Era: My backyard is the garbage dump of the universe

Chapter 343 Parents Leave
In this way, a simple 'road' is formed.

Liu Hualei was worried that Zhou Meiling couldn't climb up, so he shouted to Liu Qingsong on the cliff: "Throw down another rope, and I'll tie up your mother and pull her up."

"Uncle, why don't I not go up the mountain with you to hunt?" Li Fenfen couldn't help but say as she looked at the cliff that was more than ten meters high.

Liu Huagen and Liu Huasheng also looked at Liu Hualei.

"No, I want to go up the mountain." Before Liu Hualei could answer, Zhou Meiling grabbed the rope and climbed up the cliff.

"Be careful!" Liu Hualei couldn't help but remind him worriedly.

"I will." Zhou Meiling answered while increasing her speed of climbing up, and soon she reached the top of the cliff.

This scene made Liu Hualei and Li Fenfen breathe a sigh of relief.

He quickly grabbed the rope and climbed up.

A few minutes later, everyone was on the cliff.

After sitting there and resting for a while, I walked towards the pine forest.

Seeing his parents were going to the north, Liu Qingsong reminded them, "Go this way. There are more wild goats here."

"I know, let's go get something." Liu Hualei said with a smile.

"Why don't you and Fenfen wait for us here?" Zhou Meiling also said.

"Okay then!" Although Liu Qingsong was a little confused, he still waited there.

Wang Yaoqing, Liu Huagen, Liu Huasheng, Zhou Chuanxiong and Zhou Yiyi did not leave either, but waited where they were.

Ten minutes later, Liu Hualei and Zhou Meiling came back, but Zhou Meiling had a piece of rag in her hand.

"Mom, what's in your hand?" Liu Qingsong walked up to her.

Li Fenfen was also very curious.

"This is the dowry your grandmother gave me when I got married." Zhou Meiling sighed and opened the rag: "Fenfen, come here."

"Oh!" Li Fenfen hesitated for a moment and walked to Zhou Meiling's side.

Zhou Meiling took out a pair of jade bracelets from the rags, and put them on Li Fenfen's hands. Seeing that they fit her well, she couldn't help but smile: "Keep this jade bracelet. It's a gift from me before I leave."

"Aunt, this... this is too expensive, right?" Li Fenfen was a little flattered and also a little happy.

"Just keep it and don't worry about the rest." Zhou Meiling held Li Fenfen's right hand with a smile on her face: "When your uncle and I come back next year, I will buy you a pair of gold bracelets."

"Okay." Li Fenfen nodded with a blush.

This is not because he is greedy.

But she knew that Zhou Meiling's gift of jade and gold bracelets to her was a sign of recognition of her as her daughter-in-law, and if she refused, it would be ungrateful.

"Mom, when did you hide this pair of jade bracelets on Tiger Mountain?" Liu Qingsong asked the question in his mind.

Liu Huagen, Liu Huasheng, Zhou Chuanxiong, Zhou Yiyi, Liu Qingxu and others also looked at Zhou Meiling.

Zhou Meiling sighed, "Oh! This is a long story. In short, your father and I knew that Wang Xiaohe wanted to harm us, so we secretly hid the jade bracelets on Tiger Mountain. This time when we can go hunting on Tiger Mountain, I naturally have to take out the jade bracelets."

"Oh!" Liu Qingsong nodded.

He said that his mother's jade bracelet suddenly disappeared, and this was the reason.

Seeing that he knew everything he needed to know, he said to everyone present: "Let's go and try to hunt a few wild boars and a dozen wild goats by noon."

"it is good!!"

"Go, let's go!"

Zhou Chuanxiong, Zhou Yiyi, Liu Huagen and others followed Liu Qingsong and walked towards the depths of Tiger Mountain.

Although Liu Hualei and Zhou Meiling thought Liu Qingsong was bragging, they did not say much, but followed behind silently and kept alert.

The reason why they thought Liu Qingsong was bragging was that they had never hunted with Liu Qingsong.

Of course, more importantly, they knew that the game in Tiger Mountain was not that easy to hunt.

If it were easy to hunt a dozen wild boars or wild goats, the game in Tiger Mountain would have been extinct long ago.

However, as the group went deeper into Tiger Mountain, Liu Hualei and Zhou Meiling soon realized that they were wrong.

