Celestial grabs dog food

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The trees on the hillside near the village were all cut down. Li was discussing with the only three elderly people in the village after a particularly severe winter.

What Liu Datie wanted to say asked Li Dahua to pull it hard, followed by everyone's vague agreement.

Seeing this, He Li, who had just taken office, asked everyone to disperse.

Under the hillside, there are countless tree roots left, rocks and dense weeds, and it is far away from the village. There is still land near the village that has not yet been cultivated. Who would want to go to the hillside to make great efforts to cultivate fields!

"...I want you to be busy, just work, take advantage of this time to manage a few more acres of land, and in the future a few boys can also..." Li Dahua bit Liu Datie's ear all the way back.

When Liu Datie thought of his four boys and two daughters, all the words that were tumbling in his heart came back to his stomach...

Gou Sheng looked thoughtful, but couldn't make up his mind.

After half a year's delay, Gou Sheng and Shan Guan also saved a few coins.

The two raise rabbits at one place, and sell money at the other, and every money they earn is divided equally. Shanguan originally thought that the marriage of his younger brother and sister would not make the dog suffer, so he had no objection to this matter. .

"Did you sleep?"

Gou Sheng bumped the mountain official with his elbow.

"Huh?" The mountain official responded.

Since Gousheng moved here, Li Dahua and Liu Datie didn't mention it, so they didn't have the idea of ​​going back to squeeze, and it was convenient to talk to the mountain official.

"Last time, a hotel manager thought our rabbits were too fat and the meat wasn't lean enough!"

After there are too many rabbits, we can only make the railings smaller. If we can only eat but not move, we will naturally gain weight. In any case, we can’t compare with wild rabbits, so the price of Gousheng has been lowered from the beginning - with fur A big rabbit only costs thirteen cents, and the fur is collected by someone. Firstly, the dog leftovers can't be tanned, and secondly, they don't want to kill so many lives every day!

This is a fact, and Shanguan didn't know what to do for a while.

"It would be great if it could be freed, I'm afraid of my parents..." Gousheng muttered.

"Ok!"

Li Zheng just talked about the barren mountain this morning, and it was easy to guess what Gou Sheng was thinking.

The mountain official thought to himself, over the past half a year, he has saved a small ten taels of silver in his hands, and the hillside is at best an inferior wasteland, which is more than 100 mu, and the tax money for a year is only three or five taels...

The next day, Shan Guan went to the town to deliver the rabbit, and Liu Datie came to help early.

Gousheng originally said that he wanted to buy an animal to pull the cart, but that thing was too expensive. Buying a donkey would cost him a few coins. After what happened the previous year, Gousheng no longer dared to spend all his money easily. Yes, there is also the habit of hoarding food.

Li Dahua hunched over slightly, poked around in the cage installed on the car, and picked out a rabbit with uneven fur, "Let's save this one for dinner at night!"

"Damn, didn't you just eat meat two days ago!" Liu Datie said in a low voice.

"Is it okay for me to eat a little bit of my son's meat?" Li Dahua's voice became louder.

"Mother, you can take it, save the blood when killing, and make blood tofu for your body!" Gou Sheng said hastily.

Only then did Li Dahua show a satisfied expression, and went back bouncing with the rabbit ears.

"Shan Guan, your mother is not in good health, don't bother with her..." Liu Datie said in a shy manner.

"It's okay, Dad, it's nothing to take out a rabbit!" Shan Guan carefully stacked the rabbit cage, and fixed it with a rope with Liu Datie.

Gousheng doesn't feel sorry for that rabbit, even if Li Dahua doesn't come to get it, he will often give extra meals to his family, but...

The two families still eat together now. Gousheng fried two large plates of rabbits that Li Dahua had prepared mixed with spicy peppers and green vegetables. A dozen or so people can only eat a few pieces of meat each.

The egg is more than four years old, and Li Dahua finally can't use talking late as an excuse. The child sits at the dining table and doesn't know how to use chopsticks. are everywhere.

"I don't know where my mouth is!" Li Dahua slammed at him with a chopstick.

Dandan didn't know how to cry out for pain, and looked at Li Dahua with his mouth half-opened, looking even more stupid.

This stupid look will only make Li Dahua more angry, and he raised his hand to cover his head and face, and hit him, "I don't know how to eat whatever I look at, what else are you going to do..."

