Chapter 38: The Autumn Harvest

Zhang Taiping suddenly stopped and looked at Wang Peng's face fixedly.

Wang Peng was looked unnatural for a while, and couldn't help but stammered and asked.

"No, it can't really be murder, right?"

Zhang Taiping smiled weirdly: "What do you say? ”

Wang Peng was laughed horrified, but said stiffly: "Damn, if you kill someone, you will kill someone, and no one will know if you kill secretly." ”

Zhang Taiping turned his head and continued to walk forward and said: "Just kidding you, how can you really kill someone, that's against the law, we won't do anything illegal." It's also a lesson for you, don't pat your chest at every turn when you're outside. ”

Wang Peng breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly said: "No, no, I only do things with my eldest brother, and others don't like him at all." ”

"If only you could remember it."

"Hey, hey."

Zhang Taiping didn't care about Wang Peng's smirk: "I carve some carved wood products in my spare time, you take them and sell them, and you take the money." ”

"Rotten wood? Does anyone want this too? Wang Peng asked uncertainly.

"What rotten wood? A dirt leopard without artistic cells! Zhang Taiping snapped on the back of Wang Peng's head and scolded with a smile: "This can be bought for dozens of yuan in the city, and the one with good carving can be sold for hundreds of yuan." ”

Wang Peng's eyes widened: "The people in this city are really rich in eggs, so they use it to buy wood for fun!" ”

Zhang Taiping smiled helplessly, and couldn't tell this guy, so he just asked, "Do you do it or not?" ”

"What the hell, why don't you do it? So when to sell? Wang Peng had an expression that he would be a fool if he didn't do it.

"Don't be in a hurry these days, wait until you finish breaking the bud valley. I'll call you when the time comes to enter the city. ”

After talking about this matter, Zhang Taiping asked again: "How many acres of bud valley do you have at home?" ”

"It's not much, it's just over an acre." Wang Peng replied indifferently.

"Don't run around during this time, help your aunt more at home, it's not easy for her to pull you alone." Zhang Taiping knew that Wang Peng was still very filial, but sometimes he couldn't control himself, and he listened to his own words the most, so he couldn't help but tell a few words.

"Well, I know. How many acres is your family, big brother? ”

"It's more than four acres, I don't know how much." Zhang Taiping replied with some shame, he didn't care about the affairs of the family before, let alone how much land he had hit, and Cai Yazhi was taking care of all of this alone.

"It's a lot, I'll help your family when the time comes."

Zhang Taiping felt that Wang Peng was still like a child, he had a good relationship with whomever he wanted, he was close to whomever he could, he was unwilling to do the work at home, but he was happy to do the same work at other people's homes.

"You'd better break your house first, you can't let your mother break it alone."

"That's for sure, I'll help you after breaking my house."

Zhang Taiping didn't stop it anymore, in his head, this might be a way to express closeness.

When he passed by the door of Wang Peng's house, the lights in his house were still on. There was only one old man in the house, but the light was still on, obviously worried about Wang Peng, and he had been waiting for him to come back. It wasn't until Wang Peng entered the house for a while that the lights were turned off.

This is mother's love, "before leaving the dense seams, I am afraid that I will return late".

Zhang Taiping stood alone in front of Wang Peng's house for a while. It's really not easy for a woman to raise her son Chengren alone, and her son is often not sober in his mind, and he is worried about his son all the time. If you can help in the future, you can help more.

Back at home, Cai Yazhi had already slept. Ah Huang heard the voice bark twice, Zhang Taiping made a sound, and ran out and cocked his tail to greet him. The lion also roared a few times, and the immature voice could not scare people but made people feel cute.

Zhang Taiping entered the house without disturbing Cai Yazhi, gently closed the door and returned to the back room to sleep.

In the next few days, Zhang Taiping has been carving all kinds of ornaments and objects with a carving knife, large and small, simple and complicated. After all, different people have different consumption specifications and preferences, so they must be prepared to meet the standards of various consumption.

Of course, it is still the kind of small items that are both simple and cheap, and cute to make the most. For example, the zodiac signs, such as various interesting characters in comics, and so on. There are also large and cumbersome ones, but there are few. The main reason is that most of this kind of large-scale wood carvings are carved separately, and then combined together, it takes more time, and the price is much higher. Only those who really like it are willing to spend this money.

When breaking the bud valley, Cai Xiaomei also saved up for a Sunday and came back. In her impression, Zhang Dashuai does not enter the ground, only her sister is busy alone, and the corn on the four acres of land must be broken and pulled, and all the corn stalks in the field must be dug up. If my sister came down alone, she would definitely be tired and feel sorry for my sister, so I estimated that it was time to break the bud valley and go home on Sunday.

