pastoral fragrance

Chapter 180 Caught a Pheasant
Qiulin and the others ate lunch at Huaihua's house, and after eating now, everyone thought about going back to the woods.Anyway, there is nothing left and right, these mushrooms can be sold in the town after they are harvested and dried, or they can be kept in stew for drinking.

This time everyone learned to be smart. There are still a lot of mushrooms in the forest to pick up. The baskets can't fit them, so everyone went to the basket with their backs on their backs.Standing on the bluestone road outside the courtyard of Huaihua's house, Qiulin glanced at the lush green bamboo forest at the entrance of the village, and his heart moved.I don't know if brother Xia Yan is at home, should I ask him to go with the others to pick mushrooms in the woods?

"Qiu Lin, what are you dawdling about, hurry up?" Everyone put on their backpacks and walked towards the woods while talking, but when they turned around, they saw Qiu Lin still standing there in a daze, and couldn't help urging stand up.

"Oh," after Qiuyue called, Qiulin also came back to her senses, she went so recklessly at this moment, she didn't know that brother Xia Yan was at home.He is a doctor, and he should go to those remote places to collect medicine in his spare time.I guess I don't have time to go pick mushrooms with them.At worst, after picking up the mushrooms and washing them, send him a basket. "Here we come!" Qiulin figured it out, and didn't waste any more time. He hopped and followed everyone's pace with his back on his back.

It has been drizzled for two days, but today there is a big sun. The originally moist soil has dried out a little after being exposed to the sun. If you step on it, it will not sink and your shoes will be stained with mud. So everyone I didn't put on straw sandals anymore.It's also faster to walk.

A few people were familiar with the road and quickly entered the woods.The woods are still full of spring, tall trees with luxuriant branches and leaves, some of which are still blooming with small white flowers, and the birds in the forest are singing sweet birds from time to time, so it is very lively.The green grass that they trampled and tossed in the morning was all lying on the ground with their heads stretched, so they could tell where they had stepped in this morning and which grass hadn't been developed yet.

Everyone was still the same as this morning, holding bamboo poles in their hands, and carefully beating the grass in front of them. This is not a joke. If you didn't beat until you stepped on a snake, it would be strange if the snake didn't bite.

In addition to beating the grass carefully, everyone also tried to avoid the graves in the forest.Last time, Mrs. Fang was sick for several days because he dug someone's ancestral grave and went back. They also have to be careful, anyway, they don't step on other people's graves and just stay away.

The mushrooms in the grass nearer to the village are almost picked up, and the rest are used for seeding.So everyone walked a little deeper into the woods.The deeper you go, the more deserted you are, and you can only hear the rustling of the sparrows being frightened.Qiu Lin felt that the singing birds and the mountains were more secluded.The yellow leaves that fell last year have not completely rotted, and they are spread under the newly grown green grass. The yellow and green are alternate, and it is precisely because of the set off of the rotten leaves that the preciousness of these new grasses is even more evident.

Qiulin saw that there were still many gray-white mushrooms growing in the thorn forest, and was about to smash it with a bamboo pole to see if there were any terrible reptiles in it, when he heard the rustling sound from the thorn forest. , Qiulin was so frightened that his heart tightened, and he jumped away, his face changed with fright, "There is a snake!" Looking at the movement, the snake was not small, and Qiulin became more and more frightened.Could it be a python?
"Snake, where is it?" Qiuyue is a courageous person, she is not afraid of this guy at all, seeing the little girl trembling with fright, she jumps out to protect her.

Qiulin pointed casually, and looked there more, only to feel that there was more movement in the thorn-planing forest this time, Qiulin was so frightened that he dared not even open his eyes, and said timidly, "It's over there!" The place where the hand pointed happened to be the thorn planing forest.

Seeing that Qiulin was too timid to open his eyes, everyone stopped picking mushrooms and looked towards the thorn planer forest.These people all grew up in the village, and naturally they have seen snakes.Needless to say, the boy, although the girl is also a little scared, but she is not as scared as Qiulin, and she dares to open her eyes to see what is going on here.Everyone looked at the place Qiu Lin pointed, and saw that there was indeed a lot of movement in the thorn planing forest.Everyone was also shocked, did they encounter a python?You must know that this kind of prickly planing forest is the easiest to hide snakes.

Everyone was waiting and watching suspiciously, only to see a little brown color emerging from the green thorn planing forest.Faintly, everyone can still see the short tail.Why does that brown thing look so familiar?It's feathers!Everyone's eyes are bright.

From the looming brown feathers and short tail in the thorn-planing forest, it can be deduced that the snake under the thorn-planing forest is not the snake that Qiu Lin mentioned, but a pheasant!
Qiulin also saw that thing clearly now. This pheasant is a rare thing. It is very nourishing and tastes extremely delicious, much fresher and tender than the chicken raised by the farmer's own.Qiulin thought about it, and felt that his saliva was about to flow down.

