After resting for half an hour at home, Zhao Shandong1 suddenly told Zhao Ziqiao that he would not dig sweet potatoes in the afternoon. Zhao Ziqiao was overjoyed when he heard the news! However, he didn't know if it was Zhao Shandong's miserable appearance when he saw him, or because the village needed to renovate and repair the water pipes, so Zhao Shandong decided not to dig sweet potatoes in the afternoon.

However, for Zhao Ziqiao, Zhao Shandong's decision is simply 'wise and martial'. Since he didn't dig sweet potatoes in the afternoon, Zhao Ziqiao set his eyes on the sweet potatoes they had just brought back.

He picked out a few large sweet potatoes from a few loads of sweet potatoes, held them with a smile, and walked towards the earthen stove next to Zhao Yunfang's house.

Sweet potatoes can be eaten steamed, boiled, and dried as snacks, but Zhao Ziqiao's favorite thing is to simmer the sweet potatoes directly.

Sweet potatoes cooked in a wood-fired fire are sweeter than ordinary sweet potatoes, but you have to master the heat, if the heat is too large, the sweet potatoes are easy to burn.

In order to eat, Zhao Ziqiao still likes to do it himself, use firewood to build a small pile in the earthen stove, after lighting the firewood, Zhao Ziqiao first burned it dry, and when there was a piece of red-hot charcoal left at the bottom of the earthen stove, he used tongs to move the red-hot charcoal to the side, dug a big pit from the middle, and then put the prepared sweet potatoes directly into this big pit.

The red-hot charcoal was placed over the pit again, and then a few thicker sections of dry wood were fetched and the reddish charcoal was used to set the wood on fire.

After the firewood burned, Zhao Ziqiao left, the sweet potatoes in the earthen stove were covered with ashes, which belonged to a good heating state, as long as no one stepped forward to move the ashes covering the sweet potatoes, and when the wood burned out, Zhao Ziqiao would be able to eat the simmered sweet potatoes.

When Zhao Yunfang came out to wash vegetables, she also saw Zhao Ziqiao getting sweet potatoes there, but she didn't care about it after taking a look, anyway, the wood in the house was not valuable, Zhao Ziqiao wanted to eat sweet potatoes, so let him get it.

When he was eating lunch, Zhao Ziqiao deliberately ate a little less, and he also buried a few sweet potatoes in the earthen stove! He had to save a little stomach to eat those sweet potatoes.

After eating the rice in the bowl, Zhao Ziqiao immediately ran to the earthen stove, which still exuded bursts of residual warmth, and the surface was covered with a layer of gray ashes, like heavy snow covering the earth.

Zhao Ziqiao was not in the mood to enjoy the scenery, he found a branch, directly peeled off the layer of ashes on it, and after a while, he saw the sweet potatoes buried in the ashes.

The sweet potato with a purple skin was like a fallen leaf in autumn at the moment, with a withered yellow smell on the skin, seeing this familiar color, Zhao Ziqiao used a branch to directly pull the sweet potato into ashes.

Four or five sweet potatoes were pulled out by Zhao Ziqiao, but one of them may have been covered with ash a little thinner when he first started to make it, and the skin was a little charred, but this did not affect eating, and the inside of the sweet potato should still be intact.

"Ziqiao, are you at home?"

Just as Zhao Ziqiao was pinching a sweet potato with both hands, about to peel the skin and taste it, he suddenly heard Zhao Jie's voice.

Hearing Zhao Jie's voice, Zhao Ziqiao pinched the sweet potato, walked out from the side of the house, and saw Zhao Jie standing at the door, Zhao Ziqiao asked him, "Third brother, is there anything wrong with me?"

Zhao Jie saw Zhao Ziqiao holding a sweet potato in his hand, and it was steaming, and said with a smile: "You kid is eating baked sweet potatoes?"

"Third brother, my freshly baked sweet potato, can you still eat it here?" Zhao Ziqiao greeted Zhao Jie.

Zhao Jie didn't say anything polite to Zhao Ziqiao, followed Zhao Ziqiao to the side of the house, picked up a sweet potato from the ground, and twisted it directly from the middle.

Smelling the fragrance of sweet potatoes, Zhao Jie said with a smile: "It's still this kind of freshly roasted sweet potato, it tastes more fragrant!"

"Is this what you just dug up?" Zhao Jie was not afraid of being hot, took a bite of the sweet potato that was still steaming, and asked Zhao Ziqiao.

"I just dug it up today. Third brother, have you planted it?"

Zhao Jie smiled and said, "When I have time in two days, I will have to take back the sweet potatoes I grew at home." ”

The two chatted about home, but Zhao Jie suddenly remembered what he wanted to do here, swallowed the sweet potato in his mouth, and asked Zhao Ziqiao, "Ziqiao, are you free tomorrow?"

"Huh, what's the matter?"

"Tomorrow I'm going to take a few people from the city into the mountains to go around, and I want to go with you. Zhao Jie took another bite of the sweet potato, explaining his intention.

Zhao Ziqiao took a bite of the sweet potato, looked at Zhao Jie with some puzzlement, and asked, "Third brother, why did you think of looking for me?"

