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"It's cold..." After four o'clock in the morning, at the threshing ground of Dawan Village, there were obviously fewer people who came to their village to buy vegetables this day than usual. The north wind blew all night last night, and this morning, There was another light rain, and the temperature suddenly dropped several degrees.

"Hey, it's finally raining, and I'm afraid that the vegetables in the field will be damaged by freezing." The old man in the village sighed.

"The ones in the shed are probably fine, and the ones outside are probably going to be damaged. Take advantage of these two days, and collect as soon as possible." The old man Luo, wrapped in a jacket and wearing a bamboo hat, squatted on the bluestone slab by the side of the grain drying field and talked with others. Gossip.

This old man goes to bed early every night and wakes up early in the morning. He is willing to go out for a walk and talk to people when he has nothing to do. The old man Luo has no hobbies, he is not very literate, and he doesn’t usually read books, and he doesn’t like TV. Look, I like to hang out with the peasants in the village.

In the past, because of Luo Meng's incident, he and many people in the village blushed for a while, and gradually stopped going out. Now it's better, everyone in the village gives him face, and the old man will leave when he is free. I went shopping at the Xi's house and lived a very comfortable life.

"Why hasn't this pig been killed yet?" Boss Duan was wrapped in a down jacket, wearing overalls and low-cut leather boots, curled up and squatted with these old men. When he first came here a few days ago, he was not dressed like this, but This place is really too cold, and when the cold air came in these two days, he couldn't bear it even more, so he hurried to the town to buy another outfit.

"Soon." Old man Luo took a puff of his pipe and asked him, "If you eat like this, is that salary enough?"

"It's usually enough." As a strong laborer, the money he earns every day is almost enough if he just uses it for food. After all, Niuwangzhuang is no better than their own clubhouse. Although the meat and vegetables are not the cheapest, But overall still affordable.

"Rich people are willing to eat. Our whole family doesn't eat as much as you do in a day." The villagers on the side said.

"Your food doesn't cost money, so it must be saving." Boss Duan said with a smile.

"Hey, that's true." A few old men also laughed, the cost of vegetables at home is cheap, there are green vegetables in the field, dried vegetables are also dried by themselves, pickles and sauerkraut are not less pickled, eggs are also homemade Raw by an old hen, what I buy on weekdays is some oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, and then I spend some money to buy meat every day.

"Uncle Luo, are you going to Niuwangzhuang in a while?" Boss Duan asked the old man Luo.

"What are you doing, do you want medlar leaves again?" Old man Luo has gotten acquainted with this young man from the south these days, and he looks like he is not short of money. Apart from working, he eats all day long, and he doesn't seem to think about anything else. .

"No, if you don't go to Niuwangzhuang right now, I won't buy lean meat." Some time ago, Lao Zhou arranged for someone to build a greenhouse on the medlar forest they just cut this year, even in this season , You can also pick fresh and tender wolfberry leaves, but there are several litters of dogs from the old Zhou family living in the wolfberry forest, so don't try to pick leaves from under their noses.

"Go, why don't you go, I just plan to pick some." Old man Luo put the pipe on the bluestone under his feet and said.

After a while, Luo Hanliang and the others finished killing the pig, and everyone lined up to buy meat. The old man Luo bought a pig heart and stewed it with honey for Meihui and Meiling. Go make some soup over there.

Boss Duan didn't like to eat pork liver, so he only bought lean meat, and he also bought half a pork leg. After buying the meat, the two of them went to Niuwangzhuang with their necks hunched, and went to the medlar forest to pick some young leaves together. Old man Luo went to Luo Meng's hut, and Boss Duan went to the courtyard.

"Fatty, get up quickly." Boss Duan knocked on the door of Hou Jun's room with the meat and vegetables in his hand.

"It's too early for you." Fatty Hou really admired this foodie's perseverance.

"Hurry up, my stomach is going to be hungry." I went to the village early in the morning to queue up to buy meat. Can I not be hungry now?

"Why don't you feel tired?" Fatty Hou put on a sweater and a coat, and went downstairs with him while yawning. When Boss Duan buys any good things, he will have his share, or else a craftsman will never starve to death.

"What's so tiring, this pork is so good, every time you eat it, you will earn more." A person's life is only a few decades, if he doesn't earn enough for him, wouldn't it be a pity?

"That's it? Hey, you haven't eaten pork from Lao Zhou's family before." Don't be afraid of ignorance, just be afraid of comparing goods. After eating the big fat pig from Lao Zhou's family, Hou Fatty's mouth has also been teased.

"I haven't caught up with it." In the past few days, Boss Duan has often heard people say how good the pigs in Lao Zhou's house are. He even visited Xiaotupo once, and they looked really good. It's a pity that Romon has no plans to kill pigs yet.

"That's really good. Let me tell you, what's the best in Niuwangzhuang? I won't talk about the vegetarian ones. In this season, there are only a few meat dishes. One is the grouper in the ditch, and the other is the field. The loach in the river, one is a small rooster, and there are a few pigs over there, and there are river clams and small river shrimps on the other side of the stream. If you haven’t eaten all these good things, you don’t really come here. Pass by Niuwangzhuang." Fatty Hou turned on the stove to cook soup, and at the same time introduced the food strategy of Niuwangzhuang to Boss Duan.

Boss Duan counted with his fingers, brook grouper loach rooster, he had eaten it at his clubhouse, river clam and river prawn, he also went to the supermarket in the town to line up to buy it a few days ago and tasted it. Only the pork was left uneaten.

Take your time, anyway, he has never eaten pork from the old Zhou's family, so he will definitely not go to Niuwangzhuang.

