Li Heng, who had delivered the box, had not made a sound since he came back, and both Li Hui and Yan Yixin could tell.
Finally, Yan Yixin touched him with his hand and asked:
"What's going on? Did something happen when you were delivering something?"
Li Heng said "Ah", then looked at his father and asked:
"Dad, wouldn't it be bad if I sympathized with Li Wanshan?"
"Why do you ask?"
Li Heng scratched his head and said after a while:
"Today I was delivering a box of leeks to Uncle Zhou when I saw Li Wanshan. He was sitting at the door of his house, looking at the plate pitifully and swallowing his saliva. He had a lot of snot in his nose. It looked like he hadn't changed his clothes for several days. They were all covered in snot.
.I ignored him at first, but after delivering it, he was still sitting like that, his eyes were red, and I...I couldn't help but ask him what was wrong."
Li Hui nodded and asked while feeding Li Huai some porridge:
"Then how did he answer?"
"He didn't answer, and ran directly to the house. When I saw that the door to his courtyard was open, I... went in. Dad, don't glare at me, I know what's appropriate. If he wants to pretend to be pitiful with me, I will definitely ignore him.
But he didn't at that time. After I entered the hospital, I heard his mother coughing and crying. He wanted to ask Grandpa Dong for help in medical treatment, but his mother didn't let him."
"What about his father?" Cheng Xue asked.
"I don't know, I didn't see or hear him." Li Heng replied, "Mom, when I heard that cough, I felt like my lungs were about to come out."
Cheng Xue was pleased with his softness and affirmed his wisdom. He knew what situations he should not enter and what situations he should not enter.
This is the age when you don’t hold grudges and should be protected.
"You did the right thing, but next time, mother still hopes that you will not take risks. After all, you must be on guard against others. Mother and your father both know this. Let your father go to the clan leader and Li later.
Right, let them come forward and take a look."
"Well, okay." Li Heng nodded heavily, sweeping away the haze just now.
After dinner, as soon as Li Hui went out to report the news, Yu Zhao took the ox and harnessed the cart to transport manure to the fields.
Except for last year's spring plowing and autumn harvest, their three brothers did not come. In the past, they would come here to help every year after planting their own land.
Li Heng, Yan Yixin and Li Yue all followed her down to the ground. Although she was not allowed to go down to the ground, the little girl couldn't stay any longer. Cheng Xue was watching the children at home and took the opportunity to use wooden boards to tape up her bedclothes.
The 袼褙 is to glue the rags layer by layer with glue, and then air-dry and cut them into the shape of the sole. Generally, 8 to 10 pieces of 袼褙 are in a group, and the feet are densely sewn in circles, and there is some additional processing. This is
Commonly known as Thousand Layers.
Shoes are the most useless during spring plowing, so hurry up and make a few more pairs while you are not busy now, so as not to run out of shoes later.
A whole thick sheet of rice cake was pasted, and he put it on the table to be taken out to dry tomorrow. Halfway through the second sheet, Li Hui came back with Yu Zhao and the others. Yu Zhao hated the debt and still wanted to
Do it again, but Li Hui won’t let you.
"The people our family has hired this year are very solid. Don't worry, hurry up and go to bed. You will be busy tomorrow. I just told Brother Dake that you should come back with him after work."
"Okay." Yu Zhao listened and took the cow to the backyard to unload the truck.
Li Hui entered the room and saw Cheng Xue working under the candlelight, and raised the corners of his mouth.
"Mother Wan Shan is very ill. I originally planned to ask Uncle Dong to come over and have a look at her, but I didn't expect Li Qingnian to come back."
"Why, can't we find him when he comes back? Or...he kicked you all away?"
"Not really." Li Hui shook his head, "Anyway, I didn't ask Uncle Dong to find him. He said he would take Mr. Qin to the town to see a doctor tomorrow."
Cheng Xue said "hmm" and kept working.
"Okay, he can use it if he likes it. Anyway, we can't just turn a blind eye to it."
"I'm going to teach the children how to read." Li Hui said and went out.
Cheng Xue rolled four blankets, rubbed her swollen neck, and put the quilt on the kang. The two children had fallen asleep head to head. Looking at their peaceful sleeping faces and chubby little faces, she only
I feel at ease.
Li Huai, who is over one year old, can talk a lot more than before, and he smiles when everyone meets him, which is very cute. She can imagine that when the child grows up, he will be a little chatterbox.
Two days passed and spring plowing officially began.
Cheng Xue takes people to work in the fields every day. In addition to plowing the fields with oxen, they also use manual plows, and there are also hand-pulled plows used by Yan Yixin and Li Heng.
This thing works faster than people. Basically, if a person carries a ridge on his back, a hand-pulled plow can plow out one and a half ridges.
Many people in the village came over and asked where they bought this thing. Cheng Xue was not stingy and told them where it was made to order, but then there was no news.
There is no way, the materials and workmanship are too expensive, and I just haven’t calculated it. A pair of plow sticks is indeed very expensive, but if you divide it by ten or twenty years, it won’t be that expensive.
People who work on forest farms have to get up early if they don’t have time to farm at night. Every time at this time, Xiao Qinglin has to remind everyone to pay attention to safety.
For this reason, we must give them a break every day after lunch. A simple nap can relieve fatigue, which is better than working in the dark in the afternoon.
After buying the piano, Cheng Xue took Li Heng and Yan Yixin to work in the fields every day, so Lian came to tutor Li Yue and help take care of the children. He not only taught her how to play the piano, but also taught her Go and painting, although they were all superficial.
, but Li Yue studied very seriously and studied very seriously.
In the middle of spring plowing, she was able to play a simple piece of music. She was willing to practice and practice diligently, and Lian Shi admired her tenacity.
Within two days, the date for the second draft was set. The notification was made the night before and left early the next morning, leaving no time for everyone to react.
Those who worked on the forestry farm were fine, so they had a day off to let them see off their relatives. This time they went south with a large army in the north, so that night the villagers in the village finished work early and went to the official road to visit them the next day.
A glance at one’s own children.
There is no war in the north, so everyone knows that the children are safe. But there is no guarantee when going south, and this may be the last time they see each other.
Xiao Qinglin specifically asked for help, and Yu Xuan had to follow him south this time. Although he assured that the garrison was only counting and counting and would not go to the battlefield, who can say for sure?
Cheng Xue found several thin-material clothes for Li Hui, and then packed all the mille-feuille bottoms she had recently made for him.
"That's enough, sister-in-law, stop pretending." Yu Zhao was very embarrassed.
Cheng Xue shook her head and put on the anti-itching and swelling ointment she made a while ago.
There are children at home, so she made some in advance while she had enough medicinal materials.
Who would have thought that it would actually be used on my cousin? If I had known this, I would have made more medicine for injuries and so on, and I would have felt at ease.
"Time is too short. If you tell me earlier, I can prepare more."
Yu Zhao looked at the big baggage and said with a smile:
"That's a lot. My mother may not be able to prepare so much for him."
"Okay, you go back to the house and sleep. I'll make something for your brother so that he won't be hungry in the middle of the night."
He is really envious of his cousin's relationship.
It has been like this for more than ten years. When the house in the west of the village is built, he will go back and take his wife over, and they will not be separated in the future...