The fertile water of farming does not flow to outsiders' fields

The scholar and the staff immediately turned pale: "Father Xue, he, he..." Xue Yinsong looked around and said in a deep voice, "It must have been in the army. When encountering soldiers with bad military discipline, ordinary people will hide for a while , It's okay, let's go first."

There was no rice or cooking pot at home, and a few people wandered around without even getting lunch. Xiao Xiucai was the first to give up: "Let's go back, it seems that Uncle Xue won't be back soon."

"You guys wait at home, I'll go up the mountain." Xue Yinsong hesitated for a while and then made up his mind, joking, walking so far and then going back, who has the strength!

Xiao Xiucai naturally agreed, and besides, the three of them also had walking pains and needed to rest.Xue Yinsong put his things down and immediately went up the mountain. The porridge in the morning had already been digested. At this moment, his stomach was so empty that he could almost eat a roast chicken. Roast chicken, roast chicken, roast chicken... Let's go hard!

Tibetan soldiers usually go deep into the mountains, Xue Yinsong thought hard about where the caves are more secretive, while wandering around like headless chickens.

There are obvious traces of fire in the mountain. After all, the people in such a big village must go into the mountain to eat and drink. Xue Yinsong picked some paths that are not often taken and walked around. After climbing almost three mountains, he finally saw a group of birds on the opposite mountain. startled.

Someone must be there!He was full of confidence immediately. As the saying goes, looking at the mountain, he broke his leg. Don't look at the mountain on the opposite side. It's not close to walk, and he almost broke his leg before reaching the foot of the mountain.

"Brother Tiger!"

Xue Yinsong looked up and saw a familiar boy and Hu Yazi in the village: "Are you here? Where are the people in the village?"

"They are all in the cave, and your father is also here. Chen Qiao and I are here to watch the wind. If there are officers and soldiers coming, please report immediately." Hu Yazi grinned. This kid has grown a lot in the past year, and he is almost Catch up to adult height.

"Come on, take me up, Fuchun County has been opened, and you can go home too."

Hu Yazi cheered, and led him up the mountain: "We can't hold on any longer, the rice of each family is about to bottom out, and the animals are fed with pure grain in the cave, and they are very chewy. .”

Xue Yinsong saw that his complexion was fine, and felt relieved: "If it doesn't work, let's kill the small poultry and eat them, and keep the green hills so that they don't have to worry about firewood, and they can be raised in the future."

Hu Yazi smiled and said: "Who's livestock is not the most precious thing? Who will eat it unless it is absolutely necessary? Your father has the most livestock, especially those foxes, which almost turned the cave upside down! Li Zheng complained. died."

Xue Yinsong laughed: "Are all the foxes okay?"

"Well, there are snakes and bats in the cave, but those foxes are cheap to death, and they all eat oily and smooth."

As they spoke, the two walked to the mountain, and saw a half-exposed cave hidden in the woods. Hu Yazi blew a whistle, and a few middle-aged men with hoes and hatchets came out immediately.

"The tiger is back!"

"It's a tiger!"

Everyone immediately gathered around: "The city has been opened?" "How is the city? Where did you call?"

Xue Yinsong was pushed into the cave by people: "Everything in the city is good, but the food supply is so severe that the city has been opened. If you have any rich things, hurry up and sell them. The price is very high now."

Several people laughed and said, "We don't have enough for ourselves, how can we sell more?"

Xue Yinsong said with a smile: "Sell the poultry first, and hatch new eggs by the way. As long as the time is right, they can still be raised before the end of autumn and survive the winter."

"How can your family be so good!" Uncle Huang said with a smile: "The rice in our village has been planted by our ancestors for many years. This time you escaped to the mountain, and your family's rice was harvested early, and all our rice was grown on the ground. Here, it was just a few days ago that I went to snatch it at night."

Xue Yinsong was also a little surprised: "Really, is my rice ripening early?"

"Hey, just pretend!" Chen Sui punched his arm so hard that it hurt: "Your father said that the seedlings in your family were specially bred, and I said that you run a cooperative that is so mysterious that you can't help it." Everyone join in!"

"Yes."

"Yes, yes."

"Boy Xue, don't hide your secrets."

Xue Yinsong laughed helplessly, "It's not that I want to hide my secrets. Isn't this the first time I've done it? I don't have much experience. If you mess up together again, you can't blame me?"

It happened that old man Xue came out of the hole: "Tiger! You are here! How are you at home?"

"There have been soldiers in the village, but it's not bad. It's mostly undamaged, but the houses are a little damaged, so they can be used after cleaning up."

Everyone felt a little relieved when they heard this, and they all turned around and called out to their women: "Cook quickly, go down the mountain and go home after eating!"

There were also those who did not give up and continued to ask: "Boy Xue, does your cooperative recruit people?" Xue Yinsong turned around, saw that it was Fu Conghua, who was usually not very likable, smiled and said: "It's just my family. Technology is not given for nothing, it has to be bought with money.”

Fu Conghua said sharply: "You want money? No more! No more! A villager wants money! You have never seen money in your life!"

Immediately there was a helper next to him: "Look at what you said, you should pay for technology when others provide it, that's what you should do! If you want to take advantage, how can there be such a good thing in the world!"

Xue Yinsong hurriedly grabbed the helpers and said with a smile: "Let's go, let's all go in and eat, and go down the mountain after eating!"

Aunt Huan was sitting on a small stool in the corner peeling beans. When she saw him coming, she greeted him with a smile, "Tiger, come and sit."

