Rebirth Farmer Yaomei

Chapter 53
Guo's adobe was not finished in two days, and Ning Wan did not go there on the third day, just busy with her own affairs at home.In fact, she doesn't like going to Guo's house very much, except for Luo Shuang'er, she doesn't like anyone in Guo's house very much.

Since Luo Shuang'er didn't need to help, Chunling didn't go either, and the two of them dried the vegetables together, and Ning Wan said: "I see that the melons in the field have grown big, and they should be ripe, why don't you pick them up and taste them?" .”

When each family in Sanjia Village planted their vegetable gardens, they usually planted a few ridges of cantaloupe. In summer, when the melons are ripe, eating them can cool off the heat.The land in Sanjia Village is black soil, which is very fertile and suitable for the growth of melons.

Chunling said, "It's raining a lot this year, so the melons probably won't be too sweet."

The drier the year, the sweeter the cantaloupe, and not only cantaloupe, but also other melons and fruits.But Ning Wan just laughed, "My melons are planted on the small slope."

The vegetable garden of the Ning family's big house is not completely flat, there is a small slope with higher terrain, and there is a lot of sunlight. The melons planted here will not receive too much rain. The day is warm and the night is cold, so the taste is extraordinarily sweet.

When I arrived at the melon field, I saw nests of white melons of different sizes lying under the green vines and leaves, some were six or seven, some were two or three.Chun Ling exclaimed, "Your melons are growing so much!"

"If you want muskmelon to bear more fruit, you have to pinch the tip when it bears fruit," Ning Wan said, comparing the melon vines: "My father told me that the excess branches must be pinched off."

Chunling is also knowledgeable, so she laughed, "The difficulty in growing melons is pinching the tips." Everyone knows how to pinch the tips, but where to pinch and how many leaves to keep are the real difficulties.

In fact, Ning Wan was just copying what her father said, and her father did all the work of pinching the tip, so she couldn't say anything, she just lowered her head to look for ripe melons.

When the cantaloupe is ripe, the stalks will not be strong. The so-called "melon ripe stalks" is not bad at all. In addition, ripe melons are lighter in the hand than raw melons. When you put them under your nose and smell them, there is a refreshing aroma .

Ning Wan picked five or six melons, picked them off, took them to the yard and washed them with water, clenched her fists and beat them harder, and the thin-skinned melons burst open.Divide the melon in your hand into two, hold it and shake it, and throw out the melon seeds. It doesn't matter if there are still some melon pulp left, that's how cantaloupe is eaten.If you use a knife to remove the flesh of the melon, it will lose the original aroma of the melon, and even cutting the melon with a knife will affect the aroma.

When eating cantaloupe at Zhao's before, I always peeled off the skin, cut it into small pieces, and ate it with a small stick. It looks elegant, but it tastes much worse than this extensive way of eating.

Half of the two pieces of Gua Chunling, Ning Wan ate the other half by herself.Put it in your mouth, it was juicy and crispy, very sweet, and Ning Wan said vaguely: "The melon is really ripe." Then soaked the rest of the melon in the mountain stream, "I will send it to my mother and aunt in a while. It will definitely be sweeter!"

Chunling went to her house to dry vegetables, and Yu went to talk to her sister-in-law, so they sent the soaked melons to the second room after they tasted the melons.At night, when Ning Liang came back from Hutai County, Ning Wan was still waiting in front of the door, "Father, the muskmelon is ripe! Would you like to try one?"

Ning Liang couldn't help laughing when he saw Yaonu say the melons as soon as they met, "I saw that the melons were almost ready when I watered them yesterday, and I wanted to pick them in a day or two, but you guys found out first."

Ning Wan just laughed, "I picked a few, and they all taste good."

Ning Liang said: "When I return to Hutai County in a few days, I will bring two more cantaloupe melons with me. I asked the restaurant, and they are willing to take them. They will be cut into teeth and served on the wine table. People who drink like it. "

"Father now wants to send it to Hutai County for money no matter what it is!"

"There is a donkey at home, and there are other things. If you give it away, it will be money. Of course you have to give it away!" Ning Liang said, "This little donkey has made great contributions to our family!"

Ning Wan listened, "Father, go inside and rest, I will feed the donkey, I will never treat it badly!"

Ning Liang handed the donkey to Ning Wan, but turned around and said, "It looks like it will rain today, and I don't know if it can damage the newly made adobe of the Guo family."

Obviously the weather has been very hot for the past few days, and there is no trace of moisture, Ning Wan is puzzled: "How did Dad know it was going to rain?"

"Look at the moon, there is a red circle outside. This is called 'holding a red umbrella', which means that it will rain heavily."

Ning Wan looked up at the moon, there was no cloud in the daytime today, and it was the same at night, the moon was hanging brightly in the sky, and when she looked closely, there was indeed a very obvious red halo, and she also became anxious for Luo Shuanger, "If it rains heavily Now, wouldn’t the previous adobe frame be soaked down?”

If the adobe is dry, it is no longer afraid of water, but before it is dry, the most fearful thing is blisters. Even the best adobe may be re-soaked into a pile of mud by a heavy rain.

"Then we have to fight again."

Ning Liang's words really came true. It rained that night, and it was very heavy rain. At the same time, there was lightning and thunder. Ning Wan was awakened several times in her sleep.Seeing that the rain stopped the next day, I hurried to the adobe frame to have a look.

Mr. Guo, Uncle Guo, Guo Xiazhu, Luo Shuang'er and others have already arrived and are looking around the ten adobes. In fact, there are no more ten adobes at the moment, at most three and a half - the other six and a half adobes have already arrived. It has disappeared without a trace, and even the three and a half adobes that are still standing in place are also damaged.

