Back to seven or seven kinds of fields to raise children

After this rain, the ground should be a little wet. It's just a few days to plant the land, which is very good. "

"Well, the field has been dry for a while and is almost smoking, and this rain is very timely.

Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, I will go to our private plot to tidy up, and in a few days I will spare some time to plant some broomcorns, millet and so on. "

Old peasants depend on the weather for their food, and the people in the Zhuang Huyuan hope for good weather.

When Xu Shiyan moved here, the team allocated half an acre of private land, not much, and it was enough to grow some grains and beans.

After all, the family has a small population, and something is enough to eat.

Spring and autumn are the busiest seasons for the agricultural team, and the participating households are even busier.

Fortunately, these days, the work in Shendi is almost busy.

The ginseng ground for freezing and making goods has already passed the pond, and it will take a few days for the new planting to come out, which happens to be the time for planting.

"It's not the right time for me to be in confinement, otherwise I can go farming with you."

Su Anying, who had already had dinner over there and was breastfeeding the baby, couldn't help sighing when she heard it.

When Chun Geng was so busy, she caught up with her confinement, so there were so many tasks outside the house, and all the work was left to her husband alone, which was enough for him to get tired.

"You, take a good confinement, and taking care of your body is more important than anything else.

Don't always think about working, women do everything, why do you need men?

Marrying a Han, marrying a Han, dressing and eating, farming and working are what they should do.

You can take care of the children at home with peace of mind, figure out the mess at home, and don't let the third child worry about it outside. "

Zhou Guilan couldn't help sighing when she heard this.

Among the daughters-in-law in her family, the third daughter-in-law is the most capable, she is honest, she is confinement, and she still wants to work.

"My mother is right, don't worry about anything, and leave the whole family to me, so you can sit in confinement with peace of mind.

If you take good care of yourself, it is a great achievement. "Xu Shiyan also persuaded.

No one knows better than Xu Shiyan what kind of temper his daughter-in-law has.

Su Anying is just too capable. She is always busy on weekdays. Even in the late pregnancy, she did not delay her work.

This sudden cold made her lie on the kang all day long, except for eating and sleeping, she was uncomfortable with leisure.

But no matter how uncomfortable it is, the confinement must be settled, there is no need to discuss it.

While he was talking, he suddenly saw someone walking in hurriedly from outside, Xu Shiyan hurriedly opened the door, and saw that it was the neighbor in the east courtyard.

"Xiaofeng, why are you here when it's raining, what's the matter at home?" Xu Shiyan stepped aside and called the other party into the room.

"Brother Xu, I'm fine at home, I just came to see you, and asked if you were going to catch toads at night?

It hasn't rained this spring, and the toads are holding back and haven't come ashore. I guess it's raining tonight, and all the toads will come up.

Let's catch toads with flashlights, and we will be able to catch the old nose overnight. "

Sun Xiaofeng, Xu's neighbor to the east, is one year younger than Xu Shiyan.

The Sun family also belonged to the Second Brigade and the First Brigade. They worked together all day long and were neighbors. They got along very well with Xu Shiyan.

The toad Sun Xiaofeng was talking about was not a frog or a toad, but the Northeast Rana, a species of Rana.

The dried oviduct product of the female Northeast Rana, also known as Rana oil, is an extremely valuable tonic, and is called "Snow Hammer Oil" in the south.

Therefore, the Northeast wood frog is also called the snow clam.

Toads live in the woods in summer, and come down from the mountains in late autumn to spend the winter in the river.

Wait until the beginning of spring, then go ashore from the river, and lay eggs in ponds, ditches, or stable river bends.

After the spawning is over, they enter the mountain forest to live again, and the cycle repeats.

Toad is the best river fresh food, especially the spring toad. After a winter in the river, there is no dirt in the stomach. The meat is delicious and nutritious. It is the favorite delicacy of the local people.

According to their habits, when it rains every spring, people go to the river with a flashlight to catch them.

"Hey, if you don't mention it, I really forgot. All right, then I'll go after dinner, and we will go together."

Xu Shiyan has been preoccupied with his wife's childbirth these days, and can't think of anything else.

