Mountain driving career since 1982

Chapter 396

Chapter 396

With the help of more than a dozen people, the corn on the five-acre field ended early.

On weekdays, when Lu Lu beat meat or something, he often sent it to the village. The good people in these places got more, and everyone missed him. Now that Chen Xiuyu is pregnant, seeing Lu Lu When a person is busy in the field, they all take care of their work in the field and come over to help.

The affection between each other can be regarded as accumulated.

In the countryside, favors are always exchanged for favors, and everyone knows it in their hearts without talking about it.

The five acres of corn was originally thought to take six or seven days to complete, but it was done in one day.

After chopping the corn for a while, Chen Xiuqing spent the rest of the time driving the carriage to transport the broken corn to Lu Lu's meadow.

Lu Lu’s yard is big enough, and the shed has specially prepared shelves made of wood for storing corn. Once the corn is put on it, it can be left to dry. There is no need to hang soft leaves like on the farm.

After the work in the field is done, there is nothing to do on weekdays. Rubbing corn has become a daily task for most people, mainly women and children.

Lu Lu didn't let Chen Xiuyu go to the fields, so she could only stay in Caodianzi alone, taking care of a lot of chores at home.

Not long after seeing Lu Lu went to the field, Chen Xiuqing sent a cart of corn. After asking, she found out that there are now more than ten people in her field helping to work.

She hurried back to the kitchen, busy arranging a lot of meals, and asked Chen Xiuqing to deliver them to the field near noon.

The matter of harvesting corn is over as simple as that.

In the following days, Lu Lu mainly accompanied Chen Xiuyu and took care of the household chores. He also went to the district twice to buy some daily necessities and various fresh fruits for Chen Xiuyu.

If Chen Xiuyu hadn't conceived a child, she would have asked Zhou Cuifen and the others to go to the mountain to pick pine cones at this time.

Picking pine cones is actually a very dangerous job.

There are a lot of red pines in Xing’an Mountains, but it takes nearly 20 years for the red pines to form a pine cone, and often such trees have grown to the thickness of a person’s arms, more than ten meters high, and they have to climb to the top to pick them, which is very dangerous. In fact, it is not something that old women can do.

Even after several decades, the people who pick pine cones in Northeast China are mainly people from Yunnan and Guizhou, and the picking time is only more than a month.

One pine cone can't produce a few pine nuts, and two big men who are good at climbing trees, after a busy day, it is considered quite good if each person can pick five or six bags of pine cones.

A bag of pine cones weighs more than a hundred catties, but the pine nuts that are finally stripped out are only a few catties.

In these big mountains, there are no traffic roads in many places at all, and it is very hard work to carry bags down the mountain.

There is a reason why pine nuts are expensive, and it is indeed hard to come by.

This matter can only be shelved for the time being.In a few years, when the pine nuts are exported to various places, people can be hired to pick them every year.

However, this is a good time to beat Greyhounds.

Entering the red pine forest, you can see pine cones that have been picked up by greyhounds and chipmunks everywhere.

These little things are powerful, one can handle seven or eight pine cones a day, eat some of them, and store some of them, but they are quite forgetful, often forgetting where the pine nuts they hide are, doing a lot of useless work, and constantly making troubles disaster.

Lu Lu finished the homework every day, and then rode Zhuifeng, took Yuanbao and them, and wandered around the red pine forests in the surrounding areas every day.

As soon as the farm work is done, most of them are idle. In the nearby red pine forest, you can see wooden clips with pine nuts as bait everywhere on the roots of the trees to hunt greyhounds.

A greyhound fur costs eight or nine yuan. At this time of year, as long as the luck is not too bad, you can always get some greyhound furs and sell them for a lot of money.

Therefore, it must not be possible near the village. With Chasing the Wind, Lu Lu went a little farther, and specially made a batch of yellow clay pellets, wandered around the mountains and forests with a slingshot, and could always get more than a dozen greyhounds every day. , Compared with using splints and lower sleeves, it is much more convenient and quicker, and the harvest is naturally high.

I don’t know where these little things came from, as if they smelled the scent of pine nuts. A piece of red pine forest was beaten to the ground today, and if I come back tomorrow, there will always be new discoveries.

