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

Chapter 8 Shepherd's Purse
"What are you doing!" A roar sounded in the distance.

The owner of the paddy field has rushed over angrily.

"Run!" Dani picked up the shoes with one hand, and ran away holding Yingbao with the other.

Yuan Bao followed closely behind, and the three children ran away in an instant.

"Watch you come over again, break your dog legs! Little bastards!"

The owner of the field didn't really chase, he just wanted to drive these brats away.

How many times will the monkeys in and out of the village stage a group of monkeys crossing the border?How can you beat him every time you catch him?

They are all the dolls of the folks in the village, and there are not many troublemakers in any family.

Ying Bao followed her cousin all the way home and got a small handful of water chestnuts.

She frowned with joy, and secretly sent a few into the space to make seeds, and left the rest to A Niang.

Chunniang took it helplessly, and reprimanded: "Why did you go to the paddy field? What if someone tramples on the seedlings?"

Yingbao proudly said, "It didn't break."

Chunniang sighed, took the water chestnuts to wash, and picked up the black, rotten and dry ones, leaving only a dozen fresh ones to eat.

At this moment, Dani and Yuan Bao had already returned home with their trophies, and Ying Bao divided the dozen or so small water chestnuts into three parts, one for father, one for mother, and one for herself.

It is impossible for Chunniang to want her daughter's snacks, so she just shirks that she doesn't like it and lets her keep it for herself.

Ying Bao didn't force her, she ate a sweet mouth, and then brought the rest into the house and put it on the kang.

Kick off your shoes and climb up the kang, close your eyes, and enter the cave consciously.

I saw a large pile of soil beside the pool, and a lot of earthworms crawled outside the mound, all of them headed towards the pool, which looked scary.

What happened?
Why do the earthworms in the dirt pile run into the pool, if the water is polluted, it will be bad.

Yingbao hurriedly picked up two sticks and caught earthworms, and put none of them into a half-broken clay pot.

She picked this thing up from outside, although it was broken, it would be usable, so she took it into the cave.

I had hoped to use it to scoop water, but now it will come in handy.

Soon after the earthworms were picked up, Yingbao shoveled a little soil and pressed it into the clay pot to prevent them from getting out.

After thinking for a while, he pulled out another earthworm, picked out a little bit of Wudingzhi from the stone wall, squeezed it and rubbed it on the earthworm.

For a long time, the earthworm did not respond or struggle.

It can be seen that this thing is not poisonous, but I don't know if people can eat it.

Tomorrow, you might as well take some out for the hens to try.

A while ago, she only gave the hens to drink pond water, and did not feed Wudingzhi, but threw them some shepherd's purse grown in the cave.

She plucked the shepherd's purse seeds from the outside and sprinkled them on the black soil. Unexpectedly, a large piece of them grew in a few days. They were green and tender, and each one was bigger than the head.

Seeing that the shepherd's purse was about to fill up the black soil by the pond, she had no choice but to shovel some out and secretly feed the chickens.

Judging from the recent laying frequency of the hens, the dishes from the black land should be a good thing.

So she always likes to sneak out alone when she has nothing to do, and when she comes back, she will bring half a basket of shepherd's purse to A Niang.

At first, Chunniang wondered why her daughter could always find such tender and plump wild vegetables.

You know, it's summer now, and most of the shepherd's purses bloom and bear seeds, and the stems and leaves are too old to bite, and they can't be eaten at all.

And the girl can bring back half a basket of fat and tender shepherd's purse every time, which is really impressive.

Fortunately, Chunniang didn't think too deeply, and she didn't know that there was a golden finger in the secret cave of the cave.

Inspired by shepherd's purse, Yingbao set her sights on the rocky clearing by the pool.

She wants to spread the soil here and plant all kinds of vegetables.

Although perennial fruit trees don't grow very big, this kind of annual and half-year green leafy vegetables can grow normally, and the growth speed is really fast.

When the vegetables grow, people can eat them up and feed them to chickens, sheep, and pigs.

In the spring of next year, she will let the family hen hatch some chicks and feed them with Dongfu crops.

In this way, when the younger brother grows up, he will have a lot of eggs to eat, and if he can't finish eating, he can exchange them for money and goods at the market.

So these days she collects all kinds.

Like shepherd's purse seeds, horsefly vegetables, dandelion seeds, mustard seeds, etc., all comers are always picked, and some of them are picked and placed on the broken pottery shards that have been picked up for later use.

It's a pity that there are very few vegetable varieties in Xiaoshan Village. The villagers' vegetable fields have nothing but amaranth, greens, winter melon, and kohlrabi.

Unlike Fucheng, there are many kinds of vegetables on the tables of rich families, and some noble family farms also have varieties from Fanbang.

