Chapter 12: The Man Who Coaxed the Cowhide

When I saw this scene, I couldn't help but think of a proverb "A dog is nosy with a mouse", I originally thought that a dog can't catch a mouse, but now it seems that a dog can catch a mouse.

Xiao Huang seems to be addicted to eating fresh flesh and blood, digging mouse holes in the ground every day, because I don't pay much attention to whether Xiao Huang has caught other rats at work.

One day we were eating in the shack after work, and suddenly there was an extremely miserable dog barking outside, I hurriedly put down my rice bowl and ran out, only to see Xiao Huang with a hideous look, kept barking, full of madness.

"Little Yellow", I didn't dare to approach it, but I kept comforting it with words, trying to calm it down.

Xiao Huang seemed to understand what I meant, ran under the grasshopper's body, and whispered a few times.

I was about to pet it, but Huang suddenly fell to the ground with a wail, foaming at the mouth.

"What's wrong with Xiao Huang, won't you be crazy!" I looked at Xiao Huang's appearance, and suddenly sounded In junior high school, an alumnus of a school suddenly lay on the ground, foaming at the mouth, convulsions all over his body, and almost bit off his tongue.

"What a madness! It must have eaten a rat with rat medicine to give it medicine," Dad stepped forward and squatted next to Xiao Huang, gently stroking Xiao Huang with his hand.

"What should I do" I've been with Xiao Huang for so long, and I'm already very emotional, I can't bear to see it die like this.

"Fill it with soapy water, if it can live, it will be a big life," Dad got up and found a broken plastic bottle to get some soapy water.

My mother and I wore gloves to break Xiao Huang's mouth, my father poured all the water into it, Xiao Huang uncomfortably choked some tears in his eyes, and wagged his tail gently, at that moment, I seemed to feel that Xiao Huang was awake, its eyes were full of attachment to the world, full of attachment to its friendly people.

Xiao Huang still didn't come over, the landlord said to eat it, I insisted on burying Xiao Huang, maybe for the landlord, the only value of Xiao Huang's life is to take care of the family, and the value of death is to eat meat and sell skin. But in my eyes, Xiao Huang and we are equal, at least Xiao Huang is with his own sincerity, his own all to love us people, although some people will think it is ridiculous to hear me say this, but I still have to say that there are many times, dogs are more reliable than people.

Whenever I see those who rely on a little power in their hands in the society, they blackmail and bully those who brave the wind and snow and exchange their sweat for a meager life, I will think of the scene when Xiao Huang died, how can those powerful people treat the people at the bottom as human beings, in their eyes, the biggest use of the people at the bottom, whether they live or die, is to create surplus value for them, live as house slaves, as slaves, and when they die, they have to bear a huge funeral expenses to contribute the last bit of ointment to them.

After a week of melon seeds, it was finally completed, but this year's price is really not good, my family planted melon seeds this year because the price of melon seeds was very high last year, farmers are still playing melon seeds in the field, and the second dealer will drive and wait in the ground to load melon seeds. After last year's crazy melon seed purchase, the price of melon seeds this year is really low.

I remember one year soybeans were the same, the price was ridiculously high, as a result, farmers planted soybeans the next year, and at the end of the year, soybeans were also a bumper harvest, but the price was low to a record low, because that year just caught up with the El Niño phenomenon, the desert of Argentina in South America rained a lot, wild grass grew wildly, and the first time people went to think that they had entered the grassland, and the main production area of soybeans in the world is the Americas, the yield of soybeans in the Americas reached a historical high, and the international soybean prices plummeted, affecting the price of soybeans in China.

The developed countries in Europe and the United States have huge grain subsidies, and all of them are highly mechanized in large agriculture, so they can bear the losses, but the Chinese peasants have lost a lot of money, and some people may think that why should they give the peasants huge agricultural subsidies, and take the money to go out to build roads and schools.

There are too many questions involved in this question, and if you are interested, you can look it up for yourself, but you can think about it, in those countries with extremely developed democracy in Europe and the United States, if the government wants to spend a dime on all kinds of hearings (the hearings held by others are true), why their citizens can get the government to pass a bill to compensate farmers.

Many people write time-traveling novels that write politicians such as Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, and France as stupid as pigs, but if the politicians of these countries are really like what is written in the novel, why are the economic levels of these countries still so high, the welfare of the people is still so good, and why are so many upper-class people running to those countries now?

The decline in the price of melon seeds has diluted my joy for the harvest a lot, and my parents also said that they are selling, and maybe the price will rise.

Dad made two wooden shovels with sticks and planks, the shovel head has three times the normal size, every morning my dad and I spread a thick plastic book film with a length and width of nearly 20 meters in the ground, in the melon seeds to dry on it, shovel up the melon seeds with a wooden shovel to the wind, let the wind blow away the debris in the melon seeds, seven or eight days to spread the melon seeds again, as if laying a black and white carpet on the ground.

"Lao Li, we have to sell these melon seeds quickly, the weight will drop after a long time" The mother looked at a field of potato seeds with a worried face.

"There's nothing in the tunzi, let's put it for two more days, if not, I'll go to the town to have a look" Dad also frowned.

