Gu Huai has not lived such a hard life for a long time.
He originally wanted to stay in his room for a while, but found that they slept on the same bunk, and only Gu Huai's place had a curtain drawn.
This is already the highest treatment in their family.
Gu Huai's comment: It's better to stay in the previous world.
Of course, this is just a thought.
Compared with housing and clothing, Gu Huai was most concerned about his own food.
You can count the number of grains of rice in the porridge served for dinner. This is the most rice-rich bowl of porridge in the Gu family.
There was only washing water in Xiao Xiao's bowl, not a single grain of rice in sight.
No one spoke at the dinner table. Everyone was eating with their heads buried in their stomachs. The sound of drinking porridge was like a big yellow dog drinking water.
On a huge black table, there was only a pot of cabbage with no oil at all, which made people lose their appetite at all.
Gu Huai lowered his head, finished the porridge in the bowl, did not eat the cabbage on the table, got up and left to get some fresh air.
Huang Cuicui's husband is a hunter, but he has been living on a big pot and hasn't hunted for a long time. Besides, he broke his leg while going up the mountain a few years ago, and now he has trouble walking. Let alone hunting, he can't catch up with children at the intersection.
Standing outside with the cold wind blowing, Gu Huai stared at his sister who was three years older than him.
Gu Huai's eldest sister, second sister, third sister and fourth sister are all married and rarely come back. The fifth sister, Gu Xiaowu, is thirteen years old, and the sixth sister, Gu Xiaoliu, is eleven years old. It is the time when they are growing up, but unfortunately they have nothing to eat.
They were all as thin as firewood sticks.
Probably because Gu Huai's food is better than theirs, so he is about the same height as them. He approached Gu Xiaoliu and said, "Sixth sister, do you want to eat meat?"
This question is one that can be answered without even thinking about it.
Gu Xiaoliu followed Gu Huai without even thinking.
Gu Huai took her to a paddy field.
It was dark everywhere in the countryside. In order to save electricity, they turned off the lights early and went to bed. Gu Xiaoliu shrank his neck and felt a little cold.
She opened her mouth: "Agu, there are only grass roots here, where can we get meat to eat?"
Gu Huai took one look at her small body and felt that asking her to go into the water was really unkind, so he gave up the plan of asking her to go into the water to fish.
I am not afraid of the cold, but the little girl is very afraid. If she gets frozen, she will have fewer people to control me in the future.
He heard the chirping of birds.
Gu Huai: "Fly a few birds and make some soup."
In winter, they are slow to react, so you can always catch a few.
Gu Xiaoliu opened his mouth wide: "Catch house sparrows?"
Gu Huai nodded.
ten minutes later.
After watching Gu Xiaoliu running around and falling several times on the cold muddy ground, Gu Huai sighed, called her over, pulled out the rubber band that tied her hair from her head, and touched it a few times.
A stone bounced out.
Caught a few birds.
Gu Huai: "Pick it up and go back to make soup."
Gu Xiaoliu was doubtful: "Can this be eaten?"
Gu Huai glanced at her: "What's yours belongs to me."
Gu Xiaoliu: "No!"
Back home, Gu Xiaoliu pushed Xiao Xiao awake and told her to get up and light a fire.
Gu Xiaoliu originally said that they would eat it secretly by themselves, but Gu Huai disagreed. He said that there were four birds in total, one for Xiao Xiao, otherwise he would not do it next time.
Gu Xiaoliu thought about it and felt that the birds were really not easy to catch, so he agreed with Gu Huai. But the premise was that she would want two birds next time.
Xiao Xiao rubbed his eyes and got up without disturbing Huang Cuicui who was lying next to him. He pulled Gu Xiaowu and several people lit a fire and put in a large pot of water.
While the water was boiling, Gu Xiaowu and Xiao Xiao plucked out the hair, removed the internal organs, washed and threw the pot away.
There is no other way to eat it, this is the only way, and you don’t even add salt.
However, the way of eating this clear soup with little water still made several girls swallow their saliva.
They stood by the pot, looking at the boiling oil soup, counting the time with their fingers.
Gu Huai looked at the pot and thought that there was no ginger, no cooking wine, and no favorite chili. It was just pure broth.
Seeing that the meat was almost cooked, Gu Xiaoliu couldn't help it at first. He took one out with chopsticks and rubbed his ears until it was hot.
She pulled a piece of meat and said, "It's done! It's done!"
After saying that, he shrank aside.
Xiao Xiao and Gu Xiaowu fished out the remaining birds with all their hands. Gu Xiaowu followed Gu Xiaoliu and squatted aside. Xiao Xiao held the bowl and handed it to Gu Huai first.
Gu Huai looked at the bird in the bowl, pulled off two legs, and gave the rest to Xiao Xiao: "You can eat it, I don't like it."
The bird was very thin, with only two ounces of meat on its legs. He didn't like to eat the breast meat very much.
In the eyes of Xiao Xiao and others, this is not the case at all.
Gu Xiaoliu looked at the extra half bird in Xiao Xiao's bowl and said jealously: "I haven't even married a wife yet, and I'm starting to feel distressed."
Gu Xiaowu said nothing, just lowered his head and ate.
Xiao Xiao's face turned slightly red, and she silently lowered her head and gnawed on the bones.
Gu Huai didn't bother to explain, so he ate two legs and drank some soup, feeling that it had some meaty taste.
They were almost finished eating when Huang Cuicui and his wife asked about the aroma and climbed out of bed.
Huang Cuicui screamed: "You bastards, don't call me mother or me when you are hunting for wild food!"
Gu Huai glanced at her: "Do you want everyone to know?"
Huang Cuicui immediately shut up.
She didn't want to be cut off from the tail of capitalism. If someone found out, not only would she not be able to eat a bite of the meat, but she wouldn't even be able to lick the soup.
Huang Cuicui hurriedly filled the bowl with soup. She first gave Gu Zhongyi a bowl, then added another bowl for herself, and drank a gulp of it.
While drinking, she asked Gu Xiaoliu: "Where did this bird come from?"
Huang Cuicui finally understood that her son had learned bad things from Xiao Xiao, Gu Xiaowu was a gourd with a sawed-off mouth, and only Gu Xiaoliu was well-behaved and would answer her questions honestly.
Gu Xiaoliu looked at Gu Huai's eyes, frowned and followed Gu Huai's instructions and said, "It's cold, I picked it up outside with A Gu."
After speaking, she lowered her head and licked the edge of the bowl.
Huang Cuicui suddenly realized.
It turned out to be a frozen bird picked up on the roadside. No wonder, she said.
She didn't expect that both furry children could pick them up, so there must be some missing. She rushed to try her luck tomorrow to see if she could pick up a few for the tooth-punching festival!
The more Huang Cuicui thought about it, the more excited she became. She thought about picking up birds tomorrow, stewing one in soup, steaming one, roasting one, and pickling one in salt, so that she could eat them tomorrow when spring begins.
No, pickle all four of them and serve them with wine when A Gu gets his wife!
Huang Cuicui held an empty bowl and daydreamed with a smile. Xiao Xiao, who secretly looked at her face, was frightened. Normally, Huang Cuicui's expression would definitely not do her any good.
She shrank her neck and was about to be scolded. Huang Cuicui took the initiative to tidy up, washed the pots and dishes with a smile, and was just about to go to bed when she saw the bones on the ground.
She screamed: "Xiao Xiao! You skinless thing! You ate two!"