Farming Beneath the Changbai Mountains

Yue Pengcheng has been living in the mountain. He goes to the mountain with everyone every day to break pine cones, pick walnuts, mountain grapes, and schisandra. Anyway, there is something to be busy with every day. Yue Pengcheng, who had grown up in the town since he was a child and had never been in the mountains, was so happy. Even if he was tired every day and his back ached, he would be full of energy the next day to follow Wen Han and Jing Han up the mountain. After three or four days, I got used to the work and it wasn't that uncomfortable anymore.

Time flies by and it happens to be August 15th. Because he heard that people in Shiliu Village were playing stick-raising, Yue Pengcheng didn't even go home during the Mid-Autumn Festival. He wanted to watch the stick-raising scene on the mountain. Since everyone said so, it would be hard for the Xu family to expel him. So, Mrs. Chen asked Wenchang and the old man to go to the town and buy a lot of things for the festival, and the family prepared to celebrate the festival.

Wenchang had already made an agreement with Baiweilou that they would not send fish when the autumn harvest was busy. Although Manager Sun was reluctant to part with it, he also knew that he was busy with the autumn harvest and could not force Wenchang to send fish again. I just said that I am waiting for the busy autumn, and if I can still get offline, I will try my best to send him there a few more times. It happened that the fish had risen in the morning, and several big fish were saved for the festival, and the rest were sent to the town.

Wen Han, Wencheng, Jing Han and the others ran to the trap outside the stick early to wander around. There are often some prey falling into these traps, and the traps are dug quite deep, so ordinary animals basically never come back. There are fourteen or five traps in total. Let's check them one by one.

In a trap in the northeast corner, the children found two rabbits, and in the one next to it, a roe deer. Now the children are happy, and the harvest is not small. Unexpectedly, when they wandered to the south, they found a big deer in the trap. This is a male sika deer, quite big. Fortunately, the trap was quite large and the deer did not escape. It looked like it had fallen in last night. The deer had been stabbed by the sharp thorns in the trap and was bleeding to death.

This guy was too big for the children to handle, so Wenhan asked Wenxuan to go back quickly and call Zhixin and Zhiming over, so that only adults could handle it. Wenxuan ran away to find his father.

Not long after, brothers Zhixin and Zhiming came. When they saw the big guy underground, Zhiming couldn't help but exclaimed, "What a big guy. This thing has a lot of uses."

Zhixin tied a rope around his waist and tied the other end to a tree. Then he went down carefully, avoiding the sharp thorns in the ground, and tied the rope to the deer. Then everyone worked together to pull the deer up, and Zhixin was also pushing it up. It took a lot of effort to get the deer up. "This guy looks like he weighs one hundred, fifty or sixty pounds, but he's quite heavy." Zhiming said, wiping his sweat.

Yue Pengcheng is a person who has eaten venison but has never seen what a deer looks like. This time he has gained some experience. He stepped forward and touched the deer's body, and then touched the two antlers twice. By this time, the antlers had turned into bones. "It turns out that deer looks like this. I've never seen it before."

Jinghan smiled, "Brother Pengcheng, we have something good to eat tonight. Let's eat venison tonight. Dad, let's go back later to discuss whether we can have barbecue tonight?" With so much game, if It would be a pity not to have a barbecue. When Jinghan thought about it, her saliva was about to flow out.

"You girl, you just want to eat. Go back and discuss it with your grandma later. I can't make the decision." Zhixin and Zhiming tied a rope to the deer's body, then found a piece of wood and threaded it through Under the rope, the brothers lifted up and walked back.

Wen Han and Jing Han did not go back and continued to look at the traps. I don’t know what happened today. There were also some prey in the other traps, including a few hares and a fox. The children were very happy. He happily carried the prey home.

When they got home, the brothers Zhixin were skinning the deer. The two antlers had been sawed off and put aside. This deer is full of treasures, deer meat, deer blood, deer tendons, deer bones, deer whip, no matter what, they are all good things. The two brothers handled everything carefully, especially Zhiming, who took these things more seriously than gold and silver.

After taking care of the deer and the rest of the prey, Jinghan ran to discuss with Chen about having barbecue. Chen thought for a moment and felt that Yue Pengcheng was on the mountain, just like his own family, and there was nothing to entertain him. He should also like this barbecue, so he nodded in agreement.

"Great, we can have barbecue tonight." Jinghan jumped up with joy.

