Chapter 83 82 Buy bears, buy pigs, melons and sugar cane

There was lightning and thunder outside the window, and the wind and rain were blowing.

Wang Yuan and Wang Hu stayed overnight at the village chief Shen's house in Erdiyingzi Village, planning to leave tomorrow when it stops raining.

When it was almost dawn, Wang Yuan vaguely heard a cat meowing, and the quilt on his body became heavier. He touched the cat on the quilt without opening his eyes.

Soon my hands felt soft.

"Is it my big white cat? No, I'm not sleeping at home." Wang Yuan quickly opened his eyes and found that it was Uncle Shen's big tabby cat.

"Hurr, huh, huh, huh~"

The tabby cat purred and looked at Wang Yuan. He was stunned for a moment, then opened his mouth and was about to bite his hand.

Brush~ Fortunately, he pulled his hand back quickly, otherwise it would have been bitten by the sharp cat teeth.

"Hey you stupid cat, forget it, you are someone else's cat and I won't beat you, otherwise I will just punch you twice."

The tabby cat cursed and jumped off the kang and ran away. She seemed very angry at being touched several times by strangers.

Cousin Wang Hu slept like a dead pig, but Wang Yuan lost his sleep, so he put on his clothes and folded the quilt and got off the kang. When he arrived at the main room, he saw Uncle Shen sitting at the door with his clothes on, smoking.

"Xiaoyuan, are you awake?"

"Well, I had a good sleep this time. When will the rain stop?"

"It's been a while. Don't worry, Xiaoyuan. I've fed you all the chickens in the basket."

At this time, Aunt Shen went into the house carrying firewood to cook. Two pieces of firewood hit the door frame and fell to the ground with a clatter.

Uncle Shen glared, picked up two pieces of firewood and threw them next to the stove: "You are so busy, holding a piece of firewood and hitting the door frame, this one jingles~"

Not to be outdone, Aunt Shen choked and said, "If you don't want to be lively, why don't you come and cook? You just sit there waiting to eat and you don't like this or that."

She seemed a little embarrassed, and smiled and said to Wang Yuan: "We have such a damn old man. He feels uncomfortable if he doesn't get angry several times a day. Whatever you want to eat, Xiaoyuan, my aunt will cook it for you."

Wang Yuan smiled and said that whatever she cooks is delicious, which instantly made Aunt Shen laugh.

At this time, Uncle Shen spoke. He said: "Xiaoyuan, I've been thinking about it all night. The price you paid for the black blind man and wild boar is too high. My family can't take advantage of you. You can pay whatever price the supply and marketing cooperative gives you."

Whatever the price is..."

He is really a simple person, and he even pushed out the money he received. Wang Yuan shook his head and said:

"Uncle Shen, don't change the price you agreed upon. Don't worry, the price I gave is the result of careful consideration, and I won't lose money."

After some persuasion from Wang Yuan, Uncle Shen finally gave up the price reduction. He was very happy - after mentioning it again, Wang Yuan still volunteered to pay that price, so he would not have to worry about taking the money.

Since it's not raining outside.

Wang Yuan suggested transporting the black blind man and the wild boar back to his hometown first, and letting Wang Hu sleep first without waking him up. Uncle Shen agreed, and soon he set off with the ox cart and Wang Yuan on his bicycle.

The air was cold and the ground was wet and muddy. Wang Yuan almost fell to the ground along the way.

After arriving in the countryside, he put the black blind man, the wild boar, and the chickens that had been brought back into the thatched shed. He asked Uncle Shen to wait outside the door for a while with the bullock cart. Then he went into the thatched shed to feed the chickens, and then went directly to the shed.

Collected the black blind man and the wild boar into the space.

Gala~

After locking the dilapidated courtyard gate, Wang Yuan rode his bicycle and rushed to Erdiyingzi Village with Uncle Shen. Uncle Shen said:

"Xiaoyuan, the black blind man and the wild boar can't be saved. They need to be transported away quickly. Once the sun comes out, the temperature will be too high and they will break."

The temperature was really low after the rain, and Uncle Shen couldn't help but tighten his collar.

"Okay, okay, I know, there will be an oxcart to transport them away later." Naturally, Wang Yuan would not tell Uncle Shen that the black blind man and the wild boar had been taken into the space by him.

The reason why he was in such a hurry to transport Heixiazi and the wild boar back was to avoid his cousin Wang Hu.

The two beasts cost Wang Yuan a total of 815 yuan, which was a lot of money, but Wang Yuan believed that he would not lose money. After all, the four bear paws and bear skin were worth a lot of money.

Uncle Shen drove the ox cart and quickly returned to Erdi Yingzi on his bicycle. By this time, Wang Hu had already gotten up.

After breakfast, the weather cleared up completely, and the two of them continued buying chickens, transporting chickens, etc.

