At the end of mid-July, the families have completed the manual threshing of the wheat and entered the final stage of removing the wheat bran and grinding it into flour.

There are not many people in Datian Village who have handmade stone grinders, but there is a stone mill under the name of the village committee, but they have to register in advance and wait for the schedule, and some anxious people go to the homes of villagers who have stone grinders to grind noodles.

Early this morning, Liang Xuetao went to the backyard to plough the ground after breakfast, and only did farm work for an hour, Wei Hongyu suddenly ran over in a hurry and said that Xu Rongguang was here, and proposed to borrow a donkey.

Liang Xuetao laughed angrily on the spot when he heard this, there is always such a group of people in this world who have clearly done things that are sorry for you, but afterwards they can always salivate and make various demands with you, and their attitude is very reasonable.

He said impatiently: "You just tell him not to borrow." ”

"I said, he had to ask your opinion." Wei Hongyu said.

Liang Xuetao put down the shovel in his hand, washed his face after returning to the front yard, and then paced into the hall.

When Xu Rongguang saw him, he immediately greeted him with a smile.

After Liang Xuetao sat down, he asked him straight to the point, "Do you want to borrow a donkey?" ”

Xu Rongguang smiled and nodded, seeing that the other party was noncommittal, he moved his butt a little uneasily.

To be honest, this time to borrow a donkey in fact, he really didn't have any confidence in his heart, but he thought that it was too laborious to grind, and he thought about the last time he proposed to borrow cattle to plough the land, Liang Xuetao agreed on the spot without saying a word, although after that, Liang Xuemei made a trip in the matter, but he boasted that Liang Xuetao had made a lot of efforts when he built a house, so he wanted to try again.

Liang Xuetao didn't let him wait too long. After a moment of silence, he shook his head bluntly and said no.

Xu Rongguang was stunned for a moment, and then said without giving up: "Taozi, I know that I am indeed a little embarrassed about your Liang family in the matter of Meizi, but I can't help it, you don't know how difficult it is to be this village chief, how many pairs of eyes are looking at it, everything has to be done according to the rules and regulations" Seeing that Liang Xuetao frowned a little impatiently, paused, and continued: "Think about it, except for this matter. Is there anything else I've done to be sorry for you? Didn't you? Not really. On the contrary, I helped a lot when you built the house, in fact, I don't want to talk about these things, it hurts my feelings too much, I only ask you one sentence. It's just our relationship. Don't you promise me this little thing?

"What's the relationship between the two of us?" Liang Xuetao sneered. Interrogation.

Without waiting for the other party to answer, he suddenly said "oh", and then said: "Two bottles of Moutai." Two bottles of Wuliangye, two Chinese flowers, and two thousand yuan."

Xu Rongguang was a little stunned at first, but when he heard it, he understood that Liang Xuetao was counting what gifts he had given him, and he couldn't sit still for a while, he didn't say hello, and got up and left abruptly.

As a result, as soon as he got out of the hospital, he happened to bump into Zhou Cheng head-on.

"Village chief, you" Before Zhou Cheng finished speaking, Xu Rongguang had already passed him with a dark face and walked forward.

Zhou Cheng looked at his back for some reason, touched his nose, and then turned around and entered the courtyard gate, and after seeing Liang Xuetao, he casually mentioned it.

When Liang Xuetao heard this, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but overflow with a mocking smile, and then asked Zhou Cheng about his intentions.

There are two main things for Zhou Cheng's visit this time.

The first thing was that he wanted to ask Liang Xuetao to borrow some food.

"Brother Xuetao, I won't say much else, I still understand the truth of borrowing and repaying, and when the time comes, I will give you an IOU, and I will return it on time." Zhou Cheng is colorful.

Liang Xuetao took a sip of tea unhurriedly, thought for a while, and then squinted at him and asked him how much he wanted to borrow.

Zhou Cheng's eyes suddenly lit up, and he asked tentatively, "How about 300 catties of white noodles?" ”

Liang Xuetao stretched out his finger and tapped lightly on the table a few times, and then said slowly: "If you open your mouth with me first, I can't say that I won't borrow, but just this time, I won't take it as an example." ”

Zhou Cheng smiled and said "Huh".

Liang Xuetao said again, "I'll send it to you in the evening, so you don't need to write the IOU, but you have to keep this matter secret for me." Don't tell anyone. ”

Zhou Cheng nodded again and again, and then mentioned the matter of going up the mountain to hunt.

Liang Xuetao couldn't help frowning when he heard this, "The weather is so hot, aren't you afraid that everyone will suffer from heat stroke after going up the mountain?" ”

Zhou Cheng looked at him and said, "I have also considered this, in fact, the section of the road into the mountain is easy to be exposed to the sun because there are too few trees, and the temperature in some places is lower than outside after really entering the mountain forest, we set off in the early morning, try to avoid the direct sun all the way, there should not be much of a problem" Speaking of this, he suddenly smiled bitterly, "Brother Xuetao, I know that this kind of weather is not suitable for hunting in the mountains, but the current situation is very serious, we have to do this, if we don't go up the mountain to hunt some prey, With just the little rice and noodles in everyone's hands, I'm afraid I may not be able to survive the autumn harvest! ”

Saying this, Liang Xuetao didn't insist anymore, in fact, he also wanted to see how mutated those fierce beasts in the mountains were, so he nodded and agreed.

After talking about business, the two chatted a few words, and Liang Xuetao saw that it was almost time for dinner, so he left him for lunch.

