Chapter 121 Su Su sells vegetables
When she heard that hunting was going on, Liu Nier was so happy that she pestered Wang Lixian to catch two more sika deer for him.
When Wang Lixian was hunting two years ago, he brought back an injured doe. Since the deer was pregnant with the fawn, he did not kill it for meat. After the injury was healed, he sent it to the mountains and let it go. Liu Nier has been thinking about it until now.
Wang Lixian was so annoyed that he couldn't stand it anymore, so he said he would catch him if he met him. Liu Nier was still afraid of not being safe, so she ran to Chen Ling and asked if Heiwa and Xiaojin would follow during the hunt. .
After receiving Chen Ling's affirmative response, he put his heart in his stomach. This look made Wang Lixian almost want to slap him again. This guy, even with his ability as a prostitute, is even worse. How about two dogs?
Staring at Liu Ni'er fiercely, Wang Lixian said to Chen Ling: "Remember to take the badger skin back later. Let the remaining oil cool down at night before refining it, otherwise it will be too hot today."
"It's okay. Brother Pizi Xian, you can keep it. I want that thing to be of no use. Just refine the badger seed oil and share it with me."
Chen Ling smiled, he knew that badger seed skin could be sold for money. , but didn’t care at all.
Turn around and fish out another half bowl of meat, mix it with noodles and eat it with garlic cloves.
After eating, Wang Susu helped wash the pots and dishes, and the young couple accompanied Wang Lixian and the big family to make household chores under the shade of the tree.
It's just that the weather is hot, and Aunt Wang is getting old, so she must take a rest after lunch.
After sitting for a while, Chen Ling took Wang Susu and took the two dogs back home.
After the weather cooled down in the afternoon, he went to the fields to take a look. There was no movement in the badger cave. Chen Ling went to the cemetery again and found that except for a few nests of mountain beavers, there was no trace of them. The sight of the badgers probably scared them so much from what happened in the morning that they no longer dare to live near here anymore.
That’s good, he won’t have to worry about planting anything.
Then he hoeed and watered the more than three acres of vegetable land twice. Seeing that it was getting dark, he didn't stay any longer.
It was the same for the next few days. I got up early in the morning and went to do the work in the evening. At other times, I helped Wang Susu clean up the chores at home. Since the house was going to be rebuilt, the miscellaneous things had to be cleared out early to avoid delaying the work later.
Just like that, within a few days, the backyard was cleaned up, and the vegetable plot was rejuvenated. Tomatoes turned red and hung all over the branches. Luffa, beans, and eggplants were also as big as each other. The leek seedlings have thick leaves and are crowded together in ridges, which is very pleasing to the eye.
It is Chen Ling who carries a sprayer every day this time. Even if he only sprays at the roots, he is a little too diligent, which makes these vegetables grow too vigorously.
The scattered vegetable plots add up to about three acres of vegetable land. As a result, there are more vegetables than other people’s four or five acres of vegetable land, and they are not within the cave. If they are not harvested in time, these vegetables will become old. Oh, it was a little too late when Chen Ling realized this problem.
Although Wang Susu has not had time to go to the fields to see it these days, these vegetables were grown by the two of them, so she will not doubt anything.
But there are so many vegetables that the young couple cannot handle alone.
So they called Wang Lixian and Wang Jusheng for help.
I didn’t expect this to be so loud. The two brothers Chen Yuqiang and Chen Ze all came. No matter how much vegetables are produced on more than three acres of land, they can’t handle so many people. Qishou The eight-legged ones were quickly filled into three carts and transported back to Chen Ling.
After two or three trips back and forth, half the yard was filled with leeks, tomatoes, eggplants, loofah, and beans.
At this time, the sky was slightly dark, and Chen Ling prepared to save a meal, but no one agreed. However, after dinner, these people came again, followed by the daughter-in-law, girl, and mother-in-law at home. Each of them brought a bench and a small horse.
Chen Ling’s family has a lot of vegetables in many styles. If they want to sell them in the county, they have to pack them separately.
If only Wang Lixian and Wang Jusheng could help, they might not be able to finish the work until midnight.
"Stop packing baskets, put them in bags. You will not be able to put them in baskets. Go to the morning market in the county at night and at least sell the leeks first. The leeks cannot be stored for a long time."
"Okay, let's put the bags in. I'll go to Cui Laizi to borrow some snakeskin bags."
"Borrow me whatever you want. No need to borrow them. Yingqiang brought them to you. He grinds noodles every day. Bags There are so many.”
Chen Guoping finished smoking a pot of cigarettes, knocked the handle of the pipe and put it down, and got ready to work.
After Chen Ling helped Wang Jusheng build a house, he also went to help Yu Qiang and his two brothers at home for two days. After all, he and Yu Qiang are neighbors and have been very close to each other this year, so it would be unreasonable not to help.
So the whole family is here today. Even if they don’t want to come to Chen Ling’s house to fetch water, they still have to come for this.
So after Chen Yingqiang came back with the urea bag, Chen Ling turned on the two electric lights in the yard, lit the match, and a large group of people started working in the yard.
Some people bundled leeks, beans and other things, some held their pockets, and some put them in bags. It was really exciting.
"This guy is going to get rich. Our vegetable garden has been flooded. You are the only one who has nothing to do with your vegetable. If you bring it to the county seat, you will definitely sell it for a lot of money."
