Yipin Farmer

Baoqi, who had already stripped naked, didn't know that she was despised by someone as a low IQ, so she jumped into the bucket at once. It's easy to wash one person in this bucket, but squeezing two adults is a bit...

Ting Shuang had no choice but to lift her legs and go out.

"Hey, where are you going?"

"You're too impatient, it won't be too late for you to come in after I go out."

"I want you to wipe my back." Baoqi's voice was a little coquettish.

Ting Shuang thought of the guy who wiped her back just now, and couldn't refuse.Well, in the school public bathhouse, it was normal for a few fathers to share a few faucets naked, and it was normal to rub each other's backs.

However, sharing a bathtub now, um, is always unhygienic...

Ting Shuang came out of the bucket anyway, put on a cloth towel, and took a cloth to wipe his back.

When he stepped out of the bathtub, Baoqi's face turned cold, and when he took a cloth towel to wipe his back, his face turned cloudy again.

"Will you wipe my back when I take a shower from now on?"

"Tch, it's enough for me to raise you who can only eat, but I still want to be your servant? You haven't paid me for eating and living in mine." Ting Shuang rubbed hard a few times, Baoqi The fair skin was rubbed red.

"You know money, and you're about to take advantage of it."

"Is it okay if I don't just think about making money?" Ting Shuang plausibly said, "If you want to succeed, you must first have the desire to succeed. If you want to make money, you must first have the desire to make money. Not satisfied with the status quo is the basic premise of making money. The second is capital. Ah opportunity or something."

Baoqi laughed: "People say that contentment is always happy, and contentment is a blessing, but you say that you can only succeed and make money if you are not satisfied. A bunch of nonsense sounds reasonable."

Ting Shuang patted him hard: "Good buddy, I knew you understood my thoughts, that's why I told you, if I told Li Dazhu and others, I would be hit with a brick."

"Tell me about making money after taking a bath?" Bao Qi touched her shoulder that hurt from the patting, "Tell me how to wash comfortably."

"Why are you still uncomfortable? It's really difficult to serve."

"Just wipe the back, and then wipe the front." Baoqi directed, "Wipe the front...down...a little bit down..."

Wipe down, and then down...

"Hey, your little brother looked up." Ting Shuang screamed, as if she found a dog wagging its tail at the cat.

Baoqi's face was covered with thin beads of sweat, probably from the steam, her handsome face was slightly flushed with drops of water, like a newly blooming peach blossom.

Ting Shuang smiled: "Don't be embarrassed, this situation is normal in the men's house, I'll take care of it."

Baoqi's face turned even redder, and her eyes sparkled with starlight, like a jade stone falling into a clear pool, causing circles of ripples.

"Earlier, I took Dongsheng's family of three back to the village. On the way, his baby tiger wanted to pee. I gave it to me. I won't mess with it, so you don't have to worry..."

Baoqi's starry eyes froze in an instant, and she picked up the cloth towel and threw it on his nose: "Get out, get out immediately."

Ting Shuang rubbed her nose, feeling really depressed, sure enough, a son from a wealthy family is moody, forget it, my lord doesn't care about someone's occasional convulsions a lot.

When I got out of the bathroom and closed the door, I found snowflakes falling from the sky.

"It's snowing, it's snowing." Ting Shuang cheered, as the saying goes, "Snow covered with three layers of quilt this winter, next year I'll sleep on a steamed bun." This snow is a good omen.

During the meal, the whole family was very happy, enjoying the snow and roasting sweet potatoes around the stove.Meng’s family didn’t grow sweet potatoes this year, and Ting Shuang didn’t like sweet potatoes. Seeing other people growing sweet potatoes from the field, she realized that although these things are cheap, they have the effect of preventing cancer, prolonging life and beautifying the skin. The family exchanged some sweet potatoes for food, but the villagers thought he loved sweet potatoes, so they gave away this and that, and gave away a lot.So, every day after dinner, a few pieces of sweet potatoes would be buried in the ashes of the Meng family.

"It's much warmer after eating sweet potatoes." Ting Hui rubbed his hands and complained, "Our house is too cold. We burned the kang last night, but it's still cold. Our kang is old for several years. Maybe the fire is blocked."

Xiaodouzi said, "That's because the road to the kang has not been dug, and the kang has to be rebuilt."

"Who did it?" Ting Hui asked, looking at the people eating sweet potatoes around the stove.

In the countryside, panning Kang is a technical job, not everyone can do it.

"I'll do it." Xiaodouzi raised her chest high.

"You will?" Everyone looked at him questioningly.

"I will." Xiaodouzi said louder.In the past, he was so inferior that he didn't want to show his face to others, but now that he can earn money, he has the confidence to speak, and dares to recommend himself to take on the task.

