Chapter 49: Back to the Village
86_86276 got off at the nearest platform from home, Xia Ruo had to walk with Jack for nearly twenty minutes, the corn in the field had been harvested, Dad Xia Yu did not come back during the Mid-Autumn Festival, Xia Ruo did not go home because of class, Xia Na did not make the trip because the distance was too far, and only Zhao Lan and Xia Mingming were at home in this fifteen.
Now the fast has taken the corn back home, sprinkled the ground with fertilizer and planted the wheat after turning the soil again, Xia Ruo, who walked to the Nanhe, looked at the two fields south of his house from a distance, the corn has been harvested, because it is too far away, I can't see whether the wheat is planted.
Although she knew that she couldn't help her family with much farm work, Xia Ruo wanted to do her best to help the family reduce the burden a little, which was why she was in a hurry to go home.
"Well, the air is fresh." Jack took a deep breath, twenty minutes of brisk walking was completely trivial to him, after all, it was a trivial matter for him who exercised regularly to maintain his muscles. "This is corn, I know." Seeing a small corn cob on a corn tree on the side of the road, Jack immediately happily broke it off and put it in the fruit bag in his hand.
His grandfather's family had a farm, and he used to help when he was a child, but when his grandfather died, his father sold the farm, and he rarely touched it anymore, looking at the endless fields, he seemed to be back to his days on the farm.
Watching him shuttle through the cornfield with movements that were completely inconsistent with his age, Xia Ruo felt a sense of powerlessness, but he felt that it was a sin to hit his happiness, and when Jack put a few golden corn cobs in front of his eyes as if offering a treasure, Xia Ruo said very seriously: "Jack, I believe that my family can definitely satisfy your manor dream." ”
Xia Ruo's family was very lively and laughing, looking at the people sitting and talking while working around the pile of corn cobs in the yard, Xia Ruo was a little dumbfounded, isn't it time to be busy now, why are there so many people in his own family?
"Ruo Ruo is back?" Hearing the sound of opening the gate, the people in the courtyard also stopped talking, and when they saw Xia Ruo coming in, Zhang Sang'e, who was dressed in a pink and white dress, stood up first, and saw the blonde foreigner behind Xia Ruo who was stunned for a moment before coming over and catching the things in Xia Ruo's hand: "I'll come back quickly when your second master is sick, otherwise I can pick you up and go with me." ”
She hurried home yesterday afternoon when she received the news that her father-in-law was sick, who knew that the old man had already hung up the hanging bottle in the village hospital, and now it was busy again, and she didn't want to go to the county seat with her to see it.
Afraid that her husband would not be able to rest assured of the old man's body, Zhang Sang'e stayed in her hometown for a day to see that the old man was in good health, and came to Zhao Lan's house this morning.
Because Xia Yu did not come back, Zhao Lan's mother's brother came over two days earlier to help harvest corn, Zhao Lan also knew that now was not the time to be strong, lest she be tired and fall ill, so she found a large harvester to collect a few large pieces of land, and the two people of the small plot of land were also taken back home after a busy day, and now the unpeeled corn cobs are piled up at home, and the corn stalks are piled up on the beam field.
Then when she peeled corn by herself after breakfast, there were slowly more people in the family, I don't know if they were all here to join in the fun?
First of all, Dongdong's mother next door, she was a little bad and wanted to find someone to talk to, Zhao Lan has always been reasonable and silent, and said that she would be happier in her heart when she heard it, so she put down her work at home and came to Zhao Lan's house.
Then it was Yangyang's mother, who couldn't get through Xia Yu's way, and couldn't let her men go out to work, so she hit Zhao Lan's idea, didn't she say that Zhao Lan's younger brother was a big official in the city? She has always been a good person, and she will help with the work when she comes over, and there is Dongdong's mother before she has time to talk about it.
Then there is Zhang Sang'e, and her concubine Zhao Fuli came with her, so there are five people, and it is not difficult to peel corn, and several people are used to farm work, and after a while, the corn pile will slowly disappear at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Three women in one play, if there are five women in Xia Ruo's family, it is not very lively.
Xia Ruo came back at the right time, at this time, Yangyang's mother was about to probe Zhao Lan, Zhang Sang'e's concubine Zhao Fuli was about to secretly reveal her idea of wanting to work in the city with her sister-in-law.
Then Xia Ruo stepped aside, and the courtyard became Jack's home field.
"Sister, is that so?" Xia Ruo, who occasionally acts as a translator, rolled his eyes and split the corn cob skin in his hand into two, isn't it really good to peel a corn, is it really good to sell cuteness like this?
I don't know if all foreigners are so straightforward, Jack, who helps with farm work, does everything directly, simply and rudely, such as peeling corn on the cob without leaving a tail.
Corn is not directly threshed and stored, because the newly harvested corn still has a lot of moisture, and it is easy to mold when stored now, so it will be put into a sparsely woven nylon bag, or braided and hung on low branches, and threshed before the New Year.
The small one is stripped naked, and the big one is left with a tail, which Jack can't do with a neat job.
With Jack's adjustment, the pressure on Zhao Lan and Zhang Sang'e is obviously much easier, Dongdong's mother doesn't care, she has long forgotten the bad thing when she was excited to talk to a foreigner for the first time.
Yangyang's mother and Zhao Fuli were already a little inseparable, and now that there are foreign friends, they don't know how to say it, so they can only wait and talk, and now they are concentrating on talking to Jack, and they can't wait for everyone to see, they are also people who have talked to foreigners and seen the world.
"Ruoruo, don't you skip class on Sunday afternoon, just go to your aunt's to play if you have nothing to do, or will your aunt pick you up?" Zhang Sang'e had an apron on her knees that Zhao Lan had found, she was not afraid of soiling her new clothes, but Zhao Lan was worried that she had to find such a thing, and at this time she was sitting with Xia Ruo, quite a little bit of a long talk.
"Auntie, I can't help you much, and if you go, it's going to make trouble for you," Seeing what Zhang Sang'e was going to say, Xia Ruo hurriedly said: "Besides, I still have to go to Teacher Liu's place to learn piano." ”
She is thin-faced, soft-rooted, and the most impatient thing is to reject others in embarrassment, so if the impossible thing is said no at the beginning, it will be difficult for herself to save later.
I have already helped what I can help before, and I have too much to do with Jiajia Garment Factory, if I don't have more and better ideas in the future, wouldn't it be a good person to become a bad person, and finally complain.
Zhang Sang'e also felt that she was too aggressive, Xia Ruo had already said that she was unwilling, and she always felt that she could fight for it, so she mentioned it again and again, and it was disgusting to be so eager. So he didn't mention this stubble, and asked about Xia Ruo's school life wholeheartedly, which is like an elder is not a businessman.
There was work at home, and when it was time to eat at noon, the four of them didn't let Zhao Lan stay for dinner, but kept inviting Jack to their house as a guest, and made up their minds to let the whole village see and understand.
Jack promised that he would walk around the village even if no one invited him