Chapter Twenty-Six: Four Reds
Because of empathy, Ye Feng felt it for a while, and when he listened to it, he cried, his eyes were red from crying, and he couldn't help crying.
It's the Ye family, after all, this is a past event that has passed for many years, plus they have separated over the years, and they have given birth to a thousand words, and now they are slowly living their lives, so when they talk about it, they are more reminiscing about the past.
Seeing Ye Feng's eyes red from crying, he thought he was feeling sad for himself.
Seeing this, Ye Shi instead comforted Ye Feng and said, "Okay, don't be sad, whether you can find that girl in Qianyu is just a bodhisattva blessing." No matter how sad you are, I'm going to cry too. ”
The reason why Ye said this was only because she only saw one aspect.
In addition to worrying about Qianyu's misfortune and sighing for the hardships of the Ye family, Ye Feng was sad about his own life experience.
The life of the previous life has come to an abrupt end because of an accident here, and whether you can go back depends entirely on chance.
It's just that what he didn't expect was that different worlds had the same fate. Even if you live in a different time and space, you still can't escape living alone.
Hearing Ye Shi persuade himself like this, after thinking about it, Ye Feng did not plan to continue to hide it. The original life experience setting was just based on everyone's speculation, and it was even more conducive to staying.
If you don't lie, with Mrs. Liu's personality and Chen Jixing's expectations, she probably won't like a little girl named Hanako who only knows how to eat rice. The fact that he was able to stay was a decision made by the Ye family on the surface, but in fact, it was inseparable from Mrs. Liu's intervention at all.
Since returning from the old mansion that day, after careful observation, Ye Feng found that Chen Jixing would go to the old mansion from time to time to see Mrs. Liu and report the situation at home.
Otherwise, with Huang's lazy temperament, even with Zhu's help, how could there be hundreds of catties of dried fish at home? All this is not because Chen Jixing went back to say this information, and secretly took some dried fish from his own house.
As for Chen Jixing's eldest brother and second brother Chen Jiwang and Chen Jida did not interplant sweet potatoes and potatoes in the cornfield in the end, it was not because Chen Jixing didn't say it, but because people couldn't believe it.
In general, Chen Jixing's heart is still towards the old mansion in the end.
Ye Feng looked at Ye Shi sincerely, took her hand and said, "Sister, first of all, I want to say sorry to you and my brother-in-law, because I deceived you. Actually, my parents were not big businessmen at all, and I didn't study medicine. Like Qianyu, I was abducted by Hanako since I was a child. Later, he was rescued by others, and he came to Chenjia Village. ”
Looking at Ye's shocked expression, Ye Feng continued: "In fact, I don't know anything except my own name. The reason why I lied to you in the first place was because I was afraid that you would dislike me for being a little Hanako......"
Hearing this, Ye suddenly burst into tears, which made Ye Feng's eyes hot, and he also cried with Ye.
In this cry, there are grievances, unwillingness, and expectations.
For Ye's family, the child he accepted with "some purpose" was actually abducted and trafficked since he was a child, just like his eldest daughter. Perhaps, this is God taking pity on her and Chen Jixing, because they have never done anything evil in their lives.
Therefore, there must be a person like herself who kindly accepts her thousand words.
"Sister, is there anyone else in our village who has also lost their children?" Ye Feng suddenly asked.
"How not! I don't know much about what happened before I got married, but after I got married, there were three families in the village who lost their children, one was the eldest girl of Chen Jike's family, one was the second son of Chen Jiba's family, and the other was Chen Jitang's sister-in-law. It seems that there is another eldest sister Chen Jiyi, who is said to have followed the villagers into the city to look for work, but she disappeared inexplicably, and she has not been found yet. ”
"What about the other villages?"
"It's the same, there are children who have been abducted by Hanako."
When Ye Feng heard this, his heart began to feel uncomfortable again.
It seems that no matter where the time and space, there are traffickers who are hungry for profit. For the sake of his own selfish desires, he broke up other people's families alive, and how many families were ruined.
This night, Ye Shi and Ye Feng hugged their heads and cried in the stove.
And the relationship between sister and brother is also deeper.
After crying, Ye decided to be better to Ye Feng in the future. Ye Feng, on the other hand, vowed to quickly find a way to make a fortune and let this family live a rich life. Earning more silver also gave the Ye family and themselves the confidence to find their relatives who were separated in each other's lives.
and his series of wishes, all of which needed silver as support.
Therefore, the priority is to earn money, to earn a lot of silver.
On the evening of the second day, after bathing, Ye Feng was ready to sleep.
