butcher's little man

Chapter 34

As time goes by, it will be late autumn in a blink of an eye. The weather is getting colder and the leaves are falling more. When the autumn wind blows, they float up in curls, giving people a feeling of bleakness.

Tian Xiaoman came out of the house with a basket on his back. Today they are going to dig lotus root together!There is a big pond in their village, and there are many lotus in it. This summer, Tian Xiaoman and Xiaoguo went here to pick lotus pods, and they cooked a big pot of lotus seed porridge at home. It tastes really good!

When the village head passed by the big pond yesterday, he found that the lotus leaves in it were decayed and turned yellow, so he decided to organize everyone to dig lotus roots together today.Because this pond is owned by their village, the lotus roots dug out are divided equally among households.There are a total of 25 households in their village, and the lotus root dug out can be distributed to about fifty or sixty catties for each household!Of course, if no one in any family comes out to dig lotus root, this year's lotus root will not be distributed to them!

Go to the entrance of the village and turn left, and then walk a short distance to arrive.Approaching the pond, the eyes are full of broken branches and leaves, but there is no feeling of lifelessness here, because there are too many people standing on the shore!Everyone is gearing up and ready to show their talents today!

Tian Xiaoman stood on the bank and searched carefully, and soon found Yang Xiaoguo's group. He ran over there and joined everyone.

"Xiaoman, why did you come here?" Yang Xiaoguo asked puzzled, usually Xiaoman was the first one to arrive when something like this happened!

"Don't mention it, my mother almost didn't let me come out, saying that it's fine to let my father come alone this year!" Tian Xiaoman complained all over his face.

Yang Xiaoguo looked at Tian Xiaoman sympathetically, how boring it is to stay at home all the time!

"Fortunately, I kept begging him, so he let me come!" Tian Xiaoman looked proud. Although he paid a lot for this, he promised him that after Ah Mu left the door this time, he would come again in the future. Can't come out for any activities!

Yang Xiaoguo looked at Tian Xiaoman with admiration, he never dared to do what his mother wouldn't let him do.

Everyone was chatting separately, and after a while, the village chief came over. "Folks, this year we are digging lotus roots the same as last year. The young and strong men go to the middle of the pond, and the old men are on this side. Don't go too deep! By the way, the small fish that we touched while digging the lotus roots are small. You can take the shrimp or something home and add it to your own dishes, you don’t need to take it out and share it haha!”

As soon as the village chief finished speaking, the villagers agreed and rushed into the water. The young man naturally went to the deepest place in the center of the pond. The brothers also took off their shoes and went down into the pond.

It is now noon, the sun is high in the sky, dispelling the coolness brought by the early morning, people only feel a little cold when they go into the water, but they get used to it after a long time!

Digging lotus root is by no means an easy task, at least Tian Xiaoman thinks that if Li Wenxuan was here at this moment, he would never dig it!Generally, if someone who has never dug before digs it, they may be able to dig it out, but it will definitely break the lotus root, and there will be sludge underneath.

Tian Xiaoman is a good hand at digging lotus roots. He first walked to an area with many lotus leaves, and stepped on it tentatively with his feet to feel the softness of the soil, and then stretched out his feet carefully. The thing that is most likely to be lotus root!

After you find the lotus root, if you pull out the lotus root immediately, nine out of ten will be broken.After Tian Xiaoman found a lotus root, he stretched out his hand and dug down along the lotus root he had found. Then he slowly shook the lotus root with his hands to loosen it. After digging almost enough, he could directly lift it to the surface of the water.This action is very important. How many beginners dig lotus roots because they have not mastered this action and cut off the lotus root.

After lifting the lotus root out of the water, Tian Xiaoman expressed his satisfaction with its length, which was longer than his arm.Putting the lotus root in the basket behind him, Tian Xiaoman continued to search for it.

Suddenly, he felt as if some small animal had swam past on the back of his feet. Because the water was rather turbid, he roughly felt that it was a fish or something!Tian Xiaoman's heart immediately felt itchy, and he really wanted to catch fish.

But he tried his best to restrain this kind of thinking. If he only dug up one lotus root this afternoon, wouldn't he lose face?He looked at the harvest in other people's back baskets, then lowered his head and searched carefully...

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Li Wenxuan sold out the pork in the morning, and rode back home. His elder brother's younger brother stumbled out when he heard the voice. When he saw that it was him, his eyes lit up immediately, "Pig!"

Li Wenxuan knelt down, picked him up, and corrected him, "You idiot, it's uncle! Not a pig!"

The little brother was stunned, and frowned, probably hearing that he called him a little idiot, and muttered, "Pigs are stupid!"

Li Wenxuan laughed, well, the little buddies really don't suffer at all!He walked into the kitchen with the little brother in his arms. His mother was preparing lunch at this time. Seeing him coming back, she said, "I said why did this brother Le run out, so I heard you coming back!"

"Yeah, did Brother Le miss Uncle? Did you come out to pick him up?"

Li Amu burst out laughing, "It's not that he misses you! He just wants to eat the things you brought back for him!" Every time Wenxuan came back from the county, he would bring some snacks or something for Brother Le. After coming down, I got used to it, seeing his uncle was even closer than seeing his own father!

"That's missing me too!" Li Wenxuan didn't care so much, he put his brother back on the ground, and took out a paper bag from his arms, which contained a few pieces of sweet-scented osmanthus cakes. With Li Wenxuan.

Li Wenxuan wanted to tease him, "Brother Le, kiss uncle and uncle will give you food, okay?"

Le Geer frowned and thought for a while, then approached Li Wenxuan in disgust, and gave him a kiss.Li Wenxuan achieved his goal, so he gave him all the sweet-scented osmanthus cakes.I thought to myself, if only Tian Xiaoman was so easy to coax, he would buy him food every day!

Seeing this, Li Amu hurriedly brought over the paper bag, only handed a small piece to Brother Le, and put the rest in the cupboard. "Don't give him so much at one time, or he won't like to eat later!" The child is young, if you give it to him, he will eat it all!

Li Wenxuan rubbed his nose, feeling that the two people in the kitchen didn't like him very much, so he went out disheartened.

Not long after, Li's father came back from the mountain, and they started eating. Li Wenxuan thought that he hadn't seen Tian Xiaoman for a few days, so he said to his father and mother, "I'll go to Xiaoman's house this afternoon. , I won’t come back at night! I’ll kill the pig and go to the county seat tomorrow!”

When Li Amu heard this, her face became a little unhappy, "I'm not marrying a husband, it's obvious that you are going to become someone's husband-in-law!"

"Ah Mu, what do you mean?" Li Wenxuan scratched his head. He was the one who forced him to marry his husband back then!

"You go to someone else's house, to see relatives and friends, what about him? Up to now, neither your father nor I have seen that little brother!" In fact, Li Amu just wanted to meet him. Just see Tian Xiaoman.

"Aren't we married yet?" He tried to convince Eminem.

"Then how can you go? Since you said so, don't go until you get married!" Li Amu glanced at Li Wenxuan, and said coolly!

Li Wenxuan felt bad instantly. Their wedding date was set in November, and it's only mid-August now, so it's okay not to see Tian Xiaoman for three whole months!

He immediately changed his words, "Em, don't worry, I will bring Xiaoman home in a few days for you to see!"

"That's more or less the same!" Li Amu expressed her satisfaction, and began to eat slowly again.

Only Li Wenxuan was left scratching his head in his heart, what method should he use to get Xiaoman to come over?