"Hey, these frogs are really fat." Chen Xiaohu said while looking at the frogs jumping around in the rice fields.
"Now that we use less pesticides and fewer people come to catch frogs, there will naturally be more of them," said an uncle.
There are basically no young people in the village. The older middle-aged people have lost interest in catching frogs. Gradually, the frogs in the fields naturally grow fat.
Seeing the frogs jumping in the fields, the children and dogs in the village chased and caught the frogs in the fields where the rice had been harvested.
"Haha, look, I caught a frog, so big!" A seven or eight-year-old child said happily with a smile.
"Goudan, catch a few more, take them back and ask your mother to cook soup for you." An uncle said with a smile.
"Uncle Grandpa, my name is not Goudan, my name is Chen Junxian." The little boy retorted loudly.
The little boy seemed to be very disgusted with the name Goudan.
"You mud monkey, you are so shy and don't want to admit that you are called Goudan."
"I'm not young anymore. I'm already in the second grade of elementary school. You can't call me a bitch anymore, uncle." Chen Junxian said loudly.
"Hey, you're such a naughty kid."
A group of children ran away in a hurry.
"Uncle, whose child is that? I've never seen it in the village." Chen Xiaoyun asked.
During this time, there were many more children in the village, many of whom Chen Xiaoyun didn't recognize.
"That little baby is the grandson of your uncle Fei's family and the child of your elder brother Xiaoyi's family. He will be brought back to your aunt to take care of during the summer vacation."
"Brother Xiaoyi clan?" Chen Xiaoyun had an impression in his mind.
A clan brother who is seven or eight years older than him is tall and thin.
Unexpectedly, the children are so old now, Chen Xiaoyun is quite emotional.
By eleven o'clock, the weather was already extremely hot and everyone was already sweating profusely.
"Let's go back. It's too hot today. Let's go back to eat. We can harvest again in the afternoon when the weather cools down." An uncle greeted.
The weather is hot now, and the children in the village are no longer running in the fields.
After placing the sickle on the field ridge, everyone returned to the village.
The aunts who cook in the village have already cooked mung bean soup.
"Come and drink mung bean soup to quench your thirst!" several aunts greeted.
"It's getting hotter and hotter today."
Chen Xiaoyun and the others went to get a bowl of mung bean soup and started drinking it.
After eating the mung bean soup, it really relieved a lot of the heat.
After a while, the food was ready, and everyone gathered together to eat a big pot of rice.
Lin Wanyu went to have dinner with her grandfather and did not come to the village for dinner.
Lunch is all authentic farm food, including chicken, salted duck, and braised goose.
These chickens, ducks and geese are all raised by the villagers themselves.
Fried pork ribs, boiled shrimp, fish head and cabbage soup, fried water spinach, boiled clam core...
"It's been a long time since I've had a big meal like this." Looking at the lively scene, an uncle said.
"With the development of the times, today's kinship relations have become weaker, and they are not as united as before." The village chief grandpa said.
Their clan relationship is still united, but some people in their village rarely come back even to worship their ancestors.
Of course, it is not ruled out that there are very united clans.
Anyway, their village is not as united as before.
Children and adults are all eating happily at this moment.
After eating, the adults gathered under the shade of the trees to chat, while the children played everywhere.
Fishing for shrimps and snails in the creek!
Adults don't allow children to go to the beach, the sea is no joke.
If a child is not sensible and is not paying attention, he will be killed if he is swept down by the wave.
By three o'clock in the afternoon, the temperature was no longer so high and the sun was no longer so hot, so everyone continued to go to the fields to harvest rice.
When the wind from the sea blows, the golden rice rises and falls like waves.
The cicada on the tree was also tired now and lay down on the tree to rest.
The naughty child quietly walked under the tree, preparing to catch a few cicadas to play with.
The older children are catching frogs in the field.
"Is your name Chen Junxian?" Chen Xiaoyun looked at the Goudan who looked like a child king.
"Yes, uncle, my name is Chen Junxian, what can I do?" Chen Goudan looked at Chen Xiaoyun.
"Whether you want to sell the frogs you caught or not, I will buy them for five yuan each." Chen Xiaoyun said to Chen Goudan.
"What, uncle, are you sure it's five yuan each?" Chen Goudan's eyes lit up after hearing this.
"Do you want to accept mine, uncle!!" Chen Ergou looked at Chen Xiaoyun expectantly.
