"One, two, three...thirty-three, thirty-four, thirty-five!"
Gu Mingnan's eyes were shining, and he shouted in surprise: "Brother, we found thirty-five eggs in one night!"
Gu Mingdong rubbed his wrist and continued climbing trees to touch bird eggs, which was a bit overwhelming for his body. Looking at the pitiful pile of bird eggs, Gu Mingdong sighed. This was too inefficient.
Bird eggs are not half as big as chicken eggs. Thirty-five bird eggs are not enough for a family to eat.
The second brother Gu obviously didn't notice his eldest brother's dissatisfaction, and said happily: "There are so many eggs, enough for Ah Xing and Ah Chen to eat for a while."
Thinking of the taste of bird eggs, Gu Erdi couldn't help but swallow his saliva, and his stomach growled.
Sweet potato porridge is hot and filling when you drink it, but after all, it is whole grains and carbohydrates, so you can't help but feel hungry.
They went into the mountains and touched bird eggs again. Not to mention Gu Erdi, Gu Mingdong also felt hungry.
"Wait a minute." Gu Mingdong said something, looked around, and climbed up another tree.
The second brother Gu quickly raised his head: "Brother, is there a bird's nest up here?"
With a snap, something hit next to Gu Erdi. Gu Erdi suddenly felt distressed: "Why did you just throw it down? The bird's egg must have broken."
Gu Erdi reached out to touch it without giving up. Even if the egg was broken, he could still swallow it alive. It must not be wasted.
Unexpectedly, what he touched was not a broken bird egg, but something warm and fluffy. Brother Gu's eyes suddenly widened.
Gu Mingdong jumped down from the tree and walked over to pick up the unlucky bird. The people in the village didn't have enough to eat, but the bird was quite fat.
The second brother Gu was dumbfounded as he watched his elder brother pluck the feathers from the bird, wrap it in leaves and mud, and bury it directly in the ground.
At this moment, Gu Mingdong was carrying a treasure box with him. He obviously went out with empty hands, but now he was performing tricks with a knife.
A small bonfire was lit, and there was finally light in the dark night. Gu Erdi took a sip of saliva and squatted beside it to wait.
Gu Mingdong added some dead branches to it: "Bring a few more bird eggs."
The second brother Gu hesitated and said: "Just order the eggs, why don't you keep them for them to eat?"
Gu Mingdong didn't insist. He said that roasting bird eggs was just to see that Gu's second brother was dripping with saliva and was about to fall off.
The second brother Gu sniffed. He couldn't smell the fragrance at all through the soil, but the saliva in his mouth was very honest: "Brother, is it okay if we roast the bird here and eat it? Will anyone find out? What if someone reports me? "
"Everyone who appears in the mountains at this point has the same idea as us. Who can report whom?"
Brother Gu thought so and felt relieved.
Gu Mingdong poked the ground and quickly dug out the small bird. The bird was quite fat, half of it for each of them. There was no seasoning, and it already felt crispy and delicious in the mouth.
"It's so fragrant, the meat is so delicious!" Gu Erdi was so moved that he wanted to cry when he ate the meat. This was meat. He couldn't remember how long it had been since he had eaten meat.
The brothers finished the bird quickly, and Gu Mingdong was still a little bit unsatisfied.
The second brother Gu said regretfully: "It's a pity that we can't take it back, otherwise we can let the third and third brothers taste the meat."
"Why don't you take them into the mountains with you next time and let's eat secretly?"
When the second brother Gu said it, he felt bad again: "Let's forget it. The third child, Xiaobei, is a girl, and Ah Xing and Ah Chen are too young. It's too dangerous to go into the mountains at night."
Gu Mingdong thought so too.
The old Gu family is already considered a bit biased, but now who dares to eat meat? The mud walls leak air everywhere and cannot block the smell of meat. If the smell spreads out and attracts prying eyes, they will be criticized.
