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Du Nan soon discovered that her family didn't let her eat enough, but didn't let her eat at all!

It can't be said that she is not allowed to eat at all, but she is not allowed to eat with other people at the table. As for whether she eats in the back kitchen and how much she can eat, Du Nan doesn't know, but judging from her daily performance outside Look, [-]% of them can't eat anything.

After a few days of squatting, Du Nan has now basically mastered the daily schedule of that person's life: he has to get up early in the morning ← he doesn't know the exact time to wake up, his body is too small now, and he doesn't get up until the sun If he doesn’t come, it’s useless even if he wakes up. Before his father and mother go out, he can’t leave the house to monitor. However, when Du Nan comes over every morning, the man has already cooked breakfast, not only cooked Well, I also filled the water tank in the yard.

When the others didn't get up, that person was busy in the yard, and when the others went to eat in the yard, she retreated into the back kitchen. Du Nan found that she couldn't come out mainly because of that Sun Tao, but whenever she showed her head, That Sun Tao was having trouble with her mother and her family, and her family members were all in a daze, so it was fine if they didn't teach her a lesson when they encountered such a bastard, but she even agreed to let her settle the matter to save trouble, so when the Sun family had dinner, That person would not appear in the yard. He would come out to clean up the dining table only after the Sun family had finished eating, especially when Sun Tao took her sister out.

After cleaning up the dishes, cleaning the table, and washing the dishes in a large wooden basin in the yard, everything is done. Sun Tao's father will assign her a job according to the situation and spend her there.

Most of the time, I go to the mountains to collect firewood, and occasionally I go to do the laundry. I don’t know if I don’t want people to know that I let a child do so many things. The Sun’s husband often tells her to go out to do the laundry. Go to the mountain stream to wash.

Du Nan didn't believe that Fulang didn't know, even if the stream here is not frozen all year round, the stream is extremely cold in this season.

Not to mention that the old lady of the Sun family still asks her to help Du Yingtian at home from time to time to carry dung and deworming...

Absolutely not her own - Du Nan thought poker-faced outside the fence of Sun's house.

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That's right, the above information is what he observed every day outside the fence of the Sun family.

"Are you following again?" Turning his head with the big bamboo basket on his back, the man looked at the bunch of little bean dings who were being hugged by Xinglang behind him, with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

Since the last stalking, Du Nan has come to follow her every day. He, that person, the other four dolls, and their Xinglang follow him. Every day when they turn their heads, they can spot a group of dolls not far behind. The man simply didn't bother to get rid of them, but stopped and waited for them every time he reached a certain point.

Seeing the man turn his head, Du Nan took out an egg or a red fruit from his pocket, and the other friends also took out the same food from their pockets, and they were older than Du Nan. , There are more things that can be eaten, so that the things that a few dolls take out can often have two or three kinds of food, which is enough for that person to have a pretty good breakfast.

"Thank you in advance. I'll treat you to something delicious later." I didn't refuse the first time, and I accepted it every time after that.

There are too many times, and every time this time comes, the Xinglangs will take the initiative to spread out the straw mats, and at some point, that person also sits on their tattered straw mats.

That person ate the breakfast they pooled together, and the Xinglangs also took the opportunity to add their first meal to their dolls at this time.

However, don't think that these little babies will succeed in losing weight because of this.

Every time after eating the breakfast that Du Nan and the others shared with her, that person never went to work first, but looked for something to eat nearby.

At this time, Du Nan felt that this person was really powerful.

She can always find something to eat, and she carefully chooses what they can eat.

In the mountains, she just looks for bird eggs. It stands to reason that there are very few birds in winter, but she can always find one or two nests. The eggs she gets vary from time to time, but basically she will not return empty-handed; She looked for a kind of rhizome food, which looked like a kind of weed, but there were rhizomes like yam beans at the root, which looked like dirt lumps, and they looked like dirt lumps after washing, but they were roasted and peeled off the dry layer. The shell is like mud, but the white meat exposed is extremely soft. Take a sip, it is sweet and sweet!

When she gets to the stream, she catches small fish and shrimps. She has a broken pottery bowl, which she carries everywhere. It is very useful when cooking fish and shrimps. At the end, wash a clean stone to mash the fish and shrimp meat, and distribute them to the apricot boys to feed each doll.

Not to mention, it's quite delicious - Du Nan clicked his lips.

Before Du Nan's saliva flowed out, the man quickly made a bowl of fish and shrimp paste and handed it over.

"For you to eat, today there are more fish and less shrimp." Putting the broken pottery bowl in the middle of the straw mat, she introduced today's main course like a chef.

