Otherworldly Farmhouse

The weather is getting colder and colder, and the breath from Kazakhstan has turned into white mist. The fireplace is burning day and night at home, and the inside of the house is always much warmer than outside.However, it consumes a lot of firewood. Originally, Mufeng asked Tang Anwen to prepare more than half of the firewood, but it didn't take long for Mufeng to see that there was only a small half of the firewood left.

Otherwise, it will be more troublesome to wait until the firewood in the yard runs out after snowfall, and the quality of firewood will be much worse when the trees are wet after snowfall, and it will carry moisture.Although it is already late autumn and winter, the weather is still dry, and the firewood I bought is dry and flammable.

Mu Feng was thinking about this matter in his heart, released Xiao Hei from the horse peng, patted Xiao Hei's head, Xiao Hei neighed excitedly, and quickly rushed to the yard to run wildly to vent.Mufeng cleaned Ma Peng, sheep coop and chicken coop, and poured all the farmyard manure into old wooden barrels, and let Awen take it to the compost heap later. After ten days or so, the field can be fertilized and finished. These wooden winds added fodder to the manger, and fed the sheep and chickens, and then returned to the round table with a basket containing five or six eggs.Recently, the weather has been getting colder and colder, and Ah Wen has become more and more fond of sleeping in, and is reluctant to get up.Now their family didn't have any important matters, and the time of carrying water was changed to noon. Anyway, the well was not far from home, and no one came to grab the well water, and Mu Feng followed Tang Anwen.

After putting the eggs away and washing his hands, Mu Feng took a large porcelain jar to milk the goat. Originally, the two children in the family and Awen didn't like to drink goat milk with a milky smell.However, since the seasoning brought back by Aventololing last time, there is one taste that removes the milky smell, and the goat's milk is particularly fragrant.The three in the family are finally willing to drink a bowl of goat milk with steamed bread or steamed buns early in the morning.

When Tang Anwen woke up, the fireplace in the room was crackling and burning, and the flames were so prosperous that he couldn't feel the cold of winter at all.Getting up from the bed, Tang Anwen knew that Mufeng got up early again. Recently, Mufeng's stomach has grown in size, but he is not too sleepy. It is logically speaking that it is winter and their house does not have much work. He asked Mufeng to spend more time in the morning. After sleeping for a while, Mufeng always couldn't lie down, and he got up early in the morning to cook. The most exaggerated thing is that Mufeng always ran to grab his work. It's not good for childbirth, and being more active is not only good for him but also good for the baby in my stomach.

Tang Anwen couldn't talk about Mufeng, so he went to ask Mr. Luo, and Mr. Luo said that as long as Mufeng didn't do heavy work and did some easy things, it would be good for the body and the child. If he stayed at home to raise the baby, it would be bad for childbirth. .

Now Tang Xuan is also smart. He doesn't want to stay in the cold and unpopular mountains. Tang Anwen's place is not only quiet, but there are basically no people in the village, and there are delicious food and drinks, so he decided not to spend the winter in the mountains this year. It's winter in Tang Anwen's house. Although there is no fireplace upstairs, the brazier is warmed up, which is definitely much warmer than in the mountains.

Hunting to make money or something, they can go into the mountains at any time now, as long as they walk around the mountains for two or three days, he and Lin Zuo can harvest a lot of prey, and let Tang Anwen take it to buy every time, whether it is meat or skin, or for sale The price is always much higher than the two of them, and they have earned almost the same money this year.Basically, Tang Xuan is in charge of the family's money, and he gives half of the money he earns from hunting to Mu Feng.

If Mu Feng didn't accept them, they wouldn't dare to live here. They would eat at Tang Anwen's house, live at Tang Anwen's house, and ask Mu Feng to cook. How could they have the nerve to eat and live for free?

Tang Anwen put on his clothes and got up, walked out of the room and let out a mouthful of white mist, so he rubbed his face to refresh himself, the weather is getting colder and colder.After washing up, Tang Anwen finally became fully awake. He drank a bowl of hot, fragrant goat's milk prepared by Mufeng, and immediately his whole body warmed up, and he felt energetic all over.

