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Chapter 186 The "flower" blooms

After walking along the trail for three to five minutes, the two of them stepped into the forest again.

The surrounding trees are not as dense as when we were by the stream just now, scattered sunlight pours in, and the ground is dry.

Due to unfamiliarity with the terrain, Si Ningning could only rely on Huo Lang in front to lead the way.

While following Huo Lang, her little hands never stopped. She picked a large handful of pink or white wild wheat flowers, removed the excess stems and leaves, and then adjusted and gathered them together to form a round ball, which was very delicate and beautiful.

Shaking the bouquet left and right to look at it, Si Ningning just nodded to express satisfaction. From the corner of his eye, he vaguely saw a patch of white in front of him. Looking up again, he saw a flower tree towering like an umbrella in the pattering shade.

The leaves of the flower are few and small, with thousands of branches and side branches, and on the top of each branch, there is a white flower ball condensed from several small flowers.

It's a wood hydrangea. The flower bulbs are beautiful and bloom very big.

The first time he saw it clearly, Si Ningning stopped in his tracks.

Her idea may be rather vulgar, unlike some people who say "beautiful things" can be just looked at and enjoyed together. She liked the flowers on the branch and wanted to pick one off and take it away.

Ever since, his little hand subconsciously held the corner of Huo Lang's clothes.

Huo Lang glanced at her and put down the hoe and basket, "Just leave it here."

Huo Lang knew that there were flowers and trees here, and from the first time he went up the mountain, he knew that Si Ningning liked flowers and plants.

Probably for this reason, every time before he travels, whenever he realizes that there are large flowers or special flowers near the destination, the first thing that comes to his mind is Si Ningning.

As for what happened today...

If you have to say it, it can be regarded as his planning in advance.

Although, at first I just wanted to say thank you.

As for now...who can resist witnessing a "flower" bloom?

Huo Lang lowered his gaze and used a hoe to simply clear away the fallen leaves around the area to create a small clean area.

Si Ningning jumped twice at the bottom of the tree, but couldn't reach the flower branches. She simply gave up temporarily and came back to grab the basket on her back. "I brought pancakes and eggs, and some cold salad with shredded green onions. I don't know if you are used to it."

, always give it a try!”

While talking, he took them out one by one.

Pancakes and braised eggs wrapped in oil paper, and cold shredded scallions in a lunch box. Once the lid is opened, the bright red color inside is revealed.

That's the color of paprika.

Unlike chili oil, chili powder is more eye-catching in color, but not as greasy and has a less thick taste.

If you like spicy food, you can choose it to mix with some relatively refreshing side dishes.

"I brought it myself." Huo Lang glanced at what Si Ningning took out, rubbed his hair and sat down cross-legged in front of Si Ningning. He took the backpack and pulled out a small cloth bag from inside.

Si Ningning watched Huo Lang's movements and saw him take out four dark brown lumps.

It was the glutinous rice dumplings she saw at Chen's house at that time.

Comparing the two, what Huo Lang holds in his hands is simply not a matter of shuddering a degree or two.

However, Huo Lang didn't feel anything embarrassed. On the contrary, he was very honest: "As long as you can eat enough."

During the most difficult time in the past, I even gnawed the bark and roots of vegetables. It was so cold that I had nothing to eat, and a finger-long dried chili could last me a whole day.

It makes no sense that when life gets better, I start to make a show of myself, complaining about this and that.

Si Ningning really admired Huo Lang, especially after vaguely inferring his past experiences.

"I'm not saying that glutinous rice dumplings are not good. After all, the situation now is different from what you used to do. Besides, you are a strong laborer and do so much work every day. How can you keep eating like this?"

Si Ningning was fully prepared, even bringing chopsticks this time.

Taking a pair of chopsticks and a piece of pancake, Si Ningning put shredded green onions in the center of the pancake, then circled it and handed it to Huo Lang. Her pretty face tilted to one side, and she raised her chin slightly to signal Huo Lang to extend his hand, "Occasionally

You should also take care of yourself and eat something good."

Moreover, you can earn more than ten or twenty yuan a month working in the county. It’s not that the conditions don’t allow it, so why do you have to work so hard?

Huo Lang stared at the small white hand that reached forward, raised his deep eyebrows and asked, "Like the rabbit last time?"

Si Ningning was embarrassed and glared: "Hurry up, my hands are sore!"

Huo Lang didn't answer it. Instead, he took out a stack of bills from his pocket and handed it to Si Ningning.

Before Si Ningning could ask, Huo Lang explained: "If you want to keep Hegu and the others to eat, these are the meal tickets. I won't let them go if you charge even one cent less."

"..."

Si Ningning was a little speechless, could he still be so arrogant?

