Ba Zong's rural life [farming]

With the experience of the first day, Lu Ze woke up early the next day, before Ruan Xishi went out, had breakfast, took a shovel from the stairwell, and followed Ruan Xishi to the field.

The sun had just risen when they set off, and the village was still very quiet, except for the crowing of cocks, but they were not the first to go to the field. work.

Ruan Xishi greeted the peasant woman next door who was weeding: "Aunt Fang, you came to the field so early."

The peasant woman called Aunt Fang raised her head and replied, "Yes, now that there is no sun, hurry up and work for a while."

Ruan Xishi carried the shovel to the place where work ended yesterday. He cleared the gully, then went down with the shovel and continued to plow the land, chatting with Aunt Fang while plowing.

"Why don't you see Uncle Fang come with you?"

"Hey, your Uncle Fang and the village chief went to the mountain to clean up the canal. Isn't it time to plow the fields? The reservoir should also be filled with water, so the village chief called for someone to clear the canal."

Ruan Xishi nodded, and Aunt Fang looked at how he and Lu Ze were plowing the land, and asked, "Shizi, what are you going to plant in this field in early spring?"

Ruan Xishi stopped to observe the soil and environment of this land. This is not a paddy field, but a dry land, so it is not suitable for planting rice and vegetables. He thought for a while and replied: "Maybe plant peanuts and corn, Aunt Fang Well, do you have any plans?"

Aunt Fang said with a smile: "I plan to plant a season of peanuts first, and when the peanuts are harvested, I will loosen the ground pine and plant a hundred peppercorns to sell. I heard that hotels and supermarkets in the city are buying them at high prices." Well, this chili can at least be received before the Chinese New Year, and if you sell it, you will have money for the Chinese New Year."

After hearing this, Ruan Xishi rushed to say: "I understand, the soil where peanuts have been planted is more fertile, so when planting peppers, the pepper seedlings can grow well."

Aunt Fang praised him again and again: "Yes, yes, as expected of Shizi, he understands a lot of truths."

Ruan Xishi said proudly: "This is what my grandfather taught me. He told me that it is the knowledge of biology."

When Aunt Fang heard whoops, she smiled and said, "Then you have to teach that little bastard of our family well, and let him help me plant the land in the future."

Ruan Xishi replied: "I will definitely teach it, and I will teach them when I go to class when the school starts."

Aunt Fang sighed and said, "Hey, then you will have to work hard. You have to farm the land and teach the children."

Ruan Xishi hurriedly said that it was not hard work.

Around noon, a salesman from another village came. He was driving a tricycle with a loudspeaker on. When the horn sounded, it could be heard from the village to the village, and it was convenient for the villagers to go out and buy things from him.

The seller’s car has everything, pork, chicken, cooked food, cured meat, vegetables, fruits, tofu, pickles, seasonal fruits and some snacks such as fried peanuts, fried melon seeds, dried sweet potatoes, etc. It can be regarded as a mobile small department store.Every time he enters the village, every household in the village goes out to have a look and see what they want to buy, even if they don’t buy it, they go to join in the fun and chat, the children are even more excited, they can go all the way from the village Follow the tricycle to the end of the village.

This peddler buys goods from the small town every day and sells them in several villages below the town. Although the price is a little higher than in the town, but fortunately it is convenient, and the villagers are willing to buy from him. He can sell a lot of things by going twice a day. .And because his stall is highly mobile, he has a lot of information. For example, what happened in which village, who married a daughter and a daughter-in-law, he knows all about it. I will ask him a few words as a pastime before tea and after dinner.

The salesman's tricycle came from far away, Ruan Xishi heard his horn, and remembered that there was no food at home, so he put down the shovel in his hand and asked Lu Ze what food he wanted to eat today.

Since Lu Ze came to Ruan Xishi's house, he has never been picky about his food. Before, he had to make a dish until he was satisfied. Maybe he realized that the conditions he was in now did not allow him to be too picky Well, anyway, he followed Ruan Xishi every day, and he had a good time.

So he felt that he was not picky about food, so he asked Ruan Xishi to watch and buy.

When the salesman passed by, Ruan Xishi called out to stop him, and the salesman stopped the car as soon as he heard the sound, opened the door behind the tricycle and asked Ruan Xishi what he wanted to buy.

Ruan Xishi looked at the various goods on the car and couldn't make up his mind for a while, so he had to ask Lu Ze for advice.

Lu Ze glanced at it. According to his standards, these dishes would not be able to catch his eyes. There is no other reason, the presentation is not good enough, and they are not fresh enough. If you can eat it, then it depends on what Ruan Xishi eats, he will follow what he is eating.

Ruan Xishi felt that the recent diet was a bit monotonous. If Lu Ze was a tall man, if he ate those simple meals with him all day, he might lose weight after a while.

In the view of the villagers, the healthiest is to be fat and white, and Ruan Xishi will never let Lu Ze starve and thin.

So he bought a piece of pork and three or four taels of fried chicken feet, which cost more than a dozen yuan, which made Lu Ze feel so distressed, and pulled him to say that he didn't need to buy so much.

