Major General Through the Upper Gate

"You should go to Liu's house in the afternoon. Those in the village who are free will go up the mountain with the official's house." Cheng Wei put the ground rice noodles on the table in the main room, and poured out the remaining brown rice while talking. into jars.

He divided half of the rice that was ground today and ground it into rice noodles. After all, it was newly obtained rice. He planned to steam some crystal cakes to eat.

Gu Xicheng wiped his sweat with a cloth and asked, "How many people will come from the official family?"

"Usually there are about ten people. If the hunting team from the town comes together, there will be more." If you bring a hunting team, you may also bring a few hounds, and by the way, you will hunt and kill the large beasts around the village. again.

"What am I taking with me?"

"No, just follow along. They will walk around the mountain in the village. I'll bring you a small cloth bag. After a while, you'll walk to a place with sweet-scented osmanthus trees. You can pick some sweet-scented osmanthus for me." Cheng Wei pretended After the rice jar was covered, after thinking about it, he went into the back room and found a cloth bag, and handed it to Gu Xizheng.

Gu Xizheng picked it up, and he tilted his head and asked, "What does the sweet-scented osmanthus look like? Everyone in the village recognizes it?" Animals are better, but he really can't tell the difference when encountering plants.

Cheng Weicai remembered that Gu Xizhen had never seen an osmanthus flower before, so he gestured and said: "Everyone in the village recognizes it as a big tree, and now it is blooming with small yellow flowers the size of rice grains, and the fragrance can be smelled from a distance. "

There are three or four sweet-scented osmanthus trees around the village. This season is a good time to pick sweet-scented osmanthus. It may rain after a while. When the weather turns cold and rains, the sweet-scented osmanthus will fall.

Gu Xizheng nodded, he stuffed his small cloth pocket around his waist and said, "It's fine if someone recognizes you." Since there will be many people going, he can ask others if he doesn't know him.

Gu Xijiao went to Liu's house after lunch. Cheng Wei washed the dustpan, found a clean cloth, washed it, and took it to the yard to dry. It was used for filtering.

"I saw you grinding rice in the field, are you planning to make crystal cakes?" Cheng Weicai was hanging the cloth on the fence when he heard Wei Xiaopai's voice.

"Well, I haven't done it for a long time, and I don't know if it can be done." Cheng Wei turned his head, feeling a little embarrassed.His culinary skills are really not very good, so he just bullied Gu Xijiao, who doesn't taste good, and I don't know how many times he would be called by other people.

"It's not difficult, just keep the fire burning and don't let the stove get cold." Wei Xiaopai also smiled, moved a stool and sat in the yard to pull the corn leaves.

Cheng Wei is good at everything, and his cooking is exactly the same as his little father. He tied two corns and hung them on the shelf, and then said: "I saw Gu boy going out just now, you let him go to Liu's house gone?"

Cheng Wei froze for a moment before nodding his head and said: "Yes, I heard Uncle Jiang said that someone from the official family is here, so I'll let him go and have a look."

"I heard from your Uncle Wei that the town's hunting team came together, including twenty people from the official family, and seven or eight hunting dogs."

Wei Xiaopai sighed and said worriedly: "In my opinion, they are going to enter the mountain. Your Gu boy is tall and big, so he has to go with him. You tell him to be careful."

"Okay, I'll save it." Cheng Wei thanked him, but he also knew in his heart that the hunting team in the town just took this opportunity to hunt.And the last time he went to sell snake skins, that person was very interested in Gu Xijiao, and this time he met him, so he was bound to be stumped.

The two people here were chatting about the family's family affairs in the yard, and Gu Xizheng on the other side went to the Liu's house according to Cheng Wei's words. When he arrived, there were already more than 30 people from the village standing in the courtyard of the Liu's house. .There were more than 60 people in official uniforms and Liu's servants, and they crowded the entire yard.

"Everyone be quiet! There are more people coming today. Let's divide into two teams. One team will go east, and the other team will go west. Come back as soon as possible before the sun goes down!" He looked to be in his forties. He was wearing a dark blue official uniform, a hat on his head, and a knife on his waist.

