"Dad, I'm going to the mountain."
"Go ahead, don't go to the mountains!"
My daughter goes to the mountains to look for treasure, and I must support her.
He is a loving father and he also cares about his daughter's safety.
"How about we go later and I'll accompany you?"
"No need. The mountain is as familiar as my home. I won't miss it even with my eyes closed."
Zhao Dashu: There is no doubt that the daughter is his biological child. She is a braggart and a bully, just like him.
"Come earlier, your mother and her friends' cooking isn't as good as yours."
Zhao Xiaoyu: ...It turns out she is just a cook, and she does it for free. Where is the promised family love?
"I won't come back at noon. I'll take two pancakes with me and go down the mountain before dark."
"Will you be gone for that long?"
"It's hard to find herbal medicines. I came here for half a day and all my time was wasted on the road."
Zhao Dashu thought about it and said, "Then you must be careful and don't go into the deep places."
"knew."
Carrying the backpack, he waved to the couple and walked out briskly.
After reaching the top of the mountain, Zhao Xiaoyu avoided the crowd and headed deeper into the cave.
Maybe I didn't go in the right direction today. I didn't see many herbs, but I did pick a lot of mushrooms. In particular, there was a small patch of morels growing under a damp and rotten leaf. Hey, I’m in for a treat today.
This thing tastes great whether it is used for stewing soup or cooking. It is also purely wild and its nutritional value is needless to say.
I'll go down the mountain and take out the chicken from Lao Zhao's house, stew it with mushrooms and chicken soup, to nourish the whole family.
Zhao Xiaoyu squatted down and picked mushrooms. She was picking them very seriously and did not notice that not far away, there was a snake spitting out its tongue and baring its teeth at her.
"call out……"
The snake's head was pierced by an arrow.
Zhao Xiaoyu was so shocked that he collapsed on the ground, patting his chest. Oh my god, I was almost bitten by a snake. Looking at its bright color, I knew it was a highly venomous snake.
She was too careless, so she went to the county town to buy snake repellent powder the next day and had to carry it with her every time she went up the mountain.
So, who saved her? Where is the hero?
Xiao Lei mentioned the snake. It was so big, it should be able to sell for some money. He looked at the girl lying on the ground in shock, "Is it okay?"
Zhao Xiaoyu was stunned. She could still daydream at this time. "No, no, thank you for saving my life." After saying that, she stood up and raised her head. This man must be at least 1.7 meters tall. Her neck was sore from looking up.
When she saw the other person's appearance clearly, her eyes widened in shock. Isn't this the neighbor at the end of the village? The son of a hunter in Old Sow Village. I heard that he lived with his grandfather. His grandfather went up the mountain to hunt and met a pack of wolves. He was bitten to death and his body was never found. In the end, his usual clothes were placed in the grave. When his mother gave birth to him, she died of dystocia.
Not long after his biological mother died, his father married a stepmother. Both his stepmother and his father disliked him because he was unlucky in marriage, so they threw him to be raised by a hunter grandfather. Later, the hunter grandfather died tragically, and his reputation for being unlucky in marriage became even more famous. It seemed that no one in the village wanted to play with him, and no one dared to talk to him.
How old is this child? He seems to be only in his teens. Tsk tsk, looking at the height that was many heads taller than her, Zhao Xiaoyu felt jealous and envious. He must eat a lot of meat, right?
As far as she could remember, when her stepfather came home, he said how old this man was according to his grandfather, and it seemed that he died when he was seven or eight years old. After his death, he inherited his grandfather's legacy and also made a living by hunting. He has been living alone all these years. His cruel father never cares about him. He has two sons and a daughter with the second child, so how could he remember the first child? What's more, he is a child destined to be alone and widowed.
The idea of having a hard life and being unlucky with relatives is just an excuse for not wanting to raise a child. Alas, children who are not loved are quite pitiful.
Looking at his thin body and tattered clothes, you can tell that this child has a hard life.
"Xiao Lei?"
Xiao Lei raised an eyebrow. She actually knew his name.
"Well, there are a lot of snakes on the mountain at this time. You'd better take a stick and hit them more. Some of them are poisonous. If you are bitten, you will die."
"Thank you very much."
He pulled out the arrow and threw the dead snake into the backpack, "I shot it."
Zhao Xiaoyu nodded. He was the one who hit her. She didn’t ask for it.
Zhao Xiaoyu nodded. He was the one who hit her, so she definitely wouldn't snatch it from him.
Seeing that he had no intention of killing the poisonous snake, Xiao Lei did not stop and went deeper into the mountains.
This time, Zhao Xiaoyu didn't dare to pick mushrooms so attentively. She picked around with a stick again and again, and only dared to start after making sure it was safe.
Emma.
She almost lost her life again, fortunately Xiao Lei saved her.
After picking a small patch of morels, she immediately left the field, which was cold and damp, and was the favorite place for slippery animals.
At noon, she saw a small mountain spring. She took out the Zhao family's chickens, boiled water to pluck the chickens, roasted one and ate it, then plucked the chickens of another one. In the evening, she stewed mushrooms at Zhao's house. He also cut up a pig by the mountain spring, and when he went to the town the next day, he took out the pieces and said that he had bought the meat.
In the afternoon, she traveled through the mountains and forests. Apart from some worthless herbs, she didn't find any big stuff, and even these, the quantity was not large.
"mother!"
"Are you here?"
As soon as she reached the foot of the mountain, she saw Song wandering there.
"What are you standing here for?"
"Waiting for you. The sun is about to set. I'm worried. Don't go up the mountain alone in the future. It's too dangerous."
Thinking of the poisonous snake he encountered on the mountain today, Zhao Xiaoyu felt a little scared. She didn't tell Song. If she had told her, she would never be able to go up the mountain alone again.
"Mom, I didn't find many herbs today."
"If you don't find it, then you don't find it. How can you make money just by going up the mountain every day? What's the point?"
"I picked some mushrooms, very rare mushrooms, and shot a pheasant. We had pheasant stewed with mushrooms in the evening."
Song took the basket off her back and carried it herself. "Oh, our Xiaoyu can also hunt pheasants? How did you do it?"
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