After picking up the daughter of the lucky star, the whole village prospered

Chapter 7 Water Chestnuts
Jiang Sanlang snorted softly, scooped up two ladles of water by himself, took off the sweat towel on his shoulders, scrubbed it twice in the basin, washed his face three or five times, and wiped his neck and arms.

It's finally cool.

Looking again, the water in the basin has become black.

After pouring the water, I saw my wife coming over with her waist supported.

"Sanlang, put the vegetable soup and noodle cakes under the basket. Yingbao and I have already used them, so hurry up and eat them."

"Okay." Jiang Sanlang nodded, and took out a large bowl of shepherd's purse soup, five black flour cakes, and a boiled goose egg from under the basket.

"Where did you get the goose eggs?" Jiang Sanlang sat down at the small table, rolled up a piece of cake and took a big bite.

"Dani sent it here." Chun Niang took a cattail fan to cool her husband, and fanned Ying Bao a few times along the way, "Bring two, Ying Bao and I ate one, and I'll leave this for you."

Jiang Sanlang took a sip of the vegetable soup, then took a sip of the pancakes, "I'll give you the goose eggs tomorrow. People say that pregnant women eat goose eggs, and the babies born are white and clean. What do I, an old man, eat this for? It's a waste!"

Chunniang smiled, "Jing nonsense, why are you wasting your food? Yingbao and I have boiled eggs every day, and the screw shrimps and loaches sent by our nephew are not bad for this goose egg. Hurry up!" Eat it, hoe the ground under the sun in such a hot day, and don't get meaty, beware of the heat."

As he spoke, he picked up the goose egg and knocked it on the corner of the table a few times, broke the shell, and handed it to her husband.

Jiang Sanlang had no choice but to take it and peel it off bit by bit.

Chunniang sat down on the high stool and shook her husband and daughter with a palm-leaf fan. Seeing the two hens in the family circle around the little girl, as if they were begging for food, she said softly, "It's strange to say that our two hens The chickens have gotten fatter recently, and they have been laying eggs diligently, two eggs a day, and they are all double-yolk eggs."

Yingbao looked up at her mother, then squatted on the ground and played with the chicken's head and feathers.

The two hens cooed and pecked the little master's toes very affectionately.

Jiang Sanlang paused when he heard the words, and frowned, "It's probably fed by earthworms. Didn't Dani often take Yingbao to dig earthworms to feed the chickens these days? The chickens are strong and naturally lay eggs frequently."

"That's right." Chunniang smiled and looked at her daughter, the more she looked at her, the happier she became.

Ying Bao'er looks more and more beautiful, her whole body is pink and jade-like, and her eyebrows and eyes are as delicate as a doll in a New Year picture.Even if it ran around all day and was exposed to the wind and the sun, it never turned dark.

Looking at the other children in the village, after the summer harvest, they all looked like black loach, and they were almost invisible.

"Bao'er, come, open your mouth." Jiang Sanlang used chopsticks to pick up a piece of egg yolk and stuffed it into his daughter's mouth, and another piece for his wife, and then he ate the rest of the goose egg.

After dinner, the family of three lay down on mats and took a nap in the morning.

Yingbao couldn't fall asleep, waited for her father and mother to fall asleep, then Qiao Qiao got up and slipped out of the yard.

The two hens followed her step by step.

The three little ones came to a small dry ditch.

This is the earthworm base that Yingbao and Dani often visit. The soil in the ditch is rich and suitable for raising seedlings.

Yingbao squatted in the pit and dug the soil with a shovel, shoveled the soil with a little fallen leaves into a small bamboo basket, and then carried it back to her vegetable field time after time, and sprinkled it around the saplings.

Tired of going back and forth twice, she was panting and sat down on the ground to rest.

Suddenly, he slapped his forehead, didn't he have an invisible mobile warehouse, it would be no problem to transport some soil.

Hey, it's true that people have become smaller and their heads have rusted.

I looked around and there was no one there. It was noon and everyone was staying at home to escape the heat, so no matter what I did, no one would see me.

Yingbao immediately stood up and picked up the shovel to shovel the soil.

Shovel once and collect once, shovel once and collect once.

Soon, she harvested a large piece of fertile soil in the dry ditch.

Seeing that they couldn't eat the worms, the two hens cooed anxiously, tilted their heads and looked at their master suspiciously.

Yingbao apologized for touching them, and promised: "Wait a while, when Sister Dani comes, you will have worms to eat."

She has to collect a lot of soil when no one is around, so that she can raise seedlings in the future.

"Bao'er, what are you doing?" Jiang Sanlang woke up and disappeared from his daughter, hurriedly went out to look for it, no, he saw his daughter's face, hands and body covered in black mud, squatting in the ditch not knowing what to do.

