Rebirth in another world is good for farming

May is the time when the melons and fruits in the vegetable garden are ripe, and because the weather is getting hotter, snakes, scorpions and reptiles on the mountain come out to move around, which can easily hurt people.In order to celebrate the harvest and drive away snakes and insects, May [-] gradually evolved into a fixed festival.Every family will cook a hearty meal around this day, and put five-color ropes on the children's wrists, implying that this May is safe and sound, and snakes, insects and evil things are not allowed to get close.

It was only the second day of May when Zhang Xiaoliu went to the market, and there were already many stalls with silk threads of various colors on the street.The colors are mainly red, green, yellow, white, and black. Generally, there are single colored ropes for sale on the stalls, and there are also finished products made into various flowers, plants and butterflies. Depending on their size, they are probably worn on the wrist, and some are even made. Elastic knot.Ask about the price again. Colored ropes cost five pennies a penny, but finished products cost at least three or four pennies a piece, and complicated patterns like butterflies cost five or six pennies.

"Do you want to buy it or not?" He had no experience in this matter, and seeing Fulai squatting down and picking things skillfully, he leaned forward and asked.

"Well, I'll buy colored ropes for [-] cents." Fulai searched and picked the finished products for a long time, but in the end he didn't seem to be satisfied, so he only wanted colored ropes.

"So many?" Zhang Xiaoliu thought he had misremembered, so he stopped him and asked.Dashun didn't have anything to buy today, so he only asked Fulai to go shopping with him in a carriage.

"That's right, my two elder brothers, and my father, five people will use up 25 pieces. If we weave it well, I will take the rest and sell it for me..." Fu Lai carefully Count down.

"Do you think these styles are not good-looking? I don't know if I should buy the braided ones?" Zhang Xiaoliu was distressed, wondering whether the two of them wanted colored ropes or braided finished products?

Fulai glanced at the stall owner quietly, took his hand, and said in a low voice: "Are you stupid? After weaving it, the price has doubled several times. Such a simple pattern, I can make it when I go back and try it. Wheat With such dexterity, it must be possible!"

Zhang Xiaoliu was right when he thought about it, and he also counted the ropes of various colors and bought them back. If he really couldn't weave them out, he could ask someone to buy them next time in time.

After putting away these colorful ropes, he asked Fulai: "You just looked at it for so long, and you think those styles are not good?"

Fu Lai shook his head: "I never buy knitted ones, just to see if there are any new styles coming out this year. If weaved well, the price will be high."

Zhang Xiaoliu secretly sighed, seeing how timid he is usually, his mind is really active.

The first thing to be put on the dining table in May is the beans. Since the pods have formed and the flowers have fallen, the beans have grown extremely fast, almost one length a day.Its yield is also high, and sometimes just picking one tree is enough to cook a plate.If it is not picked in time when it is harvested, it will grow old within two or three days, so we can only learn from the people here and pick all the beans that are suitable for harvesting to make dried beans.

Summer is the time when farmers have the most abundant dishes, but apart from those who usually grow vegetables for sale, few people are willing to sell the remaining vegetables at this time.Because vegetables are often cheap at this time, and in autumn and winter, when the weather is bad, the vegetables grown in the field are not enough to eat, so they can only eat dried vegetables saved at this time.

The artificial dried beans here are also very simple. Pick the beans and wash them, boil a pot of water to cook the beans.Pick it up and let it cool down before drying it in the sun. After boiling several pots of beans, there is only a small handful in the end, which can be stored for a long time without taking up space.

"Brother Liu, are you still boiling the beans?" As soon as Zhang Xiaoliu scooped up a pot of beans, Fulai entered the door happily.

"Hey, are you so happy today?" Zhang Xiaoliu asked with a smile as he wiped the sweat off his face while putting a basket of beans on the barrel to drip dry water.

"Look, my brother asked someone to give this to me, doesn't it look good?" Fu Lai shook the red braided rope around his wrist, very proud.

"Didn't you say you can't wear it until the night of May [-]? Why did you put it on so early?" Zhang Xiaoliu glanced at it. It really took a lot of effort to weave the bracelet, and it was twisted with two red ropes. Fancy, with a diamond knot at the end.

"The five-color rope is what I wear that day. This one has only one color. It can be used as a hand rope on weekdays." Fu Lai covered his rolled-up sleeves and said, "When my brother is delivered, he will also give it to me by the way." My brother did it too, and he was so happy that he just sat there giggling all morning."

"I don't know who is the one who is in the way. Maybe he made it for your brother in the first place, so he gave it to you." Zhang Xiaoliu is familiar with him, and occasionally jokes with him.

After hearing what he said, Fulai was a little frustrated: "Yes, I am happy to be patronizing. But it is good that he can remember me, hehe. Where is the colorful rope you bought, how is it doing?"

Later that day, Zhang Xiaoliu bought more colored ropes than Fulai, twenty of each color.When I came back, I divided half of it between Mai Mai and Zhao Zhengze, and they were left to toss about.

"I see that Mai has made two pieces. It seems that they haven't finished yet! I don't know where he put them. I'll let him find them for you tomorrow." Ever since Zhao Zhengze made a small sewing basket, Mai has been I like to put the things he made in it.Although Zhang Xiaoliu knew it, he never looked through his things for fear of messing them up.

