Ba Zong's rural life [farming]

After a while, the beans and loofahs planted in front of the house matured in batches. Ruan Xishi picked some and put them home, and gave some to neighbors. There were still many melons and beans on the fence that were about to be harvested.

The loofah vines are all over the fence, and the leaves grow luxuriantly. It looks green from a distance, but the loofah that has formed is hidden under the layers of melon leaves due to gravity. If you don’t search carefully, you can’t find it at all.

The weather is also getting hotter now, and the room is very stuffy at night, and people will sweat all over if they stay inside. After eating, everyone chooses to move a small bench to the door of the house or the side of the road to enjoy the cool and chat.

Ruan Xishi's house is a bit remote, not as lively as the center of the village, and he only meets neighbors for a walk occasionally, and most of the time it's just him, Lu Ze and Xiao Hui.

The loofah chooses to bloom in the evening. As soon as the loofah flowers bloom, they will attract many hummingbirds. They flap their wings and put their long beaks into the stamens, sucking the nectar and pollinating the melon flowers.

Ruan Xishi didn't understand when she was a child, she thought it was a bad bug that ate melon flowers and destroyed their loofahs, and broke off wormwood branches to drive them away, until her grandfather told him that they would pollinate the male and female flowers of loofahs, so that the female flowers would bear fruit After the loofah is old, the loofah seeds inside can be kept for planting in the second year.

There are also fireflies attracted by the loofah. Although these little things look beautiful, they like to attach to the melon leaves and eat up the melon leaves and destroy the melon flowers. Ruan Xishi loves and hates them after knowing the truth.

The summer night sky in the village is clear, and the moon and stars can be clearly seen. This will be close to the Dragon Boat Festival. The moon is a thin first-quarter moon, and the Milky Way is right next to it.

In the past, Lu Ze had been to the Antarctic and the North Pole to see the night sky. The most beautiful Milky Way he had ever seen was in Pennsylvania, USA. The sky full of stars once shocked him a lot.

But the beautiful scenery was with the help of astronomical telescopes. Now this piece of starry sky is indeed seen with my own naked eyes. Although the clarity is not as good as the effect brought by astronomical telescopes, it gives people a feeling of reality and remoteness.

Ruan Xishi was sitting next to him, as long as they moved, their arms would touch each other. Ruan Xishi's body temperature was low, sticking to his strong arm, bringing a bit of coolness to the hot summer night.

He pointed to the brightest star on a mountain and said to Lu Ze, "That's the North Star!"

Lu Ze followed the direction he was pointing at, roughly calculated the direction, and made sure that it was Polaris, so he asked Ruan Xishi with a smile, "Do you know astronomy?"

Ruan Xishi proudly said: "My grandfather taught me this, he knows a lot of things."

As he spoke, he pointed to the location next to him and said firmly, "That's the Big Dipper!"

Lu Ze looked over again, and saw seven stars regularly distributed in a spoon shape, and the chicken leg was indeed the Big Dipper. He smiled and praised Ruan Xishi: "You know a lot."

Ruan Xishi scratched her head embarrassingly and said, "Actually, I can only see these two, and I don't understand the others very well. But I know that if you can see the Big Dipper clearly at night, then the next day must be sunny."

Comparable to the stars are the fireflies flying everywhere. When they are tired from flying, they will stop in the grass on the side of the road. Only the twinkling of their tails can reveal their position.Xiao Hui was full of curiosity about this world, it raised its front paws and pounced on it, disturbing the fireflies to dance again.

Lu Ze lives in the urban area, and rarely sees this kind of romantic insects. He fished for a place that was flickering in mid-air, and caught a firefly. He put his fist back in front of him, as mysterious as a child Looking into the palm of his hand, Ruan Xishi was attracted to come over, and they didn't mind if their foreheads touched their foreheads.

The little firefly stayed in Lu Ze's palm and shone brightly, illuminating Lu Ze's palm prints. Lu Ze's palm prints were clear and deep, which was the fate of the rich and powerful. Attracted by his palm prints, he held his hand and studied it carefully.

After a while he raised his head and said, "Brother Lu Ze, I think you must have been a big shot before you lost your memory."

Lu Ze laughed: "Apart from astronomy, do you also know palmistry?"

Ruan Xishi said in a straightforward manner: "Palm reading is not always reliable. Some gentlemen can tell their fortunes by reading palm reading because they are born with hardships, their palms are full of various lines, and some palm lines are blurred by calluses. For those who do not need to do heavy work, the palm prints are relatively clear, of course, this is not absolute."

