Be a little landlord

Near the end of the year, Zhao Liniang served delicious food and drinks for several months, and finally the fat and healthy chickens and ducks were successfully released from the cage. The woodshed at home could no longer accommodate these flocks of flying dogs.Zhao Liniang is really good at raising chickens and ducks. How many chickens and ducks have she bought? Now there are only a few of them alive in the family. , no, it should be a big cock.

You can tell by the look of their little donkey. Facing those roosters, they admit to being cowardly.

Zhao Liniang counted the chickens and ducks, how many chickens and ducks could be sold, and how much money they could earn, except for the food left at home during the Chinese New Year. It can be sold in the county town. Zhao Liniang was holding the wings of a big rooster in her hand: "Look at the size of this rooster, how good it is!"

"Mom, you've raised it really well." Brother Yan took the rooster from Zhao Liniang's hand and weighed it. The weight was extremely heavy. The big rooster screamed and struggled to escape, but unfortunately its wings were caught by someone, and it let out a low growl helplessly. , the sharp beak turns left and right, revealing the triangular red tender tongue, the whole chicken looks very good.

"I'll cook chicken soup for you every day during the Chinese New Year." Zhao Liniang held the big rooster and threw it back into the flock. The big rooster staggered and stood still, full of energy, looking for food and hooking up with the hens.

Lin Lixuan touched his nose and agreed: "Mother is right, brother Yan really needs to make up for his body..."

Zhao Liniang rolled her eyes, and turned to Lin Lixuan: "You both need to keep fit. Look at you, you had a cold a few days ago, which scared Brother Yan... Brother Yan also needs to eat more. Some meat." After speaking, those eyes sized up Brother Yan's butt for a moment.

Take care of Brother Yan's body, and wait to have grandchildren. Now their family is in a good situation, and they can afford to have one, two, three, four, five...all of them.

Brother Yan blushed from embarrassment at the sight of the two of them.

Zhao Liniang smiled kindly, and crossed her fingers to guess in her heart: "Look, I'm blushing, wait a few days to calculate the income of the food shop, go to the city to sell the chickens and ducks, and let's go prepare New Year's goods... next year... ..."

"Rebuild a new house next year..." Lin Lixuan interjected.

"There is no rush to build a new house. Wait until Brother Yan is pregnant with a big fat boy. Next year, it will be mainly you. The family is rich. You plan to plan. Next spring, pack up your books and go to the county academy to study. Studying is the real thing. Eat and eat at the shop." Don't worry about the things about it, brother Yan is here, and there is a brother Qiu who is worth a lot, don't worry, from tomorrow on, don't go to the shop..."

"I think the shop's business is very good. It's almost the same without you... You can read at home with peace of mind." What Zhao Liniang said was beaming. Her son was admitted as a scholar at the age of 17, but he is a well-known talent in the village. My son is so smart, he is good at running a business and opening a store, and he is even better at studying. After a few years to take the provincial examination, he will definitely be able to pass the exam...

Lin Lixuan's face was getting darker and darker. Zhao Liniang was still thinking about him taking the imperial examination, and she could still tell that she and Brother Yan were the two breadwinners, and he would go to study with peace of mind. If he didn't do it, he himself didn't want to Taking the imperial examination, I can't let Fulang's mother go to earn a living, and take a leisurely study by himself, "Mom, I have already said that I will not take the imperial examination."

Lin Lixuan decided to clarify this matter with Zhao Liniang.

Zhao Liniang was in a hurry: "How can it be, your parents have worked so hard to send you to study for more than ten years, how can you say that you can't read if you don't read it... Besides, Xuan'er is so smart, it won't take a few years to be admitted to Juren , when the time comes, our Lin family will have a master Juren, and I will be worthy of your father when I go underground..."

Lin Lixuan laughed lightly: "Is Juren so easy to take the exam? Mother, don't think about it, our family can live a good life, now..." Fan Jinzhong cited this text. An old scholar born in Tongsheng, reading in ancient times is a bottomless pit, without good background and talent, it is even more difficult to climb up.

Lin Lixuan is very satisfied with the current rural life. Looking up is green hills and looking down is green water. He writes, cooks and eats all day long, and raises some melons, fruits and vegetables with Brother Yan in the morning. It is a joy to live freely Why bother with that kind of drudgery; he was a workaholic in his previous life, he spent all day focusing on project reports, meetings and other things. Repeat the busy and boring life before.

Zhao Liniang frowned, and the wrinkles on her face became more and more obvious. She interrupted Lin Lixuan: "How can it be possible! I don't know about the others, but I know that my family, Xuan'er, will definitely pass the exam..."

"Xuan'er, don't worry, mother believes in you, both mother and brother Yan believe in you..."

"What if you don't pass the exam in two, three, or ten years or 20 years?"

"How is that possible, Xuan'er, as long as you work hard..." Zhao Liniang always has unlimited confidence in her children.

"..."

