Chapter 4: Upward Life

As the sun sets, the sun shines like broken gold scattered in a small mountain village.

A little girl with a tiger head and a tiger brain was holding a bamboo branch, jumping on the village road, and suddenly squinted her bun face and looked at the thatched house not far away, and saw the smoke coming from the chimney of her home.

Her eyes were full of doubts, and she ran towards the house on her short legs, and when she entered the house, she saw her brother busy in the kitchen, and when he looked back at her, he kindly told her to wash his hands.

Hot porridge pots are served with the aroma of eggs.

"I went up the mountain to chop wood today, and I exchanged it for three cents!" Lin Haoran picked up a bowl of egg porridge, gently put it in front of her and explained: "Originally, I wanted to exchange three eggs with Aunt Qi, but she didn't charge money and gave away two of our family for nothing!" ”

This is the helplessness of this era, a hard day, and the result is only three eggs.

Hu Niu didn't care about the eggs, but glared at her eyes in surprise and said, "Brother, it turns out that you really went up the mountain to chop wood!" I thought they lied to me! ”

"What's so strange about this, the family can't rely on you alone, I also have to help the family make money!" Lin Haoran sat down at the table and handed her a pair of chopsticks.

Hu Niu took the chopsticks, but she didn't rush to do it, her beautiful eyelashes fell, and she sighed like a little adult and said, "I don't like you chopping wood, your body is so weak, it will be very hard!" ”

"It's not hard at all! I'm just in time to get some exercise, and when I've saved up enough money, I'll buy you new shoes, and then I'll buy you new clothes! Lin Haoran reached out and touched her head, planning for the future.

The tiger girl bowed her head silently, her eyes wet.

Lin Haoran looked at her like this, as if by magic, and took out a few things from his arms and put them in front of her.

Citrus?

When the tiger girl saw the citrus on the table, the sadness just now was swept away, her eyes immediately lit up, and she suddenly raised her head to look at Lin Haoran, Jingying was still hanging on her slender eyelashes, but what she represented was a kind of excitement.

"Do you like it?" Lin Haoran asked with a smile on his face, his eyes full of doting.

The tiger girl nodded heavily, then carefully peeled off a citrus with her fleshy little hands, and neatly gave half to Lin Haoran, which made Lin Haoran feel warm.

Cluck......

Hu Niu ate a piece of citrus, the citrus was a little sour, but she smiled happily, and then raised her face and said proudly: "I know it's from Jiangfu!" ”

Lin Haoran could only smile bitterly when he heard this, this thing was naturally not bought, it was indeed when he was selling firewood, he picked it from Jiangfu.

Hu Niu suddenly frowned, and said seriously: "Brother, don't steal their family next time, the people in that family are very fierce, and the third uncle's leg was broken by them!" ”

"I'm measured!" Lin Haoran met her worried eyes and touched her head and said comfortingly.

Now these are just expedient measures, the current situation of the family is too bad, in order to survive better, so some things really have to be done, and what good character can only be thrown aside.

The next day, it was just dawn.

The tiger girl quietly climbed out of bed, and her body couldn't help but tremble. It was too cold in the morning, and the quilt was still warm, but she didn't get back into the quilt, but walked to the kitchen and started to get busy.

Soon the fire was lit, and she roasted her little hands on the stove, and then hurried to wash the rice.

The damp air crept into the house from the outside, and the water was bitterly cold, and her hands were soon frozen red. Just looking at the snow-white rice, her heart gradually warmed.

In the past, she was always responsible for the family's livelihood, but now the situation has changed, and this wooden brother seems to have suddenly opened his mind. Not only did his temperament change, but he was also willing to go to the mountains to cut wood to make money.

After discussion last night, their family decided to bring rice balls for lunch like other families, and she no longer had to watch others have rice balls to eat, and she didn't have them.

Tweet......

When Lin Haoran walked out of the door, he couldn't help but sneeze, rubbed his hands on his arms a few times, and then walked out of the door to start a new day.

When he returned to the house, Hu Niu had already set up the hot white porridge, but he changed the porridge bowl for the two, and Hu Niu stuck out her tongue.

After drinking a simple bowl of gruel in a hurry, he pinched two rice balls and wrapped them in lotus leaves, one for the tiger girl, and one for him to bring.

Chaining the door, one went to herd cattle for others, and the other went up the mountain to chop wood.

With yesterday's experience, this time the chopping went much more smoothly and barely kept up with the progress of the others. And he thinks that after a while, he can chop two loads of firewood a day like Ah Niu.

At noon, the tiger girl led the scalper to find her.

When I saw Lin Haoran who was washing her face, Hu Niu's eyes were bright, and her face looked red, like a ripe apple. Now everything has been confirmed, which makes her feel both down-to-earth and proud.

"Tiger girl, what do you think I've picked up?" Lin Haoran was also very happy to see her, and proudly took out something from his arms.

"Duck eggs?" The tiger girl happily took the warm wild duck eggs, and there were six of them in total.

