Chapter 225: Beating Reed Leaves
Wen Xu was holding Zhuo Yiqing in one hand, a basket in the other, and Dong Liang had just walked out of the gate behind him, when he just turned around and was about to bring the door, when he heard the voice of Old Man Chi behind him. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Wen Xu, Xiao Zhuo, where are you two going?"
Zhuo Yiqing replied with a smile: "Old Man Chi, the two of us are going to pick reed leaves and cut wormwood, do you want us to bring you some?"
Hearing that the two of them were going to get these two things, Old Man Chi hurriedly shook his hand: "You can get it, I don't want it, from the morning to now, there have been several groups of people to send these things, my wife and I have to wash it for a few days with wormwood, you just get your own."
"Okay!" Zhuo Yiqing said.
Old Man Chi asked again: "Wen Xu, will you go to Xiao Zhuo's house for the holidays?"
"Hmm!" Wen Xu closed the door, turned around, and nodded at the old man.
"If you have time, help me find two books, and go to Mingzhu's foreign bookstore to see if there are any" Old Man Chi said as he took out a folded piece of paper from his pocket and handed it to Wen Xu.
Wen Xu took it and looked at it, five or six books, the top is English and the bottom is the Chinese translation, and the author or something, and after two glances, Wen Xu put the note in his pocket.
"Okay, I'll help you find it, if there's anything else, if not, we'll go get something, and we'll have to go to Mingzhu in the afternoon" Wen Xu stretched out his hand and pointed at the coquettish Red Land Patrol at his door.
"It's okay! hurry up and get busy," Old Man Chi waved his hand.
The two of them were about to go to the car, and Mr. Ma hurriedly came out, standing at the door of his house and shouting to Old Man Chi: "Old man, didn't you say that you want to build a melon shelf, follow Wen Xu to chop some reeds, so that you don't have to go to the front and back of someone else's house to cut green bamboo!"
Hearing what Mr. Ma said, Old Man Chi patted his head: "Ouch, you see I forgot about this matter, is there still a place in the car?"
"Yes, yes, just waiting for you, an old guest," Wen Xu smiled and waved his hand at the old man.
Teacher Ma looked at the servants leaving, and opened his mouth again and said, "Old man, with a firewood knife, empty-handed, you cut the reeds with your brains?"
Wen Xu smiled and shouted to Teacher Ma, "Teacher Ma, don't need it, I have a firewood knife here."
Old Man Chi also stretched out his finger and pointed at Wen Xu, and said loudly with a smile: "With Wen Xu, this kid is still worried about this kind of thing?
When Mr. Ma heard the two of them say this, he turned his head and wanted to go home, but before he turned around, he saw Xiao Dongliang running out, chasing after Dongliang with his calves, and hurriedly took two steps, and dragged Xiao Dongliang back to the yard with his dog waist.
After getting into the car, Wen Xu directly bypassed the pond at the entrance of the village, waded through the small stream that had just emerged, and crossed the bridge at the entrance of the village and drove in the direction of Liyu Bay.
Old Man Chi asked curiously: "Aren't there reeds at the west end of the village, why do you cross the bridge?"
Wen Xu said very experienced: "The reeds in the west of the village are relatively small, and the reeds over there have been cut at least once a year away from the village, and there is no one to cut them along the original road into the mountain, so the leaves are big and the poles are thick, which is a good reed." It doesn't matter if we have a car farther away anyway. ”
The role of reeds is not small, who in the countryside does not have a few reed curtains? If you have good skills, you can directly open the reed pole and weave a basket and basket, even if it is the whole reed mat, it will take two or three days. For the countryside, reeds are almost all available.
Hearing Wen Xu say a reason, Old Man Chi nodded and stopped talking.
After Liyu Bay, I walked forward along the original road into the village, and after a while, I met a group of leather children in the village on the road, one by one carrying a cage and carrying a pole, and more than a dozen black seedlings.
Tick Tick!
Wen Xu honked the horn, stopped the car, and asked the bear children, "What are you going to do?"
"Fishing!"
Mao Dan, who walked at the end, was holding his sister Mao Ya in one hand and a bamboo cage in the other. It is estimated that many people have not seen what is called a bamboo cage, thinking that this is made of bamboo, in fact, it is not, this thing is made of reeds, the bottom is square, the top is a cylindrical wide and narrow mouth, which is specially used for fish in the countryside. When fishing, throw it into the river and load the fish, which can be used as a net.
