"Brother, are you tired?" Seeing him sighing, Xu Siyuan asked with concern.

"Not tired, how about you?" Xu Lingyuan finally came to his senses.

"It's okay." Xu Siyuan said, and after thinking for a while, he said, "We feel tired just looking at it. Aren't they even more tired? I used to only know that rice noodles are bought with money, but now I know that they are really hard to come by. "

"Yes, the ancients said, 'Who knows that every piece of Chinese food is hard work' is naturally justified." Xu Lingyuan also said with emotion, although he would memorize these things in modern times, but modern farming methods, chemical fertilizers, herbicides, etc. , all kinds of pesticides, seeders, and harvesters, even if they came from the countryside, Xu Lingyuan didn't have such a profound experience now.

"Brother is very right." Xu Siyuan repeated what he said, looked at the hard-working people in front of him, and said to him very seriously.

Xu Lingyuan smiled appreciatively, but said nothing.Secretly thought that it was fortunate that he didn't ask which ancient person said these few words, otherwise he would have a headache again.However, Xu Lingyuan is very pleased that a kid from a rich family like Xu Siyuan can have such an awareness.

Just like that, he and Xu Siyuan stood together in the shadow formed by the haystacks, watching everyone busy and lost in thought.

"By the way, there doesn't seem to be that kind of agricultural tool called Maijiao here." Xu Lingyuan seemed to think of something suddenly.

"Agui, can you only use stone rollers for threshing here?" Xu Lingyuan asked when Agui finally started resting again.

"Of course not." Agui said casually.

"What else? Why hasn't anyone used it?" Xu Lingyuan scanned the valley again to confirm that there were no other tools, and asked Agui curiously.

"It's called Hehu, and it's used for threshing rice, so of course it's not needed now." Agui said it as a matter of course, with Xu Lingyuan's rare and strange expression, he almost laughed at him directly.

"Then do you know Mai Jia?" Xu Lingyuan asked nonchalantly.

"Seller? Selling things?" Agui didn't understand why the topic suddenly changed to this, blinked his eyes, and asked suspiciously.

"Big brother should be talking about a kind of farm tool." Xu Siyuan couldn't help but said, looking at Agui in disbelief, obviously the big brother has been talking about farm tools, although he doesn't know what the big brother is talking about, but it must be related to business It doesn't matter.

"Really? I've never heard of such a strange thing." Agui looked at Xu Lingyuan, and after confirming that he got it wrong, he shook his head and said.

"Haven't you seen it?" Xu Lingyuan asked again. He had seen that kind of farming tools on TV programs. They should be very primitive, but they didn't exist here.

"If I say no, then there is no. If you don't believe me, you can ask my father." Seeing that his authority was repeatedly questioned, Agui said without anger.

"I just want to make sure." Xu Lingyuan hurriedly said to comfort him.

"Is there anything? This kid, Agui, is talking nonsense again?" The patriarch who had just returned from working for others asked Xu Lingyuan.

"I'm not talking nonsense, Dad, have you ever seen something called a seller?" Agui said with an expression of being wronged.

"Seller?" The patriarch was also a little confused.

"Oh, it's the wheat of the wheat, the shackle of the shackle, it's just a long stick with a rollable racket at the top, which can be used for threshing." Xu Lingyuan explained to him.

"Young master, you are talking about some weird things. You read this in the book? Our ancestors have been farming for generations, but we have never heard of such things." The patriarch said interestingly, probably thinking of the dry land that Xu Lingyuan said Let's raise seedlings.

"Well, I read it in a book, but this can be made. Although it is not very labor-saving, it is still relatively convenient to use." Xu Lingyuan can only blame everything on the book that does not exist at all.

"We're used to using stone rollers, and we can't handle things we haven't heard of before. We are still good at using old objects." The patriarch said openly.

"..." You really can see it, but why are you so uninnovative?Xu Lingyuan slandered silently.

"Brother..." The patriarch walked away after finishing speaking, Xu Siyuan called him worriedly seeing his shocked expression.

"It's okay." Xu Lingyuan smiled at the child, obviously he brought him here to play, but in the end he always made him worry about himself.

"Little Xiucai, are you going back to the city for the Dragon Boat Festival?" Agui asked.

"Well, are you reluctant to let me go?" Xu Lingyuan teased him.

"The devil can't bear you!" Agui said disdainfully, "Why didn't you go to look for Aqi today? He can't bear you, no one will let goose for him."

"You think he is you!" Xu Lingyuan glanced at him and said, the value of his affection is reflected in the geese. "Is Aqi here too?" It's just that he hasn't seen him for a few days. Xu Ling looked from a distance, but the grain field is quite big, and there are haystacks blocking it, so he can't see him at all.

"It's on the easternmost side, you can't even see it." Agui pointed out to him and said disgustedly.

"..." The place Agui pointed to was not on the same line as them, and there was a haystack across the place, so it was a ghost to see it. "Then we'll go find him." After Xu Lingyuan finished speaking, he dragged Xu Siyuan away with him.

"Hurry up, stand in the way!" Agui said nonchalantly, "Don't forget to come to my house to get wild eggs at noon, if you don't come, they will be gone."

"Understood!" Xu Lingyuan said as he walked.

When they found A Qi, he was busy collecting the wheat grains that had just been milled, and seeing Xu Lingyuan smiled, his hands moved a little faster.

Seeing a stranger coming, A Qi's parents also asked a few words, Xu Lingyuan answered and waited for A Qi.

