Chapter 13 Making a Joke
But what Chen Ling didn't know was that before he drove the donkey cart out of the village, many people started laughing at him behind his back.
In fact, he is not to blame for this matter...
If it is to be blamed, it is the stubborn donkey of Wang Laishun's family.
Maybe because he got up early, this guy was unwilling to let the driver hitch the cart. He screamed "Er, er, er, er, er, er, err," and Wang Laishun even tried to add two buckets of fodder but it still didn't work.
The noise was so loud that the neighbors heard it and came out to see what was going on.
In the end, Chen Ling took out a handful of peanuts grown in the cave and fed it to it. Then he put it in the car and drove it out of Wang Laishun's house.
The people outside saw that it was Chen Ling, a famous lazy man, driving a donkey cart out.
I suddenly felt strange for a while.
This kid usually either sleeps or goes to the county town to fool around.
His wife did all the work at home, so he never worried about it. Why did he come to the village chief's house to borrow a donkey cart today?
Everyone was very curious and asked Wang Laishun to inquire. Good guy, it turns out that this guy went to the county town to buy a plow and prepare to plow the land.
It’s still the same wasteland that Erzhu’s family used to have for more than ten years.
When people heard what was going on, they were both surprised and funny.
Who in the village doesn’t know what was going on with Erzhu’s land?
If it can be cured by plowing it twice with a rake, why should we wait for Chen Fugui to do it?
Could it be that this boy was hit hard by his uncle and his head was broken?
Otherwise, this kid’s heart is divided into eight parts, and seven of them are devoted to eating, drinking and having fun. How could he be willing to farm?
Now he still wants to plow with a rake. Doesn’t he know how much lime there is under the ground?
This is so hilarious!
So the news that Chen Fugui made a joke again quickly spread in the village.
There were no entertainment activities in the mountain villages of this era.
Everyone makes fun of others today, and is laughed at by others tomorrow. Whose mother-in-law steals a man, and which man is not ashamed to peek at a widow taking a bath, and so on.
But it is rare for someone like Chen Ling to be laughed at by everyone in the village.
It used to be a joke that he beat his wife for not doing his job properly, but a few days ago, his wife’s parents came to visit her, and she was held down in the yard and beaten so hard that she cried for father and mother, and was beaten by the whole village. People saw the joke.
Who knows, today I am going to buy a plow and plow the wasteland again. I look like I am rolling up my sleeves and getting ready for a big job.
It’s about to make another big joke.
......
At this time, it was probably about seven o'clock in the morning.
Chen Ling drove the donkey cart out of the village, completely unaware that he was being treated as a joke again.
Even if he knew it, he wouldn't care. Instead, he would laugh at those people for not knowing the time.
What is the time of day?
It is the right time to have floods this year.
The time and place are favorable. When the flood comes, the wasteland becomes fertile farmland. Isn’t it a favorable location?
As for how it became fertile land, Chen Ling didn’t have to bother to explain it at all.
At this time, most people still believed in miracles and miracles.
It is not like the later generations who would take pictures of any strange things and post them on WeChat, attracting a group of self-righteous know-it-alls.
And in their remote mountainous area, many scientific popularizations are not yet in place.
After the flood, the wasteland turned into fertile farmland. Even if the scientific theory cannot explain it, it is not a problem.
Just like Erzhu’s father a few years ago, no one dared to mess with him, and his reputation was terrible.
But after an earthquake, everything was lost, even my pants were lost.
People say that this is retribution for doing bad things.
It’s the same thing.
He was humming a little tune and was intoxicated by the fresh and beautiful mountain scenery under the warm sunshine of early spring. He was in a very good mood.
Although Chenwangzhuang is not far from the county seat, it is surrounded by mountains on three sides and water on one side. It is a very remote mountain village.
In other words, the provincial capital where they are located is very remote, with mountains and rivers, and transportation is not convenient.
Although the scenery is beautiful, it does not have the bustling scene that later generations developed into a tourist area. It is completely a poor place.
Chen Ling walked all the way east, walked over the reservoir dam to the east of the village, and went around two mountain ridges. The county seat was already in sight.
At this time, Chen Ling drove the donkey cart to a remote place and transferred the peanuts from the cave to the cart.
Soon, a cart full was loaded, weighing about five or six hundred kilograms.
I peeled two of them off and tasted them. Sure enough, they were completely dry.
These days we just sell dried peanuts.
No one buys fresh wet peanuts, regardless of the county or the countryside.
Because wet peanuts are weighed on the scale, a pound of peanuts is only a tiny amount, much less than dry peanuts. It is better to buy a piece of meat to eat.
“Well, this cart of peanuts is not too small. Let’s go to the farmer’s market to explore the situation first and wait until it’s sold out.”