Yingbao got excited, stood up quickly and ran over, followed closely by two hens, running so fast that their wings fluttered.

"Father, Bao'er digs earthworms for chickens to eat." Ying Bao blamed his companion without blushing.

Two hens: She lied!She lied!She ate it all by herself, and there was not even a scum left.

Jiang Sanlang took his daughter home, patted off the dirt on her body, washed her hands and face, put her next to Chun Niang, pinched the small bruise on her head, and threatened: "Sleep! If you dare to run around alone, be careful to spank your ass!" !"

Ying Bao giggled, nestled beside her mother, and made a face at her father.

Jiang Sanlang stood up and said to his wife: "The sun outside is not so strong, I'll go and hoe the rest of the ground. You should be careful at home, don't go out for a walk, look at the cherry treasure, don't let her go out Run around."

"Well, I got it." Chun Niang leaned on the couch, touched her daughter's little head, and said softly: "Recently Bao'er is really wild, if you don't pay attention, you will disappear, I can't even catch up, turn around and go Call Dani from the front, and ask her to come and play with Ying Bao more often."

"it is good."

Jiang Sanlang went to the kitchen to fill a can of cold boiled water, put on his straw hat, and went out the door with a hoe on his shoulder.

Not long after, Dani came running, followed by her youngest brother Yuan Bao.

"Third Aunt, let's play with Ying Bao." Da Ni said.

Chun Niang was walking back and forth in the room, when she saw her niece and nephew, she smiled and waved: "Da Ni is here, come in quickly, Third Aunt will make sugar water for you, eh? Yuan Bao has no homework today?"

Yuan Bao is six years old this year. He just entered a private school in early spring. Going to school every day is like entering an execution ground, and returning home is like a monkey descending a mountain.

"No, no homework." Yuan Bao sucked his snot and looked downcast.

He didn't understand why all adults liked to ask this question when they saw him, couldn't they say something pleasant.

Yingbao ran over and took the little cousin's hand, "Brother Yuanbao, can you read to Yingbao?"

Yuan Bao touched the back of his head, his face full of confusion: "I, I only know the three-character scripture." The first few paragraphs.

Alas, I shouldn't have come here with my eldest sister.

"Brother Yuanbao will study the Three Character Classic, okay?" Although Yingbao can read, she cannot let her parents know.

Only by getting in touch with Yuan Bao first and learning more, can I dare to reveal it a little bit.

Yuan Bao couldn't bear the expectant eyes of his little cousin, so he had no choice but to clear his throat and start reciting: "At the beginning of human beings, nature is good, sex is similar, habits are far away..."

After reciting "Three Talents, Heaven, Earth and Benevolence", Yuan Bao began to stutter and scratch his head.

Ying Bao clapped her little hands and praised: "Brother Yuan Bao is really amazing!"

Yuan Bao blushed, but her small chest straightened instantly.

Chun Niang greeted: "Come here and drink sugar water. Yuan Bao, ignore your sister, hurry up and drink some water to moisten your throat."

"Yeah." Yuan Bao heaved a sigh of relief, and hurriedly avoided the little cousin and ran over.

Ying Bao snickered and ran to drink water.

After drinking the brown sugar water, the three children stayed in the house for a while, feeling very bored, so they ran out of the yard again to catch bugs in the woods in front of the door.

Yuan Bao is most familiar with this game, picking a handful of pagoda tree leaves and peeling off the leaves, leaving only the slender stems.

Lie down on the ground to find a few small wormholes, poke a thin leaf stem in, then pat the ground with your hands, and shout: "Magou Magou come out!"

Then with a light twitch, a small green and white worm was caught on the leaf stem.

Yuan Bao laughed loudly, wiped the snot with the back of his hand, and showed Ying Bao the little bug.

Yingbao took a few steps back, she didn't want to play this kind of kid's game.

Turning around to Dani, he said, "Sister Dani, can you go pick up water chestnuts?"

There are rice fields in their small mountain village, and many small water chestnuts can be found in the rice fields, which taste sweet and sweet.

Dani was also very moved, and immediately nodded in agreement.

So Ying Bao went home and told A Niang, and ran to the nearby paddy field with Dani Yuan Bao.

In the paddy field, the seedlings have just taken root, and the small water chestnuts are quietly sprouting.

Dani and Yuan Bao took off their shoes and got out of the paddy field, bent down and fumbled, and quickly found a bag of small black and round water chestnuts.

This kind of water chestnut is only the size of a fingernail, and it tastes sweet and sweet, and Yuanbao stuffs a few into his mouth immediately.

(End of this chapter)