reborn to the dead end

The time turned to golden autumn and October. Those who had only planted rice for one season were busy harvesting rice. The late rice of Xi Mo’s family would not mature until the end of October at least. At this time, someone started to use the thresher It's normal to borrow ideas.The one who borrowed the threshing machine from Xi Mo's family was Wang Laigen's family, a five-guarantee household in the brigade, which was of the same clan as Wang Laidi's natal family.

This person had a high fever and burned his brain when he was a child. He was not stupid, but he couldn't speak clearly. He married a wife who was still lame. He didn't get a child until he was in his 30s. The conditions are not good. In the past, they relied on the help of the villagers, but now they have the five guarantees. The government subsidy of more than 3000 a year has made the family's life much better.Wang Laigen thumped the heavy door a few times. He was an honest man, but he couldn't say his name, so he had to resort to brutal methods.

Xi Mo went to pick up overripe melons that fell on the ground in the melon seeds, and the old man and Jiang Yeming were at home.Few people came to Xi Mo's house. In the past, they probably looked down on a widowed old man, but now they are probably afraid of Xi Mo's wealth. The only person who usually walks around is Grandma Fang of Master Xu.Jiang Yeming pulled the steel bar latch and opened the heavy iron door. Seeing someone standing outside the door, he slowly pushed the iron door open.

When Wang Laigen saw that it wasn't Xiaoyazi Xi who opened the door, his thick eyebrows that were already furrowed became even tighter. After gesturing for a long time, Jiang Yeming realized that he was here to borrow a threshing machine.Jiang Yeming invited him to the main room, and told Grandma Zhang why this person came. Grandma Zhang smiled and asked Jiang Yeming to pour tea for Wang Laigen, and asked Wang Laigen to sit down and wait until the little boy came back. thing.Xi Mo came back after a while, threw the melon in his hand on the concrete floor, put the hoe in his hand back into the firewood shed, and carried two eels in his hand from the kitchen directly into the main room. Did he ask two people? At noon, this eel is used for braised or soup.

When Wang Laigen saw Xi Mo came back, his frowning eyebrows finally relaxed.Seeing his eager expression, Grandma Zhang endorsed him: "Little boy, Laigen is here to ask you to borrow a threshing machine. They are rushing to harvest the late rice, so you should be ready soon." He nodded vigorously and gestured with his hands, implying that he needed the high-power battery.

Xi Mo wondered how this person would come to his house to borrow a thresher. The people in the house usually borrow the harvester from Xi Dawei's house, and it can be done in just a few hours. At the remote foot or mountainside, there is no way for the harvester to drive in.

Hiring a laborer on a hot day costs 100 yuan a day and three meals a day, at least three laborers a day for an acre of land, and a harvester is only [-] yuan for an acre of land. Apart from wasting some rice, the harvester saves trouble too much.To be honest, Xi Mo really didn't want to borrow it. In the past, when his family didn't have a threshing machine, which one did this person borrow from? If there is one, there will be two. It's not that Xi Mo is stingy. He considered Xi Dawei's interests. Wang Laigen's family is five Wang Laidi must not be happy to lose [-] yuan of income in a paddy field with more than one mu.

Jiang Yeming was there peeling his pistachios, which were all stir-fried at the end of the banquet. He ate happily and did not participate in their conversation at the end of the banquet. In order for Grandma Zhang to eat nutritious and delicious pistachios, pecans, and almonds Jiang Yeming even took her to the county hospital to have her dentures fitted. Grandma Zhang who has dentures is the one who eats well.

In the end, Xi Mo lent Wang Laigen the thresher and storage battery. This person seemed to refuse to leave unless he borrowed it. Xi Mo saw that he was always staring at Jiang Yeming peeling pistachios for him to eat, but he refused to eat them. , I collected a lot and put it in my trouser pocket, and continued to stare at the child peeling it off, so I simply borrowed it so as not to disturb the family.

