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Chapter 63 The Taste of Harvest

"Doesn't calling me Lao Yang make me seem closer to me and that I approve of me a little bit?" Yang Liming felt a lot more comfortable when he heard three people calling him Lao Yang.

Before, they called themselves Leader Yang, which always sounded a bit weird.

"Nonsense! If you hear us calling you County Magistrate Yang in a sarcastic tone, you'd better run away. We're definitely going to cause trouble for you. But if we call you Chairman Yang, you don't even need to run away. We're definitely going to anger everyone and we must kill you on the spot." After Chen Daxi finished speaking, he bent down and continued to swing the pickaxe.

By the time the second lane was plowed and Xie Hushan and others returned to the starting point, it was almost noon and the sun was almost at its zenith. Yang Liming was sitting next to a few people, wiping the corn pollen off his head with his hands.

The task of clearing the driveway for the silly boy and the iron girl was completed perfectly. Now they can take a breath and rest, wait for the food to be delivered and have lunch, and then start the afternoon work. As for the other laborers, they are still breaking corn cobs, digging corn stalks, and loading corn on the driveway with horse-drawn carts.

Each of the Silly Boy Commandos looked as if they had just been pulled out of the water, with their bare bronze upper bodies shiny and oily. They were either sitting or lying on a bundle of corn stalks, smoking and taking a break.

"I borrowed money from Hu Saner and wanted to treat you guys to some popsicles to quench your thirst. I'll pay him back when I get my salary." Yang Liming took off his glasses and wiped them with his lapel, saying.

The men didn't react at all. Xie Hushan lay on the corn stalk, holding a piece of grass in his mouth and closing his eyes to rest. Chen Daxixi shamelessly ran to chat with a few girls. I don't know what he said, but he was greeted back by the girls with embarrassed glares. Han Hongbing and Ma Saner drew a shape on the ground and played a homemade chess game called "Blocking the Toilet" with small stones.

"You want to borrow money to treat us? There are so many people working in the fields. If only a few of them eat popsicles, what will they think? If everyone gets one, will your salary be enough?" Xie Hushan closed his eyes and said:

"Save the money you have and use it to get married."

"I have a partner, no need..."

"Fuck!" The few young bachelors who had originally had no reaction to the idea of ​​eating popsicles suddenly lost their temper and looked at Yang Limin:

"You already have a wife! I haven't heard you talk about it! You must have robbed a commoner girl after you became an official, right?"

"Shouldn't you get along with the people? We haven't even married yet, how dare you get married! This official is dishonest, he must be fired!"

"She must be a city girl. Is she pretty? Old Yang, tell us about her! Tell us!"

"I met her, a worker at a pharmaceutical factory, when I went to the Xinhua Bookstore to buy books. She bought the same book as me. We exchanged our names and addresses and wrote to each other as pen pals. Later, we became familiar with each other. After meeting a few times, I wrote to her to confess my love for her, and she agreed. That's how we became a couple." Yang Liming talked about his love story with a smile.

"Old Yang, can you ask your wife to introduce me to a girl from the city?" Ma Saner, who was listening nearby with great longing, said.

Xie Hushan spat out the hairy grass beside him, sat up and smiled at Ma Saner:
"Just beg with your mouth. Old Yang has been working all morning and is thirsty and hot. Bring me something to quench my thirst."

"I'll let Cao Ma go to Team 5 and steal two radishes to quench his thirst, Cao Ma! Cao Ma!" Ma Saner thought about it and felt that what Xie Hushan said made sense. He shouted at his younger brother at the top of his voice, but Daxiu, Han Laosan, Cao Ma and the other kids had already run away and there was no response at all.

Yang Limin frowned and asked Xie Hushan, "I've always been curious, why is his brother called... such an ugly nickname?"

"There are four boys in the Ma family. The eldest is named Ma Dali, the second is named Ma Erli, the third is Ma Saner, whose full name is Ma Mengqi, and the fourth is named Ma Mengde." Xie Hushan introduced them to Yang Limin:
"Da Li and Er Li were named by Ma San'er's grandfather, and Ma San'er and Lao Si were named by Ma San'er's grandfather."

"His grandfather's surname was Meng. He was a storyteller in the old society. It is said that he once told a story to Xiao Dezhang in Tianjin. His best story in life was a passage from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, called "Ma Mengqi Riding a Silver Spear and a White Horse, Cao Mengde Cutting Off His Beard and Abandoning His Robe." He left the names of Mengqi and Mengde, two ancient people he always mentioned to support his family, to Ma Saner and his younger brother, who just happened to have the word Meng in their names."

