Chapter 328 Catching Toads

After the eldest brother and his wife left, Meng Yulan took Yue Feng back to the east room.

The old couple sat on the edge of the kang, staring at their second son. After a few seconds, the mother slowly spoke.

“Our family is obviously rich, so why are you still asking your elder brother and sister-in-law for money? Tell our parents what you are up to?” Meng Yulan asked.

Yue Feng did not try to be vague and explained calmly: “I know that my family is rich, but I am not sure about my eldest brother and eldest sister-in-law, especially my eldest sister-in-law’s attitude towards our family!!”

“You kid, your sister-in-law followed your brother, so she is also one of our family members, right? How can you do things like this?

What if your elder brother and sister-in-law knew about it, what would they think? If your father and I didn’t react last night and let it slip, how would they see you as their younger brother?” Meng Yulan continued to ask.

Yue Feng spread his hands and said, “If sister-in-law really thinks of herself as a member of our family, then why didn’t she work when she came home before?
Why was it that when I went home before, the budget for buying things for my brother was so small?

Logically speaking, shouldn’t my eldest brother use some of the money he earned as a worker to help support the family?”

“Kid, that’s your elder brother! It’s not easy to come to the city. Everything costs money. It’s not easy to live a good life!!” Meng Yulan frowned slightly and explained to Yue Feng softly.

Yue Feng smiled and said, “Mom, you don’t have to make up for my elder brother and his wife. In fact, even though you and my dad don’t say it, we must understand the truth in our hearts!

Our family used to live in poverty. My eldest brother and his wife didn’t care about the family at all. They would come and go on the same day when they came back during the holidays, treating it as a chore!

Ever since I took people to the mountains to hunt eagles and made money, our family’s life has gradually improved. My sister-in-law’s behavior has completely changed from before! Why do you think this is the case? “

“No matter what, he is still your elder brother. You are brothers!” Meng Yulan continued.

“I didn’t say no! But whether they are close or not depends on the situation, right?

I’ll tell you the truth, the chef Niu from the second canteen that my sister-in-law mentioned has a good relationship with me.

I want to ask him for help with something. As long as it’s not a matter of principle, it’s just a matter of a word!”

“You asked your eldest brother and sister-in-law to pay just to test your eldest brother’s attitude towards you?”

After hearing this, Yue Lei understood his second son’s thoughts.

“Yes! Maybe I am a bit cold-hearted by nature. I always feel that no matter whether it is family affection or love, it is better to do well than to say well.

Like my sister-in-law used to do, it’s just lip service, I don’t think it’s useful!
To put it more bluntly, if my eldest brother only cares about his own family after getting married and no longer cares about our family, why should I bother to do favors for his future?”

After these words were spoken, the room fell into a brief silence.

For the first time, Yue Lei and Meng Yulan truly felt that the second child had become more mature than before.

Yue Lei took a puff of smoke from his pipe and slowly exhaled it, saying, “You’re not wrong to think so!
Your mother and I have been digging in the dirt for half our lives. We really don’t have any skills and can’t help them.

The wife that the eldest brother found really looked down on our family. Your mother and I could see that.

But you have done a good job, and your mother and I have also benefited from it. Now she has corrected her attitude. Don’t hold a grudge against your sister-in-law for what happened in the past!

You have seen the current situation. Your eldest brother still takes care of you. After all, you are brothers. Apart from me and your mother, he is the person closest to you!

If you can help with work, you should put some thought into it!”

“Well, since my brother and sister-in-law are willing to pay, I won’t worry about asking for a favor or anything like that!
I’ll ask around later to see if there are any suitable jobs, and try to help them find someone to move to a job that’s less stressful and has better pay!”

Yue Feng nodded and agreed.

“You bastard, you always give me the feeling that you are very calculating! You are only twenty after the Chinese New Year!

Whatever you do in the future, don’t do it on your own. You must discuss it with me and your mother in advance, okay? !”

Yue Lei breathed a sigh of relief when he saw his son agreed so readily.

The palms and backs of the hands are all made of flesh. The mood and stance of parents are different from those of sons and brothers.

As long as the bottom line is not touched, parents are more concerned about family harmony rather than whether their children are filial or not, or the gains and losses and performance in details.

Now that the second son has brought up the issue in person, Yue Lei and his wife have finally put their minds to rest. No one would want discord among children in the family.

Yue Feng: “Hehe! Got it! There’s still a lot of food and wine left from lunch. Mom, please prepare a few portions and I’ll send them to Grandma Li. She was helping out at our house this morning and didn’t stay for dinner! It’s pitiful for her to live alone!”

“Okay! You don’t have to tell me. I’ve already prepared a big bowl of stew for lunch! I’ll prepare two bowls of meat and vegetables for you. You can send them to your Grandma Li!”

“okay!”

Soon, the mother and daughter went to the kitchen to busy themselves. Yue Feng packed two portions of the best meat dishes in a food box and sent it to their neighbor, Grandma Li.

In the east room, Yue Lei and Meng Yulan were in mixed moods.

After a long time, Yue Lei finally said slowly: “Xiao Feng has really come to his senses. Time flies!”

…………In the next few days, Yue Feng returned to a relatively stable routine.