Chen Ling thought secretly in his heart.
Take a breath and continue driving towards the county town.
It’s not too late to go to the farmer’s market to sell cereals such as peanuts and soybeans at nine o’clock. It’s a morning market.
If it is a morning vegetable and fruit market, there will be no one there at seven o'clock.
Here in the mountainous area, we rush to wholesale vegetables and fruits at three o'clock in the morning. If we hurry up, they will be almost sold out around five o'clock.
Not long after, we arrived at the farmers market in the western suburbs of the county. Chen Ling was about to drive the donkey cart in, but was stopped at the gate.
Because I saw him pulling peanuts in a donkey cart, he was obviously going to the market to sell them, so he needed to pay a temporary stall fee.
If you have an empty car, you don’t need to pay it.
Chen Ling paid fifty cents and drove towards the grain area.
It was past seven o'clock, and there were only a few vegetable and fruit sellers left, but there were still quite a few breakfast stalls.
Wontons, tofu puffs, fried dough sticks, glutinous rice noodles...
The aroma of various kinds of rice came out, and Chen Ling, who had already had breakfast, was made a little hungry by the dazzling food. .
The fried dough sticks and tofu curd are not bad, you can eat them if you want.
The key is the noodles. Although they still exist in later generations, the taste in memory has long been lost.
Looking at the glutinous rice bowls, the red oil soup is covered with sauteed seeds, and the blue-gray glutinous rice noodles are steaming and floating in the air, exuding an alluring fragrance.
Take a big bite, the taste...
Chen Ling was immediately aroused.
Just when I wanted a bowl, a surprised voice came from behind.
“Huh? Is this the new peanut?”
"Are there new ones born this season?"
Chen Ling turned around and saw a middle-aged man who looked about forty years old standing next to the donkey cart. He was wearing a dark black tunic suit and had a tall figure. Tall, but slightly hunchbacked.
At this time, he was looking at the peanuts on the donkey cart with a look of surprise on his face.
Beside him is a woman of similar age, wearing a red scarf and a dark brown woolen coat, slightly curly hair, and wearing high-heeled leather boots. This look was quite avant-garde in 1995. .
And he has a fair face, and his appearance and temperament are quite good.
Even though there are many wrinkles on her face now, it does not diminish her graceful appearance at all.
It is not difficult to see that this aunt was definitely a beauty when she was young.
“Do you two want to buy peanuts?”
“These are peanuts that have just come out of the greenhouse. They have been dried and are being sold for the first time. They are still rustic..."
Chen Ling said.
He walked to the side of the donkey cart, grabbed a handful from the cart, rubbed the dry soil on it, and handed it to the two of them.
"You can try it."
"Grown in a greenhouse?"
When Chen Ling said this, both men and women were surprised.
Then one person grabbed some from Chen Ling's hand.
After peeling it off and tasting it, the two couldn't help but look at each other, even more surprised.
"It is indeed a new peanut, and it is more delicious than other peanuts I have eaten."
"Little brother, are these really peanuts grown in a greenhouse?"
The man asked.
“Of course, otherwise how could there be new peanuts in this season?”
Chen Ling said with a smile.
But he also saw that these two people did not look like peanut buyers.
Just ask: "Do you two want to buy? If so, let's negotiate the price and weigh it!"
As expected, the man smiled apologetically after hearing this and said: "We Just walking around, I couldn't help but be a little curious when I saw your cart of fresh peanuts."
The woman glanced at Chen Ling and said, "I didn't expect there are people growing greenhouses here."
The tone was emotional.
Chen Ling was a little confused at first, but then he understood that these two people had come back from outside.
No wonder this outfit is incompatible with the small county town.
"Little brother, this is for you. It's not easy to grow a greenhouse. If you need any help, you can contact me or my husband."
"I won't bother you selling peanuts, let's go first Go around.”
Seeing that Chen Ling was a little dazed, the woman smiled softly and handed him two business cards.
Chen Ling took a look and saw the three characters Liang Hongyu written on it, as well as a list of phone numbers and contact addresses.
The other one said Qin Rongxian, with only a phone number and no specific contact address.
Looked up at the two people who had walked away.
Chen Ling finally realized that this aunt was a strong woman.
No wonder the man had an inexplicable respect for her even though they had the intimacy and tacit understanding between husband and wife. It turned out that women were strong and men were weak.
"Liang Hongyu?"
Chen Ling thought for a while and only thought of Han Shizhong's wife, but he had never heard of such a local figure.
However, judging from the way he behaves, he seems to support the construction of his hometown.
Otherwise, I wouldn’t have given him a business card as soon as I heard he was growing a greenhouse...
"Forget it, no matter what she does, just sell my peanuts!"
(End of Chapter)