Early the next morning, because he had to go to the mountains to dig potatoes, so before the sky dawned, Li Yuqing and Chen Dazhuang came to the place where they picked up river mussels yesterday, but unfortunately they didn't see anything except the black silt everywhere. Li Yuqing was a little frustrated, knowing that even if she took off her coat yesterday, she would have to take the river mussels back.

But it didn't take long to figure it out, you can't be like this, so many pearls were picked up for nothing yesterday, and there is nothing to be satisfied with.

Thinking that he was not looking for this, he called Chen Dazhuang, who was still looking for him, to go home together.

When he got home, He had already gotten up to make breakfast, except for the three little ones who didn't get up, Old Man Chen and Cai had already gotten up to wash up and prepare for dinner.

Seeing Li Yuqing and them coming back, Cai hurriedly asked, "Yuqing, is that river mussel still there, do you want to help?" After speaking, the rest of the people held their breath one by one and waited earnestly for Li Yuqing's answer.

Looking at the way their eyes lit up, Li Yuqing said helplessly, "It's gone, none of it is gone." Maybe someone picked it up. ”

"What, it's gone," Cai asked with a distressed face after hearing this, "Who knows what that ghost thing is going to do, isn't it someone else who picked it up after watching you pick it up." After speaking, he complained in a low voice, "That bad thing of a thousand knives, that's silver, there should be a lot of money that can be exchanged for young and old."

Li Yuqing didn't bother to explain, you can't be too greedy, you have to know how to be content and happy.

Not long after breakfast, Li Daniu came over with a basket on his back, Li Yuqing saw him coming, and beckoned everyone to carry the basket and hold the shovel, leaving Cai's family at home to take care of the family and children, and He's also went up the mountain with him.

The sun had not yet risen in the morning, and the dew on the weeds on both sides of the mountain road had wet their trouser legs in a short time.

Li Yuqing didn't say anything, she was still thinking about last night's river mussel in her heart, looking at Li Da Niu who was walking in front and leading the way, she endured it for a long time, and finally couldn't help but ask, "Uncle Da Niu"

Li Daniu heard someone calling him, turned his face and saw Li Yuqing and asked, "What's wrong?"

"That's it," Li Yuqing eased down, gritted his teeth and asked, "It's the river mussel I picked up last night, and it was very good to eat last night, and I went to think about why I didn't have it when I picked it up this morning." ”

Li Daniu slowed down and listened to Li Yuqing's question, and replied with a smile, "You said this, no one wants that ghost thing except you." ”

"No one wants to be gone"

"No wonder you don't understand, the village releases water to catch fish. When you're done, throw the unwanted things into the water and release them, or else how do you think that ghost thing has grown so big? "After a pause," if you still want to eat, dig the pond next time and pick up more, otherwise no one will usually get the water depth." ”

After listening to Li Daniu's words, Li Yuqing's mouth suddenly opened, it turned out that there was still this custom in the village. Since you know that no one picks up the mussels, it means that no one knows that there are pearls in the mussels. The next time she releases the water to catch fish, the pearls in the mussels can grow a little longer, and then she will get more so that others will not be suspicious.

After understanding this, Li Yuqing didn't talk to Li Daniu all the way. To be precise, I didn't say anything to anyone, bouncing and humming a little song along the way, and I knew that I was in a very happy mood at a glance.

Passing by the soaphorn tree, I saw that the tree was full of soaphorn dripping with hexagrams, and it could be harvested after a while. Thinking that in the future, with soaphorn liquid, the clothes will not be as bad as they are now, and I can't wait to hang up a layer to wash it clean.

In the future, as long as the dirty clothes are put in the water, poured soap and gently scrubbed with their hands, they will easily wash off the dirty clothes that usually have a headache, and Li Yuqing's originally happy mood is even happier.

