"It's a pity that it's too expensive, otherwise we would have bought some food here in Tianwang to eat. Twenty yuan a catty, a family has to pay more than 100 yuan a day just for food. Gao Fengxiang said regretfully.

"Yes, after being a farmer all my life, I didn't expect this rice to be able to sell at this price. It's incredible. Luo Guangfu said.

"Guangfu, you are mistaken, in fact, twenty yuan a pound is not expensive at all. If you want to say that it is expensive, the little devil's rice is called expensive. When I was in Huacheng, Zhengjiang bought it for me, one hundred yuan and two catties. That's fifty dollars a pound. It tastes similar to our late rice, and it's not even as delicious as our late rice. It's even worse than Tianwang's rice. But people sell it for fifty yuan a catty. People in the city are still rushing to buy it, and the rich people in the city never buy the expensive ones, not the right ones. Luo Baolin said.

"That's called Chongyang. But one thing is right, that is, the food we have worked so hard to grow should not be sold so cheaply. People in the city make a product in a few minutes and sell it to our countryside, which is expensive and expensive. We planted an acre of land for more than half a year, and the grain produced was less than one product of others! Is this fair?" Luo Changqing said.

"Changqing is right. The things that come out of the factories in the city are exported to the good ones, the bad things are sold in the city, and the defective products are sold to our rural areas. If we farmers work together, selling rice is like selling garlic, ten yuan a catty, so that people in the city will love to buy it or not. Luo Guangfu said.

"It didn't work. You can't buy rice in your country, so people can buy it abroad. The Yankees' genetically modified rice is sold exclusively to China. Luo Changqing said.

"The peasants in the world are all exploited! If only our rice could be sold as expensive as the little devil's rice. Gao Fengxiang said.

"Let's not think about it, but Tianwang's is definitely okay. In the future, everyone in the village will give the fields to Tianwang to plant, and if they can grow such good rice, they will definitely be able to sell Hemawan rice, which is more expensive than the little devil's rice. Luo Changqing said.

"Yes, in the future, I will give Tianwang all the fields to plant. We all went to work at Tianwang Farm. Tianwang pays everyone a salary. It would be better if the rice was distributed. Luo Guangfu said with a smile.

Tianwang was on the side, quietly listening to everyone's words. Hearing this, Luo Tianwang stood up and said: "If everyone thinks my rice is delicious, I will provide the rations of the people in the village for free." In this way, if you don't have land in the future, you don't have to worry about spending money to buy good rice. ”

"Tianwang, just waiting for your words. As long as our rations can be guaranteed, all our fields will be planted for you. However, don't give it free, take a little bit, after all, your food didn't fall from the sky. According to the current price of late rice in our village, two yuan a catty. How is it?" said Gao Fengxiang with a smile.

"Yes, you give it for free, what's so embarrassing for everyone? We Hemawan people do not have the habit of eating for nothing. Luo Guangfu said.

"Grandpa Guangfu, I made it clear, only rations are provided for free, and they are provided according to the head, not much. If it's not enough, then I'm sorry, and I have to go according to the market price. My rice sells for twenty, and you will get twenty if you want to buy it. Even if it sells for 100, if you want to ask for more, you have to pay for 100. As for the free ones, they were rewarded for transferring all the land to me at that time. Luo Tianwang said.

"You child, you are righteous and righteous. It is worthy of being a child taught by Zhengjiang Hongmei. Now the village is full of old men, and this field has long been unable to be planted. But thinking that I have been a farmer all my life, this field cannot be barren, and the rice still has to be eaten by myself. So it's been barely maintained. It's really not easy. Now that you have come back and planted this field, and you have planted it better than those of us who have planted it all our lives, then what else do you say, this field will be planted for you in the future. Luo Guangfu said.

As soon as Luo Guangfu took the lead, the people in the village who had also planted fields expressed their willingness to transfer rice fields and wasteland. Luo Tianwang still agreed, using the original price of subcontracting Luo Zhigang's paddy field to subcontract the rice fields of the villagers. In addition, from this season of late rice, we began to supply ecological rice to those who had subcontracted the land.

