Zhou Chenglei dug out twelve bamboo shoots along the bamboo whip.
Jiang Xia looked at the plump bamboo shoots of different sizes that he had dug out and was surprised: "So many? Are they all grown from one bamboo?"
Zhang Rui dug for a long time before finding three bamboos. He couldn't help but say, "Sister-in-law, you should teach Fourth Brother a lesson. He is destroying all the descendants of other people's bamboos. Aren't you afraid that if they are all dug up, there will be no bamboo in the future?"
Jiang Xia also felt that at this moment, "many bamboo shoots" had come to life! The second uncle laughed and said, "No, winter bamboo shoots usually don't grow big. Just don't damage the bamboo shoots when digging them, so that spring bamboo shoots can grow into mature bamboos. If all the winter bamboo shoots are dug up and no bamboo grows, we'll be worried! Many people in the village make money by selling bamboo and bamboo products, and they won't do that."
In fact, winter bamboo shoots are equivalent to the "backup plan" of the bamboo forest.
Moso bamboo will produce a large number of winter bamboo shoots to ensure that a few can survive the harsh winter and become a supplement to the mature bamboo in spring.
Spring bamboo shoots are the "main force" of bamboo growth. They break through the soil in large numbers after the surface temperature rises and quickly grow into bamboos relying on abundant rainfall and sunlight in spring.
Villagers dig up winter bamboo shoots, especially those deeply buried weak shoots, which can also reduce the waste of nutrients in bamboo rhizomes, so that the remaining spring bamboo shoots can obtain more resources and the quality of the mature bamboos will be higher.
This is the same principle as thinning out the seedlings when planting vegetables and thinning out the fruits when planting fruit trees.
Zhou Chenglei wanted Jiang Xia to take a look. He knew she had never seen it before. When he saw her coming, he took the hoe and carefully cut off the roots of the bamboo shoots, making sure not to damage the bamboo whips.
Jiang Xia immediately stepped forward to harvest the bamboo shoots without any mercy.
After all the bamboo shoots were collected, Zhou Chenglei filled the bamboo shoots with mud.
Zhang Rui searched for a long time without any clue, so he waved to Li Qiufeng, "Little cousin, you come and find the bamboo shoots, and I'll dig them. I can't find them as accurately as Fourth Brother and Uncle Li. They have dug half a basket, and I only dug two."
Seeing that he had very little knowledge, Li Qiufeng taught him.
Jiang Xia also followed Zhou Chenglei to learn how to dig up the winter bamboo shoots that had not yet sprouted. Whether to dig them or not is one thing, but whether they will sprout is another.
What if I travel through time again someday and need it?
Several people dug bamboo shoots for half a day. Zhou Chenglei dug two large baskets, and Zhang Rui also dug a basket under the guidance of Li Qiufeng.
My second uncle and aunt also dug two large baskets.
It was getting late and they had dug enough bamboo shoots, so they happily went down the mountain and went home.
Zhou Chenglei and Zhang Rui each carried a load of bamboo shoots, and his second uncle also carried a basket of bamboo shoots, and they went down the mountain and returned to the village together.
Halfway, I met people from the village.
The aunt smiled and greeted Zhou Chenglei: "A Lei, is Xiao Xia here to see grandpa and grandma again?"
Zhou Chenglei responded.
Jiang Xia also smiled and called out, "Second Aunt."
Almost everyone in the village knows Zhou Chenglei. After all, when he was a child, Zhou Chenglei came to his grandmother's house and stayed there for a month.
Everyone in the village knows him, and Zhou Chenglei even has good friends in the village who he has been friends with since childhood.
Whenever he came to visit his grandparents, he would get together with his childhood playmates.
Last year, Zhou Chenglei took Jiang Xia to meet many of his brothers.
But everyone was married, and some had children in elementary school. Several families were having a meal together at the time, but Zhou Chenglei's baby was the only one that hadn't been born yet.
Zhou Chenglei also wants to have lunch with his friends here at noon today, so Jiang Xia will not join him. It is not convenient to bring the three children with him, so he will take Zhang Rui with him.
Second Aunt glanced at Zhang Rui and asked Second Aunt with a smile: "Is this your Qiu Feng's boyfriend? He is so handsome and tall! Where is he from?"
