Chapter 28: Pressing Head to Apology
While people are digging bamboo shoots here, men from each family are digging sweet potatoes, potatoes and picking corn in their own fields over there.
Because they were going to offer sacrifices to the mountain god, they walked around the cornfield and picked out the two largest cobs of corn. Sweet potatoes and potatoes are a little more troublesome because they grow in the ground and they don't know which two are the biggest.
But it doesn’t matter. Chief Wumu said that if you don’t know which two are the biggest, just pick the two biggest trees and dig them up, and then take the biggest one.
"Wow! This sweet potato is so big!"
When planting last night, Gao Guangliang felt that the sweet potatoes were not too big and he could eat three or four by himself. He didn’t expect that this thing dug out from the ground would be as big as his foot? !
Oh My God!
So big!
Just eating one is enough!
"Not only are they big, there are so many of them. I dug out seven or eight from this one." Someone nearby was holding the freshly dug sweet potatoes, as if he had found a treasure.
His eyes were sparkling.
If you plant one sweet potato, seven or eight will grow. If you plant more, how many sweet potatoes can you harvest from this acre of land? !
"Me too, I have nine!"
"I have eight!"
"I only have six, but mine are all so big."
"I have a big one, a few small ones, ten in total."
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The villagers nearby dug out two trees and started to demonstrate how to do it.
The sweet potatoes planted yesterday were only this big, but they have grown this big today, and the number has increased six or seven times. This harvest is so gratifying.
I heard from the village chief that this is enough food to fill our stomachs.
I suddenly felt that corn, soybeans and the like were outdone.
Someone said, "Do you think we can just plant this in the future?"
"You're overthinking it. Didn't the village chief say that the mountain god would only help us once, and we'll have to plant the crops ourselves from now on? If we plant the crops ourselves, we can only harvest once a year."
"What's wrong with just one harvest? One harvest is more than the corn we grow. Think about it, how many seeds do we need to grow one acre of corn, and how much can we harvest after growing it? But it's different with sweet potatoes, one can grow seven or eight, how much can we harvest from this acre of land?"
"You should ask the village chief about this. If we plant it ourselves, it may not grow so much."
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Suddenly, I felt a little regretful. I wish the mountain god could always help them.
Some people don’t understand. They all worship the Mountain God, so why doesn’t the Mountain God help them all the time?
Here, the harvest was in full swing and they were preparing to pick the best to offer sacrifice to the mountain god. Over there, Xu Zhong and his group of carpenter Zhao had already arrived at the village gate.
Those were just what Xu Zhong said. Carpenter Zhao and others still had to come and see with their own eyes what Yilan Village was like. By the way, they "entrusted" several children in the village to Yilan Village, asking them to help "raise" them before the mountain temple was built.
It’s not like we’re asking Yilan Village for help in vain. They will send rations over.
Of course, there was also an aunt "accompanying" me.
Carpenter Zhao has been to Yilan Village many times. He has been listening to Xu Zhong talking about the wall built by "Mr. Kiwi". He can't imagine what Mr. Kiwi looks like. Could it be that it looks like a kiwi and a peach, so it is called kiwi?
Therefore, when he saw the kiwi fruit wall outside Yilan Village with his own eyes, he was stunned.
"This is……"
Kiwi fruit doesn’t look like a kiwi, nor does it look like a peach!
His eyes were blank.
Xu Zhong said, "This is Master Kiwi. Please be polite. Master Kiwi doesn't like to move and can't talk, but if a monster attacks, it will protect the village. If you encounter a monster outside, as long as you run fast enough and run near Master Kiwi, it will also protect you."
It was also emphasized that two people in the village encountered monsters outside the village. They had no time to rush back to the village, so they only ran to the vicinity of Lord Kiwi and were rescued by Lord Kiwi.
One of them is his nephew.
Speak of the devil, and he will appear. When Yu Zhongdou was picking chestnuts, he was "hit" by the chestnuts again. His family couldn't stand it anymore and "drove" him out.
He had nowhere to go, so he came to the village entrance to wait for his uncle.
He didn't know whether his uncle would come back so early, but it would always be a good idea to come and see. I didn't expect to see it when I arrived at the village gate.
"Uncle!"
"Dodou, what's wrong with your head?" Xu Zhongyi turned around and saw the wound on his nephew's forehead.
It doesn't look like it was hit, or rather, smashed. Why are there so many tiny red marks?
Yu Zhongdou said aggrievedly: "It was hit by a chestnut."
Xu Zhong:? ? ? ?
"Oh, you'll know when the time comes." Yu Zhongdou didn't explain any more and greeted Carpenter Zhao and the others.
He didn't know others, but he knew Carpenter Zhao and those kids.
After all, he went to Qinghe Village often.
"Your uncle said that Mr. Kiwi saved your life?" Carpenter Zhao asked for confirmation.
Yu Zhongdou scratched his head and said, "My uncle told you this, too. Lord Kiwi did save my life, but not at the door. It was on the other side. There was a dog hole there. When I climbed out, I ran into a hunting wolf beast and was chased by it. Fortunately, I ran fast, otherwise I would have been eaten by the hunting wolf beast."
As he spoke, Yu Zhongdou led the way and took them to find the village chief.
After entering the village, Xu Zhong found something wrong. When he left yesterday, he didn't see so many trees in the yards of the houses. How come they grew so many overnight?
The persimmon tree, which was taller than the roof and full of orange-red fruits, was very eye-catching, especially when some people had a person hanging on it, picking persimmons.
"When did your village start planting the fruits? When I came here last time, your village hadn't planted them yet!" Carpenter Zhao saw the fruits on the tree, and after a quick count he found that there were quite a lot of them, too many to count. They were so densely packed that he was extremely envious.
Yu Zhongdou said, “I just planted it last night.”
What the hell? Carpenter Zhao: "Why are you so dishonest, kid? If you don't want to say it, then don't say it. There's no need to lie."
"I'm not lying. If you don't believe me, ask my uncle. He left yesterday morning. Were there not so many persimmon trees in the village at that time?"
Xu Zhong, who was called by name, said: "Well, when I left yesterday, there really weren't that many trees in the village. Is this called a persimmon tree?"
"Yes, the tree that bears red fruits is called persimmon tree, which bears those small chestnuts with thorns on them. My head was hit by a chestnut. My aunt said that it was because I secretly picked persimmons without the permission of the mountain god yesterday... I didn't expect the mountain god to be so..." Because of concerns, the word "stingy" was not uttered.
Xu Zhong stared, thinking that his nephew was too bold. He actually dared to speak ill of the mountain god right under his nose. If it wasn't him, who else could it be?
"Kid, why are you so ignorant? You say all kinds of nonsense!" Holding Yu Zhongdou's head, he asked him to bend down and apologize to the mountain god temple. He wanted the mountain god to forgive him no matter what.
Yu Zhongdou: Wuuuuuu… Now that I have the Mountain God, do I no longer have the freedom to speak a word?
In the end, he was no match for his uncle and not only was his head pressed down, he also had to kneel down and kowtow twice on the spot.
He was still practicing hard, and Yang Xiangwei, who had not yet arrived, still knew nothing.
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