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Chapter 74
"Lao Li, what are you doing at home during the day?"
"Sleep, what else can you do?" "It
's so hot to sleep? I can't sleep, I was woken up by the heat when I fell asleep, the temperature is almost over 50 Let's go."
"The post on my grandson's phone said that the highest temperature these days has been more than 46 degrees, and it's not yet 50 degrees. It's calm and cool, and I get used to it when I fall asleep."
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" Aunt Wang, the dry corn in your house is about to catch fire, why don’t you take it back?” “I’ve
been busy carrying water for the past two nights, so I don’t have time.”
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“Haohao, there’s a white one over there. The pebbles are more beautiful than the black ones in your hand!"
"Where is where?"
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The riverside in the evening is the most crowded time, everyone is tired of staying at home during the day, and there is a stuffy heat in the chest, from the feet to the head . You can still feel the coolness and breeze by the river at night, drinking water, chatting and chatting, and resting all day during the day, now is the time when you have the best energy.
Nanzhi also saw Aunt Wei chatting with her neighbors by the river.
"Nanzhi is here? Come here, it's cool and windy here, come and enjoy it."
Aunt Wei moved her buttocks, revealing the clean stone that had been sat on by others, making room for Nanzhi.
The three of Nanzhi also felt that the river was much cooler than at home, and they didn't want to go home so soon, so they sat next to Aunt Wei.
"Nanzhi, this is your Aunt Li. The son at home is a high-achieving student and works in the hospital. Last time, thanks to Xu Chang, he worked hard for my son who was not up to date." "Sister Li, this is Nanzhi
. There is a husband and elder brother who are smart at work and beautiful, I think this is my daughter."
Aunt Wei was interrupted by Aunt Li before she finished speaking, "I know, I still have my guy who goes to the field to rub against Nanzhi's car. I'm sorry."
"Where is it, we were just passing by, and we would have to drive without my aunt."
A few words joined the conversation between the aunts.
After listening for a while, Nanzhi realized that they were discussing about harvesting grain.
Aunt Li's family has two elderly people, and her son can't get enough food after being busy in the hospital all day, let alone asking him to come back to help collect food.
"Actually, my husband and I can work a few days and be a little tired, but who knows that he went out to fetch water a few days ago before the sun went down. After he came back, his skin was red from the sun. He was in pain at home these two days. Howling ghosts and wolves made my ears callous. What made it worse was heatstroke, and I was lying at home all day long and I was required to take care of it. There are five or six acres of land in the house. How can I come here by myself?” “Aren’t your parents-in-law the
only Are you in your sixties? You are still in good health, can you help me? It’s this time, let them go to the field and tear some corn husks for you.” Aunt Wei frowned and gave Aunt
Li some advice .
"It's not that you don't know my father-in-law and mother-in-law. I am thankful for not being at home all day and causing trouble for me. My father-in-law had nothing to do with the physical examination before the earthquake last year. He only had a slight high blood pressure. After the examination, my son said that he should pay more attention to it. Rest. It would be a disaster if the old man found out about it. Since then, he has talked about "resting more" and usually asks him to help me get a bowl from the living room. At that time, Lao Xu's father always said that he was dizzy, and he hadn't seen him really dizzy for several years." Aunt Li had endless bitterness when talking about the two old people in her family.
Nan Zhi kept sighing in her heart when she heard this, what a biodiversity, fortunately the ingredients in their house are simple, if she was at Aunt Li's house, she would definitely be too worried to eat all day long.
Aunt Wei didn't know what to say to ease Aunt Li's heart, so she changed the subject and said, "Old Xu is fine, if it's serious, go to the hospital."
"It's okay, but I can't go out to bask in the sun anymore. I need to drink more water at home. The water I picked up this night is not enough for the three of Xu's family to drink for half a day.
" a little. Aunt Li already had some calculations in her heart, she couldn't do it alone, she would ask her son to take a few days off, and then she would be ruthless enough to take out grain to ask two people, at most two or three days to harvest the grain in the field.
"Let's not talk about the Xu family's bad luck, when did you and Nanzhi's family harvest the grain in the field?" "
My family only has two acres of land, and I have harvested it a few days ago." Nanzhi replied truthfully.
"Then it will be easy for your family. This kind of food is too little when eating food, and too much food is too much, which is really troublesome." Aunt Li said.