When Sun Xiaofeng said this, he also realized that it was raining late this year, so this crop of toads was probably the only one.

If you don't catch it, you won't be able to eat it this year.

"Success, then I'll go home and prepare first, don't worry, Brother Xu, eat slowly."

When Sun Xiaofeng heard that Xu Shiyan agreed, he was so happy that he didn't enter the house, turned around and left again.

Xu Shiyan returned to the east room and explained to his mother and daughter-in-law.

"Mom, while it's raining, Xiaofeng and I went to catch some toads, and we just stewed them to feed Yingzi."

When I was in the big house, every spring, Xu Shiyan went to catch toads twice to satisfy everyone.

Now in Donggang, this habit can't be changed.

"Okay, since Xiaofeng came to look for you, then go, don't go too far, and don't come back too late." Zhou Guilan didn't stop her, but only ordered a few words.

Just like that, Xu Shiyan hurriedly ate a few mouthfuls of food, and then went to find a raincoat, a flashlight, and a woven bag.

After everything was ready, they went out to find Sun Xiaofeng, and the two of them went out like this, heading straight for the direction of the Caozi River.

The Caozi River belongs to a branch of the upper reaches of the Songjiang River, about twenty miles away from Donggang.

For Xu Shiyan and Sun Xiaofeng, twenty miles is like playing.

The two of them walked forward with flashlights, staring at both sides of the road. It has been raining for a while, and it is very likely that there are toads on the side of the road.

Sure enough, not far ahead, a few black dots were bouncing up and down the aisle.

As soon as the light of the flashlight shone on them, they immediately lay down on the ground and did not move.

Xu Shiyan and Sun Xiaofeng ran over immediately and grabbed the toad on the ground.

The skin of amphibians is slippery and cold. People who have never caught toads are likely to be shocked.

For Xu Shiyan, there was no turmoil in his heart, but he felt that it was rare for this toad to be so fleshy.

Starting with a big mother and baby, I feel that it can sink two or two.

Xu Shiyan sighed in his heart, speaking of it, this year is better, unlike later generations, toads were caught in large numbers, and there were not many big ones in the wild.

The point is that later, in order to make money, those people contracted the river section, and then used plastic sheets to block the toads on the river bank.

The plastic sheet was high and slippery, and the toad couldn't jump over it, so they were all blocked under the plastic sheet and just grabbed it.

Toad Quzi is really a desperate plan. The wild toads were caught within a few years, and in the future, they can only be artificially bred.

How can the artificially bred toad taste better than the wild one?

"Brother Xu, go forward, there must be more ahead, go."

Catching toads is addictive, and the more I catch them, the more I want to keep catching them.

Sun Xiaofeng had already caught several of them, and seeing Xu Shiyan standing there not knowing what to think, he yelled at him to move forward quickly.

Xu Shiyan put the toad into the woven bag hanging on his waist, and walked forward quickly.

I didn't go far, and there were several toads in front of me. At this time, I didn't care about thinking about it, so I caught it.

Chapter 122

The rain was neither too heavy nor too small, just right for catching toads.

Xu Shiyan and Sun Xiaofeng arrived near the Caozi River before 07:30, and they didn't have to go far. They just found a river bank to stroll back and forth, and caught any toads that jumped up.

It wasn't just the two of them who came out to catch toads, they didn't talk when they met each other, they caught their own toads without interfering with each other.

This catch lasted most of the night, until after two o'clock in the middle of the night, when the rain was getting lighter and the toad was almost gone, Xu Shiyan and Sun Xiaofeng walked back.

It was almost four o'clock when Xu Shiyan got home, and it happened that the child was urinating and chattering, so Zhou Guilan got up to change the child's diaper.

Hearing movement in the outer room, Zhou Guilan hurriedly came out to check.

"Why did you come back at this time? Is this a toad that has been caught all night? Take off the raincoat quickly, take a breather and go back to the house to sleep."

Xu Shiyan first threw the bag in his hand to the corner, and the toad in the bag made a croaking sound.

