Chapter 16: The Bunny
Where are the rabbits?
Gu Lan looked at it, and sure enough, there was a white rabbit trapped in the bushes by the river!
"Ah, there really is!"
Gu Lan walked over and tried to find a way to rescue the rabbit from the thorn bush.
Zhu'er touched the rabbit's ears and cried out inarticulately, "Bunny, meat!" ”
Zhu'er and Liang'er also swallowed their saliva, such a fat rabbit is enough for them to eat beautifully!
Gu Lan broke the grass vine and tied the rabbit and put it in the back basket, let Zhu'er watch from the shore, and pulled up her trouser legs into the stream, at the end of October, the stream was cold, and she shivered with cold.
But soon, the joy of catching the fish made her forget the cold.
"What luck today!" Gu Lan couldn't help but sigh, early in the morning, the Gu family didn't say anything about sending things, but also picked up a rabbit for nothing and caught seven or eight fish!
Zhu'er Liang'er jumped happily, and Zhu'er also followed her brother's example, clapping her little hands in a good manner.
Gu Lan went ashore, shook off the water droplets on her feet, put on straw sandals, and the smile on her face never disappeared.
Put the fish in the basket, pick up my sister, and take my brother to the house.
When they saw any wild vegetables on the side of the road, they all received them in the basket without discrimination.
Fortunately, it's the end of autumn, so it's not a winter day when you run out of ammunition and food.
Gu Lan was also thinking, she was really lucky, she didn't know how she died, but she had a new life, although the start was difficult, everything was getting better.
"Aggie, you're back?" Old man Shao straightened up his waist while chopping wood and looked at Aji.
Aggie's hands were empty, and wet mud was sticking to his bottom.
Old man Shao thoughtfully, "The rabbit I caught yesterday opened the cage and ran away, and I will catch another one tomorrow and bring it back to you." ”
Aji paused, didn't look back, and was silent for a long time before he said, "A rabbit, are you very happy?" ”
It was difficult to understand what he said, but Old Man Shao understood what he meant.
I couldn't help but sigh in my heart.
Every time he went up to the mountains to hunt, he would catch a live rabbit and give it to Aji, and keep it at home, and gradually it became a habit.
Seeing that Aggie didn't like it, the rabbit would sell it for money, and then catch a new one.
Now Aji will not be happy to receive the rabbit, and Old Man Shao has not seen Aji smiling for many years.
But when Aggie was a child, when he received the rabbit for the first time, he did smile at him.
From then on, Old Man Shao would perseverely send him rabbits.
Aggie didn't really want an answer, and after he said this, he entered the bamboo hut like a puff of smoke.
Soon, the elegant sound of the piano came from the bamboo house.
Old man Shao let go of the axe, thought about it, and went out with a bamboo basket on his back.
"Look at your sister and the rabbit, and be careful not to let the rabbit bite her."
Gu Lan returned home, put a few fish that were still swimming into the clear water, and began to wash vegetables and kill fish, and began to work on the noon meal.
The smoke curled up, and she rummaged through the memories of the bazaar in the original owner's mind, and when her father was sick before, she went to the bazaar a few times to find the doctor.
The name of the village where Gu Lan lives is Xiaolongkan, and the origin of the name of the village is that many years ago, someone had seen Youlong ascend to heaven here, and later some people gathered here to form a village, and they continued to use this name.
To the south, the village is surrounded by mountains, and to the north, the terrain is much flatter. Relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the water to eat the water, people within a radius of 100 miles basically rely on the mountains for a living.
In some large villages, there are even special hunters who go into the mountains to hunt.
Such a hunter family does not worry about eating and drinking, and many young men want to learn the ability to hunt in the mountains, but this is the same as other industries, and it is passed on inside but not outside, and men but not women.
If there is a demand, there is a sale, there are many hunters nearby, and the hunted things have to be sold, and people from outside come in to do business, and one bazaar after another is formed.
The market closest to Xiaolongkan is half an hour's walk.
The mountain road is difficult and dangerous, and it is not as prosperous and peaceful as in the previous life, and a girl walks in the mountains with something on her back, but she is afraid that she will encounter many difficulties before she arrives at the market.
Gu Lan had always followed the people in the village before, and this time Gu Lan also planned to follow behind the people in the village.
After finishing lunch, she no longer delayed time, but went to the place where most of the villagers gathered in the south of the village to ask.
Hearing that Gu Lan was going to the market, the villagers readily agreed, as long as she waited under the big tree in the south of the village early tomorrow morning.
"It's really not easy for the girl of Gu Laosan's family, since her father died, look at her grandmother, her nose is not a nose, her eyes are not eyes, hey, isn't this also their Gu family's species?"
"Say this! Now in these years, Gu doesn't care about the end, and there are men in other houses of the Gu family, where are these two grandsons rare? Whether you can grow up is another story! ”
"That's it, winter is coming soon, how can you get by!"
Gu Lan didn't know what the people in the village were talking about her, but even if she knew, she wouldn't care.
Thinking about things along the way, Gu Lan didn't notice Old Man Shao in the distance, and it wasn't until she was about to enter the house that she heard a cough.
"Ahem, ahem......"
She looked up, who else could it be if it wasn't Old Man Shao?
"Grandpa Shao, why are you here? Are you alright? ”
Gu Lan walked in intimately and patted his back gently.
Old man Shao showed an embarrassed smile on his face, revealing the empty back basket behind him.
"It's nothing, it's just that I went hunting in the mountains today, and I found nothing, and I passed by your house and wanted to beg for a bowl of water to drink."
"It's just a day of nothing, and the meat hanging on the corridor of Grandpa Shao's house is enough to eat for a whole winter, so why care about a small mistake?" After listening to the reason, Gu Lan comforted Old Man Shao while taking him home, scooping a scoop of water, and holding it in front of him with both hands.
As soon as Gu Lan came back, the three children ran towards her.
"Sister" and "sister" kept screaming.
Old man Shao glanced around the empty room and saw a rabbit tied up on four legs.
Isn't that the one he lost!
Old man Shao knew it in his heart, and he had to pretend to be surprised on his face: "Gu girl, where did you catch the rabbit?" ”
Gu Lan smiled generously: "Where did I catch it, just went to the stream, this stupid rabbit ran into the thorn bush and couldn't get out of trouble, so I caught it." ”
Old man Shao suddenly realized, no wonder there would be muddy water at the hem of Aji's clothes.
"Or, Gu girl, do you plan to eat this rabbit or sell it? Look at me today......"
Old man Shao looked embarrassed and pointed to the back basket.
Gu Lan was a little funny, this old man still wants to save face, he can't catch something and go home, so he would rather buy one than be empty-handed.
Old man Shao was kind to her, how embarrassed she was to ask for money, and immediately said: "Grandpa Shao, you don't have to be polite, this rabbit will be given to you!" ”