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The old man had a rest that day, and Houwazi didn't have to go to the Buffalo Pavilion. In the morning, he and Xiao Shulin went to the cultural square to practice martial arts. Xiao Shulin hoped that he could learn some martial arts for self-defense, and Lao Zhou was very supportive.

But this matter is not very urgent, let him follow the gestures now, and did not start practicing seriously.After all, Houwazi's physical foundation is a bit weak. Although he is stronger than other children of similar age, and his movements are much more sensitive, but in fact his development is not good. It is because he lived with monkeys on the mountain in his early years. Nutrition has not kept up with the relationship.

In the afternoon, the family of three had nothing to do, so they put it in the courtyard to watch people make waterwheels. The work of the Lily team was going well. The wasteland on the mountain was rectified by them, and they fertilized and planted lilies. Just pay attention to watering, fertilizing, weeding and pest control.

The sloping land that Lao Zhou pointed out to them was actually pretty good, quite suitable for the growth of lilies, but there were no springs nearby, so they planned to build a few small water wheels by themselves to transport water up from the creek down the slope.

"There are many springs on our mountain. Just find a puddle and pull a leather pipe down." Lao Zhou looked at it for a long time, but he didn't see anything famous. Simple problems complicated.

"The springs on the mountain are far away from that land." None of the children raised their heads.

"Besides, doesn't that leather pipe pollute the environment a bit?" Another young man said.

"It's just a leather pipe that pollutes the environment. This is the convenience that modern industry brings to agricultural production." Lao Zhou disagreed.

"We'll just make waterwheels." Those kids stood firm.

"There is still more than a month until the end of the summer vacation, let's take it slowly." Anyway, the rest of the time is idle, and they are a group of people who weed, weed and water the lilies every day, very relaxed.

"The way you do this part is wrong, the angle is wrong." Xiao Shulin said to a young man who was making waterwheel parts out of wood at this time.

"Let me see."

"You did it wrong. This end and this end, you see, there is still a [-]-degree angle, you have to screw it through."

"This is useless, let's do it again."

A group of people got together and muttered, Lao Zhou originally wanted to say don't waste wood, but he was also interested in seeing Xiao Shulin, so he swallowed the words again.

"!" Houwazi squatted aside and yawned, holding two walnuts in his hand, rubbing them once and for all.This guy is a pragmatist. So far he doesn't know what the waterwheel does, so he's not very interested.

"Shall we go for a stroll in the village?" Old Zhou reached out and patted Houwazi on the back.

"Oh." Houwazi stood up without thinking.

"We're going to the village, are you going?" Old Zhou asked Xiao Shulin again.

"You guys go." Xiao Shulin waved his hand, motioning for them to go by themselves.Xiao Shulin didn't like to hang out in Dawan Village that much. Relatively speaking, he felt more comfortable staying in Niuwang Village.

So Lao Zhou and his son went to the village. As rural people, wandering around is an indispensable part of their lives. Going to other people's homes to chat when they have nothing to do can enhance their relationship, and secondly, they can gain more experience in the village. The latest information, you can still eat and drink, why not do it.

The sun was very hot in July, and it was not yet three o'clock in the afternoon, which was the hottest time of the day. Old Zhou and his son walked towards the village holding hands and yawning.

Before the two of them entered the village, they saw some villagers working on their own fields. Old Zhou and his son had nothing to do, so they went to chat with someone on the field over there.

"Is the early rice ripening well this year?" Lao Zhou asked a farmer on the field who was cutting rice.

"The weather in these two months is good, and the rice will ripen early." The man put the big handful of rice in his hand on the rice pile beside him, straightened up, wiped the sweat from his face, and smiled at the man beside the field. Said to the father and son.

"The rice is made into rice noodles, so it will cost a lot of money, right?" Old Zhou said with a smile.

"It's okay. Anyway, there are only a few people in our family, and we can make so many rice noodles all year round." This farmer is Wu Zhanfang's father, Wu Hongfu.

