farm life

In the early morning of the next day, Lin Jiangsui got up from the bed with a yawn. After washing up, he cooked something casually, ate breakfast hastily, and began to prepare things for going up the mountain.

He dug out a black sports backpack from the closet. He bought it specially when the school announced that he was going to go to the spring outing the year before last. Unexpectedly, the skylight was opened at the end of the spring outing that everyone had been looking forward to for a long time, which caused public outrage. Let this backpack be pressed down by Lin Jiangsui at the bottom of the box. It has never been used once, but now it has come in handy. Lin Jiang thought to himself, according to the expected workload today, he will probably not be able to come back at noon, and lunch will naturally be on the mountain Solved, put some food and drink in the backpack and take it with you, it's all a picnic.

There are also clothes to be prepared. The clothes and shoes that were changed yesterday have not been washed. Lin Jiangsui plans to wash them tomorrow. He will go up the mountain today. He specially wore old clothes to keep warm and not afraid of getting dirty.

Putting on a leather hat and gloves, and wrapping a thick scarf around his neck, Lin Jiang carried a backpack filled with food and water, and stuffed tools such as hoes and shovels into the sealed place. After making sure that nothing was missing, the Just went out.

It rarely snows here in winter, and if it happens, it’s only drizzle-like scattered sleet, but it’s still the same cold. As soon as Lin Jiang opened the door, he felt the cold wind rushing towards his face, which made him feel a little dizzy. The child is fully awake.Winter mornings always come late, it’s already past seven o’clock, but the sky is still dark and gloomy, as if it’s about to rain, only a faint light can be seen on the horizon, representing the coming of day.

Pulling up the scarf to cover his ears, Lin Jiang put his hands in his pockets and walked towards the end of the village.

Walk along the stone road in the village to the creek at the end of the village. At the place where the creek accumulates water, there is a bluestone slab bridge. Water is stored on one side of the bridge for the villagers to wash. Early in the morning, when Lin Jiangxuan arrived, many peasant women had already gathered there to wash and wash vegetables by the stream.

Wang Niangniang, who is the neighbor in the left and right houses, is also here. When Lin Jiangsui came over, she was squatting by the stream, picking up a lot of white radishes that had just been dug out of the ground one by one. Wash it carefully with the cold stream water, her wrinkled hands were already red from the cold, but she didn't care, there were piles of unwashed radishes beside her, and cleaned radishes in the basket on the other side, A large basket of radishes seemed to be picked up and sold in the town.

Wang Niangniang saw that Lin Jiangsui was carrying a backpack and looked like he was about to go out. She was curious and asked, "Suizi, where are you going?"

The peasant women who knew Lin Jiangsui also greeted him, while those who didn't know curiously asked those who knew, and smiled at Lin Jiangsui with a sudden understanding.

Looking at the smiling faces and their hands stretching into the stream without flinching, Lin Jiang, who was afraid of the cold, felt ashamed of himself.

"Ms. Wang, good morning, everyone. It's a holiday. I'm going to go up the mountain." Lin Jiang pointed to the mountain opposite the creek.

"Go up the mountain, then you can call your uncle for me and tell him to come back quickly. I'm waiting for him to go to the town together. It's on the land by the mountain. See?" Wang Niangniang shook her hand and stood up to point Show him a place on the top of the mountain, "It's there."

Lin Jiangsui looked in the direction she pointed, which happened to be in the direction of going up the mountain, and there was a vaguely visible figure moving from here to there.

"Well, I see, then I'm leaving!" Lin Jiang waved his hand to say goodbye to everyone.

Walking slowly up the mountain road, what I thought was a short journey took more than ten minutes.

After telling Uncle Wang's family what Mrs. Wang said, Lin Jiang waved goodbye to him and continued to walk up. After a while, he looked around at a fork in the road and turned into the small road on the left that could block the village. .

After making sure that there was no one around, Lin Jiang took out his hoe and went down to the weedy land beside the road, digging out a large piece of soil.

After digging hard several times, Lin Jiangsui squatted down and put his hands on the soil clods, looking at the large and small clods on the ground.Silently thinking about putting these clods of soil into the sealed place, the next moment, the clods of soil disappeared.

While sticking his hand on another clod, Lin Jiangsui said in his heart: [Obviously I can collect it myself, but if there is such a labor-saving method, I didn’t tell me, and I was exhausted yesterday. 】【I'm so sorry, I didn't remember it yesterday. ] He said sorry, but Emperor Ming's tone did not show a trace of apology, but a feeling of gloating.

Lin Jiangsui had no choice but to walk and dig indignantly, digging and harvesting, walking all the way, leaving countless small pits.

He was busy all the way like this, and he didn't know how long he had been walking. When Lin Jiangsui stopped, he couldn't tell where he was.

【be lost? 】 Hades asked.

[No, there are pits in the back, just follow when you go back. 】Lin Jiangsui didn't care about the road, there was no road ahead, but there was a forest not far away, and a large piece of dry grass between them, because there was no human habitation for a long time, the height of the grass reached the height of the thigh.

Putting away the hoe, he searched around, picked up a one-meter-long dead branch, plucked the grass and walked towards the woods.

[I don’t need to go there for digging, do I? 】The Underworld Emperor wondered, there is nothing to see in the woods in this weather?

[There seems to be the sound of water over there, I'm hungry, find a place to rest. 】He was tired after walking all morning.

[Tch, I'm tired after digging for a while, it's really useless. 】【Don’t keep talking about me for being useless, it’s not you digging, of course you’re not tired, and it’s almost noon now, so it’s not a while, it’s been a long time, okay? 】Lin Jiang sullenly said.

