The family hurriedly packed their things and went up the mountain after dinner, but when they saw Zhen Zhen's look of anticipation, both Mrs. Li and Wang Sufen were a little dumbfounded. If you don't take Zhen Zhen, it will be too much time for you to work alone. If you take Zhen Zhen, Mrs. Li is really afraid that something will happen to this little ancestor.

"Why don't you bring Zhen Zhen home, we'll work two more days." Mrs. Li said hesitantly.

"Mother, you are at home, the mountain road up and down the mountain is not easy to walk, and you should have a pain in your feet again." Wang Sufen hurriedly snatched the basket from her hand: "I am young and strong, and my father Dongzi and I went up the mountain."

Zhen Zhen looked at Mrs. Li and then looked at Wang Sufen, and suddenly became anxious, she patted the kang forcefully, seeing that Mrs. Li and Wang Sufen turned to look at her when they heard the movement, Zhen Zhen pointed at herself hurriedly, her voice loud and clear. Say: "Go!"

As soon as she heard that Zhen Zhen was going, Mrs. Li softened her heart, she sat on the edge of the kang and hugged Zhen Zhen in her arms: "Bao, do you want to go up the mountain?"

Zhen Zhen didn't even bother to pretend to be stupid, that little head nodded like a chicken pecking at rice: "Go go go!"

Wang Sufen hurriedly touched a fruit to coax her: "Bao, be good, the adults went up the mountain to work, not to play with you."

In the house all day, apart from lying on the windowsill, if no one else is holding you, you can't leave this kang. Zhen Zhen is almost going crazy in the house.

Zhen Zhen looked at Wang Sufen, her little mouth was flat and her eyes were a little red. Madam Li looked at her granddaughter's tears, and she was in a hurry. She immediately shouted, "Go!"

Zhen Zhen immediately burst into laughter, looking at Mrs. Li and said sweetly: "Good milk!"

Old lady Li was completely melted by Zhen Zhen's words, she forgot all the worries in her mind before, she only knew that her granddaughter wanted to go to the mountain to play, and immediately went to get Zhen Zhen's little coat happily. Wang Sufen took advantage of the efforts of Mingnan and Mingbei to clean up the farm implements in the yard, hugged Zhen Zhen in her arms, and asked her seriously: "Bao, mother told you that there are many people going up the mountain, so we can't make it any longer. The kind of thing that let the branch pass the fruit to the mouth, let others see it."

Mrs. Li just came over with Zhen Zhen's kettle and clothes, and when she heard Wang Sufen's words, she was startled: "When did this happen?"

Wang Sufen took the clothes for Zhen Zhen and said, "She was on my back when I harvested the crops last time. When I turned around, the blueberry branch stretched out ten meters behind my head. She ate one and picked the other. After eating, the branch can be retracted."

Mrs. Li was shocked: "This ability is incredible, I think which immortal has this ability?"

"Ancient..." Wang Sufen recalled the dream she had when she was pregnant with Zhen Zhen.

"Don't fix the ancient times, I don't understand the ancient times." Madam Li saw that Zhen Zhen was all packed up, so she helped Wang Sufen take the cloth bag to Zhen Zhen and carried it on her back, she thought about it before going out, and took it again. A basin holds half a bucket of water.

Mingbei packed up and just came out to call for someone. Seeing that Mrs. Li was carrying a bag on the left and a pot on the right, she hurriedly took it over and said, "Milk, what are you doing with the basin?"

"Pick fruit for your sister to eat!" Mrs. Li waved her hand: "Hurry up, go up the mountain!"

This time, taking Zhen Zhen up the mountain, Mrs. Li made all the preparations. She asked Mingnan and Mingbei to pick half a pot of fruit along the way. There were about ten kinds of fruit. When she got there, she brought a rag list to the place On the floor, he took out a slightly deformed lunch box from the basket. After opening it, it contained pine nuts and three biscuits bought from the supply and marketing cooperative. Wang Sufen washed the fruit with the half bucket of water he brought, and put it in a basin. Next to Zhen Zhen. Zhen Zhen took a look, this was no different from the spring outing when she was in school.

