The setting sun faded into the horizon, leaving only a fiery afterglow.

The temperature has also become lower.

There are many mountains in Dashan Village, and the advantage is that you can always find "treasures" by accident on the mountain, and even during the three-year "Great Famine" period, the probability of people starving to death in Dashan Village is far lower than that of other villages.

But the downside is also obvious - the temperature difference between day and night is large.

It was cold in the morning and evening, and hot in the middle of the day.

For example, at this moment, Tang Anning and Ye Fan were almost at the foot of the mountain, and the temperature gradually became lower.

Tang Anning glanced back at Ye Fan, who was silently following behind her, and saw that he was hunched his neck, and a piece of clothing with several holes in tatters was covered on his body like a dirty sack.

It's not so much a piece of clothing as it is a cover-up, and it doesn't play any role in keeping warm at all.

Tang Anning thought that Ye Fan's allowance was held in his hands by his adoptive mother, the family ate Ye Fan's, wore Ye Fan's, and just asked someone to renovate the roof last month.

From the old man Ye to the old lady Ye, to the children of Ye Fan's two elder brothers, all of them are the best ones they wear in Dashan Village.

As a result, these people who relied on Ye Fan's support were even reluctant to tear a piece of cloth for Ye Fan to make a new dress, which shows how bad people's hearts can be.

"Wait for me." Ye Fan suddenly interrupted Tang Anning's thoughts.

Tang Anning paused, turned his head to look at Ye Fan, and saw Ye Fan smiling at Tang Anning simply, revealing a mouthful of white big teeth.

Then, he bent over and burrowed into a nearby bush.

Tang Anning looked at Ye Fan who had disappeared, and didn't know why he went.

She thought about it and thought of a possibility—

Could it be ...... "convenient" to go?

After this idea popped up in Tang Anning's head, she suddenly felt embarrassed.

Ye Fan wouldn't do such a thing, right?

But after thinking about it again, Ye Fan's brain was injured, and his IQ was about the same as that of a child, even if he wanted to be "convenient" halfway, it was not strange.

Since Ye Fan asked her to wait, she will wait here!

But Tang Anning felt that Ye Fan didn't seem to be "convenient" anymore, because Ye Fan had been going for a long time.

About half an hour later, Ye Fan excitedly got out of the bushes, carrying two sturdy pheasants in his hands.

Tang Anning was overjoyed and asked, "You caught it?" ”

With such a fat pheasant, how lucky it is to catch two at once!

Ye Fan shook his head.

Tang Anning looked at Ye Fan in surprise: "Could it be that you raised it?" ”

Ye Fan nodded excitedly, put his finger to his lips again, and made a "shhhhhh

Tang Anning couldn't believe his eyes, Ye Fan actually raised chickens on the mountain!

Is this something a fool can think of?

Now that she looked at Ye Fan, there was a little more admiration in her originally pitying eyes.

Ye Fan said incoherently, these two chickens are for Tang Anning.

Tang Anning was only willing to ask for one.

But she couldn't resist Ye Fan, Ye Fan finally lifted her back basket and put all the two chickens into her back basket, and the back basket suddenly became heavy.

Ye Fan covered the wild vegetables on it again, patted the back basket with his hand with satisfaction, and his face was flushed with excitement, as if he had completed a great event.

After descending the mountain, Tang Anning and Ye Fan went home separately.

Because her back basket was covered with wild vegetables, on the way home, she met a few aunts and aunts, and no one doubted it.

When he arrived near his home, Tang Anning found a secluded place and bought two more big fish from the mall, which cost 70 yuan, and white flour steamed buns and cornmeal steamed buns, which cost 30 yuan.

Dad and his three brothers must have wanted to drink two sips when they came back from the field, and Tang Anning spent 200 yuan to buy two bottles of liquor.

Tang Anning tore off the label of the liquor and put it in the basket.

With the addition of these two fat pheasants, the back basket is full.

"Mother!"

Tang Anning entered the courtyard and saw her mother Wang Xiulian sitting on a shabby low stool in a daze.

Seeing Tang Anning coming back, Wang Xiulian hurriedly stood up and greeted her: "An Ning, what did you pick on the mountain today?" ”

Wang Xiulian was worried that there was nothing to cook, so she waited for Tang Anning to come back from the mountain and cook again.

Wang Xiulian recalled the sumptuous meat dish at noon, and still felt a pain in her bones.

Especially the two catties of pork belly, the knife chopped on the pork belly, it hurt like chopping on the heart.

"What's the situation now, can you be so hugging? Now that I think about it, my heart and stomach hurt so much! ”

Tang Anning took off the basket and said with a smile: "Mother, everything has been eaten in your stomach, why are you still distressed?" No matter how distressed I am, I can't come back! ”

Wang Xiulian couldn't help but babble and said, "How good can it be when you eat it in your stomach?" The stove is empty, and the hearts of people are empty. The meat is there, even if you don't eat it, your heart is steady. ”

Tang Anning knew that Wang Xiulian was poor and afraid.

In those days, every family was poor.

Tang Anning thought of the seven skinny children again, it was the age of growing their bodies, but the children were thin into a handful of bones one by one.

If nutrition can't keep up, how can you grow your body?

Thinking of this, Tang Anning's nose was sour.

"Mother, don't worry, I will definitely work hard in the future to make our family live a good life!" Tang Anning said in a firm tone.

Wang Xiulian looked at Tang Anning and said, "You are a girl's family, and you don't have the strength of men, what kind of money can you earn?" But when my mother heard you say this, she was already very moved. ”

Tang Anning was not in a hurry to refute Wang Xiulian, but just picked up the bamboo basket and smiled mysteriously: "Mother, what do you see I found on the mountain today?" ”

Wang Xiulian pulled the layer of wild vegetables on the top of the bamboo basket with her hands: "Wasp vegetables, I'll borrow some sweet potato noodles in a while and make a paste......

Before she finished speaking, Wang Xiulian suddenly touched a furry thing under the layer of wild vegetables above.

Wang Xiulian was stunned for a moment, and suspiciously opened the layer of wild vegetables on it, only to see a wild pheasant lying in the basket, not one, but two, lying side by side!

"Yo! This was caught in the mountains? Wang Xiulian cried out in surprise, if it weren't for her age and inconvenient legs, she would have jumped up instinctively.

Tang Anning smiled: "Mother, there is more!" ”

Wang Xiulian took a closer look, and saw that there were two big fish and two bottles of liquor next to the two wild pheasants!

Wang Xiulian was so excited that she couldn't speak, and when she came back to her senses, she hurriedly ran over and closed the courtyard door, for fear that someone would suddenly come to the yard, and then ran all the way over, constantly asking Tang Anning where she got so many things.

Now is the era of famine in every household, Tang Anning can get so many things back, it's not too surprising!

Tang Anning naturally thought of an excuse a long time ago, saying that the two wild pheasants were caught in the mountains.

Ye Fan had told her that she wanted to keep it secret, so she couldn't tell Wang Xiulian the true source of the two chickens.

As for fish and liquor, Tang Anning said that he found a rare herb in the mountains, took it to the town's pharmacy for money, and bought fish and wine back.