slack farmer in the wasteland

Chapter 552
Cang Hai followed Lai'an into the shed, only to find that some places hadn't been planted yet, and the bare soil was exposed, but the soil had been carefully turned over, so it certainly wouldn't have come from the hands of Hu Mingshan and his wife. , more like Lai'an's work.

"Second Brother Hai, I'm going to plant tomatoes here, and radishes over there..." Lai An happily introduced each field with Cang Hai.

"Come on, come on"

When the two were strolling, suddenly a sound of peace came from the door of the shed.

Lai'an responded to the door: "Brother, I'm here."

From the conversation between the two brothers, Cang Hai also felt that the relationship between the two brothers is much better than before. In the past, Lai'an would not open his mouth to call Ping An Big Brother, and the one he used to say was Ping An Ping An , there is no sense of brotherly respect.

"Lai'an, let's go to eat at home later, your sister-in-law and the others are cooking again, I have notified my father, parents, and second uncle's family" Ping'an walked to and from An's side while talking. When I got out of the bean stand, I found that Cang Hai was also in the greenhouse.

Ping An greeted Cang Hai with a smile: "Second Brother is here too, Second Brother, it just so happens that Wu Hui also asked me to invite you, let's eat at home at noon, there are so many people."

Cang Hai waved his hand and said, "Forget it".

"Anyway, you are at home alone, and Mengmeng is not here, so you should eat at home..." Ping An persuaded again.

Without waiting for Cang Hai to speak, Lai An smiled and said to his elder brother: "Brother, don't embarrass second brother Hai, it's not like you don't know his temperament, he will feel uncomfortable when eating with a bunch of strangers." of".

Cang Hai looked at Lai'an in surprise after hearing this: "Yes!"

Just like what Lai An said, Cang Hai doesn't like to eat with strangers, mainly because of the three words of uncomfortable.

Although there is also a relationship with Wu Hui's parents, after all, there is no friendship, let alone a common language, and this time it is not only Wu Hui's parents and younger brother, but also Wu Hui's two Auntie, she also brought a few nephews and so on. Anyway, there are a dozen or so people, including Hu Shijie's family, it is estimated that there will be two tables in Ping'an's place to sit.

Lai'an smiled: "No one in the village knows your temperament, second brother."

"That's fine. I'll go pick some vegetables and go back to cook. The two of you guys are chatting. If you want any seeds, you can just go to my house to get them." Cang Hai smiled and reached out to pat Lai'an on the shoulder.

Hu Laian said to Pingan: "Brother, you go back and help your sister-in-law first, I will see off Brother Hai, and I will go there right away!"

"Okay, hurry up, the banquet will start soon." After Ping An said something, he smirked at Cang Hai and turned his head to leave.

Waiting for Ping An to leave, Lai An said with a wry smile: "The two aunts of my sister-in-law's family are not so cheap. They came here this time to send their children here to work...".

Cang Hai didn’t think it was strange to hear this. This thing is too common in the countryside. As long as you have money, there will be a group of people who want to come and get rich. Let alone Wu Hui’s family, there are fewer families in Sijiaping Village now. Such a thing?Those who came over were either cousins ​​or aunts, all of them were close relatives.

"Just leave this matter to your master, and let us juniors stop messing around," Cang Hai said.

There is a rule in the village that the watermelon field does not invite outsiders. It is for this reason, how will the relatives who are hired be divided?It's still the same old saying, money doesn't worry about scarcity but inequality. At this time, it is better to use unrelated people than relatives. This is the knowledge of interpersonal relationship.

When the time comes to divide the money, a group of relatives will get [-] to [-] yuan a year, and each person in the village will share about [-] yuan per head. Can the brothers of this cousin and that aunt feel balanced?Most people don't see your kindness, they just feel that they do the same job, work as hard as you, but get much less money than you!

"I just said that casually, I want you to persuade my sister-in-law to let him know that my brother's matter is difficult," Lai An said.

Cang Hai looked at Lai'an and said with a smile: "You really have grown up, you know how to take care of your brother and sister-in-law."

Ping An let out a long sigh: "Oh, I used to be ignorant, I don't know how kind my brother and sister-in-law are to me, I owe them this!"

Cang Hai stretched out his hand and patted Lai'an's shoulder lightly: "The two brothers will take care of each other. Your brother and sister-in-law treat you with sincerity, and you return with sincerity, and you will be brothers for the rest of your life."

"I will remember this!" Lai'an nodded.

After saying that, the two arrived at the entrance of the shed. Under Lai An's watchful eye, Cang Hai walked out from the back door of the shed and came to his own shed.

Cang Hai’s shed has too many cows compared to An’s. Not only are there various vegetables, but also some melons and fruits. What makes people even more happy is that there are some bees buzzing in the shed, and some butterflies are also there. Dancing in the shed, the butterflies are not small, each one is about the size of half of Cang Hai's palm, and they are colorful and beautiful.

Although these butterflies look beautiful, they are not expensive species. The most popular time is probably when elementary school students are making specimens.Some children will catch some butterflies and put them in the pages of their books, so that after a while, the butterflies become the simplest specimens.

Walking around in his own shed, Cang Hai picked enough for a plate of small water radishes with dill radish leaves, a handful of lentils, and a small handful of leeks, and put these three into a basket and returned. Arrived home.

When I arrived at the kitchen, I separated the radish from the radish husks, soaked them in salt water for a while, took a small basket to fish some small shrimps in the small river ditch at the door, and washed off the moss for later use.

After the lentils and leeks are selected, cut the lentils into shreds and stir-fry them with garlic cloves. Remove the whiskers and spines on the top of the shrimps and fry them in a small plate with the leeks. Finally, pick up the radish sprouts and place them in hot water. Pass it through it, cut it into small pieces, crack the radish and put it on a plate, add the sauce, it is a cold dish.

