Moon stars are rare.

Lu Qingyao and Jiang Zifeng went out under the moonlight.

Before leaving, Lu Qingyao fed Jiang Miaomiao a full meal of milk.

The little baby, having eaten and drunk his fill, blew bubbles and fell asleep.

She led her son towards the back mountain, not daring to go far, afraid that if she returned late, Miaomiao would be hungry.

Both mother and son were quite skilled and moved very quickly.

In less than an hour, they passed through a dense forest and arrived at a mountain stream.

It's getting daylight.

A stream babbles through the jungle, and birds chirp merrily overhead.

Lu Qingyao only then realized that her daughter's red sparrow had followed them out the door at some point.

She also witnessed something strange last night.

A baby.

A bird.

Eyes facing each other.

The baby was chattering and shouting at the birds.

The bird chirped at her too.

That scene gave Lu Qingyao a strange feeling.

Miaomiao is talking to this bird.

The bird then chirped at her and flew away.

Lu Qingyao led her son and followed without hesitation.

The red sparrow flew for a while, then stopped on the treetop in front of them and looked back at them.

"Chirp chirp chirp..."

Seeing that they had caught up, it flew for a while longer.

Stop again, "Chirp chirp chirp..."

And so on and on.

When it reached the edge of a ditch, it stopped flying and stopped calling out.

The side of the irrigation ditch was covered with lush green plants.

Lu Qingyao stepped forward with delight, "Feng'er, hurry up and pull them out, all of these are edible."

This red sparrow is indeed somewhat intelligent...

"Mother, can we eat this grass?" Jiang Zifeng plucked a stalk and examined it carefully.

Then I saw her mother pull up handfuls of grass and put them into her basket.

The basket was almost full.

"Smell it." Lu Qingyao took a plant out of her basket and held it to his nose.

"It smells good." Jiang Feng really liked the smell; it had a very unique and refreshing fragrance.

"It smells good, that's right. This is water celery, which grows mostly in places with water. It's both a medicine and a vegetable, and it has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, and promoting lung function and removing dampness..."

“But there is another kind called hemlock, which looks very similar to water celery. It is poisonous, smells bad, has hairs on its stems, and has broad leaves…” After Lu Qingyao finished speaking, she put the water celery back into the basket. “Feng’er, don’t get them mixed up.”

"Okay, Mom." Jiang Zifeng nodded repeatedly. "Great, we have green vegetables to eat today."

A smile burst forth on the boy's chubby, fair face.

Although he loves to eat meat, without vegetables to go with it, he feels that the meat doesn't taste as good.

There was a book of herbal medicines at home, which my maternal grandfather said was given to my mother by Mr. Hu, a military doctor in his camp.

Mr. Hu also said that his mother was quite talented.

He wanted to take her as his apprentice.

But her mother had other ideas, so she had to confess that she was a woman disguised as a man who had infiltrated the army.

Mr. Hu then gave up.

So my mother didn't recognize wild vegetables, but she did recognize medicinal herbs.

Lu Qingyao couldn't help but pinch her son's chubby cheeks.

"Mom, I'm not a child anymore, can you please stop pinching my cheeks?" Jiang Zifeng pouted.

My younger brother once said that his face was already round, and if he pinched it any more, it would become flat.

It will turn your face into a round, flat one, which is very ugly....

He won't be able to find a wife in the future.

"Oh, you're angry now? Alright, alright, Mom won't pinch you anymore." Lu Qingyao laughed loudly, hands on her hips.

Her son has grown up.

"Ouch!" Jiang Zifeng had only taken two steps when he tripped and fell hard.

The fall startled all the birds in the forest, causing them to take flight.

Besides the birds.

There were even big birds.

A big bird with a very long tail, very, very long...

Her neck was still blue, which looked very nice.

A chicken-like clucking sound came from the large bird's beak, "Cluck cluck cluck..."

From the woods and bushes.

One after another, they took flight.

It seemed to have been chilled during the night, and now it flapped its wings and struggled to take flight, flying very slowly.

"It's pheasants, lots of pheasants..." Jiang Zifeng was so excited he almost jumped up, and quickly drew his bow and nocked an arrow.

"We're having meat again!"

"Wait." Lu Qingyao placed her hand on his bow, stopping him. "Feng'er, look what that is."

