Chapter 27: Qi Niang's Duck
The spring rain is as expensive as oil, but the rain is too heavy, so the school can only automatically suspend classes for one day, and even the people who go to work in the field only come back after a circle.
It is rare for everyone to rest at home. Zhou's mother made a small basket of wicker folded the day before yesterday. Several children gathered around curiously. Even Si Niang liked it and learned from Zhou's mother.
Qiniang sat alone by the window, looking at the rain, and didn't know what she was thinking.
Xuejian accompanied Zhou Bo and Xu Cong'an to watch the rain and chat by the window of the study.
About the poem about the rain, Xuejian couldn't help but want to show off the only song he knew, the spring night, but in the end, she couldn't read Xuejian, and the misappropriation was ultimately shameful!
Xu Cong'an likes the peaceful days in the countryside very much. He came to read agriculture by the fields at the village or listen to the children's reading in the library. He ate all kinds of delicious wild vegetables carefully made by Xuejian. Lately came to tell the children all kinds of interesting things he had encountered in his life, or listened to the strange stories told by Xuejian with the children. It's really a kind of enjoyment. Thinking about my old friend Bai and Ran, I feel more lucky to be busy with all kinds of trivial things all day.
"Xu Weng, this is a story sorted out by Sanlang." Sanlang came in and respectfully handed the manuscript to Xu Cong'an.
Sanlang has copied the story that Xuejian has told in the past few months. After Xu Cong'an accidentally found it, he shouted that he was very satisfied and discussed with Sanlang to write another copy and asked Bai Yitian to give it to Bai Qianran.
"Good! OK! OK! Sanlang has a heart!" Xu Cong'an quickly took it and stroked the manuscript happily.
He would like to know whether his old friend will envy and hate his immortal life?
Bai Jianran, a great talent, has always been grateful for this kind of ghost books, but his old friend sent it solemnly and had to look at it. Unexpectedly, he was really addicted at a glance. Every time Bai Yitian came back, he urgently asked if there was any follow-up story. Of course, these are all after words.
I know that the Zhou family is big-looking, but in fact, they live a very hard life, so Xu Cong'an often goes to the market. When he comes back, he will carry meat and eggs in his hand to nourish several children of the Zhou family.
The villagers seemed to be in awe of him, and no one took the initiative to get close to him, and he didn't care.
Although the young master of the Zhou family is not as funny as Bai Yitian, and he is not as sarcastic as Wang Congeran in the Wang family, he is undoubtedly smart and awakened. If it were not for the limitations of his age and background, his future would not be below these two.
The four people were chatting interestingly. Suddenly, they saw that the courtyard was in chaos. First, Zhou's mother, Du's mother and others were looking for something, and then Er Niang rushed out in the rain. Xue rushed out of the house to ask, as if she had caught the life-saving grass. Er Niang's eyes were tears in her eyes and her lips trembling and said, "De'er, De'er is missing!"
Zhou Bo's expression moved and he wanted to stand up. He almost fell to the ground. Xuejian just stood beside him and held him. Zhou Bo frowned and said, "What does De'er disappear?"
Xue saw that Sui Niang stepped out of the study and found that the courtyard was full of figures running around.
Seeing Xuejian come out, Hachiro first ran over quickly, took Xuejian's hand, and said anxiously, "Sister Seven is missing. What should I do? What should I do?
"Have you found it all in the house?" Xuejian actually asked for nothing. If it's really in the house, everyone doesn't have to look for it.
Speaking of which, Hachiro found it first. Everyone thought about it, right? Since breakfast, he has never seen Qi Niang appear again.
I have searched several times inside and outside the house. Qi Niang is not the kind of naughty and prank-loving child. Thinking of this, everyone is anxious.
"Er, have you also looked for toilets?" Si Niang asked again that someone ran to the toilet to look for it, but still didn't.
Xue suddenly remembered something. She turned around and asked Qian'er, "Qian'er, did Qi Niang go out of the door this morning?"
Er Niang also reacted and stared at Qian'er with an unhappy voice: "Didn't you follow De'er?"
Qian'er has already cried and her eyes red. Her main task is to serve Zhou De, the second daughter of the Zhou family. Now De Niang is missing because she is playful and learns to make wicker baskets from everyone and doesn't follow her master.
Hearing Xuejian ask her, she shook her head and said, "I really didn't see Miss Seven go out."
She hesitated for a moment and said, "Miss Seven said after breakfast..."
The whole family gathered around. Seeing her stammering, Er Niang was anxious first, "Say it quickly. What did De'er say?"
Qian'er was timid. When she saw everyone looking at her, she was even more cowardly and couldn't help trembling.
Du's mother didn't care about her daughter's feelings, so she grabbed her arm first, "Say, my living ancestor, what on earth did De Niang'er say?"
"Miss Seven said she didn't know if the duck house would be washed away by such heavy rain?"
before she finished speaking, Er Niang took the lead, Xue Jian followed closely, and everyone rushed out of the yard.
The rain road was slippery, and the group of people stumbled, all covered with mud and water.
After all, the big tiger and two tigers run fast and arrive at the rice field first.
There was no one on the edge of the rice field, but the sharp-eyed two tigers still found, "Look, over there,--"
In the morning, they didn't notice that the fishing net next to the duck house had broken a small hole.
Looking at the situation, everyone analyzed that Qi Niang was worried about her ducklings. She ran over in the rain in the morning and found that she had lost several ducklings from the small hole, so she went to look for them.
Everyone shouted Zhou De's name separately and began to look for it.
"There are footprints here!" The big tiger shouted.
Fortunately, when I found the riverside along the footprints, I found Qi Niang.
At that time, the little girl was walking slowly into the river, and Er Niang was so scared that she almost fainted.
