Wang family small peasant girl

Chapter 66

Under the care of Mrs. Zhou and Zhang Yun in turn, Zhang Xing's chickenpox scabs fell off one by one. After being sick for more than ten days, he finally recovered.

During this period, Chang Man never appeared again, but news of him spread to Zhang Yun's ears more or less. On the night she asked Chang Juan to bring the news, Chang Man did not return all night, and the family only found out the next day. He spent the whole night loosening the soil, weeding, topdressing, and watering the fields, and for two or three days, he buried his head in the fields, working day and night, and his family members were silent. Knowing what kind of madness he had gone into, in the end, Chang Ming, Chang Liang and the others directly dragged him home together, so that he didn't collapse from exhaustion in the field.

Most of these news were read by Chang Juan in her ear, and Zhang Yun didn't feel very good, so he had to ask Chang Juan to persuade her more.

After Changman made such a fuss in the field, he was forced by his parents to stay at home for a few days, and when he went out again, he didn't do any drastic actions again, and returned to the days of working at sunrise and resting at sunset.

When these things reached Zhang Yun's ears, more than half a month had passed, and Zhang Xing's body had fully recovered. Zhang Yun finally breathed a sigh of relief, whether it was Chang Man or Zhang Xing, the matter had passed.

It’s mid-February, and the weather is a little warmer. Recently, the whole village has become extremely busy. Under the call of Li Zheng, a laborer was drawn from each family, and he brought seven or eight buckets, and the buckets were filled with well-mixed lime. water and boiled mugwort leaf water, followed Lizheng to Qingling Mountain, and helped to brush lime water and mugwort leaf water on the trees on the mountain to achieve the purpose of killing insects and moths.

After these tasks are done, it is time to plant new Camellia oleifera trees. Using cuttings, the budding branches cut from the original Camellia oleifera trees are inserted into the nursery that has been cultivated in advance, and the cuttings are ready to grow. After rooting, it can be transplanted into cleared land.

These are matters related to the whole village. Every family actively cooperates, and the Zhang family is no exception. All the work was handed over to Zhang Yun.

Because of this, Zhang Yun became even busier. In addition to Zhang Xing’s illness, in order to take care of him, a lot of work at home has been left behind. This will have to be picked up, especially the pigweed, which was basically cut a few days ago. She had already eaten, and she had to hurry to cut some back, otherwise the pigs at home would have nothing to eat.

Woke up early this morning, finished cooking breakfast, and tidied up the house a bit. Zhang Yun carried the breakfast on his back and sent it to the field, so that when he came back from the field, he could go directly to the Qingling River to hunt pigweed.

After sending breakfast to the field, Zhang Yun stopped by the Yuantang. Although the water hyacinth lotus hadn't moved for such a long time, the chances were very slim, but she was still thinking about it. Anyway, she would stop by the field when she came back, so she planned to see it. one look.

Before arriving at Yuantang, I saw many people by the pond, holding bamboo poles in their hands, salvaging the withered lotus leaves in the pond.

Zhang Yun walked over quickly, leaned forward and asked, "Uncle, what are you going to do?"

"Pick up the withered lotus leaves and prepare to sow new lotus seeds. The root buds have to be planted, and the lotus roots and lotus seeds and water chestnuts will not be harvested until after autumn." The uncle next to him was very kind and talkative. When Zhang Yun asked, he said stand up.

After hearing this, Zhang Yun remembered that Mrs. Zhou mentioned that after each autumn, the village would distribute lotus root, lotus seeds, water chestnut, and water chestnut vegetables to everyone. When she wore it in [-], she had already eaten all of these, so she didn't have much memory, so she didn't think of it until she brought it up.

Generally speaking, every household uses lotus leaves to wrap their food, and if there are many people picking them, nothing will wither. Zhang Yun stood and watched them pick up the residual lotus, but it was only after a while that they picked it up and left.

After a while, Zhang Yun had already swept the pond, but there was still no sign of water hyacinth, so she was going to pick some grass buds from water candles, and went to hunt pigweed.

Zhang Yun squatted by the pond, pushed aside the grass, and saw that the water candles had grown a lot, and had grown denser. It would not be long before the pond would be full.

Zhang Yun was squatting, thinking about what happened just now, thinking that it would be too wasteful to raise lotus roots, lotus seeds, and lotus leaves in the pond. Although some fish fry will be released every year, they are all stocked and no one catches them. Reasonably, when the time comes to catch fish, the natural quantity will not be much. In fact, the village already has the awareness of breeding in ponds, but it is not strong.

If Zhang Yun hadn't thought of raising fish and shrimp in rice fields to achieve a win-win situation for fish, shrimp and rice, she would have considered raising fish and shrimp in ponds, but this would not be the plan, not to mention fish and shrimp and lotus root, If lotus seeds and lotus leaves are raised together, the pond will be very crowded, and the yield will generally not be high.

Zhang Yun lowered his head in thought, moved aside to pick a grass bud, and accidentally bumped into the basket placed by his feet, the basket fell to the ground, overwhelmed a piece of grass, and fell into the pond.

Zhang Yun hurriedly stretched out his hand to fish it out, and the wet back basket was picked up. Fortunately, it didn't float away, but a lot of grass sprouts in the back basket were scattered on the surface of the pond, and the white and tender grass sprouts rippled away with the water flow.

After the back basket was picked up, Zhang Yun hurriedly looked into the basket, and saw that there were very few grass sprouts left in the basket, and most of them were scattered in the pond. , Zhang Yun did not continue to pinch, drained the water in the basket a little, then picked up the basket and prepared to go to Qingling River.

