tall and rhubarb

Ever since his leg was injured by a wild boar on the mountain, Rhubarb has finally started to pay attention to practice. Every day when Gao Chang meditates, he will sit cross-legged and start his practice. Gao Chang is naturally happy to see this It worked.

Gao Chang was quite satisfied with Da Huang, his so-called partner. At least when they were fighting wild boars, even if Da Huang was injured, he always maintained an attacking posture instead of leaving himself to run away.Although it may do so largely because it has worshiped with it, but who cares about that?Gao Chang is not a young girl who is in love with spring, he pays more attention to benefits.

As for the pig house, considering the aggressiveness of the twelve wild boars and their size when they grow up, Gao Chang plans to dig a big pit, which should be big enough to accommodate the group of pigs, but also deep enough so that they cannot climb up .Fortunately, wild boars are not good at climbing, otherwise Gao Chang really doesn't know what to use to keep them in. After all, given the current conditions in their village, it seems that there is really nothing that can withstand the impact of this group of wild boars .

The place to dig the pit was behind their house. Considering the density of the bamboo forest behind their yard and their crazy growth rate, Gao Chang felt that it would be safer to dig the pit directly behind the house, which is close and convenient for feeding.Because he was worried that the earth wall would be collapsed by them, Gao Chang also built a tall, thick and strong stone wall around the pig house.

This is not a small project, just digging a hole is enough. Now almost all the surrounding areas of their yard are covered with bamboo, and the ground is even more intertwined. The bamboo roots are so tough that ordinary hoes can't do anything with them, so they have to use a machete. .After digging the hole, he had to repair the stone walls. From moving the stones to building the walls, he was alone. Da Huang didn't know that he would have to wait until the year of the monkey to take shape.

After finishing the bottom and walls of the pit, Gao Chang built a row of two-meter-wide thatched sheds on the side near the bamboo forest, opposite the back door of Gao Chang’s house, where the wild boars can take shelter in rainy days. In case of rain, the terrain at the bottom of the pit is also slightly higher to avoid water accumulation.When Gao Chang was digging the pit, he removed the ditch. There was a small sink at the bottom of the pit. He could pour some water into the sink every day, and the piglets would drink it when they were thirsty. to the field.

The blocked back door of Gao Chang’s house was opened again, and the pig house was just dug out next to the back door of his house. The pig house was about five meters deep, and the whole pit was nearly square, with a side length of a little more than six meters.For the common species on their side, it is very difficult for wild animals outside to jump over. Even if they jump over, there is no place to stand. The back door of Gao Chang's house is attached to the edge of the pit.

And the edge of the straw hut is about four meters away from the wall of Gao Chang’s house. It is difficult for ordinary animals to jump over, and the hut is deliberately made weak by Gao Chang. If you are a large animal, don’t even think about it. He can come and go freely, and if one accidentally falls into the pit, he will have to compete with his piglets first. As far as Gao Chang is concerned, he still hopes that large animals will appear later, because his pigs Cubs take a while to grow.

Twelve little piglets were tied to the rattan like this, and slowly lowered into the bottom of the pit. It happened that a lot of bamboo shoots were dug out when Gao Chang dug the pit these two days, and they became the first batch of food for these piglets. .Such a sunken pig house is like a small colosseum, let alone wild boars, even wolves and tigers can't easily climb up from the bottom of the pit.

While Gao Chang was busy arranging his piglets, he often went to the yard to help, because the water pipes leading water from the mountain in their yard were bitten by insects. They wanted to organize an operation to repair these water pipes, and in order to protect the water pipes, I have to prepare a protective layer on the outside of the water pipes. After all, the world is in chaos, and it will be difficult to buy water pipes in the future.

Everyone cut moso bamboo from the bamboo grove behind the house, removed the thinner parts of the bamboo branches and tail tips, and cut the rest into bamboo sections. Bamboo segments of different lengths are required.

