Liao Zhai Story: Digging the Fields

The diggers came to the top of the mountain

In Longtai Village at the foot of Longtai Mountain, there lived Mr. and Mrs. Long, both of whom were old and still insisted on cultivating a piece of land. . The field is called Shanshanpian, about five acres. It is located in the small basin on the top of the mountain at the highest point of Longtai Mountain. On one side of the mountain wall, there is a swamp with water emerging all year round. As long as Long Laosan can remember, the seedlings in the field on the top of the mountain have not had many insects, and pesticides have never been used, so the rice produced in this field is particularly delicious.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival of this year, the buffalo used by Long Laosan to till the fields died, so he bought a diesel-burning tillage machine, commonly known as the "Iron Bull". In the afternoon, he was carrying the iron ox and was about to go to the fields. Suddenly he heard someone calling "brother" behind him. When Long Laosan took a look, he saw two old men, a man and a woman, walking on the mountain road, carrying hoes. The old man was short in stature and had a slender face. She is gray and has small eyes; the old woman is tall, has a yellow face and her eyes are not big. The gray-faced old man said: "Brother, we and I specialize in helping people dig fields. You don't need iron oxen to plow your fields. Let's help you dig."

Digging is the most primitive way. The method of farming is something that farmers without cattle could not do before. One iron ox plows, which is roughly equivalent to two buffaloes; and one buffalo is equivalent to several people digging. Judging from their appearance, the two old men are much older than Long Laosan. Why do they still come out to eat this bowl of rice at their age? How long does it take to dig such a large field? Besides, how are wages calculated?

The yellow-faced old lady saw what Long Laosan was thinking and said: "Brother, we promise to help you dig it out in three days. You can pay the wages as you see." She also said that in the evening Just find a place for them to sleep, and whatever they want to eat is fine.

The gray-faced old man said: "Brother, we have no children. We have lived by digging fields for others all our lives. Give us a bite of food." As he said this, he lifted up his trouser legs and made a "plop" He jumped down to the field, raised his hoe, and started digging. The old lady also jumped down. The old couple is digging the fields very quickly! Long Lao San was dumbfounded. It took him a while to come back to his senses and said, "Don't be too busy digging. Let's talk about it. How much does it cost for you to dig for a day?" The old lady gestured to Long Lao San with scissors.

Long Laosan asked: "Two hundred yuan a day for two people?" He then quickly calculated: This digging method costs two hundred yuan a day. If the digging is completed in three days, the labor cost is 600, which is not expensive. The Tieniu I just bought can also be rented out.

The old lady said: "It's not two hundred for two people, it's twenty for one person." Long Laosan was amused: "Twenty?" The old lady said sheepishly: "Thirty years ago , we only charge two yuan a day per person, and now everything is more expensive, so we have also raised the price.”

Long Lao San guessed that there was something wrong with the old couple and couldn’t bear to bully them, so he said. : "I will give each of you eighty yuan a day and two meals of meat every day." The old man looked happy, stopped and said, "Okay, as long as you have meat to eat." The old lady also said, "That's right, that's right!"

The old couple continued to raise their hoes, "plop", "plop", digging very vigorously.

Using the stone trough for drinking cattle as a footbath

In the evening, the old couple had dug more than an acre. Long Laosan was very satisfied and took them home for dinner. The dragon's wife cooked a pot of pork belly and stewed radish, and the old couple enjoyed the meal. After the meal, Long’s wife scooped them half a plastic bucket of scalding hot foot-washing water, but the old lady said sheepishly: “Madam boss, we always wash our feet with cold water, and we always wash our feet together. Do you have a footbath?”

The dragon wife praised the old couple for their good relationship and brought them a large plastic basin for washing clothes. The old lady looked at it and said apologetically: "Do you have a wooden basin? If we use a plastic basin to wash it, our whole bodies will itch."

The Dragon's Wife got a little impatient and said no. The old man looked at his wife with a grimace, and suddenly saw a dark thing in the yard. The old man was happy and said, "That thing is just right!" When the old lady saw it, she was also happy: "That thing is good. That thing is great!" It was a stone trough for drinking water from a cow, weighing two hundred kilograms.

At that moment, the old couple asked Long’s wife to scoop most of the cold water into the stone trough. The two elders worked together to carry the water in the trough into the guest room, and then bolted the door. Soon, the lights were turned off, and there was no more movement. .

Early the next morning, before dawn, the old couple got up, carried the stone trough out of the door, poured water, and put it back in its place. They didn't even eat breakfast, so they went out to dig the fields. On that day, the old couple dug out an area of ??two acres, which was extremely efficient, and Long Laosan was surprised.

That night, the old couple took the stone trough to the bedroom to wash their feet. They also went in and closed the door, quickly turned off the lights, and got up to work again before dawn the next day.

