Chapter 38: It's a Baby
I went to the market to buy a fan of pork, and bought some pig's trotters, and saw that the potatoes on the roadside were good, Canghai bought a sack of potatoes, and bought a barrel of diesel fuel at a small gas station, and then turned back to the village with a full cart.
When I got home, I unloaded the things, the donkeys went into the shed, and the potatoes and other food were hung at the mouth of the kiln, anyway, as long as the dogs couldn't reach it, it was safe.
Pushed open the door of the kiln, found that there was a circle of reed spree in the cave, this thing is about 20 centimeters high, in the middle of the stalk is a group of plush chicks, now they are chirping one by one, it looks very jubilant, there is still some water in the reed stalk spree, and some millet.
The tiger head guy is now standing next to the fence, looking at the new chicks curiously with a pair of puppy eyes, as if they are looking at something funny.
Seeing this, Canghai understood that these were the chicks he said he wanted last night.
Native chicken Canghai likes it very much, but living in the same room with chickens, Canghai can't stand it a little, although the taste of chickens is not big now, but the taste is not big does not mean that there is no taste, those who have raised chickens know what the smell of these goods is.
But now in this situation, Canghai can't throw the chickens out, because the weather throws the chickens out, as long as it takes one night, these chickens will not survive.
I want to get the chicks out, but it's not convenient for the black light to be blind.
It's not that the people in the village are playing tricks on Canghai, but every family does this, the chickens are generally placed in the kiln, one is easy to take care of, and the other is to prevent some things from being damaged, the most dangerous is the dog in the village, and the second danger is the weasel or something.
The surrounding environment is so bad, and it is very difficult for weasels to survive, so the weasels that survive are all first-class clever, which is really difficult, so for the villagers, such a small chick is still safer in the kiln, even if it is released, you have to wait for the chicks to grow up.
Since there was no way, Canghai had to pinch his nose and wash his face, brush his teeth and lie on the bed.
Fortunately, after this day, Canghai was too tired to run, so he lay on the bed and went on a date with Zhou Gong's daughter without having time to think about it for a while.
Knock! Knock!
Early the next morning, when Canghai was still asleep, he heard someone knocking on his window, thinking it was Ping'an, so Canghai didn't agree, and covered his head and prepared to sleep for a while.
After a while, I only felt a chill on my body, and when I opened my eyes, I found that Second Grandma Li was sticking out her head to look at herself.
After coming back to his senses, Canghai pulled the quilt onto his body: "What are you doing here early in the morning?"
Second Grandma Li saw that Canghai was still a little shy, so she smiled and said: "Grandma hasn't seen anything on your baby, and she didn't wear clothes when she was young!"
Canghai slept naked, wearing only a pair of underwear, and now he felt a little embarrassed when he lifted the quilt by Li Er's grandmother. But women like Grandma Li in the village don't care about this, these old women are much crazier than men, and meat and vegetables are not taboo.
"What's the matter?" Canghai wrapped the quilt tightly.
Grandma Li said: "Haiwazi, we are in charge of borrowing your hand to use it."
"Just use it outside, the oil drum is in the kiln next to it," Canghai replied.
Second Grandma Li said again: "How do you calculate this oil money?"
"You use it first, let's talk about the oil money or something, otherwise, help me take care of the chickens at home when you are fine" Canghai is embarrassed to collect oil money.
Second Grandma Li nodded when she heard this: "Leave the matter of the chick to me!"
After speaking, Grandma Li turned around to leave, and when she arrived at the door of the kiln, she stopped her body again, turned to Canghai and said: "Haiwazi, what are you going to plant on the few acres of land you left behind, and I will bring it to you when you buy seeds."
"Plant two acres of wheat, two acres of rape, one acre of peanuts, if you can, half an acre of sweet corn, and the rest of the whole potatoes," Canghai said.
"Chenghao, I'll tell us to go"
After speaking, Grandma Li pushed the door and walked out.
Being so troubled by Grandma Li's second grandmother, Canghai couldn't sleep, put on his clothes and got up to wash his face and brush his teeth.
This cake is not an ordinary cake, but a shortbread learned from the practice of Tongguan in Xi'an, it is a shortbread, the cake is very crispy layer by layer, with fragrant stew, Canghai ate it in one go, and drank a big bowl of spicy soup.
Li Liren saw the beauty of Canghai's food, and persuaded while sipping a cigarette: "If you like it, eat more."
Canghai patted his stomach: "Enough, enough!"
"Are you going to plant trees today?" asked Li Liren again.
Seeing Canghai nodded, Li Liren sighed: "I don't care about your land?"
"Aren't you looking for someone to plant, I can't take care of these now, I'm going to plant some fruit trees or something under the slope in two days, let's find someone to plant those few acres of land," Canghai said.
Hearing Canghai say this, Li Liren stopped persuading, in the old man's opinion, Canghai doesn't even turn over a piece of land, this kind of land is estimated to be more expensive than buying food for a year, and he said: You kid is also rich and tossed!
