Sweet Garden Sands

Chapter 103 Rice Field Longevity Snails
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Tongsuo Niang left the Ke family just before dinner, and because of Tongsuo Niang's incident, the atmosphere at the dinner table in the Ke family's big room was not as cheerful as usual.

"Hey, it's been said that this disease has been poor for three years, and I think the Tongsuo family has also been dragged down." Ke Meng felt sorry for the Tongsuo family. Originally, the family situation of the Tongsuo family was not bad, but now Uncle Tongsuo is in such a state. Once sick, life will be difficult in the future.

Both Ke Mengshi and Ke Zhongshi knew that Tongsuoniang had given her family's savings to her brother's medical treatment, but it was a pity that this time they might lose both talents.

"Father, come back to the town tomorrow to buy more meat. I want to get some eggs and meat for Tongsuo Niang to give to her brother for luck." Ke Zhong said suddenly.

"Ke Zhong is right, I almost forgot about it," Ke Meng said.

This is the custom here. If relatives and friends are sick or confinement or something, neighbors or relatives who have a good relationship will send some gifts. What a disaster, then the eggs and meat are eaten by the patients to avoid bad luck.

"Okay, I'll remember." Ke Shuisheng nodded.

"Father, remember my candy too." Hong'er suddenly put down the bowl and looked up to his father and shouted.

"You are everywhere!" Ke Hanxue smiled and flicked Hong'er's forehead with her fingers, and reprimanded: "You can't eat candy every day!"

Hong'er pouted unconvinced, but he couldn't find anything to refute, because he did eat candy every day these days.

"Hong'er, your second sister is right. You can't eat too much candy. You've been eating nothing but candy for the past few days, and you can't even eat rice. You can't go on like this." Ke Zhong also said with a straight face.

In the past, the family lacked food, and the children were often half-starved. Now that the family has no shortage of food, the child's mouth picks up, which makes Ke Zhong a headache.

"Mother, I understand." Hong'er's mouth pouted all the way, but she didn't dare to reply.

When she was working in her previous life, Ke Hanxue always felt that the days passed slowly and she was too far away from the day of salary payment, but here, she felt that there was not enough time.

Before the straw in the paddy field had been hoeed, she found something similar to the apple snail in the paddy field. This thing would eat the seedlings and hinder the growth of the rice, so it had to be picked out and killed.

When Ke Shuisheng came home at night, Ke Hanxue told him about his discovery, and Ke Shuisheng became anxious: "Yes, this is a screw. This thing will harm the rice, so you have to pick it up."

"Father, I know, I already picked up some in the afternoon and killed them. Fortunately, I found out early. It seems that this is the time when this thing breeds. We have to pick up this thing as soon as possible." Ke Hanxue road.

"Then I'll go to the field tomorrow to help pick up the screws." Ke Zhong said.

"I'm going to pick up screws too!" Hong'er exclaimed excitedly, the second sister hadn't taken him to the river to catch shrimps for a long time, if there were no shrimps to catch, it would be good to catch screws.

"Okay, let's go." Ke Shuisheng said with a smile.

Ke Hanxue frowned, did not stop Ke Zhongshi, but said to Ke Mengshi: "Grandma, we will not be at home tomorrow, can you not go out and help us watch the wine in the house at home, I am afraid Second Aunt, she..."

Ke Hanxue looked at Ke Mengshi, but she didn't finish her sentence, but Ke Mengshi also understood what she meant.

"Okay, you all go get busy. I, an old woman, will stay at home and cook for you." Who is Ke Yushi, Ke Mengshi knows, Xue'er is right to be more careful.

The next day, Ke Zhong took his daughter to the field early in the morning. Ke Zhong's health was not good, so Ke Hanxue didn't let her go to the field, but helped him pick up the screws he picked up in the field and put them on the ridge stoned to death.

Hong'er clamored to go to the field, but Ke Hanxue didn't let him, mainly because he was afraid that he would run around and trample all the rice seedlings in the field to death.

At noon, the mother and son went home to eat together, rested at home for a while and returned to the field.

In the evening, Ke Shuisheng also came. He picked up screws much faster than Ke Hanxue, and he picked up an acre of land before dark.

"Father, you're so quick. My mother, Hong'er and I only picked up two acres of land in one day, and you finished picking up one mu of land within a short time after you came." Ke Hanxue said a little depressed.

"Now there are not many screws, easy to pick up. If there are more screws after a while, it will not be so fast." Ke Shuisheng lifted the hem of his clothes and wiped it on his face randomly, and said with a smile.

"Well, it's a good thing I found it early." Ke Hanxue also said, the remaining few acres of land will be picked up before the screw breeds in two or three days.

After picking up the screws and hoeing the straw, the mulberry wine can also be filtered.

Ke Hanxue was so tired that she was still out of breath and filtered the mulberry wine overnight.

With a total of six hundred catties of wine, Ke Zhongshi and Ke Hanxue's mother and daughter had a busy night to filter the mulberry wine.

It was already bright after filtering, and Ke Hanxue was too tired to go to town again, so she had to wait until the next day.

Ke Hanxue still brought a small jar of wine to "Fulin Restaurant".

"Girl, is this the good thing you said?" The shopkeeper looked at the jar in Ke Hanxue's arms and asked.

"Yes, shopkeeper, this jar of tonic wine is for you to taste for free, and the rest will wait for you to send someone to my house to pull it, because my father's ox cart is too small to pull that much." Ke Hanxue smiled Said.

"Then what's the problem!" Now that they have decided to cooperate for a long time, the shopkeeper doesn't care about it. He opened the tonic wine Ke Hanxue gave him, and a sweet smell of wine came to his nostrils.

"It smells good, I'll take a sip first." The shopkeeper asked Xiao Er to take half a spoon of the wine and put it into his mouth.

The shopkeeper took a sip, then took another sip, his eyes suddenly lit up, he looked up at Ke Hanxue and asked happily: "Girl, what is your wine made of?"

Ke Hanxue blinked, and hooked her lips and said: "Shopkeeper, our long-term cooperation does not include making this winemaking technique public?"

The shopkeeper was taken aback, and shook his head: "You girl, I just think your wine is very special, and I lost my temper because of curiosity. I don't mean to steal your wine-making skills at all."

"I know!" Ke Hanxue smiled slyly.

"So you girl are entertaining me?" Seeing the teasing on Ke Hanxue's lips, the shopkeeper glared at Ke Hanxue pretending to be angry.

"Shopkeeper, it's too late for me to flatter you, how dare I entertain you, tell me how is my wine? What price can I sell it for?" Ke Hanxue looked at the shopkeeper eagerly.

"Your wine tastes very special and delicious. As for the price, it's hard to say." The shopkeeper thought for a moment, and then made a suggestion: "Girl, why don't you sell this wine at the price of your fruit wine? If you don’t go out, we’ll lower the price then, what do you think?”

(End of this chapter)