After going to the grave in the morning, I returned home.

Then start cooking.

Compared with the natural gas in the city, the earthen stoves in the township are all firewood.

This task naturally fell on Yu Jin's head, and Jiang Muqing helped Zhang Qian prepare the dishes.

This thing is not as simple as it looks, the operation is as fierce as a tiger, and when you look at the flames, it is not as good as the beginning.

In the end, under the command of Zhang Qian, he mastered a little trick, and he burned it in a good way, but his head was full of wood ashes.

After all, it's still the first day of the Lunar New Year, and you can't eat too badly.

So when they set off from Kui County today, they had already prepared dishes in the car and brought them over.

Yu Donglai answered the phone on the side and talked to others about things.

After lunch, people began to visit one after another, and Yu Donglai was in the hall and began to enter the "work".

Zhang Qian needs to help make tea again.

Yu Jin and Jiang Muqing looked a little bored, sitting outside, looking at the white snow in a daze.

"Yu Jin, what did you play in the mountains when you were a child?"

"That's a lot."

Yu Jin recalled: "At that time, my grandfather often took me to the mountains to hunt, and there were two dogs at home, one black and one yellow. ”

"It's a pity that I can't catch it now."

Jiang Muqing sighed and said: "Otherwise, we will also go to catch hares, and then burn a fire at night, roast and eat, and sprinkle some cumin on top, it must be very fragrant." ”

"Forget it."

Yu Jin smiled: "Just you, a rookie, still want to catch a hare?" I guess you'll only be able to catch birds. ”

“？？？” Jiang Muqing's face flushed.

Seeing this, Yu Jin hurriedly explained embarrassedly: "I didn't mean that, the bird I said is a real bird." ”

"Oh."

Jiang Muqing asked, "Then will you catch it?" ”

"Of course, I'm a master."

Yu Jin said: "What my grandfather taught me, especially in winter, is the best to catch. ”

"Then let's go outside and catch birds."

"Okay, I'll show you how good I am."

Yu Jin took Jiang Muqing and took a dustpan at home, and then went to get a long rope and a stick.

Come to a snowy field, sweep a small clearing, and sprinkle with millet and corn kernels.

On top of it, he used a small wooden stick to support the dustpan and tied the rope, and then he led the other end and took Jiang Muqing to hide in the dark.

In this way, a simple trap is set.

Jiang Muqing asked, "Can you do this?" ”

"Absolutely."

Yu Jin explained: "In the mountains in winter, covered by heavy snow, it is difficult for birds to find food, you can look at it, and after a while, a flock of birds will come." ”

His voice just fell.

A bird that didn't know what flew down and got into the trap.

Seeing this, Jiang Muqing urged: "Pull it quickly!" ”

"Don't worry, most of them haven't come yet, this is the pioneer bird who is taking the lead."

Yu Jin shook her head and said, "Wait." ”

Sure enough, after a while, a flock of birds came full of slowness.

Just as Yu Jin was about to pull down the stick, a colorful bird with a long golden tail flew over.

When the other birds saw this, they all scattered in a hurry.

Jiang Muqing was surprised: "What kind of bird is this?" It's beautiful. ”

"Grandparents called it the golden rooster, and it is also a type of pheasant."

Yu Jin replied: "I heard that there were a lot of people in the mountains in the past, but the people who were caught in the back were about to become extinct, and I didn't see them much, but I didn't expect them to be there now." ”

Jiang Muqing asked, "This bird should be a protected animal, right?" ”

"yes."

"Shall we pull or not?"

"Definitely can't pull."

Then the two watched as the golden rooster had eaten all the food, snorted its wings twice, and flew away.

It's like luck is just once.

After that, the two of them did the same trick again, but no birds came.

Even if there were, there were only one or two sporadically, a rope pull, and it failed, and it didn't hit every time!

It's just a boring afternoon.

And Yu Dong's work there is also coming to an end.

What big things can be in the village, most of them are some daily trivialities.