Lu Ze smiled and wanted to see his palm prints, Ruan Xishi generously stretched out his hand to show him, because the light was not good, Lu Ze could only observe with the help of touch.

Ruan Xishi's palms were smooth, and he could feel three distinct palm lines, which was completely different from the rough palms he imagined after working in the farm for a long time, he smiled and said: "In this way, you should also be a rich person. "

Ruan Xishi only felt that his palms were itchy, as if electric currents were transmitted to his hands through Lu Ze's fingers, itching so much that he rolled up his palms, and said with a smile: "So I said palm reading may not be accurate, I just It’s just that you have this illusion because you don’t do much farm work. My grandfather and some old friends told me that I was destined to be rich, but my grandfather and I didn’t believe it, and I’m still farming in the village. Just listen to things like fortune-telling, after all, it’s still up to man, and man will conquer nature.”

Lu Ze listened to what he said, and nodded with a smile.

In a few days, it will be the Dragon Boat Festival. The Dragon Boat Festival is a big festival in the village. On the eve of the Dragon Boat Festival, every household has to pick zong leaves to make rice dumplings. , the stoves in every household do not stop, and there is smoke from sunrise to sunset.

Naturally, Ruan Xishi couldn't fall behind, he could make do with it alone, but with Lu Ze around, he wanted Lu Ze to have a good holiday no matter what.

So he picked off the loofah and beans at the door of the house, and put them neatly into baskets, almost as many as one basket. He and Lu Ze worked together to tie the baskets firmly to the tail seat of the motorcycle with elastic bands, and then Lu Ze planted them Take him and Luokung to the town.

As the festival approaches, the price of vegetables soars. The loofah and beans that cost two yuan a catty on weekdays sell for five yuan a catty today, and there are a lot of people buying them.Ruan Xishi and Lu Ze got along well, and the dishes were fresh, which attracted a lot of big sisters and aunts to buy them. You want a catty of loofah, I want two handfuls of beans, and it didn't take long for them to be sold out.

Ruan Xishi gave Lu Ze all the money to count, shook out the baskets, cleaned up the garbage on the ground, came back and asked, "Brother Lu Ze, how much did we earn today?"

Lu Ze gave him a finger with a smile.

Ruan Xishi was stunned, and said a little excitedly: "We actually made so much money! It's amazing!"

This was the first time that Ruan Xishi made so much money. Although the money was nothing compared to Lu Ze's worth, seeing how happy he was, Lu Ze himself became happy too.

Ruan Xishi tied the basket to the motorcycle, and led Lu Ze into the big market with great interest. He wanted to buy some fresh glutinous rice, beans, ribs and pork, and made meat dumplings for Lu Ze when he returned home.

Because everyone wants to make zongzi, the supply of pork spareribs in the market is in short supply. Pork ribs that usually cost more than ten yuan per catty sell for more than twenty yuan per catty, and pork belly costs more than ten yuan per catty.

Even so, Ruan Xishi still extravagantly bought two catties of pork ribs, one catty of pork belly, several catties of glutinous rice, one catty of mung beans, and some fruits.

They left with a full load, and returned with a full load. When they returned to the village, they met acquaintances on the way, and they joked with them, "Shizai, did you go to the town with Ah Ze to go shopping again?"

Ruan Xishi was sitting in the car, the car was going a bit fast, he could only turn his head and answer loudly: "Yes, I bought a lot of things!"

In the village, if you can go to the town to buy a lot of things, it is something worth showing off, which means that your family's economic situation is good, the living standard is high, and it means that their family is living well.

Back home, Ruan Xishi was holding the pork belly in his left hand and the ribs in his right hand. As soon as he entered the house, Xiao Hui who heard the sound rushed over with his tail, raised his front paws and kept reaching for the pork ribs in Ruan Xishi's hand.

Ruan Xishi joyfully raised the bag up and teased it, "Greedy ghost, Xiao Hui, this is not for you to eat."

Xiao Hui wilted immediately, whimpered with grievance, and drooped his tail, listlessly.

Ruan Xishi was overjoyed, so she coaxed it and said, "I'm lying to you, silly little gray, but I can't eat it yet, I have to wait until it's cooked tomorrow."

After putting away the things I bought today, Ruan Xishi picked up the sickle and said to Lu Ze, "I'll go to Zhushan to pick some bamboo leaves and boil them for making zongzi tomorrow."

Lu Ze said, "Let me help too."