"Brother, are those ducks?" Xu Siyuan was attracted by the animals in the field next to him, and asked Xu Lingyuan's hand.

"The bigger ones are geese, and the smaller ones are ducks." Xu Lingyuan explained to him, "Ducks have flat beaks."

The wheat was all cut, and there were leaking grains and grass in the field, and some children drove the geese into the wheat fields, and even the ducks.

At this time, the ducks and geese have shed their fluff and grown a lot, so they don't need to dig goose vegetables. They just need to drive them out during the day and feed them at night.

"Do they all eat grass?" Xu Siyuan asked with interest.

"Well, they also eat food." In fact, he has always felt a little strange. In his hometown, geese are only vegetarians, but ducks eat everything, but vegetarians are obviously more vicious than omnivores. Ducks should be the most docile among poultry Be timid.

"Brother, look, that duck is catching butterflies!" Xu Siyuan suddenly said excitedly.

"Well, it eats everything." Xu Lingyuan looked at the duck not far away that kept flapping its wings and stretched its neck to catch a butterfly.

"Eat?" Xu Siyuan asked suspiciously.

In the end, without Xu Lingyuan's answer, the duck actually caught the butterfly, raised its neck and ate it.

"Ducks eat a lot of things, including fish, shrimp, and dragonflies." Xu Lingyuan explained to him.

"It can catch butterflies, that butterfly is so stupid!" Xu Siyuan stared at the duck and said, "Can I go and have a look?"

"Yeah." Xu Lingyuan pulled him and walked over.

When the geese children saw Xu Lingyuan, they all greeted him. Xu Lingyuan introduced Xu Siyuan to them. Both sides were very friendly, but the geese were not polite. , Stretching his neck and shouting at them, Xu Siyuan was startled.

In the end, under the pressure of the goose stick, he went to the side to eat grass honestly.

Xu Siyuan didn't lose his interest because of this, he even caught a duck and picked up some wheat grains to feed it, but the panicked duck just shrank its head, looked pitiful, and didn't dare to eat it at all, so he had to be disappointed Set it and the wheat aside.

After a while, under Xu Siyuan's unremitting efforts, the duck was not afraid of him anymore. Xu Siyuan was catching grasshoppers and other insects in front, and it followed behind, staring at the duck with its eyes that were the size of mung beans but darker than black beans. He looked at Xu Siyuan, tilted his head and waited, and when Xu Siyuan caught him, he cried out excitedly, showing a tacit understanding.

When Xu Lingyuan saw that A Qi was done, he took Xu Siyuan over there, but the duck was still chasing him and was forced back by its owner.

"Brother, shall we still come in the afternoon?" Xu Siyuan said reluctantly.

"I couldn't see it when I came here, and they were driven back when it was hot." The weather was getting hotter and hotter, and the geese were released before ten o'clock in the morning, and they couldn't stand the hot weather.

"Oh." Xu Siyuan replied with some regret.

"I haven't taught you how to write recently. I'm going back to the city for the Dragon Boat Festival. Don't forget what you've learned. I'll have it checked when I come back." "when are you leaving?"

"Clean up today, let's go tomorrow morning." Xu Lingyuan didn't want to go back too early, but obviously it couldn't be too late, so let's go back the day before the Dragon Boat Festival.

"Are you coming this afternoon?" A Qi asked hesitantly.

"Huh? What's the matter?" Xu Lingyuan asked curiously.

"It's nothing." Agui looked at their brothers and said.

"I want to take Siyuan to go fishing in the afternoon, and I should come again." Seeing his vacillating expression, Xu Lingyuan thought for a while and said, "Did you come early? I want to borrow your fishing rods for a while." .”

"It's hot in the afternoon, so I won't be here until after a break, so come early." Hearing what he said, A Qi said happily.

"Okay." Xu Lingyuan nodded and said. "Aqi, if I find a new farm tool, it may not be very labor-saving, will you use it?" Although he was hit by the patriarch, Xu Lingyuan still asked a little bit unwillingly.

"Really?" A Qi nodded without hesitation, his eyes full of curiosity.

"Well, I brought it when I came back from the city." A Qi always brought him surprises.Xu Lingyuan, who was encouraged, decided that he would give it a try no matter whether anyone used it or not.

After staying for a while, A Qi became busy again, and the weather was getting hotter and hotter, so Xu Lingyuan planned to go home first.

"Agui, let's go first, and I'll get it at your house in the afternoon." Xu Lingyuan told him when passing by his family's grain farm.

"It's up to you. Fortunately, your fate is good. You can't even stand the heat." Agui said while spreading wheat on the ground. "A Qi won't be lazy to play with you?" He said in a tone that he knew a long time ago.

"Hurry up and work, and don't eat if you are lazy!" The patriarch who was far away from them shouted.

Agui immersed himself in his work honestly. Xu Lingyuan looked at him and felt that it would be unreasonable for him not to lose weight after harvesting the wheat.

"Brother, do you really want to take me fishing this afternoon?" Xu Siyuan asked him on the way back.

"Want to try it?" Xu Lingyuan asked him while pulling him.He didn't plan to come out in the afternoon, because it was hot, and Xu Siyuan might not be able to bear it.But when A Qi asked him, he inexplicably said it casually.

"Well! But I won't." The child said expectantly and worriedly.

"It's okay, I'm here." Xu Lingyuan comforted him.

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