Chapter 22 (Chapter 22 (2nd Update)...)

Song Yao held his dotted picture, no, it was a starry sky picture, and was finally coaxed by his mother.

He touched the spaceship he drew with a little grievance: "Dad and Xiaoba will know how great I am in the future."

"When I make the spaceship, I must take them up and fly for a long time."

Song's mother nodded repeatedly: "That's right, youngest son, you must study hard, and you can do whatever you want when you grow up."

Seeing her son nod with a fighting spirit, she breathed a sigh of relief:

"Okay, Mom still has two dishes to cook, you go play with your brothers first."

Song Yao nodded repeatedly: "Yeah, yeah, yeah!"

After learning from his mother that it was not his own painting that had problems, but his father and Xiaoba's vision, the child regained his confidence.

In addition, he was fed a piece of meat by his mother, which made him even happier.

The child ran to play happily.

Today, the Zhao family's meal was very rich, not only fish, but also mutton and mutton soup. Song's mother even cooked some meatballs in it.

The dishes on the table were fragrant and looked very tempting.

Zhao Zhigang and Song's father felt a little itchy and wanted to drink. One looked at Song's mother, and the other looked at Song's mother again.

Song's mother was not blind, and she was very annoyed by their looks:

"If you want to drink, go and get it."

Both of them were very happy.

Zhao Zhigang was okay, he was still relatively calm, even if he was happy, he only showed a little brow, but Song's father's face was full of smiles.

He watched Zhao Zhigang go into the house and get a bottle of wine, and immediately handed his bowl to him:

"Come on, come on, let's have a good drink today."

Song Yao and his two brothers sat on the other side, like little animals in a granary, eating the dishes that the adults picked for them without even raising their heads.

Especially fish and mutton.

The child was so happy that he bit off a piece of mutton. The mutton was a bit dry, but after being cooked by Song Ma, it became chewy. With the little bit of sticky juice at the bottom and the rice, Song Yao was so happy that his eyes narrowed.

"It's delicious!"

He took another bite of the fish. The tender and spicy taste made Song Yao eat another bite of rice and a bite of small green vegetables. He was super satisfied.

After his stomach was full, the child reluctantly put down his chopsticks, with a face full of emotion:

"It would be great if I could eat like this every day."

"Who said it wasn't." Song Ma relied on her big appetite and served another bowl of rice:

"Eat more, everyone. I made a pot of mutton today. Let's try to finish it all at once."

Zhao Zhigang had already eaten two bowls, and the third bowl was just served.

Zhao Qiang and Zhao Zhuang also finished their small bowls and served themselves the second bowl.

Song Yao, who was full after eating more than half a bowl, looked envious.

"Why can't I eat as much as mom?"

Song's father also looked envious, and said quietly: "Because you have the appetite like me."

Song's mother was very proud, but seeing her son's eager eyes, she paused to comfort him:

"Being able to eat is not always good. It's getting harder and harder to hunt prey in the mountains now. Your little father and I haven't eaten meat so happily for a long time."

She and Zhao Zhigang are both good eaters, and the two children don't know whether they are like their father or because they have been following Song's mother since they were two years old. Anyway, the family can make a lot of meat in one meal.

Otherwise, why are she and Zhao Zhigang both strong, hardworking and good at hunting, but the family is not very rich.

Because the money they earn is used to buy food.

Song Yao is very curious: "Why is it not good to hunt? Are those animals too fierce?"

He has heard that there are wolves near Liuye Village since he was a child.

There is also a legend in Dashu Village.

If a child plays with fire, a wild wolf will sneak in at night and take the child away.

So the children in Dashu Village dare to play with anything except fire.

However, there are rumors recently that wild wolves now have a new diet and will catch children who don't study hard.

Song Yao expressed doubts about this.

However, he knew that wild wolves were scary. The child worriedly said to his mother:

"If it's dangerous, don't go hunting anymore. You can eat vegetables instead of meat, and you can catch fish."

"Yes."

Song's father nodded in agreement: "If you go to the county, try the method I said. Although the fish in that river are not as easy to catch as before, as long as you are patient, you can still catch one or two."