Chunling also came over at some point, pointing to the two best-preserved adobes and said loudly: "These two were built by our family Dajiang and Dahe."

Whether the adobe was well beaten or not, although it could be seen at that time, but now is the real critical moment. The adobes that the Ning brothers made were only the bottom or the top two places that were soaked by rain, and the rest were scattered. They are all still intact, and the previous adobe frame is still very complete, still standing in place in a semicircle.

Luo Shuang'er listened to Chunling's words, forced a smile and said, "Brother Dajiang is naturally the number one in making adobe in our Sanjia Village." Although she laughed, her smile was not much better than crying, although Ning Wan never listened to it. She said that she was anxious to separate the family, but she knew how eager she was.

You don't need to think about it, as long as you can leave Mrs. Guo, Aunt Guo, and Guo Xiaoyan, Luo Shuang'er would rather endure more hardships.Now she is very worried that if the adobe is damaged, the new house will not be built, and then Mrs. Guo will not allow her to give it away.

Chunling naturally understood, so she comforted her, "Just wait until Qingtian hits the adobe again. The adobe has already been hit once, and it will be stronger than the first time." Since she married Ning Dajiang , She is very clear about the adobe building, Ning Dajiang seldom explains it to others, but she loves to talk.

Ning Dajiang also came over, and said simply to Mr. Guo: "I'll come back to make adobe when the weather clears up, and I don't need wages."

The people who helped the Guo family to dig the adobes also agreed, "Uncle Guo, don't worry, we will re-build these adobes, and you don't have to pay any more when you are old!"

The people of Sanjia Village value benevolence and righteousness. Although they can't blame them for the fallen adobes of the Guo family, since they took over the Guo family's work and received the Guo family's wages, they should now lay these adobes again.

According to the custom, although the Guo family no longer pays wages, they must be more attentive when entertaining everyone for dinner, and everyone must show respect to each other.

Chun Ling took Luo Shuang'er's hand and said with a smile, "Don't worry."

But God just likes to make trouble. In the next few days, it rained a few times in succession, and the ground was not dry. The adobe could not be broken, but everyone's thoughts were no longer on the adobe, and they were worried about the crops in the field. .

The crops in this season naturally need rainwater, but too much rainwater is not good, especially since most of the land in the village is in low-lying areas, and the rainwater accumulates when it is heavy, and it is not easy to drain out.

In Sanjia Village, the land of Ning's family is the closest to the stream, and is also the most vulnerable to flooding, so parents are extremely anxious, and father does not go to Hutai County anymore. Let's go to the field together.

At this time, they had already forgotten the rift within the Ning family, and they were only thinking about how to keep the harvest in the field this year. The Ning family was originally separated from one household, and the land was connected.

When Dad came back, he frowned tightly, "The water in the mountain stream has risen. Today, Hujia Village has built a lot of earthen baskets to block the water to our side. My house is in the land closest to the foot of the mountain." It has been washed out of a half-person-high pit, and a lot of water has accumulated."

Mrs. Yu sighed, "The hole was only filled in this spring, and now it has come out again."

When the mountain stream is flooded, the land at home bears the brunt of the impact. Seven or eight years out of ten years there is no harvest, but if there is a drought year, the crops there never lack water, and they grow well. the best.

Ordinarily, every year there is no need to plant the land there. After all, it is not very big, only two or three cents, but my father is not afraid of hard work. In the spring, he transports soil to fill the pits, and he refuses to give up on his own initiative.His plan is also good, if there is a lot of water, he will only lose some seeds, if there is a drought, he will gain a stone more.Usually it's not that bad, but in a time of famine, a stone of grain can save people's lives. Back then, my mother exchanged a stone of grain for it.

Mother is also very clear about the land at home, and now she knows that there is no need to count on the sorghum there, but she hastily asked, "How about the other place?"

"It doesn't matter right now, but the Hujia Village is hateful. Once they block the water, our side will be flooded. If it rains for another two days, the crops will be gone."

Both Sanjia Village and Hujia Village are located on the flat land in the mountains. The two villages are bounded by a small mountain stream. When there is drought, the two villages grab water from the mountain stream, and when it is flooded, they rush to drain the water into the mountain stream. After fighting for hundreds of years, everyone from top to bottom in the two villages became enemies, and they did not marry or communicate with each other.

Although the current water situation in Sanjia Village is due to continuous heavy rain, there are also reasons why Hujia Village has built embankments to block water.

Mother asked worriedly: "Are you going to fight with the people from Hujia Village?" When the two villages fought, all the men had to participate with hoes and shovels. Scared, but for the sake of their own land and their own food, they can't stop them.

Moreover, in terms of land and population, Sanjia Village is half the size of Hujia Village, so there are more losses in fights. Therefore, when Sanjia Village fights with Hujia Village, it must rely on a reckless effort to fight hard. Only in this way can the Hujia Village not dare to go too far, and the danger in it can be imagined.

Seeing the panic in Yu Shi's eyes, Ning Liang hurriedly waved his hands and said, "We haven't reached that point yet, and the village still has to discuss it. You don't have to worry."

Although Yu Shi may not really stop worrying, her expression has eased a lot after all, and she is getting heavier and heavier at this time, and she is prone to sleepiness, especially on rainy days, and she fell asleep after a while.

But when Ning Wan first heard the word "fight", she trembled a little. These days, this was what she was most worried about.

(End of this chapter)