Love delays my farming

After the Waking of Insects, Chu Yao increased the speed of land reclamation.

Every time a piece of land is cleaned up, soak it with water. After the last shovel of soil is cleaned up, the first piece of land can also be transplanted.

After all, the mountain roads and waterways are parallel here, and there is not much land with endless stretches of flat rivers for Chu Yao to toss about.The area he drove was drawn out by Grandpa Chu for him. It went down the slope and was born facing the sun.The topmost piece of land is close to the spring, so if you want to soak the ground, you can just use two hoes to bring the water over. When you don’t need it, you can block it with stones, which is a simple gate.

This piece of sloping land has been turned into a simple terraced style, which is dedicated to growing rice.Two of them are planted with japonica rice and one is planted with glutinous rice. Counting with your fingers, as long as God gives me face and I don't be lazy, the food for the whole family will basically come out.Wheat, sweet potatoes and pumpkins can be grown in the flat place under the slope. Even if you don’t eat sweet potatoes and pumpkins, you can buy two piglets to raise them in the future, which can solve many feed problems.

After working for more than half a month, Chu Yao didn't feel too tired, but he was much more energetic.

Although the action of opening up wasteland and transplanting rice seedlings is single and boring, it can make the whole person feel empty from the soul to the body.There is no need to think about how to deal with colleagues serving the leader, let alone face the hateful big devil Party A.It is enough for him to be close to nature. When he is tired, he straightens up and listens to the sound of wind and water and the singing of birds, and then he looks back at the smoke from his house. The whole island is as beautiful as a painting.

After he planted the last seedling, his eyes were green and his heart was filled with satisfaction.I even couldn't help but took out my mobile phone to take a picture and posted it on Moments, "Today's labor is satisfying and fulfilling."

The following quickly accumulated a lot of likes and comments. Even the former boss who used his chin to look at people before resignation left him a 666, and he didn't look so hideous for a moment.

Clean up and wash the remaining seedling trays, these are to be sent back to Kang Quanshun.His seedlings were also raised by Village Chief Kang for him. After all, he came a little late and missed the time for raising seedlings.Village head Kang divided some of the three acres of seedlings, and other people in the village helped to gather some, and basically everything was done.

Chu Yao whistled, and Xiao Huang Xiao Hei, who was playing in the grass, swished over and rubbed against Chu Yao's body covered in mud.

It's almost April now, but it's still a bit cold before the cold spring.However, some hills on the island block some cold air from the south, and the temperature on this island is warmer than that of Chu Yao's hometown.

I took the seedling tray back to my yard, and the chicks all over the yard began to grow hard feathers, and their mouths became hardened a lot.But it's only a few days before they can be happy. Grandpa Chu has already built a chicken coop with the stones he picked up next to the fence, and the only thing left is to surround it with a fence.After the chicks are locked up, the front yard can also be cleaned up to grow some vegetables, without fear of being digged by the chicks.

Chu Qianyun was tidying up the thin bamboo branches that had been cut from the bamboo before, and slowly weaving them together.The fences on three sides are almost finished, the only thing missing is the fence gate.

Chu Yao put the seedling tray in the corner, then got into the storage room, took off his water pants, took it out and threw it by the pool in the backyard.The water in this pool is spring water drawn from the mountain. When the pool is full, it will overflow and flow along the crevices of the rocks to the creek outside. It will never be wasted.

He was not in a hurry to brush his water pants, but went into the living room and poured himself a glass of cold water from the measuring cup on the table and drank it down. Then he came out wiping his mouth, and picked up a big brush from the bottom of the wall, "Grandpa, I Grandma hasn't come back yet? Xiao Huang, come here, covered in mud!"

Grandpa Chu responded slowly, "Your grandma has really been like a duck to water recently. She doesn't cook or wash clothes, and she pulls her beloved little trailer around the mountains every day."

Chu Yao laughed and said, "My grandma didn't like to cook and wash clothes before. Isn't that what grandpa is doing?"

Ever since Grandma Chu dug out a hand-towed flatbed from the storage room, she seemed to have acquired a beloved toy.The small trailer is just a wooden board with four wheels under it, and a bunch of high small railings around it.It is estimated that when the house was built here, someone used it to coax the children. After the house was built, the car was left here without taking it away.Now it has become Grandma Chu's magic weapon, and she can take it with her wherever she goes.

