"Aunt, can you accompany me up the mountain this afternoon? I dug a trap on the mountain a few days ago and haven't checked it yet."
Sanjun has been dreaming recently of Liu Shuning coming back soon. When she was a child, she would occasionally take him to the mountains to hunt pheasants and catch rabbits.
A few days ago, he was so greedy for meat that he went up the mountain alone to dig a trap. When he came back, he was almost beaten to death by his father.
"During the time I was away, did you go up the mountain alone? There are big insects and wolves on the mountain. It is very dangerous to go up the mountain without an adult to lead you."
Liu Shuning knew without asking anyone that the brat must have gone up the mountain alone.
Da Jun is now in junior high school. He has a heavy workload and rarely has time to go out and play.
㟧军 and 三军 can't play together, so he usually plays alone.
"I wanted to eat meat, so I thought of going up the mountain to dig a trap. I didn't run far, and the trap I dug was right where we caught rabbits before."
"You don't have classes this afternoon?"
"No, my teacher Yu-Yu has asked for leave."
"Okay, come see me after lunch."
"Then I'll go back to eat after I pick the watermelons. We'll set off early."
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After Sanjun and his friends finished picking watermelons and returned, Liu Shuning started to prepare lunch.
This morning when she went to Harbin, she took out five pounds of pork belly and two shanks.
She plans to use the pork belly to make braised pork, which her whole family loves.
The pork bones were saved for making soup in the evening, and she still had a lot of dried vegetables left from last year.
There were still a lot of steamed buns brought over from home yesterday. At noon, she planned to fry some eggs with leeks and some green vegetables.
Not long after Liu Shuning and her friends finished their meal, Sanjun came to her with a small bow and arrow.
"Aunt San, I want to go up the mountain with you, too." Chunxiao didn't want to stay at her father's house to play, and also wanted to go up the mountain with him.
"Let's go, I'll go with you." Lu Fengnian was worried about Liu Shuning taking the two children up the mountain, so he had to go with them.
"You go too. Don't you have to go back for training this afternoon?"
Liu Shuning looked at Lu Fengnian in confusion. Didn't he just say he would be busy in the afternoon?
"Let's go tomorrow. I'm worried about you taking the two children up the mountain."
It doesn’t matter if you train one day earlier or later. It’s more important to go up the mountain and look after the two children.
"That's fine. We can just chop some dry firewood back." Liu Shuning forgot to bring some more firewood before she went back. Now that there are two more people in the family, she can't fill up the firewood shed out of thin air.
"Then I'll go to the kitchen to get the hatchet and rope."
When they passed by her own vegetable garden on the way up the mountain, Liu Shuning took Lu Fengnian to see the various vegetables she planted.
Lu Fengnian was surprised to see the vibrant vegetable garden. He didn't expect his wife to be so capable and keep the vegetable garden in good order.
After reaching the top of the mountain, they headed straight to where the three armies had dug the trap.
The place where the three armies dug the trap was on the other side of a back mountain. There were all kinds of trees here, and people in the family compound usually picked mushrooms around here.
Before reaching the trap, Sanjun discovered that the hay he used as camouflage was missing.
"Aunt, the hay I put on top of my trap is gone. Prey must have fallen in."
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