Era: My backyard is the garbage dump of the universe

Chapter 17: Come back, little sister! It's dangerous there
It's just dawn.

Liu Lijuan got up.

After a simple wash in the kitchen.

I started washing the sweet potatoes and making breakfast for my younger brothers and sisters.

Liu Qingshi walked into the kitchen and saw this scene. He was quite dissatisfied: "Second sister, didn't Third Brother say last night that we will have rice for every meal in the future? But why are you cooking sweet potatoes so early in the morning?"

Sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes.

Eat sweet potatoes every day.

He now gets annoyed by the sight of sweet potatoes.

Liu Lijuan guessed what Liu Qingshi was thinking, and after rolling her eyes at him, she said unhappily, "Don't you know what our family is like now? You still want to eat rice every day? I tell you, if there's no income at home, we won't even have sweet potatoes in half a month."

This is the truth.

A family of five plus a dog.

The daily food consumption is staggering.

"But..." Liu Qingshi hesitated to speak.

"No buts." Liu Lijuan glared at Liu Qingshi impatiently: "Hurry up and wash up, then call Lao Wu to get up, I will steam spicy fish and sweet potatoes for you later, okay?"

"This is great." Liu Qingshi happily turned around and called Old Wu Liu Qinglong.

Then the two brothers squatted at the kitchen door and started washing.

After washing up, Liu Qingsong also came to the kitchen.

Following behind were the youngest sister and Xiao Nuomi, who were rubbing their sleepy eyes.

"Why are you getting up so early?" Liu Lijuan, who was adding firewood, couldn't help but ask.

"I'll take the oil bottle to the pine forest on the back mountain." Liu Qingsong replied with a smile, "They can follow me to play."

"Well, my uncle said there are mushrooms to pick in the back hill. I want to eat some mushrooms." Little Nuomi echoed in a baby voice.

"No...what are you doing with the oil bottle while picking mushrooms?" Liu Lijuan was confused.

Liu Qingshi and Liu Qinglong on the side also looked at Liu Qingsong in confusion.

"The oil can I'm talking about isn't the one for vegetable oil, but the one for kerosene." Liu Qingsong explained, "Second sister, didn't you say last night that we were running out of kerosene? I want to go to the pine forest at the back of the mountain to find some pine oil."

Pine oil.

Just like kerosene.

It can also provide light when lit.

And the effect is no worse than kerosene.

After Liu Lijuan realized what was happening, she even found a kerosene bottle under the stove and handed it to Liu Qingsong: "There are wild boars in the pine forest at the back of the mountain. Don't take your youngest sister Xiao Nuomi too far."

"Even if there is no pine oil, you must come back as soon as possible."

"I know." Liu Qingsong took the oil bottle.

"One more thing." Liu Lijuan glanced at the sky outside the window: "I will go to pay Qingshi and Qinglong's tuition later. You must remember to feed the chickens and water the cabbages and onions in your own fields."

"I know, I know." Liu Qingsong agreed.

In fact, even if his second sister didn't say it, he would do it.

"By the way, little sister, don't follow Qingsong around all day. If the team needs someone to herd cattle, you have to report over. You can earn as many work points as you can." Liu Lijuan added.

"Oh!" The youngest sister agreed reluctantly.

Liu Qingsong watched this scene and smiled.

But he didn't say much.

After washing, he picked up the oil bottle and walked towards the pine forest on the back mountain with his younger sister and Xiao Nuomi.

The pine forest of Wild Boar Ridge in the back mountain is very large, stretching all the way to the middle of the mountain, covering an area of ​​at least more than a thousand acres.

But Liu Qingsong didn't dare to go to the middle of the mountain. He and Xiao Nuomi and his youngest sister only dared to move around in the pine forest at the foot of the mountain.

Surprisingly, the naturally formed pine oil on the pine trees had long been picked by people, and the ground was full of footprints.

As for mushrooms, I didn't see many of them.

