Taking the four little piglets, Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun returned to Shuifu Village in Uncle Chen's van.
When he got home, Lu Qingjiu first sent the piglets into the pigsty. He had cleaned the pigsty in advance, and the floor was covered with clean straw. According to Yin Xun, pigs actually like to be clean. When they live in a comfortable place, they tend to grow meat.
Lu Qingjiu picked up a few little pigs, put them in the pigsty, and put clean pig grass and water in the trough. As soon as the two little white pigs entered, they twisted their fat little butts and ate happily, but the two little black pigs hesitated and stood at the door of the pigpen without moving.
"What's wrong?" Seeing that they were unwilling to move, Lu Qingjiu asked in confusion, "Is this pigpen not to your liking?"
Hearing Lu Qingjiu's question, the big black piglet actually nodded, stretched out his little hooves and pointed at the two little white pigs who were happily eating.
Lu Qingjiu: "You don't want to live with them?"
Black Piglet grunted.
Lu Qingjiu looked at Piglet suspiciously: "Are you really a pig? Don't you change from a human?"
Black Pig looked innocently at Lu Qingjiu, as if he didn't understand what Lu Qingjiu was talking about. Lu Qingjiu seriously suspected that he was pretending to be innocent on purpose. However, this black piglet should not be changed by people. After all, if a person finds out that someone is willing to communicate with him, he will definitely show it immediately, and he will not pretend to be stupid like it is.
Lu Qingjiu thought for a while, then went to get a wooden board from the side, and separated the two black piglets and the white piglets, so that the two little piglets carefully walked into the pigpen with their toes on their toes. , After taking a look, he lay down on the clean straw and began to rest.
Seeing this, Lu Qingjiu ignored them and turned back to the room.
Yin Xun was busy in the kitchen, arranging the things Lu Qingjiu bought one by one. Lu Qingjiu came in and asked him what he wanted to eat at night.
"Anything is fine." Yin Xun was quite casual, "I'll go pick some vegetables in the field and let's have a hot pot?"
"Okay." Lu Qingjiu said, "I'll make the soup first... By the way, where can I get this pig grass, or just feed it?"
"Pig grass, you can ask the children in the village to help you pick it." Yin Xun said, "Five cents per basket, you don't have to run up the mountain when they earn some pocket money, just watch the feed and add some vitamins that pigs need. Yes, pigs will not be as fragrant if they eat too much meat, but they are not easy to get sick."
Lu Qingjiu nodded to indicate that he understood.
"I'm going to pick vegetables, you can cook the soup first." Yin Xun went to his own farm.
Lu Qingjiu put the bones he bought from the market today into the pot, set it on fire and started cooking, and cut some of the meat he bought. There is a refrigerator in the old house, but it has not been used for a long time, and the cooling effect is not very good. Lu Qingjiu stuffed the remaining ingredients into the refrigerator, picked up the vegetables and walked to the yard to wash, but heard a loud popping sound. It sounded like a heavy object falling into the water.
The sound came from the backyard, Lu Qingjiu was stunned for a moment, then thought of something, put down the dishes in his hand, and hurried to the backyard.
The backyard hasn't been cleaned up much. There are withered trees and messy weeds all around. There are white spider webs hanging on the walls. The black well in front of me is particularly abrupt.
Lu Qingjiu had just heard the sound of something falling into the water. He was afraid that the children in the village had accidentally fallen into the well, so he quickly walked to the edge of the well and looked inside.
The head of the well was dark, and there was no end in sight. Lu Qingjiu shouted a few times, but he didn't hear any calls for help.
"Is there anyone? Did someone fall in?" Lu Qingjiu continued to shout, "Just call someone—"
The well was silent, except for a dead silence.
Lu Qingjiu called out a few more words, but there was still no response. He was thinking that it wasn't someone who fell in, what was it that fell in, when Yin Xun's voice came from beside him: "Jiu'er? Jiu'er? You? Woolen cloth?"
"I'm in the backyard." Lu Qingjiu responded.
"What are you doing in the backyard?" Yin Xun said, "I came back after picking vegetables, this cucumber is so sweet..."
Lu Qingjiu glanced at the mouth of the well: "I just heard the sound of something falling, so I came over to take a look."
"Oh, is there something there?" Yin Xun stood at the door of the backyard, holding a half-eaten cucumber in his hand, looking at Lu Qingjiu from a distance.
"No." Lu Qingjiu said.
"Then don't worry about it." Yin Xun said, "Maybe some child throws a stone outside the wall and accidentally rolled into the well."
Lu Qingjiu thought about it for a while, and felt that the person who fell into the well was not a person, so he ignored it, left the backyard, walked to Yin Xun's side, and walked towards the front yard together. Yin Xun looked at Lu Qingjiu, took another bite of the cucumber, crunched it, and said vaguely, "What's on your back?"