The staple food was also simple, just pancakes. After the dishes were ready, Cang Hai sat at a small table, with a tiger head and an iron head on each side, and one master and two servants began to eat.

Just as he put on his posture, Li Licheng walked into the kitchen.

"Hey, I've eaten all of this, and your grandma told me to come over and ask you to eat at home." Li Licheng was about to come over and ask Cang Hai to eat at home, but he didn't expect that Cang Hai had already eaten just now.

"It's quick to do something by yourself, why don't you sit down and eat?" Cang Hai politely invited Li Licheng to sit down.

Li Licheng waved his hand, took a small bench and sat beside the table: "Forget it, you can eat by yourself, I'll just go home and eat later."

When Cang Hai took a look at Li Licheng's appearance, he knew that the old man had something to do.But Grandpa Li didn't open his mouth here, so Cang Hai didn't open his mouth to ask.

Li Licheng paused, stroked his lost forehead: "Haiwazi".

"Ok?"

Cang Hai responded.

Li Licheng continued: "You said it would be inappropriate for me to ask Mr. Qu or Mr. Xu to be Xiaodan's godfather?"

Cang Hai was stunned for a moment, he hadn't thought about this question, now that he heard Li Licheng say this, he thought for a while and said: "I think, you should not mention this matter, the relationship between the two old men's families The relationship is much more complicated than ours, so don't join in the fun, if Xiaodan wants to learn calligraphy and painting or something, just wait until the two old men have time to ask for advice, don't do it."

Qu Guowei and Xu Sheng are not ordinary people. Although they got along well with the big guys in the village, it is troublesome to recognize a godson. The two old men are probably going west of Hexi, so Xiaodan can still ask the two children for help with a shy face?

The children of the two old men have never come to Sijiaping Village, and they are probably afraid of trouble. These people have a certain status in society, and they are afraid of finding trouble for themselves if they have nothing to do. Cang Hai will not persuade Li Li Cheng went to mention this matter, because this matter would embarrass the two old men.

Li Licheng sighed after hearing Cang Hai's words: "I also think this is the reason, but my son and daughter-in-law have this idea, and I also think about it... Forget it, let's not mention this matter, this matter is just one thing." So far. We can’t make trouble for others, I think it’s reasonable to find a similar family to be a godfather to our children.”

Originally, the customs here have the habit of recognizing godfathers, just like the godfathers of Xiaohu in Canghai, and Boqi and Zhonglin are the godsons of Gu Han, Wen Yiyi and Qi Yue. The old habit thinks that this will guarantee Boys grow up healthy and strong, of course, the meaning of watching and helping each other is indispensable.

From the perspective of the folks, the relationship between Zhang Jiusheng and Cang Hai is quite good now. If there is no such relationship, many good things will happen to Zhang Jiusheng?
Cang Hai opened his mouth to persuade: "You have to be careful about this matter, if you don't recognize your relatives well, you will be in trouble."

"I know that!" Li Licheng nodded and said.

For a long time, it is not that no one has inquired about this matter with Li Licheng, but Li Licheng also understands what those people are thinking. It was easier to recognize the relatives before, but now Sijiaping Village is developed. If you agree to be a relative, you need to consider more.

In fact, this is a bit like a replica of the relationship between the two old men, Qu Xu, and Li Licheng. Admitting to a relationship is something that others are not happy about, but I am not happy about being low.

Cang Hai doesn't want to get involved in this matter. Cang Hai doesn't care about the matter of being a godfather. Being a godfather to Wen Yiyi's child is due to love, and being a godfather to Xiaohu is fate. He came to ask Cang Hai to be his child's godfather, but Cang Hai refused straight away.

In fact, this matter can be resolved in the south, but the situation in the northwest is too troublesome. Before the end of the Qing Dynasty, godsons could come to share some money when the family died. Although the concept has changed now, there is no godson. There is no legal term for inheriting the godfather's property, but you can think about how troublesome it is.

The grandfather and grandson chatted for a while, then Li Licheng got up and left.

Just as Li Licheng left, the voices of two old men, Qu Guowei and Xu Sheng, sounded outside again.

Cang Hai thought to himself: What did you say?
As soon as the two old men came in, they saw that Cang Hai had already eaten, so Qu Guowei said to Xu Sheng: "Old Xu, let's bring the food and share a table with Cang Hai?"

Xu Sheng laughed and said, "OK, I'll get the food, you guys wait here."

When Cang Hai heard this, he had to stand up: "Then I'll cut some beef and mutton to make a big platter, and pop peanuts!"

"Very good, very good, by the way, is your duck egg ready to eat? Can you put it on a plate? I got a bottle of old wine, the serious daughter Hong, which has been in the cellar for 18 years. Go get some heat. Warm up the water later!" Qu Guowei said with a smile.

After hearing what the two old men said, Cang Hai started to prepare.

I went to the jar to dig out the duck eggs, cleaned the mud on the duck eggs, put them in the pot to boil, then took the peanuts and began to oil them, waited for the peanuts to come out of the pot, and then started cutting cold dishes, such as beef, mutton, pork, etc. Yes, Cang Hai's family has all cooked, three dishes are cut into a plate, and topped with soy sauce and sesame oil.

As soon as the dishes were put on the table, the two old men came with wine and dishes. There was only one dish, and the portion was not small. The old goose was stewed with bacon, and the wine was also a big pot, a three-jin small jar, sealed with a red Seal mud.

When the dishes were ready, Cang Hai warmed up the wine and started eating with Qu Guowei and Xu Sheng.

(End of this chapter)