With the help of more than ten people, the five acres of corn were finished early.
On weekdays, Lu Lu often delivers meat and other things to the villages. The good people in these places get more. Everyone is thinking about his good deeds. Now that they know that Chen Xiuyu is pregnant, seeing Lu Lu
When a person is working in the fields, he slows down his work and comes to help.
What kind of affection between each other can be regarded as accumulated.
In rural areas, favors are exchanged for favors, and everyone knows it in their hearts without saying it.
The five acres of corn, which I originally thought would take six or seven days to complete, was completed in one day.
After Chen Xiuqing chopped the corn for a while, he spent the rest of the time driving the carriage to transport the corn to Lu Lu's meadow.
Lu Lu's yard was large enough, and the barn had specially prepared shelves made of wood for stacking the corns. Just put the corns on top and let them dry. There was no need to tie up soft leaves and hang them up like on the farm.
After finishing the work in the fields, there is not much to do on weekdays. Grinding corn has become a daily thing for most people, mainly women and children.
Lu Lu didn't let Chen Xiuyu go to the fields, so she had to stay alone in Caodianzi and take care of a bunch of chores at home.
Not long after seeing Lu Lu go to the field, Chen Xiuqing sent a cart of corn. After asking about it, he found out that there were more than ten people helping to work in his field.
She hurried back to the kitchen and was busy preparing a lot of food. When it was almost noon, she asked Chen Xiuqing to deliver it to the fields.
The matter of harvesting corn is simply over.
In the following days, Lu Lu mainly accompanied Chen Xiuyu, taking care of household chores. He also went to the district twice to buy Chen Xiuyu some daily necessities and various fresh fruits.
If Chen Xiuyu was not pregnant, she would have asked Zhou Cuifen and the others to go into the mountains to pick pine cones together.
Picking pine cones is actually a very dangerous job.
There are many Korean pine trees in the Xing'an Mountains, but it takes nearly 20 years for the Korean pine trees to form pine towers. Often such trees have grown to be as thick as a person's arms and more than ten meters high. You have to climb up to pick them, which is quite dangerous.
This is actually not something that old ladies can do.
Even decades later, those who pick pine cones in the Northeast are mainly people from the Yunnan and Guizhou regions, and the picking time is only more than a month.
A pine cone can only produce a few pine nuts. Two big men who are good at climbing trees can pick five or six bags of pine cones after a busy day, which is considered quite good.
A bag of pine cones weighs more than a hundred kilograms, but the pine nuts that are finally peeled off only weigh a few kilograms.
In these mountains, many places have no road access at all, and you have to carry bags down the mountain, which is a very hard job.
It makes sense that pine nuts are expensive, and they are indeed hard to come by.
This matter can only be put aside for the time being. In a few years, when pine nuts start to be sold to various places, we can find people to pick them every year.
However, this is a good time for greyhound hunting.
Entering the red pine forest, you can see pine cones that have been picked out by greyhounds and chipmunks everywhere.
These little things are amazing. One of them can cook seven or eight pine cones in a day. Some of them are eaten and some are stored. However, they are quite forgetful. They often forget where the pine nuts they have hidden are, and they do a lot of useless work, causing constant trouble.
disaster.
Lu Lu finished his chores at home every day, and then rode Zhui Feng and led Yuan Bao and the others around in the surrounding red pine forests every day.
Once the farm work is over, most people are free. In the nearby red pine forest, you can see wooden traps with pine nuts as bait at the base of the trees everywhere, used to hunt greyhounds.
A greyhound skin costs eight or nine yuan. At this time of year, as long as you are not too unlucky, you can always get some greyhound skins and sell them for a lot of money.
Therefore, it was definitely not possible to go near the villages. With Zhui Feng around, Lu Lu went further, specially made a batch of yellow mud pellets, and wandered around the mountains and forests with a slingshot. He could always get more than ten greyhounds every day.
, compared with using splints, it is much more convenient and faster to set off the sleeves, and the gains are naturally huge.
I don’t know where these little things came from, just like smelling the scent of pine nuts. I can’t see them in a red pine forest today. If I come back tomorrow, there will always be new discoveries.
