The most important thing at the moment is to take good care of grandpa's health.
Grandpa needed to stay in the hospital for at least five days, so Xu Qingzhi went home every day to cook and bring it over. This made her driving skills improve by leaps and bounds. Sometimes there were no cars on the road, and since it was a road with no speed limit, she could drive there in half an hour.
Her father stayed in the hospital to watch over her at night.
Grandpa broke a bone and needs to recuperate before he can go home to continue recuperating.
She drives back and forth every day and often meets fellow villagers on the road.
In spring, everything comes back to life, green leaves are just beginning to sprout new tips, and the rain often comes suddenly and heavily.
Sometimes when it rains heavily, the bus will run once an hour. If there is a wedding ceremony and the bus is chartered, the bus will be cancelled.
Fellow villagers would stop a car on the roadside and ask for a ride from someone they knew.
This is a very common thing in the countryside.
Xu Qingzhi gave people a ride several times along the way. They would give him a few dollars, but Xu Qingzhi never took it.
She doesn't like chatting much, but the other party loves to chat. If she meets an aunt who can chat, she will tell her all the gossip that has happened in the village recently.
A girl from a vocational school didn't study hard and had affairs with other people. She got pregnant with a guy outside and now the guy is being very rude.
When an old man died, the grandchildren were very successful. One grandson paid 300,000 yuan to hold a funeral for his grandfather. It was very grand. Those who went to play waist drums were given 280 yuan each and two packs of cigarettes.
And more...
Many, many things about the village.
When grandma was still alive, Xiao Qingzhi would move a stool and sit next to her so that he could listen to the old ladies chatting.
Now that her grandmother is gone, she no longer has a channel to listen to gossip.
Xu Qingzhi suddenly asked, "Aunt Xia, if someone wants to develop the village and gives you money, would you be willing to move away?"
The usually loud-voiced woman immediately shook her head: "Of course not, no matter how much money you offer me, I won't move. This is my hometown, this is my roots. Even if I go out to work in the future, I still need a place to stay at the end of the year."
Xu Qingzhi was slightly startled.
Aunt Xia added, "There are many tourists in the village now. They often come to me to buy some vegetables. I have sold all the fermented tofu I made. Qingzhi, this is all thanks to you. We are making much more money than before."
Xu Qingzhi said: "Aunt Xia, the fermented tofu you made is delicious."
Aunt Xia was no longer modest. "Of course not. I dare say that no one in the village who makes fermented tofu tastes better than mine."
Xu Qingzhi smiled.
After dropping the person off at his doorstep, we drove a little further before arriving at Xu's house.
After delivering breakfast, it was still early.
The fog that diffused from the woods between the mountains rose out like white steam, swirling in the air, and the quiet little village was shrouded in thick fog.
A stray dog from somewhere was strolling leisurely on the road with its three chubby puppies, occasionally sniffing the weeds on the roadside.
After the New Year, they are still alive and have welcomed the new year. How lucky.
There are some men in the village who work outside all year round and only come back once during the Chinese New Year. They like to eat dog meat. They won’t kill dogs with owners, but will kill and eat stray dogs.
Xu Qingzhi made two “sucking” sounds.
The wild dog looked at her cautiously but didn't come over.
Xu Qingzhi threw the leftover chicken bones of the two little ones in the spiritual space over.
The wild dog didn't dare to approach her, and would only eat the food thrown on the ground and far away from her. When it smelled the food, its vigilance disappeared and it ate happily. After eating, it stared at Xu Qingzhi with its round eyes and didn't come forward.
Only three puppies were bolder. They twisted their little bodies and dared to run a few steps closer to her, wagging their little tails, looking at her, and sitting down on the ground. They turned their heads away from her, then looked at her, and stomped their front little paws on the ground, looking so fierce and cute. They couldn't even say "woof woof", and only made "aww" sounds from their mouths.
One of the puppies is pure white, and the other two are brown, taking after their mother. I guess their father must be a white dog.
Dogs generally go into heat in the spring, and it is rare to see puppies born in the winter.
The puppies are chubby and obviously well-fed. The mother dog is much thinner and her breasts are sagging from overfeeding.
She had fed the baby all the leftover chicken bones and there was nothing else to feed him.
The dog was smart, and when it saw there was no food, it circled around her, then left with the three puppies.
Generally, a dog may have more than three puppies in one litter, sometimes five or six. However, the puppies born by stray dogs may be favored by someone and taken home to be raised as guard dogs in the best case scenario. But in the worst case scenario, they may be hit and killed by a roadside car, and some may even have their stomachs ripped open.
Xu Qingzhi glanced at the wild dog walking away, retracted his gaze, and went to the back mountain to take a look.
The vegetable garden at home was plowed over again.
After feeling that there was no one around, she moved out the seedlings that she had grown in advance in the space.
On the other side, the seedlings that her parents had grown were also planted separately.
Peppers, bitter gourd, green beans, eggplant, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers...
Although her parents will not be back in the next few days, she still plans to plant some in batches every day.
Reserve the watermelon field in advance and plant the watermelon seedlings grown in the spiritual space.
By the way, I also watered the raspberries and blueberries on the edge with some diluted spiritual spring water.
The coldness in Meicheng is not enough, which will affect the incomplete development of the blueberry's floral organs, the ovules and embryo sacs, and affect fruit setting.
Although she had the cheating tool of spiritual space, planting should be adapted to local conditions. She specifically bought the southern highbush blueberry variety, which requires less cold than the northern highbush.
As for sweet potatoes, it’s still not too late to plant them until March.
After returning from the back mountain, she went to the front yard to get some vegetables and started cooking lunch.
Little paper men were flying across the kitchen cutting board.
Xu Qingzhi's phone suddenly rang. He took out his phone and saw the Weibo message forwarded by Xia Weiwei.
#富王农民勒黑買# She clicked on it and saw that it was exactly what happened with the previous tour group. One of the tourists revealed that the grandfather of the owner of Fuwang Farm tried to beat them up, but took advantage of his seniority and demanded five thousand yuan before letting them leave.
The accompanying picture is a clip of the tour group chatting in the group. Everyone pooled money together and criticized the high prices in this place, saying that a farmer's meal cost two thousand yuan, etc.
There are already many netizens commenting below.
[When I first saw that old man in the live broadcast room, I felt that he looked very shrewd. ]
[The vegetables at Fuwang Farm are ridiculously expensive. It feels like a bunch of idiots on the Internet hyped them up, and now they are being ripped off at your doorstep.]
[As a local, I also want to say that Fuwang Farm is really desperate for money. In fact, the boss is just using the gimmick of pure natural products. My parents don’t use pesticides when they grow crops at home. ]
[You can definitely call the police. Five thousand dollars is not a small amount.]
Xu Qingzhi looked at the tour group photos that the man had posted and smiled.
Then I took a look and found that it had actually reached number 39 on the popularity list. I immediately sent this Weibo to Zhang Qi and explained the whole situation.
As a non-staff member of the Xu family, he immediately understood what Xu Qingzhi meant and asked, "Is there any surveillance video?"
Xu Qingzhi went to find Shanshan again. When Shanshan and Wen Siran came to live there, they installed surveillance cameras under the eaves of the house.
Coincidentally, the surveillance camera captured the entire incident.