Crossing the green wheat ears

In the spring of the second year, the three fruit trees in the yard all bloomed brilliant flowers. Xiyuan carefully tied red cloth strips to the fruit trees. This was originally a superstition of grandma. One was tied to it, and now, after Wei Cheng left, Xi Yuan did it again.

The fruit trees have been planted for many years, and they are already very tall and strong, especially the small apple tree planted by Wei Cheng, which produces many small apples every year.It can be eaten from the beginning. Although it is not ripe and not sweet enough, it is green and astringent, with the aroma of fresh fruit. The family is used to it. No matter who walks under the tree, they will pick one.

Picking and picking, the bottom ones are gone, and the top ones can't be reached, unless you are tall or stepping on a stool.Xiyuan is lazy, and Wei Cheng is the tallest in his family, so he often directs Wei Cheng to pick small apples for him. If he can’t reach them while standing, he just jumps up to eat them. , took off the apple, shook it towards Xiyuan, and then "clicked", biting half of it off by himself, Xiyuan was so angry that he kicked him with the sole of his shoe, Wei Chenghui laughed while running, and then turned over the courtyard wall with all his strength, After running out of the hospital, Xiyuan could only stare blankly with the soles of his shoes.

However, when Wei Cheng comes back, while his brother is not paying attention, he will secretly pick off a few, put them on a plate, and put them on the desk. Then he sits on the kang, watching his brother happy and helpless when he finds Apple, and proudly opens his eyes. Laughing with both hands...

It has been almost two years, and the apple trees are flourishing, but the Si people are far away.

Xiyuan folded his hands, staring at the flowers on the tree in a trance.

Grandma sat in the yard, peeling potatoes with a blade. The blade was rusty and not fast at all, but they were afraid that the children would cut their hands while playing with it, so grandpa and the others seldom sharpened it.

The little guy next to him was making a purse with needlework, coaxing him forward.A day and a half ago, I could only pronounce a few words clearly. I usually kept babbling and didn’t know what to say. Only my sister-in-law could translate for her.

Don't point to grandma to teach Qianqian: "Grandma."

Drawn forward and backward: "Short."

Do not point to the sparrow in the sky to teach Qianqian: "Bird."

Qianqian: "Annoyed."

Do not point to the basin beside the well to teach Qianqian: "Water."

Qianqian: "Destroy."

Then he pointed at the quacking duck and taught Qianqian: "Duck."

Qianqian: "Ya."

No point: "Duck."

Qianqian: "Ya."

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I'm still confused, why is the child's tone wrong? After thinking about it carefully, the first few words I taught were all upper-tone characters. The child is used to pronouncing the upper-tone characters, thinking that all the characters are upper-tone, and I am sweating One hand, almost misled the little niece, so he hurriedly made up for it, and taught two of each tone.

After grandma finished peeling the potatoes, she went to scoop water into the vat to wash them, and put the basket of potato skins in the yard; she didn't think of the embroidery thread on the purse, and forgot to take one of the colors, so she hurried to the house to get it.

Qianqian ran around in the yard for a while, saw the small blade in grandma's basket, picked it up and looked around, then saw the small apple tree, ran over to cut it twice according to the tree.

Xiyuan was staring at the tree in a daze, when he heard the movement, he saw Qianqian chopping down a small apple tree with a blade, feeling indescribably annoyed, snatched the blade, threw it far away, and pushed hard with the other hand Stepping forward, the one-and-a-half-year-old child, unable to hold back his strength, sat on the ground all of a sudden, and burst into tears with a "wow".

Xiyuan looked at the front and did not move. Your mother forced Wei Cheng away, and you came to cut down the fruit tree planted by the son. People are like trees. He wants his son to live well, and he also wants this tree to live well. Looking at you two?

After Wei Cheng left, Xiyuan himself felt that his thinking was a bit extreme.

Grandma was close to the well, but she was old and slow to move, and she didn't know who was going out of the house. When she heard Qianqian crying, she ran out quickly. When she got close, she hugged Qianqian into her arms and shouted "Brother!" Her eyes turned red, her elder brother didn't like her little niece, she knew it, but she didn't understand why, when she was a child, she was used to pampering her elder brother, but her daughter didn't want to see her anymore.

"Far away, what are you doing?" Grandma ran over.Seeing the child crying with tears all over his face, he couldn't help but feel sad, and wept together, "Baby with a hard life!" After crying, remembering the reason of the incident, he called out, "Chengzi, why don't you come back? Come back and see your little niece, she is even more pitiful than you were when you were young, mother doesn’t want it, father doesn’t care! Chengzi.”

