Rebirth of the backing and eating mountains

Since the rice seeds were planted in mid-April, there has been no rain for more than ten consecutive days. Qingshan Village is located in the north of Jingguo, and spring droughts often occur. Although the rice planted is called upland rice, it still needs water. Yu can only pick water to irrigate the land, and it is better to have less land. The family has planted more than ten or twenty mu of land, but the seedlings have been picked. The whole family has used it for a day or two. They were able to finish watering all of them. Fortunately, they are used to the moody weather. In order to have a good harvest, they have to grit their teeth and persevere no matter how tired they are. I only hope that the drought will not be too long this year.

The ground pearls on the back mountain are just at the time of pumping, and they cannot be short of water for a long time. For this reason, Anxuan's family also joined the ranks of carrying water, and it is more difficult for them to transport water to the mountain than most villagers. Although Baoshang I was also born in a peasant family, but because the local people did not make a living by farming, he hadn't worked in the fields since he was a child. This time, he fully realized what it means to be "who knows what is on the plate, every grain is hard work" three acres of land , An Xuan picked, he and Song Chulifted, and it took two full days to finish watering. When the last ladle of water was poured, An Rubao squatted on the ground and couldn't stand up. At this time, the peanut seedlings had grown to half the length of chopsticks. , the oval leaves are tender green and gratifying, which is the only consolation.

The spring drought here can be long or short. For a long time, there may not be rain throughout the summer. Even the water in the long river will dry up. That is the real disaster. The old people in the village always have lingering fears when they talk about it. Once in a few decades, just after Anxuan's family carried water up the mountain twice, a heavy rain in early May was long overdue, and finally eased the drought. The heavy rain lasted for a day, and everyone in the village breathed a sigh of relief. After the rain, weeds were luxuriant in the field, and the next steps were weeding, weeding, planting, and top dressing. Life gradually got on the right track, and as time passed, it soon came to the ninth day of May when Anxuan's new house started construction.

Farmers live in a house for a lifetime, so building a house is as important as getting married. On the day of building a house, three animal sacrifices must be prepared to worship heaven and earth before construction can begin. The day before, Anxuan invited The old man in the village drew the foundation with white ash on the open space. From ancient times to the present, no matter how the foundation changes, it is only a rectangle or a square. There are no advanced measuring instruments here. It is necessary to draw a standard rectangle or square on the open space. An Rubao It was impossible to imagine, but when he saw the old man solve this problem with a single brick, he immediately fell in admiration.

On the [-]th day of May, after a burst of firecrackers, the new house officially broke ground. The person who laid the foundation had already been found before. There was more than one house to be built in the new courtyard of Anxuan's family. All the foundations had to be laid down. Time, unexpectedly soon after the construction started, many helpers came one after another. An Xuan looked familiar and recognized most of them were the people who felled the trees that day. Anxuan's family was laying the foundation today, so they took the initiative to come over to see if they could help, because the foundation has already been drawn, and all they need to do is dig the soil, fill the warehouse, and level it according to the requirements. They worked hard, and it took only one day to complete the foundation, which greatly exceeded An Xuan's expectations.

Dinner was still eaten at An Xuan's house. This time after the meal, An Xuan asked for money again. These people ran away in a hurry, but no one picked it up. People are real."

It took a few days for the foundation to be laid, and then the construction of the house began. As for the personnel to build the house, An Xuan hesitated for a long time, and finally decided to use people from the town. There is a special construction team in the town, and most of them are skilled. Although there is good mud and water in the village, it is no more than their number and complete types of work. The most important thing is that they are all contractors, and they only need to take care of meals for four or five days. It was so troublesome, An Ruxi also agreed with his decision, but still recommended to him a few good mud and water in the village, saying that the craftsmanship in the town is counted, and An Chun's father, An Jingsheng, was among them.

An Ruxi said: "We all live in the same village, and we are still the same ancestors. It's not good for relatives to always be stiff. As the saying goes, it's better to settle enemies than to end them. Sometimes it's just a matter of one sentence, and it's not just what you do. How about it, everyone bows their heads and looks up, it’s good to let them stop hating Song Chu, otherwise it’s hard to say what An Chun can do with his temper.” An Xuan knew that he was speaking for his own family. For the sake of thinking, he nodded and promised to consider it.

After returning home, He Qinfeng talked about this matter. After thinking about it, Qin Feng felt that An Ruxi's words were somewhat reasonable. Apart from other things, An Chun was crippled by Song Chu. In Song Chu's life, if he could really reconcile one or two, it would indeed save a lot of trouble.

They were afraid that Song Chu would not like it, Qin Feng was ready to explain when he told him, but Song Chu didn't seem to care, he just said: "I listen to Dad." But An Rubao thought of that The one named An Chun used to covet the beginning of Song Dynasty, and he was a little hesitant in his heart, but for the sake of the overall situation, he reluctantly nodded in agreement.