This kid Liu Qingsong can not only kill a rabbit with one shot, but he can also kill large and ferocious beasts like wild boars with one shot.

In just over an hour, they hunted seven rabbits, a big wild boar, thirteen pheasants, and a wild goat.

Among them, the wild goat was bitten to death by Xiao Heikui. It was thrown at Liu Qingsong's feet and then burrowed into the mimosa grass and disappeared.

"Everyone be careful," Liu Qingsong noticed something was wrong, and after giving a warning, he parted the migratoria grass and chased after him.

Zhou Chuanxiong and Zhou Yiyi glanced at each other and followed behind.

After the group of three crawled out from the Miscanthus grass, they were about to see where Xiao Heikui was. The next second, they were all stunned, and Zhou Yiyi almost screamed out loud.

The reason for this is that on the flat grassland two hundred meters away, in addition to a dozen large bristle wild boars foraging, there are nearly a hundred wild goats of various sizes grazing in the southeast.

That's right.

There are at least nearly a hundred wild goats.

These wild goats were not afraid when they saw the little black goat coming over. They were still eating grass leisurely, as if they had no natural enemies in this area.

"What should we do next?" Zhou Chuanxiong asked Liu Qingsong excitedly after he came to his senses.

"What else can we do? Go call my third uncle and eldest uncle over, and we'll aim at the herd of wild goats and shoot together. How many we can kill depends on our luck." Liu Qingsong replied.

After all, it was far away and he was unsure.

"Okay! Okay!" Zhou Chuanxiong nodded, turned around and disappeared into the migsatilla.

Zhou Yiyi aimed his gun at the nearest wild goat and said, "Captain Liu, what should we do with those dozen big bristle boars? If they hear the gunshots and go crazy and charge at us, we'll be in big trouble."

"What are you afraid of? I'm here for you." While speaking, Liu Qingsong took off the broken knife on his shoulder and stuck it into the ground.

After waiting for a while, Zhou Chuanxiong called over Wang Yaoqing, Liu Huagen, Liu Hualei, Liu Huasheng, Zhou Meiling, Liu Qingxu and others.

When they saw the groups of wild goats and wild boars on the grass, they all widened their eyes in disbelief.

"Don't just stand there and watch. Raise your guns and aim." Liu Qingsong reminded in a low voice and raised the rifle in his hand.

Zhou Chuanxiong, Zhou Yiyi and others quickly followed suit.

"1..."

"2..."

“3…shoot!”

Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. Gunshots rang out.

Suddenly, more than a dozen wild goats fell down, but more of them fled into the surrounding woods in panic and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

A dozen wild boars were frightened and hid in the bushes.

Liu Qingsong waited for a while and made sure that the wild boar had run far away before he took Zhou Chuanxiong, Liu Qingxu, Wang Yaoqing and others to the direction of the dozen or so fallen wild goats.

Many of these dozen wild goats were still alive and struggling on the grass.

Liu Qingsong walked in and killed them all without saying a word, then said to everyone present: "Don't just stand there, each of you carry a wild goat on your back and hurry down the mountain."

They had to go down the mountain. If the smell of blood attracted other large wild animals, they would be in trouble.

"it is good!"

"Quick! Quick! Be quick with your hands and feet."

"Qingxu, give me a hand. I will carry two wild goats."

"Okay, Dad, give me the shotgun."

Wang Yaoqing led everyone to move quickly. After carrying more than a dozen wild goats on their backs, they followed Liu Qingsong and walked towards the foot of Tiger Mountain.

On the way, Liu Hualei curiously asked Liu Qingsong: "Son, when did there become so many wild goats on Tiger Mountain?"

Zhou Meiling also looked at Liu Qingsong curiously.

In the past, when they went hunting in Tiger Mountain, they could only encounter more than twenty wild goats at most. They had never encountered nearly a hundred like today.

"Because almost all the tigers on Tiger Mountain have been hunted to death, the wild goats have no natural enemies and their numbers have naturally increased." Liu Qingsong thought for a moment before replying.

"Is that so?" Liu Hualei nodded thoughtfully.

Seeing that the road ahead was difficult to walk on, he stepped forward to support Liu Huagen, and then they walked towards the woods ahead together.

……

At a quarter past twelve noon, Liu Qingsong and his party returned to Pangdun's threshing ground, talking and laughing.

