Seeing that she was actually carrying a small backpack, Xiang Jin asked, "Why are you carrying it?"
The little girl said, "If I come across taro seeds and other medicinal materials, I can still dig them up."
Xiang Jin took a look into her backpack and saw a small Miaozi knife placed at the bottom of the basket.
"You've simply fallen into the eyes of money."
The little girl just laughed, and Xiang Jin didn't bother to talk to her anymore. The two sisters just walked quietly.
The two Xiang Jin sisters drove their cattle past Grandma Mo's house. Han Che, who was looking at the flowers and plants raised by Grandpa Zeng at the end of the courtyard, saw it. His eyes immediately lit up and he came to the edge of the courtyard to fight with Xiang Jin.
He said hello, "Xiang Jin, is this your sister?"
Xiang Jin nodded, "Yes, my sister, Xiang Nan."
Xiang Nan is also a little girl who doesn't recognize life. When she saw Han Che, she sweetly shouted "Hello, big brother!"
"Oh, okay, okay, okay," Han Che acted as the big brother to a country girl, and he immediately laughed so hard that he couldn't even see his eyes.
Xiang Jin thought to himself: Are you so happy to be called brother?
Han Che didn't know what Xiang Jin was thinking. When he saw the old scalper she was holding behind her, he still asked them with enthusiasm, "Are you going to herd cows?"
Xiang Jin nodded, Xiang Nan shook his head, "No, let's go deliver the cow."
"Make a cow?" Han Che looked puzzled, expressing his confusion.
Xiang Jin explained to him seriously, "That's right, we raised this cow together with our family, but the days when it was our family's turn to raise the cow were over, and now it's the other family's turn to raise it, so we have to
Drive the cattle to other homes and let others raise them."
"Oh, I understand, your family and others are raising this cow?" Han Che nodded suddenly.
Xiang Jin nodded, "Well, that's it."
Then Han Che said excitedly, "Is that far?"
Xiang Jin thought to himself: Does this guy want to follow them to deliver cattle?
Is it so strange?
Why does she feel that this guy is like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden? When she goes to the countryside, everything she sees is strange.
Why doesn't she think there's anything special about this rural area?
Or is it that the brain circuits of urban people at this time are different from those of rural people, and they are adjusted?
The same goes for Yan Chen, who still wants to study here!
I don’t understand, I don’t understand what these young men in the city are thinking!
So she said, "It shouldn't be too far."
Xiang Nan immediately added, "Well, it's not far, just climb over two beams and you'll be there."
Two Liangzi? So far away? Xiang Jin looked at Xiang Nan. She thought it was just one Liangzi, over Aijiawan, but she didn't expect it was Fanjiawan, past Aijiawan.
Then they heard Han Che say to them, "Then I'll go with you?"
Xiang Jin tilted his head and looked at him carefully, "You want to go? Are you sure? It will take a long time for us to come back. We have to put the cattle over there slowly and then come back."
Besides, you won’t accompany Yan Chen anymore?”
Han Che said, "No, I don't need to accompany him, he is reading, and he doesn't like anyone to disturb him when he is reading and studying.
I don't like reading, so I don't have anything to do at home, so I'll go out for a walk with you.
This is my first time coming to the countryside, so I want to know more about it."
Xiang Jin nodded, "Okay, then you can come with us!"
Han Che immediately became happy, "Then please wait for me. I'll go say hello to my grandparents."
Xiang Jin nodded, and Han Che turned around and entered the room. Xiang Nan asked in confusion, "Sister, aren't those the grandparents of brother Yan Chen? Why is he also called grandpa and grandma?"
Xiang Jin explained to her, "He is Yan Chen's good friend, and he followed your brother Yan Chen's call."
"Oh, is that so?"
"Um!"
Han Che came back quickly and followed everyone towards Fanjiawan.
An hour later, Xiang Jin and the others arrived at the family that picked up the cattle, but that family was not at home. After asking their neighbors, they said they had gone to work in the fields.
Ask them where they work. If it's nearby, they can take the cow there and give it to them.
But the other party said they didn't know, so Xiang Jin and the others waited there for a while, about ten minutes, before an old woman in her sixties or seventies came back from the other party's house carrying a basket of pigweed.
Seeing Xiang Jin and the two sisters, the old woman said, "I guess it's time for you to come too."
Xiang Jin walked over to help her father carry the basket and then said, "We didn't disturb you from your farm work, did we?"
The old lady said grandly, "No, I thought you were going to drive the cows here yesterday afternoon, and that's why you didn't come."
