Because he thought that he could still hit the rabbit, early the next morning, Ah Hao greeted Geng Qiu with great interest to hurry up. When the two passed by the swamp, Geng Qiu looked at the large lush meadow, suddenly remembered a good idea, and hurriedly said: "We won't go into the mountains today, I plan to open a paddy field here and plant rice." ”

"What? Growing rice? You? Ah Hao asked suspiciously, pointing to the grass.

"Yes, this place has been deserted, and everyone is just grass. If we open a piece on the side and plant rice, won't there be food? Isn't that the place we've been looking for? Geng Qiu said excitedly, hating not to build a paddy field right away. It seems that there is an endless amount of rice growing here. After walking around here for a long time, it is rare to see a large field, just this swamp is large, and seeing the grass growing thick and lush, I know that this field must be very fertile, and if it blooms, it must be a high-quality field.

Ah Hao looked at his eyebrows fluttering, and he also became excited, if he could really grow rice as he said, he would have rice to eat, and he didn't have to go into the mountains every day so hard, and he could only bring back a pile of firewood. Geng Qiu and Ah Hao are actually people who love rice, not pasta. So most of the time they buy brown rice, not coarse noodles. Locals, on the other hand, don't buy brown rice, and their staple food is coarse noodles, but most of the time it's actually grains. And the main food grown in the area is also wheat, not rice.

"I'll go and ask the village chief, can I open this field?" Geng Qiu observed on the side of the road for a long time, and suddenly remembered the most important thing. If you can't open it, wouldn't you think so much in vain?

"Yes, go, go." Ah Hao was more anxious than him, and the two turned their heads and went to the village chief's house.

The village chief was about to go out, and when he heard about the intention, he said with a smile: "Okay, that wasteland, you can toss it, but I want to tell you first, we don't produce rice here, and no one can grow this rice, so I don't even know where to find seeds?" ”

Geng Qiu listened to the words of the village chief, and was speechless for a long time, and the village chief ignored them after speaking, shook his head and walked away. Geng Qiu and Ah Hao stayed for a while, Geng Qiu finally came back to his senses, but he secretly made up his mind in his heart, but it was just planting rice, he didn't do it when he was a child, so let's get the field out first. Rice seeds, he didn't believe that he couldn't buy them back with silver.

"How? Do we still grow rice? Ah Hao asked blankly.

"Of course we plant, otherwise what will we eat? Go and complete the field, this whole field will not be able to be completed in three or five days. Geng Qiu cheered up Ah Hao, and at the same time cheered himself up.

The two walked around the swamp a few times, and finally Geng Qiu chose a place, walked about ten steps around, and found that the mud under his feet was still relatively hard and did not sink, so he decided to open a field in this place. Geng Qiu first cut off the grass, and dug up the grass stubble, and sure enough, the wet soil of Hei Youyou was revealed, and at a glance, he knew that the soil was very fertile, and it should be able to grow things. The two only had a sickle, Geng Qiu cut for a while, and when he saw Ah Hao running away again, this guy went to play in the grass by himself, and he didn't know what to do? Geng Qiugang wanted to ask him to come over and do some work for himself.

"Hey, Brother Qiu, I've found something good." Ah Hao suddenly ran over mysteriously and stretched out a few white eggs in his hand.

"Where did it come from?" Geng Qiu asked excitedly, looking around as he asked, eager to pick up a few eggs himself. Eggs are the best thing they can eat, especially now that Ah Niu is older, and they often have to steam an egg custard to increase nutrition for their children.

"Follow me." Ah Hao led him to the depths of the grass, which was full of reeds, and in the reeds he saw traces of several birds' nests.

"I see, it's a duck egg." Geng Qiu said with a smile. He did this kind of thing when he was a child. Behind their village is a large lake overgrown with reeds, in which wild ducks love to lay their eggs.

This reed bush had obviously never seen anyone at all, they grew deep in the swamp, and if it weren't for Ah Hao, no one would have run to this kind of place. Usually everyone just cuts thatch on the side, so probably no one knows that there is such a large piece of reeds here, and you must know that the reeds can also be woven into mats and sold.

