In fact, with their physical condition, it doesn't matter if they don't sleep all night. The key is that they have to go fishing tonight, so they have to ensure sleep. Otherwise, they will definitely catch a cold if the cold wind blows in the Haoshan Reservoir all night.
In this day and age, colds are also very dangerous!
Therefore, when he returned home, Tang Jiancheng threw the fish into the kitchen, washed briefly, and lay down on the bed to sleep.
He didn't notice that the house was extremely quiet today, and none of the children seemed to be at home.
"Jianjie, are you back? Look at Xiaojiu, I have diarrhea!"
Liu Fangfang heard the noise in the house and quickly said something loudly in the pig pen, but she didn't hear a response and couldn't help but feel a little puzzled.
The toilets here in Daping Village are all built in pigsties, and the pigsty is usually located behind or on the side of the main house.
In some homes, if the house is built on a slope or a stone ridge, the pigsty will be built downstairs and people will live upstairs.
With this kind of layout, the taste is definitely very good!
But rural people deal with "ecological fertilizers" every day, who cares about this?
Before she felt comfortable, Liu Fangfang quickly wiped her buttocks, lifted up her pants, wrapped herself in thick clothes, and walked into the main house from the pig pen. When she came to the bedroom, she saw Tang Jiancheng lying on his back on the bed, without taking off his clothes, with his feet Hanging over the edge of the bed, already snoring.
"Hey, I'm so tired!"
Liu Fangfang distressedly helped Tang Jiancheng take off his clothes, lifted his feet to the bed, and covered him with a quilt.
"Xiaojiu, let's go sleep in my sister's room, okay? Let dad sleep a little longer."
Afraid that Xiaojiu would wake up and cry and disturb Tang Jiancheng, Liu Fangfang hugged Xiaojiu directly and went to the small house built next to the kitchen, which was the bedroom of her eight daughters.
It is divided into upper and lower floors, with Datong Shop.
Because the weather was cold and the eight children were small and thin, they all crowded into the lower bunk.
Liu Fangfang walked in, looked at the bed, and was very satisfied.
Although the quilt was shabby, it was neat and clean, and clothes, shoes, socks and other items were placed in a very orderly manner.
Liu Fangfang put Xiaojiu on the bed and then remembered that the eight children had been out for a while. At this time, many people might have had lunch, but none of them came back?
However, Liu Fangfang didn't think much about it.
This had happened before, and since there were many children at home, she was also very arrogant. In other words, people in the village were very naughty when raising children. Unless she stayed up all night, she would not go out to look for them at all.
I always thought that when it gets dark, they will come back naturally.
Just like chickens and ducks, they will return to their coops when it gets dark.
However, what she didn't know was that her eight daughters were about to face a disaster!
Yesterday evening, when the third sister and the fourth sister were digging wild vegetables in the mountains, they suddenly saw badger hair. They were both surprised.
One is that badger meat is so delicious, and the other is that badgers can be sold for a lot of money!
This is their biggest discovery since they followed their father to dig up badgers last time.
However, seeing that it was getting dark, they did not go looking directly. Instead, they waited until early the next morning, told their eldest sister, and went into the mountains carrying the baskets they usually used to pick wild vegetables.
Based on yesterday's memory, the two quickly found the badger's hair, and then continued their search by following the traces.
The search lasted three or four hours. Finally, in a mountain col, they saw badger hair again. They did not hesitate to dig up the snow, and sure enough, there was a badger hole!
The third sister was very smart and knew that it would be difficult for herself and the fourth sister to dig out the badger, so she planned to go home and ask her father to dig it up.
As a result, when I returned home, I didn't see my father.
She wanted to call her sixth uncle again, but when she went to her grandparents' house, she found that her grandfather and sixth uncle were not at home either.
She had no choice but to tell her eldest sister.
When the eldest sister heard this, her eyes suddenly lit up.
She knew very well that her father had been so busy and tired during this period just to earn more money and send them to study. Therefore, she had been thinking about how to help her father earn money together.
At this moment, after listening to Third Sister's words, she thought about it and quickly told Third Sister her thoughts, "Third Sister, since dad and Uncle Six are not at home, let's dig it ourselves! Me, Second Sister, plus You and Fourth Sister, the four of us should be enough, right?"
Third Sister thought for a while, shook her head and said, "Not enough. Badgers are difficult to dig. Their burrows are very deep, and there are several exits."
The eldest sister said: "Then call the fifth sister too."
The third sister said: "That won't work. The fifth sister has to take care of the sixth, seventh and eighth sisters."
The eldest sister said: "It's only a few hours. Let the fifth sister give the sixth, seventh and eighth sisters to mother for a while..."
The third sister waved her hands hastily, "That's even worse. If my mother knew that we were digging for badgers, she would definitely stop us, and maybe even beat us!"
"Let me think about it."
Third sister thought for a while and then said again: "Sister, don't Seventh Sister and the others like to listen to the radio? You asked Fifth Sister to take them to the village headquarters. Now, there are a group of elderly people listening to the radio at the village headquarters every day. With radios , they should be able to stay there for several hours without running around.”
The eldest sister said happily: "Yes, why didn't I think of the radio? Third sister, you are still smart!"
Third sister said: "Eldest sister, don't waste time, let fifth sister take them over quickly."
After all, Sanmei is just a ten-year-old child. No matter how smart she is, she will always overlook some things. For example, what if the radio battery suddenly runs out of power?
Another example is what should I do if three little ones have to poop or pee?
For example, without the suppression of Fifth Sister, would these three little ones run around with other children?
The third sister did not expect this, nor did the eldest sister, nor did the fifth sister. When she sent the three little ones to the village headquarters, the three little ones were indeed very happy and promised that they would never run around.
Then, several girls over seven years old went into the mountains carrying hoes.
When we arrived in the mountains, we found the fourth sister who had been left behind.
The fourth sister was brave enough. She was not afraid of being alone in the mountains. Instead, she had the leisure to build a snowman next to the badger cave, and also found some withered wild flowers and put it on its head.
Seeing the eldest sister and the others coming, the fourth sister quickly waved.
Several people came to the badger hole. The third sister thought about the process of her father digging up the badger before, and then began to tell the sisters what to do.
Those who collect firewood, those who find caves, those who move rocks...
Well organized!
After searching for more than an hour, we found all the possible exits in the surrounding area. Then, we moved rocks to collapse all the excess holes and blocked them with rocks.
In the end, only one entrance and one exit were left.
Then, the third sister started to burn firewood and use smoke!
After being smoked for more than an hour, there was no response from the badger hole. Everyone couldn't help but wonder if it was a hole?
"Impossible! If there is hair outside the cave, there must be a dog and badger hibernating inside!"
The third sister did not believe in evil and gritted her teeth and said, "Since we can't smoke it out, we can only dig it out!"
After saying that, she waved the hoe and started digging.
Digging badgers is a physically demanding job!
Even though the girls have been working all year round and have a lot of strength, they are still young and girls, so they will get tired after digging for a long time.
Several sisters can only take turns to dig.
This digging took more than three hours!
They all seemed to have forgotten that there were three little ones at home that were left unattended!
