Day by day, spring is coming to an end, and early summer is coming. In Yu's cornfield, corn stalks stand upright like tall and straight guards. The leaves of corn are like a sharp sword made of jasper, piercing the sky one by one. On the top of the plant, the tassels of corn have been pulled out, clustered one by one, like the messy hair of a guard.
In the past month, because King Yang came more frequently, Xiaocao was afraid that he would see something, so she reduced the water content of the Lingshi. Corn itself is resistant to drought and waterlogging. Although there is less rain this spring, it does not affect its growth and development at all.
Looking at the tall corn plant, Zhu Junyang asked Mr. Liu, who accompanied him, to record the detailed time of tassel heading and the growth status of the corn.
The Yu family's watermelons have been sold for nearly a month, and there are not many watermelons left in the six-acre field. They are generally small in size, but the taste remains the same. Zhu Junyang walked to the melon field, picked one of the watermelons he had picked, and asked Manager Liu to take it back and enjoy it.
Yu Xiaocao, the little follower at the back, couldn't help curling her lips. The little county king didn't treat himself as an outsider more and more, taking watermelons as if they were his own.
"Xiaocao, is the tassel grown from corn the fruit of corn?" Zhu Junyang recalled the news from the capital that the corn planted by Hubu according to the planting experience summed up by Yu's family had just jointed for almost a month. He looked at the specimens sent over, and although they looked pretty good, they were far worse than those from the Yu family. Could it be that the Yu family really has an extraordinary talent in farming
Yu Xiaocao rolled her eyes and resented him, "It's terrible to be uneducated! People have men and women, and flowers are divided into males and females. Since it is a tassel, how can it bear fruit?"
"Slap!" Zhu Junyang slapped Xiaonizi lightly on the back of the head, and said without any force: "You are not timid, who is uneducated? It seems that the master usually indulges you too much and makes you It's not big or small! It's also because of your generosity, if it were someone else, your life would have been over long ago!"
On the side was Mr. Liu who was holding a record booklet and a watermelon. When he saw the faint smile on the corner of the young master's mouth, he was very relieved: God has eyes, and the master met the only Yu who dared to joke with him and lived in harmony. girl. Through this month's observation, he found that only when his master was with Ms. Yu could he relax wholeheartedly, and only occasionally showed the demeanor and behavior that a seventeen-year-old boy should have.
Yu Xiaocao hugged her head, looked at him angrily, and yelled: "Slap me on the head again, if you beat me stupidly, I will depend on you! You will take full responsibility for the rest of my life!" !!"
Responsible for the rest of Xiaonizi's life? There was a smile in Zhu Junyang's eyes, and he gave her another chestnut, laughed, and said: "Stop blackmailing me! You are stupid and stupid, how can you blame me? You want to rely on me? You are not a stingy person, with your small body and cat-like appetite, you can feed ten or eight grandpas!"
"Are you raising pigs? Ten or eight..." Yu Xiaocao accidentally scolded herself, and she realized it as soon as the words came out of her mouth. Oh, what happened? Could it be that he was really fooled by this guy
Zhu Junyang smiled even more, and looked her up and down, showing a disdainful expression: "Pig? It's just your little fleshy little one. If it's really a piggy, no one will take it back to raise it. Master just Showing great mercy, I reluctantly took it back and raised it. I got fat, butchered and ate meat... "
Yu Xiaocao was so angry that she barked her teeth and yelled, "Eat, eat, eat! You're going to die!! You're still eating meat, be careful that you become fat like a pig and can't walk!!"
"Grandpa practices kung fu every morning and evening. No matter how much meat you eat, you won't get fat. Don't worry about it!" Looking at Yu Xiaocao's energetic appearance every day, Zhu Junyang's mood became more and more sunny.
The bickering skill of this couple is increasing day by day, Yu Xiaocao decides that good women don't fight with men, and went down the melon field to look for ripe watermelons. Suddenly, a black shadow quickly passed by her feet, scaring her to let out a soft cry, and jumped far away to the side.
"What's the matter? What's the matter! What happened?" Zhu Junyang walked over with his long legs. Because I walked too fast, I stepped on a few immature melons along the way.
"It seems to be a badger!" The badger Yu Xiaocao said is the same creature as the one described by Lu Xun. It is good at digging soil, lives in caves, and likes to eat plant roots, insects and some small animals.
Zhu Junyang searched the melon field with his eyes, and soon caught that agile figure. The shadow in his hand flashed, and the badger fleeing at high speed let out a short scream, and fell to the ground motionless.
Wow! What hidden weapon is so powerful? Yu Xiaocao picked up the hem of her skirt, stepped over watermelons lightly, and came to the dead badger. There were no obvious wounds on Badger's body, but there were marks on his head from being hit by an object. She carefully searched around, and finally found the so-called hidden weapon, which was a tortoise shell finger.
Such a long distance, enough to kill a badger, the tortoiseshell finger was not damaged at all. This kind of strength is not something that ordinary people can do. Yu Xiaocao held the tortoiseshell wrench in one hand, and carried the badger that just passed by but suffered an innocent disaster in the other, and came to Zhu Junyang's side, looking at his eyes that were so bright that they asked, "Little Prince, do you know martial arts? Is this the legendary internal force?"
