Da Zhuang's illness dragged on for almost a month before he recovered, and there was some gossip in the village. said that the second aunt did too many bad things and retributed it to her son. But the villagers are more concerned about another thing, the animals in the back mountains have been very active recently, and most of the people in the village are quite happy. It is said that because there are suddenly more animals in the back mountain, every time you go back to see the traps, you can find something. Hunting brings back more prey.

Li Kui also brought back a hare, and it was still alive when it was brought back from the trap. happily ran home, and when he entered the door, he shouted, "Sister, sister, burn rabbit to eat tonight." ”

Li Mo cleaned up the rabbit and cut it into small pieces. After boiling water, pour it in and cook for half a minute, then remove it and drain it. Heat up the pan, pour in the oil, and when the oil is hot, put the rabbit meat in and fry it. Add green onions, ginger, garlic, and chili peppers, and the fragrance will come to your nose.

Li Kui doesn't look at his young age, he likes to eat spicy food. The boiled rabbit meat is golden in color and a little burnt, and it looks very good. Li Kui couldn't help it, and he didn't care about the heat, so he reached out and took a piece to eat. Li Mo saw it quickly, patted his hand and stopped, he wanted to cook a soup and eat it at the dinner table.

When Li Kui heard that there was another dish, he asked suspiciously, "Sister, what else do you want to cook?"

Li Mo quickly brushed the pot and poured water, and replied without looking back, "Wild vegetable soup." ”

Li Kui didn't like to eat any wild vegetables, not to mention the bitter taste, the taste was still old, and he said, "Don't cook it, it's not delicious." Let's eat rabbit meat. ”

Li Mo patiently persuaded "When children grow up, they can't just eat meat, they also have to eat vegetables." ”

Li Kui said, "Eating meat grows fast, don't you see how good the big tiger who sells pork is"

The wild vegetables have fallen, and they have waited for the water to boil for a while. Li Mo knocked on his younger brother's head and said, "The big tiger looks so fat, do you want to be fat like that." ”

Li Kui's eyes flashed with the ball-like round figure of the big tiger, and he shook his head hurriedly and said, "Don't, don't, I don't want to look like that." ”

"Then don't be a picky eater. ”

After setting the table, Li Kui asked, "So much, can we finish eating?"

The sister and brother are not bad now, they are still passable, and they are not greedy for this bit of food. Li Mo didn't care. Say, "Otherwise, you pretend to have some to send to Lao Dao later." Li Kui went to chat with Lao Dao from time to time since the last time, and felt that he was good at mixing with Lao Dao, and from time to time he also brought some food to Lao Dao.

Li Kui agreed, so he took a bowl out and divided it. also played treasure with Li Mo, "That old Taoist really wants to accept me as an apprentice, and he lied to me last time that he knows kung fu." I don't want to be a little Taoist. Li Mo only laughed at it.

Counting the money bags, a few pieces of broken silver, a few handfuls of copper. She doesn't have the golden fingers of those traversers, and in this strange and backward village, except for selling some embroidery patterns, she really can't think of any other way to make a lot of money. The New Year is coming, and my brother will be nine years old when she turns the year, and she will be thirteen, and she has to buy some other new things. Not to mention anything else, my younger brother has grown up fast, and his previous clothes were a little short.

At dinner, Li Mo announced, "Let's go to the town tomorrow to buy things for the New Year." ”

Li Kui was a little excited, since he was sent to Lijia Village, he hadn't been to the town, and he hadn't been to the market.

How to get to the town, Li Mo had already inquired clearly. got up early in the morning and spent five coppers to take the car of Li Wuye, who specializes in driving ox carts in the village.

The two sisters and brothers arrived early, and there were other people, Li Kui obediently greeted "Fifth grandfather, early!" The people of the Li family seemed to like Li Kui very much, and after listening to his sweet words, they smiled and said, "Kui Wazi, I haven't seen it for a while, I seem to have grown taller, and I am pleasing to look at." ”

Li Kui immediately replied obediently, "I only look pleasing when I am a child, and the fifth grandfather looks like he is young." There's a happy event at home. ”

Li Wuye is actually only in his forties, but in this era when everyone gets married early, he has been a grandfather for more than ten years, and the eldest grandson just said a few days ago that it is a very suitable family affair. Listening to Li Kui's words, he laughed even more, he was originally going to take a ride with three copper coins alone, but the fifth grandfather took the initiative to give Li Kui a penny when he saw that Li Kuiren was small.

Li Mo's memory has memories of the town, but the real one is the first time she has seen it. Maybe it's because the Chinese New Year is approaching, the town is very lively, and the street market selling goods is crowded with people. Afraid of getting separated, the sister and brother held hands and clenched tightly.

I saw a lot of food along the way, there were those selling rock sugar gourds, steamed buns, sugar people, as well as wontons, roasted food, and every time they passed by, the sisters and brothers had to swallow a meal of saliva.

Li Mo said, "Let's go buy the things we need first, and then come over to eat after we finish buying." ”

Li Kui endured it with saliva all the way, and if there was a stall to buy food, he would not look at it.

After asking for directions, he went to the cloth shop first, and Li Mo chose a piece of cloth suitable for boys, and asked the store to measure the clothes to be used according to Li Kui's figure and wrap them. After paying the money and leaving, Li Kui pulled her and said, "Sister, let's buy that piece, you must look good in that piece." ”

In the direction of Li Kui's finger, there was a peach-colored cotton cloth, and there was a cut of clothes hanging next to it. It is the popular long skirt nowadays, with a collar and a swaying skirt, which shows a youthful and delicate atmosphere at a glance. Li Mo's eyes lit up a little, there is no woman who doesn't like beautiful clothes.