"I am also lucky. There are many trees and dense grass at the base of the mountain, blocking it.”
“Hahaha, you are not just lucky, the saplings were planted in the first year. You can try it next year and plant vegetables in the open space in the forest. , it’s strange that it can grow.”
Chen Ling’s method is interplanting in the forest.
When the saplings are small, they have no impact. But when the saplings grow up, the shade is too large and the sun is blocked. The roots of the trees will take away nutrients from the soil, and the vegetables will not grow well.
Chen Ling just smiled and said nothing. He naturally knew this truth, but who gave him the cave to rely on.
"Susu, you two are going to get rich this year. Hurry up and get married. Next time your parents come, give them a fright."
"Why are you so frightened?" The baby is a blessing, but you are a heartless woman who can’t say anything nice.”
“Not sure, what if Su Su gives birth to seven or eight babies? , Don’t be surprised.”
“Hahaha, I’m afraid Fugui doesn’t have that ability.” “Why? Fugui is old and strong, so he can.”
"Ouch, his sister-in-law, have you tried this?"
"Go, go, go, talk nonsense again and I will tear your slut's mouth apart, say anything dirty or vegetarian. , I’m not ashamed.”
As they worked and chatted, the women and daughters-in-law worked harder and harder, which made Wang Susu blush so much that she didn’t dare to talk to her at all.
Tonight, the men were teasing Chen Ling, and the women were teasing Wang Susu. The atmosphere was extremely lively. Even though they were exhausted and sweating, they all had bright smiles on their faces.
"It hasn't been so lively for a long time. It reminds me of the time when we had a big pot of rice."
Some elderly people expressed emotion.
There were many echoes around me, and then everyone stopped joking and listened to several old people talking about things from their youth.
Slowly, more than three hours passed, and by about ten o'clock, the vegetables that filled half the yard were packed away, packed in bags, and stacked neatly under the tree.
The bags filled with leeks are placed on the bullock cart and tied with ropes. These have to be sold at the morning market at night, otherwise the leeks will rot if the weather is hot and stuffy for a long time.
There are half a cart of leeks, and the rest are packed in several bags, making up a full cart.
After all the work was done and everyone dispersed, Chen Ling cleaned the yard and said to Wang Susu: "There were a lot of people just now. We asked us to take some vegetables back, but no one was embarrassed to ask for them. We will give them to them tomorrow." Give some to each family."
"Yes, I know."
Wang Susu nodded and wiped the sweat from his face with a cool wet towel: "Are you tired? We have to catch the morning market at night, so just take a shower and go to bed.”
“I’m not tired. I’ve been idle for half a year and it’s not a bad thing to be busy for a few days.”
Chen Ling smiled. After sweeping the yard, he took the towel from Wang Susu and washed his body with cold water.
Then I helped Wang Susu wash her hair. She had long braids that she had left before she got married, and she couldn't bear to cut them. Washing her own hair was very time-consuming. It was Chen Ling who came to help her these days.
After the two of them had washed up, it was almost eleven o'clock at night, so they lit a match again, carried the bed to the courtyard, and slept in their clothes.
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At three o'clock in the morning, in the dead of night, a silver moon hangs in the sky, reflecting brightly in the night sky.
Wang Susu got up from the bed and rubbed her eyes.
"Aling, it's time to get up, we have to rush to the morning market."
Chen Ling responded, got up from the bed, went back to the house to get the bag with money, and filled a bottle of cold water. Wang Susu went to feed the cow.
After cleaning up, the two locked the door, took the dog, and drove the ox cart to the county seat.
After a flood, the dam of the reservoir and the mountain road were not easy to walk on. The oxcart swayed with a bang, which made Chen Ling's butt hurt, and Wang Susu was not much better.
Chen Ling held his daughter-in-law in his arms and asked her to turn on the flashlight. In fact, Xiaobai Niu could see the road clearly at night without using the light of the flashlight, but Wang Susu didn't know that, so she still felt at ease.
As we get further and further away from the village, there are more and more flowers, plants and trees on both sides of the mountain road.
Under the moonlight, crickets, crickets and various summer insects chirped loudly among the weeds on both sides of the mountain road.
From time to time, small flying insects would fly around the flashlight, casting shadows swaying back and forth on the ground, making the two dogs curious and trotting in hot pursuit.
It wasn't until they passed a mountain ridge that they got tired of playing and ran around the oxcart, looking for bugs and four-legged snakes in the grass beside the mountain road to play with.
The two dogs have been very energetic since they were young, and soon they started barking.
Chen Ling thought they were fighting over some gadget, but he didn't notice that Hei Wa and Xiao Jin were standing behind the cart with their noses raised and looking in a distant direction. Sniffing fiercely, he didn't know what he smelled, his eyes suddenly became sharp, and Xiao Jin raised his neck and howled.
Chen Ling then realized something was wrong. The last time Xiao Jin made such a cry was when Chen Erzhu brought someone into the house to steal something.
He looked left and right, but didn't notice anything special happening around him.
When I was wondering, I heard a long and desolate howling sound of "Ouch--".
Chen Ling was stunned immediately.
Wang Susu's eyes widened for a moment, and she felt a chill running down her spine, and she froze in Chen Ling's arms.
"Wolf, Aling, it's a wolf."
Soon Wang Susu came back to her senses, her face turned pale and her voice trembled.
(End of this chapter)