Start as a farmer from an ordinary world

Chapter 14 Really Into This Era
The Loess Plateau has a large temperature difference between day and night.

Especially now that it is late autumn, even if it is over ten degrees during the day, it can reach below zero at night.

Therefore, at night, many wild birds will find a place to stay warm in the leeward, and the firewood stack is their favorite place to stay.

The sound is very familiar, like a sparrow.

If there are many birds on the Loess Plateau, it is of course sparrows.

These guys are chattering, often in groups.Throughout the year, sparrows can be seen no matter in the fields or in the caves of villages.

They are almost the birds most hated by farmers, and it is not enough to harm crops.Known as one of the four evils, absolutely not wronged.

Especially in the autumn harvest season, a large group of Hui Tutu flew to the fields, eating and pecking.

Half a day's work can destroy a large area of ​​crops.

However, these guys make very simple nests, and they don't pay much attention to the location. They just find a gap in the gap and add some feathers and weeds.

There are also many sparrow nests in the cracks in the walls of cave dwellings where people live.

There are also some nests that do not make any nests, and directly hide in firewood stacks for the winter.

In this era of lack of meat, sparrows are also one of the few things that farmers can beat their teeth to sacrifice.When it snows in winter, many families set up bamboo sieves or pots to catch birds in the open space in front of the cave.

Since Wang Manyin met him, he naturally wouldn't miss it.

In the hazy moonlight, he tiptoed to the edge of the straw stack to search, and soon found that there were many gaps in the leeward side.

sound.It's coming from the gap.

He plucked at the straw a few times, stretched out his hand to dig inside, and caught a ball of warm tropical feathers.

It was a sparrow the size of an egg, trembling in the palm of his hand.Because of its sharp beak being pinched, this thing couldn't make a sound, but it didn't alarm the others of its kind.

Next, Wang Manyin was a little worried, not knowing how to place this thing.

Throw it directly into the space, the real thing will fly, and it will be difficult to catch it in the future.

Wang Manyin also put in a fight, first entered the space and poured a bag of grain on the yellow ground, then took the empty cloth bag to catch sparrows, and every time he caught one, he sent it directly to the cloth bag.

One, two... After finding a stack of straw, I touched eight of them.

Then, go to the second straw stack...

When Wang Manyin touched a gap in the straw, he immediately felt something was wrong.

It's a bit big, definitely not a sparrow... When I took it out and looked under the moonlight, I found it was a wild pigeon.Rock pigeons unique to the Loess Plateau are similar in appearance to domestic pigeons, with a slightly white coat.

blessed.

Wang Manyin raised his spirits even more, put the wild pigeon into the cloth bag, and continued to grope for it.

In ten minutes or so, I searched the entire stack of straw, and the results were quite remarkable.Three pigeons and more than thirty sparrows are enough for a delicious meal.

But wild pigeon Wang Manyin didn't plan to eat it, but kept it as a seed.There is a saying in the countryside that "turtle doves have ten nests a year".

Keeping three pigeons, it is estimated that in half a year at most, I will have endless pigeon meat.

As for sparrows, I will eat them with orchids tomorrow.

When I got home, it was getting late.

Wang Manyin didn't enter the space to get busy, washed his feet hastily, and went to bed.

In the middle of the night, after a kick, he woke up suddenly.

I miss my aunt...

Lan Hua's visit aroused a fire in Wang Manyin's heart.

After entering the space to wash, I tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep.

There is no way, the 20-year-old body is at its peak firepower.

He had nowhere to use his strength, so in order to pass the time, he simply continued digging the pond with the shovel.I don't know how long I have been busy. I waited for the rooster to crow in the space before returning to the kang to sleep.

Waking up in the morning, Wang Manyin was still alive and well.

After breakfast, start digging the cave.Busy for a long time, almost three feet of progress has been dug.

Taking a short break in the afternoon, taking advantage of the warm weather, Wang Manyin deliberately boiled a pot of boiling water and plucked more than 30 sparrows caught from the space.

He was busy here, Maodan led his younger brother and appeared with Xiaonizi on his back.

"Uncle Man Yin, where did you catch so many sparrows?" Maodan asked enviously with wide-eyed eyes.

"I caught it yesterday. When I fire you tonight, come and eat together." Now that the three little guys met, Wang Manyin would naturally not be stingy.

