Chapter 7 The Dragon's Head
After feeding the rooster and scorpion, Cai Hongming went to eat.
No surprise, a few old people have already finished eating. The third master has gone to herd sheep, the fifth master has gone to the ground, the eighth prince has nothing to do recently, lying on the rocking chair at the door leisurely listening to the radio, and Uncle Fu is sweeping the floor seriously with a broom. It's his daily lesson.
He does all the hygiene at the door of several households in the village, including raising chickens and ducks, cooking and cooking. It's just that people are stupid, otherwise they are very diligent people.
After eating, Cai Hongming walked around the village, and after a while, he came to the farmland where the fifth master was farming.
In fact, a few old people in the village don't have to do anything at all now. They can receive hundreds of yuan of pension money from the government every month, and there are condolences during the New Year's holidays, and there are pocket flowers given by juniors below, so their lives can be described as carefree. It's just that the old man is busy, and when he is free, he feels that the whole body is wrong. In addition, the old man also has a temper, feeling that taking other people's money is like waiting for others to give alms, and his heart is very hurt and his self-esteem is very challenged. So just do it yourself.
Spend your own money at least hard, and speak sonorously and powerfully, you can give others a look, and you don't have to spend your own money on others and be trained to feel as bad as your grandson.
Bagong shows people feng shui, and he is very famous around, and every time someone drives over to invite him, he has thousands of red envelopes and an amazing net worth.
The fifth master herds sheep and earns a lot of money every year; The third master's farming income is relatively small, but he has also saved some old capital, even Uncle Silly Fu is not a simple person, and the poultry he raises every year can be sold for at least tens of thousands of yuan. The most important thing is that they collect the money they earn, unlike him who spends it indiscriminately, and he is tired and tired all year round and has not left a few cents, speaking of which he is a poor man, sad!
The wheat in the field is growing green, and it seems that it is a good harvest.
Walking through the wheat field, I came to the second line of defense, and saw the fifth master digging a pit in the ground.
This old man has a problem, as soon as he sees good land, he wants to plant all the things. Recently, his old man plans to clean up the land and plant the sweet potatoes he brought from southern Fujian next year. As for whether to sell it for money after planting, his old man didn't think about it at all, anyway, he could sell it if he could, and he couldn't sell it for himself, otherwise it would be okay to feed the stupid Uncle Fu chickens, and it wouldn't be useless anyway.
Cai Hongming asked people to send sweet potatoes from southern Fujian are special varieties with a particularly sweet taste, and there is no one on the market at all.
Eating that sweet potato is almost like eating sugar, sweet, very sweet, very sweet, very sweet. If you cook it in water for a long time, you will end up with a layer of viscous syrup in the pot. However, that sweetness is not the dead sweetness of sugar, but the sweetness of plants, which is delicious.
"Fifth Master, what are you doing?" Cai Hongming walked up to the fifth master and asked.
"Dig a pit to store water." The fifth master didn't look back.
"Didn't I buy you a pump?"
"Doesn't that cost electricity? I'll dig a pit here, dig a pit there, dig a few pits to store snow water, and it will be enough for next year, can I use a pumping machine? The fifth master said.
Cai Hongming smacked his lips, and he didn't know what to say. The old man is used to being poor, so every qiē is based on the premise of saving money. If he hadn't bought a rice cutter to help cut the rice when he planted the rice, it is estimated that he would have been able to cut the dozen acres of rice by himself. The same is true for cultivating the land, which is slowly made with their own hoes. In the end, he couldn't stand it anymore, so he bought a walk-behind cultivator to help plow.
With modern machinery to help work is indeed much easier, the concept of the old man is slowly changing, and now he has learned to use, but occasionally he will be stupid, which makes people smile bitterly, just like now, there is a pumping machine is not used, he wants to dig a puddle, so that people don't know how to say good.
"Fifth master, don't be so troublesome, just use the pump when you want to water. Next year I'll buy you an automatic sprinkler, just put that hose in the field, it will spray water automatically, you don't have to do it yourself, just watch from the sidelines. ”
"It doesn't cost money! No, no. The fifth master said, burying his head and continuing to dig the pit.
In desperation, Cai Hongming had to go home and get a shovel to help dig, otherwise his old man could dig from morning to night until all the puddles were dug. When the time comes, his old bones will have to be scrapped.
This land used to be farmland, and although there was sand on top, there was fertile soil underneath, which was easy to dig, and a pit could be done in a little quick and an hour. After digging for a while, Ah Fu also came over with a shovel to help, and several people quickly dug three pits. In the end, he simply asked everyone to dig one by one, and hurry up.
After eating at noon and taking a break, the three of them continued to dig the pit.
Cai Hongming dug slowly, but he was not very tired, he dug two meters, and suddenly heard a "bang" from below, as if he had dug something.
Is it an antique? As soon as he thought of this, his heart suddenly came to life, and his eyes flashed brightly.
It is rumored that the underground in Shaanxi is full of ancient tombs, and there are treasures if you dig it down, but this place is full of yellow sand, where is there any good thing below, is it a dead man's bones?
Cai Hongming picked up the shovel and dug down carefully, dug a few times, and two bones were exposed underneath.
It is obviously not a human bone, but like a deer's antlers, but it is not a deer's antlers, which are as thick as a calf. Digging further down, a very large skull, about three meters in size, does not look like a deer head, but rather a legendary dragon's skull.
Could it really be a legendary dragon?
For a while, Cai Hongming's eyebrows fluttered, and he hurriedly picked up his mobile phone to take a photo, and then he wanted to continue digging to the side to see if there was a body, if there was a body, it would really be a legendary dragon, and that was big news.
Suddenly, he saw that what looked like a dragon's head was holding something in its mouth, and when he looked closely, it turned out to be a lump of dirt.
He took the lump out of the dragon's mouth and struck it with a shovel, causing the clods to fall off, revealing a rusty lump inside. The iron bumps were covered with rust, and I couldn't tell what it was. He put the iron lump aside first, intending to continue digging to see if there was a dragon body. At this moment, the ground suddenly shook violently.
One stumbled, and he almost fell.
There was an earthquake. Cai Hongming didn't dare to stay in the pit anymore, and hurriedly climbed out of the pit. When I got outside, I found that the sky was clear and cloudless, and the fifth master and the stupid uncle were still digging a pit over there, so there was no earthquake.
Cai Hongming felt strange, so he ran to ask the fifth master: "Fifth master, was there an earthquake just now?" ”
"I don't feel it." The fifth master shook his head.
He ran to ask Ah Fu again: "Uncle Fu, was there an earthquake just now?" ”
"No, no."
That's strange, is it his own delusion, Cai Hongming thought strangely, and ran back to the pit he dug again. Suddenly, I saw that the dragon head in the pit was gone, and only a white ground remained. Powder. What's going on? Cai Hongming was puzzled, and after thinking about it for a long time, he couldn't come up with a reason, so he had to give up.
After digging the pit and returning home, Cai Hongming took out the iron lump dug from the ground and washed it by the well. After washing for a long time, I saw that the iron bumps still looked rusty, so I took them and walked to the kitchen.