Reborn farmhouse busy farming

Chapter 33 Old Man Luo Lied
Each family picked up some of each item, put together a basket, marked the basket and piled it under the tree, and agreed to go forward to pick up other mountain goods, and left the unfinished ones on the ground to other people in the village.

This is the unwritten rule of Luojia Village. Every year when harvesting autumn, a part of each kind of mountain product will be reserved for other people in the village.

At noon, everyone gathered together, ate the dry food they brought with them, and continued walking into the mountains after eating.

This side of the mountain faces the sun, and most of the plants you encounter are sun-loving.The villagers pick up the autumn every year, and the fields are familiar. They know exactly what is in which place. After picking up a place, they go straight to the next place without wasting a cent on the road.

In the afternoon, Luo Tiandu's family of four followed other villagers and harvested a lot of wild peppers. Although the season for picking has passed, some of them are still half-dried and hanging on the branches.This kind of wild pepper is small in size and pointed upwards. It tastes very spicy.

Later, I picked up some hazelnuts, chestnuts and other dried fruits, and I couldn't put them in the back basket, and even the sack I brought was half full. Seeing that it was getting late, I made an appointment to go out of the mountain together.

On the way back, I passed by the wild fruit grove carrying baskets, and all the jujubes and hawthorns on the ground were picked up, leaving only some bad-tasting wild pears and wild apples. .Luo Tian felt a little pity. Although the wild pears were not tasty, the sour taste was suitable for making fruit jam. She was reluctant to waste it, so she picked up the sour wild pears before the sack was full. and apples.

Luo Baisu and Fang only thought she was greedy, and didn't stop her, they bent down to help pick it up, until the two back baskets were stacked to the top, and the sacks they brought were also packed to the brim.

The autumn picking organized by the village lasted for half a month, and it was not over until there was nothing to pick up at the foot of the mountain. Of course, the harvest was also very rich: just picked up three baskets of fungus and mushrooms, and spread them out to dry for half a month. In the yard, there are more dried fruit snacks such as chestnuts and hazelnuts.

Old man Luo was old, and after helping Luo Baisu dig a pond for a month, he was sore all over and didn't go into the mountain; Eat and play, play and sleep; Luo Baihan is not productive, so this year the family didn't pick up autumn.

Although Luo Tiandu's family and the Yao family were almost feuding, there was still an old man Luo in the house after all, and he was also an elder. Luo Baisu and the Fang family still divided every mountain product in half, Send it to old man Luo.

Yao shi got half of the mountain products for nothing, and finally nothing came out, but Luo Baining was still not satisfied, so she ran to Luo Baisu's side and picked up a lot of wild fruits such as sweet dates that she liked to eat, Luo Ming was so angry Their eyes were red, and the two almost moved their hands again.

Luo Tian didn't even bother to talk to Luo Baining, she was thinking about the tallow tree forest in her heart, thinking about how to explain it to Fang Shi so that she would agree, and finally decided to tell the truth.

The Fang family didn't believe it at all when Luo Tian said that the seeds of the black tallow tree could be squeezed out of oil.Luo Baisu is a scholar after all, he has read a lot of books and has a wide range of knowledge.When he first entered the school, there was a gentleman who had traveled around in the early years and had a lot of knowledge and knowledge. He remembered that the gentleman also mentioned that he had indeed seen some oil mills using black tallow to press oil in some places, but only pressed The oil that comes out is cloudy and cannot be eaten, so it can only be sold cheaply.

It's just that Luo Tiandu is young, and has never even been out of Qiushui Town before. How did she know that Chinese tallow tree can extract oil?
Luo Tiandu said, "That's what I read in the bookstore that day."

In fact, she just glanced at the book hastily. She only noticed that there were paddy fields. As for the cultivation methods of the crops introduced, she didn't know.However, she expected that Luo Baisu would not go out to do a real search. Even if he did, it was just a handwritten book, or a torn book with missing chapters and pages. She could definitely say that the chapter she read was missing.

Knowing that black tallow tree seeds can extract oil, but they can't be eaten, Fang hesitated a little.Their family didn't have tools to press the oil, so they still had to send it to the oil mill. The wages were not cheap, and Fang thought it was not worth it.

"Mother, tallow tallow oil is inedible, but it's good for lighting lamps. Father now reads books every night, and we squeeze the oil ourselves, so we don't have to buy tung oil anymore. After all, it can actually save a lot of money."

Fang still hesitated, but Luo Baisu frowned.In the past, he just thought that Luo Tian was smart, but now he has some doubts. No matter how smart a five-year-old child is, there is a limit, but now Luo Tian's insight is far beyond what a child can comprehend. Even if it is himself, I'm afraid it can't compare.

The so-called abnormality is a monster, and he even faintly felt that this child was really not an ordinary person.

Luo Tian saw Luo Baisu's suspicious expression and became even more anxious.If you continue to dawdle like this, it will be even more difficult to deal with it when the weather changes and the temperature cools down.

In the end, Luo Baisu let go of the doubts in his heart, pulled the cart, and went to the black tallow forest with Fang, and picked up hundreds of catties of black tallow seeds and came back. They couldn't pile up in the yard, so they dragged them to the ancestral hall of the clan. Hanging in the open.

