"What about your two children? Why didn't they come back with you?"
Cheng Yuanxi walked to his property and put down the pot and kitchen knife. He glanced at the person who asked the question and said, "They went looking for wild vegetables."
As for the rest, he didn't say a word.
However, there are also those who are crooked and want to wait for Cheng Mingli to go out again and follow him quietly.
"When did the third brother come back and go out?" Cheng Yuandong stood up and saw Cheng Yuanxi talking to someone, so he stepped forward and asked.
"I went out just before dawn. That child Yiyi loves to be clean and said she felt uncomfortable. He asked me and his brother to accompany her to boil water and take a bath. I happened to take a bath too." Cheng Yuanxi took the initiative to hide it from them outside. Things to do.
Cheng Yuandong saw that his face was clean and his hair was clean, so he didn't doubt anything else.
"It's time to wash up. We all stink. No wonder Yiyi wants to take a bath." Cheng Yuandong smiled and nodded, "What about Yiyi and the others?"
Cheng Yuanxi said: "They are looking for wild vegetables outside. Let them go. They are young and can run fast. Those who crawl around in the mountains are better at looking for food than us adults. It is better to run out and play than to cause trouble around you."
"That's not possible! Don't you know how dangerous it is in the mountains?" Cheng Yuanxi was not anxious, but Cheng Yuandong was.
"Brother, why are you so anxious? It's okay for them to be hiding in the mountains these days. I don't think there are any large beasts in the mountains anymore. When the drought comes, they can't stay in the dry mountains if they want to survive. They have to migrate."
Cheng Yuandong thought for a moment and felt that what he said was right, "That's it, who knows if there are wild beasts that have not migrated."
I'm so hungry that I won't hesitate to eat people.
"I told them, it's okay. Brother, go wash up first." Cheng Yuanxi walked towards his wooden shed with a smile.
Cheng Yuandong shook his head slightly and sighed, the third brother is really unreliable. When he saw his wife coming out, he turned around and complained to his wife that the third brother didn't look like a father.
Li Lianhua looked at him helplessly, "That's my biological father, how can he not love the child? Since the third brother said so, it means that there are really no large beasts in the mountains; it's okay to let them run around. They have added more animals to the family these days. There’s a lot of meat and fish.”
After saying that, he ignored him and left Cheng Yuandong alone to mutter that his wife was as unreliable as his third brother.
Mr. and Mrs. Cheng Dazhu didn't see the Cheng Mingli brothers and sisters when they got up, so they thought they had gone out. When they came out and found that none of the Cheng Mingli brothers and sisters were there, they learned from others that they had gone out early in the morning and had not come back yet.
Luo Cuihua frowned, "Why are these two kids getting more and more courageous?"
"Ask the third son." Cheng Dazhu took the washing things to the pond. After washing, he didn't see the third son coming; only the eldest and the second son came to wash up.
"Where are the boss, second child, and third child?" Cheng Dazhu asked.
Cheng Yuandong pointed to the wooden shed where Cheng Yuanxi was, "It's in the shed."
"Mingyi and Mingli haven't come back yet. Why don't he, the father, go out and look for them?" Cheng Dazhu said angrily, wiped his face with a towel, wrung out the water and went back to ask Luo Cuihua to ask.
No one came out of the wooden shed where the couple slept, and he, a father, was too embarrassed to go there.
As a mother-in-law, Luo Cuihua was justified in asking.
Cheng Yuandong said: "Dad, don't go. The third child took the two children out to take a bath before dawn in the morning. The third child didn't come back until dawn. He said that the two children had gone to dig wild vegetables. They should be back later. .”
"Were you digging wild vegetables? You should have told me earlier!"
That's all for Cheng Dazhu.
Cheng Yuannan squatted on the edge and said cheerfully, "The two children are really capable."
"He is capable, but the third child is starting to become unreliable. How can the two children be left alone outside." Cheng Yuandong still disagreed with Cheng Yuanxi's indifferent attitude towards his children.
"Why are you thinking so much? The third child is very measured. He watched the children so closely before! If you dare to let them out, there won't be much problem; I think we can let the children at home run around and look for more. Come back with food.”
Cheng Yuandong stopped talking. I wonder if he was thinking too much. He always felt that the third child was hiding something from them. Then he thought about it, the two children are young, what can they hide?
Cheng Yuannan shook his head, and after washing, he asked his wife to help cook; while he took his children to look for wild vegetables and what he had eaten the day before yesterday, such as mushrooms.
I found a lot of tea tree mushrooms, but very few other mushrooms; after all, it didn't rain and the sun was shining brightly every day, so it was strange that mushrooms could grow.
He was busy cooking and looking for food. Cheng Mingli couldn't see his sister coming back for a long time, so he could only worry for a while.
The longer he waited, the more anxious he became. Cheng Mingli felt that his hands were itchy and he wanted to beat his sister.
"Brother, I'm back." Near noon, Mingyi came back.
Cheng Mingli breathed a sigh of relief, "Why have you been gone for so long?"
"Brother, look." Mingyi showed him the two ginseng plants in his hand, "The medicinal effects I know should still be there, they still look fresh."
"How do you know it's ginseng?" He has never seen it.
Mingyi was speechless for a moment, but she quickly came to her senses and said, "I saw it in the drugstore in town. Some people used it to sell it. It looked like this."
"Have you really seen it?" Cheng Mingli was doubtful. Logically speaking, they all went to town together, so why hadn't he seen ginseng?
Could it be that Ginseng still chooses people to show it to?
"I've really seen it. My brother didn't believe it and took the ginseng back to dad to identify it."
Cheng Mingli nodded, "You really should show it to dad."
Mingyi stuffed the ginseng into him, glanced at the dried meat, and a smile appeared in her eyes. She ran to the sink to wash her hands, and filled half of the water from the overflowing sink into the space.
Come back and pick up the dried meat and chew it.
Cheng Mingli didn't stop him either. There was food at home, so why stop him? Nowadays, martial arts training requires more food. My sister has been out running for a long time, so she should be hungry.
"Let's go. It's time for us to go back for lunch. We haven't gone back since breakfast. My grandparents will definitely ask us."
"Let's go." She took another large piece of dried meat and put it in her mouth, stuffing him with a piece at the same time. Mingyi picked it up in front of him and placed the stones randomly around the dried meat.
Cheng Mingli didn't see the problem and just thought she was playing.
After the stones were placed and the maze was completed, Mingyi and Cheng Mingli walked back while chewing the dried meat. When they reached the entrance of the valley and finished eating the dried meat, their hands were inevitably stained with oily smell. They found weeds to rub their hands, and then headed back. I took two handfuls of slightly moist soil and rubbed it on the ground.
This way it won't be visible.
I found some wild vegetables at the entrance of the valley and carried them back for business.
Returning to the temporary camp, facing questions from their grandparents, the brother and sister had the same message and lost track of time looking for wild vegetables.
Cheng Dazhu and others only thought that they were playful and didn't pay attention to the time. It made sense; their brothers and sisters didn't pick many wild vegetables, which proved that they were playful.
A large family sat around the wooden table, and opposite Mingyi was Cheng Mingyue.
