In my days as a farmer

When Chen Li came to work on the battery car of his elementary school brother as usual today, he felt a vague abnormality.

It's strange, he just didn't come to work for a weekend, why did he suddenly feel that the small brick house is a little strange?

He circled around twice and touched his head in some doubts. How should I put it... The pasture field is still the same pasture field, and the small yard is also the same yard, but his intuition told him that there must be something wrong with it.

Researcher Xiao Chen stood outside the courtyard of Xia Dongli's house and looked around for a long time, but he couldn't stretch out his tentative foot.

"Good morning, Researcher Chen." While he was still observing, Xia Dongli who came out to open the door bumped into him and greeted him with the usual attitude, at most he seemed to be in a good mood.

"Good morning, Xiao Xia." Chen Li waved to him, then watched as the man opened the gate of the yard and then used the door to block it, then turned over the small blackboard with the contact information written on it, and closed the dog door by the way.

This series of actions is quite normal. Xia Dongli has been doing this all these days, but Chen Li always feels a little out of harmony.

He scanned the scene in front of him inch by inch with the serious attitude of checking plagiarism for a thesis, and after a long time he finally realized what was wrong.

It was the blackboard. The small blackboard that originally only had Xia Dongli's contact information on it now had Xun Yao's contact information on it.

Hey, what did I think it was!

Chen Li couldn't help but feel a little frustrated, feeling that all the troubles he had put in so early in the morning were all in vain.

Comrade Xiao Xia has to go out if he has nothing to do. Is there a problem with adding the contact information of his parent worker?Nothing wrong.

Although he vaguely felt that something was wrong, Chen Li was quickly attracted by Xia Dongli's actions and didn't think about it.

Seeing that Xia Dongli was carrying some stainless steel utensils to the small tricycle, he gave his hand, "Xiao Xia, what are you doing?"

"Shear the sheep." Xia Dongli sat on the small three-wheeler and saw Chen Li's curious + excited face, so he pulled an extra person.

While pulling the man towards the sheepfold, he explained to Chen Li.

The car is equipped with a set of shearing tools, which he borrowed two days ago to shave the little black faces at home, ah, don’t get me wrong, it’s not that he’s so narrow-minded that he doesn’t want everyone to rua sheep, but since he entered Since the summer, even though Rice and the flock have gone out early and returned late, the lambs are still so hot that they stick out their tongues.

Although it's cute to stick out a little red tongue on the little black face, it's not a good thing for them.

Dogs stick out their tongues to help dissipate heat, but sheep and cats do not have sweat glands on their tongues. They stick out their tongues simply to express: I am so hot that I can't stand it.

So Xia Dongli planned to replace the thick cashmere coats worn by these young people with thin vests.

Although he has rich experience in shaving dogs, he really has no problem with shaving sheep, so Xia Dongli went to the little boss to learn from him.

The little boss generously lent him a set of wool trimming tools, the most technical of which is a fixing frame.

It looks like an ordinary iron frame from the outside, but in fact, there is something like a clip on the left and right sides of it. The clip is opened before the sheep enters, and the clip is pressed down after the sheep enters the frame to hold the sheep firmly. belly, and then flip the frame left and right, Baa Star can lie down obediently!

This design can effectively avoid unnecessary physical exertion of humans and sheep before shearing. It is also gentler for the sheep themselves and less likely to cause stress reactions—mainly most of the bleating that needs to be shaved are sheep. They are much less courageous than goats who stick their necks to challenge the authority of their masters.

"The only difficulty in using this thing is how to drive the sheep in." Xia Dongli said while driving: "Boss and his farm directly put this shelf at the entrance of the sheepfold, and then guide it with a metal plate, and after shaving a sheep The sheep are put in one sheep, sheared and changed cages, but we can’t.”

Comrade Xiaoxia is not as rich in resources as the big local family. He only has a sheepfold that has just been built, but the poor also have their own methods...

He stopped the small tricycle in the open space near the sheep pen, jumped out of the car happily, and ran towards the people standing there watching.

"Xiao Yu!" Xia Dongli lifted up a basket that was originally hanging on the handlebar of the car: "Let's take a break and have breakfast!"