"At first we nicknamed him Ma Laosi (Ma Cao Cao), which was a bit hard to pronounce, and Ma Cao was not smooth either. Later we started to call him Cao Ma the other way around, and that’s when we felt it was right."

"This name is easy to remember and sounds more domineering than Cao Cao, so I just started calling it that."

"This name sounds fierce. After all, most people don't dare to fuck animals."

"Third brother! Are you calling me?" In the distance, Ma Saner's younger brother, Daxiu, and Han Laosan's children came out of a cornfield together, responding loudly as they walked.

Wherever the kids passed, there was chaos, women screamed, and even some iron girls ran away. Yang Limin had taken off his glasses and was wiping them, so he couldn't see why there was a commotion. When he put on his glasses, Daxiu, Han Laosan, Cao Ma and others were already nearby.

After seeing clearly what the children were holding, Yang Limin immediately crawled a few steps using his hands and feet, stood up and ran away: "Worms! Run! Worms!"

A nearly one-meter-long rat snake was twisting and turning in the hands of several children.

However, Yang Liming's fear was cured almost instantly.

Because he saw that the snake had already opened its mouth, as if to bite someone, but Daxiu raised his hand and slapped the snake's head hard:

"You are baring your teeth to scare your mother!"

The snake was dizzy after being slapped, and its body drooped down. If it was not still twisting its body slightly, Yang Liming even thought that the snake was killed by Daxiu's fierce slap!
Before the snake could come to its senses, Han Laosan next to it had already pinched the snake's head to open its mouth. With his other hand, he put a small bamboo stick into the snake's mouth, propping it up so that it could not close.

Cao Ma folded a funnel out of corn leaves, held the funnel in his left hand towards the snake's mouth, and started pouring water into the snake's stomach with a scoop in his right hand...

This scene made Yang Limin wonder whether he should be afraid of the rat snake or sympathize with it.

"Go play somewhere where there's no one around. Be careful, your mom might see you and beat you to death." Xie Hushan said to Daxiu:

"Hurry up and leave. Didn't you see that Old Yang was frightened?"

After Daxiu and the other kids walked away, Yang Limin sat back down and asked Xie Hushan and the others who showed no reaction to the snake, "Aren't you afraid of worms? I shudder when I see this thing..."

Xie Hushan laughed out loud:
"They are playing with what we have left over. What's the big deal about filling water? Daxi, teach Lao Yang a lesson and tell him how you stuffed your guardian worm fairy's belly with shit and made him die of it, and how you got hung up and beaten by your father?"

"No matter how powerful the Five Venoms are in the countryside, they will avoid half-grown children. Old Yang, let me introduce them to you again." Han Hongbing also said with a smile:

"Chen Daxi, nicknamed Living Beast, was given to him by his father. Xie Siling has already told you about his deeds. A nearly two-meter-long rat snake was found at his home. His parents thought it was a guardian deity and dared not touch it. Then Daxi dragged the long snake to the toilet and made him fatter than before by feeding him feces soup, which made him look like a guardian deity in his parents' eyes."

"That immortal died miserably in front of his parents. He vomited feces before he died, and he didn't finish vomiting until he died. His parents beat him up, and they never believed in guardian gods again."

"Ma San'er, nicknamed Iron Butt, was sleeping at night when a scorpion fell from the beam and crushed him to death under his butt. It must have been a very miserable death. Before it died, it probably released poison like crazy, stinging his butt at least three times. But no matter how hard they attacked, they couldn't wake Ma San'er up. He was confused and thought it was a mosquito bite, so he turned over and continued to sleep."

"The next day, I was afraid to sit on the bench at school, and my buttocks swelled up. That's when I realized something was wrong. When I got home, I found a squashed scorpion in my bed."

"Chief of Staff Han, why don't you tell Lao Yang how you got your nickname Iron Lazy?" Chen Daxi said provocatively to Han Hongbing:
"Old Yang, let me tell you the origin of our Chief of Staff Han's nickname..."

Han Hongbing grabbed Chen Daxi's neck and said in a murderous tone:

"I'm going to avenge your great immortal today! Open your mouth! Ma San'er, take off your pants and give Da Xi a meal!"

Yang Limin asked in a shocked and exaggerated tone:

"My goodness, Ma Saner crushed the scorpion to death with his buttocks, so he was called Iron Buttocks. Could it be that Chief of Staff Han used..."

A group of people burst into laughter. The midday sun was filled with the unique smell of corn stalks. In the distance, women who came together to deliver lunch came along the path, carrying wicker baskets:
"It's time to eat!"

(End of this chapter)