Second Aunt looked at Zhang Rui, who was carrying a load of bamboo shoots steadily, and was very satisfied. She did not deny it and smiled, "He is from Beijing."
Zhang Rui found another opportunity yesterday to ask Li Qiufeng what she thought, and Li Qiufeng agreed.
Then Zhang Rui explained his purpose to the two elders and also stated that his family members agreed to go back to Beijing on the fifth day of the New Year and bring Li Qiufeng home on the sixth day.
After the parents of both sides met, the two of them officially started dating.
Zhang Rui didn't understand the dialect, but he understood the three words "Beijing people".
He glanced at Li Qiufeng beside him, and sure enough, she blushed again.
I probably guessed what the other person said.
He asked Li Qiufeng: "What is this aunt's name? Can you introduce her to me?"
Li Qiufeng had no choice but to say, "She's an aunt from the village, just call her Second Aunt."
Zhang Rui immediately greeted the other party: "Second Aunt, I'm Zhang Rui, you can just call me Xiao Rui."
The villagers like such enthusiastic people the most. Second Aunt smiled and said, "Xiao Rui? Xiao Feng is a good girl, hardworking and filial. You have good taste, and Xiao Feng also has good taste. You can tell at a glance that you are a good comrade! Have you been a soldier like A Lei?"
Zhang Rui smiled and nodded: "Yes, Brother Lei and I are comrades-in-arms."
"Good soldiers are all good people."
Zhang Rui smiled.
Second aunt smiled and said, "Let's go back first."
On the way back, they met villagers along the way. When they saw Zhang Rui and Li Qiufeng walking together, they would ask about them. Some of them who were on good terms with them even asked Li Qiufeng to take Zhang Rui to her home for dinner.
Anyone who is more shy would be embarrassed to deal with it.
Fortunately, Zhang Rui has a cheerful personality.
Li Qiufeng was used to it, and she blushed and replied generously, "Yes."
Zhang Rui was very happy with Li Qiufeng's recognition. He smiled and said, "The villagers are really enthusiastic."
"Everyone in our village has the same surname, so we are all related in some way."
Jiang Xia smiled and said, "It was the same when I came here last year. I asked everyone I saw him."
Zhang Rui: "Sister-in-law came here for the first time last year, right?"
Jiang Xia nodded: "Yes, I came once during the Chinese New Year last year."
Zhang Rui: "Sister-in-law is amazing. She only came once, but now she can call out to anyone she sees."
He then said to Li Qiufeng, "I don't have the ability to recognize people like my sister-in-law. Next time I come, remember to remind me who the other person is."
Li Qiufeng nodded: "Well, I'll call for help first, and you just follow suit."
Zhang Rui smiled and said, "Okay."
She didn't know that she had accepted his coming again next time.
…
At noon, Zhou Chenglei took Zhang Rui to one of his brothers' house for a meal.
Jiang Xia handed him a large red envelope and said, "It's Chinese New Year, remember to give red envelopes to children when you see them, and don't drink too much."
Last year Jiang Xia went with him, and all the red envelopes were given by Jiang Xia.
Zhou Chenglei took the red envelope and said, "If you don't drink, don't you have to go home in the afternoon?"
I have to go to my uncle's house tomorrow, and then there will be no more relatives to leave, and the rest will be other people coming to their house.
Zhang Rui took a look at the large stack of red envelopes and asked Li Qiufeng, "When can you give me a stack of New Year's money so that I can give it out?"
He also wants to be someone who can give out New Year's money.
Li Qiufeng: “…”
"Just wait!"
"All right!"
In the afternoon, when Jiang Xia waited for the children to take a nap, she took the opportunity to ask her second uncle if he wanted to go to their city to do business: "We have a new seafood market over there. A Lei and I have a stall in the market. We sell seafood or dried seafood there, which will definitely make more money than weaving baskets in the village."
Second uncle was packing up the winter bamboo shoots he had dug today, and was asking Jiang Xia and the others to take them back. Hearing this, he looked up at Jiang Xia and said with a smile, "Second uncle only knows how to farm and weave baskets, how can he do business!" (End of this chapter)
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