Ba Zong's rural life [farming]

At night, Ruan Xishi sat in front of the coffee table, took out all the money from selling vegetables today, and put it on it to count.

When Lu Ze came in after washing his clothes, he saw Ruan Xishi's back counting the money. He was holding the money in both hands, muttering words, looking focused, like a little miser. Lu Ze couldn't hold back for a moment, and laughed out loud.

Ruan Xishi was caught by his sudden smile and forgot where she had counted to. He wrinkled his face in distress and muttered: "Oh, it's all your fault. When you smile, I get confused."

Lu Ze walked over with a smile, sat on the sofa and looked at him, knowingly asked, "How much did you earn today?"

Ruan Xishi lowered his head and counted again. After counting, he mysteriously raised two fingers to Lu Ze, with an uncontrollable smile on his face, and whispered: "We have earned so much!"

He didn't say a specific number as if he was afraid that the wall had ears and someone would overhear it.

Lu Ze raised his eyebrows and asked, "200 yuan?"

Ruan Xishi nodded excitedly: "Our small treasury has added a sum of money. If this continues, we will definitely save a large sum of money before the Chinese New Year. Then we will be able to do many years of goods and have a good New Year!"

Thinking of this year's Spring Festival because my grandfather just passed away, I was alone, and even the New Year was deserted and muddled.He figured it out. Grandpa's death is an established fact and cannot be changed. Even if he is blindly depressed, it will do nothing but make himself miserable and grandpa can't feel at ease. live on.

As long as Ruan Xishi thinks about celebrating the Spring Festival with Lu Ze, he can't wait for tomorrow to be New Year's Eve. He is full of motivation, and even took out a pen and paper to show Lu Ze his plans for the second half of the year.

"After planting the field, I shoveled all the loofah and beans in front of the door, turned the field over, sprinkled pepper seeds, and then plowed the slope again. When the pepper seedlings grew, I transplanted them to the slope and planted them There are hundreds of plants, pick chili peppers and sell them. Hmm...then interplant some soybeans and corn in the chili field, and leave two depressions to plant sweet potatoes, which can be harvested in winter, and can be sold or eaten slowly at home. At the door of the house The land is reserved for planting peas, garlic, and ginger, and some lettuce, carrots, and cabbage can be planted in the vegetable field. When the millet is harvested in the second season, the field will be plowed, and potatoes and Chinese cabbage will be planted, so that they can be eaten next spring. Sell ​​money."

Ruan Xishi became more and more excited as he talked, and even fantasized about a bumper harvest. He and Lu Ze transported a motorcycle of vegetables to the town, and the money they sold was hard to count, and then they added some home appliances and furniture to the house, and raised a few more chickens. duck.

Lu Ze has been looking at Ruan Xishi with gentle eyes, with a doting smile on his face. He is infected by Ruan Xishi's enthusiasm, and feels that the blueprint Ruan Xishi made for him is very beautiful. Ruan Xishi is using his own method to give him a better life. Better life, so pure mind is good.

Ruan Xi pulled Lu Ze and chattered non-stop until he couldn't help yawning, only to realize that it was very late. He covered his mouth to stop the yawn, stuck out his tongue and said to Lu Ze: "It's time to sleep. Good night, Brother Lu Ze."

Lu Ze stroked his soft hair and said with a smile, "Good night, Xiao Ruan."

Ruan Xishi just stepped into the door, then suddenly turned around and said to Lu Ze who was also about to enter the bedroom, "I'll make corn cakes for you tomorrow."

When Lu Ze heard about the food, he had some expectations. He lived with Ruan Xishi for so long, and Ruan Xishi unknowingly made him a foodie. He wanted to try all kinds of strange foods.He nodded and said, "Okay, I'll get up tomorrow and help you."

Most of the corn that was processed in the mill yesterday turned into coarse corn flakes, and a small part was ground into powder. The corn flakes were used to feed chickens and ducks, and the corn flour was used to make food.

Corn cake is made by mixing corn flour and flour in a certain proportion, pouring a small amount of soda powder and white sugar into it, cracking two eggs, stirring it into a thick paste with chopsticks, and pouring it into a tray brushed with a layer of peanut oil , steamed in the pot.

