Village Flowers and Female Scholars

Soon it will be time for the autumn harvest. Eight mu of the ten mu of land rented by the Xie family is for rice planting. This is a big task, and it is also the busiest season of the year. Naturally, Xie Yan doesn't want the whole family to devote all their time to it. They are all consumed in the fields, so I plan to ask someone to collect them together.

The rented land has to be paid for by someone to help collect it. This operation is really incomprehensible to the villagers, but Xie Yan doesn't care about other people's eyes.

What they didn't expect was that Lan Xi directly pulled two horse-drawn carriages from the city to Xie's house. The boys' tanned faces were full of smiles, and each of them had a sickle pinned to their waists.

"Please invite someone, I have a lot of people here, I just need to take care of myself."

Lan Xi waved her hand like a nouveau riche, and seven or eight young men went out of the field waving their sickles.

Cao E said in her heart that it was impossible not to be moved, and Lan Xi's overtures made her defenses melt and retreat a little bit, but it took a while to have a good impression, but it was another thing to unload the burden in her heart.

The only thing she can do now is to cook delicious treats for them.

Mrs. Hua's family has little land, and seeing Xie Yankai cutting the rice, Genzi and his wife Chunhua also came to help with a sickle, and even Zhuang Wan, who has never done farm work, went to the field to cut the rice together tightly wrapped up.

Xie Yan felt sorry for the tender skin on the palms and backs of her hands, and sewed a pair of gloves for her overnight.

When Zhuang Wan put on the gloves, she didn't have any worries. Her waist, legs, and arms were also strong, and she worked hard with Heihu and the others.

Lan Xi doesn't work, she feels tired from bending over all the time, she might as well fight the bandits. She and Po Yu sat in the shade of a tree by the field and chatted, and saw Cao E carrying a straw hat A load of things came staggeringly, and hurried forward to take the load.

"It's a hot day. There's cold water here, so what are you busy with? I'll do it for you if you're not tired."

"It's too hot, cook some mung bean soup for the children to relieve the heat, and pat a few cucumbers to cool them down for a while."

Cao E wiped her sweat and said, whether she was in the Cao family or the married Xie family in the early years, she was the main force of the farm work, and she was the hardest and most tiring one. This is the most relaxing first year. autumn harvest.

When the boys in the field saw Cao E carrying something, they knew there was something to eat, so they put down their sickles and Ulala ran over.

Cao E hurriedly scooped mung bean porridge for them with a bowl. Seeing everyone sweating profusely, she felt distressed and moved, and kept saying thank you.

The boys laughed and said, as long as they can eat the delicious meals cooked by the aunt, they can cut the rice every day.

Just kidding, how could Cao E be willing to let these children work so hard every day, and they don't have so many fields.

Genzi and Chunhua are restrained couples, Xie Yan told them to go and have a rest, and then they put down their sickles and came to eat something to cool off the heat.

There is no mung bean growing in the village. The mung bean is sold from other places, and Cao E buys it when he goes to the county.

There is some sugar in the mung bean porridge, which quenches thirst and is not greasy. Genzi and Chunhua have never had mung bean porridge before, and they say it is delicious.

Seeing Zhuang Wan who was tightly wrapped, the cloth towel and clothes on her head were soaked with sweat, Cao E felt distressed and slapped her with a fan.

"This child has never done farm work since he was a child. How can a scholar do such work? Go and rest with your baby under the shade of a tree."

Zhuang Wan looked at Xie Yan with a puffy face and shook her head, her little girl is not tired, how could she go to rest first.

Besides, wheel endurance and stamina, as well as various other strengths, I am tall and have long legs, so I can't lose to such a little girl.

Cao E couldn't persuade Zhuang Wan, so she had to go and tell Granny Yu, who shook her head and said, "Da'ezi, you just like to worry. If she gets tired, she won't come back obediently. She hasn't done much work these years, so take advantage of this opportunity. Let her work for a while, there is no reason why a scholar should not go to the field. When her father went to the city to become an official, he planted the fields by himself at that time. When the autumn harvest came, he had to take advantage of the few days of Xiumu to come back Harvest the rice."

When Po Yu mentioned Zhuang Shijian, Lan Xi on the side lowered her eyebrows and said nothing. That man risked his life for his niece, and this kindness could never be repaid in his life.

After a moment of silence, she raised her head, her usual smile changed to her face, and said: "You just love to worry, Zhuang Wan's arm is a natural rice harvester, every day you eat and drink at your house, you have to let her Do it a little longer."