Xue Yinsong went over to help peel it: "I won't eat, and I will go down the mountain after the food is cooked. The scholar and the children are waiting."

Aunt Huan heard the words and went to the corner to take out some dry biscuits and jerky: "It's too late to go down the mountain after cooking the rice, you take it down the mountain first to feed them."

Xue Yinsong took it and put it on his back: "Father, why don't I go up the mountain to help later?"

Father Xue looked left and right and said, "I have to pull three times, and I can't finish pulling all day today. Come to watch the night tonight."

"Okay!" Xue Yinsong thought about it, grabbed a clay pot, put some rice in it, and caught a chicken. Father Xue jumped behind and scolded: "You can change to a rooster! It's a hen that lays eggs! You son of a bitch Just take care of your own land!"

Xue Yinsong laughed loudly: "It is only delicious when stewed by an old hen!"

There were so many animals on the mountain, and the mountain road was difficult and steep, it took the two of them two full days to complete the move.There was no major damage to the house, but small places had to be repaired, especially the door was kicked and there was a big crack.

Father Xue felt that a broken door was the most unlucky thing, so he first found a thick wooden board to fix it, and then hurriedly bought some red lacquer to paint the door.Red pills are usually mixed with some rust red, but Mr. Xue thinks that red is evil, and at night he boiled a big pot of mugwort leaf water to take a bath to let everyone get rid of the bad luck.

After eating a few formal meals with both meat and vegetables, the family finally came back to life. Xiao Xiucai felt sorry for his son and specially picked a few pieces of meat for the two boys to eat. The strange thing is that Changhui suddenly changed his taste, and it made him feel better. I love to eat vegetables.

This change made the two fathers baffled. After observing for a few days and not feeling any abnormal changes, they just let it go.

The rebellion had little effect, and calm gradually returned after a few days of complaining.

The rice has already been harvested before going up the mountain, and the fields are now empty to plant some vegetables. Fuchun County is at a time when prices are soaring, so it is good to be able to sell some vegetables.

Xue Yinsong discussed with his father to plant some quick lettuce first, such as feather vegetables, and then continue to plant rice.

"Still planting rice? Have you ever been insane?" Father Xue stared at his son, completely unable to understand what he meant: "Sow and wait for next year's harvest? Don't rice fields freeze in winter?"

Xue Yinsong clattered through the old almanac: "Although it is too late to raise seedlings now, this year happens to be leap July, and it will be one month hotter. My seeds are Changyuan rice specially brought from Deyang. Although it is Last year's seeds can be planted if they are handled well."

Only then did Father Xue realize that his son was not joking, he hesitated for a moment and muttered: "Although it is said that it will be one month hotter in Leap July, but... hey! The land is yours, so you can plant it if you say so! You can make a fuss, anyway. It’s not me who pays for the loss.”

Xue Yinsong said with a smile: "Hurry up and find the seedling box. We will start raising seedlings now. The hot weather is just right for germination. As long as the seedlings grow neatly, they can go to the ground in 20 days. We used to rush to plant wheat in Tianba Village, isn't it the same? What are you doing!"

"Wheat is a rough job, but this rice is different. The rice planted is much more delicate, can it be compared with wheat?" Father Xue muttered, and finally went to the utility room to dig out the seedling box.

Xue Yinsong took out the rice seeds brought by Deyang: "It's up to you, you can do this better than me."

Father Xue skillfully boiled a pot of hot water, and when the test was almost done, he poured the rice seeds, stirring while pouring, making sure that they were all heated evenly.

Xue Yinsong watched with relish: "Father, do you think this person is naturally suitable for doing certain things? You see, I just can't do farm work."

"Stop making excuses for yourself, I think you're just a monkey's butt—you can't sit still." Father Xue cursed with a smile, but looked at the water with a gentle expression on his face, as if there were more than just rice seeds in it , more hope for the future.

Life in the country is leisurely and pleasant, and little Xiucai gradually became fascinated with the life of farming and raising chickens. He even put forward the same request as Zha Jin: I hope he and his children can stay in the country.

Xue Yinsong didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and politely refused: "Aunt Huan is already inconvenient to do heavy work. My father has to take care of the land and her. How can he take care of the three of you? Besides, the three of you, except for Xiaoqi, are all just Those who can eat but can’t do things, let’s not cause trouble here.”

The little scholar pursed his lips and didn't speak, although it was the truth, he felt disgusted, so he could only beg: "Then let's stay for a while, the city is too boring, and thinking about the days when I couldn't go out for two months will make me feel like Panic."

Xue Yinsong naturally agreed, but before they were allowed to have another day of fun, Gong Er came, and brought a message from Que Hongze: I asked him to go back to the city to discuss something important.

Que Hongze seemed to be in good spirits. His Liangdao Daotai was located outside Fuchun County, so he was not affected by the closure of the city.

"Master Que looking for me?"

Que Hongze smiled and led him to sit in the back garden: "This time the closure of the city has made brother Xue miserable, how is it? Is the family okay?"

"It's all good. Fortunately, I have some rice in reserve, so I can still eat enough."

Que Hongze laughed loudly: "Don't worry, I got something good, I'll give it to you when I leave later. Let's talk about business first, Deyang will be opened early next month, and I'm going to transport some rice. The city can send it in."

Xue Yinsong nodded: "Okay, I'll go and have a look together."

"One more thing, I want to use your name to transport something to the capital."