Chapter 200 Tuanyu
For one morning, Zhang An and his father were busy pulling weeds in the fields.
In fact, every household in rural areas has tools like a rice rake, but this year there are too many duckweeds.
The rice rake is not very useful, so it is more convenient to pull it out directly.
At first, I pulled out a bunch of them and wanted to take them out of the paddy field and spread them on the roadside to dry in the sun.
But when the back was pulled inside, Zhang An was a little too lazy to run out.
Just put all the uprooted duckbills into the space and get rid of them later when you find time to go back.
As expected, Zhang An's hoeing speed was greatly accelerated because he didn't have to run around so much.
"Jianguo, Xiaoan, aren't ready to go home for dinner yet."
Zhang Anzheng turned a deaf ear to the surrounding affairs and only focused on pulling grass from the field.
Suddenly, he heard someone calling him. He looked up and saw Mr. Huang on the road beside the field.
Zhang An looked at the time on his hand, and before he knew it, it was almost twelve o'clock.
"Second Master, why don't you go back and eat first? We'll be here soon."
Zhang Jianguo stood up and talked to Mr. Huang. He thought about getting some more involved and carrying him out together.
"Let's go. Look, Xiao An is already here. He's probably here to call you back for dinner."
Hearing this, Zhang An raised his head and looked towards the direction of the village. Sure enough, he saw I saw my mother walking towards the fields.
"Dad, let's go back to eat first. There isn't much left anyway."
In one morning, the father and son finished hoeing a field.
In the end, there was less than half of this piece left.
Wait until you finish your meal in the afternoon and come back. It won’t take long to finish the hoeing.
Zhang Jianguo heard Zhang An shouting and did not stay in the field.
The father and son walked to the edge of the field and washed the mud off their feet in the ditch.
Maybe it’s because Zhang An’s calves are whiter and the blood tastes better.
So when Zhang An came out, there were two leeches lying on his calves, while Zhang Jianguo next to him had none on his legs.
Zhang An did not coddle them, and slapped the two leeches to the ground.
The originally long locusts are now huddled together, looking short and thick, and are still squirming back and forth.
"Second Master, have you finished hoeing your fields?"
"No, there is too much grass this year. It will probably take several days to finish."
< br>"There's no need to rush. Anyway, it's not time to hoe the corn in the past two days, so take your time."
The corn that was planted before was only put in a layer of fertilizer in the past two weeks.
As they grow longer, by July and August, the buds will be as tall as half a person.
At that time, it is time to put in the second fertilizer and go to the corn field to weed.
Everything in the summer seems to have been arranged, starting with plowing the fields and planting rice seedlings.
After the work in the fields is finished, they will go to the fields to plant corn.
When the corns are planted and the seedlings planted in the fields have turned green and begun to grow, it is time to fertilize and hoe the fields.
The work in the field just happened to be finished, and it was time to weed and fertilize the corn in the field. This schedule seemed to be quite rushed.
But when I did it, I didn’t feel so rushed. Everything seemed to be arranged and went according to plan.
After lunch, Zhang An and Zhang Jianguo were not in a hurry to go to the ground.
Now is not the busy time for farming, and there is no need to rush to do work.
Although it has not set yet, the sun in the sky cannot be underestimated.
If you go down to the ground under the sun at noon, it is still a bit difficult to bear.
So the father and son simply moved a deck chair out, rested for half their pay, and went to the fields in the afternoon.
Under Zhang An’s yard is a paddy field with rice seedlings planted.
The rice plants have grown in the past two days, and at a glance, there are green seedlings everywhere.
From time to time, you can see a few black-footed rails emerging from this paddy field, cooing.
Lying under the tree, facing the cool breeze blowing from the paddy fields.
After blowing it on my body, I can obviously feel that it instantly becomes extremely cool in this hot summer.
Unknowingly, as the wind blew through the leaves of the rice seedlings, making a rustling sound, Zhang An fell asleep quietly.
"Brother Xiao An, Brother Xiao An."
Zhang An was sleeping soundly when a voice calling him came from his ears.
"What are you shouting for? You're shouting."
Zhang An rubbed his eyes and found that it was Zhang Tie and other naughty guys calling him.
Zhang An felt a little unhappy when he was suddenly woken up from a good sleep.
