Chapter 124 Chapter 124 Trap
Wanli said seriously with his upright and serious face: "Uncle Lu, please move back a little. Be careful not to step into the trap."
Captain Lu took a step back reflexively. Before he could look down, he lost his balance and almost sprained his ankle.
He reacted quickly, knowing that he had fallen into the trap of this kid. He guessed the trap and just wanted to get out, but was pinned down by several good comrades. Hou Baodong held his shoulders and said with a smile: "There are so many of us here, but we didn't find this trap. Captain Lu, please be kind and stay in this position for a while, so that we can take a good look. Your feet are so big, you will collapse the trap later!"
A group of big men gathered around Captain Lu, looking down and commenting on the trap under his feet. Lu Zhiguo was the first one to run down in such a lively scene. He used his hands to dig at the dirt around him and said with a smile, "It turns out there is another one here. These two kids set two traps at different angles on this road, so that no matter how fast you take or which direction you walk, you will step into one."
Hou Baodong also laughed and said, "Haha, not bad, not bad, it's quite delicately made. It's really hard to find if you don't look carefully!"
In fact, the trap set by the two children was not very realistic. They were very strong. They tamped the four walls of the trap, covered it with snakeskin bags that others threw away as garbage, pressed and tamped the two sides with thick soil, and finally covered the snakeskin bags with the same soil as the surrounding area.
This snakeskin bag was thrown away because it was already rotten. It would be fine if it was supported by a little soil, but it would break immediately if someone stepped on it. It is very suitable for making a trap.
Lingling smiled happily and boasted: "We spent a long time to find this snakeskin bag. It is the most suitable one for making a trap..."
She quickly shut up before she finished her words because she saw her father put the little mushroom on the ground, free one hand, pick up Wanli and come to Uncle Lu.
Zhang Yuandong frowned and said sternly: "Apologize to Uncle Lu!" Although no one took this matter seriously and even thought it was quite amusing, Zhang Yuandong couldn't let the children think that this was a trivial matter, otherwise they would do the same thing in the future and even regard this matter as something to show off.
This was the first time that his father got angry at him. Wanli was actually a little scared. He lowered his head and apologized obediently, "Uncle Lu, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have lied to you and let you fall into the trap."
Captain Lu waved his hands hurriedly, "Oh, it's not a big deal, it's okay, it's okay, don't scare the child!"
A few people who were there to join in the fun also tried to persuade them, but they didn't take it seriously. In front of so many people, Zhang Yuandong didn't make things too difficult for the kids. He just asked the two to rebury the trap they had dug, and then he didn't say anything else.
Originally, the matter would have passed like this, but when Lin Yue returned home, he saw Lingling and Wanli standing in the corner again, being punished by his father.
As soon as Lin Yue entered the room, the two children immediately looked at her for help. Lin Yue moved a stool and sat over to the two siblings, asking, "What happened? Why are you being punished to stand again?"
Wanli and Lingling secretly looked at their father's expressions and complemented each other until they finished telling the story.
After hearing this, Lin Yue asked curiously, "You already knew you were wrong, so why are you being punished again?"
Zhang Yuandong said angrily, "There's still the second half. I was not angry at first, but when I came back, I heard them muttering that it was a pity to bury those two traps. They were discussing digging the traps again!"
"Why is this happening?" Lin Yue knew this brother and sister quite well and knew there must be a reason.
Wanli's face flushed a little, and Lingling spoke for him, "Wanli put a lot of beautiful flowers and leaves in the trap. It was very beautiful, but it was buried. We were afraid that the flowers would be damaged after a long time, so we hurried to dig it up!"
Zhang Yuandong was stunned. These two children refused to say anything when he asked them just now. They insisted on waiting until their mother came back.
Lin Yue nodded and gave Zhang Yuandong face, "So that's the case. Then I guess you didn't explain it clearly to your father, otherwise you wouldn't be punished." Seeing the two children looking at each other in a daze, she smiled and said, "Why don't you go and ask your father if the punishment has been lifted?"
The two children looked at each other and looked at their father eagerly. Zhang Yuandong rubbed his brows and nodded helplessly, "If you have anything to say, just tell me, don't..."
Before he could finish, the two children rushed over and almost knocked him to the ground. Seeing his brother and sister doing this, Little Mushroom thought they were playing with their father, so he followed his brother and sister's example and rushed into his father's arms. However, because of his short legs, he couldn't squeeze in at all and was almost stepped on by his brother and sister's feet.
Lin Yue was watching happily from the side. He picked up the little guy and said with a smile, "Okay, stop bothering your dad. I bought you some delicious food today. I'll cook for you later. You can play for a while and then you can eat right away!"
