The Little Landlord of Transmigration

Chapter 13 3. Goose Vegetables

Considering that geese and ducks are waterfowl and cannot do without water, and they have just moved here and are not too familiar with the place, they only bought [-] chicks to raise.

These pale yellow, fluffy little guys have just hatched, and they spend most of their time in wicker baskets, and only let them run in the yard for a while at noon to bask in the sun.It's also interesting to watch them run around with an unsteady gait.After watching the little chickens at home, Xu Lingyuan was going to see the ducks and geese bought by the villagers, and he also wanted to teach Ah Qi how to read.

Xu Lingyuan went to Agui's house first this time, because he knew that they had bought them all, and Agui and the others were not at home when he went, so they went to dig goose vegetables on the river embankment.He found the embankment again, and saw a group of children squatting there digging something from afar.The river is very shallow now, and all kinds of weeds spread from the wide embankment to the place where there is water at the bottom of the river. Some children ran to the bottom of the river to dig.As soon as he approached, he saw both A Qi and A Gui. He greeted A Gui first, then squatted down next to A Qi, and learned that his family also bought them.

The goose dish here is a kind of grass specially used to feed ducks and geese. It is found everywhere in the field. It looks a bit like a dandelion, but the surface of the leaves is smooth and the stems are not hollow. It is bigger, fatter and juicier than a dandelion. .Unlike modern times, where they basically rely on feed for raising everything, here, they only eat this kind of grass before shedding the fluff on their bodies, so every child in every family has to dig goose vegetables.This kind of work only needs to recognize goose vegetables and shovel them off with a shovel, so some families have several children, and digging is easy.But he was the only one who came to Aqi's house. Even though he only digs and doesn't fight with others, he still doesn't dig as much as the family who came.Xu Lingyuan helped him dig while talking to him.

"Can I see them at your house later?"

"Well, it's fine during feeding time."

"Actually, I really want to buy one or two, but I'm afraid it won't be easy to keep."

"Do you like it?"

"Yeah." In modern times, when he was young, his village would raise them and slaughter them during the Chinese New Year, but later life got better and food became more expensive, so people stopped raising them by themselves, and most of them It is convenient and cost-effective to go to the city to find some work during the slack season, and to buy slaughtered ones at the market when the Chinese New Year is approaching.But he has always missed his childhood, especially the feeling of driving a flock of geese to the grassy slope after school, but he can't tell Aqi about these things.

He still remembers that when he was in the fifth grade of primary school, geese were going to be slaughtered near the Chinese New Year. He was very affectionate with the geese he fed, especially the mighty head goose. He wanted his parents not to kill them, but Nian still He had to rely on them, he knew that his thoughts would only attract scolding, so he could only worry about those geese all day long.

As a result, when he went to school to receive the notice, the geese were all slaughtered. When he came back, he looked at the plucked geese in the pot and burst into tears.Seeing him crying, his parents thought it was because he didn't do well in the exam. They were afraid of being scolded, and even comforted him rarely. one of memories.Since then, their family has never raised geese again, because he has passed the junior high school entrance examination and has no time to raise geese, and his younger siblings don't know how to do this.

"Don't pull it out." He was immersed in memories when A Qi suddenly said something to him.

"Huh? Isn't it enough?" Looking at the half-filled basket next to him, he asked puzzledly, and looked at the one he pulled out in his hand, which was the same as the one in the basket. It was not wrong.

"This is for you." A Qi didn't explain, just handed him the shovel in his hand, then ran to a tree not far away, broke a thick branch in half, and then used the broken The half that came down was used as a shovel.

"Thank you, it's actually quite easy to pull with your hands, but it's a bit slow." Xu Lingyuan said to him after understanding.It turned out that Xu Lingyuan didn't have a shovel, so he could only pull it out by hand. The soil here is quite soft, but it's still a bit constricting, so it's much more convenient to use a shovel.

"By the way, I also wrote a few words for you. I will teach you when I dig enough."

"En." A Qi agreed, and his subordinates moved even faster.

Since they couldn't always dig in one place, the distance between the two of them widened as they dug. Xu Lingyuan piled what he had dug nearby into a pile, and filled it with A Qi's basket when there was enough.

"Hey, little scholar, you are very good. After digging so much, you didn't dig the weeds in." At some point, Agui rushed to Xu Lingyuan's side and said, looking at the goose vegetables he dug.

"It's not for you, just worry about it." Xu Lingyuan said without raising his head. Xu Lingyuan was very used to Agui who liked to provoke him whenever he had nothing to do, so he just waited for him to continue talking.

"A Lin, Ah Mei, A Jie, that's enough, hurry home." A Gui ran away like a gust of wind before he finished speaking.

