Four gusts of wind

Now, when they come out to herd the cows, Dad always gives them a lighter to live outside, and sometimes tells them not to catch a cold, and reminds them to make a fire in an open area. The brothers knew that they were also afraid that the sparks would accidentally drift into the surrounding bushes and cause an unquenchable fire, so they lit fires on the ground with nothing but dirt and gravel each time.

This morning, since there were only two cows left, and the total number of Ermao and their family was only four, it was much easier than before, so they handed over the task of watching the cattle to Liu Mei after driving the cattle to Qingshui Stream, and turned to the forest below to look for dry firewood.

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late autumn, it is relatively easy to find dry firewood, and after only a short while, they will carry a pile back to the cliff where they usually stay, and then use dead leaves to make a fire in the middle, and then build some small firewood on the flame, and then add a larger wood when the fire is stable.

As the temperature rises, the body slowly warms up, and the wind on the cliff becomes gentle, like a friendly big hand.

A few people chatted around the fire, and then they couldn't wait to take out the food they had brought from home and roast it on the fire.

Liu Mei and Ermao brought bacon and some fruits that had just been hung up not long ago, while he and his brother brought a few pieces of glutinous rice and bacon. They skewered the bacon with bamboo sticks and stretched it to the fire, and then stuck a few small sticks on the ground to serve as a support for the glutinous rice cakes, and ate the fruit while waiting for the meat and glutinous rice to be cooked.

"Brother Jun, Mao, when are your parents going out?"

"I don't know. "

"My mom will go back to work after the Chinese New Year, and your parents should be the same." "

Ermao and Liu Mei's mother always came back when the Chinese New Year was about to be, and then went out not long after the New Year, and the sister and brother were used to it. But for him, his parents came back for the first time in so many years, and he didn't know if it would be the same as Ermao's parents.

Actually, he really hopes that his parents are the same as Ermao's parents. He has been looking forward to it for so many years, and originally thought that his parents would be much happier than before when they came back, not just because they could speak like "my mother" and "my father" like those people. But these days, it doesn't seem to be the same as he thought, he was really happy at first, but now he only feels uncomfortable, facing his father's nagging all the time, he feels that home is not home, but a shell that he can't escape.

"I really envy you two, your grades are so good, you can always be praised by your parents, unlike me and Ermao, who are scolded every day." "

"You rely on two points in Chinese and four points in mathematics, don't scold anyone you scold." "

Ermao listened to it, and Liu Mei was not to be outdone, and immediately replied.

"How good are you? Just a few points higher than me, aren't you still being scolded." "

Listening to the sister and brother, he forced a smile, and his face gradually distorted.

"Anyway, you two are really good, you can do it like this." "

"Isn't it the same for you at the beginning, if it weren't for your teacher to let Xiao Ran take you, it is estimated that this year will be two or three points." "

After the elder brother finished speaking, he picked up the bacon and sniffed it close to the tip of his nose, complained that it was not cooked, and then put it back in the fire to roast.

"That's it. "

As if grasping a life-saving straw, Liu Mei hurriedly agreed, and then unconsciously raised her head, her eyes full of envy and admiration.

"I really don't understand Sister Xiao Ran, how did she learn so well? "

"It's just that you can't understand it, it doesn't mean that Sister Xiao Ran can't understand it either." "

Ermao continued to scold, and Liu Mei was suddenly anxious by his scolding, and quarreled with him again. Noisy and noisy, the barbecue slowly exuded aroma, smelling the fragrance, the two stopped tacitly, and waited for the meat to be roasted with saliva hanging on the corner of their mouths.

With the advancement of time, the glutinous rice cake swelled into a little fat man, and the meat was also cooked thoroughly. After all, the things that can be brought are limited, and after a while, the glutinous rice and meat are eaten by them, and the remaining fruit is not enough for the four of them, seeing that there is still a long time, the elder brother proposed to go to the field next to Qingshuitan to dig some loaches to continue roasting.

