"Fine, fine, I won't raise them, I won't raise them, I won't raise them."
As soon as Chen Gang moved his buttocks, Lin Mo guessed whether he was going to release a bag of gas or poop a lump of solid waste.
If you don't want to listen, hurry up and hand over the rabbit and put the nine-pound rice scale in your pocket.
"You still owe nine jin of grain coupons, so I've put it on your mother's tab."
Lin Mo, who had already run a long way, still heard these words.
I was suffocating from the weight of money; it was oppressive.
I entered Old Bald Mountain late at night, and then went deep into Old Father Mountain, just wanting to quickly get some spare money, coupons and grain for my family.
If you're so worried, it means your mother is even more worried.
Feeding my mother and sister isn't enough; I also need to relieve them of this heavy burden, otherwise they'll have trouble even breathing.
We walked westward in the dark for more than half an hour in Laodie Mountain. The sounds of wild animals were much more rampant at night than during the day.
You can't see anything, but you can hear blatant rustling and scurrying around you.
It's okay if you can't see it.
As Lin Mo ventured deeper inside, he began to pull at the vines on the spot.
The short, sturdy rope was tied firmly to the tree on both sides, serving as a tripping hazard.
If any deer or roe deer were to pass by, even a blind one that didn't see the attack could easily take it down on the spot.
If you break your leg, you can't run anymore.
It would be best to dig some pits before and after the tripping, and fill them with about 40 centimeters of thin mud.
The slender-legged wild animal stepped into the mud; any further struggle was futile.
This is also a good way to wait for the rabbit to come to the tree stump and then hunt it.
Once the area was blocked, a small shovel had to be used to dig. After digging for more than an hour, a narrow pit about one meter deep was finally completed.
After picking the anise berries, I'll run back and fetch two buckets of water to mix with the mud.
Then just sit back and wait a couple of days to come back and check. Nine times out of ten, you'll catch some wild game, hehehe.
After finishing all that, Lin Mo continued westward.
Soon, a patch of "weeds" with small yellow flowers came into view.
The yellow anise tree is similar to the big green ball in the green belts of later generations, and the fruit grows inside the small yellow flowers.
Cut a section of vine to use as a rope, tie the fennel tree tightly, turn the tree upside down and put it in the basket, then tap it a few times.
The anise pods fell from the flower into the basket.
He shook the bundles of trees like this more than a dozen times until the whole area was cleaned up, and another hour or so had passed.
Looking at the basket, the flowers and leaves weigh about the same as the fruit. If I sift through them when I get back, I should be able to fill about half a basket, which is about twenty pounds.
That's enough, time to go home!
When he finally made it home in the dark, it was already past 2 a.m., and he was quite tired.
His house was in the west wing, while his mother and younger sister lived in the east wing.
He went to the east room and lifted half of the curtain, only to find his younger sister sleeping soundly all by herself.
Huh, where's Mom?
Lin Mo pondered that although Su's carpenter's house and Lin's house were a bit far apart, Su's carpenter's house was at the entrance of the village, while Lin's house was in the middle of the village, towards the back.
But the round trip only takes about ten minutes, and the chat lasts at most half an hour.
They should have come back a long time ago.
Lin Mo didn't disturb his younger sister's sleep, and instead ran out to find his mother in the middle of the night.
...
On the other side, Aunt Lin was so dirty that it looked like she had rolled in a mud pit.
The old, damp coat quickly became stiff from the freezing weather.
People would freeze solid.
She struggled to get up from the edge of the village road, but her body was too stiff to move.
Earlier, after she took the rabbit out, she had only passed the production team for a short while when she felt as if someone was following her in the dark.
I had just turned around when I was suddenly hit on the head.
In my dizziness, I couldn't see anything when suddenly my hand was yanked hard, and the sack was gone.
By the time she could vaguely see the fields she was responsible for, there was no one around.
He lost his balance and tumbled down the embankment beside the dirt road. The shallow irrigation ditch at the edge of the farmland was full of wet mud, and the fall and the freezing water made his body even more unresponsive.
"mother?"
"Where are you, Mother?"
When Lin Mo came out to look for her, Aunt Lin had been struggling in the mud at the bottom of the road slope for several hours.
I finally managed to stand up by supporting myself on my legs, but then I slipped and fell down.
His body was already weak from hunger, and he had no strength left.
"Son……"
On the verge of death, Aunt Lin was almost frozen solid. She tried to respond, but her voice was barely louder than a mosquito's buzz.
From a distance, she spotted her son's dark figure about to turn towards the carpenter's house.
Getting a little anxious, he stretched out his legs and started scrambling towards his assigned field.
The faint, strange noise could only be heard by Aunt Lin.
Lin Mo, who was looking around, didn't hear anything, but he vaguely saw something moving around at the bottom of the slope.
He jogged over quickly, and was so frightened by his mother's condition that he rushed down the slope.
The slope was slippery, and he slipped and fell down, getting covered in mud.
"Mom! What's going on?! What happened?!"
This terrified Lin Mo. Having finally been given a second chance at life, he didn't care about anything else but ensuring his mother wouldn't starve to death again and could have enough to eat.
But I never expected that my mother would be alive in the middle of the night in late autumn, when the temperature was several degrees below zero...
"Mother!" Lin Mo scooped his mother up onto his lap and found her coat was soaked and frozen solid.
He hurriedly pulled at her coat, wanting to take off his own coat and put it on his mother.
"Son..." Aunt Lin was half-dead, with only a breath left. She called out with difficulty, but had no strength left to say another word.
Lin Mo hurriedly straightened up and pulled his mother onto his back.
This tug had no effect; even in the dim moonlight, the top of my mother's head was wet and dark.
He rubbed his mother's head, but couldn't see clearly, so he held it to his nose.
The stench of blood filled my nostrils and rushed into my brain.
It pierced his heart fiercely!
I got beaten up!
"Who the hell killed my mother?!"
"Catch him! I'll kill your whole family!"
Lin Mo roared in immense anger, the sound echoing through the village and reverberating across the land.
He carried his mother on his back and ran home quickly, stuffing firewood into the kang (a heated brick bed).
Lin Xiaohua, who was awakened by the noise, opened her eyes and saw that her mother was covered in mud and her face was covered in blood.
She burst into tears with a loud "Wah!"
Lin Mo's roar startled the village, and many villagers turned on their light bulbs and jumped out to see what was going on.
Wu Fengshou also heard it, and when he left his own yard, he saw the dark figure carrying someone running away into the distance.
He quickly followed and ran all the way to the front of the Lin family's house.
Seeing that Aunt Lin's face was covered in blood, Wu Fengshou's heart skipped a beat.
There hasn't been a bloodshed in the village for so many years, this is a big deal.
"What happened? How did this happen? Did you fall down by yourself?" Wu Fengshou still couldn't believe that someone in the village would dare to hurt someone like this.
Lin Mo served his mother, wiping her face with a hot towel and changing her coat, gritting his teeth fiercely:
“My mother was on her way to deliver a rabbit to Su the carpenter’s house. She must have been robbed on the way.”
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