Ruan Xishi was actually the first time to make this by himself. He had only seen his grandfather make it before, but he likes to eat corn cakes, so he wanted to make it himself for Lu Ze to try.

He remembered the order, so it wasn't difficult to do it. In the eyes of Lu Ze, a layman, he was able to do it with ease. There was nothing Lu Ze could do to help, so he could only help pass things.

The corn cakes need to be steamed for half an hour, Lu Ze is in charge of lighting the fire, and Ruan Xishi mixes the leftovers with corn flakes and rice bran, and feeds them to chickens and ducks.

In addition to feeding leftovers, the chickens and ducks also fed some millet during the threshing process. The millet fell from the ears of rice to the tarpaulin. Because it was too broken and mixed with the straw, it was not placed with the threshed millet. Together, but to feed chickens and ducks.

The poultry were fed well by Ruan Xishi during this period, and they laid eggs diligently, almost one a day, and they were obviously bigger. Ruan Xishi picked up the eggs in comfort, and said to the chickens and ducks that kept pecking: "Eat more , Lay your eggs well, and when our family lives a good life, we will definitely not treat you badly."

The chicken and duck seemed to understand what he said, and they ate more happily.

When Lu Ze saw Ruan Xi came back with more than a dozen eggs, he was surprised: "It's only been a day, did you lay so many eggs again?"

Ruan Xishi carefully put the eggs away, and said with a smile, "Yes, maybe it's because the weather is good during this period, they eat, drink and sleep well, so they lay more eggs."

When the time was almost up, Ruan Xishi lifted the lid of the pot and waited for the steam to dissipate. He poked the corn cake with his chopsticks and saw that the corn cake was no longer sticking to the tip of the chopsticks, so he greeted Lu Ze and said, "The corn cake is ready to eat. .”

He took out the tray and cut it into pieces with a fruit knife. The cornmeal mixed with flour was fluffy, smelling the fragrance of corn, the sweetness of eggs and sugar, and it made your mouth water when you didn't eat it.

Lu Ze couldn't wait to pick up a piece and put it in his mouth. Even though it was still a little hot, he didn't care to eat it.

The taste is a bit similar to the cake embryo, but the taste is rougher than the cake embryo, but it is better than the cake embryo and corn cake of the same volume, the latter has more amount, which can fill the stomach and fill the stomach.

The most important thing is that this is Ruan and × Xi × Du × home.Xishi did it for him, and Lu Ze felt that he could meet a boy as good as Ruan Xishi.

Lu Ze was really saving face, eating half of it by himself, and Ruan Xi was frightened when he saw that, fearing that he would choke if he ate too much.

"It's really delicious." Lu Ze said to Ruan Xishi like this, and he burped as soon as he finished speaking.

Seeing this, Ruan Xishi couldn't help but said, "If you like to eat it, I can make it for you in the future. Anyway, there are still a lot of corn flour."

Lu Ze nodded happily.

The grain seeds have been soaked, and after soaking for two days to germinate, they can be sprinkled in the seedling field. In these two days, Ruan Xishi has to get the seedling field ready.

Because there was no water in the field, we had to fetch water from the pond to wet the plowed seedlings to the point where they could be mixed with mud. Lu Ze worried that Ruan Xishi's small body would not be able to withstand the weight of two buckets of water, so he took the initiative to accept the challenge. The burden of water.

There is a pond in Tiandong, which was originally used to store water. Later, the village used it and planted lotus roots in it. Every spring, pointed lotus leaves grow out of the mud, and in summer, the lotus leaves are fully stretched. , and lotus flowers grow from it. After summer, the lotus flowers wither one after another, leaving only a bare lotus pod. After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the lotus root can be dug out and eaten.

At this time, the lotus leaves are still very lush, emerald green, and there are a few pink lotus flowers, more of which are lotus pods.

While carrying water in the pond, Ruan Xishi picked a lotus leaf with childlike innocence and put it on top of his head to cover the setting sun. For some reason, a picture appeared in Lu Ze's mind.

