Chapter 170: Pork Hair Vegetables
Yesterday, I persuaded Cai Dani to go home, had breakfast, thought it was the weekend, no one told me, and Cai Jun went out of the village with a bamboo basket.
All the way to the south, out of Zhifu Village, after Fu Village, seeing that he was about to reach Qianjin Village, Cai Jun stopped and did not continue to move forward.
He put his hands on the pergola in front of his forehead, looked at the sun, and came out for more than an hour, when the sun began to be scorching.
Looking around, he walked along a small path on the right, he had been to this place before, and there were the most pork hair vegetables in it, and he still listened to his father at that time.
After walking for about twenty minutes, Cai Jun sat down and rested for a while, he knew that after turning over the small slope in front, the hillside behind was full of pork hairy vegetables.
Looking behind me, I was so far away from home, I could vaguely see Zhifu Village, that is, the few families at the head of the village near here.
Tightening the cuffs of his clothes, carrying the bamboo basket, Cai Jun continued to climb up, and directly climbed over the slope in one breath, and when he reached the back hill, the scene made him stunned, the dense pork hair vegetables were almost growing to his knees, and from a distance, it was like a green carpet.
Unable to hold back the joy in his heart, he hurriedly ran over with a sickle and a bamboo basket, and began to cut without raising his head.
He never worries about any snakes or other things nearby, and his father said that there will be no snakes in places where pig hair cabbage grows, because pig hair cabbage is naturally a snake avoiding plant, but it is not poisonous.
After cutting for ten minutes, the bamboo basket was full, Cai Jun looked at the pig's hair vegetables that had no place to put it, and felt a little regretful in his heart, only blaming himself for being too low and too small to take such a big basket.
After a short rest, drinking some mountain spring water, Cai Jun sat in the shade on the stone next to him, blowing the mountain breeze and basking in the sun, Cai Jun slowly closed his eyes, very comfortable.
I wanted to blow for a while and go home, but suddenly a series of strange sounds appeared behind me, at first I thought it was the sound of the wind, but then I felt that it was wrong, this sound seemed to be getting closer and closer to him, so frightened that Cai Jun quickly stood up, grabbed the sickle in his hand and looked back.
It was quiet on the side of the pig's hair, there was nothing, and in the barley bush behind him (a kind of firewood, not the one to eat), the barley kept shaking, as if there was something in it.
After an eye assessment, this barley bush is estimated to be as tall as his shoulder, and there is no one all year round, and the plants here grow taller than other places.
Holding the sickle in both hands, his eyes staring at that side without blinking, he was really afraid that if he was not careful, he would spit out some kind of beast and eat it for himself.
The bushes shook for a while, and then stopped, Cai Jun looked over there quietly, except for the sound of the wind, there was nothing left, and it was the same as just now, and it was quiet again.
What's going on?
Although Cai Jun muttered in his heart, he didn't have anything, so he hurriedly took the basket and walked back, for fear that something would happen in a while.
Maybe it was because of the fright just now, this time he walked home a lot faster than usual, and after a while, Cai Jun ran down the slope, wiped his face, and realized that he was already sweating profusely at this time, sitting on the ground at the edge of the field and panting.
If you really come out with something to bite into yourself, I'm afraid you won't be able to come back, and next time you have to bring a self-defense guy.
Cai Jun touched his sickle, glanced at the back of the slope, laughed a few times, and went home directly.
Seeing a basket of pig hair vegetables, Cai Dani excitedly hugged Cai Jun and jumped in a circle, and asked Cai Dani to know that Cai Jianguo and Chen Lianhua were not at home, saying that they were going to Lao Gengtou's house, and the people from the police station came to announce the verdict of the pig killing case a few days ago.
"Isn't Grandpa Geng dead, how can he be sentenced?"
Cai Jun's question was bland, but all he thought about was digging up the body and locking it up, and he didn't know why he had this idea.
Cai Dani shook her head, her eyes full of pork hair.
"You watch at home, I'll take a look."
Cai Jun is very curious about how the police station will deal with the death of the perpetrator of a case, and he usually thinks about it, because he thinks that if he can't fly a plane, it would be good to be a police officer to catch the bad guys.
Many people gathered at the door of Zhou Shen's house and Lao Gengtou's house, and Cai Jun looked at the police officers in police uniforms at the police station from a distance, and quickly found a pile of stones and ran up to sit down.
Zhou Shen saw Cai Jun, beckoned, and also ran over to sit down with him.
"You're late, and the verdict is over."