Zhao Ziqiao did run with Zhao Jie all over the mountain when he was a child, but it doesn't mean that his survival skills in the wild can be stronger than Zhao Jie! Zhao Jie ran over to find him, obviously a little unreasonable.

"Those city people want to go up to the mountains to find some excitement, and they want me to take them to hunt. You know, people in the city like it sometimes. ”

Zhao Jie explained this, Zhao Ziqiao understood, Zhao Jie is a good hand in the village, although he is not a serious hunter, but compared with ordinary people, he knows more about the mountains, and it is the most suitable choice to ask him to be a guide.

However, Zhao Ziqiao was still a little puzzled, Zhao Jie could basically lead a team of people into the mountain alone, why did he still need to come to him?

"Third brother, it seems that you can do it alone, why do you still need to look for me?"

Zhao Jie shook his head at him and said, "That group of people want to go into the mountains to hunt a wild boar, but I haven't been in the mountains for too long, and I don't know where there are wild boars." Didn't you say that you had seen a wild boar? And then you got some pigs to be raised in the mountains, and this time you accompanied me into the mountains to see how your pigs were doing? At the same time, let the group of people in the city go back with their hands to shoot a wild boar, and when the time comes, we will divide the money equally. ”

The corners of Zhao Ziqiao's mouth twitched slightly, sure enough, it was a lie that killed people!

Where did he go to find the traces of wild boars! And those domestic pigs that he bought back had already been turned into food by him, and there was no such scene as a domestic pig in the mountains that he raised!

"Third brother, you let me think about it!, but I want to ask, what will happen if they don't find the wild boar?" Zhao Ziqiao naturally couldn't agree with his mouth.

"If you don't find a wild boar, you don't find a wild boar! That's not something we can say, but if they really find a trace of a wild boar, and they can hit one of them, they will add two thousand yuan to us at that time, and if not, it will only be a simple five hundred yuan to lead the way." ”

Hearing this price, Zhao Ziqiao felt a little despised in his heart! After all, his income from selling fish every day was about to catch up with this price, and the oranges in his hand were simply many times higher than this price.

Let him go into the mountains to help find the wild boar, and he has to kill the wild boar in order to receive an extra 2,000 yuan in benefits, which is simply not a good business.

However, Zhao Ziqiao looked at Zhao Jie, who was full of expectations, thought about it slightly, and agreed. He can look down on the five hundred yuan for the journey, and he can also slightly disdain the two thousand five hundred yuan for the benefit, but for Zhao Jie, this money is the extra money that can be picked.

"Third brother, but let's talk first, let's only be responsible for leading them. Whether or not we can find the wild boar, no one can say whether this is true, and even if I find the wild boar, I will not go up to help! That beast, you also know what virtue is, if we don't get it right, we will have to explain it in the mountains, and we don't have to give up our lives for that money. ”

"Ziqiao, I don't need you to say it, I also know what to do. Besides, I didn't think to say that for the sake of this money, I would go and sell my life for them! More than 2,000 yuan, if they want to buy my life, they want to buy me or not!"

"They have already told me that if they find wild boars, they will do it themselves, and we don't need to interfere!

Since Zhao Jie also understands this, Zhao Ziqiao is naturally willing to let him earn one or two hundred yuan of extra money, anyway, in the mountains, he doesn't know where there are wild boars, go into the mountains, lead people around the mountains, you can earn a few hundred yuan, Zhao Ziqiao is still willing to do it.

"Okay, then it's decided, Ziqiao, you prepare, and tomorrow we will lead people into the mountain. ”

Zhao Ziqiao nodded, and sent Zhao Jie, who was full of joy, out, but if Zhao Jie knew that Zhao Ziqiao just wanted him to earn one or two hundred yuan, he didn't know what he would think in his heart.

Since he promised Zhao Jie to accompany him into the mountains tomorrow, Zhao Ziqiao walked home with the remaining sweet potatoes, and then told Zhao Shandong and Zhao Yunfang about it, but Zhao Ziqiao did not say that he wanted to go into the mountains to find wild boars and kill wild boars, but said that some people in the city wanted to go into the mountains and experience the joy of wandering in the mountains and forests.

When Zhao Shandongshan and Zhao Yunfang heard that Zhao Ziqiao had found another job to make money easily, they naturally let him go out to make money, instead of pulling him to complain that they wouldn't go digging sweet potatoes with them.

In fact, when Zhao Shandong heard that some people in the city wanted to go into the mountains and go around, and they could give money, Zhao Shandong wanted to replace Zhao Ziqiao and go for Zhao Ziqiao, this kind of money is just the same as picking it up for nothing!

But anyway, he is also Zhao Ziqiao's elder, this kind of shameless and skinless thing, Zhao Shandong still can't do it! Besides, Zhao Jie is looking for Zhao Ziqiao, not him.

After a few simple words of advice to Zhao Ziqiao, Zhao Shandong asked Zhao Ziqiao to prepare for tomorrow's entry into the mountain, after all, he and Zhao Jie need to take a team of people into the mountain, if there is no preparation, it may give people a very amateurish feeling, and it is not good that others will not give money because of this.