While cooking, Brother Xia looked at the two people over there with a slight smile on his face.

After a while, Xia Yanbing was probably tired, so he washed himself in the water and then walked to the shore.

After getting ashore, I went to Brother Xia, took a small knife, walked downstream and started cleaning the fish I caught.

Since I need to wash it when I take it home, I might as well wash it here to avoid coming home with a bloody mess and having to fetch water, which is inconvenient to wash.

"The fish are pretty good this year, and they're all quite fat. It seems like no one has been here for a long time. If someone had been here, they wouldn't have grown so big."

"Everyone is busy working at this time. Who has the time to come to this mountain?"

The processed fish were placed on the picked large leaves, then carried to Brother Xia, pierced through with a cleaned small wooden stick, and placed on the fire to start roasting.

I sprinkled salt several times in the middle. Grilling fish is also a technical job. You have to pay attention at all times to make sure it is not burnt.

Brother Xia stared at it intently, and even put a stone next to it. After it was heated, he put the small cakes he brought on top to heat them.

Xia Jin sat on the shore, watching the happy fish in the water and feeling the breeze coming from afar. His restless heart calmed down at this moment.

After a while, I could smell the aroma of grilled fish, which blew over with the wind.

“It smells so good.”

"You smell it, you smell it, why don't you come over? What are you still doing sitting there? If you don't come over, your second brother will snatch it away from you soon."

"Brother, in your mind, I am that kind of person, even taking my sister's things. Don't worry, this first fish will definitely be given to you first, I won't let you take it away."

"Okay, okay, you're not."

Xia Jin put on his shoes and walked over from the shore. Seeing the golden roasted fish, he thought it must be delicious.

"Be careful, it's still a little hot."

"I understand." Xia Jin hurriedly took the fish handed to him by Brother Xia.

He held the wooden stick in one hand and carefully tore off a piece from the edge with the other hand. He put it in his mouth, tasted it, and said:

"It's delicious. It's my first time eating fish like this. I don't know how to describe it, but it tastes completely different from what I've had before."

After saying this, he tore off two pieces and handed them to Big Brother Xia and Second Brother Xia. After watching them eat, he smiled and said:

"Isn't it delicious? Big brother bakes it deliciously."

"It's good, but it's still a little bit worse than mine. I'll give you some after big brother finishes grilling."

Xia Jin ate the fish in small bites while watching his second brother bragging about his cooking skills. As they talked, they looked at each other and smiled.

After eating, they dug a hole and buried the garbage they produced, and put the plastic bags and other things in a basket to take back and throw away.

After cleaning up, they sat on the shore for a while before going into the woods to check on the traps they had dug earlier.

After such a long time, some animals really took the bait. When they went to see, they found a rabbit and a pheasant.

The three of them were very happy to see the two animals struggling in the pit.

After Brother Xia took out the two prey from inside, he weighed them and said:

"The harvest is not bad. I heard people say that some people wait here for two or three days and may not even catch an animal."

Xia Yanbing said on the side: "That's because our Xiaojin is so proud. Knowing she was coming, God let us catch two wild animals for her to taste."

Brother Xia looked at his brother who was talking nonsense, rolled his eyes and said, "You are so unruly all the time."

Then he picked up the rabbit's ears, weighed them up and down, and said to Xia Jin:

"Look at this rabbit in my hand. It's quite fat. It can be used to cook two dishes. Xiaojin, what do you want to eat? Think about it and let my mother cook it for you when we get home."

"Spicy rabbit."

"Okay, that's it. When we leave later, walk slowly and see if we can find any wild mushrooms. But it looks like it's going to be tough since it hasn't rained in the past two days."

"If you can find it, you can stew chicken with mushrooms. If you can't find it, you can only use dried mushrooms at home, but it will still be delicious."

"Okay, this pheasant tail is really beautiful. Can you leave it to me when the time comes? I'll make a feather shuttlecock out of it."

"Okay, if you don't want it, you can just throw it away. No one in the countryside uses these things. They look nice, but they're not practical."

Brother Xia used local materials and tied up the feet of the two animals with the grass here. Finally, he put them in the backpack behind him and prepared to go home.

On the way back, they also found a pheasant's nest and harvested three pheasant eggs. This was an unexpected gain, and the three of them were very happy.

Looking at the egg wrapped in leaves in his hand, Xia Jin thought silently in his heart, wondering if the pheasant would be happy when it came back and found that its child was gone.

She put the eggs in Xia Yanbing's backpack, which was filled with wild vegetables and fruits she had picked earlier. She carefully placed them on top, with these things cushioning the impact, so she wasn't afraid of them breaking.

On the way back, I picked some wild vegetables and fruits. I didn’t pick much because we were getting closer to the village. Sometimes the children from the village would come up to join us.

They had basically picked all the ripe wild fruits. After all, there was no extra money at home to buy them snacks. The wild fruits on the mountain were what they ate the most.

They walked all the way to the bottom, but they didn't find any wild mushrooms. Since they had expected this, they were not too disappointed.

Xia Jin also picked a bunch of particularly beautiful wild flowers, of all kinds, very fresh and beautiful.

"When we get back, ask your uncle to make you a wreath. He's very skillful and used to make them when we were little. But my brother and I didn't like to wear them, so they were given to other girls."

"Now it's all right. Now that you're back, I'll give all the wreaths my uncle made to you. I won't give any to anyone else."

"Really? My dad can also make wreaths. I never knew he's quite good at it. I thought he only knew how to farm."

"Not only that, he can also carve ponies and animals himself. When my brother and I were little, he made all our toys. What a pity..."

Having said that, Xia Yanbing consciously shut his mouth. Some things are better not to be mentioned.

He thought it was all Liu Xiu's fault. If it weren't for him, the wreath his second uncle had made could have been given to other little girls.

My younger sister was able to play with the toys made by my second uncle when she was little. Now that I know that my second uncle can make so many things, I won’t be so surprised.