Ba Zong's rural life [farming]

After resting enough, Ruan Xishi ran out again, Lu Ze followed him leisurely, and saw that he came back with a handful of weeds in a blink of an eye, and said like a treasure: "This is wild amaranth, which can be used for making soup. It is similar to nightshade. I'll cook it for you tonight."

Lu Ze nodded with a smile.

In the evening, Ruan Xishi took the cow back to Uncle Li's house. Uncle Li hadn't come back yet, but Aunt Li brought the cow back to the cowshed. Aunt Li saw that both the cow and the calf were full, she looked lazily, and boasted with a smile: "Shi Zai is really capable. This cow hasn't eaten so much for many days. Your Uncle Li will go to other people's houses to play cards when he is free. The cow will not be let go. If he doesn't come back, maybe he will go to someone else's house after plowing the field again. Stopped by."

Ruan Xishi was embarrassed and said: "Uncle Li has been working hard plowing the fields. If you don't have time to herd cattle in the future, you can come to me."

He exchanged some polite words with Aunt Li, and then went home with Lu Ze.

In the evening, the salesman driving a tricycle passed by the house again, Ruan Xishi remembered that he was going to cook a sumptuous dinner for Lu Ze tonight, so he called the salesman and took Lu Ze to buy vegetables.

People in the village pay more attention to dinner, so in the afternoon, the salesman will prepare some roast meat and lo-mei for sale. Before he got to the front of the car, Ruan Xishi smelled the aroma of roast meat, obviously he wanted to buy some delicious food for Lu Ze. Yes, but I got hungry first.

The salesman got out of the car and opened the door, and greeted Ruan Xishi warmly: "Shizi, what good food do you want to buy tonight?"

Ruan Xishi stepped forward and saw a few roasted chickens, roasted ducks and braised pig's feet hanging in the car, and two storage boxes filled with taro seedlings, pickled mustard and shredded radish, all of which were delicious and ready-to-eat cooked vegetables.Ruan Xishi looked back and forth a few times, only to feel that she wanted to eat everything, but the money in her pocket was limited, so she could only buy one or two things to satisfy her cravings.He couldn't make up his mind, so he raised his head and asked Lu Ze: "Brother Lu Ze, which one do you want to eat?"

The roasted duck is very fat, the skin has been roasted to a burnt yellow/color, and the oil seeps out of the skin, making it look very greasy. Lu Ze compared the roasted duck with the roasted chicken, and chose the thinner roasted chicken.

Roasted chicken is more expensive than roasted duck. Ruan Xishi bought ten yuan and could only buy a quarter of the chicken, but he chose a good part, the part with a lot of meat in the half-leg.

Ruan Xishi bought taro seedling sour for two yuan and water tofu for one yuan, and the salesman generously gave him a small handful of green onions.

With the dishes in hand, Ruan Xishi and Lu Ze started cooking dinner when they got home, because the dishes were all ready-made, so it was much easier to prepare.After the rice is cooked, boil a little water, put the tofu cut into small pieces into the soup, add some green onion, a tofu soup is ready, then turn on the fire, pour the chicken into it, add some Seasoned with soy sauce, the color and fragrance are complete after the pot is out. Finally, take advantage of the residual heat of the pot to put the taro seedling acid in and heat it up, and then you can eat.

Ruan Xishi has always cherished the opportunity to eat roasted meat. In their family, eating roasted meat is more luxurious than eating pork. In the past, when grandpa was still alive, he only bought roasted meat once every two or three months to satisfy his hunger. The remaining bones have to be sucked in the mouth for a long time until there is no taste.

Now thanks to Lu Ze, he occasionally spends extravagance, but he also knows that he does not have the ability to make money. If he wants to have meat all the time, the most urgent thing is to find a way to make money. Money is sitting on the mountain and empty.