Wang Laigen asked his wife Lu Guilan to carry the threshing machine back. Lu Guirong is a typical rural woman. When she arrived at the courtyard at the end of the ceremony, she looked hard at the furnishings in the courtyard and smiled awkwardly.Jiang Yeming doesn't like this kind of people. He thinks that the people in the village should be that kind of pure simplicity, not this kind of dull poverty, and of course they are not as arrogant and domineering as Xi Mo's mother Wang Laidi. If everyone is like Xi Mo and grandma Just the same.

The thatched grass on the mountain is getting older and older, and those noble sheep still eat their mouths, Jiang Yeming drives them to graze, they still pick up the tender grass to eat, if there is not much tender grass, they can't eat enough, the old ones They don't even touch thatch.Jiang Yeming jumped angrily, and Xi Mo carried a bamboo basket on his back and took out a scythe to mow grass on the field ridges where the middle-aged rice had been harvested. Most of the grass on the field ridges was very tender and fat due to the abundance of fertilizers, suitable for feeding sheep.After Cao Mou returned home, Jiang Yeming would drag the bamboo baskets and stand by the sheep pen to feed the sheep one by one. Xi Mo had never seen such a troublesome person.

These five sheep have been fed for almost a month, and they have not seen anything growing. Xi Mo compared their growth cycle with those of the sheep in Mustard Seed. Do not starve to death.Jiang Yeming wanted to do it himself, but Xi Mo refused to let him touch the lawn. The reason was that the sickle was dangerous, and the snakes and ants in the grass were also dangerous.

Jiang Yeming finally got annoyed, and asked Xi Mo if he had raised him as a woman, and he straightened out his not-so-broad chest and said that he was a man, and a man should be self-sufficient and not hold back.Xi Mo was also stunned because he didn't agree to Jiang Yeming to let him mow the grass. It's not good to have such a beautiful hand hurt by a sickle or grass.

The task Xi Mo gave to Jiang Yeming was to peel a few melons every day, peel out the seeds inside, and put them on the concrete floor to dry. This job is not tiring, and it takes time.

Children like to be clean, and chicken and duck feces are everywhere in the team. If he accidentally steps on it, he doesn't know how long he will be sick.Xi Mo also doesn't like people in the team probing Jiang Yeming with all kinds of eyes. People belong to him, and he can only see him.

When Xi Mo was frying the air-dried hickory nuts in mustard seeds with a roaster, Jiang Yeming always ran around, and when the frying was done for him to eat, he found it troublesome, so Xi Mo bought a box of walnut crackers , there are several styles, Jiang Yeming is happy now.There are many people in the village who grow chestnuts, and children are envious of all kinds of food related to chestnuts, such as fried chestnuts in sugar, roasted pork with chestnuts, and roasted chicken nuggets with chestnuts.

Passing by someone's yard, Xi Mo casually took out a chestnut ball that fell on the ground and was still wrapped in thorns and threw it into the mustard seeds. In just one night, there were piles of chestnut balls in the mustard seeds.Jiang Yeming couldn't do anything with those thorny shells, Xi Mo swung the hoe skillfully, and as soon as the hoe went down, the thorny shells that had already opened were all cracked, and the round and plump chestnuts inside just jumped up one by one. come out.

Stir-fried chestnuts in sugar were also fried at the end of the banquet. The taste was quite good. Jiang Yeming squinted his eyes and ate a lot, and even ate a lot with Grandma Zhang behind.At the end of the banquet, there are also a lot of wild small chestnuts, which are very glutinous and sweet. At the end of the ceremony, these small chestnuts are peeled, steamed and mashed, and mixed into the crushed shrimp meat to make dumpling fillings. Big dumplings came out. A child can eat two bowls of rice for a meal, a total of forty. Grandma Zhang can also eat twenty or so with soup.

These noodles are the main meal in the north, and the southerners are not happy, but it is good to try something new every now and then.At the end of the meeting, seeing that Jiang Yeming liked to eat pasta, he even planted a few stubbles of wheat in mustard seeds, removed the wheat bran, and used a stone mill to grind fine flour, and put bags of them in the warehouse for future use .Xi Mo made a lot of maltose, which are snacks for children.

It was mid-October that Wang Laigen returned the threshing machine to Xi Mo. The threshing machine was well kept and cleaned. The problem was the battery.The battery is rechargeable, and the engine on the thresher depends on the electricity in the battery to rotate. This kind of high-power battery is generally very expensive, and few people buy it.