Before leaving, Zhang Yun looked at the rippling grass sprouts on the surface of the pond, thinking that if they scatter, let them scatter, and treat them as sowing sprouts in the pond. After a while, maybe new water candles will be drawn out, and he thought to himself Then he turned and walked away.

After walking a few steps, she stopped suddenly, turned her head to look at the pond, and a thought came to her mind. She remembered that when she was watching news interviews with her father, she once interviewed a large farmer who specially harvested lotus root and Water candles are intercropped together, collecting both water candles and lotus roots. Needless to say, lotus roots have many uses, and cattail grass is supplied to weaving factories to weave a large number of handicrafts and daily necessities, which are sold in big cities. The pollen and female flowers are all used It turns out that the pollen of water candles is a kind of medicine, which is sold to pharmaceutical factories. The female flowers are used to fill pillows and sold. The grass buds and tender stems are supplied to restaurants and used to cook cattail vegetables. They all went to interview.

With this idea in mind, Zhang Yun walked and pondered, thinking that cattail grass can be used to weave shoes, mats, fans, baskets, baskets, and even furniture. She has seen it woven with cattail grass. Furniture is naturally unrealistic, but Fans, mats, baskets, baskets, etc., are used by ordinary people. If they are woven, they can be sold for a few dollars. The pollen should be sold to pharmacies. As for the female flowers, it is estimated that they cannot be sold. If the stems are these, humans and animals can eat them, and the most important thing is that there is no cost to plant water candles. The ready-made seedlings are placed, just dug and planted in the pond. This thing is born naturally and does not need to be cultivated. As long as you add some fertilizer at the right time, you can grow fast and well.

The more Zhang Yun thought about it, the more he felt it was feasible. After cutting the pigweed, he couldn't wait to rush home.When she got home, she didn't expect to directly say that she wanted to plant water candles, but ran to the thatched cottage in the backyard to find the cattail grass piled there.

Zhang Yun picked a lot of water candles back in the past year, and picked some more these days, and she has accumulated a lot of cattail grass at home, which she didn't care about before, so she will have to use it now.

Zhang Yun ran into the thatched hut, saw cattail grass piled in the corner, went to squat down, grabbed a few and took a look, the cattail grass had been piled up for a long time, most of it was dry now, he held it in his hand and pulled it , very tough, hard to break, it is absolutely no problem to weave these cattails.

Looking at the pile of cattail grass, guessing that there should be several things to weave, Zhang Yun couldn't help laughing, stood up and left the thatched hut, continued to busy with other things at home, and waited for the family members to come back.

In the evening, all Zhang's family members who were working in the field came back. Zhang Yun was cooking dinner. Before she could go out to watch, Mrs. Zhou came in.

"Do you want my mother to burn it?" Zhou Shi came in and wanted to take her place. Zhang Yun hurriedly smiled and said: "Mother, I can burn it. In the past, when the family was busy, when you followed me to the field, I would burn it. You You’ve been tired for a day, let’s take a break.” In the past, most of the Zhou family went to the field, and Zhang Yun took care of the house, and since Zhang Yun’s serious illness, Zhou stayed at home more often, just to take care of her. Looking at the body of the girl.

When Mrs. Zhou saw what Zhang Yun said, she didn't say anything else, and turned around to leave the kitchen. Zhang Yun hurriedly called out, "Mother, rest here, I still have something to ask you."

Mrs. Zhou stopped walking as soon as she heard that, and sat down by the stove door with a bench. While helping to light the fire, she asked, "What's the matter?"

"It's like this. When I was tidying up the thatched hut at the back today, I saw the leaves of water candles piled up in the corner. I found that the leaves were so tough that they could be used to weave straw sandals, and maybe we can also weave baskets and baskets." Zhang Yun spoke slowly.

"Our family doesn't lack straw sandals." Mrs. Zhou didn't care, and replied casually.

"Then I want to use it to weave baskets, baskets, etc. Who in our family can afford it?" Zhang Yun thought to himself, he must first find someone who can weave, otherwise no one will weave that with only rushes How come, anyway, she has only seen the finished product, as for weaving, she is completely clueless.

Mrs. Zhou paused her hand, raised her head and said, "How do you weave this? No one has ever weaved it before. Your grandfather and your father are very good at weaving strips and bamboo baskets. I don't know if weaving with straw can afford it." Here, Mrs. Zhou was puzzled and said: "Why do you think of using straw to weave these things? We have always used bamboo strips to weave them. If we don't use them well, we don't even know if the straw weaves are strong or not."

Zhang Yun thought to himself, bamboo weaving is fine, but it is troublesome. Bamboo has to be cut and then split into bamboo. The weaving is heavy and heavy. The weaving of cattail grass is absolutely no problem, and it is also very light, so it should be popular. of.

But this is what she thinks in her heart, and she can't tell Zhou Shi directly, so she just smiled and said: "I want to try it, mother, you say let grandpa or father try to make it up, can it work?"

"You ask me, I don't know. Since you want it, go tell your father and let him try it. It's not a big deal. He will definitely agree to you." Seeing her daughter, Zhou wanted to make something new. It was a trick, and I couldn't help laughing.

Hearing what Mrs. Zhou said, Zhang Yun quickly stir-fried in his hands, and after quickly cooking the food, he brought it to the main room. When he was about to eat, he asked his father.

(End of this chapter)