If a fairy lives in your head, your whole family will become rich

Chapter 5 Frogs and Birds
Regardless of the harvest of this hectare of land, taxes must be paid.

Moreover, in this area, not all the land allocated by the court was farmland.

How could the imperial court have so many fields? Within one hectare, there might only be twenty acres of land that could be used for farming. The rest were either mountains or barren hills or wasteland.

After paying taxes on the harvest from more than 60 acres of land, it was barely enough to feed Lao Xiang's family.

"After we've been busy for a while, let's open up a few acres of wasteland for our family!" Lao Xiang straightened his head and said to his old wife, who was bending down to cut rice next to him.

Mrs. Jiang also took this opportunity to straighten her back, looked at the children playing behind her and said, "Hmm."

Lao Xiangtou also followed her gaze and looked back, and saw several little children picking up a few ears of grain, and then grabbing the little frogs jumping around in the field to play with. The children were so happy that their eyes were filled with joy. All will be lost.

When Lao Xiangtou saw this, his face relaxed, "After we get it out, let me put this year's straw in the ground and burn it. Maybe we can try to grow a kind of grain in a year."

The little kids have grown up gradually. As the saying goes, the poor old man is the one who eats the poor.

You know, there are seven underage boys in Lao Xiang's family!
So Lao Xiangtou thought about clearing out a few acres of wasteland and cultivating it before planting rice or beans or something!

"Fifth brother, fifth brother, show me that little frog!"

Xiang Tiange wanted to take a closer look at what the little frog in his fifth brother's hand looked like.

"I want me too!"

Xiang Liulang and Xiang Qilang next to them also came over, looking interested.

At this time, Xiang Wulang felt that his image in Bamei's mind was much taller, and he puffed up his chest. He said, "Wait a minute, wait until I hold down its legs and open them for you to take a closer look!"

As he said that, Xiang Wulang slowly opened his closed hands, then quickly pressed the hind legs of the little frog in his hands, and stretched out his palms so that several people could take a closer look.

Xiang Shiro looked at it and shook his head. What's so good about frogs? They're not big. If they were bigger, maybe we could catch some and take them home for dinner!
Xiang Shiro thought of the small half-basket of frogs he had caught when it rained a few days before harvesting the rice, and his mouth watered with greed.

"Wow! The little frog turns out to look like this! It turns out his flesh is not white!"

Xiang Tiange saw clearly the appearance of the little frog in the fourth brother's hand, said "Wow" and suddenly realized.

"Haha, Bamei, the frog meat cooked at home before was peeled and cooked, so of course it looks like white meat!" Xiang Wulang said with a smile. Fortunately, he still knows this very well!
"What are you doing? Aren't you trying to catch birds?"

Xiang Sanlang looked at several younger brothers and sisters gathered around and asked them curiously.

"Third brother, third brother, fifth brother caught a little frog. It turns out that the little frog is such a dark gray color!" Xiang Tiange stepped aside so that third brother could see clearly the appearance of the little frog in fifth brother's hand.

"This is not a frog, this is a frog. It is such a small frog and has no head to eat. Why catch it? Let it go and let it grow meat!" Xiang Sanlang saw clearly the little frog in the fifth brother's hand and also It was the little frog who curled his lips and told him to let go.

"Well, Bamei has never seen it alive. I was curious, so I caught it and showed it to her. Bamei, do you want to see it again?" Xiang Wulang said.

Xiang Tiange shook his head, "No, let it go, fifth brother. Third brother is right, let it grow flesh first! When it grows up, we will catch it and eat it again!" Xiang Wulang held the little baby in his hand. Frog: I really thank you!
Xiang Liulang and Xiang Qilang, who were ignored on the side: They have never seen a living little frog!They just take a look at feelings, right?

"Didn't you say you want to catch birds? Go and catch them now! I went to learn a trick from Uncle Shitou in the village two days ago. I'm sure I can catch a lot of birds!" Xiang Sanlang said with confidence among his younger brothers and sisters. Said in front of him.

"Okay, okay! Then let's go!"

When Xiang Tiange heard the third brother's words, he didn't want to look at the frog anymore, and his whole heart was focused on the bird.

Several other people were similar, looking at Xiang Sanlang expectantly, waiting for him to take action.

"Well, don't worry, where are the ears of grain you picked up? Give me a handful."

Xiang Sanlang looked behind them.

"Third brother, third brother, I gave it to you! I picked it up with Yaya!" Xiang Tiange hurriedly picked up the small basket he had placed at his feet and handed it to him.

Xiang Sanlang glanced at the ears of grain picked up by his eighth sister, and felt that there were not many, so he reached out and took the small basket in her hand, planning to use these as bait to catch those greedy birds later!

"Well, okay, let's go! Let's go to the front to catch them. There are many birds there!"

Xiang Sanlang pointed to a smaller field in the distance, where Lao Xiang's family had just cut the field, and now they were cutting in the field next door. In this large continuous field, only the piece they were cutting was left. Finished cutting.

Of course Xiang Sanlang knew that food was precious, but it didn’t take much to catch birds. At most, it would only waste a handful, but it was worth it in exchange for so much bird meat!
After telling his younger brothers and sisters to stay away, he used the method Uncle Shitou taught him. He took an empty basket and turned it upside down and propped it up on a wooden stick. Then he sprinkled a few handfuls of rice under the basket and tied it to the stick with a long rope. Underneath, when birds come to eat, if you pull the rope from a distance, the basket will fall down.

After everything was arranged, Xiang Sanlang also pulled the rope to the front of his brothers and sisters and waited quietly.

When Xiang Tiange saw this, he covered his mouth with his small hands and walked quietly to his third brother without saying a word. He looked at his third brother curiously and saw that there were birds not far away over there. The bird flew down to eat the rice trap under the basket, looking excited!
Several other children also wanted to come over when they saw this, but Xiang Sanlang had already seen many birds flying over and pecking at the rice under the basket, so he stretched out a hand and waved it behind him to signal them not to come out. movement.

Seeing this, the few little ones had no choice but to suppress their curious hearts that wanted to get closer and take a closer look.

"Pah - chirp - chirp -"

"Caught, caught!"

Xiangtian Singer danced and followed behind the third brother.

While Xiang Saburo was waiting for the birds to peck at the rice seriously, he suddenly pulled the rope, and the basket fell down. In an instant, many birds that had not had time to fly out were covered under it, and then he dropped the rope to Saburo. If they quickly stepped forward and pressed down on the basket to prevent the birds from flapping their wings and knocking the basket over, their efforts would be in vain.

"Third brother, third brother, hurry up! Look how many birds you have caught!!!"

Xiang Tiange and others were waiting excitedly for their third brother to take over, and the others also ran over excitedly when the basket fell.

(End of this chapter)