The electricity used by the electric thresher can be hung up in people's homes with cables, and the farmland without the front of the village and the back of the store can completely borrow the electricity from the wire post. A small leader in the village saw it, and no one said anything. If it doesn't work, just buy it. Diesel threshers and batteries are rarely mentioned.The battery that Xi Mo lent out was in good condition. He used this high-power battery to harvest the early rice before. When the battery broke, Xi Mo didn't know until it was his turn to harvest the late rice, and the thresher was dragged to the field.Xi Mo doesn't care about the cost of buying batteries. He has more than 1 batteries of this specification in his pocket, as well as other types of batteries. He always likes to be prepared.

This incident really ruined Xi Mo's good mood. Wang Laigen was dishonest, and if he broke it, at least he had to tell him, even if he didn't pay for it, it didn't matter. It's really disgusting to send things back without making a sound.Xi Mo didn't go directly to trouble someone, but took out a new battery from the mustard seed and used it. The harvest is important.

Xi Mo didn't tell Jiang Yeming about this, but told Grandma Zhang while cooking in the kitchen, and Grandma Zhang became angry after hearing this, and didn't even have a good meal for a few days.When the late rice was harvested, the end of the mat was dried and harvested in the cang, and five hundred catties of rice were weighed and sent to Xi Dawei's house as filial grain.

Xi Mo met Wang Laigen when he was harvesting dried straw in the field. Wang Laigen led the buffalo to graze on the ridge of the field.Xi Mo briefly mentioned the matter of the battery to him, and Wang Laigen became anxious, and Xi Mo probably understood the meaning of the gesture.When Wang Laigen used the battery, it was always good. When it rained, Wang Laigen had to put the engine and battery in the nearby Wang Laicai's house of the same clan. When he took it out for use the next day, it broke down. Wang Laicai meant that the battery was dirty. Out of water, can not be used.

Wang Laigen had no choice but to borrow the diesel thresher from Wang Laicai's family to harvest the rice in the remaining half acre of land.Wang Laigen also gestured and added half a word to emphasize that the battery can be repaired, and if it is repaired, he will pay for the repair fee.Xi Mo roughly understood the whole story, and he also understood what Wang Laigen meant, it was not bad for him, it's strange, who made it rain.Xi Mo later ignored Wang Laigen, the poor man must have something to hate, he had nothing to say.

Xi Mo went home, took out the worn-out battery and checked it carefully. The whole month of October has been sunny until now. Halfway through, there was heavy thunder and a few drops of rain, and the ground was not wet. Xi Mo didn't think his battery was that bad.

After the inspection, the result was that this battery was not Xi Mo's original one at all. The brand was of the same brand, but the production date was wrong. This battery was a year earlier than his batch. Wang Laigen suffered a dark loss. Xi Mo suffered from being dumb.

This matter can be done privately, and Xi Mo can go to the goalkeeper to get his battery back, but Xi Mo thought again, if he wants to do this for a broken battery, that person is really calculating.

After much deliberation, Xi Mo decided to explain the matter to Grandma Zhang, and let the old man not mind too much. This is a lesson for both sides. In the future, Xi Mo has gained experience in borrowing things from others, what should be borrowed, and what should not be borrowed.

Jiang Yeming has been very busy recently. He read a lot of books on refining weapons in the mustard, and even took out some broken copper and rotten iron to refine some useless things.Of course, those semi-finished alchemy furnaces can be used as large-scale fire boilers, and there are some copper basins, iron basins and aluminum basins, which can be used to wash your face, feet, and water, which is better than broken copper and iron.

These four different utensils have been purified by different fires, and the copper basin looks like a gold basin when it is taken out. Grandma Zhang likes it the most.Jiang Yeming's fiery heart was finally relieved. It was not because Xi Mo was too poor, and he didn't even have gold ore, the most basic material for refining.

