Six acres of land were weeded for eight days. In the following days, I weeded in the morning and helped with rabbit skins in the afternoon.

After lunch, Mao Xiaosui went into the house and squinted for a while. When he woke up and went to the latrine, he found that in addition to Li Yunshan and Zhao Hui, there was another voice in the backyard killing rabbits.

When he opened the door, he saw that it was Ding Pingshun.

She was a little surprised. "You came alone?"

Ding Pingshun stood up and said with a smile, "I can know the road."

Mao Xiaosui thought about it and thought it was nothing. There were only people who lost their children in these ten miles and towns, but no one who stole them, not to mention that Ding Pingshun was nine years old.

"Didn't you eat?" she asked.

"I came after dinner." Ding Pingshun asked, "Are Ruyi and Ankang still sleeping?"

"We're about to wake up. You should go and take a nap. Ruyi will be so happy to see you when he wakes up."

Ding Pingshun shook his head, "I don't have the habit of taking naps." Then he asked, "Do you want to brush the rabbit skin? I'll help."

"You sit down." She sighed. "You're not going back tonight, are you?"

Ding Pingshun shook his head, "If you don't come back, my father asked me to borrow a mule."

"Can you pull him back by yourself?" Mao Xiaosui hesitated, "He's quite big."

"You go to the market tomorrow and deliver them over." Li Yunshan said, "Sell the eggs by the way."

"Okay." Mao Xiaosui had no objection. After all, Ding Pingshun is just a child, so she doesn't feel at ease leading such a big mule.

Mao Xiaosui came into the room and called Li Ruyi and Li Ankang.

Li Ruyi rubbed her eyes and was still a little awake. She tilted her body and was about to lie down on the kang.

Ding Pingshun opened the curtain and came in.

When Li Ruyi saw it, she immediately shouted, jumped up from the kang, and shouted excitedly, "Pingshun."

Mao Xiaosui sighed and slapped her on the butt, "You also called me Pingshun."

Li Ruyi smiled and immediately threw herself on Ding Pingshun when he walked up to him, asking, "Are you not leaving?"

"You are beautiful." Mao Xiaosui cursed with a smile, took Li Ankang down, laid the kang, and went to the yard to brush the rabbit skin.

Ding Pingshun played with them for a while and started to sit down and help.

Li Ruyi kept talking nonstop, and Mao Xiaosui, who talked so much, had calluses on his ears.

She quickly said, "You should calm down for a while. Children who talk too much are annoying."

Li Ruyi pouted and quietly closed her mouth.

Mao Xiaosui asked him, "Why didn't you bring Ping An?"

Ding Pingshun replied, "Mom said your family was going to the ground too, so she didn't let her come over."

"We have Ruyi and Ankang at home, and we're already busy." When Mao Xiaosui said this, he glanced at Li Ankang, who was playing with Xiao Hui with his back to them.

Suddenly it was funny. Li Ruyi liked to pick on Ding Pingshun, Li Ankang liked to play with Ding Ping'an, but Ding Pingsui didn't like to talk to either of them.

"Then I'll bring her here next time."

Mao Xiaosui nodded, "You're quite busy, right? Otherwise, you'll come too next month, and let Yunshan take you to catch fish. There are crabs in the river, which is quite fun. Ruyi and Ankang don't have it either." Been there."

Ding Pingshun shook his head, "I'm busy at home."

Mao Xiaosui guessed what he would say. Ding Pingshun became sensible too early. He could not learn to say no to many things, and he did not give himself any time to breathe.

She didn't force herself and asked, "Why does your father want a mule?"

"There is a family in the town who has a pig. My father and mother will have to pull it over in the morning after killing it the day after tomorrow. There is no mule and it will be too late."

Mao Xiaosui asked again, "How do you do your autumn harvest?"

"A donkey hired with money." Ding Pingshun laughed. "The men in that family will help out if they want to look after the donkeys. It's not hard at all."

"That's good." Mao Xiaosui said, "As long as you have a donkey, I'm also thinking that you can pull the stone wheel yourself. I have a mule at home this year. You can use it after we finish it."

Ding Pingshun nodded, "It depends on what dad wants."

When the sun was about to set, Mao Xiaosui cooked the rabbit meat and went to dig for wild vegetables and pull out some grass.

When I got home and entered the door, I saw Ding Pingshun sitting in the yard, holding one on each side, listening carefully to Li Ruyi and Li Ankang's conversation.

When he saw her coming in, he said, "I took out the meat, but I didn't pour the soup."

"Okay." Mao Xiaosui said, "When you are tired, go inside and lie down for a while. I will cook."

Ding Pingshun pulled Li Ruyi and Li Ankang over and started to help pick wild vegetables.

Mao Xiaosui asked him, "Do you like eating wild vegetables?"

"I love food." Ding Pingshun said, "Our family often makes it.

Mao Xiaosui responded with a smile.

After picking the wild vegetables, Li Yunshan and Zhao Hui also brought in the meat and rabbit skins.

Li Yunshan sprinkled some salt on the rabbit and said to Ding Pingshun, "Take some back tomorrow and let your mother dry them."

Ding Pingshun nodded in agreement.

Li Yunshan hung up the meat anyway.

Zhao Hui went into the kitchen to take a look, then carried the bucket to go out.

Mao Xiaosui hurriedly said, "Let Li Yunshan go."

"Same." Zhao Hui picked up the bucket and went out.

Mao Xiaosui boiled the mushrooms in the rabbit soup, poured water into the pot and boiled it, and then dug out the noodles.

It would take a while before the water was boiled. She and Zhao Hui helped hang the meat, and asked Li Yunshan to feed the chickens and rabbits.

We had wild beans, noodles, rabbit soup and rabbit meat for dinner.

After several meals, they didn't rest immediately. They worked in the house for a while, and then went to bed on the kang late at night.

The side room housing the firewood shed has not yet been vacated, so Ding Pingshun and Zhao Hui slept together at night.

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Mao Xiaosui was woken up by Li Ruyi in the morning.

Li Yunshan is no longer on the kang.

She looked at Li Ruyi who was crossing her to get off the bed, still a little confused.

The two babies naturally went to bed early and woke up early, but usually it was not yet time to wake up at this time.

She sat up and watched Zhao Li Ruyi get dressed and go out. After a while, she heard the door of the side room creaking.

She sighed immediately. She had just thought that Li Ruyi was going to find Ding Pingshun, but she was quite speechless when she found that she had guessed correctly.

Li Ankang was still sleeping on the kang. Mao Xiaosui covered his belly with a quilt, opened the window completely and went out.

In the yard, Li Yunshan and his two men had already moved out the meat to be dried, and the porridge in the kitchen pot had also been cooked.

After Mao Xiaosui washed up, he took a basin and went to the backyard to pick vegetables. When he came out of the door, he saw Li Ruyi clinging to Ding Pingshun again.

She told Li Ruyi, "Give you to the Pingshun family. From now on, you will pick on him every day."

Li Ruyi pretended to be deaf.

She likes Ding Pingshun, but she is unwilling to give her to the Ding family.

Mao Xiaosui was still a little relieved. At least he had Pingshun and forgot about his father and mother.

Mao Xiaosui looked at Ding Pingshun, "Don't hug her all the time, she's so dead."

Ding Pingshun laughed and put Li Ruyi down.

Li Ruyi didn't insist on hugging him, and quickly took his hand again.

Mao Xiaosui just warned her not to hang on to Ding Pingshun again and then returned to the kitchen to cook.

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