Chapter 8: Capsule
"What are you doing!" A roar rang out in the distance.
The owner of the paddy field has already rushed over in a rage.
"Run!" Dani picked up her shoes in one hand and ran away with Sakura Po in the other.
Yuan Bao followed, and the three children ran out in an instant.
"Come over here and break your dog's leg! Little Bunny! ”
The owner didn't really chase after him, he just had to chase the group of bear children away.
The leather monkeys outside the village in the village, when will they not stage a group of monkey crossings? How can you be caught and beaten again and again?
They are all dolls of the villagers, and there are few troublemakers in their families.
Sakura followed her cousin and cousin all the way home, and was given a small handful of water chestnuts.
Her eyebrows and eyes were crooked with joy, and she secretly sent a few into the space to make seeds, and handed over the rest to A-Niang.
Chunniang reluctantly took it and reprimanded: "Why did you go to the paddy field?" What if you trample on someone's seedlings? ”
Sakura Bao was proud: "I didn't step on it." ”
Chun Niang sighed, took the water chestnuts to wash, picked up the black rotten and shriveled ones, and there were only a dozen or so fresh ones to eat.
At this time, Dani and Yuan Bao had already gone home with the booty, and Ying Bao divided the dozen or so water chestnuts into three parts, one for her father, one for her mother, and one for herself.
It is impossible for Chunniang to have a little snack for her daughter, so she just shirks not loving this and lets her keep it for herself.
Yingbao didn't force it, ate a sweet mouth, and brought the rest into the house and put it on the kang.
Kick off your shoes and climb towards the kang, close your eyes, and enter the cave with your consciousness.
I saw a large pile of dirt piled up next to the pool, and there were a lot of earthworms crawling outside the mound, all of them heading towards the pool, which looked so scary.
What's going on?
What are the earthworms in the mud pile doing to run into the pool, in case the water is polluted, it will be bad.
Sakura quickly picked up two sticks and sandwiched earthworms, leaving one of them into a half-broken clay pot.
This thing was picked up by her from outside, and although it was broken, it would be able to be used, so it was put into the cave.
I was expecting to use it to scoop up water, but this is where it comes in handy.
Soon the earthworms were picked up, and Sakura shoveled a little dirt and pressed it into the clay pot to prevent them from escaping.
After thinking about it, he pulled out another earthworm, pulled off a bit of Wudingzhi from the stone wall, pinched and smeared it on the earthworm's body.
For a long time, the earthworm did not react, and there was no struggle.
It can be seen that this thing is not poisonous, but I don't know if people can eat it.
Tomorrow you might as well take some out and try it on the hens.
A while ago, she only gave the hens water to drink, and did not feed Wudingzhi, but threw them some camellia from the head of the cave.
She picked up the seeds from the outside, sprinkled a handful on the black soil, but she didn't expect to grow a large patch in a few days, green and tender, each growing bigger than the head.
Seeing that the shepherd's cabbage was about to fill up the black soil by the pool, she had to shovel some out and secretly feed the chickens.
Judging by the recent frequency of laying eggs by hens, the vegetables produced in the black soil should be a good thing.
So she always likes to sneak out alone, and when she comes back, she brings half a basket of shepherd's cabbage to A-Niang.
Chunniang was very strange at first, why the girl could always find such tender and fat wild vegetables.
You know, it's summer now, and most of the shepherd's cabbage blooms and bears seeds, and the stems and leaves are so old that they can't be bitten, so they can't be eaten at all.
And the girl can bring back half a basket of fat and tender shepherd's cabbage every time, which is really impressive.
Fortunately, Chun Niang didn't think about it deeply, and she didn't know that there was a golden finger in the secret realm of Dongfu in the world, so she was only smart and clever as a girl, and she was luckier than other children.
Inspired by the shepherd's cabbage, Sakura set her sights on the rocky clearing by the pool.
Here, she's going to spread the dirt and grow all kinds of vegetables.
Although the perennial fruit tree does not grow much, this one-year-and-six-year-long green leafy vegetable can grow normally, and the growth rate is still fast.
When the vegetables grow, people can also feed chickens, sheep and pigs if they can't finish eating.
In the spring of next year, she will let the hens hatch some chicks and feed them with Dongfu crops.
In this way, when the younger brother grows up, he will have a lot of eggs to eat, and if he can't finish eating, he can take them to the market for money and goods.
So these days she collects all sorts.
Like camellia seeds, horsefly vegetables, dandelion seeds, mustard seeds, etc., those who came did not refuse, and they all picked a little and put them on the broken pottery pieces that were picked up for later use.
It's a pity that there are very few varieties of vegetables in the small mountain village, and there is nothing else in the villagers' vegetable fields except amaranth, green vegetables, winter melon, kohlrabi, etc.
Unlike Fucheng, there are many kinds of vegetables on the table of large families, and in some aristocratic farms, there are also varieties from Fanbang.
