After a while, Zhu’s father could not stand to watch, in his simple thinking, boys should not be entangled with flowers and plants, either study to get a merit, or honestly at home farming.
“En, today’s harvest is quite okay, let’s go down the mountain.” Father Zhu stopped his two sons who were pouting and picking flowers to avoid them going astray, “We have to go down the mountain before the sun goes down, the forest is not good or safe to walk in later.”
Zhu Pingan saw his own back basket picking full of honeysuckle, gently pressed the flowers, see really can’t be put any more, then he reluctantly clapped his hands and followed his old dad down the mountain.
On the way back, Zhu father again took the two to the place where he had laid the trap to catch the rabbits before he came.
The first trap, empty, no harvest. Zhu Pingan was a little disappointed.
But the next time, he jumped again, because the next two traps even had a fat rabbit, still alive.
Zhu’s father tied the legs of the rabbits with weeds and let Zhu Pingan touch enough rabbits before putting them in the basket.
The first time he went into the mountains, he harvested pheasants, rabbits, fish, bamboo shoots, mushrooms and honeysuckle. Zhu Pingan was full of longing for his future trips into the mountains, and he didn’t even feel any pain in his aching legs and stomach anymore.
“Ya, second brother is back.”
When Zhu Pingan and the others entered the door, Fourth Aunt Zhao rushed over in a single bound, just like a wolf that had been starving for a few days, her eyes were glowing green.
Even Chen, who had been waiting at the door for her husband and child for half a day, had not reacted, but the fourth aunt had already gone to grab the basket behind Zhu Shouyi’s back.
Those who didn’t know thought that the fourth aunt was waiting for her husband and children.
Zhu Ping’an looked at the uncharacteristically enthusiastic Fourth Aunt with a stupefied expression.
“Ya, second brother also caught two fat rabbits and two pheasants ah, ah, there are also so many fish, mother, mother, quickly come ah ……”
The fourth aunt at this moment incarnated as an airport security inspector, wailed and began to rummage through the baskets, seeing the same thing all wailed a voice, fearing that others do not know.
Father Zhu Shouyi looked at Chen with an embarrassed face, being the fourth aunt disturbed, hands do not know where to put.
Chen looked at Auntie Chen with a look of disgust!
Really, do you think everyone is like you and fourth brother, hiding things and still grinning!
Fourth Aunt wailed, and Grandmother came in as fast as she could, not asking her sons and grandsons if they had a hard time in the mountains and if they were in trouble or danger.
She didn’t ask her sons and grandsons if they had been working hard in the mountains and if they had encountered any troubles or dangers, but asked, “That’s all we’ve got, have we left any in other places?”
Huh?
Suspected of hiding?
“Without my mother, I hit this much, with the two of them helping to pick fungus, mountain mushrooms, bamboo shoots than the last time my son went into the mountains to harvest a lot more.” Zhu Shouyi looks like he didn’t hear the hidden meaning of Old Mrs. Zhu, very honestly answered, and also helped his son to take credit.
Old Mrs. Zhu also knew that her second son was honest, as long as he didn’t go through her second daughter-in-law’s hands, he wouldn’t hide anything, not to mention that his fourth daughter-in-law was supervising him, so she was relieved.
However, when she saw the basket carried by Zhu Pingan, Mrs. Zhu rubbed her eyes, why did she see her grandson carrying wildflowers?
Old Mrs. Zhu put her hand into Zhu Pingan’s basket and turned it over, and it was really all wildflowers.
“You silly child, why are you carrying so many flowers.” Old Mrs. Zhu thought that her grandson’s head was not normal, the girl is also just, the boy you were so many flowers for what!
“To sell them for money!” Zhu Pingan answered simply and clearly.
The setting sun’s afterglow hit Zhu Pingan’s body, reflecting a mouth of white teeth are golden, live a fall into the eye of the money of the fool.
Psst!
Auntie Four laughed at the side of the straight up waist, coughing repeatedly, “giggle giggle, swine’s really laugh at me, this wildflower can also be sold for money, heh heh heh, the second sister-in-law, it will not be you, right?”
Old Mrs. Zhu sniffed and looked at Chen with her eyes.
Chen couldn’t wait to slant Zhao’s smiling face with a big ear! Fanning the flames, stirring up trouble. This Old Fourth Family can’t stop for a moment!
“It’s not Mother, it’s me who thinks it can be sold for money.” Zhu Pingan rushed before Chen’s anger.
Old Mrs. Zhu was right in front of her, and if her mother and the fourth aunt were at each other’s throats, there would be no good consequences.
“Heh heh heh, swine up the mountain won’t be tired and stupid, wildflowers also want to sell money, then everyone in our village is a rich man. If you can sell it for money, unless the sun comes out of the west.”
The fourth aunt can mouth a also not accumulate virtue, mouth poison heart bitter, two-faced three knives, on the face of a smile, foot tripping, Ming is a pot of fire, dark is a knife.
“How do you words, will not words, you only tired stupid it!”
Chen’s directly quit, his own Bao’er good son, he can scold, others a word can not! Just now the old
Mrs. My son also even if, you still follow! Although she also felt that her son’s behavior of picking a basket of wildflowers was very that, but others just can not!
“Alright, all of you stop arguing, all of you go and help the oldest two go and put things back together and put them away.” Grandmother’s eyes only things, waved her hand to let Chen’s and Zhao’s follow Zhu Shouyi to put things away, as for Zhu Pingan’s basket of wildflowers, grandmother is not on the mind, a wildflower can do what for, feed the pigs pigs don’t eat, “swine’s wildflowers on their own to stay and play it.”
It looks like there is no one in the village who can find the value of honeysuckle, it would be cheap.
Honeysuckle can be the easiest to concoct Chinese herbal medicine, there is no one, will be placed on the buds of the reed mat stone shed or field spread out to dry or ventilated shade drying 1 – day drying on the good, sunshine flowers pay attention to do not flip on the good.
It is not possible to put the mats, grandmother will not give, then you can only find a place to dry. The ground in the yard should also be excluded, worried that the chickens will cause damage, well, then put on the pigpen shed.
Zhu Pingan stepped on his short legs, stepped on the bench and successfully dried the honeysuckle above the pig pen.
Looking at the flat spread of honeysuckle flowers, Zhu Pingan released his eyes to see a copper coin running towards him.
This is hope!
Dinner is the turn of the mother Chen’s cooking, Zhu Ping’an bashfully followed the fire, Chen can not even shoo away. Because just now Zhu Pingan had heard his grandmother let dinner do fish soup, although at noon in the mountains is also eaten also fish, but after all, outside the seasoning are not complete, the practice is also rough, did not really play the delicious fish.
Chen will be crucian carp scales, viscera and gills, cleaned and cut into pieces in the pot, the fresh bamboo shoots cleaned and peeled off the shells, sliced and fish together with the right amount of water, frying and boiling for half an hour, the soup is white as milk, tender meat smooth, the kitchen is full of the taste of fresh fish soup.
Chen looked at the side of the second son of the eye looking at the pot, can not help but smile, “look at you that greedy, come, you give mother taste fish soup flavor salty and light.” With a clip up a piece of fish, put in the bowl heart in addition to fish spines.
Is to taste the saltiness, in fact, is to give Zhu Pingan open stove.
“Well, then I’ll taste it.” Zhu Pingan washed his hands in the water basin next to him, waving his fat paw in a reluctant manner, but the drool was almost flowing out of his face, still amusing Chen enough.
The soup is fresh and flavorful, mother’s handiwork is a hundred times better than what father did at noon, it’s almost like swallowing your tongue into your belly, it’s so delicious that you’re going to cry out.
