One morning in the summer, when the sun was shining brightly, Yun Jing was awakened by a burst of noise outside the house. He didn't want to pay attention to it, and continued to sleep with his head covered in a daze.
However, before he could stay in bed for a few minutes, the cup was opened and he received a moderate slap on the butt.
"The little lazy boy got up to herd the cows."
Yunshan's voice sounded beside him, and then Yunjing was picked up and placed on the ground.
He swayed like a roly-poly twice, rubbed his eyes with one hand and rubbed his butt with the other, and then looked at his father speechlessly and wanted to cry. This is not how child labor is exploited. Okay, dad, I'm only three years old.
Half!
Since Yunlin or Yunshan took Yunjing to herd cattle more than a dozen times in the past few months, the family has felt the docility of the big buffalo. Although Yunjing is small, he is fully qualified for this glorious job of herding cattle, and then herds the cattle.
This important responsibility fell on his small shoulders.
I can't rely on you...
A three-and-a-half-year-old child is herding cows. He is not as tall as a cow's legs. There is a huge difference in body size. If you are not careful, you will get injured. It seems incredible, but it is not impossible.
There are several other families in the village who have cows, and their children have started herding cows since they were four or five years old. Yunjing is more sensible than his peers. After he herded cows alone several times, his family secretly observed them, and then they felt relieved.
This job was forced on him. It not only gave Yun Jing something to do, but also freed up adults to do other important tasks.
"Dad, please let me sleep a little longer, I'm so sleepy." Yunjing looked up at Yunshan and wanted to cheat.
However, Yunshan grinned and said, "Okay, how about you sleep a little longer and I'll make fried pork with bamboo shoots for you? It's delicious."
"I'd better go herd the cows," Yunjing said in frustration, wanting to cry. Rather than being spanked, he might as well go herd the cows.
In his previous life, Yunjing also lived in the countryside since he was a child. However, when he was a child in his previous life, children were no longer interested in doing farm work. They had to go to school early, so they had no experience of working in the morning and evening. Later, he went out into society. I heard
Some older people said that when they were young, they would be beaten if they did not herd cattle or cut pig grass. They never thought that such an experience would happen to them now...
"Hurry up, the cows are already howling. If you dare to continue to go to bed, I won't slap you next time." Yunshan warned him, and then went to do other things.
Shrugging, well, let’s face it.
Then Yunjing started to put on clothes. Well, he no longer wears crotchless pants. The problem of constipation can be solved by himself, but sometimes it hurts to scrape his butt with a bamboo blade...
After he got dressed and went out, the yard was extremely noisy with people.
Those are the villagers who came to help.
That's right, taking advantage of the slight slack in farming in the summer, Yunjing's family is going to build a new house. It's a brick house, the second brick house in the village so far!
After looking around for a while, Yunjing estimated that there must be fifty or sixty villagers, both men and women, who came to help.
Here we have to talk about the popularity of Yunjing's family. When his family shared the wonderful effects of farmyard fertilizer, their reputation reached its peak in Xiaoxi Village. When his family said they needed help to build a house, many people didn't ask for it.
They all came on their own initiative.
If there weren't really so many people needed, maybe the whole village would come to help...
Poor people are so simple. They will find ways to repay the debt they owe you. They have nothing but a lot of strength.
Of course, there is always a shortage of white-eyed wolves in the world, but they are a minority among the minority, and the Yunjing family has not encountered them yet.
These villagers came to help without any wages, and it was enough to give them enough food.
Distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors. When a family has something to do, every family helps. This is the countryside.
When Yunjing came to the yard, Yunlin was dividing the labor among the villagers. Half of the villagers went to Guandao to move bricks and tiles. The bricks and tiles had been ordered long ago. Because there was no main road in Xiaoxi Village, they could not transport them in, so they had to go to Guandao.
There were manpower to carry it, and half of the villagers went to the forest to cut down trees. Both tasks were not easy. After the distribution was done, the villagers set off with their own tools.
