Chapter 4 Burying Jade
Looking at his father who went out, Xu Fan secretly breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that this level was in the past, as for what happened after the watermelon was ripe, it was no problem, absolutely no problem.
Zhang Cuifang pulled her son and chatted a few words, there were warnings, some comforts, and then went to the kitchen to start busy breakfast, the porridge has been boiled, fry an egg, roast the meat, and get some pickles, a simple breakfast is ready.
As soon as the mother and son sat down, before they started the chopsticks, the sound of a car sounded outside the door again, and Xu Yishan's figure appeared at the door of the house, striding over and muttering: "I forgot to eat breakfast because of this kid's business." ”
As soon as he heard this, Xu Fanle almost choked on porridge, and coughed several times before passing, which provoked Xu Yishan's angry eyes.
Zhang Cuifang smiled and went to eat.
"Why is this porridge much more fragrant today than yesterday, old woman, what did you put in it," Zhang Yishan, who had plucked a few mouthfuls of porridge, suddenly asked.
"I didn't put anything in, but today's porridge is really fragrant and delicious, it's really weird," Zhang Cuifang shook her head at first, and then said with a strange expression.
Xu Fan, who knew the reason, was bored and ate by himself, and had no intention of explaining.
The two old men chatted for a while and couldn't come up with a reason, and then, in the end, they all pulled porridge into their mouths, making some noises from time to time.
After breakfast, Xu Yishan hurriedly drove to work, Xiaobai and Heizi came in on time, Zhang Cuifang still partially gave Xiaobai food first, and finally gave Heizi.
After a night, Kuroko's appearance has changed a little, compared to yesterday's skinny appearance, much better, his body bones and limbs are obviously fleshy, and his spirit is also much better.
The change of the sunspot, although Xu Fan expected it, was still happy in his heart, the only thing that made him a little depressed was that the sunspot dangled in front of his mother, and his mother still didn't notice it.
After the sunspot was finished, Xu Fan had rested enough, said hello to his mother, and went out with the sunspot, as for Xiaobai, he had long since disappeared.
After yesterday's day, Xu Fan has figured out the attributes of his dog, and he will never go home until he eats.
"Heizi, you are still sensible," thinking about the unreliable Xiaobai, and then looking at the sunspot around him, Xu Fan was very emotional, there is a gap between dogs and dogs these years.
Heizi raised his head and wagged his tail and screamed, which was in response to what Xu Fan said, but what I don't know is whether it understood or not.
On the way, I met one or two people from the village, said hello to each other, and went their own way, and one person and one dog took some time to reach the mountain area of Xu Fan's house.
Before I walked in, I looked at it, and there were birds flying and falling from time to time on the watermelon field, chirping and chirping, Xu Fan, who had excellent eyesight, could vaguely see the birds flying up with colorful insects in their beaks.
"Hey! Really, these birds have come to catch insects," Xu Fan's mood instantly rose to a higher height, and he walked quickly to the nearest melon field, there were basically no birds coming here, and after a careful look, it was very clean and there was not a single insect, and then a few pieces of land were like this, and the mood was like spreading his wings and flying higher and higher.
This is a good thing, in previous years, parents did not want to eat pesticides sprayed fruits, watermelon fields are basically not sprayed with pesticides, are manual to catch insects, so that the efficiency and yield are naturally low, but it is better to eat at ease, the taste is better, and the price of selling to melon collectors is slightly higher.
There are birds that come to catch insects automatically, compared to their parents, they come to catch insects, which is not only trouble-free, more efficient, and more effective, but the only thing that makes Xu Fan a little worried is whether these birds will come to catch insects every day.
Xu Fan, who was standing on the edge of the field and touching his chin, discovered a new situation, the birds on his side fell together and the number was lively, while the watermelon field of another villager next to him only occasionally flew over to catch insects, and he didn't go back after catching the insects, and he turned his head and flew to his family's land.
Look at the situation here, and think about previous years, the situation of the land on my own side is basically the same as that of other villagers, and occasionally a few birds will come to catch insects, and there will be no such large-scale action at all.
The only explanation is that because of the elixir, thinking back to the contents of that notebook, Xu Fan became more and more sure that these birds would catch insects from home in the future.
Thinking about this, Xu Fan carried the bucket with the sunspots, hummed a little tune and walked to the stream, fetched water and diluted the elixir, first fed the sunspots a few bites, and then started to work.
Today's concentration is even better than yesterday's, the amount of sprinkling is also less, the speed is much faster, and by noon it was finished and I went home.
After lunch, the family of three chatted for a while, the content was nothing more than the watermelon field, there were also some interesting things in the village and outside the village, and more importantly, today's meal was much better than before, and Xu Fan, the culprit, was very stubborn and did not explain.
After taking a nap, Xu Fan was still dressed as working in the field, and he also brought a machete and hoe, and went out with a sunspot, which was not the mountain at the foot of his own mountain, but the land on the mountain.
