Porridge and side dishes [farming]

Chapter 10

There is no loophole in Li Ji's words.If Er Gouzi didn't want to bring someone along, it's fine, so he grabbed Li Ji to help talk, and even brought up the matter of saving Er Gouzi.

But what Li Ji meant was that Gao Orion was not strong enough to run fast, and there was nothing he could do if he couldn't run when he encountered a large beast.Gao Orion can't pretend to be fat.

Gao Orieu was still a little bit unwilling, so he said again: "Isn't it a good way to go? Just walk along the perimeter. There are at most wolves there. I dare not do it alone, and the two of us can talk about it."

Li Ji wanted to go home, turned his head and said: "It's nothing, but look at what time it is now, it's almost winter, the grass is dead, those rabbits and deer eating grass must be hiding less. What are the tigers and cheetahs living in the depths of the forest hungry for? They must be going outside to try their luck, which is the same reason as we go in if we can’t find prey outside. destroyed."

Isn't what people fear most in their life just in case?It may be possible to go to the depths of the forest only once in a hundred times to encounter a beast that cannot be resisted, but because of the probability of that one time, it is enough to make people dare not go in in this life.

Li Ji took two quick steps to throw Gao Orion away, and went home to feed the chickens and light the fire.There were not many pickled vegetables at home, so Li Ji went to Zhao Qian's house in the village to buy a jar.Zhao Qian's daughter-in-law was married from another place, and she was good at pickling pickles. The thick-skinned people in the village asked Zhao Qian's daughter-in-law to help pickle vegetables.

There is nothing to do inside and out, Li Jixian is fine, so he cooks melon seeds on the kang. I bought melon seeds when I went to the city, and they are all fried. Not bad time.

After waiting until the afternoon, Li Ji became a little anxious. The more he ate the melon seeds, the less he liked them. He stuffed the rice and made a salad with shredded potatoes and fried pork with cabbage.Put the lid on the pot to keep warm, put on thick cotton clothes and go to the entrance of the village to wait.

The weather was cold these two days, and the children who came out to play were forced to wear thick clothes and patches of various colors.

Some children would stop and call Li Ji as fourth uncle or fourth grandpa when they saw Li Ji, and they heard it a lot from childhood.

After waiting at the entrance of the village for a while, Li Ji wished he could go straight up the mountain to pick him up, and promised to come back early, but why hasn't he come back yet.

After waiting for a while, Er Gouzi really kept his word today. Not long after, Li Ji saw him walking down the mountain, carrying a roe deer in one hand, and a bone spear stained with blood in the other. Toothy grin.

Li Ji's heart was finally relieved, and he walked in to see that although Er Gouzi's cotton coat was dirty, it was not torn, which meant that he was not injured.

Roe deer usually don't grow big. This one weighs fifty or sixty catties. If the roe deer meat is cooked well, it will be a rare delicacy.

Carrying it home, he brought Gao Orion's daughter-in-law again, and still paid him two catties of meat, and asked Gao Orion's wife to handle all the meat.

Roe deer meat is the most delicious when made into jerky, leave a few catties to eat now, cut the rest into strips and marinate, and when it is marinated, it is not easy to dry at this time, don’t worry about eating it and hang it outside for a few months to freeze It has also been freeze-dried, and if you are in a hurry to eat, hang the meat on a rope at a wide place outside the fire wall, and it will dry up in a few days before you can eat it.

Peel off a whole piece of roe deer skin, take it directly to Gao Orion's house, let Gao Orion estimate the price, and let Gao Orion tan it himself. After selling it, it is still [-] cents.

The estimated value of such a piece of leather is six yuan, and the specific price is still to be sold.

In the evening, Li Ji stewed the roe deer meat again. On the dinner table, fried bacon with cabbage, kimchi, and another dish of roe deer meat. There were too many dishes, and Er Gouzi was destined to be full today.

Anyway, Er Gouzi must have spent a lot of energy going up the mountain today, so eating more shouldn't make you gain weight.

The two sat opposite each other, mouthful of oily food.

Roe deer has a lot of meat, but it has a strong fishy smell. It's good to eat fresh, but you can't stand it if you eat it every day.However, after making the meat jerky, the fishy smell will be much smaller, and it can be eaten directly as a snack.

"It's quite early today." Li Ji was very satisfied with this.

Er Gouzi smiled and said: "I saw the big one in the morning and ran fast, but I didn't catch it. I only saw this in the afternoon. I caught it in the morning and came back."

Er Gouzi's words are strange, but understandable.After hearing Er Gouzi's words clearly, Li Ji nodded and said with a smile: "You still have the ability, come on, eat more."

Pick up a piece of roe deer meat and put it in Ergouzi's bowl.Er Gouzi looked at the meat in the bowl, and then at Li Ji who was smiling brightly. He picked up the meat and put it in his mouth, chewing slowly, then he also picked up a piece for Li Ji.

After eating, Er Gouzi washed the dishes and Li Ji threw himself on the kang. The kang and the flue wall were so warm that he could sleep naked without a eiderdown quilt.

The two of them lay on the kang, covered with newly bought quilts, and bought two new quilts, the two of them finally didn't need another quilt.

Just when Li Ji was about to fall asleep, he heard Er Gouzi's soft voice saying: "I miss my mother."

