Seeing Wei Jingshu's serious look, Li Rou smiled again and said helplessly: "Sister-in-law is just teasing you. Ordinary people can only eat meat a few times a year. If you really open a store like this, you will starve sooner or later."
"Why?" Wei Jingshu asked seriously.
"Because we're poor." Li Rou said nonchalantly, "When your brother just took office, he visited various villages and found that there were many people who were too poor to afford food."
Wei Jingshu was silent for a long time, and then asked, "Why don't you make money?"
Li Rou shook her head helplessly, "Ashu, otherwise my sister-in-law would say that you are naive and cute. It's not that people don't want to make money, but they have no choice. They can only farm, but they have to pay taxes for farming, and they have to provide food and clothing for the family for a year. It's not that they don't want to make money, but they don't have the time and the channels."
She took the time to pat Wei Jingshu on the head and comforted her, "But don't worry, when Le'er grows up, your sister-in-law will go to the county to find some embroidery work, and it won't be a problem to support you."
She smiled slowly, and the gentleness on her face moved Wei Jingshu. She couldn't help clenching her fists and said seriously, "Sister-in-law, don't worry, I will make money."
Li Rou smiled, but didn't respond.
At the dinner table, the family happily drank chicken soup and ate white rice. Everyone was intoxicated, especially Wei Jingshu, who looked like a country bumpkin, staring at the chicken.
Wei Yu drank a mouthful of soup and laughed: "Second sister, if you could drink pheasant soup, you would be so happy that you would overturn the roof."
"Ah?" Wei Jingshu looked up blankly, causing the other three to laugh. She looked confused and asked, "Is pheasant soup delicious?"
While speaking, she was also full of curiosity and eager to try.
"Of course." Wei Yu nodded repeatedly and told Wei Jingshu everything she knew. As Wei Yu spoke more and more, Wei Jingshu became more curious.
"Sister-in-law." She suddenly looked up at Li Rou, a little shy, but with a bit of coquettishness, obedient and cute, "I want to go up the mountain."
"No." Li Rou, who was still smiling just now, was immediately displeased and glared at Wei Yu, "Don't tell your second sister these things in the future."
Wei Yu nodded heavily, but obviously didn't take it to heart, but stared at Wei Jingshu.
Wei Jingshu also nodded vigorously and spoke again: "Then I won't go up the mountain, just walk around the periphery of the mountain to see if there are any pheasants."
Before Li Rou refused, Wei Yu and Wei Shuang hurried to assist: "Sister-in-law, just let us go, we will be on the periphery, and we will run away if there is any situation, and we will never let ourselves get into trouble."
"Yes, sister-in-law, besides, Le'er is about to be full moon. When the time comes to send things to the villagers, our family has nothing, won't it be a joke. Going around the periphery, even if we are unlucky and don't catch a pheasant, my sister and I can touch the bird eggs."
Wei Jingshu didn't know what excuses she had, so she nodded again.
Facing three pairs of expectant eyes, Li Rou couldn't say no no matter what, so the three of them kept on asking for more.
Li Rou had no choice but to agree. The three of them ate faster, and after eating, they picked up a backpack and ran excitedly into the mountains.
The mountain next to Yuan Village is called Taiyin Mountain, which stretches for thousands of miles. The mountain is lush with vegetation and has all kinds of species, but the danger is also higher than other places. There are many hunters in Yuan Village, some of whom have no worries about food and clothing, and naturally some of whom have lost their families because of this.
Wei Yu and Wei Shuang listened to Li Rou and only took Wei Jingshu to wander around the outside of the mountain, but just the outside of the mountain was enough for the three of them to run for a whole day.
Wei Yu made a hat filled with dry grass for Wei Jingshu, and asked Wei Jingshu to lower her head while explaining: "Second sister, you won't be easily discovered if you wear this."
Wei Shuang stretched out her hand and shouted: "Brother, I want one too."
Wei Jingshu casually covered Wei Shuang with her hat, chopped a wooden stick with the knife she brought, sharpened one end, and walked in solemnly.
The arrival of the three people disturbed the tranquility of the place, and the birds and beasts scattered.
"Sister, sister--"
Wei Yu suddenly grabbed Wei Jingshu excitedly and went into the bushes next to him, pointing at the pheasant pecking on the ground in front of him. He clearly lowered his voice, but still couldn't help being excited. Wei Jingshu
glanced at her arm that was overexerting, silently swallowed the words of life or death, her eyes condensed, and the sharpened wooden stick in her hand flew out.
The stick cut through the air, making a piercing sound. Wei Yu and Wei Shuang shook their bodies unconsciously. In that short moment, they saw their sister calmly walking out of the bushes. In front of her was a pheasant pierced by a sharp stick.
Wei Jingshu pulled the stick out of the pheasant, threw it to Wei Yu, and then looked at it intently.
Wei Yu took the pheasant in a daze, confused and at a loss: "Sister, what-what happened?"
"How do we find a pheasant?" She pointed at the pheasant, "Is it better to be alive or dead?"
"If we eat it at home, it doesn't matter. If we sell it, it will be more expensive if it's alive."
Wei Jingshu was a little surprised and didn't understand: "Can this be sold?"
Wei Yu didn't laugh at her second sister's ignorance, and patiently explained: "Pheasants taste good and are difficult to catch. Many people buy them, and the price is also high."
Wei Jingshu was motivated instantly, and planned to catch ten or eight of them, but Wei Yu suddenly lost his temper, which made her confused: "Isn't it good to catch them?"
"No." Wei Yu shook his head repeatedly, "It's just that pheasants are hard to come by. We have encountered one today. It may be a bit difficult to catch more." Hua Yin
had just fallen, and Wei Shuang, who had been silent beside him, suddenly pulled him and said nervously: "Brother, there is a flock of pheasants."
Looking in the direction Wei Shuang pointed, through the interspersed forests, dozens of pheasants appeared on the same land.
The brother and sister swallowed hard!
My goodness, today is the day I went out, otherwise how could I encounter so many.
Only Wei Jingshu did not find it difficult. Instead, she patted the two of them happily, pointed at the flock of pheasants, and then pointed at herself.
The two were confused and just nodded subconsciously. Then they saw Wei Jingshu retreating quickly and directly using high-tech assistance. She turned on the cutting function of the optical brain, quickly got two sticks, and then wrapped vines on them to form a small cage. She carefully bypassed the obstacles in front, and when the time was right, she threw the cage in her hand.
The cage fell to the ground, and the flock of pheasants ran around, leaving only three pheasants covered in the net.
The pheasants struggled desperately, but they couldn't get out of the vine net.
All this happened under the eyes of Wei Yu and Wei Shuang. The two seemed to have not reacted yet. They walked around and gestured Wei Jingshu's actions just now.
"Xiao Yu, go get some vines. Xiao Shuang, tie these pheasants together for me."
Wei Jingshu ordered. Wei Yu and Wei Shuang did not doubt and hurriedly followed the orders.