Little Farm Among the Clouds

Ye Chi was extremely surprised.

Lu Mingfang shook the three-layer lunch box in his hand, and asked, "Yechi, do you want to eat?"

Ye Chi hesitated for a moment, faced his heart honestly, and said, "I kind of want to eat it, but I also kind of don't want to eat it."

"why?"

"I'm still a little sad because my mother is gone."

"Don't be sad, your mother will come to see you soon."

"How do you know?" Ye Chi asked.

Lu Mingfang smiled slightly and said, "Because it will be National Day on October [-]st in just over a month, schools all over the country will be closed for seven days, and office workers across the country will also be closed for seven days. Your mother will definitely come back to see you at that time."

Upon hearing this, Ye Chi immediately opened his eyes wide and asked, "Really?"

Lu Mingfang nodded, nodding, the water on the raincoat was splashing down, Ye Chi didn't notice, but asked: "Seven days off?"

"Ah."

"Then my mother can stay with me for seven days?"

"Yes, your mother loves you so much, she will definitely come back to see you as soon as she is on vacation."

"Well, the National Day is really great." The haze in Ye Chi's heart was swept away, and the broken light in his eyes was extraordinarily energetic. Only then did he notice Lu Mingfang's wet raincoat, and he immediately said: " Brother Fang, we're home now, take off your raincoat quickly, or you'll feel uncomfortable."

"Ah."

Ye Chi reached out to take the lunch box in Lu Mingfang's hand, put it on the stool next to him, and helped Lu Mingfang take off the large raincoat on his body. At this time, Ye Guosheng ran to the hallway against the rain, raised his eyes and said in surprise: " Tomorrow is here."

Lu Mingfang called out politely: "Grandpa Ye."

"how did it get here?"

"Wear a raincoat."

"Are you drenched?" Saying this, Ye Guosheng had already seen the water and wet hair on Lu Mingfang's forehead, reached out for a towel hanging in the hallway, and went forward to wipe it for Lu Mingfang.

Lu Mingfang wasn't on guard against Ye Chi, nor was he against Ye Guosheng, he let Ye Guosheng wipe off the water stains on his forehead and said, "Thank you, Grandpa Ye, I just got wet on my head, and the rest didn't get wet."

Ye Guosheng glanced outside the courtyard and said, "It's raining too much, why don't we come again when the rain stops?"

Lu Mingfang replied: "Because Auntie Su left, I came to see Ye Chi and bring food to Ye Chi." The implication was that Ye Chi would be sad.

"What to eat?"

"This." Ye Chi picked up the lunch box first and said, "It contains my favorite sweet and sour pork ribs and fried chicken!"

Ye Guosheng looked at Lu Mingfang and asked, "You asked your grandfather to make it for Ye Chi?"

Lu Mingfang nodded.

Just know it is!It is not in vain that Yechi followed Lu Mingfang like a sycophant, shouting "Fang Brother, Fang Ge" every day, Ye Guosheng now frequents with Mrs. Lu's family, and it has become a habit to send some vegetables and fruits and some cooked snacks. He was not as polite as before, he asked Ye Chi to say thank you, and then said to Lu Mingfang: "Mingfang, it's raining so hard, let's eat here at noon."

Lu Mingfang nodded.

Ye Guosheng looked at the rainy weather outside and said, "It's still early at noon, if you are hungry, eat some fried chicken first, and I'll make lunch later."

Ye Chi then said, "Grandpa, you also eat fried chicken."

"Grandpa is not hungry."

"You can eat even if you're not hungry. I can eat a lot even when I'm not hungry." In Ye Chi's thinking, if you are hungry, you must eat.If you are not hungry, you still need to eat.Anyway, you can eat anytime, anywhere.

Ye Guosheng: "..."

Lu Mingfang: "..."

"Grandpa, let's eat together." Ye Chi squatted in front of the lunch box and skillfully opened it.

The lunch box has three layers in total. The first layer is half a fried chicken, which is fried golden, which makes people appetite; the second layer is sweet and sour pork ribs, which smells like meat; The side dish prepared for Ye Guosheng's grandpa and grandson, diced beef, capers, potato dices, etc. are fried together, and the sauce is rich.

