Happy Farm Ranch

Chapter 52 Big Lunch
By the time the two of them drove back to Huatanao, the sky had already darkened.

After all, Da Kui was left at home for dinner, and Su Mu told his family about the process of buying saplings.Before dinner was over, the village head opened the door and came in.

"Muzi, Uncle Su led everyone to dig tree pits all day long, and they dug thousands of them. If you didn't buy saplings, why don't you continue digging tomorrow?"

The village head is already a regular guest of the Su family, and after entering the house, he sat on the edge of the Kang, lit the rolled tobacco and asked questions.

Su Mu was gnawing on the fragrant roast duck bought from the county seat, and said with a greasy smile: "I bought the saplings, and the nursery will deliver them in a few days from the day after tomorrow. And the person in charge of the nursery said that we will send us a technician at that time." , just let those who are assigned to manage the orchard learn some real skills."

"Send it the day after tomorrow? Why do you divide it into batches?" Hearing that the saplings have been found, the village chief felt a little bit at ease.

It is not too late to plant trees now, if it is delayed for a few more days, the survival rate may not be high.But he couldn't understand why the saplings were not sent together, why should they be divided into batches?
After drinking half a bowl of millet porridge, Su Mu didn't have the nerve to say that he didn't know the saplings.

I can't tell the difference between apple trees, pear trees, and peach trees. Let them send them here in batches, or plant them on the mountain in batches, so as to save time and mix them together.

"Every time we send less, we can dig a hole and plant it directly, so as to save the tree roots from taking too long to dry, and the survival rate is low." Su Mu made a fool of himself and asked: "Today's progress in adobe drilling How is it? After driving around outside, I think the roads in our village are almost finished. As long as the adobe can catch up, I will let my dad lead people to build vegetable greenhouses first; the engineering team will also be able to build chickens earlier. She, when the time comes, contact the farm as soon as possible, and first get a few thousand chicks and throw them on the pasture for stocking. Next spring, you will be able to eat fresh eggs."

"The adobe has been beaten well, and the weather is good now. After laying it, it can be done in a few days."

The village chief took the filter-tipped cigarette that Su Mu handed over, lit it, and blew a smoke ring: "According to what you said, we really have to hurry up. We can't delay the work of raising chickens, planting trees, and farming. Let's do it, tomorrow I will transfer a few adobe cutters to help dig holes, and planting trees is the most important thing now."

When Su Mu was full, he put down his job and shook his head with a smile, "No, no, I still have a secret weapon that is useless!"

"Another new thing in the city?" The village chief's curiosity was aroused. After he saw the lawn mower, he felt that the new things from the city were much faster than people's work, so he subconsciously thought that he bought it again. What a good thing to come back.

"Hey, you will know tomorrow!" Su Mu just waved his hands, with a mysterious look that made it impossible to guess what he was planning.

In the early morning of the next day, the village chief prepared to go back to work with a small stone ram used for pounding adobe.When passing by the door of Su's house, he deliberately took a look inside, wanting to see what novelties Su Mu had.

Unexpectedly, I only saw a group of noisy half-children standing in the yard, and I didn't know what they were discussing, anyway, the noisy people had a headache.

"Have you found your group yet?" Su Mu stood in front of a group of boy scouts with his hands behind his back.

There are at least thirty or forty children in the yard, the older ones are fourteen or five years old, and the younger ones are only five or six years old.One by one, they found their favorite companions to play with, and they formed a group of three, answering his inquiry loudly.

Su Mu took a rough look and made sure that each team had a slightly older child taking the lead. Only then was he satisfied.

"Today's task is to go up the mountain to dig a tree hole. Each team leader is responsible for keeping an eye on his team members; no fighting, let alone chasing each other with a shovel, do you hear me?"

"I heard it!" The boy scouts in the village who arrived today were the most complete, and they all answered loudly.

"Brother Da Kui has already told you how to dig a tree pit to pass the test. Who has any questions?" Su Mu knew that the little girls are easy to take care of, so he was afraid that these wild boys would make trouble, so he specially told them The condition is, as long as Dakui inspects the tree pits that pass the inspection, each will be rewarded with one point.

The team with the most points at the end will receive additional prizes.

"I have a question!" The child Wang Xiaoqiang raised his hand solemnly, indicating that he wanted to ask a question.After Su Mu nodded, he stood up and wiped his nose and asked, "Brother Muzi, what do you have for lunch?"

All the children in the yard laughed loudly, and the kid king didn't blush and his heart skipped a beat, but he himself was having fun too.

Su Mu knew that these kids were thinking about delicious food, so he cleared his throat and replied loudly, "I'll take care of the lunch. As for what to eat, keep it a secret for now!"

"Ah..." A group of little guys sighed, it seems that they can't get it out of the way.

"Okay, the next part is magic!" Seeing that the boy scouts were a little disappointed, Su Mu clapped his hands and raised his hands in the air to show them, then turned his pockets over to let them see that there was nothing hidden.Then put his hands in his pockets pretendingly, and began to "chant the mantra".

A few seconds later, Su Mu pretended to be surprised and took out a handful of candy from his pocket and put it on the stone platform in the yard, and then took out another handful!