Ting Shuang naturally supported him, but privately asked Aunt Zhou to supervise and guide him.

When the kang is set up, the positions of the kang, the stove and the chimney must be properly arranged. First, lay a few layers of mud on the ground, and then smooth it with lime mud. The chimney, how to turn the fire path is very important, it must be turned back and forth to form a palindrome, once the stove burns, the firepower enters from the stove mouth and flows out through the winding fire path, and the heat spreads throughout the kang.If the fire is well prepared, the kang will be heated quickly and evenly when the fire is lit. If it is not well prepared, the kang will not be heated when the fire is lit, or only the head of the kang will be heated, and the end of the kang will still be cold.

Ting Shuang worked as a small worker next to Xiaodouzi, and figured out the heat transfer principle of the kang, just like the heat conduction wire on a modern electric stove, it is the same principle, the difference is that one uses electricity to transfer heat and the other uses fire.The Chinese kang heats evenly and saves energy, which is more advanced than European fireplaces.

According to the rules, the Pankang people in the country should entertain the hardworking Pankang people to have a good meal at the dinner table. Xiaodouzi sat proudly in his seat for dinner, his eyes were several times brighter than usual, and Mrs. Li's suffering face also had a smile on her face. Brilliant, work more quickly.

In the evening, five people huddled together on the heated kang, lit a fire, and felt warm under their bodies.

"Compared to the first time I met Xiaodouzi, Xiaodouzi has completely changed, not only has his head changed." Bao Qifa sighed.

"Self-esteem and self-confidence can change a person's temperament the most." Lying on the new kang, Ting Shuang felt warm, and couldn't help thinking of Ting Ke who was away from home. Where does he live in such a cold day?Can I eat on time?Why haven't you come back yet? What happened? The more I think about it, the more worried I become.I remembered that in "A Chinese Ghost Story", when Ning Caichen was collecting bills, he stayed overnight at Lanruo Temple and met a female ghost. Could it be...

She is not afraid of meeting female ghosts, but is afraid of meeting bad guys. Ting Shuang has a bad feeling and is so anxious that she can't sleep.

The next day, Xiaodouzi continued to work on the kang in the west room, and then the kang in the west wing. Tingshuang, Baoqi Pingan and other five people crowded in the east room. It was so crowded that they had to live separately.

Ting Shuang didn't have the heart to fight him again, and kept stretching her neck to look towards the entrance of the village.

Bao Qi comforted him: "It's useless for you to worry like this, the third child is no longer a child, he will take care of himself."

Two days later, Ting Shuang only felt that something was wrong. When he went to the city, he asked Shi Jie, and he was also in a hurry.The two families can only stay at home and wait and see, and find someone if they don't see anyone in a few days.

On this day, Ting Shuang was nestling at home feeding chickens and deer, and saw Ping An, who was working in the field, running over panting: "Big... Big brother... It seems that the third young master has returned..."

Seeing him panicked, Ting Shuang felt that something was wrong when he heard that Ting Ke had returned, so she rushed out to greet him.

In the distance, a black and thin beggar with shaved hair and ragged clothes was walking towards home with a child on his back.

Ting Shuang rubbed his eyes, opened his eyes wide and looked, this skinny beggar in rags and bare feet seemed to be Ting Ke, no wonder Ping An said "it seems", he himself was not sure, the chaotic man in front of him With disheveled hair, black and thin, bare feet bleeding and suffering from chilblain, the rags and rags on his body are so thin that they can't resist the cold of early winter, and he shrinks indescribably pitifully. This is really tall and handsome. Vigorous Tinko?

"Brother, I'm back." The beggar called out before awakening Ting Shuang from his doubts. This man is really Ting Ke, but why did he become like this?Ting Shuang guessed that he met a robber and was robbed, but who is the child on his back?It seems to be Xiaolan.

Oh, the child on his back looks more and more like Xiaolan.

"What's going on? Third, what's going on?" Ting Shuang asked eagerly.

Ting Hui also rushed out of the kitchen, looked at the person in front of him in shock, and asked anxiously, "What's wrong? What happened? Didn't you get the bill?"

Baoqi hurriedly said: "Don't be so anxious, let them enter the house to keep warm."

Ting Ke carried Xiao Lan into the room, and told the story without taking a break.

