pastoral fragrance

Chapter 343 Eerie Bamboo Forest
Xiao Er, who came with Murong Yunfan, saw that his young master's face was very dark, so he didn't dare to step forward to disturb him, and stood aside with his hands down, waiting for his young master's orders.

After Murong Yunfan recovered his breath, his complexion was not very good.The tone was as cold as cold and said: "Let's go!" Murong Yunfan stood up straight, striding into the dense crowd of people.The little girl hurriedly followed and also rushed into the crowd. After a while, the two of them disappeared among the bustling crowd.

Qiulin bought fabric and cotton, and after thinking about it for a while, there should be nothing to buy.Then he dragged Xia Yan to the thatched shed where the car was kept. At the moment, the driver was sitting in the thatched shed drinking tea.Seeing Xia Yan and the others approaching, he quickly put down the teacup and stood up.Help Xia Yan and Qiu Lin put the cotton and cloth into the carriage.

Today, Qiulin woke up early, and went shopping in the market for most of the day with great interest. Now the bustle and bustle has retreated, and he feels a bit lonely.A wave of drowsiness welled up, and it seemed as if a heavy weight was on the eyelids.

Xia Yan saw Qiu Lin's drowsiness, took her into his arms, and said softly, "Go to sleep, I'll call you when I get to the village."

In Xia Yan's arms, Qiu Lin felt very warm and comfortable.She smiled slightly, let the drowsiness be rampant, closed her eyes, and fell asleep peacefully.

Xia Yan lowered his head at this moment to carefully look at the girl caught in his arms, her skin was pink and radiant.There is still a sweet smile on the corner of the mouth, a pear-shaped smile, with a bit of unique charm.Xia Yan pressed a kiss to the dimple on Qiu Lin's face.Feeling the beauty of the woman in his arms, a smile appeared on the boy's face.Opening the curtain of the car, a gentle autumn wind blows on the face, looking at the beautiful scenery along the way, a sense of satisfaction rises in my heart.

Qiu Lin slept soundly this time, and fell asleep until Xia Yan woke her up at the entrance of the village.After returning home, Qiulin didn't feel sleepy either, and immediately started playing with the fabrics bought from the town.

Qiulin bought three rolls of colorful fabric, which were used to make clothes for his mother, eldest sister, and himself; the other few bolts of dark-colored material were used to make clothes for his father, third brother, Xia Yan, and his father.I also bought a few bolts of interlining, which are used to make the lining of the padded jacket.She has recorded the size of the whole family, and now she will dig it out and cut it accordingly.

Because it is made of winter clothes, the size should be slightly wider.Cotton has to be stuffed inside the clothes, and I wear a lot of inner clothes in winter, so I have to make them bigger.

Qiulin took the lead in making winter clothes for Xia Yan, and after returning from the town, she spent the whole afternoon breaking them.It's just that at dusk, the sky gradually dimmed, and she only sewed the sleeves and neckline.

Mrs. Han came in from outside the house with a few fish. Seeing that it was getting dark and Qiulin was still sewing here, she hurriedly said, "It's getting dark, don't do this, go and get the chickens into the pen. Xiao Qing The two of Xiaohong went to the river to drink ducks."

It's dark today, and if you do this kind of labor-intensive work, your eyes will easily become short-sighted.Qiulin naturally knew this truth, put down his clothes at this moment, looked outside at the dark sky, and couldn't help sighing, he forgot the time when he was making clothes here.She got up and put all the cloth, needlework and so on in a sewing basket, and put it in her wing room.Then I went to the yard to yell the chicken into the pen.

Although the property of Qiulin's family has become bigger and bigger, the chickens and ducks raised in the family are only twenty or thirty.If there are too many chickens and ducks, if they are not taken care of well, they will easily get sick, and all the chickens and ducks will go away.

The chickens of Qiulin's family are mostly kept in the forest on the slope. The bamboo forest with several acres of width is surrounded by fences, and the chickens are allowed to forage freely in the bamboo forest surrounded by the fence. Every day, some of them go to the bamboo forest To clean up the chicken manure and keep the bamboo forest clean.These chickens are also locked in the chicken coop every night, about 45 chickens are placed in a chicken coop.In this way, the occurrence of chicken plague can also be effectively suppressed.

Most of the chickens raised on the slope are used to make lotus leaf chicken. Nowadays, the lotus leaf chicken is basically prepared the first night, and Heizi Maozi takes turns to deliver the goods to the workshops in the town early the next morning.

The chickens are raised by two families sent by Qiulin to guard the slopes. They don’t have much work to do on weekdays, except to help harvest crops when the farming is busy. They are mainly responsible for raising chickens, rabbits and so on. There are things like preventing thieves from stealing chickens and rabbits, and life is easy.

After yelling the chicken into the pen, Qiulin felt that the noisy farmyard suddenly became quiet.After entering the kitchen, he saw that Mrs. Han was carrying a few fish to the yard to scrape the scales and gills of the fish, and asked, "Mother, are you making braised fish today?"

Han said with a smile: "No, your father said that he hasn't eaten for several days. Sier, you go to the stove to watch the fire. Today is the death day of your aunt Cao. They will go back to the village in the morning to pay homage. I haven't come back yet. I guess I will come back later."

