A butterfly with golden and black wings stopped on the door frame, flapping its wings slightly.

There is a kind of elegant beauty that comes to your face.

Ji Yuanhai carried the cloth bag containing the cicada monkey and sat next to Lu Heling on the threshold, looking at the big butterfly.

Lu Heling came back to her senses and smiled, feeling a little reassured.

"came back."

"Well, I'm back."

The two looked at the butterfly and said nothing for a while.

"It's so beautiful...why doesn't it fly away?" Lu Heling asked.

Ji Yuanhai shook his head and said that he didn't know either.

"When I went out, I saw one with a similar appearance..."

"It should be the same one, right? It's quite rare for such a big butterfly to have such wings." Lu Heling said.

"Really... If it's the same butterfly, this butterfly and I are quite destined."

Ji Yuanhai said, looking at the big butterfly still staying above the door frame, feeling quite relaxed and happy.

"go home?"

"Um."

One person spoke and the other answered, got up and walked towards home.

"Yuan Hai, what are you carrying in your hand?" Lu Heling then noticed what Ji Yuan Hai was carrying.

Ji Yuanhai opened the bag and showed it to her.

Seeing a group of ferocious shelled cicada monkeys inside the bag, Lu Heling was also surprised: "These are... cicada larvae? Why did you catch so many?"

She wasn't so fussed that cicada monkeys couldn't eat it; they had been in the countryside for a few years, and the educated youth had eaten most of the rural food, which meant that she had never heard of the elm bark grinding noodles mentioned by Ji Yuanhai.

I just didn’t expect that Era Sea would catch so many cicada monkeys.

Ji Yuanhai didn't hide it from her, and told her that he and Liu Xianglan's daughter Wang Xiaohong had captured the monkey.

Lu Heling nodded and said, "You like children very much?"

"It's not that... I saw this child was bored, so I took her to play." Ji Yuanhai explained, "A few educated youths at the team headquarters looked down on Liu Xianglan and her daughter and thought they were noisy, so they said they had to study for exams and needed to Quiet."

"Wang Xiaohong didn't dare to run around and play, so she just sat there and watched her mother wash clothes."

Lu Heling was surprised: "What did Cao Jianhong and the others do?"

Ji Yuanhai nodded.

"Registration for the college entrance examination has already passed. What do they study and test?" Lu Heling was dissatisfied, "How can you lie to others? Orphans and widowed mothers are already pitiful enough!"

"I never saw it before that Cao Jianhong and the others would do such a thing."

"This is really a bit..."

"Okay, there's no point in thinking about them..." Ji Yuanhai didn't let Lu Heling continue, "It's the college entrance examination. Do you want to take it next year?"

Lu Heling looked at Ji Yuanhai in surprise: "Are you willing to let me take the test?"

"I'm married to you now. If I take the college entrance examination again, will you feel that... I am living an uneasy life?"

"Besides, my grandparents, parents, and others, they definitely don't want to see me not participating in labor, but studying with books in hand."

Ji Yuanhai smiled when he heard this: "You also think too much."

"Do you think I can't tolerate a female college student as my wife?"

Lu Heling looked at his innocent smile and was moved for a moment.

How could there be such a considerate, supportive and understanding man in such a remote mountain village? The vision and mind he possesses are not something you would find in a place like the production team.

Fortunately, this man is already his lover.

"Yuan Hai, I..."

Before Lu Heling finished speaking, grandma walked out of the kitchen: "Yuan Hai, Heling, are you back?"

"Well, grandma, I'm back." Ji Yuanhai promised, "Grandma, I caught some cicada monkeys, you can see when you can eat them."

Grandma took the bag and immediately became happy when she saw such a bunch of cicada monkeys.

"Caught so many? That's good!"

"I'm going to wash it, put some in the vegetables today, pickle some with salt, and keep it for eating..."

Ji Yuan Haixin said that it actually tastes better if fried.

Unfortunately, conditions are limited now. When cooking, only a few drops of oil is used, or even none at all. Oil is used specifically to fry the cicadas, which probably makes grandma feel bad about using too much oil.

After handing the cicada monkey to grandma, Ji Yuanhai and Lu Heling returned to the west room.

At dinner, the cicada monkey was cooked with the fried beans.

When Ji Yuanshan saw the cicada monkey, he immediately cheered: "Is there still meat to eat today? Who caught the cicada monkey?"

"Yuan Hai and He Ling caught it." Grandma said with a smile, "It must be more than two bowls. I also salted some of it, so we can keep it for our family to eat later."

"That's great!" Ji Yuanshan smiled at Ji Yuanhai, which meant that he did a good job.

In recent days, there have been fish, meat, and cicada monkeys. The food has improved visibly to the naked eye.

My father and mother were also surprised. My father said, "That's a lot of people."

Grandpa chewed a cicada and said with a smile: "Yuan Hai is capable, no wonder he started a family earlier."

"I'll catch a lot of fish, and I'll catch a lot of monkeys. From now on, I think my life won't be too bad. If others are hungry, he won't be hungry."

When he said this, grandma also echoed, "I think this is also the case", and the whole family laughed.

After dinner, Ji Yuanhai said: "A pretty big butterfly stopped in front of our house. Did you see it? Did it fly away?"

As soon as she finished speaking, grandma stood up with a serious face: "What did you say?"

"How big a butterfly?"

Ji Yuanhai was surprised, but still said: "It's as big as a palm..."

"I have to take a look."

Grandma stood on tiptoe, took the metal flashlight from home, and hurried to the door of the courtyard.

After coming back, I couldn't hide my joy and whispered to my grandfather.

"I think it's Grandma Wheat King!"

Grandpa also looked serious and nodded, but said or did nothing.

Ji Yuanhai, Lu Heling, and Jiyuan Mountain are all a little confused.

Including the Era Sea, this has never happened in my memory. How come this big butterfly has a "Grandma Wheat King" popping up?

"What is Grandma Maiwang?" Ji Yuanshan couldn't help but ask.

Grandma made a serious face: "Don't ask too much! Don't say too much! No one in the production team will say a word!"

"Don't hit Grandma Maiwang!"

Ji Yuanshan immediately shrank his head and said no more.

Ji Yuanhai and Lu Heling were so mysterious when they saw their grandparents. Their parents didn't say anything, so it was hard to ask any more questions.

After dinner, they each rested for the night without talking.

Early the next morning, grandma quietly came to the door and took a look, feeling very happy.

"Not leaving yet!"

Ji Yuanhai couldn't help but ask: "Grandma, are you talking about that butterfly?"

Grandma corrected him seriously: "That's Grandma Maiwang!"

Ji Yuanhai asked again, but grandma said nothing.

The production team's work whistle blew, and every household began to go to work.

The male laborers were led by the secretary and captain to remove all the soil and stones from the original ditch. With the drainage yesterday, the water in the ditch had dropped a lot, and there was no danger in doing these jobs.

The women arranged to go to the fields to help seedlings, and they tried their best to help the fallen corn seedlings, bean seedlings, and cotton in the fields washed by heavy rains.

The day's work begins again.

This chapter is about some simple folk worship in some places in the north.

Grandma Wheat King, Lord Insect and so on... pray for a good harvest, safety, and no pests.

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