Farming, learning Wu, and peace in the world

Chapter 57 The Axe
Snow covered the mountains.

Unable to stop Chi's father and second uncle from going to and from the farmhouse, both of them were wrapped in bearskin coats, with only a few thin shirts underneath, and the wind was not cold but also breathable.

"It's okay, it's okay, it didn't snow much last night, and there is no more snow on the shed." Father Chi entered the farmhouse, took a look at the shed, and felt relieved.

The second uncle's eyes were sharp, and he glanced at the fence wall. There was a place where there was no snow: "What is that?"

"Dad, Second Uncle, I just want to tell you about my adventure last night...that five-eyed eyebrow...Bold Five and Little Counseling Five...Fengqi Wutongmu..."

To make a long story short.

Ikehashi Matsu briefly recounted the experience of last night.

But Chi's father and second uncle were startled and shouted again and again: "Is this so strange? The two five eyebrows are both spirit beasts, and I even picked up a spirit root!"

Chi Qiaosong took the two of them to see the Fengqi sycamore tree. The two little beasts sleeping on the dead wood saw a stranger approaching, and immediately got up numbly, jumped onto the fence and ran away.

"Sure enough, there are two five eyebrows!" The second uncle was surprised.

"This is the Fengqi sycamore tree?" Father Chi looked at the dead wood carefully. "It looks like a sycamore tree. The sycamore seeds are all knotted on the carpel. This leaf is the carpel, which is the handle of the sycamore tree."

Ordinary sycamore is a traditional Chinese medicine.

But the phoenix phoenix phoenix tree is obviously not ordinary.

"I'm going to raise two Wudaomeis, and they can eat any vegetables in the greenhouse, as long as they can find spiritual roots for me."

"It should be. We should feed them even if we don't eat vegetables." Chi's father nodded. He valued Wu Daomei's contribution to Lao Chi's family, "I will make a nest for them later, will they be a litter?"

"Two males, let's separate the nests, I just don't know if they can live."

"Then let's make two nests first. I haven't done carpentry for a long time." Father Chi is a bamboo craftsman, but he is also good at carpentry.

The second uncle said with a smile: "Brother, please make a fuss about Wu Daomei first, I'm going to go to the old Guntou's house."

Chi Qiaosong said: "Second Uncle, don't rush to hug the puppy, it's too dangerous for you to go out in this snow-covered mountain."

"What's so dangerous about this? It's not like you don't know. When the mountains were covered by heavy snow last year, Second Uncle took you to the mountains to catch old runners." Second Uncle said confidently.

The old runner is the hare in the dialect.

In winter, hares have nothing to eat, so they have to go out of the nest to find food.

But if the snow is too thick, the hares can't run, so they can catch one.

Father Chi also said: "This little snow can't trouble your second uncle, let him go out for a run."

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Chi's father made a squirrel nest, the second uncle went to hug the puppy, and Chi Qiaosong dressed up and went to the county seat to teach martial arts.

He is now the administrator of the file room of the Jiangwu Hall, and he is a teaching assistant. Although he doesn't need to do any work, he has to go to work every day-it's not good to be absent too much.

When I arrived at the lecture hall, I realized that many teachers were not there.

"Senior Brother Chi, you don't know that it snowed heavily yesterday, so today the teachers all went to the county for a meeting, saying that they want to organize disaster relief to ensure that the people of the county can survive the winter safely."

The one who spoke was Wang Minzhong, Ike Hashimatsu's former roommate.

"I see. No wonder Chief Hao and Teacher Kong are not here. By the way, Minzhong, how is your martial arts progress?" Ikehashimatsu still has a good impression of the loyal Wang Minzhong.

When Wang Minzhong heard this, he smiled bitterly: "The teacher said that I have reached a bottleneck, but I don't know how to break the bottleneck. Practicing boxing every day has no effect."

How to break the bottleneck, Ikehashi Song has no shortcuts to teach.

He practiced martial arts by instilling them with Susukita's golden fingers, and then instilled his martial arts memory, all of which were hard work, hard work, day and night, and finally reached great success.