The quality of this rice is absolutely extraordinary, and the villagers feel a great appetite when they smell the aroma of this rice. It's like going back to the era of the production team. At that time, everyone was very good at eating. Take Luo Guangfu and Luo Baolin as examples, when the production team was in the production team, the two of them were in the prime of life, and it was not a problem to eat two catties of rice for one meal, and there were many people who ate three or four catties of rice. There was no way, there was not much meat in the first meal that year, and every day was a high-intensity physical labor, which was extremely consumed, and all the energy supply depended almost entirely on the starch in the rice. Therefore, in those days, although everyone was very good at eating, it was rare to see a few fat people. Where, like now, half of the children in the village are chubby. The grandparents with children all suffered back then, for fear that the children would be hungry, and encouraged the children to eat hard, and it was strange not to eat fat.

Now Luo Guangfu, who eats at most one small bowl of rice per meal, actually ate three bowls of rice in a row, and he didn't feel full. But he didn't dare to continue eating, and said to everyone with a smile: "Tianwang's meal is so fragrant, today's meal can make me eat." It feels like I'm back in the production team. ”

"I think back then, when we were in Hemawan Reservoir, every time I opened the meal, I would first fill a small bowl, and after three or two bites of rice, I could go to fill another bowl. It means that I have eaten half a bowl of rice more than others. At that time, I used to eat in such a large clay bowl. Where are people like now?" Luo Baolin was also very emotional.

"That's right. The more you eat, the more you have a lot of strength, and it's easy to pick one or two hundred catties of any Chinese character. Now my grandson is crying for his father and mother when he picks up a burden of dozens of pounds. In the past, when I went to the county seat, I walked there. Now you have to pay a few dollars to take the bus on a trip to the street. Luo Guangfu said with a smile.

Children who are usually picky eaters are rushing to eat, and their bellies are round, and they have prepared more rice, but even the pots are rolled up by children as snacks. Several large pots of rice were eaten cleanly.

"Tianwang, this rice is so delicious, I haven't eaten it yet. Li Shishi said in Luo Tianwang's ear, she was not too embarrassed to let others hear her words that she was not full.

Luo Tianwang smiled: "Yes, I'll make you something delicious later." ”

"No, no, let's have dinner again. I eat so much in one meal that I will grow flesh on my body. Li Shishi hurriedly said.

"What are you afraid of? Are we cultivators still worried about growing fat on our bodies? You can have whatever body shape you want. Luo Tianwang said with a smile.

Li Shishi grinned: "That's right." But don't bother, I'll eat some fruit to fill my stomach. If only that barren mountain had been hit with fruit. It's a waste to plant those miscellaneous trees. ”

"No waste, no waste at all. If it weren't for those miscellaneous trees, where would such delicious rice come from, where would such delicious fruits come from?" Luo Tianwang said with a smile.

There are indeed a lot of fruits in this season, and the early-ripening citrus is ripe, but it is slightly sour and particularly sweet. The persimmons can also be picked, put in the rice and cover them for a few days, and they will turn red. The dates have also turned red, and there is a lot of moisture, and they are also very delicious to eat. Originally, the dates here in Hemawan are generally not very edible, with little water and not very sweet. Now that foreign dates are on the market early, there is almost no market for local dates, and the little children don't eat local dates very much. But the dates from Luo Tianwang's jujube tree are particularly delicious, and they are also beaten, as big as a native egg. But the taste is very good.

The little sparrow stays in the tree every day, and takes a large flock of sparrows to plague the dates at home every day, and is especially good at eating, especially those that are ripe. If it weren't for Luo Tianwang's solemn warning, let the little sparrow stay and never move, Luo Tianwang wanted to taste the taste, he could only eat the little sparrow and eat the rest.

"Tianwang, will the little sparrow leave us like Lao Huang one day?" Li Shishi watched the little sparrow happily looking for dates to eat on the tree, and couldn't help but ask.

"Alas. I don't know, there is a feast in the world. Thinking of Lao Huang, Luo Tianwang was a little sad. That guy was a playmate who grew up with him. But now, I don't know where I went.

"The lifespan of a sparrow is generally about ten years, how old is this little sparrow?" asked Li Shishi.

"I'll do the math. It's been fourteen or fifteen years. Luo Tianwang said.

The little sparrow seemed to hear Luo Tianwang and Li Shishi talking about it, and flew over happily, all of a sudden on Luo Tianwang, and then on Li Shishi, put the fast jujube meat in his mouth into Li Shishi's palm, and then chirped at Li Shishi, which seemed to let Li Shishi taste it.

"Haha, Shishi, it's for you to taste. Don't let it down, eat it. Luo Tianwang said with a smile.