When watching TV at night, he would write and calculate on the tea table with a pen and paper. Under his influence, Lu Ze had already fallen in love with agricultural programs. The TV was talking about new rice planting, but Ruan Xishi devoted himself to bookkeeping On, no TV at all.

The farmers on TV used modern machinery to plow and transplant rice seedlings. A large barren field turned into green paddy fields in an instant, saving time and effort. Lu Ze thought of what he saw and heard in Tiandong today, I thought that if there was such a machine in the village, then everyone would not have to be so busy.

Maybe he would find a way to get such a machine so that he wouldn't have to worry about it when he planted the second season of rice.

Ruan Xishi listed all the expenses for the past two months. Usually, he didn’t feel how much he spent when he spent money sporadically. After adding it up, he found that he had spent more than 1000 yuan unknowingly. This is almost his He spent half a year with his grandfather.

He suddenly panicked. He used to think that the 3 yuan left by his grandfather was a huge sum of money. He even thought it would be enough for him to spend his whole life in the village.

And he has to make money as soon as possible to make up for his grandfather's money.

The more Ruan Xishi thought about it, the more anxious he became. It's only spring now. Although he has planted a lot of vegetables, corn, peanuts, rice, and chickens and ducks, he won't be able to get rewards from them for a while. That is to say, if he wants to rely on If these things make money, they will have to wait at least a month or two, and they will also spend money in these months.

Lu Ze was watching the TV, and suddenly felt Ruan Xishi's uneasiness, he turned his eyes away from the TV, bent over to Ruan Xishi's face and asked him, "What's the matter, Ruan?"

Ruan Xishi had no intention of letting Lu Ze follow him to worry about the family's finances, so she covered her notebook to prevent Lu Ze from reading his accounts, and shook her head, "It's nothing, Brother Lu Ze, don't you watch TV?"

Seeing that he didn't want to show it to him, Lu Ze thought that Ruan Xishi was writing a diary, so he sat up straight and continued watching his agricultural program without forcing him.

Given the situation in the village, if Ruan Xishi wanted to live a better life without arousing suspicion, he could only make everyone in the village equal. In that case, he had to contact the town government to subsidize him through the town government——Lu Ze stared at the TV screen , but thinking about other things.

Early the next morning, Ruan Xishi went to the field with a dustpan, and Lu Ze also put on a straw hat and followed.

Ruan Xishi went to the seedling field first, squatted on the seedling field and pulled up the seedlings from the soil with his hands, then gathered the mud at the roots and stacked them neatly on the dustpan. Lu Ze also followed his example to pull out the seedlings. At first he didn't learn the essence, and pulled out several seedlings, but Ruan Xishi saw it and taught him how to pull it out.

"Brother Lu Ze, use your thumb and forefinger to pinch the roots of the seedlings tightly, and then push upwards to quickly pull up the seedlings, so as not to hurt its roots."

Lu Ze plucked it twice according to his instructions, and found that it was much easier and would not break the seedlings again.

After pulling out the seedlings, Ruan Xishi walked into the paddy field holding a handful of seedlings. The mud in the field covered his calves. The yellow mud contrasted sharply with his snow-white complexion. Compared with other villagers, Ruan Xishi didn't look like a countryman at all. , but more like the spoiled young master in the city.

Lu Ze looked at Ruan Xishi's calf in a daze for a while. Ruan Xishi finished planting one seedling, and when he came to pick up the second seedling, he saw him in a daze. He thought he was bored, so he said to him: "Brother Lu Ze wants No, go home first, I won’t be able to finish this field in a while, maybe it will be until tomorrow, you’d better go home and wait for me.”

Hearing Ruan Xishi's voice in front of his eyes, Lu Ze suddenly came back to his senses, and realized that he was still staring at Ruan Xishi's calf. He felt embarrassed and said to Ruan Xishi, "Teach me how to plant in the field. The two of you will know each other. faster."

Ruan Xishi wondered: "But there will be insects in the field, I'm afraid you will be bitten."

