Scholars in the courtyard.

Chapter 197
The [-] students who came this time were divided into four teams, in groups of three, Yang Xiaotao led a group, and the remaining three groups Yang Hongye, Yang Dani and Yang Erni were the group leaders, and the three of them were also the ones who had the best knowledge of corn. .

Yang Xiaotao took out four pairs of scissors, one for each group, one person was responsible for cutting off the male flowers, one was responsible for covering the female flowers, and the other carefully took the male flowers away.

After the work was arranged, Yang Xiaotao made a sample, and a few people started to act after seeing it.

The four groups are carried out at the same time to avoid cross-contamination.

Ran Qiuye watched for a while, then collected the cut male flowers in a bamboo basket, and sent them to a distant place.

Everything is proceeding in an orderly manner.

A group of people was busy quickly in the sun.

From planting to flowering, corn has to go through the seedling and jointing stages.

The time is about two months in college.

This is a normal growth rhythm, and it is impossible for Yang Xiaotao to speed up Xiaowei's actions, so this process must be experienced.

After this period of time, it will enter the flowering period.

During this period, from flowering and pollination to maturity, the time is about two months.

Therefore, the general corn maturity time is about four to five months.

But now, Yang Xiaotao and the others are going to finish the work at the jointing stage, when the flowering and graining stage is about to start.

By the end of the morning, most of the work had been completed.

Yang Xiaotao led the students to rest under the tree. Wangcai has already won the friendship of the children and became friends.

Ran Qiuye sat aside and asked Yang Xiaotao about the situation of high-yielding corn.

She originally thought that this job was very simple, just cut off the flower spikes, nothing difficult.

But she also knew why the predecessors did not discover such a simple truth. There must be some unknown secrets in it.

So, Ran Qiuye decided to ask while he was resting.

Yang Xiaotao pulled the backpack and took out a few green apples, two sticks of old ham, and a handful of white rabbit toffee.

These are prepared by Yang Xiaotao for the children.

Although no one said anything about letting them work for free, with these rewards, their labor will turn into actual results, and they will enjoy the happiness brought by this result.

This kind of consciousness can also be cultivated by Yang Xiaotao.

Under the eager but reserved eyes of the children, Yang Xiaotao cut up the ham, each with a piece, and then shared the toffee.

Children feel that these things are very valuable, but have no concrete impression.

Ran Qiuye at the side understood that this little thing cost at least five yuan.

Holding the ham in his hand, eating in small bites, looking at Yang Xiaotao surrounded by children, Ran Qiuye remembered what his mother said.

"What about this person, how can he go smoothly when he travels through mountains and rivers? It's all about experience!"

"Remember, not to be envied is a mediocrity."

"If you want to find an excellent one, you have to go through ups and downs, come and go."

"If you want to find a mediocre one, be prepared to be lonely."

Ran Qiuye looked at Yang Xiaotao again, and the original balance in his heart began to shake, tipping to one side.

Yang Xiaotao went up to Ran Qiuye, took out an apple and broke it open, "Taste it, it's sweet!"

Ran Qiuye reached out to take it, and took a bite out of no doubt.

For a moment, the delicate faces were twisted together with sourness, "You are lying."

Hahaha

Yang Xiaotao smiled, and the children not far away also laughed, as if this kind of prank made them more novel, and also made the image of Teacher Ran closer.

Ran Qiuye grabbed a branch casually, Yang Xiaotao got up and ran, the two ran around the tree for two steps, Ran Qiuye saw the children's excited expressions, and quickly threw the branch away, Yang Xiaotao also took the opportunity to come back.

Ran Qiuye ignored him, and Yang Xiaotao sat aside shamelessly.

"Look, this is called sharing weal and woe!"

As he said that, Yang Xiaotao gestured to the apple in his hand, and began to eat it on his own.

Humph

Ran Qiuye ignored him, but started eating too.

One mouthful is sour, and after a few more mouthfuls, it will feel sweet.

After the two finished eating, Ran Qiuye asked about the corn.

Yang Xiaotao didn't hide anything, he found a branch and scratched it on the ground.

"The different phenotypes of this corn..."

After a while, there was a string of English combinations on the ground, with one-quarter and one-half probability written underneath, which made Ran Qiuye both understand and understand.

Seeing Yang Xiaotao talking eloquently and calmly, a figure suddenly appeared in his mind.

That figure was so familiar, his generous palm touched the top of his head, and his gentle voice explained her doubts.

That was her father, a learned father.

His eyes were in a trance, and when he came back to the front again, Yang Xiaotao was still explaining.

But Ran Qiuye saw the shadow of his father in him.

Some people say that the other half that a woman finds is related to her father.

Either find the commonality of the father, or the difference.

Unintentionally, Yang Xiaotao is so similar to his father at this moment.

Bowing his head, Ran Qiuye slowly calmed down while covering his heart that was about to jump out.

The balance in my heart has completely tipped to one side.

She needs to go home and discuss it with her mother.

After Yang Xiaotao explained it, he didn't ask Ran Qiuye if he understood. There was no basis for genetics in this matter, and even if he remembered it, it was superficial.

After a break at noon, Yang Xiaotao continued to lead the children to work.

It took a whole day to dry a piece of land before it was completed.

Looking at the cornfields that have been established, the next step is to wait for the flowering period.

Yang Xiaotao thought about it carefully, and after there was no loophole, he took the children back to Yangjiazhuang.

After telling Yang Dazhuang about the matter, the village guarded the cornfield more closely.

The next day, Yang Xiaotao and Ran Qiuye went back to the city, and then went home separately to manage their own lives.

