Chapter 8 Warm Moments
Seeing Zhang Taiping coming in, the little girl's face immediately changed, and she wanted to get off the kang and run out.
Zhang Taiping hurriedly stopped: "Yaya, just sit on the kang, Dad will ask you something." ”
Zhang Taiping sat on the kang, looked at the girl who was sitting far away, patted him and said, "Come and sit here." ”
The little girl moved slightly, but was still more than a meter away. Keep your head down and grab the hem of your clothes with both hands.
Seeing that Zhang Taiping was speechless for a while, he had to give up.
"Why are you so afraid of Dad?" Zhang Taiping tried to keep his tone soft.
"Don't speak.
"Say, Daddy won't beat you."
Unexpectedly, the little girl suddenly cried, wiped her tears with her hands, and said with a sob.
"You say I'm a loser, and you're going to sell me to human traffickers."
Zhang Taiping was stunned, but he didn't remember when he said such a thing. It is estimated that he used to have the evil spirit that he spread when he saw people, and he said it casually, and then forgot about it.
Let him do it, he really wouldn't dare. If it does, it is estimated that the old man on the mountain will be the first to come down and eradicate this evil obstacle.
Zhang Taiping hugged the little girl who was crying very sadly and comforted her.
"I won't sell you to human traffickers, how can I give it. It used to scare you, as long as you listen to your father in the future, I won't sell you. ”
I was crying so hard just now that I stopped immediately.
Raising his head, his mouth pursed, and his eyelashes flickering with tears still hanging on them, he asked in disbelief: "You really don't sell me anymore?" ”
made Zhang Taiping seem to have done a big loss.
"It's really not for sale!" Zhang Taiping replied crisply.
The little girl seemed to believe it, and her tense body relaxed.
Seeing this scene, Zhang Taiping grinned and said, "Come, dad has a good thing for you here." ”
"What's good?" The little girl asked, snorting.
"You close your eyes, Daddy will do a magic trick for you, count three times and then open your eyes."
The little girl obediently closed her eyes, counted three times, and then opened them.
A little fluffy thing is presented in front of you.
"Yikes! It's a kitten. He shouted in surprise.
Zhang Taiping, who choked for a moment, said: "It's not a cat, guess again." ”
"That's a puppy."
Zhang Taiping had no choice but to smile bitterly and said, "It's a little squirrel." Come, hug, like it or not? ”
"yes, I like it." As he spoke, he stroked the fluffy fur on the little thing with his little hand.
Zhang Taiping looked at the little girl's happy appearance, and his heart was full of relief.
I don't know if it's because the children are easy to coax or cut the constant blood relationship, and after a while, the father and daughter are talking and laughing. Cai Yazhi, who brought the rice in, was surprised.
The special bowl is filled with a bowl of noodles and a layer of whistles poured on top.
The noodles are rolled out and ploughed with a knife into half-centimeter-wide strips, and some salt will be added to the noodles to make them stronger.
The whistle is made up of eggplants the size of fingernails, one-centimeter-long cowpeas, chopped green onions, chopped tomatoes, and shredded green peppers. When it is almost cooked, pour egg juice on the surface, cover the pot, simmer for a minute without burning the fire, and then stir it with a spoon to form an egg flower.
Such eggs are more tender than scrambled eggs.
Zhang Taiping took the bowl and looked fragrant if he didn't eat it.
It's a pity that there are too many noodles, and the big old bowls are a little small and can't be stirred.
"If you can't stir it up, take another bowl and pick it out." Zhang Taiping said helplessly to his wife.
After a while, the wife turned back, and instead of taking the bowl, she took a small basin.
In my last life, I heard that people in Guanzhong have the habit of eating with pots, but they have never had the opportunity to see it, but I didn't expect to be able to experience it for myself today.
He poured it into a basin and went and poured some whistles. Sitting on the kang, Xili snorted and finished eating.
In the afternoon, I sat in the study in the back room and looked through the medical books in the box under the desk, comparing what I had learned in my previous life.
It's not that he doesn't want to go out for a walk, it's just that it's inconvenient to wear a gauze on his head.
In rural areas, there are two situations of wearing gauze. One is that he was injured on the head, and the other is Dai Xiao.
When you meet someone on the road, you will often ask "Who is getting old?" ”
The family is alive and well, and it sounds bad luck. If it is said that it is injured, it will involve a lot of problems, and it will take a long time to explain.
Otherwise, there are weird eyes all the way.
It's better to hide at home and read a book for a few days, and wait until it's time to heal the injury and remove the gauze before going out. When the provincial meets the individual, it takes a long time to explain.
During this period, the little girl probed her brain at the door from time to time, and as long as Zhang Taiping put down the book and beckoned, she ran in happily. Holding the little squirrel and asking this and that.
I heard Zhang Taiping say that the little squirrel can't eat anything else, so he can only drink milk. Then he took a bowl and ran to squeeze some goat's milk, broke the little squirrel's mouth, and poured it into it with a spoonful of spoons.
The little squirrel opened his eyes and ran to be the first to tell Zhang Taiping.
For these, Zhang Taiping not only did not feel annoyed, but felt very happy and warm. It is a way for the little ones to express their closeness and friendliness.
This lasted for more than twenty days, until the gauze was removed.
That afternoon, Zhang Taiping moved a recliner and lay under the eaves of the front house, thinking about what to plant with the space.