Mrs. Li looked left and looked at her and was relieved, all the fruits that could be picked along the way were in the pot, no matter how it was enough for Zhen Zhen to eat, she squatted beside Qing Qing and stuffed pine nuts into her mouth while whispering to her: " Baby, let's just eat the fruit from this pot, can't you pick it from anywhere else?" Zhen Zhen nodded hurriedly, she was afraid that if she pretended to be stupid, Old Lady Li would be able to pick another pot.

The three men over there have already started to work. Don't look at Mingbei's usual lip service, but he is a good hand to go hunting in the mountains and fishing in the river to clean up the crops. Anyway, as long as it is about food, he is enthusiastic about everything he does. .

Li Muwu took his two sons to plan potatoes together, and loosened the ground. He pulled the potato seedlings with his hands and he could pull out a large bunch. Mingnan looked at the potatoes that were connected one by one, and couldn't help shouting: " Milk! Come and see, our potatoes are in trouble!"

"Nonsense, there is still time for potatoes to be a disaster? It would be great if it was a disaster, and we will never be hungry again." Mrs. Li took a look and was immediately happy: "There is such a large bunch, I'm afraid This place is full of long."

Mingbei happily threw all the potatoes into the wicker basket he brought, and waited for a while to be transported down the mountain. Now is the busy time of autumn. Although there are no farmers in Beicha, basically every household grows something to eat. Except for some in the yard, the rest is a wasteland created by themselves. As long as it is a wasteland, it is not close to home, so the people who have carriages make their own, and no one borrows them.

Li Muwu pushed his flatbed truck and put it at the bottom of the mountain. He also brought a pole and a lot of wicker baskets to the mountain. It didn't take much time for the baskets to be full.

Li Muwu and Mingnan went down with two baskets of potatoes, and Mingbei also carried half a sack. When Mingbei looked at the car at the bottom of the mountain, Li Muwu and Mingnan took another trip and the flatbed truck was full. Li Muwu quickly Push it home.

Zhen Zhen sat on the ground and ate a wild blueberry, and Mrs. Li looked back at her from time to time while breaking the corn. Zhen Zhen doesn't have a big belly, she will be full after eating for a while, she picked up the handkerchief she put aside and wiped her mouth, then watched her family harvest the crops. Mrs. Li broke down the corn one by one, while Wang Sufen squatted in the cabbage field and pulled the cabbage out one by one, looking very laborious.

Consciousness looked out, Zhen Zhen saw that Ming Bei and Ming Nan were still at the foot of the mountain, and there was no one nearby, so she picked her fingers towards the cabbage. Wang Sufen was pulling a piece of cabbage hard, when she suddenly let go, and she squatted on the ground with one buttocks. Rubbing her waist, Wang Sufen put the cabbage in her hand to the ground, and when she stood up, she was about to pull out one. Only then did she realize that the cabbage all over the floor had jumped out of the soil at some point and was neatly placed on the ground. .

Wang Sufen hurriedly turned around to look at Zhen Zhen, only to see her showing her four little teeth and cheering Wang Sufen straight, Wang Sufen had to come over and instructed: "Your brother, they are not allowed to know this when they are here."

Zhen Zhen nodded, took out a lantern fruit from the basin and shoved it into Wang Sufen's mouth, Wang Sufen couldn't help but smiled and tapped her forehead: "I know how to bribe your mother with delicious food, Little man."

No need to pull the cabbage, Wang Sufen saved a lot of trouble. She took the machete and cut off the roots of the cabbage one by one. When Mingnan and Mingbei came up, Wang Sufen had already packed most of the cabbage. The two of them were dumbfounded: "Mother, you are too good at work." Wang Sufen gave them a proud look: "Learn, don't be so rude."

The two brothers have no place to check the time, they only think that they are too slow, so they delay things. When they are carrying their things down the mountain, they walk fast one by one, but they have so much energy. The silly boy was sweating profusely.

With Qingqing's secret help, the crops of Lao Li's family were harvested very quickly. After only four or five days of work, the cabbage, potatoes, radishes and soybeans were all harvested, and the sorghum was harvested.

Mingbei rubbed his sore shoulders, glanced at the sorghum field on the gentle slope, and asked suspiciously, "Why do I think our land is so big? Mom, did you open up wasteland again in the spring?"