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A total of several hundred chickens were collected in Baiwu Township, and they felt that the number was almost there. Wang Yuan, Wang Hu, and Liu Weiguo, who drove an ox cart to transport the chickens, rushed home.

"I'm finally home! A golden nest or a silver nest is not as good as my own doghouse, haha~" Wang Hu rode a big iron donkey to the right of the bullock cart, his face full of joy.

"Let's have a nice drink when we get home, and Uncle Wei Guo will come with us."

"Okay, I'll definitely go there then."

After entering the village and arriving at the door of my house, I felt very at ease listening to the crowing of cocks and the barking of dogs in the village.

My wife Li Yan was taking her sister-in-law and little girl to plant cucumbers in the vegetable patch. The little girl hurriedly ran over on her short legs and opened her hands to hug:

"Second brother, second brother, you are back!"

"Well, I'm back."

Wang Yuan picked up the little girl. She really weighed a lot.

Li Yan flipped her hair beside her ear and came over with a happy face. Her emotions were reserved and not good at expressing, so she only said one sentence:

"Xiaoyuan, have you eaten? I'm going to cook for you."

It was already past 1 p.m., and knowing that Wang Yuan and others had not eaten yet, she quickly put on her apron and went to cook.

Wang Yuan left Wang Hu to eat with Uncle Wei Guo, just some meat dishes, some wine, and some rice. Then he lay on the kang and slept for a while. When he woke up, it was already past 4 p.m.

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"Huh~ I still slept soundly at home."

Wang Yuan was lying on the kang and found that he was covered with a military green coat. The big white cat was lying on top of the coat, purring.

The sun shines on his cheeks through the window, everything is so comfortable and beautiful, so comfortable that he doesn't even want to think about it.

I could faintly hear the voices of my mother and Li Yan talking in the yard, as well as the sounds of Coyotito and the little girl playing and running. Everything was so harmonious.

After thinking about it, he took the big white cat lying on his chest aside, stroked her a few times, then turned over and got off the kang, opened the door and came outside.

To the west of the yard is a vegetable patch. The small ground is neatly divided into several small vegetable patches, and cucumbers, beans, tomatoes, eggplants, carrots, loofah, coriander, leeks, fennel, etc. are planted one after another.

At Wang Yuan's request, Li Yan also planted melons and sugar cane. Now she and her mother are squatting on the right side of the melon and vegetable patch, pulling weeds.

"Second brother, you're awake." The little girl was playing with three little country dogs. When she saw Wang Yuan, she immediately rushed over and threw herself into his arms.

"Okay, stop teasing the dog. Your skirt is covered with dirt from the dog's paws."

Wang Yuan dusted her off, then pinched her little face and put her on his shoulders. The little girl was so beautiful.

Stepping on the ridges and walking into the vegetable patch, I saw that the sugarcane patch already had about 8 centimeters of seedlings. Some were tall and some were short. The seedlings planted with seeds had uneven emergence.

It looks a bit like sorghum seedlings.

And the melon seedlings have already grown small melons. Each small melon is as big as a peanut, with a layer of fine hair on the surface, which makes it look tender.

"This little melon is growing well. I'll have some melons to eat in a while."

"It's really good." My mother smiled and said, "It was flooded by rain some time ago. I thought that not many trees would survive, but I didn't expect that all of them survived."

Li Yan squatted on the ridge of the field and picked up a few "resurrected" grasshoppers.

"I pulled out these grasses a few days ago and left them on the ground to dry in the sun for two or three days. Unexpectedly, they came back to life when it rained."

My mother smiled and said: "Grasshoppers are particularly difficult to eat. You can dry them in the sun and save them for steaming steamed buns later. Steamed buns with grasshoppers are delicious."

Wang Yuan bent down and grabbed a piece of grasshopper, broke it into pieces and made it into a necklace. He hung the earrings made from the grasshopper on the little girl's ears. The little girl had a pretty smile on her face.

"Mom, Mom, do I look good?"

"You're so beautiful, you little girl." My mother couldn't laugh or cry.

Grasshopper is purslane, also called longevity vegetable, purslane, melon seed vegetable, hemp rope vegetable, etc. It has very tenacious vitality.

"Woof woof~"

Three little country dogs wanted to get close to Wang Yuan, but they accidentally ran into the vegetable patch and trampled several sugar cane seedlings. Wang Yuan quickly took them out.

"By the way, Mom, let's eat together in this courtyard tonight. Call my dad, my uncle, and my grandpa to come over and have fun together. Also call me Uncle Wei Guo."

"Okay, then I'll go ask someone to cook now."

Mom knows that in recent days, Wang Yuan has been hiring Liu Weiguo to help transport chickens. After the work is done, he usually has a table full of good wine and food to treat people to a meal.

Liu Weiguo also had a meal at Wang Yuan's house at noon, but Wang Yuan felt that it was not rich enough and was just a response.
Chapter completed!