With the previous negotiation taking place, Si Ningning did not refuse anymore. After taking the ticket, she handed the cake forward again, "So, can you eat it now?"

Huo Lang nodded and took the opportunity.

Si Ningning breathed out a sigh of satisfaction. Seeing Huo Lang bit off half of the burrito, chewing the sweetness with his strong jawline, her lips curved, and she felt inexplicably in a good mood.

Putting away the stack of tickets, Si Ningning continued to organize, "Here are some more, here are the chopsticks... You can eat the green onions alone or rolled up. If you don't like it, just eat the pancakes, ah... and there are eggs."

The little girl had a bright smile on her smooth cheeks. She didn't know what she was having fun with. She handed the things to him one after another.

After Huo Lang finished eating a piece of cake, he finally couldn't help but grabbed Si Ningning's hand and handed him the eggs, "I can do it myself, and you can eat it too."

"Um!"

It was a leisurely and comfortable lunch. When he was half full, Si Ningning broke off half of Huo Lang's rice dumplings out of curiosity and tasted them. He regretted the first bite.

It is very hard and dry, and it feels like eating sand after chewing it...and it seems that there is no salt or any seasoning, and the taste is bland and difficult to swallow.

It can be summed up in two words: unpalatable!

Three words: it tastes terrible!

Si Ningning's pretty little face wrinkled into a chrysanthemum.

Seeing her expression, Huo Lang knew that she couldn't stand the taste of bran cabbage dumplings, so he reached out to pick it up, but Si Ningning dodged it sideways.

"What for? This is mine."

Si Ningning glared at Huo Lang, lowered her head and took half of the bran rice dumpling into her mouth in two mouthfuls. Finally, she put her hands on her chin and chewed and swallowed hard.

Xiao Ning, wearing a military green bottom and a red five-pointed star hat, clenched his hands to cheer:

Well done Si Ningning! Pay tribute to the revolutionary veteran!

After finally swallowing it, Si Ningning felt a rough sensation in her throat and gasped.

Huo Lang handed the kettle to her, his deep peach blossom eyes slightly lowered and wrinkled, "You know you can't eat but you still insist on eating?"

Si Ningning shook her head, picked up her water bottle and raised it to indicate that she had brought water.

After drinking two mouthfuls of water to relieve the rawness in his throat, Si Ningning licked his shimmering lips and said seriously: "We should neutralize it. I usually eat fine grains, and occasionally eat some coarse grains to mix it up. What about you, eat

There are a lot of coarse grains, so occasionally you have to eat some refined grains.”

After saying that, Si Ningning rolled her eyes and added something as she thought of something, "Eating dry food all the time will hurt your stomach and intestines. The most obvious point is that it takes a lot of effort to go to the toilet. I'm not lying to you."

In the educated youth spot, Xu Shuhua and the others go to the toilet for at least half an hour each time, and they are almost exhausted when they return home.

Huo Lang frowned and suddenly felt that the bran dumplings on his hands no longer smelled good.

But he still didn't waste it and ate all the glutinous rice dumplings.

Si Ningning never had a big appetite, but after eating three pancakes and an egg, she was already a little full.

Pushing the scallion pancakes and the lunch box lined with oil paper in front of Huo Lang, Si Ningning pretended to be serious and warned: "I'm full, these are yours, don't waste them! If you cover yourself up all afternoon on such a hot day, it will definitely go rancid. .”

Then, right under Huo Lang's eyes, he leaned back like a lazy snake, leaning against the hydrangea tree, stretching and yawning.

This is the season when it is easy to feel sleepy, but once you have eaten a full meal and feel the cool breeze, your sleepiness becomes more obvious.

Si Ningning wiped away the physiological tears from the corners of her eyes, "It would be nice if I could sleep for a while."

"If you're sleepy, just go to sleep." Seeing Si Ningning's half-closed eyes looking dazed, Huo Lang opened and closed his thin lips gently and subconsciously lowered his voice: "I'll call you when it's o'clock."

"……Um."

Under the strong and ancient flower tree, the girl with delicate face is like a spirit transformed from the flowers. She is sleeping peacefully at this moment, nestling quietly under the tree. The wind drives the flower branches, and the white flowers rain down. The picture is as beautiful as Just like in a dream.

That strange yet familiar sound of "thumping", "thumping", resounded through the ears again.

The man frowned deeply and lowered his head slowly.

I don't know when a bright petal fell into my generous palm.

The man stared at the petals in trance. For only a brief moment, he slowly tightened his palms and held the petals tightly in his hands.

You don’t know, I don’t know, and probably only the person involved knows the profound question of “the wind blows or the flower branches move”.