Li Ji was taken aback, and reached out to pat Er Gouzi's chest: "I'll take you there tomorrow."

Li Yan's grave was given to Lide by his elder brother. Although her family blamed her for being willful and not keeping her duty, after all, there was a relationship between her and her brother.Now Li Yan's elder brother died of illness last year, two sons and one daughter, the daughter married out, the two sons are in the village, saw Er Gouzi came back, although he didn't take him home, but Er Gouzi brought something to Li Ji after he came here , be regarded as affectionate.

Early the next morning, I ate too much before going to bed last night. This morning, I simply ate something light. Millet porridge with pickles, soup and water are easy to digest.

Er Gouzi was obviously not satisfied with this kind of life without meat, but he didn't say anything.

After dinner, Li Ji went to the small grocery store in the village to buy two stacks of paper money.Said it was a grocery store, but I didn’t actually buy anything, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, tobacco and alcohol, and the rest was just paper money.They are all definitely useful in the village, there are no fancy tricks, and they are convenient anyway.

Taking Er Gouzi to the cemetery on the mountain in the east, Li Yan returned to the village with a big belly and was unmarried and conceived, so the family regarded her as married.A married woman belongs to her husband's family and cannot enter her natal family's ancestral grave, and she doesn't know who her husband is, so a solitary grave was erected not far from the ancestral grave.

When Li Ji was a child, he heard his father said it when he went to the grave with him, so he had an impression.I quickly found the grassy grave bag, the grass on the grave was more than one meter high, and almost no one took care of it since the grave was erected.That is to say, there are many trees in the mountains, otherwise the graves would be gone within two years.

With a sickle and a shovel, he mowed all the grass, and asked Er Gouzi to add more soil to his mother.

Er Gouzi didn't understand why this mound was his mother. Li Ji explained to him that after a person dies, there will be such a grave, where the bones are buried.

Er Gouzi's eyes were wet, but he didn't cry, he followed Li Ji's instructions to add soil to Li Yan, choked up, and said, "Why did mother die, why didn't you look for me."

Er Gouzi lived with Li Yan when he was a child. He got lost in the jungle when he was five years old and never came back.Li Yansi'er became ill and went away not long after.

It is not difficult to imagine the desperation and fear of a five-year-old child who suddenly disappears.In the beginning in the jungle, it must have been particularly difficult.

"Actually, your mother has been looking for you." Li Ji couldn't help comforting her, "There is no mother who doesn't love her son. It's just that she missed you so much that she left after a while. Although she died, it was just It exists in another way. Maybe you can live on the mountain for so long because your mother secretly blessed you."

Er Gouzi seemed to understand what he said, and after finishing the grave, Li Ji asked Er Gouzi to kneel down, and then began to burn paper.Li Yan didn't have a tombstone, so Li Ji thought about going to the city to put a tombstone for Li Yan in the spring of next year.Although I didn't enter the ancestral grave, it is considered a lonely grave, but my son is still there, and this monument will be erected.

After burning the paper, Li Ji asked Er Gouzi to kowtow, and before leaving, he said to the grave bag: "Don't worry Er Gouzi is here with me, I will definitely not let him suffer any more. But your son does have You will surely have a better life in the future.”

After returning home, Er Gouzi was a little depressed, saying that he was looking for his mother, but in fact, he was looking for a mound of dirt, not the living person who depended on each other when he was a child.

Li Ji looked at Er Gouzi sitting on the kang and did not speak. He went to sit next to Er Gouzi and patted Er Gouzi on the shoulder: "With me, we will live a good life together in the future. Your mother will know, and you can rest in peace." gone."

Er Gouzi looked back at Li Ji with red eyes, and immediately gave him a comforting smile.Er Gouzi couldn't hold back the emotions in his heart, and opened his arms to hold Li Ji in his arms.

Li Ji was taken aback by being hugged suddenly, thinking about Er Gouzi's emotions at this time, he acquiesced in Er Gouzi's actions.

In Li Ji's feeling, maybe Er Gouzi's mind was still stuck in the time when he was lost at the age of five. At that time, he was just a little child, how fragile it was to lose his mother.Now seeing my mother turned into a mound of dirt, I must feel uncomfortable.

Children need a hug most when they are vulnerable, and when adults need it, there is often no one to hug.

Li Ji and Er Gouzi both belong to this kind of people, hugging each other and keeping each other warm is not a bad idea.

Thinking of this, Li Ji reached out and hugged Er Gouzi back, and the two hugged like this for a while.

At lunch time, there was not much water in the house, so I took Li Ji to fetch water from the stream, and it was snowing on the 110 on the way back.The snowflakes are eloquent, and it looks very beautiful when I look up.

Li Ji seldom admired such a scenery, so he couldn't help but stop and take a look.Er Gouzi looked back at Li Ji's serious appearance, feeling a little strange in his heart.

Li Ji withdrew his gaze, smiled at Er Gouzi, and walked back with the burden on his shoulders.

It’s snowing here, we must store enough water, the stream will be frozen soon, and only snow water will be left as the water source in winter, but sometimes there will be little snow, or the heavy snow will come late, and the draft That's the problem.

Fortunately, the water tank at home is big enough. If you don't take a bath or wash your clothes, it will last for more than half a month.

If the heavy snow falls late this year, buy another large water tank next year.

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