Farmer's Favorite

Lin Qi was really happy, he never thought that the first thing after returning would be such a big happy event.

He rummaged through the items he bought from Xingcheng, looking at them one by one, and whenever there were things that could be used, he would give some to Lin Dong to take back.

But at this time, Lin Qikong didn't make a move, he lightly kicked the squatting person opposite with his foot, and said without raising his head: "Go and get some baskets, and the things you brought for everyone will also be given to you." Bring them together."

Zhuang Xinyan, who was squatting, hugged the charcoal cake, and responded with a cold snort.

I ignored him just now, but now I think of him, Zhuang Xinyan pouted, it's too late.

Lin Qi looked up without hearing any movement from the opposite side.

Zhuang Xinyan, who curled his lips, immediately went over with a smile on his face, got up and carried the charcoal cake to take the basket.

There are a lot of baskets in the warehouse, and there is no need to buy them. Basically every household can weave them, and these are also sent by the villagers.

When he returned to the room again, he had five or six baskets in his hand.

Lin Qi stretched out his hand to take the bamboo basket handed over, feeling a little heavy in his hand, he looked up, but he couldn't help laughing, he shook the innocent dog with wide eyes in the basket, he said: "You put the charcoal Why put the cake in, it just adds to the chaos."

"This is the biggest gift prepared by our family. You can send it to whoever is pleasing to the eye." Zhuang Xinyan came up with an idea.

Lin Qi picked up the charcoal cake, stuffed it into Zhuang Xinyan's arms, and said solemnly and seriously: "Hey, hold it well, I think you are the most pleasing to the eye, but you must take good care of it."

Then he said: "You choose a pair of tiger-toed shoes for Lin Dong's child, and I will go out together after I divide them up."

The son of a bitch was in his arms again, perhaps because he felt warm and charcoal cake raised his head and let out a big yawn, Zhuang Xinyan looked at it, he thought, don't be disgusted, anyway, it was all given to him by Lin Qi. cherish.

There are five pairs of tiger shoes.

All of them are tiger-headed and tiger-brained, but there are still some differences in style and color matching.

There is no distinction between boys and girls. They are all made of bright red fabric, and some other colors of scraps are added. The overall look is good.

Zhuang Xinyan looked at them and liked them all, so he chose for a while.

Only then did I choose a pair of tiger-toed shoes with a ring of red hair on the tiger's head.

In comparison, this pair is considered ugly, very suitable for Lin Baocheng's idiot child.

Lin Qi also divided things up at this time.

In fact, they don't have anyone to leave, just give some Yitang to the villagers at will, the children in this kind of sugar family like it the most.

For the rest, besides her natal family, she had to go to Grandma Ma and Lin Wuzhu. When the old village chief was alive, he and Grandma Ma helped Zhuang Xinyan settle down in the village. Come down, and Lin Wuzhu, with charcoal cake, also has to miss his friendship.

The rest is to go to Lin Dong's husband's house.

Although they are from the same family as Village Chief Lin, Lin Qi also prepared two gifts, one for Village Chief Lin and one for Lin Qi alone.

In this way, exactly five baskets were loaded.

With so many baskets in hand, I naturally didn't plan to bring charcoal cakes with me.

Put it in the nest, and the two went out.

I met a lot of people along the way, and gave away most of the Yi Tang in the bag.

Zhuang Xinyan and his wife came to Lin Qi's mother's house first, and it happened that there was only Mrs. Wang at home, so they left without chatting much.Followed by Lin Wuzhu's house, Lin Wuzhu sold pastries outside, and his wife was the only one in the house, she shied away for a long time, and finally accepted the basket when Zhuang Xinyan forced it.

Afterwards, the two came to Mrs. Lin Ma's hut.

The thatched hut is not big, just a place for people to live in, and even the kitchen is a stove built randomly outside.

One can imagine how hard life is.

After entering the thatched hut, I felt a chill inside, but it was just like this in early autumn, and when it came to winter, I still didn't know how to get through it.

"Why are you here? Hurry up and sit down. I'll make you some brown sugar water." Seeing the person coming, Lin Mashi had wrinkles on her smiling face, and immediately went to work quickly. She continued: "I just heard about you coming back. I was thinking of waiting, but I didn't expect you to come first."

Although the hut is small, it is tidy and clean.

Lin Qi hurriedly said: "Grandma Ma, don't be too busy, we are here to deliver things, and we have to go to Lin Dong's to have a look."

Looking at the baskets in their hands, Lin Mashi did not refuse, she turned her head and took out a red blanket from her wooden box, and said: "Then you can take it to Lin Dong for me, I sewed a few God, let him cover himself in the winter, and he can't be cold when he is pregnant with a child."