Xiang Jin said, "The day was only full yesterday."
The old lady nodded, "Your mother is a real person. The family that used to keep cattle with us had to rush to the next family without even a night's delay when the time came. That one was the one who calculated well!"
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Xiang Jin smiled, and the old lady saw Han Che standing aside and asked, "Who is this kid? Is he a relative of yours?"
Xiang Jin shook his head and said, "The guests from our next door neighbor, Grandpa Zeng, will come out with us if they have nothing to do."
The old lady nodded and then praised, "This young man is so good-looking and energetic!"
Xiang Jin looked at Han Che, who had a smile on his face and hurried forward to greet the old lady warmly, "Hello, old lady!"
"Oh, good, good, good, this kid is so polite!" The old lady praised Han Che again.
Han Che smiled and narrowed his eyes.
The old lady looked at the old scalper in Xiang Nan's hand and said, "Oh, you guys let it come all the way. Look at it. It's so full of food. Your aunt even went to the field to cut corn poles. She said
Carry it back and feed it to the cow?"
Xiang Jin said, "It's okay. It will be the same if I give it to the cow at noon or afternoon."
The old lady nodded, and then asked Xiang Jin how the construction of their house was now?
Xiang Jin told her, and then the old woman asked some other questions, and Xiang Jin answered them patiently one by one. Then they handed over the cow, and then Xiang Jin and the others said goodbye to the old woman.
While walking on the road, Han Che asked Xiang Jin, "Do you country people usually chat like this?"
Xiang Jin nodded, "Yes, as a country person, we usually deal with people in the fields, so naturally we only talk about these daily and short-term topics.
You city dwellers are engaged in mental work, so the topics of conversation are naturally related to work and study. The topics of conversation will naturally be different in different environments."
Han Che thought for a moment and nodded, "Yes, you are right."
The group of people continued to walk forward. Xiang Nan's eyes were always staring at the grass on both sides of the road, searching for a medicinal herb she liked, and then ran over to dig it up.
Several people walked to a curved slope, and suddenly a pheasant flew out from a clump of weeds with a "pop" sound, which shocked several people.
Then Xiang Nan pointed to a place not far away and exclaimed, "Sister, sister, look, there is a nest of little pheasants there."
Xiang Jin and Han Che looked in the direction of her finger, and they saw seven or eight or eighty or ninety little pheasants "escape" in a grass nest over there.
The feathers of those pheasant chicks have all grown up and are as big as an adult's fist. They can run, but they can't fly yet.
Perhaps it was because the pheasant nest was built in a relatively deep bush of weeds, and the surrounding weeds were intertwined and messy. The pheasant cubs had a hard time crawling and stumbling around, and they did not survive for a long time.
Turn to a smoother place.
Looking at them, Xiang Jin had a thought and suddenly said to Xiang Nan, "Let's catch them back!"
Ha, this has to be said to be an unexpected gain!
"Ah? Catch it back? It's so small and can't be eaten. What's the point of catching it?" Xiang Nan tilted his head and looked at her with a puzzled expression.
Xiang Jin said, "Stupid, if you can't eat it now, why can't you eat it when you grow up?"
Han Che was surprised and said, "You want to raise pheasants?"
Xiang Jin nodded seriously, "Yeah, our family doesn't have chickens now anyway. We raise domestic chickens and pheasants. These are ready-made seedlings. You don't have to spend money to buy them in the market. What a bargain!"
Let me tell you, the eggs laid by these pheasants are more nutritious than those laid by domestic chickens, and the pheasant meat is also delicious. Now farmers in some places specialize in raising pheasants to generate income."
As she said that, she walked directly towards the nest of little pheasants.
Xiang Nan also thought, yes, they are all chickens, and they don’t have to spend any money. They thought it was a good deal, and they happily carried the basket on their backs.
Xiang Jin picked up the little pheasants one by one into a basket and carried them on Xiang Nan's back. Then he returned to the roadside and tied their legs with weeds to prevent them from planning to escape later.
"One, two, three...sister, there are twelve in total," Xiang Nan looked at the pile of pheasant chicks with their feet bound, and carefully put them into the basket again while counting them.
, suddenly shouted with excitement and joy.
Xiang Jin nodded, "Go back and ask grandma to make a bamboo basket for us. Then we will put these pheasants in it and raise them. Once they are raised, you can pick at least seven or eight eggs a day."
The little girl nodded vigorously, "Well, I will definitely take good care of you!"