Little People Rise

Chapter 407 Accidental Discovery
In the early morning of the next day, after Li Xiaoning made arrangements for the winery, he took his cousin Hu Erniu to Zengjia Village.

In the afternoon, we arrived at Zengjia Village.

Hu Erniu's house is the same as most of the houses in the village. It is an unpainted one-story gray brick and gray tile house. A stove house is lined with bedrooms, followed by a main room. It is the kind of variegated soil that is stepped on tightly, and there are some rotten green tiles that have been replaced by some houses on the soil.

There is an old jujube tree on the left side of the flat field, and an old cow is tied to the jujube tree.

Li Xiaoning was enthusiastically led to the main room by Hu Erniu, set up a stool, then took out a pack of crumpled filter-tip cigarettes from the clothes cabinet at home, and insisted on stuffing it to Li Xiaoning: "Xiaoning, this is the cigarette that my cousin helped the village a few years ago. When the supply and marketing cooperative was plowing the fields, he gave it to me and said it was good cigarettes, but you see that there is nothing good to entertain at my cousin’s house, so you take this pack of cigarettes.”

After Hu Erniu finished speaking, he stuffed the cigarette into Li Xiaoning's hand, and then sat on the threshold, took out a pack of shredded tobacco in a white plastic bag, took out a piece of rolling paper, rolled up the horn, and smoked : "Xiao Ning, after driving for several hours, the roads are full of twists and turns. Take a rest first, and my cousin will take you to the fields."

"Cousin, I don't smoke, my cousin does."

When Li Xiaoning looked at the cigarette stuffed by Hu Erniu in his hand and Hu Erniu's callused hand holding the self-rolling horn to smoke, a warm current flowed into his heart, reminding Li Xiaoning of his father, My father used to help get filter cigarettes outside, but he was reluctant to smoke them. He kept them for the family and visitors, and smoked the trumpet by himself.

"Xiao Ning, don't you think my uncle's cigarettes are bad, please accept them, otherwise my uncle will be angry."

Just as Li Xiaoning and Hu Erniu were pushing the cigarettes back and forth, a fat woman came in front of them.

The fat woman is Hu Erniu's daughter-in-law Wang Lan.

As soon as Wang Lan entered the room, she raised her mouth and said to Hu Erniu: "Erniu, let me tell you something. Zeng Liang came home last night and gave us two choices. First, return the cucumber field to him. Second, take our family's farm cattle, and I promised him to take the cattle to the land."

"What? You want to give our Niu Dadi to Zeng Liang, no, absolutely not." Hu Erniu became anxious when he heard about Niu Dadi.

"Will it work? That cow is old. That piece of land can be planted this year and next year."

"If I say no, I won't do it." Before Wang Lan could finish speaking, Hu Erniu let out a rage, stood up and walked out.

"Hu Erniu, listen to my mother, if you can't do it, you have to do it, otherwise my mother will never end with you."

Li Xiaoning tried to persuade him, but it was of no avail, so he followed Hu Erniu to the courtyard.

The place where Hu Erniu hurriedly ran from the house was the plain where the cattle were tied under the jujube tree.

I only saw Hu Erniu, stroking the buffalo with a sad face: "Old brother, you have worked hard for my family for ten years, and you will accompany me through the wind and rain. Don't worry, I will accompany you no matter what. Finish your last journey."

Li Xiaoning on the side was deeply moved by Hu Erniu's self-talk to Niu, but to Wang Lan who was chasing him out of the house at this time, it became a crazy talk.

"Hu Erniu, why are you crazy, and you are still with an old cow and brother? I think you are crazy."

Then Wang Lan left angrily.

Hu Erniu didn't chase or argue, even if others thought what he said to Niu was crazy, he was willing to do this kind of crazy, just like a hard-working old cow, he had no regrets.

Seeing the quarrel between Hu Erniu and Wang Lan, Li Xiaoning walked up to Hu Erniu and said, "Cousin, how about I borrow it for you."

Before Li Xiaoning finished speaking, Hu Erniu shook his head again and again: "Xiao Ning has grown up, my cousin knows your heart, I'd better take you to see the cucumber field first!"

Hu Erniu is the head of the family and Li Xiaoning's elder, so how could he easily borrow money from Li Xiaoning? If it was a loan, he would have opened his mouth at Li Xiaoning's house yesterday.

At this time, Hu Erniu took Li Xiaoning to the sick cucumber field with moist eyes.

"Xiao Ning, do you think my cousin is crazy?"

On the way to the cucumber field, Hu Erniu asked.

"Cousin, you are not, and I agree with what my cousin said."

Li Xiaoning replied without hesitation, this was from his heart.

Hu Erniu nodded repeatedly, without saying anything, and led Li Xiaoning to the cucumber field at the entrance of the village.

When Li Xiaoning and Hu Erniu came, there were many villagers outside the cucumber field, pointing at the cucumber field.

"Hu Erniu is also an old farmer, how did he grow cucumbers like this?"

"Yes! I don't know how he planted it. You can see that the cucumber leaves are all scorched."

After everyone saw Hu Erniu coming, they changed from unscrupulous discussions to whispers.

"Xiao Ning, help your cousin to find out what's wrong with Cucumber."

Li Xiaoning nodded slightly, entered the cucumber field, and began to look for the reason why the cucumber leaves were browned.

Just when Li Xiaoning entered the cucumber field, Zeng Liang also came.

"Hu Erniu, now, you have to give me an explanation, do you want the land or the cattle?" After Zeng Liang came, he saw Li Xiaoning in the field, thinking of being taught a lesson at Li Xiaoning's house yesterday, he didn't fight anywhere Come on, be tough.

"Mr. Zeng, please allow a few more days. When I sell the cucumbers, I will definitely give you the land money."

For Hu Erniu, either of the two options mentioned by Zeng Liang is a difficult problem. He is reluctant to part with the cattle in his family. He has devoted his heart and soul to the cucumbers in this field, from sowing, weeding and fertilizing. He is also reluctant to bloom and bear cucumbers.

"Grace for a few days, even if I give you another year, it will be useless. You are deaf. Didn't you hear what everyone said? You can't even grow cucumbers. What else do you plant? Listen, today It's the deadline, there is no reason." Zeng Liang was aggressive.

At this time, Wang Lan came, and nodded secretly to Zeng Liangliang in front of Zeng Liang, and said, "Mr. Zeng, calm down, go to the house first, and discuss anything."

"Sister-in-law still knows how to be a human being." After finishing speaking, Zeng Liang followed Wang Lan to the house.

Hu Erniu saw that Wang Lan and Zeng Liang had good things to say, so he didn't suspect anything. After all, Hu Erniu had always had the final say on family affairs, so he continued to watch Li Xiaoning check the cause of the cucumber disease in the field.

"Ginseng!" Li Xiaoning, who was using Shennong X-ray to examine the cause of the cucumber, exclaimed inwardly when he saw a ginseng in the field.

At this time, he walked up to Hu Erniu and said softly, "Cousin, I have found the cause of the cucumber disease. Let's go back first. There are many people here. I have one more thing to tell my cousin."

After hearing Li Xiaoning finished speaking, Hu Erniu nodded again and again, and led Li Xiaoning towards the house.

(End of this chapter)