"Don't worry, I'm afraid I won't be able to sell it if I have the goods," Zhang Zhuzi said with a smile.

"Let's get sun, it's almost noon, let's go back to dinner," the old mother looked at Zhang Zhuzi with a sad look that didn't know anything, and smiled bitterly.

Just as we were about to go back to the shack to cook, we stopped and came to the side of the road, where a muddy, rusty four-wheeled farm unloading truck stopped in front of my shack.

The car door made an ugly sound, and it seemed to be a rusty feeling, and four people jumped out of the car, the landlord's aunt and two middle-aged men, and a boy of eighteen or nineteen years old.

One of the middle-aged men was wearing black pants and gray shirts in field shoes, his short hair was covered with dust, and his face was like an upside-down garlic head, with a large top and a pointed bottom, and under the eyebrows, which were so faint that they could barely see it, were a pair of thin eyes, full of condescension when looking at our group of people, as if looking at a group of hillbillies who had never seen the world.

The other man was wearing a black tracksuit, a pair of black sneakers on his feet, he was not tall, but he was very strong, he also had short hair, big eyes, and a flat nose, and he nodded and smiled at us in a friendly way after getting out of the car.

The boy looked much like the first man, probably his son, and stood by the car with a nonchalant expression.

"I was in the tunzi and heard them shouting from the horn in the car to collect the melon seeds, so I brought him," the landlord stepped forward, smiling on his pale face.

"Thank you, old lady," said my mother gratefully. In today's society, there are fewer and fewer people who are so warm-hearted.

"Where are your melon seeds, we want to see" The sportswear stepped forward and nodded at his father with a smile.

"In the back, look!" Dad smiled and nodded to the tracksuits, leading them to the back.

"Damn, this is too buried, it's all dirt" The gray shirt shook off his shoes.

At this time, the gray jacket happened to pass by me, and I couldn't help frowning, there was a little water in the place where the gray jacket had just passed, which was spilled when we washed our hands, but it was just a little wet for him to step on. Not to mention that it is normal in the countryside or even in the city, as for spitting out dirty words when you open your mouth! But when you think about it, people are here to buy goods, and it is also "God" who endures it!

My dad and I came to the place where the melon seeds were placed, and my dad squatted down and just wanted to uncover the plastic sheet covering the melon seeds, when the gray jacket squinted his eyes and snorted: "You can't bury the melon seeds, is it all dirt inside?" ”

"Big brother, how can there be soil in these melon seeds" The old mother smiled.

"Why can't you, you peasants can't do anything in order to buy more money," Gray Jacket rolled his eyes.

"You also often collect melon seeds, can you not see that we mix soil into the melon seeds?, can the melon seeds still be sold?" Dad put down the plastic sheet again and stood up.

"You can't mix soil, how can you mix soil with melon seeds so big, big brother, let's take a look" The sportswear still had a smile on his face, and he squatted down and opened the plastic sheeting.

"This melon seed is good" sportswear saw that there was no clutter in the melon seeds, and there was a satisfied look in his eyes.

"There is no soil, and there are many deflated seeds (only the shell, no fruits)" The gray jacket grabbed a handful that was still in the air, and a few fruitless melon seeds floated out with the help of the wind.

Friends in the city may not know that the melon seeds we usually buy from the store are all selected melon seeds with full fruits, which are screened by processing companies with different sieves (made according to the size of the melon seeds), which are different in size and sold at different prices, which is why some melon seeds are expensive and some are cheap.

The melon seeds purchased by the second-way dealers from the farmers are directly knocked down from the sunflowers, and they are generally not sifted, unless they are given a very high price, the price difference is very large, generally four or five times, and they are also divided into wet melon seeds and dried and dried melon seeds, and the second-way dealers also buy them in this way when they arrive at the processing enterprises

"We can't tell how much fruit there is, if you want to buy it, you can put a price," Dad glanced at the gray shirt.

"It's okay to sell it to us, but we have to sift it, or we'll lose money," Gray Jacket rubbed his nose with his hand and suddenly sneezed.

"How much do you give for the sifter," Dad asked with a frown.

The gray jacket said a price, and my father laughed when he heard it: "This price is too low, we can't sell it"

"Big brother, the price is not good, we are talking, how can there be a negotiation" Sportswear hurriedly took over.

"The price he gave just now is too low, even the melon seeds that are not screened don't have that price, since we are selling melon seeds here, we also know the price roughly, if you sell sincerely, give a sincere price" Dad looked at the sportswear and said.

"Some of the melon seeds planted this year are at this price, if you don't sell them for a few days, you won't have this price" The gray shirt pinched his nose with his hand and threw out a bunch of snot.

"Then you'd better look elsewhere!" Dad listened to Grey Shirt and ignored them.

"Big brother, we're discussing" Hearing the words of the gray shirt, his face changed a little for a moment, and he randomly returned to his smiling appearance, pulling the gray shirt to the distance, and the two of them underestimated in a low voice.

I watched from a distance, the gray shirt was obviously a little unhappy, and the tracksuit was not very good-looking, obviously the two of them disagreed, the sportswear also put away the smile at this time, frowned, stared at the gray shirt with his hand, said something, the gray shirt fell silent, and the two walked back again.