Those foreign crops are rare and precious, and ordinary people have no access to them, and Ying Bao can only think about them in his heart.

Squatting down and shoveling a few shepherd's purses, probably enough for the family at noon tomorrow, Yingbao stopped.

He sprinkled the small water chestnuts he had just harvested on a piece of black soil and poured enough water.

Only now did she feel a little tired, Yingbao hurriedly left the cave and fell into a deep sleep.

When I woke up, my father had already returned, and my mother had just prepared dinner and was about to call her.

"Bao'er, get up and eat."

Yingbao turned over and sat up, rubbed her eyes, turned around and slid down the kang on her stomach.

After putting on his shoes, he stretched out his hand to hold A Niang, and walked out of the house with her.

At this moment, the sun is westward, and there is a breeze outside, which is much cooler than inside.

The dining table was placed in the middle of the yard, and on the table was a large bowl of amaranth and corn porridge, a stack of black flour bread, and a plate of shredded pickles made with kohlrabi.

After Jiang Sanlang washed his hands and face, he hung the sweat towel on the drying line, walked to the table and sat down.

The family of three sat around and began to eat.

"Sanlang, are you going to hoe the ground tomorrow?" Chunniang asked.

Jiang Sanlang shook his head, "Our family's bean field is finished. There are still two farms in the elder brother's house, but he doesn't need me to help."

The three brothers of the Jiang family were divided into different households, and they planted their fields separately. However, because their parents were still there, the Yongye Field and the Kou Fen Field of the second elder belonged to Jiang Dalang, so when the farming was busy, the brothers all went to help.

Jiang Sanlang drank vegetable porridge from a pottery bowl that was bigger than his head, slurped a few mouthfuls, stuffed some pickles into his mouth and chewed slowly, "I'll go to Beishan tomorrow, I think the ramie can be cut."

Ramie is harvested three times a year, and the second harvest is at the end of July, so there is no delay.

"Beishan grows a lot of hemp. Can you do it alone? How about asking your elder brother and second brother for help?" Chunniang felt a little worried because her husband was working too hard and she couldn't do anything.

Jiang Sanlang shook his head, "You don't need to invite them, I will do it by myself, and it will be done in just a few days."

Ying Bao blinked and looked at her father, and suddenly said: "Father, I will go tomorrow too."

There are many wild fruit trees in Beishan, even if those fruit trees can't bear good fruit, but she has black soil, you can cultivate it first, and then move it out to try.

Jiang Sanlang stretched out his hand to pinch her little nose, and said with a smile, "What are you going to do? Father is busy with work, so he can't take you with him."

Ying Bao wrinkled her nose and muttered, "Bao'er wants to go. Bao'er doesn't need Daddy to take her with her."

"Yo! You've got it." The old man rubbed his little girl's head, "Be good, and I'll bring you apricots when I come back."

After eating and clearing away the dishes, Jiang Sanlang boiled water for the family to wash up. By the time everything was done, it was already dark.

Jiang Sanlang drove away the mosquitoes in the linen tent with a cattail fan, put down the tent door, and the family of three went to rest on the kang.

Yingbao slept in the innermost place, close to A Niang, feigning sleep with her eyes closed, but her ears were erect, listening to her parents whispering.

No way, I slept for a long time in the afternoon, and I was a little excited at night, so I couldn't fall asleep.

"Is Bao'er asleep?" Father Jiang asked.

Yingbao didn't gnaw, pretending to be asleep.

She knew that whenever the father asked this question, he wanted to tell A Niang something that she didn't want her to hear.

In the dark, A Niang touched her eyes with her hands.

"Asleep." Chun Niang said: "I guess she is tired today, so I went to the paddy field with Dani to pick up water chestnuts at noon, and said I would keep them for you. After dinner, I played with her two apple seedlings, watered and cultivated the soil." Yes, I was afraid that the chicken would peck it, so I went around looking for a basket to cover it."

Jiang Sanlang chuckled twice and asked, "Where did the apple seedlings come from?"

"It's the apple you brought back last time. Bao'er left the seeds behind. Tsk, I don't know how she planted it, but two seedlings came out."

Chun Niang sighed: "You said how old she is, but she knows how to keep the core for seed, and she really planted it."

Jiang Sanlang was silent, and it took a long time before he said: "Chun Niang, don't tell others these words in the future."

Chunniang heard that her husband's tone was wrong, and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong? Did anyone say anything?"

"Yeah." Jiang Sanlang said: "I met Second Aunt Wang today, she said that everyone in the village said that Yingbao is a child-song boy, I'm afraid that some people will be upset and kind."

How can such a small child bear such a title?In case the rumors got more and more outrageous, with their identities as husband and wife, they couldn't protect their daughter at all.

Chun Niang was also silent.

(End of this chapter)