In a happy mood, a few people unconsciously came to the center of the mountain, and the potatoes that Li Yuqing and Li Daniu saw when they came had just sprouted not long ago, and now they saw that a large area of the depression on the mountain was full of potato vines whose leaves had withered.

Li Daniu had seen it before, so there was no reaction, Old Man Chen was not calm when he saw the withered vines, and pulled Li Yuqing and asked, "Yuqing, are we late, you see this thing is dead." ”

Li Yuqing knew that Old Man Chen and Chen Daniu had never met, and she was not in a hurry to reply to him. He put the basket on his back on the ground and asked Chen Dazhuang to hand him the shovel he had brought.

Chen Dazhuang didn't know what Li Yuqing wanted to do, not only did he not answer Old Man Chen's words but also asked him for an iron shovel, out of his cognition of Li Yuqing, he knew that she would not be like this for no reason, so he handed her the iron shovel without saying anything.

Li Yuqing took the shovel, walked to the nearest potato vine, and bent down to hold the withered vines together with his hands. Then he smoothed the vine in one direction, straightened up, picked up the shovel and shoveled it down along the center of the potato vine, and then dug hard, and suddenly dug out a large pile of soil with a lot of round potatoes on the vine.

Old man Chen was very curious when he saw Li Yuqing digging out so many round things, bent down and picked one up in his hand, turned it over and looked over it, and didn't see a reason, tilted his head and asked Li Yuqing with an inquiring face, "Yuqing, this thing is the potato you said, it doesn't seem to be anything special, what can this thing do." ”

"Grandpa, this is called potatoes that can be eaten, and they taste very good, they can be stewed, fried, boiled and eaten, anyway, they are delicious no matter how you do it"

Old man Chen drooled a little when he thought of what Li Yuqing said about eating, and then thought about Li Yuqing's craftsmanship. "Really, that's a good thing. After saying that, he beckoned Chen Dazhuang and Li Daniu to come over.

"Big Strong, Big Bull, come quickly. Put down the back basket and bring the shovel, let's dig together, and let Yuqing and Chrysanthemum pick it up later. After speaking, he couldn't wait to take the shovel in Li Yuqing's hand and did it himself.

Chen Dazhuang and Li Daniu saw that Old Man Chen had done it first, so they hurriedly put down the basket on their backs, picked up the shovel, and started to do it like Li Yuqing just now. Because the time in the field is a bit long, the potatoes grow to the point that they can't grow any longer, so the potatoes dug up are basically the size of a fist, which is very pleasing to look at.

Li Yuqing asked He to carry a basket to pick up potatoes behind them, and he was digging a shovel in the back pit by hole, so as to ensure that each pit was empty, and the fish that had slipped through the net in the province were not picked up and wasted outside. He picked up all the big potatoes stuck to the vines in front, and Li Yuqing dug up small potatoes with double roots.

In the middle, Chen Dazhuang and Li Daniu went down the mountain one after another to deliver potatoes to Li Yuqing's house, while Old Man Chen and Li Yuqing continued to stay on the mountain to dig potatoes and pick up potatoes. Basically, as soon as they came back, He and Li Yuqing filled the rest of the back baskets (of course, He picked up a lot of them, and Li Yuqing picked up all the small ones)

Even at noon, they didn't go home to eat in order to finish it quickly, but Chen Dazhuang and Li Daniu sent potatoes back to eat the dry food and water they brought to them after eating. I kept busy until I went home in the evening with a basket on my back, and I was halfway through the pack. The remaining five people will have to work hard all day tomorrow.

When she returned home, Li Yuqing had a sore back, but fortunately, the potatoes that she had brought back before were put in the cellar dug by the house built in advance, otherwise she would have been busy for a while when she returned home so tired.

Dinner was eaten together, and everyone's face was full of joy instead of tiredness after work. Maybe that's the energy that life is full of hope.

Li Yuqing simply ate a little and said hello to everyone, took a bath with the water that Cai's had boiled in advance, got into the quilt and quickly fell asleep.