However, the price of cloth here is not cheap, and Li Kui's body is just an ordinary wear-resistant material, and it costs almost half a tael of silver. The peach-colored cotton cloth still has a bright sheen on it, and it is not a bargain when you look at it. She said, "No, I still have a lot of clothes, and I can still wear them." Besides, it's not convenient to work in our village wearing this. ”

Li Kui refused, "How can our family have so much work to do, just buy this, you look good." But he was dragged away by Li Mo.

I bought some condiments, needles and threads, New Year's melon seeds, candy snacks and so on. The owner of the grocery store seemed to be two children who bought New Year's goods, so he kindly reminded, "You still have to burn incense and sacrifice during the New Year, didn't your adults remind you to buy incense, candles, and paper money?"

Sacrifice those Li Mo didn't know much, but he definitely had to burn paper money for his father and mother during the New Year, so he bought a lot of incense candles and paper money. Halfway down the street, I basically bought almost all the necessities.

Although Li Kui has always been unhappy because of the cloth buying incident, Li Mo bought snacks to coax him. Now he is holding a sugar gourd in his left hand, a tiger-shaped sugar man in his right hand eating a sugar gourd and licking a sugar man, and Li Mo is still holding a few skewers in his hands. While eating, I looked at all kinds of scarce things on the roadside stalls. The stalls here all charge booth fees, but they still sell everything, such as handkerchief sachets embroidered by their own women, a load of bundled firewood, porcelain, Spring Festival couplets and so on.

Li Kui pointed to a family selling pheasants and hares and said, "Sister, you see that one can also be sold for money, and I will catch it too." Go ask how much it's worth. As he spoke, he ran over, and Li Mo was afraid that he would lose it, so he had to follow closely.

In addition to the small bazaar, there were several circles of people inside and outside on the avenue at the exit, which turned out to be juggling. Children love to watch this, and the sister and brother have finished eating, and they are so small that they squeeze to the front to watch, and there are people in it who are performing chest crushing boulders, breathing fire, and a dancing knife. A clever little monkey, walking on two legs like a human, holds a jar and asks the crowd for money.

It's not good to watch other people's performances in vain, so the sister and brother each took out a copper coin and put it in the monkey's jar. The people next to them all looked at it and felt that this was really a brother and sister, the same slamming the door, but they were all children, and they didn't see an adult following, and no one was embarrassed to worry about this with them.

On the way back, Li Kui hadn't recovered from the excitement, "Sister, that uncle is so powerful, such a big stone smashed open from his chest, and there was no wound at all." ”

Li Mo felt the need to explain it to him, "Maybe the stone was about to crack, but it was smashed open with a light force." ”

Li Kui didn't believe it, "But the fire that spit out from the mouth, that's real, the fire jumped high, I still felt hot at the time, the fire can't be faked." ”

Li Mo didn't know how to introduce to an ancient child that it was alcohol and some chemical reactions, and it was not good to hurt the child's mood. chimed in, "It should be true, these artists are actually very powerful, and they have their own abilities." ”

Li Kui was even happier when he heard this, "I will be like them in the future, I can play with knives and breathe fire." In this way, I am not afraid of any bad guys, and I can protect my sister. ”

The lady in the same car was also laughing when she heard it, "Kui Wazi is going to see juggling." ”

Li Kui replied very politely, and said to the eldest lady that so-and-so eats delicious food, and whose sugar people are small. In the end, he sighed, "It turns out that pheasants are more expensive than domestic ones."

These Li Mo knows that the ancients are different from the modern people who love to eat fresh, except for the big families who love to eat domestic chickens and have a lot of meat. But isn't selling pheasants now just to buy a fresh one, and this is the town, and there is no shortage of rich people.

I listened to the eldest lady explain, "It's almost the New Year now, and everyone wants to have a good year." Although the pheasant has less meat, it is more fragrant than the domestic one, and the people in the town love this game, if you sell it in our village, it is not worth the money. However, there are many rich people in the town, and I have heard that the pheasants brought to the town are not enough to sell every day. ”

Li Kui said, "My family is going to have a good year this year, I want to catch a pheasant to eat for the New Year"

The people in the same car praised Li Kui again and again for being a sensible and good boy.

On the twenty-ninth day of the year, Li Kui really picked up a pheasant from the trap and came back, but his wings were injured and he was still alive. Li Mo was very happy, grabbed a small handful of bran rice and fed it. Li Kui turned his head and ran out again.

Li Mo chased to the door and said loudly: "Go home early for dinner, make what you like." Li Kui didn't look back, and said he knew while running.

Accompanied Qiu Tao to sit under the old banyan tree at the door of the house to do needlework, Li Mo's handiwork was not very good, and most of Li Kui's clothes were made with Qiu Tao's help. The eldest girl also followed, and after Da Zhuang fell ill last time, the second aunt became much more tolerant and friendly. There are fewer beatings and scolding for their daughters, as long as they don't get the family money out, they also have dealings with Li Mo's sisters and brothers.

The eldest girl was embroidering the sleeves of a dress, and Qiu Tao curiously asked her who she had made a new dress for.

The eldest girl said, "It's my second sister's, the clothes are actually made by herself, but she feels that her embroidery is not good enough, and it is a new dress that she finally gets, so I embroider it for her to look better." ”

Qiu Tao also felt that it was, and said, "It's hard to have new clothes, not always when you wear it short and then give it to Erya, and then give it to Sanya." Your family is rich, right? After speaking, he looked at Li Mo again.

The eldest girl let the needle be pricked, and allowed her bleeding fingers to look like she had done something bad. "Because of the Chinese New Year, I want to do it." ”