The Green Lotus Peasant Girl - Chapter 68

When drinking water, Li Qinghe noticed that Hu Yanxi’s hands were trembling slightly, and he always felt that he was wearing the patchy clothes nondescript. People were as polite as before, and when he took over the tea bowl, he smiled and thanked him.

Qian came to drink water. Recently, she was detained by Li Fu to work every day. She insisted on being so tired from the autumn harvest. Now she is still used to it.

What are you talking about buying? If you really catch the fish, wouldn’t Li Qinghe really collect her father’s money?

She hadn’t spoken yet, Li Fu had already said, “No. It’s all said that it’s hard to eat, what’s the matter of stewing fish soup?”

When Zhao Wanwan heard Yutang’s eyes lit up, she was a meat-eating person, but before or after getting married, she couldn’t eat meat as she pleased. Now she actually regrets that when Hu’s family wanted a pond, she didn’t insist on it. , If it changes to the present, she has designated to fight for it. The pond is placed there, and you can fish for fish at any time, and you can eat it every day. Thinking about nothing now, I heard Li Fu’s refusal before I was excited, and it fainted.

Looking at Hu Yanxi’s patched clothes and his flushed hands, he couldn’t help asking, “Father, don’t you want us to come back? How else do you keep letting us work? Let me do it, why? Let Yanxi do it?”

“He is a scholar and has no strength. Just look at it for a long time. His hands are like this. These…” She took Hu Yanxi’s hand, “These… are all injuries from the last time. His hands are What should I do if I am injured?”

Li Fu took a look, and said disapprovingly, “It’s not that the teacher in the town was also a villager at the beginning, so he works. Whenever he is not here for spring ploughing and autumn harvesting?”

“Since you are back to live, what can’t you do to help me?” He pointed to Li Qinghe, “Chengkang has come every time since they set up a marriage. It is said that I should buy some meat and vegetables back, but this is not you I’ve been eating at home for half a year, and I bought it with money if I didn’t have enough food. When you two got married, I gave the dowry. It can be said that I gave it all. Now I have no more money to eat meat, if I want to eat meat. , Buy it yourself.”

Zhao Wanwan suddenly had nothing to say.

If they could buy it themselves, the couple would not go home either.

“No, that’s great.” Hu Yanxi finally spoke, smiled gently, and thanked Li Qinghe before saying, “Many words of father-in-law are still very reasonable and thought-provoking. The feelings are different here. Very useful for my experience.”

He smiled and looked at Li Qinghe, “I heard that there was a clerk with a knife in my sister’s house, I don’t know who is the leader…”

Li Qinghe answered, “Master of the county government.”

It can be seen that Hu Yanxi was a little disappointed to hear this answer, but he still said, “Anyone who has done a good job in this kind of farming and is confirmed to be a great achievement must be reported to the imperial court, and there may be rewards at that time. What did the master say? Has my sister’s method been told to him?”

Lin Zhixian did say this on that day, but the reward is mysterious. In fact, this is not a secret method. If a farmer who has been working for many years has bothered to go this far, he should find that the sweet potato vine has touched soil no matter where it is. , Will grow roots.

But what she didn’t know was that because the sweet potato has never been able to find a way, the old farmer who served it was afraid that he could not handle it well. The sweet potato vines were all entangled with branches and did not touch the ground at all, so this Over the past two years, there has been no law.

She smoothly said, “The method has already been said. As for rewards, I never thought about it.”

Hu Yanxi’s expression of hatred that iron can’t make steel, Li Fu was already impatient over there, “Don’t rest, people are getting lazier and more rested in this kind of weather, and they should not want to work for a while. Walk around…”

They went to work, but Li Qinghe turned around and went home.

Strangely, she thought that Li Fu had been tossing nonsense like this, and she should not stay for a few days, but she didn’t expect that the couple hadn’t left, helping Li Fu to cut the weeds in the ground and began to turn the ground again.

As for Li Qinghe, they really didn’t go to help this time. They went up the mountain to chop wood. When she was pregnant, Zhou Chengkang was the only one at home. There should be no time to chop wood at that time.

The weather gradually cooled down, and it started to rain outside. The chickens in the backyard of the two grew up to more than 100 this year. This year they can pick up 70 or 80 eggs every day. She has been hatching eggs one after another. , Now there are chickens of various sizes on the chicken coop.

The two of them are not short of meat and fish, and they have eggs all the time. They will grab a few roosters to sell and bring some eggs. Sometimes it will send Xu some past.

In the blink of an eye, October, several autumn rains fell, and the weather became cold. The rain was covered with snow, and it felt like winter. People who weren’t so busy with work stopped going out. Li Qinghe was no exception. After she stopped going out, she picked up the needle and thread. Yu Yan felt lonely and often ran to her to embroider.

This girl is seventeen after the New Year, and she hasn’t negotiated her marriage. It’s really late, and the fifth sister is also the age when she is sixteen.

Recently, I heard Zhou’s mother said that she was helping her find her. Maybe she was living far away, and Wumei never came to talk to her. Since that time, she never mentioned Zhao Dashan again.

