Farming Comb Paintings Return Home

I thought that Xiao Xian wanted to ask something important, but unexpectedly there was such a turning point, which made Li Cong stunned for a moment, then came back to his senses, flicked Xiao Xian's forehead and said with a smile: "You This kid...why didn't I find you so interesting before? You are still sick, don't go down to the ground, wait until brother goes out to borrow a chamber pot..."

"No need! I'll just go to the latrine!" Xiao Xian grabbed Li Cong and smirked, his palm-sized face turned red.According to Li Cong's intention, he couldn't go to the ground by himself, so would Li Cong have to come back after borrowing the chamber pot?Thinking about him, Xiao Xian, at his age, still needs someone to take care of him, how will he meet people in the future.

No matter whether it was Qu Xian or the fake Li Xian he said, Li Cong had already regarded Xiao Xian as one of his own, so he didn't feel anything to be ashamed of, but thinking that Xiao Xian lost his memory, in his eyes The two are completely unfamiliar, and they should be ashamed.I also remembered Qu Xian's cringing face with flushed face when she spoke to people in the past, and occasionally someone pulled her skirt or touched her body, which time she hid secretly and cried for a long time because of grievances, if she insisted on serving at this moment When he went to the toilet, he seemed to take the opportunity to be frivolous, so Li Cong nodded and said: "Okay, put on the cotton coat and carry you, you should be more careful." Then he turned around and squatted down to tell Xiao Xian to hurry up go up.

"Uh..." Xiao Xian hesitated a little, seeing Li Cong waving his hands to urge him, he had to put on his cotton padded clothes and half kneel in compromise, stretching out his hands to grab Li Cong's neck.

Li Cong told Xiao Xian to hold on, and then carried him out of the house and walked out of the village.The big tree that bypassed the entrance of the village left the village, and there were continuous fields outside. It was not the time for sowing, and the yellowing soil was exposed in the field.Nearby, the fields are intertwined, chickens and dogs smell each other, and the mountains in the distance are stacked, pale and smoky, quite a bit of a paradise.

Li Cong walked very fast, but his foot was steady, and Xiao Xian didn't feel any wobble.It's just that the wind was a bit cold, and he burrowed straight into the unfastened cotton coat, Xiao Xian shrunk his neck, and couldn't feel each other's body temperature through the two thick cotton coats, but the heat from the other party's neck was sticking to the white and tender wrist exposed by the cuff After a long time of lingering, the source of warmth close at hand makes people want to tilt their heads and lean upwards.

Xiao Xian leaned forward to get closer, but Li Cong didn't care, he just felt that the breathing in his ears became clearer again, so he tightened his arms, and the two of them moved closer.

On the field ridge, Xiao Xian turned his head and looked at the limp seedlings on both sides of the field and said strangely: "Brother, why do you still grow crops in the winter?"

Li Cong smiled with the corner of his mouth curled up. Seeing that Xiao Xian had never been in the ground, he said as he walked, "The climate in Dongjun County is warm, and the fields are planted with winter wheat. They were planted in August last year, and they will be harvested in May next year." , to spend the winter in the ground.”

"Oh..." Xiao Xian nodded slowly.In fact, I didn't understand it, but it was really difficult for him, a city person who had never even been to the countryside, to understand this.In the past, when buying vegetables and cooking at home, it was always my brother's cooking. He himself only knew what kind of food he had in his mouth. It would be embarrassing to say it.

Xiao Xian didn't ask any more questions. Li Cong thought that he would not be able to go to the ground with his small body, so he didn't explain much. He carried Xiao Xian on his back and walked across the field in a short while, and came to a simple thatched hut.

There is no toilet in the countryside, because the excrement is used as fertilizer, and there is only one hut. Although it is simple, it is not as exaggerated as the open-air latrine that Xiao Xian imagined.

Xiao Xian got off Li Cong's back, glanced at the legendary hut, struggled for a while, covered his nose and dodged in, and for the first time encountered a major problem that all traversers had to face.

Xiao Xian exaggeratedly covered half of his face with his hands and jumped out of it. He vowed that even if he did nothing after time travel, he would first research the toilet paper.

After returning home, Li Cong fetched water for Xiao Xian to wash his hands, and Xiao Xian heaved a sigh of relief while washing.He wondered in his heart that the wild people in the mountain village might not like cleanliness very much. It would be too strange if he asked to wash his hands. Fortunately, Li Cong said it first, so he didn't have to worry about it.But it doesn't look like Li Cong is an ordinary farmer, but he is quite particular about cleanliness.