Lu Ze took another look at his white calf. He was thinner and more tender than a native of the city. Isn't he afraid of being bitten by bugs?

Ruan Xishi seemed to see his doubts, and said, "At least I grew up in the village, so I am not afraid of insect bites."

Lu Ze raised his eyebrows: "Then I'm not afraid either."

Ruan Xishi was so helpless that he could only agree to let him go to the field. Lu Ze followed Ruan Xishi to the field with a handful of seedlings in his hand. Ruan Xishi asked him to stand where the seedlings were to be planted and told him how to plant them.

"Transplanting rice seedlings is also to pinch the roots of the seedlings, and then insert the seedlings into the mud, not too deep, at least half of which should be exposed to the water, but not too shallow, otherwise the water from the reservoir will come in a few days, and the seedlings will be washed away by the water. Then you compare the row spacing of the seedlings I planted before, and just plant them all the way down. Note that you have to move your feet frequently, otherwise the leeches will bite your feet and suck blood."

Although Ruan Xishi said that there were leeches in the field, Lu Ze didn't see any of them after staying in the field for a long time. He thought it might be because the field was just raked yesterday, and the water and mud were still mixed together. If you are willing to stay here, it would be great if there are no leeches.

Although the fifth field is not big, it is impossible to plant all the seedlings in one morning. Ruan Xishi and Lu Ze have been busy for a long time before planting one-third of the field. Ruan Xishi is hungry, so he knows it is getting late , it's time to go home and cook.

He washed his hands and feet and walked up to the ridge, and said to Lu Ze who was still bending over to plant rice seedlings in the field, "Brother Lu Ze, it's time for us to call it a day and go home."

Lu Ze is the kind of person who will have nothing else to do once he puts himself into work. No matter how tiring or boring the work is, he will never give up. He is willing to stop only when it is done well.The seedlings have not been planted yet, and there is still half of the field, so he didn't want to stop going home for dinner at all. When Ruan Xishi called him, he didn't look back, but responded: "You go back first, I will take the rest All the fields are planted with seedlings and then go back to eat."

Ruan Xishi didn't know whether to laugh or cry when she heard this, and said to him: "It will take at least two days to finish planting this field by one person, even if we plant together, it will take another afternoon to complete. Brother Lu Ze, you should go home with me for dinner first, and then we can finish it in the afternoon." continue."

Under Ruan Xishi's repeated urging, Lu Ze reluctantly went back to the field ridge, washed the mud on his feet and hands with muddy water, and followed Ruan Xishi back home.

He was thinking about the work in the field, so he ate lunch super fast. He grabbed a bowl of rice in two or three mouthfuls. After eating two bowls, he felt full, put down the bowl, picked up the straw hat, and went out to the field.

When Ruan Xi saw that he was more anxious than herself, she was helpless and wanted to laugh. Seeing that Lu Ze was going out, he couldn't care less about doing other things, and followed him out.

With Lu Ze's active help, the field was planted in one day. Ruan Xishi planted the last seedling, stood up straight and looked ahead, the tender green seedlings stood upright in the field, slightly swayed by the spring breeze, A school of vitality.

When the two of them finished work, there were still many people planting the fields in the field cave. Seeing that they had already gone back, they all asked in surprise, "Shizai, have you finished planting the seedlings?"

Ruan Xishi smiled with a sense of accomplishment on his face, nodded happily and said, "Yes, thanks to brother Lu Ze's help, I was able to finish work so early."

Others joked with him when they heard the words: "Shizai is lucky to have found such a capable man."

It sounded like a girl in the village married a capable man. Ruan Xishi felt weird when she heard it, and didn't know how to respond, so she had to laugh dryly with Lu Ze a few times.

Lu Ze felt that what others said was right, he was quite capable, and he was so efficient in doing farm work for the first time, and he was full of sense of accomplishment.

The author has something to say:

Lu Ze: I love planting fields, and planting fields makes me happy.