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After cleaning, Li Manman checked the green vegetable storage at home, only a few potatoes, went to the bedroom to see his younger brother sleeping like a pig, closed the door gently, carried the basket, and prepared to go to the vegetable field to pick some vegetables and come back. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Li Manman's vegetable field is not far from home, but it is not close, in front of Xili's house, it takes about five or six minutes to walk, although it is the mid-autumn season, but it is located in the Qinling Huaihe River area, the weather is still very warm, the eggplant in the vegetable garden is still hanging with long fruits, the tomato seedlings still bear green fruits, the red tomatoes in the countryside are generally rarely seen in the garden, because the children are naughty, as long as they see the tomatoes in the vegetable field of their house, they will be picked and eaten, there is a proverb in the countryside that says: crooked melons and rotten dates, bite when you catch them. Picking other people's fruits here, as long as it is not deliberately destroyed, it is not stealing, even if the owner sees it, it does not matter. So most of the tomatoes that Li Manman ate at home when he was a child were green, the peppers were very full, and the two leeks had grown. I have to say that Li Manman's mother is a good hand at tending to the vegetable field, and the vegetable fields around him are not as good as Li Manman's parents.

I picked a few eggplants, a few more tomatoes and peppers, cut a handful of leeks, and picked up the basket to go home. After taking two steps, I remembered that there was still a vacant space in my space, so I pulled out a tomato and threw a pepper into it, and when I saw that there was no one around, I flashed in and planted the tomatoes and peppers.

Back home, Taotao was still asleep, Li Manman breathed a sigh of relief, washed rice and cooked porridge, and spread up cakes with noodles, after the cakes were ready, washed a few peppers, scraped the potatoes, cut them finely, fried a green pepper potato, picked the leeks again, washed them and made a leek scrambled egg.

"Da Hong, are you still going to release the ducks today?" The army asked, rubbing his hazy sleepy eyes and braking his unkempt hair.

"I'm not going today, my house starts today, I'm going to help!" Li Manman did the work in his hands and said with a smile.

"Then I'm not going either!" The army thought for a moment, then turned and went back to his house.

Li Manman looked at the time, called Taotao up, washed his face, rolled a cake for him, rolled a cake himself, and the sister and brother sat at the small table in the courtyard to eat breakfast.

"Sister, what are we going to play today?" Taotao bit the cake hard with her small teeth and asked vaguely.

"Go to the field today, push the rice up, put it in your pocket, take it home, and see who can do it quickly and well." Li Man flickered his younger brother, "Hurry up and eat now, after eating, I have to send food to my parents!"

"Oh!" Taotao felt that what her sister said was very funny, and ate hard, after eating the cakes, each drank a bowl of porridge, Li Manman put the porridge in a hot water bottle, the cake was wrapped in a cage cloth, and the two dishes were combined into a plate and packed in an enamel jar, ready to be sent to parents who were too busy to eat.

The sister and brother came to the field with not a light meal, and walked for a while, Li Tianxue and his wife had already got up for the first time, and the tractor was playing on it for the second time, and they saw the two children, grinning and carrying a big basket, knowing that they were sending breakfast.

Lin Xiujuan hurriedly stood up, took a few steps to take the basket, touched Taotao's head, and looked at Li Manman lovingly: "I'm tired!" Li Manman shook his head and said with a smile: "Don't be tired, we'll rest when we're tired, and Taotao will also help carry water bottles!" "Really? Taotao is so capable? It's really grown up! It's so much better than having a puppy! Lin Xiujuan put down the basket, held her son in her arms, and said with a smile. Taotao proudly holds up her small breasts, not to mention how arrogant she is.

"Uncle me, what kind of meal did my sister give?" Brother Lobby ate a dry tobacco pouch and asked Li Tianxue.

Li Tianxue opened the basket and took a look: "Scrambled eggs with leeks, pancakes!" Would you like to eat a little? ”

Brother Lobby took down the cigarette pouch, knocked it on the ground, and looked into the distance, his own food had not yet been delivered, so he nodded: "Okay, let's take a pancake roll with leeks and scrambled eggs, and see if the old girl's craftsmanship can be framed?" ”

Li Manman took out the pancakes and rolled one and handed it to his father, and then rolled another and handed it to the lobby brother.

"And fried potatoes with chili!" Taotao said, "Crunchy, Taotao eats one!" As he spoke, he stirred up the jar with chopsticks.