In fact, it is said to be a bath, but it is just to take a wooden basin filled with water and put it in the thatched hut to wipe the body.
Whether it is extremely expensive to boil water, or there is no shower head, and there is no special place to bathe, it is not easy for the villagers to take a bath.
Fortunately, it's summer, which is more convenient than winter.
As soon as I walked to the bed, I met the sneaky gaze of a small animal. After looking at Ye Feng at the head of the bed a few times, he saw the uneasiness and anger in the other party's eyes, quickly turned around and fled the scene, slipped into the bed, and disappeared immediately.
Seeing this, Ye Feng, who had already been petrified, suddenly had a thrill, almost screaming, and suddenly remembered the ten peanuts he had put in the cloth bag under his pillow.
Even in the June heat, I broke out in a cold sweat.
In such a difficult few days in the forest, in the case of extreme hunger, when he was about to faint from hunger, Ye Feng was not willing to eat these ten peanuts, but kept holding them tightly in his hands.
Just because, these ten peanuts, if not the only ten in this time and space, are likely to be the only ten in this country.
What's more, this is also one of the clues to his own life experience.
I didn't lose it when I ran away with my master, I didn't lose it when I lived in the temple for ten years, and I didn't lose it after all the hard work to save it until now, if I was eaten by this damn rat like this, wouldn't I have died unjustly!
Thinking of this, Ye Feng hurriedly lifted the pillow and looked at it, his heart tightened, the cloth bag was bitten into a hole, and some bitten peanut shells also appeared in front of Ye Feng's eyes.
Ye Feng only felt that he was about to explode, the mouse just now was really strange. If you make a mistake, forget it, I don't know how to run away, but I am embarrassed to look at myself for a few seconds, as if it is a demonstration.
After being nervous, I took a closer look, but fortunately, except for one of the peanuts whose shell was gnawed off, the remaining nine were intact. Looks like it was himself who came out of the shower and scared the damn rat away.
Fortunately, it came out in time, otherwise, it is estimated that there would be no one left. At the very least, the peanut, whose shell had been bitten off, could not escape its rat mouth.
It's really cheap.
Naturally, there are a lot of rats on this plane. However, it may only have a chance to taste peanuts.
It seems that it is time to plant them.
No matter how few peanuts are ten, they are still peanuts. As long as nothing else, a few more years of accumulation will have enough seeds.
As an important cash crop, growing peanuts and promoting peanuts is indeed one of the ways to make a fortune.
What's more, when enough seeds have been accumulated and the whole village is planted together, they can also spread to the whole country, and maybe they can let their biological parents come to the door.
Now, it is only the beginning of June, and for Chenjia Village, which is located at the junction of the north and south, although it is a little late, it is completely okay to plant peanuts. Anyway, he wants seeds, not early peanuts.
So early the next morning, after Ye and Chen Jixing went to the ground, Ye Feng mysteriously called Qianyan to help, only saying that he wanted to plant a magical plant.
Qianyan is at the age of a curious baby, and he likes to ask why. As soon as she heard that Ye Feng had a mysterious plant in her hand, and she had never seen it before, how could she not agree, and her enthusiasm was high for a while, she would do whatever Ye Feng said.
The two of them first took a hoe to dig out a large pile of fine sand and soil behind the house, and then Ye Feng went to the stove to find four big bamboo baskets that had been eliminated.
These four bamboo baskets were stacked high together and placed under the eaves, and Ye said that they were intended to be used as firewood. Because they have been used for too long and have been rained, the surface of these baskets has turned black and is no longer strong.
With a little force, some small bamboo crumbs that have rotted will be pricked into the meat, which is no longer suitable for holding things.
Ye Feng looked at the empty backyard, trying to find a sunny place without being exposed to the sun. The reason why it is planted in bamboo baskets is that there are too few seeds, and secondly, the ground is full of weeds, and it is not arable land, so it is not suitable for growing peanuts.
After finding a good place to place the four large bamboo baskets, the two of them filled them with the sand that had already been planed. Ye Feng was a little stronger, so he directly filled the wooden basin and poured it in. Qianyan had little strength, but he didn't show weakness, took a cloth bag and filled half a bag of soil, hung it on his shoulder and walked to the bamboo basket.
In this way, the nephew and uncle ran back and forth many times, and only then did they fill half of the bamboo basket. At this time, Ye Feng commanded Qianyan to rest, and he added some farm fertilizer to it, as well as some bamboo dust produced when Chen Jixing split bamboo strips, as well as small branches, stones and other things.