The little boy herding cattle leisurely sat on the buffalo, with a lotus leaf on his head, facing the sunset, playing his flute and walking home.

Ruan Xishi should have been such a carefree child. He is so innocent and simple, which makes people love him.

Lu Ze was looking at Ruan Xishi in a daze, and suddenly there was a pink lotus in front of him, which was picked by Ruan Xishi from the pond.

Ruan Xishi said to him with crooked eyebrows, "For you, brother Lu Ze."

The buds of the lotus are similar to the buds of roses. Lu Ze treasured the lotus that Ruan Xishi gave him, wondering if he could take Ruan Xishi's act of giving him the lotus as a show of love.He lowered his head and sniffed, there was a faint fragrance on it, just like the feeling Ruan Xishi gave him, it obviously grew in the mud, but it can grow into a pure and innocent appearance, making people feel sorry for it.

After finishing the seedlings, both of them were wet, either water or mud. When they got home, they took turns taking a shower before cooking.

After dinner, the sky had already darkened, Ruan Xishi thought that there was nothing else to do, so she went to close the door of the house, and was going to go back to the house to watch TV with Lu Ze.

It wasn't long before Ruan Xishi closed the door when she heard a knock on the door and had to turn around to open the door again.

He is not afraid that the person who knocks on the door so late is a bad person. The law and order in the village has always been very good, and the neighbors in the village are all peaceful and honest people. It can almost be said that they do not pick up lost items on the road and do not close their doors at night. If someone knocks at night, Basically, neighbors drop by or look for something urgent.

Ruan Xishi opened the door for people outside, and it was the village head who came to the door, which was very surprising.

"Gao Bo, why are you here so late?"

The village head smiled and said to him: "I came to discuss something with you, is it convenient for you now?"

Ruan Xishi hurriedly let him in, and said, "Of course it's convenient, brother Lu Ze and I didn't plan to go to sleep, we were about to watch TV."

The village head walked in and said, "That's good, I have something to tell you, it may be good for you."

Ruan Xishi heard the words and took the village chief to sit in the living room, poured him a glass of warm water, and called Lu Ze to listen to the village chief.

The village head took a sip of water, smiled and said to the two of them: "That's right, Ah Ze has been in our village for half a year, and during the past six months, Ah Ze has also worked hard to contribute to the harmony and production of our village. And he has never done anything that harmed the interests of the village. Now that Ah Ze's health has not recovered, I don't know how long it will take. The opinion of our villagers is that since Ah Ze regards us as his home, of course we also We want to accept him, so we plan to give Ah Ze a piece of land so that he can live in the village. If Ah Ze is willing to stay in our village, we can help him build a house, and we will be treated the same as when Teacher Ruan first came. After all, our village Shizi, you know the situation, we are in urgent need of intellectuals, if Ah Ze is willing to contribute to our village, we will naturally welcome it, it depends on what Ah Ze plans."

Ruan Xishi was not happy when he heard what the village head said, but he was also a little worried. He explained to the village head: "Uncle Gao, Brother Lu Ze didn't come to our village because he was desperate. He just lost his memory and couldn't remember himself for a while. Where is home? When he recovers his memory, he will definitely go home. If you keep him in this way, it will be difficult for him."

The village chief: "Hey, Shi Tsai, I'm not trying to force him to stay here, I'm just asking for his opinion, besides, when he recovers his memory, if he thinks it's better to stay in our village, then he will have his own residence And his own land, he can’t live with you for the rest of his life, can he? When you get married and have children, where will he live? And you two, how can one mu of land be enough for you to survive? We give the land, yes Considering that life is not easy for the two of you, with one more piece of land, you can grow something and eat a little more. If Ah Ze decides to leave in the future, then we will definitely not force him to stay, just take back the land that was given to him. gone."

Ruan Xishi didn't want to live apart from Lu Ze from the bottom of his heart. He was used to Lu Ze's company at home, and he couldn't imagine what it would be like for Lu Ze after he left his house. Forlorn and scary.

