Wang family small peasant girl

Chapter 70

Zhang Yun hurriedly rolled his eyes and called out: "Xingzi, don't play too late, come back early." Seeing Zhang Xing's answer, he turned around and ran back with the bowl.

The Cold Food Festival is over and the Ching Ming Festival is over. Every year during the Ching Ming Festival, ancestor worship and tomb sweeping is a big event. Mrs. Zhou made the preparations early in the morning. On the day of Ching Ming, the grandparents of the Zhang family will take the things prepared by Mrs. Zhou to the ancestors’ graves. The Zhou family and Zhang Yun were not allowed to visit the tomb before worshiping. It is customary for women not to participate in the tomb sweeping.

However, women can also go out for outings on this day, but this season, the family and the field are very busy, and the daughter-in-law and mother-in-law don't have much time to go out. They still do housework and go to the fields as usual, and the Zhou family is no exception.

When the grandparents of the Zhang family came back from the ancestral grave, they were summoned by Lizheng and went to Qingtun Ridge together. Since ancient times, Qingming has planted many trees. Qingming can be regarded as the Arbor Day in the traditional sense. All the old and young men of the village went to Qingtunling to transplant the seedlings of camellia oleifera trees to the reclaimed fields.

Tomb-sweeping Day was spent in a hurry, and after Tomb-sweeping Day, daughters-in-law and mothers-in-law returned to threshing wheat fields to learn how to weave cattail grass. It took four or five days to transplant all the camellia saplings.

After the Camellia oleifera saplings were transplanted, all the freed hands went back to the field to work. However, only ten days later, the hands of each household were again drawn out to start digging water candle seedlings, planting them, and planting lotus root buds together. and sow lotus seeds.

There are more than a hundred households in Tuntian Village, and there are hundreds of people from each household. Lizheng divides up these hundreds of people and plants them together in five or six mud ponds.

Water candles grow by all the ponds, and there are also some by the Qingling River, so we use local materials, pile up the lotus root nodes that have been selected and sprouted by the mud pond, and put the selected lotus seeds in baskets. The [-] or so people assigned to the pond were all divided into jobs. Half of them dug water candle seedlings by the pond, and half stood in the pond to pick up the dug water candle seedlings and plant them. The lotus root joints are planted together, and the lotus seeds are sown in the empty space.

Although there are many people, if the ponds can be divided into plants, it will take three days to plant all the mud ponds properly.After planting in the mud pond, it’s not over. In the future, weeding, topdressing, and water management must be done in a timely manner. These are divided into tasks. Water candles grow fast, and they can be picked after two or three months. The picking work must be determined in advance. Okay, so after planting, Lizheng called everyone over to divide up weeding, top dressing, water management, picking, etc., so that it can proceed in an orderly manner.

The men were working hard, and the women were learning hard. For a while, the people in Tuntian Village seemed busy but full of energy.

Zhang Yun did not learn to weave cattail grass, not because she wanted to be lazy, but because she had more important things to do, that is, farming fish and shrimp in rice fields.

Tuntian Village is busy these days, and the days go by very fast. In the blink of an eye, it is already the end of March, and the Grain Rain has passed, and it is almost the beginning of summer. Once the beginning of summer is over every year, the rice seedlings have to be inserted into the paddy fields. By then Therefore, fish and shrimp fry have to go into the fields.

During this period of time, he was busy in the field, in the pond, at home, and with the holidays, Zhang Yun was also very busy, and he didn't have time to find Hong Cheng and discuss the matter of raising fish and shrimp in the rice fields. Only a few days ago, Hong Cheng When I followed Dr. Lin to the village for outpatient visits, I met him once and asked him about raising rice seedlings. I knew that after the Qingming Festival, he had already turned the rice seeds, soaked them, and sowed them in the seedling fields. When the seedlings emerge, they will be transplanted after the beginning of summer.

Maybe it was because he was busy in the seedling field. These days, every time Dr. Lin rang the bell to Tuntian Village, he didn't see Hong Cheng following him. Zhang Yun wanted to talk to him, but he couldn't find a chance. Dr. Lin asked him how to get to Hongcheng's village, and planned to find him in a neighboring village when he had time.

This day, Zhang Yun sent his breakfast to the field. The pigweed at home had already been cut the day before yesterday. After feeding the chickens and pigs, he went out to Baitang Village where Hong Cheng lived.

Baitang Village is not far from Tuntian Village. Zhang Yun walked all the way, and within two quarters of an hour, he saw the entrance of Baitang Village. After entering the village, he made some inquiries and found Hong Cheng's family.

According to Zhang Yun's inquiries from the old man, Hong Cheng's house was in the east of the village, and there was an old locust tree in front of the courtyard. A few branches and leaves protrude into the fenced yard next to it.

Looking at the appearance, Zhang Yun thought it should be here, so he hurriedly walked forward. When he reached the fenced courtyard, he took a look inside and saw an earthen house on the east and west sides of the courtyard, the main room in the middle, and another There is one, which should be the kitchen.

After looking around for a while, there seemed to be no one in the yard, and Zhang Yun didn't dare to rush in, so he stood outside the fenced yard and called out loudly, "Excuse me, is Doctor Xiao Hong at home?"

There was silence in the courtyard, Zhang Yun couldn't help but raised his voice again, and called again, only then did he see a figure coming out of the kitchen on one side, walking forward slowly, and standing still in front of the courtyard gate.

