Yu Xiaocao ran over joyfully, and was hugged by her father, who shoved a hazelnut into his mouth with a little embarrassment, and said with a smile, "Dad, I have learned how to play tricks! The trick I played, He also caught a big hare, alive!"
Yu Hai didn't hesitate to praise him: "My Cao'er is really capable, from now on my father will just wait to eat the hares caught by my daughter."
"Father, father! We also caught a little roe deer! Look, it won't run around without being led, but it's obedient!" Shitou tugged on his father's trouser legs, pointing at the silly roe deer that was turning around at his feet , said in a sweet voice.
Yu Hai lowered his head to look at the little animal at his feet, he couldn't see clearly just now because it was so dark, he thought some puppy had followed him. I didn't expect it to be a roe deer cub.
Yu Hai put down his daughter and bent down to look at the little roe deer. The little guy opened his ignorant black eyes, looked at his daughter with a good eye, and rubbed his head on her daughter's trouser legs... Hey!
I have never seen a roe deer that is not afraid of people. Wouldn't it be because he was separated from the mother beast that he regarded his own children as the same kind? Silly roe deer, silly roe deer, since there is a word "stupid", it is not very smart.
"Cao'er, did you or Zhao Han catch it? We don't want to take advantage of others!" Yu Hai thanked Zhao Bufan for taking good care of him, and he also learned a lot of hunting skills from others. Afraid that my daughter and son are not sensible, they open their mouths to ask for things.
Yu Xiaocao shook her head with a smile and said, "I just learned how to play tricks. It would be nice if a blind cat meets a dead mouse and catches a hare. This little roe deer was borrowed from Brother Han to help raise it for a few days to play with." I will send it back after a while."
Yu Hai nodded and said: "Well, I'll give it away after playing for a few days! I don't know if this thing is easy to support, you have to be careful, don't feed it to death! If your siblings really like it, Dad will use it for you tomorrow The prey is exchanged for it. You can’t just ask someone for something, you know?”
"Don't worry, dad!" Yu Xiaocao gave some of the hazelnuts she was carrying to her father, "Try it, we found this, Auntie Zhao helped fry it, it's delicious!"
Yu Hai saw a few hazelnuts dropped from his youngest son's lapel, so he quickly picked them up and asked, "You've been at Uncle Zhao's house all day? Haven't you delayed his business?"
"We went to town. Look! Second sister bought me pastries!!" Xiao Shitou had long forgotten about his promise to second sister, and sold her in front of his father.
Yu Hai frowned slowly, looking at the pastries wrapped in oil paper, and then at his own daughter. Where did the money for the cakes come from? Could it be leftovers from the last abalone sale
"Father, Brother Han got a lot of prey today, so he took them to the town to sell. We both had nothing to do at home, so we followed suit. Didn't I also trap a hare? We sold it for more than a hundred coins, I bought some candy and food, and that's all I have left!" Of course, Yu Xiaocao didn't show her big head, and only took out a small bunch of copper coins, about fifty or sixty.
Yu Hai led the two children home and kept muttering: "The three of you are brave enough, the oldest is only twelve or thirteen years old, dare to go to the town together. You are not afraid of being photographed! In the future I want to go to the town and wait for my father to deliver the prey together. When I am tired from walking, I can carry you for a while."
"Not tired! We took the ox cart of Grandpa Zhang in Xishan Village! The second sister even gave him a pack of pastries!" Xiao Shitou was very worried about the bag of pastries.
"Your second sister is doing the right thing. If someone helps us, we have to make up for it in other ways. We only want to take advantage of others. If we have difficulties in the future, who will dare to reach out?" Yu Hai began to teach. children come.
Not long after, the three of them entered their yard. At this time, the sky has completely darkened, and the autumn night in the north is still a bit chilly. Everyone in the Yu family, except for the second room, went into the house to rest early, but there was some light in the east room.
"Cao'er, Shitou, are you hungry? Your father also left you a steamed bun. Mother will bake it for you on the small clay stove. You two sisters can share the food!" At this time, the mother's gentle and weak character was revealed. The benefits come. If her mother in the previous life came back late after playing outside, she would help prepare food, and scolding would be unavoidable.
Xiaoshi cautiously poked his head out, then quickly closed the door, opened the pastry bag, and began to distribute pastries to the family. Although the little guy is rare in sweet and soft pastries, he doesn't have the habit of eating alone.
There were six pieces of pastry in the oil-paper bag. After he divided one piece among everyone in the family, he hesitated for a long time after looking at the last piece, and then said, "Save this piece for elder brother."
After hearing what the youngest son said, Yu Hai and his wife's complexions darkened, and the room fell into silence. After a long time, Yu Hai sighed and said:
"Don't keep it. You don't know when your brother will come back. This pastry won't last long. You three brothers and sisters will eat it separately, and I will buy it for your elder brother again when Dad goes to town next time."
Yu Xiaocao felt sore when she thought of her brother's thin and tired figure, and said in a low voice, "Father, let's bring the elder brother back? It's not as comfortable as staying at home, isn't it?"
