novelaction Chapter 136: Bag after Bag
Chapter 136: Bag after Bag
"Guoguo, are you awake? If you're still sleepy, go sleep a little longer."
She looked up and saw her mother with her head wrapped and her trouser sleeves tied up, carrying a basket with a sack in it. Her eldest sister Zhou Xing was also dressed like this. She was stunned, "Mom, what are you doing?"
"Going into the mountains, what else can we do? You don't know, those people slept for an hour or two after dinner last night, and went into the mountains with torches before dawn. We are the last group. Your sister and I thought that those people came out and went back in, so there must be many more inside. We also want to go in and take a look. We have prepared breakfast and there is porridge hot in the pot. If you are hungry, you can eat it to fill your stomach. We will come back at noon to make mushrooms." After saying that, the two of them turned around and walked hand in hand excitedly behind the large group with brisk steps.
Zhou Guo didn't react for a long while. He looked up at the night that had not yet faded, then looked around at the empty camp. He shook his head and fell asleep again. He hadn't slept enough and needed to sleep a little longer.
After a while she fell asleep again.
When she woke up again, it was already daybreak. She looked around and saw that only Zhou Dacang, the old man, his two children, and his aunt who was in a daze were left at home. Everyone else was gone.
Zhou Dacang was drinking porridge with the two children. When he saw her wake up, he nodded at the pot and said, "The rest is yours. Come and eat."
Having just woken up, her mind was a little dazed. She sat over obediently, took her own bowl, filled it up, and gulped down a sip. It was so delicious!
He looked at the old man beside him and asked, "Master, have you eaten?"
The old man raised his eyelids and glanced at her. "You have already practiced a set of boxing. People who practice martial arts can sleep until noon every day. I am afraid that you will never become a master in your lifetime. Eat quickly. Are your injuries almost healed? After eating, practice martial arts."
Zhou Guo held the bowl in silence and looked at the woods opposite with infinite nostalgia. In fact, she wanted to pick wild mushrooms more, but she also knew that if she really said that, the old man's fist would be the first to be extended.
He glanced at the two children opposite. They were holding bowls and drinking porridge with their heads down. From time to time, they looked up at the forest behind them, but saw nothing, and turned their heads away aggrievedly.
Tears welled up in the younger one's eyes.
She wondered, "What happened?"
Zhou Dacang said: "I miss your mother."
"Miss my mom?" She looked at the two of them. She didn't know since when the two kids became so attached to their mom.
"You picked them up and didn't care about anything, so your mother took care of them for you. If she took care of them too much, the two of them would probably treat her as their mother." Zhou Dacang raised his head, "What are you going to do with these two in the future? Are you going to keep them in our house?"
Zhou Guo rubbed his head. "I didn't think too much when I saved them. I just saved them because I couldn't bear to watch them." After saying that, he looked at the two of them, remembering how they had been well-behaved over the past few days, not causing any trouble, and even taking the initiative to help with the work. "If you pick them up, then keep them. It'll just be a matter of having two more pairs of chopsticks at home. You can't just throw them away like this."
Zhou Dacang nodded, "I just said that to see if you have any other plans. Even if you want to send them away at this time, I don't think Second Aunt will do it. I think she may have developed feelings for them. She may be taking out her guilt towards Zhou Su on them."
Speaking of Zhou Suli, Zhou Guo sighed.
"Why are you sighing at such a young age? Have you finished eating? Hurry up and practice your skills." The old man couldn't stand it. He, an old man, didn't sigh as much as she did in a whole day. Why is she so gloomy at such a young age? She looks more like an old man than him.
Zhou Guo finished the porridge in no time.
So many things have happened at home these days, and she is injured. The master feels sorry for her and has not practiced for many days.
I even felt unfamiliar with the horse stance.
Zhou Dacang also practiced along.
The two little ones had nothing to do, so they watched the fun and excitement from the sidelines and joined in, stretching their little arms and legs and doing it in quite the same way.
The old man was idle anyway, so he would tease the two children with a stick in his hand from time to time. During this teasing, hey, the two children had good physiques. Although they could not compare with his own apprentice, they were better than other children in the Zhou family and were almost the same as Zhou Dacang. The key point was that the two children were still young, so we would have to wait and see how they perform later.
Zhou Guo hadn’t practiced for a long time and her legs started to feel sore after a short while. She felt that even if she got injured later, she would not stop practicing as long as she was not lying in bed unable to get up.
Zhou Dacang also felt the difficulty.
The old man gloated at the side, "Now you understand, right? This Kung Fu, if you don't practice it for a day, you will lose your skills. I see that you haven't practiced for so many days, and all the things you have accumulated in the past have been returned to me. You have to start from the beginning again."
Zhou Guo was speechless, "Master, you allowed me to take this break, or you asked me to do it."
"Yes, but I didn't ask for my hands to be unfamiliar. I'm not unfamiliar. I practice every day." He said in a proud tone.
Zhou Guo decided not to talk to him anymore.
……
Before noon, Li and Zhou Xing came out of the mountain, followed by many other people.
The two men carried sacks and held baskets, with happy faces. They placed the things in front of Zhou Guo and the others and looked at them with smiles.
Zhou Guo looked at the sacks on the ground, one bag, full, and two baskets, also full.
I stretched my neck to look at other families. They all came back with a lot of harvest. Some families came back with five people, and each person carried a sack.
She opened her mouth, "...Mom, are there so many fungi in the mountains?"
Zhou Dacang was stunned. Every family was carrying several bags of mushrooms down the mountain. He had never seen so many mushrooms before. Even in the years when there were the most mushrooms in the village, there were not so many.
Speaking of this, Li was so excited that she waved her hand and said, "There are so many, so many. You didn't see it. It was all over the ground. The more you go in, the more there are. Xing and I didn't bring so many sacks. We had nothing to put them in. We could only watch others pick them up. We were so anxious. Fortunately, your brothers each brought a sack."
Zhou Guo looked back and didn't see them coming out.
Zhou Xing said, "They are still picking in the woods, and their bags are almost full. I think it will be over soon. Let's come back and cook first."
"Are you still going after dinner?" she asked.
"Go, of course you should go to all the mountains. It's better to pick more, dry them and cook them or sell them for money." Li said.
After saying that, he and Zhou Xing started working. Halfway through, when the meal was not yet cooked, Zhou Gu and others came out of the mountain carrying sacks.
Each person also has a sack.
Zhou Guo was curious, "Brothers, are there many mushrooms in the mountains?" If there were, she would also like to go after dinner.
Zhou Gu wiped the sweat off his face and said, "Not that many left. Even though there are a lot, there are too many people picking them up. Every family has gone to pick them up. We have already picked up all the trash on the mountain we picked up yesterday. We can only go to the mountain on the left in the afternoon."