Bianshanhan [farming]

Starting in June and arriving at the end of August, Li Qingwen's birthday was celebrated on the way from the cool summer of Bingzhou to the end of autumn in the border town.

They have worked so hard to get to the place, and there are many people in their line of work. It can really be said to be lucky!

Entering the familiar hut, Li Qingwen lay down on the kang with only his underwear on, his eyelids glued together, and he was still saying, "They came back and called..."

Before finishing a few words, he fell asleep soundly.

Li Qingfeng, who is always energetic, couldn't bear it anymore, but he still endured and told them that this sheep must not be eaten, and it will have cubs in the future.

After Li Qinghong greeted Qi Min and the others, he yawned and fell down crookedly.

Not to mention the Liu brothers and Li Maoqun, their snoring almost knocked off the roof.

The mattresses laid on the kang were next to each other, and Guo Dayong and the others walked all the way, their bodies were so dirty that they stink, they didn't take up other people's space, they just slept on the floor in a mess.

Li Maoxian could still hold on, Qi Min scooped up hot water to wash his face and feet, told him to sleep for a while, and woke up just in time to eat.

When they all lay down, Qi Min asked Lao Xingtou to stew what should be stewed and boil what should be boiled, and then he rushed outside to tell the news to others.

Old Sun and the others heard Qi Min's shout from a long distance away, and immediately ran out in joy. They were about to run to the stable, when Qi Min panted heavily, and said, "They are all asleep, so we just need to go back at this time." I can hear snoring."

Lao Sun and the others picked up the sickle again, and asked, "Who is here? Are you okay on the way?"

"No one was injured...his sister-in-law is pregnant, Qing Rui didn't come, and Qing Zhuo went to the capital." Qi Min also mowed the grass with them, and said: "His third and fourth brothers and his father are here!"

Lao Sun and the others were stunned. Everyone in this Lao Li family has a lot of talent. They come so far away, and even I don’t show weakness!

Half a day later, everyone closed their mouths, Qi Min said: "Uncle Maoqun, and their relatives, people from the village, there are more than 30 people together."

Lao Sun and the others scratched their heads, what is a good place here? !

It was just dark at night when Li Maoqun and Li Maoxian woke up. Qi Min and the others hurriedly brought up pots of stewed rabbit meat and roe deer meat, and sorghum rice in the face-sized bowls.

The two of them called the others up. Although they hadn't recovered from their sleep, they were also extremely hungry. When they got up and saw that there was so much meat, they started to eat while half asleep.

After one bite, a large piece of meat enters the mouth, the fat melts, and the fragrance is really like a dream.

Li Qingwen's legs were as soft as noodles, and he couldn't stand up. He sat on the kang and asked in a daze if Jiang Cong was back.

Old Xingtou scooped up a bowl of rice soup for him, and said: "Not yet, how can it be so fast to go hunting, it will take a few days."

Li Qingwen drank the warm rice soup, fell down on the kang, and fell asleep again.

"Oh, I'm exhausted from this course." Lao Xing shook his head and said.

The others are also holding on, and then go to sleep after eating.

On the second day, Li Maoxian woke up first, saw that there was no one in the room, and talked to Lao Xingtou, knowing that Qi Min and the others were going to mow the grass, so he found a sickle and went with him.

After all, Li Qingwen and Li Qingfeng were young. After arriving in the border town, the energy in their hearts was suffocated. The two of them fell asleep after eating, and ate after waking up. Run, don't go home until night.

When he was half asleep and half awake, Li Qingwen noticed that someone was rubbing his body, and it was about to touch his shy place. He forced his eyes open, "Father, I will do it myself..."

Suddenly there was a small laughter from the side, so familiar, Li Qingwen suddenly opened his eyes, and saw Jiang Cong smiling at him with a cloth towel.

Under the pine light, Jiang Cong's face seemed to be thinner and more handsome, and his eyes were shining like stars.

"I'm not dreaming..." Li Qingwen muttered, still covering his body with the quilt.

Jiang Liping and others laughed loudly, "This kid is so tired and stupid!"

These people laughed so loudly that Li Qingwen finally woke up, and was hugged tightly by Jiang Cong including him and the quilt.