"Looking at you like this, how can you still look like a girl? Okay, your father has almost finished packing. What do you want to eat? Hurry up and ask your third aunt to cut the meat into slices, marinate it with ingredients, and wait for good evening. Let's light a fire in the yard and eat barbecue together." Mrs. Chen couldn't help but laugh when she saw the children's joy. Isn't it just a matter of living a happy life? Besides, today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, so it’s time to be lively.

After listening to her grandmother's words, Jinghan hurriedly went to find Zhu and asked her to cut out all the meat and marinate it with some seasonings. The children were helping to do it. Looking at the pieces of meat, they all felt that they could not control their saliva.

"You go into the forest and get some sticks later. It doesn't need to be too thick, just as thick as a finger. Peel off the skin and sharpen one end. We can keep it for piercing the meat at night. Do you understand?" Zhu ordered.

"I understand." The children shouted in unison.

Here, Zhixin is nailing the deer tendons to the wooden board so that they will be straight when dry. Mrs. Chen came to Zhixin and whispered, "Boss, take care of these deer tendons and deer whips, and wait for the young master of the Yue family to take them with him when he leaves. Take them when he comes." With such a small amount of gifts, we don't have much to offer. We'll get started tomorrow and find two more big ones to bring with him. It's a big deal for us. From the looks of it, Master Yue and I will give him some gifts. We Wen Han and Wencheng get along well. We should make friends with people like this. We don't want to get along, but we can't just ask for their things and not return the favor." The old lady still cares about these things.

"Hey, mom, don't worry, my son will understand." Zhixin nodded. The young master of the Yue family is very easy-going and has no airs at all. He gets along well with his children. Just because of this, he has to prepare some gifts in return for them. Furthermore, although these things are valuable in the eyes of others, in their eyes, they are easy to obtain, and they show their own family's intentions.

At noon, Wenchang and the old man came back from town, bringing a lot of things with them. Pork, white noodles, rice, moon cakes and green-skinned pears. In addition, I also bought a lot of oil, salt, sauce and vinegar. It would be impossible to live without these. When the old man saw the prey at home, he asked what they were doing. Mrs. Chen quickly told him that she planned to have barbecue in the evening.

The old man nodded, "Okay, let's get started tomorrow. We have been busy with work this year, and everyone is hungry. Eat a good meal, and then work hard tomorrow."

Since the barbecue was scheduled for the evening, Ms. Chen put away the pork she bought. Then everyone no longer had to make dumplings, just prepare some meals.

The old man said that they have been very busy these days and the children are very tired. They don't have to go up the mountain in the afternoon and have a day off. Wen Han and the others also understood that the old man was afraid that Yue Pengcheng would be exhausted, so everyone rested in the room after lunch.

"It's rare to take a break. It's noon and we have nothing to do. Let's get some sleep and get up later to go fishing on the riverside." Jinghan took out a small quilt and gave one to Jingwan and Jingxian. Everyone lay on the kang and soon fell asleep.

It was a sweet sleep, and everyone woke up before it was too late. Wenhan came to call Jinghan and the others, saying that they were going to the river to play. Jinghan and the others quickly left the house and went to the river with their brothers.

At home, Mrs. Xue and Mrs. Zhu have marinated the meat slices to make them delicious. They are now threading the meat on the wooden sticks. The two sisters-in-law are working and laughing at the same time. "Sister-in-law, it's better to be on the mountain. Before, how could you have ever thought of having barbecue? Look at it now, if you take this meat to a restaurant, you still have to pay a few taels of silver for it? Just let us eat it." I feel a bit pity.

"Yingzi, don't say that. First of all, our family lives in the mountains, so it is easier to get these things. Secondly, the children have also been busy this autumn. It is rare that they remembered, so let They are satisfied. The third one is the young master of the Yue family. He has been here for a few days. You see, he doesn't choose anything when we eat. He eats much better at home than we do today. It's a festival, no matter how good we are, we can't keep up with their barbecue. Even if they can grill it, my mother may not be able to do this right. Wearing meat on her hands, she then told Mrs. Zhu some of the things involved.

"I understand this, but I'm just a little bit reluctant to let it go." Mrs. Zhu smiled, "Our family is quite unique. How can other families love their children as much as ours? What if we let those old-fashioned If you know it, why don't you say that we spoiled our children and went to heaven?" Zhu's words are true. In this day and age, many families are raising their children like little animals. They are given to those who stutter, and then have to work every day. There are really not many people like the Xu family who love their children so much and depend on them for everything.