Farming and Bend the National Husband

Xia Jiusheng's home is in Xiajiazhuang Village, Zhangtang Town, the southernmost tip of Yucheng City. It takes one and a half hours to take a bus from Yucheng to the town, and another half an hour to take a minibus from the town to the village. I have spent all my time in the town, so I am very familiar with Zhangtang Town.

In fact, the nearest town to Xiajiazhuang is not Zhangtang Town, but Sanjie Town in Shengzhou City. It is only five miles away from Xiajiazhuang, and it takes less than half an hour to walk there. Therefore, most people in Xiajiazhuang go to the streets. To go to Sanjie Town, unfortunately, across the Cao'e River, it is inconvenient to drive there, and you need to take a ferry.

When he arrived at Zhangtang Town, Xia Jiusheng got off the car at the small gate of the town. It was only after three o'clock, and it was still early for his brother to finish school. He went shopping in the street and went to the seed store to buy some vegetable seeds.

In the seed store, he bought a dozen or so common vegetable seeds and spent more than a dozen yuan. Then he went to the farmer's market and bought the smoked fish and drunken chicken that his younger brother loved. After thinking about it, he gritted his teeth and bought a large piece Pork, I guess the family has not smelled meat for a long time.

Back in the small town, it was already school time, and the students came out of school in twos and threes with their schoolbags on their backs.

After waiting at the door for another ten minutes, I saw An An come out with her schoolbag on her shoulders.

The little guy hardly changed before he left, his body was thin and small, his face was not big enough for a palm, but his eyes seemed very big.The heavy schoolbag was on his shoulders, as if it was going to crush his shoulders. There was no one around him, and it seemed that his relationship with his classmates was not very good.

No wonder I miss myself so much, it turns out that my younger brother has no playmates at school.

Xia Jiusheng was about to walk over when he suddenly saw two boys chasing and running out of the school. When he saw An An, he yanked An An's strap and ran away, yelling a made-up jingle: "Short wax gourd, diseased wax gourd, rolling around and crawling all over the ground—"

An An was caught off guard, and her body was already weak, so her center of gravity suddenly became unstable, and she fell on all fours.

When Xia Jiusheng saw his younger brother being bullied, his heart ached and he yelled, "An'an." He hurried over.

"Brother——" Xia Jiuan was pulled down by them, his eyes were already red, but when he heard his brother's voice, he regained his energy and struggled to get up.

Xia Jiusheng helped his younger brother up, turned around and grabbed the hands of the two naughty boys, staring and shouting: "Why are you bullying An An?"

The two looked half a head taller than An An. After all, they were only about ten years old. Seeing Xia Jiusheng's vicious look, he burst into tears.

"What are you doing, why are you bullying the child—" a voice came from behind angrily, shouting at Xia Jiusheng.Xia Jiusheng turned his head and saw a stout man in his 30s running towards him.

Xia Jiusheng let go, patted the dirt on his younger brother, stood up and looked at the approaching man, fixed his sharp eyes on him, and asked in a deep voice, "Which eyes of yours saw me bullying the child?"

Originally, his younger brother was bullied, and he was already full of anger, but he didn't expect that this parent, who was more domineering than his son, would put a big hat on his head without asking indiscriminately.

The man had actually seen his son's actions a long time ago, but he was used to protecting his shortcomings, so he naturally wouldn't feel that his son was at fault.He said forcefully, "Didn't you see my son cry?"

"It turns out that your son's virtues are all taught by you." Xia Jiusheng had nowhere to vent his anger. He waved his hand and slapped the man, making the man stagger back, cursing: "I don't know how to beat children, so I just beat you!" Unreasonable parents, let you know how to teach your son—"

The man was slapped and stunned for a moment. After a while, he came to his senses. Seeing himself being slapped in the face under the eyes of everyone, his eyes turned red.

Xia Jiusheng lifted his leg, gave him a hearty kick, kicked him back again and again, pointed at him and cursed: "If you want to die, come back again - if I see your son bullying my younger brother next time, I will beat you!" break your leg."

After speaking, he glanced left and right.

It was the end of school time, and the parents who lived in the town came to pick up their children, so they all saw this scene.Xia Jiusheng hoped that his fists would deter those parents who pampered their children lawlessly, so as not to mess with his younger brother.

After finishing speaking, she leaned over and hugged her younger brother, kissed him on the cheek, and picked him up with strength.

Xia Jiu'an hugged his brother's neck tightly, looked at his brother who was thinking about it day and night, beat up the father who hated his classmates, and blushed with excitement.

Suddenly realized that this was the gate of the school, and there were classmates beside him, and I would be laughed at if I wanted to be hugged by my brother at such an age, so I was a little shy and struggled to get down.