This made Liu Qingsong somewhat disappointed. Just when he was about to call his youngest sister and Xiao Nuomi who were chasing butterflies back, there was a sudden movement in the bushes in front of him, and then a fat hare jumped out.

Liu Qingsong hasn't reacted yet.

The hare disappeared into the thatched grass that was as tall as a person.

"Uncle, there is... there is a rabbit!" Little Nuomi also saw the hare, and pointed with his little finger in surprise. "Yes, I saw it." Liu Qingsong nodded: "But we can't catch it, let's go back!"

"Oh!" Xiao Nuomi was a little disappointed.

Holding Liu Qingsong's big hand, they were about to walk towards the foot of the mountain.

The youngest sister bent down and crawled into the thatch.

"Come back, Hongxia! It's dangerous there." Liu Qingsong shouted when he saw this.

"Nothing." The youngest sister poked her head out from the thatch and said in surprise, "Third brother, there are so many mushrooms in here."

"Really?" Liu Qingsong walked over with Xiao Nuomi by his hand.

When I pulled apart the silk grass, I saw a lot of silk grass mushrooms on the ground.

Like pine mushrooms, thatch mushrooms are non-toxic and edible.

Liu Qingsong was so happy when he saw the densely packed straw mushrooms on the ground.

He bent down and was about to pick them, but the next second he was stunned.

Then Lian said to Xiao Nuomi and Yaomei, "Don't move. There are traps ahead, and there are more than one."

"Ah? Where...where?" The youngest sister looked around.

Little Nuomi also hugged Liu Qingsong's right leg in fear.

"Just don't move." Liu Qingsong reached out and picked up Xiao Nuomi and walked away from the thatched grass, then led the youngest sister out.

After telling the two little guys not to wander around, Liu Qingsong picked up a dead branch from the ground and crawled into the thatch.

Soon, they came out with two cold-gleaming traps.

The traps were holding dead branches, and one of them had broken the branch, leaving only a small piece of bark.

When the youngest sister saw this scene, she couldn't help but shrink her neck.

Little Nuomi was also very scared when he saw this. If they were caught in the trap, one could imagine how serious the consequences would be.

Liu Qingsong's face also looked a little ugly. After all, the entire Huajiao Production Brigade had already stipulated that traps could not be set in the mountains.

This is not a target for hunters, but the local villagers who come into the mountains may be injured if they set traps carelessly.

It would be fine if it was just a minor injury, but if I became disabled, my life would be over.

And now someone actually set traps on the mountain behind his backyard without informing him or his neighbors. This is simply murder for money.

"Third brother, what should we do now?" The youngest sister spoke at this time, with fear in her voice.

"What else can we do? These traps must be cleared and confiscated, otherwise we won't dare go up the mountain in the future." Liu Qingsong said as he threw the trap in his hand to the ground and rolled up his sleeves.

Just in case.

He found another branch.

Poke around in places that look like animal traps.

Seeing this, Xiao Nuomi and Yaomei followed suit and picked up dead branches and started poking around in the surrounding thatch and bushes.

Soon, five traps were found.

But Liu Qingsong did not feel happy, instead his mood became worse, because there was no impression of these traps in his memory brought by his rebirth.

Just as I was about to go to the southeast pine forest to take a look, I heard movement in the bushes ahead.

Liu Qingsong pushed aside the thatch and took a look. Wow, it turned out to be a fat hare caught in a trap and was struggling desperately.

But what's the use of struggling?

The trap was firmly clamped around its right leg.

Judging from the bloody appearance, I'm afraid the right leg has been broken long ago.

Liu Qingsong looked around cautiously, then walked carefully to the side of the hare, knocked it unconscious with a stick, and then picked it up.

The youngest sister, who was not far away, saw this scene and jumped up happily: "Third brother, are we going to have stewed wild rabbit meat later?"

Little Nuomi was delighted when he heard the words "stewed rabbit meat".

I couldn't help but bite my index finger.

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(End of this chapter)