After eating, Canghai got into the car and was about to leave the village, when he smelled a pungent smell, stretched his head and looked around, and found that Grandpa Hu was now pouring dung in his own vegetables. In the countryside, their own vegetable fields are all applied farmhouse fertilizer, which is the so-called big manure, and as soon as this thing is watered, as long as it stays downwind, the taste will not mention how disgusting.
After driving the ugly donkey a few times in a row, Canghai avoided the smell of dung in his nose.
When he arrived at Fenghuanggou, Canghai first checked the seed of life, and found that the small seedlings planted the day before yesterday had grown slightly, and now they were a palm's height, and the places near the soil had begun to turn gray and grow tender skin.
Reaching out and touching it, Canghai was about to try the leaves, who knew that as soon as his hand touched the leaves, he felt the meaning in his mind flash, as if he felt the vitality of this little seedling, with an indescribable sense of joy.
Canghai was stunned for a while, then withdrew his hand, looked at the small plant under his feet and said to himself: "The little seedling will also be happy?"
After looking at it for a while, he stretched it and touched it again, this time not only did he feel its 'mood' from Xiao Miaozi, but it seemed that some of the surrounding underground conditions also came into mind in an instant, this is Canghai felt that there was a mouse nest almost fifty meters away from him, and there were two mice living in it, a male and a female, and a nest of rat cubs who had just been born and had not opened their eyes.
In order to verify that he felt something, Canghai came to the vicinity of the location of the rat nest to look for it, and sure enough, he found a mouse hole, and according to Canghai's experience, he found that there were traces of new rats entering and exiting the mouse hole.
Removed the pickaxe from the car, Canghai spit two mouthfuls of foam at the palm of his hand and then began to dig up, because he knew the direction of the mouse hole, and soon the mouse hole was cut open by Canghai, and sure enough, there was a nest of small mice in the hole, and the adult big mice had already run away in the other direction of the hole.
Mice are not a good thing, even the little mice did not get Canghai's sympathy, they directly dug the mud and buried a nest of little mice, and after burying it, they also stepped on it twice.
Standing next to the seedlings that sprouted from the seeds of life again, and touching a few more handfuls, Canghai felt as if he could grasp the situation in the vicinity through this guy, to put it more clearly, this thing seemed to be an encyclopedia in the surrounding fields, and he could know the situation of nearby animals and plants as long as he reached out and touched it.
"It's really a baby!" Canghai said with a smile.
Baby is baby, but it can't plant trees for Canghai, so Canghai has to put away his joy and drive the ugly donkey to continue planting his own trees.
The work of planting trees is simple and boring, but now this job can't be helped, because according to the growth environment of the bottle tree, the geographical conditions of Canghai's hometown are really not too suitable, because the winter is too cold, if there is no space water, Canghai's tree planting is estimated to be a matter of a year, and all these trees have to die in winter.
And Canghai has to cast a spell while planting, so that the root system of the tree goes deeper, the roots of the original bottle tree are very domineering, in its vicinity, it is rare to grow non-bottle tree plants, it is because this product in order to adapt to the drought conditions to evolve its roots very strong, as long as it can absorb water, this product will absorb its own tree pole and store it, to be used in times of drought.
At noon, Canghai is also about to be used, two meat buns, a bread, with a thermos pot of warm soup, after eating, lie on the flatbed car to rest for more than half an hour and continue to dig pits and plant trees, just so busy for a day, planted more than 20 plants.
For the next ten days, Canghai planted trees day after day, planted trees and planted trees, came early in the morning every day, and returned to the village after dark at night.
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I got up early in the morning, as soon as I went out, I saw that it was raining lightly outside today, and I looked up at the sky and found that the sky was full of dark clouds, and I knew that this light rain would not end for a while.
Standing at the door, Canghai looked at the light rain in the sky, and the heavens and men were fighting in his heart, thinking about whether to go out and plant trees today.
"Haiwazi!"
At this time, Li Licheng's grandfather Li was wearing a plastic sheet as a poncho, and ran through the door of Canghai with a trot, and saw Canghai standing at the mouth of the kiln, and the old man stood next to Canghai, first shook the plastic sheet on his body, shook off the rainwater, and then removed the plastic sheet on his body.
"It will rain for at least two or three days!" Li Licheng had a look of joy on his face.
The light rain at this time is very good for the crops, after this rain, the seeds that have just been sown in the field can germinate, and maybe a day or two later a small green seedling will grow in the field.
"Yes!" Canghai responded.
Li Licheng saw that Canghai's interest didn't seem to be high, so he asked, "What's wrong?"
"I'm wondering if I'm going to plant trees today," Canghai replied.
Li Licheng listened and said: "This little rain is preventing you from planting trees? The big guys are all busy in the fields, why don't you take a day off today, go to the field to help, and also take a look at your family's fields and people are not satisfied with the planting?"
As soon as he heard that he was looking at his own field, Canghai thought for a while and shook his head: "Forget it, I'll plant trees!"
Li Licheng was so hung that he was not choked to death by Canghai's words, and was stunned for a while before saying, "Forget it, you should plant trees!"