Because Li Muwen went home, Li Musen asked for leave early with his unit and arrived home after the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month. Zhang Chunhua entered the room and saw Li Muwen, who was wearing a military uniform. He believed that the old Li family was really capable, and quickly approached with a smile on his face: "This is the big brother, I often hear my Muwen talk about you. It's the first time I've seen you."

Although I had heard about the Li Mulin couple from Mrs. Li's mouth, but with Li Muwen's upbringing, he couldn't do anything to embarrass his sister-in-law. He just nodded and smiled at her, then got up and put on his military coat: "Mu Lin, accompany me out for a walk."

As soon as he saw the black face of the elder brother, Li Mulin's legs softened, and he followed Li Muwen hard, and his words were already trembling: "Brother, if we don't have to talk in the room, where are we going?"

Li Muwen looked back at him with a gloomy smile: "Just go to the room."

Li Mulin knew as soon as he heard it that he couldn't escape a beating. When he was a child, every time he was naughty, when his elder brother wanted to beat them, he would take them to the back of the room. Li Mulin shivered after Li Muwen, and kept begging for mercy: "Big brother , I know I was wrong."

Li Muwen put his arms around Li Mulin's neck as soon as he returned, and pressed him against his chest: "I will hurt you the most when I hit the little girl, and if you have anything good, I will hold you close first, but you can't come back for ten years. Home? Do you still have a mother in your heart?"

Li Mulin tugged Li Muwen's steel-like arm tightly, his face flushed: "Brother, I know I'm wrong, I'm confused, I won't dare again."

Li Muwen looked at his younger brother who was as tall as himself, and couldn't help thinking of how he looked when he was a child. With a sigh, the fist that Li Muwen swung in front of Li Mulin's eyes still didn't hit him in the end. He loosened Li Mulin's neck, and his eyes were a little red: "It's because I didn't fulfill my responsibilities as a big brother and didn't educate you well. Let's go. It was early, when I was able to take up the responsibility of the family, I went with the army again, if I..."

"Brother!" Li Mulin hurriedly interrupted him: "You are going to fight the Japanese devils. If it weren't for you, we wouldn't be able to live a good life now. Now you are in the army thousands of kilometers away from home. It's not easy to tell you." Seeing Li Muwen burst into tears, Li Mulin couldn't help sobbing: "Brother, I know I'm wrong, I'm a bastard, it's because I don't care, I'm sorry mother."

"Mother's four sons, now both of us are out and away from home all year round. Although my mother doesn't say it, she will definitely not feel good about the festival. You are not far from home in Bingcheng, and you can come back as often as you can. Think about it. At our mother's age, I can still stay with you for a few years." Li Muwen wiped his eyes with his rough palms: "I made a contribution to the mission this time, and I should be able to upgrade to another level, and this matter will be settled later. Now, I also want to take a leave to bring my wife and children back, I have to let my mother see the daughter-in-law and grandson there, and let my two boys know where their roots are."

Li Mulin nodded again and again, and after following Li Muwen back to the house, when he saw Mrs. Li, Li Mulin immediately hugged her and burst into tears: "Mother, I was wrong."

Madam Li looked disgusted and pushed Li Mulin aside with a slap: "What's the matter, your brother cut you?"

"No? What my brother said makes me feel bad." Li Mulin rubbed back again, half-bent his knees and resting his head on Mrs. Li's shoulders, crying and sobbing: "Being a little girl hurts me, but I'm the least of things. "Mother, I shouldn't have been away for ten years before coming back."

Mrs. Li listened to Zhile: "Going out to be a soldier is a lot of experience. I looked at your brother and said that this time you are more in charge than beating you." Wiping the tears from her son's face, Mrs. Li slapped again. I patted it on for him: "It's alright, it's over, don't cry anymore, you've gone home twice a year in the past two years, it's no longer cowardly, mother doesn't blame you, you have sons. If you cry, you are not afraid that your son will laugh at you."

Li Mulin quickly wiped his eyes and showed a smile: "I bought a new dress for my mother this year, and I will show it to my mother."

"You spend money indiscriminately. You are the only one who earns money in your family. Life is not easy. Don't spend too much money. I have clothes to wear, and your elder brother just bought one for me." Mrs. Li said so. , but there was still a smile on his face: "You only need to have this heart."

"Brother bought my brother's, and I bought mine." Li Mulin dragged Mrs. Li and insisted on seeing the new clothes now. Mrs. Li was coaxed by her son, and she felt very comfortable, and she pushed it as she went. Just follow him to try on new clothes.

Li Mulin pushed Mrs. Li to try on the clothes, Ming Shu and Ming Xin greeted the elders one by one, and dragged Ming Nan and Ming Bei out to the wild. Zhen Zhen was able to go out now, she naturally didn't want to be bored at home, she hurriedly put on a big padded jacket and hat and went out, Li Mingzhong immediately got up from the mat and jumped out after Zhen Zhen.

"Brother! Brother! Wait for me!" Zhen Zhen pushed her short legs upside down and kept chasing forward.

Mingbei turned around and waved at her: "You go home quickly, we won't take you."

