Splendid Pastoral: Space farmers are good for farming

Chapter 38

Grandma Qiao also felt strange when she heard that there were leeches, she came over to look at it with her arms in her arms, stood at the door and said, "What's going on, why did you get leeches?"

Qiao Mantun pulled the leech on Fang's feet and saw that its mouth was deeply embedded in Fang's flesh, and it was already swelled up. It was obvious that it hadn't been bitten just now. He said, "I don't either. I know, who knew that while I was sleeping, leeches would grow in the bed, it's really evil..."

Fennel and Shan Xing, who were cooking in the outhouse, knew that Platycodon grandiflorum and Zanthoxylum bungeanum wanted to get leeches, but they thought they were just talking, but they didn't expect these two little girls to actually do it. They were so frightened that they were cooking in the outhouse, not daring to Come and see.

Grandma Qiao saw that her son was holding the leech and seemed to want to grab it, so she hurriedly said: "No, no, don't pull it, the mouth will be broken in the meat, roast it with fire."

When Fang heard this, she cried out in fright: "I don't want to use fire to roast my feet!"

Grandma Qiao frowned. Roasting her with a fire didn't mean putting her whole body on the frame. Just use a little fire to roast the leeches. As for being so afraid, but since she called it that way, then it's better to find another way.

Thinking about it, he said: "If you rub it with salt without roasting it, it will almost fall off."

Saying hello to Shanxing to bring in salt.

Farmers used coarse salt, even if it was crushed, the grains were relatively coarse, and it would not melt when placed on the leeches for a long time. Qiao Mandun was soaked in water and kneaded, making Fang scream.

After a long time, the leech let go and was thrown into the stove pit by Qiao Mandun.

After the leeches were removed, Fang's tense body disappeared, and she collapsed on the kang, with cold sweat pouring down her body, and she cried out with lingering fear: "Oh my god, I was scared to death, I was scared to death, why not?" The leech that came, how did it bite my foot..."

Both Dashan and Ershan were also afraid of that thing, but when she was tossing about, they both hid in the corner of the kang, and until now they dare not approach her.

Qiao Mantun squeezed the blood from her heels, and said strangely, "What are you talking about? Why did you get leeches? You don't know when they bit you, and you even brought them under the bed. .”

Just as he was talking, Fang sat up again, pointing at Platycodon grandiflorum and Zanthoxylum bungeanum and roaring: "It's these two dead girls, they must have brought me to bite me, otherwise how could there be such a thing in the bed!"

Qiao Mantun also stopped and looked up at Platycodon grandiflorum and Zanthoxylum bungeanum. He felt that what Fang said made sense, leeches are wild things, how could they get into the quilt at home.

As he was thinking here, Mrs. Fang had already grabbed a pillow and threw it viciously at the orange stalks and peppercorns at the end of the kang, shouting: "You two black-hearted bastards, do such immoral things, see if I don't kill you... ..."

Qiao Mandun also stood up, grabbed the prickly ash on the kang and was about to slap his palm, saying: "You damn girl, your mother beat you the day before yesterday, and you did such a thing today, you still hold grudges against your mother!" !"

Zanthoxylum has also developed a mind, and when he saw that he was about to be beaten, he suddenly yelled: "Father, don't hit me, I am Bellflower, I only work."

Qiao Mandun wondered for a while, did he catch the wrong one again?But judging by the look on his face and the voice, this is clearly Zanthoxylum bungeanum?

He was watching here, but the bellflower next to him was stunned, thinking that the girl Huajiao had learned this trick and pretended to be himself, this is really retaliation.

But there is no way, since Huajiao said that she is herself, she can't expose her, otherwise she will be beaten even worse.Seeing her father looking at her, she simply opened her mouth, pretended to cry again, and shouted: "Ah...it's not me! I didn't get any leeches at all! I picked the grass seeds all day yesterday, and my hands were all wet. It broke..."

As she spoke, she spread her hands, palms up, to show Qiao Mandun.

The skin on both of her palms was torn, and there were scabs in several places that were severely injured, but this was not caused by pulling the grass seeds, but by pulling the sheep's reins.

Qiao Mantun didn't know what was going on, and when she saw that she admitted that it was Zanthoxylum bungeanum, he wanted to beat it, but when he heard her hand, he couldn't do it anymore, thinking that if Zanthoxylum bungeanum had done so much work, he really didn't have time to work on leeches.

He was hesitating here grabbing the platycodon root, and the genuine Zanthoxylum bungeanum next to him saw that the third sister was taking the blame for him, so she ran away. She didn't know what it means to be loyal, but only knew that hiding from the beating is the real thing.

Mrs. Fang also thought that the bellflower was a peppercorn, so she stretched out her bitten foot, pointed at the bellflower and shouted: "Don't kill me, she's been against me since I entered the door, if she didn't make this leech, I screw your head to you..."

They were arguing here, and Fennel was afraid that her sister would suffer, so she had already run to the next room to bring in the grass seeds brought back by bellflower and peppercorns yesterday, and said to Qiao Mandun, "Father, the leeches were not made by peppercorns, look, she picked them up yesterday. I came back with a basket full of grass seeds and worked all day, so I don’t have time to look for leeches, and besides, it’s so cold that the leeches have already froze to death, where can she find them!”

The basket was full of grass seeds, and the grains were full and even, without any impurities, it was as good as grain.

In such a season, to produce such a basket of clean grass seeds, let alone a child, even a quick-working adult would have to work hard.

Qiao Mantun looked more relented, thinking that Fennel's words made sense. He had been walking around the mountain for a while, but he had never seen a leech, a child of Zanthoxylum bungeanum, where could he get it out.

Thinking about it, he slowly let go, and said: "But there is no outside, let alone at home, where did the one on your mother's foot come from?"

Seeing that he let the platycodon loose, Fang was very disappointed, and shouted: "Where can it come from, except someone deliberately put it on my feet, how can it be put out of the bed, this girl of yours just wants to kill me!"

Seeing this, Grandma Qiao said: "Second daughter-in-law, don't wrong the fourth son, there are already leeches in our well water, maybe you got it on by washing your feet or something."

"There are leeches in our well?" Fang was taken aback, then turned to look at Qiao Mandun, Qiao Mandun nodded, and said, "Well, there are leeches in our well, and I beat them out when I fetched water two days before you entered the house." Pass."

Fang's face turned blue, thinking that he had been drinking water for so long, he felt a little nauseous.

Seeing that she was safe for the time being, Kikyo wanted to go around them and hide, but Fang saw her and yelled at her: "Stop! One can go and two can go, come back and make the quilt for me!"

Jijiao had no choice but to stop and come back, climbed onto the kang to make the quilt, but just as she folded her own quilt and that of Zanthoxylum bungeanum, she bent down to untangle the crumpled quilts of Dashan and Ershan, when she saw Fang's quilt under the feet of two people. A shriveled black stripe, upon closer inspection, turned out to be two dried leeches. Of the three leeches, only one survived, and the other two were dried just like that.

Cold sweat immediately came down the platycodon's forehead. If it was found out, it must be the leeches thrown by him and Zanthoxylum, because even if there were so many in the water of his home, it was impossible.

(End of this chapter)