Chapter 2 Impressions

  This village is called Kaoshan Village, from the name it can be known that here is not far from the mountain, especially with the word "village", it can be known that this is in Northeast China, but which province is still unknown.

  "Brother Wei, Brother Wei, we're cold." Just as Yang Wei was thinking about something, the children outside all ran in, and as soon as the door opened, a gust of cold wind also rushed in, causing Yang Wei to shiver instantly.

  Looking at these children again, they are wearing all sorts of clothes, but most of them are just single-layered and really not warm.

  After the founding of the country, after the founding of the country, it was already winter now. "You guys stay warm in the house, I'll go take a look." Yang Wei wasn't afraid of the cold, but he found some cotton-padded clothes from the kang and put them on, which seemed to be made by his mother, so he wouldn't feel cold anymore.

  This is the weather after snow, and the ground is covered with a thick layer of snow, which can't be seen at all. Outside, there are only some small roads trampled by people, but even if they are trampled, they don't reveal the ground. The snow is dazzlingly white, and Yang Wei covers his eyes like a monkey, looking into the distance, and finds that in the west, there is a big mountain also covered with snowflakes.

  "Chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp." Some small birds were flying and calling out, seemingly having no food left, only anxiously chirping. "Ah, got it!" Yang Wei suddenly remembered that when searching for grain, he saw a sieve, the kind used to make tofu, woven from fine bamboo strips. In his memory, wasn't there an essay about catching birds after snow? Now this food had arrived.

  "Hey, Brother Wei, what are you doing?" Yingwa stared at Yang Wei with big eyes. Due to the long period of hunger, her cheeks looked very thin and weak, but this made her big eyes even more prominent, and even the dirt on her face couldn't hide her beauty. If she were well-fed for a while, she would definitely be a very pretty little girl.

  "Will brother catch little birds for Yva to eat?"

  "Will brother, are little birds delicious? Don't they feel pain?"

  "No pain, no pain. Little birds are meant for Yva to eat."

  Yang Wei came out in a cold sweat, fortunately in this era there was no TV or anything, otherwise eating a small bird, this little kid would have cried to death. Now looking at her, she even has the intention of protecting the small birds, but if not eating small birds, what to eat? In such a snowy winter, how many people will starve to death or freeze to death?

  Hunting, this village is full of refugees and people who have fled from the army, mostly old men, women and children. Only a few families can go hunting, looking at Yang Wei's family, if they save some food, it should be enough to last until next year. But if Yang Wei brings these children along, it won't even be enough for several dozen days of food.

  Yang Wei took the sieve, wooden stick, rope and broom out of the door. He swept a patch of land first, as for grain, Yang Wei was reluctant to give it up, but sweeping a patch of land was still possible.

  Then, Yang Wei propped up the sieve with a wooden stick, tied a rope to the top of the stick, and also swept out an empty space in front of the sieve, which was naturally used to attract small birds.

  Pulling on the rope, Yang Wei retreated into the house, while at this time, all the children were lying in the gap of the door looking out to see what Yang Wei was doing.

  The rope was pulled in from under the door, then the door was closed. "Brother Wei, is that how you catch little birds?" Yingzi looked at Yang Wei with a naive expression.

  "En, let's wait for Yingwa to eat the little bird." "En, okay, okay, Yingzi wants to eat the little bird." Yingwa nodded, like a chicken pecking at rice.

  "Wow, brother, look! The birds have arrived." Slowly, a few small birds fell from the sky, and then more and more birds came, on days when there was no food, it was naturally very tempting for the birds to come, and even several wild chickens flew in.

  Little birds and pheasants, pecking at the ground, occasionally eating something, slowly they drilled under the sieve, and even more little birds and pheasants fell down.

  Yang Wei felt that the sieve couldn't hold any more, so he quickly pulled the rope and the wild chickens and birds were all caught at the bottom of the sieve. You know, this northeastern sieve is really big, Yang Wei even felt that at least for the next few days, their food was solved.

  "Oh, Wei Gege caught a little bird, Yingzi can eat meat now." The little ones all jumped up and followed Yang Wei out of the yard, with Yang Wei carrying a sack.

  At this time, looking at the small birds in the sky, they are still circling there, and some of them are not afraid of people, and even landed to peck at the ground. In this way, it is possible to catch the small birds with bare hands, but this method is still rare, and naturally, the sieve is still useful.

  Not to mention the size of the sieve, but eight wild chickens were caught inside, these wild chickens are all about three or four catties in weight, and there are even more small birds, over twenty.

  "Ah, meat is served, meat is served." The children cheered up, "Shh." Yang Wei stopped their cheers and looked around, then ran out of the yard to take a look. It turned out that their house was located outside the village, at a certain distance from it, so the children's cheers did not affect the villagers inside. At this time, the people in the village were hibernating due to the scarcity of food and would not be visiting each other's homes randomly.

  People are selfish, and since Yang Wei knew he had crossed over, he also needed to live a good life in this world. He didn't have any ideas about pointing at the mountains or rivers, but living a good life was still necessary, and even needing help, these twelve children were not his helpers? They were trained by him, so he quickly made up his mind to raise them, and these twelve children were all orphans, their relatives did not treat them well. If they stayed in their respective homes, whether they could get through this winter was still a question. Therefore, Yang Wei did not want others to learn this simple bird-catching method.

  "Alright, buddies, let's boil water, pluck hair, and have a good meal of meat." In the northeastern land, especially in the mountainous areas, firewood was naturally abundant. Soon, whether it was the young boys or girls, they were all busy gathering firewood or boiling water. Not to mention that there was no lack of water, the snow outside would become water once it was put into the pot.

  Friends, how about we live together from now on, all living in my house? We'll have meat to eat and soup to drink. "Great, we agree." "Brother Wei, are you serious? Let me live with you, and I'll get to eat meat every day." "Of course, why would I cheat Little Ying?" Under Yang Wei's arrangement, the children all went back home to pack some warm clothing for winter, even bringing some of their own clothes. This winter, they lived together with Yang Wei. Their relatives were more than happy to see them go - one less person meant one less mouth to feed, so naturally, everyone was delighted and there were no objections.

  The village head didn't even know about this until the snow melted next year, which shows how numb he was.