"I also want to pick your elder brother back, but..." What happens after you pick him up? What greeted them would be a bigger storm.
Yu Xiaolian said angrily: "My grandma and uncle think our family eats too much! But we didn't eat what they earned. My father sells prey once, and we can eat for several months!"
Sitting down on the kang, Xiaocao muttered, "It would be great if we could get separated!"
Xiao Lian's eyes lit up, then dimmed immediately, she shook her head and said, "My grandma won't agree! She's pointing at our father to make money for my uncle's education..."
"What are you two talking about? Parents are not separating! Your grandpa and grandma are both here. Talking about separating is not afraid of being poked in the back. You can't talk nonsense outside!" Kai opened the pickles and handed them to the Xiaocao siblings.
She put the pastries she got back into oiled paper bags and kept them for the children to eat tomorrow. But Yu Xiaocao stuffed it into her mouth while she was not paying attention.
"Squeak—" The sound of the wooden door opening made the lively atmosphere condense. Liu quickly swallowed the pastry in his mouth, and wiped his hand on his mouth to conceal it.
The five members of the family looked at the door in unison. The wooden door was opened a crack but no one came in. Looking down at the same time again, I found a small head with two ears pricked up, curiously poking in and looking at everything in the room.
After seeing Yu Xiaocao with his bright eyes, his small and nimble body squeezed in completely, leaned towards Xiaocao's side, and pushed his head against her ankle, like a puppy begging for a bone.
"Wow! So cute!!" Yu Xiaolian was bursting with love, bent over and hugged the little guy in her arms, rubbed its little head with her hand, and rubbed her face against the soft fur.
"That kid Zhao Han got it! Little Shitou liked it, so he brought him back to raise him for a few days. The little guy must be hungry, otherwise he wouldn't have come into the house." Yu Hai explained on behalf of his daughter.
Yu Xiaolian hugged the little roe deer, which was not much bigger than the full moon puppy, and was reluctant to let it go: "There is still pigweed that I harvested today in the yard, I'll go get some and feed it. This little guy is so good, he's not afraid of people at all!"
Unfortunately, she was wrong. When Xiaolian picked up the freshest pigweed and brought it in, the little roe deer only sniffed it a little, then turned his head arrogantly, looked at Xiaocao with pitiful eyes, and began to struggle to get down to the ground with his small body.
Afraid of falling it, Xiao Lian put it down, still teasing it with the grass in her hand. It's a pity that the little guy didn't like it, and only went to the destination in his mind - Xiaocao.
Xiao Lian was a little disappointed and said: "After all, it was brought back by my younger sister, and I only kissed my younger sister!"
Yu Xiaocao took the grass in her hand, and joked with a smile: "Perhaps this little roe deer and Xiao Lian love cleanliness, and they dislike this grass and refuse to eat it without washing it!"
After finishing speaking, she poured some out of the jar containing Lingshi water, dipped the grass into it, and brought it to the little roe deer's mouth. As if seeing his own mother, the little guy rushed over and ate deliciously.
"It's really a clean roe deer!" Xiao Shitou grinned, took a handful of grass and rinsed it in the water. After eating the grass in Xiaocao's hand, the little roe deer sensed a more alluring taste than milk, and ran over joltingly to eat the grass in the stone's hand.
Xiao Lian learned to be good, and used the remaining Lingshi water to wash the grass. Yu Xiaocao felt distressed when she saw it: This prodigal girl has two bowls of Lingshi water. That's really a good thing!
Since having Lingshi water, Xiaocao will consciously let her family drink a bowl every day. The effect is natural. Not to mention myself, her mother Liu's body has been in poor health. After drinking Lingshi water for more than two months, although she still looks thin, her health is much better. Last time it rained an autumn rain, if it was before, I would have been seriously ill, but this time I didn't even sneeze after drinking a bowl of ginger soup.
Yu Hai also said that he has grown stronger recently. He used to go to the mountains to carry more than 100 catties of prey, and then sell them in the town. When I came back, I was so tired that I couldn't rest after lying on the kang for a long time. What now? As if nothing happened, it would be no problem to add another thirty or fifty catties.
Thinking of the benefits of Lingshi water, Yu Xiaocao silently picked up the jar, went to the kitchen to scoop up a jar full of cold boiled water, carefully untied the red string of the multicolored stones on her wrist, and threw the stones into the jar. The spirit body of Xiaobutianshi drilled out of the multicolored stone, swimming in the water heartily.
If other people in the house could see it, they must be very surprised. Why did a little golden milk cat fall into the water tank in their own house, and it kept thumping, maybe it was about to drown
But Xiaobutianshi muttered in dissatisfaction: [Protest! There is too little aura! ! Without ginseng and ganoderma, who cares about broken well water? The god stone wants bamboo forest mountain spring water! !]
"Are you content? Lingshi water is useful to us, won't you be able to make a profit in the end? No matter how loud you are, I'll throw you into the mountain stream!" Yu Xiaocao threatened in her heart while feeding the little roe deer. Wearing the arrogant sky-filling stone.