The apricot boys took out their spoons one after another, and scooped out a spoonful of fish and shrimp paste from the bowl for their dolls to eat.

Xinglang from Daniu's family didn't reach out for the spoon first, but took out the "hand" with the roots in the big cloth bag on his back, and finally grabbed a wooden... spoon out?

Although the workmanship is too simple, it seems that it is just a simple hole dug in a wooden branch, but the hole is rounded. If you look closely, the wooden branch looks a bit like the wooden branch on its own body?

That Xinglang pointed to his "head", the place where Sun Tao had broken off the branch. After a few days of recuperation, new branches sprouted now. Although it is obviously thinner, it is green. very.

And the thickness of the spoon is about the same as the previous fracture there...

"You picked up Sun Tao's broken branch, then made this spoon, and you want to give it to me, don't you?" Staring at Xinglang, the man tilted his head and said what he understood.

That Xinglang nodded, the newly grown shoots were trembling on the top of his head, and he passed the spoon in his hand with his branch.

The man took it, took a closer look, and then smiled at Xinglang: "Thank you."

The Xinglang from the Daniu family is the biggest among these little Xinglang, just like Du Nan is the role model for these little dolls, to a certain extent, he is also a role model for these little Xinglang. After coming down, other Xinglang also gave gifts to that person one after another.

Xinglang from Chun Xue’s family gave her a pair of chopsticks—made from the two straightest branches that fell off itself; Xinglang from Du Ying’s family gave her a hairpin—made from the two straightest branches that fell off from itself. Xinglang from Xinghuaer's family gave a more high-end gift—it actually gave a pair of insoles!The raw material still comes from itself, it is the stems of the fallen leaves...!Du Nan knew that many Xinglangs had the habit of collecting the branches that fell off from their bodies, but they didn't expect that Xinglang collected them more meticulously, and even collected the stems of the leaves that fell off their bodies!And turned those stalks into insoles!

This is a bit technical - looking at the insoles, not only Du Nan was stunned, but the reactions of other Xinglangs were not much better. Thinking about it carefully, this did not happen for nothing. When running/crawling all over the ground, Xinghuaer Doll is always sleeping and eating occasionally, his family Xinglang often can only wait on the mat, and it seems to be making something up while waiting, Du Nan didn't pay much attention before , Now that I think about it, this is developing handicraft skills!

If the apricots were just a kind of miraculous plant nurses in Du Nan's mind before, now he has a new understanding of them.

They... should already be called "they".

They have their own emotions - they will be sad and sad when they are bullied; they will be grateful if they are saved - they want to thank each other; they have their own ideas - such as thinking about what gifts to give...

Still worry.

For example, Du Nan found that his little Xinglang was very troubled recently.

Only he did not send gifts.

As the youngest of Xinglang, he is the most immature in terms of size, skills and ideas. He doesn't even know how to collect the branches that fall off himself.

Patting his toy box, pulling his toy halfway to make room for the other half, Du Nan said "ahah" to his family Xinglang twice.

I will store branches here for you in the future - he said to his Xinglang.

Xiao Xinglang nodded happily, and after a long while the branches were drooping down listlessly: But what should he do now that he has no raw materials and can't make gifts?

He also shook his body vigorously, trying to see if he could shake off a loose branch or two.

However, his branches were so strong that none of them fell off.

It turns out that there are troubles even if you don’t lose your hair—Du Nan thought sympathetically.

He originally wanted to give Xinglang other things as his gift, but Xiao Xinglang firmly disagreed.

The Xinglangs have the insistence of the Xinglangs. Those are not their property, and they cannot give gifts from the owner's property.

But you don't have any salary either... Du Nan looked helplessly at her little Xinglang.

He watched as he kept drooping his head, and every day there were no presents, the branches representing his head got lower.

Until one day, he lost his hair...no, a branch fell off.

Early that morning, Xiao Xinglang woke up Du Nan by poking him. This was the first time he poked Du Nan before he woke up, just to share his joy.

Rubbing her eyes, Du Nan looked sleepily at a twig pinched in Xiao Xinglangzhi's hand.

Uh...it's really small, only three centimeters, the thickness...you can't see it if you don't look carefully...

It's amazing that the "hair" is so strong... Du Nan thought in his heart, but he was afraid that Xiao Xinglang would be sad, so he clapped desperately.

However, after being excited for less than a minute, Xiao Xinglang himself discovered this.

What can such a small wooden branch do?

Until Du Nan looked aside and saw his father's embroidery needles.

So, Xiao Xinglang from Du Nan's family finally gave out a gift he made with his own branch - a wooden embroidery needle.