…

Si Ningning woke up an hour after falling asleep. When she woke up, there were only four hydrangeas in the basket beside her. From the outside, the entire basket was filled.

Si Ningning pulled the basket over and looked at it, and found a small green package placed on one side of the basket.

The small package was composed of green leaves, wrapped in layers and finally wrapped with a thin vine. It was probably Huo Lang who made it while she was sleeping.

Si Ningning was a little curious, so she pulled away the thin vines, and the layers of green leaves unfolded like lotus petals, revealing what was wrapped and protected inside.

Raspberry…

It’s the kind of thorny bubbles I ate on the mountain last time.

Si Ningning didn't expect that there was one nearby.

She picked one up and put it in her mouth. It was so sweet that her eyes turned into crescents.

Just as I was about to eat the second one, a voice suddenly came from the side: "Let's go when you wake up."

Huo Lang walked out of the shadow of a tree a few meters away.

Si Ningning nodded and stood up, trying to wrap the thorns again, but she didn't understand the leaf wrapping technique, so the more she wrapped, the more messy she became, and she even sprinkled a lot of porcelain powder on it.

Si Ningning let out a "tsk" sound, her crescent eyebrows furrowed in distress, and she knelt down to pick it up.

Huo Lang stretched out his hand to stop it, "If you drop it, drop it. This thing is not valuable. You can eat it wherever you want."

After speaking, he took the messy green mess in Si Ningning's hand, sorted it out a few times, and wrapped it into a tight little package before throwing it back to Si Ningning.

Si Ningning pouted and said, "You said they are everywhere, so why didn't I see them?"

Huo Lang didn't answer and asked instead: "Do you want me to carry your flowers, or you?"

"I'll carry it myself!"

The wild wheat flowers picked at noon were already wilting, so Si Ningning simply gave up and followed Huo Lang with a light basket on her back, humming a little tune back to the soybean field.

Si Ningning fixed a few hydrangea flowers in the stream and soaked them, then clapped her hands and walked to the ridges.

The soybean field has been mostly treated, and now all that remains is to dig holes and sow the soybean seeds.

Huo Lang was tall and heavy, with a strong body. He couldn't exert all the strength in his body. He hoeed a few times, and a row of small soil pits, five by five and eight by eight, had appeared in the ground.

Si Ningning picked up the bag of bean seeds from the field and followed him. She bowed and before scattering the bean seeds in her hand, she heard Huo Lang's voice commanding: "Just three or five bean seeds per pit will be enough."

"knew."

Two people dug bean pits and sown bean seeds. The division of labor was reasonable, and a ridge of land was sown in about ten minutes. The efficiency was very impressive.

Just immersing yourself in dull work is too boring.

It would be fine if he was working alone, but with two people together, Si Ningning couldn't stand the boring energy.

So after two minutes of silence, her little mouth started to chatter again: "You said yesterday that the Hongqi Commune has side businesses, doesn't our commune have side businesses?"

Huo Lang considered and replied: "The geographical location is different, and the positioning of each commune is different. For example, there used to be a school in Jiling Commune. It was stopped in the first two years due to some factors, and then it was not opened again."

Si Ningning nodded, and then asked: "I think the geographical conditions of our production team are also good. There are many wet and humid places around. A lot of bacteria can grow without artificial cultivation. So if artificial cultivation is done, the effect will be even greater."

Significant?"

Huo Lang paused, seemed to be thinking about it, and replied after a while: "The members of the team all make a living by farming. It's okay if you let them farm, but it may not be feasible to grow mushrooms."

"You can learn it! Don't be so harsh. Besides, according to what you said, they are planting lotus roots in Hongqi Commune, aren't they just trying to figure it out?"

This may or may not be a big deal, but if we really want to do it, it will definitely not be that easy.

When it comes to the interests of the entire production team, if there is no one who really knows the business, then the progress will be hindered at every turn.

Huo Lang didn't understand this, but seeing how enthusiastic Si Ningning was, he deduced that Si Ningning might know something, so he changed his tone and said in a low and hoarse voice with a hint of indulgence: "If you understand, then try it, as long as it works,

I'll go talk to the captain."

"Then I'll do some research, and I'll tell you if there's anything happening!" Si Ningning said excitedly.

Of course Si Ningning doesn't know how to grow mushrooms, but she knows some of the habits and cultivation principles of mushrooms, so she might be able to give it a try.

Thinking of this, Si Ningning suddenly felt that she had a goal, and her stable and comfortable life was now filled with difficulties, waiting for her to overcome them.

To cultivate mushrooms, you definitely need "seeds".

Si Ningning thought, turning her head to look at Huo Lang. Under the brim of the wide straw hat, a small face was flushed with sweat, "I need mushrooms for experiment..."

(End of chapter)