Mu Feng asked Tang Anwen if he wanted porridge, and he served a bowl for him. Tang Anwen shook his head, saying that he would finish the morning work at home first.Living in a farmhouse and without servants, he can naturally do everything at home by himself. Tang Anwen originally wanted to find an aunt to help, but Mu Feng was unwilling. He felt that someone would interfere with the life of the family, not to mention there was no The extra places are for people to live in.

As long as Mu Feng is happy, Tang Anwen will naturally not object to Mu Feng's decision, not to mention that there is not much work at home, so a little work can be done quickly.Carrying the toilet and farmyard manure, Tang Anwen took them to the compost pit at the end of the field and emptied them. He observed the growth of the red-brown valley to see if there were any weeds. After the autumn rain, shallow stream water gathered again in the stream. For the convenience of cleaning, Tang Anwen took a hoe and dug a half-meter-deep hole out.

After Tang Anwen finished these things and returned home, the two children finally got up under the force of Mu Feng. Little Tang Guo was still a little angry for getting up. He can't eat it.Tang Dou was very obedient, obediently drank the goat's milk, ate a boiled egg, and drank a small bowl of porridge with a steamed bun.

Mu Feng told his youngest son that if he didn’t eat the egg yolk, his goat milk soup would be confiscated today, so Xiao Tangguo could only put the egg yolk into his mouth bit by bit. Although he hated eating egg yolk, but Tang Guo is still very clear that it is wrong to waste food. My brother once told him that they used to have nothing to eat and were often hungry. Now that they have food, they can't waste it.

Tang Xuan Linzuo also got up and washed up at this time, went into the kitchen to scoop out rice porridge from the pot and ate it with eggs and steamed buns.While eating, Mufeng told Tang Anwen about the lack of firewood, and asked Tang Anwen to find a woodcutter, and asked the other party to send over twenty loads of good firewood, which was firewood, not the kind of random bush firewood.

The fireplace is very non-firewood. Generally, two-finger-thick shrub firewood can't stand burning at all. It is best to use the kind of firewood that burns slowly and burns longer.When Tang Xuan heard Mu Feng's words, he asked Mu Feng strangely, didn't Tang Anwen prepare a lot of firewood some time ago?It should be enough for the winter, why should I prepare again.

Mu Feng talked about the burning of the fireplace, so both Tang Anwen and Lin Zuo Tangxuan thought that there are three fireplaces in the house, and they are burning no matter day or night, so naturally it is quite costly.It has just entered winter now, how can we survive the winter when there is not enough firewood.

Tang Anwen nodded after listening to Mu Feng's words, so after eating, Tang Anwen drove the carriage to the town, found two woodcutters, negotiated a price, and asked for [-] dan of the best firewood to send to the deserted village. Well, within ten days.After finishing his work, Tang Anwen went to see Luo Ling. This kid was writing a letter to Mu Yu, and he didn't hear Tang An's knock on the door. After Tang Anwen walked in, he saw Luo Ling's meaty content, what dear? The sweethearts are out.

When Tang Anwen laughed out loud, Luo Ling finally found Tang Anwen, the peeping bastard. He quickly grabbed the letter paper and pressed it to his chest. Seeing Tang Anwen's half-smile, Luo Ling's cheeks slowly turned pink. , and then his face was not green or white, and he was ashamed.

Luo Ling glared at Tang Anwen and said with embarrassment: "Smile, what's so funny about laughing, I've never seen a letter before, be careful laughing out your big teeth. You don't even make a sound when you walk, don't you know you have to knock on the door before entering? "

Tang Anwen didn't mind Luo Ling's bad tone and said, "Dear Muyu baby, I miss you so much, when will you come over? Hahaha, Luo Ling, why did I find out that you are so talented the first day! I knocked on the door just now, and I just But someone was too serious and didn't feel it at all, so of course I had to come in by myself."