An Jingsheng was invited by Anxuan himself. His house is in the inner side of South Village. It is a tile-roofed house that is rare in the village. The yard is very large.

When An Jingsheng opened the door and saw him, there was a little hostility in his eyes, An Xuan didn't go around in circles, and said straight to the point: "Brother Jingsheng, I heard from the village chief that you are the best mud in the village. You know my house is being built, and I would like to invite you Go help, I won’t lose you in terms of wages, I’ll give you as much as there are people in the town, you can think about it.”

An Jingsheng didn't say a word when he heard this, but An Jingsheng's husband Li Lu rushed over from behind him, and said in a sharp voice: "What? Help your family, I bah, you think my family is a soft persimmon, you can do whatever you want Pinch?! Tell you that we have seen the money, let us carry the work for your family, if there is no way, you will die."

Li Lu was not tall, with thin eyes and high cheekbones, and he was about to chase people away after he said something, and An Xuan didn't want to stay too long, so he left after seeing An Jingsheng without saying whether he was going or not.

I thought that An Jingsheng would not come, but I didn't expect that on the day of the start of work, he would arrive earlier than the people in the town, standing at the gate with trowels, irons and other things, and refused to enter the house even if he was asked to enter. He brought a bowl of hot water, but he didn't refuse to drink it. After the construction team arrived, he worked with him, and ate lunch in the front yard with him. He didn't say a word from the beginning to the end, An Xuan Only then did he realize that his silence that day was not because of his unwillingness, but because of his personality.

Anxuan prepared brown bricks for the construction of the house, which was much faster than the usual mud adobe. By the afternoon, the main house was already calf-high. , very satisfied with the speed of the construction team.

An Rubao went to the mountain to look at the pearls as usual that day, and Song Chu also followed him. He didn't come often, and frowned when he saw the peanut seedlings lying on the ground, and said, "It's been so many days, why haven't they grown yet? short?"

An Rubao pulled out the new weeds in the ground, and said, "Pearls in the ground don't grow too tall."

Song Chu stretched out his hand and pulled it twice, and said worriedly: "Such a short seedling is not as tall as a soybean. One can grow a few pearls. It won't be when we can't even get the seeds back."

An Rubao laughed "puchi" and said, "Who told you that pearls grow on seedlings?" Song Chu let out a "huh" and said, "Didn't they grow on seedlings? Where did they grow? Could it be... ...is it growing in the soil?"

Song Chu walked up to him, patted his forehead with his fingers, and said, "Finally, I was smart once. Earth pearls grow in the soil, otherwise why would they be called earth pearls."

Song Chu blinked, showing an expression of sudden realization, and said, "I just said, how did you come up with such a strange name, it turns out that it grows in the soil, haha."

An Rubao flicked him again and continued to weed.Song Chu squatted down and pulled it out twice. A chipmunk suddenly ran past him, which immediately attracted his attention. He dropped the grass and ran after him. For a while, I missed the docile and harmless appearance of my little husband when he first arrived at home, and finally shook his head helplessly, resigned to his fate...let him go.

The speed of the chipmunk is naturally not comparable to that of Song Chu. After chasing half a mountain, he disappeared. Song Chu stopped panting, took a rest and walked back along the original road. aquatic.

An Shuisheng has been looking at the mountains for more than a month. A few days ago, he blushed and advanced three months' wages with An Rubao. An Rubao paid him without saying a word, and gave him two days off. He and Ah Mo sent Dad to the town and had a good diagnosis and treatment from the best doctor in the town. They said that it was due to overwork and lack of blood energy, and then he was malnourished for a long time.

Now his father can get off the kang and walk around, and after a little more training, he might be able to recover as before. Since his father fell ill, the family seemed to have collapsed. Ah Mo and him worked hard, but the situation was still difficult. Seeing his father's day It seems that one day, the family has hope again, and all of this is given by An Rubao. In An Shuisheng's heart, An Rubao is the benefactor of their family. Extraordinary dedication.

Except for the few saplings that did not survive at first, a few dead saplings were found one after another on the mountain. The number was small, and they had been replanted. The newly planted saplings were relatively fragile, so An Shuisheng paid more attention when looking after them. When Song Chu saw him, he was looking at a few pear trees nearby that had just been replanted two days ago. When he saw Song Chu, he ran up to him and called "Brother".

He is about the same age as Song Chu, and Song Chu is extremely awkward every time he calls him brother, but An Shuisheng just doesn't listen to him after he said it a few times, so he can only meet him as little as possible. After yelling, he began to look around and said, "Don't look for it, he's in the field over there." An Shuisheng lowered his head with an "oh", Song Chu really had nothing to say to him, so he said Say "You are busy" and walk away quickly.

Because of the frequent pulling, there were not many grasses in the pearl field. When Song Chu came back, An Rubao had already pulled it out. He glanced at Song Chu and ignored him. He snorted and walked down the mountain. Song Chu felt guilty after all. Angrily followed behind him.