[Comprehensive] Saving Tragedy

Knowing that Yang Guo is too young and needs to be taken care of, so after at least five years it will not be easy for her to leave, Liu Liu is very positive about living here, planting vegetables in the backyard, and living here. Raising chickens in the front yard, putting up grape vines, and planting some flowers and plants to repel insects and ants are just the first step. The second step is to start adding some things to the house quietly. First, I made a new one for Yang Guo. Clothes, new shoes, this made Yang Guo happy for several days, Er Niu was also jealous for several days, so that Er Niu Niang had to make a pair of shoes to satisfy her, which calmed down the children's envy.

Besides, the rice tank at home is also full of things. Anyway, a big tank has a cover. As long as you don’t look at it specially, no one will notice how much there is in it. Things like oil and salt are also used. The jar was filled to the brim, because a few days ago the family cooked for the masons to eat, and there was a lot of food left over, which made perfect sense, so Liuliu filled it very happily.After all this was done, Liuliu started hunting. After all, it was not enough to just sit and eat, and whether it was in the eyes of outsiders or the needs of the future, this hunting for a living still needed to continue.

Liuliu used to be the eldest lady of Wanshou Mountain Villa. How to hunt is basically similar to instinct. Compared with Mu Nianci, it is many times higher. After buying a bow and arrow, she went straight up the mountain. Mu Nianci is really a masterpiece!She has been hunting for a living, and she doesn't even prepare a bow and arrow, she only uses her own sword, what good things can you tell me?

Liuliu was different. She only resumed hunting on the first day, and she shot a pheasant and a hare directly in the back mountain. When she came back after bleeding outside, she cleaned up all the prey, except for the prey, and brought the prey home. Afterwards, Yang Guo greeted her with adoring eyes, and Er Niu, who came to play with Yang Guo and helped pull weeds in the vegetable field in the backyard, was also full of envy.

Pheasant willows are about to be bought. She originally wanted to eat them at home, but the moment she saw Er Niu, she immediately changed her mind. She must let people know that she sold her prey for money, otherwise she would not have It is too strange to look at the income, but the family has no worries about food and drink, not to mention what kind of life the two mothers lived in the past. Eating meat and silver flowers, I am afraid that everyone will stare at me curiously, or do as the Romans do, being a good hunter is more in line with everyone's guess, and it will not be too mysterious or out of the way. As for the rabbit?This one will not be sold, she asked Erniu and Yang Guo to learn how to skin the rabbit, and at the same time clean the rabbit neatly, clean the skin and put it aside, she is going to save this thing, thank you later , to make winter clothes for Yang Guo. Cotton is very expensive these days. Most winter clothes of ordinary people use this kind of animal skin as the lining. Naturally, she has to do the same, otherwise Yang Guo would not It was exposed.

As for the rabbit meat, it is definitely eaten by the family. After cleaning the internal organs of the rabbit, I tidied it up, scalded it clean and put it aside, and then began to divide the rabbit meat into four parts. Rabbit legs, I'm going to send them to Erniang Niang in a while.

After packing up the prey, Liuliu cleaned up the yard to cover up the smell of blood, and at the same time told the children why she did this. It can be said that when she let the children observe her movements, she had already started teaching the two things without knowing it. It is a child's survival skills. Hunting is not an arrow shot. It is completed when the prey is hit. The processing of the leather behind and the covering of the traces are all knowledge.

"Mom, what are you going to do with the little rabbit's skin?"

Yang Guo's wet eyes couldn't help looking at the rabbit skin, he didn't understand why he took it down, before Mu Nianci did these prey handling things, he didn't say anything to him, and he often looked at it. If not, naturally he wouldn't ask, but now it's different, Yang Guo feels that his mother seems to love him a lot recently, and dotes on him a lot, the child is also very sensitive, knowing that his mother treats him well, he naturally let go of it After learning a little bit, know how to act like a baby, know how to ask questions, and the child's nature of asking questions begins to show up. The difference between a smart child and a stupid child is that a smart child likes to ask questions and learn more knowledge from the questions and answers. Yang Guo has always He is a smart kid, so he naturally has more problems.

Of course, there is another reason why I didn't discover it before, that is, Mu Nianci seldom pulls out the skins when hunting, and most of them are sold directly, and they are often sold for a few bucks. They have done this at home there.This time it was all about Yang Guo's curiosity, even Er Niu kept looking at him, watching and listening curiously, with a look of thirst for knowledge.

"When it's cleaned up, Mother will nitrate it again, and when it's too cold, Mother will make you a rabbit fur jacket, so that you won't be cold in the winter. , do you agree?"

Liuliu is very willing to ask and answer the children in this way. She used to teach the children on Wudang Mountain in this way. Because of her teaching method, those children are also very close to her, so she is very patient and full of patience. experience of.

"Then this skin is the clothes of the little rabbit? Did we just steal the clothes of the little rabbit to wear? Isn't that a robbery? It's the same as the robbers outside?"