Mrs. Li looked left and right and felt that the area seemed to be much larger, but she guessed that Zhen Zhen might have increased the production again, so she fooled her grandson without thinking: "It's a bit more varied, I will steam sorghum for you in winter. eat."

Because of their busy work, no one has the time to look at the extra land, but when the sorghum is harvested, the crops behind are exposed, and the family is dumbfounded.

Mingnan and Mingbei looked at the golden color in front of them, and their eyes were filled with question marks: "Milk, why did this sorghum turn into yellow ears?"

Zhen Zhen smiled when she saw the exposed field of wheat, although the family tried to give her the ground rice noodles, it was quite sweet for Zhen Zhen to eat it once in a while, but eating too much is really not good. swallow. And this year, although can often hunt some wild animals back home, it is very difficult to make dumplings. Occasionally, Mrs. Li can't bear Li Mingbei's rambling, so she mixes rice noodles and sorghum noodles to make noodles. , wrap some to satisfy their cravings, but the side is too thick to say, there is no fragrance, and the stuffing of wild boar and cabbage is blinded.

At that time, Zhen Zhen had the idea of ​​planting some wheat, but now in this difficult time for food, sorghum, the highest yield and most hunger-resistant food per mu, is the favorite of Beicha people. The rice and wheat are basically unplanted. Zhen Zhen reluctantly controlled her consciousness and searched for many places every night. One day she didn't know how far she went, and finally she saw wheat and rice growing in the ground on a farm.

Zhen Zhen took one pill of each, and returned to the mountain in an instant. For Zhen Zhen, the quantity is not a problem, as long as there are seeds, everything can be said. Therefore, the plants growing behind the sorghum field quickly moved to other places under Zhen Zhen's consciousness, the black soil was automatically turned flat, a grain of wheat and a grain of rice fell into the ground, and instantly grew a piece, almost the same as that of sorghum. mature at the same time.

Mrs. Li stood behind her two grandsons, and she was stunned for a moment when she saw the golden wheat, but she had experienced a lot of things at an old age, and she reacted in an instant. She coughed, trying to suppress the strangeness of her voice, and said lightly: "This is the wheat I told you before. When I was a child with my father in Lu Province, this kind of grain was grown, and when it is ground, it is flour!"

"White noodles!" Mingnan and Mingbei exclaimed in surprise, and then burst into laughter again. The two happily hugged each other and jumped and jumped: "There is white noodles, and our family has white noodles to eat."

"Don't make a fuss!" Mrs. Li shouted: "This white flour is a rarity, and I can't buy it with a ticket now. This is also the seed I bought back with a grain ticket, so I planted so much and gave it to me I'm quiet, but I can't let outsiders know."

"I know!" Ming Nanle's mouth couldn't close: "It's only a fool to say such a good thing. What if someone borrowed it from us? It must not be known to outsiders."

Ming Bei came over and shook his arms around Mrs. Li's arm: "Mother, have you grown some rice or something? I want to eat rice." Mrs. Li's legs trembled when she heard this, and she also wanted to know about her home. Do you grow rice? But can rice be grown on this mountain? Mrs. Li stood in front of the wheat field and calmed down for a moment, then instructed Ming Nan, "Go and bring my crutches."

Ming Nan couldn't help but rolled his eyes, picked up the crutches that had been thrown about ten meters away, and handed it to Mrs. Li while chatting, "Mum, you said that you walk with wind, and climb mountains without panting. Annoyed, what are you doing with a cane all day? I don't think it's useful other than beating me and my brother."

Mrs. Li glared at him, raised her crutches and knocked on his ass: "Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and transport the sorghum to our house so that we can harvest the wheat. There are a lot of people going up the mountain recently, so don't let people stare at him."

Mingbei was anxious: "Damn, leave the sorghum aside for now. It's true to bring the wheat home first. I'm still thinking about eating steamed buns, or I can eat dumplings with white noodles."

"Okay, okay, hurry up and get to work." Mrs. Li danced the crutches and drove her two grandchildren to cut the wheat. She shivered with the crutches and walked to the back of the wheat field.