There are two baskets, a small hoe and a small machete in the cart. Grandma Chu is the most beautiful old lady on the island.

The prettiest old lady vowed to pick the freshest wild vegetables on the whole island. After getting up in the morning and feeding the chickens, dogs and cats, she took Xiaobai and went out excitedly.I don't know why she likes Xiaobai so much. She put Xiaobai in one of the small bamboo baskets, and the old lady drove the 360-degree convertible by herself, dragging the small rope to gada gada.

In the kitchen, the porridge was warmed with a fire, and a steaming tray was placed on the cauldron, inside which were several large white steamed buns and a large pot of steamed dried eggplant.In addition to eating a few bites of meat in the first few days, the family has started to focus on vegetarian food. At most, steamed Chinese sausage and steamed buns are eaten at night to satisfy the stomach's desire for oil and water.

But although Chu Yao felt that he didn't eat well, the little ones at home ate well.A big pot of steamed eggs with pumpkin and some oyster sauce a day, and the cat food and dog food specially bought by Chu Yao, and the dog and cat don’t even lift their heads when they eat it.

"Master, I saw fish in the stream..." Chu Yao longed for delicious food.Here I would like to say that everything is good, the only inconvenience is shopping.If you are in the city, you can stroll around the supermarket and find that there is no shortage of chicken, duck and fish.But here, if you want to eat meat, you have to go to the town market to buy it, which is very troublesome.However, Kang Quanshun said that he would cast a net in the lake in a few days, and some people in the village wanted to eat fish.If they want to eat, remember to come and buy it.

Grandpa Chu waved his hand and said, "The stream is full of small fish. Now it's the time to get fat. We'll wait until summer for two months to catch them. Didn't you ask you to clean up that puddle before? I saw that there are fish in it." Loach catfish or something. If you can catch it, you can also stew it in a catfish pot."

The grandfather and grandson thought of the fat, tender and delicious catfish pot, and tears of nostalgia flowed from the corners of their mouths.Chu Yao lifted his spirits, and kept brushing off the mud on the two puppies, while nodding vigorously and said: "It's still grandpa who understands life, so I'll clean it up after lunch!"

The water puddle is just a little bit deeper in front of the house on the side of the road. Of course, this so-called roadside can be regarded as a roadside as long as you can go down and step on it.At noon, I had a meal of fried minced meat mixed with steamed eggplant. The minced meat was delicious and the eggplant was smooth and tender. There was no other disadvantage except the garlic taste after eating a mouthful.Coupled with the delicious cornmeal porridge, Chu Yao whetted his appetite as he chewed on his strong homemade steamed buns. In one meal, he had two bowls of porridge, two big steamed buns, and half a pot of steamed eggplant.

Even Grandpa Chu exclaimed with such a large appetite, and said, "It seems that he has done his work. I am afraid that he will be overwhelmed by eating like this."

Chu Yao made himself a pot of tea and carried it on his back, then went to the puddle with a rake and machete to copy the net.Grandma Chu, who came back from digging wild vegetables in the morning, said that she would sleep for a while and "drive" over to pick him up when she woke up. It would be even better if she could catch fish.

It is said here that it is a puddle, but it is actually formed by the lower limit of the stone mountain. Mountain springs flow into this depression all the year round and gradually form a puddle.However, because no one cleaned it up, water plants were entangled with shrubs around the puddle, and the inside was also covered with moss and water plants, making the water surface lush and green.

Not knowing the depth of the puddle, Chu Yao didn't dare to go in it.First stand on the solid shore and cut down the surrounding bushes, then take the weapon of the second senior brother, the nine-tooth rake, and push aside all the weeds and shrubs that have been cut down, and then reach into the water to pick up all the aquatic plants on the water surface.

Without the cover of these aquatic plants and moss, a puddle of clear water was revealed.But the mud at the bottom of the water is dark, and occasionally a bubble pops up, which seems to be fish.

After cutting down most of the bushes, Chu Yao found that the puddle was not small, and it was hidden from view before, but now it has revealed its true colors.The widest part of the puddle is at most five meters wide, but it is long.The long and narrow water puddle twists and turns into a moon shape, encircling half of the hill, and is about 200 meters in length.

When Grandma Chu arrived late, Chu Yao had just cut half a circle of bushes.Because he was wearing water pants, he was fearless, letting those little bugs fly up and down.Even the little water snake crawled around on its feet again, but he couldn't be too surprised.