Xia Jiusheng put down his younger brother with a smile. The little guy had grown up and started to feel embarrassed.

I hugged my younger brother just now, and I feel that he weighs less than forty catties, and his height is less than 1.3 meters, which is much shorter than his peers.

Thinking about when I was studying, the tall and strong boys in the class also liked to tease the timid and thin classmates.

Is it because of this that my brother is isolated by his classmates?

Fortunately, there is a magical space now, and I believe that my brother's body will be as strong as my own.

Glancing back, the man had already led his son and walked away in a desperate manner. Xia Jiusheng took his younger brother's hand and went to the next bus stop to wait for the bus.

The minibus came, and Xia Jiusheng took his younger brother into the car, took out a piece of cake and a box of milk from his bag and gave him.After class all afternoon, I'm probably hungry. The family has no money, so my parents will definitely not prepare snacks for my brother.

The car stopped and went, passing through seven or eight villages before arriving at the destination, which is Xia Jiusheng's hometown, Xiajiazhuang Village.

There are [-] or [-] households in Xiajiazhuang Village. It is considered a medium-sized village. It is surrounded by low and continuous mountains in the north and south. The village is mainly built at the foot of the mountain in the north. , south of the creek is a village road, which was just expanded into a two-lane concrete road last year, connecting Zhangtang Town and Sanjie Town.To the south is a large paddy field, and to the west of the paddy field is a rugged slope, which is the main vegetable garden in the village.

Crossing a potholed gravel road, the two brothers returned home holding hands. The door was locked and there was no one at home.Xia Jiusheng took out the key and opened the door.

The house is still the same, without adding any furniture and electrical appliances, but it is tidy.Go into the kitchen and put the bought vegetables on the clay stove.Opening the cupboard, there was only half a bowl of steamed eggplant mixed with soy sauce from lunch.

Pour out the smoked fish and drunken chicken in a disposable lunch box and put them on a plate, watching my brother follow behind him like a fart, and give him a piece of smoked fish and a chicken leg to satisfy his hunger.

An An took it, narrowed her eyes and gnawed it quickly, then muttered to Xia Jiusheng, "Brother, you can eat too."

Xia Jiusheng looked at the shallow layer of vegetables on the plate, put them into the cupboard, shook his head with a smile, "Brother is not hungry." Then he put the pork into the washbasin and soaked it in water to rinse off the blood in the meat, and waited for dinner in the evening. Make braised pork and eat it.

Open the back door and look around.

Xia Jiusheng's home is located in the westernmost part of the village. It used to be a vegetable field. When the house was built, land management in the village was not strict, so a three-acre vacant land was left in front of the house as a yard.In the past, it was used to dry grain and rapeseed, so no trees were planted, but some common flowers and plants in the countryside, such as cockscomb and impatiens, were planted in the corner.

Because the front yard is big, the backyard is very small, leaving only a two-meter-wide open space, and then there is a drainage ditch, and then a large vegetable garden, which is connected to the west of the house, which is estimated to be about five acres.To the east of the house is a large bamboo garden.

It is the end of September, and it is the time when the bamboo shoots are at their freshest.

Xia Jiusheng took a hoe from the yard and asked his younger brother to carry a small bamboo basket, and the two went to the bamboo garden to dig bamboo shoots.

When he was young, there was no food at home, so he often went to dig some bamboo shoots to improve his meals.

This is a good thing, whether it is boiled in soup, stir-fried, steamed eggs or fried in other meat dishes, as long as the bamboo shoots are added, the umami taste of the dishes will be upgraded to a higher level.

It rained a few days ago, and the soil in the bamboo shoot garden absorbed enough water, and the flat bamboo shoots grew very fast.Once the sun has been shining in the past two days, if there are bamboo shoots underneath, a crack will be arched in the ground.

Skillfully finding a crack, Xia Jiusheng gently scratched open the soil with a hoe, revealing an apricot yellow bamboo shoot.

Use a hoe to chop off the tender tips of about [-] centimeters, throw them into the bamboo basket, cover them with soil, and go to find new flat bamboo shoots.

In less than half an hour, the two dug more than ten roots. Xia Jiusheng left with his brother when he saw that he had enough for dinner.

When I got home, I dumped the bamboo shoots on the ground by the stove, and went to the vegetable garden to find vegetables for dinner.

Rural people generally remember what to grow, and don't think much about which ones are valuable and which ones have high yields.Every household is similar.

I picked an autumn loofah, some autumn eggplants, and a handful of green beans. I didn't cut any green vegetables. I still had half of the Chinese cabbage I picked in the morning. This is much more delicious than the green vegetables at home.

After thinking about it, while my brother wasn't paying attention, I fetched a bucket of water out of the space, took a ladle and watered some of the vegetables grown at home.

