Li Yuemin poked his head out to take a look and saw two furry wolf cubs huddled together in the bushes, with a pool of wet blood beside them.
Their eyes have not yet fully opened and their bodies are thin, obviously they were born not long ago.
Li Yuemin's heart was filled with joy. Looking at the situation, he thought that this wolf cub must have been abandoned by the mother wolf when she was in danger.
He was planning to train wolfhounds for hunting, and these pups were an unexpected gain for him.
He squatted down and looked around carefully. After confirming that there was no trace of the mother wolf, he put down his bow and reached out to gently pick up the two cubs.
I unbuttoned their cotton jackets and carefully put them into my arms to make sure they wouldn't freeze to death.
Then he quickly packed the remaining soybeans, picked up the vole, put on his bow and arrow, and prepared to return home.
However, just as he turned around, he suddenly heard hurried footsteps in the distance.
Li Yuemin immediately became alert, quickly hid behind a big tree, held his breath and listened carefully.
“Brother Yuemin! Brother Yuemin! Where on earth are you!!”
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...
Hearing this familiar voice, Li Yuemin hurriedly came out from behind the big tree.
I saw Zhang Chuntao, her face red from the cold, wearing a red scarf, looking panicked, running towards me from a distance, stumbling.
As soon as she saw Li Yuemin, she threw herself into his arms:
“Woo woo woo, Brother Yuemin, I finally found you.
This morning, Li Guolin told me that you went into the mountains to hunt. The mountains are so dangerous. I saw that you had been gone for such a long time and didn’t come back. I thought something had happened to you! "
"Chun Tao, don't cry, be good"
When Li Yuemin saw Zhang Chuntao's red eyes, he felt extremely distressed.
He reached out his hand and gently wiped away her tears, and said softly to comfort her:
"Others may get into trouble when they go up the mountain, but who are you? You are not an ordinary soldier, right?
Look, what did I catch?"
After saying that, Li Yuemin handed over all the gains of the day, including the two wolf cubs, to Zhang Chuntao.
"Wow!! This is a field mouse, this is a soybean, and... a little wolf cub!!"
Zhang Chuntao saw this, and her big watery eyes instantly lit up. The fatigue from running was swept away.
With a bright smile like a little girl, she looked up at Li Yuemin with admiration:
"Brother Yuemin, you are so awesome!!
There must be more than a hundred voles, and about forty to fifty kilograms of soybeans.
Tell me, how did you do it?"
"Haha, you're awesome, aren't you?!"
Looking at Zhang Chuntao's happy expression, Li Yuemin felt that all his efforts were worth it.
He bent down and kissed her rosy little face, then said mysteriously:
"Wife, it's almost noon. Are you hungry? Wait for your husband to come home and show you his skills!"
"you?"
Zhang Chuntao was slightly startled when she heard this, then she chuckled:
"Brother Yuemin, stop joking, you can cook?
I've been dating you for such a long time, and every time I cooked for you, I did it.
Seeing you working so hard hunting in the mountains today, how about I go home and cook your favorite dish, "Three Fresh Vegetables"? "
After saying that, Chuntao took the initiative to put her arm around Li Yuemin.
"Three Fresh Vegetables? Isn't that just fried potatoes and eggplant?
My silly wife, now that we all have meat, who would want to eat that?! Look how I’m going to prepare a big meat meal for you today! "
As Li Yuemin spoke, he stretched out his hand to scratch Zhang Chuntao's nose bridge, then gave her a fierce kiss and said seriously:
"But Chuntao, I'm warning you. From now on, you are not allowed to run up the mountain alone without my permission. Do you hear me?"
"Well, I'll listen to Brother Yuemin!"
…
"Hey, where did Li Yuemin get the field mice and so many soybeans?
It's snowing so heavily now that it's hard to get into the mountains. Is he just lucky?"
"Yes, God is really blind. Why does a poor boy like him get all the good things?
My family was so poor that they could barely afford to eat, but now he has married the village chief's daughter and hunted so many field mice. Where can I go to seek justice?"
Along the way, Li Yuemin and Zhang Chuntao, carrying field mice and soybeans, attracted the attention of many villagers.
In this age when people can barely get enough food, the huge number of field mice and soybeans undoubtedly made the villagers envious.
Everyone couldn't understand why this poor boy, who was originally from the lowest class in the village, would have so much good luck overnight?
"Chun Tao, you don't have to do anything, just wait and eat."
Soon, the aroma of meat filled the Li family's courtyard.
Li Yuemin strung the vole meat, which had been stewed with salt and homemade spices, on iron wire and slowly roasted it over a low fire.
The fat gradually seeped out and dripped into the iron pot below, making a sizzling sound.
Seeing that the oil in the pot had almost flowed out, Li Yuemin sprinkled a few more soybeans.
With the sound of stir-frying, the crispy aroma of beans mixed with the fragrance of meat wafted in the wind.
Villagers who heard the news kept running to the gate of Li's yard to watch and smell the rare aroma of meat.
Li Yuemin looked at the increasing number of villagers gathering here, and a smile appeared on his face.
Take a roasted field mouse, tear off a piece of meat and put it into your mouth, then add a handful of crispy soybeans, crunchy and delicious, and your mouth will be full of oil.
At first, Li Yuemin wanted to hide these things so that his family could enjoy them in a low-key manner.
But then I thought, the food reserves at home are extremely limited. Although soybeans are precious, they are not a staple food after all, and field mouse meat cannot be eaten as a meal.
We must find a way to use these two hard goods to exchange for some dry food to fill the villagers' stomachs.
"Hey, Yuemin, where did you dig these field mice and soybeans? They are so delicious when roasted. Your cousin and I haven't tasted meat for a long time."
As soon as Li Yuemin put the field mouse on the shelf, Li Guolin and Song Mengyao came out of the house after smelling the fragrance.
The two of them were not at all shy, as if they had amnesia and had not remembered the unpleasant experience that had happened between the three of them in the morning. They reached out to reach the field mouse on the campfire.
“Snap! Snap!”
"Take your dirty paws away! Who told you to move?"
But who would have thought that before Li Guolin finished his words, a fire stick hit him and Song Mengyao's hands twice.
Li Guolin was startled and looked at Li Yuemin angrily:
"Li Yuemin, I just asked you for a piece of meat. If you don't give it to me, then don't give it to me. Why are you hitting me?"
Song Mengyao didn't expect Li Yuemin to do this, and immediately said aggrievedly:
"Brother Yuemin, you are too heartless. After all, we are a family!!"
"Family? Ugh!
This morning, one of you cursed me to death and the other slandered me, so why are you both shamelessly asking for vole meat now?
You want to eat it, right? If you have the guts, go catch it yourself!"
After saying that, Li Yuemin reached out and took two skewers of field mouse meat, handed them to Zhang Chuntao and his younger brother Li Yuejin respectively, and said in a gentle tone:
“Chun Tao, Yue Jin, you two should eat more.
Don't worry about mom's portion, I'll bake it for her when she wakes up."
Chun Tao heard this and nodded happily. She took the roasted field mouse with a smile on her face and raised it towards Song Mengyao as if to show off.
"Haha, you see, my man is more capable than someone else's man. He can kill more than a hundred field mice with one move!"
After saying that, she shyly kissed Li Yuemin on the face:
"Brother Yuemin, I am so happy to marry you!!"
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