"Got it, got it, didn't you see the scrambled eggs with leeks after you finished it?" Lin Xiujuan hurriedly stopped her troublemaking son and pulled him aside, "You go to the field house and see, is there anything good there?" "Actually, there are good things in the field house, it's just a place for the people watching the show to stay at night, but for Taotao, it's enough to find him something to do and not make trouble here.

Brother Lobby ate a burrito three times and divided five by two, wiped his mouth, and smashed it: "My sister's craftsmanship is good!" When will my old girl be so capable! ”

"The old girl is still young, and Da Hong is only sensible when she goes to school this year, and she used to play crazy!" Lin Xiujuan said modestly, but her heart was beautiful, "Yuanren, do you want to eat another one?" ”

Brother Lobby looked at the few cakes and shook his head: "No, my meal has also been delivered!" As he spoke, he stood up and walked outside, and the sister-in-law in the lobby brought the food, and the old girl followed behind.

After a while, the second cousin and the second sister-in-law also came, and there were a total of three families of rice on the field, and Li Manman's family ranked first, but this was only half of the rice, and half of it was still in line.

The second game was played, and the tractor driver was Wuzi of the second cousin's family, who got out of the car and sighed: "My God, I'm about to be dizzy, my father, give me porridge to drink, my stomach is shaking!" ”

Li Tianxue poured a bowl of porridge and handed it to Wuzi, Wuzi took it and drank it all together, Li Manman looked at this heroic young man, thinking about his fate, and sighed.

The Li family is a small surname in Zhu Daxu, and the talents are even more pitiful, Li Tianxue's generation is only him, Li Manman's generation, the big ones are honest, and there are elbows turned out, only the fourth is okay, but he is timid, the small ones are still very small, only look at the third generation, and only Wuzi is okay, to have courage and courage, to take responsibility, but he doesn't like to learn, he lacks a little heart, Li Tianxue also wants to train him to be his successor, but unfortunately he didn't marry a good wife, In the end, because of the conflict between husband and wife, he hanged himself, and since then, the second cousin has collapsed all of a sudden, and he went within a few years, and the second sister-in-law also followed.

"My little lady, what do you think I'm doing? Dirty on my face? Wu Zi saw Li Manman staring at him and asked uncomfortably.

"No, I just envy you, you can drive a tractor, it's really amazing!" Li Manman hurriedly made an excuse, he was indeed very envious of those who drove tractors when he was a child, but then she drove all the cars, so he didn't envy them in his heart.

Wuzi looked at the tractor parked on the side, his eyes were full of pride, the tractor driver in the early eighties was an enviable position, put down the bowl, and said to Li Manman: "Why don't I sit in the car with you in my arms when I play in a while?" ”

"Don't do it! I still want to watch Taotao! Li Manman refused, she is not a previous life, because she is seven years old this year, how can she sit in the arms of a boy, and this boy is still her eldest nephew.

"Wuzi, come over for dinner," the second sister-in-law shouted to her son, "Don't rub your father's food again, it's not easy for Dahong to cook!" ”

"It's okay, Da Hong did a lot today!" Lin Xiujuan handed a burrito to Wuzi and said with a smile.

Wuzi was not polite, took the burrito, took a bite, nodded, ran to the second sister-in-law's side, and brought his family's food: "My big milk, my big father, you try my family's dishes, my mother's watermelon sauce!" ”

Li slowly came over, sniffed, and a smell of sauce came to his nose: "The second sister-in-law's watermelon sauce is the best!" "Yes, I think so too, there is nothing better in the whole Zhu Daweizi than my mother's watermelon sauce!" Takeko said proudly.

After a breath, Li Tianxue and his wife picked up the fork and started to start, and the lobby brother also came to help, Li Manman had nothing to do for the time being, so he took Taotao and the old girl to pick up rice ears in the field not far away.

Looking at the straw on the field, which had been jumped to the side and piled up, Li Manman told the two little guys not to run far, and to cook rice for them to eat in a short time, so he picked up the wooden shovel and helped the adults push the rice into a pile.

After pushing the rice, Li Manman wiped the sweat on his head, sat on the side and gasped and rested. Li Tianxue and his wife couldn't rest, taking advantage of the good wind, to clean the rice, Li Tianxue raised the rice into the sky with a wooden shovel, let the wind blow away the deflated seeds and blades of grass inside, Lin Xiujuan wore a big straw hat, took a big broom, swept the fallen rice, and swept away the floating ash on it.

When Li Manman took the two little guys to finish burning the rice flowers, several people ate their mouths black, Li Manman's rice was already ready to be bagged, Li Manman ran over to earn pockets for his parents, and when it was almost noon, the family worked together to transport the rice back to the house and spread it out in the yard to dry.