"What are you going to do with the half pork leg today?"

"What do you say?"

"I just ate braised pork yesterday, let's eat it differently today, how about pork knuckle jelly?"

"Tsk, this is good!"

"Speaking of conscience, their family's pork is also good."

"That's for sure."

"It's not easy to sell such good meat these days."

"Is this soup almost ready?"

"Hurry up, go over there and get some steamed buns."

"to make."

The weather was cold, and now it started to rain again. Romon felt that the living conditions in the southeast and northwest of his home were a bit too crude, so he got up this morning and had breakfast with Xiao Shulin Houwazi, and then used his pickup truck Loaded a load of materials and went to build sheds for several litters of dogs.

Originally, there was only one kennel for each of the places where the southeast and northwest lived, but now it was drenched by the scattered light rain, and it was wet everywhere.

This time, Luo Meng and Xiao Shulin built a grass shed with a width of more than five meters in all directions outside their kennel. Drainage ditches were dug around the shed, and the middle was raised together with the kennel. Dry straw mats were spread on the ground, and a thick layer of old cotton batting was used in the kennel.

Liu Chunlan is used to frugality, and she is reluctant to throw away any old things at home. In the past two years, Luo Meng and Luo Hongfeng came back and bought some clothes and quilts for the old couple. She kept the old ones in the closet. It was later used by Romon.

"Woo..." The last shed has been built, but Lao Si and Tang Gao have been sticking to Luo Meng and the others, reluctant to ask them to go. Usually, except for a few meal times a day, someone brings them food. It was very quiet.

Relatively speaking, the boss and the second are more lively. One is next to the small road that Romon and the others pass every day, and the other is next to the courtyard. Although it is not as good as before, it is still somewhat popular. One location is off the beaten track, and few people who do farm work come here.

"Hey, after the baby is born, I will ask them to stand guard for the two of you in the future, and then you will be free." Romon touched the necks of these two guys, and took advantage of the opportunity to sit down on the straw mat. Anyway, the others The local shed has also been set up, and there will be nothing to do for a while, just sit here for a while.

"I'll go get some food." Seeing Luo Meng's reaction, Xiao Shulin knew that he didn't intend to leave, so he put the tools in the truck and drove home to get food.

When Xiao Shulin came back, there was a burning stove and a steamer in the cart. In the pot, besides peanuts, corn, and sweet potatoes, there were several bottles of buffalo milk, and various melon seeds from Niuwangzhuang. , dried pumpkins, dried sweet potatoes, and even the brine that Luo Hongfeng brought to them yesterday also filled a large plate. Luo Hongfeng has basically withdrawn from the breakfast shop recently, and some of them have time to do housework and eat.

In the end, Xiao Shulin moved a small round table and a laptop from the car, plugged in a small speaker, turned on the computer, and the family spent time on the fourth child's site.

Outside, the light rain was pattering from time to time. In the shed, Luo Meng and his family were eating and watching cartoons. White mist rose from the stove beside it, and it disappeared without a trace when blown by the cold winter wind. .

"Woof..." Sitting in front of Romon, the fourth child was concentrating on watching the man wearing a cloak and a mask flying over the wall in the computer, and Tang Gao lazily lying on the edge of the stove, gnawing corn cobs.

A morning passed in a blink of an eye. When Liu Chunlan called them to have lunch, the three of them had already filled their stomachs. How could they eat any more? They removed the stove and table, bid farewell to the old couple, and opened the The car returned to their hut, handed Houwazi to Liu Chunlan and the others to take care of them, and Luo Meng and Xiao Shulin drove Erlang up the mountain again.

It was still raining in this cold weather, and the monkeys on the mountain might not have a good time, so Luo Meng asked Erlang to carry some straw curtains up the mountain, and himself and Xiao Shulin each carried a load, and the other two also brought some ropes and two A machete, and of course some boiled corn on the cob to feed the monkeys.

The weather was bad, so Romon didn't ask the monkeys to pick the thorn rose fruit any more, he just gave them the corncobs, and then went to the Niujigou with the monkeys.

Luo Meng and Xiao Shulin used the machetes they brought to chop down some miscellaneous trees near the ravine, and found a mountain with a big tree growing there. Using the big tree as a pillar, they built a shelter for the monkeys The ground was raised a little with wood, and the roof was covered with grass curtains. It was not very delicate, and it was much better than those half-open caves on the cliff.

"I won't be able to pick the rose fruit for a few days, and I don't know what to do with these monkeys in the future." When the sky was getting dark, Luo Meng and Xiao Shulin finally built the shed, walked down the mountain with Erlang, and got busy. For a long time, both of them were almost drenched, and when the mountain wind blew, it was very cold.

"If there is no work to do, what else can I do?" Anyway, Xiao Shulin never thought of starving these monkeys, and they were not short of that two dollars.

"It's okay to feed them, I'm afraid they won't be able to command them next year." After all, Lao Zhou still doesn't like trading at a loss.

"Then find something for them to do."

"It's winter, what work can I ask them to do?"

"Think again……"

The two of them talked all the way without pausing at all. They both wanted to go down the mountain early, take a hot bath, drink a bowl of hot soup, and fill their stomachs full.

"Ah Choo!" When he was about to reach the foot of the mountain, Lao Zhou couldn't help but sneezed.

"Is it cold?" Xiao Shulin asked.

"It's okay." Lao Zhou sniffed and said, "I suddenly thought of an idea just now."

"What's your idea?"

"Why don't we buy a group of lambs and put them on the mountain for the monkeys to watch? We can earn some mutton when it's done."

"Monkey herding sheep?" Xiao Shulin raised his eyebrows. Is this reliable?