Tan Dasha did not live up to Liu Qingshan's sincerity.

In the next two days, he continued to help Liu Qingshan build roads. And when I worked, I worked harder than before.

On the fifth day of road construction, that is, the last day agreed with Liu Yuanhe, the two worked together, first using a woodcutter to open up a sloping mountain path in the shrubs next to the small waterfall in Taro Pond, and then using hoes to dig the mountain road wide and flat.

Finally, the last bit of pavement was dug up.

Both exhaled deeply.

Standing up straight with the hoe, I raised my eyes to see the bamboo swaying in the wind, the flat mountain path, and the oily fir forest that reflected the light in the sun.

Tan Dasha was really tired, so he sat directly in the middle of the most beautiful forest mountain road in Liu Qingshan's memory, leaning against a huge cedar tree on his back, and gasped and said, "Qingshan, I have to take a rest, I'm too tired to take it anymore." ”

Liu Qingshan looked at Uncle Dasha, who was sweating profusely, and said with a smile: "Hehe, Uncle Dasha, didn't I tell you, don't worry, just repair the road slowly, you have to work so hard." ”

"No, I have to go to work in the fields this evening, and in the morning, my mother told me that I haven't seen the vegetables in the fields for a few days, and told me to go and see them when I finish my work. ”

"Are your vegetables planted in the field?"

"Yes, after the rice was harvested, my mother began to loosen the soil in the field, and then after the soil was loosened, she planted some vegetables in the field, and my mother said that when the vegetables grew a little more, they could be sold in the town. ”

"How much can I sell it for in town?"

"Well, two or three dollars a pound. If a pound of vegetables can be sold for two yuan, a hundred pounds will cost two hundred yuan, and we have planted a lot, and it is estimated that it can be sold for several hundred yuan. ”

When he said this, Tan Dasha's face was full of smiles, and the few yuan and a pound of green vegetables came out of his mouth, as if they were priceless treasures.

Rich people may not be smiling even if they make a multi-million project, but for the poor, as long as they can earn a few hundred dollars, their happiness will burst.

Money may be able to buy happiness, but true happiness has little to do with the amount of money, and has to do with desire.

There is no denying that the more easily satisfied people are, the happier they are.

Liu Qingshan also sat down on the side and said, "What does it matter if the vegetables are planted in the ground and whether you look at them or not? There are no wild boars in the outer villages, what are you afraid of?"

"It's not that I'm afraid of wild boars. Tan Dasha stared at the noon sun and said, "My mother said that the sun is too poisonous during this time, and if there is no water in the field, it will not take two days, and all the vegetables in the vegetable field will die." During this time, my mother patronized digging yams and didn't go to the fields to see, so she told me that after I finished work today, I must go and see, she was afraid that the water would be cut off. ”

"Do you fill the water with a canal?"

"Yes, after the rice was harvested, there was no water in the canal in the field, but my mother went to dig the canal herself in order to grow vegetables, and the last time it rained, the canal was full of branches and leaves, and it was blocked that no water could pass, so my mother went to dig it all day alone. ”

Saying this, Tan Dasha didn't want to rest, he just wanted to hurry home and look at the vegetables in the field.

Liu Qingshan saw that he was in a hurry, so he didn't rest, and followed Tan Dasha home. After lunch, Tan Dasha hurried back to the outer village and went straight to the rice field with green vegetables.

His family's rice paddy field is at the lowest point of the terraced fields on the outside of the village road, and you can't see it from the bottom of the village road, so you have to walk into the field to see it.

But as soon as he arrived at the edge of the field, Tan Dasha was stunned.

All the vegetables in the field died!

Under the scorching sun, the dead greens were yellow and rotten, all hanging down in the soil, looking very miserable.

Tan Dasha was sad for a while, and immediately turned around and went home.

As soon as I entered the yard, I shouted to my mother, who had just come back from digging yams in the mountains for lunch, "Mom, it's not good, it's not good." ”

"What's wrong?" Mrs. Tan had just returned from the mountains, and was sitting in the corridor in front of the hall drinking oil tea.