Zhuang Wan was buried by her grandmother and aunt, and she was not annoyed. After eating a few cucumber slices, she turned around and went to work again with a sickle.

With a lot of people and a lot of power, the eight mu of land was almost cut by the evening, so Cao E hurriedly packed up his things and went home to prepare dinner.

Seeing this, Lan Xi quickly got up and said, "I'll accompany her back to cook."

Yu Po looked up at the two of them: "Go back first, I'll keep the water for the children here, so that no insects will fall in."

Lan Xi sees that there are two people who can't wait for space, so she has to follow behind.

When Cao E heard footsteps behind her, she turned her head and looked at the pair in front of her. She felt that the eyes were too bright, so she quickly turned her head and said, "What are you doing following?"

"Accompany you back to cook, you despise me."

Every time Lanxi came to talk, she was more explicit than the last time, and Cao E gradually became less restrained and shy than before.

She spat on Lan Xi and said, "When did I dislike you? It's because I was afraid that you would be tired of this or that."

"Not tired, not tired," Lan Xi said with a smile, "I have never felt tired working with you."

Cao E hastened her pace with red ears, for fear that this person might say something too extreme.

After returning home, she hurriedly washed the rice and cooked, Lan Xi rolled up her sleeves to wash the vegetables, and the two of them worked together.

Seeing that Lanxi had nothing to do after washing the dishes, Cao E threw a pork leg to her and said, "Chop up the pork leg and make a stewed pork leg with soybeans later."

A large pork leg weighing more than ten kilograms, Lan Xi picked up the machete and chopped it up quickly.

Cao E didn't expect her to do it so quickly, and ordered her to kill the chicken while lighting the fire.

Lan Xi was busy going in and out, and she was very obedient.

Cao E had just stewed the pig's trotters, and then cut the bacon. When she picked up the kitchen knife, a pair of arms suddenly wrapped around her waist. Cao E shivered suddenly, and the kitchen knife almost fell off.

A hand at the waist moved forward to hold the kitchen knife and put it on the cutting board, and then retracted to touch her waist.

"Let go—" Cao E shouted in a low voice, both ashamed and annoyed.

At this time, Lan Xi was not as calm as she appeared on the surface, and she had been cheering herself up before putting her arms around her.

Because Cao E's attitude towards her at the moment, although a little ambiguous, seems to have a little acquiescence, as well as her previous temptations and provocations, the other party is not very disgusted, these phenomena make Lan Xi's courage It was getting bigger and bigger, so big that it stretched out its magic palm regardless.

She softened her voice and wanted to please Cao E and win the other party's favor.

"You let me chop pig's trotters for a while and kill chickens and wash vegetables for a while, but you don't feel sorry for me at all after working so long." Lan Xi embraced the little woman in front of her, aggrieved and domineering.

"You insisted on following up, and when you came back, you rushed to do it by yourself. You were still angry if I didn't do it to you. Now you say that I don't love you. What should I do to feel sorry for you!"

Feeling the two hot meat balls on the back, which were tightly attached, the touch was very clear, and Cao E's heart skipped a beat, but he tried his best to restrain his limp legs.

"It's true that I came up, I'm like a poor little dog, barking softly at your heels, your heart is so hard, don't you feel sorry for this little black dog..."

Cao E's scalp was numb from her self-described puppy, especially the warm breath behind her ears, which made the fine hairs on her ears stand on end.

"You... you and me... what kind of puppy... nonsense"

"You are so cruel, you are not willing to give such a poor puppy a look."

"You, you...you, hurry up and shut up!"

"Uuwuwuuwuwuwuuuuwuwuuwuwuwu..." Lan Xi shut up, but she was still muttering something.

Cao E's body was getting hotter and hotter. She wanted to break away from her hand, but Lan Xi hugged her tighter and tighter, and she felt every inch of her waist.

"Let go quickly," Cao E said in a low voice, "It will be bad if someone comes in later."

However, as soon as the words fell, there was movement outside the yard, as if someone had entered the yard.

Cao E was scared out of her wits in an instant and didn't dare to move. Seeing her like this, Lan Xi's heart became even hotter. Regardless of it, she moved her mouth next to her ear, and the tip of her tongue swept across the earlobe.

Cao E was so teased that she almost cried out, but she held back just as the sound was about to overflow her mouth.

She gritted her teeth, fearing that people outside would hear her, and when she couldn't help herself, she had to twist Lanxi's arm hard to make her stop.