It's fine if grandma doesn't mention Wei Cheng, but when she mentions Wei Cheng, Xi Yuan can't help but get red-rimmed eyes, looking at the old and young in front of him, and secretly scolding himself for being an asshole, why even ignorant children are blamed.

"Grandma, I was wrong, I will never do it again, don't be sad." Xiyuan squatted down and hugged grandma and the two little ones.

Qianqian is also strange, although Xiyuan seldom coaxes her, but she likes Xiyuan very much, and loves to run to her father when she has nothing to do. In front of the apple tree, she only chopped with a small blade. The relationship between father and daughter is a constant relationship.

Now she is the same, the little aunt is holding her, but she looks at her father crying helplessly, Xiyuan has no choice but to hug her over quickly, coaxes her attentively for a while, and then carries him to the back garden to pick two mushroom girls to play with.

Xiao Qianqian held no grudges, hugged his father's neck, sobbed and laughed happily, grandma looked at the figures of the two and nodded.

From then on, Xiyuan began to pay attention to cultivating the relationship with his daughter. Although he didn't pay as much attention to Xi Wei and Wei Cheng, he still tried his best to fulfill the responsibility of a father.

All his patience and enthusiasm seemed to be spent on his two younger brothers, and there was not much left when it was someone else's turn.

At this time, Qianqian held Gu Niang and smiled at his father with a grin. The child's eyes were sharp, and he caught a glimpse of the busy people under the fruit tree in the backyard, and quickly pointed it out to his father. Xiyuan carried her to the fruit tree.

Goudanmao bent down and observed carefully. Under the tree were a few plants with palm leaves, which were wild ginseng.In the past, Xiyuan had the idea of ​​artificially planting wild ginseng. If it can be successful, the Xi family will be able to have enough food and clothing in the future. However, there is no mountain here, and wild ginseng is a treasure. No one who sees it will share it with others. Ginseng seeds are also hard to find.

These ginseng plants are all thanks to Wei Cheng.

That year when Wei Cheng rescued Xiyuan, he rode up the Wild Horse Mountain alone. When he was waiting for the time, he let go of the red horse and let it find grass for himself. In the mouth, the wild ginseng seeds have a hard shell, which is not easy to digest. After returning home, they are excreted together with horse manure.

Grandpa was lazy at the time, and when tidying up the stables, he casually buried the soaked horse manure under the fruit trees, thinking it would be used as fertilizer for the fruit trees, but it happened to be wrong, and ginseng seedlings grew the next year.However, because of Wei Cheng's incident, the family panicked and no one paid attention to it. Later, Xiaogoudan went to the garden to pick fruit and planned to make some jam, so he found out.

When I went back and told my eldest brother, Xiyuan told him to keep quiet with anyone, not everyone knew this thing, but he fenced off the fruit trees at home, and no one was allowed to enter casually inside.

Now, the wild ginseng has been growing for more than a year, and one of them wilted to death for some unknown reason. Goudan has been annoyed for a long time, and it was good for Xiyuan to persuade him, and the rest were taken care of more carefully.

Goudan is 13 years old this year, with clear eyes, always grinning, has good medical skills, and is good at planting herbs. He is already well-known in Yansui. Go to Binjiang Mansion, and then take Li Yuan, pretending to be a child from a poor family, to work as a clerk in a pharmacy to steal a lesson.

There was once an old doctor who fell in love with Goudan and wanted to take him in as an apprentice. Goudan was so frightened that he didn’t go to the medicine hall the next day. He didn’t want to be someone else’s apprentice. The eldest brother's apprentice, besides, he will not just leave like the second brother, making the eldest brother sad. He will not go anywhere in his life, and will stay with the eldest brother at home, so as not to make him sad again.

"Brother, come forward." Seeing Xi Yuan hugging him, Goudan shouted, his eyes squinted.

"How is it? Do you look okay?" Xiyuan asked.

"Well, a small slap has already grown." Goudan said ginseng leaves, which will grow slap-shaped compound leaves in the second year. "I really hope they can bloom and bear fruit soon, and we can plant a large one." !" Goudan gestured with his arm, emphasizing the word "big".The eldest brother is much better than last year, and everyone knows how to care about his herbal medicine, Goudan is very happy.

"Work hard, we will rely on Changshuo to make our family rich in the future." Xiyuan looked at Goudan's shiny black eyes and encouraged him.

"Well, you wait for big brother, I will definitely fix it, and then create a ginseng plantation." Goudan straightened out his still thin breasts.

This year is the triennial township examination, and Xi Wei, Cheng Nanzhuzi and Qiuyang all have to take part.Qiuyang passed the government examination in April this year, and is now a scholar.

