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Chapter 17 Trap
"Changfu? Is there something wrong? Come up the mountain with me." Ning Changrong knocked on the door and stood at the door.

"Brother, I'm fine. I've almost cut the firewood today. What are we doing up the mountain?" Ning Changfu looked puzzled.

"See if you can make a trap to catch two rabbits or something. Take the hatchet and follow me."

"Big brother! Second brother! I'm going too!" Ning Changgui was married for more than a year and still acted like a child. He couldn't bear to watch his elder brother and second brother go up the mountain.

"Okay, the three of us will go together." Ning Changrong is an only child in the modern age, and he has never experienced the feeling of having brothers.

The second eldest, Ning Changfu, is 22 years old, five years younger than Ning Changrong, and the third eldest is Ning Changgui. It can be said that the two younger brothers were brought up by the original Ning Changrong.

Therefore, the two younger brothers respected him as an elder brother very much.

"Big Brother, Second Brother, it's been a long time since we brothers came out together." Ning Changgui walked ahead with an excited expression on his face.

I kept recalling the days when the brothers played together when they were young. In the past, when he was bullied, the elder brother would help him fight back. Later, when the elder brother grew up and married a wife, he became the second elder brother and took him to play.

Ning Changfu was also recalling that the eldest brother went to work in the county and went home once a month. The opportunities for the brothers to get along with each other became less and less, and they were all married again. They are still not as close as before. , more is the fear of the big brother.

"Brother, when did you learn how to make traps? My second brother and I didn't even know you had this skill."

"When your brother and I fought all over the village, you two were nothing. How can you let the two of you know everything?"

On the outskirts of the mountain, Ning Changrong searched for a long time and finally found a place suitable for placing traps, and asked Ning Changfu and his brothers to dig a hole with tools.He put a thing made of rattan underneath. Ning Changrong didn’t know the name of the rattan. Ning Changgui took them to find it. It was very strong. Chang Gui went back and borrowed tools, and he got it done with a saw, and spread grass on top of the trap, which was considered one.

After finding a few more suitable places, Ning Changrong made five or six traps in a row before giving up.

"Okay, it's almost done. Let's see if it works tonight. Let's go back first. Forget it. Everyone is here, and we will go home after gathering some bundles of firewood."

The two brothers naturally did not refuse Ning Changrong's proposal, "Okay, big brother."

After chopping for a long time, Ning Changrong was panting tiredly, and wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve.

Suddenly, a gray rabbit jumped out of the jungle. The rabbit and Ning Changrong looked at each other and fled in a panic.

"Crack." The gray rabbit bumped directly into a tree next to Ning Changrong.

Ning Changrong is happy, is this called waiting for a rabbit?

"Hey, I'm lucky today, and I have some meat delivered to my door."

Brother Ning Changfu was stunned, why is there such a silly rabbit?Why didn't they meet when they went up the mountain before? !

"Okay, the firewood is almost cut, and we still have a windfall, so let's go home today."

"Brother, why don't we wait a little longer? Maybe some silly rabbits will come out."

Ning Changrong hit Ning Changgui on the head with his free hand, "Why are you so stupid? If you really wait here, you won't be able to wait if you starve to death. Today is just luck."

Ning Changgui touched his head, feeling a little regretful, "All right."

The brothers returned home in high spirits.

"Yo, did you really hit a rabbit?" Li Dafeng looked at the gray rabbit in Ning Changrong's hand in surprise, and estimated that it could weigh two to three catties. Add some wild vegetables to stew together, and then use the soup to make steamed buns. Individuals can eat a lot, suck...

Thinking of this, Li Dafeng couldn't wait to take the rabbit from Ning Changrong's hand, and took the initiative to ask Ying to clean up the rabbit.

"Mother, mother. Brother, they brought a rabbit back, shall we cook it for dinner?" Li Dafeng said as he walked.

