There is heavy dew in the morning, so it is actually not suitable for mowing cow grass.
If we had left it alone and fed the cattle separately, who would dare and who would be willing to mow back the dew-laden cattle grass?
Now everyone else does that, but Luo Xuan doesn't want to do such a thing.
This is not some kind of Holy Mother. You still have to have the most basic principles of being a human being.
Carrying a basket on his back, Luo Xuan got into the irrigation canal and started rummaging through the gravel again.
It's a pity that jade is not as common as pebbles by the river.
Luo Xuan knew that this was something that could only happen by chance, so he rummaged in the ditch for a while and then gave up on this act of trying to get lucky.
A pea cake as big as a child's hand is really not enough to consume like this.
Now I still have 30.9 cents in my pocket, which makes me a rich man in the middle class of the entire production team. Even if I am in the Quan Zhengxing Brigade and hang out among the children, I am afraid I can be considered a rich man.
Now that Luo Xuan has found a way to make money, he feels more at ease and his mood becomes lighter.
"Duo duo..."
The weeds beside the ditch are very lush, and the grass peeks out from the grass. "Duo Duo, you don't need to mow the grass. I already cut a lot of cow grass for you yesterday afternoon!"
Luo Xuan stood up and smiled at Xiaocao, "You are so young, how can you go out to cut the grass? What should you do if you hurt your hand?"
"Hehe, I am not strong enough to hold the sickle, so I hold the iron handle in front of the sickle and cut slowly."
Xiaocao tilted his head and smiled, "Duoduo, let's go and get cow grass from the bamboo forest."
She has thin arms and legs, so she needs to cut enough grass for a basketful of cow grass. You can imagine how long it will take her...
Luo Xuan touched Xiaocao's head lovingly, "Aren't you afraid that the grass you cut yesterday is not wilting anymore?"
"Don't be afraid!"
Xiaocao smiled and said, "I even brought a can of water to pour on it, so it won't wilt."
There are many large and small bamboo forests in the production team, clusters here and there.
If Xiaocao hadn't led the way, Luo Xuan wouldn't have been able to tell which bamboo forest she had hidden the cow grass in.
Following Xiaocao, the brother and sister got into the bamboo forest of Fengba one after another.
This place has always been a cemetery, and few people come around.
Xiaocao walked among the gaps in the bamboo forest, pointed to a bamboo forest with her little finger and said: "Duoduo, look, I'm hiding in that cluster of bamboo forest."
When Luo Xuan and Xiao Cao rushed to the bamboo forest and took a look, they saw only the roots of the bamboos with some green grass scattered sparsely.
Is there any trace of excess cow grass?
"Wow--"
Xiaocao is small after all. When encountering the slightest thing, he panics and can only cry, "Duoduo, I, my cow grass has been stolen... Wuwuwu!"
"Xiaocao, be good, Xiaocao, don't cry."
Luo Xuan knelt down and gently held Xiaocao in his arms.
He reached into his pocket and took out a candy and handed it to Xiaocao, "I was going to give it to you at night. That way, you won't be afraid of being seen when you eat the candy.
Here, I’ll give it to you now, and I’ll give you another one in the evening. Be good, Xiaocao, ah... don’t cry.”
Xiaocao took the candy, put it under her nose greedily and smelled it.
On the thin cheeks that were originally dripping with runny nose and tears, there was now an extra layer of saliva.
"Duoduo, wuwuwu, I still feel uncomfortable."
Xiaocao wiped away her tears and cried with sobs: "I wanted to help Duoduo, but... there was a big bad guy who stole the grass I cut... Wuwuwu!"
Luo Xuan used his tattered cuffs to help Xiaocao wipe away his tears and nose.
Then he took the candy, peeled off the candy wrapper, and put the yellow corn candy into Xiaocao's mouth.
Xiaocao was reluctant to throw away the candy wrapper, it was a good thing for children to show off!
at the same time.
Candy wrappers can also be used as a bet in a game similar to "Cigarette Box Fan".
But Luo Xuan kneaded the candy wrapper and threw it away so as not to cause trouble to himself.
"Little fool! If you don't cry, don't cry. Isn't it just a basket of cow grass? My brother will cut it later."
Luo Xuan comforted Xiaocao softly, "Have you forgotten? Dad told us that we farmers can't use up our strength. After a sleep, our strength will come back. It's no big deal. Let's go cut the cow grass together, okay?"
?”
Xiaocao looked at her cheeks and nodded, "Yeah! I want to cut more cow grass for Duoduo!"
Two Duoduo in a row, Duoduo, made Luo Xuan laugh, "Sister Xiaocao, is the corn candy sweet?"
“Very sweet!”
Xiaocao crisply replied: "Candy corn is so delicious!"
After all, it is the nature of a child. Just a moment ago, Xiaocao's face was covered with heavy rain, but now the clouds have cleared and the sun is shining, and she is beaming with joy.
Wait until Xiaocao's mood is calmed down.
Luo Xuan asked her softly again: "When you came to graze the cows yesterday, did anyone see you?"
"have."
Xiaocao nodded firmly, "Xiaocao is weak. I divided the basket of cow grass into several pieces and moved them little by little to the bamboo forest.
I saw the big rabbit and the little rabbit playing in the orange grove."
The orange trees have just finished blooming, so there are no oranges to steal.
When children go in to play, they mostly catch "thousand-legged bugs" inside.
This hard-shelled insect, like the "bamboo shell insect" inside bamboo shoots, is a toy for children in rural areas.
——When you get tired of playing with it, just leave it with its head in a different place.
The ‘Big Rabbit’ and ‘Little Rabbit’ in Xiaocao’s mouth are two brothers, one is 12 years old and the other is 10 years old.
Children in rural areas usually have an unpleasant nickname when they were young, such as yellow dog, crow, beak, chicken touching eyes, beak, and rake.
(Rake also refers to the kind of children who are deficient in calcium and nutrients, resulting in delayed development and weak body.)
Also, those whose surname is Zhang are called Zhang Marrow, and those whose surname is Li are called Li Marrow.
It's really hard to hear.
Compared with those nicknames such as Stone, Pillar, and Steel, this is a very elegant nickname... quite high-end.
"Okay, brother knows."
Luo Xuan took Xiaocao's hand and said, "Let's go, let's mow the grass first, and then go home to cook."
In the past few days, the production team organized women to rub jute. Wang's hands hurt from doing so, and she couldn't think of cooking for the family.
So lunch was Luo Xuan, a joint venture with the three brothers Luo Xiaoxin and Luo Xiaozhong.
There is nothing technical about cooking.
Anyway, just put a little bit of rice in the pot, then boil the water, grab a few handfuls of cornmeal, and sprinkle the cornmeal in while stirring constantly to make a pot of polenta paste.
As for the vegetables, they are nothing more than boiled cowhide or boiled tender tips of sweet potato vines.
After the vegetables were cooked, she had to wait for Mrs. Wang to come back, open the wooden cabinet in her bedroom, and take out an ancestral lard jar from inside.
Then Wang would carefully use a chopstick to pour a few drops of lard into the dishes.
When she was in a good mood, Wang would occasionally pick up a few pieces of lard residue of unknown age from the bottom of a clay pot and put them into the dishes.
This can be regarded as a family "eating oil and meat".
It's just that this kind of thing is very rare. Anyway, in the memory of the original owner of Luo Xuan, he has never eaten oil residue a few times.
Pulling up the grass, Luo Xuan took her to cut the cow grass.
We have to seize the time to cut the cattle grass, it is best to dry it early and send it to the breeding room for weighing.
Luo Xuan has something else to do in the afternoon.