As soon as Xu Lingyuan looked up, he saw that Agui had already run away, followed by three children who were chasing him.Xu Lingyuan felt that Agui was a little strange today, and left without arguing with him. When he saw half of the goose vegetables behind him, he immediately understood. It turned out that Agui snatched half of the goose vegetables he dug while he was not paying attention !Seeing him running farther and farther, Xu Lingyuan could only shake his head, exclaimed "I ran fast enough", bowed his head and continued digging.

After a while, those who had dug enough left one after another, and there were fewer and fewer people on the embankment, and finally only the two of them were left.Xu Lingyuan took out the note with the writing on it, and while telling A Qi how to read it and what it meant, he asked him to write on the grass with a branch.Because A Qi has to work every day, and traditional Chinese characters are very difficult to write, so he only teaches him one or two characters each time, and then let him practice when he has time. If he has time, he will go to his house to practice on paper .

"When I was rushing to the field that day, I met a guy named A Ming. He looked about the same age as us. You know him too?" Seeing that A Qi was almost training, Xu Lingyuan asked, thinking of the child that day.

"Well, his home is at the east end of the village." A Qi stopped and answered him.

"I greeted him that day, but he ignored me. Agui said his family was pitiful, and he was also very weird."

"He doesn't like to talk to other people."

"What do you think of me secretly asking him to help in the yard and then paying him?" Xu Lingyuan couldn't help expressing his thoughts. He lived outside the village, so it was not easy for his father to find out. "I just want to help him, he's still a kid after all."

"I don't know. Some people advised him to leave his father alone and introduce him to be an apprentice in the city. Although it is hard, it's better than being at home, but he didn't listen." A Qi didn't answer Xu Lingyuan directly. The problem.

"He is reluctant to part with his father." Xu Lingyuan could only think so.

"No one knows what he is thinking. He would rather beg for food than take something secretly given by the villagers."

"Try it, then how can I find him?" Xu Lingyuan still wanted to try, but he didn't dare to go to A Ming's house.

"Why do you want to help him so much?" It may be that A Ming's family has a bad impression on people, so he really wants to know why Xu Lingyuan, who has only met A Ming once, would do this.

"Uh... I have had bad times before, thanks to someone helping me all the time. He is still so young. I heard that his family's land is gone. Will he live by begging or even stealing in the future? He should also Don’t you want to do this? I just want to help him as much as I can. Life should be happier and more meaningful.” He has always been very grateful to his grandpa, and always thinks that without his grandpa, his previous life would be different. What it will look like, he thinks it will definitely not be so optimistic and positive.Xu Lingyuan remembered the expression on his face when he looked at the pastry shop that day, not greedy but longing, so he wanted to help him.

"The meaning?" A Qi asked a little incomprehensibly.

"Probably it means doing things that make you happy. Life is unsatisfactory, that is to say, there are always many unhappy things in life, but if you only focus on unhappy things, you will be even more unhappy. It’s better to do more things that you like and feel happy, so that it will get better and better, and it will be meaningful.” Xu Lingyuan said while thinking, trying to make him understand as much as possible.

"How do you know what to do better?" A Qi asked thoughtfully.

"Do what you like, as long as it's right, you can do it." Just like him now, he doesn't want to be rich and wealthy, as long as he is safe and happy.

"Oh." A Qi looked at him.

"You haven't said yet, do you know how to find him?"

"I don't know, he's often not at home, but he always passes by your door when he goes to buy wine."

"Oh, let's talk about it." It is estimated that there is not much hope for them to talk. Even if he told him, Xu Lingyuan was not sure. He just wanted to try his best. After all, if the other party is not willing, he can't just force him. , I don't know if I'm meddling in my own business, Xu Lingyuan thought to himself.

After speaking, they went back with baskets full of goose vegetables.

"Stinky boy, I want you to help your elder brother dig a piece. You can't do it because you are too lazy. People who go there will come back long ago. Your elder brother only came back after digging. You are so old for nothing. You only know how to play, and you have a little bit in your eyes." No work at all!" As soon as A Qi's mother saw A Qi came back, she took the basket and scolded A Jiang who was eating carrots.A Jiang was obviously used to being scolded, and continued to eat carrots while playing with A He and A Hai as if he didn't hear it.

Not to mention her children, even Xu Lingyuan was a little used to it. He greeted her politely. It was still early, so he planned to stay and see their ducklings and geese.

Goose vegetables cannot be eaten directly by ducklings and geese after being dug up. The process is quite troublesome. First, the whole goose vegetables that have been dug out must be poured out, and the dead leaves should be removed, and then put into baskets and taken to the lake. Wash them while washing them, and then chop them up before feeding them, and their demand is relatively large, so they basically have to dig every day.

Aqi's mother was still very fast, and soon released the duck and goose to eat. Xu Lingyuan looked at it from the side. Compared with what he remembered, there was basically no big difference, especially the little one. The geese are all fluffy and goose-yellow. Looking at the small and cute little things now, who would have imagined that they will look arrogant and fierce when they grow up?