Time flies, and Fu Wan and the others have already spent a day and a half playing in Qingshan Village.
Fu San will come to pick them up tomorrow after he finishes delivering the seafood to town.
Fu Wan definitely agreed to go up the mountain. The last time she went up the mountain was when she was about the same age as Ye Zhenxing. She still remembers the fun of catching chickens and chasing rabbits on the mountain.
After lunch, Fu Wan and the others went up the mountain. Because of the hot weather and strong sun, Chen Lingling went with Ye Xiaofeng to play with the other children in the village, so only Fu Wan, Fu Ming, Bai Qianzhou, and Ye Jianguo went up the mountain at this time.
Ye Jianguo spent his entire life in Qingshan Village, and he visited the mountains near the village countless times.
He wouldn't have insisted on following them if he wasn't afraid they would venture deep into the mountains.
Fu Ming and Bai Qianzhou now get along very well, one digging traps and the other throwing out snares.
In the 1980s, the government had not yet banned the hunting of wild animals. As long as they were not rare animals like tigers, villagers could hunt wild boars, pheasants, and rabbits.
After all, wild boars and rabbits often run down the mountain to wreak havoc on crops when there isn't enough food on the mountain.
Ye Jianguo's family has a plot of private land not far from the mountainside. Every time the beans ripened, you could see many traces of wild rabbits.
Wild boars are even worse. As soon as they come down from the mountain, they attack indiscriminately, eating and trampling sweet potatoes, potatoes, and even rice in the fields, leaving a terrible mess.
However, as the human population increased, wild boars and rabbits were later listed as protected animals and could no longer be captured privately.
As Fu Wan thought this, she used the twig in her hand to knock down the weeds by the roadside.
August is not only a good time to catch lobsters and eels, but also the time when snakes are most active.
In hot weather, snakes love to hide in these waist-high grasses. If they encounter a docile one, it will run away at the sound of movement. But if it encounters a more aggressive one, it can chase you all the way down the mountain.
Fu Wan carried a basket when she went up the mountain. She remembered that there were many wild raspberries on the mountain, and she wondered if they had been picked by someone.
After all, there are quite a few children in the village.
While Fu Ming, Bai Qianzhou, and Ye Jianguo were busy catching rabbits and pheasants, Fu Wan was busy looking for her prickly pear fruit.
The raspberry, also known as the prickly raspberry, has sharp, sparse, short thorns on its branches and leaves. It typically flowers in May and June, and the fruit ripens in August and September.
It's late August now, which is the perfect time to pick wild rhizomes.
Relying on her memory, Fu Wan wandered around for a few minutes with her small basket and found a clump of prickly pear fruit.
Sure enough, bright red thorny blisters hung on the branches, along with a few dark purple ones, making Fu Wan swallow hard.
I wonder if this thorny patch was hidden on the back of a small hill by a big tree, which is why the children didn't pick it.
With both hands busy, Fu Wan picked a few and couldn't resist popping two into her mouth. A sweet and sour taste exploded on her taste buds, more sweet than sour, just like the taste in her memory.
As she ate, her hands moved faster. The wild raspberries were almost ripe; if she didn't pick them, they would just fall to the ground and become compost.
Meanwhile, at Ye Jian's home, another argument broke out.
Liang Cuifen arrived home around 1 or 2 p.m. and saw her mother-in-law and sister-in-law counting money at the old dining table as soon as she opened the door.
She thought she was dreaming for a moment, and pinched the flesh on her arm hard, making her wince in pain.
"Mother, where did you get so much money?"
Li Chunhua wasn't stupid; she didn't miss the greed in Liang Cuifen's eyes.
It's strange, Liang Cuifen's own family was not doing badly, but she just had a penchant for money.
Little did she know, the allowance she gave Ye Xiaofeng was being taken away by her mother under various pretexts.
That's only a penny or two!
Li Chunhua silently put all the money in her hand into her cloth bag, then pretended not to hear Liang Cuifen's question.
Why are you back?
Liang Cuifen felt wronged upon hearing this. Her own mother asked her why she hadn't returned to her husband's home yet, and her mother-in-law asked her why she had come back.
Is she really that annoying?
She said irritably, "If I don't come back, where am I supposed to go?"
Li Chunhua and Huang Guifang were both speechless, even though it was clearly she who ran back to her parents' home on her own.
Liang Cuifen had been walking under the scorching sun for a long time, and now her mouth was parched.
She was about to pour herself a bowl of water when she noticed a dozen or so large coconuts piled up next to her.
Wow, where did these coconuts come from?
Huang Guifang said, "It was brought by my cousin Awan from my aunt's family."
Liang Cuifen had no time to pay attention to that right now; she picked up a coconut and headed to the kitchen.
Seeing that she had left, Li Chunhua quickly put the cloth bag and the accounting book into the house.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law thought that the woman should have forgotten about it, but who knew that after Liang Cuifen had eaten and drunk her fill, she would start asking them again where she got so much money.
Li Chunhua didn't have the patience to answer, only saying that she earned it herself by going out.
Liang Cuifen knew perfectly well that her sister was hiding something from her, and the more she thought about it, the more wronged she felt, and she was filled with resentment.
Just then, Shen Lingling and Ye Xiaofeng ran home to get a drink of water. Shen Lingling's hair had been cut into a buzz cut by Grandma Shen, but it had grown a lot longer, so Fu Wan tied it into two little pigtails for her.
Whether Liang Cuifen was being impulsive or something, she went up to Shen Lingling and grabbed her little tuft of hair.
"Where did this wild girl come from!"
Liang Cuifen never knew her own strength, and this time she pulled hard on Chen Lingling.
"Let me go!"
Shen Lingling hadn't been in a fight in a long time, and now she was about to rush up and bump into Liang Cuifen.
Luckily, Li Chunhua caught her in time, otherwise the two of them would definitely have fallen together.
Shen Lingling didn't call back, but the grievances in her heart only intensified.
"Mommy, I want my mommy!"
After all, she was still a five-year-old child. Ever since Fu Wan divorced and took her back to the Fu family, she had never been bullied.
Meanwhile, Fu Wan on the mountain was unaware of the situation down below. She picked most of a basket of wild raspberries before finally clearing the entire patch of wild raspberries.
Fu Ming and Bai Qianzhou also made quite a few gains. Fu Wan was not far away and could hear Fu Ming's exaggerated yet suppressed laughter.
She carried the basket toward Fu Ming and the others. There were many branches on the way, and after finally managing to step over them, she saw a brownish-yellow wild rabbit leap over and bump into her foot.
This doesn't make sense!
Wild rabbits are terrified of people, so why would they run into their own feet?
Fu Wan was puzzled. Why not take advantage of this opportunity? She picked up the rabbit and examined it closely.
The rabbit's hind leg was bitten by something and was still bleeding. She could also clearly feel the rabbit trembling.
This rabbit is still trembling!
Why is it shaking? Didn't it just come to us on its own?
Fu Wan was puzzled, but she knew the answer in the next second.
Just as she was looking around to find a blade of grass to tie the rabbit up, she heard a hissing sound.
She looked up and saw a large brown snake with white stripes less than two meters away directly in front of her, its triangular head raised and its tongue flicking at her!
Oh my god, this is like crossing a mountain peak!
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