"Chen Junhua, right?" Chen Xiaoyun asked with a smile.
"Uncle, his name is Chen Ergou!" Chen Junxian said loudly.
"Your name is Chen Goudan!" Chen Junhua also shouted back.
Seeing a bunch of noisy children, Chen Xiaoyun wanted to laugh.
Maybe when they were young, adults felt the same way about them.
"Okay, stop arguing. I'll take all the frogs you caught, as long as they are alive, so don't kill them." Chen Xiaoyun said to a group of children.
"Oh, let's go and catch frogs!" A group of children went to catch frogs happily.
Chen Xiaoyun planned to ask these children to help him catch the frogs in the field, and he would put them in the wasteland to raise.
Looking at a group of children chasing frogs in the rice field, Chen Xiaoyun suddenly thought, was he hiring child labor? !
Chen Xiaoyun smiled and shook his head, and continued to cut rice.
"Hey, I caught a good thing!" an uncle said with a smile.
"You are smiling so happily, what did you catch?" another uncle asked.
"Haha, look, a fat vole!!" The uncle lifted up a fat vole that weighed nearly a kilogram.
"How much rice did this have to eat to grow so big?"
"That's right, you can add some extra food tonight, stir-fried field mice."
This field mouse grew up eating crops in the fields. Its meat is tender and tastes better than chicken.
Not at all the kind of mice you find at home, this is an edible vole.
"Haha, catch a few more and fry some voles for dinner tonight!"
There are a lot of voles in the rice fields!
During the harvesting of rice, if the voles are frightened, they will run around and be easily caught.
In a field, more than a dozen people mow from all sides to the middle to drive the voles to the middle, where they are easier to catch.
After cutting the rice in a field, the uncles caught two more.
Chen Xiaoyun didn't dare to catch them. He always felt that mice were disgusting.
Even if he eats it, he won’t eat it, although people who have eaten it say it’s delicious.
But he couldn't get over the hurdle in his heart.
In the afternoon, more than ten acres of rice fields were purchased. More than ten or twenty people harvested them, and others helped to send the purchased rice back.
Those uncle voles were caught a lot, and they caught more than ten or twenty fat voles.
After the vole took it back, he burned the fur cleanly with fire until it was golden.
After cleaning, chop into small pieces and stir-fry. Looking at the tenderness of the meat, Chen Xiaoyun stayed away from it.
Although it smelled delicious, he was not moved at all.
"Uncle, look, we caught so many frogs."
Chen Goudan, Chen Ergou and a group of children came over with a rice bag.
Chen Xiaoyun opened it and saw more than thirty frogs inside.
"Are you all put together?"
"Yes, uncle, we all put it together and share the money from the sale." Chen Junxian said.
"Okay, let me see how many there are and give you money." Chen Xiaoyun smiled and nodded.
I counted the frogs and found thirty-two.
"There are thirty-two in total, so that's one hundred and fifty yuan, right?" Chen Xiaoyun said deliberately.
"No, no, uncle, you made a mistake." Chen Junhua said quickly.
"What's wrong?!"
"Thirty-two, five yuan each, that's one hundred and sixty yuan." Chen Junhua said seriously.
"Oh, that's right. It was indeed uncle's miscalculation. Ergou, you are so smart." Chen Xiaoyun said with a smile.
"Uncle, my name is Chen Junhua, not Chen Ergou." Chen Junhua wiped his nose and said.
"Haha!!" Chen Xiaoyun laughed.
He went to the small shop in the village, exchanged ten and a half yuan in change, and gave the money to Goudan and a group of other children.
"You count to see if it's right. I won't admit it if it's wrong later." Chen Xiaoyun teased the children.
"I'll count. I'm better at math." Chen Junhua took the money and started counting.
Looking at these impish-looking children, Chen Xiaoyun lamented that today's children are really smart.
"By the way, one hundred and sixty yuan!" After counting, Chen Junhua smiled and shook the money in his hand.
Then a group of children ran away, apparently to share the money.
Chen Xiaoyun took the frog in his rice pocket and put it into the deserted field.
Dinner is still a big pot meal, and everyone eats together.
Chen Xiaoyun went to call Lin Wanyu, but Lin Wanyu didn't want to come, so she ate with her grandfather in the B&B restaurant.
"Xiaoyun, this vole meat is really delicious, even better than chicken. Are you sure you don't want to try it?!" an uncle said with a smile.