Even the rarer flying dragons that like to eat pine nuts can be seen from time to time, and Lu Lu will certainly not be polite.
Zhang Shaofeng's father, Jiang Zewei, and Wang Demin all like to eat Feilong very much. When Lu Lu gets it, he not only makes some at home to try, but also often gives some to them.
Hunters use their own methods to hunt these small animals.
Everyone knows that Lu Lu can play with a slingshot easily, can hit a greyhound without damaging its fur, and has a gold ingot to guide him. If he occasionally encounters someone on the mountain, he will immediately change direction and never go the same way as Lu Lu.
In just eight or nine days, there were a lot more greyhound skins inside the Immortal Pillar.
Unknowingly, the grass and trees in the mountains withered, leaves fell, and it suddenly became much emptyer.
Lu Lu was looking forward to the snow. It had snowed twice before. The blind bear was hibernating. When it was time to dig out the barn, the footprints of sables on the snow were clearly visible. It was a good time to catch sables.
Xiaoxinganling is the main sable-producing area. In the entire Northeast, nearly half of the mink pelts come from Xiaoxinganling every year. If you don't make a fortune this winter, you will be sorry for this product.
Mink fur is valuable!
The weather this year has been very good. In just eight or nine days, almost everyone has gathered their corn, pulled back the straw from the fields, and brought back the corn stalks and piled them up. The farm work in the fields has been completed.
In the morning, he accompanied Chen Xiuyu for a walk in the meadow, fed the flying dragons and chickens, inspected the fence, and had breakfast. Lu Lu was just about to call Zhuifeng into the mountain when Chen Xiuqing came to find him.
This guy has been wandering around Tuntung and Xiangshuixi Forest Farms a lot during this time, taking off splints and shooting with slingshots, and he also got a lot of greyhound fur.
"Brother Lu, would you like to go up the mountain to play pongzi?" Chen Xiuqing asked as soon as he entered the gate.
In order to solve the problem of keeping cats warm in the winter, going up the mountain to beat firewood and burning fire dragons is something that must be done every year.
If the big kang is not hot, then this winter will be difficult.
There is no shortage of firewood here in Lu Lu.
When building fences on the two ridges, a lot of trees were cut down. In addition to the ones used to build the fences, there was also a lot of firewood left. He had a chain saw in his hand, and he could make a lot of it in one day. The yard was leaning against the fence.
I just make a little bit of it every day, and it’s already piled up.
Lu Lu also had some concerns in his own mind. After all, these firewood were just firewood and could not withstand burning. He was going to ask someone to bring back some coal. There were people burning charcoal on the mountain, so he was also going to buy some. He could use it to bake a brazier at home or make a fire pit.
It's also convenient for barbecue and other things.
You must be fully prepared to ensure your home’s heating.
She didn't want Chen Xiuyu to get sick at this stage.
"I thought you were here to find Yanzi!" Lu Lu said with a smile.
Chen Xiuqing smiled and scratched her head: "I actually wanted to come to you to borrow a chainsaw!"
Larch firewood is easy to split and resistant to burning, so it is the first choice for making forks. You have to go into the mountains to saw down the tree, cut off the branches, cut it into two to three meter logs, carry them down the mountain, and use a car to pull them home.
Cut the tree stumps into forty to fifty centimeters, split them into firewood with a big ax, and stack them up.
It's too strenuous to use a big-bellied saw or an axe, but with a chain saw, it's different. You can do several days of work in a day.
"I have some news for you!" Lu Lu deliberately teased him: "Do you want to hear it?"
"What news?" Chen Xiuqing looked confused.
"The swallow agreed to marry!"
Chen Xiuqing was busy working in the fields during this period, but Lu Lu never told him about this.
"Ah...who are you marrying? When will it happen?"
Upon hearing the news, Chen Xiuqing was stunned for a moment, and then immediately became anxious.
Seeing him like that, Lu Lu suddenly laughed, and even Chen Xiuyu who was standing by was amused.
"Who else could it be, isn't it you?" Lu Lu said with a smile.
"Ah..." Chen Xiuqing was stunned again.