However, there are more bamboos nearby, and everyone uses bamboo mats at home, and Geng Qiu thinks that this reed is not of much use. However, in the fall, you can still chop some to make brooms, and you can also pick some of the reeds and go back to make a few pillows. The others can only be burned as firewood, Geng Qiu looked at this reed, thinking hard about what else he could do, and finally only remembered that the reeds could also make paper, but unfortunately, he wouldn't. So for the time being, I don't want to fight this reed, I will find eggs first, and then dig the ground.

With the five eggs he found, Geng Qiu went home to get a shovel, and Ah Hao continued to cut thatch here, and when Geng Qiu was digging the ground, they were excited again, and they went down with a spade and dug out several fat loaches.

"Haha, hurry up and go back and get the pot." Geng Qiu excitedly and loudly commanded Ah Hao.

The two of them picked up while digging, and after a while, they picked up a pot of bottom loaches. "Wow, I just said that this is a wetland, how can there be no fish, after a long time, no one found out." Geng Qiu is really happy this time, the loaches are sold for nearly 20 yuan a pound in the modern vegetable market, and they are all farmed, where can you find such fat and natural loaches.

He likes to eat loaches very much, he remembers that when he was a child, when he went to the paddy field and his grandfather was in the mud, he would follow to pick up loaches, and then he could eat delicious loach stewed tofu and roasted cucumber with loach. These two dishes are simple and nutritious, and everyone loves them. The braised loach is also delicious, and the fried loach is also delicious, and he has now come up with several ways to make it.

Ah Hao went home with half a pot of loaches, and Geng Qiu continued to cut the grass for a while before packing up his things and going home. According to Geng Qiu's explanation, Ah Hao has already raised the loaches in the water, and he has changed the water several times. These loaches are dug out of the muddy water, and they have to be raised for two or three days before eating, so that they can spit out the mud in their stomachs, so as to better remove the smell of the earth, and it is also cleaner.

In the evening, Geng Qiu still went to talk to the village chief, and it was better for everyone in the village to know about their digging fields, and they were digging so many loaches now, which proved that there were a lot of loaches in this field, and sooner or later everyone would know.

After listening to him, the village chief's eyes lit up, and sure enough, the loaches also attracted the attention of the village chief.

"What do you think?" The village chief asked Geng Qiu.

"What can you think, everyone goes to dig, just don't mess up the piece of land I opened. I'll circle it out tomorrow. Can? Geng Qiu asked.

"Okay. Anyway, that piece of land is always seventy or eighty acres in size, and everyone can't dig it all. The village chief said nonchalantly. In fact, he knew in his heart that everyone would not dig loaches there every day, although loaches can be eaten, but they are not as good as food, and now is the time to be busy, but occasionally to dig some back to eat. Besides, they don't like to eat loaches very much, and some people have dug loaches in the field before, but they really didn't have anything to eat, so they dug them.

Geng Qiu didn't know this, and thought that everyone was a treasure like him. You must know that the poor here are very poor, very few people will put oil in cooking, the so-called braised and fried, that requires a lot of oil, everyone takes the loach back and boils, people who can't get it, the boiled loach tastes like it, it's not that it's hungry, which person can eat it. The best thing to get is just to eat it directly with salt, which tastes slightly better, but salt is also an expensive thing, and every household is extremely economical to use, where do you dare to pickle things lavishly.

The next day, Geng Qiu and A Hao borrowed a sickle, and the two of them first cut a circle of grass as a dividing line, and circled a piece of land of about five or six acres for their own family, but on this boundary, they were busy for a day. When he got home in the evening, Geng Qiu was too lazy to cook dinner, so he directly cut the cucumber and salted it a little, and then cooked a pot of vegetable porridge to solve the dinner. Ah Hao himself was also hungry and tired, he didn't have the strength to pick and choose, and he went to hug Ah Niu after eating, Geng Qiu cleaned up the pots and bowls at home, first boiled water and took a bath by himself, and when Ah Hao came back with Ah Niu, the water in the pot was also hot, Geng Qiu went to bathe Ah Niu, almost washed at the same time as Ah Hao, and then the family of three rested.