In the evening, the sun gradually went down.

Ji Huai slept slowly under the swing under the tree, closing his eyes to rest.

Hearing the footsteps, he opened his eyes and looked towards the door. Wang Xiufen came over with a cardboard box with a smile on his round face.

She walked to him and put the box down, panting with her arms akimbo, "Ji Liang his mother gave eleven ducklings, and now they can just kill and eat them after raising them for the New Year."

Ji Huai sat up, looked at the chirping little ducklings, and suddenly said, "Just raise a batch. In two or three months, the rice in the fields should be harvested."

When the rice is harvested, there will be scattered rice in the field. When the time comes, the ducks can be driven off the field, and the feed for feeding the ducks can be omitted.

For the breeders, this is a business that makes a profit without losing money. Moreover, rice is planted here twice a year. This time it was harvested around National Day, it took a long time to plant again, which was three to three and a half months.

Meat ducks that are released for slaughter in a short period of time are only raised for two months, which saves a lot of feed and reduces the cost to a small amount.

"Can I still move? The road is unsteady!" Wang Xiufen knelt down to lift the box, her waist hurt, and she stretched out her hand to hammer again.

"I'm coming." Seeing this, Ji Huai frowned, and easily lifted the box, "Where do you want to put it?"

"Raise in the shed first." Wang Xiufen followed him, muttering, "My body is getting less and less useful. Last year I could raise a hundred of them. I can't do it this year. If I can do it, can I not raise it? "

"Why can't you do it? If you can't do it, you still bring the ducks back to raise? I don't think it will be a problem to raise a few thousand more." Ji Huai said and put the box down.

Wang Xiufen is a diligent person, who has been diligent all his life, and was too idle for a day without work. It is no exaggeration to say that she has to crawl into the ground just by dragging her legs.

"You little bastard, you really owe you in your previous life!" Wang Xiufen pointed at him with a smile and cursed, just as he was joking.

When her wife was not dead, the two of them could raise thousands of them. Now they are old and can't do anything.

"I'm serious, I'm going to buy ducklings now. Rice will just be harvested when I can get off the fields." Ji Huai proposed again.

Ducks had to be raised for a month before they could be driven off the fields, and they had to be kept in sheds with fodder.

"Are you going to drive down the fields?" Wang Xiufen still didn't take it seriously, and fed the little ducks in the box with a small bowl of water and put them in.

"I'm in a hurry." Ji Huai responded quickly.

Wang Xiufen was startled, thinking that he had heard it wrong, and turned to look at the grandson. Ji Huai is handsome. After his son and daughter-in-law are gone, they are left with such a baby grandson. When the baby's eggs hurt, they are not willing to let him suffer a bit from the hard work.

"Don't talk nonsense, you can't endure this bitterness." She waved her hand, not listening to his nonsense.

Everyone knows how many people are willing to do this job without losing money by catching ducks and farming to save feed.

In the past, there were still people of their generation who could do it, but now there are no farmers in the nearby villages. Old people like her can't do it anymore, young people don't want to come back to work, dirty, tired and bitter.

"If I don't try, how do I know that I can't endure this hardship? This is what our family does. I want to try. If I can't endure this hardship, I will go to the city to work. If I can endure this hardship, of course I want to live by my family. After Ji Huai finished speaking, he continued, "Could it be that I have to stay at home to chew the old? If you can't do it, I will take over."

Who wants to be a social animal who can guard the family business?

Seeing that he is serious, Wang Xiufen's expression on her round face receded, and she said earnestly, "If you can endure this bitterness, you will definitely not be hungry, but the twenty-year-old man, grandma is not willing to let you do this."

"What should a twenty-year-old boy do?" Ji Huai asked back.

"I bought a car for you too. It looks so handsome. If you don't go to work in the city, how can you get a daughter-in-law?" Wang Xiufen looked sad and rejected his proposal.

This business is very bitter, she is reluctant to let him suffer, and what about bachelor? In the past, those who raised ducks, chickens, cattle and sheep in the village could easily be a bachelor for a lifetime.

"What do you do if I went to work in the urban area? I don't worry that you are at home alone. I have to watch you at home." Ji Huai sat aside again, "Besides, how much money can I earn from working for someone else? I have no education. , Can't find a good job, can you make money so much that you are afraid of suffering? What am I in a hurry?"