The red cloth was sewn with rabbit fur, and it was warm in the hand. Without asking, Lin Qi knew that it was a good thing hidden by Grandma Ma. He quickly said: "Use it yourself, you are so old. , and can’t be cold.”

"Don't look at your old grandma Ma, but your body is still very good." Lin Ma said with a smile, insisting on Lin Qi to take it.

If it is said that in the village, her favorite juniors are Lin Qi and Lin Dong, two good boys, so naturally she will not be reluctant.

Lin Qi couldn't help it. When he left the hut, there was an extra rabbit fur blanket in the basket.

When he came to Village Chief Lin's house, Lin Baocheng stayed at home without any surprise, the smile on his face was like a blooming chrysanthemum, Zhuang Xinyan only wanted to describe it like this.

"They're all from my own family, why are you being so polite? You can't bring such things to your door next time." Mrs. Zhou was also cheerful, holding two bowls with red eggs in them, and she said, "Go out, So I didn’t send it to your family, eat two first, and bring a few when I come back.”

Looking at the boiled eggs wrapped in red paper, Zhuang Xinyan was a little curious: "Aunt Zhou, what's so special about these eggs?"

"Isn't it a happy event for Lin Dong to be pregnant, and eating a red egg is a happy event." Zhou said, looking at the red blanket in the basket, she liked it. It can be used by Lin Dong."

"Grandma Ma asked to bring this to Lin Dong, and she sewed it herself," Lin Qi said.

Mrs. Zhou touched the seam with her hands, and she nodded: "In our village, your grandmother Ma's needlework is good one by one. Use it carefully. It won't be broken for a few years. It can be done after the child is born." Wear it for the kids."

While talking, she also thought that she would have to go to Lin Ma's place tomorrow, and she would have to thank her for everything. She turned her head and said to the young couple: "You are so kind to entertain me, I will go to the back kitchen Make some meals, but you have to keep the two of them."

After Mrs. Zhou left, village chief Lin Baocheng pulled Zhuang Xinyan to talk, and the other two brothers got together and exchanged their hearts.

On the other side, Village Chief Lin asked, "What are your plans for those eggs you let Baocheng harvest? If you need anything, just ask. I, an old man, can't do it well, and I can think of ideas for you."

"I really want to trouble you with something. I made a new food. After it's ready, everyone can buy it from me like selling flower cakes. It's just that it takes a long time to marinate, so I have to wait. First, hire three people to pickle for me." Zhuang Xinyan said.

"That would be great." The smile on Village Chief Lin's face was even wider, and he said: "It's easy to find people, you can have as many as you want, but you have to hold on to this secret recipe, so you can't let others know. "

Village head Lin told him that he believed that most people in his village would still lead Zhuang Xinyan, but they would inevitably have bad intentions.

Don't look at how smooth it is now, in fact, he also scolded those people behind his back, because he was afraid that they would be safe on the surface, but they would make some dirty things in private.

It's just that I'm worried that those people will talk about scenes and fool Zhuang Xinyan.

"Of course." Zhuang Xinyan responded.

The two discussed the matter of salted eggs again.

Lin Baocheng still took the lead to pick them up, and the candidates for marinating would choose nimble mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law. No matter eggs or duck eggs, marinating [-] yuan for [-] yuan, and more than half a day's work can earn more than [-] yuan.

Compared to selling flower cakes, although the money is not a lot.

But it was the female family members in the village who did the work, and there was no female family member in the village who could earn so much money a day.

After talking a little more, they stayed at Lin's house for dinner, and Zhuang Xinyan and his wife returned home.

Today's night came a little early, and when we got back to the house, the sky was completely dark, not to mention the darkness, the dark clouds were still blocking the moonlight.

Lin Qi frowned and asked, "Will it rain today?"

Zhuang Xinyan put some of the leftovers brought from the Lin family into a small bowl of charcoal cake, and said: "I'm afraid it will rain, so lock the charcoal cake in the guest room when you sleep, don't worry about it getting drenched .”

Lin Qi hesitated, watching the cheerful charcoal cake, he proposed: "Why don't you take it to our room, I won't let it go to bed again."

Zhuang Xinyan looked at him with a slight tone: "Okay, as long as you don't worry about whether Charcoal cake will hear something you shouldn't hear, I don't mind."

Lin Qi blushed and walked away.

Zhuang Xinyan didn't chase after him, he had to wait for the 'ancestor' to eat and drink well, wait for it to defecate, and then send it safely to the room.

A quarter of an hour had passed by the time he returned to the room.

There was thunder outside the house, and the wind was strong, making the outside rustle, as if foretelling that there would be a heavy rain soon.