"Yo, it's quite big." Grandma Chu took out her beloved machete, "I'll pack these up and take them home, they can be used as firewood after sun drying. What about water celery? It's a pity, chop it up. The chicken is good." In short, in the eyes of the old lady, everything on this mountain is precious, and nothing can be wasted.

Xiaobai sat on the car and yawned. He rubbed his round face first, then jumped out of the basket and walked gracefully to the water's edge.There was algae in the water, and the moss on the shore was muddy and wet.Xiaobai is a clean cat. He stretched out his paws and scratched the shore twice, then gracefully walked to Grandma Chu and watched her tie the bushes with long-stemmed grasses and ropes.

"Our Xiaobai is really smart." Grandma Chu likes these little things very much, especially Xiaobai. "I know clean and never go to dirty places."

Chu Yao glanced at Xiaobai during his break, and he felt that his three cats were too smart.Usually, I either sleep on the window sill, or squat in a clean place to watch people work.Not only does he not like chasing chickens and beating dogs, but he never even goes to those messy places.

The two naughty puppies have to check whether they are clean or not if they want to play with them.If they just took a shower and dried their hair, Xiaobai and Big Fatty can still lie down on them for a while.If his body was a little dirty, he didn't even look at it, and just ignored the dog.

The fat and fat cats are those two orange cats, one is a little girl and the other is a boy, with round heads and round brains, they only know how to eat, or they are laid out to bask in the sun, and the fluff all over their bodies explodes softly, like a big ball of dandelions .

Grandpa Chu not only made a fence for the chickens, but also packed a shelf in the storage room for raising seedlings.

Mix plant ash and some fertilizer with fertile soil, knead them into soil balls one by one, press the seeds into the balls, then put the balls into the box on the shelf, spray water and moisturize them every day to wait for the seedlings to emerge.His few cornfields were also tidied up, and the corn was planted.But the old man didn't plan to be idle, he went out for a walk every day to pick up some stones, and he planned to build another pigsty.

There are no other stones in the mountains. The wheelbarrow in the yard has become Grandpa Chu’s fragrant car. He picks up two carts every day. Not only the chicken pens are covered, but even the stones used to fix the fence Almost picked it up.The old man, whose hands were hot now, touched a piece of land to build a pigsty, and called Village Chief Kang to ask for some bags of cement, which he would bring back when he went out to the market.

The town outside the mountain has a big market every [-]th day of the Lunar New Year, selling everything.The happiest thing for Grandpa Chu and Grandma Chu now is to go to the market. They also bought a small bamboo basket to carry on their backs, and gradually moved from the town to the countryside in their clothes, and homemade clothes became standard.When I was videoing with my parents before, the two of them almost didn't recognize their parents.

This change is too big!

Two days after planting the rice seedlings, it will be another big market.

But on the first day of the market, Kang Yongshun called and said that it was going to be fishing in the morning, and asked Chu Yao to wait on the pier.

The small villages next to the lake in Taoyuan Village used to make a living from fishing, and all of them are good at water.It's just that young people are going out to work now, and it's not easy to transport aquatic products abroad, so fishing has become a self-sufficient activity.

There are a lot of people in several villages who want to eat fish, or if someone has a wedding or a wedding, they will pick a time to play a few nets, and if they can manage enough, they can dry some dried fish and make some cured and smoked fish, which is almost enough to eat. It's been a long time.

This time the fishing was specially prepared the day before the big market. Later, I cast a net and picked some to keep in the tank. I will go to the town early tomorrow morning before dawn, so that I can catch up with the big market and sell some pocket money.

The small boats that were upside down on the shore turned over and went into the water, and the fishing nets were all dried and packed.More than a dozen men carried their fishing nets onto the boat with joyful faces.

Seven or eight small boats sailed to the depths of the lake, sprinkled the fishing nets into the water section by section, and waited quietly for the fish to hit the net after turning around at both ends.After the fish hit the net, the boat began to row towards the shore.There are more and more fish in the net, and even pieces of white scales can be seen tumbling in the water.

The people on the shore were already ready, and they picked up the rope thrown back from the boat and pulled it back.If there are more fish and buffaloes are used, it will be a big harvest.

They use small nets with large meshes, basically only catching big fish and not small ones.There can be fifty or sixty in this net, each of which can be as long as an arm, fat and strong.

