Chapter 40: Between Neighbors
Fortunately, he stayed at the door for a while, otherwise the hens would have been miserably attacked this time. Liu Junhao saw it approaching the chicken coop again, and hurriedly turned on the portable lamp in his hand and shone it towards the grass civet.
It was frightened and took a step back, then stopped, and winked at Liu Junhao, its fiery red tail shook a few times in a strange way, quite arrogant, obviously knowing that Xiaopi would not come back for a while and a half, and the person in front of him would definitely not be able to catch up with him.
It was the first time he had seen such a bold animal, so he grabbed the shovel leaning against the house and slammed it up. The fox reacted quickly, and in a flash of his body had already emerged from the eye of the waterway, and let out a low hiss outside the courtyard wall, and kept provoking, as if trying to lure him into chasing him.
The outside of the yard was full of wild grass, and the grass civet could not find it when he got in, and it was useless to go out, so Liu Junhao made up his mind not to care about the provocation of this animal, and turned around and went back to the house by himself. But before he could take two steps, the fox ran in again, continued to call at him, and when Liu Junhao stepped forward, it turned around and fled.
The tiger is not powerful, you really think I am a sick cat, Liu Junhao gritted his teeth and went back to the house to take out the chain ring gun he made a few days ago, loaded it with gunpowder, and stood in the yard waiting.
As soon as the fox appeared, he raised his hand and fired a shot, and the fire was shining in the darkness, and the fox that was hit by the iron sand spewing from the muzzle of the gun jumped at the base of the wall, and then fled quickly into the waterway.
He shot a little far, so the power of the iron sand was greatly reduced, and he couldn't hurt the fox at all, but even this scared the two foxes so much that they didn't dare to come again, and it turned out that the beast knew to be afraid.
The days pass slowly, and in a blink of an eye the hottest season is about to pass, and in a while it will be time for the autumn harvest, which is also the busiest season of the year.
The fields were full of green, especially corn, which had grown to the height of more than a man, and the large corn cobs that produced were spitting out their whiskers, and looked very pleasant.
Liu Junhao naturally became greedy when he saw this thing, the corn cob at this time was the most delicious, whether it was boiled or burned, it was crispy, and the more you chewed, the more delicious it was.
He now regrets that he didn't plant some corn in the first place, otherwise he could have cooked corn on the cob and eaten it now.
Plant a grain of millet in the spring and harvest 10,000 seeds in the autumn, Liu Junhao didn't plant anything in the field this year, and now he has nowhere to break the corn cob if he wants to eat it.
It seems that living on this stone lock alone will not work, and next year we will still have to plant a few points of land, and we can plant some if we want to eat, and it will be convenient to eat at that time. Moreover, he also has the advantage of spring water, and believes that the crops he grows must be very good than those of others.
Then again, the spring in this stone lock has not been fully utilized by itself, and has not done much serious work since the day it was obtained, except for raising fish and watering vegetables, and nothing else. Seeing that everyone in the village was busy in the fields, he felt that he was really a lazy man, and he couldn't find a daughter-in-law in the countryside like him in the past.
However, Liu Junhao also feels that his current state is very good, there is nothing to worry about, and he has a good life, like a fairy.
When he looked up and saw the jujube on the tree, his mind became active again, thinking that it would be good to plant some fruit trees in the open space in the front yard next year, and there were not many of them, just plant one or two of each one to eat at home, and he didn't expect to sell them for money. You should also plant some flowers and plants in the yard to make the yard look more vibrant.
However, after thinking about it for a long time, it was his long-term plan, and he still had to solve the problem of craving, and after thinking about it, he caught two catties of yellow eel and sent it to Ermazi's house and said that he wanted to exchange yellow eel for corn cobs.
As a result, Er Mazi said that he didn't accept anything, and pushed Liu Junhao out of the door one by one.
"The corn grows in the ground, you can break it as much as you want, but you take this yellow eel home, and if I need it in this restaurant, I will naturally buy it in your yard, and I won't even let you in if you bring the yellow eel to the door." This is Er Mazi's original words, he has always remembered Liu Junhao's favor in his heart, he hasn't thanked people for buying wild boar cubs last time, if it weren't for their help, I'm afraid that the thousands of dollars he brought would have been deceived by those scammers.
What's more, the yellow eels in the farmhouse have always been caught in people's yards, and the people in this village come to buy yellow eels no matter how much they sell, Liu Junhao will always sell them at a price of ten yuan a catty.
Although people don't say anything about this matter in person, they all say that he is sincere when they talk in private, and they all remember it.
Now Liu Junhao wants to eat a few corn cobs and two pockmarks, not to mention that this thing is not an uncommon thing, it is not worth anything at all, a pound of corn kernels is only five or six cents. If he really accepted these yellow eels and didn't let the people in the village break his backbone, how would he mix in the village in the future?
