Wind back to the farm

Three employees said that the newly planted trees and flowers need to be carefully observed and maintained at any time, and they are consumed on the mountain day and night.

The original trip to Lihuaao was canceled by Shen Houren. He felt that the farm really couldn't do without him recently, so he asked to save this opportunity to go to Lihuaao and spend more time in the future.

Of course Li Xia’s side is fine, he and his grandparents planted a few trees together, and his uncle and aunt treated the three employees to a meal of dumplings. The matter is over, and Li Xia runs between Daji Ridge and the farm every day by himself. Provide food and drinks to employees.

At eleven o'clock that day, Li Xia ordered a mushroom hot pot at the snack bar while waiting for his uncle and aunt to prepare a staff meal for him.

After eating a few mouthfuls, Qi Zeda came and ordered a casserole of spicy noodles. While eating, he chatted with him about purchasing stone materials in the village.

The stone factories that Qi Zeda, Qi Dexian, and Qi Xiuxian read on the Internet are no longer used. Qi Changyu helped them contact a stone factory in Xikun. When he went there to investigate a murder case a few years ago, he went to that factory to collect evidence. I saw with my own eyes that the stones of that store were simple and beautiful in color and solid in texture. Just now Qi Zeda had a phone call with the factory manager, and the goods had already been shipped there.

Li Xia was very happy to hear that.

The renovation plan for Huaijiang around Dajiling has already been completed. Now that the stone materials are ready, when the farm builds the peripheral roads in a few days, they can start construction together. This will not only save the construction period, but also save materials.

A few half-grown children rushed into the store and ordered three casserole stews, four self-service small hot pots, several sweet potato pancakes and egg pancakes. It was Dajiling Middle School after school.

Li Xia finished eating immediately, Qi Zeda looked at him and lowered his head to stir his noodles.

Li Xia felt that he seemed to have something to say, but he couldn't speak, so he took the initiative to ask: "Uncle Da, what's the matter?"

"One thing, hehe." Qi Zeda was very embarrassed, "It's yours, the one you asked Xiuxian to give us, is there any more? If there is, uncle wants to buy some."

Li Xia said: "Before the farm opens, let's send some raw melons, pears and dates between us, it has nothing to do with business."

Qi Zeda said: "I want to ask for more. If you don't take the money, uncle won't be able to ask for it."

Li Xia said: "That's Shen Houren's snack, too much may not work."

Qi Zeda said: "Is a hundred catties okay? Mainly my parents and grandma, after eating the apples and pears you gave, they don't want to eat the ones Songxing and Minzhi bought. you."

In fact, it was the ones that the whole family didn't want to eat and buy, including himself.

Li Xia said, "A hundred catties is a bit much, maybe sixty catties."

The fruit is heavy, and sixty catties is not much, but Qi Zeda is still very happy: "Okay, we all eat what they bought from Songxing, and let my grandma eat yours alone. Her old man has an apple or pear a day, six Ten catties is enough for her to eat this winter."

After Li Xia waited for Qi Zeda to finish eating, he took a large portion of specially made rice bowls for three employees, and went with him to No. 39 South Street, and packed him a straw basket and a large plastic bag, unweighted, sixty catties Just more and less.

Qi Zeda wanted to give money, but Li Xia pushed him out of the gate.

Back in the yard, I took out my phone to see where the wild vegetable seeds I ordered the day before yesterday had arrived. When my WeChat rang, I received a red envelope, Qi Xiuxian’s, and there was a line underneath: Uncle Da insisted on giving it. If you don’t accept it, it’s me If you didn't speak for him well, you can figure it out.

Li Xia dialed Qi Zeda's phone number: "Uncle Da, apples and pears are the most common fruits here, and they can't sell for 50 a catty."

Qi Zeda said: "Songxing and Minzhi bought 38 catties of apples, which they said were imported; a box of cherries, 3 catties, 388; a basket of strawberries, 5 catties, 400. Uncle will give you something to try?"

Qi Zeda's two sons and daughters, Qi Songxing and Qi Minzhi, are outstanding among their peers in Dajiling. Qi Songxing is the youngest professor at Jiushang University, and Qi Minzhi is a well-known lawyer in Huayuan Province. On weekends, I must go back to Dajiling with big bags and small bags. For the family, except for the fact that the two of them will not fall in love or get married, that is really the best child. The two have high incomes, and it is expensive to buy things at home. .

Li Xia was helpless: "Uncle Da, the problem is that my apples and pears are not on the shelves for sale."

Qi Zeda said: "This further shows that I have taken advantage of it. Others have money and have no place to buy it."

Li Xia couldn't say no to him, hung up the phone and took the 3000 yuan, and then checked the postal information of the seeds, which showed that the goods had been received.

