Riding a donkey back to 60s

Chapter 35 Settling Rich Land

After a good night's sleep, Xia Ye woke up amidst the crowing of the rooster!The sun came out earlier in summer, and the sky was already getting brighter. A few beams of sunlight shone down, and it seemed that the whole village was awakened.

Since coming to this time and space, I have been used to going to bed early and getting up early.Walked out of the house, took a pole and two wooden barrels, and walked to the stream at Tunzikou in summer night!Under the cooperation of the brigade secretary, a pressurized well was dug there. Now you don’t have to go to the stream to drink water, you can drink ground water. I feel very happy in summer nights. Thinking about the water that is pumped every day, there are laundry, bathing, and maybe For anything else, Xia Ye felt terrified.

When Xia Ye arrived at the well, several people were already waiting to fetch water, and the uncle of the Xia family was also fetching water. It was clear after thinking about it, after all, he was the most loyal and honest person. Do you fetch water?

Although Xia Ye had no grievances or enmities with him, but he was also ungrateful, just like a stranger.He just stood silently in the crowd queuing to fetch water.Others didn't think so. Wang Ershi, the brother of Xia Dazhu who was close to Xia Dazhu in the village, beat Xia Dazhu with his hand: "Your nephew is here, why didn't you say hello!?"

Xia Dazhu opened his mouth dumbly, and finally collapsed with a silly smile: "Ye Wazi, come to fetch water?"

Xia Ye couldn't ignore it, he stretched out his hand not to hit the smiling face, so he nodded: "Yes! Uncle fetching water? Where's my cousin?"

What Xia Ye asked was Xia Jiayi, but as the eldest grandson, Xia Jiayi grew up pampered.Although he will go to work with him, he just plays the side drums. The delicious food at home is eaten by these grandchildren, especially this eldest grandson.

Xia Dazhu scratched his head: "Eh, he fell asleep at home! Your grandma said he is growing up! How can he not sleep more and eat more!"

Xia Ye nodded, and when she lowered her head, her eyelids rolled. She was three years older than her body, and had to rest to grow taller!Very funny!

Xia Ye shut up and didn't say anything, the adults around them all secretly smiled after hearing Xia Dazhu's words.This cousin has been working for several years, and this cousin sleeps at home and eats lazy food!Xia Dazhu blackmailed his son inexplicably.So much so that after the rumors started, several other boys in Lao Xia's family said that it was difficult to get married, which was unexpected.

The newly dug wells are pressurized wells, which were mainly dug to prevent streams from freezing in winter and making it difficult to draft water.The underground is relatively deep. Every time if you don’t fetch water for a long time, you need to scoop up a spoonful of water and put it in the pressurized water place to form air pressure to divert the water up.Xia Ye was no slower than other adults. He filled up two buckets of water, picked them up with a pole, and wobbled home.The benefits of being tall have already appeared!In the past, we could carry two buckets of water instead of carrying one bucket of water in the past, which saved half the distance.

After selecting water for the two water tanks at home, press them with wooden boards to prevent the water from getting dirty.Listening to the movement in the kitchen, Xia's mother should be cooking. Several female educated youth comrades were still sleeping. Xia Ye shook her head, seeing that it was six o'clock, and said hello to Xia's mother in the kitchen. Xia Ye carried the back basket and Wooden barrel walked towards his own private land, doing more work for Xia's mother on rare weekends.

All the vegetables grown in the private plot have sprouted, and they look very energetic.Xia Ye picked up some of the grass in the field, and then used a wooden bucket to carry some water and poured it on the ground. Although it looked slower than other private plots, the greenness also gave a sense of accomplishment.

After picking some long and edible vegetables, Xia Ye walked towards home with the basket on her back.

When they entered the yard, several girls had already woken up and were waiting for the washbasin stand to wash up one by one.Mother Xia looked at Xia Ye holding the vegetables in the back basket, and hurriedly let some go, just in time to wash and chop some and put them in the porridge.Xia's mother has a special preference for vegetable porridge. Most of the breakfasts are not like other stick rice noodle porridge. She always fills it with wild vegetables or green vegetables, which will make the porridge more palatable. This is still moving I discovered it later, probably because it was hard for a clever woman to cook without rice!

Han Ying always has a sweet mouth: "Auntie, the porridge you make is really delicious and salty, it's really appetizing!"

Xia's mother said cheerfully: "Drink more if it tastes good, and eat less pancakes! Yewa, drink more, I put salt in it, so you can gain strength!"

Xia Ye nodded, picked up the bowl and took two more sips before Mother Xia began to eat her own.The pickles are not as salty as the ones made by others. They have a moderate amount of saltiness. I ordered a few drops of sesame oil from the summer night.Maybe last night Xia Ye gave Mother Xia more confidence, and Mother Xia felt more open about eating.This way of eating is fine in the farmhouse.

Mother Xia asked Xia Ye: "Yeba, are you going to work today?"

Xia Ye swallowed the porridge in her mouth, shook her head at Xia's mother, and said, "No more work! I'll fill you with more meat during the weekend, and eating vegetables alone is not enough energy! You don't have to eat sparingly! I will come back every week to get you some meat for storage!"

Zhao Rui and the others smiled embarrassedly at Xia Ye. Xia Ye's family really didn't have a lot of work, and they were just eating free food. They heard from Zhao Jianguo and the others that the old Xia's family deducted their food and paid for every meal. Half full at most, and now she's even more skinny.It made them always ask in their recent letters if the family can give some tickets or something, and they can give it to Xia's mother to pay for some meals.

Obviously Xia Ye didn't take this to heart, and didn't want to give anything back. For example, apple seeds can be used as meat for them, so obviously they can't let them know.