Seeing this, Qianyan asked, "Uncle, I know that I put these because they can be used as fertilizer, but why do you put stones and branches in them?" When Daddy was turning over the ground, he saw that the stones were going to be picked up and thrown out. ”
Qianyan can be regarded as having farmed with Ye Feng, and has seen Chen Jixing farming, so he understands a little bit. It is good to say that the children of the poor are in charge of the house at an early age. A child of the size of a thousand words was originally at the age of being coquettish in his mother's arms.
But because of the economic conditions of Chen Jixing's family, she began to mature early.
"The reason why I put the stones in there, and those small branches, is because the bamboo basket is so small, and the soil will inevitably accumulate thick when it is much higher. In this way, it is easy to be unbreathable. Putting stones and branches can help the soil to breathe. ”
After speaking, the two of them started the previous pattern again, and continued to add soil to the bamboo basket until it was seven or eight minutes high in the bamboo basket.
After thinking about it, he probably recalled the growth habits of peanuts and the things that could be used locally in this family, Ye Feng went to the stove again, filled some grass and wood ashes produced during cooking, and scattered them evenly in the soil.
After the two of them filled the four big bamboo baskets with sand and watered them, they were all sweating, after all, they were not very old and their physical strength was limited. And now it's hot, and sometimes it's hot even to sit there.
Finally, the most important moment has come.
Ye Feng solemnly took out the ten precious peanuts from the cloth bag and put them in the palm of his hand.
The strange shape of the peanut immediately attracted Qianyan's attention, especially the peanut that had been gnawed off by the rats, which had already revealed the appearance of a peanut. Qianyan looked curious about the baby, looked at Ye Feng and asked, "Uncle, uncle, what is this, it looks so strange, like a bug." ”
These ten peanuts are indeed much longer than the ordinary two peanuts, and they are all four peanuts. However, at first glance, this shape does not look like a very dry worm.
Ye Feng explained with a smile: "This is not a bug, this is called a flower...... Longevity fruit. Ye Feng originally wanted to talk about peanuts, but after thinking about it, the name Changsheng Fruit seemed to be better than peanuts, and it had some kind of advertising effect.
And he is not nonsense, this peanut was once called the eternal fruit in ancient times.
"Longevity?" Qianyan was a little confused, "Will people live long after eating it?" ”
"That's right." Ye Feng said that peanuts are rich in plant protein, which is indeed beneficial to human health.
"But how are we going to plant this longevity, like corn?" Qianyan took a peanut and looked at it carefully, she helped plant corn, so when it comes to planting, in her eyes, it is almost the same as planting corn.
However, it is true that planting peanuts is similar to growing corn.
"Qianyan is so smart, this kind of longevity fruit is the same as planting corn." Ye Feng said with a smile.
After receiving the praise, the little girl was very happy.
Ye Feng said to Qianyan: "Then you have a good look, uncle will take out the seeds of the immortal fruit first, and then we can sow the seeds." ”
Qianyan stared at Ye Feng intently without moving, for fear that he had missed something. I saw Ye Feng pick up a peanut and pinch it on his left hand, the thumbs of both hands cooperated with a force, and with a slight pinch, the peanut shell opened.
Poured it into his hand again, and even Ye Feng was stunned this time, and what was lying quietly in the palm of his hand were four red-skinned peanuts.
In fact, before peeling it off, it can be seen from the peanut that has been bitten off some of its shells, and each of the ten peanuts has at least four grains. But what Ye Feng didn't expect was that these ten peanuts were actually red-skinned.
This peanut, Ye Feng is all too familiar, in modern times called "four grains of red", seems to be a specialty somewhere in northeast China, and the yield is particularly high.
Although it is red, it can be said that it is not unusual in modern times. At that time, in school, his tutor even thought about cultivating "five reds" and "six reds". I don't know if he's successful now.
This "four red" is actually no different from ordinary peanuts in terms of nutrition, but it is better in color, and it can be associated with love, wedding, etc. And in order to sell at a good price, some people advertise that this kind of peanut is a blood tonic, as if there is a "Siwu soup", which is used in this peanut.
It seems that before the peanuts are produced in large quantities, he still needs to plan well to maximize the benefits.
Seeing that Ye Feng peeled the immortal fruit with an extremely simple feeling, Qianyan also learned from Ye Feng's example, and peeled off the five peanuts in his hand with a few brushes, plus the five peeled by Ye Feng, forty brightly colored red-skinned peanuts, red beans like blood droplets, shining in the sun.
Then, Ye Feng put forty peanuts in a pottery bowl, Qianyan held them, Ye Feng solemnly lit a pit in the four bamboo baskets, and Qianyan planted these peanuts one by one and covered them with soil.