"This crop of toads is so thick, you didn't see it, jumping all over the floor.

We grabbed it and forgot the time. We waited until the rainy toad was gone and found out that it was already midnight, so we hurried back.

Our place is not a big house, and the river and the river are far away. "

"Today we caught a lot, and there were quite a lot of mothers and babies.

It just so happened that I dug a pier of Gastrodia elata two days ago, didn’t I come back?Get some toad stewed Gastrodia elata for Yingzi to eat.

Save some time for my mother to hug, I will go to Director Guo of the Forestry Bureau during the day, don't care if he is rare or not, just give something.

Also, take some away for Lao Liu and give it to her master.The sixth child is an apprentice there, and he teaches with great care. It is our heart to give you something. "

Human relationship society, this is the necessary communication, especially in the Northeast, without human relationship, nothing can be done.

Xu Shiyan is well aware of this truth, so no matter where he is, he pays special attention to maintaining human relations. It is really useful at critical times.

"Well, okay, you can do whatever you want, anyway, let's eat at home, and any female who holds a male dog will do."

How can Zhou Guilan not understand these things at such an advanced age?She can understand that her son has worked hard all night, and what he does is serious.

For my own family, I can eat what I have, and the gifts must be good.

The locals refer to the female wood frog as the mother, and the male as the male dog.

In fact, it should be called a female leopard, because the belly of the female wood frog is yellow and flowery, like a leopard.

However, it is difficult to write the leopard's leopard. Many people write it as a hug, and when it comes and goes, it becomes a mother's hug.

There is toad oil in the stomach of mother's scorpion in autumn, and seeds in spring, and they are relatively large, so most people like to eat mother's scorpion.

The male dog has nothing in his stomach and is small in size.

As a gift, it must be a gift, and you can eat it at home, anyway, they all taste the same.

Xu Shiyan had been busy all night and didn't sleep, and now he was unbearably sleepy.

After chatting with Zhou Guilan for a few words, the cold air on his body dissipated, and he opened the door and entered the east room.

Su Anying had already fed her son to burp, and seeing Xu Shiyan came back, she hurriedly pointed to the quilt on the kang, signaling Xu Shiyan to go to bed quickly.

Xu Shiyan was not in the mood to look after the child at the moment, for fear of making the boy cry, he took off his shoes, got into bed, and quickly fell asleep.

It rained all night, the ground was soaked, and the ground was wet and sticky, so it was impossible to work.

Xu Shiyan didn't wake up until after eight o'clock. He ate casually, picked thirty big mothers to pack them in fine mesh bags, and gave them to Guo Shouye.

As Guo Shouye, there must be a lot of gift givers, and he received three copies of Toad early this morning.

Even so, Guo Shouye was still very happy to see Xu Shiyan coming.

Sometimes people get along like this, don't care how expensive things are, what you care about is your heart, and it's interesting enough to think about each other when you have good things.

"Oh, it must have been caught in the rain last night, right?

Look at you, grab it and keep it for yourself to eat, isn't the sister-in-law giving birth?Stew some to make up for my sister-in-law, this is still thinking about me, how bad is it? "

With a friendly smile on Guo Shouye's chubby face, he happily accepted the toad.

"Well, my sister-in-law is confinement and I didn't go to see my little nephew. Here are a few tickets. I think you can use them."

Guo Shouye had nothing else to do here except that there were too many tickets, so he took a stack and handed it to Xu Shiyan.

"Brother, I didn't mean to come here, I just came to see Brother Guo.

I've been too busy these days, and I really don't have time to come here. It finally rained and I stopped work, so I came to see Brother Guo. "

Xu Shiyan quickly waved his hand, and he sent some toads. How dare you ask for a ticket?

If it were that careless person, wouldn't he think that he was just trying to take advantage of this?

"Look at you, why are you being polite with your brother? I don't have anything else here. Is this thing missing?

Take it, there seems to be meat tickets or something in it, go buy some meat, and make up for my sister-in-law. "

Seeing that Xu Shiyan refused to accept it, Guo Shouye was upset, his face sank, and he put the ticket in front of Xu Shiyan.