"My family is only a few days away. When the time comes, call the whole family, so that I won't get into trouble again when I don't see it." Everyone around a hundred miles knows the stupid things
her youngest son has done, she said. Don't be afraid to be ashamed when you come out.
"The two sons of your family are really kind. They can help you work when they grow up. What's the use of my kid reading so many books? You can't even come back and break one for me. Alas, Nanzhi, I still have a son in the future Ah, in this world, a daughter is born to suffer, and it will be uncomfortable for me to see it. It's not as good as a son, who can vent his anger on his own boy..." Nan Zhi didn't expect that his parents were gone
. Seeing that the topic was not good, he said in time, "I'm only in my twenties, and I'm still young. I'm a little anxious to think about this." " Nanzhi is so young." Zhi's eyes became more loving, what a good girl, if Nan Zhi hadn't got a husband, they would all want to take Nan Zhi home to be their daughter-in-law. "That's right, you young people have your own considerations. We won't talk too much when we're old." Nanzhi picked up a few nice words and praised the two aunts, then slipped away with the ladle in his hand.
Lu Xingyun and Zheng Ping were chatting with a group of men on the shallows. Nanzhi could smell the strong smell of sweat in the breeze from a long distance away. He didn't want to go there, so he stopped and told the two to come over quickly.
When Lu Xingyun heard Nan Zhi's words, he stood up, picked up the bucket and walked towards her, Zheng Ping followed behind.
"It's getting late, let's bring the water home quickly, we still have things to do when we get home."
Of course, the two of them listened to Nan Zhi's words, picked up two buckets full of water by the river and went home, because the water in the bucket It was too full, and a lot was spilled on the road.
On the way home, because people often walk by carrying water, as long as the bucket is full, a lot will be spilled, so the vegetation along the way is much more lush than other places.
"Brother Lu, you are right in thinking. I have accumulated the smell of sweat for a day, and I feel bad. Only after seeing Wei Junlang and the others did I realize that this is completely insignificant. I was almost sent away by the smell just now. .” Zheng Ping said after returning home.
"Then you are still chatting so vigorously with them, I don't see you feeling disgusted."
Because he didn't need to go out, he was sweating again after carrying water, so Lu Xingyun went to the bathroom to wash his face.
"You get used to it when you get close to it. Just now Wei Junming said that I smell good on my body. I, an old man, got goose bumps all over my body because I smelled the shower gel I took a shower yesterday. I have to pay attention to it in the future. "
After that, he brought the neckline of his short sleeve to his nose and smelled it to see if it really smelled. In the end, I could only smell the smell of sweat, which made me feel badly smoked.
He muttered to himself, "There is something wrong with Xiao Ming's nose, where is the scent?"
Nan Zhi said after putting the sheets and clothes she changed during the day in the washing machine in the space. "In the future, we will use the water from the river to irrigate the ground or flush the toilet. Anyway, don't put it in your mouth. I saw a lot of people playing in the river with bare feet." "We saw it
too. We said this on the road just now. The thing is, the water in the space is convenient, clean and hygienic."
"Have you changed your clothes yet? I'll wash them together in the washing machine." Nan Zhi asked seeing that Lu Xingyun's head was wet.
"No, wear it for two more days before changing it." Lu Xingyun said.
"Okay, I just took out a batch of rice, pea, and soybean seeds from the warehouse. Let's plant them tonight." It
was quite early tonight, and they couldn't sleep anyway, so they just came to farm.
"Okay."
After they dug out the sweet potatoes in the field last time, the field has already been loosened, and a few places were trampled down by the two puppies at home when they were playing around. , but it doesn't matter much, and they don't have to go through it again.
"Growing rice requires a lot of water."
He still knows this common sense, Lu Xingyun said, rubbing his chin and looking at the terrain in the space, to see if he can divert a little water from the stream into the field, and then dig out the water from the field. A small opening to channel excess water out.
However, the terrain in the space is all flat, with no inclination, and it is okay to divert water, but it is not as convenient as sloped land.
"What's so difficult about it? Can't we use pipes to divert water to the fields every day? It's very convenient to just turn on the tap every day." Zheng Ping said.
This is also fine, that is, we must always pay attention to the water used for rice growth in the space.
The three of them first determined a piece of land, used hoes to shape the land into the shape of a paddy field, and surrounded it.
The next step is to plant rice seedlings, which can be inserted into the paddy fields when they grow to the length of a finger.
After they planted all the rice and peas in the space, two or three days had passed outside, and the river, which was originally shallow, had now become a trickle.