【...You are getting bolder now, do you want me to teach you a lesson? ] Underworld Emperor lowered his voice, looking as if the mountain and rain were about to come and the wind filled the building.

Lin Jiangsui was not afraid: 【We'll talk about it when you come out. 】

【snort! ] Seeing that he couldn't be frightened, Emperor Underworld snorted softly and gave up.

Regarding Emperor Underworld, Lin Jiangsui felt that he already understood a little bit. His strength seemed to be very strong, but his temper was not very good. It's just a paper tiger that says nothing.

Of course, he can't let him know, otherwise I don't know how he will get mad.

Passing through the woods, I saw a small stream running down the huge rocks, feeling like a miniature waterfall.Lin Jiangsu guessed that this should be the upper reaches of the stream in the village.

He sat down on a rock that was almost clean, took off his gloves, and washed his hands in the cold stream water. Lin Jiang found today's lunch from his bag—a soda cracker, a piece of bread, a boiled egg, and a bottle of mineral water.

After walking for so long, he was already thirsty. He opened the bottle cap and drank a big mouthful of ice water.

[It's so cold! 】

【Deserving it. 】

Lin Jiang ignored him, settled his lunch in twos and twos, patted his bulging stomach, and sat there resting and basking in the sun.

[How much did you dig today? 】

[More than yesterday, about seven or eight square meters—of course, it was piled according to your previous thickness. At this speed, you will probably have to dig for two or three months. 】【God, there is really no other way?You must be lying to me, right?You have a criminal record! 】【Yes, but you won't be allowed to use it. 】The Underworld Emperor said bluntly.

【why? 】

[There is no reason, it’s just not possible anyway, hurry up and go to work, if you haven’t dug 70 square meters today, don’t go back, of course it’s calculated based on the thickness of [-] centimeters. 】【demon! 】【Hmm, thank you for the compliment! ] It seems that all races with dark attributes will be called this way, right?

Cursing all the way down the mountain, Lin Jiangsui felt that if he continued like this, he would really be useless.

There is more than 20 square meters of land, and it needs to be tidied up slowly when he goes back. He will die if he doesn't die.

【I won't come tomorrow. 】

【Then let's take a day off. Anyway, it will take time to organize these things. ] Emperor Hades doesn’t care. In fact, to him, the creation of land is to absorb light attribute energy and reduce the energy of the sealed land, but the energy that such a small area of ​​land can absorb is nothing more than nothing. The most important thing is that he It's really boring to stay alone in the sealed place all the time, and watching Lin Jiangsui busy around there is also a good pastime.

To put it bluntly, this is just his bad taste.

Thinking of the land preparation that will be done next, Lin Jiang grows up again.

【Ah, by the way, those little vegetables of yours have sprouted, do you want to come in and take a look? 】【So fast? ] Lin Jiangsui was a little surprised, and then said in surprise: [Could it be that your sealed place can also speed up the passage of time? 】The Underworld Emperor hit him unceremoniously and said: 【Don't dream, if you really want to speed up the passage of time, I would have come out earlier. Energy crystals contain a lot of life energy, which can make living things grow faster and better. ]【So that’s it, I’ll check it out when I go back, it’s time to hurry now, it’s almost dark. 】Rejecting Emperor Ming's proposal, Lin Jiangsui raised his head to look at the horizon, the orange sunset was half-hidden behind the clouds, leaning against the distant hills, emitting heat lazily.

On the way home, Lin Jiangsui did not forget to collect some trophies. Apart from the purpose of going out today - digging the soil, he also found some wild vegetables such as shepherd's purse that can grow even in winter.

Shepherd's purse is a very common wild vegetable, which can be seen all over the world, but it has high nutritional and medicinal value, and its taste is also very good. It can make many delicious dishes with various ingredients.Among Lin Jiangsui's favorite foods are shepherd's purse dumplings.

[Find some more, go to the town tomorrow to buy some pork stuffing and dumpling wrappers, and you'll have a good meal. 】Lin Jiang thought beautifully.

【Can you do it? 】The Underworld Emperor asked in a very shameless manner.

All the Emperor Underworld's knowledge of the outside world comes from Lin Jiangsui's brain, and he knows Lin Jiangsui well, and he can't hide anything about him from him.

【Forehead. 】Lin Jiangsui's hands froze when picking shepherd's purse. He grew up in a boarding school and usually ate in cafeterias and restaurants. He never had a chance to be near the kitchen. Where can he cook? I saw it in the shepherd's purse dumpling shop.At present, he can at most copy a few small dishes, which are of ordinary taste, so as not to starve himself to death.

But Lin Jiangsui was not discouraged, and retorted confidently: [I can learn if I don’t know how, anyway, I will definitely make it for you to see! 】【oh oh?Then I am waiting for your performance. 】Hurrying quickly, Lin Jiangsui finally returned to the village before it was completely dark.

In the village, every household smoked, or farmers carrying hoes or bamboo baskets walked home together in twos and threes, laughing and laughing, and there was a sense of peace everywhere.

Open the door, dim light, deserted room, a touch of loneliness welled up in my heart.For a while, Lin Jiangsui stood at the door in a daze, not knowing what to do.

[Why don't you go in? ] Underworld Emperor's doubtful voice sounded in his mind.

【ah? 】Lin Jiangsui was awakened, seemed to think of something, smiled, walked in, and closed the door.

He is no longer alone...

【whispering sound. 】