This time Li Qingwen finally had the energy, and amidst the laughter of all of them, he quickly put on his clothes under the quilt. Although those people tried to tear off the quilt, but Jiang Cong stopped him, and Li Qingwen finally got dressed without any danger.

Jiang Cong and the others just came back. Seeing two more cars outside from a distance, they wondered if there would be people coming. When they came back, they found that there were many people in the room, and Li Qingwen was lying on the kang and fell asleep.

Jiang Cong and Li Maoxian haven't seen each other for several years, and each has a lot of emotions in their hearts.

"Uncle, thank you for taking the risk of traveling thousands of miles to come to the border town..." Jiang Cong felt extremely guilty.

Li Maoxian waved his hand and said: "You and we don't need to see each other. Originally, I wanted to take them to Hongzhou to meet you. Coming here is not much farther than going to Hongzhou. Zai'er treats you like his own brother. He said he wants to make money here." It’s a lot of money, if we want to let us eat meat every now and then, I’m afraid we’ll have to stay here often in the future. I’ll come here to see you are well, so I can rest assured. Take a look at this place, and I can feel more at ease when they work here. "

Jiang Cong and the others brought back a lot of prey, large and small, and packed them up, salting what should be salted, and what should be put into the pot.

There were dozens of Jiang Cong and the others, plus more than 30 people who had just arrived, the three huts were crowded and stuffy, and the daylight was not very bright, so everyone simply went outside.

There are not so many stools, and most of them are sitting on the grass, talking about what happened on their way, and what happened in the border town in the past few months.

When Li Qingwen and Li Maoqun heard that their land was about to be harvested, they jumped up happily and wanted to see it, but were stopped by Jiang Cong, "The meal will be ready soon, and we will go after eating."

The smell of frying came from the room, Li Qingwen hurriedly took down the iron pot from the car, this thing is much easier to cook and eat than a clay pot.

It happened that there were not enough pots. Rub the iron pot twice with the skin of the oil, then put it on the fire, and then oil it after heating, so that it will be less rusty in the future.

Seeing Li Qingwen roll up his sleeves, everyone cheered, "I'm lucky today!"

Someone immediately went to the side to bring the earthen basket, which contained green onions and ginger, and Li Qingwen picked up a freshly caught fish and began to process it.

Li Qinghong asked: "There is so much open space here, why don't the vegetables be planted in the ground?"

It is too much trouble to put the soil in the basket and grow vegetables in the basket.

"Don't mention it." The old grandson said: "It's not enough for bugs to knock. We opened a vegetable field when the weather was warm, but as soon as the seedlings grew, the roots were gnawed by bugs in a few days, so we still have to use this thing. "

Li Qinghong had already experienced the power of all kinds of bugs he knew and didn't know along the way, and he said in shock: "That's really helpless."

While talking, Li Qingwen had already marinated the fish, and the smell of stewed pheasant came from the house, Guo Dayong and the others kept swallowing.

The sheep were also exhausted, and they didn't run away even if they didn't need to be shut down. They lay down on the ground and ate the fresh and tender grass that they had cut. When Li Qingfeng came to look at them, he found that the stables were full of horses of various colors, and his eyes straightened.

The black horse in the middle has smooth fur and long legs. It must be majestic to ride!

Li Maoqun beckoned him to come over to help, Li Qingfeng reluctantly turned his eyes away, and came to help Li Maoqun put the salted roe deer meat on the wooden beam.

After hanging it, he found that there were more than a dozen beams in this dilapidated wooden shed, and the beams were full of meat from various wild animals. There were piles of furs as tall as a person and sacks of chicken feathers beside them...

"I, I'm really late..." Li Qingfeng murmured, looking dazed.

Men are very rough in cooking, and it is rare for Li Qingwen to eat a fish as much as he does. However, after the fish is stewed, it is really fragrant, and the fish meat is so delicious that he can eat three bowls of soup in one sitting.

In addition to stewed fish, more than 20 rabbits were fried today, and several pheasants were stewed.Since eating fried chicken and fried rabbit meat, everyone can no longer tolerate those strange tastes.Cured meat is very simple, you can’t go wrong with adding more salt, and it’s not difficult to fry it directly after refining the oil. They only need to hunt wild animals, half of them are fried, and half of them are stewed.

The fragrance is really fragrant, but if you eat too much, the internal fire will be a little hot.

