clang farming notes

As the days passed, the villager's land was almost harvested, and the sound of driving cars gradually disappeared in the morning.

On the contrary, each family and courtyard is bustling with people who beat sorghum and peel corn husks. This kind of work is much easier than harvesting, and the grain has been received in the yard. Just cover it, and the food cannot be wasted.

Looking at the harvest year, everyone is naturally in a good mood. Walking through the village, you can hear the sound of talking and laughing.

Eucommia Pingshu found a few houses to buy some fresh vegetables, and begged to buy a fat chicken.On the way, I asked Li Zheng to come to my house for dinner.

It turned out that Brother Li finally freed up today to repair the firewall for Du's family. The folks in the village here always don't charge money for their help, as long as the host hosts a good meal.

Although the two of the Du family can be the masters of the house, they are younger after all. Fortunately, the two next door can come over and act as half of the masters. Du Zhongping is well-known, so there is no problem.But Fang Sheng said that it would be best to invite Lizheng as an accompanying guest. Lizheng is very prestigious in the village, and if he comes over, the Hakkas of the host family will be proud.

After this period of time, the two of the Du family have already understood that the folk customs here are very tough. Although the people are not bad, they always have distant relatives. The pole is not straight, and I feel that I have no confidence in speaking.

But fortunately, Zhao Ba had a very good relationship with them - I heard that Zhao Ba was a desperate person in war, and had some prestige in the local area.Qie Lizheng took great care of his family, but the Du family didn't feel it.

Li Zheng was so busy walking around, he agreed that he would definitely go at night, and then went back to work.

Du Zhongping was a little strange, Lizheng's family had a large population, and his Yue's family was nearby, so he should have finished his work a long time ago. His brother-in-law was free to repair the firewall, so he didn't know what he was busy with.

I can't help but say it again when I go back.The second brother Li has already raised the wall up to his knees. Hearing Du Zhongping's question, he smiled and said: "Earlier, someone here brought a letter home, saying that it is easy to make a living here, so let the whole family come over. I guess it is. Someone has arrived, my brother-in-law has to make arrangements."

He said again: "It's good this time. It turns out that there are mostly bachelors in the village. Just one of them can form a family. It seems that they are not popular. If there are more wives and children, it will become lively. After all, it looks like a life. Or someone said Entering this village is like entering a military camp." Everyone who spoke laughed.

Brother Li's subordinates were extremely fast, and after a while his kung fu improved again.

Zhao Ba said: "Du An, let's go and prepare. I'm here. After the second brother finishes building, we'll start working. It won't be dark for the second brother to leave."

It turned out that Second Brother Li was not from the same village, his family lived in Lijiapuzi about ten miles away from here.Duane washed the mud off his hands and went to clean up the vegetables.

After the fire wall was built, everyone went outside to rest. Du Zhongping wanted to help in the kitchen. Du An thought he was in the way, so he pushed him out, and he brought Jin'er out to talk with everyone.

A few people chatted outside, talking about ancient times.Brother Li said that the Du family was lucky and they were assigned to Qingniu Village.

Du Zhongping said: "Sure enough, we are lucky. I didn't expect to have such a nice courtyard house."

Second brother Li shook his hand and interrupted him: "That's not what I'm talking about. If the years are good and you work hard for a few years, you can build one by gritting your teeth. I mean, your village was built by soldiers who later took root. It's only been a few years, and there are no land households, which is a great benefit - in other places, every family talks about relatives, and most of the village is related, so how can outsiders talk? My brother-in-law is strong, and Zhao Ba is close to you, which is even better, otherwise it would be so easy for you half-grown children to settle here."

Du Zhongping nodded again and again, and said, "I borrowed a lot from Brother Zhao."

Zhao Ba said sternly: "Fang Sheng and I have no relatives anymore. We have lost our temper with you, and we are like a family. I only treat you as younger brothers. What are you talking about?"

Brother Li said: "You are all cheerful people, and you don't have any other relatives. You can only live well by supporting each other. Why bother with each other. There is an old saying that distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, and good neighbors are better than real relatives." What?" Everyone agreed.

When it was time to arrive, I set up a table and started eating.Duan stewed the fat chicken according to the method here today, and put soaked dried mushrooms in it. It was stewed rottenly together. It tasted very good and was very popular.

