Wang Lu and Xie Ling arrived at the fork in the stream and decided to find the boat pulled by Chen Wei and Wang Bi'an first.

Bamboo rafts are too large to carry things, but now such small operations are not as flexible and fast as small boats.

The old rules, fishing nets open the way.

The boat was quickly found, but there were no zombies around, Xie Ling was a little curious: "Sister said that there were several zombies falling into the stream along the stone bridge?" ”

Wang Lu put away the fishing net, climbed into the boat, and said disappreciably: "No matter what you do, maybe you will be crushed under the collapsed stone bridge, or you may go upstream, let's go." ”

The two rowed back to Yinjiang in a boat, temporarily tied the bamboo raft to the tree on the shore, and rowed the boat into Houlong Village.

When knocking on the door of Mrs. Cui, the old man Chen, Wang Lu had a good time to say hello: "Grandma and Uncle, it's me, Xiao Wang." ”

The door opened quickly, and Mrs. Cui was pleasantly surprised to let the two of them in: "Why did you come to visit the door at this time?" The old man said a few times ago, when he heard a lot of movement in the village committee, he knew that you were doing something, and said why didn't you talk to him, so that he could also help. As he spoke, he fetched water for the two of them to wash their faces.

Wang Lu was also not polite, handed the twisted towel to Xie Ling, and then stuffed the plastic bag he was carrying into Mrs. Cui's hand: "Grandma, these are some common family medicines, you can keep them." ”

Mrs. Cui pushed: "What are you bringing these for?" There is no shortage at home, and there is a health center in the village, and there are some medicines in it. The old man and I are in good health, and the old man has a slight high blood sugar, so there is no need to take medicine, just keep your mouth shut and don't eat too sweet. “

Xie Ling persuaded beside her: "Grandma, you can accept it." Be prepared. If you don't, we'll be embarrassed next time. “

The three of them were pushing, the door creaked open, and Old Man Chen pushed the door in: "Xiao Wang, Xiao Xie, I saw the boat on the port, and I knew that you were here again, so I rushed home." What, is there anything to do? A few days ago, when I was working in the fields, I heard that you were setting off firecrackers and fireworks. The movement is quite big, I'm talking about it, I guess you're here to get the set of solar energy that was thrown in the village last time, how come to the village to do things and don't tell me, anyway, I'm from Houlong Village, I'm familiar with the village, and I can help you a little. “

Wang Lu listened to Old Man Chen's nagging, and was actually a little embarrassed, to a certain extent, that solar power generation system was something from Houlong Village. That is, the property of Mrs. Chen, the old man Cui, but he took it away.

Mrs. Cui complained: "Old man, what are you in a hurry, Xiao Wang Xiao Xie just entered the door, and he didn't even drink a sip of water, so you didn't stop wow, w “

Old man Chen smiled innocently: "Sit, sit, that old woman, go boil an egg or something." The new eggs laid by the chickens today are large, and I guess they are double yolk eggs. “

Wang Lu and Xie Ling couldn't give in again and again, so they had to sit down in the living room and wait for Mrs. Cui to cook brown sugar poached eggs.

Old man Chen didn't sit down firmly and asked, "Is that solar tube useful?" Didn't crash, did you? “

Wang Lu hurriedly said: "It works, now that there is electricity in the mountains, it is much more convenient to live." I'm sorry, uncle. In fact, your family also needs electricity. “

Old man Chen patted his thigh: "Xiao Wang, you can see what you say, we are a lonely old couple, what electricity do we need, when I was a child, there was no electricity in the village for most of the year, that is, there was electricity when the farm was busy, and I was used to the days of no electricity." There are a lot of people on the mountain, and Mr. Xiao Chen still has a doll. This solar power generation or something, you should use it. Don't talk about this, Xiao Wang, what did you like this time, tell me. I'll get it for you. “

Wang Lu snorted and couldn't speak, the old man's enthusiasm was speechless, at this time, Mrs. Cui came out of the kitchen with two bowls, and couldn't help but say and stuffed them into the hands of the two: "Eat." “

Well, on this hot day, it was brown sugar and eggs, but Wang Lu and Xie Ling were just the kindness of the old couple, so they had to eat it.

Sure enough, it was two double yolk eggs, and after eating it, sweat broke out on Wang Lu's forehead.