Chu Yao stood on the pier with his grandparents and grandma and looked up eagerly. The excitement only belonged to that side, and only Grandpa Chu made the sound of ordering food from time to time on his side.

"Slippery fish maw, braised fish with spicy smoked fish, stir-fried fish intestines and jelly scales, fried fish bones, fried fish balls and fried fish cubes..."

Grandma Chu couldn't laugh or cry: "It's not that I haven't eaten it before, so you are so greedy?"

"Can the fish in the supermarket taste the same as the freshly caught fish?" Grandpa Chu shook his head and said, "The water in this lake is so clear, and the fish is fat and strong. It must be delicious! Go to the market tomorrow and bring back some more tofu. Stewed tofu with fish head, baked some scallion pancakes, soaked in fish soup, very fragrant!"

This made Grandma Chu feel greedy, and now she has an appetite for food. In a blink of an eye, she felt that she hadn't eaten fish for a while, so she began to figure out how many ingredients she had at home and what kind of fish she could make.

Chu Yao swallowed hard, he was so hungry now.In the past, every time I ate, I thought that eating meat would be too greasy and I would be better off being a vegetarian, even if I ate vinegared Chinese cabbage, I would be satisfied.Now I don't know what's going on, I'm so greedy.Just looking at the lake water, I can feel the plates of fish dishes jumping up. I just had breakfast, but I still feel hungry.

Four or five nets were cast over there, and the nets were not closed until the sun was on the head.Kang Yongshun directly rowed over. There was a big basket on the boat, and the basket was full of fish.

"A piece of twenty, pick the big one for you." Village Chief Kang showed a simple and honest smile on his dark face, "Xiao Chu, does fishing look fun?"

Chu Yao laughed, and followed Village Chief Kang to carry the basket of fish to the pier.

A total of 400 fish, [-] yuan, WeChat transfer.After the ding dong, Village Chief Kang smiled even more happily, "I can earn some money by going to the market tomorrow. At least the textbook fees for my grandchildren will be paid for in the second half of the year."

While talking, he tied the boat to the pier, followed Chu Yao to put the fish basket into the wheelbarrow, and pushed it to the small building inside.This basket of fish is absolutely heavy, not something that Grandpa Chu and Chu Yao can handle.Village Chief Kang was also afraid that something might happen to the old and the young, but he was just helping out.

"Yo, it's well cleaned up." Village Chief Kang looked at the changed small building in front of him, and clicked his tongue, "It's very good, the chickens are also raised, and I will raise some ducks later. Worry is eaten. When I come back tomorrow, I will call a few people to help you fix the pigpen, and then go buy a few piglets, so you don’t need to buy meat from outside.”

"However, living in the village is a good thing. You don't have to worry about eating and drinking." Grandpa Chu was full of joy, and picked up the fish in the basket one by one into the pool in the backyard.

Village Chief Kang sighed: "Everything is good here, but going out is too troublesome. This mountain road was opened by Mr. Zhang. Mr. Zhang is kind and righteous. These villages in our mountain depression can occasionally go out to see the world. In the past, there were no roads, and it took a whole day to go out and climb the mountain, hey..."

Only then did Chu Yao know that the mountain road was opened by his uncle and grandma, and his grandma's surname was Zhang.No wonder the villagers are very enthusiastic about their family and even show the house for free. So there is such a reason.I just don’t know if the island was bought by my uncle and grandpa with that road, and it took more than a hundred years to exchange it, and I don’t know what the old man thought at the beginning.

"Take your time, it's getting better and better." Grandpa Chu asked again after finishing the fish, "How do you go to the market to sell fish tomorrow? Does Xiaokang have to drive you first?"

Village Chief Kang laughed and waved his hands and said, "No, we have motorcycles, so we can pull out one person and one basket. Huiguo's car is basically only used to pull people and bring some goods along the way. Very, who would be willing to sit down?"

Grandpa Chu's worry that had been hovering in his heart was gone.It is said that the fish is delicious but the smell is too bad. Even if he and Chu Yao can bear the fish in the car, Grandma Chu can't bear it either.Not to mention sitting back and forth.But Village Chief Kang can see that although the people in this village are poor, they are open and bright, and they are all quite good people.