But what really worried Xiao Xian was that his little chrysanthemum seemed real... hemorrhoids.Not to mention abdominal pain and bleeding, what should he do in this unfamiliar place and unreliable medical facilities?

"What are you thinking about?" Li Cong knocked on the washbasin to bring Xiao Xian back to his senses, and said, "Take it away after washing."

Xiao Xian blushed, said "um", then lowered his head and retracted under the quilt and stopped talking.

Li Cong went out and came in again with the washbasin, took out two volumes of books from his arms and handed them to Xiao Xian, "I bought these at the bookstall in the morning. I guess you might like to read them. If you have nothing to do, read them to relieve your fatigue. I'll go to Aunt Shen's next door to read them." Look, if you have something to do, call it louder, you can hear it from outside." After saying that, he put down the curtain and went out the door.

Xiao Xian took the book and flattened it. On the cover were Hua Yu Ji and Lin Ling Poems, which were not as good-looking as Li Cong's. When he opened it, the poems and songs were full of love for a concubine. Why did Li Cong think he would like to watch it?Xiao Xian took a few glances, curled his lips, and thought that this book was only suitable for covering his eyes when he was asleep during the day. He was about to close it when he saw the notes at the footer. There were only a few sentences in small script, most of which were about the customs and history of Donglang Allusions and the like are quite interesting, so I sat upright and picked out poems and commented on them as stories.

Li Cong went out, but there was no movement outside the door.After a while, I heard someone coming in again, walking slowly and tremblingly, not as steady as Li Cong. Xiao Xian put down his book and turned his head to look, there was an old woman with white hair standing outside the threshold , holding a vegetable basket in one hand, and looking at him with a smile while lifting the curtain with the other.

"Excuse me, are you..." Xiao Xian asked hesitantly, poking his head out while asking who came, wondering whether he should call Li Cong back if someone came to the door.

The old woman seemed to have seen what Xiao Xian was thinking, and she stepped over the threshold and waved her hands: "Don't look for it, Ah Cong is picking vegetables in the yard. Madam, come and see you. It's no fun staying alone, come and help me." Madam peels edamame."

The old woman entered the back room while talking, went to the table and pushed the chair to the side of the couch, and put a basket of emerald green soybeans on the chair where Xiao Xian could just reach, then supported the couch with both hands and looked at Xiao Xian and others. he answered.

Reminiscent of Li Cong's words just now, Xiao Xian immediately reacted, and shouted: "Aunt Shen?"

"Hey, good boy." Aunt Shen leaned on the side of the couch and rubbed Xiao Xian's head, the wrinkles on her face piled up, and she lost her eyes from laughing.

Xiao Xian nodded his head as a greeting, and his thoughts drifted to the yard.Looking through the window of the back room, Li Cong was washing with a large water tank. The one at his feet was probably a salt can, and a row of half-dried vegetables hung on the shelf behind him.Pickled vegetables...is it pickled vegetables?I don't seem to have seen how pickles are pickled.Xiao Xian suddenly became interested, and leaned over to climb the window frame to look around. Unexpectedly, when Aunt Shen saw him like this, she laughed twice as if she knew it well, brought a low stool over, bent over and sat down, and then He patted Xiao Xian's shoulder and squeezed his eyes and said, "Are you in such a hurry because you can't see him for a while? You have to wait for a while, just wait and eat."

"Ah?" What's the rush?Xiao Xian turned around and didn't know why.But Aunt Shen had a look of "needless to say, I know everything" on her face, which made Xiao Xian even more confused.

Xiao Xian pulled back his thoughts, and glanced out of the window twice, but couldn't see what Li Cong was doing clearly, so he simply stopped looking and helped Aunt Shen peel the edamame.

Although Xiao Xian said that his cooking skills were not good enough, he also helped his brother choose dishes at home before, and he was very skilled in cooking. In addition, although Qu Xian's body was thin and tender, his hands were like a girl's. The nails that are neither long nor short are suitable for peeling beans.

The edamame hadn't been washed, it was tingly when touched, and it was still muddy, so it was very fresh.Pinch in along the seam on the side of the bean pods and break them apart, throw them into the porcelain bowl with a flick of your nails and turn around, one on top of the other, each one is as round as emeralds, very cute.

