Chapter 1351 [1350] Falling into the water (3000)

The wheat harvest work lasted until around June 8. The end here is that corn has been planted in the wheat field. While the land is moist, the next task is to remove the wheat stubble from the ground. If it is not removed,

, it will be very easy to hurt your feet when you go to work in the fields in the future.

So the next work is to dry the grain fields, corn fields, vegetable fields, and take this opportunity to plant millet, sorghum, buckwheat and other miscellaneous grains on the dry land.

If the weather is good and it rains, the hard-working farmers will be relieved of a lot of physical labor. If the weather is dry and people are too hot, they will have to go to the river to fetch water for the crops.

Fortunately, there are more wild vegetables in this season, which not only satisfies the livestock and poultry at home, but also people have begun to take advantage of this opportunity to stock up on dried wild vegetables.

Of course, most of the dishes in the cafeteria are wild vegetables dug by the children. These wild vegetables are either served cold or steamed in a pot. On the contrary, there are serious vegetables grown in the ground that you rarely have the opportunity to eat. Even if

If you eat it, you will find it has insect holes or the outer leaves have been peeled off.

Because these vegetables are sent to vegetable stations in the city for sale, and if people in the countryside want to eat some vegetables, they can't eat them in large canteens. This is why every household allocates some private land.

If you want to eat, you can eat your own or public food. You can eat whatever you want. You will always be happier than when you were famine. With these conditions now, no one can choose.

In July, the work in the fields is not as intensive as in June, but considering that supplies are more abundant in summer, we still arrange to eat in the cafeteria. (Note: This is a fabricated plot, because, you know, you can just take a look.

That’s it.)

The children are on summer vacation. The most exciting thing is to go out and touch horse cicadas every day. There are many trees in the countryside and there are no chemical fertilizers and pesticides. There are so many such things!

Ding Wei's favorite thing is that after a heavy rain in summer, she will follow her brothers to dig out cicadas on the soil with many trees. There is a method for this, as long as she sees a small black hole in the thin layer of soil.

If there are holes, then eight or nine times out of ten, that's it. On the contrary, if the soil looks thicker or the black holes are smaller, they are usually ant nests.

Even though she was walking unsteadily, her little hand picked it up and boldly put her fingers in without fear of pain. Because her fingers were small, she picked more than her brothers. Take these cicadas home and use them

After soaking in salt water for a while to remove dirt, my mother will put some lard on them and fry them, because they will shed their shells the next day, so they must be eaten at night.

This is a great supplement for bags under the eyes that lack meat. Even though Ding Wei doesn’t like eating this very much, she still eats it greedily with her brothers. The chewy cicada meat has become a must-have almost every day this summer.

Even my parents praised them for the delicious food they could enjoy.

Probably because I have cicadas as a daily snack, this summer has become less difficult.

Before going to bed every day, their mother would smoke mugwort in each room to prevent mosquito bites. Even so, there were still mosquitoes, especially since they also raised chickens and pigs. There were many flies during the day and many mosquitoes at night, but again

The mosquitoes that bothered me gradually fell asleep as I became more sleepy.

Later I learned that every night, my mother would fan her with a cattail leaf fan, and my father would get up and swat mosquitoes in the middle of the night, just to protect her delicate skin from red pimples all over her legs.

Rural children will change into long pants and long shirts in the evening. If they don't change, they will probably be covered in mosquito bites.

Apart from boiling water and making snacks for her, their family rarely cooks at home anymore. The ripe eggplants, cucumbers, pepper beans, etc. in the vegetable field are pickled if they can be pickled, and dried in the sun if they cannot be pickled.

Cook dried vegetables and wait until it gets cold or there are no vegetables left, then take them out to eat.

As Ding Wei, who has struggled all her life in the Northeast, her favorite thing is sun-dried potato chips. If they are stewed with cabbage, tofu and vermicelli, they are delicious.

Of course, as a tractor driver, my father often has to go out on missions. He will pick fresh vegetables early and send them to his two aunts' houses early. In addition to feeding them to the aunts themselves, they will also find ways to help dad change some more practical ones.

items, such as toiletries, matches, salt and other daily necessities.

Not only their family, but also the families of two uncles do this, because peppers, eggplants, and tomatoes are so good at catching food that they can’t finish it. Even if they are exposed to the sun every day, they can’t keep up with the picking speed. So as soon as you decide when to go to the city, prepare it quickly, and

All the freshest vegetables are picked.

Of course, when anyone asked, they would say it was for two aunts and other relatives in the city. No one could say anything about it. Who didn’t have seven aunts and eight aunts? Who didn’t know how to order food from relatives in the country?

Ah, as for what the reward is, that is not something they can inquire about.