"Uncle, can you eat these longevity fruits?" Seeing that Ye Feng had finished planting, Qianyan remembered.
"Yes, it's delicious! But as you can see, we have too few seeds, only forty, and if you eat them, they will be gone. Ye Feng pretended to regret and told Qianyan that to be honest, he was afraid that this girl would dig the pit and gouge out the peanuts and eat them.
"But if you bury them in the ground like this, won't they rot?"
"Of course not. The fruit of the immortal fruit is both a fruit and a seed. After a while, they will sprout like corn, and then in a few months, in the fall, they will produce many, many of these beautiful fruits. That's when we'll be able to eat a little. ”
Hearing Ye Feng say this, Qianyan actually felt a little lost in his heart, because he didn't taste the delicious taste that Ye Feng said. However, it was replaced by a lot of hope, and in the autumn you could eat even more delicious food.
It's just that what Qianyan didn't know was that in Ye Feng's palm, there were actually four peanuts left.
He planted only thirty-six of them, nine in one basket.
In the middle of the afternoon, Ye and Chen Jixing came back from the field early.
I don't have much work today, but I just hoe the grass and cultivate the soil, so I finish early. After beating the pigweed, mixing the bran mixed with screws and river mussels, and feeding the chickens and ducks, the sky began to darken.
"I don't think this year's corn yield will be reduced, but will increase a lot." At the end of the meal, Chen Jixing said excitedly, "Maybe it's because of the top dressing, this year's corn stalks are tall and strong, and they are not easy to fall at a glance, and we have also cultivated the soil." ”
"yes, I think maybe one corn can make three corn cobs." Ye continued.
In this regard, Chen Jixing quite agreed, "Yes, the corn stalk is thick and straight, and it is not strange to have three corn cobs." Also, the potatoes and sweet potatoes are also growing very well. ”
In fact, even if there is no harvest of potatoes and sweet potatoes, the loss is not large, after all, there is not much input. Those sweet potato seedlings are just a few more sweet potatoes planted, and as for the potatoes, it is an input of several hundred wen.
When it came to the crops, the husband and wife had so much to say that they ate a meal for a long time until it was completely dark.
After dinner and tidying up the kitchen, the four of them chatted quietly in the house. The night is like water, the insects are chirping, and the stars are like lights, but the day is as plain as water and tranquil.
Ye Feng took the opportunity to take out the four peanuts and gave one each.
Ye Shi looked at the red peanut in his palm with some surprise, and asked lovingly: "What kind of bean is this, red and beautiful." ”
She had never seen anything so brightly colored. It seems that women are always not resistant to things that are naturally beautiful.
Qian Yan looked at the beautiful peanuts in his palm, and asked with a surprised face, "Uncle, didn't you say that all these longevity fruits were planted in the afternoon?" How could there be? ”
"No, I left one for everyone, just to taste the taste of this immortal fruit" Ye Feng smiled at Qianyan.
Chen Jixing and Ye couldn't understand the conversation between the two, so they asked, "What is this, it looks weird." Can you eat it? What is the longevity fruit? ”
Looking at Ye Shi and Chen Jixing's expressions, and hearing their questions, Ye Feng knew that there was no such crop as peanuts in this vicinity. This made him very happy, and when he collected enough seeds in the future, it seemed that he would definitely not worry about the market.
"This is called the Immortal Fruit, which was left to me by my father," Ye Feng said softly. Until this moment, Ye Feng seemed to suddenly understand why his father and mother would leave him ten peanuts.
Maybe it's because I want him to be perfect in this life. What's more, longevity, longevity, longevity, parents must want to live a long life and grow up happily.
Seeing that Chen Jixing put the peanuts under his nose and sniffed them, there was no smell, and he was a little disgusted, so he explained to him: "Brother-in-law, this longevity fruit is a crop, which can not only be eaten, but also delicious, and can also be used to extract oil, and the yield is very good." ”
Hearing that it can be eaten, it is still a crop, and the yield is also high, Chen Jixing said with a light in his eyes: "Then let's plant it, wouldn't it be better to wait until the harvest is harvested?" How many more of these longevity fruits do you have? ”
Now, without Ye Feng's explanation, Qian Yan took the lead and said: "Daddy, my uncle only has a total of ten immortal fruits, and there are four such red beans in one of them. In the afternoon, my uncle and I had already planted the beans. This is what my uncle left for us to taste. ”
After saying a thousand words, Chen Jixing looked at Ye Feng.