Du Hai ran over a few steps and picked up Qi Niang, who was still crying and shouting, "My duckling, my duckling."
After he came back, Xu Cong'an didn't say anything and helped Qi Niang check it, but he just caught a cold, so he told Du's mother to boil ginger sugar water to sweat.
The rest of the people were also sent by Er Niang to take a hot bath and drink ginger sugar water.
Sure enough, Qi Niang saw that the rain was too heavy. She was worried about her ducklings and secretly ran to the rice field to have a look. She found that three of them were lost. The careful Qi Niang saw that the duckling was lost in that hole. She looked all the way to the river. The rain and the river rose, and the ducklings were washed away. They were all Qi Niang for a day. God looked at the duckling she raised. As soon as she was anxious, she went to chase it.
Zhou Bowu's face was blue and he stared at Qi Niang. Xue Jian quickly pulled him away.
Er Niang said fiercely that from now on, she will stew all the ducks and eat meat, and Qi Niang will no longer be allowed to raise ducks!
Xu Cong'an paid attention to this quiet and beautiful little girl. Isn't it appropriate to be such a female disciple?
After the spring rain, the wild vegetables dug up by everyone a while ago must slowly grow another batch.
Everyone's mood gradually became happy as the rain cleared up.
Xuejian said to Zhou Bo, "Wild vegetables are limited, and mountain mushrooms are limited. Although they will always grow out, the whole village can't help digging and picking!"
Zhou Bo looked at her faintly and asked, "Let's talk about the point!"
This person is so boring that he can always guess what she thinks.
"I think I want to dig mushrooms in a place that others don't know!" Xue Jian said with bright eyes.
The route where the Zhou family went fishing in winter must have walked due to the thawing of the Daqing River. Someone in the village made a living by relying on the ferry of the Daqing River. Xue saw Xu Cong Duhai and Zhou Jinsheng. Five people came to Daqing Mountain in a small boat. After making an appointment with the ferryman, they slowly went up the mountain.
Uphill from the Daqing River was originally the first of the Zhou family.
Everyone walked slowly, enjoying a completely different scenery from winter.
Zhou Jinsheng and Erhu opened the road in front with bows and arrows and other tools. Xuejian and Xu Cong'an walked in the middle, and Du Hai walked to the end. Beware of wild animals, but nothing happened all the way, only faintly visible hares and pheasants.
Everyone's purpose is not to hunt or dig wild vegetables, and go straight to the cave found by Xuejian and Zhou Bo.
Only Zhou Jinsheng walked back three times and couldn't wait to bring home the game that was readily available.
The location of the cave is not halfway up the mountain, and it is not on the main mountain road, and because it has never been found behind two big trees, everyone passed through the cave with torches and walked for a moment to the valley where Zhou Bo fell down.
This is a place that has been basically unexplored. Xu Cong'an rummaged in the trees to find rare herbs. His face was full of joy. Zhou Jinsheng and Du Hai paid attention to the surroundings vigilantly, while Xuejian and Erhu began to pick all kinds of fat and delicious mountain mushrooms.
With an idea, Xue Jian remembered the documentary she had seen in her previous life, raising mushrooms in the cave!
Yes, the cave is humid and dark due to the constant temperature of the four seasons, which is most suitable for mushroom fungus growth!
Of course, she doesn't understand the technology of raising mushrooms, but she still knows something common sense.
After picking a few mountain mushrooms, Xuejian thought about how to briefly tell Zhou Bo about the mushroom cultivation technology that was not available in this era in easy-to-understand terms, while excitedly asking Erhu and Du Hai to clean up the cave first. Unfortunately, he did not bring any easy tools, but Xuejian was still very interested. This capitalless business is very suitable for the Zhou family!
The things to prepare are actually very simple. Wood, the cave is full of wood chips, horse carpenter's achievements, spores, and God will send them after a rain!
Although he didn't understand the purpose of cleaning up the cave, Du Hai and others were all super obedient people, and soon several people cleaned up the cave.
On the way home, Xue Jian sang strange and cheerful songs all the way, with a clear voice and popular lyrics: "The little girl picking mushrooms, carrying a big bamboo basket..."
Du Gong said with a good-tempered smile, "This girl's song is so strange, but it sounds good."
Everyone's mood is inexplicably better. Only Xu Cong'an is still immersed in the herbs he found.
Xuejian saw that Xu Cong'an's basket was full of various herbs. Of course, none of Xuejian could be named. For her, the advantage of the magic doctor is that she can accurately distinguish all kinds of things that look like grass and accurately tell their medicinal effects.
Xu Conggong didn't know that Xue Jian looked at himself like this. If he knew, would he spit three liters of blood?
Going home and told Zhou Bo about his discovery. Zhou Bo's argument about Xuejian's bookless business and empty gloves and white wolf was angry and funny. He knocked on Xuejian's head and said, "Do you still want to occupy the mountain as the king when you come back? Then pretend to be the king of the mountain?"
Seeing the posture, Xue said in a rough voice, "Well, I opened this mountain and planted this tree. If you want to think about this road, stay and buy road money!"
Think about this serious idea, rob it for a living, and you don't have to worry about making a living.
First, I went to Wang Carpenter's house to collect a lot of wood chips and discuss all the wood chips in the future. Wang Carpenter didn't think much about it or ask much, and agreed.
Only 30% kept asking, "Xue sees sister, Xue sees sister, if you want my wood chips, you have to promise me not to go to school from now on." He was beaten all over the yard by the carpenter Wang.
So after another rain, Xue saw them explore the cave. Taking advantage of the wet valley after the rain, he dug up the whole mushroom with the surrounding soil, especially the soil with white microspore spots, planted wood chips, and then waited for the whole mushroom to rot and sprinkle water regularly. Before long, Xue Jian believed A large area of new mushrooms will grow.