Surprisingly, Zhang Taiping went to the ground this year, and he was still the main force.

The two sisters just broke the corn and put it up. The rest of the things included carrying them from the ground to the ground, pulling them with a car, and digging corn stalks, and Zhang Taiping took care of them all.

The two sisters broke in front, and Zhang Taiping dug stalks in the back, although it was much more tiring and laborious than breaking corn, but Zhang Taiping's speed was not slower than the two of them, and he kept following their buttocks.

A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance. For the two sisters, Zhang Taiping's ability to work in the field is a great joy, and they are also very energetic to work.

Yaya played with the lion and the little squirrel on the edge of the ground. The parrot didn't know where to fly for a long time, that guy has been wandering in the mountains since he came to Zhang Taiping's house, and he didn't need Zhang Taiping to deliberately feed him, and he only remembered to fly back at night. As soon as Ah Huang entered the ground, he snorted and didn't know where to run.

One acre of land was cleaned up in one morning.

When he returned home at noon, Zhang Taiping deeply realized the hardships of Cai Yazhi in recent years. With a body like herself, you would be a little tired, let alone a weak woman. It is the first time I have done farm work, and it cannot be ruled out that the reason for excessive consumption is in it, but it cannot be denied that it is really a tiring job.

I usually look at others as if they are very relaxed, but I have been exercising them for ten years. When it came to myself, I realized that it was really not easy to be a farmer, paying such a big price, but the harvest was not proportionate.

I don't know what kind of belief Cai Yazhi has persevered in the past few years!

After a short break from lunch, I continued to enter the ground. The afternoon is much more efficient than the morning.

After a whole day of continuous work, I finally broke all the corn on the four acres of land and pulled it home. The fields were also cleaned up, and winter wheat could be sown just after the next rain. Now the ground is too dry, if the sowing wheat seeds can not germinate in time, the next rain will flatten the ground, and the ground will be tangled into a flat surface after the weather is clear, which is not conducive to the emergence of seedlings.

When Cai Xiaomei left, she saw the objects carved by Zhang Taiping, so she discussed with Zhang Taiping.

"Zhang Dashuai, discuss something with you."

Cai Xiaomei still has some prejudices against Zhang Taiping, and she hasn't said a few words to Zhang Taiping for two days after she came back, and now that she has taken the initiative to speak, Zhang Taiping also wants to see what she wants to discuss.

"Well, let's talk about it."

"I brought the wooden man to the school last time, and my classmates in our dormitory and the surrounding dormitories liked it a lot. I thought, maybe there are a lot of girls I like at school, so I'll talk to you. You've carved so much, I'll take a few to the school first and see if anyone buys them. If someone buys it, how about we split the account? Cai Xiaomei said confidently.

"You take it, if all the money you can sell is yours, I don't want it." Zhang Taiping said with a smile.

"Say fifty-five accounts, you will sell them, I won't take advantage of you." Looking at the smile on Zhang Taiping's face, Cai Xiaomei blushed but still said in a stubborn voice.

Zhang Taiping felt funny in his heart, smiled and said, "Whatever you want." It's just that you can't take too much at one time, I promised Wang Peng to find him a job to do, this is just right for him. ”

"Well, I can't take much." As he spoke, he just picked out a few small animals and cartoon characters, put them in his school bag, and went to school.

That's fine. It is estimated that the family will give her money, and she will not ask for it. In this way, she will earn some money from herself through hard work, and there will be no burden in her heart. You can also have some spare money to buy things that your peers like.

The buds were pulled back and all piled up under the laurel tree in the middle courtyard. Zhang Taiping built a dozen wooden shelves with wooden poles in the front yard and under the eaves, and in his spare time for a few days, he could peel off the corn husks and tie them together and hang them on the wooden shelves. This is a scenery in Guanzhong, after the harvest of fruits, there will be bunches of golden ears of corn hanging in front of every house, eaves and even trees, and the rows of families are quite spectacular. A scene of a bumper harvest can add a lot of festive atmosphere to the calm mountain village.

After peeling the corn bolt, hang two strings of red peppers on both sides of the door frame, a scene of an authentic Guanzhong farmhouse courtyard.

The peeled shell was dried in the yard and on the road. These buds can be used for cooking and can also be used to burn kang in winter.

After a rain, it was time to plant the seeds. There are also no modern sowing machines in the small mountain villages, even tractors are scarce, and most of them are cultivated with oxen.

Zhang Taiping's family has no cattle, so he can only rent someone else's house. But there are not many cattle in the village, so many families have to wait in line in the fields to plough their land. Zhang Taiping could complete this work alone, so he didn't let Cai Yazhi accompany him in the field, just delivered the meal when he arrived.