Chapter 18 Little Milk Cat
After both sides were almost baked, Zhou Heng sprinkled some seasoning powder he brought to add some flavor, and the wild game was ready.
After ty pieces of it, he put them in his mouth in one bite and chewed them. It was crispy and delicious.
How do you describe this taste? It looks like roasted chicken pellets? It is not exactly like it, this one is more tender.
After eating a skewer, I found that the big yellow dog was staring at him - its roasted bird eggs were not cooked yet, but now it was hungry and was very greedy when it smelled the fragrance.
Zhou Heng took off a string, and a handful of insects were all in his palms, and reached out his hand.
The big yellow dog started to eat immediately.
This handful must be completely not enough to eat. It smacked its lips, licked its mouth and savored it.
Forget it, I will definitely not be able to eat enough by eating this one. Zhou Heng took out the rice cake he brought and handed it to it. This is what I can fill my stomach.
The bird eggs will have to wait for a while before they can be cooked. This thing cannot be roasted in a hurry, otherwise the shell will be broken in a while and everything inside will flow out.
Although dogs also eat raw bird eggs, since they have decided to let them eat cooked food, then make a better one.
Eating raw eggs encourages its wildness, and it is easy to catch chickens at home or steal eggs to eat.
Zhou Heng also roasted the rice rake he brought. It was so charred and fragrant that it was better than eating colder.
Just grilled insects as dishes, which has a unique flavor.
I haven't eaten this for many years. In addition to being delicious, it is also a kind of sentiment.
After eating and drinking, I have almost finished resting, so I can leave and go down the mountain and go back.
The water column that had been blown out had already flowed down by this time. The villagers saw it for a while and were surprised to see it.
Zhou Heng walked back along the same road, with the mountain road around the corners. Sometimes it was close to the water and sometimes it was very far away from the water, but you could hear the sound of running water.
The most surprising thing is that a water flow encountered a protruding giant rock, and flew out directly, forming a waterfall of twenty or thirty meters high, with water droplets splashing everywhere, which was very spectacular.
Standing in the distance and looking back at the waterfall, when the sun shines, the rainbows appear, and it feels different in an instant.
When people say that when mountains are green, they always have beautiful water. If mountains and rivers are green, the scenery will most likely not be bad. It seems that green mountains need embellishment of green water.
With this spring, the whole mountain seems to be full of vitality, as if it were the finishing touch, and the scenery is much more beautiful.
This spring water is not only beautiful, but also nourishes the villagers of the entire village.
As he looked at it, Zhou Heng felt quite accomplished.
When I went back, I encountered the bamboo shoots when I came. At this time, I went back along the way and could dig it.
This kind of thin bamboo shoot is quite common in the mountains. When I go back, I stewed meat or chicken, it has a clear fragrance and is considered a delicacy of mountain delicacies.
Zhou Heng was quick to get his hands and feet, and he was huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-hu
But there are still many bamboo shoots underground, and it would be a pity that he couldn't get them back. He would have carried a big basket to come out if he had known.
However, the basket is big, and if it is full, it will be very heavy. There are many ups and downs along the way, and there are not even roads in some places, so he may not be able to carry it back.
Forget it, just let it go. There are quite a few small baskets, at least enough for a family to eat several meals. People should not be too greedy.
In the afternoon, when we were almost at the entrance of the village, we saw many villagers from afar, watching the fun.
When I was working in the field at noon today, I heard a sound from afar, and then water came out of the mountains. How high the water column was rushing, they saw it so far away.
As for what happened, they don't know.
Later, after more than ten minutes, they saw water flowing down.
At first I didn't care, and thought it would be gone after a while, so I didn't care about it. But I didn't know that the water had never stopped. Such a thick water flowed down one after another and continued to flow downwards.
The ditches, creeks and other things along the way were filled with water.
Now everyone became curious and wondered what was going on?
There is a live spring water in the village, which is the best thing. If such a thick water flows down day and night, you will not have to worry about water in the future!
People watched and talked excitedly at this spring that came from some unknown place.
When there is water, every family is happy.
When Zhou Hengyi came back, his parents were afraid that he would not know, so they were so happy that they told him about this.
This spring passes by the mountain they contracted, and there is a large pool next to it. It is so close that you will not have to worry about irrigation on the mountain in the future.
Looking at the smiles on his parents' faces, Zhou Heng was also very happy.
Li Yunlian helped him take the basket he carried, and said with a smile: "This is the result of your day? Are you tired?"
There is a joke in the words. Whoever walks into the mountain like this for a day and doesn’t know how many times she can walk, so she will come back after carrying these thin bamboo shoots? I’m sorry for the worn shoes.
But, my son is not the one who does this, so it's understandable, so don't laugh at him.
Li Yunlian is still happy.
The thin bamboo shoots in this big basket must be peeled first, then soaked in clean water to soak out the astringent and earthy smell inside.
It’s great to eat fried meat or stew chicken!
After pouring out the bamboo shoots, I found that there were still a few fat roots at the bottom of the basket, and said with a smile: "Do you still recognize this? Isn't it easy to find it?"