Ye Feng knew that Chen Jixing was asking himself to verify whether what Qianyan said was true, so he nodded and said, "Qianyan is right, she and I have already planted the seeds of the remaining nine immortal fruits, and they are planted in the backyard, using those bamboo baskets." Why don't I take you there? ”
Several people waited for Ye Feng's words, so they all carefully held the peanuts in their palms and followed Ye Feng to the backyard.
I saw four bamboo baskets standing in the backyard, which were filled with about seven or eight points full of soil. When he walked in, seeing the color of the soil and the taste, Chen Jixing was a good hand at growing crops, and immediately asked, "Is there grass ash added to this?" Well, and some big ......"
"Yes, I added a few handfuls of grass ash to each basket. This grass ash is also a kind of fertilizer, which is conducive to the growth of long-lived fruits more lushly," Ye Feng said.
Immediately, Ye Feng told Chen Jixing what he knew about the experience of crops that would grow better after applying plant ash. Hearing this, Chen Jixing was very happy and immediately decided to go to the field tomorrow to sprinkle grass and wood ashes.
As soon as Ye Feng said, Chen Jixing understood it. But the next question, Ye Feng felt that Chen Jixing was really good at farming.
Chen Jixing was not afraid of getting dirty, but directly pinched the soil in the bamboo basket, and then asked Ye Feng: "This is all sand?" Why, does this longevity fruit like to grow in sand? ”
Ye Feng said, "Yes, the quality of the immortal fruit grown in the sand soil is better. ”
Since it was completely dark, the backyard was next to the mountain forest, and there were many mosquitoes, so everyone entered the hall.
Back in the house, Ye Feng said to everyone: "Now, you can taste the longevity fruit in your hands, remember to chew it slowly." If you swallow it whole, it won't taste good. ”
After speaking, he took the lead and put the peanut into his mouth, and when he bit it lightly, it squeaked, and a familiar taste came from his lips and teeth.
Chen Jixing's family ate it for the first time, especially Qianyan, when she bit the peanuts and tasted the unique taste of peanuts, her face was full of wonder and surprise. Chen Jixing was even more excited, based on his intuition, he felt that this thing called the longevity fruit would be very hungry, and if it was sold in the city, the sales would definitely be good.
Yin asked Ye Feng: "How many more of this kind of longevity fruit do you have?" ”
Actually, Chen Jixing had already asked once just now, and Qianyan also answered him. I think he was surprised by the deliciousness of the peanuts, and asked again.
Seeing that Qianyan ignored him, Ye Feng had no choice but to say again: "There are only ten in total, we have eaten one, and the rest have been planted." ”
Hearing this, Chen Jixing was a little disappointed.
Ye Feng comforted: "Brother-in-law, the yield of this longevity fruit is not low, and some seeds can be harvested in autumn." We save for the first time, and after two years, we will have more, and then we can plant more. ”
Chen Jixing became happy at this time.
Waiting for Qianyan and Chen Jixing to go to sleep in the house one after another, Ye Shi pulled Ye Feng and said: "You kid, why did you plant such a precious thing, if something goes wrong, wouldn't it be a good idea to live up to your father's kindness." You should keep it, and you will naturally have a reason to meet in the future. ”
Ye Feng was a little moved, Ye Shi was really thinking about himself, so he said: "Sister, it's okay, the longevity fruit is very easy to raise, you can rest assured, I will take care of it." ”
Ye Shi was relieved at this time, but he still felt a little sorry for Ye Feng for these peanuts. She was a little afraid that Ye Feng would not know what to use as evidence when she saw her parents in the future, but she didn't know Ye Feng's plans.
Seeing her full of worries, Ye Feng vaguely guessed, so he told the Ye family that he still had a piece of jade. When Ye Shi heard it, he felt that what Ye Feng said was good. When the longevity fruit grows, Chenjia Village begins to plant a large area, and maybe his father and mother can really see it.
Thinking of this, Ye Shi went to sleep with peace of mind.
At night, the moon rises and illuminates the peanuts that have just been planted in the backyard.
"May the Bodhisattva bless you, bless the peanuts to grow quickly, reap a good harvest, and bless yourself to find your parents as soon as possible."
Facing the moonlight, Ye Feng prayed sincerely.
The author has something to say: This chapter was written in 2016, when my father was still alive. Last year, he died in an accident. And I was out of town, and although I tried my best to rush back, I couldn't see him for the last time.
My father's favorite thing in his life was farming, and when he died last year, there were still peanuts growing in the field. And the peanuts that are seven or eight points of the ground are four red grains.
At this moment, I was crying while revising, so the writing was really ordinary, but I didn't dare and didn't want to revise it anymore.
I wish that all parents in the world could live a long life.
Dad, I miss you......