"Okay, you go clean it up, Chunmei, go pick some garlic sprouts in the yard, I'll make it for dinner tonight." It was finally time to see the meat, even the old lady Wang Xiujuan couldn't help it.She has to cook this dish herself, if this good meat is cooked by Li Dafeng's two sisters-in-law, it will be smelly and unpalatable, she will be mad to death!
The garlic seedlings that had been planted for several days finally came in handy. There was the sound of water splashing into the pan from the kitchen, and even Ning Qingxi put down his things and heard the sound.

"Grandma. What are you doing? It smells so good." Ning Qingxi kept sniffing the scent in the air with her nose, it was the smell of meat!

"Wow! There is meat? What kind of meat is this? Where did it come from?"

"Your father and your two younger uncles caught this." Wang Xiujuan cheerfully explained while frying the rabbit meat in the pot.

"Father is too capable!"

"Isn't that right? Big Brother is the best. Your uncle has been on the mountain for so many days, but he never caught a rabbit." Li Dafeng took the place to burn the fire.It is also a pleasure to smell in the kitchen.

"It's also good luck. He was going to lay a trap at night. When he was collecting firewood and resting at night, he didn't expect to run into a silly rabbit by chance, and it bumped into the tree next to your father." Wang Xiujuan turned over happily. While frying, he told Ning Qingxi about the rabbit.

"Hahaha. Isn't this just waiting for a rabbit?" Ning Qingxi was delighted when she heard this.

Stir-fried rabbit meat with garlic seedlings is almost the same. Wang Xiujuan added a lot of rhizomes to it. This is the taro that she accidentally found when she and her granddaughter went up the mountain.

When they brought it back, the Ning family was shocked. They thought that Wang Xiujuan was not planning to live and bring her family to die.

Wang Xiujuan looked at the terrified faces of the family, and explained that it took her a long time to find out that someone in the village died of taro poisoning.

After careful questioning, I realized that the kind they were talking about was calla lily, which looks very similar to taro, but it is highly poisonous and will eat people to death.

The taro she dug up is edible taro, which has high starch content and strong satiety.After having this taro, the food crisis at home has been alleviated a lot.

Since no one recognized it, they all thought that taro was poisonous, so it was easy for Wang Xiujuan's family. After teaching them to distinguish between taro and sea taro, she took the three brothers of the Ning family to the mountain to dig up the edible taro that night. Home.

Now the Ning family still has two meals a day, but they can cook two taro in the morning.

Barely three meals a day.

Having said that, Wang Xiujuan put taro into the pot, added water, added sliced ​​ginger, and cooked for another half an hour, with steamed buns on the pot lid to heat.The whole kitchen was filled with the smell of meat, and even the brothers who were busy outside couldn't help but look around in the kitchen.

"Mother, are you ready?" Ning Changgui stretched out his head.

"It's almost there." Wang Xiujuan lifted the lid of the pot, oh, the smell is overbearing, Ning Qingxi can't sit still anymore.

Wang Xiujuan tasted the saltiness, added some coarse salt to it, stirred it and gave Ning Qingxi a piece of rabbit meat.

"what about the taste?"

Ning Qingxi was scalded, she nodded after a while and said, "Grandma, it's delicious!"

"I don't know how to be careful, I'll scald your mouth and get blisters later."

Under the expectant eyes of everyone, Wang Xiujuan shoveled out the rabbit meat and taro and took it out of the kitchen.

Divide the rabbit meat according to the number of heads. The rabbit, which is only about three catties, can have three pieces of meat and four or five pieces of taro in a bowl for one person.

Wang Xiujuan couldn't bear the difference in the portion sizes between women and men. Although she and Xixi were indispensable, since she came, the men and women in the family basically had similar meals, and Li Dafeng and Fang Chunmei's meals became the same as everyone else's.If there is any leftover after dividing, whoever eats it first will be counted.

The steamed buns are placed on the lid of the pot and heated to absorb a lot of the aroma of the rabbit meat. The taro and rabbit meat live together and become soft, sweet and meaty.

The whole family ate without raising their heads, and even the remaining soup in the pot was stained clean by the steamed buns.

(End of this chapter)