Zhou Zhiwu knew what he was doing, and as soon as he sat down, he looked at Cheng Xiaodong and said.
"What's the result?"
Cai Jun hurriedly asked.
"Have you seen his house, Grandpa Geng's house is three rooms, leaving a kitchen and an east house, and the other west house and ear shed are allocated to our family as compensation."
Zhou Shen said as he gestured to Cai Jun.
"What about the vegetable garden?"
"The range of Westinghouse and the ear shed is also the range, and of course the vegetable garden is also the range."
Cai Jun was secretly surprised, it turned out that he could be judged like this, he was really insightful, it turned out that his thoughts were all children's plays, too naΓ―ve.
"What are you doing covered in dirt?"
Zhou Shen pointed to the soil on Cheng Xiaodong's trouser leg and asked.
"Playing."
Cai Jun smiled, patted the soil on his trouser legs and clothes, and said without a trace.
Zhou Shen looked at the group of people in a daze, and didn't speak for a long time, Cai Jun sensed that something was wrong with him, so he touched him with his elbow.
"You said that the two families were originally harmonious, but now it's so bad, just now Grandpa Geng's daughter and son came back from the county seat, and they counted Grandma Geng, Grandma Geng fainted from crying, and now she is lying in the house."
After listening to Zhou Shen's words, Cai Jun noticed that Grandma Geng was not in the crowd, and it was his son Geng Xi who was about to represent the top matter.
"It's not that Uncle Geng Xi broke off relations with Grandpa Geng, he didn't come back on the day Grandpa Geng died, why did he come back today?"
Zhou Shen didn't know, looking at it in a daze.
Cai Jun didn't ask much when he saw that he didn't mean to say much, his eyes fell on Geng Xi's body, looking at his radiant appearance, he always felt weird, but he couldn't tell what was weird.
The crowd made a way, the village chief made a gesture of please, and the police from the police station followed alongside, hearing that the village chief meant to invite them to their home for dinner, but they said that they were not available, so the village chief did not say much to stay, set up an ox cart, and asked the iron pillar to send them out of the village.
Because the road was not built, the police car could not enter, and it was said that it was a police car, no matter how big the official came, he had to take the ox cart aggrieved.
Cai Baoman and Chen Lianhua, who returned home, looked at the basket full of pork hair vegetables, both of them were stunned, and Cai Jun looked at them quite proudly.
"Stinky boy, it's really good!"
Cai Baoman picked up Cai Jun and spun around in the air several times, causing Cai Jun to laugh again and again.
Taking the pig hair vegetables into the kitchen, Chen Lianhua looked at Cai Baoman, Cai Jun, and Cai Dani playing happily, and also looked at them while cleaning up the pig hair vegetables, and their mouths were smiling.
After dinner, Cai Jun sat on the stone mill, staring at the yard of his house, Cai Baoman took two biscuits and handed them to Cai Jun.
Cai Jun took it, and he was not in a hurry to eat, but still looked at his yard.
"Junzi, what are you looking at?"
Cai Baoman also followed Cai Jun's example, sat on the grinding plate, and looked at him along his line of sight.
Cai Jun turned his face sideways, looked at Cai Baoman, and thought for a long time before he slowly spoke: "Uncle, I want to turn my yard into a vegetable garden." β
This sentence made Cai Baoman stunned, and looked at Cai Jun and raised his eyebrows.
"Uncle, you see, now we are poor, something is wrong, the food rations at home are gone, and we have to eat wild vegetables, I think since my yard is not lived, then keep the house, and we will change it into a vegetable garden in other places, so that there will be a lot of vegetables to eat?"
Cai Jun stood up and pointed to the courtyard of his house.
"No way!"
Cai Baoman's face sank, he got down from the grinding plate, and looked at Cai Jun and said with a serious face.
"Why?"
Cai Jun looked at Cai Jianguo very incomprehensibly, isn't it a good thing to have more rations to eat.
Cai Baoman put his hands behind his back, frowned, picked Cai Jun off the grinding plate, pulled him and walked outside, and led Cai Jun back to the courtyard of his house.
"This yard is your father's hard work, this cowshed, he went to the mountain to cut down trees to make this pillar in the rain overnight in order to build this cowshed, and when the shed was built, he also fell ill."
When he said this, Cai Baoman paused, pulled Cai Jun to the farm tool shed next to him, pointed to the inside and said: "The stones laid in the past few years were brought back from the outside by your father one by one, and his hands are worn out, and he has never said a word of pain." β
Hearing Cai Baoman say this, Cai Jun's heart was a little uncomfortable, he felt sorry for his father, looking at the yard, he also missed him.
