Chapter 14: Farming and Feuding

And the big toad fell to the ground without knowing when, and jumped on the ground and chased after me. The big toad was as big as a hill, and it was covered in ash, and there was white and shiny mucus fluttering on its body, and as it jumped, the slime swayed left and right on its body like a transparent bell.

I was sucked by that force and ran forward, and this huge strange toad was jumping and chasing after me, and I was really not afraid at that time, I just thought that this big toad was as fun as the air toad in the water.

After a while, I was about to catch up with the adults, but I didn't expect that the moment I turned my head to look back, I clearly saw my father's tall and big shadow, blocking the middle between me and the big toad, my father also turned his head to look at me, and kept saying: "Xiaoliang, Xiaoliang, I'm your master, come here, I'll give you candy to eat......"

When I heard this voice, I was so frightened that I ran forward. And the big toad in front of my grandfather jumped over with a snap, and his huge body pressed against his body like a mountain.

Just when I was stunned and about to scream, the big toad and my father disappeared. On both sides of the road, there was still water in the ditch and river, and there were all kinds of toads floating on the surface of the water, and in front of me, there were still adults walking slowly carrying burdens......

His father was a well-known carpenter. With his excellent skills and young and powerful physique, his father still won everyone's respect. Even the father's opponent in the front yard, the wolf child, would pout his lips for his father's contribution to carpentering, showing his open front teeth, and baring out a few words: "Yinwa, that carpenter work, medium!" ”

Actually, the wolf baby is still close to my family. The daughter-in-law of the wolf child, my name is Sanniang, the surname is Gao, and my grandmother's relatives, my Guo Bo is from a village. So when my third mother got married, I heard that my milk was still the matchmaker.

Later, I don't know what the reason is, but the wolf baby and my father had a cognitive gap, so they got into a feud. Maybe my family got the piece of land in front of the wolf baby's house.

It is possible that my father was digging a ditch to protect the ridge, and was seen by the wolf child, thinking that he was digging the soil outside the wall of his yard, and the two of them had a friction between the corners of their mouths, which later escalated into a fight, and then the two families broke off contact, and even if they met face to face, they did not talk to each other.

In fact, the wolf baby and us are still relatives within the five suits. However, such things abound in the countryside, not to mention relatives within the five suits, and even brothers end up becoming mortal enemies, which is not uncommon.

At first, my father ran it quite well. At first, my father planted cotton and sweet potatoes, and the harvest was quite good. Later, I discussed with Zhongxiu to grow big peppers, so that I could go into the city and sell them for money to pay for my and my brothers' tuition, and on the other hand, I could sell them in the village for some pocket money.

At that time, the people in the family rarely had the mind to do this, and they had to go to the street seven or eight miles away to buy food. At most, it is also in his own cotton field, interspersed with planting a few green beans.

And this self-reserved land is very close to my house, so my father went to the street to buy pepper seedlings, brought them back, carried them one by one, and then reserved a ditch between the fields so that they could be watered when the weather was dry. Under the careful cultivation of my father, the peppers grew really vigorously, with fat trees and well-developed roots.

In the summer, the sun is hot, and I often have a good lunch, so I go into this pepper tree alone, and while picking up the weeds inside, I catch the crickets in the ground and play. I felt amused to see the crickets with two long black beards pinched in my hands and scratching each other with a few feet in a random motion.

The crickets have a big front tooth, the front teeth have very sharp serrated teeth, I have tried many times, take a fine grass, stretch into the front teeth, as the cricket opens and closes left and right, the fine grass will be cut off, and then I have tried small branches, the thick ones, cut constantly, and the fine ones can be cut off.

I can imagine how serious the consequences must have been if these guys had fallen on their stomachs and slashed at the crops. Because the rhizomes of crops are mostly very thin and tender. Then I walked down the hill and looked up at the dark green leaves on the pepper stalks, the lines of the sun's rays cast inside, and the mountains of these leaves jumping in the wind.

The pepper branches and leaves are fat, and at the junction of the green poles, a thin bone flower will grow, and in a few days these bones will bloom into small white flowers. Before the white flowers fell, the green pepper hurriedly rushed out.

My father planted horn peppers, which were shaped like sheep's horns and not only grew long, but also had thick skin and meat. These peppers, when I ate them later, realized that they were not very spicy, and they were much softer than those Chaotian peppers.

Within a few days, the weather was dry, and my father asked Brother Zhongyang from the north to come over to help water the peppers. In the chili pepper field of the ditch prepared in advance, the well water brought from the well room was poured over coolly.

In a few moments, the ravines were filled with water. I was prostrate in the ditch and having fun, when I saw the white and bright waves rushing fiercely, and I ran to the other side of the ground at once. There were several toon trees on the other side of the ground, and the branches of the toon trees were luxuriant and tall.

The top is like a cover, and the bottom is slender and beautiful. It's a pity that I didn't know that toon sprouts could be used to scrambled eggs in the spring, and now that I think about it, I feel very regretful.

I don't know who opened the ground, and the water rushed over without any obstruction, and the well water rushed to the ditch in the ground. By the time I saw it, the bubbles that were coming out of the mounds were already going frantically into the ditch along the water dragon.

Later, I told my father that you were carrying a big shovel in the sun, and you were digging down the soil of the ground, and a large piece of half-dried mud was dug up, and then my father blocked the clod of earth, and the water was intercepted.

In a few moments, the ditch was filled with water, and the water tried in every possible way to find cracks in the ground, and as bursts of bubbles bubbled up, I seemed to hear the merry laughter of these pepper trees drinking frantically......

After watering the ground in the evening, my father picked some chili peppers from the pepper field and put them in a long insect skin cloth bag and brought them back. Mom fried vegetables, there are scrambled eggs with chili, large slices of radish meat, old tofu from Kang, fried meat with long beans, and of course, big white buns and sharp noodles.

My parents were used to entertain the Zhongyang brother who helped us water the ground, and they also called Li Dabiao's second aunt to come over to accompany the guests. My father specially bought old wine from the Zhuangxitou consignment store on credit and drank several glasses with everyone.