Chapter 347 Good luck, let's eat chicken tonight
"After this departure, I don't know when we will meet again. Brother Ji is a very nice person." Ning Qingyuan murmured as he looked at the national highway where no car could be seen.
He just sighed like this, and after he looked away, he didn't feel any sadness or grief after the separation, and he even felt relieved in his heart.
Finally I sent him away. If I hadn’t left, my sister would have been taken away by him completely.
He would not allow this to happen for the time being.
Ning Xiyue felt a little sad because of the atmosphere of separation, but she was not really very sad. It was not like they had stopped contacting each other. Writing letters was quite nice. It was good for them to be busy with their own careers. There was no need to stick together all the time.
She's not the type of person who needs to be with someone all the time.
And she knew that the college entrance examination was not far away. When the population could move freely, she could go wherever she wanted. She could go to see someone in the morning and go back in the afternoon, or go to see someone the next day and go back the next day. No one could stop her.
Ning Xiyue rode on the bicycle parked on the side of the road: "Brother, let's go back."
"Okay, let's go back. It's boring to wander around town."
Ning Qingyuan also got on his bicycle. The two siblings started their bikes, left the town, and rode towards the path of Dalui Team.
Halfway through the journey, Ning Qingyuan suddenly shouted, "Sister, I just saw a hare in the woods over there. It ran to that tree and disappeared. That should be its nest. Should we go check it out and catch it so we can have roasted rabbit for dinner tonight?"
Ning Xiyue looked in the direction he pointed, and on a whim, she wanted to eat roasted rabbit, so she nodded happily: "I think it's okay, let's go and have a look, and catch it if we can, and then we can make a secret roasted whole rabbit."
The two siblings did what they said, turned the handlebars of their bicycles and headed towards the slope on the left.
Ning Qingyuan parked his bike under a big tree, picked up a stick from the ground, and pulled the grass nearby: "Little sister, this is the tree. I saw it run in."
"Let's go and take a look."
Ning Xiyue saw the rabbit on the ground and was sure that the place under the tree was the entrance to one of the rabbit's nests.
She also parked the car, got a wooden stick in her hand, and moved separately to look for other rabbit holes nearby.
A cunning rabbit has three burrows. Maybe the rabbit went out through another hole.
I didn't find the rabbit hole, but I saw some morels on the ground. There were some growing in a small area in front of me. I walked a few steps to the left and saw some more on the slope over there. I walked a few steps to the right and saw that there were quite a few growing here too.
One here and one there, they all look very nice, like the best morels.
Ning Xiyue didn't care about the rabbit when she saw the morels. She ran a few steps, turned a corner, and saw her second brother, then waved her hands at him excitedly.
"Brother, come quickly, I found a nest of morels, here is a patch, come pick them, bring your backpack to put them in."
"Here I come."
Ning Qingyuan didn't care about the rabbit hole for the time being. When he heard his sister's words, he happily pushed his bicycle and ran over quickly with a backpack on his back.
When I saw the morels on the ground, I couldn't help but exclaim a few times.
"This is too much. We can eat fresh mushrooms tonight. We just stuffed the old dried mushrooms to Brother Ji, and when we turned around, we found fresh mushrooms. Haha, isn't this what they call out the old and out the new?"
"Brother, pick them quickly. There are still a lot of mushrooms here. Take them all back. If we can't finish them, we can dry them and send some back to our parents so that they can taste the fresh mushrooms this year."
Ning Xiyue held a pointed small wooden stick as a tool in her hand. She used it to pry the mushrooms that could not be pulled out. With the help of the stick, she picked them very quickly. There was already a small pile of picked morels at her feet. They were all quite big. She could only pick two with one hand. There were still many morels growing steadily in the ground that had not been picked yet.
Looking up at the patch of mushrooms, Ning Xiyue couldn't stop smiling, her smile was brighter than the blooming flowers. All the sadness of parting disappeared without a trace, and she completely forgot about Ji Yanming by the Daming Lake.
"We are so lucky, brother, thanks to you for catching the rabbit, otherwise we would have missed this patch of morels today."
"This piece is quite big. I think my parents can eat it all."
Ning Qingyuan answered with a smile while picking a few large leaves to put under the backpack. Then he put the mushrooms picked by Ning Xiyue into the basket and pried it gently with a wooden stick.
It was much faster when two people picked the fruits together. After they finished picking all the fruits, they filled half of the backpack, estimated to be around five or six pounds.