With candlelight in the room, Zhuang Xinyan put his arms around Lin Qi, and said slightly dissatisfied: "Our children can't be brothers and sisters, I think they will be very angry in the future."

Lin Qi put his head on his shoulder, and his body trembled with laughter. He didn't forget to hear from Zhuang Xinyan that Lin Dong was pregnant with a child, and his face was all dark. He looked sideways at Zhuang Xinyan, tense. With a smile, he asked, "Are you blaming me for not having a baby first?"

Zhuang Xinyan didn't see the playfulness in Lin Qi's eyes, so he stretched out his hands to pinch his chin, pulled him to his side, and said, lip to lip: "It's really to blame, of course it's me, and I, the husband, didn't try hard to get you pregnant. child."

The breath of speaking sprayed on his face, Lin Qi could feel Zhuang Xinyan's lips squirming while speaking, not to mention his face, even his body felt a little shy and hot.

Zhuang Xinyan moved forward, deepening the kiss.

Immediately, he pulled away before Lin Qi became emotional. He stared at the eyes of the person below him, traced his eyebrows and eyes with his fingertips, and said slowly: "But we are not in a hurry. We don't want children in three or four years. I have to pamper you first, but I can't let the child cause trouble between the two of us."

He said it outrightly, but Lin Qi felt that his eyes were blurred by tears, and stretched out his hand to hook Zhuang Xinyan's neck, pulling him down.

The two lips touched again, revealing tenderness.

But at this time, it was raining heavily outside the house, the wind was astonishing, and there was a loud noise from nowhere, which made both of them slightly stunned.

Lin Qi pulled back the ripped skirt, and he frowned and looked in the direction of the door.

Zhuang Xinyan saw the worry in his eyes and asked, "What's wrong?"

Lin Qi clenched his hands, "I always feel a little uneasy. I have never seen such a heavy rain before. I don't know if Grandma Ma's hut can withstand it."

Zhuang Xinyan also frowned when he heard the words, without thinking too much, he got out of bed, put on his clothes, and said, "I'll go and have a look, you stay at home and wait."

Lin Qi didn't want to, so he got out of bed and tidied up, took out two sets of coir raincoats from the side, and handed one over: "I'll go too, I don't worry about you alone."

Zhuang Xinyan took a look at him, and after putting on the coir raincoat, he reached out and held his hand tightly, and the two walked into the heavy rain side by side.

Only after they went out did they realize how heavy the rain was.

The rain fell on my body, and I felt a little painful from the beating.

The strong wind blows on the body, if the feet are not stable enough, they will definitely stumble and wrestle.

Grandma Ma's hut was not close to Zhuang Xinyan's home, but when she was halfway there, she met someone unexpectedly.

"Uncle Shuangyong, why did you come out?" Lin Qi got close, touched the rain on his face, and finally saw who was coming.

Lin Shuangyong was also wearing a coir raincoat. He pointed to a direction and said loudly, "I'm worried, go see Aunt Ma."

It turned out that they were not the only ones who were worried about the heavy rain.

About a while away, apart from Lin Shuangyong, the two met many people, from a team of two to three, and when they arrived at the hut, there were almost a dozen people who were worried. Come in the rain.

Fortunately, too.

They are coming.

How can a thatched hut be able to withstand the storm.

When they came, the thatched hut was half down, and Lin Ma was standing alone in the rain, drenched all over, struggling to carry the wooden sticks supporting the hut, perhaps fell a few times, and his body and face were covered with muddy water.

How could the people who came here see that they couldn't step forward to help, and immediately moved forward.

Lin Qi supported Lin Mashi and took her aside, feeling so annoyed that he forgot an extra coir raincoat.

Fortunately, the others brought a set and put the coir raincoat on Lin Mashi.

Zhuang Xinyan watched, and he said: "Grandma Ma, let's go back to the house first, we won't be able to clean up here for a while, and we will clean it up when the rain stops tomorrow."

Everyone followed suit.

Unexpectedly, Mrs. Lin Ma shook his hand. Although his face was a little embarrassed, he responded with a smile: "No, the old man is here. How can I leave him here alone? I can still treat people in the room. I will be fine. You guys Just go back quickly."

After finishing speaking, Zhuang Xinyan followed Grandma Ma's gaze and landed on the counter in the room.

It is the tablet of the old village chief on it.

Even though it was windy and rainy outside, this memorial tablet was very clean.

Zhuang Xinyan suddenly remembered something he had heard before. Grandma Ma's stepson Lin Wenjue acted like that. There is no way to control him in the village. Although the old village head is not there, the Lin family is still there. Lin Wenjue is just unfilial. This kind of behavior can actually drive him out of the Lin family.

However, Grandma Ma refused to let go.