When Wang Xiufen heard that he was so filial, her eyes turned red, and she stretched out her hand to press the corner of her eye.

Her grandson is so sensible, a life-stricken child.

Seeing that Ji Huai really wanted to try, she thought for a while, and sighed, "Why don't you raise it? If you really can't do it, I'll sell the rest of the land. Many people also want to buy it, all of which are priced at 5,000 yuan. One mu, the fish pond can sell for tens of thousands, and if you sell it, you can collect some money to get married."

She might have gone to the sky after staring at her feet in a few years, and it would be useless to keep these things. If Ji Huai could really take over, it would be best.

The rice is harvested immediately. If you drive the ducks off the fields diligently, you can benefit from it. Now the cost of trial and error is low.

"Why do I keep it if I can't do it?" Ji Huai raised an eyebrow after finishing his sentence. "If I can do it, who will work?"

"Little bastard." Wang Xiufen scolded him with a smile.

"Didn’t you yelled the other day to catch the fish from the fish pond and sell it? Your waist can't do anything. Tomorrow I will get up early to help you catch the fish, and then I will send you to the town to sell it." Ji Huai patted her. shoulder.

Although he is lazy, he has been familiar with all these things since he was a child.

Three of the five fish ponds did not dry up. A batch of fry was dropped early, and neither fished nor fed. Recently, the sea is prohibited, and these semi-pure wild fish are a little more expensive.

Wang Xiufen has had a back disease since last year and cannot do heavy work. Otherwise, these family properties can still be sold for a lot of money, and his life will always be very moist.

"Okay!" Wang Xiufen grinned to the back of his ears.

She knew that the grandson didn't hurt her in vain, and she knew she loved her grandma.

Night fell slowly.

Ji Huai refused the invitation of the group of friends and fox friends, and covered the room with a quilt to blow air-conditioning.

Wang Xiufen went to bed early, and went to bed as soon as it got dark.

He was chatting with Wen Yun, and at his request, she was finally willing to open the video. Looking at her fair and pretty face, Ji Huai was in a trance for a while.

Being stared at by him, Wen Yun put on her cheeks shyly, and slightly moved the camera away, "You just said that you are going to get up early tomorrow, what do you do?"

"Catch the fish." Ji Huai didn't reluctantly look at the camera again, with his hands resting on the back of his head.

When he said this, Wen Yun won't delay his time, but he didn't hang up, "We'll talk again."

She bought a hard seat, and there were people beside and in front of her. She had a thin face and was not too embarrassed to talk. He always said that she listened.

Speaking of the last, Ji Huaiba said in a loud voice, "I have a daughter-in-law, and I can't live it away. I must have a plan. I will marry you when you graduate."

Wen Yun's clear eyes were stained with shyness, but also with sweetness.

The train was quiet at night, and Ji Huai still didn't want to hang up with her. She was wearing headphones, and the two went to sleep with Mai.

This is the first time she has travelled far away. She was actually very scared in her heart. She didn't dare to close her eyes at night. He was relieved a lot. Holding the mobile phone in one hand and pressing the bag in front of her with one hand, she entered light sleep.

The next day, it was still dark.

When Ji Huai got up, Wang Xiufen also got up, and the two went to the fish pond to catch fish.

She directed from the shore, and he went down to the fish pond.

This is a laborious job. Fortunately, there are a lot of fish in the fish pond. After more than an hour of tossing, I caught more than 20 catties.

Wang Xiufen has put the things needed to set up the stall in his car. Ji Huai quickly washed off the mud on his feet, changed his dirty clothes, put on flip-flops, took the car keys and drove to the town.

The sky was clear, and the two hurriedly found a place on the street to set up a stall.

The main species in their fish ponds is tilapia, which is easy to feed, and the meat is delicate and delicious, and the locals love it too.

Tilapia is placed in the basin, and because of its resistance to hypoxia, they are lively and vigorously.

Ji Huai has never been out to sell anything, and her eloquence is not as good as Wang Xiufen's, so she put it aside. Wen Yun woke up too, he was typing and chatting with her.