The twins shrank back in fright, Xiao Jiu also leaned towards Hua Ya.

"Mother!" Gou Sheng couldn't stand it any longer, took the egg to his side, took a towel and wiped his hands and face first, "The egg reacts slower and is not very flexible, it's not like you don't know it!"

"They're all debt collectors!" Li Dahua sat down and continued to drink porridge.

Li Dahua's health has been poor. Gousheng specially weighed white rice and came back. He cooked two bowls of rice for Li Dahua to drink. Every two days, he cooked a bowl of blood clots or bought pork liver stew for her. It only completely hurt the foundation. , and has not been able to take good care of it, how can it be repaired if it is so rough and careless!

Gou Sheng has studied medical books for several years, and he himself is considered a half-hearted doctor. A woman like Li Dahua who has both qi and blood deficiency, if she uses ginseng directly, she is afraid that the deficiency will not be replenished, and if she eats slowly but it is not enough, it is the most difficult to raise I can't worry about work, even those rich and noble families who are served by maids and mother-in-law, who are fed with good soup and medicine every day, also lose their life because of overthinking... let alone such a poor family, dog The rest is to explain and explain, Li Dahua doesn't remember to wash clothes in hot water when he is better, and it is troublesome to soak his feet at night...

"Mother, please don't get angry, you won't be at ease at night!" Gou Sheng urged, "Come on, egg, hold the spoon..."

Li Dahua snorted, and picked up a piece of boneless rabbit meat for each of the twins—the twins would be able to eat smoothly with spoons by themselves when they were two years old!

Gou Sheng's hand holding the egg taught him to use a spoon to scoop porridge into his mouth.

After dinner, Gousheng helped Dacao to bathe the little ones before going to the Shanguan's house.

Hua Ya, who came back first, had already boiled a large pot of water, and Shan Guan lifted the water into a large bathtub, and when the dog came back, he could directly take a comfortable hot bath.

Gou Sheng let out a sigh of relief, and lay on the kang with only a pair of wide shorts, his limbs spread wide, and now it was a little bit cool at night, and the mat would no longer be hot.

The mountain official packed up the tub and walked in wearing his gown. Seeing that Gou Sheng took off his clothes again, he quickly pulled off the thin quilt and put it on his body.

Gou Sheng kicked hard twice, and could barely cover his belly with the corners of the quilt.

The mountain official sat on the kang, groped for a long time in the cabinet at the top of the kang, and took out a piece of paper, "Here, look!"

In terms of kerosene, Gousheng has no intention of saving.

Gou Sheng just looked at the little light, and said in surprise and joy, "You go do it!"

The paper was stamped with a red official seal, inscribed in the names of Gou Sheng and Shan Guan, stating that a barren hill on the edge of Liushutun and a total of [-] mu of wasteland in the surrounding areas belonged to the two of them, and three years later they began to collect the inferior fields. Tax.

"Tomorrow we will find Lizheng to draw the boundary. Take a closer look. After the arrangement is completed, we will slowly adjust it. In the future, it will be easy to raise the rabbits, and the rabbits will be good." Shan Guan had a rare conversation. .

Gou Sheng nodded again and again, wishing it would be dawn soon, he tossed and turned on the bed in excitement for a long time but couldn't fall asleep.

"Go to sleep, Shan won't run away again!" Shan Guan turned over and pressed Gou Sheng hard.

Gou Sheng spat at himself for a while because his eyelids were shallow, so he slept for a while.

Early the next morning, when Lizheng called someone to help measure the boundaries of the land, it caused quite a commotion in the village.

Because there is a mountain bag that is not easy to measure, I only estimated and calculated it, and measured another [-] mu with a rope near the village, and it was roughly determined.

"Tsk tsk, it's different when you have money..."

"...I'm afraid there is no land to use. If you want to open up wasteland, why not..."

Li Dahua perfunctorily followed the half-ridiculous and half-inquiring villagers all the way, and found the mountain with Liu Datie.

Gou Sheng was wandering around the mountain with great interest, guessing at the cash in his hand, and slowly had a plan in his mind.

"God left!" Li Dahua shouted from a long distance away, "You really bought this barren mountain?"