"Luo Meng, Zhanfang's aunt said she wants to eat watermelons from Niuwangzhuang. I'll buy some from you later." Wu Zhanfang's mother, Zhang Chuncao, also stopped working at this time and took off the bamboo hat on her head. Hold the bamboo hat in your hand to fan the wind.

These days, most villagers wear straw hats when they work, and they can be sold in the town for a few yuan each. However, some villagers are accustomed to using bamboo hats, which are made of bamboo strips and zong leaves, and have a pointed tip. , Some people say that wearing a bamboo hat feels more breathable than wearing a straw hat.

"Go, I can go anytime." Niuwangzhuang is now producing watermelons, picking a lot every day, and the price has dropped a bit compared to before.

"Houboy, come here, sit here. After a while, your sister Zhanfang should deliver food. She said she made cold noodles. You can also eat some later." Zhang Chuncao found a shady place to sit down and rest , And greeted Houwazi to sit down too.

"That's so embarrassing, you guys go ahead and eat, we're going to go shopping in the village." Romon quickly declined.

When the peasants are busy farming, they go to the fields as soon as the sun rises in the morning, and they eat breakfast early. By the time of ten o'clock and eleven o'clock at noon, they are very hungry, so they also eat lunch early, after noon Let's sit down at home for a while, don't pay attention to a lunch break or something, and have to continue to go to the field. At two or three o'clock, many people have to send a meal to the field. When it is time for dinner, it is basically the same. It's after dark.

At this time, Lao Zhou and his son just caught up with the time when Wu Zhanfang was going to deliver food to the field. After all, it was the food that was delivered, and it was usually not too much, so Lao Zhou was embarrassed to eat this meal, besides He is not hungry now.

"Hey, why don't you be polite, sit down, my house is good for everything, even if you don't talk too much, you just know how to bury your head in the work, and cut rice on the field with him for a few days, you will be bored to death." Zhang Chuncao repeatedly Greet them father and son.

"If he cuts more, you can take it easy, can't you?" Now that the other party greeted warmly, Lao Zhou didn't refuse, and sat down with the couple in the shade by the field, and he kicked the slippers aside. He rolled up his trouser legs and stepped on the green grass beside the field, casually talking to them about farming.

"The weather this year is pretty good, neither drought nor flood."

"Actually, I am not afraid of drought at all, but I am afraid of waterlogging. When it rains, our rice noodles will not be able to be made."

"Get a machine to dry it."

"Why don't you spend money to buy the machine? My family, Zhanfang, said that people in the city are willing to ask for the sun-dried ones, but they don't like the ones baked by the machine."

"It's so hot, even working in the field is too hot."

"There's nothing to be afraid of in the sun. As rice growers, we don't plant the fields a few times throughout the year. We just work hard for a few days when planting seedlings and cutting rice."

"Aren't you tired of weeding?"

"Hey, it's only been a few days. Don't you want to make more money? There are loaches in the field, so it's not easy to apply pesticides."

"By the way, all the loaches in this field have been caught?"

"I fished some a few days ago, but I didn't clean it up. There are rice planted in the ground. It's impossible to clean it up. Let them hide under the mud. After a while, they should come out when they are filled with water. Yes, still alive and kicking."

"Look, monkey boy, there are holes in our field, and there are loaches underneath."

"..."

"If you don't believe me, take this sickle and dig it out, dig it back and ask your father to cook soup for you."

"I don't want stew."

"If you don't want stewed soup, then fry it."

A few people sat on the edge of the field and talked for a while, Wu Zhanfang came over with a basket, which contained mung bean soup just taken out of the refrigerator, and a large teapot of mixed noodles, which were bought from the town in the morning The fresh noodles that come back, the ingredients of the noodles include leeks, bean sprouts, shredded mushrooms, shredded lean pork, and some razor clam meat, which looks very rich.

"Luo Meng, come here, you can eat some too. Our family likes to eat this noodles recently. It's hot and sour in summer. It's appetizing." Zhang Chuncao said and handed it to Lao Zhou and his son. Chopsticks.

"Hey, you eat what you eat, we ate late at noon, and we are not hungry yet." Old Zhou declined.