Ye Chi sighed from the bottom of his heart: "Wow! It smells so good, Grandma Lu is so kind!"

Lu Mingfang on the side reminded: "My grandfather did it this time."

"Ah, did Grandpa Lu make it?" Ye Chi paused for a moment, and immediately repeated the expression just now: "Wow! It smells so good, Grandpa Lu is so kind."

Lu Mingfang: "..."

Ye Guosheng: "..."

"I'm going to wash my hands!" Ye Chi didn't care, braved the rain to wash his little hands by the faucet, ran back quickly, shook the raindrops off his body like Dahei, squatted in front of the lunch box, picked up half a chicken leg, Turning around, he whispered to Lu Mingfang: "Brother Fang, my grandpa is an old man, we must respect the old man, this chicken leg is for grandpa, we don't eat it, next time I eat chicken with Grandpa Lu, I will also give it to Grandpa Lu A big chicken leg, okay?"

Lu Mingfang nodded.

Ye Chi got up and handed the chicken legs to Ye Guosheng. Ye Guosheng competed with the two children for the chicken legs. He found a reason and returned the chicken legs to Ye Chi. Ribs.

Ye Chi's small mouth was oily, and he asked, "Grandpa, have you stopped eating?"

"If you don't eat it, the elderly can't eat too much oil."

"Then, then don't eat, drink more water."

"Well, eat it, grandpa goes to the thatched cottage and turns over the dried vegetables."

Ye Guosheng is a person with life experience, especially in the past ten years, every summer and autumn, he will make some dried vegetables and save them for the winter, such as dried radishes, cucumber strips, capers, etc. Some of them are put in jars, Others are seasoned with salt, chili powder, pepper, etc., and then exposed to the sun to let the moisture out.

No matter which one it is, it can be stored for a long time, so that the grandpa and grandson can eat their own cooked vegetables in winter.

Ye Guosheng used to make it himself, but now there is Ye Chi, Ye Chi has helped every time, and this time is no exception, he said, "Grandpa, I will also turn over the dried vegetables."

"No, you can eat first."

"I'll eat after I finish my work."

"There's not much work. You don't need to do it. The fried chicken won't taste good when it's cold."

"Okay then, I'll go to work after I finish my fried chicken."

Braving the rain, Ye Guosheng quickly turned into the thatched cottage.

Ye Chi and Lu Mingfang ate ribs and fried chicken around the lunch box. Lu Mingfang ate very civilized food, while Ye Chi held the chicken wings with one meaty hand and the sweet and sour pork ribs with the other. The face is satisfied, and it looks like it will really enjoy the food.

Lu Mingfang asked: "Is it so delicious?"

Ye Chi's mouth was full, and he nodded vigorously. The delicious food made him forget some sadness that does not belong to children.

Lu Mingfang raised the corners of his mouth and lowered his head to eat ribs. The heavy rain outside the courtyard was still pouring down, washing the ground of Jingshan Town, and bringing with it layer after layer of heat. After a while, he obviously felt the coolness. Ye Guosheng hurried to He went to the room and got two pieces of clothes for Ye Chi Lu Mingfang to put on.

Afterwards, they started making lunch. Before lunch, Yechi and Lu Mingfang ate a lot of meat. He didn't want to eat so greasy anymore, so Ye Guosheng cooked tomato and egg noodles, served with Mr. Lu's side dishes, and had a full lunch.

Thinking about how fast the storms come and go in summer, I don’t know that after the storms, there will be continuous drizzle, and it can’t stop falling, and it won’t stop for two or three days.

Ye Guosheng had no way to sell vegetables, so he stayed at home and dealt with Ye Chi's homemade pickles, made jar after jar, dustpan after dustpan, and some vegetable leaves that could not be sold directly were also made into dried vegetables Pickled vegetables, the vegetables that can be sold in winter are limited, and it is just right to sell pickled vegetables. Ye Guosheng does not need to be rich, some income, so that he and Ye Chi can live comfortably.

