peasant girl wedding

Chapter 129 Picking up Peanuts

The sun was setting to the west, the setting sun in the western sky was like blood, and when the dazzling sunset glow reflected half of the sky, Fang Cuiwei returned home.

"Mother, uncle, what do they say?"

Hearing the voice, Tong Duo'er came out of the room and asked.

Fang Cui smiled, "Praise our branch again, and then ask me soybeans, soybean dishes..."

The mother and daughter walked into the kitchen as they spoke, and began to prepare dinner for the evening.

When it was getting dark, Tong Zhaoyin returned home after finishing his work.

"Zhaoyin, let's go to your uncle and aunt's house and try tofu dishes together!"

As soon as he entered the door, Tong Zhaoyin heard Luo Shi's uncontrollable laughter.

Tofu dishes?
Tong Zhaoyin asked suspiciously, "Mother, what is this tofu dish?"

Immediately, Luo Shi told Tong Zhaoyin the name of the soybean and how the tofu dish came from.

Tong Zhaoyin said with emotion: "Zhi'er is so smart!"

"Isn't it? It's just a pity that Zhi'er is not a boy. Otherwise, she would be able to pass the imperial examinations. With her intelligence and wisdom, she would definitely be able to pass the exam. When the time comes... oh, what a pity."

Tong Zhide laughed, "Isn't the fourth brother still has Ah Fu? Ah Fu is also smart and loves to study, and with a smart sister like Zhi'er beside him, he will definitely become famous in the future."

Roche nodded, expressing his agreement.

The three of them closed the door of the thatched house and walked to Tong Zhixin's house.

In the main room, Fang Cuiwei and the others had already arranged the meals and were just waiting for Tong Zhaoyin's family to come.

Seeing and eating the bean curd dish that Luo Shi mentioned, Tong Zhaoyin was very happy.

It really is a delicious and refreshing dish, and it is novel. If it is sold to a restaurant, it may be very popular.

After dinner, Tong Zhaoyin told Tong Zhixin what was in his heart.

"Zhaoyin, this idea is very good. However, our family has too few soybeans. I am afraid that there will not be enough soybeans for our own food and the seeds saved for next year. Only when we plant more next year will we be able to sell the surplus to others." Others." Tong Zhi said.

Tong Zhaoyin nodded, "Fourth Uncle, next year you will also leave some for my family, and my family also wants to plant."

Tong Zhixin smiled, "Success."

After talking for a while, Tong Zhide's family went back.

……

August has finally passed, and now it is the third day of September.

All the peanuts in the village have been cleaned up. On this day, all the children carried their baskets and small shovels and went to the peanut fields one by one.

Picking peanuts started.

When it comes to picking peanuts, here is the old house of the Tong family.

After the old lady drove Lao Guo and others away that time, she took care of Old Tong for two days, and Old Tong got better. The two of them went to the peanut field together with Mrs. Lin, and hurriedly cleared the fourteen acres of land. It took three days for the peanuts to be collected.

Among them, it is naturally a place where it is inevitable to be stolen again.

The old lady's voice was hoarse when she scolded the sky, and she couldn't find the thief who stole his peanuts, so she had to admit the loss.

After all, Old Man Tong was getting older, and with Tong Zhaojin's business, he was busy and tired. After harvesting the fourteen acres of peanuts, he was much worse than before, and he stayed in bed all day.The old lady was used to not working in the field. She was harvesting peanuts these days, but she was exhausted, and she no longer had the strength to use a hoe to clean up the remaining peanuts in the field.

The old lady who stole peanuts outside couldn't be caught, but she could see the one in Tong's old house every day.

The old lady knew that Mrs. Lin would steal the peanuts, so she didn't lock the peanuts in the room to prevent Mrs. Lin from stealing them. Instead, she piled the peanuts in the yard.When Lin Shi found an opportunity to steal, the old lady rushed out from nowhere, grabbed Lin Shi's ear and yelled loudly, even the smoke came out of her throat, she still didn't let it go.

A few days were spent staring at Lin's stealing peanuts and cursing.

On the third day of September, when she heard the news that the children were picking peanuts, the old lady realized that something was wrong.

The peanuts in her field haven't been planed yet?

This year's peanuts are all blanched for others!

The old lady scolded Mrs. Lin again, saying that she was all to blame. If Mrs. Lin hadn't always wanted to steal peanuts, she wouldn't have wasted her time so much that she didn't care about the fields.

Facing the old lady's anger, Lin's lips curled up mockingly. After the old lady carried the basket on her back and took the hoe and left, she moved a small stool and sat next to the peanut pile, peeling the peanuts with both hands numbly. Feed it into your mouth one by one, and squint your eyes comfortably.When she had had enough, she picked a lot of peanuts and put them in her room to hide them.

……

"Second sister, where do we start?"

Tong Zhu'er, who was carrying a basket on her back, said.

Tong Zhaofu didn't go to school today, and he carried a basket on his back to pick up peanuts with his two sisters.Tong Duo'er is married to Dong Ping, and now she is helping Fang Cuiwei at home, doing needlework.

These fields are relatively medium-sized fertile fields in the village, and six acres of them belong to the old man Tong and the old lady. She also knows what happened during the peanut harvesting period of the Tong family's old house this year.If you come to pick peanuts today, the harvest in the fields of Tong's old house must be better than in other fields.

However, an old lady's ability to find trouble...

"Let's go over there!"

Tong Zhi'er pointed to a peanut tunnel that was far from Tong's old house.

Tong Zhu'er and Tong Zhaofu nodded and followed her to that side.

There are many children in the village, and after a while, they scattered and occupied the field where they wanted to grow shavings.

The largest number of people was naturally the six acres of peanut fields in Tong's old house.

When the adults gossip, the children also listen in. They naturally know that the peanut fields of the old man and the old lady of the Tong family have the most peanuts left.

After choosing a place, the baskets were put down, and each child took a small shovel, or directly dug the soil with their hands, and when they saw the peanuts exposed, they quickly picked them up into their baskets.

There are only two uses for the peanuts grown at home, one is to keep them as seeds, and the other is to wait for the peanut harvesters to come and sell the peanuts for money.As for the children wanting to eat peanuts, they should work hard during the few days when they are picking peanuts.

Adults will not take advantage of children's efforts.

Therefore, picking peanuts every year is the most anticipated and favorite activity for boys and girls in the village.

"There are so many peanuts here."

"Yeah, with a shovel down, there are a dozen or so."

"Is it is it?"

The children who were born on the shavings in Old Man Tong's six acres of land said in surprise.

When other people saw it, they also ran over, occupied a small area, and dug quickly with shovels.

The old lady hurriedly came to the six acres of peanut field with a hoe in her hand. What she saw was half of the children in the village digging wildly in their peanut field!
(End of this chapter)