Heiwa settled in a village in Weibei called Jiangjunzhai to work for a wealthy family named Guo. Jiangjunzhai is located in a river called Jiangjun Slope, with endless stretches of plains and flat watered fields.
People say that when you go down Jiangjun Slope, all the landowners are named Guo. The Guo family is a wealthy businessman. The family owns more land than the entire Bailu Village. There are three big troughs for mules and horses, and there are more than a dozen horses and calves.
Head. All the children and grandchildren of the Guo family are working outside, some in politics, some in the army, and some in business. There is no one in the family who manages crops. So much land is rented to tenants in the village and neighboring villages for cultivation. Every year
The agreed rent was collected in summer and autumn. Only the tenants hired long-term laborers to cultivate the land they could not finish cultivating. There was less than a hundred acres of land left, which could not actually use that much animal power. Those animals ate forage all year round, and in some cases they could hardly continue to work.
The old man Guo of Caidong was particularly fond of mules and horses. He bred the colts, kept the good ones and raised them, and sold the bad ones. All the tall mules and horses in the trough were strictly screened to eliminate the bad and keep the good.
As a result, all of them looked like the Six Horses of Zhaoling. Old Man Guo was a martial artist in the Qing Dynasty. He knew how to box and kick, and could also wield a spear and a stick. He often rode a horse in the evening when the setting sun was about to gild the earth.
Running on the official road in the countryside, even if he is over 60 years old, he still enjoys it. The old man is very generous and does not care about the small details of the long-term workers. You do the work and eat the food. You rarely hear him staring at the long-term workers and mumbling.
A long-winded voice.
When Heiwa came, the Guo family already had two long-term workers. One was a middle-aged man in his forties named Li. He had been working in the Guo family for nearly ten years and was considered the head foreman. The other was in his twenties.
The young man surnamed Wang is not yet married, he rarely talks, and always smiles when he sees everyone. Heiwa is the youngest, very smart, with quick feet and quick hands, and is often ordered by the head foreman to do many chores around the house.
He would sweep the courtyard, clean latrines, winch and carry water, dry and collect soil, haul cattle and water horses. As time went by, Guo Juren's two women also liked this honest and hard-working young man, and they felt relieved to instruct him to go there.
He went to the nearby general town to buy vegetables, cut meat or grab medicine. Guo Juren himself also liked Heiwa. One evening he was going out to walk his horse. He took the reins from Heiwa who had prepared a saddle, and suddenly asked: "Heiwa, do you know how to do it?"
Horse riding." Hei Wa said, "I have ridden a pig, but not a horse." Guo Ju Ren laughed happily and said, "Do you want to ride a horse?" Hei Wa said, "Yes." Guo Ju Ren said, "Go and get that pair of horses."
Put the saddle on the red horse, you try to ride on it for a walk." Heiwa got on the red horse and walked with Guo Juren on the official road without feeling a trace of fear. Guo Juren reined in the reins and raised his whip while shouting
The teacher instructs Heiwa on the key to controlling horses; two horses gallop on the official road in the countryside.
At night, the three long-term workers all slept on the big kang in the horse room. As soon as they slipped into bed, they started talking about women. At this time, the taciturn long-term worker Wang went to the towns and villages in the central area to talk to the hired workers, store managers, and workers.
"Xiangong" and "Wang Xiang" are daily verbal addresses. He became active: "Boss, it's time to say 'Four Fragrances' today." Li Xiang, the chief foreman, laughed smugly and pretended to be serious and said: "No more.
Let’s not talk anymore, what should we do if we teach Lu Xiang to go blind? Lu Xiang’s doll hasn’t seen anything yet.” Wang Xiang talked about what Li Xiang said last night or the night before as if he was endorsing it: “Li Xiang, let me tell you.”
Do you see the four hard ones, the carpenter's adze, the blacksmith's anvil, the young man's hammer, the diamond, and the four soft ones, the girl's waist cotton bag, the fire crystal persimmon, the pig's urine?" Li Xiang asked at this time
He was teased and said: "The 'Four Fragrances' - listen, the first crop of alfalfa, two drops of vinegar, the girl's tongue and the cured meat. Whether it is fragrant or not, it will kill you." Wang Xiang laughed so hard that he almost choked.
, and recited it again. Hei Wa didn't notice it at all, and was even confused: "The first crop of alfalfa is fragrant, and the second crop of vinegar is also fragrant. I have tasted the meat with cured sauce once, and it is so fragrant. What does the girl's tongue smell like?"
The saliva is not disgusting to death." Li Xiang said to Wang Xiang, who was laughing so hard: "Hei Wa is a melon egg and we have to enlighten him. Hei Wa, you will marry a wife in the future, and you smacked her tongue,
Once you taste it, you will understand that the most fragrant meat is not the cured meat..." Foreman Li Xiang pretended to tell sour stories about male thieves and female prostitutes, some of which were secretive and implicit, and some of which were naked.
Some Heiwa couldn't understand what they heard, while others felt hot flashes all over after hearing it. Li Xiang, the foreman, asked seriously: "Heiwa, look at the people in our master's family who are in their sixties and almost seventy. Why are they so red-faced?"
; What a hard body; talking like ringing a bell, walking like a strong wind. If you can guess why they are so strong, I will give you my entire salary for a year; if you can’t guess, I will punish you by fetching the urine bucket every night.
