slack farmer in the wasteland

Chapter 177 Sketch base?

Under the afterglow of the setting sun, Cang Hai arrived at the entrance of the village on a flatbed truck.

"Stop, stop!" Qu Guowei shouted loudly.

Cang Hai stopped the ugly donkey, turned to the old man and asked, "Qu Bo, what are you doing?"

"Come on, go over there and see what tricks they are doing in the river." Qu Guowei pointed to the small river at the entrance of the village.

Cang Hai raised his head to look, and found that his wife Qin Lingling and his junior sister Guan Lin were bending over to pick up something in the creek. As for the leader, of course, was Ping An.

"Touching the snails, they must be touching the snails," Cang Hai said.

Qu Guowei patted Cang Hai on the shoulder: "I know how to touch the snails, let's go over and have a look, just like Miss Qin Lingling, taking the little girl Guan Lin to touch the snails? Is it enough for the tooth festival at night? Hurry up." Yes, in the past you, Qu Bo, showed you something."

Cang Hai heard a few underworld words on his forehead, and thought: You old man, if you want to play along, just say it, no one else can do it, you can do it!

Now Cang Hai finally understands why there is a word called an old boy. Today, he took Qu Guowei for a walk. The old man was like a child. He fished for a while, and then went to pick wild fruits. He would be stunned because he wanted to climb a tree to dig out a bird's nest, and he didn't even look at him who was almost sixty. Would he dare to climb a tree several meters high?

"Hurry up!" Qu Guowei patted Cang Hai's shoulder again.

Guan Qidong also opened his mouth at this time and said: "Go over and have a look, I haven't touched a snail for a long time."

When the teacher said this, Cang Hai naturally had to obey. He patted the ugly donkey's buttocks lightly, gave a drink, and the ugly donkey pulled the cart along the river and trotted towards the upstream of the creek.

Arriving at the side of Qin Lingling's group, Qu Guowei jumped off the cart, bent over with his hands behind his back, and asked the people in the creek, "What are you doing?"

"Catch the bugs!" Guan Lin raised her head and saw the three Cang Hai people coming over, she stretched out her hand and waved the things in her hand as if showing off.

The worm in Guan Lin's hand was about a finger long and as thick as chopsticks, dangling in the little girl's hand.

"What is this?" Qu Guowei originally thought that everyone was touching snails, but he didn't expect that they were catching bugs in the water.

Cang Hai knew what it was at a glance. In his hometown, this thing is called water beggar. In fact, it is the larva of a dragonfly, which is the young form of a dragonfly flying in the sky. This thing needs at least one year in the water. It takes at most five, six, seven or eight years to grow into a dragonfly with long wings flying in the sky.

"Why catch it?" Cang Hai scratched his head a little bit, this thing is a beneficial insect, Cang Hai thinks it should be protected, of course it's because Cang Hai is not used to eating this kind of thing, like frogs like to eat, Cang Hai will get it from time to time Have some teeth-beating festivals.

Qin Lingling said with a smile: "When I was young, my family often went to the river to catch this thing and fry it. It tastes very good. When Ping An brought us to touch the snails, I found that there were quite a lot of them in the river, so I touched some and prepared to serve them to you at night. Dishes".

Cang Hai is also embarrassed to tell his wife that these are beneficial insects, we don't want to eat them, and his family came here with great difficulty, so just eat them.

Guan Qidong was knowledgeable after all, and he opened his mouth and said: "This is a beneficial insect. It seems to eat mosquito larvae in the water, and when it grows up to be a dragonfly, it almost eats mosquitoes in the air. It is not good to eat it."

Qin Lingling smiled and said: "Let's just eat a little, it's not like we've eaten up all these things, there are quite a lot in this river. You see, we caught about forty of them just after a while." ".

Qu Guowei had already taken off his shoes at this time, rolled up the corners of his trousers and went into the creek, and said as he walked, "It's okay for us to eat less. Didn't Cang Hai take us to catch a few big frogs today?" What."

"Frog?" Guan Lin threw the water beggar in her hand into the small bamboo basket on Ping'an's waist, waded to the side of the cart, and asked with her head stretched out, "Where is the frog?"

Cang Hai smiled and said, "Haven't you ever seen a frog?"

"Of course I've seen frogs, but they're all small. I heard from Ping An that the frogs here are about the same size as bullfrogs..." Guan Lin said.

Cang Hai stretched out his hand and pointed at the red bucket with a lid on the cart with a smile: "Where is it?"

Guan Lin lifted the lid of the red bucket, glanced at it and said loudly to Qin Lingling: "Mom, Mom, come and have a look, what a big frog."

Ping An looked up at Guan Lin proudly and said, "I'm not wrong, am I?"

Curiously, Qin Lingling rinsed the water she had just touched in the stream twice, threw it into the basket on Ping An's waist, and then walked ashore: "What's so interesting about frogs is that they're bigger."

"Oh, such a big frog really looks like a bullfrog." Qin Lingling couldn't help but exclaimed when she saw the frog in the barrel.

There is a difference between a frog and a bullfrog. The biggest difference in appearance is the body shape. The bullfrog is fat, and it looks like a big toad. The belly is white, and the small body squatting on the ground looks quite slender.

"Cang Hai said to make a red oil frog for everyone at night," Guan Qidong said.

Qin Lingling asked, "Isn't it a pity to eat such a big frog?"

