Chapter 372: Sour, so sour!
Because of the color TVs, Hong Kong clothing and free bracelets, the store's business has been pretty good recently. In addition to the female customers who come to shop regularly, there are also many male customers coming. Especially when Gao Mingcheng is in the store, there are even more male customers coming. Their main purpose is not to buy clothes, but to chat with Gao Mingcheng.
Gao Mingcheng's background is no secret in this county. Although his social circle is not large, many people know him.
Gao Mingcheng was also happy to entertain them. He was actually a sociable person. In his previous life, he was often away from home and spent every day outside hanging out with all kinds of bad friends.
After his rebirth, he decided to focus on his family, so he reduced his social life. Many times, he did not rely on Gao Guobing's connections to contact and communicate with those people. Whenever he wanted to do something, he would ask Gao Guobing to help him.
Now these people come to him and want to talk to him about what they have seen and heard outside, as well as some of the situations in the county, and he is happy to do so.
Ten days passed in a flash. Gao Mingcheng thought the rice should be ripe, so he decided to go back to the village again.
This time, many beauties also decided to go back with them.
July is also known as the double harvest month and is the busiest month for farmers.
After rushing to harvest the rice, they have to quickly plow the fields, plant rice seedlings, and sow the late rice.
When Gao Mingcheng returned, before entering the village, he saw a golden rice field in the distance.
The rice ears are already golden and hanging down heavily. Even the seedlings are gradually turning yellow, with only some parts remaining green. Gao Mingcheng can tell that the rice grains must be full and hard without pinching them with his hands.
Some people were already busy working in the fields, and the village's threshing ground was also filled with rice.
"Ming Cheng is back! Your field may take two days to harvest, as it is not growing so well yet!" A man in the rice field straightened up and said, his face covered in sweat, but also filled with the joy of a good harvest.
Gao Mingcheng's rice fields grow slower than others because of poor management.
"Uncle Shouwang, I'll go to the fields later." Gao Mingcheng greeted him, and the tractor continued to move towards Niuweiling. After it stopped, Gao Mingcheng said to Xuanyuemei, "It's hot outside, you stay at home, I'll go to the fields."
Xuan Xiumei smiled and said, "Everywhere in the house needs to be cleaned up. After cleaning up, I still have to cook. I can only stay at home."
Upon hearing this, Gao Mingcheng immediately thought of using water, so he opened the kitchen door, fetched two buckets of water, and then went to the fields.
While walking on the ridge of the field, he saw Gao Zhuang and He Xiuman also working in the fields. After greeting each other, Gao Mingcheng continued walking towards his own field.
When he arrived at his own field, Gao Mingcheng observed the growth of the rice ears and found that it would take another two days before they could be harvested.
But now that he was back, there was no way he could be idle. As soon as Gao Yuanjian, who was working in the field nearby, saw him, he called him to help.
His own father called for help, what could he do? Of course he picked up the sickle and went to fight!
With his participation, the speed of harvesting has been significantly accelerated.
Luo Xiaohua took the harvested rice to the side of the thresher, and threshed the grains together with Huang Su'e. As for the empty rice straw, they were piled aside first, and then tied up and stood upright in the rice field to dry. After drying, they would be taken home for use.
Straw has many uses and every household will not waste it.
The children were also not idle. Each of them held a small bamboo basket and picked up the fallen rice ears in the fields. However, most of these tasks were done by the well-behaved girls. As for the boys, they only picked for a short while before their attention was attracted by the loaches and eels in the mud.
So everyone started catching loaches and eels, with laughter and joy all around.
Occasionally, when an adult scolded the naughty child, he would go and help with things again, but his heart would remain with his friends.
Gao Mingcheng was bending over to cut rice ears when he suddenly felt something at his feet. He quickly reached into the mud and when he came out, he was holding a fat eel.
Eel is very nutritious and is good for pregnant women.
Gao Mingcheng came empty-handed without a bucket, so he had to take off his shirt, tie his cuffs, and then put the eel into his sleeves.
Since he had already caught one, he might as well catch a few more. After they spit out all the mud and sand, he could fry them into a plate.
Seeing that he was also catching eels, Gao Yuan couldn't help but scold him: "You are so grown up, but you are still acting like a child!"
Gao Mingcheng just smiled but continued to catch eels. Now that pesticides are not rampant, there are countless eels, loaches and snails in the fields. As long as you are willing to catch them, you can always catch enough for two plates.
Gao Mingcheng kept grabbing until his clothes could no longer hold him, and then he stopped.
At this point his clothes were all covered in mud, but he didn't care and simply threw them on the ground, waiting to take them away when he left.
He continued to help with the work until noon, then he said, "I'm going home first."
After saying that, he left with his clothes filled with eels.
"Second brother, come again in the afternoon!" Luo Xiaohua shouted.
But Gao Mingcheng had already walked more than ten meters, and his voice came slowly: "No, I have to go to the mountains to work in the afternoon!"
Luo Xiaohua immediately became unhappy. What was there to do in the mountains?
But the person had already disappeared, so there was nothing she could do even if she was dissatisfied.
Gao Mingcheng, covered in mud, returned home. Green smoke was coming out of the chimney above the kitchen, indicating that Xuanduomei was already cooking.
He found a basin and poured out all the eels and loaches in his clothes. He first washed the mud off their surface with water, and then poured another basin of clean water to keep them.
You have to feed them for at least two days so that they can vomit out all the mud and sand in their stomachs, and then they won’t taste muddy when you eat them.
Although there was plenty of water in the well, he did not take a bath at home. Instead, he took his muddy clothes and went to the pond at Xiaofushan.
Simply wash the clothes and dry them directly on an orange tree.
This orange tree was planted last spring. Now it has more than a dozen small green oranges hanging on it. This is a local variety of mandarin oranges. They are not very sweet, but they are relatively large. Even though it is still a small tree, the fruits on the tree are as big as a baby's fist.
After washing the mud off his body, Gao Mingcheng walked around the foot of the mountain. The corn interplanted in the Polygonatum field had already grown corn cobs, but they were not very big yet, and the corn silks on the top were still green-yellow. When the corn silks turned into dark brown, it meant that the corn was ripe and could be picked.
He walked along the hillside and came to the Dongkui bayberry tree that he cared about most.
The last time I came back, the bayberries hanging on the trees were still green, but now many of them have turned red, emitting a unique sweet scent of bayberry.
He picked one and tasted it. As soon as it entered his mouth, the sweet and sour taste exploded in his mouth and his saliva began to flow out like crazy.
This kind of acidity... feels like it's not fully mature yet, we have to wait a little longer.
Gao Mingcheng, whose facial features were slightly distorted by the acid, thought so.
(End of this chapter)
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