Maybe it's because I've been staying at home all winter, and it's rare to see an outsider.
Now when the old man started talking, he obviously couldn't hold it back.
No matter how many young people around him rolled their eyes and became impatient, he still pulled Xiao Han and talked about the changes around him with great interest. Even though he had said these words countless times, no one in the village wanted to listen to his nagging. .
"So that the guests can know, those higher lands over there! They are all first-class fertile fields. Unfortunately, there is a lack of water on them, and we can't let people carry buckets of water up there. Those lands can only be planted. Order some rapeseed and plant some radishes.
But later, the keel waterwheel came over, and people only had to stand on it and step on it, and the water below would flow up! By the way, have you ever seen water flowing upward? "
"I've seen it, I've seen it..." Xiaodong and A looked at each other with strange expressions on their faces.
Keel waterwheel? Have they met before? This thing was assembled piece by piece in front of their eyes! In terms of familiarity, apart from the craftsmen who made it, they are probably the only ones who are familiar with it.
"Oh? You're knowledgeable!"
The old man didn't notice the weirdness of the two of them, he laughed and gave a thumbs up, and continued: "And the Hou Ye rice is really amazing! It grows quickly and has big ears! It also has many grains. If you plant it well, Yes, one crop is enough to equal the previous two!
Not to mention, it can harvest one more crop a year. After all, growing food for one year now is better than three or four years ago. Even after paying the tax, there is almost no room for the remaining food! "
The old man was beaming as he spoke there, but his grandson couldn't bear it anymore and hummed in a low voice: "Humph, so what if there's a lot of food? It's not valuable!"
"boom!"
There was another blast, and the pockmarked young man immediately squatted on the ground with his head in his hands, his teeth bared, tears welling up in his eyes, and he almost cried.
Next to him, the old man glared at him with a dark face and panting: "I'll let you do it again! There's so much food that I can't eat it. Is this a great merit that I haven't had in many years?! Your grandfather, don't talk about food when I was young!" , you can’t even eat enough wild vegetables! Now you have a plain meal, and you have something wrong with it?!”
"I didn't..." The young man covered his head and continued to argue unwillingly, but the old man shouted angrily and suppressed his words.
"Nothing? You don't even have hair on your mouth, so you dare to talk nonsense? What a little brat!"
As soon as the old man said these words, the whole place fell silent!
Including Xiao Han, everyone in Ziyi subconsciously touched their chins! Then the people without beards looked like they were constipated, while the people with beards breathed a sigh of relief...
"Oh~ I didn't mean you..." After noticing Xiao Han and the others' actions, the old man instantly knew what he had done and knocked down a boatload of people, and hurriedly explained.
But it was okay if he didn't explain. Once he explained, he seemed to be even more embarrassed. Xiao Han moved the corners of his mouth a few times, and finally spread his hands helplessly: "I know, I know."
"That's good."
The old man nodded with relief, coughed slightly, and wanted to continue talking, but found that he had forgotten where he had just said. He frowned and thought hard, but couldn't remember. Finally, he had to ask Xiao Han: "By the way, I just said Where are you?"
"Speaking of food..." Xiao Han wanted to remind him truthfully, but when he saw the pockmarked young man with a depressed face, his mind turned and the words on his lips instantly became: "Ahem, I just mentioned that there is no food. valuable."
"Oh, that's right! Food is not valuable..." The old man got the hint and politely handed over to Xiao Han, but then he found that he was even more confused.
"Hey? What do I want to say?"
Because he was led into a dead end by Xiao Han, the old man racked his brains and couldn't figure out what he wanted to say.
On the contrary, the aggrieved young man on the ground suddenly made a sound with joy. When his grandfather glared at him, he quickly stopped his smile, lowered his head and muttered something unknown.
"If there is too much food, it will naturally become less valuable..."
After glaring at his grandson, the old man simply gave up and started a new conversation: "However, although the food is not valuable, at least you don't have to worry about going hungry! Also, let's quietly tell the guests a secret, you saw the paddy field. No? It’s the piece with fish in it!”
Xiao Han looked in the direction the old man pointed. When he saw that he was talking about the paddy field where he was going to fish, his heart beat faster! He thought to himself: It’s a good thing that I didn’t go fishing just now. Otherwise, my family would have stolen it and captured it at this time.
"Look, I saw it!"
"Haha, our guests have never seen fish farming like this before, right? I'm not afraid to tell you that the fish raised in the paddy fields are very valuable! Just talking about these fish of the old man, they have already been booked by restaurants in the city. How many fish can be raised? No matter how much they charge, the price is much more expensive than the wild fish in the rivers!"
"Oh? The old man's method of raising fish in the field, didn't he also learn from "that one"?" Xiaodong glanced at Xiao Han narrowly and asked after the old man.
"yes!"
The old man slapped his thigh fiercely and laughed!
"Why don't you talk about other people's gods! When I heard about this method at first, people in the village didn't believe it! But I thought, old man, how could such a person who is like a god and have such a precious instrument and seeds out, how could he lie to people about it!
So if they don’t raise it, the old man will raise it himself! As a result, no one expected that the fish raised in this way would be really fat and big, and it didn’t taste earthy. Restaurants in the city were rushing to get it, and we ourselves couldn’t bear to eat it! Now, people in the village are preparing to follow the example of the old man in raising fish in the fields after spring..."
Perhaps now that he had reached the point of success, the old man was completely unable to stop the car!
This fish farm alone is enough to hold a stick of incense. Fortunately, the sun is shining brightly today and there is no wind. Otherwise, these people around would be frozen.
"Hey! So, this Mr. Xiao is really a good man! A man of God! Others hide their good things and don't dare to take them out like family heirlooms! But they give them all to the common people! And not only Ask for anything in return.
For people like this, my guest, you say, we must not remember their good deeds for the rest of their lives? So you have also seen that in this neighborhood alone, the villagers have spontaneously built seven or eight temples to worship others. Not counting this, I heard that there are several shrines in the city! The incense is so prosperous! "
Having said this, the old man changed his joy and solemnly saluted the small temple behind Xiao Han and the others.
The grandson next to me didn't react and was still standing there, picking his nose. As a result, he got another blow on the head...
"You are a fine man, but your work skills are as good as yours! When people do these big things, I heard that they are as old as you! Look at them, and then look at you!"
The pockmarked young man was completely speechless. He rubbed his head after being hit three times and said angrily, "You know how to scold me! When you were my age, you did so many great things! But how much older are you than me? Why? Even if I don’t see you, you will do the same thing!”
Thinking of this, he raised his head again and glanced at Xiao Han, who was looking pensive, and still said disdainfully in his heart: "And you! Judging from your age, you are about the same age as her, right? Why is she so famous all over the world, and you...hey?"