Gu Xicheng stood quietly behind and waited for a while, and saw that the official family and the hunting team were divided into two teams, each leading thirty people up the mountain.

"Brother Wei didn't come?" Gu Xizheng followed the team heading to the east of the village, and Jiang Hao happened to be in the same team, so he caught up with Gu Xizheng in two or three steps, and put his hand on his shoulder.

"It's not safe." Gu Xizheng answered him, and glanced at the hand on his shoulder calmly.Jiang Hao didn't have Bai Chang's fat body, and the hands on his shoulders were very strong.

"Hahahaha! Your brother Wei is not a delicate girl, he is so bold!" Jiang Hao laughed loudly when he heard this. Although the two families are far apart, Cheng Wei's reputation spreads far.

It's just that his kid didn't live up to expectations. He had intended to let his second kid beg Cheng Future, but unfortunately, that brat was beaten up by Cheng Wei when he was a child, and he refused to say anything.

After all, how old is Cheng Wei? Even if he begs Cheng Wei to come back, his kid might not be able to hold him back.He pondered for a long time, but regretted giving up.

"Don't tell me, Brother Wei is crazier than my kid. He even dares to go to the mountains to beg for a stutter. When my kid was his age, he was too scared to move when he saw a snake." Said here Then, Lao Zhang, who was leading the dog in front, also turned around and echoed with a smile.

"Father, you still say that happened a few years ago!" The eldest Zhang who was walking aside protested. The reason why he was scared by a snake when he was a child was because the snake suddenly poked its head out of a tree. A sip came towards his face, and everyone had to be frightened!

Everyone immediately burst into laughter when they heard this. Lao Zhang is one of the best old hunters in the village. He has no land, but after he married a son, his son has land.Although he forced his kid to learn his craft, after all, he wasn't interested in it, and he couldn't learn [-]% of it.

"Don't be so patronizing and laughing. Those with knives will chop the grass along the road. In a few days, every family will go up the mountain to pick sweet dates. Then there will be snakes hiding everywhere, so don't suffer." Lao Zhang laughed happily. He reminded everyone that he led the dog to the front.

Laughing, people with knives consciously cut the grass on both sides of the road. This season is when snakes shed their skins, and from time to time you can see white snakes hanging in the grass.

The sloughs of these little snakes are not worth much, but they picked up all the ones they saw, and Gu Xizhen saw that many people came out with their backs on their backs, scattered in twos and threes, and rummaged among the roots and grass .

"Let's rest in the front for a while, which brother told the sweet-scented osmanthus picker to hurry up, don't go back empty-handed, come to my house tomorrow to lift the tiles." Old man Zhang said cheerfully to everyone, leading the dog I went to talk to the officials.

This was cheap for Gu Xizheng, he followed four or five people who went to pick osmanthus and walked for a short distance, and saw the osmanthus tree on the slope.

"I don't know how long this mountain ban will last." The man picking osmanthus flowers chatted in a low voice.

"It will take at least a month. This time, the officials are here, and the hunting team from the town is also here. It seems that they are going to go to the mountains to hunt some wild boars or wild animals." The man who climbed the tree to pick them Respond above.

"To hunt such a big thing, old man Zhang has to call the people in the village to join him."

"It's a good thing if it can be hunted. If it's only a month or so, the wild boar may have to come down to eat sweet potatoes again." The man on the tree broke off a small branch and sat on it to pick it slowly, followed by a hunting team. Wolves, even if they meet a tiger, are not afraid of it.

"I'm afraid you are crazy about meat." The person who heard their conversation said with a smile.

"Then you don't want to eat the meat you hunted in another day." The man on the tree laughed. They were all pure peasants with nothing but brute strength.

Their village is in the mountain nest, so every year when the hunting team comes from the town, the people they follow can get some meat.

This is much more cost-effective than spending money to buy it.

Everyone was talking and laughing, but Gu Xijiao, who was picking sweet-scented osmanthus, suddenly stopped.He turned his head to look at the slightly yellowed thatch on the mountain, and frowned.

He just... seemed to see a tail?