Luo Ling didn't want to get entangled with Tang Anwen on this matter, so he asked, "Do you have something to do?"

Tang Anwen shook his head and said: "It's okay, I just haven't come to town for a few days, I came to see you, it seems that your little life is going well. Did Mu Yu write you a letter, and you are writing a reply now , would you like to share your joy with me?"

Luo Ling glared at Tang Anwen and said: "It's none of your business, Mu Yu is my wife, what do you care about so much, just go back and watch your Mu Feng. By the way, how is Mu Feng, the child is about six years old now. It's been a month."

This time Luo Ling finally changed the subject, talking about Mufeng and Tang Anwen, he talked endlessly, saying that Mufeng has a good appetite recently, and he doesn't fall asleep anymore, why is the child making trouble in Mufeng's stomach? Fetal movement.So I envied Luo Ling, now it's November, and Mu Yu's child in September is now three months old, and after a month or two, the child will be able to move.And he can't rush over to accompany Mu Yu in the winter. He talked about Mu Yu with his father and mother. The two old people said that they can accept Mu Yu's handsome daughter-in-law, but it's not right for the youngest son to marry him. Don't even think about it.

The old couple would never allow this old man to leave their side. When the child was born, the conditions in their family were not good, and some troubles happened, so they had to send the youngest and weakest child to grandma. After many years, the family was finally reunited. How could the old couple agree? Naturally, Luo Ling couldn't leave his old parents behind, so he could only suffer like this.

After chatting with Luo Ling, Tang Anwen went to Song Yunxi's house to see the pair of twins. The little one had been around for more than two months, and the two chubby ones were very cute, but Tang Anwen was thinking in his heart that the three treasures of their family would definitely not be good. He will be worse than his younger brother's children. After teasing the two little guys and telling Song Yunxi about Mu Feng's situation, Tang Anwen got up and went to the shop to find his fourth brother.

Tang Angui is really living a good life now, he already had a shop, and now the Song family has given him a shop with a promising future to take care of.Now after Song Yunxi gave birth to the pair of twins, Tang Angui was regarded as more expensive than his father and his son. He was the favorite of the Song family's mother. No matter what benefits he had, he would never forget to give this uncle a role.

When Tang Anwen entered Tang Angui's shop, Tang Angui was taking inventory. This shop sold some antique calligraphy and paintings, as well as pens, inks, papers and inkstones, all of which were relatively high-quality items, which were usually only bought by wealthy families.Because last time Tang Anwen handed over the painting book to Tang Angui.

Tang Angui felt that the painting book really matched the things in the shop, so Tang Angui discussed with his uncle, and they specially found a good painter, and they asked Tang Anwen to ask for the original painting book, and prepared high-quality rice paper Xiangmo is painted by people.In this way, if you ask someone to draw a set of two copies, the wages are four guan, but because it is a hardcover version, the price is very high, ranging from a dozen taels to dozens of taels of silver for a set, and the current sales are also very good.

But really good painters are much better than Tang Anwen, who is half a bucket of water. He really expresses the artistic conception that Tang Anwen originally wanted to express, but failed to express because of lack of time. This kind of painting is what Tang Anwen wants. Collection, not to mention those rich young masters who are rich and like to follow suit.

As for the one that resisted the second time, Tang Angui also sent people to the shop that Song Yi had opened before, but the settlement was once a month instead of the current settlement every two months, and Tang Angui also took over the Song family's shop. With more contacts, it is faster to set up a store. In just a short period of time, there are dozens of stores that have cooperated with each other, and the sales of painting books are quite fast.

When Tang Angui saw the third brother coming, he immediately put down the account book in his hand and asked why he was free today. The last time his third brother came and announced to him that he would accompany Mufeng Maodong, how many days had passed? Tian couldn't help but ran out.

Tang Anwen told about the burning of the fireplace at home. It was the first time Tang Angui heard of it. He became interested when he heard it. You must know that their side is neither close to the south nor the north, and it happens to be in the middle. When it is cold, the snow can float for a month, but in some years, not a single snowflake falls.

