Zheng Qilin was just about to walk over, when he heard Xiao Yu standing at the door and calling him to eat, he turned around and went back to the room.

The family gathered around the dinner table and enjoyed themselves.

"Dad, eat fish. “

Zheng Qilin took a piece of fish and put it in his father's bowl.

"Mom, you eat too!"

Then he took another piece and put it in his mother's bowl.

"I also pick up vegetables for my parents!"

Yuyan sandwiched two pieces of meat and gave them to her parents.

"Hehe, you two children have finally grown up......"

Father and mother smiled.

"Qi Lin, how is your work, come back for a few days this time. “

Father asked casually.

"It's okay, the company's orders are stable now, and there is no need to go out for the time being, so take this opportunity to stay at home for a while. “

Zheng Qilin replied.

"Oh...... Dad, Mom, is there no money in the family? I still have some money to take out for Yuyan's tuition. “

Zheng Qilin hurriedly took out his wallet and took out a stack of money. His theses are his resignation, and the company gave him an extra month's salary for settlement, plus a few hundred change on his body, a total of about 5,000 yuan. As for the previous salary, it was all spent.

"Qi Lin, Yuyan's tuition doesn't have to worry about it. Or save more money for you. Dad has no ability in his life, and his health is not good, so he can't go out to work, so he can only nest in this ravine and ravine, and he can't save money to buy you a unit building and a car, so that you can't get married now, and Dad is sorry for you. “

The father bowed his head in shame as he spoke.

When my father was young, he was also a tough guy, and he was the first young man in their Zhengjia Village to go out to work hard, but unfortunately, he was seriously injured on a construction site and fell ill, and since then he can no longer do heavy work, so he can only return to his hometown to farm to make a living.

The mother also bowed her head and just ate.

Ex-girlfriend Bai Yu's mother once called her parents, saying that she would only agree to marry her daughter and Zheng Qilin if she bought a house and a car in Xijing City.

"Dad, it's me who should say I'm sorry. “

Zheng Qilin's nose was sour, and tears almost came out of his eyes. It's useless for him, his parents face the loess with their backs to the sky, and they raised him with a lifetime of hard work to help him finish college, and now he has to suffer such grievances in order to let him start a family.

"Dashan, don't talk about it, let Qi Lin eat well. “

The mother glared at the father.

"Oh, don't talk about it, don't talk about it. Dad will find a way, I heard that it is very profitable to plant some medicinal herbs now, if not, we will plant some this autumn. “

Father said.

"It takes three or four years to see results. However, it can indeed be planted now, and the price of medicinal materials has been rising in recent years, and after planting, as long as the seedlings are good, there will definitely be no loss......"

Zheng Qilin said.

The family chatted while eating.

After eating, the sky gradually darkened, Yuyan went back to her room to review her homework, and her mother was weeding in the vegetable garden.

The father took out a flashlight, tweezers, a plastic cylinder, a wooden stick and prepared to catch centipedes at night.

Centipedes have the habit of lying dormant and nocturnal, and there are also centipedes that crawl out of their burrows during the day, but there are not many of them and must be caught at night. When catching, wear tight-fitting shoes and stockings to prevent being bitten by poisonous insects while walking in the mountains at night. After these tasks are prepared, go to the places where centipedes often haunt at night and shine with a flashlight, and after shining to the centipedes, they will lie down on the spot because they are afraid of light, and then gently clamp the back of their bodies with tweezers and put them in the container.

Huangshi County is damp and rainy, with vigorous vegetation and centipedes.

Before, no one paid attention to this thing, and everyone hid when they saw it. This thing stings more than bees and scorpions, and if you take a bite, you won't be able to get out of bed for a week.

On the wall of his house, there are now dozens of air-dried centipedes threaded with bamboo chips, and these air-dried centipedes are collected by dealers and then processed into medicine.

Centipedes belong to the "five poisons", which have the effects of relieving wind and spasmodic, attacking poison and dispersing knots, and relieving pain.

An hour later, wild centipedes sold for 1 or 2 dimes each, and now the price of each piece has risen to 8 jiao to 2.8 yuan, depending on the length of the body.