Liu Meixian's mud was too cold now, so she didn't want to move anything, so she stayed by the campfire and waited quietly for them to come back. Ermao teased, and then followed them down.

The dead leaves on the trees on the edge of the cliff kept falling, and they landed like kites with broken strings in the fields and on the water, and the smell of decay reached his nostrils, as if he were in the woods.

"Find it." "

As soon as the elder brother gave the order, the three of them scattered into the field, looking for an inconspicuous hole in the mud and began to dig.

The mud of late autumn was many times colder than the snow in winter, and as soon as he reached into the mud, he felt a chill running down his fingers and into his heart. Fortunately, they are often exposed to these cold, so they don't think it's anything, and they still keep digging.

He imagined that he was a wolf, and he was digging the rabbit's nest at the moment, digging harder and harder, digging deeper and deeper, and he was about to dig to the end, and a small figure was faintly surging with mud. Seeing the situation, he immediately grabbed it out with both hands along with the surrounding mud, and only gradually saw its appearance after cleaning the mud away.

It's as small as a snake, but it's not as scary as a snake, on the contrary, it's even a little cute.

"Mao, what did you catch?".

Ermao dug a hole without loaches not far away, shook off the mud on his hands in frustration, and then looked at him like a similar person, and saw him holding his hands with joy in his eyes, so he asked curiously.

"A little yellow eel." "

He looked at the little one in his hand and liked it very much, but it was too small to be roasted, and no matter how much he liked it, he had to let it go.

"There are yellow eels in this field, which is great. "

Ermao picked himself up again and continued to dig for a hole.

He also came with confidence and kept searching the surroundings.

However, the little yellow eel seemed to occupy his next good fortune, and after digging a few more holes in a row, not to mention the yellow eel, not even a loach was seen. On Ermao's side, with a shout, I saw him excitedly pull out a fat loach from the mud. Seeing this, he hurriedly ran over, looking at the big loach in Ermao's hand and was extremely envious, and then made up his mind to catch a bigger one.

After digging two more empty holes, finally, halfway through the third, he noticed a slight surge of mud on one side. Eagerly and apprehensively, he scraped the mud from the side of it, then grabbed the surging part and threw it on the ground, then slowly rummaged through it. After a while, he really turned out a loach from it.

It's just that although the size of that guy can be skewered and roasted, it is still too small compared to the one caught by Ermao.

Not satisfied, he continued to rummage.

As more and more small holes were dug in the field, they also hung three or four loaches on their hands, the largest of which was dug by Ermao. Just when he thought that no one could compare to Ermao's harvest today, his brother in the distance suddenly shouted, and then saw him pull a big yellow eel out of the mud.

Seeing this, he hurriedly ran to his brother, and then looked at the big guy obsessively, and his mind automatically made up what it looked like when it was cooked.

"Brother Jun is amazing. "

"That's right, you don't look at how deep I dug and I almost got run away by this guy." "

The elder brother grabbed it straight and showed off his achievements. And he followed his brother's words and looked on the ground, and saw that the pit in the mud, barely reaching his thigh, lay there as if it contained a treasure, and the pit was still gushing clear and cold water.

Seeing this, he suddenly remembered the holes he had just dug up, and wondered if there was a big yellow eel hidden in it, but he didn't dig it.

After sharing the joy, the three of them continued to dig again, but they were no longer as far away as they had been at the beginning, and this time they searched near the place where their brother's big yellow eel had been dug up, and they all believed that if they could dig one in this place, they would be able to dig a second.

It turns out that three people think too much.

After circling the nearby burrows, none of the eels were found, but a few more loaches were dug up. At the same time, the cold mud also pushed their endurance to the limit, and their hands began to call.

"Forget it, let's dig it here, these few are enough for the four of us." "

They both nodded in agreement.