Of course Ruan Xishi knew that Lu Ze was trying to save money for him, so she comforted him and said, "It's not like eating like this every day, it's just a tooth-beating sacrifice once in a while. You and I are tired from plowing the land these two days, so I'll give you extra meals."

This was heard by the salesman. The salesman looked at this strange man. He went to various villages to sell things all day long and heard a lot of gossip. He naturally knew that Mr. Ruan's grandson picked up a man with amnesia and brought him home to raise him. Seeing that the two of them get along very well, I couldn't help joking: "That's right, it's a rare meal, and it's too late to be happy. Don't worry about money for Shi Zai. Only when you're full will you have the strength to give it to Shi Zai's family." farmland."

Ruan Xishi took the meat and vegetables, and went to look at the snacks and fruits. He himself doesn't like snacks very much. Maybe it's because his family has been struggling since he was a child. He bought that, but he never asked his grandfather for pocket money once. After a long time of restraint, the snacks lost their allure to him.But now that there are more people in the family, when you have nothing to do, you can't just sit and stare at each other, buy some snacks to eat when you are bored, and pass the time.

He grabbed a handful of fried peanuts and asked, "How do you sell these peanuts?"

The salesman gave him a bag and said, "I'll give you two yuan a catty."

Ruan Xishi weighed two catties, and then he saw the sugar cane tied on the side of the car, and asked casually, "How much is a catty of sugar cane?"

Salesman: "Three cents a catty."

Ruan Xishi chose two thick and straight sugarcanes, and the salesman gave him a small change, exactly three yuan.

After shopping, the salesman drove his tricycle to continue to sell things in the village. Ruan Xishi held the vegetables in one hand and two sugar canes in the other. Seeing that he was about to walk, Lu Ze took the sugar cane and asked him : "Do you like to eat sugar cane?"

Ruan Xishi replied: "It's okay, I don't like it very much, but the sugarcane is more convenient, it can be stored for a long time, and when I go to work in the field, I take a piece or two, and when I rest, I eat it, and it can quench my thirst. It can also satisfy the hunger.”

After buying vegetables, they couldn't continue to work in the field, so the two of them quit work early today and went home to cook.

Ruan Xishi was in high spirits today. When he got home, he chopped the pork into minced meat, then took out the dried vegetables that had been dried in autumn last year, chopped them and mixed them together, and steamed them in a pot while cooking.Put the fried chicken feet in a frying pan and add soy sauce to simmer for a while, then cook a vegetable soup with the bitter wheat vegetables picked from the vegetable field. few.

Dried vegetables are moderately salty, mixed with minced meat can absorb the greasy fat, and taste delicious.

It was a bit difficult for Lu Ze when he gnawed on the chicken feet, because he had to hold it with one hand, which would get his hands dirty, and it looked very rude. Lu Ze looked at the plate of chicken feet, showing a respectful expression look like.

Compared to him, Ruan Xishi was much more frank. Although he was holding the chicken feet in one hand, it might be that Ruan Xishi was used to eating slowly, so he didn't seem to find it unbearable.

Ruan Xishi finished eating a chicken foot, licked her fingers habitually, and suddenly noticed that Lu Ze was looking at her motionless, thinking that she was being rude, she quickly put her hand under the table, and greeted Lu Ze to eat.

Lu Ze finally let go and ate the chicken feet, but when he was eating the chicken feet, he couldn't help replaying the scene of Ruan Xishi licking his fingers.

He thought it might be that Ruan Xishi's food was too delicious, so let him move his index finger too.

It took the two of them three days to plow the field. Although the efficiency was a bit low, it was the result of Lu Ze's first labor in the field. Ruan Xishi was very happy. After returning home that night, he fried a few. Poached eggs, peeled some peanuts and sprinkled them, and brought out the bayberry wine made by his grandfather last summer.He poured half a bowl for Lu Ze and invited Lu Ze to have a taste.

The homemade fruit wine has no preservatives, it has a very strong fruity taste, it tastes sour and sweet, like fruit juice, but it is also very strong. Ruan Xishi did not dare to let Lu Ze drink more, but only took two symbolic sips as a celebration , mainly eating and eating vegetables.

While eating, Ruan Xishi suddenly said: "In two days, I plan to go to the town again and buy a few ducks to raise. The duck eggs are bigger, but the eggs are too small, and the hens don't lay eggs every day. Not enough eggs."

In fact, his family used to raise a lot of chickens, but they slaughtered a lot of them for the banquet when they held grandpa's funeral. Now there are only a few old hens left, and eggs are produced every three days.In the past, I was the only one eating in the family, and two eggs a day was enough, but now that there is an extra Lu Ze in the family, it is not enough.

It is not necessary to eat eggs for every meal. As long as five chickens and ducks lay eggs a day, even if they eat two a day, there will still be three left over. Ninety eggs can be saved in a month, at least nine catties of eggs. The town's own poultry The eggs laid are the most expensive, at six yuan a catty, so the monthly stable income is more than fifty yuan, at least enough for a month's salt, oil, soy sauce and vinegar.

Lu Ze remembered that Ruan Xishi only boiled an egg for him that day, but he only ate sweet potatoes, so after hearing Ruan Xishi's plan, he couldn't agree more.