Without Wang Dalong and others working here, there were only two people on the meadow, Lu Lu and Chen Xiuyu. It seemed that the whole world suddenly became quiet, and there was a very peaceful feeling.
Six well-fed hunting dogs were lying on the grass baking in the sun. Three lynx cubs, who were also full, were huddled together with Yuan Bao and the others, stretching out their paws to scratch the chins of the pups.
These two completely different species, in such a long period of contact, were not wary of each other.
After Lu Lu shoveled the greasy skin off the wolverine's fur and cleaned the frame, he took a good bath and changed into clean clothes. The strange smell that had stained his body was finally gone.
As for the set of clothes, Chen Xiuyu put them in a wooden basin and took them to the river. They soaped them and washed them, then placed them on rocks and beat them with a mallet.
The clothes Lu Lu had changed out of would always appear on the clothes drying rack with two stakes planted in the yard and two ropes tied to them in a short time whenever she saw them.
She is always so hardworking and tries her best to do what she can.
Lu Lu sat on the wooden pier in front of the cellar and looked at Chen Xiuyu, wondering why he had worked so hard for so long, but there was no child.
Chen Xiuyu must be fine.
Mine is long and thick enough, so I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it.
After thinking for a long time, he became more and more suspicious that there had been some changes due to his rebirth.
Or is it that the time has advanced and the fate with the child has not yet arrived.
Seeing Chen Xiuyu coming back with clothes, Lu Lu sighed slightly: Let's change positions in the evening.
After returning to the yard and helping Chen Xiuyu hang the washed clothes, Lu Lu was pulled by Chen Xiuyu to see the warehouse.
The two warehouses were connected together, and Lu Lu asked Wang Dalong and the others to build a bigger one and make the wooden doors very thick.
Lu Lu planned to use them to stock up on mountain products. One room was just for animal skins, and the other was for wild vegetables, mushrooms and the like.
What Chen Xiuyu took him to see was the warehouse where wild vegetables were kept.
Carefully processed and dried wild vegetables such as bracken, cucumber and wormwood sprouts, plus the mushrooms accumulated over time, there are already more than ten bags.
"All their belongings have been divided up, and the rest belongs to us."
Chen Xiuyu excitedly showed off the results of these days: "The wild vegetables this winter are enough to eat. And the vegetables I planted are growing very well. When winter comes, I will put them away in the cellar and store them again."
Buy some potatoes and radishes..."
This year, I got a bargain on the land from Chen Weiguo. In addition to the corn, there are also soybeans planted in the corn field. As for radishes, potatoes and the like, I can only buy them.
Things are quite simple, just run to the district when the time comes.
Every winter, many people come to sell these things at the district market. They are not as scarce as food and meat and require tickets. They are all grown on their own plots or small plots of land.
There was also a lot of food stored in the warehouse, mainly rice and white flour, each with two bags, and four or five bags of black beans, corn, and oil cakes for the livestock.
Every time they go to the district, both Lu Lu and Chen Xiuyu try their best to exchange money for tickets and buy food. However, this year's rice and corn are harvested, and after paying the public food, next year's food will not be a big problem.
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But you still need to buy as much as possible.
The twelve deer and the lonely deer in the meadow must be fed in winter. Corn stalks and straw must also be collected to feed horses, deer, etc.
Lu Lu thought about it carefully: "When this autumn hunting is over, the hazelnuts, pine nuts and other things in the mountains will be almost mature. When you go into the mountains, get more of these things, and we will collect some.
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"Why are you collecting these things?" Chen Xiuyu was a little confused.
"Next year, let's raise more flying dragons. If we can get it, we will also raise some other things. These pine nuts and other things can be used for feeding. We can make money at any time, but if we keep the money, we will just keep it.
Make it come alive and money begets money.”
These days, pine nuts, hazelnuts, etc. cannot be sold at a high price, so they can be converted into food for raising some precious and valuable small animals.
Chen Xiuyu was a smart person and understood Lu Lu's intention immediately, and nodded with joy.
Later, Lu Lu went to see the seven caged flying dragons, and then went to check on the black bees.
The boxes of honey were already packed full of honey. Looking at the layer of debris falling from the bottom of the box, Lu Lu knew that he had something to do.
The inside of the beehive must be cleaned frequently, and the nest foundation must be added when needed, otherwise the bees will mess up the honeycomb inside, which will be difficult to take care of.
Beekeeping seems simple, but in fact it requires a lot of patience and meticulousness. It is very common for all the bees to be destroyed in one fell swoop.
Throughout the afternoon, Lu Lu was busy with this matter. Chen Xiuyu also helped and learned how to take care of it from Lu Lu.
Near evening, Wang Demin walked in carrying a bag.
Lu Lu, who was still busy in the beehive, saw him coming. When Chen Xiuyu went to open the door for Wang Demin, Lu Lu shoveled off a piece of the honeycomb that had no nest foundation, built the nest spleen on the inner wall of the beehive, and added a new nest foundation.
Finally, after closing the beehive lid, he held several pieces of honeycombs filled with honey and walked towards Wang Demin.
"Uncle, why are you free to come here today?"
Lu Lu said, passing a piece of honeycomb honey in his hand to Wang Demin.
Wang Demin took the honey from the honeycomb, took a full bite with the honeycomb, chewed it comfortably, and then handed the bag in his hand to Lu Lu: "These are the medicinal materials needed to make tiger bone wine. It's a waste of time."
It took me a lot of effort to find it."
Lu Lu took the bag, opened it, looked at it, and said with a smile: "I will soak it in the evening... Master, sit in the room."
"Forget it, I think you have to be busy taking care of your bees..." Wang Demin hesitated.