Last night, when she was fishing in the space, she found a lot of small snails. This kind of snail looks different from the spike snail. In her hometown, it is called a wave snail. Because it looks more like a freshwater snail, it is just right to cook it for the children to eat without worrying about arousing suspicion from others.
However, other seafood cannot be given to the children. They can only eat some dry goods, which means they are deprived of this delicious food.
In the afternoon, Lin Yue took a few children downstairs and played with them by digging in the soil in the green belt on the roadside.
Wanli was still thinking about the flowers in the trap, he said it was a small garden he made. Lin Yue remembered the games he played with the children in the village when he went back to his hometown in the countryside as a child, so he asked him and Lingling to find some glass fragments.
The windows in the family yard were all made of glass, and with so many children, it was inevitable that a few pieces would break. However, the sanitation in the military area was cleaned thoroughly, and the two children searched for a long time before they found a few palm-sized pieces of glass. When they came back, there was a group of little tails following them, all attracted by the two children.
Lin Yue was digging the soil with Little Mushroom. He was stunned for a moment when he saw so many children coming over.
She often brought a few children down to play. The children in the compound were not afraid of her. They gathered around her and asked curiously, "Auntie, what do you want the glass for? My mother said that glass is very dangerous and children can't touch it!"
"Glass is very dangerous. It's easy to cut your hands if you're not careful, so you have to be careful at all times. But if you hold it like Lingling and Wanli do, it's fine."
A group of children looked at Wanli and Lingling and nodded to show that they understood.
Wanli handed her the glass and asked, "Mom, what are you going to do with such a small piece of glass?"
Lin Yue took the glass, pointed at a bunch of small flowers in the pit and asked, "Look, isn't this beautiful?"
Lingling and Wanli leaned over together and saw that his mother had also placed a lot of small wild flowers in the pit. They exclaimed: "Mom, did you also make a small garden? It's so beautiful. Where did these blue flowers come from?"
Lin Yue pointed forward and saw that in the green belt, after pulling aside the taller bushes, there were clusters of small blue wild flowers blooming underneath. The petals were very small, not much bigger than a millet grain.
She put the glass in the small earth pit, pressed it to a place slightly higher than the flowers, and covered it with soil all around. It became a small glass greenhouse, which was quite delicate and beautiful.
The group of children found it very strange and pushed each other to look over. Lingling and Wanli had already started to work. They followed their mother's example and dug a hole in the soft soil on the roadside. Lin Yue reminded them: "You can only pick wild flowers, not flowers planted by others. Do you understand?" The two children nodded and excitedly went to find the flowers and plants they liked.
Other children didn't have glass, so they gathered together to watch the fun. Seeing Wanli and Lingling also built their own small gardens, they were indeed pretty. But this kind of thing is usually more popular with girls. After the boys finished watching the fun, they started asking, "Auntie, what's the point of making this? You can't play games with it!"
"Why can't we play games? Once we're done, we can bury it and guess what's inside and what color the flowers are!" This is how Lin Yue played when he was a child.
The children became excited when they heard this. Other older children could write on the ground and let others guess what the words were, but they were young and many of them could not read, so they could not play together. But this was different. They could also play, but the game changed from guessing words to guessing what was buried.
A group of children ran away excitedly, each looking for their own broken glass. Lin Yue reminded them to be careful with the glass and not to get their hands caught, but the children waved their hands, and it was unclear whether they had heard him or not.
In fact, as long as the glass was not broken recently, it would not be so easy to get your hand pricked. With Lingling and Wanli's experience in finding glass, many children soon came back with broken glass.
Lin Yue gave the place to the group of children and stood aside to watch them play games. It was natural for children to like playing with dirt, and as long as they didn't dig holes on the road and didn't hurt others, it was not a big deal.
These kids all had their own ideas and didn't follow Lin Yue's lead. They didn't care about making their designs look good. They just hoped that others wouldn't be able to guess what they were doing in the pit.
Lin Yue saw some people put small stones in it, some put grass leaves in it, and he also saw a child put a piece of White Rabbit candy in it. Fortunately, it was wrapped in candy paper, otherwise it would be inedible. A little boy even put several beetles in it. Lin Yue laughed in his heart. These children probably couldn't guess what others put in it until dark.
There are some that are not for guessing but for beauty, such as Diandian. Under the glass, she not only has flowers, but also arranges them with some green leaves into beautiful shapes, and even puts a few small ants inside. Watching the small ants busy among the flowers through the glass, it really feels like a greenhouse. ①
Behind a big tree not far away, a tall and thin girl quietly poked her head out and looked at this side with envy. Lingling had sharp eyes and saw her immediately, and shouted: "Erya, come and play!"
The little girl named Erya was frightened and ran away in a hurry.