Probably because Liu Qingshan's kid had dug up too many yams before, and the villagers had been collectively dispatched in the past few days, it was difficult to encounter yams in the mountains now.

Today, she wandered around the mountains for a morning, and dug up a very small yam, about two catties.

Later, she couldn't find it, so she went home for lunch, planning to rest after lunch and then go into the mountains to look for yams.

But she had just sat down, and before she had even taken two sips of tea, her stupid son hurried back from outside, shouting that it was not good.

What's wrong? Can he be in such a hurry?

Mrs. Tan looked at her son who looked flustered and asked, "What are you doing so fast? What's wrong? Is Liu Daliang and them tricking you again?"

"It's not. Tan Dasha was so anxious that he swallowed a mouthful of saliva and moistened his dry throat before saying, "Mom, all the vegetables we planted in the field are dead." ”

"What?" Mrs. Tan trembled, and the notched porcelain bowl with hot tea in her hand clanged and fell to the ground, and the golden oil tea almost splashed on Mrs. Tan's shoesless feet.

"The vegetables are all dead, I don't know how to fatten four, the canal is out of water, the fields are cracked, and the vegetables are all dead. ”

As soon as Tan Dasha said this, Mrs. Tan almost fainted.

Well, how could there be no water in the canal? She hadn't been in the field for four or five days, and besides, it hadn't rained for many days, and the canal couldn't have been blocked by branches.

She leaned against the wall, stood up, shook her dizzy head, and said, "Dasha, you can quickly take me to see." ”

Tan Dasha didn't say a word, got on a motorcycle, took his mother and rushed to the field.

When they got to the side of the road, the two got out of the car, and Tan Dasha helped Mrs. Tan to walk down slowly, and while walking, Tan Dasha said, "Mom, slow down, don't worry." ”

"Don't be in a hurry. Although Mrs. Tan was anxious, she still had a glimmer of hope, thinking that it was probably just her son who had seen it wrong, maybe the dishes in the field were all good. In other words, those vegetables are just a little bit of a beating, as long as they are irrigated to the fields, those vegetables may be saved.

She clutched her son's arm and shook her weak body as she walked down the long, steep field path.

As soon as she arrived at the edge of the field, before she walked into the field, Mrs. Tan looked at the dead vegetables all over the ground, and suddenly felt that the world was spinning and it was difficult to breathe.

It took a long time for her to let out a terrible cry: "What the hell is it that moved my water?" ”

She sat down on the ground, pounding the dirt in grief, and cried with tears on her face: "Ah, my food, my food, which god broke the water for me." What kind of thing with a father and no mother is harming my dishes? ”

This paddy field is about half an acre, and it is planted with cabbage sum, which has a perennial high price in the vegetable market. Farmhouse cabbage is very popular with people, especially some old ladies grow cabbage, no medicine, no chemical fertilizer, all rely on farmhouse fertilizer to feed, the taste is very sweet, even if just take salt water to cook, are extremely sweet.

Therefore, the cabbage sum grown by the old lady in the countryside can be sold for three or four yuan a pound in early winter, even when a large number of winter vegetables are on the market and all kinds of green vegetables and Chinese cabbage are rampant in the vegetable market, these cabbage sums can be kept at about two yuan a catty.

Mrs. Tan took a fancy to this, and as soon as the rice was harvested this year, she bought these rapeseed seeds from some rapeseed shops in the town's vegetable market at a high price.

If it is a small cabbage, you can use the rapeseed left over from the beginning of spring, but you can't keep the rapeseed yourself, so you can only buy it.

She thought that even if she spent money on rapeseeds, it would be worth it, after all, when these cabbage sums grow up, they can be sold for a lot of money.

She spent a dozen dollars on rapeseeds, and it took many days to hoe the land and bring water from the canal. It can be said that this local vegetable really grew from her old bones after squeezing a lot of spiritual qi and blood, and it is not an exaggeration to say that she is risking her life to support this local vegetables.

But even so, she paid without complaint.