"This is a river fish. My grandson just caught it. You know it tastes different after you eat it." Wang Xiufen grabbed the fish with his callused hands, and said cleverly, "Look, it's not the same as the fish you raise. The meat is firm. ."

Ji Huai glanced at her and didn't say a word. He made a short video of Wen Yun. First he took pictures of people on the street, then took pictures of their stalls, and Wang Xiufen was also in the shot.

I saw that Wang Xiufen had persuaded the people who came to ask the price to grab a fish and put it on the scale, then took it down and put it on the chopping board, holding the head of the fish in his hands, quickly smashing the fish with his hands and feet, and the scales flew up.

After a few seconds, turn the fish over and wait a few more seconds to successfully remove the scales and cut off the tail with a single knife.

Then he pressed the fish's body with one hand and held the knife with the other hand. When the knife went down, the fish's belly was cut open. When the knife went in everything, the internal organs of the fish's belly were dug out, and two knives were taken from the gills on the left and right sides, and they were washed in water.

Ji Huai pulled a bag and handed it over. She overturned the bag and overturned it to catch the fish. After another flip, the fish was put into the bag and handed to the customer, "Eleven yuan."

The whole set of actions was smooth and flowing, and it didn't take a few minutes in total.

The small video can only be shot for fifteen seconds. Wen Yun watched the first half, but she also thought it was very powerful.

"It must be said that the fish from the river are good for selling, and the feed is not tasty. Fortunately, our fish is considered semi-wild, and it tastes better than the feed." After Wang Xiufen finished speaking, he whispered to him, "Otherwise. It's cheaper, two yuan per catty cheaper, of course it must be caught in the river."

Ji Huai nodded in agreement.

When you are a businessman, you can't tell the truth.

As more and more people came to buy, Wang Xiufen told him not to play with mobile phones, so he quickly helped.

Ji Huai made a voice call to Wen Yun, put the phone on his lap, and while busy collecting money, he pulled the bag and handed it over.

Online payment in the town is not so popular now, and most people still use cash.

the other side.

Wen Yun, who was bored in every way on the train, kept hearing the lively sounds coming from inside:

"This fish is delicious, it's so fat, it's definitely not raised on feed, you can rest assured."

"Look, it's still alive, I just caught it today."

"Seven dollars, three dollars for this beauty."

"My grandson caught it. Look at this head. This fish has no thorns. It's delicious no matter how you make it."

If the elderly are full of anger, they must be very energetic.

"How much do you have left?" Wen Yun asked him, looking at the sun rising from the car window.

"Half." Ji Huai returned to her wearing a headset.

"Hurry up and find money." Wang Xiufen was busy killing the fish while urging him with a loud voice.

Ji Huai took the 20 yuan from the customer and found another five. "We sold three more."

Wen Yun: "Is it good to sell? Are there many people selling it?"

Ji Huai: "It's okay."

Seeing him talking, Wang Xiufen glanced at him without saying anything, and continued to kill the fish quickly.

Twenty catties of fish don’t need to be sold for long. By about ten o’clock, they have already sold out.

Ji Huai handed the money to Wang Xiufen, "Here, one hundred and forty-two yuan."

Wang Xiufen wiped her hands, took the money, and hammered her old waist again, frowning with pain.

"Your waist." Ji Huai moved the things to the car and placed them in the trunk likewise. "I heard that there is a Miao doctor who specializes in this disease in Dacheng Town. I'll take you to see it."

Wang Xiufen shook her head and sighed, and continued to beat her waist. "People will have problems when they get old."

"Treat anything wrong and do less work." Ji Huai put the last two stools in and sat in the driver's seat, "wait for me to ask for the specific address, and then take you there."

"Let's talk about it." Wang Xiufen sat in the car, feeling that having a car is convenient. It used to be her wife riding a small electric motor, and the two of them had to come to the town to set up a stall long ago. There are too many things to bring to the stall, and the small electric motor is too small, and it stumbles and sometimes has to go back and forth several times.

After taking a break, Wang Xiufen asked again, "Who were you talking to just now? Just staring at the phone, the relationship is so good?"

Her intention was to scold him, and she knew how to play with her mobile phone all day long.

Ji Huai was reversing and looked at the rearview mirror casually, "Your grandson-in-law."

