Chapter 12 Catch Rabbits on the Mountain, Monthly Pass 2/130
Co-author Mengmeng didn’t even want to eat in order to go to the mountains to catch rabbits early, and even learned to tell lies with her eyes open.
Cao Shujie would not tolerate this problem of hers, so he winked at his wife and asked her to carry Mengmeng inside.
He readjusted the handlebar of the electric tricycle and drove slowly towards his home.
Wang Yuelan had already cooked, and Cao Jianguo was waiting for Cao Zhenggang and other workers to eat.
Seeing her daughter-in-law and granddaughter coming in, Wang Yuelan came over immediately: "Linlin, why are you back? I think I'm going to call you in the orchard."
"Mom, Shujie just finished his work." Cheng Xiaolin said.
Mengmeng was held by her mother. She was still thinking about the little rabbit, thinking that her father had to let her go after eating. When she saw her grandma, she said quickly with her small mouth: "Grandma, I'm hungry."
"Hey, Mengmeng, come down quickly, grandma will feed you." Wang Yuelan said.
But Mengmeng didn't accept this. She raised her right hand and grasped a piece with her five fingers as if holding something: "No, I will eat it myself."
She knows how to use those special chopsticks, but she is not skilled in using them. She can miss a third of a bowl of noodles and eats not very fast.
Despite this, Cheng Xiaolin still wants her daughter to eat by herself and slowly develop her abilities.
After all, no one is a genius, and neither she nor her mother-in-law can feed Mengmeng for a lifetime.
"Mom, you don't need to feed her, just let her eat by herself." Cheng Xiaolin said to her mother-in-law.
Wang Yuelan then gave up feeding her granddaughter and instead
Cao Shujie put the electric car away and took two ladles of water outside. The cold well water made him more energetic.
Cao Zhenggang saw it and shouted: "Shujie is back. Are you finished with your work over there?"
Cao Shujie said 'hmm': "Grandpa Zhenggang, I have taken care of everything in the orchard. My dad said you are going to start laying the foundation. Is it so fast?"
Hearing what he said, Cao Zhenggang said: "The main reason is that the equipment is easy to use. Otherwise, how can we be so fast just relying on people?"
"Shujie, come quickly and sit down for a drink." Cao Zhenggang patted an empty seat next to him and motioned for Cao Shujie to sit next to him.
Cao Shujie was not polite, went over and sat down, reached out and took the wine bottle: "Grandpa Zhenggang, let me pour you a drink."
Before he poured the wine, the little guy Mengmeng ran over again, looked at him eagerly, and shouted: "Dad, little Tutu."
"Don't worry, Mengmeng. Dad has remembered it and will take you to the mountains to catch rabbits later." Cao Shujie looked at his daughter in confusion.
Cheng Xiaolin was also covering her mouth and enjoying herself at the moment.
She never thought that Mengmeng's 2-year-old baby would be so thoughtful. She also knew that her father would not be able to catch rabbits for her if he drank too much, so she went out of her way to remind her.
"You kid is really in trouble." Cheng Xiaolin said.
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At around 1 p.m., Cao Zhenggang took his people to work.
His father, Cao Jianguo, did nothing else during this time. He just kept watching the scene and sometimes went to help.
Seeing his son's house changing every day, he felt very happy.
After Cao Shujie and his family of three had eaten, Mengmeng couldn't stay still for a moment. She took her father's arm and pulled him out hard.
But she had no strength in her hands and couldn't hold her father, and she immediately felt aggrieved.
He sat down on the ground, opened his mouth and started to cry for a while.
Cao Shujie had a headache after seeing it, and quickly said: "Mengmeng, stop crying, daddy will take the guy now, and let's catch the rabbit."
A wire and bamboo basket, a chopstick, a 10-meter-long string, a small iron cage, and some leafy vegetables.
"Mengmeng, let's go!" Cao Shujie looked at his daughter eagerly waiting for him at the door, feeling a little ashamed.
Mengmeng finally waited for this moment. She immediately became energetic, turned around, clapped her little hands and ran out: "Mom, let's go quickly."
"Wait, let's ride there." Cheng Xiaolin called her.
Wang Yuelan felt very satisfied when she saw her granddaughter lively, and asked: "Linlin, what do you want to eat tonight?"
"Mom, you can eat whatever you want." Cheng Xiaolin couldn't remember what to eat.
