The Sweet Little Fulang

Compared with the black-hoofed sheep with long horns, the doe in the backyard was obviously less aggressive, and being tied up, it could only watch Lu Gu vigilantly, and could do nothing else.

In autumn, many trees and grass fruits in the forest are ripe. Lu Gu sometimes goes out to dig wild vegetables or cut medlars, and when he encounters them, he will pick some and bring them back to eat.

I heard from Shen Xuanqing that deer also eat fruit, and sometimes he will pluck some for the doe when he cuts grass. Fruits can be picked everywhere in the mountains, and the doe can be fattened up to sell for money.

Most of the wild animals are wary of their relatives, and Lu Gu is not an annoying character. Every time he feeds the doe, he pours fruits and grass branches in front of it and leaves, not staying any longer.

Today, taking advantage of the good weather and the bright sun, he took a basket and went to the woods not far away to pick up fungi.

In the surrounding forest, he and Shen Xuanqing often dig wild vegetables to pick mushrooms, so there are not many. He wandered around for a while before picking up six edible ones, but this was enough. There are quite a few, and a big bowl of autumn vegetables can be fried by digging a tree in the yard.

This is the case with relying on mountains and eating mountains. There are few people and many things in the deep mountains. As long as you go out to look for them, you will never starve to death in this lush mountain.

The mountain persimmon trees are very dense, and the ripe little persimmons hang on the branches in red, and the unripe yellow persimmons are also beautiful to look at.

The birds landed on the branches and pecked at the soft persimmons, and when Lu Gu approached, they alarmed them, and they all flew away.

Lu Gu stood on tiptoe and grabbed a branch and pulled it down. He looked at it carefully, picked up seven or eight good persimmons that had not been pecked open, and put them into the basket. It wasn't enough to eat, and he wanted to pick some more. Shen Xuanqing had been away for two days, and she might come back today.

Their family also has a persimmon tree. My mother must have dried persimmons and dried persimmons at home, and there are some to eat in winter.

It's a pity that the deep mountains are too far away from home, and it's too tiring to carry heavy things, and most of them must be carried by Shen Xuanqing. Hunting is tiring enough, so he doesn't want to buy too many mountain goods, and the ones at home are enough for them to survive the winter.

Before entering the courtyard, Lu Gu subconsciously glanced at the forest to the east, but he didn't hear a dog barking, and there was no one. He thought he might not come back until evening.

He didn't wash the fungus immediately. If Shen Xuanqing didn't come back tonight, the fungus could be left in the soil tomorrow, and then fried with autumn vegetables when Shen Xuanqing came back.

He put the persimmons in the bamboo basket in a row on the window sill of the kitchen, picked two very red and soft ones and peeled them off. The flesh of the persimmons was very soft and sweet, and everyone who ate them felt happy.

He didn't rest after tasting the sweet persimmons, it was still early, before it was time to make dinner, he took a long ax and was chopping firewood in the yard, he was so busy that he couldn't rest.

While he was busy, he suddenly heard "Brother Guzi" from a distance, which made him freeze in place, thinking that he had been alone for a long time and he heard it wrong, just like in a dream, Shen Yan was at home.

However, he heard a second sound, and even heard Brother Da Qing calling for millet, so he threw down the long ax and hurried out to have a look.

Two figures came up from the short slope not far away, which surprised and delighted him, and he hurriedly walked over with a promise.

"Brother Guzi, I'm exhausted from this journey." Shen Yan's cheeks flushed and sweat broke out from his forehead.

"It's almost there, you can rest when you enter the door." Lu Gu's eyes rolled.

Shen Yaoqing didn't hear the dog barking, and didn't see Shen Xuanqing, so he asked, "Is the second brother here?"

"He went out to hunt foxes the day before yesterday, and he hasn't come back yet." Lu Gu replied.

Shen Yaoqing was pulling an empty scooter with two bamboo baskets on it, and a few sacks were stuffed in the bamboo baskets, so it didn't sink all the way.