Ning Xiyue looked at the morels in the basket and thought about the chickens in the pen: "It would be great if our chickens grow up. Chicken soup with morels should be delicious."
Ning Qingyuan thought of the delicious chicken soup and swallowed his saliva, and suggested:
"Why don't we kill one, the biggest chicken. That chicken weighs about two kilograms. I found an egg in the chicken coop yesterday. The chickens that have started laying eggs should be edible."
Ning Xiyue stepped on a sharp stone and hurt her foot. She kicked the stone while thinking about what her second brother said.
With a "puff" sound, the stone was kicked away and fell into the grass.
“Cuckoo—”
“Puff—”
After two coos, there was a fluttering sound in the grass.
Ning Xiyue and Ning Qingyuan looked over when they heard the voice.
A pheasant with beautiful feathers, or a proud rooster, flapped its wings crookedly and flew out from a hillside with thick thatch not far ahead, exactly where the stone under Ning Xiyue's feet had landed. It flew over their heads and tried to fly to the opposite hillside.
Unfortunately, the sharp end of the stone that Ning Xiyue flew over hit the pheasant's wing. Once the wing was injured, the pheasant could not fly high or fast, and it flew staggeringly like a drunk and could not fly straight.
Ning Xiyue and her brother looked at the pheasant that was chosen to be stewed with morels with shining eyes.
"Brother, our hen has finally laid eggs, let it continue to lay eggs. We can't let it sacrifice itself before it has contributed to this family."
"That's what my little sister said."
The brother and sister raised their wicked smiles and picked up a few stones to throw at the unfortunate injured pheasant.
The two stones hit the pheasant very accurately. The pheasant staggered, flew lower and slower, and almost fell to the ground.
This gave the two siblings greater confidence and opportunity to kill the tiger while it was sick.
Ning Qingyuan quickly picked up a few stones and threw them over.
One of the stones struck the pheasant's remaining, uninjured wing.
Both of the pheasant's wings were injured. It felt pain and fell down, but it was still trying to struggle to take off after landing.
Ning Xiyue cooperated very well, and her hands were no slower than her second brother. She took out a brick from the cross-body bag and threw it hard at the moment when the pheasant fell to the ground and struggled. A large brick hit the pheasant's head.
It fell to the ground with a "thump" and a pheasant scream was heard. The pheasant lay motionless on the ground, dead.
Good luck, we'll have chicken tonight.
Ning Xiyue clapped her hands, smiled easily, and stretched out her hand to Ning Qingyuan: "We have a plan for eating chicken tonight."
"Haha, we have mushrooms and chickens too. Well done."
Ning Qingyuan smiled happily and stretched out his hand towards Ning Xiyue. The brother and sister slapped each other loudly.
Then they ran towards the pheasant together.
Ning Qingyuan picked up a brick, wiped it on the chicken feathers, and handed it to Ning Xiyue. He picked up the pheasant on the ground and shook it, "It's estimated to weigh about four pounds, enough for us to eat for two meals."
"I came here specifically to catch rabbits, but I didn't see any rabbits, and I got a fat chicken and some morels in the basket. This result is very satisfying."
Ning Xiyue plucked a feather from the pheasant's butt, and gently swept the feather across the nostrils of the pheasant, whose head was drooping, to check whether the chicken was dead.
She pinched the pheasant's head and the pheasant made a faint gurgling sound from its throat.
Ning Qingyuan was surprised: "Yeah, he's not dead yet?"
"I guess the pheasant still had some air in its mouth, so when I pinched its throat, the air entered and made a noise. I guess it was dead when I pinched it."
Ning Xiyue also lifted the chicken to feel the weight. It was very heavy.
He laughed so hard that his back teeth were exposed.
"This little chicken is a bit unlucky. A stone was kicked over and it happened to hit it. It can be considered as warding off disaster for the rabbit. Don't worry, the rabbit will be grateful to you, the mushrooms will be grateful to you, and we will also be grateful for your selfless dedication. We will definitely use the best ingredients to cook it."
Ning Xiyue took out a small dagger from her bag and handed it to Ning Qingyuan: "Brother, let's find a place to deal with the chicken before going back."
"Don't care about the rabbit?" Ning Qingyuan nodded towards the tree he went to at the beginning.
Ning Xiyue said generously: "Why do we need rabbits when we already have chickens? Let it go free."
Ning Qingyuan put on the backpack, put the chicken into the basket in front of the bicycle, covered it with clothes, and pushed the bicycle: "Okay, let's kill the chicken."
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