These bamboo sections are cut open to remove the middle bamboo joints, and then baked on the fire until they turn yellow and shiny. After that, the two bamboo pieces in pairs must be tied together, otherwise the bamboo pieces will not fit together at that time.The bamboo chips processed in this way have a hard texture and a smooth surface. At least in a short period of time, the worm characters are still relatively difficult to wear through.

In addition to bamboo chips, they also need to prepare a lot of straw ropes for fixing and binding. People in the village have to soak the straw in water before rubbing the straw ropes. This time they added insect-repellent plants when soaking the straw .

Every afternoon after dinner, the men would gather in the hall to draw lots. Now they need someone to go to the bamboo forest behind to cut bamboo. Even though it is only a few steps away from the yard, the village chief and Zheng Guohong decided to follow the agreed rules. Come.

The person in charge of making bamboo sticks for the men was an old carpenter in the village. He was married to their yard in the early years, and everyone used to call him Uncle Cui.

This Uncle Cui was skillful, and the sticks he made were also skillful, each root was about the same length, short and thick, and when placed in a long and thin bamboo tube, it was impossible to tell which stick was long and which was short.When you get it in your hand, you will know the difference. A long stick will go straight to the end, but a short stick will cut a deep ring in the lower part of the stick, and it will break with a light hand.Moreover, the length of the lottery made by Uncle Cui every day is slightly different from that of the previous day, and there is no way to fake it. If you take it out and compare it, you can know whose lottery is wrong.

A week later, the preparations were almost done, and everyone gathered in the living room to draw lots again. This time, they were basically all short lots, and there were only five long lots. Basically, all of their yards were dispatched that night. So, only five men were left guarding the old women and the children.

Gao Chang's luck was mediocre, he didn't get the long lottery, and he had to go up the mountain with everyone, he wanted Da Huang to stay in the yard to warm up and sleep, because he heard that not only people from his yard went up the mountain that night, they There are several courtyards in the village, and they have made an appointment to go up the mountain to repair the water pipes that night. The number of people is estimated to be hundreds, and even if they meet a wild boar again, they will burn it to death if they throw a torch.

But this guy Rhubarb insisted on following him, so he followed Gao Chang back and forth on the mountain road for a few times. When Gao Chang was working, it was active nearby. What I love is the fructus, a fruit that used to be no bigger than an adult fingernail, but is now stimulated by blue sunlight to more than double its size.

The only problem is that there are thorns everywhere on the branches and leaves that cover the plate. It is not only the fruit that is nourished by the blue sunlight, but also these thorns, which are sharp and sharp and grow very thick.Whether you can smoothly roll off a sour and sweet fruit from the branch without hurting your tongue depends entirely on the flexibility of rhubarb's tongue.

"Hey, let me say..." Just as Da Huang was fighting against the plate, a tall voice suddenly came from the side: "You don't want your tongue anymore?"

"Oh, you don't need to work anymore?" Rhubarb felt a little embarrassed when Gao Chang bumped into him when he was greedy, and stretched out a front paw to scratch his neck. The legs stood firm.

"Take a break." Gao Chang sat down next to Rhubarb, squinted his eyes and yawned. The past few days have been enough for him. He has to dig pig houses and work in the yard, and he has to keep practicing. Seriously. sleep deprivation.He casually picked a fruit from the branch covered with a plate and threw it into his mouth. Needless to say, it tasted really good: "How about digging a few and planting them next to the pigsty?"

"Okay! Just now I saw a particularly good variety on it! Let's dig it!" Hearing what Gao Chang said, Rhubarb became excited.

"I have to finish my work first, and I can't run away now."

"Then how about digging a few wild hawthorns back? There are also mountain grapes..."

"Row."

Gao Chang raised his hand to pick up a few more plates, and handed them to Da Huang, but Da Huang didn't show any politeness to him, and rolled his tongue all the way to his stomach.Gao Chang only felt that the palms of his hands were hot and humid, and there were some rough textures. He felt a little weird in his heart. He patted his butt and went back to work. ... Well, at most, it was just being licked by my partner.

The homework this night was relatively smooth, except for being attacked by a group of crows in the middle, but because everyone had prepared in advance and wore bamboo hats on their heads, no one was injured. A few people injured their arms and shoulders. Picked some herbs to stop bleeding on the side of the road, chewed them up and applied them, then continued to work.