Going to the front yard again, I saw that the vine rose he planted a few years ago had climbed up the fence.But there were few branches and leaves, and not many flowers bloomed, unlike what he saw in the Yucheng villa area, the branches and branches hung all over the entire wall, like a huge flower wall, extremely beautiful.

Also water some space for these flowers and plants, hoping that they can grow more beautifully.

Seeing that his younger brother was already doing his homework, he checked the time. It was almost five o'clock, so he went to the kitchen to prepare dinner.

Wash the rice, pour it into the rice cooker, add enough water to cook the rice, peel the loofah, pick the stalks of the eggplant, break off the tendons of the green beans, peel the bamboo shoots, peel a few Chinese cabbage leaves, and wash them. Cleanly cut it and put it on the plate, and cut some half-fat and half-lean meat slices, some pure lean meat slices and lean meat shreds, and prepared to stir-fry.

First stir-fry a fried eggplant with oil, then stir-fry shredded pork with string beans and bamboo shoots, and stir-fry a Chinese cabbage, then add the remaining bamboo shoots and loofah to the meat to cook the soup.Add two kinds of cooked food, five dishes and one soup, and give up making braised pork.

The younger brother has finished his homework, smelling the fragrance and coming to the kitchen, seeing his brother cooking so many delicious food, his mouth is watering.

Xia Jiusheng took a small bowl, picked some of each dish for his brother, and asked him to eat outside.

After thinking about it, he poured out the tap water in the tank and filled it with the water in the space.

I believe that family members will become healthier if they drink this water every day.

After a while, the mother who was working in the field came back and saw the younger son eating happily with a bowl of food, and the older son standing tall and straight at the door with a cheerful smile on his face, and his eyes suddenly turned red.

She took off the bamboo hat, put the hoe in the corner of the wall, turned her face, gave her son a hard look, and cursed: "Stinky boy, I'm finally willing to come back—"

I haven't seen him for half a year, but my son has lost a lot of weight. His chin is so pointed that he has no flesh. The clothes he bought last year look empty when he wears them.

He looks a little taller.He looked much older than he actually was, like an adult in his early twenties.

Fortunately, the spirit is not bad.

Xia Jiusheng walked over, hugged his mother's arm, rubbed against her body, and smiled lazily: "I can't help it, I miss my mother!"

"Slick-tongued—" Mother Xia cursed a few words, but the sadness in her heart gradually faded.

Her son suffered a lot outside. She had already guessed this, but guessing and seeing were two completely different things.

Fortunately, now that she is home, the smile on Xia's mother's face slowly melted, betraying the joy in her heart.

Seeing so many dishes on the table, Xia's mother gave her son another look, and scolded duplicity: "It's too wasteful."

"It's rare for your son to come home, so don't be stingy—" Xia Jiusheng pushed his mother to sit down, and said shamelessly.

"Why are you pushing me? Haven't washed your hands yet?" Xia's mother stood up and took off her sleeves, went to the kitchen to wash her hands, and shouted, "Why hasn't your father come back yet? It's time to get off work now. Go get that old bottle Daughter Hong, bring it, your father hasn't had a drink for a long time."

Xia Jiusheng responded, went to the corner of the small living room next door, and found the bottle of wine.

It was Chinese New Year, my cousin and brother-in-law came to visit, and they brought a total of four bottles of wine. Unexpectedly, my father still kept one bottle and was reluctant to drink it.

Put the wine on the table, the mother and son took out the bowls and chopsticks, put the rice cooker on the table, and were about to have dinner, when they suddenly heard a noise at the gate of the courtyard.

Walking to the gate of the yard, I saw Father Xia arguing with a middle-aged woman.

As soon as she saw them, the middle-aged woman walked towards Xia's mother, shoved a small hen into her hand, and shouted: "Aijuan, you came just in time, take this chicken quickly. Jian Jun is such an elm-brained melon, I can't tell him anything."

"Why did you give me the chicken, big sister?" Mama Xia asked suspiciously after taking the chicken.

"Your elder brother said that Yangyang came back and lost a lot of weight. He asked me to give him a chicken to replenish his body. When Jianjun passed by, he asked him to bring it along. He refused." The middle-aged woman is Xia Jiusheng's eldest brother. Aunt Zhou Yufeng yelled furiously.

"Brother, he is so polite. Yang Yang will come back when he comes back. Is there any need to get used to him?" Xia's mother shyly returned the chicken. He's right to make up for it."

Xia Jiuxing is the uncle's son. He just graduated from university this year. He has been looking for a job for the past few months, but he hasn't settled down yet.