When the children, including Xiao Nuomi, Xiao Taoqi, Yaomei, Wang Ba, Jin Yutou, Pangdun, etc., who were playing around, saw them returning with a full load, they cheered and surrounded them.

"Hehe... I have some meat for lunch!" "Yeah, and a lot of meat!"

"Brother is really awesome. Every time he leads a team, he can hunt a lot of game."

"He is Wo's brother, not your brother, so don't talk nonsense."

"He's my brother, okay?"

"You have to call him cousin."

“Is there a difference between a cousin and a brother?”

"Of course there is a difference. The one who is in the nest is my brother."

"..."

……

Liu Qingsong shook his head when he heard his youngest sister and cousin quarreling, but he did not intervene. Instead, he said to Li Fenfen, "Take a wild goat to the kitchen to cook for the eldest and second sisters, and I will let Uncle Wang divide the rest."

It is necessary to separate them. If they are not handled in time, they will become smelly. After all, it is summer now, and it is not as easy to preserve as in winter.

"Okay!" Li Fenfen hurriedly did as she was told. She carried a wild goat on her back and took Xiao Nuomi, Xiao Taoqi, Yaomei and other children to the temporary kitchen.

Liu Qingsong watched them go away before he shared the wild goats and other game with Wang Yaoqing.

Because there were fewer people going up the mountain this time, everyone could get a wild goat, so everyone was very happy.

Among them, Zhou Chuanxiong and Zhou Yiyi said goodbye to Liu Qingsong after getting the game.

There's no way. It's the busy farming season and they don't have the mood to stay for dinner.

But Liu Huagen, Liu Huasheng, Liu Qingxu, Liu Qingshui and other members of the Liu family did not leave. Except for going to the kitchen to help deal with the wild goats, the others went into the temporary tent to chat and rest with Liu Hualei.

Seeing that he had nothing to do for the time being, Liu Qingsong found some clean clothes and went to Diaozi River to take a bath.

Before I even got there, I saw a few villagers talking beside his rice field from a distance.

"What do you think is going on? The rice seedlings in our rice fields have turned yellow and curled up due to lack of water, so how come Liu Qingsong's rice is growing so well?"

"Yes! And there is still water in his fields. Where does the water come from?"

"I remember that the water in the fish pond upstream could not be released a long time ago. This is too weird."

……

Liu Qingsong smiled when listening to these discussions, pretended not to hear them and walked straight towards Diaozi River.

While jumping into the river to take a bath, he also quietly placed a water storage ball at the bottom of the river to store water.

At this time, the water in Diaozi River is no longer as deep as before, and the shallow areas have even dried up.

This is not a good sign for Liu Qingsong. If nothing unexpected happens, the Diaozi River will dry up in half a month. That will be the beginning of the real drought in Dayu City.

If he remembered correctly, the drought before his rebirth gradually ended only after a heavy rain three months later.

Within these three months, except for a few rice fields with good water sources, all the others dried up.

If their eldest sister hadn't helped their family, they wouldn't have been able to survive.

Thinking of this, Liu Qingsong sighed.

In order to prevent the same tragedy from happening again, he washed his body casually and went back ashore.

……

When I got home, Liu Lijuan, Liu Chunhua and Li Fenfen had already set the table for dinner.

Seeing this, Liu Qingsong hurried over to help. As the sun was at its hottest, he set the table and took out a large old electric fan from the tent.

This large electric fan was taken out from the garbage dump of the universe. The paint on the surface has peeled off and there is a small hole where the switch is located.

However, even though it looks shabby, its functions are unmatched by ordinary electric fans.

Why do I say that? Because in addition to its basic fanning function, it can also lower the surrounding temperature.

It’s just that Liu Qingsong didn’t adjust the temperature to a very low level, so no one at the table noticed it.

I thought this broken electric fan was very big, so it had this effect.

Amidst the eating, drinking and laughter, the lunch lasted until around 3:00 in the afternoon.

Sixth Grandpa, Liu Huagen, Liu Huasheng, and Liu Hualei were all drunk, and Liu Hualei even fell asleep directly on the round table.

Seeing this, Liu Qingsong had no choice but to carry Liu Hualei into the tent and put him on the bed.

Just as he was about to help take off his shoes, Liu Hualei suddenly murmured in his sleep: "Qingsong... Qingsong... I'm sorry for you. I let you shoulder the heavy responsibility of the family alone, and I, as a father..."