Everyone has been busy collecting land for days, their stomachs have already run out of oil and water, and all the dishes on the table have been wiped out, even the vegetable soup has been soaked in rice.

On the second day, several members of the Du family still went to help Zhao Ba clean up, and they felt even closer.

The sorghum has already been threshed, and it only needs to be spread on the oilcloth to dry every day.

Zhao Ba taught Du An to build a corn building: use bricks to lay a layer on the ground and pave it flat, and build piles every few feet around it, and use picked out good corn stalks between the piles, and tear off the leaves one by one Turn on the rack, pour the peeled corn into it, just pressing the stalks.After it is done, it will be a slender rectangle, which can reach as high as a person.This kind of building is a little breathable for storing corn, and it will not cover the grain. The floor is separated by bricks, and it is also protected from mice. It is enough to cover the roof with a tarpaulin to block it when it rains or snows. It is nothing to worry about.

Corn is no more troublesome than sorghum, as long as you peel off the skin and pile it in the building, and then slowly rub the particles when you have time in the morning and evening.Several people worked hard for a few days, and finally piled up all the corn.

After blowing the firewood back for so many days, it was already dry. Zhao Ba found a flat place next to the trees outside the courtyard. I made a triangular point, and tied a few stones with a rope to put them on top of it and pressed it down: "That's enough. You don't have to worry about rain or snow. The upper layer is wet, and the lower layer is dry. You When you hold it, you never hold it against the side of the tree, and use your strength there, so it will not fall."

At this time, the weather has gradually turned cold, and all the houses have been resettled.On this day, Lizheng rang the bell to gather everyone to the open space in the middle of the village, announcing that he would go into the mountains tomorrow.The hunters will gather together to go into the mountains tomorrow morning, and the pickers will be free. Only at night, more young men from the village will go out, so everyone should be careful.

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The three members of the Du family were very excited, and they hurriedly consulted with the two people next door when they returned home.

When they arrived next door, Fang Sheng was making noodles and wanted to make dry food with Zhao Ba. They went hunting for a few days and would not return, so they had to bring enough dry food.

Du Zhongping asked: "It's not good to roast prey after killing it? Why do you still bring this?"

Zhao Bazao took out his stuff and tidied up. Hearing his question, he said, "It's hard to say about hunting. If you're lucky, you'll get a lot of money. If you're not lucky, it's just a waste of time—it's all about hunting here." Being a soldier, I don’t know much about Orion’s tricks, and I have learned a lot. Besides, it’s dry and windy in autumn, so you can’t light a fire in the woods unless you have to. It’s not fun to light it. We all bring it ourselves dry food."

Du Zhongping nodded and accepted the lesson.Then he asked Fang Sheng how he planned.Fang Sheng said: "Tomorrow, you will go up the mountain with me. Let's not go deep into the mountains, and we will come back in the afternoon. It is enough to bring a lunch. I have already prepared a large basket, and you can prepare it yourself." Just two cloth bags."

Early the next morning, Zhao Ba left early.Du Zhongping took a basket with food and water, and Du An carried Jin'er and went up the mountain with Fang Sheng. Fang Sheng took out two big baskets and carried one by himself, and Du An took the other.Along the way, I ran into a few people who were going to pick up autumn together, Fang Sheng said: "Today, let's go with everyone to pick some autumn fruits, and we will go to pick herbs in two days—or we will do nothing when we turn around." I can't pick it up either."

After entering the mountain for a while, the mountain road is gentle, the leaves are golden, and the wind is rustling. Everyone is talking and laughing, and they feel very lively, but they can't feel the bleakness of autumn.Everyone walked along the path that had been stepped on before. Although this path was winding, it had been stepped on very hard, and it was obvious that people often walked by it.

After walking for a while, I saw clusters of red fruits hanging on some not very tall trees—it was hawthorn.Everyone stopped to pick them up.Some were nimble enough to climb up the tree in two or three strokes, some picked up branches to hit, and some picked small trees to shake.

Even Duane climbed the tree.Jin'er also followed the example of others and picked up the fallen fruits into the basket, which attracted everyone to praise him when they saw him, and was so ashamed that he put his head in Du Zhongping's arms and refused to come out, making people laugh even more.