Zhen Zhen pretended not to hear, ran to Ming Bei in one breath, grabbed his hand, raised her head and looked at him excitedly: "Where are we going to play?"

Ming Bei helped Zhen Zhen to tie the padded jacket button under her neck, and drove her home: "We plan to go up the mountain to catch roe deer, that's not easy to go, you go home quickly and let Hong Zhong follow us."

When Li Mingzhong heard this, he immediately rolled his eyes at him, looking very disdainful. Ming Shu and Ming Xin laughed when they saw it, Ming Nan stretched out his hand to take Zhen Zhen's hand and said to Ming Bei: "If you are going to take my sister with her, if we drive her home, she will cry with the milk, we have to be beaten."

When Li Mingbei thought of the way his milk was eccentric to his armpit, he had to nod his head: "Then let's not go too far up the mountain today, we can take a closer look." Ming Shu and Ming Xin were in a hurry to go up the mountain to play, urging Mingnan and Mingbei quickly led the way.

At the foot of the mountain, the snow on the way to the mountain has been trampled firmly, Ming Nan is exploring the road with a stick, Ming Shu and Ming Xin are walking in the middle, Ming Bei is holding Zhen Zhen's hand and walking at the end, Li Mingzhong was so happy that he didn't know where to go.

Ming Shu and Ming Xin didn't usually go up the mountain very often, especially the snow nest with one foot made it difficult to walk even an inch. The two of them couldn't walk even after walking about a hundred meters. .

"No, let's set a trap here." Mingnan said, and brushed the snow on the ground with a stick. Seeing that there was no shadow of Li Mingzhong nearby, he couldn't help but ask a little worriedly: "Where is Hongzhong? You won't get lost, will you?"

Zhen Zhen took a swipe of her consciousness and saw that Li Mingzhong was not far away, with a big fat rabbit in her mouth, she was instantly happy: "I'll call it back." Then she shouted at the top of her voice: "Li Mingzhong "..." Echoes of the red pine forest reverberated, Li Mingzhong identified the direction and ran over immediately.

Ming Bei's eyes are good, and he can see Li Mingzhong holding something in his mouth from a distance. He quickly found a tree stump, stood up, and looked forward: "Hongzhong seems to have caught a rabbit and came back." Ming Shu and Ming Xin Yi Listen, my legs don't hurt anymore and my waist doesn't hurt anymore. I threw the stick and ran over to see it.

Li Mingzhong held the rabbit in his mouth, swept past the brothers who had greeted it, went straight to Zhen Zhen, threw the killed rabbit under Zhen Zhen's feet, and waited expectantly for Zhen Zhen's praise, Zhen Zhen smiled and rubbed it. Rubbing Li Mingzhong's head, he praised it in a milky voice: "I'm good at it, I'll give you meat at night."

Li Mingzhong nodded again and again, and did not forget to use his consciousness to order food from Zhen Zhen: "I want braised pork."

Zhen Zhen looked at it speechlessly: "You are quite good at eating, wait for me to tell the milk at night."

Mingnan and Mingbei followed behind Li Mingzhong, and Mingbei picked up the rabbit's ears and looked at it: "Oh, Hongzhong bit off the rabbit's throat. As expected of a natural hunting dog, he can hunt without being taught."

Mingnan glanced at the fat rabbit, and grinned happily: "Take it home and let the milk stew potatoes."

The last time Mingshu came here, he ate stewed rabbit with potatoes, and he felt that it was not as fragrant as pork. He remembered that he had a big pot of pork in the yard of the milkman's house just now, and he didn't think much about stewed rabbit meat. He licked his lips and discussed with Mingnan, "I always heard from my father that roasted rabbits are delicious, but I have never eaten roasted rabbits since I grew up."

"Want to eat roasted rabbits? It's easy." Ming Nan took Ming Shu and the others around to find a hut in the woods, pushed the door and went in. There was half a tank of water frozen into ice, which was used by those who went up the mountain. , and then put the snow water in, so that the next wave of people going up the mountain will still have water.

Ming Nan called and found North to go home to get some seasonings, and asked Ming Shu and Ming Xin to pick up some firewood and come back. First, they filled a handful at the bottom of the tank, and when the water was boiled, the rabbits could be washed.

Pulling out the knife he was carrying with him from his waist, Ming Nan quickly packed up the rabbit and scooped water from the tank to wash the rabbit inside and out.

When Mingnan was ready, Mingbei had already run to the house and brought things like salt and pepper. Mingshu and Mingxin cleared a clean and snow-free place outside, put up the firewood, and slowly raised the fire with the foreign fire. When the fire broke out, Mingnan cut a few knives on the rabbit, smeared salty salt and pepper inside and out, then took the rabbit and strung it up with a long stick and set it on the fire.

Zhen Zhen walked around the back of the hut, and when she came out again, she held a honeycomb filled with honey and handed it to Ming Nan, and told him shyly, "I picked it up under the tree at the back of the house."

"Oh my old girl, this is a good thing, you little lucky hand, why do you pick up things?" Mingnan leaned over to the beehive and smelled it, and the honey fragrance filled his nose made him swallow: "Go home." Give milk, let milk make honey water for us to drink."