So he just comforted and said: "Practice, keep practicing, I think what Teacher Kong said is right, you will see the meaning when you read the book a hundred times, and you will see the meaning when you practice boxing a hundred times."

"Well, I see."

"By the way, your parents didn't trouble you, did they?"

Wang Minzhong's parents divorced and then remarried each, leaving him in the care of his grandfather, he shook his head: "They don't care about me anymore, I feel quite at ease, that's..."

He began to stammer.

Ikehashi Song asked, "What's wrong?"

"Well, Senior Brother Chi, can I ask you for a favor, I want to do a part-time work-study program and work part-time in the lecture hall...just do odd jobs in the cafeteria."

"You don't have enough living expenses?"

"Yes, it is."

"That's just right. The library has a work-study quota. Recently, a student was dismissed. This quota just happens to be vacant. You can go there. I'll talk to Chief Hao later."

With a little effort, Chi Qiaosong doesn't mind helping Wang Minzhong.

Saying goodbye to Wang Minzhong, who kept thanking him, Chi Qiaosong walked around the lecture hall, because Hao Bozhao and Kong Hongcai were not there, and he had no chance to teach, so he left soon.

When I got home.

Father Chi has already made two squirrel nests. This thing has no technical content and is very easy to make.

The squirrel nest was nailed to the wall of the farmhouse, and a wooden stick was specially added to connect it to the fence wall, so that the two five-eyed eyebrows could come in and out without landing.

"When you were not at home, the two little things came over once, but when I saw it, I ran away." Father Chi said.

"Well, don't worry about them, there are greenhouse vegetables here, they can't escape."

"By the way, how do you expand your new field?"

Ikehashi Song replied: "According to the original plan, the fence wall will be moved outward to enclose the fourth mu of land. After the snow melts, we will buy materials to build a greenhouse."

Father Chi looked at the several acres of land silently, shook his head and said, "It's too troublesome to expand one acre by one acre... You said it will be expanded in the future, right?"

"Yes, the more spiritual roots you have, the more land you can plant. This is why I advocate contracting a hurdle."

"I don't have the money to contract the entire hill for the time being. Why don't we connect the [-] acres of land newly contracted by our family together and enclose them all within the fence."

"How to circle, this place is uneven." Chi Qiaosong frowned.

"To build a terraced field, anyway, the family is guarding a ridge to live. I, your second uncle, your mother, and your second aunt, dig the soil together, and try to dig out three platforms here, and turn it into a [-]-acre terraced field. Big shed."

Compared with farming experience, Ikehashi Song is far behind Chifu.

In his previous life, Ikehashisong was a college student. Apart from studying and going to work, he had never even planted a small vegetable garden, let alone farmed.

For Chi's father's arrangement, he followed good example: "Then do it like this. Later, I will cut down the trees and dig out the roots, and you can just level the land."

Digging the roots is the most difficult, and Ikehashi Song left it to himself. He has great strength and is suitable for tackling tough problems.

The father and son stood in the snow, pointing to the country and mountains around the farmhouse, and outlined a beautiful blueprint for future life.

In the afternoon, the second uncle finally came back—because the road was blocked by heavy snow, he couldn't ride a bicycle. He walked to the old Guntou's house and brought the tabby pup back.

It was the first time for the puppy to go far away from his mother, and he kept whining along the way.

The second uncle put it on the ground of the farmhouse, and it was still whining, and no one would touch it.It will bite anyone who touches it with its milk teeth, and its temper is as fierce as a big dog.

"It weighed five or six catties in just one month. This dog is willing to grow, and it will definitely be bigger than its mother in the future." The second uncle praised.

"Pretty, isn't it?" Ikehashisong grabbed the puppy, carefully inspected it to see if there were any parasites, and prepared to clean it up.

"Brother, give the dog a name." Chi Xiaoya, the younger sister who came to watch, said crisply.

"it is good."

Chi Qiaosong thought for a while: "This kid has a tiger head and a tiger brain, so he's called a tiger... an axe."

(End of this chapter)