"My back?" Lu Qingjiu turned to look behind him, "What?"
Yin Xun stretched out his hand and took out a black mass from Lu Qingjiu's back: "This..."
Lu Qingjiu could clearly see what Yin Xun was holding, and it was actually a mass of black hair that stuck to his back at some point.
"Is this hair? What the hell!" Yin Xun quickly threw it aside after seeing that the thing in his hand was hair, "What the hell, it's disgusting."
Lu Qingjiu: "..." He glanced at the well in his backyard in silence, a bad premonition arose in his heart.
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, it's alright." Yin Xun said, "Rural, local, there are always some strange things..."
Lu Qingjiu was startled: "A strange thing? Like?"
Yin Xun was silent for a moment, then whispered to Lu Qingjiu, "Last summer, the little Liu family drowned."
"Drowning?" Lu Qingjiu said, "In the creek in the village? Isn't that creek very shallow?" There aren't many rivers in their place. From what he understands, the place with water near the village is one that is below the knee. Xiaoxi, the stream is not in a hurry and has no water plants. Even if you fall in it, it is easy to stand up.
"No." Yin Xun said, "It wouldn't be a particularly strange thing if he was there. He drowned in... the woods."
Lu Qingjiu didn't understand for a while, and repeated doubtfully, "In the woods?"
"That's right." Yin Xun said in a low voice, "It's in the woods, and there's no water around. The Liu family called the police at that time. After the autopsy, the police said they drowned."
Lu Qingjiu said, "...So what happened in the end?"
"What can we do in the end." Yin Xun said, "Let's just forget it. Actually, other villages also have this kind of strange thing, but it's not too many, maybe one or two in a few years."
Lu Qingjiu had nothing to say. He actually encountered this kind of thing when he was working in the city before, but he didn't expect such a strange thing to happen in another place.
"So if you encounter it in the future, just pretend that you didn't see it." Yin Xun said, "Out of sight, out of mind."
Lu Qingjiu thought that out of sight, out of mind and out of mind, is this the way to use it...
Yin Xun handed Lu Qingjiu a cucumber, and the two of them squatted in the front yard and continued to wash the vegetables.
The taste of cucumbers is really good, crisp and sweet, without any bitterness, and full of water. It tastes similar to fruit. After eating cucumbers, Lu Qingjiu felt a little better, and said: "Then have you encountered anything strange? thing?"
Yin Xun grinned happily, and the cute tiger tooth showed again: "Maybe I have encountered it before, I didn't notice it."
Lu Qingjiu thought that it's good to be nervous.
Yin Xun picked a lot of vegetables, and after washing them, Lu Qingjiu added the stewed bone soup pot with the hot pot base brought from the city, and brought it to the yard after it boiled. Start drinking beer while eating hot pot.
The taste of the hot pot is very simple. Fortunately, the ingredients are fresh, so the taste is not bad. The rich aroma of the bone broth fills the entire garden. Yin Xun drank a few glasses, and two blushing roses appeared on his cheeks, looking a little drunk.
Lu Qingjiu also developed a strong sense of drunkenness. He hadn't been drunk for a long time. He usually worked overtime and was confused, so he had no time to stop and have a drink with friends.
It’s still comfortable in my hometown, and I don’t need to think about going to clock in tomorrow. Just thinking about it, Lu Qingjiu saw Yin Xun who was sitting in front of him suddenly stretch out his hand, pointed behind him, and said vaguely, “Okay… it’s so dark. ."
"What?" Lu Qingjiu said, "Isn't the light turned on?"
Yin Xun tilted his head with a confused expression, "But it's still very dark."
Lu Qingjiu thought that Yin Xun was completely drunk, and it was not until he turned his head and looked behind him that he understood the meaning of Yin Xun's words. He saw a black figure standing not far from them. That person is like a black hole that absorbs light, and when the light reaches that position, it is all absorbed. Lu Qingjiu rubbed his eyes heavily, and only then did he fully see that the shadow was actually a mass of human-shaped hair.
"Do you know what I'm most afraid of?" A woman's soft question rang in her ear.
Perhaps it was the alcohol that numbed his nerves, but Lu Qingjiu didn't have much fear. He looked at the ball of hair and heard the woman ask again.
"Do you know what I'm most afraid of?" Black hair, closer to them.
Lu Qingjiu's lips moved slightly: "You are the most afraid..."
"what?"
"Most... Afraid of going bald?" The drunk Lu Qingjiu said it very seriously, and he felt that his logic was perfect and there was nothing wrong with it, otherwise, what is the female ghost doing with so much hair... He said this, and touched it With his own hair, he sighed a little sadly, "Fortunately I resigned early, otherwise I wouldn't be able to escape..."