The child's words are very direct and speechless. How should I answer this question?Treat your own mother as a robber?Liu Liu felt that this child was really fun, although it was difficult to answer, but Liu Liu did not have the habit of perfunctory children, after thinking about it, she said:

"Then, after a while, my mother will cook meat, do you want to eat it?"

As soon as he talked about eating meat, Yang Guo immediately felt his saliva start to flow out. A few days ago, because the family built a house, his mother brought a lot of meat back. The food he ate was delicious, almost every day. It was better than the previous dishes. The porridge tastes better than ever. He can't wait to eat meat every day. Even now, he looks at the jerky in the kitchen and is greedy. He wonders when he will finish eating it. How can he refuse to eat meat? .

"Eat, Guoer likes to eat meat."

He nodded affirmatively, but he was still puzzled, what does this have to do with Pi Zi?

"Skin is skin, meat is meat, why does mother want rabbit clothes?"

What a persistent child, Liu Liu put down what she was doing, drew a circle on the ground, then marked a few points on the circle, and said to Yang Guo:

"Look at us, this is the rabbit, and this is the grass, we eat rabbits, the rabbits eat grass, the grass eats the water on the ground, waiting for us to grow old, die, and be buried in the ground. It will turn into soil, turn into water, feed grass to eat, this is the cycle, just like the chickens in the village, we eat chickens, chickens eat bugs, bugs eat soil, and the soil is the same, when people get old, after they die It is also a cycle, so it is normal for us to eat these chickens and rabbits, and rabbits, after being eaten, the skin is useless, right? Without the body, the rabbit still needs to eat. What do clothes do? So their skins can naturally become our clothes, right? This is not robbery, this is not robbers, it is the reincarnation of heaven, that is, we do not eat rabbits, and there are wolves, foxes, and weasels in the mountains , tigers, leopards, they will eat them, and they can reincarnate just like us, do you understand?"

Liuliu used her own way and added the simplest food chain theory to try to make the child understand the connection, and not to dwell on the issue of rabbit skin and robbery, but she still underestimated the strangeness of the child's thinking, Yang Guo frowned He frowned, thought for a while, walked around the circle on the ground, squatted down, rested his chin with both hands, and said very seriously:

"We've already eaten meat, and we still want to rob them of their clothes. It's not very good after a while. It's just that I don't want to catch cold in the future. It's very cold in winter, and it will be uncomfortable after a while. So, little rabbit, you are still unlucky." It's all right, I'll give you my goodbyes later."

Speaking later, Yang Guo felt that he had gone too far, with a face full of shame, he actually ran to the rabbit that had been disemboweled and had no bones left, joined hands, and bowed three times, but he didn't know where he learned it. Liu Liu didn't know whether to laugh or cry, this kid, did he answer his own question?Then why is he still staring at himself and asking!

When Er Niu came, he naturally ate at Yang Guo's house. A big bowl of rice, braised rabbit meat, a bowl of egg custard, and cold wild vegetables made Er Niu's mouth full of greasy food, and his eyes were like wolves. Lu Guang, he doesn't have many chances to eat so many delicious foods, including meat!It's too greedy, at first he was a little embarrassed, he felt a bit embarrassed to eat at Yang Guo's house, but when Liu Liu mentioned that Yang Guo often ate at his house before, he found a reason for himself to eat at his house, naturally So he did it smoothly, but he didn't expect that what was brought out was meat, which made him unable to move his eyeballs away. He swallowed and stared straight at it, but he still didn't dare to do it. My child, I know how difficult it is to eat meat, and how expensive it is. Where did you dare to use chopsticks directly? Liu Liu picked it up for him, and then told him not to worry. She will often go hunting in the future, and this meat can always be eaten. Only then did I eat it with a big mouthful of peace of mind.

Liu Liu is not Mu Nianci, she pays great attention to blending herself into this small village at the foot of the mountain, after all, she is just a woman, and a lonely woman with a child, in this world where men are superior to women, there must be too many things that are wrong It's easy to do, but hard to come forward, so these villagers are often used. It can even be said that if there is an emergency, at least the people in this village can help take care of Yang Guo one or two, like when the first one is sick, If there is no Er Niu Niang, what will Yang Guo do?Helplessness, loneliness, fear, I'm afraid they can all make this child collapse. Besides, people always live in groups, so it's impossible not to communicate with others.

After the meal was over, Liu Liu went down the mountain with her two children. One was to deliver rabbit meat to Erniang Niang, and the other was to sell the pheasant in the village. People who go to the town or the county help take it out and sell it for money.

Even in a village with more than 20 families, there are levels of wealth and poverty. Of course there are families like the Erniu family in this village, but there are also other families who have [-] or [-] acres of land and are considered well off. Liu Liu The pheasant just arrived in the village, and an old lady took a fancy to it, and bought it for [-] yuan. The pheasant is in the county town, or it can be sold for a few more yuan in the town, but in the village, it is a villager. Yes, the price will not be high, not to mention that no matter how small the village is, there are no other hunters.Liuliu is not good at stealing other people's business, nor is it good at lowering the price, making it difficult for others to do so, so naturally she follows other people's prices.