Wen Xu said: "I know that you are going fishing, why can't the village stay with you, come here to fish?"
Da Leizi, who was originally walking in front, turned around at this time, walked to Wen Xu's car, looked up at Wen Xu, and said, "Uncle, where are you going?"
"I'm going to go one step ahead!"
"Then you can take us!"
"What are you fishing so far?" Wen Xu asked curiously.
Dalin said at this time: "The monkeys in the pond in the village are not allowed to fish, as long as we have fish coming up, the monkeys will reach out to ask for it. We really have no choice, so let's go fishing with Brother Da Lei to a place where there are no monkeys!"
After saying that, the kid took out something that looked like a handkerchief from his pocket, put it on his nose, blew his nose with a sneer, and after blowing it, folded the handkerchief like this, and put it back in his pocket.
"There are no monkeys here, you guys are fishing here!"
Wen Xu understands that now the monkeys have almost become the tyrant of the village, and anything that seems 'wrong' to them will ask you to reach out and ask for something, and they will reach out once that it is twenty or thirty yuan, not to mention that this amount is not for children, but also for the adults in the village.
It is precisely because of the 'strongness' of the monkey group that now the village is called a clean and tidy, the phenomenon of uncivilization is almost extinct, originally left the village and occasionally spit out a phlegm or something, but once the good habit is formed, it becomes natural, and now the kid in Da Linzi knows how to blow his nose with a handkerchief, which is towards civilization.
Da Lei's eyes rolled and said, "There aren't many fish here!"
Old man Chi stuck his head out of the car window at this time, looked at Da Lei's group of leather monkeys and said with a smile: "If you want to take the car, just say that you want to take the car, and what kind of bend will you go around with your uncle! Come up quickly."
Wen Xu understood when he heard this, and said to Da Lei's children with a smile: "There are so many eyes!"
As he spoke, he opened the carriage.
Without Wen Xu getting out of the car, these children immediately ran towards the back compartment, less than two minutes, more than a dozen children all climbed into the car, the second row of the whole car with the original small chairs in the back compartment, plus the ground sitting on the carriage was full of small brains.
"Have you sat down?" Wen Xu got out of the car, walked to the back compartment and took a look, a few small bamboo poles and pestles couldn't close the car door at all, so he stretched out his hand and said: "Give me all the bamboo poles in your hand, sit in the car and grab this thing in your hand!"
"Uncle, the hook and line I just sat on cost more than ten yuan" Gou Shanzi is very precious, he has spent a lot of money on the new 'fishing rod' in his hand, and he refuses to let go!
"If you don't let go, you'll run on the ground!"
Wen Xu glared at the kid and reluctantly let go. After collecting five or six poles, tying them with small ropes, Wen Xu tied all the small fish rods to the luggage rack at the bottom of the car, and then returned to the car and drove the car to the destination.
With this group of children, it is much more lively along the way. From time to time, there is an ouch from the back of the car, you squeeze me, if you go that way, it is all children who get together to give them a boat, these bear children have to squeeze around together, let alone a car.
It wasn't until the end of the road that Wen Xu stopped the car, looked at the flooded road in front of him, and was a little stunned: "It's flooded here?"
After this period of rain, the river water has skyrocketed, and now the rain has stopped, and several rivers flowing out of the mountains have not subsided in the slightest, Wen Xu feels that it is impossible for the river to become the original state, in short, after Wen Xu's toss, the water resources of Wenjia Village are abundant.
Da Lei jumped out of the car like a little adult at this time: "Uncle, this side has been flooded a long time ago, don't look at the road in front of it seems to be up again, and it is deeper over there, last time the third uncle tried it and didn't overdo it."
The little thing said as he stretched out his hand and gestured.
Old Man Chi also got out of the car, glanced at the reeds by the river and said, "Why don't we just go here, it's all reeds, I think this side is not bad, it's thick enough, just build a loofah rack."
When Da Lei heard that the old man Chi was setting up a shelf, he turned his little head curiously, looked at the old man and asked, "Grandpa Chi, why don't you use bamboo to build a shelf at home, what do you use reeds for?"
"Your grandfather Chi is not as thick-skinned as you, the bamboo is all from other people, I'm embarrassed to trouble others," Wen Xu said.
Da Linzi also jumped out of the car at this time, opened his mouth and said: "There are wild bamboos over there, but there are no people, Grandpa Chi will cut them down!"
When Old Man Chi heard this, he asked, "Which side?"
