Chapter 95 Watermelon
“Lingzi, your yard is really cool.”
Han Chuang sat on the stone bench, nibbling on melon seeds and sighed comfortably.
He was so overheated on the way here that he couldn't even wait for the tea Wang Susu had brewed to cool down, so he ran to the pressure well, bent over to squeeze the water out, and poured it into his mouth. I felt better after drinking some cow milk.
“There are many trees in the mountains, and we also have a large reservoir here, which makes it cooler.”
Chen Ling smiled and then gently kicked the little rabbit away from his feet.
These little things are like this. They are not afraid of strangers when outsiders come. They still stick to Chen Ling's side, lying on their front and back. Their little bodies are so hot that he wears cotton shoes. It seems that after a long time, my feet will sweat.
Only then did Han Chuang notice the rabbit at Chen Ling's feet and suddenly let out a strange cry.
"It's a rabbit, Xiaoqing, look, little rabbit."
Jiang Xiaoqing has noticed it a long time ago, but her family is also from a rural area. Although her mother is a teacher in a county middle school, But growing up in a rural area, I have long been used to this.
Seeing how clingy the little rabbit was to Chen Ling, I knew that this litter of little rabbits must have been raised by Chen Ling.
Han Chuang was surprised for a while. He stood up and squatted on the ground, staring at the little rabbits with his big copper bell-like eyes. After a while, he cautiously wanted to reach out and touch the little rabbits. He didn't even hide.
This guy made Han Chuang, a tall and tall young man, very curious for a while.
Hold up the two little rabbits and charge them to Jiang Xiaoqing.
Jiang Xiaoqing's face got hot when she saw his posture. She felt so embarrassed that she couldn't help but kicked him hard under the stone table.
Han Chuang then smiled sarcastically, put down the rabbit, and then said to Chen Ling: "I saw that your family has two such big dogs. I thought they were a litter of puppies just now, but I didn't expect them to be little rabbits."
< br>"You like rabbits, Chuangzi. If you like rabbits, I'll catch some for you when the cubs are born."
Chen Ling thought of the way he held the rabbit just now and refused to let go, and said.
"That, that, that would be great."
Han Chuang nodded excitedly after hearing this.
But after nodding, he realized something was wrong and hurriedly turned his face to look at Jiang Xiaoqing's face.
Chen Ling couldn't help but laugh. He really didn't expect that Han Chuang, a tall guy, would be afraid of turning into a bear once he had a wife.
Wang Susu also smiled a little when she saw this, feeling that her husband's friend seemed a bit silly.
But it’s good this way, as we won’t be afraid of Chen Ling suffering a loss when we get along with him.
She would not be at ease if she were to associate with someone like Chen Erzhu.
"Whatever do you want to eat for lunch? There are mutton, pork, fish and shrimp..."
Chen Ling saw that it was almost ten o'clock, so he had to prepare lunch early. People came from all the way, so he had to stay today. Rice.
"By the way, there are still rice dumplings in the well. I'll go and pull them out."
Han Chuang and Jiang Xiaoqing repeatedly told Chen Ling to stop working and talk. That's fine, they're not outsiders.
That being said, that's not what happened.
Chen Ling walked to the well, pulled out the rice dumplings, and asked Wang Susu to steam all the remaining ten or so rice dumplings in the basket.
Actually, he and Wang Susu have been eating these days, but Liang Hongyu gave too much, filling a big basket full, and after three or four days of eating, there were still about ten left.
"Chuangzi, let's go, I'll take you to touch the shrimps."
After steaming the rice dumplings, Chen Ling greeted Han Chuang and walked out carrying the bamboo basket and net bag.
Han Chuang first asked Jiang Xiaoqing if she was going. When she didn't go, he followed Chen Ling out of the door.
"Susu, please stay at home with Xiaoqing."
"I know, don't worry."
On the way out to the reservoir, I saw that many families in the village had daughters. Going back to the door, some may be far away, and it’s almost ten o’clock in the morning before I get home.
Everyone wears a headscarf and carries a doll. When they meet people from the same village, they stop to say hello and chat a few words.
What surprised Chen Ling was that someone actually wanted to talk to him. He asked Han Chuang to call him uncle, but after looking at it for a long time, Chen Ling couldn't recognize the girl from whose family she was married, so Han Chuang What a joke.
He took Han Chuang to the reservoir and touched a bamboo basket full of crayfish. When he came back, he met Chen Ze and forced him to give him a few eels. Only then did Chen Ling realize that the person who had just spoken to him was Chen Ze's sister Chen Fang.
The enthusiasm of these siblings makes Chen Ling strangely embarrassed.
