Chapter 19 Digging Sweet Potatoes
As soon as she thought of eating, Chu Yun'er really felt a little hungry, she folded the quilt, cleaned up the bed, and when she went out of the door, she turned around and saw that the second master was still standing in the corner, not following, presumably he didn't want to see the sun, so he didn't care about him and went straight to the back door of the living room.
When the back door of the living room opened, Chu Yun'er found that there was a hole in the backyard, and the backyard was also like the front yard, and there was a wooden corridor more than one meter wide under the eaves, and an earthen house on the left was connected to the back mountain, and there were many bundles of wood inside.
There is a pavilion in the courtyard, there are stone tables and stone chairs in the pavilion, the mountain wall is unusually steep, there is no plant growing in the bare, the exposed stone tip seems to have been specially cut, it looks like a stone wall from a distance, the most peculiar thing is that there is a big hole in the stone wall, the clear spring flows out of the hole in the hole, flows to the rectangular stone pool below, the stone pool is not deep, it is crystal clear, there is a wooden bucket for drawing water on the edge of the stone pool, Chu Yun'er took a handful of water with her hand and tasted it, it was cold and sweet, this is the real Nongfu Spring.
Beneath the stone walls are potted with several pots of plants, three of which are chrysanthemums, and the large golden chrysanthemums add a bit of elegance to the dreary backyard.
The earthen house on the right should be a kitchen, and there is a boxy chimney on the roof, Chu Yun'er pushed open the hidden wooden door, and before she could see the furnishings in the kitchen, a red lightning shot into her arms like a sword, "Hongyu, why did you come here, what are you doing here?" ”
Hongyu, who was a thief, flashed a pair of big eyes, stretched out a front paw and pointed at a jar of things on the stove, looking at Chu Yun'er flatteringly and grinning, "What's that?" Chu Yun'er approached the stove, looked at the jar that Hongyu was referring to, opened it and saw that it was a pot of oil, and then looked at the other bottles and jars on the stove, there was salt and some other spices.
"Great, there are seasonings here, we can cook and eat" Rummaging through every corner of the kitchen, Chu Yun'er didn't find anything to eat, but found a jar of unopened sauerkraut.
"What should I do if I only have spices and no food?" Looking at Jian Chen's kitchen depressedly, Chu Yun'er remembered the vegetable patch outside the courtyard.
Chu Yun'er hugged the red jade, opened the front door, and picked up a small scythe in the corridor, ready to go to the vegetable field to find out if there was anything to eat. She tore off the withered yellow vines on the vegetable floor, pinpointed a crack, and dug out a fist-sized sweet potato, and continued to dig out another one, two fists in size.
Hongyu, who had been watching from the side, instantly came to her senses, and slashed left and right in the vegetable field, and after shaving some sweet potato skin, it went to other places to plan, and let Chu Yun'er finish the rest.
Maybe the weather hasn't rained for a long time, the vegetable field is dry and the soil is hard, Chu Yun'er was tired and sweaty after only digging a few, so she simply moved a small stool and sat in the vegetable field to dig slowly.
It was already dark, and the night was coming again, and the second master also came out, standing quietly on the path and watching Chu Yun'er and Hongyu in the vegetable field, there were already more than a dozen sweet potatoes piled up on the vegetable field, Chu Yun'er estimated that it was enough for them to eat for two or three days, and the palm of the sickle grinded out a blister, which hurt in the heart.
The vegetable field was dug up messily by her, one in the east and one in the west, if the owner of the vegetable field saw it, he would scold her for thirty-three days, and he would not dig it anymore, she found a vegetable basket in the kitchen, and put the sweet potatoes into the vegetable blue one by one, and if she couldn't fit it once, Chu Yun'er transported it into the kitchen twice.
After Chu Yun'er entered the hospital, the second master behind him stretched out a hand, and the palm of his hand released a burst of red light towards the vegetable field, the red light collected more and more, and finally enveloped the entire sweet potato field, after a "poof" sound, the red light dissipated, and the vegetable field was full of sweet potatoes that came out automatically, and the red jade who did not understand the situation was covered by the pile of sweet potatoes so that only one head was left outside, and it was lying quietly on the soil with its head in its claws and closed its eyes.
"Oh my God", an exclamation, Chu Yun'er looked at the sweet potatoes all over the ground in astonishment, the second master's hand has not been put down, it is really a headache, he doesn't come when he should help, he is active when he shouldn't help, this time he dug up the whole piece of people, and when the master's family came back, it was not as simple as being scolded, "alas" sighed helplessly, it's a big deal to lose more money!
Hongyu, who heard Chu Yun'er's voice, opened her eyes, struggled to crawl out of the sweet potato pile, and rushed onto Chu Yun'er's shoulder with a full body of dirt, looking at the second master in horror with a pair of big round eyes, it was terrible, you have to be careful where there is him in the future, and suddenly a sweet potato mountain pressed it so much that it almost lost its back, and its back hurt as if it had been hit by a stone.
Chu Yun'er put down the vegetable basket and resigned herself to picking up the sweet potatoes in the vegetable field, so much, I don't know when it will be transported. She looked at the tall and upright figure of the second master on the trail, and the jade tree was in the wind, and suddenly thought of a good idea.
After loading a basket, Chu Yun'er put it in front of the second master with difficulty, broke the palm of the second master, put the vegetable basket in the second master's hand, helped him close his fingers, and said with a flattering smile: "Second master, heroic and mighty second master, do me a favor."
On the expressionless face of the second master, the corners of his mouth twitched silently, and the eyes that were a little smug just now had a little more understanding, staring at Chu Yun'er's flattering smiling face for a while, clenching the vegetable basket, turning around, and having arrived at the gate of the courtyard.
"Huh? Why do you think that the second master is a little different", when did the second master's hand become so flexible, Chu Yun'er was sure that she had seen the second master's hand that did not hold the basket a few times just now loosened and clenched, and the second master's fingers didn't seem to be as stiff as before, especially his head, which can now turn his head flexibly and turn back.
Chu Yun'er found another bucket from the kitchen, she loaded the sweet potatoes, the second master moved the sweet potatoes, and finally moved the sweet potatoes in the vegetable field into the kitchen for about half an hour, and looked at the sweet potato pile in the corner with satisfaction, she gave a thumbs up to the second master beside her, her eyes were not bad, and she knew that the sweet potatoes were piled together.
There was a big pot on the stove, Chu Yun'er fetched water from the waterhole in the backyard to wash the pot, filled it with a pot of water, and took dry branches and leaves from the firewood room, ready to make a fire and boil the pot water for a bath.
There were two palm-sized stones at the mouth of the stove, Chu Yun'er guessed that this was the flint used by the ancients for fire, and it took a lot of effort and tens of millions of brain cells to ignite the oil lamp on the stove with the sparks from the collision of stones.
The firewood in the stove was also lit, looking at the raging fire, Chu Yun'er suddenly had a sense of accomplishment, you must know that she had never done these things before, she rarely entered the kitchen at home, she didn't know how to cook at all, and besides, in the 21st century, the home uses gas, and there is no need to burn firewood. Glancing at the flint and steel that she threw on the ground, Chu Yun'er really regretted why she didn't install a lighter when she went out, this is simply a primitive society.