Zhou Cheng hesitated for a moment, shook his head and said, "Don't bother Brother Xuetao, before going out, Aunt You said that she would leave me food." ”

Liang Xuetao was about to light a cigarette at this time, and he couldn't help but pause when he heard the movement in his hand, and then nodded casually "um", during this time, he stayed with Zhou Cheng for dinner several times, but was politely declined by the other party for various reasons, he was indeed a little puzzled by this, but he didn't take it too seriously.

In the early morning of the next day, Liang Xuetao came to the foot of Yushan on time, where many people had gathered.

Everyone looked at him, and then looked at the four large, majestic black-backed dogs beside him, and the originally noisy crowd suddenly fell silent.

Liang Xuetao's eyes turned around, and found that there were many people who came this time, all of them were in long shirts and trousers, wearing a hat on their heads, and they were all black, and there were more than 30 people in detail, except for Zhang Aimin and Uncle Dog, all of them were under the age of 30.

Such a large group of people went up the mountain, not to mention those muntjac wild boars. Even the tiger and the bear were also scared away, and Liang Xuetao's expression suddenly became a little uncertain.

Seeing this, Zhou Cheng hurriedly dragged him aside and explained in a low voice: "These people all took the initiative to come to the door after getting the news, and they begged again and again, but there was really no way to refuse." ”

At this point, Liang Xuetao could only nod.

After everyone arrived, Zhou Cheng briefly stated the matters that need to be paid attention to this time on the mountain, and then he announced that he would set up four groups, and directly appointed the team leader. Liang Xuetao is the leader of the first group.

As a result, Zhou Cheng asked the team leader to come out. When selecting the team members by themselves, two of the team leaders were silent, and then looked at Liang Xuetao together.

The other was just about to stand up, but was pinned down by the person next to him. And whispered: "You are stupid. Now you stand up and say who you want to be on your group. What if people don't want to follow you? ”

"That"

"When Taozi is chosen, you can go up again."

The team leader listened, although he was not convinced. I didn't dare to say anything more.

Zhou Cheng looked at the expressions of these people, and suddenly understood what was going on, so he said with a smile: "Brother Xuetao, you should come first, you, the number one master in Datian Village, didn't pick a good person, how dare others make a mistake." ”

When the words fell, there was a burst of laughter below.

Liang Xuetao took a few steps forward, then turned around and swept his eyes around the crowd, and said in a deep voice: "Min Qun, Zhang Aimin, Zhang Hai, Zhang Lin"

Soon, the four team leaders stepped forward one by one to select the team members.

At about five o'clock in the morning, more than 30 villagers began to advance towards Yushan.

This time up the mountain, it was still the dog uncle as a guide, the four black-backed dogs rushed to the front like joy, some pheasants inhabited in the mountain did not wait for everyone to come closer, they had been cleaned up by Liang Xuetao and the white hair, all the way to stop and stop, marching for six hours, and finally came to a water source near the halfway up the mountain.

After some deliberation by Zhou Cheng and the others, it was decided to set up this place as a temporary assembly place, and the four groups would act separately in the next period of time.

After the discussion, everyone took out the dry food in the package and began to eat lunch.

This hunting in the mountains is different from the last time, the hunting time will be relatively long, Zhou Cheng and Liang Xuetao mentioned this matter before, saying that they will stay in the mountains for at least a day and a night.

In this case, you have to prepare four or five meals of dry food.

Liang Xuetao couldn't get used to eating those biscuits, bread, snacks and the like in the space, so Wei Hongyu deliberately spread out a dozen cakes in advance, took a few salted duck eggs, and scooped a lot of pickles for him to bring.

Liang Xuetao fed Bai Mao a few people some food and water, and then took out the pickles and oil cakes from the bag one by one.

I saw Liang Xuetao take out several small bottles from the package as if he was playing a trick, and after opening them, he scooped out pickles such as spicy meat sauce, sour and hot cabbage, sesame oil kohlrabi with a small spoon, spread them on the oil cake, wrapped them and rolled them into strips and stuffed them into his mouth, and chewed them carefully

Between the other party's chewing, Zhang Lin seemed to empathize, and seemed to have tasted those delicious foods!

He sucked the saliva that was about to overflow, and couldn't hold back it anymore for a while, leaned over and deliberately moved his nose a few times and said, "Uncle Taozi, your pickles smell so good, is this made by your aunt?" The craftsmanship is so good! ”

Liang Xuetao knew the meaning of the song when he heard the strings, glanced at him, pointed to the bottles and cans in front of him and said, "If you want to eat, do it yourself." ”

Zhang Lin hurriedly responded, and happily began to put pickles into the white bun, but he didn't know that Zhang Aimin behind him looked at this scene and almost fainted by him-

People who are almost twenty years old salivate for stuttering and say that pickles are so fragrant, how fragrant can pickles be? When he arrived home, Zhang Aimin walked over quickly, slapped Zhang Lin's head hard, and reprimanded in a low voice: "Don't get in the way here, get out of the way and eat." ”

Zhang Lin touched his head, looked at his father's expression was wrong, and after smiling, he bit the stuffed bun and quickly flashed.

"Stinky boy!" Zhang Aimin whispered at his back, and then turned his head to look at Liang Xuetao, looking a little embarrassed.

Liang Xuetao raised the corners of his mouth, "You also have some pickles?" ”

Zhang Aimin shook his head, and raised the white bun in his hand again, "No need, this bun is very fragrant, I eat it just right." (To be continued......)