Cao Shujie asked: "Mom, there are some ribs at home. Let's stew some."
"I'll see if I can catch a big rabbit, and I'll come back for an extra meal in the evening."
After he finished speaking, the people had already chased him out.
Riding an electric tricycle, I took my mother and I all the way to the foot of the mountain, where we parked and locked the car.
"Honey, where did you see the rabbit this morning?" He looked at the mountain and saw no movement.
Before Cheng Xiaolin could speak, Mengmeng pointed in one direction: "There, there!"
Cao Shujie was a little surprised, but when he saw his wife nodding, "Honey, that's over there."
"Walk!"
The family of three walked over there.
When they arrived, Mengmeng turned around and looked around. Cheng Xiaolin pointed to a place and said to her husband: "That's where I saw the little rabbit running over here in the morning."
Cao Shujie scratched his head a little, it was hard to find this one.
But when he looked back at his daughter's expectant eyes, he was not discouraged and said to his wife: "You stay away and find a place to rest for a while while I set up the 'mechanism'."
The next moment, Cao Shujie walked around and found some granular rabbit droppings, and there were quite a lot of them. This showed that rabbits really came here often.
"No matter how cunning you are, you will still fall into the hands of my old Cao today." Cao Shujie began to arrange it.
He turned the basket he brought over upside down and used chopsticks to hold it up. He found that the chopsticks were too short, so he found a stick nearby and tied the rope to the bottom of the stick.
After looking around, I chose a place with a gentle slope and slowly put the rope over.
After finishing, he came back and put the vegetable leaves under the basket.
"Dad!" Mengmeng ran over excitedly. She curiously looked at the 'trick' made by her father and couldn't help the smile on her little face.
Cheng Xiaolin asked him: "Husband, this thing of yours is too crude, is it okay?"
"Hey, wife, you haven't played before, haven't you? We caught pheasants, sparrows, and rabbits when we were young, but we relied on it, just wait and see." Cao Shujie was full of confidence.
He asked his wife and daughter to sit down in a relatively clean place nearby, and the three of them chatted while staring at the office.
Mengmeng couldn't sit still, and she started shouting after a few words. Cao Shujie quickly put his finger on his lips and gestured to Mengmeng: "Shh!"
"Mengmeng, please keep your voice down, you will scare the rabbit away."
"Yeah!" Mengmeng nodded gently and put her finger on her lips: "Shh!"
Despite her young age, she has begun to imitate the words and actions of adults in everything she says and does.
Waiting is the most difficult thing, but Cao Shujie feels very happy to have his wife and daughter with him, and he hopes that the time will pass more slowly.
However, rabbits do not have long eyes. When Cao Shujie looked over to the 'mechanism', he found a gray rabbit twisting its head and jumping towards the 'mechanism'.
"Rabbit!" Mengmeng also saw it. She pointed at the rabbit and was about to shout. Fortunately, Cao Shujie acted quickly and put his finger on his lips: "Shh!"
Mengmeng is really quiet.
Cao Shujie exhaled and said: "Mengmeng, don't shout so loud, you may scare the rabbit away but you won't be able to catch it."
Cheng Xiaolin watched the gray rabbit approach the basket and was trying to eat the vegetable leaves in the basket. She also became nervous and clenched her fists so hard that she seemed to be sweating: "Husband, go in, go in,
quick……"
Cao Shujie took a look and saw that the stupid gray rabbit had indeed relaxed its vigilance and got under the basket to eat the vegetable leaves. He suddenly pulled the rope, and the basket lost its support and fell directly, trapping the gray rabbit.
Below, he ran past at a sprint speed of 100 meters.
"Dad, come on!" Mengmeng also shouted excitedly.
No surprise, they harvested their first gray rabbit.
Cheng Xiaolin took one look and said with certainty: "This is not the one in the morning."
This one is very fat, the one in the morning was just a little rabbit.
"Good guy, there is a rabbit nest here, let me decorate it again." Cao Shujie put the gray rabbit into the iron cage in the carriage and locked it, and then went to decorate the 'mechanism' again.
After getting this rabbit, Mengmeng stopped sitting around with her father. She dragged her mother to sit on the tricycle, looking at the gray rabbit in the carriage, and always wanted to reach out and touch it.
"Mom, hee hee, stupid!" she shouted.
No one knew whether she was saying that mother was stupid or that rabbit was stupid.