Because Li Qingwen loves to eat mushrooms, half of the mushrooms were put into the stewed chicken. The mushrooms were freshly picked this year. They are thick and smooth, soaked in the salty juice, and taste as good as meat when bitten down.

There are so many people and it’s hard to be particular about it. They are all served in large basins, and the bowls each person holds are big enough, and they can sit or squat down to start eating.

Because the people from Yangshu Village came from afar, they were serious guests of Baben, and the fish was kept by their side. If there were no thorns, they dared not eat too much, for fear that the pot would be gone in the blink of an eye.

Li Qingwen had already shared some fish soup with everyone, and the delicious taste was deeply engraved in everyone's heart.

The Liu family brothers and Guo Dayong were hiccupping. At this time, they had completely forgotten what they had suffered when they came here, and they were very excited. They ate so much meat when they first came here, and they will definitely get better and better in the future!

After a lively meal, everyone walked to the field together. Li Maoqun almost fell over in excitement, and everyone laughed, "Uncle Maoqun, you haven't caught up with the spring plowing and summer cultivation. Why, the autumn harvest wants to lie down too." ?”

Li Maoqun also grinned, "Even if I break my leg, I still have to harvest the land. This crop must not be delayed."

Talking and laughing, everyone was excited and relieved to see the tall and straight sorghum and the green soybeans from a distance. As farmers, there is nothing happier than seeing the crops.

When they got closer and saw it clearly, everyone's expressions began to change.

The sorghum and soybean grow really tall, the tassels are also big, and the grains are full at first glance, but this kind of one is too thin.Half a plant of sorghum can be planted, and a foot can be inserted in the space between each pile of soybeans!

"What, what is this?" Li Maoqun and the others showed pity on their faces.

"The seeds are planted normally. Some of them were bitten by bugs when they first germinated, and there was no time to replant them later. That's it..." Lao Sun and the others were also very helpless.

How much less grain is this?Guo Dayong and the others looked at the wide and flat fields in front of them, and felt their hearts ache.

Walking forward while watching, there is a piece of wood standing on the ground ahead, and that is Li Qingwen's field.

There are no ditches, no ridges, and no slopes. Li Qingwen's [-] mu of land is flat in front of everyone. Half of it is planted with sorghum and half of soybeans. Together, the pods are each half as long as the palm of your hand.

Many of them have grown sorghum and soybeans for many years, and they have never seen them grow so well!A group of people stood on the ground, pulling the crops and staring at them, saliva flying all over the place, "How many catties do I have to harvest for this acre of land?!"

"It's estimated to be four to five hundred catties!" Li Maoxian estimated it, and couldn't help saying, "This place is really good!"

The best land in Yangshu Village only yields [-] catties of sorghum, but here you can harvest an extra [-] or [-] catties per mu, which is beyond my wildest dreams!

"Zai'er's land is denser than the ones next to it. Are there no bugs here?" Li Qinghong asked in surprise.

Jiang Liping let go of the tassels of sorghum in his hand, and said, "It's possible, there were a lot of seedlings missing, and we made up for it later, digging pits one by one, sowing seeds, and almost didn't break my waist. Jiang Cong slept in those days In the field, wake up to work, tired to sleep..."

Li Qingwen's heart tightened when he heard the words, and he turned to look at Jiang Cong, "Less less, less, what should I do if I'm exhausted."

He pulled Jiang Cong's hand over and saw that the calluses on his palm had thickened again.

Jiang Cong touched Li Qingwen's chin with the palm of his hand, and said, "You must be tired, just take a rest."

"It's only this year, and I'll watch it here in the future."

"That's kind!" Jiang Liping and the others laughed, "We wish you could stay here."

Next, I also looked at Li Maoqun's land. Although there are not many lands, they are all growing well. The Liu brothers and Guo Dayong are all envious. If these lands are put in the village, will they still be afraid of starvation?

After watching the crops, everyone walked back, their footsteps became a little brisk, and the Liu brothers and the others strengthened their determination to work hard here.

Li Maoxian didn't speak much, but the smile on his brows never faded away. When he really got here, he understood why his sons and Li Maoqun were so fond of this place.

They like the land in their bones, and they will be convinced just by looking at this wilderness that stretches to the horizon.

So I took the risk and wanted to come here.