Several sections of twisted feather tails were visible in the grass.

It looks like there are more than just one or two.

I counted them: three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine...

There are probably more than a dozen.

The mother and son exchanged a smile, gave each other a coded message, and began to flank each other from both sides.

They crept stealthily towards the bushes.

They aimed at the pheasants' tails and picked them up, one in each hand.

After tying ropes to their feet, they were stuffed into the basket.

One by one.

Several were mentioned in succession.

One of them was motionless, and Jiang Zifeng thought it had frozen to death.

Pull it up by the tail.

The pheasant suddenly struggled and tore off its tail feathers...

They ran away...

He lunged forward, pounced on the chicken, grabbed its foot, and lifted it upside down.

He grinned at his mother, "Mom, I caught him..."

Catching a chicken with my bare hands for the first time was so much fun...

The male has a long tail, and the female has a short tail.

He put in some effort to catch the female pheasant.

Counted.

Three hens and six roosters.

It's a very auspicious number.

"Feng'er, let's go back." Lu Qingyao carried two in her hand, put the rest into her basket, and covered them with some branches and water celery.

After stacking them up, I headed back...

Actually, I could have caught a few more, but the basket was too full.

She was also worried about her two children at home.

She gets extremely anxious whenever she is away from her child for even a short while.

Jiang Miaomiao is hungry.....

Open your eyes.

All I saw was a handsome little face.

Second brother Jiang Ziyan, resting his chin on his hand, stared blankly at her.

nice!

Seeing that she was awake, the young boy looked a little nervous.

Jiang Miaomiao tilted her head, her eyes darting around. There was no one else in the room.

It looks like Mom isn't home.

She was too lazy to even hum a word.

Even if she whimpers, she won't get any milk.

"Miaomiao, be good! Brother will take you out to bask in the sun." Jiang Ziyan carried her to the cradle outside.

The cradle that my aunt brought was the one that Qiao'er and Xuan'er had used.

It's a bit old, but it's still usable.

I tied some seashells, snails, and small bells to them.

A gust of wind blew, and "clang, clang..."

It sounds very pleasant.

Jiang Miaomiao nestled in her second brother Jiang Ziyan's arms, clutching his clothes tightly.

The second brother is a bit younger and thinner.

I'm so afraid that if I'm not careful, my second brother will pick her up and drop her.

Only after she was safely placed in the cradle.

Jiang Miaomiao finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Miaomiao, your brother will read to you, you have to be good!" The second brother kissed her little face and then took out the Three Character Classic.

No, don't listen, I want milk...

Jiang Miaomiao pouted and cried.

All she wanted to do right now was nurse.

I don't want to listen to my brother chanting scriptures...

Jiang Ziyan quickly picked her up and carried her to the door.

My little sister usually wants to nurse as soon as she wakes up, so it's already a big concession that she's only crying now.

Go wait for Mom at the door.

If all else fails, I'll have to bite the bullet and go to my uncle's house to beg for goat milk.

I wandered around in circles several times.

Then they saw their mother, carrying a chicken in one hand and a bow on her shoulder, striding towards them.

The basket was full of green leaves.

The older brother jogged behind him, his mouth grinning like a flower.

Jiang Miaomiao cried very loudly; they say that only the squeaky wheel gets the grease.

She saw her mother quicken her pace and jog over.

Jiang Miaomiao stretched out her little hand to welcome it…..

Her mother actually brushed past her without hugging her.

I'm so heartbroken!

She burst into tears, her voice booming with energy.

Lu Qingyao washed her hands, went inside to change her clothes, and then hurriedly came over to hug her daughter.

Looking at the little baby whose face was flushed red and whose eyes were brimming with tears.

I'm heartbroken.

Frustrated, she saw the flocks of pheasants taking flight and realized she had become greedy.

I almost forgot the time, and my daughter got really hungry.

Jiang Miaomiao ate earnestly, sucking on her food with her eyes closed.

Suddenly, I was startled by the thumping sound coming from the basket.

The basket fell over.

Several chickens rolled out.

So many...

"Brother, let me tell you, I tripped and fell into the chicken coop, and that's how I caught these pheasants..." Jiang Zifeng proudly recounted his tripping experience.

Jiang Ziyan looked at his brother with a suspicious expression...

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