Chapter 78 A Mistake
He Hongjin let out a breath with a headache and walked towards Lu Miao.
"What's wrong with you? What's wrong? What's the problem?"
He Hongjin's tone was not very good.
Seeing the little crying face, the fear on his face had not completely faded, Lu Miao said, "Captain, there are insects in the cotton field!"
"That's it?" He Hongjin was almost laughing out of anger. He was about to explode, but then he saw that Lu Miao had carefully cleaned up the area where he had weeded. His tone softened a bit, "It's normal to have a few bugs in the fields. Hurry up and finish the job quickly. We'll be off in half an hour."
At this time, production in all aspects was lagging behind. Agricultural fertilizers and pesticides had to compete for indicators, but the indicators were pitifully small. Crops were generally not sprayed with pesticides, so it was normal to have insects in the fields.
But for Lu Miao, the fact that there were bugs in the cotton field was not the main point. The main point was that the bugs had fallen into her clothes and were sticking to her skin!
She even squeezed it until it burst...
Lu Miao couldn't bear to think about the scene just now. She had always been afraid of soft-bodied insects such as earthworms, caterpillars, and caterpillars.
Maybe it's not fear, but the soft-tissue insects make her feel disgusted, and she will feel strong physical discomfort once she encounters them. In short, in comparison, even if a snake is thrown at her, she will not be so scared.
He Hongjin asked Lu Miao to work honestly, but Lu Miao shook her head, her pretty face becoming stubborn and refusing to obey. "I won't! There are bugs in the cotton field! I won't work here anymore!"
"If not here, where else can I work? They're just a few bugs, I can just crush them to death!"
He Hongjin shouted, and was about to drive Lu Miao to the ground.
Lu Miao was really scared. In a second, he turned into a three-year-old child, stomping his feet and screaming, "I won't! I won't!"
Her voice was as sharp as a whistle, making He Hongjin's forehead veins bulge.
He Hongjin was completely taken over by the shameless, unreasonable and noisy nature of her child. He kept chattering and several heads appeared around to check on the situation.
Fearing that continuing to toss and turn would distract others, He Hongjin shouted:
"If you don't want to work here, go to the paddy fields and harvest rice! There are snakes everywhere there. If you're not afraid, go!"
This statement is meant to scare people. If a few insects can catch a person, then catching a snake in a paddy field is even more ridiculous, isn't it?
He Hongjin was sure that Lu Miao would stay in the cotton field, but what was the truth?
In front of him, Lu Miao breathed a sigh of relief, raised his porcelain-white face and smiled faintly, saying "thank you", turned around, picked up his hat and ran away, without even leaving the hoe on the ridge of the field!
He Hongjin's face wrinkled into a chrysanthemum shape in confusion. He picked up the hoe and chased after him, not forgetting to emphasize:
"Lu Zhiqing, I've already warned you. There are snakes in the paddy field! Snakes, you know?"
Lu Miao waved his hands understandingly, "It's okay, Captain. I'm not afraid of snakes. I'll be careful. You don't have to send me off!"
“…Huh? Oh, oh…”
He Hongjin, who was politely declined the offer to be "sent off", stood on the edge of the field with a confused look on his face, scratching the back of his head in bewilderment.
Looking at the green cotton fields beside him and the golden rice fields in the distance, He Hongjin couldn't understand why a few tiny bugs could be scarier than snakes.
This Lu Zhiqing, is there something wrong with his brain?
Although he didn't believe Lu Miao could work well in the paddy fields, he had already walked far away and it was difficult for He Hongjin to catch up with him.
We can only take one step at a time. If there is a problem, we can only wait until it happens.
…
Lu Miao moved from the cotton field to the paddy field. Just as He Hongjin said, she actually encountered a snake while harvesting rice. However, she was frightened at the first sight. The snake behind her was obviously more afraid of her. It hissed and spit out its tongue. It ran away as fast as lightning.
It was the uncles and aunts working nearby who had more experience. They took big strides and chased after the swaying ears of corn. The sickle in their hands had turned around at some point, and they saw the right moment and smashed it down several times in a row. When they came back a short while later, they had in their hands a fat rat snake with its head smashed to pieces but its tail still twisting.
"Oh, Comrade Zhiqing, thanks to you, the few mouths in the old man's room can finally have some meat at noon today, hahahaha!"
Lu Miao's muddy hands wiped the strands of hair that slid down the side of his face. His fair little face wrinkled, and several emotions of confusion, surprise, and understanding intertwined in an instant.
She licked her lips speechlessly, and it took her a long time to find her voice: "Uncle, if you take this snake home to eat, remember to cook it for a while longer."
Snakes have a lot of parasites.
"What's the matter? Are you worried that I, an old man, can't do it well enough?"
The uncle's thin, dark face cracked into a smile. Besides his joy, his words and actions hinted at a certain indifference. "You young men from the city don't understand. We in the countryside see a lot of snakes, and we eat a lot of them. Did you see that kid in the field?"
The uncle pointed into the distance, Lu Miao squinted his eyes and nodded slowly.
"Hahaha, do you know why they are so motivated?"
Lu Miao was slowly harvesting the grain and replied casually:
"Isn't it because of his youthful physique? It can't be because he eats snakes, right? Uncle, don't lie to me. If you try to fool me, I'll be angry."
Lu Miao's childish remarks made the old farmer laugh out loud:
"Of course it's what a young body is."
The uncle gave a thumbs-up and continued, "It's also closely related to eating snakes. Don't you know? You replenish what you eat. Snake blood replenishes blood, and snake gallbladder, eaten raw, can improve eyesight!"
Eating snake gallbladder raw...
Lu Miao felt a chill and felt unwell. "Eating raw snake gallbladder improves eyesight, and snake blood replenishes blood... Could it be that they just bleed it and drink it?"
The uncle jokingly said, "Isn't it?"
Lu Miao hissed, the hair on his arms stood up, and he screamed softly and jumped several steps away, fearing that he would be forced to drink snake blood.
She may not be able to understand feudal or traditional customs and habits, but the news of eating raw snake gallbladder and drinking raw snake blood, when she heard it, was really as uncomfortable as when she crushed a bug with her bare hands!
Seeing that Lu Miao was frightened, the uncle laughed a few times and stopped teasing her.
Just then, the whistle for the end of work rang out from the team. The uncle, holding a sickle in one hand and the already motionless snake in the other, said to Lu Miao with a smile, "Okay, it's time to end the work, educated youth comrade. I'll leave first, lest the snake get smelly later."
As soon as he finished speaking, he had already walked ahead and went home.
Lu Miao wiped the sweat from his forehead, shook his head with a suffocating look, slid onto the ridge of the field step by step, and followed behind to the educated youth point of the team.
On the way, she met Ren Bingxin and others who were returning from paddy fields elsewhere, and she trotted over to meet them.
Ren Bingxin saw her carrying cloth shoes, her bare feet still covered in mud, and asked curiously, "Didn't you go to the cotton fields? How did you get dressed like this?"
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