After drinking all the brown sugar water, Wang Lu was afraid that the enthusiastic old couple would leave for food, so he hurriedly said: "I came today to ask the old man for help, we want to continue the search along the river, but I don't know if there is a village factory near Ludao that is easy to find materials or something." “

Old man Chen smacked his lips: "Xiao Wang, you want to go down the river, and then go down to Zhangcun Town, that place is not easy to find supplies, there-there are too many zombies there." “…,

Mrs. Cui continued: "There is no big factory anymore, Zhangcun is a martyr's cemetery with a bit of fame, and when it comes to the economy, it is really not as good as a better village." Not to mention anything else, the street in the center of the town is similar to 20 years ago. “

Wang Lu was a little disappointed, and reluctantly asked, "What about Zhangcun?" “

Old man Chen said: "Further upstream is the Kyaukkou Reservoir, and the Yinjiang River will come to an end." He thought for a while: "Xiao Wang, don't go upstream, although there are still a few tributaries, but they all lead to the corner of the mountain, like the Wulongtan Scenic Area or something." If you want me to say, from Yinjiang Town to our Houlong Village, there are enough fields in the middle area, and the four of you have eaten enough, even if you want to find a factory, you should also look downstream, walk in the direction of Yinzhou Avenue, and go to Gaoqiao, where there are many large factories and large enterprises. “

Mrs. Cui glanced at her wife: "As long as you can, there are many factories there, but there are also many zombies, there are hundreds of people in a factory, you let Xiao Wang sing a one-man show alone." Before you entered the factory, you were dead. Alas, Xiao Wang, I'm not cursing you. “

Wang Lu smiled bitterly: "There is nothing to do, there is nothing to do, Grandma is right, Abel is right, but I am not greedy enough, in fact, the zombies in Yinjiang Town have been cleaned up, and the materials in the town are enough for us to live for a long time." “

Grandma Cui squinted her old eyes and smiled: "It's hard to blame you, you're a man, you have to plan for the long future." I'm not afraid of your jokes, I sleep less and think more, and yesterday I asked the old man to get a good thing, and I was thinking about moving my muscles and bones to see if I had the skills I had when I was a girl. “

Xie Ling couldn't help but be curious: "What good things did Abel find?" “

Mrs. Cui stood up and pushed open the door pushing towards the storage room: "It's these two old goods, this old thing is older than me." “

Not to mention Xie Ling, even Wang Lu stood up curiously and walked to the door to take a look.

Xie Ling shouted, "Spinning wheel? “

Wang Lu shouted: "Loom? “

Old man Chen laughed: "These are these two things." It's hard to find this thing in the countryside now, and it took me a lot of effort to find it. Don't listen to my wife, she spun thread when she was a child. But I have never woven cloth, and this kind of rural native cloth was still woven before liberation, and it was basically invisible in the 5th and 60s. “

Mrs. Cui glared at her wife: "I haven't knitted, but I've seen my grandmother weave, try to fiddle with it, and sooner or later I can get started." “

Old man Chen shook his head: "You have to spin the thread before weaving, and no one in our village grows cotton, so you can't spin it if you want to." Besides, the clothes thrown away by every household in the village are enough for us to wear for generations. “

looked at the old couple bickering. Xie Ling laughed quietly, and Wang Lu also said happily: "Grandma, what clothes do you want to wear, tell me, there are not too many clothes in Yinjiang Town." ”

Mrs. Cui clapped her hands and said, "Xiao Wang, don't take it seriously, I'm also bored at home every day, so I want to find something to do." The old man can still go to the field, I don't even have a person to talk to at home alone, I used to be able to watch TV, but now don't talk about TV. Not even the cable radio in the village is gone. Alas, in the past, listening to this radio every day, I was tired of panic, but now there is no one nagging in my ears, and it is very boring. Xiao Wang, I'm just an old woman babbling, don't take it to heart. ”

Wang Lu naturally knows that the elderly love to think a lot about things and love to chatter. His heart moved slightly, to be honest, he didn't think about inviting the two old people to Yashan to "enter the house", from his own heart, the old couple are real rural people, and it goes without saying that they are good at doing farm work. This is a great improvement on the situation of Xiaobai everywhere on Yashan - Chen Wei has just tried to plant some potatoes in the fields that have opened in the back mountain just a few days ago, and she has cut the potato sprouts and buried them in pieces, trying to see if she can survive. Wang Lu is estimated to be no play.

But the problem is that there is no place for serious people to live on Yashan now, how to invite the old couple to go, if Yinjiang Town is cleaned up, I have a little face to ask the two old people to live in a better place.