Lu Ze felt that the village head's arrangement was very good, and he also felt that he lived in Ruan Xishi's house and took away half of Ruan Xishi's things, which caused a lot of pressure on Ruan Xishi.If there were more resources in the family, it would reduce Ruan Xishi's life pressure a little bit, and at the same time, he could use more fields to grow things for self-sufficiency or sell them for money.But you don't have to think about building another house for him, and he doesn't want to be separated from Ruan Xishi either.

So he said to the village chief: "I feel very honored that the village chief can consider so much for me, but I don't know if I can live in the village for a long time, and it would be a waste to prepare a house for me. I will continue to live in the small village during this time." The Ruan family, not too much about the land, I'd like to hear more about it."

The village head felt that what he said was right. Building a house is not an easy task. When it is really needed, the most urgent thing is to solve the problem of food first.He told Ruan Xishi and Lu Ze: "It's like this. A family in the village moved out the year before last, and the village took back their land, and some of it was distributed to other family members. Now there are only three parts of the slope land left unused. Well, I think it's deserted, so why don't you share it with A Ze so that the two of you can grow something to make a living. That land is not far from your family's land. If you want it, you can go and see it some other day. "

Ruan Xishi was worried last night that his family's land would not grow much. Today, the village chief brought him the good news. He settled the matter with the village chief without much hesitation. After all, it is related to the issue of food. Excuse is to live with life.It's fine if he's alone, he can't let Lu Ze just be wronged in his family's acre of land, without food and clothing.

So the matter of dividing the land was determined in this way.

The lotus brought back from the pond was bottled by Lu Ze with mineral water. When he got up the next day, he found that the buds had already unfolded, and the petals were pink/tender.

Ruan Xishi was the first to notice that the lotus was blooming. He lay on the window sill and called to Lu Ze who had just woken up to look: "Brother Lu Ze, the lotus is blooming!"

Just as Lu Ze got up, he heard Ruan Xishi's excited voice, walked over without taking a shower, and stood behind Ruan Xishi to watch the blooming lotus together.

The tips of the petals of the lotus are pink, and the closer they are to the stamens, the lighter the color. The stamens are yellow and silky, surrounding the emerald green lotus pods.

Ruan Xishi stretched out his finger, touched the small lotus pod carefully, and got the pollen on his finger. He was afraid of losing the stamen, so he immediately retracted his hand, then turned his head and asked Lu Ze, "How is it, isn't it pretty?"

Lu Ze was very close to him, his chin was almost on the top of his head, when Ruan Xi turned his head, he could see Lu Ze's chin, with the blue stubble that appeared at night.

He turned his head too much, his forehead brushed against Lu Ze's chin, a numb and itchy feeling hit his heart in an instant, and the rubbed area was also slightly hot.

Ruan Xishi didn't know where to turn her eyes. What she saw was Lu Ze's slender neck, her protruding Adam's apple, and then her collarbone and pectoral muscles looming under her collar.

The breath that Lu Ze exhaled was on his head, he could even feel the movement of his own hair, it was the first time he experienced what it was like to be like a soldier, just like now, obviously Lu Ze didn't do anything, he But he was too nervous to move.

Ruan Xishi tried to relax herself, looked over Lu Ze's shoulders to other places, and then realized that she was surrounded by Lu Ze halfway between the window and his arms. From the perspective of others, the posture of the two of them at this time It must be very ambiguous.

The distance between the two of them is so close that they can touch each other's body with just a slight movement. Ruan Xishi can even feel the body temperature continuously emanating from Lu Ze's body, which makes him feel deeply that he is in a steamer and is being bit by bit. cooked.

Fortunately, this posture didn't last long. After Lu Ze finished admiring the lotus, he walked away from the window. Ruan Xishi only felt a lightness on his body, as if the heavy pressure disappeared out of thin air. The ambiguous feeling just now also disappeared, as if it was just his own fantasy.

Only the hotness on his face reminded him that it was not an illusion.

Lu Ze deliberately stood behind Ruan Xishi like that. He was testing Ruan Xishi's bottom line to see if Ruan Xishi could accept close contact with him. Like boiling a frog in warm water, put Ruan Xishi on his plate.

