Soul Travel: I was bought by the fierce man in the village to farm

At the end of February, the snow on the road that had been exposed to the sun for half a month had almost melted.

After eating early in the morning, Li Yunshan began to carry manure into the fields.

After he left, Mao Xiaosui took a shovel and went to the backyard to plow the vegetable patch.

Plowing the vegetable patch is also a hard job. You use your feet to push the shovel into the ground, then dig out the soil, turn it over, and then fill the dug hole again.

The ground was dry after being exposed to the sun for half a month, but the soil inside was still wet after digging.

She dug out the onion sprouts that had grown and piled them with soil and replanted them.

Li Yunshan came back just after planting.

Heizi ran in and lay down next to her. Mao Xiaosui went out to see him.

There was a long way to go in the fields, and Li Yunshan was a little out of breath when he came up the slope. He glanced at the vegetable patch in the backyard and said, "Leave me to dig if you're tired."

"Don't worry." Mao Xiaosui said, "I'll dig slowly... It won't snow anymore, right?"

"Probably not. It's getting warm."

Mao Xiaosui was relieved and said, "I planted the onions and vegetables first, and the beans will be fine later."

"Sure." Li Yunshan started shoveling manure and said, "Go ahead and take a break when you are tired."

Mao Xiaosui responded and went back to work.

First plow the land where the onions are planted. Since it is not particularly wet, you can plant them directly.

She went to look for vegetable seeds in the house, and after rummaging around, she found that there were no onion seeds at all.

She ran to the wall and called Mao Mingzhu.

Wang Yan came out of the house and asked her, "What's wrong with aunt?"

"Ask your grandma if she has any onion seeds, give me some."

Wang Yan ran in, and soon ran up with a paper bag in her hand.

She planted the vegetables and was not in a hurry to go back. She ran to the gate of the pen and watched the pheasants and rabbits.

Mao Xiaosui didn't care about her. He tapped the soil lumps with a shovel, dug out a basket of soil from the field, used the handle of the shovel to hook out the sorghums, spread onion seeds, and then covered it with soil.

After planting onions, she was tired. She looked at Wang Yan who was standing at the door of the rabbit pen and asked, "Can you come in and sit down?"

Wang Yan shook her head and said with a smile, "Auntie, I'm going back."

"Go." She waved her hand, closed the door to the backyard and entered the house.

It was warm in the room, so she took off her cotton-padded clothes and poured herself a bowl of water. She was wondering what to eat when she heard the hen in the backyard cry "cluck, cluck...".

Hearing this noise means he is about to lay an egg.

There are still seven or eight eggs from last year, and now that the weather is warm, it’s time to eat them.

She went to the food room to pick up dried beans that she had not finished eating before and soaked them.

I took all the eggs and dug out more than half a bowl of millet.

While soaking the beans, I went to dig up the ground for a while. It wasn't until Li Yunshan came back that I went into the chicken coop to get the eggs, pinched the green onion leaves and took them home to cook.

Cut the soaked dried beans into cubes, put lard and a little bit of oil residue in the pot, heat the oil and crack the eggs into the pot. When they solidify, turn them over and cut them into smaller pieces with a spatula. Add salt and chopped green onion. Season and serve.

Put some diced meat in the pot, pour the beans in and stir-fry, add salt and pepper and continue to stir-fry, finally add water, put the millet on top and simmer slowly over the remaining fire.

After the rice was simmered, Li Yunshan didn't come in. She thought she had gone to the fields again, but when she went out, she saw that she was turning over the vegetable field with a shovel.

After working all morning, Li Yunshan asked, "Do you want to plant now?"

Mao Xiaosui hurriedly went to get the green vegetable seeds and brought back a few cabbage seeds. He scattered them all over and covered them with soil.

Li Yunshan put the shovel against the wall, clapped his hands and entered the chicken coop. After a while, he came out with another egg.

"Three." Mao Xiaosui was a little happy.

Li Yunshan handed her the eggs and went to feed the chickens and rabbits.

Mao Xiaosui didn't pick it up and asked him to take it back and put it down to rest while he went to feed it himself.

Li Yunshan didn't insist, took the eggs and left.

Mao Xiaosui fed the chaff to the chickens and pheasants, went out to pull a basket of hay and came back, fed a handful to the rabbit in the small cage, and also carried it to test the weight, and finally threw a handful into the pen. .

Back in the house, Li Yunshan was drinking water. She said, "The rabbit can be sold after it is fed with grass."

"Do you want to eat it?" Li Yunshan said, "You can also make a lot of money selling rabbit skins."