Zhen Zhen planted these two kinds of refined grains just to improve the food for her family from time to time to satisfy their cravings, so there are not many of them. Soon, Mrs. Li crossed the wheat field and saw a field of rice. Looking at the solid land under the rice, Mrs. Li couldn't help covering her face with her calloused hands: "My silly granddaughter, this is under the rice. What is rice without water?"

Mingnan Mingbei, who was working in the front, thought that there was white noodles with great energy, and the sickle swayed, and the pieces of wheat stalks fell down quickly. Li Muwu was also a little stunned when he saw the wheat ears in one place. He was silent for a moment, then turned around and went down the mountain again. When he came back, he pushed the flatbed truck directly up, and also took the torn tarpaulin that he had used for many years. .

He put the ears of wheat in the basket and put it on the flatbed truck, covered the oilcloth, and tied it firmly with ropes. Li Muwu checked it from front to back, left and right, to make sure that the wicker basket would not fall, and then pushed the flatbed truck away.

After being busy for two days, no one could see the rice behind until the wheat was harvested. Wang Sufen and Li Muwu continued to remain silent, while Mingbei went crazy with joy: "How can you say that you are so good? How can you be so capable? Didn't you know that I especially wanted to eat rice and planted it?"

Mingnan glanced at him: "Why don't you want to eat it? You are still drooling in your dreams at night and say you want to eat pig's trotters. I was so scared that I didn't dare to straighten my legs all night, because I was afraid that you would gnaw my feet."

Ming Bei angrily kicked him: "Did you wake me up that day? I dreamed of a pot of pig's trotters that was just out of the pot, do you know how fragrant it is? The meat was oily and stewed a lot. I was about to lose my bones. I was about to reach for it when I was suddenly kicked and woke up. I asked you the next day, and you said it wasn’t you!”

"It's not me, it's not me. It's the second brother. When the second brother comes back, you can ask him." Mingnan ran fast, and Mingbei wanted to chase him, but Mrs. Li yelled at him: "Okay, don't make trouble, Hurry up and cut the rice, and at night the milk will stew you the wild boar leg that was marinated last time."

Ming Bei was delighted when he heard it: "That designation is more fragrant than pig's trotters."

Mingnan touched his stomach and couldn't help swallowing: "It's a pity that this rice can't be eaten directly, otherwise it would be delicious to eat stewed pork legs with a pot of rice!" He sighed and looked at the rice in front of him. I asked Mrs. Li: "Milk, why do you say rice is called rice? It doesn't have water?"

Wang Sufen trembled next to her and almost cut her leg, and Mrs. Li coughed: "The rice is usually grown in paddy fields, but ours is different. It's called alpine rice, which is specially grown in the mountains. What, this is your uncle. sent back."

"Oh, the place where my uncle stayed is really good. I think his crops are more complete than ours." Mingbei couldn't help but envy.

Mingnan couldn't help but give him a white look: "Are you stupid? We don't have any in the south, just hazel mushrooms and pine nuts. Don't you have to send milk to the uncle every year?"

"You're right." Mingbei scratched his head happily: "It's better for us, my sister likes to eat pine nuts and hazelnuts, and go back on the hour after harvesting the crops. Let me tell you, I will give When she peels pine nuts, she is happy with me, and she eats her heart."

Mingnan glanced at Mingbei: "Isn't that the same as you?"

Mingbei nodded again and again: "It's not like that, or we are brothers and sisters."

Zhen Zhen sat next to her and couldn't help worrying about Ming Bei's IQ: This stupid child, is eating heart and eyes a compliment? Your brother is hurting you, don't you know? Why is it a bit sloppy that can't understand it.

The old Li family has been busy for half a month from old to young, and finally collected all the grain in the field. This time, for the first time, Mrs. Li knows what is full of grain. The cabbage and potatoes in the previous cellar are still full. The ones that are full can only be put in the cellar in the back room this time. The corn, sorghum, wheat ears, and rice have to be dried. Mrs. Li collected all the vegetables in the yard and made a wish to steam them for Mingnan and Mingbei. Steamed buns, coaxed them to level the ground, and covered a yard full of sun.

