17. Chapter 17 A perfect day

Author: Ma Ji Liao'er

Chapter 17 A perfect day

Time is like an arrow, and years are like cannonballs.

When Yan Changqing was reborn, the wheat had just been harvested in the farmland. At that time, the students had not yet gone on summer vacation. In the blink of an eye, now the students' summer vacation was almost over.

When it was still dark, he woke up early that morning and performed a set of boxing skills with 50% proficiency in the yard. At the end, he did a somersault.

No one in the family had gotten up yet, so he was the first to get up.

After dinner in the evening, there was nothing else to do except go under the big persimmon tree and play the erhu for a while. The electricity had not yet been connected to the village, and I didn’t want to play in the dark with the naughty children, practice my skills, and be harassed by mosquitoes. There was nothing better to do than to get in there and make up for it countless times.

Go to bed early inside a patched broken mosquito net.

Anyway, I can still practice breathing skills for a while before going to bed, but I usually fall asleep quickly and can't practice for long at all.

Then I wake up in less than ten hours and feel energetic, without having to catch up on sleep at the end of the day.

Of course, most children are like this, because children don’t think about too many things!

He thinks more than other children, but he has 30% sleep skill proficiency, so he can sleep well every day anyway.

He has been in a better mood in recent days and his erhu skills are almost 90%.

Although the progress is getting slower and slower, he is very satisfied, after all - as long as I stretch the proficiency progress bar long enough, then I can see the progress of the progress bar every day!

Now every day when he plays the erhu under the big persimmon tree at the entrance of the village, more and more people in the village are willing to listen, which proves that his skills have reached the point where young and old can kill each other.

Don't say that people in the village don't understand art music or anything like that. To use rural parlance, who can't hear a good Lai Yin'er!

After a few more sets of boxing, and when his family started to get up, he started practicing stick skills.

Yan Changqing feels that his specialty should be stick technique. This skill progresses very quickly. It has now surpassed boxing technique and has reached 55% progress.

Listening to the whirring sound of the stick is really impressive, and the stick can be used as a gun or a sword. It can be said that I have the whole world with a stick in my hand, and I am making progress all the way without realizing it.

I was practicing vigorously when I suddenly heard the sound of soft footsteps, and then Erwa's figure emerged from the corner.

Yan Changqing quickly asked: "Er baby, have you eaten? Why did you run out so early?"

Erwa's expression was a little strange: "I didn't cause any trouble, I just wanted to play with you as soon as possible..."

Yan Changqing:......

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Ten minutes ago, the second baby had a good night's sleep. When he opened his eyes, he got up and roared and swung around in the yard with a stick. He felt it was boring to be alone, so he called his elder brother to play with him.

However, the time is not right, school is about to start, and many poor students have to face a very real problem, summer homework.

Unfortunately, Dawa, a fourth-grade elementary school student, is one of them. He did his homework under the kerosene lamp last night at no idea what time it was. How different is Erwa, who practices boxing and stick dancing with Yan Changqing Tiedan every day.

At night after a long day of fun, I got home, had enough to eat and drank, lay down on the bed, and fell asleep.

The eldest child was not happy to get up after being woken up, but how could the second child have such a thing as a wink and continue to shout when his brother didn't get up.

Finally the eldest child got angry and got up to beat the second child.

Erwa was very excited.

Great, my brother finally started boxing with me.

I dodge, I dodge, I run, I jump up and punch back...haha!

The big boy who was chasing his younger brother was punched in the nose by his younger brother. Before he could react, he received a few more punches...

The second baby hit him a few times and then left. He was ready to run away and get back into position to fight again, but when he turned around he was a bit dumbfounded!

The big baby stood there with tears streaming down his face.

The younger brother who had been bullied suddenly realized that his elder brother was not that strong. He couldn't help but imitate Brother Qijin and mocked his own brother: "Brother, you are so good. You are a Chinese cabbage. Even I can't beat him!"

The eldest child couldn't help it and burst into tears.

I feel so wronged. I stayed up late at night doing my homework. I was harassed by my younger brother early in the morning. The most important thing is that I haven’t been beaten yet...

The second baby who got into trouble saw that something was wrong. Hearing his father getting up from the room next door, cursing and yelling, he turned around and ran out.

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What else could Yan Changqing do, he could only let the second baby stay at home. Anyway, it was normal for children to fight, not to mention they were two brothers, so it was not a big deal.

Everyone in the family knows where the child will go and doesn't worry about it at all.

This guy happened to be here, let's play games with him.