Taking advantage of this gap, the family just sorted out the picked wild peppers, dried the ones that should be dried, and sealed the altar, that is, the half basket of wild peppers, which were also cut and left with seeds, and then strung with ropes. They were hung in a string under the eaves, while Fang went to open a few ridges of land and fertilized them to grow vegetables.

Most of the vegetables planted in this season are cold-resistant cruciferous vegetables. Fang sprinkled some of the seeds bought a few days ago, radishes, cabbage, lettuce, mustard greens, spinach, beans, etc., on the ground, and ordered a row of green onions. , these vegetables grow up enough for a family to eat, and when the spring of next year begins, there will be no need to compete with Yao's for the vegetable garden.

After finishing all this, the black tallow seeds were also dried.When they harvested Chinese tallow tree seeds, they cut off the ear and the surrounding fruit branches together, and had to shell them before sending them to the oil workshop.

Luo Baisu pushed the stone mill, shelled the black tallow seeds, put them into baskets, and then carried them to the oil workshop with Fang's two poles.

In fact, the real black tallow seeds are black, covered with a layer of white waxy oil, so they look white.Luo Tian knew that this layer of waxy fat was best used to boil wax, but she had neither tools nor time to peel off this layer of waxy fat and tallow tree ovules, so she had to mix them together to squeeze the oil.

She took the time to go to the field and took a look at the cultivated rapeseed seedlings. They were all alive, but they looked a little nutritious. Some seedlings had yellow leaves, most of which were lack of fertilizer.Now is the time when rape seedlings grow leaves. It is best to apply some nitrogen fertilizer to strengthen the seedlings, otherwise the rape seedlings will not grow well and affect the next year's harvest.

It's just that Luo Tian feels extremely sad when he thinks about fertilizing and definitely going to fight Yao Shi again.

She felt that partiality alone was not enough to describe Yao Shi's attitude. Now Yao Shi was faintly paranoid towards their family, that kind of wishing that their family would be unlucky and have a bad life, wishing that their family would fall into the mud and die forever. The mentality of not being able to climb up has become so serious that no matter what the family does, Yao will inevitably jump out and sing the opposite, even if her opposition ends up in a consequence that harms others and does not benefit herself, she will never turn back.

In a word, Yao Shi is a wonderful flower who can't see that their family is doing well, and must find something to make them feel uncomfortable, so she can be happy herself.

It never occurred to him that Yao Shi, who always stayed at home and didn't like to move, went out early in the morning and brought Luo Baining with him, Luo Tian was secretly amazed.Although there are still people in Yao's natal family, most of them are just juniors. Even during the Chinese New Year, the juniors from there will come to visit Yao's family.

Old man Luo came out of the house with his clothes on, carrying a dung bucket, and seeing Luo Tiandu in the yard, he called out, "My dear grandson, where are your parents?"

"In the house." Luo Tiandu still likes old man Luo very much, even though old man Luo's presence at home is a bit thin.

Luo Baisu and Fang Shi heard the voices in the yard, came out and said, "Father, what's the matter?"

"I took a look at your field in the past two days. The cloud sedge you planted has yellow leaves. It's time to fertilize it?"

"That's right, grandpa, my parents are worrying about this matter." Luo Tian thought to himself, they were worrying, if the family manure was moved, the Yao family might have another trouble.

Old man Luo coughed, and said uncomfortably: "I had a dream last night, and I dreamed that Bai Qiu was a little bit bad. Early this morning, your mother went to Qingquan Township. Anyway, I'm fine now. Follow me You go to pour fertilizer together, the more people there are, the faster the work."

Luo Tiandu really opened his eyes this time.Why dreaming about Luo Baiqiu is not good, this is definitely an excuse!I'm afraid that old man Luo saw that the cloud sprouts in the field were going to be fertilized, and he was afraid that Yao's family would make trouble, so he deliberately dismissed Yao's family like this.It's really hard for an honest and silent person like old man Luo to have lied once for them.

Fang was also taken aback for a moment, as if she hadn't expected this to happen.

"Father, mother is not here, let's do this..." Luo Baisu asked softly, what he wanted to say was that if Yao shi came back and found out that they had moved the family while she was away, he would be even more angry.

As if he didn't hear it, old man Luo looked up at the sky, and said to himself: "Oh, the crops wait for no one."

Luo Tian realized it.Old man Luo understood that no matter what, Yao would always make trouble, so he might as well finish what he was supposed to do while she was away, and make as much noise as she likes later, so as not to delay the crops in the field.

Ginger is still old and spicy!Look, old man Luo even picked out the dung bucket.

Luo Baisu and Fang stopped talking, picked a bucket to scoop up fertilizer, and then pulled it into the field with a cart.

Because I only focused on opening the land first, the road has not been completed yet, and the carts cannot pass, so Luo Baisu had to park the car at the nearest roadside, and Mrs. Fang picked the dung buckets into the field. Old man Luo and Luo Ming both Then take the dung ladle and water the seedlings one by one.

(End of this chapter)