I am Fugui

Chapter 239 The Season of Harvest

autumn.

Today's weather is pretty good, the sun is shining brightly, and in the blue sky, several huge white clouds are floating in the sky, making people wonder if there are people living in the white clouds.

In the vast paddy fields, pieces of golden rice waves sway with the wind, exuding a burst of rice fragrance.

In the paddy fields, dark-skinned peasants wore straw hats and pulled up their trouser legs, and cut off the ripe rice one by one with a sickle in their hands.

Despite the hot weather, the joy of harvest overwhelmed the exhaustion of the body.

The rain this year is quite good. In addition, the grain is grown for myself. The people in the village are very motivated, and the rice is growing very well.

Laishun is also one of them. Although he is now a branch secretary, his family's land is reluctant to go to waste, so he gritted his teeth and planted rice.

He was wearing a yellowed undershirt, a straw hat on his head, a cigarette dangling from his mouth, and his hands moved very quickly.

"Damn, I wouldn't have planted so much food if I knew it." Laishun stood up, hammered his waist, and couldn't help muttering.

He is the only labor force in the family, and he is not only busy with the work of party secretary, but also deals with the land in his free time, which is really exhausting physically and mentally.

Anyway, the family is not short of food now, so let's just lend the land to other families.

The village party secretary who came to Shun for a year more or less had his own ideas, and made up his mind to make himself more relaxed.

"Laishun, come eat some watermelon and have a rest." On the ridge not far away, Hu Xingwang shouted.

Laishun put the sickle on the rice pile and walked over it step by step, the paddy field became more filthy.

When he was about to go to the field ridge, he saw a thumb-sized hole on the side of the field ridge, and he was spitting bubbles out.

His eyes lit up, his index finger and middle finger were bent, and with a skillful buckle, a medium eel was caught.

Hu Xingwang said: "Laishun, you don't feel too hot, what are you doing with a rice field eel, it's not tasty."

Laishun proudly said: "That's because you didn't do anything. My brother and I used to like to catch rice field eels and crabs. It's delicious, but unfortunately I don't know how to do it."

Hu Xingwang rolled his eyes, "Nonsense, you used to use good lard to fry, can it be delicious? By the way, when will Brother Fugui come back?"

"It's been more than half a year, why is there no news?"

Laishun put the rice field eel in a bucket, first washed his hands casually, then picked up the watermelon and took a bite, splashing the juice.

"Well, do you still have watermelon seeds in your family? In the village, your watermelon is the sweetest. I will use your watermelon seeds next year."

After finishing speaking, he wiped the juice on his chin and raised his head proudly, "You don't know, my brother has gone to the capital."

"What?"

Hu Xingwang's eyes widened in shock, and he didn't even notice the watermelon slipping from his mouth. "Going to the capital? When did it happen?"

"It's been a while."

"Then why didn't you tell everyone?"

"You didn't even ask. Sister Jiazhen said it's not a big deal, so there's no need to publicize it."

"Is this not a big deal?" Hu Xingwang looked at him speechlessly.

The farthest place they have ever been to in their life is Yunxi County, let alone the capital and provincial capital, they have never even been to Wenchang area.

It doesn't look like Xu Fugui has already gone to the capital.

"What is Brother Fugui doing in the capital?"

"It seems to be going to the capital for a meeting. He left in a hurry and didn't make it clear."

"The capital." Hu Xingwang looked longingly in his eyes, "I don't know if I can go to the capital to see it in my life, even if it is enough."

Laishun sneered and said, "What are you daydreaming about, I don't know a single word, so just stay in Xujia Village."

After finishing speaking, he wanted to get a new piece of watermelon again, but Hu Xingguo stopped his hand, "I don't know a single word, so don't eat my watermelon if you have one, as if you can read."

Laishun pushed his hand away with a smile, and picked up a new piece of watermelon, "Of course I can't read, so I just stay in Xujia Village honestly with you for the rest of my life."

Hu Xingwang laughed loudly, and asked again: "When will Brother Fugui come back? Then we will go to the county to pick him up."

"I don't know, my brother hasn't written a letter for a long time, and I don't know how far the capital is."

Hu Xingwang said with admiration: "Brother Fugui should be the most promising person in our Xujia Village's ancestors. I see who will dare to bully people in our village in the future."

Laishun nodded, "That's the reason. If anyone dares to bully people in our village, he will use my brother's name to see who refuses to accept it."

"By the way, I heard that Cuiping is pregnant again?"

Laishun nodded hehe.

"You boy, it's really good, but I'm not bad. My mother-in-law seems to have come these two days. I plan to find some time to go and see. There are nine out of ten she is pregnant."

"We are responding to the new rabbit's policy and vigorously procreating. The higher-ups have also given the honor of a hero mother. Do you want to fight with your mother-in-law?"

Hu Xingwang's eyes were a little moved, but he still pretended not to care and said: "Let's let nature take its course, there are quite a lot of children in our village."

After chatting and resting for a while, Laishun returned to the field to harvest rice in the scorching sun.

"Second Uncle, Second Uncle, Er Niang asked me to call you home for dinner." A loud voice sounded, and a fat, rosy-faced little doll ran over.

"It's Youqing. Youqing is here. Uncle will give you some watermelon."

"Youqing came over. Uncle caught two eels today and gave them to play."

"Youqing, run slowly, don't fall over."

"Youqing, when will your father come back?"

When the peasants around saw the doll, they shouted cordially, not being so gentle with their own children.

Youqing was very polite and responded to the adults around him one by one.

"Haha, Youqing is really sensible, Jiazhen is worthy of being a teacher, she teaches well."

Youqing found Laishun, and Laishun looked at the bright sun above his head, stopped insisting, came out of the paddy field, and dragged his feet covered in black mud back to the house at the entrance of the village.

"Laishun, I'm sorry for you, the work in the field depends on you." Mother Xu brought him a bowl of herbal tea.

Laishun smiled nonchalantly, "Ma'am, what you said is serious, it's what I should do."

Xu's mother complained: "It's all Fugui's fault. When I go out after the year, I keep telling you that I went to the capital, and I don't care about the land at home. I leave you to work alone."

After finishing speaking, she looked towards the winding path at the entrance of the village, with some sadness in her eyes.

"Ma'am, you must be missing brother, don't worry, brother will be back after Chinese New Year." Laishun comforted.

Xu's mother sighed, "The son who was raised by her own hands can only be seen for a year during the Chinese New Year. I should have known that I should not have let him go to some provincial capital."

"The kindness of a woman, you would rather Fugui be a prodigal at home? If you promise, the ancestors of the Xu family will not agree. When Fugui comes back, you are not allowed to say anything that spoils the scenery." Father Xu said.

"Hmph, you just don't feel sorry for Fugui."

(End of this chapter)