When we walked out of the house, the heavy snow became lighter, but there was already a thick layer on the ground. Tang Jiancheng was fine, but it only covered his ankles. The ten-year-old third sister and the eight-year-old fourth sister were a bit disadvantaged.
The heavy snow almost covered their calves, making every step difficult.
None of them complained of being cold or tired.
Tang Jiancheng nodded secretly, deliberately speeding up his pace because he wanted to test them.
Unexpectedly, although they struggled, they still followed his footsteps closely.
"Would you like to take a break?"
After walking for almost half an hour, the three of them had arrived at the back mountain.
The snow here is thicker and has already covered the thighs of the two children.
Seeing that they were panting from exhaustion and sweating in the heavy snow, Tang Jiancheng quickly told them to take a rest.
"Dad, are you tired? If you are, let's take a rest." Third sister said.
Hey!
The little guy is quite filial, but why does this sound a little wrong?
It felt like I was deliberately provoking him.
Naturally, Tang Jiancheng couldn't say he was tired, so he smiled and said, "Dad, it's okay. Dad is afraid that you will be exhausted."
"Dad, you don't know that before our family had nothing to eat, the third sister would often go into the mountains to find all kinds of wild fruits and vegetables. She would run around in the mountains all day long, and she wouldn't feel tired even if she ran all day long!"
The fourth sister said with admiration, "The most powerful one in our family is the third sister."
"Really? Is my third sister so powerful?"
Tang Jiancheng felt sad and proud at the same time. He touched his third sister's head and said softly, "Thank you for your hard work. Dad was not sensible before. Let's find food for our family together in the future, okay?"
The third sister nodded happily, "Yes! Dad, let's work hard together!"
"Okay, let's work hard together!"
Tang Jiancheng responded with a smile.
"Third sister, do you see Stinky and his dad over there?"
The fourth sister suddenly pointed to the left.
Sanmei and Tang Jiancheng both looked up.
Third Sister nodded and said, "Yes, it's Stinky Egg and the village party secretary. They probably found the badger."
found it?
Tang Jiancheng's heart suddenly hurt. Was he still too late?
No way?
Although the village party secretary in the previous life also dug up badgers in the back mountain, the back mountain was very big. He seemed to have said that it was on the shady side of the back mountain and this was the sunny side, so it shouldn't be here.
But Tang Jiancheng was not sure whether the village party secretary said that intentionally.
Just in case, he still planned to go over and take a look.
Third sister and fourth sister had already pounced on him.
"Shh!"
Just as they were about to get closer, Stinky made a silencing gesture towards them.
Third sister asked in a very low voice: "Have you found the badger?"
Stinky egg, his name is Tang Junjiang.
Boys in the village, in order to make a living, will be given a nickname when they are born, because the ancient custom says that a nickname makes it easy to make a living!
He shook his head at his third sister and whispered: "My dad is still confirming. He just saw some badger hairs and hasn't found their burrows yet."
Badgers all have the habit of hibernating. On a snowy day, there is no work to do at home, so digging badgers is the most suitable time.
Tang Jiancheng was overjoyed after hearing Stinky Dan's words. He nodded to the village party secretary as a greeting, then grabbed his third sister and fourth sister and quickly walked towards the shady side of the back hill.
The third sister wanted to talk to Stinky for a few more words and ask for information, but her father took him away under his arm.
She was very curious and was about to tell her father what she thought, but she saw her father walking towards the shady side of the back hill without saying a word.
He seemed to be in a hurry.
Seeing the gloomy look on Tang Jiancheng's face, the third and fourth sisters were a little scared, and they didn't know what was going on, so they could only remain silent.
The village party secretary also looked at Tang Jiancheng in surprise, but had no time to think about it.
Because he dug up some more badger hair, he felt more and more that there were badgers hibernating here, and he couldn't help but speed up his digging in the snow.
Tang Jiancheng walked all the way to the shady side of the back mountain. When he looked around, there was no one there.
He immediately breathed a sigh of relief, then put the third sister and the fourth sister down, and said softly: "You guys search separately, be sure to search carefully, and be sure to pay attention to safety! Be careful of potholes covered by heavy snow!"
"Well, we will be careful." Fourth sister nodded.
The third sister looked around, her little face full of confusion, "Dad, did you already know that there are badgers here?"
Tang Jiancheng sighed secretly: What a smart little girl!
But he kept denying it, "No, I just think there is a village party secretary on the sunny side and they are looking for it, so we have nothing to do with it. We might as well try our luck on the shady side."
Seeing that the third sister was still asking, Tang Jiancheng quickly urged: "Look for it quickly. After you find it, you have to dig. Time is a bit tight, so don't waste time!"
The third sister thought it right, so she didn't ask any more questions, and then looked in the opposite direction to the fourth sister.
Tang Jiancheng went straight forward.
Ten minutes later, he suddenly found a handful of badger hair under a rock. He couldn't help but feel happy, "Is it here?"
He used a hoe to scrape away the white snow around him, and sure enough he saw the entrance of a badger hole.
"Haha, it really does!"
Tang Jiancheng was ecstatic, but he did not shout loudly, but raised his hand to signal to the third and fourth sisters.
Third sister and fourth sister came over in a hurry.
"Badger Cave?"
When the fourth sister saw the hole, she was so surprised that she covered her mouth.
The third sister looked at Tang Jiancheng in surprise, feeling that her father seemed to be hiding something from her.
But she is a child after all, and even if her father hides something from her, she will not go into it because she knows that you should not interfere too much in adults' affairs, otherwise, you will be beaten and scolded.
This is what she learned from the painful lessons she learned over the past ten years.
Tang Jiancheng said: "You should quickly take this cave entrance as the center and look around to see if there are other cave entrances."
Badgers generally have several burrows.
After searching for another ten minutes, four more cave entrances were found in the surrounding area.
The third sister said: "Dad, let's collapse three of the holes and leave two good holes. Then, let the smoke come in from one hole, and then put a bag on the last hole. When the time comes, the badger will Get in your pocket.”
Tang Jiancheng's eyes lit up, "Third sister, where did you learn this from?"
"I figured it out myself," said the third sister.
The fourth sister said proudly: "Dad, isn't the third sister great? She often uses this method to force rabbits out of their holes."
I see!
Tang Jiancheng nodded and agreed to Sanmei's suggestion.
The three of them found a lot of hay and wet firewood and piled them in front of one of the cave entrances.
Then, Tang Jiancheng went to collapse three of the cave entrances. He was worried and moved a lot of stones to block the cave entrances. Finally, he laid a trap and bag at the last cave entrance.
"Okay, light the fire!"
More than half an hour later, everything was ready, and Tang Jiancheng waved his hand.
The third sister immediately lit the mixed dry and wet firewood, and thick green smoke immediately penetrated from the hole, which was very choking!
However, one minute, three minutes, five minutes... ten minutes passed, and there was still no sound in the cave!
