After eating, Chu Yue and Lu Xinghe went to the fields.
After the two brothers Lu Xingping and Lu Xingan washed the dishes, they carried baskets around the outside of the forest to look for wild vegetables and herbs.
Yun Cuihe was cutting cloth and making clothes at home and wanted to get out Chu Yue's two sets of clothes as soon as possible.
When Chu Yue and Lu Xinghe arrived at their fields, they found that Lu Dagui was filling the gap in the lower fields, which was a rare act of diligence.
Seeing this, Chu Yue whispered into Lu Xinghe's ear and asked, "Ms. sir, how did you deal with him this morning?"
"Lu Dagui is afraid of his uncle. Before I went home yesterday, I went to see Li Zheng for this purpose." Lu Xinghe replied.
Li Zheng got his wild boar meat before and was soft-mouthed, and it was Lu Dagui's fault. Of course, he had no reason not to side with Lu Xinghe.
Lu Dagui saw the two of them from a distance. He was scolded by Uncle Li Zheng in the morning and was still angry.
"Lu Xinghe, you are really smart! You dug up my paddy field like this and didn't forget to complain first. People like you are really insidious."
Lu Xinghe smiled nonchalantly, not wanting to meet him at all.
But Chu Yue didn't want Lu Xinghe to be bullied by him.
"It's a shame that you have the nerve to say this. If you hadn't dug up my paddy field first to steal water, who would have gone to dig up the ridge of your field? Let me tell you, you should do it!"
Lu Dagui threw away the hoe in his hand angrily: "Who are you? Why do you get involved in my affairs? Is what your father does glorious?"
Lu Xinghe frowned in displeasure and pulled Chu Yue behind him.
"If you're not convinced, feel free to come at me. What's the point of yelling at a woman?"
Chu Yue knew that the people in Banpo Village would look down on her because of her father's pig theft. However, in the past two days, she was first scolded by Granny Li, and now she was scolded by Lu Dagui, which really made her feel a little aggrieved.
She wasn't the one who stole the pig, so why would someone have to talk about it again?
What makes her even more angry is that it is a fact that her father stole the pig, and she has no way to defend herself.
Looking at the tall figure in front of her, Chu Yue suddenly felt that she was not so angry anymore, and she pulled Lu Xinghe's sleeve.
"Ms. sir, let's not waste time with people like this. You go fetch water and water the fields. I'll go pull weeds in the fields."
The family does not have much farmland. The two-acre and three-quarter farmland next to it was bought by Yun Cuihe with the pocket money she earned in her daily life before Lu Xinghe’s father disappeared. She had saved it for six or seven years. I just bought so much land.
Fortunately, we have these two acres of farmland, which has brought some income to the family over the years.
"Be careful and call me if you need anything. The pond is not far over there."
Lu Xinghe gave Chu Yue instructions, then picked up the bucket and walked along the field towards the pond.
Chu Yue took off her shoes on the ridge of the field, then stepped on the mud in the paddy field and walked towards the middle. Lu Xinghe spent this time walking around at home and in the field every day, but there was no grass around.
Walking towards the middle, she could occasionally see a few water bamboo leaves, which she didn't expect.
Water bamboo leaves are tenacious and grow extremely fast. If they are not removed in time, they will seriously affect the growth of rice. However, it also has a function, that is, it can be eaten as a wild vegetable. It has extremely high nutritional value and has certain therapeutic effects.
If she hadn't studied Chinese medicine concurrently when she was studying medicine and knew a few medicinal materials, she wouldn't have known this in detail.
Chu Yue also didn't expect that she could gain something by following Lu Xinghe to the fields. She was so excited that she became more and more immersed in looking for water and bamboo leaves. She didn't notice that Lu Dagui left her only one before leaving. A pair of shoes stepped into the mud.
When Lu Xinghe carried water to the other side of the paddy field, he saw that Chu Yue had gotten into the middle of the paddy field.
He frowned slightly: "Yueyue, you don't have to look so carefully. Be careful that there are snakes in the field."
Chu Yue waved her hand towards Lu Xinghe, but her eyes were still searching the fields: "It's okay, the snakes in the fields are generally not very venomous, I will be careful."
The snakes in the fields are usually water snakes. These snakes are either slightly toxic or non-venomous. After being bitten, you only need to squeeze out the blood and keep the wound dry to avoid infection. It will not be a serious problem.
Although she was a little scared of creatures like snakes, it was more important to go back to find more wild vegetables now.
Lu Xinghe shook his head helplessly, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, how brave this girl was. He poured the water in the bucket into the field, and then continued to carry water.
Chu Yue searched the field for a quarter of an hour and had already found half of the paddy field. However, the large bundle of water bamboo leaves and water plants in her arms could no longer be held.
She walked in the direction where she took off her shoes, but after walking less than ten steps, she realized that she had stepped on a hard object.
She froze because of the sudden appearance of something hard.
Then he looked down with a worried face...
It was actually a turtle.
Still a pretty big turtle.
As if it knew that it was being stepped on, the turtle stretched out its head to bite Chu Yue. Chu Yue screamed in shock and quickly took out the waterweed in her hand and stuffed it into the turtle's mouth.
Suddenly being stuffed with a handful of grass, the turtle's movements paused for a moment.
Seeing this, Chu Yue quickly raised her head to look for Lu Xinghe. Lu Xinghe was walking from the pond this way. When he heard Chu Yue's scream, he quickened his pace.
"Ms. sir, come here quickly, I stepped on a turtle."
Lu Xinghe was worried that the turtle would bite someone, so he quickly put down the bucket, took off his shoes and ran in the direction of Chu Yue.
"Stay away from that thing, don't get bitten by it."
Because she was afraid that the turtle would run away, Chu Yue did not leave. When Lu Xinghe rushed to her side in three or five steps, she saw that the turtle under her feet was still biting a lot of grass in its mouth, and it was still turning its head just now. I want to bite someone...
He breathed a sigh of relief, bent down to pick up the turtle, and weighed it in his hands. It weighed roughly three kilograms.
Then, he looked Chu Yue up and down.
"Are you OK?"
Chu Yue looked at the turtle in Lu Xinghe's hand, with a hint of excitement on her face.
"I'm fine."
Afraid that the turtle would run away, Lu Xinghe poured out the water in the buckets, leaving only one bucket with a bottom of water left. Then he put the turtle in and went to the fields to pull weeds with Chu Yue.
As for the water bamboo leaves, Lu Xinghe put them into another bucket.
Because of Lu Xinghe’s participation, it didn’t take long for the remaining half of the field to be weeded out.
But when Chu Yue finished pulling the grass and walked up the field ridge with one foot deep and one shallow, the similar touch on the soles of her feet made her excited again.
In order to prevent the turtle from biting her, she stepped on the turtle into the mud, then raised her head and shouted: "Mr., come quickly, there is another turtle here!"
