idyllic tranquility

Early in the early spring, when the sun is bright and the night is late, hard-working farmers don’t really wait until the sun rises to get up and work. They often get up after the rooster crows and get up and prepare for the day’s work.

The same is true for the He family. The difference is that the first thing everyone in the He family does after getting up and running the water is not to wash their faces and cook, but to exercise first to loosen their muscles and bones.

As early as four years ago, He Ning taught everyone Taijiquan under the banner of fantasy. Everyone in the He family also felt that this kind of boxing that can strengthen the body is a good thing, so they became interested in learning it.However, for some things, it is not enough to rely on three-point enthusiasm. Talent and continuous hard work are the key.

Soon, after a few days, everyone's interest was extinguished like a basin of cold water by his own performance.At that moment, He Ning realized what a rare "good material" He An, whom he despised before, was.Although the people in the family are used to working on the ground and on the wood, they have no foundation in dance or kung fu. It was only after learning Tai Chi that they realized that their hands and feet were so uncoordinated.

He looks like a man with three heads and six arms when he does the work, but his hands and feet are tied when he plays Tai Chi.In the era of superstition, everyone will not attribute it to their own physical incoordination, but will think of He Ning's tiger skin, and finally come to such a conclusion that makes him speechless: the skills taught by the gods cannot be learned by ordinary people. of.

The interests of the members of the He family came and went quickly, and He Ning didn't need to force everyone to learn Tai Chi, but he still hoped that they could get up in the morning and persist in exercising for a period of time, so he taught them a set of warm-up activities before physical education class.

The warm-up activities are some simple movements such as niuniu's neck, turning the waist, swinging the arms and bending the legs, etc. The difficulty factor is only one star, but after a set of movements, everyone feels warm on the body, and the next work is as if A lot of dexterity.Therefore, this set of warm-up activities, which is not as good as elementary school radio gymnastics, was persisted.

What surprised He Ning but made sense was that the two sisters, He Liu and He Xing, not only persisted in Tai Chi, but also performed well now.

Although the two sisters are half-grown children, they have the spirit of not admitting defeat. Although they couldn't keep up with He Ning's teaching progress at the beginning, they still insisted on practicing every day.Children have good physical flexibility, good coordination, and strong ability to learn and accept. In addition, He An often helps them. In this way, He Liu and He Xing became the only successful students in the He family.

Now, the adults in the He family have long been used to doing a set of loosening activities in the morning, and then cooking, sweeping, and repairing farm tools.And sisters He Ning, He An, and He Liu continued to practice Taijiquan twice before going to wash and tidy themselves up.

After dinner, Uncle He took his eldest son He Dazhu to the house of Uncle He Dashun to discuss the construction of He's ancestral hall.It is not easy to break ground in the first month, but you can contact the brick kiln to order green bricks first.

Speaking of the He's Ancestral Hall, it is very rare to start groundbreaking this year.

Since Uncle He and the Li clan opened up the conversation four years ago, expressing their willingness to exchange watermelon planting technology, the two sides have been seeing each other for more than three years before they came to a result.

At the beginning, the Li clan was not in a hurry. After all, the He family had made the promise first, and they just refused to agree. The He family had to disclose the technology as usual, unless they wanted to ruin the good reputation that their family had accumulated in Beili Village for generations.

The Li family's move to stop with silence did make Uncle He worry for a while, but he was not fighting alone. The He family who migrated and settled in Beili Village back then was not the only one of them. After several generations of recuperation, they also It's quite a force.

Uncle He's remarks at the first Watermelon Appreciation Conference had already made many He's people excited. After the conference, they naturally walked with Uncle He's family more frequently.

So, Uncle He called everyone together to find a way together.And the main force of this group of brainstorming is a few old people who are not young. These people are old and have seen a lot of things in the world.

After discussing for a few days, everyone came up with a safe plan to deal with it.

In the late spring of the second year of watermelon planting, the pressure of public opinion against the He family in Beili Village was increasing, and Uncle He fulfilled his promise to disclose the planting technology.

The jubilant atmosphere in the village is no less than New Year's Eve.

Thinking about being able to harvest big and sweet watermelons this year, and thinking about the 50 taels of prize money at the second appraisal conference three years later, the villagers are gearing up like taking medicine, looking forward to the arrival of summer.And the clan elders of Beili Village smiled proudly.

When it was time to harvest watermelons, the watermelon growers in Beili Village really harvested bigger and sweeter watermelons than in the first year.But before everyone was happy, it was rumored that Uncle He's family had grown a watermelon the size of an iron pot.

Although the rumors are exaggerated, the watermelons in Uncle He's house are indeed twice as big as those in ordinary houses.Landlord Li bought Uncle He's watermelon at three times the price of another family, which is the most powerful proof.

Interested people also found that the watermelons grown by the He family in Beili Village are generally larger than those grown by the Li family.