There is endless wheat and endless grain drying on the threshing floor. After school, the children will go to the threshing floor to run and play, and climb up to the tall wheat straw stacks to play.

Occasionally, eggs from the village collective's chickens can be found in the wheat straw. Of course, these must be handed over to the public, and no one can take advantage of them.

So even though the children are running around every day, they also do a lot of practical things. Occasionally they go to the river to catch fish, shrimps, crabs, cicadas, look for wild duck eggs in the reed swamps, and look for wild eggs in the woods.

Isn’t this what rural children often do? You adults are busy working in the fields all day long, and you don’t have this time yet!

A little girl who was originally fair and tender, suddenly became tanned like wheat without taking any sun protection measures and running out with her brothers every day.

My mother was a little worried, but my father was very happy: "Why don't you get a tan? You look healthy when you get a tan, but it turns out that you are too white. She is so white that you don't think of a rural girl. Look, this is our daughter, how cute she is!"

My mother always has a look of regret at this time: "I finally gave birth to a girl, but I was led wild by these boys. Look at her, she doesn't look like a baby who is one year old and two three months old. She is so strong and vigorous."

I’m afraid even two-year-old people would believe in my skills.”

Why don't your shoes get wet when you often walk by the river?

Just to grab a wild duck egg, and she discovered it first, but because of her young age and lack of height, she was pushed into the river by a five or six-year-old girl from the same village. The splashing sound caused her brothers to

He paid attention, and when he turned his head and found that she was gone, his heart suddenly rose to his throat, and the little girl who pushed her down was also frightened and kept talking.

"I didn't mean it, I really didn't mean it."

Ding Jianguo stared at the little girl with splitting eyes: "You didn't mean it? Did you push her down?"

"Brother, look, look, isn't that my sister? Oh my god, she's floating away, floating away."

After the second brother realized that something was wrong, he looked into the river and saw his sister's head sticking out of the river. He was so excited that he quickly called his elder brother's name.

Just when the two were about to jump, Ding Jianguo immediately turned around and called his third and fourth brothers.

"Hurry up, you two. Go find the adults. Call anyone you see on the road. You have to be fast!"

After all, Ding Jianguo was the oldest. When his second brother was about to jump down, he stopped him.

"Don't go down there. The water there is deep and the current is fast. Don't worry, I will find a way to fish my sister out. I have better skills than you."

These words are not false. As the first boy in the Ding family, he started playing with Ding Zhenlong in the river when he was two or three years old. Over the years, it was him who fished in the river every time. In comparison,

, the second child's skills were not as good as his, and he didn't dare to let him take risks, so in this case, he plunged in and chased Ding Wei like a fish.

Ding Wei can swim, but she is small and lacks physical strength. And because of her small body, the water flow is fast and she cannot grab anything that she can cling to.

The river is relatively wide, about fifty or sixty meters wide. Fortunately, there are no sand pumps in this era, so the potential dangers in the river are slightly less. She was quite panicked at first, but gradually calmed down. After her body floated

, stretched out his hands and hugged the back of his head, and gradually lay flat on the river with the buoyancy of the water.

This was the best way to preserve her strength, and she also saw her brother jumping down. After feeling safe, she took this opportunity to find a safe place to cling to.

Fortunately, she discovered the reed marsh in the middle of the river. As soon as she recovered her strength, she used her short legs to take advantage of the momentum of the river to safely grasp the roots of the reeds, and then climbed steadily to the reed island.

While I was breathing, I didn't forget to look at the reeds and found that there was a nest of wild duck eggs, one, two, three, four, five, six... twelve, my God, so many wild duck eggs!

Unfortunately, she didn't have space and couldn't pretend to leave, but she saw her brother and noted the location. When no one was here, they would swim over and get it.

Because she was idle, she walked up and down the small land. Even if her arm was scratched by the reed leaves, she didn't care, because she saw the place where the small land connected with the river.

There were actually a circle of big river mussels, one of which was as long as her forearm. There were more than a dozen of them here. If you take them home and stir-fry them, they would taste very good.

This fall into the water seems to be a blessing in disguise so far!

While thinking, her brother's voice came from far away. She pushed aside the reeds and immediately waved to her brother.

"Brother, I'm here, brother, I'm here!"

Ding Jianguo could clearly see his sister, but why couldn't he see her in the blink of an eye?

Just when he couldn't hold back his tears due to sadness and his voice was shaking, his sister's response actually appeared???

He thought he was hallucinating, but then he saw his sister jumping around on the reed-like island. He was so overwhelmed with grief and joy that he burst into tears.

"Stand there and don't move. Did you hear me? Don't move!"

Five minutes later, Ding Jianguo climbed onto the island and hugged the little girl tightly, who was still smiling. I am afraid only those who have experienced it can understand the feeling of surviving a disaster!
Chapter completed!