It's unusual for a farmer to have a girl

Chapter 42 Busy
"Second brother?"

Li Xiangyuan called out tentatively.

Hearing his younger sister's familiar voice, Li Benshan asked with concern: "Oh, how is little sister doing?"

Li Xiangyuan smiled lowly.

"Thank you, brother, for your concern."

Li Benshan: ...

Why did he feel that his sister had changed.

Leaving behind two catties of meat, Li Benshan went home with a heavy heart.

Had dinner in the evening.

Mrs. Song entered the six taels of silver handed over by Li Benshan into the account, and gave the remaining change to Mrs. Li for pocket money.

Li Benshan said: "It was six or two eight, I cut two catties of meat, came back and passed by the old house, and heard my father said that my younger sister is well, so I went to see her again."

Mrs. Li asked in surprise: "Little sister is alright? Are you not stupid?"

Li Xiaomian frowned, sister recovered?
Will she remember what happened that day?
Xiao Mian asked, "When will sister-in-law get well?"

Li Benshan shook his head, "I only found out today. I heard from your grandfather that it has been several days, and now I can walk around."

Song frowned and said, "You went to see her, didn't she show any embarrassment to you?"

Li Benshan shook his head: "Not only did he not lose face, but he was also very easy to talk to."

From old man Li to Mrs. Zhao to Li Xiangyuan, all of them had very good attitudes, which made him feel like he was dreaming.

The more Li Benshan thought about it, the more something went wrong, and he explained what happened today in detail.

He asked anxiously: "You guys help me analyze and analyze, are they holding back something bad?"

Mrs. Li frowned and said: "It must be holding back, our father loves you and still says the past."

"There is a saying that our little sister is recovering from a serious illness and hasn't made a fuss.
Our stepmother can keep you for dinner with a smile, huh?Why are you so scared? "

Song quickly said: "I said before that we can't eat anything over there, and don't drink any water."

"I don't know how to eat, sister-in-law, don't worry, I didn't dare to stay longer."

I always feel that there is something wrong with the old house.

Li Benshan shuddered, "Don't something haunt the old house?"

"Bah, bah, bah," Li quickly slapped her man.

"What are you doing at night, it's scary."

As she said that, she looked at Xiao Mian again: "Mian, draw a talisman to exorcise evil spirits and keep safe for my aunt. Second aunt is timid, and your second uncle scared her heart out."

With a smile, Xiao Mian took out some recently drawn peace symbols.

Mrs. Li quickly sent one to everyone.

"Put them all in the pockets of your underclothes, stay away from the old house in the future, we can afford to hide if we can't provoke them, right?"

Li Xiaomian also felt that there was something wrong with the old house, and that something abnormal must be caused by a demon.

Tomorrow, I'd better go and have a look by myself, don't worry.

However, early the next morning, Mrs. Song discovered that there were insects in the herbal medicine field.

So the whole family, including Xiao Sanshun, was driven to the herbal medicine field to catch bugs.

I have been busy for half a month, until the wheat turns yellow.

Started to prepare the wheat field again.

This year's wheat farm is located at the east end of the village, south of the road, that is, south of the herbal medicine field.

Here is a large grassy slope mixed with stones and dirt.

The several families living in Dongtou all choose the venue here.

Close to home, the harvested wheat is pulled over, which is convenient for turning over the drying field.

The venue chosen by Li Xiaomian's house is next to Aunt Lihua's house on the south side. It is on the road and you can see it as soon as you go out.

After choosing the venue, you have to roll the venue.

Weed first, and then remove the large rocks to expose a thin layer of soil.

Then the family rolled a big stone roller on it.

Looking at the big stone roller, Li Xiaomian said: "Mother, let's buy a little donkey."

Mrs. Song looked at the children and said to Mrs. Li, "I forgot about this."

Old man Li was in charge of harvesting wheat in previous years.

There is also a little donkey at home, but last year the stubborn donkey always barked in the middle of the night.

Mrs. Zhao felt that it was evil, so she sold it.