Tang Angui first talked about the painting book with the third brother, because the Song family also got involved this time, and it is impossible for all the money to fall into Tang Angui's hands.So he discussed this matter with his third brother some time ago, because the Song family also saw that this thing was quite interesting, so he found a hard-working backstage to participate, and the Song family didn't fancy this painting Ben, of course Tang Anwen was the one they liked. They believed that Tang Anwen could draw better and more exciting picture books than a human being. They believed that Tang Anwen could draw better and more exciting picture books, so Tang Angui took the lead, and Tang Anwen and the Song family were the head of the family. Talked once.

The shares were divided into three parts, one part was naturally taken by the tough backstage Bai, the other part was naturally taken by the Song family, and the rest was shared equally between Tang Angui and Tang Anwen.At first, it seemed that Tang Anwen was at a disadvantage. After all, it changed from [-]% to [-]% now.But Tang Anwen calculated the money, and the high-end picture books sold by Tang Angui's shop recently were almost equal to the previous [-]-[-] cents.

Tang Anwen knew that with the contacts of the Song family and the strong backer, no one would dare to pirate copies casually in the future, and after the store opened, the more picture books were sold, the more he would earn. In particular, he doesn't need to worry about it at all, as long as he continues to design the picture book and continue to get the money.

Because the money needs to be settled every two months, Tang Anwen can't get the money from Tang Angui yet, but Tang Angui told him that if the third brother is short of money, he can ask him for it at any time, and he can deduct it from the share at that time.Naturally, Tang Anwen knew that the fourth younger brother was also thinking about him. If it wasn't for Luo Ling's money and the money he shared with Song Yi, his life with Mu Feng would not be so comfortable.

Tang Angui told the third brother that their store has sold more than ten sets of various hardcover editions. After deducting all kinds of capital, they have already made a net profit of 90 taels. For such a store, Tang Anwen can already get 15 taels. Tang Anwen listen A little frightened, I don't know how many shops like this are in the Song family, if there are many, then he really counts the money until his hands cramp.

Tang Anwen is in a good mood now, and it is really easy to make money, especially since another painting book of Fengyun in his family has already been published. Tang Anwen plans to draw Fengyun into a dozen books, and the money will come even faster when the time comes, after all, it will be serialized. This kind of thing, well, only a modern person like him can think of it, the ancients didn't have this awareness at all.

The two walked out of the shop, Tang Angui then talked about the fireplace, and asked his third brother what kind of fireplace would make the house warm. There are two or three braziers in his house now, but he still feels that it is not warm enough. The child is still young and can't stand the cold, but the brazier is too dry and easy to get angry. Yunxi recently because the house is too dry, she doesn't have much appetite and got burned, and the corners of her mouth have blisters. Tang Angui feels distressed. But there is no way.

It is absolutely impossible to remove the brazier, otherwise the room is too cold, how can the child who is only two months old bear the cold, Tang Angui does not want to wrap the child in layers of clothes and wrap it into a ball, so that the child cannot It was so uncomfortable to move, so when I heard the fireplace in the third brother's mouth, I was very interested immediately.

Tang Angui accompanied Tang Anwen all the way to buy pork, and he rushed to pay for whatever Tang Anwen bought. Tang Anwen couldn't stop him, so Tang Anwen bought meat and fish and prepared to drive the carriage home.It turned out that his fourth brother was still following, Tang Anwen asked with some doubts: "Fourth brother, are you planning to go back with me? You haven't been home for a long time, I remember you used to go home every half a month One trip."

Hearing the third brother's question, Tang Angui climbed into the carriage and sat beside him and said, "Third brother, I used to go home because of you. If I wasn't in that house, who knows what they would do to you? With me here At least they have some scruples. Now that you have moved out, I naturally have nothing to go back. I really can't understand what I did to them back then when my family did something that made me feel ashamed. They are going to embezzle Mo Song's money, and use my name to do stupid things."