The three of them walked up to the ridge, found a slender grass to string the loaches together, and then walked to the clear water pool to wash the mud off their hands and feet.

Because they had been in the mud for so long, they did not feel cold at all when their hands and feet touched the water, but their feet seemed to be covered with a thick coat of skin, heavy, and each time they lifted it was obviously more difficult than usual.

After washing some dirt, the three of them couldn't wait to walk up. It's not that they are in a hurry to put the loaches and eels in the fire, but after soaking their hands and feet in the water for a while, the cold feeling returns, and they just want to hurry up and go back to the fire.

"You've been around for so long, why are you only digging this point?".

"You can dig it, the cold won't kill you." "

Ermao sat down next to Liu Mei, angrily threw the largest loach to her, and then put the rest on the ground with his brother and what he caught and began to divide it slowly. After the separation, the three of them were responsible for roasting loaches, and the elder brother was responsible for roasting yellow eels, and several of them started their wild barbecue again.

When the loaches were cooked, he pulled off a small piece and gently put it in his mouth. Compared to bacon, loach meat is lighter and more tender, but not as tender as fish. He chewed carefully, reluctant to swallow, and his brother immediately reminded him when he saw this.

"If you eat so slowly, you'll just finish one and the rest will be gone." "

Hearing this, he quickly swallowed it, and took off the loach in his hand whole.

After only a short period of effort, the loaches that they had dug up with great effort were eaten by them, and then the three of them tacitly looked at the uncooked yellow eel in their brother's hand, and the corners of their mouths drooled.

"Don't worry, I'll divide you when it's cooked." "

At this time, the attention of the four people was on the yellow eel, and no one noticed that something was missing from the surroundings.

After anxiously waiting for the end of the wait, the elder brother removed the head and tail of the eel, and then divided the middle part into four parts and handed them them. They took the yellow eel meat, and without thinking about it, they started to send it directly to their mouths, and in a few seconds, a yellow eel was eaten by them.

Yellow eel meat is much better than loach meat, and they are still in the aftertaste after eating, and they can't forget it for a long time.

"How many more are going to dig up?"

"No, no, no, the mud hurts." "

Ermao waved his hand, and he didn't want to go again.

Seeing this, Liu Mei lowered her head in disappointment, picked up the branch and picked up the fire one by one.

"Why don't you go to Liu Mei this time?"

The elder brother looked at Liu Mei shyly, and Ermao also coaxed.

Liu Mei hurriedly refused, and Ermao was still coaxing.

When the elder brother saw that the two sisters and brothers were saying one thing to me, he got up with a smile and stretched his waist, but before he could stretch his waist, he suddenly said in horror.

"Where's the cow?".

The three of them immediately got up and looked at the field next to them, where the barren grass was blown by the wind and was empty.

"Sister Liu, where is the cow?".

Ermao asked excitedly.

"Was it just here?".

Liu Mei also panicked, and kept looking around, with tears in her eyes and a crying tone in her tone.

"Are you sure you're just here?".

Seeing that Ermao was still asking, he was about to cry when Liu Mei asked, but his brother immediately interrupted.

"Okay, now is not the time to talk about this, Mao, you follow the path we came to find; Sister Liu, you go down and look for it along the middle field; Ermao, you go to the mountain on the left to look for it; I'll go to the one on the right, and we'll find the cow first. "

After the elder brother finished speaking, the four of them immediately dispersed in four directions, and he ran backwards towards the mountain. When he came to the path from which they had come, he looked roughly in, and saw that there were no oxen in the field, and then he looked again at the road up from which he had come.

It is secluded and deep, reaching the ridge, and at the end of the road to the left is where Grandma's grave is located. He stopped at the intersection and was a little scared, because as long as he walked a dozen steps further, the scenery behind him would be covered by mountains and trees, and if he couldn't see his brother and them, it would be equivalent to being alone in the wilderness.

"What to do?

He grew more and more flustered.