Chapter 1014: Want to Grow Up Quickly

The color powder is extracted from cochineal insects.

But what she needs now is "seed insects" for subsequent breeding and cultivation.

If the place Tianzao mentioned just now really has it, then it should be fine to take some back...

Don’t blame Lu Miao for going to so much trouble, he could even find his way back to his hometown just to find a cochineal insect.

It is true that this thing has requirements for temperature and humidity conditions.

The north is cold and dry in winter, and cochineal insects cannot survive and reproduce in the current natural environment.

If she wanted to find this thing, she could only place her hopes in the south.

Lu Miao was thinking and was about to speak, but Tianzao recalled for a moment and spoke first:

"I've seen cacti before, but I don't think I've seen any bugs like mold spots... Sister-in-law, I'm staying at my parents' house today and will go back tomorrow. I'll go back and take a good look. If I see anything, I'll have Minjie tell you."

Lu Miao smiled and nodded, "Okay, thank you for your hard work."

"It's just a matter of convenience. How can it be considered hard or not?"

Tianzao waved his hand, lowered his head, patted his son's head and said with a smile:

"Sister-in-law, I heard from Brother Xiaoliu that you brought Baichuan back? Where's the child? Why can't I see him?"

"We went to play in the fields. Normally, we can still hold a fence. Now it's vacation time. Minjie is helping with the work in the fields, and the other two kids can't be stopped. They insist on going along."

Lu Miao said this and stood up with a smile:

"Please sit down and have a cup of tea. I'll go call the children back and let the little ones get to know each other."

It would have been fine if he didn't go to the field to call people, but this time when he went to the field, Lu Miao kept nagging all the way.

Although Minjie has just turned ten years old, he can already do farm work such as harvesting rice quite well.

But Minrui and Baichuan can't do that.

The two boys are five years old and just three years old.

While others were working seriously, they were covered in mud.

Like two brothers in distress, they held a few snails in their arms and were sticking their butts out in the fields looking for small holes to dig out loaches.

Lu Miao saw it from a distance and stamped his feet and shouted:

"I beat you two! You made such a mess!"

When Baichuan heard his mother's voice, his hands loosened and the snails he had been picking for half a day fell out of his arms.

The little guy quickly stood up and looked around to see where his mother was.

Fu Jingyou was harvesting rice.

He saw the boys picking in the mud early in the morning and thought that it didn't matter if it was a little dirty, he could just wash it later.

Just let the boys play by themselves.

But now that his wife is here, Fu Jingyou's heart skips a beat.

He quickly straightened his back and helped lift the two children onto the edge of the field.

Lu Miao glared at him, and he smiled apologetically, pushing Bai Chuan and Minrui.

"Go back with mom quickly, it's hot outside."

Baichuan was very obedient and raised his little hand to hold his mother's hand.

Lu Miao couldn't hide or not hide.

After a brief moment of hesitation, he was caught by the little clay hand.

Lu Miao sighed helplessly, then took hold of the sensitive, fleshy elbow and shouted:

"Minjie, let's go back with Auntie."

Minjie stood up and looked at Lu Miao. His tender little face was already dark, and after being exposed to the sun, it looked even darker and redder.

Minjie looked at his grandfather holding the sickle.

He Hongjin said:

"That's all there is left. We'll be done with it soon."

The gist of it is that he doesn't agree with Minjie going back.

Lu Miao didn't care, he just made up a lie and waved his hand:

"I have other chores for him to do at home, but this is all I have left. Brother You will be enough!"

He Hongjin didn't say anything.

Fu Jingyou laughed and raised his chin towards Minjie.

Minjie was overjoyed and ran and jumped out of the paddy field.

After inserting the sickle into the small backpack, Minjie volunteered to hold his hands, fearing that his two younger brothers, who looked like mud monkeys, would dirty his aunt's clothes.

Lu Miao walked in front wearing a straw hat.

Minjie held Baichuan's hand and Minrui followed behind.

A group of three, one adult and three children, walked out of the ridge of the field and into the tree-lined path of the village.

The treetops are swaying high up, and the light and shadows are mottled low down.

The breeze brought the refreshing fragrance of June flowers.

The cuckoos in the distant mountains are also calling...

At this moment, time seemed to slow down.

Amid the rustling sound of the wind, the young woman laughed softly and asked the children about their wishes.

The half-grown boy said passionately:

"Auntie, I just want to grow up quickly!"

"Why? The world we grow up in isn't that beautiful~"

"Well... I don't care. I just want to grow up. When I grow up, I can do whatever I want. How great is that? My grandfather won't scold me all the time..."

"Okay, then let's just treat this as a beautiful wish. But for now, let's cherish what we have now~"

"Um!"

There was constant laughter and children's voices along the way. One adult and three children walked along the last sunny path and finally arrived home.

After washing Minrui and Baichuan, Lu Miao took out the tomatoes cooled with well water and mixed them with brown sugar to make a large bowl of brown sugar tomatoes.

Zaohua Niang came again in the morning, bringing a big bag of green apricots and plums in a straw hat.

Lu Miao picked some ripe red plums and washed them.

I found a can and made two cans of sour and sweet apricot water.

Zaohua came back yesterday afternoon.

She stays at her mother's house on Friday and Saturday. The school where the team is studying starts on Monday, so she can go back on Sunday afternoon.

Lu Miao invited her to have lunch at his home.

In the afternoon, the adults moved chairs and a small table and chatted under the jujube tree in front of the door.

Several children from the village came and played and laughed with Minjie, Baichuan and others.

Let’s talk about cochineal.

Cochineal is priceless, so Lu Miao did not put all his hopes on sweet dates.

In the evening, Fu Jingyou came back and Lu Miao mentioned the matter to him.

Hu Zhiyuan's job is to run around the village, and he covers a wide area. Lu Miao meant for Fu Jingyou to take time to visit Hu Zhiyuan.

See if he has seen him anywhere in the village.

Fu Jingyou didn't know what cochineal was, but that didn't stop him from agreeing to do something for his wife.

Originally, we planned to go to the county the next day.

Unfortunately, the weather was not good. The sun was shining brightly yesterday, but it started to rain heavily just one night later.

The rain was so heavy that Tianzao couldn't go back that day.

He stayed at his mother's house for one more night, and it was not until dawn on Monday morning that his father rushed him back with the child in his arms.

The matter was put on hold for two more days.

During the past two days, while the soil in the field was still moist, Fu Jingyou took the sweet potato vines that the old couple had cut and took them to the mountain behind to plant them.

When the rain was light, Lu Miao wore a raincoat and took Bai Chuan, who was wearing a small bamboo hat, to play with him.

I didn't help with the work.

Even when Lu Miao turned around to pick the honeysuckle branches, Fu Jingyou was planting rice seedlings in front, and Bai Chuan, following behind his father, had already pulled out half a row of sweet potato seedlings.

Fu Jingyou noticed and raised his hand to scold him.

Although little Baichuan was naughty, he was afraid of being beaten, so he ran tremblingly to his mother for help.

In the nearby fields, the uncles, aunts and uncles who were busy straightening the corn seedlings that were knocked down by the rain all laughed when they saw this.