As soon as he entered the house, Xiaosi motioned to his father to lean down and whispered to him: "Dad, we found a fish eye. Second brother asked me to call you over to help."
"Okay, I'll go with you when dad gets the sack." Shui Shangqing was very happy. The fish soup is a great supplement. There are more fish, and everyone in the family can eat it.
After grabbing the things, Shui Shangqing directly picked up Xiao Si and walked to the place he said. His footsteps were fast and he reached his destination in a short time.
Then I was stunned by the scene in front of me. The ice around Lao Er was densely packed with big fish, and even the four sacks he brought over couldn't contain them all.
"Dad, you're here, let's pretend to move home quickly. We've almost caught all the fish. We can have a good year this time." The second child's hands were numb when fishing, but he was still very happy.
The three of them worked together to transport all the fish back home in two trips. They chose sparsely populated areas along the way. After all, there were too many fish and it was easy for people to miss them.
Seeing how busy the father and son were, the old lady had already prepared lunch with the three children. The whole family was very satisfied with the fragrant fish soup and sorghum pot stickers.
When Liu Xuemei was having lunch, she was still worried about her eldest and third eldest children, and whispered to her daughter lying next to her: "Your eldest brother and third brother must be hungry. I don't know when they will be back."
Soon it was around four o'clock in the afternoon, and the eldest and the third child still hadn't come back. While breastfeeding, Liu Xuemei was worried: "Why haven't these two children come back yet? What problem have they encountered?"
Whenever Shui Bingyue was awake, she would hear her mother talking about her two brothers who were out of town. She also knew that her brother wanted to go hunting in the mountains so that she could always have milk to drink.
She wanted to do something for the two of them, so she recalled the most basic blood tracing method she had learned before. Begin to recite silently: Blood is the guide, go up to heaven and go to earth, and search for traces.
Unexpectedly, her soul left her body. Following the guidance of her bloodline, she came to the depths of the mountain forest. She saw her two brothers hiding in a tree, and there were two big wild boars under the tree.
Those half-meter long fangs look very ferocious. He wanted to knock down the big tree where his brother was hiding.
I saw the eldest brother clinging to the tree with his legs and hitting one of the wild boars on the head with a shotgun. The wild boar that was pestering the third brother fell down.
Then a second shot was fired at another wild boar. At this point, both wild boars fell. Shui Bingyue saw with her own eyes that her two brothers were obviously relieved.
But the two continued to observe in the tree for a long time before getting down from the tree and preparing to tie up the wild boar with hemp rope.
At this moment, the second wild boar that was shot tried to get up and attack the eldest brother while the two brothers were tying up the other one.
Shui Bingyue immediately turned her spiritual consciousness into a needle and stabbed it into the brain of the wild boar, killing it instantly. It could no longer die.
The eldest brother and the third brother were obviously frightened by this turn of events. I saw the boss, who never believed in ghosts and gods, worshiping toward the east: "Thank you, mountain god, for blessing me."
Shui Bingyue couldn't hold on anymore, her soul returned to her body and fell into a deep sleep. It seemed to Liu Xuemei that her daughter had been sleeping all the time and she didn't notice anything unusual.
After the eldest brother and the third child covered the wild boar's bloodstains with snow, they each dragged a wild boar down the mountain quickly. They waited at the foot of the mountain until dark before daring to rush home.
When he first arrived at the door of his house, he happened to meet Shui Shangqing, who was about to go out to look for the two of them. Seeing that each of them was carrying a wild boar, he quickly welcomed them into the yard and closed the door.
After putting the wild boar under the shack and covering it with straw, they returned to their room. The second and fourth children quickly helped them take off their soaked cotton pants, wiped their legs with snow to activate blood circulation, and waited for their legs to regain their senses. Tuck someone into bed.
No one wants to eat meat these days, but going into the mountains when the mountains are closed by heavy snow is risking their lives. The brothers in the family have cared about each other since they were young and know how to cherish each other.
The eldest brother and the third child felt that they were alive when they were lying on the kang. Shui Shangqing brought the rice to the Kang table for his two sons: "Eat quickly, you two must have been starving for a long time."
The palms and backs of his hands were all flesh, and it made him feel sad to see his two sons frozen like that. It's a pity that he has no ability and can only stay in this remote place.
"Dad, it's okay. Not all of us here come here like this. It makes no sense for us to feel miserable. I think it's worth it if the whole family can eat meat." The boss comforted his father when he saw that his face was not good.
The third child found something for his father to do: "Dad, please help me and my eldest brother put our clothes, shoes and socks together, otherwise we won't be able to go out tomorrow, just wearing thick clothes."
"Hey, dad is going right now."
Watching their father go out, the two brothers started to eat, gobbling them down, they were really hungry.
"Our harvest today is really good. In addition to two large wild boars, there are also two pheasants and four hares. The rabbit's skin was just enough to make a wallet for my sister." The old man said with a smile.
The third child shook his head: "This rabbit doesn't have much skin, so I'd better save some more to make a big fur coat for my sister."
Both of them want to leave the best for their sister. The old lady came over to see the eldest and third child: "You two, please don't run into the mountains again. Your mother has been worried all day."
"Don't worry, grandma. We are not greedy. What we brought home this time is enough. Grandma, just celebrate the New Year with us."
The eldest son is very close to his grandma. After all, Shui Shangqing's parents died young and the old lady helped take care of the children during his years in the army.
The two uncles have always taken good care of their family, so the relationship between them has always been very good.
The old lady shook her head: "Your mother is in good health. I will stay here for ten days and then return to my village. I can't let others say that I want to live free at my son-in-law's house."
"Grandma, you can't think like this. Only you can make us possible, and my sister can be born safely. Your contribution cannot be wiped out just because of blood relationship.
It’s okay for you to live in our house all the time. Can we seven brothers not even be able to support you? "The third child, taking advantage of the fact that he was still young, threw himself into grandma's arms and acted like a baby.
The words of the two children made the old lady feel comfortable. The children can see her dedication and they are very happy.
As for the two sons mentioned by the old lady, they are also talking about this. The boss Liu Xueshan told his daughter-in-law Huang Shan: "My mother has been away for two days and she hasn't come back. I don't know what happened to my sister's house."
"It's good news if she doesn't come back. After all, my mother has been a midwife for more than thirty years and has basically never failed.
As for whether my sister has given birth to a girl or a boy, we will find out when we visit relatives during the Chinese New Year, so we are not in a hurry. "
Huang Shan has been a grandmother for a long time and is several years older than Liu Xuemei. The two have always had a good relationship.
Liu Xuefeng, the second eldest son of the Liu family, hugged his one-year-old grandson, smoked a hookah, and said to his wife Wang Caihe: "Our dog Daner is already one year old, and my sister has given birth to an elder for him. When the time comes, the children will go to school, and they will scream strangely." Awkward."
