Chapter 58: Wild Grapes
Not only Lin Dong and Lin Xi have such an idea, most people in the village have this idea, before the water from the well had to be saved, and everyone could not afford to go to the fields, but now the water resources are free, and every household is lined up with buckets.
Because only three bamboo rafts were repaired, everyone in the village had a family wheel for a day, and the village had to draft water during the day, so they all started the wheel after the afternoon and arrived at their house tomorrow, and the two brothers had already planned to work all night tomorrow night.
She followed the two to her own field, and when the family was separated, the family divided four acres of land, two acres of dry land, and three acres of wasteland reclaimed by the brothers, all of which were planted with soybeans.
"A few pieces of land in our house are not far away, they are all here on the periphery of the mountain, tomorrow night the boss you cut a few bamboos, change the way from the bamboo raft that leads the water, and bring the water to this side, so that the two of you can pick up water from the village, which is time-consuming and laborious."
The well in the village is not far from home, but it is a little far from the field, so instead of fetching water back and forth, it is better to make a simple bamboo raft and bring the water over.
"Got it, mother! I know what to do! ”
Lin Dong's eyes lit up, and he immediately thought about it in his mind, his mother is so smart, why didn't he think of it?
If they diverted water in this way, they would not have to carry water one by one.
The three of them looked at the crops in the field for a while, and a few people came not far away, thinking that they didn't notice the three of them, the big guys were discussing Jiang Yan's business and making a lot of money, and when they talked about being enthusiastic and excited, they also discussed going to Jiang Yan to teach how to do business......
"It's obviously a method that my mother worked hard to come up with, and it is also our family's hard work to set up a stall on the street, how to get into their mouths, it becomes our selfishness."
The two guys were full of melancholy, and they felt very uncomfortable in the face of the gossip and even abuse in the village.
Jiang Yan patted the two of them, and a smile appeared on her face: "What do you want to do, let's just live our own lives, this world is like this, some people say that you are not doing well, and some people say that you are doing well, why care about other people's thoughts and eyes?" ”
"Mother, we know."
The two of them are not young, and they also know these truths, but they will inevitably care when they hear them.
"If you know what's the use, you have to do it! If you take everything others say in your heart, then you are the one who is uncomfortable, and you are not obscene pants, others have to carry out their and urine, either they can't hear it, or they just go back, don't be like a coward! ”
"Got it, mother! In the future, if someone talks about my mother, I will scold me back! ”
The two didn't want to be cowards, so they quickly nodded and promised, and no longer cautiously peeked at those people, learning from their mother's appearance, and moving forward generously, and the contradictory mood slowly grew at this time.
"Xiao Jiang! Dongzi, Konishi! ”
As soon as he walked to the intersection, a crisp and heroic voice suddenly came, and a figure suddenly squeezed out behind those people, waving enthusiastically towards the mother and son, the person who came was Zhang Yanzi, followed by her husband Lin Yousheng, she shouted, and those who were chatting noticed Jiang Yan, and their faces froze.
"Swallow, there is life."
Jiang Yan had a smile on her face, and when the two slowly approached, she continued: "You two are going up the mountain?" ”
"Yes, when the bamboo raft was erected on the mountain, the village also walked out of a road, I thought that there were many people coming and going, and the big insects in the mountains did not dare to come, so I just went to find wild vegetables and wild mushrooms, fortunately you found the water source, otherwise I don't know how many people in the village will starve to death this year, maybe everyone is now uprooted and fleeing from the famine."
Zhang Yanzi deliberately said the last few words, her voice was raised high, and her voice was sarcastic, so that the women behind her could hear it clearly, and the people found the water source and told the village, and the whole village benefited, why do you have to say it to make a living, they are all shameless old things!
"It's all luck, since you're also going up the mountain, let's go together, I just want to ask you for help."
Jiang Yan said with a smile, she likes this swallow more and more, but she really doesn't care about these people in the village, and she can't do anything to her, they love it, as long as they don't go to her house to provoke her.
"What do you have, you just say it, I have nothing to do with the dog and his father these days, the bamboo row in the village is almost done, and the dog and his father are also idle......"
"That's it, I'll follow you up the mountain today, and just say what you want us to do."
A few people walked up the mountain while talking, the winding bamboo rafts were built directly from the periphery of the mountain to the mountain, and the dense weeds and thriving thorns in the past were shoveled out of a clean path, and at a glance, until the deep mountain, there was a different scenery.
Jiang Yan took a closer look at the bamboo row and found that the wisdom of the ancient people was indeed very high, because of the five wells in the village, they directly five big bamboos side by side, the bamboos were cut off by one-third, and the bamboo knots in the middle were opened, connected and side by side, and only began to branch to the five wells in the village at the bottom of the mountain.
The bamboo is blackened all over its body, and it seems that it has also been specially roasted, so it is no wonder that it took so many people to make three waterways.
In the past few days, there have been many people gathered in the village, and the wild vegetables and mushrooms around this road have also been cleaned, and the three of them chose another road to go up the mountain and go deeper into the mountain.
Lin Yousheng limped behind him with a cane, Jiang Yan saw that he was sweating profusely, and wanted to tell them to stop several times, but the two still followed into the mountains.
Because I want to find some wild peppers today, I walked farther, it is a brand new place, a valley, as far as the eye can see, the mountains are full of red, green, and green wild fruits, some of which even Jiang Yan can't recognize.
"There are quite a lot of fruit trees here, and I've never been here before."
Lin Yousheng looked surprised, he often hunted in the mountains when he was a child, and he also traveled to many places, this valley was the first time to come, he didn't expect there to be so many fruit trees.
"I recognize this, it's a wild grape, and it's almost ripe."
Zhang Yanzi was overjoyed, and hurriedly picked a few into her mouth, sweet and sour, and she was in good spirits after eating the whole person, she picked a few in a row, and her saliva flowed from eating.
Jiang Yan looked at these dense wild grapes, which were much smaller than those planted, the wild grapes tasted sour and astringent, and the sweetness was not so high, she had an idea in her mind, and immediately asked a few people to pick these grapes back.
"Let's go here, Yanzi, Yousheng, you pick these grapes for me, the eldest and the third, you two go and pick more green leaves, and I'll look for any wild peppers or dogwoods."
"Xiao Jiang, it's not good to pick too many grapes, this thing won't be long enough, just pick some and taste it, and if you take it back, it will be rotten."
"It's okay, I have other uses, you can pick it with confidence."
When the two of them heard this, they had no choice but to pick grapes, anyway, they promised to help Jiang Yan, so what did she do, they just followed.