At this time, the clan elders in Beili Village also realized that the He family had played tricks, and Uncle He had only disclosed part of the technology.What's terrible is that now the He family in the village has been twisted together, and Uncle He obviously treats them differently.If not, the villagers would not have reacted so much.After all, if there is a comparison, there will be harm. Uncle He kept a hand, and it is reasonable that the watermelon grown by his family is smaller than his family, but several other families in the village can get preferential treatment with the same surname, so it is inevitable People are jealous.

There was an uproar in the village about this, and Uncle He saw that the time was almost up, so he revealed a few words when several families came to the door.

"We are all from the same village. Our family has been taken care of by several people on weekdays. I know all these old men who have friendship. I am already a half-buried person. The small ones in the family will have to ask everyone to help each other in the future. Compared with these, what are those watermelon planting techniques?"

Touching with emotion, Uncle He made the visitor realize that he also has difficulties in a few words.

"They are all friends who have been drinking at the wine table for so many years. We also know what Lao He is. You must have disdained such inappropriate practices before. But why would you rather know your mistakes and make mistakes now, and do this kind of foolishness?" What's the matter? Is it true that you want to build an ancestral hall as He Dashun said?"

The person who spoke was the oldest among the visitors, and he was used to being a good person on weekdays, and he had a good friendship with everyone, and he got the words from He Dashun.

The He family's plan to build an ancestral hall was not hidden from the beginning, but was suppressed by the Li clan. Later, the He family had a plan, so no one mentioned it again.Only by revealing it now can it play a greater role.

"Hey~ I'll tell you the truth, that's true. Ever since the He family settled in Beili Village, they have taken this place as a place to take root. Now, we have lived here for nearly a hundred years. Several generations have made great achievements in the construction of the village. A lot of effort, of course, we are willing to do these things. The only regret is that we cannot build an ancestral hall to honor the ancestors who brought us here to live a good life."

Thinking of the efforts of the He family since his grandfather, Uncle He was really moved, and his voice choked up.

"If I can see the ancestral hall built while I'm alive, and I can give an explanation to my ancestors, I will die without regret."

All the people present here are elderly people. When talking about life and death, they always have more emotions than young people, and they can better understand the persistence and firmness in Uncle He's words.At this time, most of the visitors understood Uncle He's approach.

A few days after the few people left He's house, the content of the conversation that day spread in the village.

The He family wanted to build an ancestral hall, but the villagers didn't have much opinion. After all, they had nothing to lose, and they could learn more watermelon growing techniques from the He family.

But for the Li clan, it is dividing their right to speak in Beili Village. That is a real right. How can those who have it want to lose it?

The villagers are eager for benefits, and the elders are eager for power.As a result, there were differences of opinion between the upper and lower levels of Beili Village, and the root of the conflict had been planted.

This year, the clan elders ignored the opinions of the villagers and still disagreed.

But when the watermelons are harvested next year, the villagers can't sit still anymore, because the melons grown by the He family in the village are almost the same as the melons planted by Uncle He's family in the first year, and the melons grown by the Li family are no match at all. .This year, the He family's melons sold for twice as much as theirs.

By analogy, it is conceivable that at next year's Watermelon Appreciation Conference, everyone will have no chance to win the second or third prize, let alone the first prize.

If there is no way to grow good melons, it’s fine, but the current situation is that there are opportunities to get more melon growing skills to grow better melons, but they are ignored because of the obstruction of the clan elders. How can this be tolerated? !

How can a superior who disregards the needs and interests of the subordinates be respected and obeyed by the subordinates?The elders of the Li family have received more pressure from the villagers, and even pressure from relatives in their own family.

The juniors who respected me on weekdays now have complaints in their eyes, and some of them left without saying hello when they met; The grandchildren in my family were also isolated by the children in the village.

Under such circumstances, the elders of the Li clan not only could not taste the pleasure of power, but tasted the sting of power.At this time, the sensible ones softened their attitudes, and waited for the juniors to give them a step to go down. The confused ones could only pay for their own short-sightedness.

Most of the elders of the Li clan were wise, and finally agreed to the decision of the He family to set up an ancestral hall in Beili Village.

And Uncle He is also a cheerful person who keeps his promises. On the same day, he unreservedly disclosed all the watermelon planting techniques he knew about.

After the watermelons planted in the village were harvested in the fourth year, the naked facts before people verified Uncle He's candor and courage to keep his word.

This year, the people who grew melons in Beili Village all harvested big watermelons not much worse than Uncle He's.

At the second Watermelon Appreciation Conference that came as scheduled, Uncle He's family narrowly won the top spot, Li Dashan's family was second, and He Dashun's family was third.

This matter has come to an end here.

Uncle He and several other families of the He family began to discuss, pooled money, and built the ancestral hall.

The author has something to say: Now, only after writing the text do I know that [-] words is really a hurdle~~~

The Jongmyo can only be built by the royal family, so the stupid author made a big mistake, but luckily found out in time