Chapter 2 Lizheng
"Mom, I'm back~" Chen Mo put the basket on his back, looked at his mother who was making a girl-red girl by the window using the light outside the window, and smiled happily: "The crops are growing well, and there should be a good harvest this year."
Since he improved manure, the crops at home have grown better than others. After this year's harvest, in addition to the taxes paid and the food his mother and son needed, there are still a lot left. Chen Mo plans to buy a few acres of land and hire two tenant farmers to help the family work. His life will definitely be much better. His mother doesn't have to work so hard every day to become a girl.
"Go and eat." Chen's mother saw her son, with a little distress in her faint smile. Sometimes the child is too sensible, which is actually another failure for parents.
Chen Mo responded, ran to the stove happily, opened the cover, and a strong aroma of corn came to his nose. Chen Mo swallowed, then looked at his mother and said, "Mom, this chicken egg..."
Although the Chen family has been a little relieved in the past two years, it has not yet reached the point where they can eat chicken eggs every now and then. It would be nice to eat them twice a month.
"My son is getting stronger and stronger now and needs to eat more." Chen's mother said casually while making a girl's red.
"Mom, you eat it." Chen Mo came over with a bowl and handed the egg to his mother and said, "My mother is weak and needs some supplements."
"Mom has eaten it." Chen's mother shook her head and said.
Chen Mo was a little suspicious, thought for a while, peeled the chicken eggs, found a thread, cut the chicken eggs in half, and handed them to his mother and said, "That person has half."
"My son will eat it, my mother has eaten it." Chen's mother shook her head and said.
"What about skin? The mother doesn't eat it, and the child doesn't eat it." Chen Mo was a little stubborn. He actually didn't want to expose his mother's lies, but he really couldn't stand his mother like this.
In the end, Chen's mother couldn't resist Chen Mo and took half of the egg and started eating it.
When Chen Mo saw his mother eat it, he started to eat his own food. Although his family was poor, he was a branch of the Chen family and his ancestors were also a identifiable figure. Since childhood, he had more rules than other people's families. Even though he was very hungry at this moment, Chen Mo still chewed and ate slowly.
"Mom, I want to go to the county town with Li Zheng Aweng tomorrow." Chen Mo said suddenly.
"Oh?" Chen's mother asked in confusion: "What's the matter?"
"The surplus grain at home is enough for the autumn harvest. The child wants to take some grain to the city and exchange it for two chickens, one male and one female. In the future, we can eat chicken eggs every day. When we have little chickens in the future, we can stew some chicken soup for our mother and eat chicken." Chen Mo did not dare to tell his mother about the matter of the great wise and good disciple. He knew that his mother was very repulsive of these things and said nothing, and that the child was not talking about strange powers and insane. But Chen Mo believed that there must be some powers in this world that exceeded ordinary people's understanding, otherwise how should the mysterious existence in his mind be explained?
"No!" Chen's mother refused without thinking. Even though Chen Mo had been to the city, she was still a child now. Who can be a mother to rest assured? She looked downright and said in a deep voice: "Don't think you've been there once, you'll think it's so powerful. That's because you haven't met a villain!"
"Don't worry, mom, I'm following Ah Weng." Chen Mo was a little impatient with his mother's distrust. This feeling seemed like he was still a child. Although it was true, Chen Mo felt that he was different from other childish children.
Chen's mother just disagreed, but Chen Mo tried to force herself to do so. Finally, she sighed and frowned, "When you go out, you should listen to the teachings of Li Zheng more, and you should not leave Li Zheng."
"Okay!" Chen Mo was so happy that his mother let go. He immediately agreed and lowered his head to cook the rice.
After eating the food, Chen Mo took the dishes and chopsticks to clean the tableware. The Chen family's house was not good. Although the harvest has improved in the past two years, Chen Mo turned the original two acres of thin fields to ten acres. He also spent a lot of money to ask someone to treat his mother every year and bought some medicinal materials, but he had no extra money to renovate the old house.
Not to mention that the house is barely empty, it will not be very good. Every winter, it is very cold. When the harvest is completed this year, you must first renovate the house. At least in winter, don’t be as cold as in previous years and unable to fall asleep.
It was almost dark. After Chen Mo washed up, he jogged to Li Zheng's house and explained his hopes of going to the county town together tomorrow.
Li is a middle-aged man in his forties. However, these days, it is not wrong for a nine-year-old child to call a 40-year-old man. Although he is a mile long, Li is more idle in addition to helping the county collect taxes every year. He has a lot of land and hires several tenants to help farm. He is the largest family in this family. He is very good on weekdays and always smiles. If the annual taxes cannot be paid, he will not act like the bully in the fish countryside, but will be compensated. Therefore, he is very prestigious among the villagers, and the children are willing to be close to Li.
"Do your mother agree?" Li Zheng looked at Chen Mo with a smile and asked.
"Well, my mother said that if she could go with Ah Weng, she would be relieved." Chen Mo nodded and agreed, but couldn't help but glance at the big dog in the middle of his house. When he was a child, he was chased by the dog and ran around the ground. Later, he became familiar with it, but he liked it tightly. If there were some things he didn't eat on weekdays, he would bring it.
"If your mother agrees, it's natural to say. It's not the first time you've been to the county town. You'll get up early tomorrow and leave with the rooster crowing. It's best to come back before sunset." Li Zheng nodded with a smile, glanced at his old dog and said, "There is a butcher Zheng in the city who has some friendship with your Uncle Wang. If you like it, ask him to take you to his place and ask a paparazzi to come."
"No...no need." Chen Mo shook his head. Uncle Wang is the most powerful hunter in the village. He heard that he had hunted wild boars and evil tigers alone. However, he looked very fierce. Children in the village could be scared to tears when they saw it. Although Chen Mo was not scared to cry like other children, he was always a little scared when he saw it. He didn't look like a good person at first glance.
"Just a paparazzi, Zheng Tu kills a lot every day, and there are not a few kilograms of meat." Li Zheng shook his head and said, "Then Zheng Tu is good to your Uncle Wang. Don't look at your Uncle Wang like you, you are still pretty good."
At the end of the day, Li Zheng sighed and didn't continue. Sometimes people's concepts are difficult to change.
"Do you have to kill a lot every day?" Chen Mo's focus was obviously not on the second half.
Li Zheng nodded, looked at Chen Mo speechlessly, and smiled. After all, he was a nine-year-old child. What's the use of telling him about these?
Chen Mo was a little confused. He was a little afraid of Uncle Wang. Whether it was the other person's appearance or the feeling, he really wanted a dog.
"Let's think about it, let's talk about it tomorrow when I'm in the city." Li waved his hand and said.
"Thank you, Ah Weng!" Chen Mo quickly bowed respectfully to Li Zheng to say goodbye.
Looking at Chen Mo's back as he left, the smile on his face was a bit loving. There were more than 30 children in 63 families here, but his favorite was Chen Mo. He was sensible, not noisy, and was down-to-earth and willing to work hard. He also had his own ideas. After all, it was the Chen family. Although the family was similar, it was different after all. This child might be able to make a name for himself in the future.
Chapter completed!