But most of the families have no time to worry about the water situation in the river, and they are all scrambling to harvest food from their own fields.
The three finally got some free time and took out the plum and peach flavored popsicles they made in the refrigerator and ate them.
After one sip, there is the fragrance of cold peaches and plums. The heat on the three of them has gone a lot, and there are still traces of white mist on the popsicles slowly rising with the cool air.
The little popsicles couldn't withstand the hot weather and were melting continuously. The three of them could only try to eat as fast as possible.
Just as I finished eating the popsicles and was about to get the second one, there was a knock on the door of the house.
Nanzhi went to open the door, it was Aunt Wei.
"Auntie? Come in quickly."
Nan Zhi welcomed Aunt Wei into the door, and saw that Aunt Wei was sweating profusely, his mouth was dry and peeled, and he was still swallowing saliva, so he quickly handed over the water glass on the coffee table.
"Auntie, drink some water."
"Thank you Nanzhi, I won't drink if I'm not thirsty."
She saw that there were many water buckets in Nanzhi's house, some of them were used up, some were still full, and there was a large transparent tank , it should be a fish tank, now it is used to hold water.
I'm a little envious. Her family should have bought a fish tank at the beginning. It's so convenient to store water now.
This was the first time she entered Nanzhi's house, and she saw the specific layout of Nanzhi's house, which was much cleaner than hers.
Her family has been growing vegetables since she came back in February and March, and the mud is everywhere, and it has long been messed up.
Gathering his mind, he began to talk about her visit this time.
"Xiao Lu, are you free? I would like to ask you to do my aunt a favor. Our family has been harvesting food for the past two days. The road is too far, and it is too troublesome to pick it back. I would like to ask you to drive to help us collect corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes. Bring it back. How about we use a hundred catties of corn as a reward?"
They are all neighbors. Their family has just finished their work in the past two days, so it's okay to help out, but she is not sure if there is enough gasoline in the house. , and gave Lu Xingyun a questioning look. Lu Xingyun understood what she was worried about, so he directly answered Aunt Wei and said, "Auntie doesn't need to look out like this, it's okay to do me a favor. When we get ready, we'll drive there after the sun goes down."
"Thank you so much. It's only past four o'clock. It's really early. I was worried that you would go out at night, so I came here early to intercept you." "I'll see you at night, auntie .
"
Come to my aunt's house for dinner later."
Nanzhi was about to refuse, but Aunt Wei quickly said, "Don't refuse, this is my aunt's kindness, you have helped us so much, please have a meal at my aunt's house. This is some food. You must come to my aunt's house with an empty stomach, otherwise my aunt will be unhappy."
Nan Zhi could only swallow the words in his mouth, and said, "Okay then, please trouble aunt."
At night, the three of them were empty stomachs Went to Wei's house.
"Here we come. It just so happens that the meal is ready and I'm going to call you." It's been
hot these past two days, so I don't have to worry about the food getting cold. The fried dishes are placed on the table.
The old man of the Wei family quickly took out the bowls and chopsticks.
Wei Junming next to him had already swallowed his saliva at a table of delicacies, his house looked like Chinese New Year today, he must eat more later.
There were six dishes on the table, a bowl of salted fish, a bowl of fried cabbage, a bowl of unidentifiable meat, a bowl of tofu and green onion soup, a bowl of fried shredded potatoes and a bowl of fried tender corn. The bowls used for serving dishes are all very large, probably the big bowls used to hold soup in the past, and the servings are very large.
Before the apocalypse, these dishes looked shabby, and they were usually better than this, but now that every household is in difficulty, they can be called luxurious.
Nan Zhi had long heard from Wei Junming that his mother was reluctant to eat the last two salted fish hanging in the house, but today she made them for them. It can be seen that Aunt Wei really put her heart into it.
Nan Zhi said, "Auntie how to cook so many dishes, we can just eat some shredded potatoes."
At this time, almost every household grows potatoes, and it doesn't feel bad to eat them.
"How can I eat potato shreds every day? My old Wei caught a few pheasants on the mountain a few days ago. My gluttonous ghost clamored for meat every day. I happened to make it for you today to try it, but my aunt's seasoning is not good. It’s so complete..., it’s probably not very tasty, you just eat it.”
After the formalities were over, Nanzhi helped Aunt Wei’s family clean up the leftovers, and before they had time to wash the dishes, everyone hurried to the field to collect food .
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