On the evening of the third day, the old couple finished digging the five acres of mountain field, half a day ahead of schedule. Long Laosan took out four hundred yuan and handed it to the old lady, but the old lady only received two hundred yuan. The old man said: "Brother, we shovel the soil into a finer shape. As long as we keep the water, we can plant rice directly in the spring next year without raking."

The old couple said that if Long Laosan is satisfied, next year After autumn, they came to help him dig, and then left happily. Long's wife watched the old couple walking away blankly, and suddenly said: "I just realized this afternoon that the bedding on the bed in the guest room is exactly the same and has not been touched. It seems that the old couple has not slept on the bed these past few nights." Mr. Long said. Third, it's impossible. They must have sorted it out after getting up. Long's wife frowned slightly and said nothing.

The next morning, Long’s wife added water to the stone trough and prepared to wash the potatoes and feed them to the pigs. As soon as she poured the potatoes in, she suddenly sniffed twice and said, “Dad, come and smell it. "Long Laosan walked over in confusion, squatted down, and smelled a strong muddy smell. He said: "What a fuss, the feet that have been in the fields, the foot washing water will be fragrant?"

< p> There is no longer a digger in the world

The next year, Long Laosan listened to the old man’s words and planted rice seedlings without raking the fields. During the autumn harvest, not only did the harvest not fall, but it was much more than in previous years. Long Laosan was very happy and looked forward to the old couple coming again. On the afternoon of the tenth day of August, the gray-faced old man and the yellow-faced old lady came. After saying a few words to Long Laosan, they started digging the fields neatly.

After dinner, the old couple still carried the stone trough into the house to wash their feet. Early the next morning, after pouring the foot-washing water, I went up to the mountain to work.

Long’s wife went into the guest room to check and saw that everything on the bed was still the same. The small piece of flour she quietly sprinkled on the mat was still the same, proving that the old couple was not sleeping in the bed. If you don’t sleep on a bed, where can you sleep?

In the afternoon, Long Laosan's son called and said that the boss of their real estate company was planning to develop a villa area in Longtai Mountain, and that the hilltop farmland was going to be developed into "Guanlong Lake Paradise".

In the evening, when the old man and the old lady came back from work, Long Laosan said: "Brother and sister-in-law, we won't plant that field this year, so you don't have to dig it tomorrow." The old couple asked in unison. : "Why aren't such good fields being planted?" Long Laosan told the developer's plan. The old couple were stunned for a while, then silently took the wages and left. The old lady wiped her tears as she walked.

The "Guanlong Impression" development project in Longtai Mountain started soon. While building a group of villas on the mountainside, excavators drove into the basin on the top of the mountain, and the field on the top of the mountain quickly turned into "Guanlong Lake". The son received the millions in compensation paid to the Long family. He used the money to buy a small mountainside villa at a low price for himself and his wife to live in. In addition, I rented a one-bedroom apartment in the town to accommodate my parents. On this day, the son asked his parents to help clean the villa. Long Laosan and his wife were cleaning the house, feeling uncomfortable. At noon, the couple were hungry and were about to eat the steamed buns they brought. Suddenly, someone shouted at the door of the villa: "Brother!"

When Long Laosan saw it, it turned out to be an old man with a gray face and a yellow face. old lady. The old lady said that they were not here to dig fields this time, but to invite Mr. and Mrs. Long to have dinner at their home. Long Laosan said: "How dare you do this? Where do you live?" The old lady pointed to the distance: "The top of Niutou Mountain."

Nutou Mountain is two kilometers away from Longtai Mountain, which is not too far. Unable to refuse the warm hospitality, the Longs and their wives followed the old couple. Unexpectedly, just as they climbed to the top of the mountain, the sky suddenly darkened and there was a heavy wind and rain. The old lady pointed upward: "Go inside and take shelter from the rain!" There was a thatched hut there. Panting, the Longs ran into the house, only to find that the old man and the old lady were gone, and the thatched hut was empty. One thing.

After a whole afternoon of violent storms, "Guanlong Lake" burst its banks, causing landslides and mudslides. The entire Longtai Mountain villa complex was washed away...

That night, Long Laosan dreamed of a gray-faced old man and a yellow-faced old lady. The second elder told him that they were in the swamp on the top of the mountain. Loach and eel, who have been cultivating for thousands of years, turned into their original shapes and slept in a stone trough filled with water when they spent the night at Long's house. The two of them dug fields for the Long family because they did not want the place of cultivation to be polluted by iron cattle burning diesel. Unfortunately, the fields on the top of the mountain were gone, and they no longer helped others dig fields, so they moved to Niutoushan to continue practicing. The two elders had already had a premonition that "Guanlong Lake" would burst its banks.

The Long couple had treated them kindly, and today's "treat" was actually to save their lives...

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