After retiring, she went to the countryside and was doted on by rough men

Chapter 28 Discovering the Lotus Root
When Fang Xiaoya and Li Jinhui went out, they really carried two fire sticks in their hands, but the sticks were only as thick as fingers, which made Xia Zhi shake his head.

Let alone a wolf, this stick would break even a chicken.

Who can you protect with this thing?
Sure enough, when the two of them saw the two bowl-thick sticks in Liu Qianjin's hands, their faces blushed instantly.

They also didn't expect that such a stick could be used as a weapon.

Compared with others, it is a piece of cake, and there is no way to compare it.

"Take a look on the road in a while. If you can find a suitable one, I will find two for you. Put them behind the door on weekdays. When you have nothing to do, you can push the door at night. It can usually be used for self-defense."

Fang Xiaoya and Li Jinhui nodded hastily.

Both of them are people who understand the ways of the world, and they know that what they said didn't mean to belittle them, but it was for their own good.

Two more people joined in, talking and laughing, and walking towards the reeds.

Arrived at the reed marshes.

Xia Zhi took a sickle and taught Fang Xiaoya and Li Jinhui how to cut reeds and what kind of reeds to choose for weaving mats.

Then hand over the sickle to the two of them. It is relatively simple to store this thing, and it is not a troublesome job.

He also told the two people to pay attention to the danger here. Although he took the two people to the place with long reeds, accidents would happen if they accidentally stepped on the empty place with long reeds.

Seeing the two of them working hard there, she took Liu Qianjin and Liu Zhiya to look for wild duck eggs not far from them.

With the episode in the morning, it is clear that although Liu Qianjin has a child's IQ, he is also a smart child.

People have followed suit, and they don't need to do anything in the afternoon.

That is to say, after a while, a basket of duck eggs was picked up from the reeds.

Xia Zhi wove two more baskets by hand.

Weaved two baskets and a big basket.

The basket was carried on Liu Qianjin's back.

Liu Qianjin is just a child, and he was very happy when he saw that he had a new pannier.

But I didn't have time to go deep in this reed marsh, and I didn't find lotus root.

If there is lotus root, Xia Zhi wants to grind lotus root powder.

This will save you the cost of breakfast.

In order to fill his stomach, Xia Zhi has been using his brains.

Anyway, she made up her mind that before it snowed heavily, she must find a way to complete the surrounding exploration, except for the reed marshes, there are also several surrounding places.

If you have time, see if you can get rabbits, pheasants or something.

When it snows, everyone will not want to get out of the nest.

Even if it is out of the nest, it is for snow removal.

And after tomorrow they have to participate in the work of repairing canals and roads.

There are only two days off in this job a month.

She has participated in this kind of work, and it is bitter and tiring. Basically, tired people go back to the nest and fall asleep.

I don't even want to wash up, let alone do some other work.

According to what Zhou Zhengan said, give them three days to rest, and today is the first day.

Tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, there are still two days to use.

It seems that I have to take Liu Qianjin and Liu Zhiyan to take a good look around.

Fang Xiaoya and Li Jinhui watched Xia Zhi teach them how to weave mats.

I didn't expect Xia Zhi's hands to be so skillful, the reed quickly took the shape of a mat in her hands.

Originally, they also thought that Xia Zhi had a very close relationship with Captain Zhou.

It must belong to the kind of petite and self-willed or a little arrogant person.

But now watching Xia Zhi help them weave mats, while teaching them seriously, he also taught them how to do it.

Suddenly, I felt that the summer solstice was too down-to-earth, and it was completely different from the summer solstice they had imagined.

The two of them were educated youths on another train, so they were assigned here, and they didn't know the details of Xia Zhi at all.

The Xia Zhi they saw was the Xia Zhi whom everyone talked about as being partial to Captain Zhou.

Who would have thought that the summer solstice would do anything.

"Xia Zhi, how do you know how to weave mats?"

"I did everything at home and learned a little bit of everything."

Xia Zhi naturally wouldn't tell others that in her previous life, she had done all these things by herself, and practice makes perfect.

How can I not live another life and do these things again?
Suddenly Liu Qianjin's excited voice came from a distance.

"Xiao Xia, Xiao Xia found the one you mentioned here."

When Xia Zhi heard it, she looked happy, and hurriedly stood up,
"Both of you, be careful while weaving mats here, and you must not let your guard down around you. Don't think that the wolf will not go out during the day."

The two shuddered when they heard this, and scanned their surroundings vigilantly.

Xia Zhi ran over in a hurry, and sure enough, she pushed aside the reeds in the distance, and saw the withered lotus leaves on the mud.

Currently there is no lotus root growing here.

In 1959, lotus root cultivation was introduced.However, it is not widely available yet.

She guessed that there might be lotus roots in these reed marshes, of course, because when lotus roots were introduced for planting, some seeds were taken back from various places.

Some places were successfully planted, and some places were all abandoned in the end.

There are theoretically seeds in this place, but there are not many places where they can be planted.

But the only successful place back then was not here, which shows that the lotus root in these places has failed.

Because of the failure, many people also believe that those lotus root seeds will live and die on their own.

It is precisely because of this that there are always some strong seeds that will survive on their own.

After all, a lot of lotus root was introduced here in the frontier, and the large-scale plantation area, the lotus root is still very economical in the local area.

In the end, unexpectedly, they actually let them find it by mistake.

Seeing the dead leaves, Xia Zhi couldn't help but patted Liu Qianjin on the shoulder in praise.

"Liu Qianjin really has you. You can find something good this time."

But digging lotus roots is not an easy thing to do. If you accidentally get stuck in this place at any time, you will not be able to get out.

I tried to use a bamboo pole to poke it through the mud where I found it, but I didn't realize that the lotus roots were not buried deep.

It didn't take long to touch the lotus root which was tough on the bottom.

It seems there is a door.

Next time, without further ado, I went to cut the reeds and weaved them into some small mats.

She moved very quickly, and within a short while, a few mats were spread around the found lotus root like floor mats.

Lying on the mat, the body area is large, so it will not sink in the mud.

When I came to the lotus root, I used the sickle in my hand to scrape away the soil.

Because of the strong wind and sand here, the water loss of the soil is relatively large all the year round. Although it is still silt, compared with the real lotus root mud candy, the silt is nothing at all.

Xia Zhi felt relieved, it seemed that he was thinking too much, this place is really not a quagmire.

I stood up and tried the firmness of my feet, and sure enough, there is no problem with the weight of supporting people here.

Not to mention that it took a while to dig a basket full of lotus roots.

Can't find it anywhere else.

It seems that even if there are, I have to look for other places in the reed pond. Since there are other places here, there will be one or two fish that slip through the net.

But according to today's harvest is already considered good.

(End of this chapter)