Chapter 8: Treats
Tian Xia was cleaning up the mushrooms that had been drying for most of the day in the yard, and her daughter Wang Xiaohua was also grabbing a few mushrooms from time to time and putting them in the cloth bag, when she suddenly heard a familiar voice outside.
"Mother, I'm back!" Wang Xiaohu's happy voice came from afar.
"Brother, brother is back!" Sister Wang Xiaohua heard her brother's voice and ran out happily.
"Mother, mother, come out quickly, there are a lot of deer" Wang Xiaohua saw her brother and father who were walking not far from the door, and the second uncle was carrying the deer with Zhao Xiaodao, and hurriedly called her mother to come out and see.
"It's coming, it's coming!" Tian Xia unhurriedly packed up the mountain mushrooms in her hand, and then walked to the door, at this time Wang Daniu and his son were about to walk to the door.
Tian Xia saw four people through the fence, each carrying two deer, the two tall ones walking in front were her husband Wang Daniu and her brother-in-law Wang Erniu, and the shorter one in the middle was her son Wang Xiaohu, and Zhao Xiaodao, who insisted on sending the deer over and then home at the end.
"Boss, what's going on, how can you shoot so many deer today" After all, although she had hunted deer before, it was only one, and Tian Xia had never seen her husband bring back so much prey.
"Mother, don't you look at who is going today, with me, a marksman, the prey is not as much as you want!" Wang Xiaohu hurriedly walked up to his mother and bragged.
"Little Tiger don't be skinny, talking nonsense!" The mother obviously didn't believe her son's words, although Xiaohu showed his magic power and archery skills a few days ago.
"Sister-in-law, don't believe it, I didn't expect Xiaohu's archery skills to be so good at the beginning, yesterday I thought it was my brother who blew it, but today I saw that Xiaohu is an arrow and shot straight into six deer!" Wang Erniu sighed at Tian Xia next to him.
"Is it true?" After listening to Wang Erniu's words, Tian Xia set her eyes on her husband, wanting to confirm it one last time, after all, it was a little too sudden.
"Child, it's true, Xiaohu shot six deer by himself today" Wang Daniu's words gave his wife the final confirmation.
"Really, Xiaohu let my mother see if she is injured!" After listening to her husband's words, Tian Xia hurriedly stepped forward to see if her son was injured.
"Huh! My son wasn't hurt, and he didn't look at me" Wang Daniu muttered in his mouth, but looking at his wife who was revolving around his son, he felt that his heart had been hit a little bit!
"There is no mother, you don't see whose son I am, I am my mother's precious son, your son has extraordinary archery skills, and he will be able to become the first arrow in the world in the future!" Wang Xiaohu began to say to his mother with a hippie smile again.
"My son is the best!" Tian Xia stepped forward to hug her son, and didn't care about the two deer on Wang Xiaohu's body.
As they spoke, they put the deer in the yard.
"Brother Niu, thank you for your deer, if it's okay, I'll go back first." After Zhao Xiaodao put the deer in the yard, he carried the doe that was assigned to him and was about to go out.
"Okay, Xiaodao, then you go back and deal with the deer first, remember to come over for dinner in the evening, I won't call you specifically" Wang Daniu shouted to Zhao Xiaodao, who was about to go out.
"Okay, then I'll go back and deal with it quickly, and call my daughter-in-law to come over and help you" Zhao Xiaodao kept walking out, and at the same time turned back to Wang Daniu and shouted.
"Second brother, you should hurry up and go back and deal with the deer, and I will bring your daughter-in-law Xiaofang over to help your sister-in-law cook." Wang Da Niu said to his younger brother, and at the same time gave a male deer to Wang Erniu, and wanted to replace the doe that his younger brother was carrying.
"Hey, big brother, I'm fighting a doe, what are you doing for my stag!" Wang Erniu smiled and hurriedly shirked it, not letting him change the deer.
"Why is there so much nonsense, it's all a family, let you take it!" Wang Daniu said in a sullen voice to his younger brother.
"It's ......, okay, listen to the big brother!" Wang Erniu took the stag handed over by his brother and put it on his shoulder, and at the same time put the doe on the ground.
"Big brother, I'll go back first, I'll bring Xiaofang over later" Saying that, Wang Erniu also walked home happily.