With such a first time, the later things are easy to talk about. The people in the village slowly discovered that the Yang family’s daughter-in-law seems to be better at hunting. Almost every day, she can have something that can be sold for some money, or three Ten Wen, or fifty or sixty, and even one day he caught a deer and sold it for a full two hundred Wen.This made many village daughters-in-law jealous, secretly feeling that their men were useless, but none of the widows could make money.Looking at the boy from the Yang family, whose little face has started to grow flesh because he often eats meat, and seeing the envious eyes of his own child, he felt panicked, and then looked at the two bullies, because he was so close to Yang Guo, They often eat some food at Yang's house, and they actually grow meat, which makes them feel that they are at a disadvantage. Why is it that they are not as good as Er Niu Niang? Do the Yang family guys have a good relationship?Even if it is mixed with a meaty meal, it is still profitable, isn't it?

Stimulated by these women who wanted to take advantage, Yang Guo became popular all of a sudden, and the children in the village seemed to be willing to play with him, and people often called him to fish, catch cicadas, and climb trees together. Picking fruit made Yang Guo very happy. Seeing Yang Guo like this, Liu Liu was really relieved. Her cheap son's childhood would not be all gray at last.

At the same time, because these children were close to Yang Guo, through Er Niu's mouth, the people in the village finally knew about this widow. Not to mention, I know how to fight. My family was originally a good family, living on the border between Song and Jin. Later, because of the war, there was chaos everywhere. Thieves and rebellious soldiers destroyed a town. In the end, there was no one in the mother-in-law’s family, and the husband died. Now, she was left with a big belly and didn't know where to go, so she could only stay here.It is worse than the simple fleeing people they thought at first!

Although it is a story made up by Liu Liu to make it easier for the people here to accept their mother and son, but it is true that part of what is said is true. The in-law’s family and the mother’s family are all gone. You can't lie, and you can't say that she deliberately wants to ask for sympathy or something like that.

Anyway, after this, the people in this village treated her a lot more kindly, and even when the village chief was away, women who wanted to write letters, or wanted to make a show, and wanted to book some prey came up the mountain Talked to Liu Liu more.Even Yang Guo was very happy, besides Erniu and his family, there were other guests visiting.In order to show his friendship with the little friends in the village, when Liu Liu made him a small bow and arrow, he specially took it to the village, so that all the little friends had a good time with their hands and won a lot of closeness.

Then, Liu Liu began to enlighten Yang Guo, Erniu, and even other children in the village. After knowing that Liu Liu began to teach the children to read, everyone in the village sent the children. Mi, the west family sent some cloth, just thinking that their children can also know a few words. At least they don’t have to be blind. This village is too small and too remote, so there is no elementary school, and the only one who can read is the village. I grew up with one, and now I have a second one, and I am going to teach the children, they will never miss it, besides, I am not a serious teacher, so naturally there will be less training, and it is not impossible for each family to support it for a year or two. One or two years is enough for children to learn a lot of characters. For people like them, it is definitely enough. If they can recognize characters, even if they don’t have land to farm in the future, they can go to the town or work as a job in the county. The ability to survive.

Liu Liu doesn't hide her secrets either. After hunting in the morning, she teaches a dozen children in her small yard in the afternoon. She spends an hour reciting books and reading words, and an hour practicing basic skills. Of course, she is more demanding of her own Yang Guo. For other children, those who are willing to learn more martial arts can go to school, and those who are not willing to learn can also go home. The original thing is to read characters, and learning martial arts is not part of it.

It’s just that children always have a different mind than adults. Seeing that some friends have learned, naturally they don’t want to be dragged down by their friends. People, knowing that Liuliu also taught them boxing and kicking, each of them was more happy and gave them a lot of things. In their knowledge, reading and writing may be a bit extravagant and less useful. After all, they don't have children who are tested for talent Hope, but fists and kicks are very practical, not to mention anything else, after you learn it well, you can make a lot of money by going to the mountains to hunt or something. Just look at Liu Liu, a widow's ability, and you will know the benefits of fists and kicks. own survival wisdom.

Liu Liu always thought that such a peaceful and stable life would last forever until Yang Guo grew up, and then he would come into contact with people in the martial arts again, but this kind of thinking is still a bit taken for granted, after all, she met him before when she was around here. The bad disciples of the beggar gang also met Huang Rong and Guo Jing for molesting. This shows that when necessary and appropriate, even if you don't go to contact the martial arts, the martial arts will come back to contact you.

When she came back from a hunting trip and saw a man in a blue robe with a jasper piccolo on his waist and a hideous mask talking to her son in her yard, she knew that This is who has arrived.