Yaya was teasing the little squirrel that already knew how to eat pine nuts. The wife cleaned up two schisandra berries in the yard.
"Schisandra" is the name of the medicinal herb, and it is called "Wuling'er" in the mountains. Growing in dense forests, vines naturally wrap around tree supports, and the fruits hang down in bunches, and when they are not ripe or green, they are picked and dried to become "schisandra". When ripe, the grains are the size of peas, and the color turns light red, like bunches of agate hanging on the branches, the taste is sweet and sour, and it is a more pleasing wild fruit.
This is the time to pick schisandra, and the mountains not far away are full of slopes. When my wife was looking for free time, she would pick some and come back, and she had accumulated more than a dozen catties in bits and pieces.
At that time, there will be vendors who will collect all kinds of mountain goods and medicinal materials picked by the mountain people in their leisure time.
Since Schisandra chinensis is a good medicine for nourishing qi and nourishing the five organs, there are no side effects when taken for a long time. It also has the functions of protecting the liver, promoting the regeneration of liver cells, and enhancing liver detoxification. It is widely used in the formulation of traditional Chinese medicine and the manufacture of medicines, so the price is slightly higher than that of other common medicinal materials.
Dry, about forty yuan per catty. It's just that this is the flat price at which the town or city specializes in purchasing medicinal herbs. The hawker will push the price down by five to ten yuan, and the people in the mountains don't know the specific price anyway, as long as it feels not too different from previous years, they will sell it.
admiring the busy figure of his wife Miaoman, he calculated that these medicinal materials could be sold for four or five hundred yuan. Suddenly, a flash of inspiration when I saw saffron for more than 20 days came to my heart.
"That's right, you can start planting some saffron or other rare and precious medicinal herbs first, accumulate some funds, and things will be easier to do in the future." Zhang Taiping sat up straight, waved his fists, and thought to himself.
According to the saffron planting method popularized in Tibetan areas, it is planted in early autumn and September, and safflower can be harvested in winter, which only takes two or three months. This is still in the environment of natural growth in the outside world, and if it is in space, it can be harvested in only three days. Based on the outside world propaganda of 0.75 kilograms per acre of land, about 25 yuan per gram, two acres of land can earn 37,500 yuan in three days.
Thinking of this, my heart is hot. If this happens, there will be more than four million a year.
After thinking about it, he shook his head self-deprecatingly. It's really out of the eyes of money, and I'm fascinated by money. I don't know if it can be planted in the space, and even if it can be planted, it's hard to explain it. This medicine is a regional specialty, and it is difficult to grow in other regions. A small number of them appear in the Qinling Mountains, and you can still marvel at the magic and mystery of nature, and more will lead to suspicion and speculation.
The heart quickly cooled down, it was a hammer deal, and it could only be done once. Or think of other ways that are long-term and reasonable and don't arouse suspicion.
sighed, in this life, I have decided to live in the mountains for the rest of my life, and it is useless to ask for so much money. If you don't bring it in life, you don't bring it with you in death, it's enough to live.
In the future, we should be cautious in using space, and it is best to focus on auxiliary, rather than as a tool for profiteering. Greed and dissatisfaction are also a kind of original sin, if you ** too much, you want too much, after all, you will lose other precious things. I have witnessed too much in my previous life, and the warm and happy life in this life is even more valuable. If you are blinded by the desire for profit, your hard-won life will be shattered.
It was only at this moment that the mood calmed down from the ambition of getting space, as if Sun Wukong, who had removed the spell of tightening, and then felt that the sky in the mountain village was far away and relaxed.
"Daddy, does the kitten have a father and a mother?" Just when Zhang Taiping's fugue was too empty, the voice of the little girl pulled him back.
Zhang Taiping was stunned for a moment, and asked funny: "Little kitten?" Is that the name you gave it? ”
"Well, she's like a kitten, I'll call her a kitten." The little girl nodded affirmatively.
Zhang Taiping didn't feel it.
"The little squirrel also has a father and mother, just like a girl."
"What about her mom and dad?" Tilting his head, he asked curiously.
Zhang Taiping thought for a while before replying: "Mom and Dad were captured by the leopard in order to protect the little squirrel. ”
After hearing this, the little girl's face was gloomy, and she said with her face on the soft fur of the little thing: "The little cat is so pitiful that there are no parents anymore." ”
He lifted the little thing to Zhang Taiping and said innocently: "Dad, then you should also be the father of the kitten." ”
made Zhang Taiping cry and laugh.
"Would you like to give Daddy to the kittens?" Zhang Taiping asked deliberately.
The little girl was embarrassed for a while after hearing this, her little face wrinkled, and finally nodded with difficulty.
Zhang Taiping was both surprised and relieved.
In the concept of children, nothing is as precious as Mom and Dad, and not having Mom and Dad is the most tragic thing in the world. Now because of sympathy for the little squirrel, she is willing to divide her father in half, which shows that Yaya is very compassionate and knows how to share.
Then he raised his head and asked pitifully, "Dad, do you still want a girl?" ”
Zhang Taiping picked up the little girl and put it in his arms, and said with pity: "Of course, the little girl is Dad's most precious treasure, and it is the best gift God has given Dad." ”
The little girl smiled like a flower again, and squeezed her head into Zhang Taiping's arms.
Zhang Taiping hugged Yaya, looking at his wife who was like a butterfly shuttling in the courtyard, and the taste of satisfaction overflowed in his heart.