Gao Chang also took time to leave with Rhubarb for a while, and came back after digging up some mulberry trees. As a result, all the men in the village thought about it when they saw it.Basically, every household has children, who are as young as one or two years old and still need to be breastfed, and as old as teens and twenties. No one has many children these days. As fathers, no matter how old their children are, they still feel They are a child.

The nearest ones were almost dug up, some people asked Gao Chang for help, and asked him to help dig a few trees from a farther place. Because the mountain road was dark, everyone concentrated on the line where the water pipes were laid. Others There is no one without torches in the place, and it is too dangerous to go alone. It is better if Gao Chang brings rhubarb, at least you don't have to worry about stepping on snakes or something.

This time Gao Chang is easy to talk, anyway, here is also working, helping them dig wild fruits is also working, it is no different to him, he just thinks of doing good deeds for the children in the village and improving their food alright.

There are a lot of wild fruits on the mountain, and Gao Chang also dug some wild hawthorns by the way. The wild hawthorns haven’t produced fruit yet, so I don’t know how big their fruits can grow now. I plan to plant the wild grapes on the pigsty, and let the vines grow along the grass shed. When the branches and leaves grow enough, the straw can be removed. If the fruit is ripe, if I can't finish it, I can feed it to the pigs.

When Gao Chang was digging vigorously, Rhubarb moved his ears, then left for a while, and ran back again, holding a kitten in his mouth, which was about the size of a grown man's fist, and made a thin meow The barking sounds pitiful, not at all as vicious as the big cat that attacked them a while ago.But this cute and pitiful look can only be maintained until it grows up. Cats and tigers are relatives, they only eat meat, and they are absolute hunters.

"Do you want to eat cat meat?" Gao Chang raised his eyebrows, but he heard that cat meat is not tasty at all.

"How much meat does it have?" Rhubarb threw the kitten on the ground with disdain, and pawed it twice with its front legs. Unexpectedly, the kitten was quite fierce, so it raised its paw and gave it to him. Luckily, Rhubarb hid quickly. "Did you see it? Keeping it is a disaster. Either eat it or throw it away. Anyway, you have to kill it first."

"God has the virtue of good life." Gao Chang sighed and squatted down beside him, broke a branch to poke the kitten, but the kitten bit it, clung to the branch tightly and refused to let go. "But it's a cat? Could it be a tiger? It's better to kill tigers because it's a problem."

"Come on." Da Huang took a step back and let Gao Chang go up.

"So you came up with this idea?" Gao Chang was upset, why did he have to do the job of killing the little life by himself, anyway, he has raised rhubarb for more than ten years, okay, this guy can't help with other things Forget it, the kitten who can bear fruit with one paw, will come back and make himself a killer?

"Murting cubs doesn't conform to the dog clan's ancestral precepts." Rhubarb said awkwardly.

"Ancestor's instruction?" Gao Chang's eyes were like lightning, and after inspecting Da Huang, he asked: "You can't do it, right?" Kindness and softness are unacceptable in the last days.

"It's an animal's instinct to have compassion for cubs." Rhubarb really couldn't do it.

"I'm also an animal." Gao Chang told the facts. The kitten is cute, and he is indeed a bit soft-hearted, but if he really wants to kill him, he will pass it by closing his eyes.This rhubarb was not so gentle when he treated wild boars a while ago. It seems that people say that cats and dogs are family, which is not completely unfounded.

"Let's raise it first." Gao Chang mentioned the kitten who was clinging to the stick and refused to let it go, and decided to save it first. Anyway, he still hasn't thought of a way to deal with the mutant mouse. That thing Not only can dig pits, but also dare to eat people. In the environment of their village, it is really hard to guard against.

"Where to keep it?" Rhubarb asked a very practical question. Cats can climb trees. The pit in their backyard probably can't trap it, and their house can't do it either. What about so many toads? So cruel, it is estimated that they will all be wiped out in one day.

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