Although digging lotus roots is very tiring, it is really happy to dig out a piece of lotus root intact.
Xu Ling slowly found a rhythm and speeded up a lot. The children who couldn't go into the river squatted on the bank and screamed enthusiastically.
"Brother Dayuan! There must be lotus roots down there!"
"Brother, dig in quickly, don't let Li Dayuan outsmart you!"
"Daddy!" Daya jumped excitedly and called Xu Ling with her little fists clenched.
Xu Ling looked up at his daughter and younger siblings, and smiled with his white teeth exposed.
Fan Shiqing sat cross-legged next to him, put his hands in his sleeves, and curled his neck to keep warm. Seeing Xu Ling's silly look, he smiled and said, "I have nothing to do, what can I do with this time?"
Xu Ling gave him a look. This old man was really boring. He took out a complete lotus root, washed away most of the mud outside in the water, and sent it to the shore: "What do you know? This is the fun of life!"
Fan Shiqing couldn't taste the taste.
Xu Ping Xu Ping put the lotus root into the basket on his back. The lotus root was too long and couldn't fit in. He asked Xu Ling anxiously: "Brother, do you want to break it?"
"Break it off, we'll keep it for ourselves anyway, don't sell it for money yet!"
Let them all become partners of the ribs at noon.
Don't pay attention to these.
Winter lotus root is of the best quality. When broken, the sound is extremely crisp, and the lotus root is broken into pieces, revealing the white lotus root flesh.
Fan Shiqing swallowed his saliva and muttered: "Can it be eaten raw?"
While talking, he took out a piece of lotus root from the basket, used his fingernails to pick off the outer layer of skin, and took a big bite.
"Hmm..." Fan Shiqing chewed heavily, and seeing Daya looking at him curiously, he put the lotus root close to him, "You want to try it too?"
Just as Da Ya was about to come over and take a bite, Xu Ling shouted: "Old Man Fan! Don't give my daughter some messy food to eat!"
Fan Shiqing was so delicious that he could eat pumpkin seed skins without vomiting. Once when Da Ya came over, he fed Da Ya a pumpkin seed, which stuck in her throat and turned blue and started crying. Fortunately, Xu Ling noticed it in time.
Fan Shiqing was frightened and hurriedly took back his hand, saying with a guilty conscience: "It's not that I won't give you food, your father won't let it!"
Xu An quickly fished his niece over and slapped her on the butt pretending to be angry: "Da Ya, don't eat it, let's go home and eat it cooked!"
Neither of them ate it. Fan Shiqing ate it by himself. The lotus root was quite delicious when eaten raw. It was crispy and sweet. Now he also tasted it a little bit.
Following Li Dayuan's children, two of them couldn't bear their curiosity and went down to dig lotus roots together. Xu Ling had to keep an eye on them to make sure they didn't get stuck in the mud pit and dug lotus roots. He kept busy for more than an hour and finally filled two baskets. of lotus root.
Xu Ling stood upright and supported his old waist, "Forget it, let's do this for today!"
Those children dug more than Xu Ling, but not as well as him. Many of them broke midway.
Seeing Xu Ling getting up to leave, the children stopped digging. They washed the mud on their hands and feet, climbed ashore, picked up the baskets and headed home along the field ridge.
Xu Ling did not go back immediately, but took the people to the village below. There were more than a hundred households living in Lianhua Bay. Sometimes there would be a small market at the intersection here for the villagers to sell things.
Xu Ling's family is building a house, and in the past few days, he has become familiar with Butcher Sun, who sells meat.
Butcher Sun raised more than a dozen pigs at home and was a well-known pig farmer within a ten-mile radius. He would sometimes kill pigs for others and sell the meat for only a part of his hard-earned money.
Seeing Xu Ling coming, he quickly greeted: "Xu Ling, I've been waiting for you to come today! I've saved all the good meat for you!"
Who doesn’t know that Xu Ling’s family built a new house and cooked meat for the workers every day, even a big meal!
Xu Ling walked over and saw that the meat on the chopping board was very fresh, so he rounded up the ribs and asked for a pork hind leg and ten pounds of pork belly.
"There is also pork suet for me to decorate. I have bought so much, why don't you spare me some?" Xu Ling bargained as usual.
Butcher Sun smiled and said: "You boy, after making money, why don't you want to part with this little money for meat? Well, I'll give you these two pig tails, there's a lot of meat!"
Seeing a lot of lotus roots in the basket behind Xu Ling, Butcher Sun said with envy: "You are so good at eating. I don't even think about selling meat anymore. I will switch to your job and build a house for you."
Xu Ling laughed heartily, "You are welcome to come even if you don't build a house for me. Just go after selling the meat!"
"Hey, when your house is built, I will bring you gifts to celebrate. Are you going to have a banquet then?"
Whenever a family builds a new house in the village, a banquet will be held before the roof is closed. It is customary to set off firecrackers and ask for auspicious words.
Xu Ling followed the locals when he went to the countryside, "It must be done. When the time comes, you have to show me a good pig. If anyone has sheep to kill, get me two!"
Not eating mutton in winter is simply a waste of life.
Butcher Sun smiled widely and agreed repeatedly, giving Xu Ling an extra piece of pig heart and lung.
The children followed Xu Ling and did not say a word when he was talking to others. They were very well-behaved.
After leaving the pork stall, Li Dayuan said to Xu Ling: "Brother Ling, you are really good at talking! You don't know how stingy Butcher Sun is. The last time my grandfather sold our pigs to him, I asked him to buy meat for even ten cents." They won’t give in!”
Xu Ling smiled and said: "Where are you? If you study hard, you will have a profound knowledge of speaking."
Li Dayuan chuckled and said, "I don't know anyone who is as powerful as Brother Ling. In my heart, you are the most powerful in our village!"
Xu Ling grinned at his praise, with a low-key expression on his face.
"Where there."
"Brother Ling, why don't you follow me to my house? My grandfather raised several pigs, but they are very fat! If you can buy them for meat, they will be happy even when they die!"
Li Dayuan's map was too short. Xu Ling couldn't help but grab his shoulders and pull him over, giving him a good rub.
"You kid, you're as semen as a thief!"
Xu An also said: "I just said why are you so sweet-mouthed today? It turns out you want my eldest brother to buy your pigs!"
Xu Ping shouted: "Brother, you can't buy the pigs from Li Dayuan's house. They feed the pigs manure!"
The children laughed.
Xu Ling: "..."
Li Dayuan became angry with embarrassment, "What do you know! My grandpa said that pigs will grow better if they eat that thing!"
Xu Ling had a dark look on his face and quickly told the two children to stop arguing. He didn't want to eat meat anymore.
As he approached Li Dayuan's house, he stopped the little followers behind him. The youngest boy looked to be only five or six years old, with a small braid tied on the back of his head.
Li Dayuan gave the lotus root he had worked so hard to dig to his little follower, "One piece of copper coins, two pieces of sheep eggs, one piece of bench..."
After he finished dividing, he waved his little hand: "Okay, you all go home quickly and come to me after dinner!"
Xu Ling stopped the children again and gave them each a piece of maltose. The children dispersed happily.
After the others left, there were not many lotus roots left in the basket on Li Dayuan's back. Xu Ling looked at it a little funny and asked him: "I didn't help you even if I had some, so why should I share it with them?"
Li Dayuan said indifferently: "Brother Ling, don't you understand this? When they grow up, won't they be able to help me?"
Xu Ling raised his eyebrows, but he didn't expect that Li Dayuan still had the awareness of venture capital.
