigeon Wang Manyin did not plan to eat it, but kept it as a seed. There is a saying in the countryside that "turtledove pigeons, ten litters a year".

With three pigeons, it is estimated that in half a year at most, I will have endless pigeon meat.

As for the sparrows, they will be eaten tomorrow with the orchids.

When I got home, I didn't see the time early.

Wang Manyin didn't enter the space again, he was busy, he washed his feet hastily, and went to bed.

In the middle of the night, with a kick, he suddenly woke up.

This is missing my mother-in-law......

The orchid came to arouse a fire in Wang Manyin's heart.

After I went into the space and washed it, I couldn't fall asleep after tossing and turning.

There's no way, the twenty-year-old body is at its most powerful.

There was no place to use his strength, so in order to kill time, he simply continued to dig a pond with a shovel. I don't know how long I was busy, but I waited for the rooster to crow in the space before returning to the kang to sleep.

When he got up in the morning, Wang Manyin was still alive and well.

After breakfast, I started digging a cave. I was busy for a long time, and I almost dug three feet further.

After a short rest in the afternoon, taking advantage of the warm weather, Wang Manyin deliberately boiled a pot of boiling water and plucked more than 30 sparrows caught from the space.

He was busy here, and Mao Dan led his younger brother and appeared with Xiao Nizi on his back.

"Uncle Man Yin, where did you catch so many sparrows?" Mao Dan's eyes widened and he asked enviously.

"I caught it yesterday, and I'll fry it in the evening, and you will come over to eat it together." Since the three little guys met, Wang Manyin naturally would not be stingy.

With so much sparrow meat, you can fry most of the pot with more potatoes, and it doesn't hurt for them to eat some.

Although Mao Dan was very moved, he still shook his head: "No, my father won't let me come to your house for dinner." ”

"Meat, eat ......" Xiao Nizi struggled down from her brother's back, squatting in front of the basin, her eyes also full of longing.

Wang Manyin originally thought that the three children were just looking at it, but he didn't pay attention to it.

Unexpectedly, the silent stone next to him suddenly reached out, grabbed a freshly plucked sparrow, and put it directly in his mouth.

Wang Manyin was stupid.

It took a few seconds for him to react and say urgently: "Stone, what are you doing, this is raw." Spit it out...... Are you hungry, I'll get you corn nests! ”

"What are you doing, spit it out......" Mao Dan shook his fist and slammed his brother.

Under the pain, the little guy finally spit out the raw sparrow meat.

"Stop fighting, wait, I'll get you a nest." Wang Manyin hurriedly got up and returned to the cave and took three dry and hard corn nests.

"Uncle Man Yin, my dad won't let me eat ......" Mao Dan looked at Huang Chengcheng's nest head and licked his lips.

"It's okay, your adults don't know now." Wang Manyin knew that Wang Qiusheng and his family were honest people, and he was afraid that the children would trouble him.

Then he rinsed his mouth with the stone, washed his hands, and then ate the nest.

Seeing the three children gobbling up, Wang Manyin was a little sad.

It wasn't until this moment that he felt truly integrated into the era. What I am facing is not the cold words in the book, but the living, flesh-and-blood people.

Now that we have come to this era, we should do more!

However, Wang Manyin didn't plan to be a saint, but tried to give some help to the people around him as much as he could. Of course, this is just a plan, after all, it is difficult to even support yourself now.

More than 30 sparrows were cleaned up and chopped up, and a crockpot was filled.

Then add chili peppers and salt to marinate, and it will taste just right in the evening.

Seeing that the time was about the same, he locked the kiln door again and went to Shuangshui Village to find orchids. This time, Wang Manyin was going to call his eldest uncle Sun Shao'an, Shaoping and Lan Xiang, so he should exchange his relatives' feelings in advance.

It is said that Orchid's younger brothers and sisters are not ordinary people, and they can be called great achievements in the future.

Of course, Wang Manyin didn't want to hug his thighs or anything - there was space and memories of future generations, and he believed that he would never be worse than the other party.

The reason why I didn't plan to invite Mr. Sun was mainly for fear of being reprimanded. In the eyes of many old farmers, catching rabbits and birds is a second-rate behavior.

***

"Man Yin, why are you here?" Seeing the man appear at the gate of his yard, Orchid was full of excitement to greet him.

Wang Manyin dug a cave to add a lot of points for himself, and this time even Sun Yuhou didn't give any face.

Seeing someone come to the door, the two children in the courtyard secretly looked at each other with curiosity in their eyes.

The boy is tall and thin, and it is Sun Shaoping.

The little girl next to her looks very similar to Orchid, about seven or eight years old, wearing a torn cotton jacket full of patches, her hair is unkempt, and her face is covered with a lot of snot.

"Uncle, aunt, Shao'an, you are all at home......" Wang Manyin greeted him in a proper manner before he spoke:

"It's the first time I've been digging a cave, and I don't have much experience, so I want Shao'an to come over at night to give me some guidance and come up with ideas."

"Shao'an understands, you haven't eaten yet, have you? After eating here, I'll follow along. Sun Yuhou thought for a moment and said.

Seeing that the raw rice was about to be cooked and ripened, Old Man Sun had already pinched his nose and recognized this son-in-law.

Naturally, I was also concerned about the matter of fighting caves.

"No, uncle, just go Shao'an. It just so happened that I got some food and asked the orchid to help make it, and we talked while eating. This is Shaoping and Lanxiang, also went over for a meal. Wang Manyin hurriedly refused.

What are you kidding, if the old man goes, will he still eat this meal? I guess it's not fun to eat.

"What's the reason, you eat nonsense every day, what will you get married in the future?" When Sun Yuhou heard that Wang Manyin had prepared a meal, he became angry and couldn't help but reprimand him again.