A leisurely life with Lingquan

Chapter 38 Harvest
The next day, after Li Xi had fed her and Zhao Mu's bellies, he took people to the mountains behind in the light of daylight. After this night, there must have been a good harvest in the trap.

The situation was as expected. When we arrived at the first trap, we heard some movement when we were still some distance away. We walked in and took a look inside. Good guy, there were three pheasants inside, all of them were fat and very happy. Li Xi stood on it and couldn't stop rubbing his hands, so it seems that today is the rhythm of a bumper harvest.

Commanded Zhao Mu to catch all the prey in the trap one by one. The three pheasants jumped in and were injured by the sharp wooden stakes inside, but they were not fatal. It was not difficult to bring them back alive and persist until they were sold.

After Zhao Mu caught the three prey inside, Li Xi restored the trap to its original state and sprinkled bait inside. This time, she made the bait more elaborately and soaked it in the Lingquan water overnight. , the aura above is extraordinarily rich, and it is believed that it will be more attractive to these small animals in the mountains to send them to the door one by one.

Afterwards, they rushed to several other traps. Not surprisingly, the equipment was very fruitful. Zhao Mu watched happily as he lifted them up and tied them up one by one, while she fixed all the traps again. Seeing these dozen or so prey, she was so beautiful. I believe her wallet will be a little bigger when she goes to town again.

I worked together with Zhao Mu to bring all the prey home, and put them together with the last few. They were not fed food, but they were fed with spiritual spring water, to see if they recovered after drinking the water. Shao Cai was relieved, but then frowned at the remaining pheasant in his hand.

This is the only unlucky pheasant that died in his trap. Its throat was directly pierced by a sharp stake in the trap. You can't keep a dead chicken for too long, so you have to eat it.

Speaking of which, she hasn't opened meat since she came here. Every day is porridge, steamed buns and so on. Without hesitation, he took the chicken and went to the kitchen. By the way, he asked Zhao Mu to boil hot water, and he was going to cook it at noon today.

With the deepening of life, the lack of daily necessities in this old house is gradually revealed. There is only one pot for the stove, and the same pot for cooking and cooking is obviously not enough. The only consolation is that in the kitchen Li Xi found a lot of empty jars in the firewood room next door, and there were moldy and rotten pickles in them. They must have been pickled vegetables before, but now they can't be eaten, so they are all dumped. After washing, the waste can be used.

A shaved chicken doesn't look too big. Li Xi looked left and right, and after digging open the chicken, nothing was lost. After cleaning it, he used some salt, marinated it, and put it away. I won't eat it today. She I'm going to stew this chicken, well, put half of it, and put the other half away, and I can have a braised chicken next meal or something.

After finishing all this, she looked up at the sky and it was getting late. She still remembered that the village chief said yesterday that she would go to her house to talk about the three acres of land. If the one who took advantage would make trouble, Zhao Mu, who was picking up firewood outside the house, called to go together after washing his hands.

Uncle Zhao Neng and Lu Dazui had been waiting early when they arrived at the village head's house. Li Xi took Zhao Mu to greet him. It's true that I don't feel very comfortable about going back to her family's few acres of land.

"I said Xi'er, look at your thin and small appearance, you can't lift your hands and resist, do you know how to farm?" Lu Dazui swept Li Xi up and down with a look of disgust. Eye path.

"No." Li Xi said frankly, smiling: "But you can learn it. Farmers just want to eat in the fields. Since they want to live without farming, how can they do it?"

"Why can't it work?" Lu Dazui smiled and glanced at her man, but Zhao Neng has always been the background board, and she didn't say anything, which made her very annoyed. In the end, she opened her mouth: "Originally, my family is a rented species. Your family’s three acres of land, if you want to plant it now, you will naturally have to return it, but it’s not that your aunt said, look at you, you can’t plant it yourself, you can count on Zhao Mu’s failure in your family, why not continue to give it to your aunt Planting, don’t worry too much, it’s not good for my aunt to give you some rations every year.”

Li Xi was a little impatient. This Lu Dazui spoke nicely, but no one knew who. She really believed what she said, and then she went crazy again. She glanced at the village chief and saw that he squinted his eyes slightly and didn't speak, probably waiting for her He came to speak and didn't care, but the expression on his face was light: "Auntie, I want to rent the land back to you, but I'm also afraid that I will starve to death."

Lu stared: "What are you talking about, I..."

Directly interrupting Mrs. Lu's continued bluffing, Li Xi glanced at her lightly. Mrs. Lu herself didn't know why she felt guilty under that glance, and closed her mouth involuntarily.

"In the past, I rented out the fields for you to plant, and gave some rations to Zhao Mu every year. This is Zhao Mu alone. When I went there, there was only half a bag of brown rice left at home. Now if I add me, if it is true If you only rely on your family's small rations, you will starve to death."

Mrs. Lu and Zhao Neng looked at each other, they really couldn't answer at this moment. Is it the rhythm of forcing people to die if they have no food and still don't return the fields?But when you think about the three mu of land, even though it is not a fertile land, the yield is pretty good. It is always better than wasteland. I have planted it for two years. I thought Zhao Mu was stupid and took care of the land, so he planned to rent it for a long time. The meaning of planting is that it is cheap now that it is better.

"Since you have to come back to this field, that's fine. But at the beginning of the new year, I asked my family to spread manure on the field for planting this year. Now it's a waste of effort." Seeing that things didn't turn around To spare, the Lu family did not fool around with Li Xi any longer, and if his complexion changed, he would turn into a different face.

This means that she fertilized all the fields, should you give some compensation?

Secretly rolling her eyes, this Lu family is not only a big mouth, she is probably stingy, and loves to take advantage of a lot, but she doesn't want to be fooled for nothing.

"Auntie, we agreed at the beginning that the leased land is signed once a year. After the end of last year, you didn't ask your second uncle to renew the lease. Instead, you fertilized the land first. If you don't know, you might think You... are so generous." After the last sentence, Li Xi's half-smile look made Lu's face flush a little, what do these words mean? Could it be that she meant to hit her fields, but still that is.

(End of this chapter)