Chapter 102 Pheasant/A Little Cute
Chen Dashan is worthy of being the one who has been able to hang out with Shen Lie since they were teenagers. They have a really good understanding of each other.
Chen Lie hid the bow and arrow in the backpack, covered the part that was higher than the basket with something, asked Sang Luo for a circle of hemp rope, wrapped a handful of millet and took it with him. He put the things in the house and prepared to go out to find Chen Dashan.
Before anyone even stepped out of the yard, Chen Dashan arrived, also carrying a backpack and a shovel on his back.
As soon as the two met, Chen Lie laughed: "I was just about to go find you."
Chen Dashan also curved his eyes and said, "I guess you are going to go too. Bring back some food for your family to eat, and then go to the county to exchange some silver after you are released from prison."
Life at home was much better than before, but the world was not peaceful and we could not bear to eat meat, and we lacked money to buy food.
Shen Lie nodded: "Wait for a moment, I'll go get something."
Then he turned and went into the house.
Chen Dashan was alone in the yard, with his shovel against the wall. When he saw Sang Luo coming out of the kitchen, he took the initiative to call his sister-in-law.
He is two years older than Chen Lie, so it is right to call him that. Sang Luo responded with a smile. Chen An and Shen Ning behind her heard the noise and came out of the kitchen. When they saw Chen Dashan, they stared at him for a few seconds, then happily rushed over, calling him Brother Dashan.
Chen Dashan was obviously familiar with the brother and sister. He rubbed Shen Ning's head, and when he got to Shen An, he picked him up, weighed him, and turned him around: "Xiao An has grown taller and heavier."
Chen Dashan now agrees with what his grandmother said. Chen Lie really married a wife. It was a blessing from heaven. In this day and age, she, a young lady, did not abandon the siblings Chen An and Shen Ning, but raised them so well. Her heart, character and ability were impeccable.
Just look at the two little guys now, how can you tell that they couldn’t even have wild vegetable porridge in the autumn?
Chen Lie had prepared everything, and he came out of the house with the food on his back. He said hello to Sang Luo, and asked Chen An and Shen Ning to wait at home for him to bring back some delicious food, and then he prepared to leave with Chen Dashan.
Sang Luo saw Chen Dashan carrying a shovel and guessed that he was going to dig a trap or something. When people go hunting, they set traps. They are usually done in uninhabited places deep in the mountains to avoid accidentally hurting people. This means they will go very far away, so she stopped him and asked him to wait a moment.
He turned around and went back to the kitchen. When he came out, he was holding a bamboo tube of water in his hand. He also wrapped the half plate of pancakes that he hadn't finished in the morning in a dry lotus leaf and stuffed them all to Chen Lie: "I don't know how long you will stay in the mountains, take this with you, it can fill your stomach when you are hungry. The water is also boiled, which is better than drinking snow water directly outside."
She didn't know that Chen Lie was going into the mountains today. If she had known, she would have prepared more cakes.
Chen Lie had been to the mountains countless times, but this was the first time someone prepared food and water for him. Even when the things were stuffed into his hands, he was still a little stunned.
Sang Luo saw him like this and laughed: "Do you want me to help you put it in the backpack?"
He was too tall, so the opening of the backpack he was carrying was also high, so it was really difficult for Sang Luo to put something in it.
Shen Lie hurriedly shook his head: "No, no, I can do it myself."
He put the backpack down again and carefully put away the two things Sang Luo had given him. He felt embarrassed and happy. When he spoke to Sang Luo again, his voice was warmer: "Thank you very much. I'm leaving now. You guys go back to the house. It's cold outside after the snow melts."
Sang Luo smiled and nodded, watching the two leave, then took Shen An and Shen Ning back to the house.
It rains and snows a lot in winter, but it's not so bad at home because the places you have to walk on are paved with stone roads, so your shoes don't get wet so easily. If you go out on a snowy day like yesterday, your shoes will be soaked after a walk back. I have to make a pair of shoes for each of the people in my family to change into.
On the other side, Chen Lie and Chen Dashan left the courtyard and went down the mountain. Chen Dashan couldn't help but smile. After turning around the ridge and making sure that there was no way the courtyard could hear their voices, he nudged Chen Lie with his elbow and joked, "You are so lucky, having a wife is really different. Someone prepares food and water for you when you go out. Tsk, I'm already twenty years old, and I don't even know where my wife is."
Chen Lie glanced at him with a smile and said, "If you want to get married so badly, ask grandma and aunt to find one for you while the peace is still there."
Chen Dashan just said a few words and waved his hand: "Goodbye, it's not easy for our family to survive, let's talk about it after we get through these few years."
Chen Lie just smiled when he heard that, but he walked a little deeper. Seeing that there was no one around, he whispered to them that Zhou Cun was planning to ask them to help take the grain out and hide it together, including the promise that the Zhou family did not need to know where the grain was hidden, and would never leak a single word to anyone.
After hearing this, Chen Dashan asked Shen Lie, “What do you think?”
Chen Lie said, "I think it's okay. We have come all the way here and there are many bandits in the mountains. Uncle Zhou's family is a good character and there are many men in the family. If we want to be safe, we still need to have trustworthy people to stick together. One more person means more strength."
Chen Dashan still approved of Zhou Cunzheng: "It's fine on my end. I'll ask Uncle Shi and Uncle Lu later. I don't think they will have any objections."
Chen Lie nodded and said, "The difficulty lies in transporting the food. If we want to be safe, we have to hide as deep as possible. If it's too far, we can't bring much in one trip. When the snow melts, we have to go inside. We need to find a way out as soon as possible so that we have enough time to prepare."
Chen Dashan nodded: "This is a serious matter. I will go back today and tell Uncle Shi and Uncle Lu about it."