In fact, Ye Guosheng is being modest, maybe Ye Chi is really "Master Shan Jing". His vegetables grow very well this year. In addition to going to the market to sell vegetables every day, there is also the reason of Li Lishen, a supermarket. They all have an income, calculated a month, and their income is higher than that of most office workers.

I really answered that sentence, an office worker is not as good as a steamed bun seller, any small business seems to be better than ordinary part-time jobs, especially in this harvest autumn, the grandparents and grandchildren did not make less money, of course they did not slack off because of this, so I made these dried vegetables Pickles and the like, after Ye Chi finished his work, he said, "Grandpa, let's make more dried vegetables."

"Why do you want to do more?"

"You can sell more money in winter."

"Then the weather must be fine before we can make dried vegetables."

"That's right!" Ye Chi suddenly realized: "The weather is not sunny, the vegetables are not dry, and they are prone to mold."

"That's the reason!"

"That's the reason."

Although Ye Guosheng's education level is not high, his 70 years of life experience make him like a great treasure in life, distributing life knowledge all the time. In addition to love, I have experienced the beauty of life in my life. In addition to love, I also have the amount of life knowledge that my peers do not have.

Knowing that he couldn't dry the vegetables for the time being, he turned to other things and said, "Grandpa, I'm going to feed the chickens."

It is so rainy, adults and children seldom go out, and the chickens are also confined to the chicken coop. Before that, the grandpa and grandson hatched nearly a hundred little yellow chickens, sold dozens of them, and raised dozens of them. Over the past few months, after getting rid of sick and dead ones, there are now a total of eleven chickens in the house, three roosters and eight hens, among which one rooster and three hens are the original ones, and the remaining seven are hatched later. Usually the leaf pond is feeding.

In order to raise chickens better, the grandpa and grandson built a chicken coop for the chickens with asbestos tiles. It is no problem to keep out the wind and rain. Yechi filled a bowl of rice and came to the chicken coop, shouting "clack da , come over to eat."

Scattering the rice in the chicken coop one by one, I saw six eggs lying in the chicken coop in the corner from the corner of my vision, and there was still a little blood on the tender pink eggshells.

He thought to himself, three old hens had been laying eggs at home, three of them a day, and six suddenly appeared today, which meant that the other three eggs were laid by chicks.

The chick has laid an egg!These are all chickens raised by Ye Chi, Ye Chi immediately became excited, took six eggs and shouted: "Grandpa, the chick has laid an egg, it has laid an egg!"

Ye Guosheng hurried out to have a look.

Ye Chi ran to Ye Guosheng under the drizzle, excitedly: "Grandpa, look, look, the chick has laid eggs!"

Ye Guosheng saw the doorway at a glance, and he was sure that the chicken had laid eggs, and said pleasantly: "It really is!"

"Well! As soon as I fed them, I saw it."

Ye Guosheng reached out to take it.

Ye Chi's excitement remained undiminished, his eyes shone extremely brightly, the chicken laying eggs meant too much to him.

He watched the little yellow chicken break its shell, and fed the little yellow chicken to eat cooked rice and raw rice one by one.Once two little yellow chickens had a fever, he and his grandfather crushed paracetamol and dissolved it in water, sprayed the little yellow chickens with a syringe into their mouths, and then the little yellow chickens recovered.

Then I watched the little yellow chicken's hair change little by little, turning into an earthy color. Although it was a bit ugly, my own chicken was beautiful no matter how you looked at it.

Now the chicks are laying eggs!Ye Chi felt a sense of accomplishment in raising the child, his face flushed with excitement and said, "Grandpa, let me talk to Brother Fang."

"It's raining."

"I'll call Brother Fang."

"Go."

Ye Chi happily ran to the room. He was familiar with the phone number of Mrs. Lu's house. He picked up the phone and played it. It's amazing! Oh, I'm so happy."

"Wait--"

"Three of them have been laid. Grandpa said that there may be other chicks laying eggs in a while. Even if there are no chickens today, there will be tomorrow and the day after tomorrow."

"Wait a moment."

"Waiting for what?" Ye Chi asked back.

"Who are you looking for?" An unfamiliar voice came from the phone.

Ye Chi said: "I'm looking for Brother Fang."

"Who is Brother Fang? Who are you?"