Qiu Lin nodded when he heard the words, turned his head and entered the stove house, walked to the stove hole, and looked inside. There was a thick wooden stick in the stove hole, and a big fire was burning.This kind of fire was afraid that it would burn the pot, so Qiulin took out some ashes and buried it on it, so the fire was a little bit smaller.

After about half a stick of incense, the room was filled with the aroma of potato rice. Qiulin moved his index finger to the side of the pot and lifted the wooden lid to see that the pot was cooking potato rice again.Put the sliced ​​yams on the bottom and steam the rice on top. The aroma of the yams penetrates into the rice grains little by little, and then put some cooking oil and peppercorns, which smells delicious.Qiulin said happily: "Mother, why did you remember to make potato rice, it's so delicious!"

Qiu Lin felt that even simple ingredients like sweet potatoes and yams could make delicious food. This kind of simple food is incomparable to those delicacies from mountains and seas.

Han Shi just cut up a few fish at this moment, went into the house to scoop up water to clean the fish, and put them on the cutting board to slice.Seeing Qiulin's bright eyes, Han narrowed his eyes and said with a smile, "I don't know you little greedy cats?"

Today's potato rice was delicious. Qiulin ate two bowls, and also ate a lot of fish and fried lotus root slices. His stomach was full.Putting down the bowls and chopsticks, Qiulin touched his chubby belly, feeling speechless, probably eating too much himself.

It seems that I have to go out to digest food.

After an autumn rain a few days ago, Qiu Huo completely withdrew from Luoshui Village.It was an autumn night again, and the warm autumn wind was blowing gently on his face, making Qiulin feel very comfortable.

Now there are no noisy cicadas and frogs in summer, and the whole village of Luoshui Village is in a peaceful and peaceful environment.At this moment, every household has lit kerosene lamps, and there is a faint orange light in the night.At this time, there were a few lonely stars hanging in the sky, and there was no bright moon.

With the help of the orange lights from every house, Qiu Lin walked aimlessly along the ridge of the field.Anyway, it’s all about digestion, so why bother to go anywhere.At this time, the water in those paddy fields has been drained, and only some straw stakes are left, which is pitch black. Those remaining straw stakes look like dwarves guarding the paddy fields in the dark.They will not be completely dug up until the beginning of spring, and then soaked in the rice fields with water, and will not be completely thrown away until the spring plowing.This is also a good way that country people came up with to maintain the fertility of paddy fields.

Walking slowly like this, before he knew it, Qiulin walked to the door of the village medicine shop.Seeing the dim orange light emanating from the medicine shop room, Qiu Lin was moved and walked towards the bamboo forest with his feet lifted.

In the bamboo grove there were dark buildings, those tall and tall green bamboos looked eerie and treacherous at the moment, feeling a gust of wind coming from behind, Qiu Lin felt a chill down his back.

Just as I calmed down, I heard the "squeak" sound of cloth shoes rubbing against bamboo leaves ringing in my ears.Qiulin was suspicious and didn't dare to move any further.But the creaking sound did not dissipate, but got closer and closer.

At this moment, Qiulin thought of the haunted scenes in modern TV dramas and movies, Qiulin's expression became tense, and a panic surged from the bottom of his heart.

No, no, no, it won't be that thing, Qiu Lin comforted himself in his heart and cheered himself up.I finally didn't feel that scary anymore.

Qiulin pretended to be bold and raised his head to look at the road ahead, only to feel a flash of black shadows in front of him, the fear in his heart soared to the extreme, Qiulin screamed in great fear: "Ghost!" At the same time as screaming, Qiulin Turn around quickly, and run back in two steps in three steps in a hurry.

It's just that the fright made her weak all over, and she couldn't lift her strength at all right now. Before she could take a few steps, she tripped over the vines under her feet. Make her gasp!
"How are you?" At this moment, the black figure had already floated in front of Qiulin, squatting down to check her injuries.Thinking of the scream just now, Xia Yan was completely speechless, does he look so ghost like?

"You..." Seeing a black shadow approaching her, Qiulin knelt down to check her injuries, Qiulin was stunned.But after thinking about it, he felt that this voice was extremely familiar, it was Xia Yan.Qiulin gasped!
After Qiulin knew that the black shadow was Xia Yan, the fear in his heart had long since dissipated, replaced by a sense of fear and anger.Qiulin squeezed his fist, and threw it at Xia Yan like raindrops, and said lightly, "You don't know the reason why people scare people and scare people to death, and you don't know how to make noises. It scared me to death!" Thinking about the eerie scene just now Qiulin still has lingering fears about the scene!
"It's already night, why are you still hanging out!" Qiu Lin beat Xia Yan's chest while cursing and pinching, but still felt that it was not enough to relieve his anger!

Seeing that Qiu Lin was frightened into such a virtue, Xia Yan had no choice but to let him beat her wantonly. "Okay, okay, I was wrong...with me here, don't all the ghosts and snakes stand aside? Don't cry, don't cry..." In the darkness, Xia Yan couldn't see Qiulin's face clearly, but listening to her scolding There was a cry in his voice, he must have been crying.

After a while, Qiulin calmed down and stopped crying.Xia Yan wanted to help her up, but Qiu Lin hurriedly pushed her away, and said with a mournful face, "I hurt my ankle, it hurts!"

(End of this chapter)