Chapter 183 Braised Pheasant

Seeing the bicycle pushed by his daughter, Liu Laifu asked again: "Did you buy a new bicycle?"

This bicycle is of the same brand as Gu Cheng's.

Gu Cheng has not ridden the car for long and it is quite new. You can’t really tell if you don’t look carefully.

I didn't expect the old man to have such sharp eyes.

Liu Yinyin smiled and told him, "I just bought it yesterday."

"......spending money again." In Liu Lai Fu's opinion, the idea of ​​buying a new bicycle must have been the daughter's idea.

I guess it was to make it easier to return to Liujia Village.

It's only because the son-in-law has a good temper. If it were someone else, he would definitely scold her for squandering the family fortune.

Liu Yinyin did not explain and changed the subject: "Dad, how are you?"

"I'm ready." After feeding the chickens and rabbits, Liu Lai Fu packed up and prepared to go back. Before leaving, he left a message for Liu Yinyin to come to Liu's house for lunch at noon.

Since she didn't live in the village, there was no need to cook. She could just go to Liu's house for a meal at noon.

It was such a hot day that Liu Yinyin really didn’t want to cook.

But...she is going to go to the mountains today.

I'm going to take care of the sweet potato field. I definitely won't be back for lunch.

I'll send Gu Yanyan to Liu's house later and I have to tell Jiang Cuihua about it.

I was only away for a few days and nothing changed at home.

Liu Lai-fu has already raised rabbits and chickens.

There are twenty rabbits and six chickens at home. The weather is too hot, and the chickens are not laying eggs as diligently as they were in the previous few months.

Liu Yinyin looked at the egg pot. There was only half of the pot full of eggs, about fifty in total.

The vegetable garden in the yard is also well maintained.

When she first started planting vegetables, Liu Yinyin set aside one-third of the land to plant sweet potatoes.

Because the land is small and easy to manage, watering is done frequently.

At this moment, the sweet potatoes are growing well.

If nothing unexpected happens, the harvest won't be too bad.

In addition to sweet potatoes, there is a field of cowpeas, a field of leeks, as well as Chinese cabbage, water spinach, eggplant, cucumber, celery and okra.

There is also a pot of green onions, ginger, garlic and chili peppers.

Not much of each vegetable is planted, just a small plot of land.

Thinking about going to the mountains, Liu Yinyin did not stay long. She picked a few cucumbers, a handful of celery, and packed twelve eggs in the yard.

I took Gu Yanyan to Liu's house with a basket. The dishes were for the Liu family, thinking that Gu Yanyan would have lunch at Liu's house at noon.

Liu Yinyin packed twelve more eggs as food expenses for Gu Yanyan.

Leave Gu Yanyan in the Liu family.

Liu Yinyin went home to get a backpack and went up the mountain.

Recently, many people have gone up the mountain to look for wild vegetables, and you can no longer see anyone digging wild vegetables on the nearby hills.

If the villagers want to dig wild vegetables, they have to go further away.

Liu Yinyin went to the pine forest, where few people come.

Along the way, Liu Yinyin didn't see a single person.

The sweet potatoes on the mountain have been planted for more than two months, but...

It is impossible for Liu Yinyin to come to the mountain every day to take care of the sweet potatoes, so the sweet potatoes on the mountain don’t grow very well.

Fortunately, this land is next to the river and the soil is moist.

It was not affected too much by the drought.

However, the water level in the river has dropped significantly compared to before.

Liu Yinyin roughly weeded and watered the sweet potato field.

Afterwards, I found a place and dug up a basket of wild vegetables.

Liu Yinyin looked up at the sky. It was almost three o'clock.

Pack up and prepare to go down the mountain.

On the way back, Liu Yinyin turned in the direction where she had found the wild boar before.

She wanted to go to the place where Gu Cheng dug the trap.

Every time Liu Yinyin went up the mountain, she would go there to see if any prey had fallen in.

Gu Cheng is the same, he comes to the mountain every few days.

It's not like the couple got nothing, but there were no large prey here.

But there are still a lot of pheasants and rabbits.

The two found several pheasants and rabbits in the traps.

Gu Cheng dug the trap very deep, and once the pheasants and rabbits fell into it, they could not climb out.

This time, Liu Yinyin was lucky enough to see a pheasant flapping its wings in the trap, struggling to fly out.

However, the pheasant looked exhausted, so it must not have just fallen into the trap.

Liu Yinyin quickly caught the pheasant, tied its feet and wings with a straw rope, and stuffed it under the backpack.

Wild vegetables are spread on top and covered tightly.

After going down the mountain, Liu Yinyin went directly to Liu's house carrying the backpack.

Jiang Cuihua was washing her grandson's diapers in the yard when she saw her daughter coming back with a backpack, sweating profusely.

I couldn't help but mutter, "I don't know why you love running up the mountain so much."

In her opinion, her daughter just likes to make trouble. Otherwise, with her son-in-law's ability, supporting a family of three would be no pressure at all.

If it were any other woman, she would have stayed in the county to enjoy her life.

Who would like to live in the countryside?

Liu Yinyin was in a very good mood at the moment, and smiled at Jiang Cuihua, "How can we get meat if we don't run to the mountains?"

"What!" Jiang Cuihua was shocked when she heard this. She lowered her voice and asked, "What did you catch again?"

I don’t know how the young lady and her husband are so capable. Every time they go back to the mountain, they can find good things.

Liu Yinyin handed her the backpack and said, "Take a look for yourself."

Jiang Cuihua rummaged around in the basket a few times and saw the pheasant underneath. She immediately laughed, "Wow, such a big pheasant, it must be about three or four pounds. How did you catch it?"

The pheasants in the mountains run very fast and are hard to catch.

Liu Yinyin smiled and said, "Gu Cheng had dug a trap on the mountain before, and the pheasant fell into the trap."

"No wonder..." Jiang Cuihua suddenly realized, "I was wondering why you guys could catch good things in the mountains from time to time. It turns out you set traps in the mountains."

Liu Yinyin said, "That was the trap that Gu Cheng set to catch the wild boar. Big brother and the others know where it is. When you have time in the future, you can ask them to go up the mountain often to see if any pheasants or rabbits have fallen into it. There are still many pheasants and rabbits on the mountain."

Gu Cheng doesn't live in the village now, and Liu Yinyin doesn't go up the mountain often.

It is most appropriate to let the Liu brothers check the traps.

Jiang Cuihua said hurriedly: "Okay, I'll tell them about this later."

Liu Yinyin nodded and said, "Mom, you should braise this pheasant later. It won't stay here in the hot weather."

It's just a pheasant, there's no need to salt it.

Jiang Cuihua hesitated and said, "Why don't you take it to the county town to eat?"

After all, the pheasant was caught by the young lady. How much meat must have been eaten by the entire Liu family?

Liu Yinyin was tired after a day of work and didn’t want to clean the pheasants anymore. She just wanted to eat something ready-made.

"Mom, you should do it. I'm too lazy to clean up."

Jiang Cuihua clicked her tongue twice: "Okay, I'll chop some more meat and make chicken porridge for Yanyan."

Considering that the girl has to rush back to the county town at night.

Jiang Cuihua prepared dinner very early and served it before six o'clock.