One morning, Zhang An and his father were busy pulling weeds in the fields.
In fact, every household in rural areas has tools like a rice rake, but this year there are too many duckweeds.
The rice rake is not very useful, so it is more convenient to pull it out directly.
At first, I pulled out a bunch of them, took them out of the paddy fields, and spread them on the roadside to dry in the sun.
But when the back was pulled inside, Zhang An was a little too lazy to run out.
Simply put all the uprooted duckweeds into the space and get rid of them later when you find time to go back.
Sure enough, Zhang An's hoeing speed was greatly accelerated because he didn't have to run around so much.
"Jianguo, Xiao An, you're not ready to go home for dinner yet."
Zhang Anzheng turned his back on what was going on around him and focused on uprooting the grass in the field.
Suddenly, he heard someone calling him, and when he looked up, he saw Mr. Huang on the road beside the field.
Zhang An looked at the time on his hand, and before he knew it, it was almost twelve o'clock.
"Second Master, why don't you go back and eat first? We'll be back soon."
Zhang Jianguo stood up and talked to Mr. Huang. He wanted to get involved some more and carry him out together.
"Let's go. Look, Xiao An is already here. He's probably here to call you back for dinner."
Hearing this, Zhang An raised his head and looked in the direction of the village, and sure enough he saw his mother walking towards the fields.
"Dad, let's go back to eat first. There isn't much left anyway."
In one morning, the father and his son finished hoeing a field.
In the end, only less than half of this piece was left.
If we come back after dinner in the afternoon, it won't take long to finish the hoeing.
Zhang Jianguo heard Zhang An shouting and did not stay in the field.
The father and son walked to the edge of the field and washed the mud off their feet in the ditch.
Maybe it's because Zhang An's calves are whiter and the blood tastes better.
So when Zhang An came out, there were two leeches lying on his calves, while Zhang Jianguo next to him had none on his legs.
Zhang An didn't tolerate them either, and slapped the two leeches to the ground.
The originally long locusts are now shrunk into a ball, looking short and thick, and are still squirming back and forth.
"Second Master, have you finished hoeing your fields?"
"No, there is too much grass this year. It will probably take several days to finish."
"There's no rush. Anyway, it's not time to hoe the buds in the past two days, so just take your time."
The corn that was planted before was only given a layer of fertilizer in the first two weeks.
As they grow longer, by July and August, the buds will be as tall as half a person.
At that time, it’s time to put in a second layer of fertilizer and go to the corn fields to weed.
Everything in the summer seems to have been arranged, starting with plowing the fields and planting rice seedlings.
After the work in the fields is done, they will go to the fields to plant corn.
After the corn is planted and the seedlings planted in the field have turned green and begun to grow, it is time to fertilize and hoe the field.
The work in the fields happened to be finished, and it was time to weed and fertilize the corns in the fields. This schedule seemed quite rushed.
But when I did it, I didn't feel so rushed. Everything seemed to be arranged and went according to plan.
After lunch, Zhang An and Zhang Jianguo were not in a hurry to go to the ground.
Now is not the busy time for farming, and there is no need to rush to do work.
Although it has not set yet, the sun in the sky cannot be underestimated.
If you go down to the ground under the sun in the middle of the day, you still can't stand it.
So the father and son simply moved a deck chair out, rested for half their pay, and went to the fields in the afternoon.
Under Zhang An's yard is a paddy field with rice seedlings planted.
The rice plants have grown in the past two days, and at a glance, there are green seedlings everywhere.
From time to time, you can see a few black-footed rails emerging from this paddy field, cooing.
Lying under the tree, facing the cool breeze blowing from the paddy field.
After blowing it on my body, I can obviously feel that it becomes extremely cool in this hot summer day.
Unknowingly, as the wind blew through the seedling leaves, making a rustling sound, Zhang An fell asleep quietly.
"Brother Xiao An, Brother Xiao An."
Zhang An was sleeping soundly when he heard a voice calling him.
"Why are you shouting? You're shouting for the soul."
Zhang An rubbed his eyes and realized that it was Zhang Tie and other naughty guys calling him.
Zhang An was suddenly awakened by someone who was sleeping soundly. Zhang An felt a little unhappy at the moment.
