"Hmm...delicious! Delicious!"
"It's so delicious, Erguo!" Xuemei looked up from the bowl, revealing her shiny mouth, and said to Li Shiqiang with a smile on her face.
"It's delicious, just eat more!"
Li Shiqiang gave his mother Chen Xianglan a piece of bacon and advised, "Mom, you should eat more."
Just as Chen Xianglan was about to give the bacon in the bowl to the youngest, Li Shiqiang shouted again: "You can eat it yourself, the youngest has it in the bowl."
Chen Xianglan took a look and found that the bowls of the third, fourth, and youngest children were either bacon, sausage, or spicy yellow pepper.
After hesitating, she put it in her bowl.
Li Shiqiang turned his head and glanced, put down his chopsticks, poured Li Nongchang a glass of plum wine and said, "Old man, don't just drink wine, you should also eat some meat!"
During their summer, the most abundant thing in the mountains was plums.
Basically every household has plum wine.
Li Nongchang picked up the bowl and took a sip of wine, narrowed his eyes and said, "Who gave you these bacon and sausages?"
Li Shiqiang did not hesitate and said directly: "Someone asked the matchmaker to send these bacon and sausages to the Huang family, so Huang Yun gave them to me directly."
After hearing this, Li Nongchang nodded simply, turned to look at Chen Xianglan and said, "In two days, you will find a matchmaker and deliver the bacon we smoked to the Huang family."
Chen Xianglan was stunned and asked: "One?"
"Yes! A whole piece!"
Chen Xianglan moved her hands holding the chopsticks, but in the end she remained silent.
But a few little guys raised their heads with some reluctance.
That strip of bacon is the only meat they can eat this year.
"No, Mom! I'll keep the piece of bacon at the front of the house for my family to eat. I'll think of a way to give it to the Huang family as a gift!" Li Shiqiang shook his head and said directly.
"What can you do?"
Li Nongchang squinted his eyes, his face full of disbelief.
After hesitating for a moment, Li Shiqiang still expressed his thoughts to his old man: "I plan to go to the mountains to collect some things and give them to the Huang family when the time comes."
"Going to the top of the mountain to hunt something?"
"No way!"
Chen Xianglan suddenly slapped her chopsticks on the table and said, "It's so dangerous in the mountains. You're not allowed to go there! I told you last night that an old hunter from the second team encountered a yellow tiger in the mountains and was eaten to the bone. There’s none left.”
As the saying goes: If a tiger gives birth to three sons, there must be one tiger.
And this Biao is Shan Biao.
It has the head of a mountain lion cat, the body of a leopard, and the tail of a lion. It looks like a tiger but not a tiger.
According to legend, Shan Biao was originally a child of a tiger, but because of his vicious temperament, he even wanted to eat his own brothers. In the end, he was abandoned by the tiger and left to survive alone in the mountains and forests.
When Shan Biao grew up, he regarded tigers as his enemy and would eat them whenever he saw one.
Among them, the yellow tiger is usually regarded as a beast more ferocious than the tiger.
Li Shiqiang had naturally heard of Shan Biao, but he had never seen it when he was hunting in his previous life.
He shook his head and said to his mother with a relieved look on his face: "I'm not going to Laolinzi. I'll go to Laowu Mountain at most. And this time I'm not going alone. I plan to ask Xu Sheng to go with me."
"Besides, I can grab some more herbs when I go into the mountains, and the old man needs to apply medicine on his feet."
Chen Xianglan looked hesitant after hearing this, still a little worried.
Suddenly, Tong Shunqiang, who was sitting next to the eldest sister, showed an honest smile and said: "Mom, if you are worried, let me follow my brother-in-law.
There are three of us, each with a gun, so we won't be afraid even if we encounter him. "
Li Shiqiang looked at his eldest brother-in-law in surprise, not expecting that the honest and honest eldest brother-in-law would say these words.
The eldest sister Li Shiying on the other side also pushed the eldest brother-in-law's arm and said somewhat unhappily: "Why are you following me? You won't earn any work points?"
The eldest brother-in-law Tong Shunqiang looked at the meat in the bowl and smiled sheepishly: "I want to pack some meat and send it to my mother."
The reason why the eldest brother-in-law came to their house as a door-to-door son-in-law was because their family was poorer than the Li family.
Although the Li family is poor, they can't afford food.
As for the eldest brother-in-law and his family, they really can't even afford food.
Of the four sons in their family, two were forced to become son-in-laws.
"Okay! You go too!"
Chen Xianglan looked at it and finally nodded in agreement.
However, she still told Li Shiqiang very sternly: "The most you can do is go to Laowu Mountain, and you are not allowed to go into the old forest!"
"Got it!"
...
After dinner, Li Shiqiang went out.
One is to borrow a gun, and the other is to call someone.
The first place he went to was the home of his third uncle Li Nongxing.
The two families live not far apart, just a few minutes' walk away.
As soon as I arrived at the door of Third Uncle's house, I saw Third Uncle's family sitting next to the threshold, holding bowls and eating noodles.
"Er baby, come in and eat some noodles."
When rural people meet someone while eating, they always call them in to eat.
Li Shiqiang shook his head, walked into the third uncle's yard and said, "I just finished eating."
Although he had just finished eating, he still took a few more glances at the red spicy noodles in his third uncle's bowl.
There are eight people in their family, and they are usually reluctant to use white flour to make noodles.
"Third uncle, can you give me your home-made gun to use for two days?"
"What do you want this for?"
Third uncle Li Nongxing raised his head in surprise, a little confused.
"Brother Qiang, are you going hunting?"
The third uncle's son, Li Shitian, looked at him excitedly, with some expectation in his eyes.
"Well, that's the plan!"
Li Shiqiang nodded and admitted directly.
I want to borrow a gun for no other reason than hunting.
"Does your mother know you want to hunt?"
Borrowing a gun does not mean borrowing food. If the person borrowing the gun catches prey, their family will naturally not lose a share.
But as an elder, Third Uncle still asked one more question.
"I know, third uncle, don't worry!"
"Okay! Wait a moment and ask your third wife to get it for you."
While Li Shiqiang was waiting to get the gun, his cousin Li Shitian immediately came up to him with a bowl and said, "Brother Qiang, will you take me to the top of the mountain to play too?"
Li Shiqiang didn't speak, but looked behind him with a smile.
The third uncle, Li Nongxing, kicked his son in the butt and cursed: "Play with a hammer! If you don't make progress in your studies day by day, you will know how to play!"
Li Shitian is one year older than Li Shiping and is in the second grade of junior high school.
With just one kick, Li Shitian was safe.
Obediently, I took the bowl and went to eat the noodles.
At this time, Sanniang also walked out of the house with a gun: "Qiang baby, you must be careful when going into the mountains."
"Don't worry, Sanniang! I know."
After Li Shiqiang took the gun, he immediately checked it.
Seeing that there was nothing wrong with the gun, he carried the gun and left: "Let's go, Third Uncle. When we hit something, I will bring it back to you."
Third uncle Li Nongxing smiled and nodded: "Yes."
After leaving his third uncle's house, Li Shiqiang rushed towards Xu Sheng's house.
But as soon as he arrived at Xu's house, he saw Xu Shengzheng rushing out of the house with an angry face, with a little girl chasing behind him.
"Brother, don't go!"