"Brother Fang is me, Brother Fang, I am Ye Chi."

"I don't know, did you call the wrong number? Kid."

"Huh? Did I make a typo?"

"Well, I made a mistake."

"Then, I'm sorry."

"It's all right."

Ye Chi hung up the phone. The phone was pulled to the ground by Dahei some time ago and broke. In fact, it was too old. Ye Guosheng found a new one with more functions. Ye Chi could see the number he dialed. Look, it was really a wrong dial, and he whispered to himself, "Oh, I'm so stupid, I actually pressed the wrong button, I'm so unhandsome."

Now I press the number carefully, and after confirming that the other end is Lu Mingfang, I am even more excited to tell the story of my chicken laying eggs. Lu Mingfang was also very excited about the things that made him happy, and said: "I will go to your house to see now. .”

"Okay, you come!"

After hanging up on Lu Mingfang's phone, Ye Chi called Xiao Haozi again. Xiao Haozi's reaction was much more exaggerated than Lu Mingfang's. He hadn't seen a chicken lay an egg yet, and said he was going to run to Ye Chi's house.

When Lu Ming was put in Ye Chi's house, Xiao Haozi also ran over covered in mud, and Ye Chi asked, "Why are you covered in mud?"

Xiao Haozi replied: "I ran too fast and fell."

"Then do you hurt from the fall?"

"No, I have fallen."

"Then I'll get you my clothes to wear."

"No, it will be done in a while."

"OK then."

The three children looked at the eggs together, and then came to the henhouse together, and saw a chick walking non-stop, clucking, clucking, and Ye Chi pointed at it and said, "It's about to lay eggs." !"

Xiao Haozi asked: "How do you know?"

"Because that's how its mother lays eggs."

"Who is its mother?"

Ye Chi pointed to the three hens and said, "It's the one in the middle of the three of them."

"Its mother is really ugly."

"Nonsense, she looks pretty good-looking!"

"Ugly, it's ugly."

"The ones that are not soiled are pheasants!"

"The pheasant's tail is super long."

"Well, the meat is delicious!"

"..."

"Stop talking." Lu Mingfang interrupted the conversation between the two without speaking, pointed at the chicken and said, "It's lying down."

The little chicken clucked twice, and lay down in front of the chicken coop. The three of Ye Chi hurried to the fence outside the chicken coop, squatted quietly beside them, and stared at the little chicken for a moment. I have never been so well-behaved, and even spoke in a low voice.

Xiao Haozi asked: "Is it laying eggs?"

Ye Chi nodded: "Yes."

"How long will it take to get out?"

"do not know."

Xiao Haozi said with a look of disgust: "Ye Chi, you have eleven chickens in your house, and you don't even know it!"

Ye Chi retorted: "Xiao Haozi, you have grown up from eating chickens, and you don't know how long it takes to lay an egg!"

Xiao Haozi was immediately speechless by Ye Chi's rebuttal.

Lu Mingfang on the side pursed his lips and smiled.

After a while, Xiao Haozi asked: "Will it be the next day?"

"Not the next day."

"Are we just waiting here?"

"Ah."

Xiao Haozi still opened his mouth to speak, but was robbed by Lu Mingfang: "Stop talking, or you will scare the chicken away."

Ye Chi turned his head and said, "Xiao Haozi, stop talking, you're scaring the chicken away."

Xiao Haozi: "..." It was as if Ye Chi hadn't spoken.

Lu Mingfang looked at Ye Chi with a look of "what are you doing?" Ye Chi immediately smiled sweetly at Lu Mingfang: "Brother Fang, from now on, I won't talk."

Lu Mingfang nodded helplessly.

Ye Chi really stopped talking, staring at the chick in the chicken coop with bright eyes, he didn't know how long they stared at it, suddenly the chick stood up, they looked into the chicken coop, an egg with a tender shell Appeared out of nowhere.

"The chicken really laid eggs!" Xiao Haozi exclaimed in amazement.

"I'll get it!" Ye Chi got up and was about to go.

"Wait a minute." Lu Mingfang held Ye Chi and said, "If you take it like this, the chick will chase you."

"how do you know?"