Zhang An was really a little annoyed, and he couldn't help but speak a little loudly, which startled the children next to him.
In their impression, Zhang An had not been angry with them for several years.
Ever since he returned to this era, Zhang An has never had a dream.
Unexpectedly, I just took a nap in this yard today and fell into a dream.
At this moment, he vaguely remembered in the dream that after he and Su Ying got married, their family lived happily together.
Normally, the two of them lived a life of plowing fields and weaving. This little life was simply too sweet to be true.
Within a few months of their marriage, Su Ying became pregnant with the heir to the old Zhang family.
Like a Bodhisattva, Zhang An worked hard, looking left and right, and finally waited for the day when his child was about to be born.
In the dream, he just saw the delivery room open, the doctor said that the mother and child were safe, and walked out with a little life in his arms.
Zhang An stepped forward with great anticipation and stretched out his hand to take his child.
But just when Zhang An was about to receive the child, Zhang An was woken up by the children.
All of a sudden, the scene in Zhang An's mind instantly changed from the hospital to his own yard.
Zhang An was so confused by this change that he didn't even see what the child in his dream looked like.
Zhang An really felt a little uncomfortable. Although it was in a dream, Zhang An was just a little bit able to see his child.
It was originally a very happy thing, even in a dream, Zhang An felt as happy as a flower.
Next time I want to see her, I might have to wait until Zhang An gets married and the child is born.
Zhang An doesn't dream easily, and he can't tell what he will dream about next time.
What's more, even if you dream, it may not still be this dream.
But after a while, Zhang An woke up.
Looking at the little monkeys standing in front of them who dared not move, they all looked trembling with fear.
Only then did Zhang An realize that he was indeed a bit irritable just now, which scared them all.
"Tell me, Zhang Tie, what do you want from me?"
Zhang An rubbed his eyes before asking in a gentle voice what they wanted from him.
"Well, we caught something."
Hearing that Zhang An's voice was not as fierce as before, a few Piwazi dared to speak.
"You found something again, take it out and show it to me."
Zhang Tie, a few skinny monkeys, often wanders around outside, and from time to time they will bring whatever they get to Zhang An.
Sometimes they are flowers and plants, sometimes they are small animals, including those swimming in the water, crawling on the ground, and flying in the sky.
They knew that Zhang An liked to keep things, so when they caught them, they showed them to Zhang An first.
"Here, this is it, a big fish."
Hearing Zhang An's words, Zhang Tiecai took out the things from behind with a playful smile.
"Where did you catch it?"
At this time, the thing Zhang Tie was holding in his hand was an old turtle that was bigger than the plate. Zhang An and his friends also called it turtle or soft-shelled turtle here.
Zhang An took it from Zhang Tie's hand. The old turtle's body was grayish-grey and slightly green.
The abdomen is grayish white, and some gray spots can be clearly seen.
This guy's head was a bit pointed, and Zhang An knew it would definitely bite people at a glance.
"At the end of the river at the back is the Niu Gun Pond."
Zhang An knew that the place Zhang Tie mentioned was not far from the village.
The river ditch behind Changqing Village flows down from the mountains behind it.
There is a place where the height difference is relatively large, it is estimated to be seven or eight meters high.
So where the water in the ditch reaches, it flows down high from above.
After a long time, a large pond formed below.
Maybe when it was named, the pond was just big enough for a buffalo to roll in it, so it was called Niu Gun Pond.
But in fact, no one drives the buffalo there to bathe and play in the water.
Because the river is right at the entrance of the village, there is no need to go so far.
"If you didn't go to class, why did you go to the ditch? Did you go to take a bath again?"
It's past two o'clock now. Normally, they should be sitting in the classroom.
"Brother, we finished the exam yesterday, let's go on summer vacation now, okay?"
Zhang Tie said to Zhang An somewhat proudly.
After summer vacation, they become wild horses and the family will have a headache.
"Oh, you guys are already on vacation."
Zhang An had nothing to say now. After all, everyone was on holiday, so he could play freely and boldly.
"You can take it back and let your dad sell it. You should be able to make some money."
Zhang An handed the old turtle in his hand to Zhang Tie. Although this thing is expensive, it can still be sold for some money.