This is not something they worry about, but it actually happened. The smell of meat cannot be hidden from the neighbors next door.
Furthermore, the family closest to them was Widow Liu's family. The son of that family had too many thoughts on his mind, and Gu Mingdong was worried.
Gu Mingdong also felt regretful, feeling deep down that it was nothing to be so secretive.
He looked at Brother Gu chewing and swallowing the bones, and couldn't help but ask: "Second Brother, do you think there is any way to eat meat openly?"
The second brother Gu was also stunned for a moment and understood what he said.
"First of all, you have to have money, and you also have to have meat tickets. Then you need to take the money and meat tickets to the town to buy and supply meat, so that you can eat openly."
Gu Mingdong was speechless. He rummaged through the entire old Gu family and found only a few cents in total. The real family had nothing to lose, let alone rare meat tickets.
Gu's second brother naturally knew the situation at home, so he reluctantly sucked the meaty fingertips and said, "Otherwise, we have to wait until the end of the year. The brigade will definitely have to kill pigs by then. If our family has more work points, we can change it." ."
Of course, when they slaughtered pigs in previous years, their family just cut off a piece of meat to taste it, because if they replaced more meat, they would have less food and they would not be able to survive the next year.
Gu Mingdong put out the fire with one step and carefully checked that there were no sparks left before taking his brother out of the mountain.
But deep down in my heart, I am still thinking about eating meat. Times are different, and I have to think twice before eating meat. What is this?
There is a treasure mountain in the sky, but it cannot be opened to eat. It is a waste. There are many wild boars in this mountain...
Suddenly, Gu Mingdong paused: "Kill a pig?"
"Brother, don't even think about killing pigs. They have to be killed at the end of the year, at least for half a year."
After finishing speaking, he muttered: "This year, there is one less person working in the fields in our family. The work points will definitely be less, and I don't know how much they can be exchanged for."
A way flashed through Gu Mingdong's mind, which might work.
"Second brother, you go back first, I have something else to do." After Gu Mingdong finished speaking, he turned around and walked back into the mountain.
The second brother Gu quickly chased a few steps: "Brother, where are you going?"
Gu Mingdong patted him on the shoulder: "Wait, big brother will get you meat to eat."
"Hey..." Brother Gu couldn't stop him in time and could only watch helplessly as his eldest brother disappeared.
As soon as Gu Mingdong left, the surroundings seemed to get darker, and the howling of wolves could be heard faintly from deep in the forest, which made Gu Erdi's heart tremble.
"Actually, it's okay if we don't eat meat..." Gu's second brother muttered. He was greedy for meat, but he didn't want his eldest brother to take risks in the mountains.
He stood there and waited for a while, but when Gu Mingdong didn't come back, he jumped up and down anxiously.
"What do you want to do, brother? Is it to catch more birds?"
After looking at the bird eggs in his pocket, Gu Erdi decided to send them back and hide them first to avoid being discovered at dawn.
The second brother Gu hurried home, and the third sister Gu was waiting at the door. Both brothers had gone up the mountain, and she couldn't sleep either.
"Second brother, why are you alone? Where is the eldest brother?" Gu Sanmei asked anxiously.
"Eldest brother said something happened." Second brother Gu opened his pockets and proudly showed off the eggs, "Look at what these are."
Gu Sanmei took advantage of the moonlight to take a look and said in surprise: "There are so many eggs, have you poked the nest?"
"It's amazing. I can eat one of these every day for a month." Gu Erdi became proud.
"Look at how proud you are. Big brother must have found this, just you? If you had found it, it would have gone into your mouth long ago." Gu Sanmei hid the eggs quickly with her hands and feet. She felt unsafe wherever she hid them, so she finally Stuffed under the rice.
The second brother Gu was unhappy and hummed, "I also helped."
After that, he walked out again.
"Hey, where are you going?" Gu Sanmei asked in a low voice.