"It's said in "Animal World." Lu Mingfang is a smart child, not ordinary smart, but with a high IQ, except for a little difficulty in playing, other things can be said to be unforgettable.

Ye Chi asked suspiciously: "Then what should we do?"

Lu Mingfang saw the rice bowl next to him, grabbed a handful of rice, threw it into the chicken coop, and said, "Go."

Ye Chi took out the egg smoothly and said happily, "It's still hot."

Xiao Haozi asked in surprise, "Are the eggs hot?"

"You touch."

"Ah, it's really hot."

"Brother Fang, touch it too." Ye Chi put the egg in Lu Mingfang's hand. It was the first time Lu Mingfang saw a chicken laying an egg, and it was also the first time he knew that the egg was hot at first. Haozi was so exaggeratedly excited, but because of this small incident, his heart was also full of waves.

The three children stared at the eggs, not feeling bored at all. Ye Guosheng thought that the children liked eggs, so he said, "Then let me scramble these eggs for you to eat at noon."

"No!" The three children refused together.

"If you don't eat eggs, what are you looking at?"

"Looks good, these are the eggs laid by my chickens, they cannot be eaten."

"..." Ye Guosheng was speechless, but he also understood children's love for some creatures in nature. For example, Lingling bought flowers once, and she watered them every day. One day, the flowers were rooted by the cat next door. Biting it, the root was broken. She cried sadly for a long time, but she was still reluctant to hit the cat, so she cried for a long time.

Ye Guosheng didn't know how to take care of children at first, but later he learned to respect children from Ye Fengxia. Ye Chi said he couldn't eat eggs, so he didn't touch them, and even put them in a drawer. This kind of behavior made Ye Chi feel valued He liked it very much, and said actively, "Grandpa, when the weather clears, shall we sell the eggs?"

Ye Guosheng asked: "Are you willing?"

Ye Chi nodded.

Ye Guosheng wondered, "Why are you suddenly willing?"

"Because Brother Fang said, this is the biological chain."

"Biological chain?" Ye Guosheng didn't understand.

Ye Chi didn't quite understand either, according to Lu Mingfang's words, but he didn't memorize all of Lu Mingfang's words, so he concluded by himself: "The biological chain is that water is drunk by rice, and rice is eaten by chickens, and then chickens are eaten by us humans." Eat, emmm... Brother Fang said, this is the law, so that the world can develop well. He also said that human beings have struggled for many, many, thousands of years to stand at the top of the biological chain. If you don’t eat chicken or sheep, there will be too many chickens If there are too many sheep, they will become fine, and they will harm people.”

What and what, Ye Guosheng still didn't understand, and asked: "So, what do you mean by letting go?"

"I don't know either." Ye Chi thought for a while and said, "Maybe, maybe Brother Fang said that there are too many eggs, and if you don't eat them, they will expire."

Ye Guosheng couldn't keep up with Ye Chi's train of thought, so he asked directly: "Then what should we do now?"

"Listen to Brother Fang. What Brother Fang said must be right. When the weather clears, sell the eggs."

"Row."

Ye Guosheng heaved a sigh of relief, he could finally understand what the child said, otherwise he really thought he was confused, Ye Chi also heaved a sigh of relief, he finally understood what Brother Fang meant. Brother Fang was afraid that "the eggs are expired", Thinking about it this way, I feel that Brother Fang's words are too inaccurate. Wouldn't it be enough to just say that the eggs are expired?

However, Brother Fang is very powerful in his heart, he will not dislike Brother Fang because of his inaccurate speech, so let's wait for the sky to clear up now, but the sky has not yet cleared, he is bored at home, so tell Ye Guosheng , took an apple and an umbrella to look for Lu Mingfang.

Lu Mingfang was sitting at the table writing seriously, Ye Chi lay down on the table and shouted: "Brother Fang!"

Lu Mingfang responded.

"Brother Fang, what are you doing?"

"Writing."

"What are you writing?"

"Write 'Yechi is a pig'."

"..." Ye Chi looked at the exercise book, and the entire page was densely packed with words, but in fact there were only five words - Ye, Chi, Yes, Head, and Pig.