Chapter 001: Going to the Banquet
In the open space in front of the big wooden house, he was wearing a plaid shirt and denim pants, and a pair of riding boots on his feet, not the kind of riding boots sold in the mall, but American-style cowboy pointed-toe riding boots, but there were no spurs hanging on the heels. If you put aside the location, Lu Xiancheng's dress is completely like an American cowboy.
If you wear some trousers of ordinary materials in the pasture, then you had better throw one in 20 days to a month, because they cannot support the labor intensity of the animal husbandry, and only thick jeans or cargo pants can withstand such wear and tear.
Lu Xiancheng is now with his feet apart, holding the handle of the axe with both hands, turning the axe over his head and then slashing down hard, the twenty centimeters of the tree on the stake immediately split into two petals, stepped forward and threw half of it to the ground with his hand, and the other half stood up again, and then the axe was split into two again, so it was split into two and split three times, so that he got the firewood that Lu Xiancheng wanted.
In March, although the rest of the south of the Yangtze River is already full of flowers, but the spring in the ravine seems to come later, even if he sleeps at night now, Lu Xiancheng is also used to lighting up the fireplace at home, because the fireplace is warm and not dry in such a room, wrap himself in a soft quilt and lie down like this, close his eyes and open his eyes is ten hours have passed, and when he comes together, he will be full of energy.
The temperature in the ravine has a large temperature difference between morning and evening, but it does not mean that the grass in the pasture is not green, now you only need to look up, in any direction, you can see the tender green as far as the eye can see, the hybrid and improved alfalfa grass can no longer see too much clover, the original nearly round small clover is now drawn into thick long leaves, and Professor Wen Jifeng, who enjoys the so-called 'naming right', named it Gushan Grass.
When you look up, you can see the green of the mountains. With a hint of yellow in the green, everything looks so vibrant. When you look up, in addition to the tender green, it is a clear sky, and from time to time you can see two or three white clouds, even if you just look up at the surrounding scenery, it also makes people feel that the sky is wide and wide. And the whole person's mood will be relaxed and broadened.
Lu Xiancheng is not a person chopping wood, there are two or three guys standing next to him, the first thing is Erha, squatting on the side and looking at the master working like a supervisor, and the one next to him is also sitting on a loach, that is, the little Hannover with a black white star raised by Lu Xiancheng, and now this goods have grown up, but this sitting is still like Erha, a dog and a horse are sitting like a dog and a horse. Just look!
Such a scene has been staged countless times, and Lu Xiancheng is not in the mood to watch these two goods again, and concentrates on doing the work in his hands.
"Uncle Xiancheng, Uncle Xiancheng!".
When Lu Xiancheng lifted another section of the stump, he vaguely heard someone calling his name from a distance, raised his head and put his palm on his forehead.
Because Lu Xiancheng's house was halfway up the mountain, although the grass was sixty or seventy centimeters high, it was still easy to see a small black dot running towards him.
Xiao waited for the little black dot to run in front of Lu Xiancheng, and he was already out of breath. It was a baby from You Jiawa who came, the eldest grandson of the old man Shen. At the age of about eight or nine years old, everyone calls him a small name Big Cat, as for why he doesn't call him an ordinary Shen Maozi or Shen Gouzi or something, it's because his father is called Shen Maozi, and his second uncle is called Shen Gouzi, as for the real name of the little guy, Lu Xiancheng doesn't know and has never heard anyone call him.
"Big cats. You're just throwing two legs? Lu Xiancheng looked at the big cat who sat next to Erha and smiled.
"Uncle Xiancheng......" The big cat said while touching Erha's head: "My lord invited you to drink at home at noon today, so don't cook."
Lu Xiancheng was stunned for a moment when he heard this: "Drinking? What's the matter? ”。
If you drink for no reason, then something will happen.
The big cat sighed like a little adult, raised his cuffs, touched the beads of sweat on his forehead, and said: "It's not like that, my father thinks that my father and my uncle won't go out to work this year, and plant grass on their own land, like Xu Ye and Wen Ye, and get a place to raise sheep or something." They don't want to."
"I can't control this, this wine is not delicious," Lu Xiancheng said with a smile.
"Go, go, Wen Ye and Xu Ye have agreed, just send you one, and after a while, my father said that I can't even do a treat, and it's time to talk about me again" The big cat said as he raised his arm and wiped his nose, and used his elbow as a rag.
After living these days, Lu Xiancheng has become accustomed to the customs of the countryside, and when he says that he invites you, he sincerely invites you. If you don't have anything particularly important, you'd better be there, or people will think that you look down on people.
"Done!" Lu Xiancheng carried the axe in his hand and hung it under the shelf of the eaves, and when he turned back, he picked up the big cat again: "Help me move the firewood to the firewood pile over there and stack it."
The big cat immediately stood up quickly, and reached out to bend down to hold the firewood.
Lu Xiancheng hurriedly stopped the little guy and threw him a pair of linen gloves: "Wear this, or you will tie your hands."
Who knew that the little guy threw the gloves directly to the ground: "Uncle, I don't need this for my thick skin!" ”。 After speaking, he directly hugged a dozen pieces of firewood and walked towards the firewood pile.
The big cat stacked the firewood in his arms onto the pyre, looked at the firewood pile that was about the same height as himself, and said, "Uncle, what are you doing with so much firewood?" That's enough for you to burn for a month, and besides, aren't you burning that here?"