"Wang Xiaohe, I want to kill you. It's you who hurt me so badly. I...I will never forgive you..."

"Hongxia, Dad bought you some nice clothes, but...but he disappeared on the way home. I...I didn't break my promise to you..."

When Liu Hualei talked in his sleep, tears suddenly appeared in the corners of his eyes. Then he began to snore and never talked in his sleep again.

Liu Qingsong, who was standing by, was moved. After thinking about it, he took out a dragon-shaped evil-repelling jade from his space backpack and put it around Liu Hualei's neck.

The evil-repelling jade can eliminate all negative emotions and can also ward off evil spirits and repel insects.

There is no other meaning in giving this gift to my father Liu Qingsong, except that I hope my father can live a good and wonderful life and stop worrying about the past.

Seeing that his father was sweating a lot from the heat, Liu Qingsong even walked out of the tent and brought in a large old electric fan, and adjusted the temperature to about 20 degrees.

"Qingsong, Qingsong, come out for a moment. Sister Qingmei is here to look for you." Liu Lijuan's voice sounded outside at this time.

"Coming, coming." Liu Qingsong walked out of the tent.

……

In the busyness.

Time passed quickly and it was nine o'clock the next morning.

After having breakfast, Liu Qingsong saw that the military jeep that was coming to pick up his parents and Grandpa Liu had arrived. He was about to go to the main room to help with the luggage, but little Nuomi started crying at the gate.

"What's going on?" Liu Qingsong walked over.

At the gate, in addition to Xiao Nuomi, Yaomei, Xiao Taoqi and other children, more than a dozen members of the Liu family including Liu Qingxu, Liu Qingshui, Yamei, Liu Huagen, and Liu Huasheng were also there.

They came to see Liu Hualei, Sixth Grandpa, and Zhou Meiling off. When they saw Xiao Nuomi playing and frolicking with the other children, they made a joke that Liu Hualei would not want her anymore after he left.

I thought Xiao Nuomi wouldn't care at all.

Who knew that little Nuomi burst into tears on the spot, and immediately threw herself into Liu Hualei's arms: "Grandpa, you won't abandon your home, right?"

"Yeah, they were all joking." Liu Hualei picked up Xiao Nuomi with heartache.

"Then... then grandpa, when will you come back next time?" Little Nuomi asked, tilting his little head.

"Probably during the Chinese New Year!" Liu Hualei himself wasn't sure.

"Then I'll wait for you at home, and then we'll go fishing by the river together. I...I'm really good at fishing now." Little Nuomi said in a baby voice.

"Okay!" Liu Hualei agreed with a smile, but soon his eyes turned red.

The reason for this is that he just realized that he couldn't bear to part with his granddaughter Xiao Nuomi, his youngest sister, Liu Qingsong, and everything in his family.

In order to prevent Xiao Nuomi from seeing his embarrassing appearance, Liu Hualei quickly put Xiao Nuomi down and said, "Be good, go play with Yaomei and Xiao Taoqi. Grandpa is leaving soon. I will come back before the New Year to go fishing with you by the river."

"Yeah, yeah!" Little Nuomi ran away happily with his short legs.

After a while, he ran back with a small schoolbag in his little hands.

"Grandpa, this candy is for you." After opening his schoolbag, Little Nuomi took out all the milk candies and sugar cubes inside and stuffed them into Liu Hualei's trouser pocket.

Liu Hualei; “…”

He had a lot to say.

But in the end, he just reached out and rubbed little Nuomi's head, then turned around and walked towards the military jeep with Zhou Meiling and Sixth Grandpa.

Seeing this, Liu Qingsong hurriedly took Liu Lijuan into the main room, took the luggage and placed it in the trunk of the military jeep.

"Dad, remember to call me when you have time. Once our red brick house is built, we will definitely install a telephone as soon as possible." Liu Qingsong saw Liu Hualei and Zhou Meiling secretly wiping tears in the car, so he reminded them.

"Yes, I will." Liu Hualei choked.

Zhou Meiling also cried.

The couple looked at the children standing next to the military vehicle, waved their hands, and quickly asked the driver to drive away.

There was no other way. If they stayed any longer, they were afraid they wouldn’t be able to leave.

……

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(End of this chapter)