The happy little days of the Ye family

The howling of wolves could no longer be heard in the small valley, and several people stopped to rest.

"Grrrrrr!"

"Grrrrrr!"

Just as they stopped, Ye Xilin and Tang Xiaojing's stomachs protested at the same time.

Only then did a few people remember that they hadn't had lunch yet.

Ye Xilin took out a small baggage from the backpack behind him. Inside was the food prepared by Mrs. Ye for them.

There is a large stack of wild onion pancakes and 4 salted duck eggs, as well as a few pieces of crushed brown sugar cake.

Tang Xiaojing also took out the egg pancakes Ye Qingqing baked yesterday evening from the basket on his back, as well as four boiled eggs cooked in the morning.

The two put the things on a large stone half a person's height and invited everyone to come over and eat.

As for the four dogs, they were loosened from their leashes and allowed to hunt small animals on the mountain.

Tang Xiaojing patted Da Huang and Xiao Huang on the head, pointed to the location at the bottom of the mountain, and asked them to run down to find something to eat.

But none of the dogs listened to him. As soon as the rope was loosened, they ran away happily. One dog ran in one direction, and all of them disappeared at once.

It was quite far away from the wolves, so Tang Xiaojing didn't care about them.

Ye Xilin held a piece of cake bigger than his face and waved to him:

"Brother-in-law, hurry up and eat. The wild onion pancakes and salted duck eggs made by my grandma are delicious."

"Hey, come right over."

Tang Xiaojing simply washed his hands with the water in the bamboo tube, then picked up an egg pancake made by Ye Qingqing and ate it.

After several people had eaten and drank, they sat on the big stone to rest.

Tang Xiaojing looked down at the sika deer excrement not far away. Suddenly an idea came to him and he suggested excitedly:

"It's too dangerous deep in the mountains. How about we dig a few traps here."

"A few years ago, the Wang family and his son encountered a herd of deer on the mountain. We also dug a trap near the mountainside and actually caught two sika deer."

"There is a lot of tender grass in this small valley, and there are sika deer here. Digging traps is the best way."

"Yes, yes, let's dig a trap." Ye Xilin also thought this was a good idea.

Just do it, Tang Xiaojing picked up the small medicine hoe and started digging in a place where the weeds were relatively luxuriant.

Upon seeing this, Ye Xilin and Tangshan hurried over to dig traps together.

Just digging one trap was definitely not enough, so Li Guoer dug another place where there was sika deer droppings.

Li Guoer was very strong, and the trap she dug by herself was almost completed at the same time as the trap dug by the three people over there.

Li Guoer was experienced. After looking around, he found a suitable place to dig a trap.

At this time, Tang Xiaojing took Tang Shan and Ye Xilin to dig two traps to catch wild boars in a place where wild sweet potatoes grew.

A wild boar is also worth a lot of money. If you don't catch the sika deer, the wild boar is also good. Tang Xiaojing is not picky at all.

A few people dug a total of 5 traps in the small valley, 3 of which were dug in places where sika deer roamed, and the other two were specially used to catch wild boars.

After the trap was dug, the four of them were so tired that they were sweating profusely and slumped down on the big rock without caring about their appearance.

At this time, Rhubarb came out dirty, with a colorful snake in his mouth.

One look at the patterns on the snake's body, and Tang Xiaojing knew it was a poisonous snake. Fortunately, the poisonous snake has been bitten to death by rhubarb.

Tangshan was a little surprised when he saw this little poisonous snake, "It's not yet the awakening of insects, and a snake appears so soon?"

Tang Xiaojing used a branch he picked up casually to take the poisonous snake from Rhubarb's mouth:

"The weather is nice today, quite warm. This snake probably came out to bask in the sun and was unlucky enough to be hit by rhubarb."

Tang Xiaojing looked at it carefully. This venomous snake was only the size of his index finger, but it was highly venomous. If he accidentally bit it, he would probably be blamed here today.

Taking out the dagger he carried with him, Tang Xiaojing dug out the snake's gall in a few clicks.

As for the snake body, the snake was too small to be made into a dish, so Tang Xiaojing simply found a place to bury it.

Immediately afterwards, the other three dogs also came back one after another, and each had their own achievements.

Sweet Potato and Snowball each came back with a skinny little rabbit in their mouths. Although there was no meat, they could still be a delicious meal when stewed together.

Xiao Huang was the last one to come back, and he shot a small half-sized deer, which was also skinny, weighing only about ten kilograms.

Although the deer is not big, it is quite heavy for the rhubarb, and it is quite laborious to drag it back.

Tang Xiaojing and Li Guoer packed up the things that the dogs of each family had hunted, while Ye Xilin took out the leftover pancakes and rewarded these big guys.

Although they had already hunted and eaten just now, the dogs did not dislike the pancakes handed over by Ye Xilin at all, and ate their second lunch with relish.

After the dogs finished eating the pancakes, the four of them walked down the mountain in large and small bags.

Tang Xiaojing walked at the front. If he came across any herbs that could be sold for money, he would point them out to Ye Xilin and Li Guoer.

Carefully teach them which parts of the herb can be used as medicine and when is the best time to pick them.

These herbs can be recognized at a glance by those who are familiar with them, but they are just a bunch of weeds by those who are unfamiliar with them.

After all, Ye Xilin didn't deal with herbal medicines all day long like Tang Xiaojing. He was dizzy after listening to them, and those herbs looked the same.

However, Ye Xilin was quick-witted and picked a copy of all the herbs Tang Xiaojing had mentioned, intending to keep them for future reference.

He took the herbs to look for them, so he couldn't find the wrong one, right?

When they reached the bottom of the mountain, the sacks in the hands of several people were filled with various herbal medicines, but most of them were ordinary cheap herbs.

Hunting is not allowed in spring, so a few people went down to the foot of the mountain and did not meet any other hunters in the village along the way.

When they got down to the foot of the mountain, Li Guoer saw that the newly emerged wild vegetables were quite fresh and tender, and invited Ye Xilin to pick wild vegetables together.

Li Guoer liked to eat bracken, so she picked a large handful of young bracken that had just grown, and was going back to fry bacon.

Ye Xilin didn't pick and dug up all the edible wild vegetables. Even if people don't eat it, they can still be used to feed pigs.

Tang Xiaojing thought that Ye Qingqing had complained a few days ago that there was no fresh vegetables to eat, so he dug up wild vegetables.

Tangshan was lucky and found a medium-sized wild yam.

A few people had a good harvest today. Although there were no very valuable herbs, the advantage was that they were large in quantity, and if they were prepared well, they would make a small profit.

Before we went down the mountain, we all agreed that the things we picked today, except for Polygonatum japonica, would be shared equally, and whoever picked the other things would get it.

Ye Xilin gave Tang Xiaojing to help process some of the herbs that needed to be processed, and he took the rest home to dry himself.

After spending some time digging wild vegetables at the foot of the mountain, when they returned to Taohua Village, Ye Qingqing and Ye Mu were waiting at the door eagerly for their return.