Man Bao puffed up his chest proudly and said, "I caught him!"
Manbao explained in detail how she discovered the bamboo rat and how she used fire to bake it out.
Wu Lang then realized that she had lit the half-burnt fire in the bamboo bush. He was so frightened that he quickly searched her body, "Why did you bring the flint with you? Where is the flint?"
Man Bao was stunned for a moment and said nothing.
Wu Lang searched for it and found that it was not there, so he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Lost?"
Man Bao could only nod.
Wu Lang said seriously: "You are not allowed to play with fire anymore. What if you light a fire in the mountains and accidentally burn it?"
Man Bao said unconvinced: "Didn't you also light a fire?"
"Can you be like us? We have all grown up, how old are you?" Wu Lang said seriously: "In short, you are not allowed to play with fire in the future, especially in the mountains."
Wu Lang was stern, and Man Bao could only reluctantly agree. He looked at their coming and asked, "Why hasn't Fourth Brother arrived yet?"
Friday Lang also looked towards the road and sat slumped without moving, "Wait a little longer, he should have found the letter we left by now."
The three of them sat talking and waiting for someone. Liu Lang reached out and pushed two bamboo rats together. The one they caught was also quite big, but it was still a little smaller than Man Bao's.
Both bamboo rats were chubby. Liulang pinched their necks and weighed them, and estimated: "This one weighs at least five kilograms, and this one weighs at least six kilograms. It has more meat than a chicken."
Man Bao dragged the bamboo rat all the way and was no longer afraid of it. Hearing this, he asked, "Is the bamboo rat delicious?"
“It’s delicious, better than chicken and mutton.”
Man Bao swallowed, a little doubtful, "Really?"
"Of course it's true. You've eaten it too, but you probably forgot."
Most of the fields in Zhoulang's field are made of bamboo. There are a lot of bamboos there, and there are also a lot of bamboo rats. Every autumn and winter, Zhoulang takes them to catch bamboo rats.
We can always catch a few a year, but because the three sisters-in-law at home are afraid of these things, they all kill them by the river and take them home. Manbao has never seen any alive, but he must have eaten them.
Man Bao's memory has always been good. She really remembered what Wu Lang said, so she looked at the bamboo rat's eyes brighter and brighter. She looked at the sky and couldn't sit still, "Let's go home and kill the bamboo rat."
It will take time, anyway, fourth brother is an adult, he will definitely know the way home."
Wu Lang thought the same thing, so he climbed up with his sore legs and whispered to Man Bao: "Man Bao, you must not tell your family that you got lost today, and don't talk about making a fire. Do you understand?
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Man Bao understood, nodded fiercely and said, "I know, if our parents find out, we will definitely be beaten."
Wu Lang and Zhou Lang nodded. Yes, they didn't know whether Man Bao would be beaten, but the three of them would definitely not be able to escape.
Now that they are here, they are not in a hurry to go back. Man Bao no longer lets Wu Lang carry him on his back and walks forward on his short legs.
Friday Lang and Saturday Lang pinched a bamboo rat each.
The three brothers and sisters passed through the village, and the villagers who saw them were startled.
It is winter, and everyone has nothing to do all day long. They go out to bask in the sun when there is sunshine, so there are many people sitting on the roadside in the village.
Seeing the bamboo rats held in the hands of Friday Lang and Saturday Lang, the villagers' eyes almost turned green.
This is meat, or two such large lumps of meat.
"Wulang, where did you catch this bamboo rat?"
Wu Lang squeezed the bamboo rat tightly and said: "Go to my fourth brother's mountain to catch it."
"It's so far away, is there anything else?"
Wu Lang thought for a while and said: "There should be more, but there are only a few clumps of bamboo on my fourth brother's mountain, not as many as on the mountain at the entrance of the village."
"Uncle Jin's family has been very lucky this year. The three children can get two such fat bamboo rats every time they go out."
"Yes, Manbao, there is meat to eat again."
The three siblings walked home amidst everyone's envy.
Xiao Qian was furious when she saw bamboo rats. Although she also liked to eat, she definitely didn't like to kill them. So she turned her head to the side and shouted directly to Zhou Dalang in the room, "Big-head daddy, come out quickly!"
Zhou Dalang rarely slept in at home, so he went out in a daze when he heard the sound, "What's wrong?"
Xiao Qian pointed at the bamboo rat in Wu Lang's and his group's hands, "Take it out and deal with it quickly."
When Zhou Dalang saw these two chubby bamboo rats, he immediately became energetic and stepped forward happily, "Where did they come from?"
"Caught it on the mountain of Fourth Brother."
Zhou Dalang took the bamboo rat and asked Zhou Lang to come out with him. He said happily: "Let's go to the river to kill him. By the way, where is the fourth child?"
Wu Lang's eyes drifted to other places and he said with a guilty conscience: "I fell behind. I should be back soon."
Zhou Dalang and others didn't care. Zhou Dalang was an adult and would never lose it.
He didn't ask Wu Lang and others to intervene, and he and Lao San took the bamboo rats to the river to kill them.
As a result, until they came back with the clean bamboo rats, Zhou Lang didn't come back.
Xiao Qian had already steamed the rice. She glanced at the sky and frowned: "It's almost time for dinner, why hasn't the fourth child come back?"
Friday Lang was also a little anxious, and quietly said to Saturday Lang Manbao: "Fourth brother didn't see the letter I left, right?"
Man Bao was also anxious, and also whispered: "How about we go back and look for it?"
Wu Lang thought for a while and said: "Don't go, I will go with my sixth brother."
Zhou Lang knew nothing about this. The half-burned fire was always in his mind. He firmly believed that someone must have appeared there.
After searching all the way along the road and reaching Baimaguan Town, Zhou Lang still found no trace of Man Bao. He fell to his knees directly, tears streaming down his face, and the fear in his heart almost overwhelmed him.
He wiped away his tears, hesitated, and rushed into the town to find out if the man who made the fire really took Man Bao away. He followed the road, either back to their village or to Baimaguan Town.
There are many people in their village now, and if you walk by with Manbao, you will definitely be discovered by the villagers, but it is different when you come to Baimaguan Town.
He had to ask if anyone was passing through town with Man Bao.
When Zhou Lang came out of the town, the sun was almost setting on the top of the mountain. His legs were trembling, but he did not dare to stop and ran back along the road.
He planned to go back to the mountain and ask Lao Wu to go home with him, and ask people in the village to come out and look for him together.
Looking at the sun that was about to set in the sky, Zhou Lang ran away almost desperately. The sun must not go down. What should Man Baoke do when it gets dark?
Zhou Lang rushed back to the foot of the big tree, first shouted "Laowu" twice into the mountain, and then turned around when he heard no reply, and then saw the stones under the tree.
He quickly ran up and took a look. There was a big leaf pressed next to the stone. There was a lot of mud on it, and there were paw prints of unknown origin. He looked carefully and found that the words on the front were a little blurry, but the words "go home" on the back
But it's obvious.
At this time, Zhou Lang no longer had the energy to think about anything deeper, so he just put Ye Zi in his arms and turned around and ran towards home.