No pain no gain

Last time, Da Zhuang looked at the opportunity to teach Er Zhuang a hard lesson. Er Zhuang has restrained himself a lot these days, and stayed at home honestly to help out for several days. Several times, several children called him to the yard , Da Zhuang didn't say anything, Er Zhuang took a few glances at his elder brother's face that seemed to be the same as usual, and finally refused the invitation of his friends reluctantly.

When Da Zhuang is free, he will carefully search the original memory of this body. It is strange to find that all kinds of crops here are quite complete, but the cultivation level is extremely low, and most of the labor tools are simple and limited. Gao, farm tools with iron are also very precious things for farmers, not every household has the financial resources to buy a whole set of good farm tools with iron.Da Zhuang knew that there were several pieces of farm tools with iron in his home, but the big ones were all paid off. Now there are only two small shovels with iron pieces about one and a half centimeters inlaid on the front end and an iron inlaid one. The sickle, the rest are made of wood.Farmers rely almost entirely on manpower to cultivate the fields. After receiving the goods, they do not plow the land before sowing. Weeds and insects are also hoeed and caught with one hand.In modern times, one mu of land is 660 square meters, but when Da Zhuang went to see his own land, it was obviously not up to that standard. It is also extremely difficult to plant them all. The more Da Zhuang thought about it, the more difficult he felt, and his brows furrowed involuntarily.

"Big Zhuang..."

A rough hand touched the middle of the big and strong eyebrows, and gently pressed the folds in the middle.

Da Zhuang didn’t need to raise his eyes to know that he was a fool. The fool’s hands were frozen and cracked in winter. Da Zhuang boiled white radish slices in boiling water, and wiped the hot white radish slices for the fool for ten days before the redness and swelling on his hands It disappeared, but scarring is inevitable, so the fool's fingers are particularly rough.

"Huh?" Da Zhuang tilted his head, avoided the fool's hand, and continued to weave baskets.

"Open, open, laugh..." The fool chased after him with his hand, and continued to hold Da Zhuang's eyebrows.

"Loosen your brows." Da Zhuang corrected, the idiot can basically communicate with people now, but, ah, like now, it is probably the first time that the idiot wants to comfort others, so he has become less talkative...

"Relax your brows!" The fool repeated it neatly, and then made a big smile on his own: "Laugh..."

Da Zhuang took a look at the fool's clumsy appearance, let out a long sigh of relief, and naturally loosened his brows, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, that's all, the boat will be straight when it reaches the bridge, and the most worrying thing now is not the problem of farming at all. Da Zhuang turned his attention to the neat pile of various baskets on the side of the house. Before and after the Chinese New Year, Da Zhuang had more time to weave baskets. With the help of the fool, he could weave more than a dozen baskets a day. There are hundreds of small baskets, and this is the most worrying thing.

It takes more than an hour to walk from the village to the town, and we have to come back before dark, so there is not much time left in the middle. After the Chinese New Year, the people who go to the market are not as generous as before, and there are not so many There is a lot of traffic, and these many baskets cannot be sold out in such a short period of time...

Thinking about it, Da Zhuang didn't stop the movement in his hands. Now these baskets are the only income of the family.

After the first lunar month, people in the village began to invite them to go to the market together. This time it was not a mobilization of the whole village, but several families made an appointment to go together one day.

Da Zhuang packed up all the small baskets, put them in two big baskets, and piled them all out. Da Zhuang looked at the two big baskets worriedly, and they were too heavy for him to carry, let alone Er Zhuang, who was only six or seven years old.

The fool watched from the side, put his finger into his mouth, and sucked it up with relish.

Da Zhuang noticed it from the corner of his eye, and waved his hand over to open the idiot's hand fiercely. Many children in the village have the habit of sucking fingers, but most of them quit when they were five or six years old. In order to help the idiot To get rid of this bad habit, Da Zhuang thought of many ways, such as giving him some slow snacks, etc., but later found that "stick education" is more effective.

"How old is it, is it dirty!" Da Zhuang reprimanded.

The idiot put his hands behind his back, secretly touched the place where he was beaten with the other hand, and whispered, "I want to go!"

Da Zhuang was stunned for a moment, he probably hasn't been to the town for such a big fool, just now he developed a bad habit of sucking his fingers, the feeling is because he is too embarrassed to say it!

"Didn't I tell you that you can't talk nonsense in front of outsiders. Tell me what you think, and don't suck your fingers in the future, you know!" Da Zhuang nodded and confessed.

As soon as the fool saw that Da Zhuang agreed, he immediately became happy and "hummed" happily.

Da Zhuang patted the fool on the head angrily, and went to prepare for the market tomorrow.

It's not the time for farming, and the only ox carts in several villages are standing by the roadside, carrying people to the town. Uncle Liu from the same village saw Da Zhuang and the others from a distance and started He yelled and helped Da Zhuang move all his things to the car. This time he went to town because there were a lot of things, so Da Zhuang took the fool and Er Zhuang with him. The fool helped carry a big basket and a small basket, and Er Zhuang held San Niuer, originally I didn't intend to bring San Niu Er a burden, the main reason is that after Er Niu Er went there last time, she came back and showed off to San Niu Er for a long time, but San Niu Er missed it, this time I know After that, there was a lot of crying, Da Zhuang was angry, but also sad, and finally compromised, let Er Zhuang take San Niu'er with him.

Da Zhuang carried a big basket on his back, and carefully carried dozens of eggs in his hands, because it was really troublesome, and Da Zhuang didn't intend to save these few copper coins, so he went to the car obediently while joking with Uncle Liu. go up.

After sitting firmly, Da Zhuang thought for a while and took out three copper coins and handed them over.

Uncle Liu picked one out of Da Zhuang's hand with a smile on his face: "Children don't need money, but you have a lot of things, so take one!"

In fact, it is only a rule that children do not need money during the Chinese New Year when there are many people, and half-aged children like Da Zhuang, Fool, and Er Zhuang usually have to pay.

"Old man, this..."

"Hey, why are you being polite to the old man, you little brats!" Uncle Liu interrupted Da Zhuang's words with a wave of his hand, and walked away to enthusiastically pick up the things from other guests.

Da Zhuang reluctantly put away the remaining two copper coins, thinking that the next time he cooks meat dishes, he should bring some to the old man...