Chapter 697: Taking Bird Eggs
Goudan was cutting grass for pigs in the yard.
Dad doesn't chain him anymore these days.
Because he works hard and is obedient.
However, his mother and sister still kept a close eye on him, as if they were afraid that something might happen to him if he were alone.
Goudan has now gotten used to this life. Every day, after waking up before dawn, he has breakfast and goes up the mountain with his sister to collect grass for pigs.
Although he has short calves and can't do much, he still works hard.
He wanted to make his dad happy.
If Dad was unhappy, he would beat them with a belt and a bamboo whip.
Although he was beaten the least, he knew that being hit by a belt was very uncomfortable.
One time, he wanted to go outside to see the pheasants and ducks by the river, but his father bumped into him, dragged him back, and beat him severely with a belt. That night, he couldn't sleep because of the pain.
It took several days for the injuries on my body to heal.
A leather belt hurts more than a bamboo whip.
From then on, he knew that his father didn't want him to go out.
Even when he goes out, his mother and sister must follow him.
He knew that he was the apple of the family's eye. He was the only son of his father and if anything happened to him.
Neither my mother nor my sister survived.
Goudan tried hard to become a man.
There was a boy at the door.
"Hey, what's your name?"
Goudan looked at the boy. The boy looked familiar, but he couldn't remember who he was.
"My name is Goudaner, who are you?"
"I am the pillar!"
Baozi looked at Tangyuan who was working with heartache.
It took him more than a month to finally dispel his adoptive father's wariness.
Now he can go out and play like all the other children in the village.
It’s because his adoptive father saw that he was determined to stay here.
Since the first time he went out, his adoptive father sent people to follow him secretly. Now, even if he goes up the mountain or down the field and plays around for a long time and comes back, his adoptive father has become accustomed to it.
Because I know he can't get out either.
This mountain is connected to another mountain.
If you want to get out on foot, you will have to walk for at least ten days and ten nights.
There are also many wild animals and poisonous snakes in the jungle.
If there were no villagers to lead the way, a child would die in the forest even if he tried to walk out alone.
There are children in the village who want to escape, but when they are found, they are either dying of hunger or have no trace left.
"Zhu Zi, don't come to my house. My father told you not to play with my brother."
Ladi suddenly appeared and drove Zhuzi away angrily.
Zhuzi said embarrassedly, "Ladi, why are you so fierce? I only talked to your brother because I saw he was bored. There is no other child in the village like your brother, who is like a little girl, staying at home all day.
You see, my father released me a long time ago, and I ran around in the mountains and fields, doing all kinds of work."
Zhuzi pointed to the sickle in his hand, and he was also preparing to go up the mountain to cut grass for the pigs.
Ladi glanced at the pillar and said, "You are different from my brother."
"Hurry up and leave. If you don't leave, I'll go call my dad and see if he'll beat you up."
Ladi said threateningly.
Everyone in the village knows that Goudan's father is a bully in the village. Who can beat his father?
Even three or five grown men can’t beat his father.
Zhuzi said angrily, "Good intentions are not rewarded. I originally wanted to ask you two to go up the mountain to pick pig grass together. I found two nests of bird eggs in the tree bird nest on the mountain that day. I originally wanted to take you to pick pig grass together, pick the bird eggs, and then we can roast them together.
If you don't want to go, forget it. I want to take you with me. I'm going to go find Gousheng'er and the others. They love to eat roasted bird eggs."
He swallowed his saliva deliberately as he spoke.
Sure enough, when Ladi heard this, he couldn't help but swallow his saliva.
Seeing Zhuzi preparing to leave, he hurriedly stopped him.
"Zhuzi, don't go. Goudan and I will go up the mountain with you to cut grass for the pigs with sickles. I was just trying to scare you, why did you take it seriously? By the way, you are such a small kid, but you can climb trees and even take out bird eggs."
Ladi's family was poor and they often didn't have enough to eat, so they always went up the mountain to find some wild fruits to eat.
But it is already late autumn and the wild fruits on the mountains are long gone.
Besides, before she could pick them, other children in the village had already picked them, and now even wild vegetables are hard to find.
The food at home is getting worse day by day.
I had half a bowl of wild vegetable porridge in the morning. It was called wild vegetable porridge, but it was actually watery. I am already hungry now.
Otherwise she would feel so hungry when she heard about bird eggs.
Zhuzi laughed and said, "Don't underestimate me. I'm very good at climbing trees. If you don't believe me, ask Gousheng and the others. I have robbed bird nests several times recently. The roasted bird eggs are delicious. One time, there were 12 bird eggs in the nest. Gousheng and his friends ate three each."
These words made Ladi even hungrier.
Hurriedly urged Goudan.
"Goudan, stop talking nonsense here. Hurry up and get the sickle and the backpack. Let's go quickly. Who knows, we might be able to eat bird eggs today."
Goudan also swallowed his saliva with his eyes wide open, his stomach also growling with hunger.
Suddenly his eyes lit up because he saw a small pocket hidden inside Zhuzi's clothes. That small pocket looked very familiar to him, as if he also had a pocket like this.
But where does this pocket go?
Zhuzi said, "Don't worry. Look at your and your brother's feet. Can you go out like this?"
Goudan had no shoes on his feet. He was basically barefoot at home. His family was poor, and even if he had a pair of shoes, he would only wear them when he went out.
Of course, when going up the mountain to cut grass for pigs or chop firewood, people would wear straw sandals.
Ladi slapped his forehead and realized that he had been so busy thinking about the bird eggs that he had forgotten about this matter.
I hurried to the backyard, where the straw sandals and other things had already been washed and hung on the windowsill.
Zhuzi saw Ladi walking away, so he took out a pink thing and stuffed it into Tangyuan's mouth.
Tangyuan looked at the pillar in confusion.
"What's this?"
"Stop talking. Hurry up and swallow it. After swallowing it, look around the house for the bag hanging around your neck. Once you find it, secretly bring it out. Let's hurry up the mountain."
Zhuzi didn't know what was wrong with Tangyuan, but he knew that something must have happened to Tangyuan, because Tangyuan didn't recognize him and had forgotten a lot of things. Tangyuan was very obedient, just like all the children in the village.
And treat this place as your own home.
I can't let my brother become like this, nor can I let Tangyuan become this bastard for the rest of his life.
He always remembered what his mother told him: if they found themselves acting strangely or feeling particularly uncomfortable, they should take the pill in their pocket, which would help them.
(End of this chapter)
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