The pine forest was full of infinite surprises, which Lin Haoran discovered when he was chopping wood, and his heart was pounding, as if he had picked up gold. And in his arms, he was very excited all morning, which was more precious than yesterday's eggs.

"We'll bake and eat it now!" Lin Haoran looked at her and licked her lips, and immediately made a decision.

Hu Niu looked up at him in some confusion, but seeing Lin Haoran going to collect firewood with high interest, she immediately stepped forward to help. It's just that she proposed to eat only two, but Lin Haoran semi-vetoed it and chose to eat four.

He borrowed a flint, made a fire with a wood knife, and then buried the duck eggs in the ground and roasted them on a firewood fire. This duck egg cannot be burned directly in the firewood, otherwise the shell will be burned.

The development of science and technology has weakened the survival skills of human beings, but the advanced information age has allowed human beings to obtain richer knowledge, including some survival knowledge in the wild.

Hu Niu looked at Lin Haoran with admiration, she never knew that she could bake eggs like this, and found that she couldn't understand this brother who used to only bury his head in reading.

The branches were crackling, and the two chatted without a word, and the tiger girl liked to talk about the new things that happened in the village, but they were just small things, such as the little girl and her father picked up a rabbit that knocked unconscious in front of the stake, and the chicken of the aunt with big eyes was lost and found, and for example, the Wu family couldn't get a bride price to marry a wife.

The sky was overcast, the weather was not bad, and the two of them were very comfortable in front of the fire.

It is generally said that the tiger girl is talking, but Lin Haoran is listening to it next to her, and occasionally pretends to ask casually. Slowly, he had a deeper impression of the people in the village, who were kind and enthusiastic, who was greedy and stingy, showing all kinds of life.

When the branches were burned and the ashes cooled, Lin Haoran used the branches to pull out the wild duck eggs.

Tiger Girl's words stopped abruptly, and her eyes were fixed on the duck eggs that had been pulled out.

"Cooked!"

Lin Haoran opened the duck egg and handed it to the tiger girl with a smile.

The egg was still hot, and the tiger girl blew while peeling off the eggshell, and then handed it to Lin Haoran's mouth, Lin Haoran smiled, opened her mouth and took a small bite, which was extremely sweet.

The egg whites of this wild duck egg have a sweet taste, and the eggshell is golden and fragrant, which is put in the mouth, and it only needs to be gently chewed a few times, and the mouth is full of sweet and fragrant.

Sharing is sometimes sweeter than eating alone.

The tiger girl took a small bite gently, and her moth eyebrows slowly opened, and her big bright eyes were as clear as autumn water, filled with a happy smile. This is the first time she has eaten roast duck eggs, and she thinks it is the best delicacy in the world, second only to the big chicken thighs.

In the blink of an eye, the two of them each finished eating a wild duck egg, and they both showed that they were still unsatisfied, and they opened another wild duck egg one after another.

"Tiger girl, we need to get some meat!" Lin Haoran finished eating the wild duck eggs, and found that there was infinite motivation and higher pursuits in his body, so he immediately clapped his hands and made a decision.

"This egg doesn't have to hatch into a wild duck!" Tiger Niu looked at the two remaining duck eggs on the ground and said seriously.

Lin Haoran pinched her face, and then began to act.

This wants to eat meat, naturally it is impossible to pin on these two wild duck eggs, and even if this duck egg can hatch, then what year and month will it take to eat duck meat?

Under the puzzled gaze of the tiger girl, he chose a place in the mountain nest, then lifted a large stone, and carefully propped it up with a small stick with a fork, which had been broken and had a grasshopper stuck in it.

As you can imagine, as soon as a vole-like rodent bites a grasshopper, the small stick loses its support and the large rock will fall instantly. Even if the critter inside doesn't die, it will be crushed under the stone.

As a modern person who has experienced the baptism of the Internet, especially the boom of wild survival programs, Lin Haoran has learned some wild survival skills under the influence of his ears and eyes.

Nowadays, it is also handy, many things are easy to know and difficult to do, but some things are difficult to know and easy to do.

However, he was not very interested in voles, and longed for the golden pheasants in the mountains, so he set a trap for birds.

The bird trap is more complicated, find a rather tough branch to make a spring rod, fix one end of it in the soil, the other end is bent, connected with hemp rope, the other end of the hemp rope to make a lock, the knot is a live buckle, placed in a circular trap composed of wooden sticks, and sprinkled with rice grains and grass seeds in the middle.

If the bird wants to eat the food in the circle, it will inevitably peck at the small stick, trigger the trap device to sell, the branch will immediately return to its original form, the hemp rope will be pulled up, the rope circle will be tightened, and the bird's neck will be lassoed and the bird will be hung.

Knowing where to sell firewood, he did not rush back to the mountain to cut firewood, but made three rat traps and three bird traps at the foot of the mountain.

Hu Niu was very puzzled why he knew so much, Lin Haoran deduced that she saw it in the book, she nodded, obviously believing it.

When he had done this, he went back to the mountains and continued to cut firewood, but by the time he had picked it up and sold it, the sun was already setting in the west.

He came to inspect the trap, but it was empty, and he lost a bird trap.