Um?Chen Li was getting out of the car, and when he heard the key word, he immediately looked over, and saw that the two cooperated with each other quickly, and in just a few words, they spread out a small bench and put up a parasol on the spot, and then stood one by one. The one who sat put all the dishes and chopsticks away.

Xia Dongli poured mung bean porridge into the bowl for others, and even took out a stack of cucumbers and pickles that had obviously been refrigerated.

Under the sun, the emerald green color of this cucumber is like a watery emerald, and it can shine through the water. You can tell at a glance that it is definitely a refreshing and delicious fresh melon that has just been picked and chilled.

There is also a sliced ​​Gaozhuang steamed bun, which is obviously meant to be eaten with Xiaojincun’s secret pickles. This simple and refreshing breakfast is really exciting on a hot day.

Chen Li is in admiration, really admiration.

Xiaojin Village is an ordinary prefecture-level village, or a prefecture-level village with serious population loss and aging. The number of children here is so small that no school is opened. What does this mean?It means that Xiaojin Village is not sold!morning!meal!

The villagers here don’t pay much attention to breakfast culture. Generally, women cook the leftovers and rice from the day before, and cook rice.

This is the result of living habits.Rural people have to go to work in the fields early in the morning before the sun rises, and it is almost ninety o’clock when they return to the house. At this time, the feeling of hunger has passed most of the time, and most people just stuff their stomachs. Anyway, it will be lunch time soon.

Chen Li, as a golden bachelor living in the urban campus circle, has long been used to the hasty life of sleeping until the last alarm clock rings in the morning, and then buying an early breakfast while walking and eating on the way to work.When he came here to enjoy the slow pace, he thought it was a novelty at first, but later it was really inconvenient.

It just so happens that their junior brother's cooking skills are not very good, but the junior brother has the black hearted village chief to help him bring the meals, so he can't go for it.

To be honest, Chen Li has been buying large and small packages of quick-frozen food online recently, and the first thing he does every morning is to open the steamer.

According to today's technology, the processing technology of quick-frozen food is no less than that of freshly made food. Although he often steams and breaks the skin due to poor control of the time, compared with before, Chen Li is quite satisfied.

But today, when I saw the food he ate, tears were about to flow from his mouth. What is the food he ate called!ah!There is actually a cup of yogurt, which looks like it was made by the yogurt machine itself. Xiaoxia knows it. He bought raw milk from the farm next door. The milk is delicious and mellow.

woo woo woo woo

Researcher Chen tried his best, but he still couldn't control himself, and made a series of unexplained sounds.

Xia Dongli watched Xun Ao's eating movements for a while, and the corner of his mouth twitched.

The gaze from behind was too hot, and the movement was hard to ignore. In the end, Xia Dongli had no choice but to take out two tea eggs in a food bag from a small basket and hand them over.Seeing that Chen Li's eyes lit up, he hurriedly added: "The tea leaves used to make tea eggs are the leftovers we usually drink and then dried, if you don't mind..."

But there is no need to worry about hygienic issues. They drink tea in large kettles or fair cups. These tea people have never touched it—he was interrupted before he could finish these words.

"It's okay!" Researcher Chen was not particular at the moment. He took Xia Dongli's tightly squeezed plastic bag on the spot, rubbed the two eggs with each other through the bag, and then easily peeled off the egg skin.

Before the eggs are eaten, the stewed fragrance rushes into the nostrils first. The star anise and fragrant leaves hold a big banner and occupy the territory of people's sense of smell. After chewing for a while, the taste of egg yolk is as dense as fine sand.

The egg yolk is the most difficult to taste. Xia Dongli didn't pay attention to piercing the egg white to let the egg yolk taste when cooking, but at this moment it just neutralized the overly strong taste of the tea egg, and bit by bit the marinated fragrance Absorbed and consolidated, only the original taste of an egg was left in the end.

One word, fragrant!

Seeing that he wolfed down the next egg with a happy face and then peeled the second Chen Li, Xia Dongli couldn't help but fell silent. Is Xiao Chen's pursuit too low?Or has his culinary skills been upgraded recently without his knowledge?

He just roasted the tea eggs in a very common way, and even the tea leaves were dried and put into the second pot of tea when the two of them usually drink tea.

Hmm... If I have to say it, the quality of the eggs is probably not bad.