He took the hunting team into the mountains for two days to hunt small sables. After a day of rest, he led people into the mountains on the fourth day to search for large sables and capture female sables as breeding sources.

Before they knew it, more than a week had passed, and Yue Feng and his brothers went into the mountains to hunt twice more.

With the help of hunting dogs, falcons and hunting teams, they searched the area with sticks and finally found one male mink, two female minks, one wild boar and one roe deer. The harvest was quite good.

The number of female minks with their cubs in the family has increased from 9 to 12, and the basic scale of sable breeding has increased slightly.

In terms of life, in addition to going up the mountain to hunt sables according to a certain schedule, Yue Feng and Wang Xiaona’s relationship is also steadily improving.

After getting engaged, they became a family, and Yue Feng visited Wang Xiaona’s house more and more frequently.

Sometimes when Yue Feng led the team up the mountain and came back early, Wang Xiaona would come to Yue Feng’s house for dinner, and the relationship between the couple became increasingly close.

Under the attack of the local hooligans, except for the last line of defense, everything that should and should not have happened was taken down.

Time passed unknowingly and it was already the middle of the month. My father-in-law Wang Jianguo went to attend the intensive study on time, and Yue Feng’s “sincerity” of helping to prepare was also put on the agenda.

Why do we put it on the agenda? The answer is simple. This thing cannot be prepared too long in advance. We can only prepare it one or two days in advance when we need it.

Maybe some people are curious about what’s going on and are keeping it secret and refusing to tell.

Two words, Rana sylvatica!!

There are not only wild animals on Changbai Mountain, but also various medicinal herbs and mountain delicacies. The forest frog is a very special animal among them. It is also one of the special mountain delicacies that is highly recognized by the locals but is not easy to obtain.

The forest frog, also known as the snow frog, is a species of frog unique to the Northeast region. It lives on land in the mountains in summer and autumn, and spends the winter in mountain streams and water bubbles before the ice forms.

The temperature on the mountain is minus 20 to 30 degrees Celsius in winter, but this thing hiding under the ice or under the water bubble is not affected at all. On the contrary, if it is fished out in advance and exposed to the cold, it will freeze hard in no time.

Moreover, this thing likes to gather in groups. Once it finds a ‘nest’, it is no problem for it to catch dozens of kilograms at a time.

When Wang Xiaona asked him to help find some game for gifts or social occasions that was not too expensive but had to be distinctive, Yue Feng’s first reaction was to think of the forest frog.

It is not yet spring at this time, and the female leopards in the water pool are the fattest and their stomachs are the cleanest, full of oil and seeds. If you stew them in a pot with soybean paste, anyone who eats it will be confused.

On this day, Yue Feng gathered all the team members early.

There were four men, each wearing a brand new pair of trousers that reached above the waist and carrying a thick water hose. The four men did not bring any dogs, but they carried a gun and pulled a sled with a few buckets and shovels on it, and they went up the mountain in a mighty manner.

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, this forest frog has the effect of nourishing the kidney, replenishing essence, nourishing yin and moistening the lungs. In his previous life, Yue Feng found a wife from the interior of the country who was making do with her life. Because she couldn’t have children, Yue Feng caught forest frogs for her to eat.

Based on this, Yue Feng knew all the water bubbles on the mountain that were suitable for catching wood frogs, and they could be considered Yue Feng’s private land.

The purpose of going up the mountain today is very simple. I want to bring back more forest frogs with my brothers.

In addition to sending some to the father-in-law, the several families in the hunting team can also share some to try.

After leaving the village, Xiao Tao walked to the front. Normally, he went up the mountain to hunt, and he was not easy to move with all kinds of equipment and weights. Now that he was suddenly empty-handed, this kid walked very fast.

“Xiao Tao, slow down! Do you know the place? And you’re running in the front!” Yue Feng greeted with a smile.

“Hehe! This means that we don’t have to bring a hunting bag and weapons with us up the mountain, so we can feel lighter!

Without exaggerating, I feel that in our current state, if we go at full speed, we can reach Woniu Mountain in two hours at most!”

“This is easy. Xiaowen, you take a break and let Xiaotao tow the sled!” Yue Feng said, covering his mouth.

Xiaowen smiled and nodded: “Okay, come on, I’ll give you the sled!! Being young is good, you can run like a lamb, so joyful!!”

“I’ll pull it, so be it! This little thing is nothing! By the way, boss, we’re going into the mountains to catch frogs, don’t we bring some other equipment?

How can we do this with just a few buckets, some forks, and not even a ladle or a scoop net?”

Yue Feng is an expert at catching toads and he knows exactly how to maximize the efficiency of the process.

“Don’t worry, as long as there is a Toad, this method of mine is the most worry-free and hassle-free way to keep it! It will be like picking it up for free!”

In this era, the snow frog resources in the mountains are very abundant. Villagers go to catch the water bubbles near the village gathering areas. Most of them are eaten by themselves, and few are willing to sell them.

The water bubbles that Yue Feng knew about were at least two hours’ mountain road away from Xing’an Village. Although they were not considered deep in the mountains, ordinary mountain people rarely went to such a far place to catch toads.

This is his first trip back after his rebirth, and Yue Feng is extremely looking forward to the output of this first trip.

3200 Chapter , there will be another chapter in the evening

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