"Who?" Wang Xiufen sat up abruptly, his eyes staring at the boss.

"Don't talk nonsense." Wen Yun naturally heard it on the other end, her heart beat, her breathing became rapid, and she said hurriedly.

"Don't let me say it? Then I won't say it." Ji Huai's tone was accommodating, turning the steering wheel and driving forward.

Wang Xiufen has lived for half a lifetime, and he knows what's going on when he turns his mind. With a smile on his face, he whispered, "Where is the little girl from? What is her name?"

Wen Yun's face turned pale, her heartstrings tightened, her body stiffened, and her palms kept sweating.

Her birth was not glorious, and her aunt often scolded her mother for shame, saying that she was an illegitimate daughter, and her biological father did not know who it was.

The average family hates this kind of background, and she even feels that no family will accept her, and she has a low self-esteem to her bones.

Xujiacun and Jijiacun are neighboring villages. Wang Xiufen should know the situation of Xu Zhuang's family. Once he knows that it is her, he must also know her life experience.

"she was"

"Ji Huai" Wen Yun interrupted him, her voice choked, and with pleading, her nose was sour.

Ji Huai tightened her thin lips, and her eyes flashed, "It's Xiaoyun, I haven't graduated yet."

"Oh." Wang Xiufen nodded and asked again, "Is it a classmate?"

Ji Huai: "Well, go to normal school this year."

"Normal school is good, I can be a teacher when I come out." When Wang Xiufen heard it, she was not satisfied, and said lovingly, "Come to our house to play when you have time. Grandma will cook for you."

"Where can I be free? Wait for the holiday." Ji Huai answered for her.

Wen Yun saw that Ji Huai hadn't talked about sensitive topics or revealed her life experience, and she was relieved and slumped in her seat.

She couldn't face her own life experience directly. She was afraid of ridicule and even the Xu family didn't dare to return. She felt that everyone who looked at her had a colorful look.

As if to say: look, she is the illegitimate daughter born to Wen Qiulan, her mother is a bitch, and she ran away with someone again. She was not a good thing at first glance.

Wang Xiufen looked very excited. Seeing that Ji Huai hadn't hung up the phone, the couple had a good relationship, and she couldn't bother.

After returning, she continued to work and Ji Huai went upstairs.

Wen Yun didn't use her voice to continue chatting with him, instead she hung up the phone.

Ji Huai was puzzled. As soon as she was about to call, she sent a text, a long paragraph.

"Our relationship is not stable enough, and we still don't know each other enough. I don't want to let the parents know so early. I am still studying, and we are so far away. Our relationship is our own business at this stage, I think."

Wen Yun actually speaks incoherently, and the logic is not very clear.

He never talked about her existence to his family or friends before, because he was ill-intentioned, afraid of accidents, and wanted to play with her behind his back. Now he really caught her off guard.

"Not stable enough? What do you think is stable?" Ji Huai sent this sentence.

"I didn't mean that." She became anxious.

Ji Huai: "What's wrong with being so far away? What's the fear of love than Jin Jian?"

Wen Yun stared at the words he sent, typed and deleted, deleted and typed in the dialog box. When he didn't know what to return, when she saw the latest news from him, her pupils shrank, her brain went blank, and her ears followed. Buzzing.

He said, "Aren't you afraid that your grandma will know your life experience? You are afraid that she will dislike you and will disagree with us and oppose me being with you."

The fact that she desperately concealed the embarrassment and unwillingness to face directly was just like this, and was exposed in blood by him and put it under the sun. The hand holding the phone began to tremble slightly.

He knows it all.

"My IQ is good enough. I will only say that you are good in front of her without destroying your image. You won't let me say that I will not mention it in the future, and I don't think it's a big deal. , I will only love you very much and want to take care of you. According to what I know about her, she will also like you very much."

"It's no big deal. I can support you. My home is yours."

"Who cares about this? What are you thinking about?"

In terms of spreading it out directly, it was very calm and gentle, and he didn't take it seriously.

Wen Yun found that she was not as embarrassed as she had imagined. Instead, her constant anxiety was relieved. There was a burst of warmth in her heart, and the big rock that suppressed her was slowly falling to the ground.

It turns out that this matter is not so embarrassing, and some people will not care.

