Start as a farmer from an ordinary world

Chapter 45 Orchid's thoughts

When it was getting dark, there was light snow on the plateau.

After a while, the ground was completely white.

Snow particles the size of salty salt hit the piles of firewood and the kiln surface outside, making a rustling sound, as if countless silkworms were chewing on mulberry leaves, which made the night on the plateau even more silent.

Wang Manyin is used to this.

Since the beginning of winter, there have been five or six snowfalls in succession.Except for the time of catching rabbits, the rest are not big, and the effort is basically finished in two or three days.

But when he locked the door after dinner, he realized that it was supposed to snow heavily tonight.After an hour or so, the snow on the ground has covered the back of the shoe.

In order to keep warm in the cave at night, Wang Manyin added some hard firewood to the stove.

Most of the kangs on this side of the Loess Plateau are equipped with a fire path, which connects the pot stove and the chimney.The effort of cooking a meal in winter can actually heat the kang.However, if you want to maintain the heat all night, you should add more firewood, and when the temperature is completely up, seal the stove with fine firewood foam.

This kind of fine firewood foam has a low ignition point, but it is resistant to burning, which can ensure that the kang is warm all night.

Waiting for Lanhua to finish washing up, Wang Manyin started to do important things in life again.

It is good to have a mother-in-law!

No wonder Xintianyou sings like this: Double doors come and one door opens, call brother to come in.Eyebrows to eyebrows, eyes to eyes, eye blinks and hairs move to convey the words... grasping the arms, raising hands, turning the shoulders and kissing.Pulling on my lover and kissing, the bumps in my stomach melted into water.

The crickets were crawling on the top of the warm kang, and my brother's heart was beating loudly.The lamb knelt on both knees while feeding, and hugged a relative without falling asleep.Pairs of hens fly south, pouring their slave lives to sleep with you.Running a horse on the wall is too low, but I still miss you when I sleep face to face.

This kind of simple wild tune is full of the unique wildness of plateau people, and it is the most primitive and straightforward emotional expression of human beings...

Accompanied by the chirping of magpies, Wang Manyin turned his head and looked out the window.

The outside is hazy with white, obviously it snowed a lot last night.

It was rare that he didn't hear anyone shouting for shopping in the morning, so he simply lay on the kang and slept for a while.

When Lanhua woke up, the two chatted casually.

I really don't want to get out of bed.

After a while, Lan Hua suddenly pushed her and said, "Man Yin, let's get up quickly, we have to go back to my mother's house today."

Isn't that right? According to the rules of the original Xi County, on the second day after the wedding, the new son-in-law will take his daughter-in-law to the old man's house to meet relatives. This is called "returning to the door".

In many places, when the man returns home, he has to go with an accompanying guest.

The original Xi County is relatively simple, the man only needs to go to the new son-in-law, which saves a lot of trouble.

He opened the cave door, and suddenly a chill came over his face.

The snow still didn't stop, and it was more than half a foot thick at the entrance of the cave dwelling.

Looking around, the entire Loess Plateau is covered by thick white.The sky and the earth are of the same color and form a seamless whole.

Hearing the owner's movement, Rhubarb immediately ran out of the hole and spun around.

After saying hello to Lanhua, Wang Manyin led the dog and walked down the cliff.Taking advantage of the snow in the morning, see if we can catch pheasants and rabbits on the plateau.

After walking a certain distance, he suddenly remembered that he was so busy with major life events these two days that he didn't even pay attention to the poultry and livestock raised in the reception space. These guys must be starving.

Finding a leeward place, Wang Manyin quietly entered the space.

As expected, when they heard some movement, the little piggy in the deep pit immediately squeaked and jumped up and down.

He cut several bundles of grass and fed them one after another, and finally settled these guys down.

After dodging out and walking forward not far, I saw a string of hare footprints in the snow.Look at the direction of the trace, and go straight to the rapeseed field on the platform.

If nothing else, this should be a young hare with little experience in starvation.

It was snowing badly yesterday, and it didn't have anything to eat at night, so it ran out to look for food at dawn.Now the winter wheat has just grown to be four fingers high, and it has long been covered with thick snow.

On the contrary, rape seedlings grow tall and can stand up in the snow, which naturally became the first choice of this rabbit.

The old rabbits that are really old are different. They are more hungry and experienced. Generally, they will hide in their nests when it snows heavily.

Only after waiting for three or four days will I come out when I am really hungry and anxious.