A group of children stretched out their hands together, pointed to the hillside and said, although the hillside is steep but still going up, and you can also see the path walked by people in the wind, but there are too few people to walk and it is almost covered by the growing bushes. You can't see the bamboo forest on the road, and you can estimate that you can get to the top of the mountain.
Old Man Chi looked at this mountain road, thought for a while, shook his head and said, "Forget it, let's chop some reeds!"
"Grandpa Chi, you want you to say something!" Da Lei patted his little chest and said, "We'll help you cut it!"
When the old man Chi heard this, he immediately waved his hand and said: "Forget it, forget it! The reeds are good, anyway, there is nothing heavy, and grandpa has planted it in the back, and he will be able to use bamboo next year."
Children can go, but the old man doesn't dare to let these leather children have to go up such a steep slope for their own affairs to help themselves cut bamboo, children play by themselves is one thing, and it is another thing to help themselves do things, in case there is a dangerous old man who feels that he can not afford this responsibility.
Wen Xu also understood what the old man meant, and he couldn't get over anyway, so he patted the car door and said to Zhuo Yiqing and the children in the car: "Come down, it's time to get to the ground, there is no road ahead!"
Hearing that it was a place, it was like a group of ducklings coming out of the nest, and a group of bear children ran down from the car, and one by one they got out of the car and began to ask Wen Xu for a pole.
After taking off the pole on the roof of the car, the bear children scattered in a hurry, each looking for something to go fishing, while Wen Xu and Old Man Chi each took a knife from the car to chop firewood and prepared to go down the river embankment to cut reeds.
Wen Xu took the lead and carefully walked along the slope towards the river, stirring the small shrubs and artemisia grass in front of him with the wood knife in his hand as he went.
"What are you doing with grass if you have nothing to do?" Zhuo Yiqing stood on the road, looking at Wen Xu all the way down the grass and asked.
Wen Xu didn't reply: "Have you ever heard of an idiom? Hit the grass to scare the snake, my grass here is to prevent a snake from being in the grass, I stepped on it and was bitten by the snake in vain!"
"There are snakes here?" asked Zhuo Yiqing.
"How fresh!" After Wen Xu finished speaking, he wanted to scare Zhuo Yiqing: "Be careful, follow me, don't run into the river without being scared by snakes!"
Zhuo Yiqing held the curb with one hand, and one foot had already reached the slope: "You are wrong, I am just afraid of leeches and some disgusting things, and I am not too afraid of snakes now!"
As he spoke, he walked down the place where Wen Xu had come down.
When they arrived at the water's edge, Wen Xu and Old Man Chi began to pick up reeds and chop, specially picking up thick reeds, cutting a few and moving a place, and after a while, the two of them cut about 20 reeds.
Zhuo Yiqing is now responsible for carrying these cut reeds to the side of the road, and from time to time Wen Xu will also help out or something, and the cooperation between the servants is quite good, and they have cut enough reeds in less than twenty minutes.
After chopping the reeds, the servants returned to the road, and Wen Xu replaced the wood knife with gloves and began to beat the reed leaves.
"You be careful, don't pick up all the leaves, pay attention to it, don't pull off the insects on the leaves, and when the time comes, you can eat them in the palms" Wen Xu looked at Zhuo Yiqing on the opposite side and pulled it aside without even checking the leaves, and immediately said out loud.
Zhuo Yiqing blinked and asked, "There are still insects eating reed leaves?"
"How fresh!" Wen Xu casually picked up a leaf at his feet, this leaf had been half rolled by insects, and the largest and widest part of the leaf was already wrapped with white insect silk, and in the middle of the insect silk was a gray-black fleshy worm.
"Hey, it's disgusting!" Zhuo Yiqing looked at the things in Wen Xu's hand, and immediately pouted.
Everyone was pulling the leaves here, and they heard a child's surprised cry not far away: "Come on, come on!"
Immediately, Wen Xu's attention was attracted, and when he heard the sound of the bear child cheering, Wen Xu put down the work in his hand and walked quickly in the direction from which the sound came.
When Wen Xu ran over, he saw a group of children gathered around a reed pond, jumping and shouting loudly!
With Old Man Chi and Zhuo Yiqing, the three of them carefully slid from the road to the water's edge, and when they walked behind the children, not to mention Old Man Chi and Zhuo Yiqing, even Wen Xu's eyes widened, looking at what he saw in disbelief.
A huge old turtle, also known as a soft-shelled turtle, was lying on the edge of the reeds and tried to burrow into the river, but was surrounded by the bear children with the pole in their hands.