Song's mother: "It's not dangerous. When I first got married, there were still many wild animals around, and I was not afraid of people. As a result, in the past two years, they run away as soon as they see people."

Song Yao listened seriously.

Song's father was listening seriously, and suddenly thought of something, and a thoughtful expression appeared on his face.

Zhao Zhigang raised his head and hesitated to speak.

Song Ma continued to say distressedly:

"I had been married to Zhao Zhigang for a year at that time. Erzhuang was about three years old at that time. He was sick, and I planned to get some meat to nourish him.

When I went up the mountain, I saw so many sheep. They were not afraid of people. They came to me when they saw me. I was so happy that I went up and threw it onto the stone."

As she spoke, she sighed:

"It was so good back then. As long as I went up the mountain, I would never go empty-handed. Now when I go up the mountain, the wild animals run away when they see me. This sheep must have foolishly run down the mountain and fell into my hands."

Song Yao felt regretful when he heard it:

"It would be nice if there were only some stupid sheep on the mountain now, so we could eat them every day."

Song Ma agreed: "Yes, I really don't know what's wrong with the wild beasts now. Before I married your little father, didn't everyone say that there were many wild beasts in Liuye Village? Except for the beginning, there were no wild beasts later."

"Everyone ran as far as they could as soon as they saw them."

Zhao Zhigang next to him: ...Because those who didn't run far were eaten by you.

To be honest, when he and Song Ma got married, no one in Liuye Village dared to go out at night.

But after Song Ma came for a year, everyone dared to go out at night.

Because the wild beasts around her were scared of her, and they ran as far as they could when they saw people.

The wild beasts were fierce, but she was strong, could climb trees, and could use weapons. If she couldn't beat them, she would run away.

For herd animals like wild sheep, others dared not provoke them for fear of being butted, but Song Ma didn't. After she took down a wild sheep with her bare hands, those sheep didn't dare to go down the mountain to eat wheat seedlings.

After she discovered how delicious mutton was, she began to work hard on traps and study how to trip sheep with ropes.

If it were an ordinary person, it might be a waste of time or have little effect, but Song Ma graduated from junior high school. She can draw maps and calculate how to trap sheep based on distance.

The mountains are very big, so humans are not actually at an advantage over animals, but if Song Ma draws a topographic map and makes adjustments based on the map, the situation will be different.

The power of knowledge is so strong that Song Ma would say this every time she ate meat happily.

From the first time she ate mutton, in less than three months, the wild sheep herd moved collectively.

Then, wild wolves followed suit.

Song Ma, who had tasted the sweetness, set her sights on other wild beasts.

Gradually, there were no more cases of wild beasts stealing livestock and food in Liuye Village and passing by humans openly.

Children are safe when they go out, and adults no longer have to worry about whether their children have been taken away by wild beasts without seeing them at first glance.

Liuye Village is a small mountain village where almost every household knows some hunting skills and does not interact with other villages. In fact, it does not pay much attention to education.

But when Song Ma said that she wanted to run a school and be a teacher herself, everyone strongly supported her.

In addition to being grateful to her, they were relieved to leave their children under the eyes of this fierce man.

Of course, Song Ma did not know these.

She also lamented that it was becoming increasingly difficult to get prey now:

"Now there are only a lot of wild rabbits, but I don't like rabbits. There is not much meat, and fried rabbit meat is not delicious."

Song Yao's eyes were wide open: "Why do you want to fry rabbit meat?"

"Roasted rabbit meat is delicious!"

Song Ma doubted: "Will it not be burnt?"

Song Yao vowed: "No, just brush it with some oil."

He had seen the roasted rabbit meat recipe in the system last time. The picture was so greasy that he was greedy for a long time. He couldn't help but buy it, but there was no rabbit for him to roast at home.

So when his brother used the little rabbit to coax him before, he was coaxed immediately.

Song Yao made a plan: "Let's raise the little rabbit first, and when it's fat, Mom will teach you how to roast rabbit meat."

Song Ma put down the bowl she had eaten clean: "You don't have to wait for the little rabbit to grow up, isn't it just catching a rabbit? Wait until I learn it."

She looked left and right, took a slingshot and went out.

Song Yao wanted to follow him very much, but he was too full, so he could only sit there and wait for his mother.