One person and one dog walked along the traces to the rapeseed field, and they saw scattered gnawing traces, which were particularly conspicuous in the snow.There were still many footprints on the ground, and after running for a while, they suddenly disappeared in the snow.

Seeing this situation, Wang Manyin became excited instead.

This is the ecstasy array left by the hare, indicating that the hiding place is nearby.

This kind of thing is very cunning, knowing that snow will leave footprints.Therefore, when approaching the nest, they often jump several times with all their strength, each time they can jump two or three meters away, and the directions are different.

It looks disorganized and untraceable.

In fact, when it jumped for the last time, this thing had already quietly hid in the nest.

Inexperienced hunters often get confused when seeing this situation, and it is easy to lose the final trace of the hare.

But for Wang Manyin, it was completely useless.

Here on the Loess Plateau, there is a formula for finding rabbits: "Low on high, low on low, high on low. Artemisia lies on grass, and grass lies on Artemisia."

The meaning is simple, if there are highlands all around, hares tend to hide their nests in the lowest places.If it is surrounded by low-lying terrain, it will press its nest to a higher place instead.

If most of the surrounding environment is weeds, it will hide in the shrubs and wormwood.Otherwise, hide in the grass...

Not far from where the hare's footprint disappeared, Wang Manyin saw a leeward hollow, surrounded by some sparse weeds.

In all likelihood, this guy is hiding inside.

In fact, I am not afraid of losing my track, as there is rhubarb following me.

Sure enough, rhubarb followed the scent all the way to the pit.

Before the dog got close, he saw a gray figure jumping out from the roots of the withered grass, jumping and running away.Due to the thick snow barrier, this guy slowed down a lot.

Rhubarb dodges to chase after him, and quickly catches him back.

Catch a hare in the effort of one cigarette, this speed is also considered a broken record.

It's really not big, it can almost weigh three catties.

Just now, Wang Manyin was worried about what gift to give to the old man's house, so he just picked up this hare.

With the prey in hand, he didn't intend to continue searching with rhubarb.

It will take a lot of effort, it is estimated that Lanhua has prepared the meal.Seeing that the snow is getting bigger, let's go back early.

Anyway, it is estimated that this heavy snow will take a few days to thaw, and there is plenty of time to catch hares.

Lan Hua was standing on the sidelines looking around, and saw the man returning with his things in the distance.When I got closer, I realized it was a hare.

She excitedly said, "Man Yin, did Da Huang catch the hare?"

"Well, let's mention Shuangshui Village later, let Shaoan and the others try it too." Wang Manyin said as he handed it over, and began to pat the snow on his body.

"Rhubarb is too powerful. Shao'an said last time that he has never seen such a good dog in ten miles and eight villages." Lanhua originally had objections to the man feeding rhubarb every day, but now he doesn't say anything.

You know, the native dogs in the countryside in this era are basically looking for food by themselves, and at most they can be fed with pot water.

People like Wang Manyin who eat whatever they want are rare.

When the man finished shaking the snow and entered the house, Lan Hua had already handed half a bowl of vegetables and two nests to him.

Then, she also filled a bowl of corn grits and drank it.

"Why don't you eat Wowo and vegetables?" Wang Manyin asked strangely.

"I'm resting at home. I haven't done much work. I'm not hungry. Just drink some corn grits." Lan Hua shook her head and replied.

Wang Manyin got up and looked into the small pot, it was empty, obviously he had filled all the dishes that he had fried in the morning.

He put half of it into the other party's bowl in a very speechless manner, and then persuaded: "Lanhua, didn't I say that, our family does not lack a bite to eat. You can eat whatever I eat in the future, and what to say, eat bran and swallow vegetables, be careful of me." Press it on the kang and beat you!"

Lan Hua said with a guilty conscience: "Man Yin, what we eat every day, I feel like a dream. The days are still long, what if there is no food in next spring?"

She was really hungry and scared when she was a child, and this memory is almost engraved in her bones.As long as I can remember, the family has never really had enough to eat.Every year when spring and autumn are not received, food is cut off, and the production team has become an overrun household.

How many times did Lan Hua go into the mountains to collect firewood, she was dizzy and dizzy from hunger for a long time, and almost fell on the edge of the cliff.

She endured all these in silence.

Until... I met the man in front of me.

It was as if a ray of light appeared in front of him.

For the first time in her miserable youth, it brought her the joy of love.

So Lan Hua made up her mind early on that even if she lived her whole life eating bran and swallowing vegetables, she would be satisfied.

The man used to have no one to take care of the house and didn't know how to store food, but he couldn't do it himself, so he had to save it.

(End of this chapter)