At this moment, when every household is busy, those who have their own wasteland all receive food, even if they don’t open wasteland outside, they also plant some in the yard. In addition, all kinds of mushrooms and wild fruits in the mountains are ripe. They were all busy going to the house, and when they got home at night, they fell asleep when they were tired. Not to mention the visiting people, even the four uncles and four aunts hadn't come over for a long time.

Mrs. Li was very determined to keep some wheat seeds and rice to be planted next year. It was easy for outsiders to hide it, and the two silly boys in the family were easy to talk about.

Mrs. Li has figured it out. If Mingdong asks, she will show him the seeds. Anyway, at the end of the year, basically a few adults in the family go to the fields. The children go to school and go to school. Osmanthus tidy up the house. do not know.

After harvesting the crops, except for Mrs. Li to watch Zhen Zhen at home, everyone else went up the mountain again, carrying pine cones and hazelnuts in sacks and sacks. More than a dozen kinds of mushrooms, such as Hericium erinaceus, Hazel mushroom, and pine mushroom, are all over the place. They are picked and taken home to be dried. In winter, pork is stewed in a pot of mountain delicacies. The taste is not so fresh. Zhen Zhen's favorite wild fruits are also indispensable, baskets of blueberries, girls, lanterns, wild hawthorns are moved home.

Mrs. Li sat on the kang, put on needles and thread, sewed it on the girl's skin, put on a string of more than one meter long and hung it by the window, she made a dozen strings for Zhen Zhen, when do you want to eat it? Now, crawled over and pulled down two gags, not to mention how beautiful.

The family is full of joy of a bumper harvest, and Mingxi has been working harder in Bingcheng. Mingdong, Mingxi, and Osmanthus ate at the fourth uncle Li Mulin's house. When they came out of the fourth uncle's house at noon, Mingdong always felt a little annoying when he looked at Mingxi who was following him. He pushed his glasses and said cheerfully, "Mingxi, don't you want to go to Bingcheng's university? Take advantage of this time in Bingcheng, go around and see which school you like?"

Mingxi nodded stupidly: "I think so, but I have to buy things first. My mother said that I have to accompany you to buy things. This is a serious business. I don't think the university is in a hurry."

Really blind price! Mingdong glanced at Mingxi silently, his eyes rolled and he began to support him again: "What, I forgot to ask when the fourth uncle will come home? You can ask another question, and I will definitely ask you when you get home. this."

"It's not that bad." Mingxi turned around and jumped back after hearing this. Ming Dong watched him enter the alley, grabbed Osmanthus by the hand and ran to the street.

Although Osmanthus and Mingdong grew up together, the hand-holding has never happened before. Before Osmanthus could react, she felt her arm being held by a big warm hand, her face suddenly turned red, and her heart skipped a beat. Like kicking a rabbit. As she ran, she couldn't help but look at Ming Dong, who just happened to lower his head, the two of them looked at each other, and their faces were a little red.

Running out of the alley, a trolleybus just happened to come, Ming Dong pulled Osmanthus into the car, and the two sat down in the back, and it took a long time to catch their breath. Mingdong thought about his actions and always felt a little silly and funny. He turned his head and looked at Osmanthus, who was smiling at him with a pursed mouth. Addicted to it.

"Are you tired?" Ming Dong's hand still held Osmanthus' wrist and did not let go. Osmanthus's eyes slid over Mingdong's hand and landed on his face again, and couldn't help showing a happy smile.

"What are you laughing at?" Ming Dong looked at Osmanthus and felt his face warm.

Osmanthus pursed her lips and said, "I never thought that we would run on the street hand in hand like this." Thinking that Mingxi could not find the two of them when he came out, he couldn't help laughing: "You explain that Xi can't find them. What will happen to us?"

"It is estimated that I will go to the fourth uncle to complain." Ming Dong thought about it and added: "I will definitely tell the milk when I get home."

At this time, Mingxi, who couldn't find the two in the alleys and streets, was about to cry, and he ran all the way back to Li Mulin's house. Seeing that he was back again, Li Mulin couldn't help but ask him, "What did you forget to say again?"

"Fourth uncle, look at my brother, he threw this sister Osmanthus for me and ran away!"