"Wow! Brother Muzi is amazing!"

"another one!"

"Sweety! Sweety!"

……

Although I have seen it once, when Su Mu conjured up so many candies empty-handed, the boy scouts in the yard were still dumbfounded.It is estimated that those little brains couldn't figure out what was going on.After a while, he could only give warm applause to Su Mu who was giving out sugar, and strongly invited him to change again.

"The old rules can only be changed once a day, and everyone is ready to work with a shovel!" Su Mu distributed the candies evenly, and then took the lead to lead the way with the shovel on his shoulders.

Dakui followed closely, and seeing that the children hadn't followed, he hurriedly walked a few steps and asked in a low voice, "Muzi, what did you do just now? Where did you get so much sugar?"

"Shh, keep your voice down." Su Mu had already prepared a retreat, and occasionally let others know that he was playing tricks, so as not to be guessed randomly.

He turned over the pocket that had been specially cut with thread and let Dakui look at it, "The bottom of the pocket looks fine, but the thread has been removed a long time ago. The sugar is all in the inner pocket, so grab it..."

While explaining, Su Mu stretched out his right hand from the broken pocket, pushed the frame of the glasses and smiled, "Do you understand?"

"It turned out to be a fool!" Da Kui grinned, thinking to himself why didn't he think of it?Being bluffed so easily, I thought he was possessed by the Great Immortal Fox!

A group of boy scouts followed the two of them with sugar in their mouths, talking and laughing happily.

It was very lively talking and laughing, but because Su Mu had warned in advance, no one chased and made trouble, and they all followed up the back mountain obediently.

The rest is easy.Led by Dakui, a group of boy scouts followed suit. Several teams competed with each other and dug tree pits faster than each other.

In fact, these children usually don't have to go to school. Apart from helping with the work at home, they are used to running wildly in the fields for the rest of the time.In this season, they often go to the river in groups to dig sweet grass sprouts and eat them, so they are more experienced in digging tree pits.

After everyone got busy, Su Mu had nothing to do, he greeted Dakui, turned around and disappeared on the hill.

Leaving now, Su Mu of course started to prepare lunch for so many people.

The boy scouts followed their own work, and in addition to giving out sweets, verbal rewards were naturally indispensable.

He had already made preparations, and yesterday he made a special trip to the county town to buy a lot of food, among which dozens of white striped chickens were wholesaled.Now clean it up in the river, take out all kinds of condiments prepared in the space and marinate it, stuff two ham sausages in each chicken belly, and then fold the lotus leaves in the river to wrap it, and make it Put some mud on it.

On the beach by the small river, Su Mu picked up some pine branches and set up a fire, and slowly roasted more than a dozen yellow mud balls on the fire.

The mother, grandma, and grandma had already followed his instructions and took a short cut from home to bring him pots, pans, vegetables, rice and meat.To feed this group of children, a dozen beggar chickens are not enough.

Cut the meat into pieces in a large pot, and stew with a few fresh diced radishes;
The rice is even simpler, just wash it and throw it in the pot to make rice.Su Mu didn’t need the help of his family, he just flipped the beggar’s chicken once in a while; he didn’t need to cook the stewed radish with meat; only the rice was a bit troublesome, but in order to let the children eat well, he Don't feel too tired, just keep stirring by the side of the pot, for fear of sticking the bottom of the pot.

After his mother and the others had left, he "taken" out the big fish from the lake from the space, put them on the fire and sprinkled seasonings on them to roast a few.

The grilled fish was cooked quickly, and Su Mu chopped it into grilled fish segments with a knife and placed them on the prepared large plate.

"It smells so good, Muzi, what delicious food do you make?" Near noon, Dakui led the children who had been working all morning to the appointed place.

The fast-footed children had already smelled the scent and couldn't wait to rush over, all staring at the two cauldrons on the river beach and licking their lips.

One of the two big pots is stewed with meat; the other is stewed with fragrant rice.Even Da Kui, who was at the end, was attracted by the strong fragrance!

"Everyone go to the river to wash their hands first, and they are not allowed to play in the water. After washing, sit in line according to their own team!" After Su Mu gave the order, the scouts rushed to wash their hands, and then sat obediently on the beach and waited. .At present, the souls of a group of children are seduced by the delicious food, so how can they bother to fight?

Seeing their strict discipline, Su Mu nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile: "The captain is here to take the plate."

Every three people guarded a large plate, on which there was grilled fish with a strong aroma; steaming white rice just out of the fish;
The whole riverside was filled with the aroma of food for a while, and even Da Kui couldn't help swallowing his saliva.

"Eat slowly, and serve the meal after you're done, no one is allowed to waste it." Seeing that the children were all gobbling around eating, Su Mu pulled the roasted burnt earth balls out of the fire. "Eat slowly, there are still good things here!"

"Hey, brother Muzi, why did you make it burnt so black? Why do you eat it?" Seeing this, the kid king laughed happily, thinking that Su Mu had burned something.

However, when Su Mu smiled and knocked the charred soil ball open, a smell of meat with lotus leaves came out!

(End of this chapter)