Just as he was wondering, the message came, and the courier delivered it to the small supermarket. He rode Wuya to pick it up, and met Qi Xiuxian at the entrance of the supermarket.

Seeing no one around, Li Xia asked him, "Uncle Da asked me for apples and pears, why didn't he listen to you?"

Qi Xiuxian said: "Of course I'm sorry, the thing is not yours, it was brought by Shen Houren thousands of miles away, if you don't want money, how can I ask you for it?"

Li Xia said: "It's so particular, be careful that you won't have food in the future."

Qi Xiuxian smiled and said, "Will you?"

Li Xia also laughed: "When you've finished eating, go get some more. Although it's not much, you still have some."

Qi Xiuxian said: "I divided it into three shares, and our family still has more than half of it, which is stored in the cellar. My grandparents want to try to see if they can save it until next year, and use it for the big sacrifice."

Li Xia was stunned: "It's not Chinese New Year yet. Even if next year's grand priest is held in early summer, it will take seven or eight months. The cellar is not the storage space in the novel, how can it be kept for such a long time."

Qi Xiuxian was also very helpless: "That's what I said too, but my grandparents and my parents insisted on trying. It's not like you don't know how devout people in our village are to the great priest. If such a good fruit can't be dedicated to Jiuzhou Mountain God, my grandparents and my parents will feel guilty for the rest of my life."

Li Xia suddenly realized: "Uncle Da's house hasn't finished eating, has he? He wants to buy more to save, maybe there will be a few well-preserved ones by then, right?"

Qi Xiuxian said: "You guessed it right, sister Dexian's house is also the same. Brother Changyu came back last week and didn't go out for two days. He was just deepening the cellar. I thought that if it was deeper and the temperature was more constant, those apples and pears would be preserved." more likely."

Li Xia said: "Didn't you tell them that my farm will be able to grow such fruits next year?"

Qi Xiuxian said: "That's right, they said that the taste of crops and melons and fruits is not only related to the variety, but also has a lot to do with the soil conditions and the local climate, sunshine time, temperature difference and so on. They said that Shen Houren's fruits are The ones grown in the capital city are nearly [-] kilometers away from ours, and the geographical conditions and climate are very different. Even if it is a variety cultivated by Shen Houren himself, if the place is changed, the things grown will not be exactly the same.

If you don't experience the devotion of the elders in our village to the great priest, you don't know how far it has reached. What they want is the 'best', the most, you know?They almost felt uncomfortable, especially this time, I washed a large plate directly after I took it back, and the whole family has one plate. Now they all regret it, saying that they should let one person eat first. After finding out that it is so good, they can’t Eat it again and collect it all. "

"Huh..." Li Xiachang sighed, not knowing what to say.

Dajiling has a unique festival of its own, which is unknown when it started—the Great Sacrifice.

That is the grandest and most important festival in Dajiling. Compared with Dajiling, the importance of Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival in the hearts of Dajiling people is only a little more important than weekends.

But there is no fixed time for a festival that Dajiling people attach so much importance to. It can be held from early summer to late autumn, and the decisive factor is the quality of the fruit.

If summer fruits such as watermelons, melons, and peaches are particularly good this year, the elders of Dajiling will set the time for summer; if the summer fruits are average, the elders will set time for melons and fruits. The crops are harvested at the same time in autumn.

However, in recent decades, after more people went out to work, the season time of the Great Sacrifice was uncertain, but the specific time was agreed upon, which must be on weekends.

The offerings for the great sacrifices are not the sacrifices that are necessary for major sacrifices in other places in Huaxia Kingdom. Instead, they are all agricultural products, various pasta and fruits. Pasta used to be steamed buns, fried cakes and noodles of various flavors , buns, dumplings, cakes, and now there are more southern foods such as rice, river noodles, yuanxiao, and zongzi.

Fruits used to be as important as pasta. In recent years, there has been a trend of catching up with pasta. Dajiling people who work outside are willing to buy no matter how expensive the fruit is for the great sacrifice.

The Great Sacrifice also has another feature that is different from the sacrificial activities in other places: there are sacrifices, but no worship.

People in Dajiling have to take a bath the night before the big sacrifice, and they will wear the most beautiful new clothes on the day. Good sacrifices are placed on nine stone tables in the center of South Street. The elders step back more than ten meters and say loudly to the south, "Jiuzhou Mountain God, please accept our heart", and the villagers can cheer They went to do their favorite things: swinging, walking on stilts, kicking shuttlecocks, throwing sandbags, climbing trees, playing chess, reciting poems in pairs, dog-planing in the river, looking for their favorite food in front of each house...etc. , as long as you don't stay at home and don't move, you can do anything.

There are no lengthy sacrificial offerings, and there is no kneeling on the ground, and the villagers don't even need to have a deep and serious expression. They are relaxed, happy, and full of vitality, which is the eternal theme of the day of the great sacrifice.