Zhang Yun saw that she was an old lady, about sixty years old, her hair was half gray, her face was weathered, and she was wearing whitewashed and patched clothes. She was squinting her eyes and looking at her.

Doctor Lin once mentioned that Hong Cheng's parents had passed away, and they had always grown up in front of his grandpa and grandma. From this point of view, the old woman in front of him should be Hong Cheng's grandma.

Looking at Grandma Hong's appearance, Zhang Yun seemed to have trouble seeing and hearing, so he took a few steps forward and raised his voice: "Grandma Hong, may I ask, is Doctor Xiao Hong at home?"

Grandma Hong finally heard what Zhang Yun said, she quickly grinned, stretched out her hand to hold Zhang Yun's hand, then turned and walked forward, saying: "You are looking for Chenger, he has gone to the field , Miss, come, come, come, sit in the hall."

The old man dragged her to the main room, but Zhang Yun was too embarrassed to refuse, so she could only obediently followed and walked slowly. Only then did she realize that Grandma Hong was a little limping, walking on tiptoe, walking even slower. Zhang Yun quickly stretched out his other hand and helped her step into the main room.

"Girl, come here, sit here, you sit, I'll make some sugar water to drink." Most people in the countryside can't afford tea, so hospitality is generally cold, like this kind of spoon a little sugar into boiling water Soaking it in sugar water is pretty good.

"Grandma Hong, you're welcome, I'm not thirsty." Zhang Yun just wanted to find Hong Cheng as soon as possible to discuss rice farming. It can be seen that Grandma Hong was smiling cheerfully and enthusiastically. Just a polite word, I'm going to sit for a while, and then ask the direction of her paddy fields, so I can find Hong Cheng there.

"Little girls love sweets, so I'll go soak them right away." Grandma Hong's ears were really not working well. After Zhang Yun said this, she still talked to herself, turned around with a smile, and was about to leave the main room.

Zhang Yun saw that Grandma Hong was struggling to walk, so she couldn't sit still, so she hurried up to support her, stepped over the threshold and left the main room. "Girl, you sit down, I can go by myself." Grandma Hong pushed her hand with a busy smile, and waved her to let her in. Zhang Yun saw that Grandma Hong walked on the flat ground and it was safe, so she went into the main room as she said. .

Sitting in the hall, looking around, the walls of the hall are empty, except for tables and stools, and the table for enshrining tablets, there is almost nothing else. Looking into the yard, there are three or four chickens walking leisurely Walking around, I didn't see a pigsty or anything.

Zhang Yun took a few glances, then looked away, and sat on the bench obediently. After a while, Grandma Hong walked to the main room with the big sea bowl. Zhang Yun hurried up, took the big sea bowl, and helped her across the threshold Come in.

"Girl sit down, sit down, drink some sugar water." In Grandma Hong's polite voice, Zhang Yun sat back on the bench and picked up the sea bowl in his hand, only to see that the bowl was filled with half a bowl of sugar water, but it took so much The sea bowl was a bit strange, but after thinking about it, it occurred to Grandma Hong that she was afraid of shaking when she walked, so she spilled the sugar water.

Zhang Yun didn't want to waste his good intentions, so he picked up the sea bowl and spit lightly. There was a faint sweetness in the water, and it was very refreshing to drink.

Seeing that Zhang Yun drank the sugar water, Grandma Hong burst into a smile, grinned with a few teeth missing, and asked, "Girl, you don't look like you from the village, I don't think I've seen you before."

"Hey, I'm from Tuntian Village next door, not from this village." Zhang Yun hurriedly replied, and then Grandma Hong asked a lot of questions. Zhang Yun almost felt that she was checking her household registration, but most of the old people She loves nagging, and she can't help but answer, so she can only ask and say what she wants.

After talking for a long time, Grandma Hong took a breath and stopped. Seeing the opportunity, Zhang Yun hurriedly said: "Grandma Hong, actually, I am looking for Dr. Xiao Hong. I am in a hurry. Can you tell me about your rice field , where is it?"

Zhang Yun said this very loudly, afraid that Grandma Hong would not be able to hear clearly, and she kept talking to herself, and she didn't know when she would be able to ask again.

This time Grandma Hong finally heard clearly. When she heard that there was something urgent, she quickly stood up and said, "Girl, you are in a hurry, then follow me quickly and go to the field to find Cheng'er." Start walking.

"Grandma Hong, just tell me where I am, so you don't have to make another trip." Zhang Yun had the nerve to let her take him with her so inconvenient. He just wanted to know the approximate location so that he could find it.

"Girl, follow me, don't worry, it's not very far, we'll be there soon." Grandma Hong seemed not to have heard Zhang Yun's words, she stood on tiptoe, crossed the threshold, and beckoned to Zhang Yun, Let her follow.

Seeing this, Zhang Yun thought about chicken and duck feet with Grandma Hong, and didn't know when to say where to go, so she let her go up to support her arm, and the two of them left the yard together towards the paddy fields.

Zhang Yun followed Grandma Hong and was taken all the way to the outside of the village. In front of him was an endless land. This would be the season when rape blossoms bloom. Many people have planted them in the fields. At a glance, among the green wheat seedlings and rice seedlings, there are There are bright yellow rapeseed flowers, which turn green and yellow, which makes people feel refreshed after seeing it.

(End of this chapter)