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It was around seven in the morning, and the gray sky was shrouded in a thick layer of fog. Through the trees, it looked like a hazy, strange and ethereal beauty.

In the early morning, the small mountain village came alive in the commotion. Most of the people in the village had gathered at the foot of the mountain behind the village. Everyone held their own tools in their hands, such as machetes, hatchets, axes and saw.

Some people were holding long ropes in their hands, and some were carrying backpacks on their backs, pulling wooden carts. Everyone was standing together talking and laughing, and it looked very lively.

The village chief took a cursory look and found that everyone had almost arrived and it was almost time to go up the mountain.

"Everyone, take a look and see who hasn't come yet. People who are familiar with him should go and urge him. We'll wait another half-quarter of an hour. After that, we won't wait any longer and the troops will go straight up the mountain!"

The village chief stood high and watched the crowd urging.

The villagers looked at each other to see who had not arrived. If they did not come, they would report loudly to the village chief, who would send people who were friends with him to run errands.

Don't think that they are talking nonsense. They are [-]% sure about whose family has enough firewood. Don't think that gossip is a woman's nature. In fact, men are similar.

In the last half-quarter of an hour, more than a dozen people came over one after another. The village chief saw that the number of people who came was about the same, and it was getting light, so he stopped waiting.

"Okay, everyone, calm down and listen to me."

The village chief shouted loudly to silence the noisy crowd. Despite his age, he was still in good health. His voice resonated in all directions and his lung capacity was sufficient.

"Everyone, please check what you have brought. We will go up the mountain to chop firewood in a moment. Please be careful and don't spread too far apart when we are together. If you are far away, you will not be popular. I don't care if a wild beast takes it away." .

The villagers were laughing and joking. They were used to the fact that the village chief would organize people and gather together to cut firewood in the mountains every year before winter. Everyone was familiar with the village chief's words and memorized them. They said the same words every year, and the meanings were the same. .

The villagers below all echoed loudly. Their things were well prepared, especially some sharp tools, which were well maintained and polished. These things were very important and were used to save lives. They took care of them carefully.

"Okay, I won't say any more nonsense, let's go."

The village chief also knew that they would be prepared, but he still reminded them habitually and made personnel arrangements as usual.

"Men with strong bodies and good skills should walk in front to clear the way. Children and women should walk in the middle. Be careful not to run around."

The crowd quickly lined up and started walking up the mountain. They had already stood at the approximate position while waiting, and now they were just adjusting slightly.

Li Manping saw that the people leading the way were all wearing waterproof raincoats. As they walked, they beat the surrounding areas with strong poles and wooden sticks to drive away insects and beasts and to remove dew.

Walking in the middle and on both sides were some strong women, and some half-grown children carrying small backpacks, wrapped in the middle by adults, laughing and playing non-stop, and the children's sharp and high-pitched laughter could be heard. Going far away, the deserted mountain forest suddenly became lively and lively, and flocks of birds flew away.

Li Manping, Li Hong, and Li Yuan walked at the back of the crowd. Her brother and cousin also had small backpacks with water bags and a cloth bag inside, which she planned to use to carry mountain goods.

She was looking at the children in the village along the way. This must be the first time she saw so many children in the village. There were sixty or seventy boys and girls here in total, but these were definitely not all the children in the village. There should be more There was a smaller group of people at home who did not follow.

These children are all dressed in gray and shabby clothes, and they are not fair either. Most of them have sallow complexions and thin muscles. Although they are not said to be too skinny, they are definitely not fat. It can be seen that they are living a normal life. Fortunately, the people at home are also relatively good. Hardworking and fairly clean.

Some children may not have had time to have breakfast, but they are still holding pancakes in their hands and chewing them. The aromas of corn pancakes, sorghum pancakes, multi-grain pancakes, flour pancakes, and various coarse and fine grain pancakes blend in the air. Greedy Li Manping also feels her teeth itching. My mouth is empty and I want to chew something.

