After looking at the bend of the road in front of the vanishing tractors, Hu Mingchen and his group stopped waving gratefully.

After a trip to the tractor, the mental outlook of their group of people has undergone earth-shaking changes, and now one by one's faces, where there is still a little bit of decline, all of them are excited and excited, as if this trip is not a tractor, but a spaceship.

"I didn't expect it to be so much fun to ride on a tractor, this is the first time I've ridden it. ”

"It's my first time, it's very exciting. ”

"Don't talk about you two, you couldn't stand on your feet just now, and you stepped on me twice. ”

"And say that we are swaying, and after hitting this and that, you still can't stand on your feet. ”

"Where is he standing unsteadily, haha, he saw Zhang Hong standing next to him, and deliberately wanted to rub Zhang Hong, hehe. ”

"You bastard, nonsense, am I that kind of person? ”

"Hu Mingchen, the next time you organize it, let's find a few carriages to sit on, it may be more leisurely and exciting than a tractor. Someone shouted at Hu Mingchen.

"What do you think, where to find so many carriages, today is lucky, this kind of thing is not very common. Okay, okay, everyone hurry up the mountain and start raining, there is no place to hide from the rain. ”

As soon as people were excited, they came to the spirit, and they walked much faster, regardless of boys and girls, no one was left behind, and they chatted warmly about the tractor ride just now, and soon climbed to the mountainside.

The road from Ren Monkey Farm is a provincial road, and the road conditions in most places are actually barely OK, but it is the kilometers that come out of Renchuan, the road surface is very poor, in disrepair, and this section of the road is quite a lot of coal trucks, and many places are paved with stones. From the provincial road to the top of the lake, it is a completely dirt road, and it is impossible to cross the big car, and this road should have just been dug out not long ago, and the soil on the side wall is very new.

When he reached the middle of the slope, Hu Mingchen saw that there was a small road extending to the right, and Hu Mingchen stood at the intersection and saw that there were two or three families inside.

"Squad leader, you take everyone and continue to walk up quickly, I'll go over here for a while. Hu Mingchen greeted Shangguan Wenqing.

"Hu Mingchen, what are you going to do?" Shangguan Wenqing was a little nervous, feeling that without Hu Mingchen's presence, she would lack the backbone.

For example, if it weren't for Hu Mingchen, Shangguan Wenqing wouldn't be able to do it at all, let alone talking about it with others, she might not even dare to take the initiative to mention it. If it weren't for Hu Mingchen's hand, she Shangguan Wenqing would probably be the target of everyone's cynicism now.

"I'll go and see, you go first, I'll be back in two minutes, let's go, the rain is getting heavier. Hu Mingchen didn't explain so much to Shangguan Wenqing, waved his hand and walked towards those households.

When Hu Mingchen went to the first house, all the doors and windows were closed, and no one was at home.

Hu Mingchen then went around from the back of the first house to the second house, and saw an old woman sitting under the eaves at the door peeling corn.

"Hello, grandma. Hu Mingchen stepped forward to say hello with a smile.

Seeing a strange boy appear in front of her, the old woman was a little surprised, and her expression was a little guarded.

"Little doll, what are you doing?" asked the old woman, putting down the half of the corn in her hand.

"Grandma, I'm here to ask, do you have any artichokes at home, I want to buy some of your artichokes. Hu Mingchen stood in the middle of her family's small courtyard and said.

"What do you buy artichoke?" asked the old man curiously.

"Oh, grandma, that's right, one of our classmates came to the mountaintop lake to play, and they didn't bring anything to eat, and everyone was a little hungry, so I came to ask if there were any artichokes for sale here, and if so, I would buy some to cook for everyone to eat." Hu Mingchen patiently explained.

"Oh, I see. When you come, there will be a pile in the hall, and if you want as much as you want, pick it up yourself. After listening to Hu Mingchen's explanation, the old man was completely relieved and stretched out his hand to greet Hu Mingchen into the door.

Hu Mingchen crossed the threshold of her house, and saw a pile of potatoes piled up in the corner of the gate at the gate, afraid that there would be hundreds of catties at will.

"Grandma, how much does your artichoke sell for?" asked Hu Mingchen.

"I don't know, my artichokes are all used to feed pigs, and I can't eat them all by myself. If you want to eat, just pick up some yourself, don't say that money is not money, and it is not a valuable thing anyway. With that, the old man found a snakeskin bag containing phosphate fertilizer and threw it to Hu Mingchen.

The vast majority of peasants in China are very simple and kind. Especially for people from outside, even if they never know each other, they will be warm and polite and very generous, which is incomparable to the people in the city.

Hu Mingchen said at the beginning that he would buy it, but the old man seemed to be planning to give it away. Her family doesn't seem to be well-off, and she still lives in an old-fashioned tiled house, but she doesn't plan to be greedy for Hu Mingchen's money. Maybe the old man also thinks that Hu Mingchen will not have much money on a doll.

"Grandma, that's not good, I can't take your artichoke for nothing, you see if it's good, I'll give you fifty yuan, and you can sell it to me as much as you want." As he spoke, Hu Mingchen took out two pieces of twenty and one of ten yuan and handed them to the old man.

