Chapter Twenty-Nine: There Are Tigers in the Mountains

The injuries on Yu'er's body are obvious, and they can't be covered in places such as her neck and wrists. Everyone saw it but didn't ask, at most they thought about it in their hearts. But Liu has always been a careless person, and Lan Yi didn't know how to answer in front of Yu'er. She didn't want to hide Yu'er's life experience, after all, Lijia Village is not far from Beigou Village, and Yu'er will also go to worship her parents in the future, so there is no need to hide it, she just wants to find a suitable opportunity to talk about it, but it is definitely not like this to expose his scars in front of the child.

"I accidentally bumped into it before. Second aunt, do you want to eat these when you pick them up? Lan Yi said softly, patting Yu'er's little shoulder comfortingly, so that he was not nervous.

The second aunt and the Chen family were holding a dustpan with unshelled millet in it at this time, and Lan Yi saw that they skillfully picked up the small stones and clods mixed in the millet and threw them on the ground, so she changed the subject.

"It's not all about eating, either. Let's pick some seeds, and in two days it's time to sow millet seeds. Li glared at Liu, turned his head to Lan Yi and said.

Corn is the name of millet here. The main food crops here are wheat, rice and millet, and others such as soybeans, rapeseeds, buckwheat and mung beans are less grown.

"Well, hehe, I don't know much. By the way, second aunt, is Lin Shan's field still planted? Lan Yi took the opportunity to ask, now that he has less and less money, the field can be regarded as an increase in harvest.

"Lin Shan's Tian also mentioned it to you, right? The family has a lot of land, but he has long rented it to the villagers to plant. Second Aunt Wang mentioned Wang Linshan, and her tone was a little low, "It is estimated that the child asked your mother and son to come back before he died, and he also wanted to let your mother and son live on this field, right?" ”

"Don't hide it from the second aunt, I met a wicked person on the way back with my child, and I rolled down the mountain and broke my brain, and I remember many things vaguely." Lan Yi moved out of this reason, but she was also afraid that the Wang family would ask too much and tell the loopholes herself.

The second aunt and daughter-in-law heard that something had happened on their way and were immediately diverted. Lan Yi rented a car in Meixian, and the driver was not only greedy for money, but also wanted to beat her and her children, so they had to abandon their belongings and escape from falling down the mountain to escape the catastrophe. The three women sighed again.

"This deserves a thousand cuts! Bodhisattva bless, so that your mother and son can come back safely. Good boy, Aunt Gai Ming'er will take you to the medical shop in the city to have a look. Although the Li family has never been far away, they also know that Lan Yi's mother and son have been in danger all the way, and it is a great luck to be able to come back safely.

Lan Yi shook her head: "Thank you, second aunt, I've already seen it." The doctor said that I had a bruise in my brain, and that I might be able to remember it when the bruise slowly dissipated. ”

Hearing her say this, Li nodded reassuringly.

"Sister-in-law, you have to be careful, this brain, then all your luggage will be lost, and you haven't found it?" Liu listened to his sister-in-law's statement and asked with concern.

Lan Yi shook her head, "When I fell down from the mountain, I only cared about the child, and I didn't care about anything else." ”

Liu smacked her lips regretfully, but she also knew that Lan Yi was talking about things, and if she encountered such a thing herself, it would be very good to be able to protect the child.

Aunt Wang sorted it out and informed Lan Yi of the situation of Linshan's fields: "Linshan has eight acres of fields, three acres of paddy fields, and five acres of sloping land, all of which are rented to the villagers for planting. Our Lin Shan is a talent, the field does not need to pay rent, Lin Shan is kind-hearted, the rent is only 60%, and the remaining 40% is reserved for the tenant. Because Lin Shan didn't have enough money to get together when he went to catch the exam, Lin Shan went to Lizheng to borrow ten taels of silver, saying that he would pay it back with grain, so the tenants of the past three years sent the sixty percent of the harvest to Lizheng. ”

Lan Yi nodded, the household registration did say that Wang Linshan had eight acres of land, and the number was correct.

"When your second uncle comes back, let him go to Lizheng to ask about the situation. In the past three years, the wind and rain have been smooth, and I thought that I should be able to exchange for the ten taels of silver, and his uncle said at the time that it was not profitable. Li went on to say that although eight acres of land was not much, it would be enough for their mother and son to eat and drink.

"Thank you Second Aunt, I'm going to trouble Second Uncle again. There is no hurry about this field, and the second uncle will go again when he is free another day. Lan Yi said gratefully.

Liu snorted and didn't respond, she had long known about Wang Linshan's fields, and she had complained to Lin Yuan about why she didn't rent it and plant it herself, which was cheaper for others. Other families in the village rent land, all of them are tenants who leave 30%, the landlord who leaves 40%, and the remaining 3 transactions rent, and Wang Linshan's field can be left 40%, she is naturally moved.

"Second aunt, we won't trouble you here, I'll take the child back to clean up." Lan Yi asked about the matter, and it was not good to stay any longer, after all, he was delaying other people's work here, "Second brother and sister, I will come to you another day to learn this needlework, don't think I'm stupid." ”

Chen smiled: "Sister-in-law is ingenious at first glance, where did I teach you, we also have a talker when we work together." My mother-in-law said, let's go over and help my sister-in-law pack up her things this afternoon, and there will be more people. ”

Lan Yi hurriedly shook her head, "Don't bother the second aunt and younger siblings, I've almost packed up the things at home, so I'm still busy with the fields first." ”

Although Lan Yi said that she was not in a hurry, the second uncle still went to Lan Yi's house after returning from the field and told her about the field.

