The three people were very happy to get permission, and quickly prepared to go up the mountain early the next morning. They planned to go for four days this time, and they would come back at the end of four days even if they didn't gain anything.
"Grandma and Grandma, are you two really okay being home alone? Why don't you let Brother Wang accompany you? The three of us can just go up the mountain."
Before leaving, the old man regretted it and insisted that Xiao Wang go with him no matter what. Xiao Wang was quite happy about it. Which young man doesn't like to go hunting in the mountains?
The old man waved his hand and said, "Let's go quickly. We won't be leaving the village, so what could happen? Besides, Shuanzhu agreed to stay with us. As long as you pay attention to your safety, you don't have to worry about anything else."
Chen Ye glanced at Xiao Wang's shining eyes. This guy was even more excited than himself. "Then we'll leave. We'll be back soon."
"Let's go, let's go, remember nothing is more important than your life."
"I understand, Grandpa (Grandpa Cen)."
Although there was one more person this time, he was also a skilled man and did not slow down their speed in entering the mountain. They came in this time to hunt and get more meat to eat, and secondly to see if they could get ginseng.
Most of the elderly people here are not in good health, so ginseng is indispensable. In recent years, several elderly people have used ginseng in their health-maintaining pills. Fortunately, there are no requirements on the age, otherwise they really can't afford it.
When the mountain herder came out this time, Cen Zixiang and Gao Fei bought a few young ginsengs, but they always felt that it would be better if they could find them for free.
For example, the last time they went into the mountains, the three of them brought back a lot of ginseng, and that feeling of satisfaction was great.
One more person means they can bring back more things. They were not polite this time. They took down any prey they encountered unless it was a big wild boar. Just think about how many people were at the foot of the mountain. No matter how much meat there was, it seemed like it would not be enough to eat.
Chen Ye also sighed. She had nothing in her previous life, but now she has many relatives. Whether they are blood relatives or not, they all show her great kindness.
She... can be considered a happy little girl, right?
"Ye Zi, let's go back today?" Cen Zixiang took a look at the prey that several people had caught. They couldn't take any more. They had to make a simple rack to drag them back.
Chen Ye also glanced at the prey piled on the ground: "Okay, let's go back after dinner. Fortunately, the prey we hunted this time didn't have a strong smell of blood. Otherwise, dragging so many things around would easily attract larger prey. We'd better be cautious."
"Then have dinner and go back. You can walk back here until midnight and get home. You can have a good rest tomorrow. You can go back to the city with your grandparents. Do you want your fourth brother to take you back?"
"No, we drove here. It would be too much trouble for you to drop us off and then have to come back by ourselves."
Gao Fei handed Chen Ye a bowl of hot soup: "Drink it quickly and see if my cooking skills have improved."
He and Cen Zixiang felt embarrassed to exploit child labor every day, so they learned the skills from Shuanzhu. Although they could not learn it to Shuanzhu's level, at least the vegetables they made were much more delicious than the boiled vegetables they used to make.
Chen Ye took the small wooden bowl, blew on it, and took a sip. "Not bad, it seems you two have made a lot of progress. Let's go back and ask Shuanzhu to treat us to a full meat feast."
Chen Ye smacked her lips. It was impossible for her to be so short of meat. Although the old couple had retired, their salary and benefits were very good. Her grandparents were still willing to spend money on her, and she would eat meat every two or three days.
Maybe because she was very hungry when she was a child, she has an obsession with meat. She always feels that as long as it is meat, it tastes good no matter how you eat it, and she can never get enough of it.
"I think it's okay. Shuanzhu's cooking skills are getting better and better. I bought him a Sichuan cuisine cookbook last time. He makes really delicious dishes with chili peppers. This year, we planted half of our vegetable garden with chili peppers."
In the winter in Northeast China, it is suitable to eat something spicy, which will make you feel warm from the inside out.
Thinking of the new dish made by Shuanzhu, Chen Ye felt that the delicious broth in his hand had lost its flavor.
Cen Zixiang took a big sip of hot soup and said, "Tell me what Xiao Shuanzhu is thinking. With his cooking skills, it would be great for him to be a chef. But that guy would rather be a cook than join the army."
"Could it be that he likes that dress?" Gao Fei guessed.
Xiao Wang nodded and said, "I joined the army because I liked this uniform. I thought it made me look very energetic and majestic."
Cen Zixiang laughed: "Brother Wang, is this why you joined the army?"
Xiao Wang didn't feel embarrassed at all: "Of course not. My family was poor. We couldn't even afford a decent piece of clothing. I remember in winter, there was only one piece of thick clothing at home. Whoever of us went out to work would wear it, and the rest of us had to stay on the kang."
"Once, a soldier joined our village. He looked very smart and his clothes were even smarter. I thought at that time, when I grow up, I will wear this kind of clothes. I wonder how many people will envy me."
"I'm lucky. When I was sixteen, the army came to our area to recruit soldiers. I didn't even think I could succeed. I thought I'd give it a try because it was a hope. Who would have thought I'd be selected?"
He could still remember his appearance at that time: dark and thin, short in stature because he had never had enough food to eat. And it was just a coincidence that he was picked up by a poor man with no connections.
In fact, there was a problem with the recruitment because of backdoors, otherwise Xiao Wang would not have been able to become a soldier. It just so happened that those who were well-trained had problems, and few people like Xiao Wang dared to try, so this foolish man took advantage of the opportunity.
"But our army is good. Look at me now. I used to be only 1.6 meters tall and had no flesh on my body. It's because of our army that we can sustain ourselves."
When he was notified that he had been drafted into the army, the whole village was in an uproar. His biased mother even wanted his eldest brother to take his place, but he was capable and he was determined to get out of there at the risk of his life.
He is the third child in the family. He has older brothers and sisters above him, and younger brothers and sisters below him. He is in the middle, the one who is not loved by his father and mother. If he had not been brave enough to plan for himself, he would still be at home with nothing to eat and nothing to wear.
The greater possibility is that he will become a blood bag of his older brothers and sisters and be enslaved by that family. After he was released, he never went back, but he still fulfilled his responsibilities and never stopped paying him five dollars a month.
No matter what, his parents did him a favor by not starving him to death, but he couldn't expect any more. Supporting his parents was his unshirkable responsibility, but he had no responsibility to support his older brothers and sisters.
The three of them looked at Xiao Wang. Xiao Wang was a very ordinary person, about 1.7 meters tall, of medium build, with dark skin. Even his facial features were very ordinary and nothing special about him, but he was not ugly either.
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