Get up early every day and empty the urinal." Heiwa went on to explain the reasons that everyone could think of: the master's family eats white rice and noodles, delicacies from the mountains and seas, chicken, duck, pork and mutton, and walks horses but does not do heavy work. Li Xiang's face was sullen.
It was wrong to keep talking. Wang Xianghan was not mature enough and couldn't help but reveal the answer to the mystery first. As soon as he opened his mouth, he laughed so hard that he couldn't speak: "Guo Juren eats, eats, eats pickled dates." Heiwa said disapprovingly: " Pickled dates
What’s so good about jujube? Soaking ginseng in soju wine can nourish people.” Wang Xiang smiled slyly: “Soaking jujube in wine is more nourishing than soaking in ginseng wine. Listen to Uncle Li’s instructions on how to soak jujube—” the foreman said in a low voice.
Guo Juren did not marry the second wife to have a baby, but to make dates for him. Every night, he put three dried dates into the woman's place, soaked them overnight, and took them out for washing the next morning.
It was clean and given to Guo Juren to eat on an empty stomach. Guo Juren has been eating her pickled dates since then, and he has become a child again in the past two years. Heiwa felt very uncomfortable after hearing this.
Hei Wa was swollen. Wang Xiang suddenly reached out and grabbed his lower body, and reported to Li Xiang with a smile: "Uncle Li, Hei Wa's penis is as erect as a bamboo shoot." Hei Wa was immediately ashamed.
Early the next morning, Heiwa got up and carried a long-handled broom to clean the courtyard as usual. He saw Guo Juren's little woman coming back with a porcelain basin to urinate. She entered the wing and heard the sound of splashing water to wash her face from the window. Heiwa
He didn't even dare to raise his head. When he finished sweeping the front yard and straightened up to walk out of the yard, he couldn't help but glance at the open sash window. The little woman was combing her hair in front of the window. Her dark hair spread from her shoulders to her chest, like
A piece of shining black satin. When the little woman held up a wooden comb to comb it from the top of her head, the wide sleeves were pushed down to her shoulder blades, revealing her pink and shiny arms. Hei Wa felt that her breath was blocked again, but don't
The soaked dates fell down, and he turned around hurriedly and was about to leave. The woman spoke in the window: "Lu Xiang, sweep the floor and water the magnolia tree. The tree is dry." Hei Wa dropped it.
He got off his broom and picked up a wooden bucket, went to the well platform in the courtyard and poured a bucket of water under the magnolia tree, and then watered the roses in the middle of the courtyard. He felt honored that the little woman assigned him to do the work, and he also wanted to
Whatever trees he watered, there were no flowers. He held the empty bucket and admired the magnolia tree with great interest. The flowers had already withered, and the dark green oblate leaves were dripping with dew; the roses were in bud. He again
I squeezed a load of water into the kitchen water jar and left with a bit of reluctance. Back at the door of the horse house where the long-term workers lived, the long-term foremen Li Xiang and Wang Xiang were already carrying plows and livestock to plant cotton in the fields.
Li Xiang asked: "Hei Wa, you spent so much time sweeping the floor." Wang Xiang said slowly, "Maybe I want to ask for a pickled date..." Hei Wa couldn't help but blush, as if he really
As if asking for pickled dates, he hurriedly explained that he had wasted time by sweeping the yard and watering the flowers. Li Xiang said: "It won't take such a long time to water people."
After harvesting the wheat and entering Futian, Guo Juren and his eldest daughter moved from the living room to the cave in the backyard to stay. At twilight, Guo Juren practiced boxing in the yard for a while, then washed his face and drank tea before returning to the cave.
Go and take a nap for an hour, then lie down or sit to smoke and drink tea. It is not until the heat subsides in the evening that you happily go out for a horse walk.
The big woman stayed with the old man day and night, fanning him, lighting his cigarettes, making tea for him, talking to him, and sleeping with him. The three meals were cooked by the little woman, served on a purple-red walnut lacquered plate.
Carrying the urinal into the cave, carrying the urinal at night, and pouring urine in the morning are all the little women's homework. Other than that, the little woman has no legitimate reason to enter the cool cave. The eldest wife has set strict laws and regulations for everyone. Every month
On the first, eleventh, and twenty-first days of every lunar month, he would go into the little woman's wing to have some fun. After finishing his work, he would have to return to the cave dwelling where he usually stayed in the living room. Guo Juren was in good health and full of energy, but he often felt unsatisfied. After finishing his work, he would wait
Thinking of doing it again, a woman's caring and sincere voice sounded outside the window of the wing: "You don't want to die."
Ever since Guo Juren and the elder woman moved into the cave dwelling to escape the summer heat, the front yard had become deserted, and Hei Wa felt more at ease when he went to clean the yard and fetch water. At the same time, he noticed that the little woman's voice when she assigned him to do something was sweeter, and his face
The look on the table became lively, and the air in the front yard became clearer. Three long-term workers squatted under the shade of the magnolia tree to eat. The little woman sat on a small stool in the kitchen opposite. When she heard the sound of chopsticks scraping the bottom of the bowl, she came out.
, put the bowl back on a plate, then fill it with rice and bring it out on a plate. This rule is to avoid the possibility of finger-to-toe contact between men and women when handing over bowls and chopsticks. Everything about Heiwa and this little woman
Fortunately and unfortunately, it all started when I made an exception and discarded the wooden plate when delivering food.