The chickens and ducks of Xia Dongli's family are almost half a year old. The chicks at this age have already put on hard feathers, and they are not satisfied with staying in the small yard anymore.Especially recently, half of the yard was painted by an unreasonable blackbird couple. The Maojiu were a little unhappy, so Xia Dongli took them outside to relax.

Even though these chirps already have the physique of an adult poultry, in fact the bones of their wings are still soft, and they have no ability to protect themselves.Even with rice to protect Xia Dongli, he didn't dare to let them wander around, so he simply used the earliest barbed wire sheep pen to let Maojiu peck at the cordyceps seeds within the circled area, which was considered a wild activity.

Of course, their egg-laying heroes also participated in this activity, and they also ate a lot of small stoves that Xia Dongli quietly handed over. It may be because the team building has enriched the recipes. Xia Dongli feels that their chickens The eggs are indeed very fragrant recently.

Especially when it is deep-fried, the aroma is like adding essence. The taste is completely different from the eggs he ate in the city, and the color is also darker.

Xia Dongli, who had tasted the benefits, often took the Maojiu out to relax. Therefore, the barbed wire sheepfold that had been left unused after the sheepfold was built was not dismantled, but was used as a movable cage. In use.

The same is true now.

After eating their fill, Xia Dongli and Xun Ao adjusted the shape of the barbed wire sheepfold together so that it spread out in a U-shape.Then when Rice came back with the flock, he signaled to Rice to drive them all into the barbed wire fence.

Driven by rice and led by Xiao Baa, the twenty little black faces didn't feel anything wrong at all, so they followed into the barbed wire circle, and then they were locked inside.

The sheep whose freedom is restricted are not too flustered, it is better to say that the main reason for their bleating now is that they have not been able to enter the cool pens but have to stay in the sun, and the width of the sheep pens for them is now A little uncomfortable for the sheep...too narrow!It's really too narrow!

We all like to pack into a ball, not like to pack into a strip!

Just when the flock of sheep started to stir up a little because of the collision, Xia Dongli led the baa standing at the front to the small iron frame—of course it wasn’t the little baa, who jumped out after closing the cage, but It didn't run far, but stood still and watched the excitement while chewing its cud.

The first little black face was the original leader of the flock. It didn't notice anything at first, until it felt some movement under its belly, and then, it lost weight!

"Baa~~" The little black face who was suddenly flattened screamed, Xia Dongli fixed his position, picked up the razor and started waving it without saying a word.

The little black face didn't panic for a long time, it felt that it was put right, ah!Feet can touch the ground again!

But the next moment, it fell in the opposite direction again.

"Baa baa baa!!" What's going on?This is not fun at all!

"Baa~~" Xiaobaa cried out slowly while watching the excitement.

The completely different attitudes of the former leader and the current leader made the flock a little flustered, but soon they heard the contented cry of the former leader again.

Since the flock is free-range and needs fur to protect the skin, Xia Dongli left a finger-long wool when he cut the knife. Even so, the former leader who has completed the thinning operation still looks two-thirds thinner now , from a round bleat to a long bleat.

At this moment, it was walking forward while chasing the salt block in Xia Dongli's hand, licking it and making happy noises.

I didn't notice it at all, and it was led to the sheepfold. The next moment, the salt block was gone, and I was not free yet.

"What??" The former leader's face was full of disbelief after being deceived.

Xia Dongli touched it a few times. Not to mention, the inner layer feels pretty good after shaving off the cotton coat. As for the expression?Uh, sorry, the faces of the little black faces are too dark, he can't see~

He strolled out of the sheepfold, and saw Researcher Chen happily waving a razor to shave the second victim sheep. His expression was so cheerful.

Xia Dongli understands his feelings. It is indeed a very good experience to shave a baa star who can't struggle. It feels a bit like digging through an ice cream bucket with an ice cream scoop. The sense of accomplishment and healing very strong.

With the concerted efforts of the three of them, the task of shaving the flock of sheep was completed in just over an hour. When Xia Dongli was gathering the wool and discussing with Xun Yu how to use it, one person waved the razor and was stunned. It's not enough to shave all nineteen sheep. Chen Li's researcher turned his attention to Xiao Baa, who was already grazing on his stomach with his eyes closed.

Little Baa who dozed peacefully: "...baa?"

"I see that your hair is quite long, you are here, so let's shave together!"

"Meh!!?!"