Gou Sheng hasn't answered yet.

"There is no one in the family who has a brain, and the old lady wants to ruin the whole family. What do you want this mountain bun with only tree roots..." Li Dahua jumped up and scolded.

This is what Gou Sheng is afraid of.

"Mother, I did it!" the mountain official stepped forward and said.

It's the same calling mother, but the identity is different after all!

The rest of Li Dahua's words were suppressed, and she just kept looking at the two of them with her eyes angrily.

"Mother, let's plant grass and food here so that we can raise rabbits, so we don't have to work as hard as now." Gou Zong explained with a smile.

"What's the hard work, isn't it just feeding the rabbit and sweeping the rabbit circle..." Li Dahua muttered.

"Gousheng, what are you going to do? It's a huge barren mountain!" Liu Datie asked, looking around.

"Take your time, build the wall first!" Gou Sheng stood on the mountain bag and said loudly, stomping his feet.

"What nonsense are you talking about, how much work will it take..." Li Dahua kept on talking, only feeling that everyone else's brains seemed not normal except herself...

Both Gousheng and Shanguan are willing to do what they say.

There are still some days before the autumn harvest, and those who are more diligent still try to add a layer of fertilizer to the field, and those who are not so careful just wait for the harvest.

Gou Sheng and the mountain officials made a calculation, invited more than a dozen men, and agreed to pay the same wages as the laborers hired by Landlord Yang's family, seven coppers a day, without food.

Along the land boundary, the stones cleared from the mountain are used to lay the foundation below, and the bottom half meter is piled up with large and small stones, and the gaps are filled with clay mixed with small stones. The top is bought from a private cellar Adobe bricks, such adobe bricks are made from the loess on the mountain, and the more they are fired, the harder they become. After the wall is dry, some hay is put on the wall, and the fire is set randomly, and the clay filled under it becomes hard. It's so hard, even if you deliberately try to tear down the wall, don't try to tear it down easily!

During the autumn harvest, there are also landless people in the village scrambling to come and work, and there will be more people after the autumn harvest.

Most of the villages are kind-hearted people, and they are all fellow villagers. There are very few people who steal, rape and play tricks. However, in two or three months, the wall surrounded by a mountain with a length of about 600 meters and a width of more than 100 meters has been jointed, and even the wages are bought. The adobe bricks cost about three taels of silver.

Gou Shengle is so happy that he can't open his eyes.

Only a gate was left near the village. In order to facilitate the entry and exit of carts in the future, no threshold was built, and only two large wooden doors were installed.

"It's really a demon, how much money is spent on a broken mountain, and the person is still tired and thin..."

After a busy season, when it was time to prepare for the nest, Gou Sheng and Shan Guan both lost a lot of weight and were tanned.

Gousheng laughed "hehe" a few times, and his two rows of teeth looked extraordinarily white.

After tanning like this, the only good thing is that Gou Sheng's original face with different colors on both sides can't be seen.

"When spring comes, let's find some useful trees, herbs, etc. to plant on the mountain, and put some newly grown breeding rabbits on it..." Gou Sheng sipped slowly with a cup of chrysanthemum tea in his mouth. Talking about plans for the new year.

Shan Guan held a small box of snow-white ointment in his hand, and carefully applied Gou Sheng to the burned half of his face.

Last winter, Gousheng took Yang Lingyi in for one day. Mrs. Yang specially asked her two grandsons to find good medicine for removing scars from the city and bring back a box of them to Goushengshi.

When Gousheng got busy, he would forget about it early in the morning. Whenever the mountain official finished the chores, the Gousheng fell asleep long ago, and the mountain official had to apply medicine to close his eyes.

Because of the anticipation, I feel that this winter is extraordinarily long.

Gou Sheng thought over and over again in his mind, and almost every day he had new ideas, and he chanted it every day, and the little ones were scared, so the mountain officials would still listen and echo a few times from time to time.

This winter, the old and the young have all added thick padded jackets, and Gousheng specially left some rabbit skins to sew leg guards for Mr. and Mrs. Liu Datie and Shan Guan, so that it is convenient to send the rabbits when they go out.

"Gousheng, Shanguan, open the door!"

"coming!"

The mountain official opened the door, and Ya Dan squeezed in with a small basket on his back.