But because Yu Dong came to the official university, was knowledgeable, and was a capable person in the village, he liked to ask him about many things in his family.

The most outrageous thing that Yu Jin heard next to her was that her son was getting married and wanted him to be a witness.

This kind of thing, Yu Donglai definitely can't agree.

One is that there is no time, the other is that you can't do this, and when you reach a certain status, there are some things that need to be avoided.

Besides, his son is not married yet.

After the family finished eating in the evening, Yu Donglai took Yu Jin to the mountain and dug up a lump of a broken tree, that is, the root of the tree.

A big one.

After the two of them carried it back, they lit a large fire in the hall, and the family of four sat around the fire.

On the first day of the new year, the vigil that came late.

The red firelight was printed on everyone's faces, and it was very warm.

Yu Donglai explained to Jiang Muqing: "In the past, when we were young and celebrated the New Year, every Chinese New Year's Eve would burn a big fire in every household, and everyone would sit around, chat, tell stories, and keep vigil together until dawn, the bigger the fire, the better, which means that next year's days will be more prosperous." ”

"That's right."

Zhang Qian also said with a smile: "When Yu Jin was young, his grandfather often told him ghost stories, but he was afraid and loved to listen to them, and he had to be accompanied by someone every time he went to the toilet. ”

"Hahaha......"

Jiang Muqing sneered: "It turns out that you are afraid of ghost stories." ”

"It's all said, it's when I was a child."

"Come on, roast sweet potatoes."

Yu Donglai used tongs, pulled out a few sweet potatoes from the ashes of the grass and trees in front of the fire, and said, "Whoever is hungry, eat it." ”

Yu Jin reached out and took one for Jiang Muqing.

Put it on the stool, blow it, and after it was a little cold, hand it to her.

As soon as Jiang Muqing tore off the skin, the maltose of the sweet potato was roasted and flowed out, and the aroma was fragrant.

When you take a bite, it's sweet and soft, and it's much better than the machine baked in the city.

"It's delicious, isn't it?"

Jiang Muqing's eyes lit up, it was the first time she had eaten such a roasted sweet potato.

"If you like to eat, eat more, there are still here."

Zhang Qian smiled: "This thing can only be eaten in the countryside now, and the next time you want to eat it, it is estimated that it will be another year later." ”

Suddenly, Yu Jin remembered something.

He asked, "Do you want to eat barbecue?" When I was a child, my father liked to give me barbecue meat, and it was quite fragrant. ”

"Yes, you can." Jiang Muqing nodded again and again, now she wants to try everything.

Yu Jin looked at Zhang Qian: "Mom......"

Slices of meat require craftsmanship, but he can't.

"Okay, you wait, I'll get it for you."

Zhang Qian got up with a smile, went to the kitchen, took out a small piece of lean meat, and then used a knife to cut small thin slices of meat into pieces, and brought it over on a plate, with a box of salt.

The barbecue thing naturally doesn't need Zhang Qian's operation.

Yu Jin set the tongs on the fire, then evenly coated the meat slices with a layer of salt, put them on the tongs and began to roast.

After a while, the aroma of barbecue came out.

Zhang Qian reminded: "It should be almost, Mu Qing, you can try it." ”

"Hmm."

Jiang Muqing picked up a piece, blew the carbon ash on the top, and then ate it into her mouth.

"Wow, that's delicious!"

At this moment, Jiang Muqing turned into a foodie, roasting sweet potatoes for a while, and barbecue meat for a while, and couldn't stop at all.

Everyone was chatting with each other.

Yu Donglai also told them the story of his youth.

There are sighs, regrets, and luck!

The fire in front of me occasionally makes a "crackling" sound because a certain piece of wood burns out......

On the night of the first day of the Lunar New Year, everyone kept the bonfire until 12 o'clock in the middle of the night before they went to rest.

The winter in the mountains was very cold, and the bed was a little cold, so Jiang Muqing naturally quietly touched Yu Jin's warm quilt and hugged him to sleep

Tomorrow morning, they'll be back! (End of chapter)

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