Breakfast and other things need to be done first...
It is worth mentioning that when the Yunjing family built a new house, they did not demolish the old house, but built a new foundation next to the old house. His yard is not small, and there is more than enough area to build a new house next to it.
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Carpenters and masons were invited to do the preliminary work a few days ago. They live in Yunjing's house and the accommodation conditions are not good, so they make do with it. Although they are craftsmen, they are just smart laborers and are not that valuable.
Jiang Susu and several village women were already busy at the simple stove in the yard, cooking meals for dozens of people. The workload was really quite heavy.
Because it was summer, it would be very hot at noon. They were lighting a fire to prepare a pot of mung bean soup for later use, so that they could relieve the heat of the workers at noon. Yunjing saw his mother secretly adding mung bean soup to the soup while no one was looking.
Some maltose...
I think it would taste better if I added some sugar. I couldn't mistreat those who helped. It was not easy for everyone. She didn't dare to make a big show of it, so she had to do it secretly.
The whole yard was busy and noisy with people coming and going. Yun Jing looked around for a while, then smiled and sweetly greeted people he knew and walked towards the rebuilt stable.
Go out to herd cattle and still have peace and quiet in the wilderness.
It's not that he is withdrawn, it's just that his situation is awkward. He can't play with the children and has nothing to talk to the adults. He is more comfortable when he is alone.
Yunjing has been weaned. He remembers that one day he saw his mother retching for no reason...
Of course he knew what that meant. It was not just that he had no milk to drink, but that if nothing else happened, he would have a younger brother or younger sister this year or next year.
Yunjing hoped it was his younger brother, because it would be fun to cry if nothing happened. If it was his younger sister, he would be embarrassed to bully her...
That's right, he hasn't enjoyed beating his brother yet, he has to try it if he gets the chance.
Build a new house and add a new member to your family. It can be said that good things come in pairs this year.
Oh, by the way, the crops in the fields are growing well and the villagers are getting along harmoniously. In short, life is getting better and better...
But why do we need to herd cows? I am still so young and I want to sleep.
When they finally arrived at the stable, Yunjing immediately curled his lips and said, "It's too real. Men are all big pigs. When the buffalo came into the house, Yunshan wanted to hug it and sleep with it. He had to wash it twice throughout the day."
But now, it is true that the big buffalo is getting stronger and stronger, but its lower body is covered with cow dung. God knows when Yunshan secretly transferred his love from the big buffalo.
The big buffalo was sleeping on its stomach. When it heard the noise, its ears moved, and then it turned its head to look at its little master, Yunjing.
It didn't get up immediately, but continued to lie there.
Yunjing skillfully pulled a straw mat from the door of the barn, then entered the shed and carefully avoided the cow dung. He came to the buffalo and spread the mat on the buffalo's back. Then he stepped on the big buffalo with his hands and feet.
The body climbed onto the mat spread on the back of the cow.
He patted the cow's back and said: "Dahei, let's go, let's go"
After hearing Yun Jing's words, the big buffalo stood up slowly without shaking Yun Jing down.
Dahei is the name he gave to the big buffalo. In fact, his buffalo is not black, but Yunjing is happy with it.
It is said that cows understand human nature. Regardless of whether others believe it or not, Yunjing believes it. After a few months of getting along, he and Dahei have developed a good understanding. I don’t know when Yunjing started to go out to herd cattle.
Cow-backed.
Dahei is very docile and not impatient at all. He walks slowly but steadily. Yunjing fell asleep on his back many times and never fell off.
Then, I warned it many times not to eat the crops, but later it stopped eating the crops even when it was in its mouth.
Yunjing was not surprised at all that Dahei was so understanding of human nature, because he was older than him in his previous life, and his colleagues from the countryside had told him that cows were like this, at least most of them were like this.
Even in many cases, if the owner encounters danger, it will take the initiative to protect it, which is amazing.
Riding Dahei, Yunjing yawned, lay down leisurely, and then started a new day of herding cattle in the morning light...