Li Qinghe moved and built a house for the Yang family, Zhao Dashan was there, and I didn’t see the fifth sister looking for him alone. Last year Zhou’s mother said that she wanted to discuss marriage, but she also came to look for it. This year she hasn’t mentioned it yet. Maybe she’s already thinking about it. Faint, willing to obey Zhou’s mother.

On Yu Yan’s side, it’s not that no one came to propose marriage, but she herself was not happy. Everyone in the village said that she had high-sightedness. However, parents are good and skilled, and their vision is normal. Because of her craftsmanship and looks, even if she often refuses others, there are still a steady stream of people asking people to talk to others. She was so anxious that Yu Yan let her out. She actually wanted to recruit extras, so she could marry out, but her godmother saved her. Life, she will provide for the elderly in the future.

As soon as these words came out, most of the people who came to the door were stopped.

The room was lit with a brazier, warm as spring, Yu Yan sighed with a needle and thread, “I can’t find a good-looking one in this village. It doesn’t matter if it’s not good-looking, it’s good to be careful.”

Li Qinghe laughed, “You come out of a big family, and see Young Master Pian Pian too much. Naturally these vulgar people can’t come into your eyes.”

This is not what she said, many people in the village said so.

Yu Yan stared at her, “Even you make fun of me.”

The two looked at each other and couldn’t help laughing. As I was happy, Zhou Chengkang came in from outside and smiled, “I just heard that someone is coming at the entrance of the village, just like Miss Yu came.”

Hearing this, Li Qinghe was surprised, “Are you coming?”

Yu Yan was excited, dropped the needle and thread in her hand, and stretched out her hand, “Let’s take a look too. See if the person who brought me here originally, I don’t know how I got here.”

This is the same person, he shouldn’t know. Judging from Yu Yan’s appearance, it’s clear that he didn’t come from the county seat, but for other county towns, the nearest one would take five or six days away. It’s a long journey for such a long distance. Do not know how many hands.

However, it’s okay to see the excitement. The two went all the way to the village. At this time, many people were heading to the entrance of the village. The woman who bought it at the beginning has given birth to a child in the past two years.

In addition, the weather has been smooth in the past two years, and it is still worthy of gritted teeth.

At the entrance of the village, there were a lot of people in three circles and three outside circles. Yu Yan pulled her to squeeze in front, and then both of them frowned.

The person who came back this time was indeed not the same person as the last time. The person who came back up was all women, both fat and thin. And this time, there are men and women, all of them are ragged, and their faces and bodies are very dirty. The headed person has a big yellow tooth. “These people are definitely coming, cheap, regardless of men and women. Two silvers apiece, females bring them back to have children, and males bring them back to do coolies. They are all very good…”

Still the village head went out, “This is not good, our farmer is not interested in buying and selling people.”

The man sipped, “You are not happy, someone is happy. Old man, don’t stop me from doing business.”

This can be regarded as stabbing a hornet’s nest. Even if someone wants to buy, but he is so rude to the village chief, everyone’s face has changed at the moment, “Going away, we don’t buy, you want to hurt us.”

In fact, apart from a few who want to buy women back to be their wives, there is really no one who is willing to buy people back home. It is indeed okay to buy them back to work, but they also have to eat. It is better to work hard.

Besides, there are no girls here at all. The youngest are women in their thirties with a withered face. They are all dirty and not enough to bury them. Who wants?

That person might as well develop things like this, and want to say a few ruthless words, the village chief has already said, “If you don’t leave again, we will have to report to the official.”

Hearing the newspaper officer, the man hurled away with curses.

Everyone at the entrance of the village saw people leaving. In such a cold day, they couldn’t stand and dispersed. Li Qinghe was no exception. “Let’s go back, it’s cold.”

Pulling the person holding her arm, she saw that Yu Yan didn’t move. She looked at the direction the people at the entrance of the village were leaving in a daze. She couldn’t help asking, “What’s the matter? Go back!”

Yu Yan returned to her senses and sighed, “It’s so beautiful!”

“Who is it?” Li Qinghe looked blank. The villagers knew Yu Yan, and she hadn’t heard anyone like her, so there was a Xu Changjie who reluctantly asked, didn’t it all pass.

Yu Yan looked around and lowered her voice, “It’s just the last one over there. If he is good at talking, I might buy it.”

Li Qinghe was dumb.

“Would you like to go to town?” Yu Yan thought for a while, and asked enthusiastically, “What if I sell it in town?”

“Don’t let it go.” Li Qinghe looked at the sky, “It’s so cold. Tomorrow’s big show, we go early, I want to sell chicken.”

Every time I go to town, Yu Yan would rather spend their time instead of walking on her own. The next morning, the day was dark, and Li Qinghe’s carriage set off for the town. That’s it, Yu Yan could get up with them. .

There was no one on the road so early. The carriage left the village, and when I passed by the intersection where the Li Qinghe sisters saw Xu Changjie, I saw a man lying there, all in ragged and dark clothes, which looked like he had come yesterday. One of those people.

When Yu Yan heard Zhou Chengkang’s words, she opened the curtain and quickly jumped out of the carriage. After turning over, she said joyfully, “It’s really him!”