Tian Meixue and Chen Yi wore mourning clothes to see the man off.
Gu Tingzhou and Li Qingyun's lives returned to normal. Every day after sending Dabao away, they would take Erbao and Gu Tingzhou up the mountain. The two of them chose sparsely populated areas and got a lot of good things.
When the two of them were busy, they put the second baby into the space. Li Qingyun specially made a place for him in the space for him to lie down and play. The child felt like crawling recently and sometimes could crawl forward for a distance.
It is quite easy to take care of him. When he is hungry, you can feed him with milk or mix some homemade rice porridge with warm water. He has diapers for peeing, and he will fall asleep by himself when he is tired of playing.
The two of them had been looking for rabbit holes these days. They dug up several of them and caught about ten or twenty rabbits. Finally, they had enough cloth to make fur clothes for one adult and two children at home for the winter.
We also shot a number of pheasants, so we had no worries about meat for the winter.
Gu Tingzhou also took the time to make a small slingshot for Dabao and Maotou. The two of them played with it enthusiastically, but they didn't even knock down a single bird feather, so they gave up.
On the contrary, Erniu was very strong and had good aim. With the guidance of Gu Tingzhou, he could occasionally hit a small bird. He took Dabao Maotou to roast the shot birds and eat them, and he was quite happy.
These days, Erniu came to study with Dabao every night after dinner. He also brought dozens of kilograms of pine nuts he had dried to give to Li Qingyun.
Songzi Erniu insisted on not accepting any money, saying that it was his tuition fee. He hoped to learn more from Dabao, not only arithmetic, but also writing. As long as Dabao had learned it, he would teach him.
Although he worked hard and was able to afford the tuition for school, he was already fifteen years old after all, and it was no longer suitable for him to start learning from the beginning in the lower grades. He also did not have that much time to study. Most of the time he had to earn work points and go to the mountains to find mountain products to support himself.
Dabao also agreed actively. He felt that after teaching Erniu, he had a deeper grasp of knowledge and studied harder.
Da Ni and Er Ni discovered Da Bao's small classroom by chance. They also expressed their desire to learn with Da Bao, so every night after dinner became Teacher Da Bao's class time.
Cheng Jie found out about it and asked Maotou to come along and teach the "students" together.
The two of them ran this "night school" very successfully.
In the blink of an eye, it was the weekend, and the families who had made an appointment to play together. There were four people from the old house, including Gu's father and mother, as well as Gu's eldest brother and his wife, Gu Tingzhou and Li Qingyun, Cheng Jie and Qiuju's family, and Erniu, a total of nine people in the team.
Everyone agreed that the traps would be divided according to the number of people in the family. Those with more people in the family would get more, and those with fewer people would get less. No one objected to this decision. After all, trapping is not a job that can be done by one person. More people can trap more people.
Essential tools for logging: large saw, axe, and wooden cart.
Every family has an axe, but only Cheng Jie and the old house have a cart and a big saw. Since they provided these tools, Li Qingyun decided to provide lunch at home, which was not considered taking advantage of others.
She got up early in the morning to steam buns, usually corn buns made of two-grain flour. She steamed three baskets and filled a large basket with them. Then she fried a pot of egg sauce and put it in the lunch box. She also took some of the soybean paste and green onions that Gu's mother had given her, boiled a pot of water and brought it up. That was all she had for a simple lunch.
Li Qingyun had almost finished packing, so Gu Tingzhou took Dabao and Erbao, carrying the lunch that Li Qingyun had prepared for the children, and headed towards the old house.
On the way, we passed by Cheng Jie's house and took the little one with us to the old house.
This was agreed upon in advance. Gu Tinghua was pregnant and it was not convenient for her to go up the mountain to help, so she stayed at home to take care of the children, Da Ni, Er Ni, Da Bao, Er Bao and Mao Tou.
When they arrived at the old house, they were ready and waiting for them to set off together.
Gu Tinghua looked at her second brother coming over and called out with a smug look on her face. Gu Tingzhou had not paid any attention to her in the past few days, which really scared her. This second brother had a stubborn temper and was very decisive. She was afraid that he would really ignore her.
After Gu Tingzhou nodded in response, he handed the second baby to Dani to hold, and briefly explained a few words about when the second baby should drink milk and when to sleep.
Seeing that he would rather give the child to Dani than to himself, Gu Tinghua withdrew his hand a little embarrassedly.
"This is the lunch your second aunt prepared for you. There is also a small bag of fruit candy. You can heat up the steamed buns and dip them in the sauce at noon. Don't take your little brother to the kitchen. It's dangerous.
"Dabao, don't just play around today. Watch your brother with your sister and don't let him crawl around or he'll fall again." Gu Tingzhou said worriedly, handing the things he was carrying to Erni.
"Don't worry, Dad. I will definitely take good care of my little brother." Dabao is sensible and good at taking care of Erbao.
"Godfather, I will take care of Erbao's younger brother as well." The little boy also patted his chest and promised.
Gu Tingzhou then followed his father and the others out to pick up Cheng Jie, Qiuju, Erniu, Li Qingyun and others, and then they set off to the mountain together.
Li Qingyun changed into work clothes, put on nylon gloves, found the axe at home, sharpened it and put it on. Today's work was not easy and her hands could not bear it without gloves.
To make firewood, people usually go to the mountains to cut the wood and then pull it home with a cart. After cutting it into pieces of about 40 centimeters in length, they use an axe to split it into several pieces, stack them together and dry them before use. The firewood split in this way is called firewood.
Her task today was to break obstacles and do some odd jobs. She was bending over and sharpening an axe in the yard when she suddenly heard the sound of the door opening and footsteps. She turned around and saw a young man she didn't recognize.
"Sister Zhaodi?" the visitor called out uncertainly.
"Who are you?"
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