Xu Nuo and Xu Changshan poured the mushrooms they picked up in the back basket into Qiuyue's back basket, and then the two of them approached the moving thorn planer forest carefully from two directions in a tacit understanding.When they were only one step away from the thorn planing forest, both of them stopped at the same time and looked at each other. Finally, the two of them raised the baskets in their hands at the same time, and with all their strength, they slammed into the thorn forest. .

Everyone also stared at this scene with their eyes wide open. They threw the baskets and everything on the ground, and everyone looked forward to it.Thinking that if the pheasant flew away from the encirclement they were promised, they would just reach out and catch the pheasant.So everyone kept a high level of vigilance, and couldn't let the pheasant they got fly away.Such a foolproof approach really worked. Everyone only heard the sound of "cluck, cluck" and the sound of "bang bang" from the thing in the back basket. My tense heart relaxes, it seems that this pheasant has been caught.

Thinking that the delicious chicken will be served soon, everyone is hungry. "Haha, it looks like I ate pheasant chicken tonight, pheasant stewed with mushrooms, that's a perfect match!" Qiuyue couldn't stand the drooling as she spoke, she wasn't greedy at all, just thinking about the pheasant It's so delicious that I really can't resist the temptation.

It was the first time for Qiulin to see her eldest sister being so greedy, and she couldn't help but lament that her eldest sister was not usually gluttonous, but it was outrageous to be so greedy!The eagerness in that tone was like killing the pheasant on the spot and eating it alive!

Xu Nuo loosened the pan a little at this moment, Xu Changshan quickly caught the slender legs of the jumping pheasant, dragged it hard, and the pheasant came out.The top of the pheasant's head and the back of its neck are brownish white with black horizontal spots.It looks quite fat, I don't know how much it weighs.

"Look, there are wild eggs here!" Mei Xiang almost jumped excitedly, pointing to the wild eggs on the ground and said to everyone. She counted a total of eleven eggs, and there were three more that were probably from the pheasant just now. It was crushed when I was struggling, and the yellow-white liquid flowed out, which is a pity.

"Wow!" Qiu Lin also got carried away with joy. It was already very happy to pick up a pheasant, but now he has picked up so many wild eggs, which is not bad!There are few people in this forest, and those pheasants must like to make their nests here, why don't you wander around here again to see if you can catch pheasants and pick up wild eggs or something.

At this moment, Qiulin completely forgot that they came to pick mushrooms in the forest.

Among them, only Sophora japonica was still carrying a bamboo basket because her body was still not fresh, and everyone put the wild eggs in the bamboo basket of Sophora japonica with weeds.The eggshell is fragile, so be careful.

Xu Changshan took off a hemp rope tied to the back basket, and tied the pheasant's feet and wings firmly, so that even if he carried it, he would not be afraid that the pheasant he got would fly away.

"Little sister, your eyes are really good. Last time you saw a straw rope as a snake, and now you see a pheasant as a snake. You are really amazing." Qiuyue looked at the little girl who was beaming with joy, and couldn't help teasing her.What eyes does this little girl have, why can she see snakes in everything?

Didn't the elder sister mean to make her look ugly when she said this in front of everyone?Qiulin's little face turned red as if dyed with rouge, and said angrily, "Aren't I afraid?" She was bitten by a snake when she was a child in her previous life, so she naturally knows how powerful it is.There is a saying that once bitten by a snake, you are afraid of well ropes for ten years. Isn't that what she is like?

It's just human nature, Qiu Lin was extremely embarrassed to be laughed at by the eldest sister in public.I hope that the eldest sister will accept it as soon as she sees it, and stop making fun of her, she already felt extremely embarrassed.

"Hehe, but every time you get it wrong, we have meat to eat. Isn't this pheasant thanks to you?" Qiuyue knew that the little girl was a little annoyed, and it would be bad to continue, Qiuyue So he changed the subject and stopped teasing the younger sister.

Qiulin puffed her lips, and was also amused by the elder sister's statement. It was what it was, if she hadn't noticed the movement, where could I get the pheasant and pheasant eggs?Maybe the pheasant flew away when she hit it just now, and the pheasant eggs were broken.

At this moment, everyone caught pheasants and picked wild eggs, and they were all very happy.When picking mushrooms, I became more and more motivated.Not long after, the baskets on the backs of the children were all full.But the mushrooms in this area have also been picked up by them.When they were picking mushrooms, they also specially left seeds. I believe that when it rains in a few days, these mushrooms will spring up like bamboo shoots after rain, and then there will be more mushrooms to pick up.

(End of this chapter)