The basket of edamame seemed to be full, and the young and old worked together to see the bottom soon. Aunt Shen weighed the porcelain bowl, then looked into the basket, and saw that there were about two handfuls left, she grabbed Xiao Xian's wrist Said: "Hey, don't peel them all. Ah Cong likes to eat edamame boiled in salt water the most, save these for him."

Xiao Xian was stunned for a moment. It turned out that there is also the method of boiled edamame in salt water. Li Cong likes to eat it. Coincidentally, he also likes it the most, so he stopped and nodded: "Yes, yes. I have eaten it. It is delicious. I like it. I also like to eat!"

"Okay, Madam will cook for you in a while!" Madam Shen wrinkled her face and smiled like a chrysanthemum, put the basket and porcelain bowl on the table, then pulled out the handkerchief from her pocket and handed it to Xiao Xian, saying: "Come and wipe."

Xiao Xian nodded, took the handkerchief and said, "Thank you."

"Ouch, I almost forgot." Aunt Shen clapped her hands and yelled, she reached into the pocket of her cotton coat and took out a handkerchief wrapped in something, handed it to Xiao Xian and said, "Here, get it." Look, this is a little wish from the aunt, do you know how to live well with Ah Cong from now on?"

Xiao Xian bowed his head, in the palm of his hand was a faded red handkerchief, untied the knot on it, and there were a few pieces of broken silver inside.

Red envelope?These two words first came to Xiao Xian's mind, and then he heard what the old man said to live a good life. Could it be that Mrs. Shen regarded herself as Li Cong's wife?

Xiao Xian pushed the silver back and shouted: "Ma'am, I'm a man, Li Cong's younger brother, not a daughter-in-law!"

Aunt Shen squinted her eyes and pushed back Xiao Xian's hand: "Oh, what a fool, why are you ashamed, Madam knows you are a boy. Ah Cong is lucky to find such a beautiful wife."

"No! How can this man be a daughter-in-law?" Xiao Xian's tongue was about to tie up. How did Aunt Shen take it for granted when she knew that she was a man?He also looked at him with the eyes of his grandson's wife, which made his hair stand on end, and he really didn't know how to explain it.

But Aunt Shen not only didn't feel that she was wrong, she patted Xiao Xian's head reproachfully and said, "What's the matter with the boy? The boy is fine! Madam, look at you two, you two are very compatible! The head of the village east My Dongmei and Chunhua are not as pretty as you! Ah Cong is doing well! You can live in peace of mind and live with Ah Cong, the aunt likes you!"

This Aunt Shen looks very hale and hearty, she is just an old fool!Xiao Xian murmured in his heart, but he didn't expect that Aunt Shen who was sitting by the couch was also muttering in her mouth. When she listened carefully, it turned out that it was a loving couple who weaved cloth and carried water. Xiao Xian frowned and bared his teeth, and almost didn't growl : "I'm Li Cong's younger brother, not his daughter-in-law!"

Aunt Shen was still ashamed as Xiao Xian, she stared in surprise and said, "Brother? Don't joke with Auntie, the younger brother of the Li family is long gone."

Xiao Xian was surprised: "His brother is gone? Is he dead?"

"Yes." Aunt Shen nodded, then turned around and pouted outside: "Here, isn't that the one outside. The whole family of the Li family is on the incense table."

ha?Xiao Xian stared and shouted in his heart.He knew the memorial tablet on the incense table outside, and Mrs. Shen shouldn't talk nonsense about the deceased at her age.It turns out that the Li family has long since died?How did Li Cong say that he was his younger brother?Who is this body of mine?

Xiao Xian pondered in his heart that although this Aunt Shen was a little confused about the daughter-in-law, she seemed to be able to communicate, so she thought she could learn something from the old man and said: "The Li family is really dead. Is it? What's going on?"

"You child, if you are gone, you are gone. There is no real or fake. When that child, Ah Cong, came to the village six years ago, there was nothing in his bag except the family's tablet and some relics. Fuck you. Good to meet the village head, otherwise... hey." Aunt Shen narrowed her eyes as if remembering, and sighed a long way in the middle of speaking, unwilling to continue.

It turned out to be so!Xiao Xian was surprised in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face, and continued to ask: "Brother Li, isn't he from the village?"

"How could it be?" Aunt Shen waved her hands and shook her head. "Don't underestimate Ah Cong. Ah Cong is very capable, and he is made for great things. How can the villagers compare with him?"

"Then who the hell is he?"

Aunt Shen stared at Xiao Xian for a while, and then said regretfully: "Oh, it's a long story, do you know that..."