Pastoral lucky girl's counterattack

Chapter 5
Qiu Laifu climbed up the mountainside with his tiger and came to this family.This is a courtyard surrounded by stones, the courtyard walls may be two meters high, and the courtyard gate is made of strong wooden doors, which are closed at this time.

Qiu Laifu went forward to knock on the door, and within a few seconds, someone opened the door, and the person who opened the door was a middle-aged man.

He first asked through the door, "Who is it?" Qiu Laifu replied, "Uncle, I'm passing by, my brother and I are going to uncle's house, and we only got halfway here with the bamboo raft.

it's getting dark.I am afraid that there will be no residents in front of me, so I want to stay at your house for one night, as long as there is a head covering. "

The man opened the door and saw two children, one about eight or nine years old, and the other about five or six years old, both dressed in rags and dirty.

To be honest, I really didn't want to let people in, but seeing that they were really pitiful, I let them in with a soft heart.

The middle-aged man closed the courtyard door, and when he entered the courtyard, he saw a thatched cottage.

Although the house is old, it is clean and comfortable.The man led them into the main room and told them to sit for a while and have dinner together later.

Qiu Laifu hurriedly declined, "Uncle, you can eat by yourself, we have dry food. I just want to borrow your firewood house for one night."

"We don't have anything good to entertain you, just some rough food. Although it's not exquisite, it's better than hot. You can eat something later." The middle-aged man continued to invite.

Seeing that he was quite enthusiastic, Qiu Laifu agreed.And took out one and a half steamed buns that he had prepared, and asked to heat them up.

The middle-aged man took the bun and looked at the two brothers.I thought to myself that these two children look like beggars, but they can still eat buns made of white flour, which is a bit complicated.A guard quietly rose in my heart.

Sure enough, dinner was served in a short while, Qiu Laifu asked for some water to wash his and Huzi's hands and came to the table.

There are four members of this family, the couple with two children.

On the dining table is a pot of wild vegetable porridge, with more vegetables and less rice.There is also a pot of boiled cabbage.It can be deduced from the amount that the family originally planned to eat wild vegetable porridge, but when Qiu Laifu and Huzi arrived, they added another cabbage.

Then there is a stoneware bowl filled with half a steamed stuffed bun.The steamed bun was steaming when it was hot, and there was also an aroma, which attracted the two children to stare at the bun with a suspicious silver thread at the corner of their mouth.

Not only the two children, Hu Zi is also the same.Looking at their appearance, Qiu Laifu was really embarrassed to eat that bun.

She went up to say hello to the aunt who had never met before, and signaled Huzi to say hello to the aunt, and Huzi did it in a dignified manner.

Qiu Laifu picked up the chopsticks and divided the whole bun into two halves, and handed it to the aunt.

"Auntie, please give the steamed stuffed bun to your two sons. The other half is my brother's leftover at noon today, give it to him. I'll just eat your vegetable porridge!"

After speaking, I took an empty bowl to fill a bowl of vegetable porridge and took a sip to prove my determination.

The aunt wanted to decline at first, but the hands of his two sons were faster than her words.Seeing her son's greedy appearance, the aunt's heart was sore.

It was all caused by her own poverty, and she never forgot etiquette no matter how hard she felt, so she thanked Qiu Laifu repeatedly.

Qiu Laifu waved his hands again and again, "You're welcome, you're welcome, it's just a steamed stuffed bun. You see, we brothers are bothering you tonight. I'm really sorry that you are so polite."

The aunt didn't say much, she just kept persuading Qiu Laifu to eat more.During the day and night of Qiu Laifu's escape, he was really thirsty, and eating the porridge with wild vegetables felt to his appetite.

He also served a small half bowl for the little tiger, who ate the steamed stuffed buns and drank the porridge, and he didn't look uncomfortable at all, and even seemed very satisfied.

It's a pity that I can drink such bitter porridge with such relish.

I only feel my appetite when I am thirsty.Is this what the child usually eats?

So when going to bed after dinner, "Huzi also likes to drink that bitter porridge?" Qiu Laifu asked Huzi.

"I like to drink. My mother used to make it often." Hu Zi replied without hesitation.

It turned out to have the smell of mother.Inadvertently, Qiu Laifu also remembered his mother in the previous life.Both of them fell into their own memories, and they had nothing to say all night.

Besides, in the Qiu Mansion, of course Liu Lao Er couldn't find anyone, and it would be futile for him to search the entire He'an Town.Had to go back to the mansion to report.

Mrs. Qiu, Yan Qingping, lost her temper when she learned that no one was found.Liu Lao Er, who was kneeling on the ground, was drenched in cold sweat and shivering.

"Hurry up and send more people to look for it, and report back in time if there is any situation. It must be found within three days. If you want to see a person, you need to see a corpse."

