Chapter 40: The Scarecrow
The autumn wind is fruitful, and there is quite a taste of confusion, but in this day of full harvest, something happened in Shuiyun Village that could make people's jaws drop.
Shuiyun Village is located in the south-central part of Yong'an City, the distance is not far, and the soil quality here is the most suitable for planting millet, a large area of Su Sui is overwhelming in autumn, connecting the sky, connecting the ground, so not spectacular.
But the only thing that is a headache is that after the millet grows slowly and takes shape, all kinds of sparrows will steal food, and sometimes even patches of crops will be lost by the grains they have harmed.
Seeing that there were more and more sparrows, people looked helpless, thinking that since this bird was afraid of people, they simply made a few scarecrows in the crop field to scare them?
This test turned out to be very effective, so there are a lot of such things in the crops of Shuiyun Village, and from a distance, it really looks like someone is waving! Some birds go hungry to steal food, and when they see this scarecrow, they will suddenly be frightened and run away.
This scarecrow method has been used in Shuiyun Village for decades, and a well-tied scarecrow can even be used for two or three years, put it in early summer, and then take it back in late autumn.
Early that morning, the head of Shuiyun Village took his family up the mountain to harvest the crops, and according to custom, they had to knock the seedlings of the corn valley to the ground with a sickle, and then tie them up and take them home for more detailed arrangement.
The village chief's name is Guan Shan, and he has passed the year of the Mandate of Heaven, but he is strong, not sick or sick, and he is even more energetic in the autumn, and he and his son go to the field to harvest crops like a young man.
But because this land is some distance from home, Guan Shan can't rest assured that these crops that have been abandoned, so lunch is eaten in the field, and it is noon, and his son and Guan Shan sit together in the shade to rest, waiting for his daughter-in-law to bring food.
It is said that the autumn sun is a tiger, and the daughter-in-law is already sweating when she comes from home, so she takes out the prepared meal from the basket and hands it to Guan Shan, and then says, "Dad, my mother said that today's pickles didn't come out, so you will eat them!" ”
Guan Shan's two hobbies in his life, one is to go up the mountain to see his crops if he has nothing to do, from the seed just planted, until the end of the harvest, two days and two ends, he said to watch the seeds sprout and grow into food, he is happy, this second hobby is this pickles, a meal can be without vegetables, but this pickles are indispensable.
At this time, when she heard her daughter-in-law's words, her face immediately drooped, "This old woman, knowing that I am good, I am not ready for this mouthful!" ”
The son looked at the angry father with a smile on the side, and put a piece of meat in Guan Shan's bowl, "Dad, in this autumn life, you can't always think about pickles, isn't my mother preparing meat for you!" ”
Guan Shan glanced at it with disgust, and took the meat out again, "Who wants to eat meat, it's true, I like to eat pickles in my life!" ”
"Dad, don't be angry, my mother said, there must be at night!" The daughter-in-law persuaded on the side.
Guan Shan's face slowly put down, and he sandwiched a few vegetables for himself and ate them.
The daughter-in-law looked at Guan Shan, and suddenly remembered that before she went out today, her mother-in-law took out the pickles that had been put in the basket again, and sighed, "This old man, where does he love to eat pickles, he is obviously reluctant to make money, but he is so tired in autumn, he doesn't eat some meat and only pickles, how can he bear it!" ”
Thinking of this, the daughter-in-law snatched chopsticks from Guan Shan Guan Qinghe, decisively sandwiched a few pieces of meat into Guan Shan's bowl, and said in her mouth, "Dad, if you don't eat this meat, it will be bad at night, do you want to waste this for pickles!" ”
Guan Shan was stunned, and quickly ate the meat in the bowl mixed with rice! Guan Qinghe glanced at his father, and smiled quietly at his daughter-in-law!
Guan Shan finished eating a bowl of rice and was waiting for his daughter-in-law to serve him a second bowl, when he suddenly remembered something and said, "We can harvest almost this piece of land today, and when you go home, you will carry two scarecrows back, and I will bring the rest back with Qinghe at night, what if someone steals it if it is stolen here!" ”
Guan Qinghe just wanted to say something, looking at his father's undoubted look, he didn't say anything, in the hearts of many elderly farmers, this scarecrow is also alive, they are like a member of the family, keeping a person's food from birds!
After Guan Shan and Guan Qinghe finished eating, they continued to go to the ground, and after the daughter-in-law put all the rice bowls into the basket, she also walked towards the scarecrow closest to her.
The scarecrow, as the name suggests, is the appearance of a person made of straw, with a body, arms and a head, but Guan Shan is stubborn, I have to say that this scarecrow has life, other people's scarecrows have no legs, but his family has, and many people have laughed at him.
The daughter-in-law plucked the first scarecrow from the ground and put it on the ground, preparing to take the second one off and carry it away.
The second scarecrow was about two feet away from the first, and when the daughter-in-law walked towards it, she suddenly felt that something was wrong, this scarecrow seemed to be very fat!
Just like Guan Shan said, this scarecrow is like her own person, she knows it, and she has participated in the process of making, first with two sticks, one is a little longer and thicker, one is shorter and thinner, and the long one is vertical and short and horizontal and tied into a cross shape with a rope, and then uses straw to install arms, thighs, body and head respectively, but this is only a straw and wood production of the scarecrow, how can it not be so fat!
Guan Shan's daughter-in-law rubbed her eyes, thinking that she had seen something wrong, but for some reason, the more she walked, the more panicked she became, and the more she panicked, the more she felt that something was wrong.
Guan Shan and Guan Qinghe hurriedly ran over when they heard the voice, but they were both frightened and exclaimed.
Guan Shan exhaled a long breath and commanded Guan Qinghe, who was still trembling, "Qinghe, take your daughter-in-law to a cool place!" Don't get heat stroke for a while! ”
Guan Qinghe did not hesitate to carry his clothes to the shade where he had just eaten, Guan Shan had been standing in place staring at the scarecrow who had suddenly become a dead man, the sun was exposed, and the beads of sweat the size of beans fell to the ground and shattered, this is not his old life, Guan Shan sighed and fell straight like a daughter-in-law.
Guan Qinghe hurriedly put his daughter-in-law down, ran towards his father, and dusted Guan Shan's face with some water, and Guan Shan slowly woke up.
looked at his son for the first time, and said, "Qinghe, go quickly, go and report the case!" ”
Before Guan Qinghe could be dispatched, the farmers who had just heard their screams in the field had already run over, although they were pointing fingers at the scarecrow one by one, but there was no need for Guan Qinghe to report the crime.
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