He went to several counties to collect the bills, and he collected more than 240 taels of silver smoothly. He originally followed the boss's orders and bought some things and came back. To help each other, they found out that the little girl was her younger sister Xiaolan.It turned out that she was sold to a brothel and treated as a cash cow in the future. She was forced to learn piano, chess, calligraphy and painting and had her feet bound. She was beaten and scolded if she couldn't learn well.Ting Ke was so angry that he took out all the money on his body to redeem her. The brothel master was very reluctant to train Xiao Lan as a future oiran, and Ting Ke begged bitterly, saying that he would sue her for forcing her into prostitution. Only then did he give in and agree to take him away.

Everyone was so shocked that they couldn't speak. Ting Shuang was so angry that her hands trembled, she asked, "And then? How did you get back without any money?"

"Of course I came back begging all the way." Ting Ke didn't have a penny on him, so he sold his cotton-padded clothes and shoes in exchange for food and drink.

"Then where do you live?" Ting Shuang yelled angrily and distressedly.

"If there is a vacant ruined temple, live in the ruined temple. If not, just make do with the doorway of a rich man's house for one night. When you are lucky, you will stay in a farmer's house, and the family will take it in..."

Ting Shuang held her breath in her chest uncomfortably. She couldn't breathe, so she knelt down and asked Xiaolan, "Xiaolan, what happened? Where's your mother?"

Xiaolan was yellow and thin, with dry hair, and her bound feet were exposed to cold and did not take medicine in time. They were already red, swollen and festered, and there were several blood spots on her hands. What was even more shocking and distressing was that she had It wasn't the lively, cute and naughty girl before, with cold, numb and hostile black eyes.

Hearing Ting Shuang's question, she kept her mouth shut and didn't say a word, and she didn't respond at all.

"Damn it, when I find out what's going on, I'll chop off that stupid grandson." Ting Hui couldn't contain his anger, and slapped the wooden table with leftovers from the previous meal on the table, which was covered by him. There was a shock, and a remnant skull rolled down from the top.

Xiaolan reacted, she stretched out her hand to grab the cold and hard dry cornbread rolled on the ground, and hurriedly stuffed it into her mouth without wiping off the dust on it.

All of a sudden, Ting Shuang's eyes felt hot and she burst into tears, grabbed the cold steamed bun from Xiaolan's hand, and shouted: "Sister-in-law Li, hurry up and cook, safe, go boil water, second child, take Xiaolan Go to Aunt Zhou's house next door and ask her to wash Xiaolan and find a cotton coat to wear."

After making the arrangements, Ting Shuang went to the backyard to chop firewood. He raised the ax and chopped hard. Soon a large pile of firewood was piled up on the ground. on firewood.

Baoqi watched silently from the side, and when he was exhausted and stopped the axe, he went up to persuade him: "Don't be angry, it's not good to be angry."

Ting Shuang took a deep breath and said, "Do you have brothers or sisters? If your younger brothers and sisters are in such cold weather, wearing thin and ragged clothes, walking thousands of miles to beg for food all the way home, and eating cold corn bread on the ground, would you What's your mood?"

Bao Qi patted him on the back: "I know you feel sad and angry, but things have already happened, it's useless for you to be angry again, you'd better think about the good, the third child is back safely, and Xiao Lan, whom you have been thinking about all the time, is also back , Now the family is reunited, which is a good thing."

Ting Shuang felt a little better, and raised the ax to chop the firewood fiercely, saying: "When I find out what's going on, I will definitely not spare the person who hurt Xiaolan. He chopped it up and fed it to the pigs."

Baoqi wanted to remind him that the people don't fight with the government, don't do extreme things on impulse, which in turn hurts yourself, and when you are not strong, you have to be patient and accumulate strength.But seeing that he was angry, he couldn't listen to anything he said.

Aunt Zhou next door had already given Ting Lan a hot bath, washed her face and combed her hair, and found the half-worn cotton padded clothes that Xiaoyingzi wore when she was a child to change into for her.Ting Ke also took a shower and changed clothes in the new bathroom at home.Mrs. Li also hurriedly prepared the food. She cooked a pot of noodles, laid a few poached eggs, scooped a spoonful of fresh crab sauce, fried a plate of bacon, stir-fried radishes and shredded potatoes, and added a few plates of pickles.

Ting Ke and Ting Lan had been starving for days, devouring hot meals.

"Xiaolan, eat slowly, be careful of choking." Ting Shuang kept blowing the noodles in the bowl for her, and scooped out the oily red salted duck egg yolk for her to eat.

After eating three bowls of noodle soup and one steamed bun, Ting Ke regained his composure, and said with a sad face, "What should I do?"

"What's wrong? What happened again?"

"That..." Ting Ke didn't know what to say, "I collected the bill this time, but I didn't bring back a penny."

Hearing this, the whole family fell into distress. They collected more than 200 taels of silver and threw it all to the brothel, but how could they explain it to the Shi family? What can I do?