Those Fanbang crops are scarce and precious, and ordinary people can't reach them at all, and Yingbao can only think about it in his heart.
Squatting down to shovel a few shepherd's cabbage, estimating the amount of enough for the family tomorrow afternoon, Sakura Bao stopped.
He sprinkled the little water chestnuts that had just been gathered on a piece of black soil and poured plenty of water.
Feeling a little tired at this moment, Sakura quickly left the cave and fell asleep.
When I woke up, my father had already returned, and my mother had just made dinner and was about to call her.
"Bao'er, get up and eat."
Sakura turned over and sat up, rubbed his eyes, and turned around and slid down the kang on his stomach.
Put on your shoes, reach out and hold A-Niang, and walk out of the house with her.
At this moment, the sun is in the west, and the breeze is breezy outside, but it is much cooler than in the house.
The dining table was placed in the middle of the courtyard, and on the table was a large pot of amaranth corn porridge, as well as a stack of black flour cakes, and a plate of pickled shredded pickles with kohlrabi.
Jiang Saburo washed his hands and face, hung the sweat towel on the drying rope, and walked to the table and sat down.
A family of three sat around and began to eat.
"San Lang, is Ming'er still going to hoe?" Chunniang asked.
Jiang Saburo shook his head, "Our bean field hoe is finished." The eldest brother's family still has two houses, but he doesn't need me to help. ”
The three brothers of the Jiang family are not separated, and the fields are planted separately, but because the father and mother are still there, the Yongye field and the mouth field of the second elder are under the name of Jiang Dalang, so when the farm is busy, the brothers have to help.
Jiang Sanlang held a clay bowl bigger than his head to drink vegetable porridge, snorted a few bites, and stuffed a few pickles into his mouth and chewed slowly, "Ming'er, I will go to Beishan, and it is estimated that the ramie can be cut." ”
Ramie is harvested three times a year, and the end of July is the time for the second harvest, so it can not be delayed.
"There is a lot of hemp planted in Beishan, can you do it alone? Why don't you ask your eldest brother and second brother to help? Chun Niang felt sorry for her husband who was working too hard, and she couldn't help with anything, so she was a little worried.
Jiang Saburo shook his head, "You don't need to invite them, I'll do it alone, and I'll finish it in just a few days." ”
Ying Bao blinked and looked at Dad, and suddenly said, "Dad, I'll go tomorrow too." ”
There are a lot of wild fruit trees in Beishan, even if those fruit trees don't produce good fruits, but she has black soil, so she can cultivate them first and then move them out to try.
Jiang Saburo reached out and pinched her little nose, and said with a smile: "What are you going to do?" Dad is busy with work, but he can't take you with him. ”
Sakura furrowed her nose and muttered, "Bao'er wants to go." Bao'er doesn't need to be brought by her father. ”
"Yo! It's enduring. Dad rubbed his daughter's little head, "Be obedient, Dad will come back and bring you apricots to eat." ”
After eating, cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks, Jiang Saburo boiled water to wash the family, and when they were all busy, it was already dark.
Jiang Saburo took a pu fan to drive away the mosquitoes in the sackcloth tent, put down the tent door, and the family of three went to the kang to rest.
Sakura Bao slept in the innermost, close to Ah Niang, closed her eyes and pretended to sleep, but her ears were up, listening to her father and mother whisper.
No way, I slept for a long time in the afternoon, and I was a little excited at night and couldn't sleep.
"Boa asleep?" Daddy Jiang asked.
Sakura didn't gnaw and pretended to be asleep.
She knew that when Daddy asked this, he just wanted to tell A-Niang something he didn't want her to hear.
In the dark, A-Niang touched her eyes with her hand.
"Asleep." Chunniang said: "It is estimated that she is tired today, so she went to the paddy field with Dani to pick up water chestnuts at noon, and said that she would leave them to you." After dinner, she fiddled with her two apple seedlings, watered and cultivated the soil, and was afraid that the chickens would peck at her, so she looked around for a basket to cover it. ”
Jiang Saburo chuckled twice and asked, "Where did the apple seedlings come from?" ”
"It's the apple you got back last time, and Bao'er kept the seed. Tsk, I don't know how she planted it, but she actually sent two seedlings. ”
Chunniang sighed: "You said how old she is, she actually knows how to keep the nucleus for seeding, and she really planted it." ”
Jiang Saburo was silent for a long time before he said: "Chunniang, don't tell others these words in the future." ”
Chunniang heard that her husband's tone was wrong, and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" Did anyone say anything? ”
"Hmm." Jiang Saburo said: "I met Aunt Wang today, she said that the people in the village said that Yingbao was a boy who gave children, and I was afraid that someone would be uneasy and kind." ”
How can a child bear these names at such a young age? In case the more outrageous it becomes, with the identities of the two husband and wife, they can't protect their daughters at all.
Chunniang was also silent.