When Lu Gu saw the cart, he knew that the two of them had come up the mountain to pick up goods, so he asked, "Mother and sister-in-law are at home?"

Last year, their family of six beat chestnuts and hazelnuts together on the mountain. Thinking about it, a year has passed.

"No, sister-in-law can't take care of her alone, mother has to accompany her." Shen Yan bent down while walking, picked a wild flower from the ground and twirled it in his hand.

Shen Yaoqing also said: "What is the purpose of the grass that the livestock eat? There is no need for mother to cut it. I asked my third uncle to rest at the new house at night to help look after it. I just understand that it will definitely not work there."

The three of them quickly entered the courtyard, the cart was parked in the front yard, and Lu Guchai stopped chopping. When asked, the two of them only ate dry food on the road, and hurriedly rolled up their sleeves and went into the kitchen to cook.

The fungus was ready-made, and when he tore the fungus to clean, he asked Shen Yan to pull an autumn vegetable in the yard.

"Er Qing caught a female sika deer two days ago, and it's tethered in the backyard." He said to the two sitting and resting in the yard with a happy face.

Shen Yan sat on the stool and threw away the outermost leaves of the autumn vegetables. These two leaves were too old. Her eyes lit up when she heard this. She put down the vegetables in her hand and went to the backyard with Shen Yaoqing to see the doe.

Unlike mutton, venison is very valuable, not to mention Shen Xuanqing, even other hunters are reluctant to eat sika after they catch it. They usually sell the whole animal to a restaurant or a wealthy family, or kill it by themselves to sell the meat. The common people couldn't afford it at all, and would only spoil fresh venison.

When the two of them came out, a smile appeared on Shen Yaoqing's face.

With two more people, there were more laughter and conversations, and the yard was much more lively than when he was alone, Lu Gu was very happy, and even ate half an extra steamed bun when eating.

Shen Yan and Shen Yaoqing were tired and hungry after walking all this way. They had eaten up a bowl of stir-fried autumn vegetables with mushrooms and a bowl of fried wild sunflowers, and even drank wild vegetable soup.

When washing the dishes, Lu Gu didn't let Shen Yan do it. She was so full that she still rested.For him, the arrival of Shen Yan and Shen Yaoqing was undoubtedly a joy, and that joy never faded away.

When night fell in the evening, Shen Xuanqing hadn't returned yet, so Shen Yaoqing had to close the courtyard door first.Lu Gu made a bed for him in another room, and the three washed up casually before going back to their rooms to sleep. Naturally, Shen Yan slept with Lu Gu.

Hearing Lu Gu ask about Zhao'er, Shen Yan turned over to face him, the room was dark after the doors and windows were closed, but she still smiled and said: "Zhao'er has gained weight, her hands are fleshy, but her bones are still too soft , I don't dare to hug."

"I saw when my mother and sister-in-law were changing his clothes. His arms were also fleshy, but they were soft, especially the flesh on his little butt."

After having Zhao'er, Shen Yan often regarded herself as an aunt, and she loved Zhao'er in words.

Lu Gu was equally happy when he heard it, but suddenly, Shen Yan turned the words to him.

"Brother Guzi, when will you and your second brother have a baby? By then, I will be the aunt of the two nephews." Shen Yan's tone was innocent, and he even said, "Zhao'er is a little man, why don't you and your second brother have a baby?" When I give birth to a little twin or a little girl, I can dress her up, comb her hair and pick flowers to wear."

She didn't know about Lu Gu seeing a doctor before.

"I, I..." Lu Gu faltered and didn't know how to answer, so he found an excuse in desperation, and said, "Your second brother and I are not in a hurry, we have Zhao'er at home."

"That's right, one doll is enough to be busy, if there are two, the family will be in chaos." Shen Yan was naive and didn't think much about it.

Speaking of dressing up with flowers, she thought of the handkerchief she embroidered at home, pulled Lu Gu's sleeve in the dark, and said cheerfully: "Brother Guzi, I embroidered a hibiscus flower handkerchief a few days ago, it looks so good , even my mother said that the embroidery is good, but I forgot to bring it up this time, so I will show you when I go back."