After venting his anger, Yan Qingping had no choice but to send him down to look for it again, and to record the account of ineffectiveness first, and now is the time for employing people.

The next day, when the sky was slightly bright, Qiu Laifu heard noises outside the house, and knew that the family had started to wake up.

Qiu Laifu also called Huzi up, and after a little tidying up, he bid farewell to the uncle and aunt.

At this time, the couple had already dressed neatly and started a new day of work.

Seeing that they were leaving so early, the couple warmly kept them for breakfast before leaving.

But Qiu Laifu knew their lives were difficult.So he insisted on refusing.Before leaving, he found a lot of wormwood growing outside the yard, so he told the couple that the wormwood could be sold for money.

I hope that wormwood can bring a little improvement to their lives.

After the couple looked at each other, they thanked Qiu Laifu and the others again.Whether what the kid said was true or not, they had to try it.

Leaving the couple, Qiu Laifu and the others supported the bamboo raft and went downstream.

At this time, the river they walked was relatively wide, and occasionally a large ship passed by them.In contrast, Qiu Laifu and his small bamboo rafts are not enough to see in this river.

They could only survive in the shallow water by the river.

When it was almost noon, Qiu Laifu found another river beach and docked the bamboo raft on the bank.

He went ashore with the little tiger. "Huzi, go find some firewood. Let's make food here." The young man was so hungry that his chest was on his back. When he heard that he could make food, although he didn't know what to eat, he was happy I went to collect firewood.

This time they stayed at the foot of a mountain with a lush bamboo forest, so Qiu Laifu wanted to find something to eat in the bamboo forest.So he told Huzi and went up the mountain by himself.Huzi replied and continued to look for firewood.

Qiu Laifu thought in her heart that she could dig some bamboo shoots, and when she came to the bamboo forest, she realized that she had made a low-level mistake.

Now this season there are no bamboo shoots at all.Looking at the big bamboos with thick bowl mouths, there are old bamboos that have grown for several years, and there are also young bamboos that have only grown up this year without many branches and leaves.

Looking at the thick bamboo poles, I want to use these bamboos to make things like bowls and chopsticks that I need.

Because of the limited strength of this small body, Qiu Laifu used the knife he just bought to chop off two tender bamboos that grew this year.

Remove the branches, leaves and bamboo tips and drag them down the hill.When I came to the foot of the mountain, I saw that Huzi had already picked up a lot of firewood.

Qiu Laifu took the cans he bought yesterday from the bamboo raft, washed them inside and out, and filled half of them with the stream water flowing down from the mountain. The nature here is not polluted by industry, and the stream water on the mountain is comparable to mineral water.

Moved a few big stones around a simple stove.Start a fire to boil water.

After the fire started, Qiu Laifu let Huzi watch the fire while he cut bamboo chopsticks, bamboo shovels, bamboo spoons, bamboo bowls, etc. with a knife.First, I made a bamboo spoon, which will be used soon.

The bamboo spoon is very simple. Take a smaller section of the bamboo, leave a stump at one end, and cut it about 5 cm away from the stud, but it cannot be cut off completely, leaving a position of three or four centimeters.Cut the cut part vertically again, and the remaining part becomes a bamboo cup with a long handle attached to the cup mouth.

Then shave them smooth so they don't prick your hands.Such a bamboo spoon is completed.

When the water boiled, Qiu Laifu peeled off the scorched skin of the leftover big taro yesterday and put it in a pot to cook.While cooking, crush the taro with a spoon, and stir to prevent the bottom of the pot from sticking.After cooking, it becomes a pot of taro soup.

Although there is no oil and salt, taro has its own sweet taste.The sweet taro soup was placed in front of them to seduce the gluttons in their stomachs, but they still couldn't stutter.

Because there is no bowl to hold it.Qiu Laifu picked up the knife again and began to cut bamboo bowls and chopsticks.

The bowls and chopsticks are ready, and the taro soup is almost ready to dry.One bowl of sweet taro soup per person ate a full belly.

Little Huzi touched his chubby belly and said contentedly, "Brother made delicious food. I have never eaten such delicious food."

"This is taro. Although it is delicious, you can't eat too much. It is easy to accumulate food and digest slowly. It is resistant to hunger. If we don't eat it next night, we won't be very hungry."

"Ah! Don't eat at night. If you are very hungry at night, you won't be able to sleep well." Little Huzi held his round belly and began to worry about the time to be hungry.The little tiger who got acquainted also became lively.

　Taro soup is really delicious. While I was writing, I recalled the madness of eating taro soup when I was a child. There were three similar children in my family, and a can of taro soup was wiped out by us.I ate more than three bowls alone...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)