Zhen Zhen looked at the rabbit being roasted on the shelf, and asked Ming Nan innocently, "Is honey water sweet?"

"Sweet, fragrant and sweet, it's good to drink. It's just the venom of wild bees, and I usually don't dare to provoke them easily." Mingnan looked at the beehive in his hand and grinned happily: "It is estimated that it was caused by heavy snow a while ago. Fortunately, I went up the mountain today, otherwise I wouldn't be able to pick up such a good thing."

Zhen Zhen's focus wasn't here at all, she heard Ming Nan's talk of sweetness, and immediately said: "Third brother, I want to eat sweet rabbits, let's pour honey on the rabbits."

Ming Nan's distressed face twitched when he heard the words: "It's too wasteful to smear such a good thing on a rabbit."

"I want to eat it!" Zhen Zhen took Ming Nan's hand and acted like a spoiled brat: "Brother, can I paint the rabbit for me, I'll pick up the honeycomb for my brother later."

"My silly sister, do you think there are honeycombs and pine towers everywhere?" Touching Zhen Zhen's head, Ming Nan still respected Zhen Zhen's opinion and went into the cabin to find a wooden bowl and washed it with water After twice, I carefully took out a little honey and put it into a wooden bowl.

Ming Bei brought a salt brush, and Ming Nan carefully dipped some honey and spread it evenly on the rabbit. When it was roasted, the fat rabbit came out with oil and a zesty fragrance.

Mingbei swallowed his saliva and looked at the rabbit's eyes: "Why do I think honey is more fragrant."

Ming Nan nodded, and after the rabbit's color became darker, he quickly applied another layer, scraped the wooden bowl clean, and smeared all the honey in it on the roasted rabbit. When the flavors were all in, Mingbei poked with a knife and tried that the rabbit meat was fully cooked, so he quickly took the rabbit down. Mingbei saw that the fire was still burning vigorously, so he picked up a few pine cones from nearby. Throw it in, and after a while, a scent of pine oil will be released.

Several children of Lao Li's family sat around the fire, and when the rabbit was no longer hot, Ming Nan took a knife and cut it into several large pieces. Zhen Zhen parted a rabbit's leg, she blew hot air, and bit into it, the outside was coke and the inside was tender, oily, fragrant and sweet. While exhaling, she swallowed the rabbit meat in her mouth, Zhen Zhen felt that the taste was more fragrant than braised pork with rice.

Apparently, Zhen Zhen is not the only one who has this idea. Ming Nan and Ming Bei have also eaten roasted rabbits, but they used to follow Li Muwu for the purpose of roasting, and no longer consider the scope of the taste, etc. The heat is just right like today. It was also the first time that he had been brushed with honey. After Ming Bei finished eating the rabbit meat in his hand, he reluctantly licked his fingers and sighed comfortably, "It's so fragrant."

Mingshu and Mingxin ate the rabbit meat cleanly, and they were reluctant to throw away the bones in their hands.

Li Mingzhong looked at the fragrant food that everyone was eating, and he was anxiously screaming, surrounding Zhen Zhen with his tongue sticking out. Zhen Zhen tore off a piece of rabbit meat and threw it to Li Mingzhong, Li Mingzhong jumped up, caught the rabbit meat from mid-air, swallowed it three times, then stared at Zhen Zhen again: "I didn't taste anything."

Zhen Zhen glanced at it, and tore it to it again: "Eat it slowly, I'll give it to you when I'm almost done eating it."

Li Mingzhong nodded with the rabbit meat in his mouth, and did not forget to instruct Zhen Zhen: "Leave me more meat."

Zhen Zhen ate most of the roasted rabbit legs with honey sauce, and the rest was handed to Li Mingzhong in the eyes of her brothers. Li Mingzhong hugged the rabbit legs with his two front paws, nibbled them cleanly, and licked them. Lips, and the rest of the bones and sticks were reluctant to throw away, holding them in their mouths and jumping around the fire, the beautiful straight Sahuan.

After the wood was burned, the fire gradually went out. Mingbei found a stick and moved the pine tower to Mingshu and Mingxin: "The pine nuts burned in this way are more fragrant than fried. Mingshu and Mingxin smashed the pine nuts while blowing the pine tower. When he came out, he threw one in his mouth regardless of the heat, bit the skin with a bang, spit out the pine nut shell, and ate the fragrant pine nuts, Mingxin complained directly: "We Beicha have so many good things, what do you think? Why did my father have to go to Bingcheng, otherwise I would be eating rabbits and pine nuts. "

Zhen Zhen couldn't bite, so she could only grab some and put them in her pocket, ready to take them home and let the milk help them open them. The children ate pine nuts all the way down the mountain, and when they got home, except for Zhen Zhen’s pockets, the other children had all eaten up.

Li Mingnan handed the beehive he brought back to Mrs. Li, and told Mrs. Li excitedly, "Zhen Zhen picked it up from under the tree. Fortunately, we went up the mountain today, or else I would have someone else pick it up."

Old lady Li looked up at the sky silently: "Don't worry, if your sister doesn't go, this hive won't fall down."