Even the rarer flying dragon, which is addicted to pine nuts, can be seen from time to time, of course Lu Lu will not be polite.

Zhang Shaofeng's father, Jiang Zewei, and Wang Demin all like to eat flying dragons. When Lu Lu gets a call, besides making some at home to taste, he often gives them some as well.

To beat these small animals, the hunters all showed their skills.

Everyone knows that Lu Lu's slingshot is easy to play, and it doesn't hurt the fur when hitting a gray dog, and he is guided by ingots. If he encounters it occasionally on the mountain, he will immediately change direction and will never go the same way as Lu Lu.

In just eight or nine days of effort, there were a lot of gray dog ​​skins inside the Immortal Column.

Unknowingly, the vegetation in the mountain withered and the fallen leaves were flying, and it suddenly became much more empty.

Lu Lv was looking forward to the snow. After two snowfalls, Xiong Xiazi hibernated. When it was time to dig out the warehouse, the footprints of the sables on the snow were clearly visible. It was a good time to catch minks.

Xiaoxing'an Mountains is the main production area of ​​sables. In the entire Northeast, nearly half of the mink skins come from Xiaoxing'an Mountains every year. If you don't make a good fortune this winter, you will be sorry for this product.

Mink fur is valuable!

This year's weather is very good, and in just eight or nine days, almost everyone's corn has been collected, the straw in the field has been pulled back, and the corn stalks in the field have been transported back and piled up, and the farm work in the field has been completed.

In the morning, I accompanied Chen Xiuyu for a walk in the meadow, fed the flying dragon and chickens, inspected the fence, and had breakfast. Just as Lu Lu was about to call Chafeng into the mountains, Chen Xiuqing came here.

This kid has been wandering around Tundong and Xiangshuixi Forest Farm during this period of time, getting off splints, hitting with a slingshot, and getting a lot of gray dog ​​fur.

"Brother Lu, do you want to go up the mountain to play scorpion?" Chen Xiuqing asked as soon as she entered the gate.

In order to solve the problem of heating cats in winter, it is a must-do thing every year to go up the mountain and burn the ground fire dragon.

If the big kang is not hot, then this winter will be difficult.

Lu Lu has no shortage of firewood here.

When building fences on both sides of the ridge, a lot of trees were cut down, and besides those used to build the fences, there was still a lot of firewood left. He had a chain saw in his hand, and he could get out a lot in one day. The location, if you do a little every day, it is already full.

Lu Lu himself had some concerns in his mind, these firewoods were firewood after all, they were not burnable, he was going to ask someone to bring some coal back, there were people burning charcoal on the mountain, so he was going to buy some, he would cook a brazier at home on weekdays, or make a Barbecue or something is also convenient.

You have to make adequate preparations to ensure the heating of your home.

She didn't want Chen Xiuyu to get sick at this stage.

"I thought you were looking for Yanzi!" Lu Lu said with a smile.

Chen Xiuqing smiled foolishly and scratched her head: "I actually want to borrow a chainsaw from you!"

Larch firewood is easy to split and burn, and it is the first choice for firewood. You have to go into the mountain to saw down the tree, cut off the branches, cut it into logs of two to three meters, carry them down the mountain, and pull them back home with a cart. The stumps cut into forty or fifty centimeters were chopped into firewood with a big axe and piled up.

With a big belly saw or an axe, it is too hard, but with a chainsaw, it is different, and I can do a few days of work in a day.

"I have some news to tell you!" Lu Lu deliberately teased him, "Do you want to hear it?"

"What news?" Chen Xiuqing looked puzzled.

"Swallow has agreed to marry!"

Chen Xiuqing was busy with the field work during this time, but Lu Lu never told him about it.

"Ah...who are you marrying? When did it happen?"

Hearing the news, Chen Xiuqing was stunned for a moment, and then became impatient.

Seeing him like that, Lu Lu immediately laughed, and even Chen Xiuyu who was beside him was also amused.

"Who else is it, isn't it you?" Lu Lu laughed.

"Ah..." Chen Xiuqing was stunned again.

