When he got home, Yan Xu put down the bamboo basket carefully, sorted the contents and put them in turn, and then went into the miscellaneous room and took out the dung bucket and dung spoon, turned his head and went to the manure tank to scoop a bucket of dung water, and then went to the small vegetable field in front.

People with cleanliness habits can't live in the countryside, but Yan Xu is still well adapted. At the beginning, in order to earn money and save living expenses, he was willing to do any dirty work, and he was just watering vegetables in a manure tank, which was not worth mentioning.

Just as he was about to finish pouring the last piece, footsteps sounded not far away.

"Xiao Xu, our village is going to be on TV!" Grandpa Ye's happy voice came from far and near, "The group of people who were sent away by the village chief just now came to see the place, what kind of program group are they!"

Yan Xu was a little surprised, there was a program team here to shoot, what to shoot, a documentary about a poor and backward mountain village?

"Does Grandpa know what he's here to shoot?" Yan Xu asked.

"I heard that it seems that someone from a TV station is coming here to shoot something, it doesn't seem to be a movie, you Uncle Liu knows nonsense, and you don't make it clear, hey! Whatever, it's going to be on TV anyway!" Grandpa Ye was very happy, as if he was the one who was about to be on TV.

Yan Xu blinked, he thought he was going to make a documentary.

But what would be filmed in such a backward and impoverished mountain village?

After thinking about it, Yan Xu still retracted his mind and continued to water the ground, these have nothing to do with him, it is better to think about what to eat later.

The stove cauldron in the countryside, Yan Xu can easily get started, and since he came, he has made all the meals.

First, I feel sorry for the old man, and second, Grandpa Ye is indeed not as good as him in cooking......

The wild vegetables and persimmons that had just been picked up the mountain were washed, Yan Xu put a few persimmons on a plate and put them on the table, picked up the washed vegetables and went to the stove to cook.

In addition to salt and other things, you need to pay for it, and other seasonings are all used by Grandpa Ye if he can find it in the mountains, and he can't find it.

Anyway, there are still star anise peppercorns and peppers, just soy sauce, oyster sauce and vinegar or something, anyway, Grandpa Ye himself doesn't know how to brew it, and there is no need to buy it, just have salt in the old man's consciousness.

Since Yan Xu tasted the food cooked by Grandpa Ye for the first time, he made up his mind that he would never let the old man cook again.

They are all eight years old! How can they still let their grandfather cook! They must come by themselves! They definitely don't dislike the old man's cooking!

After cooking the rice and stir-frying two side dishes, Yan Xu beat all the eggs he picked up, mixed with the shallots picked from the vegetable field, and stir-fried them, which was another fragrant plate.

"Grandpa, it's time to eat. After setting up the dishes and chopsticks, Yan Xu called out to Grandpa Ye, who was sitting at the door fiddling with medicinal herbs.

"Hey, you eat first, I'll sort out these herbs first, so as not to mix them together and mix the medicinal properties. ”

When Yan Xu heard this, he didn't say much, and walked straight over to help his grandfather tidy it up.

"I'll be with you. Yan Xu sorted out the herbs, and didn't raise his head to interrupt what his grandfather wanted to say, "Get it ready and eat together early." ”

It took a while for the grandfather and grandson to sort the different types of herbs, and then they dried them on the wooden stakes in front of the courtyard, and then went back to the house to eat.

After eating, Yan Xu washed the dishes and sorted out the day's harvest again, then took his old cloth schoolbag from the low wooden cabinet, took out the textbooks inside, sat down at the small wooden table, and began to do homework with a blank face.

Yes, he's been graduating with a master's degree for several years, and now he's back to doing his elementary school homework.

I can't skip a grade if I want to, after all, he is a poor child who has only received a year's education, and he is not a peerless genius in the real sense.

Yan Xu's IQ is a little higher than that of ordinary people, and because of his life experience, he has always been diligent and does not dare to relax at all.

The hard work he made and those so-called geniuses are actually not much different, but he never thinks he is very smart.

Because today and tomorrow happen to be weekends, Yan Xu has time to stay at home.

After a few minutes of quickly finishing his homework, Yan Xu packed up his textbooks and went to the miscellaneous room to take out a basket.

"Master, I'll go out. Yan Xu straddled the basket across his body and walked out.

"Where are you going? Grandpa Ye sat in the room and shouted.

"By the river. ”

Yan Xu came to the river with a basket, naturally not for fun.

The family is really poor, and occasionally the villagers have a headache and brain fever to find Grandpa Ye for treatment, but they only give a meaning of 20 yuan, and grandpa will not accept it if there are more, and the villagers will not be happy. The money is used for daily necessities. Most of the family's income still depends on the grandparents and grandchildren to go to the mountains and herbs, and then go to the county town to sell them to pharmacies and hospitals.

Since Yan Xu came here, he probably understood how Ye Yanxu was gone.

The little guy is really a good boy with filial piety, and the family did not have enough money during that time, so he had to pay for his tuition for the next semester. He is sensible, and he never puts pressure on his grandfather, he gets up early every morning and walks the mountain road to go to school in the county, and when he comes back, he goes to the back mountain to collect firewood, and eats with his grandfather on time.

