Man Bao proudly puffed out his chest and said, "I caught it!"
Man Bao told in detail how she found the bamboo rat and how she baked it out with fire.
It was only then that Zhou Wulang realized that she had lit the half-burned fire in the bamboo bush. He was so frightened that he hurriedly searched her body, "Why do you have flint and steel with you? Where is the flint?"
Man Bao froze and didn't speak.
Zhou Wulang searched and found no, he was relieved, "Lost it?"
Man Bao could only nod.
Wu Wulang said seriously: "You are not allowed to play with fire anymore, what if you accidentally start a fire in the mountains?"
Unconvinced, Man Bao said, "Don't you guys start a fire too?"
"Can you be like us? We've all grown up, how old are you?" Wu Wulang said seriously: "In short, you are not allowed to play with fire in the future, especially in the mountains."
Zhou Wulang was strict, and Man Bao could only agree reluctantly, looking at their background and asking, "Why hasn't the fourth brother arrived yet?"
Wu Wulang also looked at Dalu, sitting slumped and not moving, "Wait a little longer, he should have found the letter we left by now."
The three sat and talked while waiting for someone, Liu Liulang reached out and pulled the two bamboo rats together. The one they caught was quite big, but it was still a little worse than Manbao's.
The two bamboo rats were both chubby. Liu Lang squeezed their necks and weighed them, and estimated: "This one weighs at least five catties, and this one weighs at least six catties, which is more meat than chickens."
Man Bao dragged the bamboo rat all the way, and he was no longer afraid of it. Hearing this, he asked, "Is the bamboo rat delicious?"
"Delicious, better than chicken and lamb."
Man Bao swallowed, a little suspicious, "Really?"
"Of course it is true. You have eaten it too, but you probably forgot."
Most of the fields in Zhoufen's mouth are bamboo, and there are many bamboos in it, and there are also many bamboo rats. Every autumn and winter, Zhou Zhoulang will take them to catch bamboo rats.
A few can be caught every year, but because the three sister-in-laws in the family are afraid of this thing, they all kill it by the river and bring it home. Manbao has never seen a live one, but he must have eaten it.
Man Bao's memory has always been good, she really remembered what Wu Lang said, so she looked at the bamboo rat's eyes brighter, she looked at the sky, and couldn't sit still, "Let's go home, kill the bamboo rat It will take time, anyway, the fourth brother is an adult, he must know the way home."
Wu Wulang thought about it, so he got up dragging his sore legs, and whispered to Man Bao: "Man Bao, you must not tell your family about your loss today, and don't say about making a fire, you know? "
Man Bao understood, nodded fiercely and said: "I know, if our parents find out, we will definitely be beaten."
Friday Lang and Saturday Lang nodded, yes, they don't know if Man Bao will be beaten, but the three of them will definitely not escape.
They are all here, and they are not in a hurry to go back. Man Bao no longer let Wu Wulang carry it on his back, and walked forward on his short legs.
Friday Lang and Saturday Lang each squeezed a bamboo rat.
The three brothers and sisters passed through the village, and the villagers were shocked when they saw it.
It was winter, and everyone was idle all day long. When the sun was shining, they would go out to bask in the sun, so there were many people sitting on the roadside in the village.
Seeing the bamboo rat pinched by Lang Wu and Lang Saturday, the eyes of the villagers almost turned green.
This is meat, or two lumps of such a large piece of meat.
"Wu Lang, where did you catch this bamboo rat?"
Zhou Wulang squeezed the bamboo rat tightly, and said, "Go to my fourth brother's mountain and catch it."
"It's so far away, is there any more?"
Wu Wulang thought for a while and said: "There should be more, but my fourth brother's mountain only has a few clumps of bamboo, not as many as the mountain at the entrance of the village."
"Uncle Jin's family has had really good luck this year. The three children can get two such fat bamboo rats when they go out."
"Yeah, Man Bao, there's more meat to eat."
The three brothers and sisters walked home amidst everyone's envy.
Xiaoqian's hair became furious when she saw bamboo rats. Although she liked to eat them, she absolutely didn't like to kill them, so she turned her head to the side and yelled at Zhou Dalang who was in the room, "Daddy, come out!"
It was rare for Zhou Dalang to sleep late at home, when he heard a voice and went out in a daze, "What's wrong?"
Xiao Qian pointed at the bamboo rat in Zhou Wulang's hands, "Take it out and deal with it soon."
When Zhou Dalang saw these two chubby bamboo rats, he immediately cheered up and stepped forward happily, "Where did they come from?"
"Fourth brother caught it on the mountain."
Zhou Dalang took the bamboo rat, and called Zhou Zhoulang to come out together, and said cheerfully, "Let's go to the river to kill it, by the way, where is the fourth child?"
Zhou Wulang's eyes drifted away, and he said with a guilty conscience: "I fell behind, and I should be back in a while."
Zhou Dalang and the others didn't care too much. Zhou Zhoulang is an adult, so he won't lose it.
He didn't ask Wu Wulang and the others to intervene, and he and the third child carried the bamboo rat to the river to kill it.
As a result, they waited until they came back with a clean bamboo rat, but Zhou Zhoulang did not come back.
Xiaoqian had already steamed the rice, she glanced at the sky, frowned and said: "It's almost time for dinner, why hasn't fourth child come back?"
Zhou Wulang was also a little anxious, and quietly said to Saturday Lang Manbao: "Is it possible that the fourth brother has not seen the letter I left?"
Man Bao was also anxious, and also whispered: "How about we go back and look for it?"
Zhou Wulang thought for a while and said, "Don't go, I will go with my sixth brother."
Zhou Zhoulang didn't know anything about it, the half-burned fire was always in his mind, and he firmly believed that someone must have appeared there.
Searching all the way along the avenue, Zhou Zhoulang, who ran all the way to Baimaguan Town, still didn't find any trace of Manbao. He knelt down on the ground directly, tears streaming down, and the fear in his heart almost drowned him.
He wiped away his tears, hesitated for a while, and then rushed into the town to inquire, if the person who started the fire really took Manbao away, and walked along the road, he would either return to their village or come to Baimaguan Town.
There are a lot of people in their village now, and the villagers will definitely find out if they walk through with Manbao, but it's different when they come to Baimaguan Town.
He had to ask if anyone was passing through town with Man Bao.
When Zhou Zhoulang came out of the town, the sun was about to set on the top of the mountain. His legs were trembling, but he didn't dare to stop, and ran back along the road.
He planned to go back to the mountain to ask Lao Wu to go home with him, and to ask the people in the village to come out to look for him together.
Looking at the sun that was about to set in the sky, Zhou Zhoulang almost ran away desperately, the sun must not go down, what will Man Baoke do when it gets dark
Zhou Zhoulang rushed back under the big tree, first shouted "Old Five" to the mountain twice, and turned around when he didn't hear an echo, and then saw the stones under the tree.
He hurried up to look, and there was a big leaf on the side of the stone, with a lot of mud on it, and there were some paw prints. He looked carefully, and found that the words in front were a little blurry, but the word "go home" behind it But it's obvious.
At this time, Zhou Zhoulang had no energy to think about deeper things, so he put Ye Zi in his arms and turned around and ran towards home.