"Why are you still being polite to us? Come on, Monkey Boy, eat some noodles."

"I knew I would bring out two extra sets of bowls and chopsticks."

"Fold two bamboo sticks over there, and use the same."

"It's a hot day, drinking some mung bean soup is comfortable."

"Don't drink too much, cold sex."

After some hesitation, Lao Zhou finally sat there and ate some noodles with them and drank some mung bean soup. There were not enough bowls and chopsticks. Wu Zhanfang's father went to the side to break some bamboo branches. He and his wife One person made a bowl of noodles and ate them with bamboo sticks. Lao Zhou and Houwazi held the big teapot for noodles. You and I ate deliciously.

"How is it, Houwazi, is my noodles delicious?" Wu Zhanfang asked Houwazi.

"Delicious." Houwazi replied.

The noodles in their house are different from those made by Fatty Hou, and also different from those in the shops in the town, but they are still delicious.

"Then why don't you come home with us in a while, and make this noodles for you to eat every day." Wu Zhanfang joked.

"..." Houwazi paused holding his chopsticks in the air, how could he just eat a little noodles, and the consequences would be so serious?Still have to go home with her?

"Eat yours." Lao Zhou patted his son's head lightly, and said with a smile: "I want the baby to give birth by itself, why are you trying to trick my son? What are you doing with that Luo Minghui? How did you get there?" Is there still no movement?"

"What are you talking about?" When Luo Minghui was mentioned, Wu Zhanfang was a little sluggish.

"We're quarreling again." Her wife Zhang Chuncao said.

"Why?" Lao Zhou asked her.

"It's a quarrel." Wu Zhanfang obviously didn't want to talk about it.

"Who knows why, when it's good, it's like something good. When there's a quarrel, I wish I could pick him up with a hoe." Her father said the same.

"How can I have it?" Wu Zhanfang denied.

"Anyway, it looks scary. I said if you go on like this, who would dare to want it in the future? If I were Wu Minghui, I wouldn't want you either." Her mother said.

"Who missed him? How amazing?" Wu Zhanfang twisted his neck and said.

"Look at you, and it's like this again. Those who know know that you have this temper, but those who don't know think that you look down on others because of how much money you make. How will others think of you in the future?" Her mother continued to teach.

"What's the point of earning a little money? What we earn is hard money, and it's not like a piece of cake from the sky. Why do I have to be a man with my tail between my legs?" Wu Zhanfang obviously didn't like to hear these words.

"This tail should be pinched." Lao Zhou laughed.

"You can learn from Luo Meng." Her father said.

"Oh, I can't learn it." Wu Zhanfang was very irritated. Young people who came back from the city had to face these parents in the village again, and sometimes they would inevitably feel a little uncomfortable.

"By the way, you've finished harvesting the rice, so it's time to plant the late rice?" Luo Meng changed the subject for them at this time.

"No, this crop has just been cut, and the next crop will be planted." Zhang Chuncao said.

"Anyway, there's plenty of time this year, so it doesn't matter if you take a break for three to five days." Wu Zhanfang felt sorry for her parents, she said she wanted to go to the fields to help her parents but she refused, saying that she was not so quiet. , If you have to follow the farm work, then it will be even darker in the future.

"Is there still a lot of loaches in this field?" Romon asked again.

"Look at the small holes in the field, there are loach at the bottom of the holes." Wu Zhanfang pointed to the small holes in the field that were as thick as chopstick heads and explained to Luo Meng.

"As a human being, don't you know?" Zhang Chuncao laughed.

"If you're not in a hurry to farm these days, you can get those city people to dig loaches, and you can increase your income." Romon gave them a suggestion. Isn't this a summer vacation? There are also many nearby city people Bring your own children to Buffalo Town to play, dig loach or something, those children will probably like it.

"Then I'll try to print a few posters later in the town to try?" Wu Zhanfang also thinks this is a good idea. When the guests come, they will be given a hoe and let them find a place to dig by themselves. Come easy.

"When the loaches in the land are almost dug up, the land of your house should be turned over again." Lao Zhou said with a smile.