About ten days before the beginning of autumn, the corn has jointed and is almost as tall as a person. It is not as open as it was in spring.
In another half a month, it should be time to draw the male leaves … In Jiang City, it is called drawing the tassels. Xu Qing holds the umbrella and looks around. Although wonderful stories often happen in the cornfield, they are all rough men. As a scholar, he will be hurt and itched by the leaves when he goes in.
It is also possible that he will be beaten like a dog by Jiang He before the leaves are cut.
After all, in broad daylight, Jiang He is not Gong Li, and Xu Qing is not Jiang Wen.
The trees are lush and the breeze is light. Jiang He is walking on the path with a bag on her back. She pinches the leaves on the roadside and looks back to see Xu Qing looking at the cornfield with a strange expression.
"What are you thinking about?"
"What is there to look at?" Xu Qing stretches out his fingers and flicks the corn leaves.
"I didn't know it grew so fast."
Jiang He tiptoed and hopped twice. She originally wanted to relax, breathe the fresh air, and look at the endless wheat or corn fields. The feeling of being broad-minded is very good. She thinks it is not healthy for Xu Qing to stay at home and play with the computer all day, so she came out to have a look.
As a result, the corn stalk is already as tall as a person.
"What kind of fertilizer is used to make it grow?" She is a little disappointed. This time, she hopes to see the harvest most. The big machine rumbles over and the grain falls from the bottom of the machine. Just thinking about it makes her excited.
"It has nothing to do with fertilizer. It just grows fast."
"Will it also be collected by the machine?" Jiang He looks around. This path is surrounded by crops and is quite secluded. It feels different from the endless wheat fields in spring.
"It should be …" Xu Qing is also not sure.
"You don't know?"
"Technology is developing too fast. In the past, it was a family of old and young who dug into the ground to break the corn. Later, I didn't go there. I heard that there is a machine to collect the corn, but … I didn't pay attention to the details."
Xu Qing looked into the distance. Only Xu Wenbin's generation had entered the city. Going back 18 generations of farmers, he wondered if this was considered forgetting his roots …
Come to think of it, apart from Jiang He, no one else would want to come over and watch someone harvest the crops, and even think about farming.
"The machine is really a great invention." Jiang He sighed. Seeing that there was no one by the roadside, he sat down and pulled out a blade of grass to play with.
He had come all the way here, so he couldn't just stand for a while and go back. If he sat down, he wouldn't be able to bask in the sun, so it would be good to rest for a while.
"A normal girl would think that the floor is dirty."
"Can't you just wash it when you get home?" Jiang He looked up at him and felt that holding an umbrella on a sunny day was silly.
"So carefree … Eh?"
Xu Qing also sat down and played with the dirt on the side of the road. Although he didn't know what Jiang He was planning to do, he could guess.
He was considering his future farming career.
In this era, she had no one to rely on, and the thing that could give her the most sense of security was the instinct to farm … Maybe in the future, when she bought a house and had her own home, she would be able to feel safe and completely dispel the idea of farming.
Of course, she would definitely still like to farm, but she wouldn't have the idea of buying land to do it like now. She had been learning to change from a country bumpkin to a modern person. This needed time.
The wind blew, and there was a rustling sound in the field.
Xu Qing closed his eyes. In order not to appear too bored, he carefully felt the breeze.
Jiang He didn't spend money recklessly, and she didn't want anything. Playing games and hanging out were the only few hobbies she had. No matter what, he couldn't spoil her mood, and he couldn't urge her to go back.
The two of them sat side by side in the shade. There was only the occasional rustling sound of the wind blowing on the edge of the secluded field, making them look silly.
"I thought about farming together, and then let you hold a sickle to help me cut the wheat."
"You didn't forget to bring me along when you were farming. Thank you, heroine."
"Are you willing?"
"Of course I'm not." Xu Qing tilted his head and said, "It's already high-tech, and you still want to hold a sickle. Aren't you silly? Hire someone to drive the machine, and it'll be done in a while."
"That's true." Jiang He thought about it and had to admit that what Xu Qing said made sense.
She was indeed a little silly. Her farming here couldn't even compare to others.
Xu Qing plucked a straw and put it into his mouth. He narrowed his eyes as he tasted the slightly astringent taste.
"I want to take you to sit in an air-conditioned room, eat watermelon, drink coke, listen to songs, and read books. Are you willing?"
"I'm very willing."
"Then are we farming or air-conditioned?"
"Of course, air-conditioned. I'm not stupid." Jiang He didn't expect him to ask such an idiotic question. "You have to suffer when necessary. Aren't you crazy to suffer when it's not necessary?"
“？”
Xu Qing was confused.
Jiang He even learned to speak like him.
"Then why did you say that you would take me to farm and let me cut the wheat?"
"I said that I thought about it before, but I didn't say that I still want to take you to farm now."
Jiang He muttered softly. She just wanted to see the wide view here, but she didn't expect that she would miss it.
The crops for the next season had already grown so tall.
Life was abundant. With machines, it saved time and effort. Watering and other things were very convenient, and the yield of the crops was also very high. This era was really good.
Sure enough, people were greedy. After the problem of eating was satisfied, their needs would advance to a higher level. If they still held on to farming and refused to let go, they would be treated as a fool.
At the very least, they would be laughed at by Xu Qing. Instead of lying at home and drinking coke and enjoying the air-conditioning, they came to harvest with a sickle … He had already laughed at them just now.
"Sometimes it feels very unreal," she said softly.
"That's normal. I also feel unreal sometimes."
Xu Qing bit the straw and used both hands to support his back. He looked up at the sky, where there were only a few thin clouds.
"Don't think too much. The more you think, the more tired you will be. If you have any questions, you can ask me directly. Teacher Xu will always answer you."
"Yes."
Jiang He paused for a moment, then lowered his head and fiddled with the leaves of the weeds with his fingers. He did not say anything else.
An ancient country bumpkin and a modern youth sat together on the edge of a field, each thinking about their own matters.
A 'tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu came from afar.
"Shall we go back?" Jiang He turned his head and said.
"You're not going to walk around anymore?"
"There's nothing to see here. I thought I could see a field of wheat and corn, but …"
He could see a large field of corn, but it wasn't the kind of field that he had imagined. The endless plain was completely covered by the corn stalks that had already cracked, and he could only see the green leaves in front of him.
"Nothing else?" Xu Qing stood up and looked around.
"What are you doing?"
"You can play some exciting things in the cornfield."
"If you like it, I can let you know what is exciting." Jiang He's eyebrows twitched.
"You misunderstood me. I mean there is no one here, and there are no surveillance cameras. You can show me Qinggong and let me see if you can run as fast as that motorcycle."
Xu Qing looked at the dust in the distance, and the image of Stephen Chow and the landlady running on the road appeared in his mind.
That was too much. No matter what, they should be fairy-like. At the very least, they should be able to run fast and jump high.
"I think I'll pass." Jiang He shook his head, patted the dust off his butt, and prepared to go back.
"Hmm?"
"It's good to be an ordinary person. You said it."
"…"
Xu Qing was silent for a moment, then smiled and held up the umbrella. "Yes, let's go back."
The two of them turned around and walked back to the north side of the city. Jiang He jumped lightly, caught up to Xu Qing, and held his arm, hiding under his umbrella.
Although it was silly to hold an umbrella in the summer, that was Xu Qing being silly. What did it have to do with Jiang He hiding under the umbrella?
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