There were too many of these pots in the house, so Grandma Zhang took a few copper pots for Xi Baogen's wife, Zhong Xiaoqing, which were much more hygienic than those plastic pots.Zhong Xiaoqing doesn't like this kind of antique copper basin, but Wang Laidi likes it very much. This golden basin looks festive, who doesn't like it.

All the trichosanthes in the dry land were harvested, Xi Mo found someone to fetch the trichosanthes seeds in the yard, two groups of people were found, and a lot of the trichosanthes in the mustard seeds were eliminated.Xi Mo looked at the small pile of melon seeds and calculated it. For farmers, this is not a small amount of money. A harvest of 1 to [-] yuan is no problem. The labor cost of removing the cement pile and steel wire mesh is more than [-] yuan. The cost is still earned at the end of the show.

When the government sent people to buy the melon seeds from Xi Mo’s family, there were quite a few people onlookers in the team. A few bundles of bright red hundred yuan bills made everyone’s eyes red. It turned out that growing this kind of bitter gourd is so profitable, so I hurried back to look it up. One or two acres of land will be planted next year.

The happiest person to see Qian was not Xi Mo, but Grandma Zhang and Jiang Yeming. Grandma Zhang even cooked several special dishes in the evening. Although they were all salty, Xi Mo and Jiang Yeming ate them all.

In the evening at the end of the banquet, four or five catties of melon seeds were fried in mustard seeds, packed in big plastic bags, mentioned to Master Xu Yunfeng's house, and sent up to honor him.The ingredients of these roasted seeds and nuts are all pondered by Xi Mo himself, not to mention, Xi Mo is really talented in this area, the taste of the stir-fried food is not bad at all compared to the ones bought in the supermarket.

Xu Yunfeng is extremely satisfied with Xi Mo's apprentice. The child is very sensible, motivated, and quick to learn skills. He has also learned a lot of his skills in the past year. Becoming a teacher is just a matter of verbal words, lacking practical operations. It's almost too late.

The countryside is getting cold quickly, and the weather in early November began to be gloomy and cold. Jiang Yeming slept a lot more calmly at night, wrapped tightly in the quilt and hid in Xi Mo's arms without moving.

Xi Mo knew that the child was afraid of the cold, so he took out a lot of seeded cotton from the space and sent it to Xu Yuntao, the second child of the Xu family, and asked him to play a few thick quilts for him.At the end of the banquet, everything was planned. Five beds weighed twelve catties, and five beds weighed ten catties. He was not afraid of being laughed at by others because he was crazy about wanting to marry a wife.

Xu Laoer's skills are very good, and his movements are neither fast nor slow. Xi Mo's current consciousness only needs one concentration, and there is nothing he can't learn.When Xu's second son was playing cotton, Xi Mo also watched while wearing a mask, and occasionally gave Xu Yuntao a hand, and Xu Yuntao looked sideways with his decent movements.When playing the last quilt, Xu Yuntao saw that Xi Mo was eager to try, so he handed the cotton slingshot to Xi Mo, motioning for him to try it himself.

Xi Mo was not pretentious, and started working with a slingshot that was several feet long. Xu Yuntao just reminded Xi Mo of his skills in the middle. not simple.Xi Mo himself was very happy in his heart. In the future, he prepared the tools for picking cotton and put them in the mustard seeds. When the cold snap came, Xi Mo played more quick bed quilts. All of them have three extra beds, and they are afraid that they will freeze to death.

After being pressed for a few days, the new quilt was taken out by Xi Mo and replaced with a twelve-pound quilt for Grandma Zhang, and a ten-pound quilt was added underneath.The original quilts were all taken out to dry at the end of the mat. These old quilts will be of great use in the future, and it is also good to cover them on the bed.

Jiang Yeming is very enthusiastic about the new quilt, mainly because the new quilt is soft, no matter it is covered or cushioned, it is comfortable.Xi Mo took out all the straw under the wooden bed of himself and Grandma Zhang, burned it to ashes, made fertilizer and sprinkled it on the vegetable field, measured the size of the wooden bed, and specially ordered four mattresses in the town .