The second brother Gu waved his hand: "I'll pick up the eldest brother and help him look out."
Upon hearing this, Gu Sanmei immediately stopped objecting and said, "Then be smart and don't get discovered."
After saying that, I felt uneasy and handed him the hatchet and bamboo basket: "If you bump into someone, just say go up the mountain to chop wood and dig wild vegetables."
"I know, I want you to talk more." Impatient, Gu Erdi still accepted the two.
When Brother Gu returned to the top of the mountain again, it was already dark.
He was a little anxious in his heart, secretly thinking that if his elder brother didn't come back, the villagers would have to get up, and any movement would be easily discovered.
Second brother Gu thought for a while, picked up a bunch of dry branches on the spot, and dug some wild vegetables as if they were there.
Just as he lowered his head to dig wild vegetables, he suddenly heard a movement behind him.
The second brother Gu turned his head suddenly and was so startled that he almost screamed.
"Shh, it's me!" Gu Mingdong covered his mouth.
"Brother...brother?" Brother Gu finally came to his senses, but he still couldn't take his eyes away from the behemoth.
I saw a huge wild boar with a black face and tusks prostrate under a big tree not far away.
"This, this, this, this..." Gu Erdi was so shocked that he stuttered.
Dahe Village is close to a mountain. There are not only wolves, tigers, but also pigs in the mountains. They say one pig, two bears, and three tigers. This wild boar is also the overlord of the mountains.
Adult wild boars are huge, bad-tempered, and incredibly destructive. They are often covered in a layer of mud, making them invulnerable to death and invulnerability. When provoked, they have amazing fighting capabilities.
Not to mention ordinary members, even veteran hunters would avoid wild boars when they see them.
Gu Mingdong smiled and patted his brother on the forehead: "You were fine just now, why did you stutter?"
The second brother Gu jumped up suddenly and exclaimed: "Brother, this is a wild boar."
"I know, I did it!" Gu Mingdong was still a bit understated, unable to tell that he was almost exhausted just to drag out the pig.
The second brother Gu only felt that he was dreaming: "How is this possible? You didn't even bring a hatchet. How could you kill the wild boar?"
His heart was beating wildly, and he couldn't believe the fact before him. His brother, unarmed, killed an adult wild boar!
Gu Mingdong naturally had his own way. After a night of trouble, he was a little exhausted now, so he simply handed the thing in his hand to his younger brother: "You go again, take these two little ones home and hide them first."
Only then did the second brother Gu realize that his elder brother was still holding a vine, and two small wild boars were tied to the vine, and they were also dead.
"Hurry up, what are you doing standing still?" Gu Mingdong urged.
"Oh oh oh, I'll take them back right away." Gu Erdi didn't care much, he just picked up the two wild boars and ran away.
"Wait a minute." Gu Mingdong shouted.
"When I came back, I went to my third uncle's house and told him that I killed a wild boar when I went up the mountain to cut firewood, and asked him to bring a few people over to carry it back."
The second brother Gu had a bitter look on his face, feeling reluctant in his heart: "Are you still calling me Third Uncle? Third Uncle will definitely not let our family stay."
"Do you still want to eat meat openly? If you do, go ahead and go." Gu Mingdong glanced at him.
If it wasn't for eating meat, would he need to go to such trouble?
The second brother Gu had no choice but to run down the mountain.
As soon as his brother left, Gu Mingdong couldn't hold on anymore. He fell down and leaned against the roots of the tree to catch his breath.
At this moment, he was dizzy and his face was pale. He looked like he had been through a bloody battle. In fact, before his body could catch up, he had to forcefully use his mental power. At this moment, he only felt that his brain was aching.
The only good thing is that leaning on the vibrant hilltop, the recovery of supernatural powers is faster.
Gu Mingdong held a piece of sweet thatch in his mouth and looked at the huge thing. He seemed to see a pile of braised pork waving to him.