Xia Jiuxing also has an elder sister named Xia Jiuqiang, who married into Fangjia Nong Village next door. Her brother-in-law Fang Peigen used to be a carpenter, but now he opened a furniture store in Zhangtang Town, selling some tables, chairs and sofas made by himself. Sales, business is not bad.

"They are all chickens raised by the family, and they are not valuable things—" The aunt gave Xia Jiusheng a look, and said to Xia Jiusheng: "Yangyang, have you stayed in the city for a long time, and you still look down on your relatives in the country? If you still recognize me This big aunt is about to collect the chicken—"

"How could it be? I was thinking just now, what excuse can I find to go to my aunt's house to eat chicken for free?" Xia Jiusheng walked over with a smile, took the chicken from his mother, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect you to bring it— —Thank you, Auntie."

Xia Jiusheng is sensitive, and he can see some people's sophistication more clearly than his parents. If someone comes to your door with good intentions, if you refuse, you will hurt your relatives. It is better to accept it. Next time you have something good, just return it.

"Look, you are so old, you are not as sensible as Yangyang." The auntie smiled happily when she saw Xia Jiusheng's performance.Walking out, he said: "I'm leaving, and you guys have dinner too. Yang Yang is free to come to Uncle's house, and your Brother Jiuxing is also at home these few days, you brothers have a good chat."

"Okay, goodbye, auntie." Xia Jiusheng replied.

Back in the house, Xia Jiusheng put the chicken in the yard and covered it with a big basket to prevent it from escaping.

Seeing that his parents and younger brother had already sat down, he found a bottle opener, opened the wine bottle, poured a glass for his father, and handed it to him: "Dad, you drink."

"En." Xia Jianjun nodded, took a sip of the wine, reluctant to compete with them for meat, put a chopstick of Chinese cabbage into his mouth, and squinted his eyes: "Yangyang, what kind of dish is this, why is it so fresh? "

"This is a special variety of Chinese cabbage," Xia Jiusheng said with a smile, "Did you be surprised? It was the first time I tried it too. I couldn't believe that Chinese cabbage is so delicious?"

"I want to eat too." After An An sat down, she kept eating chicken. Hearing that Chinese cabbage was so delicious, she asked for it too.

Xia Jiusheng picked up a chopstick for him and put it in the bowl. An An hurriedly picked it up and took a bite, his eyes curled up in comfort: "Brother, is this green vegetable really delicious?"

"Then eat more." Xia Jiusheng pampered him with another chopstick.

Xia's mother also picked up a chopstick, put it in her mouth, chewed slowly, and asked suspiciously: "Yangyang, you are not lying, are you? Is this really Chinese cabbage?"

"Of course, if you don't believe me, I'll show you the dishes. It's in the kitchen, and there's still a half?" Xia Jiusheng said with certainty.

"I believe it. But this variety is amazing, and it tastes better than baby vegetables that cost seven or eight yuan a catty." Mama Xia sighed.

"I think so too. ——If we grow this vegetable and sell it in the Three Realms, Mom, do you think we can make money?" Xia Jiusheng brought the topic in this direction.

"It depends on whether the planting is good or not? If the planting is good and the yield is high, it must be profitable." Mama Xia said with certainty. "You have seeds?"

"Yes!" Xia Jiusheng said naturally.

"You came home suddenly this time because you got these strange seeds? Want to grow vegetables at home and sell them for money?" Mother Xia saw through her son's thoughts at a glance.

"Where?" Xia Jiusheng was a little embarrassed, his mother saw through his little thoughts.

"You were born to me, how can you hide from me with such little thoughts—" Mother Xia gave her son a blank look.

"My mother is really wise and capable, and she can discern every detail." Xia Jiu was convinced. "However, I don't just have this dish, there are many varieties that haven't been grown yet."

"Really?" Now even Xia's mother became serious. If the seeds my son got were like this Chinese cabbage, and the taste was far better than ordinary vegetables, it would not be difficult to make a fortune.

Think about it, Shandong people grow Chinese cabbage for only a few cents a catty, and they also make a fortune.And this variety, when sold in the market, the price must be higher than that of ordinary vegetables. Isn't the profit scary?

"Anyway, there are a few acres of empty land behind the house, so you can try it." Father Xia gave a rare final word.

Xia Jiuan sat there, listening intently to what his parents and elder brother said. Although he didn't understand very well, he knew one thing. His elder brother wanted to grow vegetables at home instead of going to the city. This made him suddenly happy and uneasy. De La pulled Xia Jiusheng's sleeve and confirmed, "Brother, are you really not going to the city?"

"No, I'll stay with An An at home from now on, okay?" Xia Jiusheng patted the back of his brother's head and said with a smile.

"Okay." Xia Jiu'an nodded vigorously, his eyes curled into slits with joy.