Although Grandpa Chu doesn't smoke, he also knows how to treat guests.Village Chief Kang helped bring the fish back, so he went to the house to touch a pack of cigarettes that Chu Yao had bought in the town before, and stuffed them into the hands of Village Chief Kang.

Cigarettes are not expensive, about ten yuan a pack, but it is enough for Village Chief Kang to be happy.

In the evening, Grandma Chu stewed big fish in an iron pan and baked scallion pancakes.The whole family, including their pets, ate their bellies and sighed comfortably.

Kang Huiguo punted over early in the morning to pick up the grandpa and grandson to go to the market by car.There is no way, Chu Yao has not learned how to row a boat so far. Even if he passed the second subject at the beginning, when he picked up the oar, it seemed that his arms and brain were separated.After Kang Huiguo taught for a few times, his face was full of indescribable words.

"...It's so convenient to pull the cables on the piers on both sides and leave with just one pull." Chu Yao discussed with Kang Huiguo.

Kang Huiguo smiled heartily, and said: "Our village knows how to row a boat, and I never thought about it before. If you want to do it, I'll help you do it. I'll fix this boat to make it look better later, so grandparents can still come here often. It’s good to go around the village.”

This boat is specially used to bring goods and people to the island. I heard that it was also done by my uncle and grandpa.But after all, it has been too long, and the original shed of the boat is a bit old and looks dilapidated.But the wood used is good wood, said to be more than ten years old, neither attracts insects nor rots. Occasionally, it is also used to pick up relatives and goods in the village. It is the most magnificent boat in the village.

Chu Yao said that it would be good to repair the ropes, anyway, the Chu family will work in the village, and the boat repairs will be more beautiful, and it will also look good to meet the relatives, and everyone can take care of it.

The minibus in Kanghuiguo can hold about [-] people, and all the aunts and daughters-in-law in the village who want to go to the market have to take this car.

The baskets on his back were tied up on the roof of the car, and when everyone was ready, Kang Huiguo took a sip of strong tea, kicked the accelerator and started on the road.

At this time, the sky in the east turned slightly white, the black mountains and black lake gradually revealed their original colors, and the mist evaporated from the water surface, making this small valley look like a fairyland.

Grandpa Chu and Grandma Chu got carsick, so they sat in the front row.Chu Yao sat on the aisle with a ponytail, so he could take care of his grandparents.

He is tall, good-looking, and a man of culture.Every time he comes out, he will become the center of the topic, and many aunts and aunts will ask how old this guy is this year, and is there a date?Why do you want to go to the island to farm?

After all, in their minds, those who can go to work in a big city and drive on the subway with a computer are all elites, and good-looking girls and boys are simply the elites of the elites. ?

Chu Yao dealt with it with a smile, but said that he was tired from work and came to farm to relax, and he didn't say too much.

As soon as he arrived in town, Chu Yao received a call from the lawyer who got him the contract.

"I called you a few times just now but couldn't get through. I guess the signal on the mountain is not good." The lawyer said: "Xiao Chu, there is something I want to tell you, and see if you agree or not."

Chu Yao supported Grandma Chu to avoid the crowd, and asked, "What's the matter?"

The lawyer said: "Mr. Zhang had a friend back then, and he had a very good relationship. His friend had a grandson who was sick and wanted to find a quiet place to recuperate. He said he wanted to go to your place, look..."

Chu Yao was stunned, and said, "Why don't you go to a nursing home when you're sick? My place is far from the hospital, and it's not convenient to go back and forth."

The lawyer smiled and said: "It's okay, he just wants to find a place away from the hustle and bustle. Hey, we don't know what the rich think, obviously they don't bother to live in villas at home. And he said that he doesn't treat you badly in terms of money, so Eat and live like you, [-] a day..."

Chu Yao almost fainted, what kind of person is [-] a day?For that room in their small building, one hundred a day is too much!Of course, this is viewed from the consumer's point of view. After all, it is one's own home, and one's own living is of course how comfortable it is.

"How many people? When will you come? I have to tidy up a small building for him. Ten thousand a day won't be necessary... Well, it depends on how other people are." Too picky, let alone ten thousand a day, He doesn't want to wait for ten thousand an hour.He and his grandparents live here, and they don't let the old people serve as room service.

The lawyer said: "It doesn't need to be so troublesome, just one. I saw that the young man is quite handsome, at least he looks pleasing to the eye."

For some reason, Chu Yao heard a rush of pimping in the lawyer's words...