Chapter 336 336 The Beauty of Childhood
The rice in Dafeng Village is also ripe. The villagers stood under the layers of terraces, looking at the layers of golden rice fields on the mountains, and their eyes filled with excitement. Uncle Gu shouted to everyone: "Folks, we have food to eat."
Everyone laughed, "Haha! We also have food to eat."
"Oh! There is white rice to eat!" The children also jumped up happily.
Father Gu wiped away his tears when he saw the children jumping happily, smiled and patted Uncle Gu, waved his hands and shouted to the villagers: "Everyone, hurry up! Take the rice home to dry it while the weather is fine. Hurry up and pay back the rice you owe Guyu’s boss."
"Okay! Let's harvest the rice!" Everyone climbed up the terraces and got busy.
After all the rice was collected into the warehouse, Li Yu asked Zhou Jia to send part of the rice to the cellar of the government office for storage. He also collected part of the rice into the space for emergency use, and the rest was stored in Zhuangzi's cellar and warehouse.
After leaving the rice seeds for next year, Li Yu asked Ruyi to start registering farmers in several nearby villages and prepare to sell the remaining rice seeds to those families.
Li Yu walked around the space and saw the storage information displayed on it. There were more than two thousand kilograms of rice, eight or nine thousand kilograms of millet saved, a hanging pot, some seasoning salt, cooking oil, and medicinal materials. After several additions to the arrows, there are now five to six hundred, ten crossbows, four bows, more than two hundred feathered arrows, machetes inherited from the Li family, and several thin-edged daggers with sleeve arrows.
The meat and pasta have been consumed long ago, and the game has long since disappeared because he has not gone to the mountains to hunt in the past few years. Li Yu plans to take advantage of the plump wild animals in the autumn to go up to the mountains to hunt some meat and store it.
Zhou Jia returned to Zhuangzi in the evening. Li Yu looked at him and said with a smile, "Why are you back so early today?"
Zhou Jia stepped forward and hugged Li Yu, looking at her with reluctance, "Yu'er, I have to go out early tomorrow morning to check. The tax collection situation in some places will not be announced until the second or third day of September. When I come back, I would like to see you sir, but I don’t know where he and the Taoist priest went to travel?"
Li Yu originally wanted to tell him about going hunting in the mountains, but when he heard that he was going out, he didn't plan to tell him to save him from worrying.
Li Yu turned to look at Zhou Jia with some reluctance, and said softly: "Fortunately, Ji Xiang is back. I feel more at ease with him following you."
Hearing Li Yu talk about Jixiang, Zhou Jia thought about Jixiang's marriage, "What's going on between him and that Guyu? Do you want us to make the decision?"
"Jixiang has been gone for two months, and he is busy with things on the construction site when he comes back. I don't know how they are doing. You can ask later." Li Yu laughed when he talked about Jixiang and Guyu. Both of them are slow people who are confused about their feelings.
Zhou Jia stood up and said, "Okay, where has Yang'er gone? I haven't seen him since I came back."
"He!" Li Yu said with a smile when talking about his lively son, "I went to the pond with Shuisheng and the others to see the lotus flowers. A group of children said they were going to see if there were any lotus flowers in bud. Tomorrow morning Go pick two and come back and put them in a bottle for me."
Zhou Jia laughed, "Has the lotus root Ruyi planted bloomed?"
"I heard that a few flowers bloomed here and there before, but yesterday they bloomed more. Would you like to take a look?"
"Okay." Zhou Jia took Li Yu's hand and nodded with a smile, and the couple walked out of the yard to the pond hand in hand.
When the two of them walked halfway, they saw a group of children holding a long bamboo pole with a bamboo ring made of bamboo strips tied to it. The bamboo ring was covered with spider webs. They were chasing dragonflies with the bamboo pole and playing with them. Li Yu I laughed when I saw it, remembering that I had played this when I was a child in my previous life. When my grandma saw it, she told us that the dragonfly was raised by Thunder God. He put it in the mortal world to help mortals eat mosquitoes and prevent everyone from sticking to it. After playing with Thunder God, he would beat people. . Later, more and more pesticides were used, and there were fewer and fewer dragonflies. Unexpectedly, children from thousands of years ago also played this game.
Zhou Jia looked at the children running wildly in front of him and couldn't help laughing when he recalled his childhood memories, "Yu'er, look at what they were playing. I also played when I was a kid. At that time, Jixiang was short and couldn't outrun us every time. He panicked. In a panic, I often tripped and fell to the ground and cried."
When he was young, he thought about growing up every day. When he grew up, he often recalled the beauty of his childhood. Li Yu pointed at the two people standing by the stream in front of him and laughed softly: "Xiao Xi, look, those standing in front of you are not Ji Xiang and Guyu." ?"
Zhou Jia smiled and nodded, "Yes! It seems that good things are close for the two of them!"
Yangyang saw his parents holding the bamboo pole, stuffed the bamboo pole into the little loach's hands, and ran over, "Dad, are you back? Mom, are you out too?"
Li Yu saw that he was sweating profusely from running, and his little jacket was soaked with sweat. He took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat on his face, "Look, you are sweating profusely. Are you tired?"
Zhou Jia also smiled and asked, "Didn't you go look at the flowers? Why are you catching dragonflies here again?"
Yangyang took Zhou Jia's hand, "Dad, we have seen it. There are several flowers that will bloom tomorrow morning. Brother Qijin and I have agreed to pick them tomorrow morning. The bamboo poles are ready."
Zhou Jia knelt down and looked at him, and said softly: "Okay, do you want to play with your friends for a while or go shopping with your father and mother?"
Yangyang hesitated for a moment, looked at his friends playing nearby and then at his parents, and said, "Let's go shopping with our parents."
A family of three walked hand in hand across the ridge of the corn field, listening to the rustling of corn leaves in the wind. Yangyang looked at Li Yu's belly, compared it, and asked strangely: "Mom, seven pounds Brother said that Aunt Yu has a little sister hidden in her belly, why don’t you hide one?”
After hearing this, Zhou Jia smiled and asked, "Does Yang'er want a little sister?"
Yangyang glanced at Li Yu, "I have a seven-pound brother, and I also want a sister and a brother." Yangyang looked at Li Yu with some worry, "Mom, can you fit the two I want in your belly? ?”
Li Yu looked at his son with a worried look on his face, dumbfounded.
"Ha...ha...," Zhou Jia laughed loudly and picked up Yangyang, "Oh! My silly son!"
Yangyang looked at Zhou Jia and retorted seriously, "Dad, I'm not stupid. Mr. Lu and Mr. Liu both praised me for being smart, and my master also praised me for being smart and having a good memory."
Zhou Jia bumped into Li Yu deliberately and said, "Daughter-in-law, look at our son being very smart! He knows that he needs a sister and a brother."
Li Yu glanced at the smiling father and son, turned his head and rolled his eyes.
Ji Xiang and Guyu heard Zhou Jia's happy laughter, and reached out to secretly hold Guyu's hand, "Gu Yu, when the master comes back, I will go find the master's wife and ask them to preside over the wedding for us."
Ji Xiang looked at Gu Yu anxiously, only to see Gu Yu smile shyly and nod, "Yeah!"
Ji Xiang looked at Gu Yu with joy, grabbed Gu Yu's hand and kissed it, his small eyes turned into slits with a smile, "Gu Yu, you are so kind."
When I was a child, I liked to chase dragonflies. I would often take advantage of it to stop and walk over quietly to try to catch it, but I never succeeded. In the cat’s hometown, dragonflies are called Tintin cats. I wonder what the hometowns of book friends are called?