Bai Lu is not stupid, she naturally knows what these girls are thinking.
However, she felt that Wen Nian was still young and it was better to let things like this happen naturally, so she did not point it out.
After sending the girl who delivered the matches away, she went to the yard to take a look at the water and fertilizer that had been soaked before. She felt that it was almost done. She was about to start planting vegetables, but suddenly she realized that there was no hoe at home, not only no hoe, but also no other agricultural tools.
"Jianmin..." Bai Lu ran to the pigsty that had not yet been built.
Su Jianmin squatted in a corner of the pigsty, mixing mud at the moment, preparing to reinforce a mud wall on the outer layer of the wooden fence to prevent the pigs from knocking over the wooden fence and running out.
Hearing his wife's voice, he raised his head in doubt, "What's wrong?"
“I don’t have a hoe at home, so I can’t plow the ground to grow vegetables. I don’t know where to buy a hoe.”
"The supply and marketing cooperatives don't see any for sale," Su Jianmin said, "How about I find a way to find someone to borrow it? Aqiang should be willing to borrow it."
Bai Lu felt that it was not good to ask someone to borrow a hoe. "They use these farm tools every day. We still need to prepare a copy at home. What should we do if we don't have a hoe or ax in the countryside? We need to burn firewood for cooking every day, and we can't just pick up branches all the time."
?The branches are not burned."
"Yes, you must have an axe. You will need to chop wood in the future, as well as sickles and poles. At the moment, the pigs are still in the production team and have not been sent to our house. After a few days of raising pigs, we will have to cut them every day.
As for the grass, it can't be done without a sickle."
While talking, Su Jianmin put the remaining mud on his hand onto the fence to form a wall.
After getting up and washing his hands, he said to his wife: "Well, I will go to the village and ask where there are farm tools for sale. This thing must be for sale. If it is not available in the town, it must be available in the county."
After saying that, he looked around for a while and asked, "Where is Jin Bao?"
"Jinbao, Xiaosi, Xiaowu and the others went to the river to catch fish. They carried a big bucket with them."
Speaking of this, Bai Lu couldn't help laughing, "Are these kids trying to catch all the fish in the river?"
"Hahaha, since Jinbao is here, we can have fish soup at night." Su Jianmin said with a smile.
Thinking of Wen Nian, he asked in a low voice: "A little girl came to see him again today?"
"Well, one came in the morning, and another came in the afternoon..." Bai Lu said, "I stared at Wennian for a long time. Wennian was embarrassed by them and walked upstairs alone."
"Girls in rural areas are thin-skinned."
Bai Lu smiled and said, "Wen Nian is a thinner family."
"It's not good for Wen Nian to be like this. He doesn't go out and doesn't meet friends. He sits on the second floor painting every day."
"It's rare that the scenery here is so beautiful. It's good that he can calm down and paint more. Like Van Gogh, many of his famous paintings are rural scenery. I especially like the "Harvest", it's so beautiful."
Su Jianmin was stunned, "Van Gogh? Who is he?"
"He's a famous painter in the Netherlands. I've only seen his imitations. His original paintings are too expensive. Only very wealthy collectors can afford them." Feeling that the topic had gone off the rails, Bai Lu said, "Anyway, we
When it comes to supporting Wen Nian, painters are lonely. If even his own family doesn't support or understand him, he will definitely feel very sad."
"Of course I support Wennian's painting, but I also want him to make more friends."
Talking about painting, he remembered that yesterday he saw Wen Nian squeezing out all the paint for a long time when he was painting. He felt that when he went to the county bank to save money in the next few days, he would have to find time to go to the department store.
See if there are any paints for sale.
There are really too many things that need to be purchased at home, such as cupboards, beds, dining tables...
Now they still use the old table left by the previous owner to eat, which is almost eaten by termites.
Hey! I don’t know how much it will cost. When the remaining money is deposited in the bank, I guess there won’t be the 12 yuan interest that Jinbao mentioned in a month.
When he was worried, Jinbao and her two brothers had just walked to a river.
Seeing the fourth brother running the fastest with the bucket, Jin Bao hurriedly said: "Don't worry, fourth brother, please don't fall."
As soon as she finished speaking, Su Xiaosi slipped and sat down on the ground.
"Fourth brother, are you okay?" Su Xiaowu hurriedly tried to help him up.
"It's okay, it doesn't hurt at all..."
Su Xiaosi patted her butt, "I didn't expect the ground by the river to be so slippery."
"Of course the river is slippery. You should try to choose a place with grass, rocks and sand to walk."
Su Xiaowu said, turning back to pull his sister to prevent Jinbao from accidentally falling, "Jinbao, slow down..."
The three children walked slowly along a slope to the river and saw that the river was crystal clear and the water was sparkling under the sunlight.
The pebbles on the bottom of the water are smooth and translucent, and green water plants are swaying lightly among the stones.
"Ah! There is a fish under the stone!" Su Xiaosi said, "But it's so small."
"If the water is clear, there will be no fish. This water is so clear, the big fish must have been taken away long ago, and only the small fish are left."
After hearing what his sister said, Su Xiaosi's eyes suddenly filled with disappointment, "I also wanted to catch a lot of big fish to take home, so I specially brought such a big bucket. Alas, such small fish are not big enough to fill my teeth.
Just sew."
Jinbao didn't want his fourth brother to be so sad, so he stared at the river for a while. Among the dense aquatic plants, a red carp appeared out of thin air. It had a white belly and a red back. It was particularly beautiful.
In order for the fourth brother to discover it by himself, she deliberately moved her gaze to other places and pretended not to see it.
"Ah! Jinbao, Xiaowu, look, are the red things in the water plants over there fish?" Su Xiaosi was particularly excited.
Jinbao held back his laughter and pretended to be surprised, "It seems to be a fish..."
"It's just a fish!" Su Xiaowu confirmed.
Because the distance was quite far, he took off his shoes and socks, rolled up his trouser legs, and prepared to fish in the river.
Jin Bao worriedly pulled her fifth brother, "Let's wait until it swims over by itself. The river looks shallow, maybe it's very deep."
Su Xiaosi had also taken off his shoes at this time, "I'm going to catch fish, Xiao Wu, you wait on the shore."
After he finished speaking, he stepped into the water. Unexpectedly, after taking only a few steps, the river water directly covered his thighs. He was so frightened that he dared not continue walking. He froze in place and stared at the carp one meter away.
look.
Just when he thought he was going to be embarrassed in front of his sister, the red carp swam in his direction.
"Ah! It's coming towards me!" Su Xiaosi said happily, slowly bending down and preparing to catch the fish with his bare hands.
When the carp was less than half a meter away from Xiaosi, a group of children came from the other side. They seemed to have discovered the carp. One of them, a little boy who was a head taller than his peers, jumped into the river like a string from a bow, "
With a swish, he swam in the direction of the carp.
His speed was extremely fast, and before Su Xiaosi could react, he suddenly jumped out of the river like a crocodile.
"Pfft!" Su Xiaosi was splashed with water and was completely wet from head to toe. When he wiped the water from his face, he found that the red carp he saw first had been snatched away by the boy in front of him who was about the same height as him.