Chapter 135 - 129 Jianguo gets beaten up
Tian Xinhua could tell from the way Tian Sisi looked around that this little girl was up to something again, so he deliberately sent Chengsi, Qinghua, and the others to pick up firewood in the distance, while he went to another place.
Sure enough, before long, he heard Tian Sisi’s call, "Brother Xin Hua, come quickly and see, there’s a pheasant here."
"Coming!" Tian Xinhua shook his head with a helpless smile, thinking that he’d need to remind Ah Nan to look for a place further away in the future; beside the road like this, which pheasant would be so silly to fly here?
Seeing Tian Xinhua arrive, Tian Sisi pointed to a daffy pheasant not far away, and without much effort, Tian Xinhua caught it. In less than ten minutes, he had caught both a wild rabbit and the pheasant.
Tian Sisi thought for a moment, then ran over to where Jianguo and the others were and quietly laid a clutch of eggs, which happened to be discovered by Weiguo. So they gained a nest of pheasant eggs, and everyone was so happy they started shouting; a big meal was assured for the evening.
He Chengsi gathered the collected firewood, tied it up into two bundles with some tendrils, and both he and Tian Xinhua shouldered a bundle. The children at the village entrance were envious when they saw what Tian Qinghua and Jianguo had in their hands – the pheasant, the wild rabbit, and the pheasant eggs, their eyes ablaze.
How could Shou Jianguo’s cousins be so great, catching so many wild animals so quickly? Although Huangkeng Village was at the foot of the mountains, wild animals were not easy to catch, hence, for these mountain folk, eating meat wasn’t easy.
Tian Manlan was preparing dinner in the kitchen. She took the three to four pounds of meat Granny Zhao had sent and cut half of it to make braised pork, planning to stir-fry some eggs and make a few vegetables. That would do for tonight; she’d get up early tomorrow to exchange some beans for tofu to have a few more dishes.