The shadow trembled twice, not sure if she was shocked by Lu Qingjiu's answer. After all, it was the first time she heard such an answer in so many years. The man in front of her was so pure and unpretentious. .
The shadow in front of him seemed to want to speak, but a thick black fog suddenly appeared around the yard. The female ghost felt something, and disappeared in front of Lu Qingjiu's eyes the next moment, leaving only a patch of bleak water on the ground. stains.
Lu Qingjiu felt that he was really drunk, otherwise, how could that thing disappear like this? Yin Xun, who was opposite him, opened another bottle and filled him with a glass.
"Drink..." Yin Xun said with a big tongue, "Keep drinking..."
Lu Qingjiu picked up the cup and drank it and said, "Drink!"
He couldn't remember what happened after that. It was the next morning when he had another memory. He and Yin Xun lay in the yard all night. When they woke up, their back was sore and they were about to fall apart. Especially the head, the pain almost exploded after a hangover, Lu Qingjiu got up from the ground in a daze, and pushed Yin Xun who was sleeping beside him with crooked eyes.
"Hey... oops..." Yin Xun opened his eyes and cried out, "My whole body hurts so much, Jiu'er, did you beat me up last night while I was drunk?"
Lu Qingjiu: "...I'm in pain too, okay?"
Yin Xun said, "No, no, no, my whole body hurts badly, especially my butt." He rubbed his butt and looked at Lu Qingjiu suspiciously, "You really didn't do anything to me?"
Lu Qingjiu: "The mirror is in the room, look at your face and wake up."
Yin Xun: "I look so good-looking."
Lu Qingjiu: "You look good, you're going to be swollen into a pig's head."
Yin Xun looked puzzled, staggered into the room and found the mirror hanging in the toilet, and then he heard a scream from Lu Qingjiu: "Lu Qingjiu - you fucking beat me while I was sleeping last night! "
Lu Qingjiu: "I didn't!"
Yin Xun: "Then why I'm swollen and you're not swollen!"
Lu Qingjiu: "Maybe it's because I'm good-looking."
Yin Xun: "..." You are really shameless.
Jokes aside, this face was suddenly swollen and still had to be seen, so the two of them limped to the village clinic. The villagers I knew were happy to see the two of them in such a miserable state, and joked that they were caught and beaten when they went to steal the baogu in the middle of the night last night
Yin Xun said with a sad face, "Auntie, don't make fun of me."
When they arrived at the health center, the doctor said that Yin Xun was allergic to something, not being beaten. Only then did Lu Qingjiu clear the suspicion.
"What are you allergic to?" Yin Xun didn't want to understand, "Isn't everything I eat on weekdays?"
Lu Qingjiu thought about it for a while, then asked uncertainly, "Are you allergic to the hot pot ingredients I brought?"
Yin Xun was stunned: "...No way! Are you allergic to hot pot ingredients?!"
"It's possible." Lu Qingjiu analyzed it carefully, "There are a lot of spices in the hot pot ingredients, so you may be allergic... Of course, it's only possible. You are the first person I've ever seen to be allergic to hot pot ingredients."
Yin Xun shed tears of sadness.
Seeing that Yin Xun's symptoms were not particularly serious, the doctor prescribed some medicine to let him go back to eat, saying that he would be fine in two days without touching the allergen.
Then the two disabled people went back home with the arms.
After returning home, Lu Qingjiu lay on the bed for a long time before feeling better. When he got up to clean up the things in the front yard, he glanced at the location of the back yard and seemed to vaguely remember something, but he couldn't figure it out for a while. In the end, he really couldn't remember it, and he didn't bother to think about it. It wasn't a big deal anyway.
After tidying up the house and eating something casually, Lu Qingjiu soaked the seeds in warm water and planned to plant some of them in the afternoon. Soaking the seeds in warm water will make the seeds easier to germinate. It was Yin Xun who told him. After soaking the seeds, he went to the neighbor's house next door, and happened to see the neighbor's child sitting in the yard weaving straw ropes. The neighbor's house had seen Lu Qingjiu when he was a child, and he had a good relationship with his grandmother. Lu Qingjiu was there the next day. Bringing him a basket of sweet potatoes, Lu Qingjiu sincerely thanked him.
"What's wrong with Xiao Lu?" asked the neighbor Uncle Li.
"I want to ask if Xiaoyu is okay?" Lu Qingjiu said, "I need some hogweed at home."
Xiaoyu is the name of the neighbor's child, and his full name is Li Xiaoyu. When he heard this, he quickly nodded, threw the hemp rope in his hand, and said, "I'm fine, how many frames do you want?"
"A few frames will do." Lu Qingjiu felt that Li Xiaoyu should have gone to elementary school at this age, "Is it dangerous for the place to hunt hogweed, can children go there?"
