Chapter 17: The Trap
"Changfu? Is there something wrong? It's okay to follow me up the mountain. Ning Changrong knocked on the door and stood at the door.
"Big brother, I'm fine, I'm almost done with firewood today. What are we going up the mountain for? Ning Changfu looked puzzled.
"Let's see if we can make a trap to catch two rabbits or something, you take a hatchet and follow me."
"Big brother! Second brother! I'm going too! Ning Changgui has been married for more than a year and is still like a child, and he can't bear it when he sees his eldest brother and second brother going up the mountain.
"Okay, let's go with the three brothers." Modern Ning Changrong is an only child, and he has not experienced the feeling of being a brother, so he didn't expect to come to this ancient time to directly mention his two younger brothers.
The second brother Ning Changfu is twenty-two years old, five years younger than Ning Changrong, and the third Ning Changgui is eighteen years old, so it can be said that the two younger brothers were brought up by the original Ning Changrong.
It was because his two younger brothers respected him very much as his brother.
"Big brother, second brother, our brothers haven't come out like this for a long time." Ning Changgui walked in front with an excited face.
I kept recalling the days when my brothers played together when they were young, and when he was bullied before, the eldest brother helped him fight back, and then after the eldest brother grew up and married his daughter-in-law, he became the second brother to play with him.
Ning Changfu is also recalling that the eldest brother went to the county on an errand and went home once a month, and the brothers usually got along less and less, and they all became relatives, and they were still not as close to each other as before, and they were more afraid of the eldest brother.
"Big brother, when did you learn to be a trap? My second brother and I didn't know you still had this hand. ”
"When your brother and I fought all over the village, you were nothing. How can I let the two of you know everything? ”
On the outskirts of the mountain, Ning Changrong searched for a long time and finally found a suitable place to place a trap, so the two Ning Changfu brothers dug a pit with tools. He put a rattan made of something underneath, rattan Ning Changrong didn't know what the name was, it was Ning Changgui who took them to find it, it was very strong, he used a knife to cut it, and he kept cutting it for a short time, or let Ning Changgui go back and borrow tools, and put a saw to get it, and spread grass on the trap, which is considered one.
found a few more suitable places, and made five or six traps in a row before Ning Changrong gave up.
"Okay, it's almost, let's see if it can be done in the evening. Let's go back first. Never mind. It's all here, fetch a few bundles of firewood and then go home. ”
Ning Changrong's proposal, the two brothers naturally did not refuse, "Okay, big brother." ”
After cutting for a long time, Ning Changrong was tired and panting, and wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead with his sleeve.
Suddenly, a gray rabbit sprang out of the jungle, and the rabbit and Ning Changrong looked at each other and fled in a panic.
"Smack." The gray rabbit directly crashed into a tree next to Ning Changrong.
Ning Changrong is happy, this is called waiting for the rabbit?
"Hey, I'm lucky today, and there's meat delivered to my door."
The Ning Changfu brothers were stunned, why are there such stupid rabbits? Why haven't they met each other when they went up the mountain before?!
"Okay, the firewood is almost chopped, we still have an unexpected harvest, let's go home today."
"Big brother, why don't we wait? Maybe there's a stupid rabbit running out. ”
Ning Changrong freed his hand and knocked Ning Changgui's head, "Why are you so stupid rabbits?" If you really wait here, you won't be able to wait until you starve to death. Today was just luck. ”
Ning Changgui touched his head, a little pity, "Okay." ”
The brothers returned home in high spirits.
"Yo, did you really hit a rabbit?" Li Dafeng looked at the gray rabbit in Ning Changrong's hand in surprise, and estimated that he could have two or three catties, add some wild vegetables or something to stew together, and then soak the bun in the soup, everyone can eat a lot, suck it......
Thinking of this, Li Dafeng couldn't wait to take the rabbit in Ning Changrong's hand and took the initiative to ask Ying to clean up the rabbit.
"Mother, mother. Big brother, they hit a rabbit and came back, let's eat it at night, right? Li Dafeng said as he walked.
"Okay, you go clean up, Chunmei, you go to the yard to pick some garlic seedlings, I'll cook it for dinner today." It's finally time to see the meat, and even Mrs. Wang Xiujuan can't help it. She has to cook this dish herself, if this good meat is made for Li Dafeng and the two concubines, she can be angry!
The garlic seedlings that had been planted for several days finally came in handy, and there was a sound of crackling oil pot water in the kitchen, and even Ning Qingxi put down the things in his hand and smelled it.
"Milk. What to do? It smells so good. Ning Qingxi kept sniffing the fragrance in the air with his nose, it was the smell of meat!
"Wow! Is there meat? What kind of meat is this? Where did it come from? ”
"This is what your father caught with your two uncles." Wang Xiujuan explained happily while stir-frying the rabbit meat in the pot.
"Daddy is too capable!"
"Isn't it? It's still a big brother, your uncle has been up the mountain for so many days, and he hasn't caught a rabbit. Li Dafeng grabbed the position of the fire. Smelling in the kitchen is also a pleasure.
"It's also lucky, he was going to put down the cover, and when he was collecting it at night and chopping firewood to rest, he didn't expect to run into a stupid rabbit and hit the tree next to your father." Wang Xiujuan happily stir-fried while telling Ning Qingxi about the rabbit.
"Hahaha. Isn't this just waiting for the rabbit? Ning Qingxi listened to it and was happy in his heart.
The rabbit meat and garlic seedlings are almost stir-fried, and Wang Xiujuan added a lot of root plants to it, which is the taro that she and her granddaughter accidentally found when they went up the mountain.
When they brought it back, they scared the Ning family a lot, they thought that Wang Xiujuan was not going to live and take the family to die.
Wang Xiujuan looked at the frightened look on the family's face, and explained that she knew for a long time that someone had been poisoned by eating taro before.
After careful questioning, I found out that the kind they were talking about was Alocasia, which looks very similar to taro, but it is highly poisonous and will eat the dead.
The taro she dug was edible, with high starch content and strong satiety. With this taro, the food crisis at home was alleviated a lot.
Since no one recognized it, they all thought that taro was poisonous, and after Wang Xiujuan's family, who was directly cheap, taught them to identify taro and alocasia, she took the three brothers of the Ning family to the mountain that night to dig up all the edible taro and go home.
Now the Ning family still has two meals a day, but they can burn two taro in the morning to eat.
It's barely three meals a day.
Having said that, Wang Xiujuan put taro in the pot, added water, put ginger slices and boiled for another half an hour, and put steamed buns on the lid of the pot to heat. The whole kitchen was full of meat, and even the brothers who were busy working outside couldn't help but look in the kitchen.
"Mother. Okay, no? Ning Changgui stretched out his head.
"Almost." Wang Xiujuan lifted the lid of the pot, oh, this fragrance is domineering, and Ning Qingxi can't sit still.
Wang Xiujuan tasted the saltiness, added a little coarse salt to it, stirred it, and brought it out of the stove under the expectant eyes of everyone.
According to the number of heads, the rabbit meat was divided first, and the rabbit, which was only about three catties, could have three pieces of meat and four or five pieces of taro in a bowl for one person.
Wang Xiujuan can't stand the fact that the portions of women and men are different, since she came, the men and women in the family basically have similar meals, and if there is any leftover after the distribution, whoever eats it first will be counted.
The steamed bun is placed on the lid of the pot and heated, absorbing a lot of the aroma of rabbit meat, and the taro and rabbit meat live together and become soft and glutinous, sweet and meaty.
The family didn't raise their heads when they ate, and even the remaining soup in the pot was soaked in the buns.