Back home, Ran Qiuye sat on the bed, thinking about the past few days, it wasn't long, but it was like a dream.

From the encounter in the library, from the first meeting at school, from what I saw on the way back to the village...

Everything refreshed his impression of Yang Xiaotao.

But now, this impression has been engraved in my heart.

She felt that she was in love with him.

However, she hesitated and hesitated.

Because she is afraid of rejection.

Ran's mother sat beside her, and Ran Qiuye expressed all the confusion, choices and worries in her heart.

Ran's mother listened quietly, she understood everything the woman said, and was also happy to see her daughter take this step.

Known daughter Moruomu.

She has watched her daughter grow up, and she knows her daughter's sensible, right and wrong temperament.

But it is precisely because of this sensible temperament that she is worried that she will choose to sit on the sidelines in some matters, not to earn when it should be earned, and not to rob when it should be robbed.

And in this day and age, waiting in place is holding back.

will suffer.

Now, Ran's mother was relieved to hear her daughter's heart.

"Qiu Ye, love is selfish, if you don't have the ability to attract others, you can't expect others to give you alms!"

"Mom supports you!"

In a word, Ran Qiuye's determination to pursue love was strengthened.

At this time, Yang Xiaotao returned home with Wangcai, and after entering the house, he was ready to rest.

Suddenly feeling the message from Xiaowei, she hurried out of the room.

When I came to the yard and came to the place pointed by Xiaowei, a corn stalk had been tilted, and the two original stalks on it had been emptied, leaving only scattered bracts.

Yang Xiaotao had a cold face. He had only left for a day when someone reached in. He really didn't take what he said seriously.

Look at the ground again, a string of footprints.

I squatted down and looked at it for a while. The footprints were not big and very shallow. It looked like a child's.
Yang Xiaotao had a judgment in his heart.

Looking up at Jia's house, Yang Xiaotao thought about how to get this thing back.

Get up and go back to the house.

Afterwards, Yang Xiaotao found the Croton at home.

"Little bastard, if you don't learn well at this point, if you don't teach you a lesson, it's really like no one in this courtyard will treat you!"

Yang Xiaotao casually crushed a croton, and then crushed it into fine powder little by little.

In Jia's house, Mrs. Jia Zhang opened the lid of the pot, looked at the cooked corn cobs in the pot, smiled and touched the heads of the cobs.

"The eldest grandson is capable."

"Much better than your useless mother."

Jia Zhangshi said kindly, looking at the corn out of the pot, the orange corn kernels filled his little head with longing.

Next to him, Xiao Dang licked his fingers, "Brother, I want to eat a stick!"

"Okay, I'll get it for you when the dead dog is gone!"

"There are a lot of them in the yard, you can eat them whenever you want!"

Bang Geng said proudly, and Xiao Dang clapped his hands.

"Brother, you are awesome! Awesome!"

Jia Zhang watched from the side, and was even more concerned, "Bang Giao is becoming more and more like a big brother!"

Enjoying his grandma's praise, Stick is full of enthusiasm. At this time, even if he is asked to fight for food with a dead dog, he dares to go.

"Don't worry, wait for it to cool before eating!"

Jia Zhang took out the corn and put it on the window to cool.

In the yard, Qin Huairu naturally heard the conversations in the house, and also saw the stick slipping into the garden while taking a nap at noon today, but she didn't say anything.

In the countryside, this kind of thing is no different from picking up a radish while walking on the side of the road, and she didn't think it was stealing.

That's Yang Xiaotao, who likes to make things big.

From her point of view, eating a piece of his corn is nothing, and he is not lacking in this, and his own family is almost unable to open the pot, and he has no sympathy at all.

What's more, even if you know, what can you do, BangJiao is still a child.

An adult, embarrassed to care about children?

In the house, Niang San is ready to eat.

Mrs. Jia Zhang picked up one, and the stick next to it was about to take the rest, but Mrs. Jia pressed it down, "Keep it for your father!"

Bang Geng curled his lips, and saw Jia Zhang broke off the corn with one hand, put the back end in his mouth, and then broke off a small piece of the Bang Geng to share with Xiao Dang.

Xiao Dang looked at a small piece aggrievedly, wanting a bigger one, but saw that Bang Geng took the corn unwillingly and gnawed on it.

The three of them ate in the house, and they didn't mean to call Qin Huairu at all.

Just as the three of them were eating, a mist passed over the corn on the windowsill.

Before the three of them finished eating, Jia Dongxu came back from wandering outside, still smelling of alcohol.

Qin Huairu watched in the yard, then continued to work, but ignored him.

Jia Dongxu was bored, and when he got home, he saw that everyone was eating corn.

Jia Zhang hurriedly went to tell the story, Jia Dongxu picked up the stick and spun around, making the stick laugh, and almost choked on the corn.

"Put it down, put it down!"

"You don't know the seriousness after drinking a little wine. You see, you choked the eldest grandson, and he is out of shape."

Jia Zhang complained, Jia Dongxu looked at the eldest son just happy, picked up the corn cob and took a bite.

"Well, it tastes good."

"delicious!"

Jia Dongxu took two bites, and sat on the stool waiting for the meal, regardless of whether Qin Huairu ate or not.

"That's right, this is the skill of the eldest grandson."

Jia Zhang's showing off again made Jia Dongxu happy, especially since the corn belonged to Yang Xiaotao.

I can't take advantage of him, but I have a son.

After ten or eight years, when the son grows up, it will be easy to deal with his family.

Just as he was thinking, he gnawed all the corn on the cob, then got up and threw the corn on the bottom of the pot, then went back to bed and lay down, waiting for dinner.

(End of this chapter)