"Look at you, you're like a tiger. What are you doing? Take the time to prepare the ordered tobacco, wine, sugar and tea. Ask Uncle Wang to be your matchmaker and help you make a trip. Remember to say hello to me when you have chosen a date so that I can follow you.
Brother Wang said, let them be prepared."
Seeing his dumbfounded look, Lu Lu felt even more amused.
Chen Xiuqing still couldn't react and just scratched her head.
"A few days ago, Brother Lu told Brother Wang about you and Yanzi. Brother Wang and his family have already agreed. You just need to invite a matchmaker to come to propose marriage!" Chen Xiuyu explained.
At this time, Chen Xiuqing finally understood, but she still couldn't believe it: "Really?"
"Isn't this nonsense? Of course it's true." Lu Lu rolled his eyes at him: "I don't want you to stare at the little girl in surprise when you see her peeing!"
Chen Xiuqing suddenly became extremely embarrassed. He had always been brooding about this matter. From that day on, he only met Wang Yan once when he was helping Lu Lu break cornmeal, but he didn't even dare to say a word.
Now he actually heard Lu Lu say that the matter was settled. After being slightly embarrassed, he turned around and ran back excitedly.
"What are you doing?" Lu Lu asked loudly from behind.
"I'm going shopping today!"
"No more chain saws?"
“Come and get it another day!”
Chen Xiuqing rode off on his Oroqen horse without looking back. He looked so impatient that Lu Lu shook his head.
Chen Xiuyu asked at this moment: "Brother Lu, what did you say just now that my brother saw a little girl peeing?"
Lu Lu immediately smiled and told the story about how Chen Xiuqing helped guard the house, bumped into Wang Yan in the mountains, and was chased by Zhao Meiling with a stick. Chen Xiuyu also laughed and laughed.
"Okay, stay at home well. You can go to the village to visit if you have nothing to do. Don't be busy at home rolling corn all day. Look at your hands, they are covered with thick calluses. Take a proper rest.
Be careful, don’t run or jump!”
In the past few days, Chen Xiuyu went to the barn to rub the corn kernels when she had nothing to do. There was no tool to remove the corn kernels, so she had to do it all by hand, which was not only slow but also hurt her hands.
"No... If you go to visit at this time, which one is not grinding corns? When you go to other people's houses, you can't let others work and I watch from the side. I might as well be at home. I can do whatever I can.
"Chen Xiuyu shook her head and said.
"I'm mainly afraid that you'll be bored!"
"It's okay, you have to be careful when entering the mountains!"
While the couple was talking, suddenly Yuan Bao shouted.
Lu Lu glanced at Yuan Bao, then raised his head and looked towards the ridge on the opposite side. He saw Jiang Xianchang walking across the ridge with his hands behind his back. He glanced at Caodianzi from time to time, and then quickly walked down the ridge on the back.
Seeing this situation, Lu Lu couldn't help but frown slightly.
"Be careful with this person!" Lu Lu reminded.
"What's wrong?"
Chen Xiuyu didn't think about the complexity of the matter. It was a normal thing for someone to pass by Caodianzi.
"Do you still remember the shopkeeper of the Lao Jin Car Shop? I don't think that person has a good background. Jiang Xianchang is probably acquainted with him. I'm afraid he is not a good guy. This person was injured because of a nail in his foot.
There must be resentment against me in your heart, so you have to be careful."
"Well..." Chen Xiuyu knew these things.
Moreover, before Lu Lu came, as next-door neighbors, the two families had never dealt with each other, and they were often bullied by them.
I don’t have a good impression of Jiang Xianchang and Chen Xiuyu at all.
"He's been walking here a lot these days. I heard he's playing plowing in the mountains."
"You want to go this way? You can't get there even with a plow, and there is no road for carriages to go on the ridge..." Lu Lu frowned even more tightly.
"Whatever, maybe he is just passing by... Besides, what can he do to us? Do you think he could bully us casually before? If he dares to take advantage of our family, I will hit his door!
"
Lu Lu glared at her: "Don't act recklessly. Just pay more attention. If you find any problem, wait until I come back to deal with it. Do you hear me?"
With Chen Xiuyu's fierceness in hitting Zhu Chunmei, Lu Lu had no doubt that she could do it.