Although digging lotus root is very tiring, it is really happy to dig out a piece of lotus root intact.

Xu Ling slowly found his rhythm, and his speed increased a lot, and the children who couldn't go down the river squatted on the bank, screaming hotly.

"Brother Da Yuan! There, there's definitely a lotus root underneath there! ”

"Big brother, hurry up and dig, don't let Li Dayuan compare you!"

"Daddy!" The big girl jumped excitedly, clenching her little fists and calling Xu Ling.

Xu Ling glanced up at his daughter and younger siblings, and smiled and showed a mouthful of white teeth.

Fan Shiqing sat cross-legged next to him, put his hands in his sleeves, shrunk his neck to keep warm, and saw Xu Ling's stupid face, and said with a smile: "I have nothing to do, what are you doing when you have this time?" ”

Xu Ling rewarded him with a roll of the eyes, this old man is really boring. He found a complete lotus root, washed off most of the silt outside in the water, and sent it to the shore: "You know what, this is called the joy of life!" ”

Fan Shiqing couldn't taste any fun.

Xu Ping Xu Ping put the lotus root in the back basket, the lotus root was too long to put in, and asked Xu Ling anxiously: "Big brother, do you want to break it?" ”

"Break it, anyway, let's keep it for ourselves to eat, don't sell it for money first!"

Let them all become the partners of the ribs at noon.

Don't pay attention to these.

The quality of the winter lotus root is the best, once broken, the sound is brittle, and the lotus root is broken, revealing the white lotus root flesh like jade.

Fan Shiqing swallowed his saliva and muttered, "Can you eat it raw?" ”

As he spoke, he took out a section of lotus root from the basket, picked off the outer layer of skin with his fingernails, and took a big bite.

"Hmm......" Fan Shiqing chewed heavily, and when he saw the eldest girl looking at him curiously, he leaned over the lotus root, "You also taste it?" ”

The eldest girl just wanted to lean over and take a bite, but Xu Ling shouted: "Old man Fan! Don't give my daughter something messy! ”

Fan Shiqing is delicious, he doesn't vomit when he eats pumpkin seed skin, once the big girl came over, he fed the big girl a pumpkin seed, stuck to the throat and Kaka's face turned blue and cried, fortunately Xu Ling found it in time.

Fan Shiqing was so frightened that he quickly withdrew his hand, and said with a weak heart: "It's not that I won't give you food, your father won't let you!" ”

Xu An hurriedly fished out his niece, pretending to be angry and patting her ass: "Big girl, don't eat, let's go home and eat it!" ”

I don't eat it, Fan Shiqing eats it by himself, and eating lotus root raw is weirdly delicious, crispy and sweet, and he also tastes a little fun at this time.

Following Li Dayuan's children, two of them couldn't bear their curiosity, and they also went down to dig lotus root together, Xu Ling still had to stare at them so that they couldn't get out of the mud pit, and they had to dig lotus roots, and they had been busy for more than an hour, and finally dug up the lotus roots in two back baskets.

Xu Ling stood up straight and held his old waist, "Forget it, let's do it today!" ”

Those children dug more than Xu Ling, but they were not as good as him, and many of them were dug up halfway.

Seeing that Xu Ling got up to leave, the children stopped digging, washed the mud on their feet, climbed ashore, and carried the basket along the ridge to go home.

Xu Ling didn't go back immediately, and walked to the village below with people, there are more than 100 families living in Lianhuawanzi, and sometimes there will be a small market at the intersection here for the villagers to sell things.

Xu Ling's family built a house, and these days he has become familiar with the Sun butcher who sells meat.

Sun Tuhu raised more than a dozen pigs at home, and was a well-known pig farmer within a radius of ten miles, and he sometimes helped others kill pigs and sell meat, only taking a part of the hard-earned money.

Seeing Xu Ling coming, he hurriedly greeted: "Xu Ling, I'm waiting for you to come today!" All the good meat is reserved for you! ”

Who doesn't know that Xu Ling's family built a new house and made meat for those workers every day, and there were a lot of meals!

Xu Ling walked over and saw that the meat on the board was very fresh, so he rounded the ribs and asked for a pig's hind leg and ten catties of pork belly.

"There's also lard for me to decorate, I've bought so much, won't you spare me?" Xu Ling bargained as usual.

Sun Butcher smiled: "You kid, are you reluctant to make this bit of meat money?" Okay, these two pig tails are sent to you, and there is a lot of meat! ”

Seeing that there were a lot of lotus roots in the back basket behind Xu Ling, Sun Butcher said enviously: "Your food is so good, I don't even want to sell meat, I can go to your house to build a house for you." ”

Xu Ling laughed, "If you don't build a house for me, you are welcome to come, just go after selling the meat!" ”

"Hey, when your house is built, I'll bring you a congratulatory gift to celebrate, and then you have to hold a banquet?"

Whoever builds a new house in the village, before sealing the roof, has to hold a banquet, put firecrackers, and ask for some auspicious words, which is a common practice.

Xu Ling followed the customs, "I must do it, when the time comes, you will show me a good pig, if anyone has sheep to kill, also get me two!" ”

Not eating lamb in the winter is a waste of life.

Sun Butcher's mouth was about to open open, and he agreed repeatedly, and gave Xu Ling an extra piece of pig heart and lungs.

The children followed behind Xu Ling's buttocks, and listened to him talk to people without saying a word, and he was very well-behaved.

After leaving the pork stall, Li Dayuan said to Xu Ling: "Brother Ling, you are really good at talking!" You don't know how stingy Sun Butcher is, last time my grandfather sold the family's pigs to him, and he didn't even want to let him buy meat! ”

Xu Ling smiled: "Where is this?" You study hard, and the way to speak is deep. ”

Li Dayuan said with a smile: "I haven't seen anyone as powerful as Brother Ling, in my heart you are the most powerful in our village!" ”

Xu Ling grinned at his praise, and his face showed a low-key subtlety.

"Where, where."

"Brother Ling, why don't you come to my house with me, my grandfather has raised several pigs, but he is fat! If you can buy meat for it, it will be happy when it dies! ”

Li Dayuan's map was too short, Xu Ling laughed, grabbed his shoulders and pulled him over, and rubbed it well.

"You kid, you're like a thief!"

Xu An also said: "I'll just say why are you so sweet today, it turns out that you want my eldest brother to buy your pig!" ”

Xu Ping shouted: "Big brother, you can't buy Li Dayuan's pigs, he feeds pigs with dung at home!" ”

The children laughed.

Xu Ling: "......"

Li Dayuan was annoyed and angry, "What do you know! My grandfather said that pigs grow good when they eat that thing! ”

Xu Ling's face was black, and he hurriedly asked the two children to stop arguing, and he didn't want to eat meat anymore.

When he arrived at Li Dayuan's house, he stopped the little attendant behind him, and the youngest boy looked only five or six years old, with a small braid tied behind his head.

Li Dayuan gave the lotus root he had worked so hard to dig to the little followers, "one copper coin, two sheep eggs, and one bench......"

When he finished dividing, he waved his little hand: "Okay, you all hurry home, and come to me after eating!" ”

Xu Ling stopped the children again, gave each of them a piece of maltose, and the children dispersed happily.

After the others left, there was not much left of the lotus root in Li Dayuan's back basket, Xu Ling looked a little funny, and asked him: "Some of them didn't help you, why do you have to share them with them?" ”

Li Dayuan didn't care and said: "Brother Ling, you don't understand this, won't they be able to help me when they grow up?" ”

Xu Ling raised his eyebrows, but he didn't expect Li Dayuan to still have the awareness of venture capital.