Buy a house with 30,000 yuan and live in a small town

Chapter 45 Kneeling
  Liu Wangxue followed Xu Qingsong's instructions and touched the lotus stem. A cool, gel-like feeling was immediately conveyed through the rubber gloves.

But she touched it for a while, and then started over with a few more lotus stems. They were either mud or lotus stems that had not yet rotted.

This is also the case with Du Yunkai.

Turning around to look at the others, the novices were all the same and had gained nothing. The three veterans have achieved results one after another.

Liu Wangxue asked: "Are you just looking for them one by one? Is there any trick to selecting lotus stems?"

After hearing this, several people straightened up and looked at the green patches in front of them.

Wenxi said: "Don't they all look the same? They are all the leaves on the top of a pole."

Du Yunkai asked: "Is it possible to identify people by their height, shortness, fatness or thinness?"

Wenxi doesn't think so: "I think it depends on luck, right? This is both water and mud, just like opening a blind box."

Li Yu was physically weak and already tired after a while. He put his hands on his hips and took a deep breath: "It's okay to open the blind box. After all, you are sure to be able to open something, but if you touch it with this hand, you can't even touch a lotus root joint."

Over there, Yue Cheng joked: "Brother-in-law, are you hiding something secret? Hurry up and hand over the secret!"

Liu Wangxue asked Xu Qingsong: "So there is really a secret?"

Xu Qingsong spread his hands and said with a smile: "I have always been very lucky, I don't need any tricks."

Wenxi picked a lotus leaf and put it on his head as a hat: "Look, I said it was just luck."

Tao Huayu picked the few lotus pods in front and placed them on the foam floating board. He said, "There is indeed a secret. Brother-in-law, please explain it to me."

So everyone gathered around the brother-in-law. The brother-in-law broke off a few lotus stems, pointed to the lotus leaf in the middle that had just emerged from the water - the kind where "little lotus leaves only show their sharp corners", and said: "The bottom of such a lotus leaf must be Yes, and the direction of growth of the lotus nodes is opposite to that of the leaves."

As he spoke, he bent down, touched it a few times, and indeed dug out one.

The method is really simple. Everyone spreads out to find it. After a while, the scores of all the novices changed from 0 to 1.

Tao Huayu dug out another one and said, "It's boring to dig like this. How about we have a competition? It just so happens that we have three teams now."

Yue Cheng followed suit: "The competition must be successful!"

"Okay, I'll take the jackpot." Du Yunkai became interested. He had learned from Xu Qingsong that these people were all players of "The Joker 21 Case", "Qingsong and I want to make a PC game next. If you win, I’ll give it a closed beta test.”

"Great!" Everyone cheered together.

Li Yu interrupted: "But Brother Qingsong and Boss Du are originally from the same company. If they win, won't there be only one place for the internal beta?"

"Yes, yes, this won't work!" Everyone clamored for personnel adjustments, and finally Xu Qingsong and Tao Huayu changed.

The rules of the competition are simple and crude. They are weighed. At the end, whichever team digs out the heaviest lotus roots wins.

In addition, the "Lotus Root King" will be selected. Lan Xiaoxi suggested: "I heard that the Fish King is selected every year during fishing in the Northeast. Let's make one too."

"Where's the lottery?" Wenxi asked.

Liu Wangxue said: "How about using the little porcelain sticker?"

"This is good!" Everyone agreed.

Because except for Liu Wangxue, Xiaoci attacks everyone with cat fists indiscriminately, and even Wenxi is not touched. Li Yu was immediately full of energy. He wanted to hug Xiaoci the most. When he thought of being able to pet the cat, he still had to do it no matter how weak his physical ability was.

However, this kind of bending down work is indeed quite tiring. Although the waterproof clothing is in the style of overalls, it is not breathable. In addition, it was really not easy to walk in the mud. After a while, everyone was sweating profusely.

Although the morning sun is not that scorching, it does make your face hot when it shines on it. Everyone imitated Wenxi and picked a lotus leaf and put it on their heads.

The bumper on the shore was originally lying on its stomach, and Xiaoci slept on its back as motionless as a blanket. Suddenly Pengpeng stood up, shaking Xiaoci awake.

It stretched out its front paws to reach the lotus leaves in the field, but the distance was a bit far and it couldn't reach them, so it barked "woof" in the direction of Liu Wangxue.

The sister on the side didn't know what happened to the dog. She was afraid that it would run into the lotus field with the cat, so she called Liu Wangxue.

Liu Wangxue looked back, smiled, and said, "Sister, just pick a lotus leaf for it and put it on its head."

My sister looked at Bumping's head, picked off a piece of about the same size and put it on. Bumping immediately became quiet, walked a few steps, and then lay down again.

When Xiao Ci saw that there was an extra hat on her head, she stretched out her paws to scratch it, then looked at her sister and said "meow".

My sister, who had never raised a small animal, suddenly felt blessed. She picked a smaller one and put it on Xiaoci. Xiaoci let out a "meow" and continued to sleep on Pengpeng's back.

She thought this was simply too strange. She looked over and over again, were these really just a cat and a dog? I took out my phone and took a few photos.

The competition in the lotus field was still going on. My brother-in-law's team was the first to fill up the floating boards. Yue Cheng pushed them to the shore, and his sister helped put them in the plastic basket. This floating board was put in and it was half filled in an instant.

When he walked back with the floating board, he said as if to start a fight: "It seems that our team has a great chance of winning!"

Tao Huayu immediately expressed his dissatisfaction: "Just wait!" He put on another float, and the floating board was almost reaching its limit, so he pushed it towards the shore.

Xu Qingsong also pushed his team's floating board to follow.

Du Yunkai straightened up and punched his lower back, which was always bent like this. Even someone who works out on a daily basis would find it difficult for him: "No wonder farmers are said to be hard-working. After experiencing this, it is indeed very hard."

Liu Wangxue and Wenxi also turned around and moved around. Li Yu was the only one who kept searching and touching.

Wenxi said: "Xiaoyu, please take a rest, be careful of injuring your waist from fatigue."

Li Yu raised his head, his tender face flushed with heat: "I want to get the 'Lotus King'."

"You can't be too tired then." Liu Wangxue also advised him to rest for a while.

The brother-in-law smiled when he heard this. He has a simple and honest appearance, and his skin is tanned by the sun and wind from working in the fields: "You are tired, right? You can do this."

As he spoke, he knelt down in the lotus field: "This way you won't be tired to the waist, and the heat in the waterproof suit can be squeezed out. It's very cool."

"Hey, this is a good method." Yue Cheng followed suit.

The brother-in-law gave him a hug from behind and said, "Kneel down, don't sit, and keep your upper body upright, otherwise water will get into your clothes."

"Oh, okay." Yue Cheng adjusted his posture and looked at the others, "It's true, it saves effort and is cool. You guys try it."

Then, everyone knelt down in the lotus field one by one.

I don't know who suddenly laughed. You infect me and I infect you. The laughter floats above the lotus field and is blown by the wind among the lotus leaves.

(End of this chapter)