Especially Chen Ze, when he went out to work after high school, he helped him to say good things to his boss several times. Unfortunately, Chen Ling was so unsatisfactory before that he didn't work hard himself, which also caused other people to lose their jobs.
In the past, Chen Ze had always hated him in his heart. He wouldn't even talk to him when we met him, and he wouldn't even look at him. But when he started to get better, this young man of the same generation took the initiative to resolve the small disputes at the beginning. Originally, Chen Ling thought that even if there was no holiday, they would just be acquaintances from now on.
Unexpectedly, it was just a meeting. Knowing that Chen Ling's family was entertaining guests, this boy just handed over a few eels.
For a while, Chen Ling was also quite emotional.
After returning home and cleaning up the fish and shrimp, Chen Ling thought about going to Cui Laizi's place to cut two pounds of pork, but before he could go out, someone else came.
"Uncle Fugui, I heard that you entertained guests and asked me to bring you some melons."
Liu Nier brought a bunch of little dolls, each holding a A large watermelon with flower skin walked into the yard.
"Ouch, come in quickly, come in quickly."
Seeing this posture, Chen Ling hurriedly took Wang Susu and Han Chuang to pick him up.
"This guy, you Tatsuya is serious, why did you bring it so far away? If I want to eat it, I can just go to the melon field and pick it myself."
"It's okay, Uncle Fugui, We can move it."
Liu Nier wiped the sweat from her forehead and laughed while sniffing.
Little babies in rural areas run around all day long, and usually start helping with farm work at the age of six or seven, so they have a lot of strength.
But Chen Ling still couldn't help but feel a little uneasy when he saw it. Now the watermelon has grown up, and it basically weighs seven or eight kilograms. The little ones can no longer hold the seven or eight kilograms of melons from the fields. Come back and walk half a village.
Chen Ling was really afraid of tiring them.
He quickly walked to the well and filled a large basin of water.
“Come, come and wash your hands and faces.”
"Liu Ni'er, please don't hide behind me. Come here and wash yourself. Look at your nose. It's getting harder to wipe away every day."
The other little dolls have been washed obediently, but Liu Ni'er is so reluctant. Come over willingly.
“I don’t want to wash my face, I feel it hurts to wash my face.”
“Stop talking nonsense, your face is full of sweat and snot, come and wash it quickly.”
Chen Ling reached out and pulled him over, pressed him to the edge of the basin and started washing him.
After washing, Wang Susu brought towels and asked them to wipe their hands and faces clean one by one, and then brought stools for them to sit down and rest.
Then I saw that Xizi’s finger was scratched by melon seeds, and after washing it with water, it was still bleeding, so I went outside the wall and pulled two sticks of red silk grass, chewed them, and helped the little girl apply them on the wound. , and took a piece of cloth from the house and wrapped it up.
Red silk grass, also known as Dijincao and Xue Jianchou, is a common hemostatic grass in rural areas. It looks a bit like purslane. It is very effective in stopping bleeding when you are bumped or scratched.
"Thank you, Aunt Susu."
Xizi pinched the bandaged fingers, blushing, and whispered.
Wang Susu rubbed Xizi's little head and smiled: "We eat here at noon, and your uncle Fugui is preparing delicious food today."
"I can't, Ida said that uncle Fugui wants to entertain guests. Don’t let me bother you here.”
When Liu Nier heard that Chen Ling was going to cook, she couldn’t help but swallow her saliva. Chen Ling’s cooking was delicious, and they knew better than anyone else.
But Wang Lixian had told him, but he had no guts to stay here.
After saying that, he turned around and ran out with a bunch of little kids.
"Hey, don't leave. Why are you running so fast?"
Seeing that he couldn't stay, Chen Ling had to chase after the slower ones and gave each of them a handful of candies.
"Liu Ni'er, why don't you go home to pick the watermelon when it's ripe?"
"Pick it, pick it the day after tomorrow. I'm afraid the rain will soak the melon, so I'm going to pick it early. . ”
The weather is changeable before and after the wheat is ripe, and it often rains heavily. If you soak the watermelons in the ground, they will lose their sweetness and will be difficult to sell, so the price will have to be lowered.
Chen Ling nodded when he heard this and kept it in his heart.
Wang Lixian asked the children to bring watermelons, but he definitely couldn’t give money to them. The two families are close and cannot always be measured by money, so he just wrote down this favor and waited for Wang Lixian’s family to collect the melons. When the time comes, just go and help yourself.
Back in the yard, Chen Ling soaked two large watermelons in a bucket, tied them with a rope and lowered them into the well.
It’s hot now, and the melons have been heated by the sun. It’s better to chill them in the well before eating.
I haven’t saved the manuscript yet, so I will continue writing
(End of this chapter)