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Chen Lie and Chen Dashan returned at noon. They went out with empty backpacks in the morning, but came back in the afternoon with not only full backpacks, but each of them was holding a wicker basket woven from vines, inside which was a pheasant that was flapping its wings weakly and struggling occasionally.
Chen Dashan said hello to Sang Luo and the others, then went home with the spoils. Chen Lie went into the yard by himself.
Sang Luo, Shen An and Shen Ning surrounded the backpack and rattan bag he put down, looking at them in amazement.
She often went into the mountains with her two children, going a little further inland than the villagers. In fact, she had seen many pheasants and rabbits, but she could not outrun these little creatures and could only watch them.
But, it’s not that much, right?
Chen Lie knew what the three were thinking when he saw their expressions. He smiled and said, "We are going very deep. There is little food in winter, and the snow has covered up all the edibles. Wild animals can't hide their tracks either. After setting up the trap and covering the footprints on the snow, it will be easy to catch them."
It's very easy, of course, it means it's very easy now. In fact, before the advance, he and Chen Dashan worked hard all day and only caught one or two.
Sang Luo didn't know this, she just heard him say it was easy, and couldn't help but look at him, thinking, why don't I think it's easy? You are really ordinary.
Chen Lie raised his eyes and met hers. Although he didn't know what Sang Luo was thinking, he inexplicably felt that she must be saying something about him in her heart.
That expression was actually very cute. He looked at it for a while, smiled, lowered his head to remove the rattan covering the backpack, and asked Sang Luo: "Can pheasants be kept in the chicken coop?"
Sang Luo nodded while helping him remove the thin vines on the other side: "Yes."
When the chickens first came to our house, they were a little bossy, but they became well-behaved after the three geese came. The chicken coop at home is also big enough, so if there is no other option, we can keep the chickens and ducks in one shed and the pheasants in a separate shed.
Chen Lie said, "If we can lock them up, we'll eat one today, and lock up the others first and keep them. When they're cleared, we'll send them to the county and sell them."
Sang Luo raised her eyes to look at him: "Are they all alive? How many are there?"
"Alive, five of them, all caught with traps. No traps were used. The traps were brought to prevent other wild animals from getting caught. The rope is enough to trap pheasants."
That thing refers to the bow and arrow. Because there is a chicken in the basket, the bow and arrow is protected very well. Not only is it wrapped thickly, but the bow and arrow takes up half of the basket, and there is a vertical board between it and the pheasant. It should be taken out from the firewood shed at home before going out.
He was afraid that the pheasant would struggle and break his bow.
So the backpack was quite big, but there were actually only three pheasants in it. The feet of these three pheasants were tied and the tops were sealed with vines. They were huddled together, one on top of the other, and they didn't dare to flutter much because they were just torturing themselves.
When the vines were half removed, Sang Luo saw the pheasant on the top, which looked wilted. She looked at Chen Lie and asked, "Can we still keep it alive?"
Shen An and Shen Ning were also skeptical: "It doesn't look good."
Chen Lie smiled: "Let it go and see if it can fly directly."
After the rattan bars on top were removed, he pulled out two pheasants, one in each hand, and looked at Sang Luo: "Where are they locked?"
Motioned to lead the way.
Sang Luo simply picked up the rattan basket containing the two pheasants. Seeing this, Chen An stepped forward and grabbed the pheasant with its feet tied in the other basket.
Shen Ning was already running ahead, leading the way.
Several hens were roosting in the chicken coop for the winter. They were called out by Chen Ning a few times. As soon as the chicken feeder was placed, several chickens rushed out to eat. Even the geese and ducks followed suit, staggering out of the roost to grab food.
The chicken coop was suddenly empty.
Chen Lie wanted to laugh when he saw this, and praised: "A Ning is really amazing now."
Shen Ning smiled shyly: "After raising them for a long time, they will recognize me."
All the chickens, ducks and geese in the house are raised by Chen Ning. She learned this from the aunties in the village when she was young. When feeding the chickens and ducks, she calls them a few times in a specific voice. After that, whenever the chickens and ducks hear her calling, they know it is time to eat, and she always does it.
The five pheasants were untied and stuffed into the chicken coop one by one. They were indeed full of life. The door of the chicken coop was closed tightly with mulberry leaves, but one could still hear the noises of the pheasants flying, jumping, and hitting the ceiling and walls of the coop.
The four chickens that went to eat were dumbfounded.
Where is my nest?
Where is my nest?
Who was let in there?
He didn't even bother eating and rushed back, but the door had already been closed tightly by Sang Luo.
There were five pheasants flying around inside and four domestic chickens flying around outside. It was such a lively scene.
Sang Luo wanted to laugh when she saw this, but Chen Ning was doing his job conscientiously and kept trying to communicate with the four chickens he raised, saying, "You guys can live in the duck coop for a few days first. You guys can live in the duck coop for a few days first."
The chicken couldn't understand what she was saying, so the little girl knocked on the door of the duck coop to communicate with the chicken, trying to make the chicken understand what she was saying.
The three ducks were watching the fun, but then they saw their little master tapping their nest.
He also became alert and ran over.
Really, chickens are flying, ducks are jumping, and geese are watching the fun.
This time, Sang Luo laughed out loud, and then she didn't care about anything else. She just threw the empty vine bag back into Shen Lie's empty backpack and went to wash her hands.
Chen Lie was quite happy to see his sister like this. If his hands weren't too dirty, he would have wanted to rub her head. He smiled and said, "Aning, work hard."
He carried his backpack into the house to hide his bow and arrows.
Only Chen An was kind-hearted and helped his sister drive the chickens and coax the ducks outside the yard.
Fortunately, the snow outside the yard had been shoveled away, so my shoes and socks didn’t get wet and my feet didn’t get frozen.
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