There are also a lot of people in Zhushan, most of them come to pick zong leaves. There is a large piece of reed leaves growing at the foot of Zhushan. This is the most lush time, a piece of dark green. Ruan Xishi went over and picked some intact and insect-free Kong's Ruo leaves were cut off with a sickle and put into the bamboo basket Lu Ze was carrying.

"Shizai, are you coming to pick the reed leaves to make rice dumplings too?"

Ruan Xishi replied: "Yes, let's pack a few and have a taste."

"Hey, I just plan to pack a few more and send them to you. How troublesome it is for you to make zongzi all by yourself. Are you busy?"

Ruan Xishi smiled and said, "I'm not alone, brother Lu Ze is there to help, but thank you auntie, I don't need to bother you."

When the aunts saw Lu Ze who was following Ruan Xishi, they all smiled and shook their heads: "They are all from the same village, so there is no need to see each other like this. Hey, but with Ah Ze here, you don't have to work so hard, Shizi. fine."

Ruan Xishi turned her head when she heard the words, and smiled implicitly at Lu Ze.

After picking the reed leaves, I have to go to the bamboo mountain to hook bamboo leaves, make rice dumplings with reed leaves, and wrap rice dumplings with cold bamboo leaves. This is the first time Lu Ze cooks for the Dragon Boat Festival in the village, and it may be the only time. Ruan Xishi wants to make some for him. Try it out.

Bamboo leaves are broad sweet bamboo leaves. Sweet bamboo grows tall, with leaves halfway up. Picking is particularly troublesome. You need to tie a sickle to the bamboo pole to hook it, and it takes a long time to pick a few.

Ruan Xishi also came to pick it with his grandfather before, but his neck was sore and he didn't pick it enough. Ruan Xishi was shorter than his grandfather, and he had to stand on tiptoe to reach it.

Lu Ze saw how hard he was hooking, so he took the bamboo pole from him, and he could hook the bamboo with a single lift of his hand. He hooked a bamboo branch in one fell swoop, and Ruan Xishi cut off the bamboo leaves with a knife, and soon enough bamboo was picked. leaf.

Not only the two of them picked bamboo leaves on the bamboo mountain, but also many people, and some even dug a few bamboo shoots to cook at home, and gained a lot.

Ruan Xishi saw that there were still a lot of beans and loofahs at home, so she gave up the idea of ​​digging bamboo shoots to eat at home, but she still had to collect some dead bamboo sticks to make fire at home, cooking rice dumplings would burn a lot of firewood!

So on the way home, Ruan Xishi carried a bamboo basket full of zong leaves in his hand, and Lu Ze carried a handful of bamboo sticks on his shoulder.

Someone in the village has already hung calamus and mugwort leaves at the door of their house. Smoke is coming from the chimney, and the fragrance of boiled zong leaves can be smelled through the walls. It looks peaceful and peaceful at dusk.

Ruan Xishi also felt the festive atmosphere, and his whole person became cheerful. He was so excited that he kept telling Lu Ze about the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival in the village. He felt that he hadn't celebrated a festival for a long time since his grandfather passed away.

A few young girls walked towards them, holding mugwort and calamus in their hands. They should have just returned from the slope. When they saw Ruan Xishi and Lu Ze, they all lowered their heads. Unmarried young girls are always shy when they see the opposite sex, let alone It's Lu Ze and Ruan Xishi who are so good-looking of the opposite sex.

Ruan Xishi and Lu Ze stood gracefully on the side of the road to make way for the girls. When the girls passed by them, they secretly looked at them from the corner of their eyes. It was unknown who gave a nasty laugh first. They got confused and started fighting in front of Ruan Xishi and Lu Ze, laughing like silver bells.

There was a petite girl who was pushed in front of Ruan Xishi by others, that girl glared at her companions angrily, in exchange for louder laughter from her companions.The girl timidly walked up to Ruan Xishi, stretched out her hand and handed over a prismatic sachet.

Before Ruan Xishi realized what happened, the girls burst into laughter, and someone took the lead in explaining: "Shizai, this is the sachet given to you by sister Axiang, you have to put it away carefully, don't let it down Our sister Ah Xiang's heart."

"That's right, Sister Xiang has been sewing for a long time."

The girl named A Xiang put the sachet into Ruan Xishi's hand when she heard the words, and turned around in embarrassment to chase her little sisters without caring about Ruan Xishi's reaction. Laughter, laughter spread far, far away.

Ruan Xishi, who was at a loss with a sachet in his hand, and Lu Ze, who was full of fun, were left behind.

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