Li Xia has never participated in the Great Sacrifice, because only people from Dajiling are allowed to participate in the festival of Dajiling. The only ones who can participate in Li's family are grandma Qi Fengyi, aunt Qi Yunqiu and Li Xia's mother Qi Feiyan.

But after Qi Feiyan left home 22 years ago, she never participated in it again. Every time she came back, she deliberately avoided the time when the chief priest and Li Xia were at home.

Although the uncle and the children are descendants of Dajiling people, they cannot participate because their surname is not Qi.

There is one clause in the agreement that uncle and aunt bought the Dajiling yard, that is, whether Li Qu or Li Chen inherits the yard, their descendants must have the surname Qi, otherwise, the Dajiling village has the right to take back the yard.

Grandpa, grandma, uncle and aunt have no objection to this.

Grandpa is very open-minded. He feels that the child is his own, and it doesn't matter what his last name is.

Although Li Xia had never participated in the Great Sacrifice, he had heard it said countless times. He was very aware of the dedication and devotion of the Dajiling people to the Great Sacrifice, so he lost his mind for a while.

He asked Qi Xiuxian: "Does it mean that even if I give you ten more baskets, you won't be able to eat one?"

Qi Xiuxian said: "Nine out of ten."

Li Xia said: "Then I won't give it to you. If you want to eat, you can go to me. I'm not here. It's the same with Shen Houren and others. Shen Houren is stingy in his words and not stingy in his work."

Qi Xiuxian said: "I know this, I just want to ask you, is there any way to get my parents and grandparents to get rid of this idea, this year's big sacrifice has not been two months, and I am preparing for next year's sacrifice, really... "

This year's grand sacrificial ceremony was held two weeks before Li Xia's return, and it was only a few days and two months before today.

"No way." Li Xia shook his head. He didn't have this kind of belief, and he couldn't understand the feelings of the Dajiling people. He treated the great god in the Shenyi Tomb more like a playmate-a person who can be imagined in the world. Playmates who interact with themselves.

"Then let's do this first." Qi Xiuxian waved his hand, "Sister Dexian went to Qinghe for a meeting, and I want to teach her two lessons."

Li Xia put the courier package on the back seat of Wu Ya, waved his hand and left.

The weather forecast will have moderate snow the day after tomorrow. After the snow falls, the old people and children in the village will not leave the village easily. The three employees said that the weather has no effect on them, which makes Li Xia think about the various seeds that he will use tomorrow spring Even if they send it, they will do the job.

Shepherd's purse is actually a general term for many kinds of wild vegetables, which grow in wheat fields. The wild vegetables in Dajiling area are called noodle vegetables, white cauliflower, and purple cauliflower. People in the city call shepherd's purse.

Li Xia bought this kind of seeds. Now they are planted together with wheat. After a winter of cultivation, next February, they will be wild vegetables that are highly praised by nutrition experts. When digging, pay attention to them, and they will not be needed in the future. If you plant it again, it will grow all over the ridge and roadside every year.

After getting the seeds, he went home to pick up the staff meals, walked to the second door, and Li Xia said: "Come and come with me, you don't need to sneak around anymore."

Shanxia and Quxia, who were obediently squatting at the door of the kitchen, glanced at each other, and Quxia ran over happily.

Li Xia flicked it on the forehead: "Am I that useless? I still need you to protect me in my own home?"

The big dog happily wagged his tail and rubbed against his trousers.

Li Xia turned his head and waved hands with Shan Xia, Fei Fei and Kang Kang, and went out humming a little song.

On the day Feifei and Kangkang came, he asked Shanxia and Qiuxia to stay at home with the two new little guys. Although the two dogs were not happy, they obediently agreed.But before he and Huaijiang walked out of No. 1 hill, they felt Shanxia's breath. In the following days, the two dogs followed him in the dark in turn, and never fell behind.

Li Xia deeply felt that he and his two dog sons had been bonded for at least eight lifetimes, otherwise how could they treat him like this?He was kind to Gou Zi in this life, and the two Gou Zi did nothing, just being with him was enough to pay off.

After humming a tune he had arranged randomly, the big dog jumped up and down happily, and howled at the wolf in Fenghuiling in the distance.

Li Xia laughed out of relief.

Accompanied by a good son, I am in a better mood and feel that the road is much closer.

After turning over the No. 8 mountain, Li Xia felt even better when he saw the clear Chongming Lake and the winding path in the forest.

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感谢在2020-03-1919:42:35~2020-03-2020:55:21期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who threw the grenade: the cloud is light and the wind is light, near noon, wsxhbs1;

Thanks to the little angels who irrigate the nutrient solution: 22 bottles of Yuchen; 20 bottles of Yuxu;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!