Cang Hai interfaced and said: "Master, I still have a lot of these things over there, and I don't plan to sell them for money. I can't eat them all by myself."

There are quite a lot of this kind of big frogs in Fenghuanggou and Jiazituo’s ponds. Walking two steps along the side of the pond, you can find one lying in the water plants. If Canghai is only used to entertain guests instead of selling it , how can this thing be eaten up, even if it is sold, as long as it is not a dry lake, it is no problem.

At this moment, Qu Guowei's scream was suddenly heard, and everyone's eyes were immediately attracted to him.

Qu Guowei, who was standing in the stream, now clasped his fingers and shouted loudly: "This thing still bites!"

Qin Lingling smiled and said: "You have to be careful when you catch it."

After hearing this, Guan Lin laughed and shouted: "Uncle Qu is so stupid".

Qu Guowei flicked his fingers twice, and shouted to Guan Qidong with a smile: "Old Guan, you also come down to play, this stream is quite cool."

Guan Qidong waved his hands and replied: "You should play by yourself, I'm fine now, and don't catch too many, just catch a little, there were so many meat skewers left yesterday."

After hearing this, Qin Lingling asked Cang Hai: "In such a hot day, it won't be a problem for you to put the meat skewers in the water tower, right?"

When Cang Hai heard this, he immediately patted his chest and assured his wife: "It's okay, it will be fine after three or four days, everyone in our village puts fresh meat in the water tower, and I will show you to see it later. If it is put in the refrigerator, it will not taste good when it is frozen, and it will be like fresh meat if it is put in the water tower for two or three days."

After hearing this, Guan Qidong asked: "You can preserve meat in that water tower, and the temperature is low enough."

Cang Hai smiled and said, "It's easy to catch a cold if you stay in this weather for a long time."

"Then go and have a look, okay, you guys are here to catch bugs, let's go to the water tower to have a look." Guan Qidong became interested when he heard that, he is engaged in construction, and he is very interested in all aspects of construction. I really want to see the matter of going to the water tower. Who knows that I forgot about it early this morning, but now I heard that it was brought up again, so the interest came up again.

Qin Lingling opened her mouth and said, "I'll go and have a look too."

Anyway, it was at the entrance of the village, and there was nothing far away, so Cang Hai drove the cart to the village, and walked directly along the river to the side of the water tower.

He stretched out his hand and opened the door of the water tower, and immediately a gust of cool air hit his face.

"Hey! It's really cool." Guan Qidong was stunned for a moment, raised his foot, and followed Cang Hai into it.

"Teacher, watch out for the top of your head!"

Cang Hai's words hadn't finished yet, Guan Qidong's head came into intimate contact with a salted fish hanging above his head.

Guan Qidong pushed aside the salted fish, and when he looked up, he saw a lot of fish and meat hanging in the stomach of the water tower, the most of which was fresh mutton. Keep it in the water tower and eat slowly.

"Why are you hanging on the door?" Guan Qidong asked.

Cang Hai replied: "The folks are not tall, and there is a beam at the door, so naturally hang it on the door, be careful of fresh mutton." Cang Hai reminded his wife when he saw his wife coming in.

Most of the folks are about 1.6 meters five, and this is still a man. The height of old men and women has begun to shrink at this age. For the convenience of hanging, they naturally cannot hang things too high, and this is equivalent to everyone’s natural No one will come in for half an hour if there is nothing to do in the big refrigerator, so you have to wear a leather jacket to stay there, so it is not surprising that the beam at the door is the best place for villagers to hang things.

Qin Lingling was much more careful than Guan Qidong, she bent over after entering the door.

The belly of the water tower is nothing to look at. There is a well in the middle, and there is an iron spiral ladder on the side. The ladder is not big enough for a person to go up, and the bottom part is still hung up. The ladder hooks down.

Guan Qidong has a lot of interest in water wells, probably because of his professional habits and began to think about wells.

"This well water is groundwater? No way, the groundwater is not so cold. The temperature here is really too low..." Guan Qidong whispered.

Cang Hai didn't understand why. He thought it might be the magic of space water. Seeing the teacher talking to himself, Cang Hai told him about digging a well.Of course, what can be said is said, and what cannot be said is never mentioned.

"Prepare more beds. In autumn, I will bring students to sketch. There may be sixteen or seven people if there are many, or ten or so if there are few. The school has funds, but your fees should not be too high." Guan Qidong suddenly Said.

Cang Hai was a little stunned: "Come to my place to sketch?"

Cang Hai, who is a sketcher, knows it, but he is a little puzzled when he comes here, because he used to go to famous mountains and rivers for sketching in school, why he suddenly wants to come to his small village.

"Teacher, I really don't need any money. The folks here have jumped into a well-off life after planting watermelons..." Cang Hai thought that the teacher had to take care of his life, so he opened his mouth and said.

Cang Hai likes to be quiet, and doesn't like a group of people making troubles in the village. When the teacher comes, a group of students can come to sketch, but Cang Hai is not very interested.

"You think I'm here to take care of your village. The natural scenery here is unique. Guan Jian is that there are few people here. Standing on the slope, you can see the boundless yellow land, and the valley is like a forest scene. This kind of sketching is good. The land is really hard to find," Guan Qidong said.

The teacher said so, Cang Hai had no choice but to agree.

(End of this chapter)