Li Benshan said: "I went to find Qinghe, and he also said that he wanted to buy livestock. Let us go to Liuzhuangji as companions."

Li Qinghe was also a kid when he was a child, and he made a couple of dollars by building a water truck together, so he wanted to add a livestock.

On April 26 every year, there will be an annual gathering in Liuzhuang.

One meeting is three days.

Because this meeting is just before the wheat harvest, some people call it the Welcoming Harvest Meeting.

It is said that this gathering was very large, and those selling sickles, mulberry forks, wooden lifts, and bamboo brooms took up a whole street.

All kinds of things are very complete.

There is also a dedicated livestock market.

Mrs. Song had already planned to go to the meeting with Mrs. Li.

There are no wooden forks, sickles and other wheat harvesting tools at home.Just waiting to catch this will come a big buy.

It's just that women and children are not allowed to go to the livestock market.

Because there are cattle walking there.

What is "walking animals"?
Xiaomian didn't know, and when she asked Xiaodao, Xiaodao was also at a loss.

So Xiaodao asked her mother curiously, but was ordered by her second aunt not to say these three words again.

It was also because of the vagueness of the second aunt that the two became more curious.

When I went to the meeting, I even sneaked to the livestock market.

As a result, he was caught by the second uncle.

The two were evicted.

At that time, the second uncle explained it like this: "These are fast animals with bad tempers and like to kick people, so women and children are not allowed to come in."

Fast animals, this Xiao Mian knows, she has heard that there are fast and slow animals.

The so-called "fast animals" refer to horses, mules, donkeys, etc., and "slow animals" mainly refer to cattle.

The cow walks slowly, this is easy to understand.

So what does "walking the cattle" mean?
Is it to let the cattle race to walk?Whoever walks well will be able to sell at a good price?
The two sisters were curious, and asked no one to tell, and even stared and gestured, telling them not to ask any more.

So Xiao Mian and Xiao Dao were always curious.

It was many years later that Xiao Mian eavesdropped on the conversation between the two old men before she knew what "walking animals" was.

It turns out that "walking the animals" is actually letting the animals mate.

People here are more reserved, and they are embarrassed to say that the animals are paired, so they use "walking animals" to mean this.

I went.

Animals are paired up like telegraph codes.

Unlike modern times, the animal world is clearly introduced, and even preschool children understand things, and she has been troubled for several years.

No wonder the people here are mostly simple and pure.

Li Benshan spent ten taels of silver and sold a half-calf that was less than two years old.By the way, I also brought a half-old shelf car.

The bridle of the set car was newly bought, and the seller also gave a handful of red tassels to tie on the ox's head.

This may be the same as tying red silk to a new car when modern people buy it, for auspiciousness.

Just tie red cherry seeds on the cow's head, won't the cow get angry and manic?

In fact, Xiao Mian's worries are unnecessary.

Not only did the cow not get angry, but he was also very obedient.

Xiao Mian was puzzled, so she asked her second uncle, "Second Uncle, aren't cows afraid of red?"

The second uncle shook his head: "I never heard that cows are afraid of red."

Li Xiaomian: Could it be that my cognition is wrong?

Li Xiaomian didn't give up, went home, found a piece of red cloth, held it up with a wooden lift, and dangled it in front of the cow.

As a result, the cow became angry.

Li Xiaomian also heaved a sigh of relief.

The second uncle frowned and looked at her, "If you tease it with a piece of black cloth, it will also go crazy."

Li Xiaomian: Huh?
So unconvinced, Xiao Mian changed to a black cloth to tease the little scalper.

It turns out that the cow is colorblind.

It can't tell the difference between eyes at all. The reason why the cow becomes very impulsive is because its temper is very irritable.

As long as you tease it, no matter what color you take, it will be furious.

With an ox cart, you can get twice the result with half the effort.

The cow is pulling the stone roller to roll and roll.

Soon a neat, smooth, solid wheat field was formed.

(End of this chapter)