The happy little days of the Ye family

The soil of Stone Mountain is fertile and sparsely populated, and many medicinal herbs grow in it. Tang Xiaojing has been running up the mountain almost every day for more than two months since he returned to the village. He knows exactly where and what grows on the mountain.

There was already a large area of ​​honeysuckle growing on the mountain. It was too troublesome to pick honeysuckle in a hurry. Tang Xiaojing did not plan to grow more honeysuckle, but wanted to grow some expensive medicinal materials.

Early in the morning, Tang Xiaojing came to Stone Mountain with a few packets of medicinal seeds. Tang Xiaojing went to the pharmacy to buy these seeds from shopkeeper Wang.

Shopkeeper Wang was very interested when he learned that Tang Xiaojing planned to grow medicinal materials on the mountain. If the pharmacy hadn't been inseparable from him, he would have followed him to the village to grow medicinal materials with Tang Xiaojing.

Shopkeeper Wang found a lot of medicinal seeds for Tang Xiaojing. They were all medicinal materials that were in short supply in pharmacies or were relatively expensive.

For each packet of seeds, shopkeeper Wang thoughtfully wrote down the growing conditions and things to pay attention to. Tang Xiaojing planted the medicinal seeds one by one according to shopkeeper Wang's instructions.

After planting the medicinal materials, Tang Xiaojing sat in a shady place under the tree to rest. After sitting for a while, he took an egg out of the basket on his back.

Tang Xiaojing had boiled the eggs in the morning. The 14-year-old boy's stomach was like a bottomless pit. Tang Xiaojing had been growing medicinal herbs on the mountain all morning, and he was already hungry.

Just after peeling the eggs, two little yellow puppies emerged from the grass nearby. The two puppies looked very similar, but their coats were one darker and one lighter.

The darker-colored puppy ran up to Tang Xiaojing with a grunt and rubbed his feet enthusiastically.

Another puppy, a lighter color, ran next to Tang Xiaojing's other leg, sat down obediently, and looked at him with its round little head tilted.

Tang Xiaojing looked at the two cute little guys, freed up a hand and touched the two chubby little guys one by one.

The two little guys were not afraid of people. They rolled around at his feet and exposed their soft bellies to him.

Tang Xiaojing couldn't help but poked his two round bellies with his hands. The puppy started to grunt and stared directly at the eggs in Tang Xiaojing's hands.

Tang Xiaojing couldn't help laughing when he saw the greedy appearance of these two little guys.

"Are you hungry?"

Tang Xiaojing found a leaf that was bigger than his face, broke the eggs and put them on the leaf. The two little guys smelled the food and ate it hungrily.

The egg yolks were a little dry, and Tang Xiaojing was afraid that they would choke, so he went to a spring not far away to collect some water with leaves and brought it back to the two little guys to drink.

After the two little guys had eaten and drank enough, they felt a little drowsy. Their little heads dozed off little by little, which made Tang Xiaojing laugh.

Tang Xiaojing had rested and was ready to check the traps on the mountain. After taking a few steps, I found two little guys following behind with short legs.

Tang Xiaojing squatted down, poked his two round little heads, and smiled happily: "I've given you all the food, and I won't follow you anymore."

After walking a few steps, I found that the two little guys were still following me. I ignored them and quickly walked to the place where the trap was set.

Before he got close, he heard the sound of flapping. Tang Xiaojing quickened his pace and came to the place where the trap was dug, and carefully opened the trap with a stick.

There was a deer in the trap, which was quite fat. Tang Xiaojing visually estimated that it weighed twenty or thirty kilograms.

Tang Xiaojing got the deer out of the trap and tied up the unlucky little guy with vines.

Then I checked a few other traps and harvested two fat gray rabbits.

Tang Xiaojing held two heavy rabbits and said with a smile: "We have braised rabbits again tonight."

Hearing this, the two rabbits who were still alive struggled hard, but unfortunately they were tied up ruthlessly by Tang Xiaojing and thrown into the basket behind him.

The traps Tang Xiaojing dug were all on the side of the mountain. The traps he just checked were all halfway up the mountain. Tang Xiaojing had a hunch that there must be something big in the trap at the foot of the mountain.

Tang Xiaojing found a big and strong tree, put the deer's basket on the trunk, and walked quickly towards the foot of the mountain with the sickle and two little tails.

No wonder they say dogs bring wealth. Today's luck is indeed good. There is a large wild boar weighing nearly 200 kilograms in the outermost trap.

The wild boar should have fallen for a long time. It was dying and was close to breathing its last breath. Tang Xiaojing gave the wild boar a knife and quickly dragged the wild boar out.

There was a lot of blood in the trap, so Tang Xiaojing buried the trap cleanly with sand. The wild boar left a lot of blood and could easily provoke other beasts. Tang Xiaojing walked back quickly with the wild boar on his shoulders.

Even though Tang Xiaojing had been practicing martial arts since he was young, he was still exhausted carrying a nearly 200 kilogram wild boar halfway up the mountain.

Tang Xiaojing put down the wild boar and rested for a while. Two little puppies ran over and whined, circling around the wild boar curiously.

Tang Xiaojing carried the wild boar and walked and stopped along the way, and two chubby little guys also followed all the way to the foot of the mountain with their short legs.

Tang Xiaojing put the wild boar on the bullock cart, and the two little guys barked at him in little milky voices.

Tang Xiaojing squatted down, and the two little guys stared at him with big watery eyes.

Tang Xiaojing touched the two furry little heads and said, "Do you want to go home with me?"

The two little guys licked the backs of Tang Xiaojing's hands. Tang Xiaojing carried the two chubby little guys onto the bullock cart, found a basket and put them in.

"You guys wait here obediently for me. I will go back to the mountain to get the deer and rabbit back, and I will take you home later."

On the other side of the Ye family, Ye Qingqing hummed a tune and worked hard to clean the snails he had brought back two days ago.

Snails live in streams. Although they look a bit like field snails, they have less muddy smell and a little more sweetness than field snails.

Half a bucket of snails had already been arranged by Ye Qingqing to make two dishes, one was stir-fried snails and the other was snail bone soup.

First blanch the bones and snails, then put them in a clay pot and cook for an hour. This delicious and simmering snail bone soup is ready.

Snails are delicious only when they are hot. Wait until all the dishes are ready before starting to fry the snails.

Ye Mu dug out half a spoonful of pork from the oil can, sautéed the onion, ginger and garlic until fragrant, then stir-fried the snails over high heat, then added star anise, bay leaves and an appropriate amount of water, then simmered over low heat, and poured a little more when the juice was reduced. Rice wine adds aroma and removes fishy smell.

After the meal was ready, Tang Xiaojing waited for a long time before bringing the prey and two puppies to Ye's house.

Tang Xiaojing went back to change his clothes before coming to Ye's house. He planned to go directly to the county to sell prey after lunch.

Tang Xiaojing felt that girls should like this cute little guy, so he handed the basket with the puppy in it to Ye Qingqing.

Ye Qingqing shouted in surprise: "What a cute little dog."

Ye Qingqing quickly took the two little guys out of the carriers, holding a puppy in one hand.

"Brother Tang, where did you find these two cute little guys?"

"I picked them up on the mountain in the morning, and they kept following me, so I brought them back. I'm going to the county to sell game in the afternoon. Can I leave these two puppies at your house first? I'll pick them back up in the evening. "

Ye Qingqing was holding a chubby little puppy with one hand. The two little guys were not afraid of animals, and they were carried in Ye Qingqing's arms obediently.

Ye Qingqing couldn't put it down and said: "Okay, I will help you take care of them."