Ever since Mr. Wu went to the workshop to ask for wages, Yue Zhongyao rarely appeared in the workshop.
He even stopped guarding the entrance of Qiao Mingjin Courtyard.
Every time I go to the field, I go around and look at the yard from a distance. Then I listen to the sound of my daughter playing and laughing with the children from a distance.
Yue Zhongyao's face no longer smiled.
Every day he kept a dark face and kept a serious expression. At the end of the day, I couldn't hear a word he said.
The rooster crows every day, the sky is still dark, and everyone in the Yue family has not gotten up yet, he has already wiped his face with cold water three or two times, and went to the field with a hoe on his shoulder.
I stayed in the field until lunch time and then came back again.
At the dinner table, he didn't say a word. He hurriedly took a few mouthfuls of food, then got up and went to the field again. If he met Mr. Wu who wanted to chat, he got up, picked up two black-faced steamed buns, and went out without looking back.
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Wu couldn't help but he couldn't.
Seeing that he didn't go to Qiao Mingjin's side, I was happy to let him go.
As long as she sees her son stay far away from Mr. Qiao, let Mr. Qiao be alone without a man by her side, she will be happy.
She wished that the next moment, Qiao Mingjin would run over and kneel in front of her, begging her to come back, saying that she couldn't live without a man.
When the time comes, she will make fun of her and make Mr. Qiao mistakenly think that she has forgiven her. When she is happy and then chases her away, that will be a matter of applause and celebration.
Wu's thoughts were beautiful, and every time she dreamed, it was the scene where Qiao Mingjin came to beg her for mercy.
Yue Zhongyao was afraid that his mother would mess with Qiao Mingjin and her daughter, so he deliberately avoided Qiao Mingjin.
There was not much work to do in the fields at this time. There was nothing else to do except weeding and catching insects.
The sun is blazing brightly, and during this season, most households have cats at home or doing odd jobs outside. No one wants to be exposed in the fields under the scorching sun, without risking heatstroke and spending a lot of money.
It's not that easy to find medical advice in this rural area.
Farmers have to go to the fields during this season, and they usually go to the fields early in the morning. When the sun rises, they go home to have lunch and then rest for a long time to avoid the worst heat at noon.
Then he went to the ground again.
But Yue Zhongyao didn't want to stay at home.
After lunch, a few bamboo tubes filled with water hung around my waist and came out again.
When the sun was shining brightly that day, he found an old tree, and the cat took shelter under the shade.
He is not stupid. He would go to the fields to dry his meat.
The mud in the ground was scalding hot from the sun. Not only did he go barefoot on the ground, but even if he wore shoes, it was still painfully hot.
The sun was so hot that people were sweating all over, and you could hear the sound of oil sizzling from your body.
Yue Zhongyao hid under the shade of the tree, leaning on the trunk, with one foot bent and the other stretched forward. He closed his eyes and meditated.
My mind was completely clear.
He has been back to his hometown for a while. He originally planned to go back to his hometown with the hundred taels of silver to buy a few acres of land. If he works harder and cultivates a few more acres of wasteland, no matter how thin the land is, he will be able to farm a few acres of land every year.
Two stones of grain.
Even if he has to pay taxes in three years, the land will have been fertilized. By then, the wasteland will turn into fertile farmland, and he will have about ten acres of land in his hands, which will be enough for a family of three to eat and drink.
But after his mother made such a fuss, he only had ten taels of silver left in his hand.
In the end, he asked him to find a clay pot and throw the ten taels of silver into it and bury it in the ground, so that his mother wouldn't have to search for it.
Otherwise, what would he buy for his wife and daughter?
His mother was absolutely unwilling to take out any money for him to use as flowers for Jin Niang and his daughter.
Even the remaining ten taels of silver are of no use.
Nowadays, he can't even buy an acre of fertile land, and ten taels of silver can't be spent. In November, Xiaoman will get married. As an elder brother, he always has to prepare some gifts for his sister to add to her makeup.
Originally, he had thought that it would be a great thing to help out in the workshop, which would help his wife and also allow him to see his wife and daughter more often.
But his mother would come to the house from time to time to make trouble, which made him very upset, not only Jin Niang.
What should he do now?
There are more than ten acres of land in the family. Even if the family is divided and allocated to him, he will not get a few acres.
He is not afraid of hardship. He has a lot of strength, and can open up a few acres of land in a year in his spare time. In the past few days, he has opened up some land.
Furthermore, his accuracy is pretty good, and he can supplement his income by hunting in other mountains throughout the year. If not, he can also go to the city to get some odd jobs during the off-season, which can also be a supplement.
He had crawled out of hard times since he was a child. He had survived the bloody field of cannibalism. What kind of hardship could he not endure?
He was only afraid that he would wrong Jin Niang and the child.
Jin Niang...Jin Niang's life seems to be getting more and more prosperous now.
The workshop didn't know if she had a dick, but just looking at the furnishings, clothes and daily food in her home... it would cost a lot.
When I go back to Yunjia Village to prepare New Year gifts for my parents-in-law during the holidays, do I still need Jin Niang to pay for it?
Yue Zhongyao never touched money when he was a child, he didn't even touch a copper plate a few times, and he didn't see a few silver coins when he grew up. It was only after he became a policeman in the county government that he received some money from time to time, which made him feel that he also had money.
I can make my wife and daughter eat well without being wronged.
But now the ten taels of silver in my hand may not be enough to cover the heat.
What will he do to support his wife and daughter?