But it is when children are growing their bodies, and with the mountain roads walking back and forth like this, the consumption is also large, and it is very easy to get hungry.

It's a pity that Ye Yanxu is a child who doesn't say anything when he is hungry, and he is afraid of burdening his grandfather, so he endures it next to him, and he faints when he finally goes up the mountain to collect firewood.

Then Yan Xu came.

The feeling of having no goods in my stomach is really uncomfortable, and the fire is burning, as if it has been run over by a stone mill.

Yan Xu has also been hungry, but he has never let himself be hungry to this extent.

So experiencing the feeling of hunger when he first came over, Yan Xu has been trying to find ways to improve the conditions at home.

Money is not in a hurry, but it is always possible to make yourself eat better.

Ye Yanxu doesn't know how to catch fish, and he hasn't eaten crabs and shrimps or anything, and the most eaten meat is probably the rabbits, pheasants and eggs in the back mountains, and pork is only eaten occasionally, and they are all sent by the villagers.

Although Grandpa Ye loves his grandson, where are the conditions, and there is no extra money to buy meat or anything, so he can only try to find more delicious food in the back mountain.

Yan Xu actually doesn't, he is an authentic city person, but he is also an ordinary person who climbs up from the bottom little by little.

He has brains, and he can do it himself, so he can't learn from others, and no matter how bad he is, it's okay to explore on his own.

There is a river seven or eight meters wide at the foot of the mountain where Li Village is located, and there are many stones on the riverbank. Catching fish depends on luck, but catching crabs is quite simple.

Yan Xu had only caught a fish once, and it was purely because the fish was in a puddle, which Yan Xu saw when he was digging through a stone to find a crab.

The crabs here are all river crabs, not big, but they also have a bit of meat, and they are fried and mixed with wild vegetable rice!

Yan Xu turned over the stones by the river for more than an hour and found crabs that were almost half a basket long.

During the period, there are many children who come to play to watch the excitement, crabs can be eaten, but most of the children do not like the fishy smell very much, and they are afraid of crabs, so they are not much interested in catching crabs.

Yan Xu went home with a basket, and picked up some wood branches and firewood on the way.

If you can, you can bring it, and there is a lot of firewood work in the house.

"Xiao Xu, you went to catch crabs again, how many did you catch today?" Grandpa Ye quipped, and glanced into the basket a few times, "More than last time, yo, there is a big crab here!"

Yan Xu picked up the kettle on the table and poured a few sips of water, "Well, I'm lucky today." ”

Grandpa Ye carried the basket to the wellhead to clean.

The Ye family estimated that it was better to do this, there was a well next to the back of the house, so they didn't have to bother to go to the foot of the mountain to fetch water, after all, they didn't have the money to find someone to install pipes to divert water.

Yan Xu rested for a while, and also went over to help his grandfather clean up the crabs.

"No, the homework the teacher gave you is done?" Grandpa Ye wanted Yan Xu to study, but he couldn't help Yan Xu from having his own ideas.

"Well, it's done. Seeing what his grandfather wanted to say, Yan Xu hurriedly said, "I'll go study when I'm done." ”

In the past, there was no one at home, and Yan Xu was too young to go to school alone, so he delayed his child until he was seven years old before going to elementary school.

But this does not mean that Grandpa Ye does not pay attention to the education of his grandson, although he has never gone to kindergarten, he has invited the older children who have studied in the village to teach Yan Xu the basic knowledge.

It's a matter of saying whether it's reliable or not, after all, there is no way, and now this hard-working child is Yan Xu, not Ye Yanxu, and his academic performance is destined not to be bad.

Grandpa Ye nodded, "Okay, it's good to do it, you have to listen well at school, after all, grandpa can't understand it, and he can't teach you anything." ”

"Well, got it. Yan Xu silently put a cleaned crab in the bowl.

After washing, the crab was salted by Grandpa Ye, and Yan Xu took the book to the table to read it.

Hey, a master's degree who used to not even pay attention to high mathematics now has to review primary school textbooks and stare at addition and subtraction within a hundred, which is really a sin!

Yan Xu sighed silently, helpless and had a headache.

In fact, he can also choose not to watch it, but this will make his grandfather think about it, and in order to let the old man relax, he still chooses to endure it himself.

When I finished reading the book, the incandescent light in the room also came on.

A dim yellow light vaguely covered the hall.

As soon as the lights came on, Yan Xu packed up his book and didn't continue.

After all, reading under this kind of light is too harmful to his eyes, and he doesn't want to be short-sighted.

In the corner to the right of the hall is the pot stove, and Grandpa Ye is sitting in front of the stove, staring at the fire and waiting for the water in the pot to heat up.

"Xiao Xu, are you hungry?" Grandpa Ye asked, "There are still two persimmons here when you are hungry, you can eat them." ”

Yan Xu glanced at the two persimmons on the stove, didn't hesitate, went over to pick up one, and then handed the remaining one to his grandfather.

"You eat, grandpa is not hungry. Grandpa Ye waved his hand.

Yan Xu ate persimmons and sat on the small stool next to him, and forced another persimmon into Grandpa Ye's mouth.

"Hey, you kid!" looked like a complaint, but the corners of Grandpa Ye's eyes showed a hint of gratifying smile.