Zhang An was really a little annoyed, and he couldn't help but speak a little loudly, which startled the Piwazi next to him.
In their impression, Zhang An had not been angry with them for several years.
Since returning to this era, Zhang An has never had a dream.
I didn’t expect that I just took a nap in this courtyard for a while today and fell into a dream.
At this moment, he vaguely remembered that in the dream, after he and Su Ying got married, their family lived happily together.
Normally, the two of us live a life of plowing the fields and weaving. This little life is simply too sweet to be true.
A few months after the marriage, Su Ying became pregnant with the heir of the old Zhang family.
Like a Bodhisattva, Zhang An worked hard, looking left and right, and finally waited for the day when the child was about to be born.
In his dream, he just saw the delivery room open. The doctor said that the mother and child were safe, and walked out with a little life in his arms.
Zhang An stepped forward with great anticipation and stretched out his hand to take his child.
But just when Zhang An was about to receive the child, Zhang An was woken up by the children.
Suddenly, the picture in Zhang An's mind changed from the hospital to his own yard.
This change made Zhang An confused. He didn't even see what the child in the dream looked like.
Zhang An was really a little uncomfortable. Although it was in a dream, Zhang An was just a little bit able to see his child.
It was originally a very happy thing, even in a dream, Zhang An felt as happy as a flower.
Next time I want to see him, I might have to wait until Zhang An gets married and the child is born.
Zhang An doesn't dream easily, and he can't tell what he will dream about next time.
What's more, even if you dream, it may not still be this dream.
But after a while, Zhang An woke up.
Looking at the little monkeys standing in front of them who dared not move, they all looked trembling.
Zhang An just realized that he was indeed a bit irritable just now, which scared them all.
“Tell me, Zhang Tie, what do you want from me?”
Zhang An rubbed his eyes before asking them in a gentle voice what they wanted to do with him.
"Well, we caught something."
Hearing that Zhang An's voice was not as fierce as before, a few Piwazi dared to speak.
“You have found something again, show it to me.”
Zhang Tie, these skinny monkeys, often wander around outside, and they will take whatever they get from time to time. To Zhang An.
Sometimes they are flowers and plants, sometimes they are small animals, including those swimming in the water, crawling on the ground, and flying in the sky.
They knew that Zhang An liked to keep things, so when they caught them, they showed them to Zhang An first.
"Here, it's this, a big fish." After hearing Zhang An's words, Zhang Tiecai took out the thing from behind with a playful smile.
“Where did you catch it?”
The thing Zhang Tie was holding in one hand at this time was an old turtle that was bigger than the plate. , Zhang An and the others here also call them turtles or turtles.
Zhang An took it from Zhang Tie's hand. The old turtle had a grayish back and was slightly green.
The abdomen is gray-white, and some gray spots can be clearly seen.
This guy's head is a bit pointed, and Zhang An knew it would definitely bite people at a glance.
“At the head of the river at the back is the place called Niuguntang.”
Zhang An knew that the place Zhang Tie mentioned was not far from the village.
The river ditch behind Changqing Village flows down from the mountains behind it.
There is a place where the height difference is relatively large, it is estimated to be seven or eight meters high.
So where the water in the ditch reaches, it flows down high from above.
After a long time, a large pond formed below.
Maybe when it was named, the pond was just big enough for a buffalo to roll in it, so it was called Niu Gun Pond.
But in fact, no one drives the buffalo there to bathe and play in the water.
Because the river is right at the entrance of the village, there is no need to go so far.
"Why don't you go to class and go to the ditch? Are you going to take a bath again?"
It's past two o'clock now. Normally, they should all be there Sitting in the classroom.
"Brother, we finished the exam yesterday, let's go on summer vacation now, okay?"
Zhang Tie said to Zhang An somewhat proudly.
After the summer vacation, they have become wild horses, and the family will have a headache.
"Oh, you guys are already on holiday."
Zhang An has nothing to say now. After all, everyone is on holiday, so you can play freely and boldly.
“Take it back, you can let your dad sell it, you should be able to make some money.”
Zhang An handed the old turtle in his hand to Zhang Tie, now this thing is not No matter how expensive it is, it can still be sold for some money.
"Brother, I won't sell it to my dad. He won't give me money after selling it. You can keep it at home."