The roots of the five-finger peach have a milky aroma when cooking soup. Some people think it is a coconut fragrance. Anyway, it tastes good, and it is said to be quite good for people.
It has the effect of clearing heat and clearing the lungs.
How to say it? In places like theirs, people have headaches, fever, diarrhea, etc., and they usually don’t go to the doctor. They just make something to eat by themselves. They will be fine.
The hospital is far away, inconvenient, and expensive, so going to the hospital for treatment is a luxury.
Even the current rural medical insurance has great benefits, but this habit that has been passed down from generation to generation will not be thrown away at once.
When Zhou Heng was a child, he saw them digging this when he was playing with adults. Today, he passed by and met him when he was down the mountain. He also dug two or three back.
He smiled and said, "I saw it by chance, but I didn't look for it. Sometimes I can't find it if I look for it."
I learned something I accidentally learned when I was a child, but I can’t forget it even if I want to, and I don’t know why.
My mother was cooking dinner, so Zhou Heng didn’t have to worry about it. She sat in the yard to rest. She exercised a lot today and had to take a break.
When I was a child, I seemed to be tired if I didn’t know how to run, but after so many years, I seem to be unable to compare now.
Suddenly, he heard a slight "scream" sound and said curiously: "Where is a kitten?"
When a little cat was young, he didn't "meow" and kept screaming, and his voice was thin and sharp.
Li Yunlian smiled while leaning on the leaves of the thin bamboo shoots, "Go and see, it is placed next to the window of your room, and it is ventilated there."
Zhou Heng said "ah" and ran back to the room to take a look. Hey, on the table by the window, a little cat was lying softly in the temporary cat's nest, whispering "whistle".
It's so small, probably not as big as Zhou Heng's hands, and his blue eyes were wet, as if they were about to condense water.
The temporary cat nest is made of a sieve at home, with a few old clothes spread inside, either from Zhou Heng when he was a child or from Wang Rui's clothes he didn't want.
It has been cushioned several layers.
When the little cat saw Zhou Heng coming in, his little head immediately pouted, his eyes rolled with him, and kept screaming.
All animals look good when they are young, especially small cats, which make people unable to resist.
The big yellow dog also followed in silently and watched quietly that there were another member in the family.
Zhou Heng liked it very much, held the cat in his hand, walked out and asked, "Mom, where did the kitten come from?"
"Old Liu's cats have three cubs in this litter. I went to ask for one. When I grew up, I helped catch mice." Li Yunlian replied.
There are more crops harvested in rural areas, so there are more mice. It is good to keep a cat.
I also raised it before. After five or six years, the cat was well-behaved and obedient, and was willing to catch mice. But one day, I ate someone else's poisonous rat and died.
I haven't raised it for more than a year, but there are too many mice at home, so I still have to raise another one.
For small domestic cats like this, if someone else has a baby, you can just ask for one, but you don’t have any money.
Zhou Heng held the little cat with one hand, thinking it was too small, and he might not even have a stable road. He couldn't help but ask: "This cat is so small, so it's weaned? Can we support it?"
"It's a full moon, not too young. Why can't I support it? Of course I can support it." Li Yunlian said lightly.
From raising her own children to helping with grandchildren, to countless poultry and livestock at home, what is the problem with raising a small cat?
She may not know the cat food brand sold in the city, but with rice soup and small fish, it is perfect for feeding a cat.
Zhou Heng was teasing the cat, and at this time, someone outside shouted: "Yunlian, go quickly, come with a basket, and the bucket is OK!"
Li Yunlian was working on thin bamboo shoots. When she heard the sound outside was very anxious, she quickly put down her work and asked while getting the bucket, "What are you doing?"
"There are a lot of fish jumping in the pond in the east! Just put a basket on it, they have made a lot of them." The voices outside became smaller and smaller, and it was obvious that they had already run away.
There was a loud noise farther away.
Zhou Heng took his mother's bucket and said, "Mom, I'll go."
When he was a child, he had seen such scenes many times, when water flowed downstream, the fish in the pond in the downstream would jump up desperately.
This is the nature of fish. They like to go upstream. Any small ditch has this phenomenon. Even if a certain ditch is pouring out water, there will be many fish jumping upwards around that place.
When I was a child, there were many ponds. Sometimes I used a sieve to scoop some fish there. If I happened to have no tools at hand, I would just take off my clothes and wrap the fish back.
Of course, the people who take off their clothes are all children. If they get dirty, they will inevitably get beaten when they go back. But if they have fish and have an extra bowl of vegetables at home, they will be very happy.
But now, many ditches have been killed, and such a grand occasion has not been seen for a long time.
Zhou Heng ran over, exactly the same as he imagined.
The place where the explosion was blown up today flowed here, and the water became more and more. When it flowed to the pond, the fish inside jumped up all of a sudden.
The fish were so bold that they swam upwards dozens of meters away against the stream, slapped on such a shallow beach.
There are still a lot of fish, and the scene is really spectacular, and people who have never seen it will definitely not imagine it.
There are already many people doing it.
Zhou Heng refused to let his mother come over, but rushed to come over by himself, because he was afraid that she would fall, because no matter how many fish there were, he had to go into the water to get it.
Chapter completed!