With so much sparrow meat, more potatoes can cook half the pot, so it doesn't hurt to let them eat some.

Although Mao Dan was very moved, he still shook his head: "No, my father won't let you come to eat at your house."

"Fatty, eat..." Xiao Nizi struggled off her brother's back and squatted in front of the washbasin, her eyes also filled with longing.

Wang Manyin originally thought that the three children were just watching, but didn't take it seriously.

Unexpectedly, the silent stone next to him suddenly reached out, grabbed a newly plucked sparrow, and put it directly in his mouth.

Wang Manyin was immediately dumbfounded.

It took a few seconds for him to react, and said anxiously: "Stone, what are you doing, this is raw. Spit it out... Are you hungry, I'll get you corn sacks!"

"What are you doing, spit it out..." Mao Dan swung his fist and beat his younger brother violently.

Under the pain, the little guy finally spit out the raw sparrow meat.

"Stop beating, wait, I'll get you corn buns." Wang Manyin hurriedly got up and went back to the cave, and took three dry and hard corn buns.

"Uncle Man Yin, my dad won't let you eat..." Maodan looked at Huang Chengcheng's cornbread and licked his lips.

"It's okay, your adults don't know now." Wang Manyin knew that Wang Qiusheng and his wife were honest people, and was afraid that the children would trouble him.

Then, he asked Shi Shi to rinse his mouth, washed his hands, and then ate the cornbread.

Seeing the three children wolfing down their food, Wang Manyin felt a little sad.

Until this moment, he felt truly integrated into this era.What I am facing is not the cold words in the book, but the living, flesh-and-blood people.

Now that we have come to this era, we should do more!
However, Wang Manyin did not plan to be a saint, but only tried to give some help to those around him when he could.Of course, this is just a plan, after all, it is difficult to support myself now.

More than 30 sparrows were cleaned and chopped, and filled a crock full of them.

Then add chili and salt to marinate, and it will taste just right at night.

Seeing that it was almost time, he locked the kiln door again and went to Shuangshui Village to look for orchids.This time Wang Manyin is going to call his brother-in-law Sun Shaoan, Shaoping, and Lan Xiang, so he should communicate with relatives in advance.

It is said that Lanhua's younger brothers and sisters are not ordinary people, and they can be called great achievements in the future.

Of course, Wang Manyin didn't want to hold his thighs or anything—with space and the memory of later generations, he believed that he would never be worse than the other party.

The reason why I didn't plan to invite Mr. Sun was mainly because I was afraid of being reprimanded.In the eyes of many old farmers, catching rabbits and catching birds is a bum.

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"Man Yin, why are you here?" Seeing the man appearing at the gate of her courtyard, Lan Hua greeted him excitedly.

Wang Manyin earned himself a lot of points by digging cave dwellings, and this time even Sun Yuhou didn't show any signs of embarrassment.

Seeing someone coming to the door, the two children in the yard secretly looked at him with curiosity in their eyes.

The boy is thin and tall, and he is exactly Sun Shaoping.

The little girl next to her looks very similar to Lan Hua, she is about seven or eight years old, she is wearing a ragged cotton jacket full of patches, her hair is disheveled, and there is still a lot of snot on her face.

"Uncle, Aunt, Shao'an, you are all at home..." Wang Manyin said hello after politely, and then said:
"It's my first time building a cave dwelling, and I don't have much experience. I want Shao'an to come over to give me advice at night and give me some ideas."

"What does Shao'an know? You haven't eaten yet, have you? After eating here, I'll follow you there." Sun Yuhou thought for a while and said.

Seeing that the uncooked rice was about to be cooked, Mr. Sun recognized this son-in-law by pinching his nose.

Naturally, he was also interested in the matter of building cave dwellings.

"No need, Uncle, Shaoan can just go. I happened to order some food, and I asked Lanhua to help with cooking, and we ate and chatted together. This is Shaoping and Lanxiang, let's go to have a meal too." Wang Manyin quickly refused.

Are you kidding me, if the old man goes, will you still eat this meal?It is estimated that it will be boring to eat.

"What's the point of being so nonsense, you eat nonsense every day, what will you get married in the future?" Sun Yuhou got angry when he heard that Wang Manyin had prepared the meal, and couldn't help but reprimanded him again.

(End of this chapter)