"What am I busy with? Isn't there tomorrow for those things?"
Lu Lu took Wang Demin and walked home.
Wang Demin laughed: "I actually came here for the two jars of Lao Longkou that Brother Jiang sent to you... I didn't expect that this old man would actually hide such a good thing. Normally, he's not that person. You
It would be difficult to get some benefit from him.
You kid... I have never seen him take the initiative to give things to others, you should do it!"
While they were talking, the three of them followed each other into the house.
Chen Xiuyu ran into the kitchen first to start the fire and started preparing dinner.
Lu Lüze invited Wang Demin to sit on the kang: "If you like it, I will install some for you when you go back."
"I've been waiting for your words!" Wang Demin burst out laughing.
"You sit down first and I'll make you tea!"
When Wang Demin took off his shoes and sat cross-legged on the kang, Lu Lu turned around to get cups, tea leaves and a thermos.
But I heard Wang Demin shouting from behind: "What kind of tea are you making? Just pour the wine!"
Lu Lu was stunned for a moment, then looked back at Wang Demin: "I didn't even order any food or drinks to satisfy my stomach. I'm afraid it won't be good if I just drink like this!"
"Don't worry, I still have this sense of propriety. Alas, when I was at home these past two days, my little bastard came back and told your aunt that I should drink less wine. As a result, your aunt gave me all the wine and so on.
They're all locked up, which is killing me."
Wang Demin sighed as he spoke, as if he had been wronged a lot: "I am a barefoot doctor, and I know very well whether I can drink it. I am not the kind of person who doesn't know anything about drinking."
This was not the first time they had dinner together. Lu Lu knew that Wang Demin was really good at drinking wine in this regard and always controlled the amount to a suitable amount.
That is to say, when I came back from Zhang Guangcailing last time, a group of people gathered at Lu Lu's place, and they were all a little drunk. He couldn't help but asked: "Uncle, could it be that you were drunk at my place last time and was scolded by your aunt when you went back?"
Alright?"
"It's all nonsense, how dare she!" Wang Demin glared at Lu Lu.
When Lu Lu saw it, he immediately laughed: "You are obviously right, but look at you, your face is red, and you are so anxious... You can drink wine, but it must be in moderation. You have to promise, it's not that I can't bear it, it's
I'm really afraid that you can't bear it anymore and you're getting older after all."
"I'm as verbose as your aunt, okay, I got it, hurry up!"
Wang Demin urged.
Lu Lu went to the kitchen and asked Chen Xiuyu to fry some peanuts first. He used a small bowl to bring back two bowls of wine. As soon as he put them on the table, Wang Demin couldn't wait to take a sip: "Ah..."
As if having the wine in his stomach was such a refreshing thing, Lu Lu couldn't help but laugh.
Chen Xiuyu quickly brought the fried peanuts to the kang table. The two of them took chopsticks and ate the peanuts while drinking and chatting.
"I used to collect herbs in the mountains with two Shanyouzi, one named Zhuzi and the other Silly Roe Deer. Zhuzi said that if he was a man, he would know how to drink. Silly Roe Deer was also tempted and wanted to become a giant.
He used an old tactic - step by step, just like he believed that as long as he kept digging, he would be able to live a good life."
Wang Demin took a sip of wine and turned to look out the window.
Shanyouzi is the name given by the mountain people to people who often travel to the mountains to collect herbs and exchange goods for money. To put it simply, anyone who often wanders around in the mountains can be called Shanyouzi.
Seeing that Wang Demin's mood was a little abnormal, Lu Lu knew that he must have thought of something, so he didn't interrupt much and just listened silently.
When getting along with older people, Lu Lu always believes that being a qualified listener is the best respect for them.
After living a lifetime, everyone has his or her own story, some stories that are kept in the heart but feel uncomfortable and uncomfortable.
What they lack is someone who can hear their voices.
This is also the reason why the old man seems to visit Lulu Caodianzi more often.
"The silly roe deer took the time to dig a lot of skullcap in the mountains and dried it for more than two kilograms. He went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy old white stems and filled the marching water bottle slowly. He took it to the shack in the mountains and took a sip with every meal. He drank it for many days.
, drank it all, he felt that his drinking capacity should be improved.
On August 15th, the Mid-Autumn Festival, when we were returning the medicine we collected to the commune, we encountered a lot of excitement. The commune brought half a pig, a barrel of soybean oil, more than ten kilograms of wine, and five kilograms of moon cakes from the village.
Reward dozens of members who participated in the Wheat Harvest Competition.
People from the Revolutionary Committee also came to express their condolences.
But they are all mountain people, careless and confused. It doesn't matter what their eyesight is or who comes to eat with them. As long as they have something to eat, they are happy.
So, we set up two rows of tables with planks and wooden piers on the flat ground where the tractor turned around. This was the most spectacular open-air banquet ever held in the mountains."
When Wang Demin said this, he took another sip of wine, picked up four or five peanuts with chopsticks and chewed them in his mouth: "We also happened to have the opportunity, so we got some medicinal materials for them to stew, and successfully mixed them in.
Eat and drink. What do you think happened next?”
"You must be drunk!" Lu Lu said with a smile: "It's so easy to develop such a drinking capacity."
Wang Demin also laughed: "After the two mountains of oil were served on the table, before taking a few bites of the food, they held the 60-degree white dry and banged it. As a result, they quickly climbed down from the table, and then one of them carried it
I wanted to go up the mountain to hit the wild boar I saw, but one of them jumped into the water pool nearby and swam, haha... I couldn't even pull it back!"
Lu Lu was also amused and laughed. He thought it was a sad story, but he didn't expect it to be so happy.
But after listening to it, Lu Lu was also a little touched: It’s hard to be a man!