When the old village chief was still there, the old couple had long since given up on Lin Wenjue's actions and wanted to drive him out.

It's just that the old village head died unexpectedly at that time, and Grandma Ma suppressed the matter. It's not that she was reluctant to part with her stepson, but she couldn't bear the fact that after the death of the old village head, even a person who threw a basin No, let alone have the heart to be under Jiuquan, the ancestors will blame the old village head for not leaving incense in their veins, even if they are "step-sons", they are "sons" after all.

So, she endured it, even if she hated Lin Wenjue so much in her heart, she endured it.

It's nothing more than a wish for sustenance.

Zhuang Xinyan stepped forward, took down the tablet with both hands, and carefully put it in his arms. He said to Mrs. Lin Ma: "Take the old village chief together. Grandma Ma, let's go home."

As soon as the words fell, Lin Mashi's tears fell instantly, and the rain on his face kept flowing.

How could she not panic when she was alone and had no place to stay?She naturally understood the kindness of the folks in the village, and some people even said that they would take her to live, but she really couldn't bear to leave the old man here alone, and it was impossible to live with him in another house with the old man's tablet.

Tablets, for some people, are always taboo.

Seeing the loosening of Grandma Ma's face, Lin Qi even said, "That's right, Grandma Ma, let's take Grandpa Lin home together."

Lin Mashi held Lin Qi's hand tightly, crying even more sadly.

However, the foot subconsciously followed suit.

When everyone watched, they all felt heartbroken, and they also hated Lin Wenjue's family.

However, without Madam Lin taking the initiative to speak, they could do nothing.

A group of people left the hut, and many people went home on the way, until the last three returned to the house.

The side rooms were all tidied up and could be occupied at any time. Zhuang Xinyan solemnly placed the memorial tablet on the counter in the room and went to the kitchen to boil hot water.

Lin Qi also said softly, and went back to the house to get clean clothes.

Lin Mashi sat on the chair, even though his body was soaked, he didn't feel the coolness.

She looked at the old man's memorial archway, and said softly: "Old man, you have worked hard and cared for the village for most of your life. Although it didn't bring much effect, you did nothing wrong and your hard work was not in vain. ah."

"Grandma Ma, I'm afraid these clothes don't fit you well. You should wear them first and think about it tomorrow." Lin Qi entered the house, holding a ready-made dress bought from Xingcheng in his hand, but Grandma Ma was a bit short and awkward. Thin, that is, his clothes are too big to wear.

"I don't need such new clothes, just bring me some unworn clothes and put them on first." Lin Ma can't pick them up, it looks like brand new fabric, she can't waste it.

Lin Qi tried a few more words of persuasion, but he still didn't persuade her. After all, he had no choice but to take two sets of old clothes for her to change into first.

At this time, Zhuang Xinyan entered the house, and he said: "Grandma Ma, go soak in hot water first, you won't get sick after being drenched in the rain."

"Although I am thin and weak, my body is good. You should let Lin Qi go first. He is afraid of the cold, but he cannot be frozen." Lin Mashi gently pushed Lin Qi next to him. Although he was wearing a coir raincoat, it was still inevitable. Get wet with rain.

"I put a bathtub in the room, let him take a bath." Zhuang Xinyan said, and asked Lin Ma to take a bath in the small room next to him.

Then he dragged Lin Qi back to the main room.

In the middle of the room, there is a steaming bathtub.

Lin Qi couldn't help being amused, he squeezed Zhuang Xinyan's arm sideways, and said, "Did you really carry it? Why are you so strong?"

Zhuang Xinyan hooked the tip of his nose and said with a smile: "Hurry up and wash up, if you really have typhoid fever, let's see how I deal with you."

Lin Qi pouted in a rare childish manner, but did not respond.

A screen is placed on one side of the tub.

Lin Qi didn't need this thing at all except for his original book. After all, the bathtub was heavy, and it was very troublesome to carry it around. It would be better to just wash it in a house dedicated to bathing, but now that it is left like this, he feels quite comfortable. interesting.

So, he took off the clothes that got in the way, and burrowed into the water.

On the other side of the screen, Zhuang Xinyan heard the sound, and he couldn't help saying: "Don't play in the water, go to bed when you're cold."

Immediately, a slightly dissatisfied voice sounded, "You treat me like a child."

But just after he finished speaking, Lin Qi let out a muffled laugh. He hadn't forgotten that Zhuang Xinyan had told him earlier that he should be pampered well, perhaps just like a child.

So, when Zhuang Xinyan was tidying the quilt on the bed, he heard Lin Qi's timid and even tender voice.

"Why don't you come too? It won't save you from typhoid fever, but there will be no one to serve you."

Zhuang Xinyan's heart was immediately moved by the self-deprecating statement.