"It must be very beautiful. Look at the clothes he made for you. It doesn't look like an eight or nine-year-old boy at all. The stitches are very dense." Fulai glanced at the clothes on his body and sighed: "How can I I don’t have a younger brother, so I press me every day to make clothes and shoe soles, and my hands are going to be blistered.”

Although he was full of complaints, he obviously still remembered to help Momo make new clothes for his brother before and after his marriage. He showed off his hand rope with Zhang Xiaoliu and was about to go back. He made an appointment to see Xiaomai's results tomorrow.

At night, I still eat freshly picked beans, because the beans are not easy to taste and everyone is a little tired, so Zhang Xiaoliu takes out the remaining meat and chops them up, cut the beans into fine grains and fry them together.This method is obviously more popular than the stir-frying two days ago, and soon it was eaten up again.

I heard from my brother that Fulai would come to see his five-color rope weaving tomorrow for the sake of continuing. After eating, Mai went back to the house to finish weaving. Zhang Xiaoliu took Xiaosong and Zhao Zhengze to chat in front of the house.

Today's moonlight is very bright. Although I can't read and write, it can still illuminate people clearly.Zhao Zhengze looked at Zhang Xiaoliu, then touched the palm of his hand, which was already drenched with a thin layer of sweat.

"Xiao Liu, I have already braided the five-color rope you gave me." Seeing that Zhang Xiaoliu was teasing Xiaosong and going back to sleep, Zhao Zhengze swallowed and said in a low voice.

"Really? So fast." Zhang Xiaoliu was really surprised, he put his arm around Xiaosong and stretched out a hand to him: "Can you let me see first?"

Zhao Zhengze let out a "hmm", spread out his hands, and the things fell into Xiaoliu's hands: "This is the first bracelet I made, and I give it to you."

In addition to the circular bracelet in the palm of his hand, there is also a hard thing.Zhang Xiaoliu came closer to see it, and it was an oblong object that was bigger than a fingernail.It feels like the surface is a little bumpy, and it has been carved, probably a leaf-shaped thing.Wearing it on the bracelet, it is delicate and not uncomfortable, very suitable.

"You made this? What is it?" Zhang Xiaoliu felt around, only knowing that the thing was probably made of wood, so he couldn't guess what it was.

"This is a mountain peach core, which can protect the body and ward off evil spirits. Take it with you and don't take it off." Seeing that he did not dislike it, Zhao Zhengze finally felt relieved and explained carefully.

"Peach pit?" Zhang Xiaoliu took a closer look, and found that those bumpy places really looked like the lines of a peach pit, but they had been smoothed a lot.The two sides are worn through the middle, the core meat is also picked clean, and the red string is passed through it.

The more he looked at it, the happier he was. Looking at the shape again, the long and narrow shape turned out to be like a willow leaf, which obviously coincided with his name.

"The peaches are just fruiting at this time, where did you find the peach pits?"

"There is a peach tree on the mountain. Every year when it bears fruit, we will go up the mountain to pick it. After eating, we will dry the peach pits and collect them for grinding. I used to collect some beautiful ones and didn't use them, but now they are just useful." He said. The cloud is light and the wind is light, but it is not easy to grind out good things from peach pits.First of all, you have to pick the shape and pattern that match the thing you want to grind, and then you have to grind it a little bit on the rough stone, and finally use a knife to carve it carefully, pick out the nuclei, and add details with a carving knife.

"That's what you're doing by playing with knives every day these days?" Zhang Xiaoliu had a short life experience in his previous life anyway, so he quickly understood his abnormality a while ago.

"I haven't done it before, so I took some things to practice." Now that the secret has been revealed, Zhao Zhengze is no longer hiding it.

"What about the things you practice?" Zhang Xiaoliu was a little curious. He suddenly remembered the nuclear carvings he had heard of before, which seemed to be similar to this one, but Zhao Zhengze's style was simpler.

Zhao Zhengze paused for a while, then ran into the room and came out holding many small things.Zhang Xiaoliu looked carefully one by one, and found that the big ones were about the size of a thumb, while the small ones were about the size of fingernails.The materials are also different, including smooth and beautiful stone, solid wood blocks and peach pits.

"Such a beautiful thing, do you really want to give it to me?" Zhang Xiaoliu compared his wrists, the size should be about the same.

"It was originally made for you." Zhao Zhengze said in a low voice. After thinking about it, it seemed inappropriate to say so, and then said, "I'm going to make the ones for Mai and Xiaosong, but I haven't done it yet."

"That's not what I mean. It takes a lot of time and energy to do this! You like to do this, as long as you don't have to go to the fields, you can do it at home casually."

"I want to give you a surprise." Zhao Zhengze said in a low voice, but unfortunately he really doesn't have the ability to make surprises.Although he kept the matter a secret, he didn't see Zhang Xiaoliu showing any surprise just now.He moved his mouth and finally said: "This is your birthday present, although it is two months late."

Zhang Xiaoliu suddenly remembered that he was indeed born in March, hence the name "Xiaoliu".It's just that at that time, the family had nothing to eat, so how could I remember my birthday?Unexpectedly, he still remembered at this time.

"Then I won't be polite." Zhang Xiaoliu put the rope into his left hand, the size was just right.I don't know if it was a coincidence or Zhao Zhengze's estimation was too accurate.

Zhao Zhengze watched his movements, his eyes became two crescents with a smile.He has been preparing for this gift for a long time.It wasn't until Xiao Liu bought him two handy knives that the situation got better.Now it's finally on his wrist.