As soon as the mattress was dragged back and put on, Grandma Zhang, who had complained about Xi Mo's wasting money, didn't say anything after a night of sleep. The mattress is good.This mattress is really cheap to order. Four mattresses cost less than 700 yuan. The quality is quite good. Afterwards, Xi Mo quietly went to the furniture store in the county to order a few high-end beds. The mattress was also attached.It was the first time for Guan Xiuhe to come to Xi Mo's house, and she mainly told Xi Mo about the chickens left at her house.

At the end of the day, Xi asked his wife Guan Xiuhe to hatch the native chickens for him. They have been stored in Xu Yunfeng's house. There are sheep and ducks in the house. It is already very noisy and messy, and the smell is not very good. The chickens will be added. It's even worse.At the end of the day, Xi carried a snakeskin bag of rice to Guan Xiuhe. When the time came, the chickens would grow up and then bring them home. It would not be a bad thing to kill them and eat them.

"Xi Xiaoyazi, do you want to catch the dozen or so chickens in your family and raise them yourself? It's almost the end of the new year, and I can't take care of that much. The bag of rice you carried last time is still a lot left. Let’s bring them back together too.” Guan Xiuhe frowned and said in detail, looking down at the table on the table, there were fried chestnuts, melon seeds and cashew nuts in the box for snacks, tsk, this kid really doesn’t know how to run a house These are the most expensive roasted seeds and nuts, and they are eaten as a meal.

"Well, Aunt Xiu, I understand. I'll go to your house to catch those chickens in the evening, and leave the rice for your chickens to eat. You've been taking care of me for so long, and I don't know what to do." What can I give you. Those chickens are still half-grown and haven't started laying eggs, otherwise I can give you eggs." Xi Mo said politely, and sent the table box to Guan Xiuhe, "Aunt Xiu, you eat Some cashew nuts, I went to the town to buy them a few days ago."

"We adults don't like to eat those, but you children are greedy, you can eat." Seeing Xi Mo's sophistication, Guan Xiuhe thought about how much his family was full of praise for Xi Mo, and thought again My little debt collector, who was about the same size as Xi Mo but not half as sensible as Xi Mo, suddenly felt that it was not easy for Xi Mo.

After hearing this, Xi Mo didn't continue to answer the conversation, he really wanted to say that he was really not a child.Jiang Yeming doesn't care about that much, these are his snacks, he is not allowed to eat this or that at the end of the banquet, he can only eat these all day long except for eating fruit, no potato chips, and less chocolate Eat, be stingy.

Xi Mo looked at Jiang Yeming, who was hanging his head and biting a chestnut shell. His hair was a little long, and it had to be repaired before the Chinese New Year.Guan Xiuhe asked why Grandma Zhang wasn't there, and at the end of the banquet, he said that the old man had suffered from cold for the past few days and had a headache, so he went back to his room to rest after lunch.

When Guan Xiuhe left, Xi Mo took out a convenience bag and packed a few bananas and apples for her to take back. Guan Xiuhe wanted to decline, but seeing Xi Mo's serious look, he took them back.The dozen or so half-sized native chickens were all carried home in bamboo baskets at the end of the ceremony.

After Grandma Zhang went to bed and rested, Xi Mo put all the chickens in the chicken coop in the corridor into mustard seeds. When those chickens had bred to a certain number, Xi Mo made another dozen chickens that were very similar to the original chickens and put them in. chicken coop.The native chickens transformed by mustard seeds are much more active, and of course they are more obedient, and they are more or less spiritual.

After all this, Xi Mo went into the room to wash his hair and shower, went to bed and fell asleep with Jiang Yeming in his arms.

Xi Mo discussed with Grandma Zhang about chopping firewood and burning charcoal. Grandma Zhang agreed very much. Now that liquefied petroleum gas and natural gas are popularized in every household, there are not many people burning firewood.

Xi Mo went up the mountain to chop firewood, and Jiang Yeming followed closely behind. This was really fun, and there might be a herd of wild boars coming out to look for food on the mountain.It turned out that Jiang Yeming was thinking too much. Apart from desolation, the mountain was boundless with dry grass, oh, and rocks and sand, but there were no wild boars and hares in the legend.

Xi Mo also knew in his heart that even if these things come out to toss, they are seasonal, and they hide far away when the plants grow.