Tang Anwen didn't answer after listening to Tang Angui's words. The fool didn't have many memories of these things, so he naturally didn't know them very well. Of course, he was not interested in the Tang family's old enmity.However, Tang Anwen still knows about Tang Angui. In fact, his heart is really not bad. Back then, the fool became a book boy. In the short time he took time to go home, he learned how to read this younger brother and brought him various books. Tang Angui was also grateful. for so many years.

Then Tang Angui didn't talk about that anymore, he started talking to Tang Anwen about the two little guys in the family, and he couldn't stop talking about it. Tang Anwen also understood that Tang Angui was a new father, so it was inevitable that he would be excited.As soon as Tang Angui's conversation changed, he talked about the fact that the house was not warm enough. In the past years, he was indifferent to these things. Compared with him as an adult, he suffered from hardships when he was a child, so he was naturally not afraid of the cold.But looking at the two cute little guys at home, unwilling to wrap the child into a ball, and afraid that the child will freeze, Tang Angui, who is really worried recently, can't sleep well.

Tang Anwen laughed when he heard this. He said that Tang Angui's room was very warm. He went to see those two little guys today, and they both laughed back, they were so cute.When Tang Angui heard this, he sighed and told about Song Yunxi getting angry. Tang Anwen said that the room was dry, so he put a kettle on the brazier. The water evaporated from the kettle could make up for the too dry air in the room that was baked by the brazier.

Of course, Tang Anwen took Tang Angui to see the fireplace in their house. Seeing that Tang Anwen had brought Tang Angui, Mu Feng asked about Song Yunxi and the twins, and then he started busy making lunch. Tang Guo and Tang Doudou Not too afraid of Tang Angui, this fourth uncle was the best for the two of them when he was in the compound, and often brought them delicious food, so when Tang Angui came in, both of them happily called fourth uncle, Tang Angui naturally The two little guys were not forgotten.

Under Tang Anwen's rather miraculous gaze, Tang Angui took out a pack of maltose and asked the two little guys to share it.Tang Anwen and Tang Angui left the shop together, he didn't even notice when his younger brother bought Malt Tang, and the fourth younger brother seemed interested in his family.

Tang Angui stood in the main room, looking at such a miraculous thing, he picked up a firewood from the basket and threw it into the fireplace. As each firewood was thrown in, the flame in the fireplace burned more and more vigorously, and the temperature in the main room It also gradually rose and became warmer.They can save a coat or two in these temperatures, and it doesn't feel like the air in the room is dry.

Tang Angui inspected all three fireplaces in Tang Anwen's house and burned them himself. He felt that if the room was smaller, the fireplace would make the room warmer. The main room was not as warm as the room.Tang Angui told Tang Anwen that he would go to his house to help build a fireplace tomorrow. The fireplace he wanted was bigger than Tang Anwen's, so that it would be warmer.

Tang Anwen nodded naturally when he heard Tang Angui's words. Tang Angui went back after lunch, and he didn't need Tang Anwen to send him off. He wanted to walk back. He used to walk this way for many years. The less, the less people left, Tang Angui was a little melancholy for a while.

Chai Fu delivered five loads of firewood to Tang Anwen's family every day, and soon Tang Anwen's livestock yard was filled with firewood. Tang Anwen told them not to send it until there were more than a dozen loads piled up outside the yard.Tang Anwen doesn't care about spending money, he is not short of money now, this winter is bound to be very cold according to Mu Feng, so it is not wrong to prepare more.

In the blink of an eye, more than ten days passed. Tang Anwen inspected the field and land in Tangjia Village that day. Wheat was planted in the field. The wheat is still growing well, and it is lush and green.Suddenly a drop of rain fell on Tang Anwen's cheek, and then another tiny particle hit Tang Anwen's face. When Tang Anwen looked up, he saw tiny ice beads falling in the cold rainwater in the sky. The sign before the snow, Tang Anwen ran towards the house.