After Wei Cheng left, Xiyuan was in a bad mood. Qiuyang was not a comforter, but often sat quietly with Xiyuan. The time gradually flowed in this quiet atmosphere, and someone accompanied him, which made Xiyuan calm down. , muster up the courage to face the hardships of reality.

After the news that Qiuyang had passed the Tongsheng examination came out, Zheng Xuan approached Qiuyang once, and didn't say anything, but let Qiuyang accompany him for a walk. Looking at Qiuyang's bright and warm eyes, and the dimples on his mouth full of smiles, Zheng Xuan was glad that he did not break the tranquility of this lake of hearts, did not cause this beauty to be damaged, and just accompanied him quietly and guarded him from afar. Follow him.

Xi Wei has been studying hard for the past two years. Originally, according to his brother's wishes, he did not seek fame and fame. However, after his second brother left, his brother could not find him anywhere. Xi Wei looked anxious but couldn't help him. I was determined to study hard, pass the Jinshi examination and become an official. If I have an official in my family, why would my brother have nowhere to ask for help and run around to no avail.

Therefore, Xi Wei devoted himself to schoolwork with unprecedented enthusiasm, which surprised everyone around him.Xiyuan specially went to Yansui to accompany Xiwei to study articles, poems and prose together for Xiwei's rural examination. When he got busy, he had less time for wild thoughts.

In August, Qiu Wei started, four people, Qiu Yang still had the old attitude, just to see, he didn't care about taking the test slowly.As for Xiwei, two of them won Juren, one Xiwei and one Cheng Nan. Zhuzi was very depressed, and everyone comforted him for a long time, so he had to take the exam three years later.

In one village, two Juren were tested, and the people in Lianhua Village were all excited, and their village also had a master Juren!What a treasure.

Originally, Xiyong also planned to take the exam, but Xiyuan didn't let him. Xiyong was only 14 years old. A [-]-year-old Juren is too young. The so-called young talent is not a good thing. Xiyuan asked him to take the exam after three years. Xiyong struggled for a long time , but the family felt that what the elder brother said was right, so they had to give up.

It seemed that the dark clouds that had shrouded the West family for more than two years were about to be blown away, and the family finally sat together happily to celebrate.People from the village came to congratulate one after another. Whether they were angry or jealous in the past, they have to admit that the Xi family is different from them. Let's get on good terms now while we can still get in touch with each other.

Those who broke their mouths everywhere because of Xiyuan and Li finally shut up, deeply regretting that they didn't control their mouths.

Xie Mingli and Zhao Lin, Xiyuan used connections and spent money to get the two of them into the yamen as servants. Although they are just ordinary yamen servants and knife and pen officials, there are people in the court who are good at being officials. What will happen in the future? You can find your way through them.

The two families are very grateful to the Xi family. At first they felt that the children's years of reading were useless. Although they are envious of Cheng Yi and the Xi family now, they think that their own family is not bad, so their eyebrows are still relaxed. As for Zhu Zi and Qiu Yang, slowly consider Well, it's not a one-off decision. They saw hope from Cheng Nan and Xi Wei. It turns out that winning the exam is not impossible.

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The moon was bright and the stars were thin, Wei Cheng woke up from his dream, put on his clothes and went outside the tent, his tall figure was reflected in the moonlight, his figure was stretched very long.

Life in the barracks is tough and lonely. In the words of the soldiers themselves, they don’t want to let go of even a female fly. There are those who look at each other, and the two men make a pair. Some are just to solve instinctive needs, and some They are really inseparable, care about each other, just like a pair.

Wei Cheng went from being surprised when he first learned about it, to getting used to it later, and now getting used to it.Wei Cheng walked around the tent, checked the sentry posts he was in charge of, and then returned to the tent. He is now a centurion with a hundred people under his command.

Before entering the camp, Wei Cheng looked up at the crescent moon in the sky, "We see each other at this time but we don't hear each other, and I hope that the moonlight will shine on you." I don't know if that person is like himself, looking at the moonlight Think of each other, it must be.

When he first joined the army, many people shared a tent. When Wei Cheng dreamed back at midnight, he often heard ambiguous gasps and occasional groans from people in the tent. He was also young and passionate. When he fell asleep again, there would inevitably be a beautiful scenery. Falling into a dream, and the person in the dream will always be one, a person whom he misses deeply and loves his life.

So, after waking up in such dreams one after another, Wei Cheng recognized a fact and also recognized his own feelings. Brotherhood is also the most primitive desire of one person for another person, hoping to be like an ordinary couple, holding hands for a lifetime and staying together forever.

But, would that person accept such an unworldly relationship?Wei Cheng was puzzled, but no matter what, he would find a way to get back to that person. Even if he didn't accept it, he would protect him and never separate him for the rest of his life.