Lu Xiancheng smiled when he heard this: "What kind of gas, that's called biogas!" ”。
Lu Xiancheng built a ranch, how could he not have a biogas digester, and it was not a taste of horse manure and horse urine in the open air. Not only the pasture, but even the small pasture of the two professors Wen Xu are used, as for Youjiawa Village, everyone is still in the farm fertilizer stage, and they are like big cats about biogas, commonly known as, and they are all in a wait-and-see attitude, and there is also a point that everyone is reluctant to build the money for the biogas digester.
The big cat reached out and grabbed his head, muttering swamp gas, and so on in his mouth. Waiting for the neck hat of the wool on his head to be caught and about to fall off, he stopped grabbing it, reached out and grabbed the lower line cap, and pulled it two or three times at the corner, which is to 'wear' the hat again.
"It's still that sounds pleasing to the ear, how can it be called beckoning, is it because it came to beckon?" Big cats are confused about the name of biogas.
Lu Xiancheng was not interested in talking about the difference between biogas and zhaoqi with this baby who was not serious about studying, but his hand patted the little guy's head: "What a trick, the third swamp!" Come on. Help me move all the firewood over and yard it, uncle will prepare the horse, if you do a good job, uncle will be rewarded! ”。
The big cat immediately laughed when he heard it, and he didn't even have the time to nod his head, so he went straight to work.
As long as it is You Jiawa's baby, they like to listen to Uncle Xiancheng say rewards.
Lu Xiancheng took out from the small stable next to his house a quart gelding with red gold mane and tail hair that he used to ride now, and his name was Furnace Dust, which meant that its coat color was a bit like a furnace spark flying out of the stove.
The small stables next to the house, which were only four or five partitions, were built by Lu Xiancheng especially for himself, while the rest of the horses were built on the hill in the valley opposite the pasture. It will be ten minutes faster to ride a horse from Lu Xiancheng.
The furnace dust was saddled and fastened his belly belt, and the big cat had already put all the firewood on the firewood pile, smiling and waiting for Lu Xiancheng's reward.
Lu Xiancheng checked a little and found that this kid did a pretty good job, took out two skillful strips from his pocket and put them in his hands, and then didn't wait for the little guy to put it in his pocket, crossed his arm and pushed the little guy to the horse, and he stepped on the stump next to him. Directly stepped on the back of the furnace dust.
"Bah!" With a flick of the reins, the dust of the furnace had already taken four hooves and galloped down the path down the hill in the direction of the village.
When we got to the foot of the mountain. The big cat said, "Uncle Xiancheng let me down, and my car is still being thrown here?" ”。
Lu Xiancheng listened to the gentle pinch of the horse's belly, and the furnace dust immediately stood still, and gently patted the dirt of the furnace dust, and Lu Xiancheng put down the big cat that was twisting on the horse's back.
As soon as the big cat fell to the ground, he got into the grass dozens of centimeters and quickly launched a brand-new large-frame bicycle.
"Let's go!" The big cat is about as tall as a bicycle. One foot on the pedal and the other foot on the ground kicked a few times, the foot on the ground stepped on the outside of the pedal and began to 'dig' the bicycle, why do you say dig, because the little guy is like hanging on the side of the bicycle. Anyway, when he was a child, Lu Xiancheng learned to ride a bicycle like this, pedaling the car and turning in circles, and began to dig when it was turned. People are so small that they can't sit on the saddle at all, so they can only dig it out like this.
In this way, Lu Xiancheng rode a horse, and the kitten 'pulled' the bicycle to the lake.
Now there are no more simple houses by the lake, they have been demolished to the two small ranches of Professor Wen and Professor Xu, and the natural environment has been restored here, but a small stone bridge with a width of four meters has been erected at the place where the water enters the lake and the stone bridge is on the side of the ranch, and there is a gate at the head of the stone bridge, on which the arched wooden sign reads Pglinton (China) Ranch Company.
There is a gate, but there is no gatekeeper, as long as you remove the door, you can enter, and this is how the big cat enters.
When Lu Xiancheng dismounted and moved the gate, and then closed the door, Erha and Loach, who had been following Lu Xiancheng, stood still and stopped walking.
Let me declare here, it's not that Erha doesn't want to go into the village to play, but the local dogs in the village are very fierce, Erha will be chased and bitten by a group of local dogs as soon as they enter the village, and they are afraid of coming and going, and they don't have the courage to enter the village to play, so they can only stand at the head of the bridge and watch, and now even if you drag this goods with a rope, they will not step across the stone bridge.
Of course, there are exceptions, when Erha dares to enter the village when he follows a few pastures with black backs, because a few German herds raised in the pasture are afraid of the native dogs in the village.
When he got off the horse at the door of Shen's lame house, Lu Xiancheng directly tied the horse to the tree at the door of the door with the side reins, and the big cat who pushed the car into the house took a few bundles of hay from home and put them under the roots of the tree, which was considered horse material. Nowadays, forage is not much of a problem for the people in the village, because almost every family has farming cattle, and because there are not many people growing rice here, all families raise cattle and almost no buffaloes.
When Lu Xiancheng crossed the front room to the back hall, he found that there were already a few people in the house.
In addition to the father and son of Old Man Shen, Professor Wen and Professor Xu, as well as Lao Yang Tou, plus Yang Dabing, the village party secretary and village head, almost filled the hall with a full house. (To be continued.) )