The night before the heavy rain is the best time to go up the mountain to catch centipedes all year round, and the villagers have summed up a lot of experience. Centipedes react quickly, and when they are caught, they must be quick to catch them, and if they are not careful, they will immediately burrow into the cracks. Centipedes like to eat earthworms and other small meat insects, reproducing rapidly in the local area, often after catching seven or eight in one place, turning around and coming back, and maybe catching five or six, too small everyone will not want, body length less than 8 cm is generally put away.

If you're lucky, you can catch fifty or sixty in one night!

Some local farmers have tried to breed centipedes, but due to immature technical conditions, they have not succeeded.

After catching the centipede, it is necessary to pick it up in time, generally catch the centipede at night, catch the centipede, he first scald it to death with 60 degrees of water, and then use a bamboo skewer to straighten them one by one, dry them, bundle them into bundles fifty or one hundred, put them in baskets, and wait for people to come to the house to collect.

For rural people who can only earn a few thousand yuan by farming all year round, the income of seventy or eighty hundred yuan a day is quite good.

For this reason, some people give up farming and make a living by catching centipedes.

......

"Qi Lin, if you're okay now, help your mother pull the water pipe and water the vegetables in the vegetable garden. ”

Qi Xiaolian, the mother who had just finished weeding the vegetable garden and went into the house to clean up, said.

"Oh, okay. ”

Zheng Qilin walked out of the room, walked to the vegetable garden, pulled open the water pipe, opened the gate knife, and began to water the vegetable garden.

His vegetable garden is not very large, but there are many kinds of vegetables, tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants, beans, peppers, zucchini, pumpkins, and many greens, such as cabbage, spinach, rape, etc......

It is now the fifth month of the lunar calendar, the sixth month of the solar calendar, the vegetables grown by his family have not supported the greenhouse, but when breeding, the mulch film is covered, all in addition to leafy vegetables such as green vegetables have begun to eat, tomatoes and cucumbers and other nightshade vegetables are still just bearing fruit, and it will take another month or so to eat.

Zheng Qilin took the water pipe and irrigated it from east to west.

"By the way, I haven't tried it yet. ”

Zheng Qilin's eyes lit up, and he remembered the idea of using the vegetable garden as an experiment.

How to experiment? Blow directly on the vegetables, or blow in the water, and let the water irrigate the garden, so that the benefits are maximized.

After thinking about it, I decided to follow the second train of thought.

Looking around, Yuyan was doing homework in the room, his mother was cleaning up the room, and he was alone outside, picked up the water pipe, took a deep breath, and blew into the hissing water.

At this time, I unexpectedly saw that the water that came into contact with the blowing air turned purple.

"Boom la la ......"

When the water that changes color falls on the vegetable patch, it instantly merges with other streams.

"A few more bites!"

Zheng Qilin took a deep breath, headed towards the water pipe outlet, and then blew......

"Hoo ......"

"Whew-"

"Whew!"

When he took his third breath, he found that the water no longer changed color, meaning that all he was blowing out was ordinary carbon dioxide.

And he obviously felt that his legs were weak, and his body was a little weak and shaky.

Hurriedly held on to the brick wall next to it, so that he did not fall.

It seems that this one has a limit, it's okay to blow two mouthfuls, but three mouthfuls will be physically exhausted. This gas with mysterious power overdraws his physical strength.

Zheng Qilin analyzed.

After irrigating the vegetable garden, the mother came out, and the two cleaned up the water pipes together.

"Qi Lin, are you not feeling well?"

Mother Qi Xiaolian saw Zheng Qilin's state.

"I'm fine...... Maybe I was too tired to run business outside during this time and hurt my body. Just get some more sleep. ”

Zheng Qilin said with a smile.

"You kid will fight to the death no matter what you do, and your mother can imagine your hard work outside. Mom knows what you think in your heart, our family is poor, we have nothing to rely on, if we want to get ahead, we can only pay more hardships and efforts than others......"

Qi Xiaolian's eyes were inadvertently moist.