Mother Xia and the others went to work after cleaning up. Xia Ye carried the basket on her back outside and locked the gate and walked up the mountain. At the same place, Xiao Bai was released, and one person and one donkey walked to the depression yesterday.

Xiaobai became talkative: "Yewazi, I just think about it when I have nothing to do, let's give that depression a name!"

"Xiaobai found the place!"

Xiaobai was stunned for a moment: "It's such a straightforward name, why does it sound strange to add my name! How about it called Fudi, what kind of harvest!"

Xia Ye touched the tip of his nose and nodded: "Xiaobai is educated! He's doing well!" Xiaobai shook his head leisurely, his front hoofs were bouncing, Xia Ye was sitting sideways at this time, not checking the stab Xiaobai fell off his body and landed directly on the ground!

Xiaobai suddenly felt his body lighten up, and when he looked behind him, he was gone.Then I felt like I was hitting on myself!Looking back, I saw the gray Xia Ye with the leaves hanging on his head, and he slapped himself a few times when he came up. Although it didn't hurt, it was a grievance. What's wrong?

"Are you wronged? Are you sad? Did you know that you fell on me?" Xia Ye questioned Xiaobai.

Xiaobai was a little ignorant, then a little understanding, and then picked up a hoof to cover the donkey's mouth!

Xia Ye patted the soil and fallen leaves on his body, rolled his eyes at Xiao Bai, and sat on the back of the donkey again: "Bai Bai! Hurry up to Fudi, and throw me again, let's practice wrestling!" "

Scared, Xiaobai quickly spread his hooves and ran towards the rich land. This time, he was steady. The small tree would not go straight without repair, but a stubble grew on the branch, which was Xiaobai.

Arriving at Fudi, Xia Ye started to dig all kinds of traps on the outskirts of Fudi according to what Xia Ye told Xia's mother last night. Since there was space, Xia Ye piled the excavated soil directly on the edge of the field in the space from time to time to cover up , set up spikes, doing it methodically.I also found some mung beans during the period, but I saw that the pods were relatively small, and when I pinched them with my hands, the beans popped out. Xia Ye was so happy, what a rich land!Maybe the bird robbers in this forest are more powerful, and after a little effort, they dug up some sweet potatoes.Xia Ye went down with a hoe, and dug up several of them. Forgive this child, he would not know many of them until he saw the fruits.After all, there are vegetable markets or supermarkets for buying vegetables. He can only know about tuber food like this when he sees the real thing!So Xia Ye began to observe, what kind of vines, what kind of tubers, and what kind of fruits.In this way, I really found a lot of good things. In addition to mung beans, I also found a piece of soybeans.

Xia Ye started digging and collecting, collecting the edible and mature ones and putting them in the storage room.In the back basket, put about a catty of each kind, and put it together with the wild eggs and wild duck eggs picked up, so that the back basket is full.After almost inspecting it, Xia Ye started to build a tree house on a big tree near the pond. After all, if the grain is harvested at that time, there should be a place to put it, so as to prevent people from finding out and not to miss the space. After all, space is auxiliary, so don't rely on it too much. Xia Ye always feels that it is too mysterious and unrealistic.

After building the tree house, Xia Ye started to go home with a basket on his back, and deliberately chose the direct way home to avoid encountering outsiders.Thinking about packing up and going back to school later.

When I got home, Mother Xia just finished the meal after work. Xia Ye directly carried the basket back to the kitchen. Seeing that Mother Xia was alone in it, she put down the basket and put the wild eggs and all kinds of food inside. The grains were shown to Mother Xia, and Mother Xia was surprised to see those yams waiting for her.

"It's all from the place you mentioned yesterday?" Mother Xia asked.

"Yes, there are many people, young and old, I purposely set up a tree house over there, fixed the doors and windows, and locked the door, I will go get it every weekend!" Xia Ye returned.

"That's good, be careful not to let others know, go wash up, and eat later. I stewed bacon for you today, and specially added chili!" Mother Xia drove Xia Ye out, and took the food in the basket by herself. Take things out one by one, put them in the cabinet and lock them!

Some things can't be left outside. After all, the food for the family is limited, and the production of the private land is almost a few handfuls of small vegetables, which cannot be seen by outsiders.

"Let's pickle the green preserved eggs and eat them by ourselves, mother!" Xia Ye thought about the eggs laid by domestic chickens.

Mother Xia nodded: "I'll marinate some, and cook some for you, you can take it to school to eat!"

Xia Ye thinks about it: "Mother is cooking some pork and pickles!"

After thinking for a while, Xia's mother baked a stack of pancakes, fried a can of wild boar and diced pickles, took a cabbage to pickle a jar of spicy cabbage, put a dozen boiled wild eggs on it, and cooked them all together. Put it in Xia Ye's back basket.

Mother Xia murmured: "Go to school, don't worry, the family has money and food, and you hunt such old meat, as much as you can, you will grow up! Don't lose money!"

Then Xia's mother started cooking today's meal. She stewed sweet potatoes and rabbit meat. Xia Ye and Zhao Rui's three daughters all ate belly rounds. Although they didn't ask where the sweet potatoes came from, they knew about it when Xia Ye went up the mountain.

When it was getting dark, Li Dashan drove the carriage to pick up Xia Ye and went to the town. A few school children were chattering and carefree, and they all carried the food prepared by their families to study.

When it was dark at school, Li Dashan hurried back, and a few boys went back to the dormitory, basically all the children came back.Xia Ye put the eggs into the space, because the skin boys started to open the package to eat. There are too many eggs, and they are afraid of arousing the jealousy of the children. Xia Ye knows how terrible the jealousy of children is. There are excuses for being young.

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