Not far north of the cabin is a gentle slope. The area is not very large and there are no tall trees. Most of the grass is shrubs and weeds. It is simply a natural firewood yard for the master and apprentice. The weeds here will dry out after being cut and dried in the sun for a day, and can be used to start a fire, which is very convenient.
Go straight across the firewood yard. The ground in the mountains is not so flat. There are a lot of gravel hidden under the weeds. If you are not careful, you will trip.
The higher you go, the steeper the slope becomes, and the more overgrown the weeds are. There is also a large bamboo forest here, with bamboos crowded together in clumps. In some places, it is so dense that it is impossible to walk. Tian Cai walked through this wild bamboo forest in twists and turns.
Although this wild bamboo forest is difficult to walk through, it is the favorite place for pheasants. The master and disciple often pick up pheasant eggs here, but her target today is not them.
Tian Cai set traps with thin vines in several places according to the chicken claw prints on the ground, but it was not certain whether he could catch the chicken.
It is now the end of summer and the beginning of autumn. There is plenty of food in the mountains, unlike in winter, so it is not so easy to catch pheasants now. She is just trying her luck.
If we can catch one or two, we can send them to the captain's home and say that they are for Zhang Baocai to replenish his body. The couple will definitely feel embarrassed to refuse and will also pay attention to her matter.
Tian Cai felt that it would definitely not be a problem for her to settle down in Kaoshan Village. She gave the gifts simply to ask the team leader to give her some work points in consideration of these things and choose a slightly better house for her.
A good house does not necessarily mean that the house is well built, but rather the neighbors around it. At this time, people do not live their own lives behind closed doors. If she has bad neighbors, she might as well live in the mountains.
Slowly the sun rose above her head. She looked up, estimated the time and felt that she was not hungry yet, so she continued walking towards the other side of the mountain.
There is a patch of vines growing over there. I don’t know what they are called, but they are slender and very tough. There are several baskets in the cabin that Cai Ping made with this kind of vines. If she wants to move to the village, she will definitely have to take some of the things in the cabin over. This kind of vine basket with straps can be used as a natural suitcase.
Tian Cai was walking back dragging a large bundle of vines. As soon as he turned back to the bamboo forest, he heard some fluttering sounds. It must be that the trap he had set had caught something.
She happily dropped the vine and ran over there. After turning two corners, she found the first pheasant with a noose around its neck in the grass, still flapping its wings desperately.
Tian Cai stepped forward and held the pheasant down. He took off the thin vine from its neck and tied it around its feet. After thinking for a while, he tied its wings as well.
When the pheasant became quiet, the flapping sound still did not stop. She grinned with joy. It seemed that there were a lot of pheasants in this area. She was in for a treat today.
He tied up the other pheasant and stuffed it into the backpack. These were all his trophies. He also picked some fresh mushrooms and a few large bamboo leaves. Tian Cai walked back with the backpack on his back and a large bundle of vines in his hand, looking very proud and confident.
After returning to the cabin, I first put a pot on the stove to boil water, and while the water was boiling, I killed one of the smaller chickens.
She dug a hole and buried the pheasant's blood. Actually, this thing can be eaten, but Tian Cai herself doesn't like it.
After plucking the chicken feathers, she took out all the pheasant's internal organs, leaving the liver, gizzards and heart. She went over several ways to eat chicken in her mind and finally decided to make beggar's chicken.
Tian Cai took a rattan basket with a fine mesh and filled it with some yellow mud from the stream. He stuffed the seasonings and mushrooms into the chicken's stomach, wrapped it with lotus leaves, smeared it with yellow mud, and finally smeared it into a yellow mud egg and buried it in the fire.
She had seen this way of eating it online before, and she didn't know how long it would take to cook. Anyway, longer was better than undercooked. At worst, she could just eat it in the evening.
After burying the chicken, Tian Cai went to deal with the chicken feathers and discarded internal organs, which she buried far away.
When she came back, she simply ate a flatbread and cucumber. She had thought that the sweet potato noodles must be delicious, but in fact, they tasted about the same as sorghum noodles.
The sweet potato was not the sweet and sticky variety she had imagined, but rather ordinary white-fleshed sweet potato flour ground from dried potatoes.
If she hadn't had much food left, she would have really thrown it all away.
After dinner, she began to pack up the rattan she brought back and removed all the leaves that were already few in number. She quickly wove a crooked rattan basket according to the way Cai Ping weaved in her memory.
I feel very pleased when I look at my first handicraft. Although some of the grids of the wicker basket are bigger than a fist, it is big enough to hold some things.
Somehow, she thought of her parents who always boasted about their dexterity. The couple were very busy. When Tian Cai was a child, she spent most of her time in her grandfather's clinic. When she grew up, she went to various interest classes by herself, and later she liked to be alone.
Occasionally, when the three of them stayed at home, they would listen to the couple arguing with each other. Neither of them would admit defeat. They always felt that some of Tian Cai's strengths were inherited from them, and they would belittle the other at the same time.
Tian Cai couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth when he thought of them. Now that he was here, he could go back to his hometown after the movement was over. Maybe he could even see his parents when they were young.
Thinking of this, Tian Cai felt that he still had to solve the household registration problem, otherwise it would be a pipe dream to go anywhere without a letter of introduction.
She put away the vine and continued reading. She didn't read very fast. She had already memorized the book. What she had to do now was to take out the original owner's memory and integrate it with the content of the book. She also had to understand the acupuncture point map of the human body.
Kaoshan Village.
After dinner, the production team members estimated the time and left their homes, heading to the team headquarters in groups of three or four.
The commune required the production teams to hold meetings every night to read newspapers, study, and record work points, but Zhang Defa felt that was too troublesome. Moreover, a bunch of people gathered together to chat and gossip, and they often got red in the face and argued over a few work points. Each team had their own reasons and the arguments continued endlessly.
So he divided the team members into five groups, each with an team leader, who recorded the production team members' work points for the day and reported them in the evening, and then held a meeting every three days.
The meeting is tonight. After each group leader has counted the number of people in his group, Zhang Defa said a few words and then asked the newspaper reader Zhang Wei Zhong to go up and read "Rural Masses" to everyone so that they can learn the scientific knowledge and practical techniques in it. If anyone doesn't understand something, they can ask Zhang Wei Zhong to explain it.
Zhang Wei Zhong is the only junior high school student in the village, so this most educated job was given to him.
After the newspaper reading and study, Zhang Defa announced the work points for the three days, and everyone could check it with the work points manual in their hands.
After criticizing those who were lazy and cunning, we praised the good ones. After everyone had finished discussing the work points, we arranged the work for the next few days. It was almost August, and a lot of grain would be harvested.
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