The grain now has the original flavor. Although it is not ground finely enough, it should taste very good, at least it has enough grain flavor.

It gets very lively when there are more children. Occasionally they find edible wild fruits and weeds, and they gather together to pick them up and give them to the children with whom they are close to taste.

While Li Manping breathed in the fresh morning air, he looked at the people around him with great interest. He knew that the population of the small mountain village was more than 1100 people, with about 120 households of various sizes. Some households had large populations, with the largest being more than two people. There are ten people, and there are only six or seven people in the smaller ones.

Just like the Fan family, although they are separated, they live together as one household, so there are 15 people in their family, which is considered medium-sized in the village. This is also a common phenomenon.

After they build a house, and they are completely separated, there will be an extra small family. Small families like Zhou Qiao's family only have seven people. Such families are relatively small, and most of them are families with more than ten or twenty people.

Calculated in large proportion, there are dozens of elderly people in the village who have no labor force, and there are one or two hundred people who are younger than them. In addition to the two or three hundred children, there are also strong laborers in the village, six or seven hundred people. It is considered a relatively strong village.

As the crowd walked all the way into the back mountain, passed through the woods, and went deeper into the woods, Li Hong and Li Yuan walked in front of Li Manping. When they encountered branches and leaves blocking the road, they stretched out their hands and broke them, clearing a piece for Li Manping. Smooth road.

The road was relatively easy to walk at the beginning, probably because people often went into the forest to collect firewood, so the road had already been trodden. Once the road went deeper, it became difficult to walk.

Thick weeds and fallen branches and leaves covered the uneven ground. Occasionally, there were unidentified pits and stones, making people stagger when they stepped on them.

Many thorny branches clinging to the roots of the tree spread out next to them, with tiny thorny hooks growing on them. When pedestrians don't pay attention to avoid them, they will be hooked on clothes or legs, leaving a red mark or bleeding spot, causing It hurts like hell.

While walking, Li Hong's sharp eyes spotted a few yellow-red wild fruits in the leaves in front of him. They must have been missed by the children in front of him. After looking at them, he didn't see any thorn hooks. He reached out and quickly pulled the branches. The fruit was picked.

We share blessings and share hardships. If we are good brothers and sisters, we should share them together.

After counting the number, he distributed it equally to his younger sister and cousin. Li Manping took it and observed it carefully. There were small dots on the yellow and red skin, only the size of a finger. She felt its individual weight and the amount of moisture it contained. A little can quench your thirst.

But it was still something she didn't recognize, maybe a certain kind of berry. Seeing that the adults accompanying her didn't object, she knew it was non-toxic and she could safely eat it.

The adults around looked at these unusual children and found that they really didn't recognize the things in their hands. There was a faint smile on their faces as if they were watching a show, but they did not mean to remind them that the taste of this fruit was very unpleasant. good.

She carefully took a bite. After tasting the taste, Li Manping's face instantly wrinkled. She looked at her two brothers who had the same expression as her with bared teeth. She spit out the pulp in her mouth with a few speechless bahs.

"Hahaha…"

Seeing the wrinkled faces of the three little kids, the theatergoers around them laughed unkindly.

This fruit is so sour, astringent and bitter, no wonder no one picks it.

It turns out that someone knew the fruit and knew that the fruit was not delicious, so it became a hidden gem in the ocean.

Throwing the fruit she had tasted and the rest in her hand far away, Li Manping was speechless to the adults watching the show. Do you really like to see people being embarrassed? You feel happy just by looking at their sad expressions, right? Really, such a grown-up person still takes advantage of children for fun.

"You two, please be careful. Look under your feet and around you. Don't get scratched by thorns. Some wild fruits don't taste good. If you pick something you don't recognize, you can ask us."

The adults watching the excitement finally spoke out to remind them, as if they had just discovered the embarrassing thing they had just done.

Haha, a bunch of boring and mean-spirited adults.