Under the gaze of those shining jewel-like eyes, Zhu Junyang's ears gradually turned red, but he pretended to be cool: "I have practiced martial arts since I was a child, what's so strange about knowing martial arts? A badger, what's there to show off?"
"Hey! Prince Xiaojun, if you lose your job in the future, you can switch careers to be a hunter. You will definitely not die of starvation!!" Yu Xiaocao picked up the fat badger and shook it in front of Zhu Junyang, revealing a row of small white teeth, " I'll eat it for lunch today!"
Zhu Junyang frowned, looked at the black badger with distaste, curled his lips and said, "This is ugly and dirty, can I eat it?"
It seemed that the admiration and admiration just now were all his illusions, and Yu Xiaocao began to yell at him again: "I have no experience! Let me tell you, badger meat is a great tonic, and eating it regularly can strengthen your body!"
Zhu Junyang seems to like bickering with Yu Xiaocao: "A broken badger makes you so happy! Don't you have a lot of prey on the West Mountain? Someday God will show you the hunting skills of God, what do you think then? For food, just say, I will hunt for you!"
Yu Xiaocao immediately stared: "Really? Are you kidding me? Can you eat anything you want?"
Seeing Yu Xiaocao's wicked smile, Zhu Junyang had an ominous premonition, but the man had already said everything, how could he take it back, so he had to bite the bullet and said, "As long as you have something on the west mountain, I will Can hunt back!"
"I want to eat tiger meat, black bear paws, leopard tails, shark backs...I have never eaten any of these, so I really want to try them!" Yu Xiaocao pretended to have an innocent expression, why did she look so deserving of a beating
The muscles on Zhu Junyang's face twitched violently, he grinned his lips, and said, "I think you have eaten the guts of a bear, don't you? Why dare you encourage me to take the risk of hunting wild animals? Also, your shark The one that grows on the west mountain? Give it back to the shark, and it would be nice to give you catfish!"
Yu Xiaocao made a face at him, and she just talked casually, how could she really let him take risks
"Yu Xiaocao, are there really tigers and leopards in this western mountain?" Boys seem to have a natural sense of adventure. Zhu Junyang missed the autumn hunting in the royal paddock last year, and he was very upset when he heard that he was beaten by one of his defeated generals. I heard that guy was lucky, he met a wounded tiger, and the blind cat met a dead mouse, so he won! If there are tigers in this western mountain, he will catch one too, so that the defeated subordinate will be convinced!
Yu Xiaocao thought for a while, then shook her head and said: "I don't know either. I heard from people of the older generation that they have heard tigers roaring. Wild beasts usually live in the deep mountains. Most people dare not go in, so naturally they can't see them! However, bears Blind people do exist. My father met..." Almost died from the mouth of Xiong Xiazi!
Thinking of her father lying on the bed, sentenced to death by the doctor, and the family's helpless appearance, Yu Xiaocao clenched her hands tightly, the palms of which were aching from the tortoiseshell wrench she was holding.
"Finger wrench for you!" Yu Xiaocao looked down at the item in her hand, and brought it to Zhu Junyang.
Seeing the marks on Yu Xiaocao's palm, Zhu Junyang also remembered what happened to Yu Hai. Yu Xiaocao, who was only eight years old at the time, must have been very hesitant and helpless. He wanted to say something to comfort her, but he didn't know how to speak. After thinking for a while, Zhu Junyang said: "If the finger is dirty, I'll reward you! Don't you want to eat bear's paw? Will you clean it up when God comes back from hunting?"
"No... But our chef at Zhenxiu Restaurant will definitely! At that time, let's get the ingredients and let brother Yang Feng cook for us, and then order some special dishes of Zhenxiu Restaurant, and have a delicious meal!!" After her mother was confinement, Yu Xiaocao's time in the town was much shorter. The godmother said that she would return to Beijing in a few days, and spend a hundred days in the capital for little Linlin.
Xisan and Full Moon are both held in Tang Ancient Town. If you don’t return to Beijing for a hundred days, those good sisters of the godmother, some old friends of the godfather, and the declining Xia family who are thinking about how to curry favor with the uncle... Just waiting to congratulate them!
Zhu Junyang looked at that cute little face with smiling eyes, and she spoke with interest, as if the bear's paw was already in her hands, discussing how to eat it with great interest! Um! If you have a chance, you can go into the mountains to have a look, maybe there will be unexpected gains!
Yu Xiaocao finally ended the topic about how to eat bear paws, shook the badger in her hand, her smile was so dazzling under the silver sunlight: "If you don't have bear paws, let's use them first! You want to eat stewed ones, Or braised?"
"What kind of food do you like to eat?" Zhu Junyang rarely considers other people's feelings. If he just dumped "braised in soy sauce" in the past according to his previous temper, how would he care about other people's thoughts
"The stewed one is nutritious, while the braised one has a strong taste! Each has its own merits."
"I want to taste it!"
"Then half stewed, half braised..."
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In the sunshine, one is tall and one is short, one is strong and one is petite, the backs are drifting away...