The walls of many stone houses in Wall Village are made of limestone, and the roofs are wooden tripod structures. There is a main beam across the middle of the stone house. Because many stone houses are in disrepair, the main beam paint layer fell off and was not repainted in time. These beams
Many of them have traces of insect infestation, and some stone houses even have some autumn ears growing on the beams due to leaky roofs.
This time the old village chief decided to renovate the house. He simply used oak boards to re-strengthen the tripods on the stone roof, and then renovated the damaged wooden doors and windows of some villagers' homes. At least there would be no such thing as the villagers being agitated while they were sleeping.
It happens that the little beast sneaks into the room for no apparent reason.
Re-laying red thatch on the roof is something that the villagers of Wall Village do almost every year.
Generally speaking, laying red thatch on the roof requires the help of neighbors. Only with enough manpower can we remove the old thatch from the roof in one day and re-pave it with a new one before the sun goes down.
There is a thick layer of new red thatch. If you can't accomplish these things in one day, then you can only lie in bed and count the stars at night.
The villagers will discuss privately to stagger the dates for laying grass on the roof, and everyone will prepare red thatch on the riverside tidal flat in advance. The red thatch is not just dried in the sun, but also needs to be simply combed and dried.
The red thatch is tied into bunches for spare use. The bundling method is also very important. Each bunch of red thatch is not too tight or too loose. The red thatch on the roof of Suldak's house is because Rita tied the red thatch too much last year.
It was so tight that the roof leaked severely even before the rainy season had passed.
The renovation of the stone house this time is a collective action of the whole village, and there is no need for each family to prepare to open fire individually. According to the practice of Wall Village, the old village chief asked someone to catch a yellow sheep from Beigou, and nearly a hundred villagers ate a big pot of rice together.
A yellow sheep is only enough to cook a pot of fragrant sheep soup, and paired with half a piece of baked crispy wheat cake, it is already a delicacy that the villagers of Wall can only eat at holiday gatherings.
But just in time, Surdak brought back some horse meat last night. Although the horse meat was distributed to each villager that night, most of the villagers had not eaten it yet, so the horse meat was gathered together again and hung in the soup pot.
Then the women in the village who are good at cooking chop the offal together with the offal and stuff it into the cracks of the pancake to make a meat pie that is crispy on the outside and stuffed with meat filling on the inside.
As a distinguished reserve knight, Surdak naturally does not need to go to the neighbors' homes to help.
So when everyone was busy, he was the only one who seemed to have nothing to do, so he took over the important task of looking after little Peter from Natasha, because even Rita and Natasha had to go to the central square of the village.
Help in the kitchen.
Two large iron pots of noodles were cooking mutton soup in the square in the center of the village. At this time, because they were worried that they would get burned if they secretly picked up the edges of the pot, children were not allowed to enter the village square before eating.
Suldak was sitting under a dead tree at the entrance of the village. When he saw little Peter and a group of younger children going to dig some mud to play at the river, he felt a little headache.
I was already in a hurry to take care of little Peter here. Other children in the village actually came over. Now these children actually planned to dig yellow mud by the creek. Suldak felt that this must be stopped. If anyone
If the child accidentally falls into the water, you will inevitably have to take the blame here.
After thinking for a while, he stood up from the root of the tree and walked to little Peter's side.
"Dad, do you want to go digging mud by the river with me?"
Little Peter was about to take his friends to the stream when he looked up and saw Suldak walking towards him, and asked in a childish voice.
"Dad doesn't want to dig in the mud. Rita will get angry if her clothes get dirty. I have something more fun here..." As he said, Suldak picked up a dead branch and drew a very simple picture on the ground.
airplane grid.
"Yes, Rita will spank me when she's angry." Little Peter seemed to remember Rita's angry appearance, and agreed beside him.
Then, little Peter saw the square grid that Suldak drew on the ground, and immediately asked curiously: "Dad, what is this?"
Suldak touched little Peter's soft hair and said to him with a smile: "This is called lattice jumping. You watch me give a demonstration. It should be danced like this..."
Little Peter's eyes widened as he watched Suldak quickly jump a few times in the plane grid, and then jump back nimbly. He suddenly felt that this game seemed very interesting, and immediately shouted: "Dad, let me do it."
,let me……"
The other children were also ready to move around. Seeing that Suldak had successfully diverted the attention of the children, he immediately began to maintain order and gave orders to the children: "Don't worry, everyone, line up, everyone."
Everyone has a chance, take turns."
So at the entrance of the village, the merchants in the caravan set up street stalls.
In front of them, a group of children began to line up and dance in a very orderly manner.
After formulating the rules for skipping grids, there is no need for Surdak to stand by and watch all the time.
He went back under the dead tree and polished the Roman sword in his hand with a whetstone.
Suddenly, he found a little girl squatting in the shadow under the dead body.
Before that, he had never noticed that the little girl in tattered clothes looked to be only four or five years old and skinny. She was squatting under the tree with her hands and legs, motionless, and resting her chin on her knees.
Like a little quail tightening its neck in the cold wind.
Her eyes were also attracted by the group of children jumping on the grid, but it seemed that she was a little timid and unwilling to take the initiative, and the children had no intention of inviting her to play games together.
"Why don't you go and dance?" Suldak leaned over and asked the little girl softly.
The little girl was startled. She didn't expect someone to actually talk to her. She blinked her green eyes, buried her little face between her legs, and replied in a very low voice: "Mom, don't you?"
Let me run around..."
Surdak asked curiously: "What is your name?"
"Xigna." The little girl answered briefly.
Suldak wanted to chat more with this little girl who seemed to be very introverted, but at this time, women from the village had already come to the entrance of the village. The women gathered the children at the entrance of the village and greeted everyone to start dinner.
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Xigna saw a woman with simple clothes and beautiful appearance walking out from among a group of women. Her eyes immediately brightened, she immediately stood up and ran over happily, and slipped under the woman's skirt. She occasionally
She would lift up her long skirt and look out curiously with her little eyes.
Surdak recognized the beautiful woman in front of him as Selina, and he was deeply impressed by this most beautiful widow in the village.
Charlie once introduced to him that this woman was called an ominous person by the villagers, as if she had some kind of curse on her, and no one wanted to deal with her.
The woman held the long linen skirt in one hand, glanced at Suldak lightly, turned around and returned to the village without saying anything.