Ji Huai sent another voice call, and she answered it.

"While talking a lot of things around and around, is there anything that you can't tell me directly? It's so far away, if you don't tell me, will you get sulking in your heart if you have a misunderstanding?" He was educated.

Wen Yun buried her head and did not answer.

"Is it stupid? How big is it?" He was helpless and laughed at her incidentally.

"Don't talk about it yet." Wen Yun had to slow down.

"Okay!" He replied, mocking himself, "My parents died a long time ago, am I worse off?"

"I think it's okay again." Wen Yun didn't even want to answer.

"Yeah, I don't think it's anything, you are so sensitive? I just like you, do you have anything to do with other people?" Ji Huai asked her back.

Wen Yun has nothing to say.

"I didn't love you enough to make you doubt it?" Ji Huai raised his eyebrows, and the final tone raised slightly, meaning something.

Wen Yun heard what he said. Since the sound of what he said while hugging her on the bed two days ago, she kept twisting the little doll on her schoolbag, her voice became quieter and quieter, "How do I know?"

Ji Huai answered, "Dare to say how do you know? You just owe it to clean up!"

Wen Yun's whole body is about to burn, "I won't tell you, I want to sleep for a while, and I will be there soon."

After the words fell, hung up in a hurry, shrinking his neck for a long time without daring to raise his head.

Looking at the hung up voice call, Ji Huai raised his lips and did not continue to struggle.

in the afternoon.

Ji Huai calculated the time Wen Yun would arrive at the station. He called her and learned that the school had sent a bus to pick him up and she had already sat on the bus. Let her take a good rest.

Wen Yun was really tired for the past two days. She finally got down on her guard when she got on the school bus and fell asleep leaning on her seat.

Ji Huai inquired about the address of Miao doctor, and when he went downstairs, he saw Wang Xiufen hoeing the ground in the yard. He simply convinced him, and walked over to grab the hoe, "I said that my back hurts this morning, and now I'm working again."

"These sweet potatoes are going to be planted" Wang Xiufen began to make excuses.

"What kind of species? Put on your shoes quickly and take you to the Miao doctor now." Ji Huai took the shoes she put aside and urged.

"Where are you going to see now? In a few days" Wang Xiufen was very stubborn, she couldn't get up without fainting, and she couldn't go to see a doctor.

Ji Huai didn't ask her to say more, pulling her into the car.

Wang Xiufen was still thinking about the land she hadn't hoeed. He couldn't help but said, "Every day I put a plaster on it. Are you really afraid that you are paralyzed and can't get up in bed?"

At this time, she shut up with fear.

Dacheng Town is 53 kilometers away from them, and the roads are not easy to follow. Jihuai drove for an hour and a half before finding the place where the Miao doctor was.

A big dilapidated tiled house with a few beds covered with straw mats and several elderly people lying there. Miao doctor is very old, with gray hair and long beard, wearing gray cotton and linen clothes.

When they came in, people went out one after another, most of whom were diagnosed and treated by famous people.

Ji Huai helped Wang Xiufen to lie down on the bed, and after talking about the symptoms, Miao doctor started to diagnose.

There is a kind of herbal medicine burning on the stove next to it, releasing the fragrance. Put the herbal medicine on the gauze and leave it on the affected area for fifteen minutes.

Fifteen minutes later, the Miao doctor diagnosed again and started to use it. It is said that after loosening the bones and correcting the meridians, a layer of gray powder will be applied. It is said that this is the medicine, and it takes two hours to apply it.

The charge is not too expensive, a total of thirty-five yuan.

Ji Huai carefully helped Wang Xiufen into the car. She lay in the back seat of the car and said on the way back, "This is really useful? I have to come so far."

"I'll know if I have to try it. I have to come tomorrow. I have to come for a week in a row." He replied.

A course of treatment is seven days, and Miao doctors said that at least seven days are needed for a situation like Wang Xiufen.

She touched her waist, perhaps because she felt distressed about the car fuel and medicine, she didn't take the **** when she went home, and finally was willing to go back to the room and lie down to rest.

Ji Huai picked up the basin, poured rice bran and corn kernels, mixed plate after plate, and started feeding chickens and ducks. :,,