In the face of beauty, Lan Xi didn't care about the pain on her arm, and took the opportunity to tease her severely. Seeing the forbearance of the little girl in front of her, she felt more and more satisfied.

It's a pity that a puppy who just brought the noise followed Wei'er to the door of the kitchen, interrupting the two who were wondering what they were doing.

Seeing that the puppy was very angry, Lan Xi interrupted her good deed, picked up a chicken leg from the table and threw it at it.

Cao E also saw clearly that it was a little black dog from Zhuang Wan's family, and finally relieved, she tried her best to break away from Lan Xi's arm, and stepped back with her heel.

Lan Xi was in pain, so she had to let go.

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When the last dish was put into the pot, the noise outside knew that the rice harvester had returned. The young men carried the rice to the new house at the back. In season, everyone goes back to harvest rice first, and the new house will temporarily store the rice, and wait for the rice to be threshed with a stone mill tomorrow.

The open space in front of the new house has been tamped, and the millet will be dried directly near the house, and there is no need to go to the public sun-drying field in the village, let alone queue up and send someone to guard it, which is troublesome.

When the new house was built, Xie Yan had already asked the workers to bring water directly to the house along the bamboo, and Lan Xi took a group of young men to the new house to wash their faces and feet.

Zhuang Wan was sweating profusely, it was rare to see her in such a mess, her pretty face was flushed from the sun, and she went straight home to take a shower after finishing work.

When she arrived, dinner had already started. There were two tables of people, one table of shirtless boys, and the other table of women and children. Xie Yan waved to her and reserved a seat for her.

Xie Yuangu had also finished school and brought Hu Niu over for dinner.

Cao E felt sorry for the hard work of the children harvesting rice, and put a lot of effort into eating it. Chicken, duck and fish are indispensable, soy stewed pig's trotters, and Lan Xi likes to eat cold salad. She took cucumbers and mixed mushrooms, and made a special one. The Dongpo meat taught by Xie Yan before, two large bowls of shiny Dongpo meat made the boys' eyes straighten, and they crazily grilled rice with a piece of meat.

Cao E was well versed in the food intake of coolie men, so she cooked two big pots of rice, one pot of white dry rice, and the other pot of white porridge, to keep her full.

"Aunt E still needs to grind the millet tomorrow, we still come, just give each of us a bowl of this sugar meat."

Cao E narrowed her eyes with a smile: "The shortage of so many millets is manpower. You have all been busy all day, so I don't have the cheek to speak up."

Lan Xi also ate and said: "I just let them stay, but it takes only a few people to grind the millet, and Heihu, Xiaoshu and Xiaohe stay."

The rest who were not named wailed again, explaining that they would not be able to eat meat tomorrow.

Cao E was overjoyed to see the family being so busy with these children, and this year's harvest was so good, and said, "I'll ask them to bring something delicious when they go back tomorrow."

The boys were happy and stopped howling, and continued to pick up vegetables. Although the Dongpo meat was amazing, other dishes were also good. The pig’s trotters were waxy enough, the chicken was smooth and tender, and the duck meat was chewy. There was no one in the Escort Make them something so delicious.

Lan Xi's eyes and brows were also full of smiles.

Amidst the commotion, Xie Yan said: "The rice is harvested now, but this straw is still very useful."

In modern times, fish farming in rice fields is an agricultural model, but another link can be added to form a "rice-fish-mushroom" ecological farming model, that is, after the rice is harvested, the remaining straw is piled with juice Fermented and can be used to grow Agaricus bisporus.

Not only that, after the mushrooms are harvested, they can be used as organic fertilizers in the farmland, forming a cycle.

Xie Yan explained this model to everyone in detail, and everyone admired her so much.

I have eaten rice flower fish, but no one can say anything if I have never seen this kind of mushroom.

Xie Yan said: "Now there are two plates of cold mushrooms on every dining table, and there are mushrooms in the chicken soup. These mushrooms are all made out of straw by me recently. It's a living example."

Yu Po said: "It's a pity that Cai Chu didn't come today, but you can talk to him about this method and see if anyone is willing to do it."

Zhuang Wan who had been eating quietly said: "Call Uncle Zhang again, he will definitely be willing to do it."

The others laughed as soon as they heard it. Everyone can see the admiration that old Zhangtou has for Xie Yan now, and they can't wait to worship Xie Yan as their teacher.

Xie Yan said: "That's fine, I'll talk to them tomorrow."

The author has something to say: I almost fell asleep after correcting the typo.

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