Song Ma really has a talent for hunting.

In just over thirty minutes, she came back with a fat rabbit.

"Wow!!!"

The three children ran up to him in admiration: "Mom, you are so awesome!"

Song Ma waved her hand: "It's nothing, there are so many rabbits around, they are either digging holes here or there every day, I just blocked a few holes and caught them."

"Little one, how to roast rabbit meat, let's try it now."

Song Yao was so excited that he nodded: "Yeah, yeah, yeah!!"

He blurted out the contents of the recipe.

Song Ma: "It sounds very similar, who told you that?"

Song Yao felt guilty: "I read it in a book."

Song Ma immediately had no doubts: "So, knowledge is power."

The three children surrounded their mother and roasted the rabbit meat enthusiastically. The two fathers behind wanted to join in the fun, so they quickly cleaned up the dishes and tables and came over to help.

After tossing around for an unknown amount of time, Song Ma announced that the roasted rabbit meat was ready to eat.

The rabbit has four legs. Song Ma gave one to each of the children, and took the other one in her hand and asked Zhao Zhigang, Song Dad: "Who wants to eat it?"

Zhao Zhigang decisively: "You eat it, I don't care what I eat."

Song Dad swallowed his saliva and looked at the rabbit leg reluctantly: "You eat it..."

The experience of snatching food from each other since childhood told him that if he dared to say he would eat it, the ending would definitely not be good.

Seeing that both of them "actively" gave up the rabbit leg, Song Ma happily handed it to her mouth and took a bite, and then her eyes lit up: "Delicious!"

Song Yao's eyes were already shining from eating, and he squeezed together with his brothers to eat happily without raising his head.

Woohoo, woohoo, woohoo. He must earn more learning points and buy more recipes for his mother. His mother's cooking is really delicious.

After a big meal at noon, everyone shared the rabbit.

Song Yao touched his round belly and said, "Mom, can I eat roasted rabbit meat next time I come to your house?"

"Eat!"

Song's mother was very generous: "Mom will catch a few more later, and you can take them back for grandpa and grandma to taste after they are roasted."

And she was a little reluctant to leave, and wanted more.

Song Yao nodded happily: "I want to go too!"

Zhao Qiang and Zhao Zhuang immediately followed: "Mom, mom! I want to go too!"

Song's mother was very happy to see that the children could help her block the rabbit hole: "Go, all four of us will go."

The children hugged each other happily to celebrate.

Song's father was also very satisfied and asked: "Zhigang, are there many rabbits around your Liuye Village?"

Zhao Zhigang looked at his wife with an expression of "Wow, why didn't I find rabbits so delicious before? It's so surprising": "... There were quite a lot before, but I guess there won't be many in the future."

He decided to get a few live rabbits to raise, so that the rabbits around them would not move away in the future, and Song's mother and the children would not be able to eat rabbits.

Song's mother had no idea that her husband had thought of raising rabbits. She took her three children to the mountains.

On the way, she glanced at it, picked up a branch as thick as her arm, and broke it off: "Use this to hit the rabbit."

A child came over and saw her break such a thick branch easily without blinking. He was so scared that he shivered and took the initiative to greet her:

"Hello, teacher, I have finished my homework. I have been doing it since I woke up in the morning."

Song's mother nodded with satisfaction: "Well, very good, good child."

The child stood there timidly, watching her take Song Yao and the other three away before running away.

Song Yao looked back: "Mom, your students are so polite."

Song's mother was very proud: "That's because mom taught well. They were not very obedient at the beginning. I tried my best to educate them every day.

It was also after a long time of hard work that they realized the importance of knowledge when they started formal classes. There was no blackboard at that time. In order to teach everyone well, I even dismantled the table to use as a blackboard."

Song's mother touched her son's head: "As a result, when the class started, those children were more obedient than each other."

Speaking of her career as a teacher, she was a little proud.

Of course, she did not forget to teach her son:

"So, my son, remember that the power of knowledge is very strong. Learning and knowledge can change many people."

Song Yao nodded obediently: "Mom, I remember."

Song's mother nodded with satisfaction.

The children are very eager for knowledge, not bad.

It's worth it for her to split a table as a blackboard.