"Look at you, Hula, huh, what? Take some time to prepare some cigarettes, wine, sugar and tea, ask Uncle Wang to be a matchmaker, and help you out. Remember to say hello to me when you have chosen a date, so I can get along with you." Brother Wang said, let them be prepared."

Seeing his dazed look, Lu Lu found it more and more amusing.

Chen Xiuqing still couldn't react and just scratched her head.

"A few days ago, Brother Lu told Brother Wang about you and Yanzi, and Brother Wang and his family have already agreed. You just need to invite a matchmaker to come and propose marriage!" Chen Xiuyu explained.

Now, Chen Xiuqing finally understood, but she still couldn't believe it: "Really?"

"Isn't this nonsense? Of course it's true." Lu Lu rolled his eyes at him, "I won't save you from staring strangely at other little girls peeing!"

Chen Xiuqing suddenly became extremely embarrassed. He had been brooding over this matter all the time. Since that day, when he met Wang Yan once when he was helping Lu Lu break the corn, he didn't even dare to say a word.

Now he actually heard Lu Lu say that the matter is over. After a little embarrassment, he turned around and ran back excitedly.

"Why are you going?" Lu Lu asked loudly from behind.

"I'm going shopping today!"

"The chainsaw is gone?"

"Come and get it another day!"

Chen Xiuqing rode his Oroqen horse and ran away without looking back. Lu Lu shook his head as he looked eagerly.

At this moment, Chen Xiuyu asked: "Brother Lu, what did you say just now that my brother sees little girls peeing?"

Lu Lv immediately smiled and told about Chen Xiuqing helping to guard the house, bumping into Wang Yan in the mountains, and being chased and beaten by Zhao Meiling with a stick, which made Chen Xiuyu laugh too.

"Okay, stay at home, if you have nothing to do, you can go to the village to visit, don't be busy rubbing corn at home all day, look at your hands, they have such thick calluses, take a proper rest, Watch out, don't run, don't jump!"

In the past few days, Chen Xiuyu went to the barn to rub the corn when she had nothing to do. There was no tool to remove the corn kernels, and she had to do it by hand, which was not only slow, but also hurt her hands.

"No... I'm going to drop by at this time. Which one is rubbing corn? When I go to someone's house, I can't let others work. I can watch from the sidelines, right? I might as well be at home. I can do a little bit. "Chen Xiuyu shook her head.

"I'm mainly afraid that you will be bored!"

"It's okay, you have to be careful when you go into the mountains!"

The couple were talking, when Yuan Bao suddenly called out.

Lu Lu glanced at Yuanbao, then raised his head and looked towards the opposite ridge, and saw Jiang Xianchang walking across the ridge with his hands behind his back, looking at Caodianzi twice from time to time, and then quickly walked down the ridge behind.

Seeing this situation, Lu Lu couldn't help frowning slightly.

"Be careful with this person!" Lu Lu reminded.

"What's wrong?"

Chen Xiuyu didn't think the matter was too complicated. It's very common for someone to pass by around Caodianzi.

"Do you still remember the shopkeeper of the old Jinda car shop? I don't think that person came from the right way. Jiang Xianchang probably knew him, and I'm afraid he's not a good guy. Because of the nail piercing, this person There must be resentment against me in my heart, so I have to guard against it."

"Hmm..." Chen Xiuyu was aware of these things.

Moreover, before Lu Lu came, as neighbors next door, the two families did not deal with each other, and were often bullied by their family.

To Jiang Xianchang, Chen Xiuyu didn't have a good impression.

"He's been walking here a lot these days, and I heard he's fighting in the mountains."

"Aren't you going this way? You can't go here even if you're playing the scorpion, and there's no way for a carriage on the ridge..." Lu Lu frowned even tighter.

"Never mind him, maybe he was just passing by... Besides, what else can he do to us, thinking that he could bully us casually before? If he dares to attack our family, I will dare to attack his door! "

Lu Lu glared at her: "Don't mess around, just pay more attention. I really found something wrong. I'll deal with it when I come back. Do you hear me?"

With the vigor of Chen Xiuyu hitting Zhu Chunmei, Lu Lu has no doubt that she can do it.

But nothing could happen now, Lu Lv had to warn.

Chen Xiuyu pouted: "Oh!"

(End of this chapter)