The family can't be separated until the end of the year at the earliest. After the family is separated, you still have to buy things. At that time, it's the end of the year, and you have to prepare food for the New Year, prepare New Year gifts for your parents-in-law and the wife's natal family, and for yourself.
New Year's gift from parents...
Yue Zhongyao never cared about money.
But at this moment, he felt that it was extremely difficult to do without two coins in his hand.
There was a bit of confusion in Yue Zhongyao's eyes.
From time to time, the sight of Zhou Yanqing driving his ostentatious carriage to the village flashed before his eyes, asking the servants to carry various items to Jinniang's house...
Every time it stung his nerves.
Yue Zhongyao scratched his scalp in pain.
He didn't know how to break the deadlock with Jin Niang.
Although his wife was clearly right in front of him, he felt that she was separated by thousands of mountains and rivers.
Sometimes he thought that he was more shameless and thick-skinned. The overlord just took advantage of him. He was her husband and she was his wife. What else could he do?
But he also knew that his wife had always been a softie rather than a tough one, a little girl who would rather be a piece of jade than a piece of cake. If he were to be tough, he would probably push his wife further and further away.
Sometimes he would wander outside the wall of his wife's courtyard and vaguely hear the laughter of his wife and daughter inside the wall, as well as the sound of his wife gently coaxing their daughter to sleep at night. Countless times, he impulsively wanted to climb over the wall and jump in...
Yue Zhongyao looked at the wasteland he had carved out over the past few days with a confused look on his face.
After such hard work, he had to carve out wasteland. When the family was divided, he didn't know how much he would get.
"Zhongyao?"
Yue Zhongyao woke up from the wasteland under the scorching sun and looked towards the sound.
"Fourth uncle."
Yue Zhongyao retracted his extended legs, put his hands on the dirt, patted his buttocks, and stood up.
Yue Huasheng, Lao Yuetou's fourth brother, looked at Yue Zhongyao intently for a few seconds with his hands behind his back, and then slowly walked towards him.
When he came closer, Yue Zhongyao looked into the small basket in his hand and said with a smile: "Fourth uncle is picking up cow dung again?"
Yue Huasheng was carrying a basket in one hand and an iron tong in the other. The basket was filled with half a basketful of dry, flat pieces of cow dung.
Yue Huasheng responded and approached him.
After glancing at his face twice, he put the basket far away on the ground and sat down next to where Yue Zhongyao had been sitting just now.
The dried cow dung had no smell. But Yue Huasheng still put it away.
Yue Zhongyao watched him sit down on the floor and sat down about half an arm away from him.
"Why don't Fourth Uncle rest at home? Are you coming out now?"
Yue Huasheng was not in a hurry to reply to him. He squinted his eyes and looked up at the sky. Fang said: "If you don't come out now, will you wait for me to pick up the cow dung?"
Yue Zhongyao glanced at his basket and smiled.
The sun is shining right now, and very few people go out here. They are all looking for a shady place to take a rest.
But since Qiao Mingjin dug up rotten leaf mud in the forest to use as fertilizer, few people in the village would grab the cow dung.
In previous years, cow dung was a rare commodity. Farmers wanted to fertilize their fields, and those who only had two or three acres of land didn't have to worry about it. The manure they saved and the firewood ash in the stove were all enough.
If there is a lot of land, there will not be enough fertilizer.
So the cow dung became a hot commodity.
Furthermore, although Xiahe Village is richer than the neighboring villages, there are not many families with cows. Even if the cow is pulled in an inconspicuous place, someone can find it and shovel it before it is dry.
go back.
It's just that in the past year, no one has grabbed the cow dung. Yue Huasheng still hasn't changed his old habit.
Every day in the scorching sun, I wear a straw hat and carry a basket to get ahead of others.
Fortunately, no one was trying to rob him now. He just went out for a while and picked up almost a basketful.
Yue Zhongyao smiled at him.
"Fourth Uncle, you still have to go out in the scorching sun to look for this thing? Can Brother Lixia and Liqiu let you out?"
Yue Huasheng raised two sons and two daughters.
Both daughters are married. The two sons have not separated, and they still live with his wife.
One is one year older than Yue Zhongyao, named Yue Lixia. He is married to the Su family and has a son and a daughter. The younger son Yue Liqiu is younger than Yue Zhongyao and is married to the Ma family. Now the Ma family has grown bigger.
After Ma became pregnant, Yue Liqiu called her back from the workshop.
Later, when the work in the workshop increased, Qiao Mingjin would occasionally ask Yue Liqiu to do odd jobs as a supplement. In the past few months, when the fields were not busy, he went to the workshop every day to do work.
I can also take one tael of silver back home every month.
Yue Huasheng's family background is similar to that of Yue Tou, but Yue Lixia and Yue Liqiu are hardworking and hard-working people. When the family split up earlier, they all had the same fields. Later, after the split, the father and son farmed more than ten fields.
acres of wasteland.
After several years of farming, the wasteland became mature. Later, the few acres of fertile land that Qiao Mingjin bought in the village were rented to their family for farming. Now their family's life is much better than that of the old Yuetou's family.
Yue Huasheng didn't answer Yue Zhongyao's words and dug into his waist. Only then did he realize that he had not brought out the hookah pole when he went out.
Then he supported the muddy ground with both hands, moved his body back, leaned on the tree trunk, looked at Yue Zhongyao, and said seriously: "Zhongyao, are you ready to live like this?" (To be continued. If you like this
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