In this way, all the people walked together and picked the autumn fruits together.There is a kind of pear, the size of a fist, which is still green, and everyone picks it. Duan tried one, and it was so hard that it could hit people.Fang Sheng told him that the pear could hang on the tree until it snowed, and then he would not be able to enter the mountain.When the pears are ripe, they will be sweet and soft. Take them out and freeze them for a whole winter.While talking, let them pick more.

In the next few days, they traveled farther and farther, and it was inconvenient to take the children with them. The two of the Du family took turns to follow Fang Sheng into the mountains to pick up autumn, and the harvest was quite rich: when they encountered dead trees, they picked a lot of fat black fungus; The wooden pole went to the pine forest to beat the pine nuts—it took several wooden poles to get it: the pine tree was tall and straight, and all that fell to the ground were pine cones, and there were no pine nuts in it. pole to hit.There is also an unexpected harvest, I picked some pine mushrooms, and the stewed chicken was excellent; I also met the hazelnut forest and picked a lot of hazelnuts, but they were much smaller than the ones Du Zhongping had eaten before, even the hazel mushrooms in the hazelnut forest were smaller than The pine mushrooms are quite small; one time when I climbed to the middle of the mountain, there were chestnuts, and I picked up a basket full of them. This can be used as food in disaster years, and everyone loves frying it as a snack...

Du Zhongping and Fang Sheng were always thinking about collecting herbs, and later they simply put the medicine books on their bodies, and when they saw herbs that looked like herbs, they took them out and compared them, but they also gained something, most of them were Bupleurum bupleurum, and the two of them More and more interested.

It's just that when everyone saw them taking out the book and stuffing it back from time to time, and still muttering something, they couldn't help but laughed a lot.In the end, the two found clusters of purple-red fruits like coral beads hanging there on the gentle slope facing the sun. They were exquisite and lovely, and they were exactly the high-quality schisandra. The two were very happy, and finally had a decent harvest.

The people who stayed behind to pick up the autumn had already harvested quite a lot, but the hunters hadn't come back yet. Everyone became a little anxious. It didn't take so long in previous years, and it was already October, and the wind blew up, and the day seemed cold. It's been a day.

Fang Sheng also became anxious day by day. Even though he and Du Zhongping harvested a lot of herbs, and even picked some valuable medicines such as good-looking schisandra, they couldn't hide the anxiety on his face.

The two of the Du family were also very anxious, but it was difficult to show it, for fear that Fang Sheng would be even more anxious.The two of them were not familiar with the situation here, and there was no way to persuade them even if they tried to comfort them, so they could only try to stay by Fang Sheng's side every day, and find more things to do, so that he would not be free to think about it.

The day has changed, the weather is gloomy, and the wind is blowing up again. In the afternoon, it starts to snow. Fang Sheng is even more anxious, and he is a little restless. Du Zhongping persuades him that so many people are together, maybe go If it gets deeper, nothing will happen.Fang Sheng also knew it, but he couldn't let it go.

In the middle of the night, Du Zhongping was sleeping soundly with Jin'er in his arms. He could vaguely hear dogs barking and horses neighing, and occasionally yelling. Duan came over to wake him up: "I'm afraid it's hunting!" I'm back, I heard some movement in the yard over there, it must be that Brother Zhao is back."

Du Zhongping hurriedly turned over and sat up, he and Du An put on their clothes indiscriminately and wanted to go over to have a look. Before going out, Du Zhongping said: "Brother Sheng is eating with us these few days, his house is not open, bring the food with you .”

When the two of them passed by, it was true that his house had lit a lamp, stood outside and called out, and then heard them being called in.

When the two went in, Zhao Ba came back, Fang Sheng was boiling water, Du An said: "Bring some food, let's warm it up with Ba Ge."

Fang Sheng took it and steamed it up: "I was thinking about whether to call you, but I was afraid that I would disturb your sleep." The two went into the back room and said a few words to Zhao Ba, and asked about his safety. Don't worry that Jin'er is at home alone, so he bid farewell and went back, and come to see him tomorrow.

Here Fang Sheng sent Zhao Ba to eat, and scooped up hot water to wash with him without mentioning it.