"I won't eat it." She shook her head, "I'm not very greedy, it might as well be chicken."

She set aside the table and took a shovel to turn over the rice.

There was a lot of lard at home, so she didn't feel bad when she put it in, and the stewed rice was even more fragrant.

Li Yunshan was also hungry, holding the bowl and wolfing down the food.

Mao Xiaosui gave him a piece of scrambled eggs with chopsticks, and poured a bowl of water out of fear that he would choke.

After eating and drinking, Li Yunshan went to bed and lay down. Mao Xiaosui washed the pot, added firewood to the clay stove and planned to take a nap. In the afternoon, he plowed the remaining vegetable fields.

As soon as she lay down on the bed, she heard the rooster crow again, but she didn't care. She pulled up the quilt and closed her eyes and fell asleep.

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People who were exposed to the sun in the afternoon felt a burning sensation on their faces. Li Yunshan had already gone to the fields. Mao Xiaosui judged from the dung pile at home that he must have run away once or twice.

The person who had slept felt weak all over. When Heizi saw her waking up, he ran away, not downhill, but towards the mountain.

After sitting in the sun for a while, she also went to the backyard to get busy.

Put the leaves that were swept out of the field in the morning into a basket and put them in the kitchen to light the fire.

It was getting warm and dark, and when Li Yunshan was carrying manure again and planning to walk into the fields, Mao Xiaosui asked him, "Did you come back running?"

"No." Li Yunshan said, "In the morning, we had to fly once for one trip, but the ones in the afternoon haven't been raised yet. This trip has gone and we have to raise them together. The ones coming back will be a little later."

"Then you should leave quickly." Mao Xiaosui put the shovel against the wall, went to feed the chickens and rabbits, and took the egg that he didn't get at noon.

The sun was just starting to set now, so it was still early.

She poured the boiling water from the pot into a basin and let it dry, washed her face, dug out half a bowl of white flour and came back with another half a bowl of mushrooms, and took the uneaten half a bowl of chicken.

Soak the fungus in water and cook it on the clay stove. When the water is hot, put it aside to soak. Mix the white flour with warm water and knead it into a ball.

Li Yunshan didn't come back until the sun set and it was dark.

Mao Xiaosui poured water for him to wash his face, poured a few drops of sesame oil into the pot, fried the mushrooms, and added water to boil.

Roll out the noodles and cut them into slices. When the noodles are boiling, add the chicken and cook. Before serving, add a handful of chopped green onions and add salt to taste.

The reason why there is chicken in the noodles is that it has a very light chicken soup flavor. Li Yunshan gnawed on the meat and said, "There is no more white noodles, right?"

"No, I did it all."

“I’ll wait until these two days are over before I push it forward,” Li Yunshan said.

"Then push some millet noodles and push the beans too. Shall we plant beans this year?"

"Two acres are planted." Li Yunshan said, "The steamed buns are delicious. It just so happens that the land in the ravine is no longer suitable for growing millet. This year we will replace it with beans."

Mao Xiaosui nodded. She didn't quite understand. Li Yunshan could do whatever he said.

She asked, "How many acres of land did you harvest this afternoon?"

"Two acres are the difference of two quintals."

In the past, three trucks of manure were used for two acres. If there is any leftover, it will be divided into one or two acres of land. In fact, it is not much. If calculated by baskets, one acre of land should be used four or five times.

"The Ding family's millet should grow well, right?" She thought for a while and said, "With so many pigs, there must be no shortage of fat."

"His excrement is sold for money." Li Yunshan said with a smile, "Forty copper coins per cart is too far, otherwise I could buy several carts."

"Very good." Mao Xiaosui also smiled, "The value of the pig is fully utilized."

Li Yunshan: "We will also buy a pig when we get richer next year. For no other reason than that, I want to know if raising a pig can fatten the land."

"How much is a piglet?" Mao Xiaosui asked.

"More than one tael...just one tael, I didn't ask in detail."

"It's quite expensive." She muttered, "It's a waste to eat it at home."

"That's why I haven't bought one. We eat a pig for three to four years. If we don't kill it after raising it, we will eat a lot of food in the winter. If we kill it, it will be gone in the second year."

"Then we won't keep it anymore." Mao Xiaosui said, "We can't eat much in a year..."

Li Yunshan raised his eyes and looked at her, "I spent a lot on buying meat last year."

"... Then it's better to raise one. It's cost-effective to feed it for three or four years."

"Okay." Li Yunshan replied with a smile.