He didn't want to be caught in the rain at all. When Tang Anwen ran home panting, his face was already wet and his coat was completely wet. Fortunately, he had to wear a hat on his head, otherwise his hair would be wet.When Mu Feng saw Tang Anwen rushing into the house, he quickly handed over a dry cloth towel for Tang Anwen to wipe his face, and took Tang Anwen to change his clothes. Fortunately, the rain was not too heavy, and most of the falling ice beads were small, and it hurt to hit his face Some ice will roll to the ground and won't wet the clothes.

The rain gradually became heavier, and Mu Feng called the two children standing under the eaves into the main room. Tang Anwen had already changed his clothes inside and out, but Mu Feng was still worried that Tang Anwen would have to drink a bowl of ginger tea before he could relax.Although Mr. Luo has always said that Tang Anwen is now in good health and will not get sick so easily, Mu Feng is still always worried. The reason is that Tang Anwen is always not warm when he sleeps at night, and his hands and feet are always cold. The wind takes a long time to warm up.

After drinking a bowl of ginger tea, Tang Anwen suddenly remembered that Lin Zuo and Tang Xuan said they would be back today, and he suddenly became worried. If the two were on the way, they would not be drenched by the rain mixed with ice beads.Tang Anwen told Mu Feng about this, and Mu Feng told Tang Anwen not to worry, Tang Xuan and Lin Zuo had experience in the mountains, so there would be no mistakes like this, otherwise the two of them had been in the mountains for so many years, such a shower would be enough to kill them. If you don't die, you will die of illness.

So Tang Anwen added another coat, walked out of the yard under an umbrella, and prepared to wait for the two at the foot of the mountain.The temperature dropped gradually after it rained, and he still felt cold even though he had put on an extra piece of clothing. When he ran home just now, he didn’t feel too cold even if he wore one less piece of clothing. There are only two things that are bad in ancient times. One is that the exact time cannot be known, and the other is that the temperature cannot be known.

This is really not a problem for other people, they do it at sunrise and rest at sunset, but Tang Anwen used to not know how much money he had with his watch alone, and he was very sensitive to time. Depressed and flustered, it is like a modern person going out of the house to bring his mobile phone, and his heart is always empty and his feet can't stand on the ground.

Tang Anwen stepped on his feet, he felt that it was getting colder and colder, the rain was getting heavier, and the sky was gradually darkening. The time now is around one or two o'clock in the afternoon. Tang Anwen, a modern person, does not know how to divide time. He usually uses Meal time is used as a reference number.He sat at home for a while after eating, and then because the temperature at noon was the highest of the day, he wandered out to look at the fields, and then ran home when it rained, and then came here to wait for someone, probably not more than Two hours, calculated according to about 11:30 for lunch, it should still be noon.

After Tang Anwen waited for an unknown amount of time, the rainwater had accumulated about one centimeter, and the ground was covered with countless tiny ice beads, and some of them would bounce and fall on the ground.Tang Anwen saw that the drizzle had stopped, and the heavy snow like goose feathers was drifting in the sky with the north wind. Tang Anwen hid his feet that were numb from the cold.

At this moment, Mu Feng also came out with an umbrella. He called Ah Wen twice, and gradually approached Tang Anwen, asking Tang Anwen to go back with him first. If the snow was too heavy, Tang Xuan and Lin Zuo would meet somewhere in the mountains. Tang Anwen shook his head at a place where he would stay for one night. He felt that since Tang Xuan and Lin Zuo had confirmed the time to come back, they would definitely come back. Tang Anwen asked Mu Feng to go back first. He was waiting for a while. If he didn't come back, he went home.

After hearing this, Mu Feng didn't ask Tang Anwen to go back with him, he stepped under Tang Anwen's umbrella, put away the fan in his hand and put it on the stone.Mu Feng stretched out his hand to hold Tang Anwen's already cold hand, lowered his head to breathe warm on Tang Anwen's numb hand, and then pressed Tang Anwen's cold hand to his face to warm it.At the same time, he took the fan in Tang Anwen's hand, moved his footsteps so that his back was facing the north, and without Tang Anwen noticing, Mu Feng had blocked the north wind blowing like Tang Anwen with his back.