"Okay, just eat. Li Shishi made a gesture and sent the jujube meat in her hand into her mouth, but before she was halfway through, she suddenly turned around and stuffed it into Luo Tianwang's mouth.

Luo Tianwang didn't hide, opened his mouth to catch the jujube meat in Li Shishi's hand, but he even bit Li Shishi's hand into his mouth.

"Oops. You are so bad! Why do you really eat it?" Li Shishi originally thought that Luo Tianwang would avoid it, but she didn't expect this guy to eat the jujube meat in order to trick her.

"It's okay, the little sparrow goes to the pond every day to wash its face and rinse its mouth, it is very clean, and its mouth is very picky, especially to pick the most delicious. It's amazing that you're able to eat from its mouth. This guy doesn't usually give anyone to eat. Luo Tianwang said with a smile.

Although Luo Tianwang was joking with Li Shishi, it was not nonsense, the little sparrow was only close to Luo Tianwang alone before, and he didn't even want Luo Tianci to touch it. Now it has regarded Li Shishi as its hostess and is willing to get close to Li Shishi, and just now it gave Li Shishi the best thing in her mouth, which is proof

"Tianwang, in fact, when I first came to Hemawan, I was still a little worried that I wouldn't be able to adapt to life here. But now I feel like life here suits me perfectly. There is no intrigue here, and everyday life is simple. In particular, I don't feel that everything I learned in college was in vain, from the summer vacation class to the current elementary school teaching. I was able to realize the value of my life here. And cultivating the Tao has made me understand the meaning of life. Li Shishi said.

"Shishi, your current state of mind is even higher than mine. If you keep up, you will overtake me sooner or later. Don't you know that you're going to put pressure on me like this?" Luo Tianwang quipped.

"Liar. I don't bother to pay attention to you. I'll be serious with you. Li Shishi glanced at Luo Tianwang.

"I'm also serious. By the way, when you came here before, weren't you afraid that you would be like a woman who was abducted to the countryside, giving birth to children in the countryside, cutting firewood and cooking every day, feeding pigs and cattle?" Luo Tianwang said with a smile.

"If you dare me to do this, I'll tell Aunt Zeng to go. Li Shishi giggled.

"Then I don't dare. If my mother knew that I made you suffer in He Mawan, she would have rushed back to clean me up, and then rescued you to Huacheng. Luo Tianwang was lying on the grass of the barren mountain, holding a thatch root in his mouth. This thatch root is the most fertile in this season, and it is dug out of the soil, and the wrapped dead grass is removed by hand, revealing the white and tender grass roots, and chewed in the mouth, with a faint sweetness. When Luo Tianwang was a child, when he was herding cattle, he liked to find the best thatch in the mountains and dig the grass roots in the ground to eat.

"Why do you dare to stuff anything into your mouth? Li Shishi said.

"You don't know. It's actually a delicacy buried in the ground. Come, I've chosen the best one for you, and you'll try it. Luo Tianwang stuffed a very fat grass root into Li Shishi's hand. The thatch of this barren mountain grows more vigorously than anywhere else, and when the soil is turned up, the roots of the grass inside are much thicker than those of ordinary places, and the internodes are longer. In particular, the color of this grass root is as transparent as it is. This root is not only sweet, but also has a refreshing fragrance. It tastes much better than ordinary grassroots.

Li Shishi was skeptical, but when she saw that Luo Tianwang also ate it, she didn't reject it very much, so she let Luo Tianwang stuff the grass into her mouth. After chewing it a little, I immediately tasted a sweet taste, how could this grass root still eat a taste of the sweetness of sugar cane? The sugar content is not as much as that of sugar cane, but the sweetness of the grass root is not very different from that of sugar cane. In comparison, this grassroots seems to taste even better.

"Huh?" Li Shishi's eyes lit up, obviously a little surprised by the taste of this grassroots.

"It's delicious, isn't it? If you don't have the courage to try, you don't have the spirit of eating crabs, and you're going to waste a lot of opportunities to taste the food." Luo Tianwang said with a smile. I also turned over some good grass roots for Li Shishi.

"How do you know that this grass is so delicious?" asked Li Shishi puzzled.

"I didn't have much to eat when I was a kid. When the cattle are herded, they turn over some grass roots and chew them. However, the grass roots in the mountains are not as delicious as the grass roots here are. Luo Tianwang said.