"The puppy you want, the full moon is a few days away!"

Duck Dan removed the hay from the basket, and the four chubby little wolf dogs huddled together, probably frightened, and howled "woo woo".

When Gousheng saw it, he fell in love with it. This is an authentic wolfhound. If you take care of it well, it will be the most loyal when it grows up.

"Why did you send it here? We should catch it ourselves!" Gou Sheng said with a smile.

"My father thought it was a waste of food, and there was nothing left or right, so he ran away!" Duck took a sip of the tea brought by Hua Ya, and sat by the brazier and replied, "There are eight of them, and they will live." Now that you have these four, you take good care of them, and they will be able to guard the gate in the spring!"

Gousheng happily agreed, picked up the front paws of several puppies one by one and looked at them, "Three male dogs and one female dog."

The mountain official had already brought out a shallow basket, filled it with some hay and rags and put it at the end of the kang, and put a few puppies in it.

A few puppies huddled together, sniffing around first, the kang was warm, and after a while, one pressed the other and fell asleep.

"...The new county magistrate Fang looks like he's just doing business. A few days ago, he said he wanted to visit our Liushu Village. It's said that he was persuaded by the people below. The winter is too cold, and he will come back in the spring... ...and said that it is inconvenient to live in our master's house, and we have to live in the houses of other families in the countryside..."

Ya Dan sat for a while, told Gou Sheng what he knew, and then went back - there is a little ancestor at home!

In the village, only Landlord Yang's family has a dog. Ordinary people can't feed themselves, so who would raise a dog!

Before the winter, the dog caught two rabbits and gave them to Butler Yang, and asked him to beg for this litter of puppies—if they move to the mountains in the future, they will need a few watchdogs.

Hua Ya and Xiao Jiu looked at the pup carefully around the end of the kang.

"Come here and cover it, it's not cold over there! What to do if it freezes!" The mountain official closed the door and scolded.

Hua Ya and Xiao Jiu rolled to the top of the kang obediently, and they hid under the quilt and muttered.

"Do you think the county magistrate will really come?"

Gou Sheng held this medical book and slowly flipped through it. I don’t know how many times this is. The two good ones almost even memorized the page where the herbal medicine was on. However, Gou Sheng is still willing to read it several times. I was afraid that if I remembered it in prison, I would forget it every few days. I wanted to buy a pen and paper and copy it down, but even inferior pens, inks, papers and inkstones are ridiculously expensive, so I decided to give up.

"It doesn't matter if you come or not, as long as you don't collect money indiscriminately." Shanguan said sullenly.

"It's boring!" Gou Sheng kicked the mountain official, and the two couldn't talk together, so they had to look down at the book by themselves.

Shanguan's heart trembled, he just didn't know how to express his emotions, and finally said nothing...

After the winter passed, Gou Sheng had already thought of what he thought was the best way to remediate the large area.

In the beginning of spring, Gousheng began to hire people to clean up the homestead and prepare for a new house.

Because of his big heart, he wanted to build a good one at a time, wood, green bricks, slates, tiles, workers... After all, the ten taels of silver in Gousheng's hand was not enough.

"What are you thinking about?" The mountain official asked after cleaning the rabbit nests one by one, and came out with a dustpan mixed with dirty grass mixed with rabbit feces.

Originally, he should build a few houses to live in temporarily, but Gou Sheng is not reconciled. He has been thinking about this for the past two days!

"I'll pay half!" Shanguan said and went to work.

Gou Sheng was startled, but in an instant, he felt at ease, followed behind the mountain official, and happily talked about the layout of the new courtyard.

The corner of Shanguan's mouth curled up slightly, and his hands quickly became busy...

For seven coppers a day, most people are willing to do it, including the wives and boys at home!

When the ground thawed, the foot of the mountain began to dry up in full swing.

Li Dahua took a chair and sat beside him, saying that he was pouring tea, but in fact, he was still worried and watched for his eldest son!

Gousheng and Shanguan ran all over the mountains and found herbs, a few wild fruit trees, a few pepper shrubs, and various long trees. They were planted randomly in no order. Need to worry, a spring rain came one after another.

Tens of meters around the yard were cleaned up. After Liu Datie took care of his own field, he came to help the mountain officials to search it together. He planted some various rapeseeds and grains.