"Brother, I won't sell it to my dad. He won't give me any money after selling it. You can keep it at home."
After following Zhang An for a long time, Zhang Tie also had some symptoms and wanted to keep whatever he could get.
For example, lobsters, mountain crabs and thrushes, he has quite a few at home now.
"There's no point in just keeping one, so let your dad take it back and sell it."
In Changqing, although there is a big river, there are not too many turtles.
If you want to catch two wild old turtles, you really have to work hard.
Although they live in the water, they often frequent the shore.
For example, when you lay eggs, you have to go ashore, not in the river.
Therefore, the places they like to stay are generally places with mudflats, making it easier for them to move ashore.
In the big river, traces of the old turtle's activities can only be seen in the flooded pond.
In other places, it is not easy to see because the river banks are steeper and the river is deeper.
But it's not impossible. Maybe you're lucky and you can catch an old turtle moving in the water if you cast a net.
"Who said there is only one stone? Hurry up and take out the stone."
When Zhang Tie heard that Zhang An didn't want to raise him, he quickly told his friends next to him.
Several little guys heard Zhang Tie's shout and took out the turtle hidden behind them.
Including Zhang Tie's largest one, there are four in total, although the following ones are much smaller.
"Did you raid this old turtle's house?"
Usually I find a lot of people there, but it's really rare to find four at once.
"No, when we went there, they were all basking in the sun with their heads raised on the rocks, so we caught them, but before we were done catching them, a few got into the mud pond."
Saying this, Zhang Tie looked regretful. They really wanted to kill everyone in the family.
Originally, Zhang An didn't want to raise it, because it was just one and it wouldn't breed if he kept it, and it wouldn't be interesting to raise it.
But Zhang Tie and the others brought out so many, Zhang An was shaken.
If you don't keep it first, it won't take much effort to throw it into space anyway.
Anyway, it’s not a bad thing to keep this thing. You never know when it will be used.
He collected a few turtles and threw them into the space when he returned home.
"Then I'll keep it for now and treat it as something I bought for you."
Zhang An said that he was going to pay some kids, even though they said they picked up the turtle.
But this thing is worth some money anyway, so I can't get it for free.
"Uncle An, we don't need money, can you show us the TV? We want to watch Oolong Yuan."
Several little guys said in unison that they didn't want money and wanted to watch TV.
Wulongyuan is one of those movies starring Shi Xiaolong and Hao Shaowen.
The last time he bought a TV, Zhang An bought a lot of classic Hong Kong movies.
After the monkeys listened to Zhang An's story, their attention turned from Journey to the West to this movie.
Even after watching it twice, everyone still wants to continue watching it.
Maybe it’s because Shi Xiaolong and Hao Shaowen in the play are about the same age as them, so it’s particularly easy to fit in.
After all, these kids are at the age of innocence now, and who doesn’t want to become someone like Chen Xiaolong?
Zhang An thought for a while and decided that he was not going to give them any money.
Now if you give them money, it will be spent at Zhang Xinmin’s canteen in a short time.
Just keep those turtles in the space first. When the turtles grow up, pick a few big ones and give them to a few of them.
At that time, even if they sell it to their family, they will be able to make more money.
"Okay, I'll release it for you."
When Zhang An told them to play TV for them, they all danced for joy.
All the little boys embraced Zhang An into the main room and sat on the bench in an orderly manner.
Waiting for Zhang An to turn on the TV and play the DVD for them.
Not only them, but also the great sage at home came over when they heard the TV was playing.
This guy's hearing is very good. When the TV is on, no one calls him, and he will run over by himself.
Usually when the TV is not on, he lies in his nest and sleeps.
I don’t have to worry about eating or drinking at all. Last time I picked peaches at Zhang An’s house.
The Great Sage helped Wang Fang pick it from the beginning to the end without stealing at all.
And Wang Fang liked it even more when she saw it picking peaches without eating them.
In fact, it's not that the Great Sage doesn't eat peaches secretly, but that he doesn't have any thoughts about the peaches outside.
Because it had eaten the fairy peaches in Zhang An's space before, and after eating one peach outside, it could no longer get into its eyes.
After all, monkeys themselves are very picky animals.
Usually when they eat peaches, they only eat the delicious part and throw away the rest.