Erwa stood behind the jujube tree with great interest and took a sly look. After retracting his head, a stone was suddenly thrown out from behind the tree.

Yan Changqing quickly shook his hand and threw a stone.

With a bang, the two rocks collided together.

Then he shouted: "Zero to one."

Erwa took advantage of him to shout and threw out another piece.

Yan Changqing threw a stone again, but this time two stones passed by.

A voice immediately came from behind the tree: "One against one."

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This is the method that Yan Changqing recently researched to improve his proficiency in throwing stones. Only in this way can his concentration be high enough and his skill proficiency can be improved quickly enough.

Of course there must be rewards, otherwise after playing the same game for a few days, children will stop playing.

After breakfast, the two of them waited for Tiedan to come over, and then the three of them set off. Yan Changqing carried a bag of stones, and Erwa Tiedan each carried a hemp rope and wandered around the village looking for sparrows.

These days, sparrows are not protected animals, and there are so many around Dayanzhuang. Groups of sparrows come and go. Some groups of sparrows are so black when they fly that they can cover several trees when they fall. It is impossible to count how many there are.

Only.

If someone is drying grain in the village, a special person should be kept under watch to prevent them from stealing food at any time.

Half a morning later, Yan Changqing relied on his stone-throwing skills and asked Erwa Tiedan to bring back a bunch of sparrows, which totaled thirty or forty sparrows.

I could have beaten more, but as the three of them were walking, they would be followed by a group of naughty children of about the same age. They were so noisy that they picked up rocks and clods and threw them at them, scaring the sparrows away.

By the time we got home, grandpa had already boiled hot water, and the next step was to get busy.

Shooting sparrows is easy, but the sparrows are really small, and you have to pluck the feathers, remove the internal organs, and pick them up one by one, which is very troublesome.

But under the temptation of meat, Erwa Tiedan is now able to pluck their feathers skillfully. You can imagine how many sparrows Yan Changqing has harmed in recent times.

It can only be braised in brown sauce, because frying consumes too much oil and stewing it is not fragrant enough.

Then I asked Erwa Tiedan to run errands, deliver a small pot to the second uncle's house, and then come back to eat. It was like this in the countryside at this time. It was normal for children to run and play and go to someone's house for a bite of food.

Especially in today's season, there are many things to eat in the farmland, such as winter melons, pumpkins, luffa, potatoes, cowpeas, lentils, edamame...

Some can be eaten as half of the staple food, such as sweet potato leaves, mixed with flour and steamed, called "steamed vegetables", dipped in garlic sauce and eaten, it tastes very good, and you can save some steamed buns - Yan Changqing today at noon

What we eat at home is steamed vegetables with sweet potato leaves.

And new sweet potatoes are about to be dug, so there is no need to eat dried sweet potatoes anymore.

Yan Changqing never realized that sweet potatoes were so important in his life.

Before the sweet potatoes are dug out of the ground, you can eat sweet potato leaves for a long time. When the sweet potatoes are unearthed, pick out some of the best ones and put them in the sweet potato cellar, and cut the rest into slices and dry them into dried sweet potatoes.

Then you can eat sweet potato and corn grits porridge. The sweet potatoes can be eaten until the weather gradually warms up in the second year, and they are almost finished. At this time, you can start eating dried sweet potatoes.

I dare not say that there are sweet potatoes every day, but there are 365 days in a year, and it is estimated that 300 days are related to sweet potatoes.

Maybe rural life would be better in other places, but this is the case in Dayanzhuang.

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I'm going to fish for a while in the afternoon, mainly because there is a kind of bait that is relatively easy to obtain nowadays.

They are bean worms. Bean worms in sweet potato fields are a scourge, but they are good bait for fishermen. Many fish like to eat them, such as catfish.

Normally, the only way to find bean worms is on sycamore trees, which are prone to beetles.

But now you can go to the sweet potato fields to find them, and there are plenty of them.

This kind of big meat bug is actually very invasive. Many people feel disgusted when they see it. But for rural people who are accustomed to seeing it, it is just that.

The key is to kill two birds with one stone. Go look for bean worms in your sweet potato fields and save a lot of sweet potato leaves.

Sweet potato leaves can be eaten not only by humans, but also by domestic poultry and livestock. Do not let bean bugs cause trouble.

Fishing in the middle of the afternoon and going to the river in the middle of the afternoon was very relaxing.

You can also eat fish when you go home in the evening.

It can be called a perfect day.

And occasionally there are repertoire programs in the evening, such as today.

When I returned home at night, my second son was still beaten. He screamed and screamed from the beating, and his crying could be heard from several houses away.
To be continued...