Seeing how much Zhou Kangcheng was enjoying his food, the others couldn't resist taking a roasted sweet potato and eating it themselves.
Seeing that Zhuang Zhimeng liked to eat these roasted foods, An Qingbai suggested, "Zhizhi, would you like to eat roasted sparrows? If you want to eat them, I'll go catch a few sparrows and roast them."
"Is it delicious? I've never had roasted sparrow before."
In later generations, sparrows were protected animals, so Zhuang Zhimeng never had the chance to eat them.
"It's delicious, even better than chicken."
"Brother Qingbai, is it easy to catch? I'd really like to try it."
"Easy to catch, I'll go catch a few."
"good!"
Seeing that An Qingbai was going to catch sparrows, the others were very interested and went out with him to see how he caught them.
He took a basket from the kitchen and found a flat spot in the yard.
A flock of sparrows was chirping and foraging under the eaves; there were about twenty of them.
An Qingbai used a wooden stick to support one end of the basket, then tied the stick with a rope, holding one end in his hand, and scattered some rice bran under the basket.
Once the sparrows fly down to eat the rice bran, pull the rope and tug the wooden stick, and the basket will fall down and cover the sparrows.
Catching sparrows is that simple.
"Brother Qingbai, I didn't expect catching sparrows to be so easy."
"Yeah, it's not that complicated."
Everyone was eager to try, and after a few attempts, they found that it wasn't so easy to catch them and that you had to master the techniques.
After catching a dozen or so sparrows, An Qingbai stopped. He removed the heads, skin, and internal organs of the sparrows, skewered them with bamboo sticks, roasted them on the stove, and finally added a little salt.
The first one was handed to Zhuang Zhimeng as soon as it was grilled. Zhuang Zhimeng tasted it and found it to be quite good. The meat was firm and tasted different from chicken: "Delicious!"
"You can also roast cicada nymphs in the summer; they're delicious too!"
Seeing that she enjoyed the food, An Qingbai added another comment.
Zhuang Zhimeng nodded, "Then we'll catch cicada nymphs to eat in the summer."
"good!"
The others took matters into their own hands, each getting two skewers. They were juicy and delicious.
After lunch, there was no need to cook, which Zhuang Zhimeng thought was quite good, as it saved her trouble. She brewed a pot of tea, and offered it to anyone who wanted some.
After eating and drinking their fill, everyone went home to rest.
In the afternoon, before it snowed any more, Zhuang Zhimeng decided to seal the window cracks.
Find the newspapers left over from pasting the walls, spread them on the table, and cut them into strips of varying widths.
Then make the paste: put water in a pot, add flour, and cook until it becomes a sticky paste.
They brushed the paper strips with paste and used them to seal the cracks in the window, applying two layers.
After sealing the window cracks, the room is much warmer.
Aunt Tian told her about this method. Before winter, Aunt Tian met her and asked her about it during their conversation. Aunt Tian then told her what to do.
In the afternoon, Jiang Yanxia and Su Mengmeng came to Zhuang Zhimeng's place to study. They had agreed to come to her place to read books together in the afternoon. When they saw the window cracks she had sealed, they asked her how she did it, and Zhuang Zhimeng told them the method.
However, Zhuang Zhimeng had run out of newspapers, and they didn't have any more. Just then, An Qingbai came over and said that he had some brown paper at home, so he went home to get it for them.
The same effect is achieved with kraft paper, and the procedure is the same.
Then the group started reading. Zhuang Zhimeng picked up a Little Red Book to read, as she needed to memorize some of its contents, which were very important.
Zhuang Zhimeng's residence has an inner room, where she usually rests, while they study in her outer room.
The room fell silent for a moment, with only the occasional sound of turning over papers.
After two hours of study, the village children came to Zhuang Zhimeng's place to learn to read, as arranged beforehand. They have been consistently teaching the children to read, and they now know quite a few characters.
Sometimes An Qingbai would read picture books to the children, and they were all very interested.
Often at this time, the other older children would also listen attentively to his reading, which was quite interesting.
The children often bring over food they've found themselves, otherwise they feel embarrassed to come.
This time, An Qingbai talked about "The Three Battles with the White Bone Demon in Journey to the West". The scene unfolded through his magnetic voice, which gave people a sense of security and made them feel very at ease.
The children listened intently, and Zhuang Zhimeng and the others listened very carefully, unconsciously becoming absorbed in the story.
The children were thrilled after hearing this: "Sun Wukong is amazing! He was able to recognize the White Bone Demon three times!"
"I want to be Sun Wukong and fight the White Bone Demon!"
"Yes, fighting the White Bone Demon is not a good thing!"
"Third Uncle, please read comic books to us again next time."
An Qingbai rubbed Yangyang's head: "Okay, I'll read it for you again next time!"
Yangyang has joined the children. The children in the village used to not want to play with him, but now that they are not afraid of An Qingbai, they are willing to interact with Yangyang.
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