Lu Gu breathed a sigh of relief when the matter of giving birth was revealed, and promised, "Okay, I'll definitely watch it when I get back."

Tired from traveling during the day, after talking for a while, he heard Shen Yan yawning, so he whispered that it was time to sleep.

All three of them had a good night's dream.

In the early morning of the next day, Shen Xuanqing still didn't come back, Lu Gu was cooking breakfast in the kitchen, Shen Yaoqing had nothing else to do after getting up, he chopped some firewood that he didn't finish chopping yesterday, and Shen Yan took the firewood he chopped into the kitchen after washing. In the firewood room, put it outside in case it rains and get wet.

Tired from the journey, even Shen Xuanqing would take a rest for a day and a half when he came up the mountain, so did Shen Yaoqing and Shen Yan.

But after lunch, because the chestnut forest is not far away, Shen Yaoqing can't stay idle. He is a big man, and it's fine to stay with Shen Yan. After all, he should avoid suspicion with Lu Gu. After the water tank is full I didn't know what to do, Lu Gu and Shen Yan both did embroidery work and shoe soles, he couldn't just stand by and watch all the time, so he carried the bamboo basket on his back and said that he would go to the chestnut forest to pick up some. .

When he said this, Lu Gu and Shen Yan put down their work and followed them. It was very convenient to pick up chestnuts and hazelnuts, they would naturally fall when they were ripe, and they just bent down in the woods to pick them up.

The reason why I didn't go in the morning was because I didn't bring the dog with me and there were only the three of them. The mountains and forests in the morning might be dangerous, and the other was because I wanted to wait for Shen Xuanqing to come back. He had been out for several days.

Before leaving, Lu Gu didn't lock the door, but just hung the bolt. He was afraid that Shen Xuanqing would be anxious if he didn't see him when he came back, so he took a branch and left a message on the ground, saying that he, his elder brother and Yanyan went to pick up chestnuts Yes, after finishing writing, the three of them went to the chestnut forest.

Shen Xuanqing rarely talked about the dangers on the mountain with his family in the past few years of hunting, but after Lu Gu was attacked by a wild boar last time, even Shen Yaoqing was more careful this time, and did not go too far. After two baskets of chestnuts, seeing the sun gradually going west, although he came out with a sickle on his back, he still walked back with Shen Yan and Lu Gu, very cautious.

Before he had gone far, Lu Gu heard the barking of a dog, subconsciously looked over, and soon saw the good boy galloping towards him, followed closely by Dahui and Dahei.

It's been a long time since I saw Shen Yan and Shen Yaoqing. The boy wagged his tail vigorously, turned around, and kept rubbing against the legs of several people, obviously very happy.

"Brother." Shen Xuanqing shouted from a distance.

"Second brother." Shen Yan also called out, her almond eyes were curved, she usually hated the two brothers who were pulling her braids, but she hadn't seen her for more than a month, she would miss them after all.

After walking over, Shen Xuanqing took the bamboo basket on Lu Gu's back, smiled and said to the three of them: "I saw the writing on the ground as soon as I went back, so I brought the dog to look for you."

In fact, I didn’t see Lu Gu coming out to meet him and the dog just now, the three dogs were all barking, he also changed his face, and ran back quickly, and put his hanging heart back after seeing the handwriting left on the ground, it turned out that Big brother and Shen Yan came.

Mountain goods are also used as rations for the winter, but picking up mountain goods to prepare rations is something every household in the country does. Even if there is enough rice and noodles this year, their family is no exception.

Shen Xuanqing and Shen Yaoqing walked behind with bamboo baskets on their backs, talking about harvesting autumn rice last month.

Lu Gu had already heard Shen Yan talk about this last night, but it didn't prevent him from feeling spontaneously happy when Shen Yaoqing said that the remaining eight big urns in the house were all full of new rice.