"It's alright." Uncle Li laughed when he heard this, and said indifferently, "They've been used to being wild there since they were young, so thank you brother Lu."
"Thank you Brother Lu." Li Xiaoyu stood up happily, and he could see that the child was happy to get the pocket money, and his family didn't object.
"Aren't you going to school?" Lu Qingjiu asked.
"It's only half a day." Uncle Li said indifferently, "Anyway, I will go home to farm in the future. What's the use of going to school. Not everyone can become a college student like you."
Lu Qingjiu gave Li Xiaoyu two dollars and saw him happily go out with a bamboo basket and a sickle on his back.
Looking at his back, Lu Qingjiu was hesitant to say anything, but he didn't say anything. After all, it was someone else's housework, and he didn't want to get involved.
Afterwards, Lu Qingjiu planted the seeds soaked in warm water into the field. This time, he didn't plant too many. Most of the seeds he planted were cucumbers, tomatoes, and other vegetables that were eaten a lot on weekdays. Of course, he didn't forget to plant some vegetables. , and buried some potato tubers by the way.
Anyway, it was the first time I tried it out. Lu Qingjiu was not very particular, and planted it very casually. According to Yin Xun, if he didn't pay attention to the output and didn't sell it, it would be almost the same. There was no need to work too hard to serve.
Lu Qingjiu had less than half an mu of land, and it was almost dark. He sweated a lot, and his clothes were almost soaked.
Seeing that it was getting dark, Lu Qingjiu went home, took a shower, changed his clothes, and then put the buns he bought yesterday in a steamer and steamed them for dinner.
Just when the steamed buns were almost done, there was a knock on the front door. Lu Qingjiu went over to open the door and found out that it was Li Xiaoyu who had gone to the back mountain to hunt hogweed, and he had a big basket in his hand and tied it with ropes. The pig's grass is full of smiles: "Brother Lu, the grass is cut for you. I'm fine anyway. Feed the pigs for you."
Just as Lu Qingjiu was about to refuse, he saw the child galloping all the way towards the pigsty, and he couldn't stop him.
In desperation, Lu Qingjiu had no choice but to turn around and go back to the house, wrap a few steamed buns for the child, and after thinking about it, he took out a bar of chocolate from his suitcase.
Lu Qingjiu took the things and went to the pigsty, and before he arrived, he heard Li Xiaoyu screaming, "Brother Lu, your pig looks so cute!"
Lu Qingjiu walked over to take a look, and saw that the little black piglet who was praised by Li Xiaoyu was proudly puffing out his chest at this moment, with a very discerning expression of a child.
Lu Qingjiu: "..." Why did he see the expression on the pig's face.
"Can I give it a name?" Li Xiaoyu turned to look at Lu Qingjiu.
Lu Qingjiu: "..." He thought of Yin Xun's tragedy, but facing Li Xiaoyu's eager eyes, he could only think that if there was an emergency, he would make the braised pork more delicious, "Okay. "
"You can call Xiaohua." Li Xiaoyu pointed at the big pig and said.
Lu Qingjiu: "..." Is this the choice of fate? He politely said, "Why call it Xiaohua? Isn't it bad to call it another name?"
Li Xiaoyu said: "But it has flowers on its back." The pig's back is covered with a layer of soft fluff, with patterns like squirrels, black and brown.
Lu Qingjiu: "..." He actually couldn't refute.
Li Xiaoyu said: "Your name is Xiao Hei." He named the little one again, "You are the cutest pigs I have ever seen!"
Lu Qingjiu thought, it might be the best...
Li Xiaoyu saw that Xiaohua and Xiaohei were full, and her little stomach was bulging. Only then did she say goodbye to Lu Qingjiu in satisfaction, and asked embarrassedly if she could let him go for the next time, Lu Qingjiu nodded in agreement. , and also gave Li Xiaoyu the buns and chocolates in his hand.
Seeing the child jumping away, Lu Qingjiu glanced at Xiaohua who was licking Xiaohei's hair, and said, "Xiaohei, Xiaohua, grow up well."
Xiaohua: "..." Who is your name? Who the fuck is called Xiaohua? ! How could he, as an excellent male, admit such a name!
Xiao Hei: "..." What, what? What is her brother talking about? Mmmm... hogweed is so delicious, let's go!
Xiaohua: You fucking eat it, the first one will kill you and eat meat when you get fat!
Xiao Hei was extremely aggrieved: Brother, you are so fierce... and you obviously enjoyed your meal just now.
Xiaohua: Shut up! Don't speak!
Standing next to the pigsty, Lu Qingjiu naturally couldn't understand the conversation between the two little black pigs, and could only hear them humming for a while. Quan regarded it as a sign that they were having fun. When he turned around and went back to the old house, he thought that if he had time, he would buy some chickens and raise them back, so that the yard would be more lively...