Although the fields they cultivated amounted to hundreds of acres, it was only a very small piece of this wilderness, and even if viewed from a distance, it would be hidden among the tall weeds.

Everyone came here with a sickle, and when they went back, they took the opportunity to hug the grass. There are everywhere here, so you don’t need to look around, just cut a few times and you will get a bundle.

Carrying grass to the stables and cowsheds is what they do every day.

They can't rest when they go back, Guo Dayong and others don't have a place to live yet, and the autumn harvest is coming soon, so they have to find a place to store grain and straw.

So, after the fun, everyone immediately had to dig the soil and mud, get out the adobe, and prepare to build a house.

Well, Jiang Liping and the others have brought back some wood in the past few months, if they look for it now, they will be blinded.

Just after watching the crops, Guo Dayong and the others seemed to be full of strength. They tore off their shirts and threw off their arms to work. After a while, streams of sweat dripped down their bodies.

Before making the adobe, they built a shed to dry the adobe in it, otherwise it would be ruined when it rained.

They only made a few hundred billets for what they were afraid of. When the sky was overcast, Lao Xingtou looked at the rolling black clouds in the sky and shouted: "Don't be so busy, the rain should be heavy, and the shed can't cover it." !"

Everyone had to go back to hide from the rain, and Guo Dayong and the others had to make bedding on the ground.

As long as you don't live in the wild, it's okay to lie on the ground in the house, at least there are not so many mosquitoes and bugs, and you don't have to worry about sleeping, but people on the kang should be careful when they go to the ground, or they will not step on their arms and legs.

A group of people came back, and without saying a word, the rain began to rain, and the raindrops hit the roof in a hurry and densely, with an aggressive posture that wanted to smash the leak.

It is dark in the room during the day, and once the evening is over, you can't even see your fingers.

Li Qingwen was lying on the kang, with Jiang Cong on one side and his father on the other, feeling extremely at ease, "This house is pretty solid, when I came here last year, I lightened it up casually, and it can still withstand such a heavy rain."

"How can it be? It was missed when the snow was melting, and it was refilled." Ma Yongjiang turned his head to Li Qingwen's direction, "What about the things you promised to buy for me?"

"Hey, I almost forgot..." Li Qingwen struggled to get up from the kang. Jiang Cong lit a pine light to illuminate him. A clay pot, handed to Mayong Jiang, "You want it."

Ma Yongjiang was about to say thank you, but when he received the jar, he felt that the portion was not enough, "Why did you buy such a small one, it's not enough for me to wipe for a month."

"Do you know how expensive this stuff is?" Li Qingwen had his own reasons, "Your heels crack in winter, so you don't need such an expensive ointment. I bought something else for you in the county, and it's very effective."

Because the room was not so bright, Ma Yongjiang dared to roll his eyes at Li Qingwen in front of Jiang Cong, "You don't know how much it hurts if you don't crack! But it's really picky, so many skins and medicinal materials have been sold, isn't there enough to buy more ointment?"

"Don't worry, use the one I bought for you first, and scold me whatever you want." Li Qingwen said confidently.

Chen had cracked heels since he was young, and tried many folk remedies. Later, Li Qingzhuo bought a kind of ointment in the county. It was not expensive but very effective, and he brought it with him this time.

Others also said one after another: "What did you bring for us, you won't come all the way empty-handed, right?"

Li Qingwen leaned his head on the pillow, and said solemnly: "Aren't you happy when I come, this is the best gift!"

Everyone laughed so loudly that the sound of rain outside could not be heard for a while.

Li Qinghong also laughed, and said to Li Maoxian: "Father, the eldest brother and the second brother came back and said this and that, I don't really believe it, I think our son has been wronged a lot, and it opened his eyes in just a few days... "

Li Maoxian was also smiling. He had only been here for a few days, and he could see that these people really liked their sons, and Jiang Cong was even more thoughtful than his brother.

With these people, it's no wonder that Zai'er couldn't stop thinking about it after returning home.

Wiping away the tears from his laughter, Jiang Liping couldn't catch his breath, and said, "Tell this to Brother Jiang, we won't do this!"

Li Qingwen looked at the crowd, and said intentionally: "It turns out that you are looking forward to my coming because you want something, and it's a little sad..."