After sending Liu Junhao away, Er Mazi specially asked his daughter-in-law to get more corn cobs in the field to send to others, which was a personal favor.
But Er Mazi's daughter-in-law had no way to speak, and when she went out of the village, she met a few people there chatting and asking her what she was doing in the field, so she told her about it, and it was heard by others. So at noon, the hairy boy carried a basket of corn cobs to Liu Junhao's house, saying that his mother asked him to send it.
"How did your mom know I wanted to eat this?" Liu Junhao looked at seven or eight corn cobs with thick hands and necks, and the second monk was a little confused, he didn't seem to have mentioned it to the hairy child.
"I don't know, my mother said you like to eat, so I picked a basket in the field and sent it." The hairy child just faithfully implements the orders of the adults, and he doesn't know anything else.
"Deliver it, don't leave at noon today, and eat boiled corn at Uncle's place." Liu Junhao said as he put the basket in the house.
He was talking to the hairy boy here, but he heard a voice coming from outside the door, and when he looked up, he saw that Liu Laosan walked in with a bamboo basket, and there was half a basket of corn cobs in the bamboo basket.
"Third uncle, just came back from the field? Sit down and have a cup of tea," Liu Junhao hurriedly got up and gave up his seat.
"No, I'm here to deliver something," Liu Laosan said, sending the bamboo basket to the kitchen, and when he poured it to the ground, Hulala's corn cobs were scattered all over the ground.
"Third uncle, you ...... This is for me? Not only Liu Junhao, but even Professor Zhao was stunned.
"What's the matter, your third uncle won't be interested in getting you some, didn't you just hear that you want to eat corn on the cob, and there is no planting in your field, so I got some over, whatever you want to eat in the future, just tell the third uncle, as long as there is something in the field, I will get it for you."
"Thank you, third uncle, thank you, third uncle......" Liu Junhao had a smile on his face, but he was quite depressed in his heart, so many corn cobs could be eaten.
Now the corn cob is not yet ripe, and it can't stand being put at all, so it has to be picked and eaten. They can't eat this big pile even if they add two more mouths, and it seems that they can only hold the corn cob and gnaw it at noon.
"Xiao Hao, thank you or not, every time our bear child eats and takes something from you, you don't say anything. The two of us have been trying to get you something, and in the morning, I didn't hear Ermazi's daughter-in-law yelling in the village, saying that you like to eat corn on the cob, so I thought about getting some over. ”
Liu Laosan spoke for a while and turned to leave, but he walked on the front foot, and Er Mazi carried a long insect skin cloth bag into the yard with his back foot, looking at the shape of the sticks and sticks in most of the cloth bags, Liu Junhao was shocked and asked, "Uncle Guangxi, you won't also send me corn on the cob, right?" ”
"Yes, didn't you say you wanted to eat in the morning, I asked my daughter-in-law to go around the field in the morning and pick up some big breaks. I have all the baskets in the house, so I brought them to you in a cloth bag. ”
"Second Mazi Master, you are late, I have already sent a basket to Uncle Xiaohao, and the third master also sent half a bamboo basket just now......" The hairy child said quickly.
"Oh, really?" Er Mazi was also stunned, and then said, "How did he know?" ”
"It's not the second grandmother who said it, my mother just listened to her."
"This loser's mother-in-law is a village that has a loud voice and can be shocked if she farts a little bit, and she knew it last time she bought wild boar cubs." Er Mazi scolded and said.
But what surprised them was still to come, and Aunt Wang San also panted and walked to the door with a bamboo basket and asked Liu Junhao to help her carry it in, and the basket was also full of corn cobs.
Although the third aunt quickly figured out the matter, she said that she would not take the corn cob back again, saying that it was too tiring to mess with. As she spoke, she poured the bamboo basket into a clean light and walked away with the basket neatly.
"Uncle Guangxi, you killed me this time, how can you let me eat so much?" Liu Junhao held his head in pain, and it seemed that he was going to eat corn on the cob at night.
"Hehe, it's better this way, let your kid eat enough at a time"
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Professor Zhao was also miserable and happy for these two meals, and he kept holding the corn cob and gnawing on it for lunch and dinner, and he didn't eat anything else except this thing. Although corn on the cob tastes sweet and delicious when cooked, even the best things become unappetizing when you eat too much.
Of course, he also praised the countryside well, and here he felt the harmony and sincerity between neighbors: if you are good to me, I will naturally be good to you.
These are not felt at all in the city, where people lack a sense of security with each other, and are full of suspicion and hostility towards neighborly interactions. In his words, "You see everyone in the city has a mobile phone, and there are dozens of phone numbers stored in it, but none of them are neighbors." ”