He also saw the blush on Ruan Xishi's face, pretended not to know, and asked in a caring tone: "Xiao Ruan, your face is so red, do you have a fever again?"

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and put it on Ruan Xishi's forehead, pretending to check Ruan Xishi's temperature.

When Ruan Xishi heard Lu Ze say that his face was so red, he was so nervous that he didn't know how to react. Before he could think of an excuse, a wide and warm palm suddenly appeared on his forehead. He only felt his whole head It was about to burn, so I could only stammer and say: "I, I'm fine, maybe it's because there were too many quilts last night, and it was stuffy."

Lu Ze secretly ate some tofu, and said sanctimoniously, "So that's the case. I see your face is so red, and I'm afraid you have a fever again."

Even if Ruan Xishi couldn't see how red his face was, he knew that his face had already turned into a monkey's ass just by feeling, and it was getting worse. He was afraid that Lu Ze would see the clues, and he would thump on the excuse of washing up. He ran away with a thump.

Seeing his hurried back, Lu Ze smiled confidently.

In the past, if he liked someone, he would confess and pursue him openly. He was never afraid of what others would think of him, but now because he met an innocent little boy, he became pure and devious.However, he still enjoys the ambiguous and probing process very much. As long as there is a little bit of sweetness, it seems to be magnified countless times, making him want to taste it more deeply.

On the day when the cultivation becomes a real fruit, the sweet taste will probably be unforgettable for the rest of my life.

Ruan Xishi made breakfast, and did not wait for Lu Ze to come out of the shower, so he ate it first. When Lu Ze came over after shaving and washing his face, he was already full and was preparing water and a straw hat, as if he was about to go out to work .

In fact, he just wanted to find an excuse to avoid Lu Ze. Now his mind is full of himself in front of Lu Ze who was flushed because of his fantasies. Just thinking of that scene, he was so ashamed that he wanted to dig three feet to hide himself. Let Lu Ze see that he just happened to go to see the new land allocated to their family by the village chief, so he just went out to calm down before coming back.

Lu Ze said that he was going too, but Ruan Xishi didn't give him a chance, and while Lu Ze was having breakfast, Ruan Xishi hurried out.Lu Ze looked at his back, who was almost running away, and stroked his chin that had just been shaved, thoughtfully.

However, he still couldn't decide whether Ruan Xishi was shy because he was interested in him, or simply didn't like to have close contact with him, so this matter had to be taken slowly.

When Ruan Xishi arrived at the field, he found that the field was covered with weeds because it had not been plowed for a long time. He sighed, put on his hat and gloves, picked up the shovel and went up to start working.

It's better to be busy, it's better than being idle at home and thinking wildly, and you might be able to forget about the embarrassing things this morning by doing your work.

Ruan Xishi soon devoted herself wholeheartedly to shoveling grass and plowing the land, so focused that she didn't notice that Lu Ze had found him unknowingly.

"Let me help too." Lu Ze said suddenly.

Ruan Xishi's voice was taken aback. He thought it was because he was thinking too much about Lu Ze and had auditory hallucinations while working. He didn't expect to see Lu Ze on the ridge when he looked up. He asked in surprise : "Brother Lu Ze, you, how did you find this place?"

Lu Ze smiled slightly and said, "The slopes in the village are only this big. You can see them at a glance. It's easy to find you."

It is true to say so, but with so many people working in Poli, how did Lu Ze recognize him at a glance?

Ruan Xishi looked at Lu Ze, who was plowing the land ahead, and felt confused again.

When Lu Ze was holding the shovel, the muscles on his arm bulged and were strong and powerful. The shovel was dug extremely deep by him, and the soil was turned over with each shovel, which was much more thorough than what he had plowed. I have to say that with Lu Ze, he It can save a lot of worry and effort, but when he thinks that Lu Ze doesn't belong to them, and one day he will recover his memory and leave here, he feels very sad.

Even if Lu Ze doesn't recover his memory and stays here for the rest of his life, will Lu Ze fall in love with him and stay with him forever?Can the people in the village accept the relationship between the two of them?

Ruan Xishi felt that her head was getting bigger, and she sighed while plowing the land.

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