"Take the expression off your face." He slapped her and reminded her.
"It hurts!" Cheng Mingyue winced, her brows filled with displeasure, "Mom, why did you hit me?"
"Why did you say you were beaten?"
Cheng Mingyue thought about what her mother had just said, and she pursed her lips and didn't want to speak; if she continued talking, her mother would definitely talk about her endlessly. Judging from her impatience now, her mother must also be partial to Cheng Mingyi.
Wouldn't it be nice for the Cheng family to have a daughter like her? Why would the third wife give birth to a daughter specifically to go against her.
The more she thought about it, the more Cheng Mingyue felt that this concept was correct. The Cheng family only needed her as a daughter.
Cheng Mingyi should not exist!
After getting into the corner of the horn, Cheng Mingyue had strange thoughts and her psychology gradually became distorted.
She buried her head, and Li Lianhua didn't notice the changes in her daughter at this moment; she looked at her little niece sitting among the cousins, they were talking and laughing happily.
"Yiyi, how did you catch game? There are no obvious injuries on the hare or pheasant." Cheng Mingxin sat down in front of her and asked carefully.
"Fourth cousin, I caught it directly. Maybe I am lucky enough to catch it."
Facing her young and clear eyes, Cheng Ming was doubtful. If this was the case, then he would be useless; his cousin could catch her, but he couldn't.
Cheng Mingli said: "Fourth cousin, my sister and I caught the rabbit after burning down the rabbit hole. As for the pheasant, we may be really lucky; pheasants can run fast and fly, so it is really difficult to catch them."
After he said it, Cheng Ming believed 80% of it.
The others nodded repeatedly, more or less believing it.
"Yiyi can catch so many rabbits, which means there are a lot of game around the valley. Let's be more diligent and look for more. After breakfast, who wants to go look for meat together?" Cheng Mingyi asked the brothers.
Cheng Minglian was the first to speak, "Brother, I want to go."
"I'll go too," Cheng Mingzhi said.
Cheng Mingxin nodded, "I'm going too, please take me with you."
Wang Fengya and Zhang Zhaodi didn't say anything. They don't have your skills, but they can go find wild vegetables. Taking advantage of the abundance of wild vegetables now, they picked more, cleaned them, dried them, and stored them.
There is chicken soup for breakfast. Heat some dry food and eat it with the chicken soup. It is delicious. In order to prevent the cooked chicken soup from changing the taste, Luo Cuihua puts all the soup and meat on everyone's head.
Mingyi finished breakfast in a few mouthfuls, but she was still hungry. There was only so much food in the house, and she would not die of hunger after eating wild vegetables, but she was even hungrier.
Cheng Mingli watched his sister quietly touching her belly, then whispered into her ear and asked, "Aren't you full?"
"Yeah." Mingyi nodded.
"We'll go out to find something to eat later." Cheng Mingli came up with the idea of salt. Each room had a bag of salt in their hands. It wasn't much, and they were all trying to save it.
They go out to find game. If there is no salt, they cannot find honey like yesterday. Even if they find game, the roasted game will not taste very good. This is the reality.
After breakfast, Mingyi wanted to go to the grassland quickly.
Cheng Mingli held her back, "Sister, wait a moment, I have something to do with my mother."
"Okay." Mingyi nodded and watched Cheng Mingli go to Chen Daya who was washing the dishes.
I don’t know what he said to Chen Daya, but Chen Daya took him to where he lived. When Cheng Mingli came out, he only had a kitchen knife in his hand.
After walking out of the valley, Cheng Mingli saw no one around, so he took out an oil paper bag from his arms.
"Sister, look."
Mingyi took it and opened it doubtfully, her eyes full of surprise, "It's salt!"
"Well, I asked my mother to get it. Don't tell anyone else." Cheng Mingli said.
"We took the salt secretly, how can I explain it to my grandmother?"
Cheng Mingli said calmly, "Don't worry, my grandmother told me to keep a bag of salt in each house, and she should have a spare bag in her hand. As for the salt on my mother's side, don't worry about it."
"But, mother will be blamed." Mingyi frowned, but now she wanted to go to the next town quickly.
The golden finger in her hand can only be used in space, and there is no salt in the space!
"No!" Cheng Mingli said firmly.
Under Mingyi's puzzled gaze, Cheng Mingli sighed helplessly and touched his sister's hair, "You! You don't care about the situation of each room. Of course you don't know. The first and second rooms use salt in private. The salt in their hands is absolutely It’s not as much as what mom has in her hands; even if mom gives us half, it’s still more than them.”
"How could it be?" Mingyi couldn't understand. They were all eating together, how could they use salt?
"Didn't you notice that they sometimes use salt to rinse their mouths or put it in water bags?" Cheng Mingli shook his head, thinking that his sister was too naive.
"There's no salt in our water bags!"
Cheng Mingli said 'hmm', "Mom and dad are trying their best to save money. Mom and dad also know the situation of the other two bedrooms. You don't have to worry about this matter. If you really need to check, the salt in the third bedroom will be checked, and mom will not be blamed."
Mingyi held the salt in his hand. Such a small packet was very valuable.
"That's good. Today we will spend half the day hunting in the morning, and I will teach my brother martial arts the other half in the afternoon."
"Well, it's settled." Cheng Mingli smiled and led her to the grass.
When they arrived on the grass, they looked for rabbit holes separately. There was no need to look at the rabbit hole that was smoked yesterday; most rabbits after being disturbed would not go back, so they started looking in other directions.
After searching for more than an hour, Mingyi found two rabbit holes; based on the patterns of these rabbit holes, he found three more nearby holes.
Cheng Mingli also found a rabbit hole and followed the rules to find their other holes.
According to yesterday's operation, they lit a fire and smoked; they caught three fat rabbits at the first place, one was a female and was pregnant, and Mingyi and Mingli released it at the same time.
One was caught at the second place, and the third place was where Cheng Mingli found it; two big and five small were caught, the small one was half a big rabbit, and it was old enough to eat.
"Great harvest!" Mingyi cheered.
Cheng Mingli looked at these rabbits in trance. Mingyi ran out for a short distance with the three rabbits and saw that his brother didn't come, so he ran back again and asked curiously.
"Brother, what's wrong with you?"
"Sister, we caught so many rabbits. In other people's eyes, we must have found a good place; and, if you take these rabbits back, you won't be able to eat many of them." Without the honey for baking, there is only so much salt. A little bit.
Mingyi suppressed the smile on her face and said openly: "It's okay, brother, we have knives, cut them into small pieces and dry them in the sun; they can also be eaten as dried meat. Let's make one today and take another one with us." Go back and cut out the rest to dry. With such a big sun, take it back for one day and then take it out the next day to continue drying. Two suns are enough."
It's a drought and high temperature. The hottest part of the day reaches over 40 degrees, and the weather is very heavy since it hasn't rained for a long time.
Just find a big stone, put the meat on it and expose it to the sun, and it will dry out quickly.
