"Okay then," Tian Jing agreed, "I will use this to secretly recuperate your mother's body, and her health will be enough to pay for my accommodation."
"By the way, I will go up the mountain to find food in the future. If you can communicate with me well like today, I won't carry you on my back and sneak into the mountain."
When Li Zhengguo saw him just now, he looked greatly relieved. Tian Jing knew that he must be worried about his safety.
"Are you sure it's okay if you go into the mountains?"
Li Zhengguo looked for the wild boar's wound and found that the wild boar was killed with one blow above its weakest eye. He knew that his question was unnecessary.
"Of course, I climb trees very quickly, and walking on the tree is much faster than on the ground."
Tian Jing concealed her whereabouts when she came in this morning.
Li Zhengguo looked up at the trees around him, "Did you really walk up there?"
"Yes, otherwise, you would have found me long ago, right?"
Tian Jing lowered her head, wrapped the ginseng in leaves again, stuffed it into the cracks of the pumpkin in the basket on her back, and stuffed the pumpkin with kudzu vines, leaving several large pumpkins.
"Yes! Next time, tell me in advance and I will accompany you."
"No!" Why is she going up the mountain to accompany her? Is she specifically looking for food for them? "I want to go up the mountain by myself."
He categorically refused, Li Zhengguo should not use a tough attitude, he should take his time.
"Okay, give me a time. If it exceeds, I will go up the mountain to look for you."
"This is okay."
Li Zhengguo carried the basket and asked Tian Jing to drag the pumpkin vines, hatchets and kitchen knives.
"Let's go. I should be able to keep these pumpkins, or hand over three or four and keep the rest."
Tian Jing looked at the vines and saw that there were still seven or eight on them. She was still greedy and had done too much.
"Then you tell the captain that you want to distribute these pumpkins to needy families like orphans and widowed mothers. How can those people with hands and feet have the nerve to eat what we worked so hard to bring down the mountain?"
"Well, it's up to you."
When the two of them went down to the foot of the mountain, they saw many children digging wild vegetables.
Several children were stunned when they saw Tian Jing. Yesterday, this woman dug a lot of wild vegetables. They heard Li Laizi's surprised voice.
Unfortunately, they rummaged in the bushes for a long time and found no wild vegetables.
Did she dig it up the mountain? No, Li Laizi called her when he came down from cutting firewood, Li Laizi...
Huh? What is Li Laizi dragging in his hand?
Wild boar?
They stopped digging for wild vegetables and ran quickly to Li Laizi, no, Li Zhengguo, no, Uncle Zhengguo,
"Uncle Zhengguo, have you shot a wild boar?"
"Uncle Zhengguo, you are so awesome."
"Uncle Zhengguo, they said you were a soldier, right?"
Li Zhengguo nodded in response to them.
"Wow, I want to be a soldier too. Not only can I have enough to eat, but I can also hunt."
"Who doesn't want to go? My dad said you have to have connections and be physically strong."
"Oh, don't talk nonsense, let's go and inform everyone quickly, then inform the captain, and call Butcher Wang."
"Yes, yes, yes, you go quickly, the rest of us will stay and help Uncle Zhengguo pull the wild boars."
Seven or eight children were divided into two groups. One group of younger ones ran to inform them, while the other group of older children wanted to help drag the wild boar.
Li Zhengguo simply let them try.
I don’t know if it was because of the excitement of eating meat, but four eight or nine-year-old children really started to drag it.
"Then you hold on, I'll carry these kudzu roots back first, and then I'll pick you up."
Li Zhengguo was planning to carry the basket home while avoiding people.
The four children only had wild boar in their eyes, "Okay, you go ahead, we'll drag it slowly."
Tian Jing hurriedly followed Li Zhengguo's footsteps. Li Zhengguo was pretending to be lame at first, but now he was running lamely.
Those children were busy pulling the wild boar. How could they notice the difference in Li Zhengguo's legs and feet?
After her eldest brother left, Li Min absentmindedly served her mother, cleaned up the kitchen, and paced back and forth at home.
Mother Li was annoyed by her and asked her to prepare the cooling bed quickly because she wanted to go out to bask in the sun.
"No, it's still a little cold outside at this time." Li Min refused.
"Then did you give me a quiet environment?" Mother Li asked back.
Li Min remembered what Tian Jing said about resting, so she had to walk out of the east room and said, "I'm going to pick some spinach."
Seeing that there were more weeds than spinach in the private plot, Li Min sighed. She had better pull the weeds first.
Then I thought about Tian Jing saying that the soil and gravel in the field can be separated. If you can grow decent vegetables after separation, it will take some time.
It's a pity that she doesn't have time to do the experiment. Tian Jing should be able to do it, right?
While thinking wildly, I suddenly heard heavy footsteps and turned around to see my eldest brother and Tian Jing coming back.
The eldest brother was carrying a full basket on his back, and Tian Jing also had a large handful of green pumpkin vines with several old yellow pumpkins on the vines.
There is food, and pumpkin is food. She jumped up happily and said, "Brother, sister-in-law."
Li Zhengguo waved to her, hurriedly entered the west room, put the basket down beside the kang, grabbed the kudzu vines on it, pulled the quilt from the kang, covered it with the basket on his back, and hurried out of the room.
Throwing the kudzu vine in front of Tian Jing, "Tiantian, tell Minmin that I will go first."
"OK."
Tian Jing put the pumpkin vines and kudzu vines in her hands together, and placed the hatchet and kitchen knife next to the vines.
"Li Min, you look here first, I'll go to the room to tidy up."
She was worried about ginseng. If she was reminded of carrying a basket, it would be a few pumpkins at most. Ginseng was not suitable to appear in front of the members.
"Yeah." Li Min agreed. The eldest brother was rushing back and forth. No matter what was in the basket, the eldest sister-in-law could go in and deal with it.
Tian Jing entered the house, glanced around, and found a basket covered by a quilt beside the kang. This was really a hidden trick that people could easily ignore.
He rummaged for ginseng, opened the kang cabinet, pulled out a piece of Li Zhengguo's military uniform, wrapped it with leaves, and stuffed it at the bottom of the clothes.
He then pulled out his tattered clothes, wrapped the ginseng, pumpkin and kudzu seeds in his pocket respectively, and placed them in the innermost corner of the cabinet.
Fold the quilt and put it back on the kang.
Then he took out the big pumpkins from the basket, placed them in a row behind the door, went out with the empty basket, and placed the kudzu root on top of the basket.
Li Min then asked curiously, "What's in the basket on your back?"
"Pumpkin," Tian Jing pointed to the pumpkin vine on the ground, "This place has been seen by the children digging wild vegetables. It's hard to put it away. Let's wait and see what your brother will do."
"Then what did my eldest brother do?" Li Min asked another curious question.
"Wild boar." Tian Jing began to pinch the young leaves on the pumpkin vine.
"ah?"
Li Min thought the pumpkin was already a surprise, but she didn't expect there would be a bigger surprise, "Did my eldest brother hunt it?"
"Do you think I hunted you?"
Regarding Li Min's unstable temperament, Tian Jing felt that she had to talk about it carefully when she had free time. Otherwise, if there was a problem in the Tian family, it would cause trouble for Li Zhengguo and also cause trouble for her.
"That's not true. I was just asking casually," Li Min immediately shook his head, "You didn't encounter any danger when you went up the mountain, did you?"
"No," Tian Jing didn't expect Li Min to care about her, even though it came after everything else.
"I found this pumpkin. If I have time, I will go into the mountains to find food."