"Bao'er damn it, now that you have kung fu, I'll take you to the field to recognize it."

Lan Yi took the child out with Second Uncle Wang and walked to the fields in the south of the village. Second Uncle Wang kept greeting the villagers he met and introduced Lan Yi's mother and son to them, and Lan Yi also called people, which can be regarded as knowing the people in the village. Lan Yi knew the rules here, and when greeting people, he just nodded, and did not bend his knees, and he didn't dare to look up at the other party directly, at most, he just looked up in a hurry, and it was impossible to remember them all.

Although Beigou Village is surrounded by mountains and rivers, there is a transitional flat area between the mountains in the south of the village, about three or five hundred meters away, the flat land is divided into regular fields, with many kinds of wheat, and the terrain in the distance rises slowly, opening up layers of terraced fields, and the terraces are also green.

South wind April wheat yellow. At this time, it has reached the small full solar term, the wheat in the field is tasseled, and the wind blows through a rustling sound, which makes people have a sense of joy in breeding and harvesting.

"This large field is the largest piece of our village, the east of the village is several times smaller than this, the north of the village is opened in the past ten years, and the harvest is not as good as here, as for the west of the village, we don't have much land, most of it is from Zhoujia Village." Second Uncle Wang walked in front and introduced, he was a little silent on weekdays, but Lan Yi planned to settle here, it was better to be familiar with some situations.

"Second uncle, such a big field, does everyone in the village have it?"

"Pretty much this field has been planted for several generations, and it's all cooked land, and the harvest is good. There are more than 130 households in our village, and more or less there are fields here, but the most are the families of the rich Zhou Lord. Later, when our family moved over, Lin Shan's grandfather bought ten acres of medium land here, which is this one. Second Uncle Wang pointed to a large piece of wheat field in front of him and said, "When Lin Shan and his father and I split up, one person divided five acres, and Lin Shan sold two acres, and now there are only three acres left." ”

There was helplessness and sadness in his words, Wang Linshan was full of confidence to enter Beijing to take the exam, and even did not hesitate to sell the land, but it ended up like this.

Lan Yi looked at the field in front of him, and the wheat in the field was growing well. Lan Yi remembered that the "Great Zhou Chronicles" said that at this time, the planting area of Zhancheng rice was not small, and it had been promoted from the Jiangnan region to the north, and the output was not small.

"Second uncle, this wheat is ripe, but do you want to plant Champong rice?"

Second Uncle Wang glanced at Lan Yi with some surprise, nodded and said: "It is planted Zhancheng rice, this rice has a thick stem, full ears of rice, and it will take more than two months from planting to harvesting. However, it is only in the past ten years that we have started to grow like this, and we used to harvest sesame seeds or millet seeds from wheat here. ”

"Yes." Lan Yi nodded, she looked at the wheat in the field, a little timid. When she was a child, she was bitten by leeches when she was playing in the water, and she had a psychological shadow on places such as paddy fields, and if she planted rice, she really didn't dare to go into the paddy fields.

"Second uncle, who is renting our three acres of paddy field?"

"He made his fortune on Tuesday, and he has many sons, all of whom are strong laborers." After Uncle Wang finished speaking, he looked around and shouted to the old man in a field not far away: "Brother Erfa, are you busy?" ”

The old man who was pulling weeds in the field heard the shout and walked towards Second Uncle Wang and the others: "Yes, Brother Minshan, what is this?" ”

Wang Minshan is the name of Wang's second uncle, and Wang Linshan's father's name is Wang Minzheng, which was personally given by Wang Linshan's grandfather. Wang Linshan's grandfather had read books, and these two names were taken from the well-known "Analects? Yan Yuan" is a good name.

"yes. Lin Shan's daughter-in-law, this is your second uncle. Second Uncle Wang introduced.

"Uncle Erfa." Lan Yi hugged the child and called respectfully.

"Okay, okay, I've heard about Lin Shan, child, you can live with peace of mind when you come back, if you need help, just say hello, we will not be less helped by Lin Shan." On Tuesday, he made a fortune with many children and little land, and renting three acres of paddy fields from Wang Linshan was also regarded as receiving Wang Linshan's favor, and he remembered this love.

"Thank you, Uncle Erfa."

"Brother Erfa, you're busy, I'll take them to the slope to have a look."

After walking about three to five hundred meters, I walked through this flat field and reached the slope. The slopes are also flat, and the layers spread under the mountains, and the drop between each layer is between half a meter and one meter. Of course, some of the more sloping slopes are not terraced, but panicked, and the shrubs are overgrown with weeds.

Compared with the large fields of wheat below, there are a lot of things planted in the slopes, such as fast-ripening cauliflower, one-foot-high sesame seeds and soybeans. The three of them walked up the path on the slope, and the second uncle introduced: "This slope is not easy to water, so you have to rely on people to carry water or see the harvest from the sky." You see, the earth is mixed with stones, and the harvest is not as good as the fields below, and the living creatures of the mountains come out to plague the things of the slopes. ”

Lan Yi nodded: "Second uncle, do the beasts in the mountains often come down to plague the crops?" ”

"No, except for hares, which are common, wild boars come down every year when the harvest is about to come. Two years ago, we heard the roar of a tiger in our village, which scared the villagers into the mountains, but last year, this big insect killed the second boy of the Zhou family, which was a big disaster. Second Uncle Wang thought of the colorful tiger, and his heart was still a little stunned.

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