"Where will you get so much, since you want to buy it, then I will charge you twenty yuan, and give it to you, you can take as much as you want, whatever you want." The old man returned the thirty yuan to Hu Mingchen and accepted a twenty one.

Since the old man was only willing to accept 20 yuan, Hu Mingchen was also hypocritical, picked up the artichoke himself when he picked up his pocket, and after picking up more than 20 catties, Hu Mingchen gave up. Hu Mingchen felt that eating half a catty alone was quite a lot, especially for girls, it was estimated that they could only eat two.

"You just need that?" Seeing that Hu Mingchen had picked up less than half a pocket, the old man was surprised.

"Hehe, grandma, you can't eat too much, so it's wasted. ”

"You are definitely not enough for this, let me tell you, my artichoke is delicious, it is yellow-hearted, it is more fragrant to eat when burned, you young dolls eat a lot, this is not enough, come, I will pick you up again." After saying this, the old man bent down, picked up the artichoke in his hand full of vicissitudes, and put it in the snakeskin bag.

"Almost, grandma, enough, enough. After the old man filled another ten catties, Hu Mingchen hurriedly pinched the mouth of the bag to stop her.

The old man still had to pretend politely, but Hu Mingchen refused politely.

"Old man, do you have a lead kettle for boiling water?" Before leaving, Hu Mingchen couldn't help but ask again.

"Don't you take it to boil, do you still plan to boil it? Let me tell you, even if you want to boil it, you should use an antimony pot or an iron pot, and the lead pot can't boil a few at all, there are so many of you. ”

"Grandma, no, I don't use a lead pot to cook artichokes, I use them to boil water to drink, eating roasted potatoes is easy to dry mouth. If you have a lead pot, lend it to me, and I can put a few dozen dollars here as a deposit, and if it doesn't work, you can sell it to me. After being misunderstood, Hu Mingchen hurriedly explained.

"Oh, I see, hehehe, you doll, you bought my lead pot, so what do I have for my family. You don't need to deposit money, you can use it if you want to use it, and remember to return it to me when you run out. The old man smiled kindly.

Hu Mingchen stood under the eaves and waited for more than ten seconds, and the old man took a lead pot from his kitchen that had been burned black and handed it to Hu Mingchen.

In fact, the lead pot is the same as the antimony pot, it is not cast from lead or antimony, they are all aluminum, and I don't know if it is because of the appearance color or the misunderstanding of the common people, anyway, it has always been called so in the local area.

Hu Mingchen carried half a bag of potatoes and a lead pot, and then returned to the road to the mountaintop lake.

When Hu Mingchen walked to the top of the mountain, he saw Shangguan Wenqing and the others standing on the grass by the lake, drizzling and shivering.

"You're just getting drenched in the rain, aren't you going to find a place to hide from the rain?" Hu Mingchen said speechlessly.

"Boss, what are you carrying, why did you still take a lead pot, what are you using a lead pot for?" Sun Zhuangwu came up and asked.

Sun Zhuangwu came up, Hu Mingchen threw the half bag of artichoke to him, and he carried it, and handed the lead pot in his hand to He Longfu, who was following behind him.

"Squad leader, it's fun to get drenched in the rain like this, don't you want to come up and find a place to hide from the rain?" Hu Mingchen walked towards Shangguan Wenqing and asked.

"There's nowhere to hide here, there's a green bar forest over there, but I can't cover it. Shangguan Wenqing said aggrievedly.

"There is a cave on the other side of the lake, and I suggested going to the cave to take shelter from the rain, but the entrance to the cave was very slippery, and the squad leader did not agree and did not let everyone go. Lu Yong said.

"Of course we can't go there, what if someone slips down and falls, let's come out and put safety first. Shangguan Wenqing felt that Lu Yong was looking for Hu Mingchen to complain, and hurriedly explained with a very reasonable reason.

Shangguan Wenqing did a lot of things unreliable, but Hu Mingchen agreed with what she said, it is true that safety comes first, if anyone has any accidents, no one can afford this responsibility.

"Isn't there a house? Have you been there?" Hu Mingchen looked around the surroundings and saw that there was a house on the shore on the right hand side of the lake, five or six meters away from the lake.

The house looked like it had just been repaired and no one lived in it, the exterior walls were not plastered, and the windows were empty, and from the front, there was only a wooden door.

"Qiao Wei and I went to see that place just now, it was an empty house that had just been repaired, there was nothing in it, and the floor was still muddy. However, the squad leader didn't let us go, she said that it was not good to break into someone's house like this, and that people would think of them as thieves. Ganquan said.

"That's true, we can't be so rude, so many people go to their newly built houses without their permission, and if the owner finds out, what will we do? The people will be unhappy, and maybe they will arrest us. Shangguan Wenqing stood up again and explained.

"It's so evil, we can't just keep it raining, if everyone catches a cold, it's really troublesome. Ganquan, Qiao Wei, a few of you boys and I will go and have a look, if it really doesn't work, we can only temporarily requisition this fellow's new house. Hu Mingchen clapped his hands and said.