"Child, this time Xiaohu beat a lot of stags, divided a doe to the knife, replaced a stag for the second cow, there are three stag left, three doe, if you spend the winter, it is enough" Wang Daniu said to his wife.
"Well, it's all up to you!" Tian Xia knew that this was her husband's desire to help the life of Erniu's family.
Wang Xiaohu, who was watching from the side, understood that the value of a male deer was far higher than that of a doe, and the antler velvet on the head of the male deer was a precious medicinal material.
"Xiaohu, go to the kitchen and take out the knife, handle the deer first, sort out the meat, and treat it for dinner in the evening." Wang Da Niu began to beckon his son and began to deal with the deer.
At the same time, Tian Xia pulled her children and began to hurry up and clean up the mountain mushrooms, which happened to be used at night.
Half an hour later, Wang Daniu and his son finished disposing of the deer, peeled off the skin, cut off the antler velvet and other parts, put them on the bamboo rafts in the yard to dry, and after a few days of drying, they were sold in the town and exchanged for grain.
"I still have my son's help to deal with it quickly, it's good to have a lot of strength, and it's not hard to deal with things, if I can't deal with it alone until dark" Wang Daniu looked at his son who was still busy and sighed in his heart.
"Xiaohu, okay, wash your body first, and then you will go to the village with me and ask everyone to come over for dinner in the evening, otherwise it will be late, and everyone will start cooking." Wang Da Niu shouted at his son, who was busy with the child's work.
"Dad, wait for me, it'll be fine soon" Wang Xiaohu kept his hands on and said to his father at the same time.
After a while, after washing, Wang Xiaohu walked in front of his father and prepared to go out with his father.
"Mother, Xiaohua, my father and I will go to the village first to call everyone to come over for dinner in the evening" Wang Xiaohu shouted loudly to his mother in the kitchen, and his sister who was still cleaning up, and at the same time went out with his father.
Wang Xiaohu looked at his father who was walking in front, and silently followed behind, looking at the direction should be to go to the village chief's house first, generally the village has to ask the village chief to do anything in the village, after all, the village chief is nominally the head of a village, managing the entire village, usually whoever is in trouble, they all go to the village chief's house for help.
"The village chief is an old pedant, he doesn't do anything all day long, and he is not the material for reading, but he likes to fiddle with some knowledge with others" Wang Xiaohu thought in his heart, and his impression of the village chief was like a sour old scholar.
"I don't usually know what kind of income I have, but I live a decent life every day." For the life of the village chief, Wang Xiaohu is obviously a little envious.
The village itself is not large, with less than a few dozen households, and it will be the village chief's house in a short time.
Seeing the green brick yard and wooden gate of the village chief's house, and the surrounding fence yard and thatched house, it is incompatible, just like a green grass growing in a piece of loess, which looks so independent and different.
"Village chief, village chief" Wang Daniu shouted at the door, although the door was open, he didn't go directly inside, just waited for the reply from inside the house at the door, showing respect for the village chief.
After a while, the village chief walked out, and saw an elderly man who looked to be fifty or sixty years old standing at the door, his clothes were relatively neat, and he was very clean, and he was relatively thin and tall.
"Da Niu, what's the matter, I heard that your baby hunted a few deer," the village chief said to Wang Da Niu in a flat tone.
"Village chief, isn't this Xiaohu's luck better today! In the evening, I want to invite some acquaintances in the village to dinner, thank you for taking care of my family all the time," Wang Daniu bent over and said with a smile.
"Grandpa the village chief, I'm amazing today, I shot six deer at once" Looking at his father's somewhat bent waist, Wang Xiaohu said proudly and loudly to the village chief.
"Yo, not bad little tiger, the big cow family will be developed in the future! Don't forget to be old," the village chief still said to Wang Daniu's father and son in a flat tone, although he said it on his lips, he obviously didn't look down on it in his heart.
"How can it, you must remember, you must not forget the village chief," Wang Daniu said hurriedly.
"Alright, I know, I'll pass in the evening." After the village chief finished speaking, he went back to the house.
Looking at the village chief who had returned to the house, Wang Daniu and Wang Xiaohu then visited some people in the village who often walked around, and the sun was almost setting after they were done.