The mother and son started a cold war, and Yan Geer was caught in the middle and was not a human being. Lin Lixuan surrounded Zhao Liniang, trying to persuade Zhao Liniang with all his thoughts, using strict arguments and arguments to analyze the benefits of "not taking the imperial examination", but what happened to Zhao Liniang Every time Lin Lixuan thought that the other party's expression would waver and he was about to be persuaded, his mother's face turned serious, and she insisted: "I have to go!"

"Mother, look at how good your chickens and ducks are. Let's raise more next year. We will enclose a piece of land outside the house, build a grass shed, build several layers of chicken coops, and surround it with a fence..."

"If the mother of chickens and ducks wants to raise them, you must also read books."

"..." Lin Lixuan was helpless.

"Old man Lin, it would be great if you were still alive. Come and see our Xuan'er, he won't listen to me... We, husband and wife, have lived frugally since we were young and worked hard to send him to study, but what about him? ...We just want to have a child who will honor our ancestors..."

"People in the village say that our husband and wife are stupid, why send our children to study? It is good for us country people to know a few words... But our Xuan'er, who was admitted as a scholar at a young age, became the only scholar in our Bixi Village. Give us a long face..."

"..."

Lin Lixuan, who was trapped in the house and could not go to the county seat, had no choice but to follow Yan Geer to the mountain to collect firewood. He covered his ears, put on his back basket, and went to the nearby mountain with Yan Geer. The mountains were still green, and walking on the path among the mountains, the ground was covered with dead branches and fallen leaves. Brother Yan and Lin Lixuan picked up some dead branches and threw them into the basket.

"Finally I can come out to let the wind go." Lin Lixuan sighed with his waist thrust up, facing the north wind and looking at the sky. The sky was grayish blue, as if his clothes had been washed white, and it looked a bit old.

Brother Yan picked up a slender dead branch, patted off the mud on it, and threw it into his back basket: "Brother Lin, are you really not going to study?"

Lin Lixuan raised his eyebrows and picked up an old tree root: "What? You want me to go."

Brother Yan scratched the hair beside his ear, feeling a little windy: "Mother wants you to go..."

"What about you?" Lin Lixuan wanted to hear what Brother Yan meant.

"I don't know." He felt that what Lin Lixuan and Zhao Liniang said were both reasonable, and he didn't know who to favor. Brother Lin didn't want to study and take the imperial examination, so he couldn't force him, but Mother said that he had studied hard for more than ten years. , how can you say give up and give up...

Lin Lixuan picked up the plot in the script to tease him: "If I really get into Juren and win the first prize, then the emperor and ministers will betroth my daughter Shuang'er to me. If I hate the poor and love the rich and become Chen Shimei, are you It's not that I want to go to Beijing alone like that Qin Xianglian..." Lin Lixuan said more and more, making himself laugh...

"Ah?" Brother Yan didn't understand, what about Chen Shimei and Qin Xianglian, who was that?

After talking for a long time, the other party couldn't understand the most annoying thing: "Ah what, it means——I don't want you anymore."

"..." Brother Yan felt aggrieved, you just study, why don't you want me?

"...Okay, okay, let's not talk about this, I don't want anyone, I can't let me go, come on, let's continue to collect firewood."

"If you don't want me, I will always follow you, holding your arm so that you can't shake it off..."

Lin Lixuan was surprised, he didn't expect Yan Geer, who has always been sensible and well-behaved, to say such a thing, "Okay, then I will string a rope around my hand, hang Yan Geer on it, and take it with me everywhere I go." ..."

Brother Yan is very familiar with the several hills near Bixi Village. The guide said: "When next spring, there will be a few spring rains, and there will be a lot of bamboo shoots in the mountains. By the way, there are also mushrooms. We can go up the mountain together to pick them up. Mushrooms, the mushroom soup is delicious..."

"I used to dig bamboo shoots with brother Yu in the spring, and the dried bamboo shoots made by my mother are very delicious."

"Then have you learned your mother's craft?"

"Yeah." Brother Yan nodded proudly, "I'll make it for you next year."

Lin Lixuan picked up a long stick and swept it around on the ground. He saw a small clump of purple flowers in a corner, a purple and white cross-diamond flower. Lin Lixuan didn't know him, so he asked Brother Yan, Brother Yan He didn't know each other. He squatted down to look at these small flowers. He was bored and pulled out another shrub next to it with his hands. With one hand, he pulled out a bunch of...peanuts next to the flowers?

This dry flat look, is it a peanut?

The wind was getting stronger and stronger, Ji Qian stretched out his hands and rubbed his palms, finally got rid of Song Qiaoer, that fat woman came out to breathe the wind, and walked on the mountain road by the field, the more Ji Qian thought about it, the more sad he was, last year he was still Bi The handsome, unmarried man in Xi Village always has girls chasing him when he goes out to hang out, but now, even dogs despise him.

Ji Qian sighed, he could only stand in this remote corner where he once had a tender relationship with the little beauties in the village, "reminiscing bitterness and sweetness", "reminiscing about the past".

Suddenly there was a rustling sound of footsteps from nearby, Ji Qian turned his head to look, why is it him?