I have been following Zhang An for a long time, Zhang Tieduo There are some symptoms, and I want to keep whatever I can get.
For example, lobsters, mountain crabs and thrushes, he has quite a few at home now.
"There's no point in keeping just one. Let your dad take it back and sell it."
In Changqing, although there is a big river, there are not too many turtles.
If you want to catch two wild old turtles, you really have to work hard.
Although they live in the water, they are also frequently active on the shore.
For example, when laying eggs, you have to go ashore, not in the river.
So the places they like to stay are generally places with mudflats, making it easier for them to move ashore.
In the big river, traces of the old turtle's activities can only be seen in the flooded pond.
In other places, because the river banks are steeper and the river water is deeper, it is not easy to see.
But it’s not impossible. Maybe with luck, if you cast a net, you will catch an old turtle moving in the water.
"Who said there is only one stone? Hurry up and take out the stone."
When Zhang Tie heard that Zhang An didn't want to raise him, he quickly told his friends next to him.
A few little guys heard Zhang Tie shouting and took out the tuan fish hidden behind them.
Including Zhang Tie's largest one, there are four in total, although the following ones are much smaller.
“Did you raid this old turtle’s house?”
Usually I find a lot of people there, but it’s rare to find four at once.
“No, when we went there, they were all basking in the sun with their heads raised on the rocks, so we caught them, but before we were done catching them, a few got into the mud pond.”
As he said this, Zhang Tie looked regretful. They really wanted to kill Ren Lao Bi and his family in one fell swoop.
Originally Zhang An didn’t want to raise it, because it was just one, and it wouldn’t breed if it was raised, and it would be meaningless to raise it.
But Zhang Tie and the others brought out so many, Zhang An was shaken.
If you don’t keep it first, it won’t take much effort to throw it into space anyway.
Anyway, it’s not a bad thing to keep this thing. You never know when it will be used.
I collected a few turtles and threw them into the space when I returned home.
"Then I'll keep it first and treat it like I bought it for you."
Zhang An said that he was going to pay a few kids. Although they said they picked up the turtle .
But this thing is worth some money anyway, so I can’t get it for free.
"Uncle An, we don't need money, can you show us the TV? We want to watch Oolong Yuan."
Several little guys said in unison that they don't need money and want to watch TV.
Wulongyuan is one of those movies starring Shi Xiaolong and Hao Shaowen.
The last time he bought a TV, Zhang An bought a lot of classic Hong Kong movies.
After the monkeys listened to Zhang An’s story, their attention turned from Journey to the West to this movie.
Even after watching it twice, everyone still wants to continue watching it.
Maybe it’s because Shi Xiaolong and Hao Shaowen are about the same age as them in the play, so it’s particularly easy to take on the role.
After all, these kids are at the age of innocence now, and who doesn’t want to become someone like Chen Xiaolong.
Zhang An thought for a while and decided that he was not going to give them any money.
Give them money now, and it will be spent in Zhang Xinmin’s canteen in a few moments.
The few turtles will be raised in the space first. When the turtles grow up, pick a few big ones and give them to them.
When the time comes, even if they sell it, they will be able to make more money.
“Okay, I’ll play it for you.”
When Zhang An said he would play TV for them, they all danced for joy.
All the little boys embraced Zhang An into the main room and sat on the bench in an orderly manner.
Waiting for Zhang An to turn on the TV and play the disc for them.
Not only them, but also the great sage at home heard the TV playing and ran over.
This guy has very good hearing. When the TV is on, no one calls him, and he will run over by himself.
When the TV is not on, it lies in its nest and sleeps.
I don’t have to worry about eating or drinking at all. Last time I picked peaches at Zhang An’s house.
The Great Sage helped Wang Fang pick it from the beginning to the end without stealing at all.
Wang Fang also liked it even more when she saw it picking peaches without eating them.
Actually, it’s not that the Great Sage doesn’t eat peaches secretly, but that he doesn’t have any thoughts about the peaches outside.
Because it had eaten the fairy peaches in Zhang An’s space before. After eating one peach outside, it could no longer get into its eyes.
After all, monkeys themselves are very picky animals.
Usually when they eat peaches, they only eat the delicious part and throw away the rest.
(End of this chapter)