Before he finished speaking, he laughed himself, reached out and continued to grope into the cage, and found a pile of cloth shoes, five pairs tied together with ropes, a total of more than a dozen bundles, Li Qingwen said: "Before I left, I showed your feet, I don’t know if it’s right or not, you guys try wearing it, if you don’t like it, you can exchange it with each other.”

Hearing this, everyone cheered up, snatched all the shoes, and started to try them quickly.

When they came, they brought several pairs of shoes with them at home. However, they walked too much, and the shoes were wasted. They were torn and mended.

The ones that Li Qingwen brought last time were all kept, and that was not enough, this time the new shoes can be regarded as a solution to the urgent need.

Of course, so many shoes were not only made by Chen and Jiang, but also troubled some aunts of the Li family.

The shoes were taken away, Li Qingwen touched something again, and asked, "Whose is the saponin?"

"mine!"

Several hands stretched out, I don't know who got it, and don't worry if you don't get it, anyway, as long as someone uses it, they will definitely smell it, and then...

Then there was another bundle of tooth wood and heavy tooth powder, and everyone happily accepted it.Yamu is something for brushing teeth. It is a narrow piece of bamboo with a few holes pierced at one end and tied with a piece of cloth with slightly stiff brown hairs. Although it is very sparse and not easy to use, it is better than nothing.

Then there are some small spoons, chopsticks and other messy things.

Lao Xingtou got a pair of shoes and a bag of stuffed beans, because this kind of stuffed beans tasted like wine, and he liked it very much.

It looks like a lot of things, but in fact, it can be installed in one box. Most of the cars are filled with seeds. It would be nice to have a place to store them.

Jiang Cong got a pair of bows and arrows and a small finger wrench. He touched Li Qingwen's face and accepted them with a smile.

These things are not very valuable, but Jiang Liping and the others are very happy. Looking at these, they always feel that although they are in the extreme north, they are still closely related to their homeland.

After talking in the middle of the night, someone said: "Go to sleep, you have to work hard tomorrow, build the house early, the field will freeze after the autumn harvest, and if you want to start construction, you will have to next year."

Li Qingwen immediately closed his mouth, Jiang Cong rubbed his head, and said, "You don't need this job, go pick mushrooms tomorrow."

Li Qingwen thought that Jiang Cong said this to make him feel lighter. When he stepped on a pile of round mushrooms in the grass the next day, he felt that he might die of exhaustion!

After it rains, white mushrooms come out of the ground. As long as you can find a mushroom circle, big traps and small circles, and there are still in the small circles, you don’t need to get up here, just keep squatting to pick them up.

The plump and tender mushrooms were put into the sack one by one, Li Qinghong said persistently: "There are so many mushrooms, if we pick them all up, how much will it cost?"

The dried mountain products are not cheap, but this place is too remote, no matter how good it is, it is not easy to take it back.

Li Qingwen also felt that it was a pity, so he was even more happy to pick it up.

Li Qingwen felt that he was fast enough, and when he turned his head, his fourth brother was already walking back with a sack full of mushrooms on his back.

Wet mushrooms are not light, Li Qingfeng's feet are blowing, he has missed a year, and he will try his best to make up for it from now on!

The two brothers of the Liu family were digging the foundation. Seeing them pack mushrooms in sacks of sacks, they wished they could drop their things and pick them up, but in the end they still worked honestly.

Before leaving, what Li Qingmu said to them the most was - follow the Li family, listen to what they say.

They say that it is important to build a house now, so build the house first.

Not only Li Qingwen and the others, but the women of the Sun family were also picking mushrooms. They sent over a basket of fruit a few days ago. I don't know what it is, but it tastes very good.

It was a cloudy day, and Li Qingwen and the others also picked for a day, so they didn't leave the stable too far, anyway, they were exhausted and paralyzed in the end.

Old Xingtou didn't go to pick it up. He sat on the animal skin and threaded the mushrooms with a needle and thread, so that they could be dried and looked at. If there were any mushrooms he didn't recognize, he would throw them away, so as not to be killed.

He picked it up quickly, but wore it slowly. In the end, he called a few more people, so he didn't finish it until the evening.

Li Qingwen watched Lao Xingtou busy with dull eyes, and thought in his heart that picking mushrooms would kill him,