As soon as I went out, the phone rang, and when I took it out, I saw that it was a call from my college roommates, and after I connected it, a loud voice came from the phone: "Brother Rice Bucket, how are you doing over there?" My brother-in-law keeps asking me what about it. ”
"Soon, the first batch of watermelons will be ripe in three days, you ask your brother-in-law, how much to send first, I can arrange it," Hearing this, Xu Fan still didn't understand the meaning of this dead friend.
Since the first batch of experimental watermelons, after bringing this product to his brother-in-law, who is the head chef, to taste it, he has come to ask every now and then, and at the same time helped Xu Fan pave the way for sales.
"Okay, I'll tell my brother-in-law to go, I'm about to be annoyed by him, by the way, rice bucket, remember to send me a hundred and eighty pounds of watermelon when the time comes," the other end of the phone complained first, and then the conversation turned very shamelessly and asked for it.
"One hundred and eighty pounds, fat man, you are not afraid that you won't even be able to walk after eating," Xu Fan scolded very unceremoniously.
"Hey! You don't understand this, the world of foodies, you will never understand, you will never understand," the other end of the phone sang directly, not caring about being scolded at all.
"Okay, you win, come over and pull it yourself, now go and ask your brother-in-law how much you want in the first batch, this is a serious matter," Xu Fan patted his forehead and looked speechless, when he met this kind of faceless person, he really couldn't help it.
"Okay, wait for my brother's call," he hung up after speaking.
"Damn! Hang up faster than me," scolding with a smile at the phone, Xu Fan greeted the sunspot in a comfortable mood.
didn't go far, Xu Fan's footsteps had to stop again, and a childhood playmate stopped him: "Fanzi, this dress is going to go to the ground?" ”
"yes, why are you back in your hometown today?" Xu Fan asked, this childhood friend is a chef who opened a small restaurant in the county seat, and his income is okay.
"Aren't we going to engage in green tourism? The store in my county is going to be demolished because of the renovation, so I want to come back and see if I want to open a farmhouse," the playmate's name is Xu Fei, handed Xu Fan a cigarette, and lit it himself.
"You have to think about this carefully, I don't understand this thing in the farmhouse, so it's not good to pay attention to you," Xu Fan smiled and refused to smoke and said.
"No, now the villages around here have just started to get it, no one can say, by the way, if we are free tomorrow, let's go into the back mountains to get some game and have a good drink," Xu Fei took the initiative to divert the topic.
"Okay, I haven't been in the back mountain for a long time, or you're going to organize a little people, and the two of us are a little less," Xu Fan immediately came up with interest.
"Okay, that's it, I'll go to Chen Bing and Xu Tao in a while, I haven't been in the mountains together for a long time, this time I have to have enough," Xu Fei rubbed his palms and sharpened his fists.
The two chatted again and then parted.
The land on Xu Fanjia Mountain is mainly divided into two sections, there is a piece in the middle of the mountain, there is a piece on the top of the mountain, the land on the halfway side of the mountain is smaller, and the top of the mountain is much larger.
Aoshan Village is the southeast of China, and the main cash crops in the mountains and forests are mainly bayberry, and the same is true for Aoshan Village, where bayberry trees can be seen everywhere.
At this time, according to the different places, some areas have matured and begun to enter the market, and the bayberry in Aoshan Village has always been the late ripening batch, and now the bayberry on the mountain forest is green, and there is still some time before it matures.
Halfway up the mountain, there are more than ten bayberry trees in Xu Fan's house, and the others are some conventional mountain forest trees.
The weeds around these bayberry trees have been removed, Xu Fan is happy to save trouble, finds a piece of location in the middle section, picks up a hoe and digs.
The pit was dug relatively deep, about half a meter deep, and a piece of crystal clear jade was taken out from the jade pendant and thrown into the pit, and then buried back with soil.
After doing these jobs, Xu Fan clapped his hands, wiped the sweat on his forehead, and walked to the top of the mountain with the sunspot, and on the way, the dead friend called and said that his brother-in-law would come first for a few hundred catties, and Xu Fan had no opinion on this.
Originally, Xu Fan planned to directly irrigate the bayberry tree with agar slurry, but when he thought of the trouble of getting water here, he had to water it every three or five times, which was too troublesome, so he took out the few jade and buried it once and for all.
There are only five pieces of jade in the jade space, the material of this jade is relatively special, and if you want to achieve the effect, you need to soak it in the agar slurry for a long time, and it can only be used after it is fully absorbed, which is more precious.
The precious jade, Xu Fan naturally will not use it indiscriminately, and currently only plans to use it on his two mountains, and the rest has been kept for emergencies.
Cave Mountain is the shortest mountain in this rolling mountain range, but it took more than an hour to climb to the top of the mountain, after burying the jade, to see that the time is not early, Xu Fan lost interest in enjoying the scenery of the mountains behind, and went straight home with the sunspot.
When he got home, it was already dark, Xu Yishan also came back, and as soon as he finished eating, Xu Fei ran over and told him that he had made an appointment, and he would go into the back mountain early tomorrow morning, and let him prepare things first, and don't oversleep.
Looking at Xu Fei's interested, Xu Fan agreed, but his parents had no opinion on this.