It's just that although there is no way to pull the two old men into the gang with a cheeky face, it is always right to play the emotional card in advance. Wang Lu salivated and said, "Grandma." Uncle, you two are empty, can you go to our mountain for a walk, anyway, it will come down the Yinjiang River very quickly, Chen Wei heard about Grandma and Uncle last time. I also complained that I didn't take you up the mountain because of why I didn't take you up. ”…,

Mrs. Cui hurriedly said: "This relationship is good, I am not very interesting to accompany this old man when I am at home every day, so it is decided, in a few days, I will bring some output from my own field to you to play." ”

Xie Ling said obediently: "Grandma, what are you talking about, you just came empty-handed, it's too late for us to be happy, what else do you bring?" Grandma, you can set a date, and when the time comes, we will pick you and Uncle. ”

Before Mrs. Cui could speak, Old Man Chen shook his head: "This time is not free, after a while, it will be time to harvest rice, this is something that will save our lives in the next few years, and we have to manage the fields well." I'm not afraid of anything else, I'm afraid of rain, this rain is a good thing for grouting, but when it rains so much, the rice stalks are knocked down, and it is not easy to harvest. ”

Wang Lu was shocked, the rice fields under the cliff mountain, but the relationship between everyone's lives, whether they can survive or not, how long they can live, but it all depends on how much rice their family can harvest this year.

Although Wang Lu has no experience in cutting rice, looking at the heavy golden rice in the field, I don't know if the road is completely grown, but I know that the "double robbery" of the road is in July and August, and this time is not much different.

What worries Wang Lu is how to harvest rice.

Do you cut it by hand? Although there are also sickles collected on Yashan, but the four of them have no experience in harvesting rice with sickles, so Wang Bi'an and Xie Ling don't cut their hands well.

And when will it be a head for four people and four sickles to harvest such a vast rice field at the foot of the mountain?

Now that I have listened to Old Man Chen's words, it is clear that there is a true scripture in front of me, and if I don't learn the scriptures immediately, when will I wait.

Wang Lu hurriedly said: "Uncle, I was trying to ask you, how to harvest this rice, we, we have never done any farm work, just cut the rice by hand, I am afraid that I will not be able to harvest much, after this season, it will have to rot in the field, what a pity." ”

Old man Chen smiled and said: "Xiao Wang, if you don't talk about this, I will also pull you to nag a few words, speaking of which, there are more rice plants in Yinjiang Town than in our Houlong Village, and they are all contiguous acres, and the best way is of course machine cutting." In the past, at this time of the year, the town's agricultural machinery station began to recruit some large grain growers to discuss the arrangement of agricultural machinery to cut rice. Our small family grows and eats small rice fields, and we don't spend money to buy agricultural machinery, and we all rely on renting agricultural machinery from large farmers to harvest. ”

Wang Lu naturally knows that the use of agricultural machinery harvesting saves time and effort and is efficient, speaking of which, Yonggang City is also a famous agricultural machinery city in the country, every year there are agricultural bureaus to organize a large number of agricultural machinery to go north to harvest rice to help farmers make money, there are more than 600 combine harvesters in the peak period to go north to Jiangsu area.

The problem is that Wang Luyi doesn't know where to get agricultural machinery, and he doesn't know anything about the second pair of combine harvesters, which is completely different from driving a private car after all.

Listening to Old Man Chen's words today, Wang Lu immediately stammered: "Uncle, tell me, what should I do when I cut rice, I will listen to you." ”

The four of them returned to the living room, Mrs. Cui cut a watermelon and came up, and Old Man Chen lit a cigarette and chatted with Wang Lu and Xie Ling while smoking.

"Speaking of this agricultural machinery, several surrounding villages like Jian'ao Village or something, there are also large grain growers, and they all have harvesters on hand, but if you want to enter the village, and then get the harvester out, it is a bit difficult and difficult to do. It's a long stretch of road in the mountains, and in the past, agricultural machinery used to come in and out by flatbed trucks. ”

Wang Lu understood what Old Man Chen meant, getting a solar power generation system has already made his family fly and jump, this is to think of a strange village, driving a large agricultural machinery to fight a bloody way out of the mountain road with seven bends and eight windings in the mountains, then he is the salted egg Superman wearing underwear.

Old man Chen was still chattering: "Besides, this agricultural machinery needs to have a lot of oil to use, and there must be accessories, and there must be maintenance tools. ”

Xie Ling was anxious and hurriedly said, "Is Uncle Chen saying that there is any agricultural machinery station in Yinjiang Town?" This is easy to do, the agricultural machinery station must produce a lot of agricultural machinery, you tell us the address of the agricultural machinery station, Wang Lu and I will use this time before the cutting to clean up the zombies around the town agricultural machinery station, so that you can always use the harvester or something. By the way, you also taught us how to drive agricultural machinery, there are 3 or 4 agricultural machinery, and we haven't harvested all the rice in this area. ”