"This yard was built by your father brick by brick, and you can't ruin your father's hard work just for the sake of stuttering, I don't agree."
Cai Baoman's tone was resolute and tough, and Cai Jun choked with tears in his eyes.
"Uncle, I'm not a glutton, I just thought, since my parents are not there, you and my aunt don't dislike taking me in, I want to reduce your burden in my own way, I don't want to be a drag oil bottle."
"What nonsense are you talking about, if you have a bite to eat from me, you have a bite to eat!"
Cai Baoman's voice was quite loud, Cai Jun was startled, and eased his emotions, Cai Baoman squatted down and touched Cai Jun's head.
"Junzi, Uncle is not yelling at you, nor is he angry with you, you must know that although there is no food to eat at home now, it is not because you came, even if you don't come, the situation at home is still like this, not to mention that Dongzi also cut so many pig hair vegetables, enough for us to eat for a few days, I know that Dongzi has this heart is enough, this yard, I want to keep it for you, leave a thought, miss your parents, come back and see, you can still remember the past."
Cai Baoman's words made Cai Jun can't help but cry, Cai Baoman hugged Cai Jun, and there were tears in his eyes.
Cai Jun promised Cai Baoman that he would never have the idea of changing the courtyard again, and lying on the kang at night, he couldn't sleep over and over, and his mind was full of scenes on the slope behind the village.
What is there, it can't be a snake, maybe it's a wolf, or something else that eats people?
Thinking of this, Cai Jun shrunk his neck, his back was cold, and he quickly wrapped the quilt, listening to the movement in the east house, Cai Jun got up, walked over and knocked on the door.
"Uncle, auntie, haven't you slept?"
The kerosene lamp was on, there was light through the crack in the door, and then there was the sound of going down to the ground, and Cai Baoman opened the door and let Cai Jun in.
"Junzi, it's night, what's the matter if you don't sleep?"
Chen Lianhua sat on the kang with her clothes on, leaned against the gable, looked at Cai Jun and asked in a low voice.
Cai Jun was carried to the kang, looked at Cai Baoman and paused, and said, "Uncle, when I went to dig pig hair vegetables today, I didn't know what I came across, scurrying around in the barley bushes. β
Hearing this, Cai Baoman and Chen Lianhua glanced at each other, hurried over, and asked Cai Jun about the specific situation.
Listening to Cai Jun finish the matter, the two of them looked flustered, and the first thing Cai Baoman said was, don't go to that place again.
"But there are a lot of pork hair vegetables there, enough for us to eat for a long, long time."
Cai Jun didn't realize the danger yet, and looked at Cai Baoman and said.
"That's not going to work, you're honestly at home from tomorrow onwards, and you're not allowed to go to that place alone, do you hear?"
Cai Baoman's tone was flustered, and he looked at Cai Jun with warning and said.
Cai Jun sighed, he didn't think so in his heart, he felt that it was nothing, since he didn't run out during the day, it must be that thing must be afraid of people, if it was a wolf, his life would probably be gone.
"There are a lot of pork hair vegetables there, and it is estimated that it can be eaten for three months, why don't you come with me?"
Cai Jun didn't say it strongly, but retreated to the next best thing, looking at Cai Baoman asking tentatively.
"I told you weren't allowed to go, I'll go myself."
Cai Baoman pinched Cai Jun's nose and said.
"Do you know the place?"
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Cai Jun smiled, looked at Cai Baoman, and raised his eyebrows: "Even if I tell you how to go, you can't find that place, so I go with you, and if something happens, I am not afraid of two men." β
Cai Jun patted his chest and lifted his chin as he spoke.
Cai Baoman was worried, but when he saw Cai Jun, a little adult pretending to be a man, he couldn't help laughing.
Chen Lianhua next to her pinched a handful of cold sweat, pulled Cai Baoman's arm, and asked if it was dangerous there, don't go or not.
"Junzi said so many pig hair vegetables, I will go with him again, if there is anything wrong, I will not be greedy, just come back, rest assured, I have tools, so many years of walking in the mountains, nothing has been seen, rest assured."
Cai Baoman comforted Chen Lianhua, he followed Cai Jianguo and the others in the past few years to haunt the deep mountains and old forests, picking mushrooms or cutting branches, there is no place in the deep mountains and old forests that he has not been.
He was so anxious just now, because he was afraid that the army would make trouble, and if he really went by himself, he wouldn't have so many worries.