Yipin Farmer

With the support of donations from rich households, the mid-term project is still going on smoothly.The technical aspects of the project are still handled by experienced craftsmen, Ping An is in charge of the cashier and logistics, Ting Shuang is only in charge of contacting donations, and sometimes goes to the construction site to do a couple of hard work to cheer everyone up and imagine a bright future.

He still hasn't forgotten his own house which is under construction. Uncle Zhou is in charge of the construction of restaurants in the city, and Ting Hui runs back and forth to buy materials and pay wages.

Ting Shuang also did one more thing, that is, asked Shi Jie to introduce a better pharmacy, and sent Ting Qiu to be an apprentice there, agreed to pay the tuition fee on a monthly basis, and told Ting Qiu to study hard, especially the knowledge of business management. .Ting Qiu also knew that his eldest brother would be entrusted with a heavy responsibility, so he worked hard to study hard.

The busy days passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it was the season of ear seedlings. Generally, the wheat was harvested two days before the ear seedlings. Sanhua Village suffered from a drought this time, which was later remedied by water-saving irrigation, and there were several rains around the beginning of summer. , To some extent recovered some losses, everyone temporarily stopped the work on the construction site, seized the time to harvest wheat, and went to the construction site again after the summer harvest.

During the busy work, the Dragon Boat Festival is here. At this time of year, no matter how poor the villagers are, they will find a way to prepare two delicious meals. Some housewives have been thinking about how to prepare this year's Dragon Boat Festival food in the first year.As early as ten days before the festival, young girls prepare rice dumplings wrapped with five-color silk threads, weave duck eggs into strings, and embroider exquisite sachets, all of which are very beautiful.

This year's summer harvest in Sanhua Village is not as good as in previous years, but the villagers who were affected by the disaster went to work on the construction site and earned a few hundred coins, so they could have a good festival.

The Meng family’s Dragon Boat Festival this time is not as shabby as last year. Aunt Li and Aunt Liu made a lot of delicious food, including rice dumplings, salted duck eggs, five-du cakes, cherry mulberries, etc., as well as chicken, duck and fish, which were mostly frozen. , very cool and delicious.

The salted duck eggs are made at home. Once when Tingshuang went to the city, she found that a salt store had transferred the store. The old brine was chiseled out and shipped home. The family also saved hundreds of duck eggs, and wrapped the brine and mud with duck eggs to marinate.By the time of the Dragon Boat Festival, five hundred duck eggs had been marinated, and when one was cracked open, the yolk was as bright red as a little sun, and when poked with chopsticks, the oil flowed out, and the taste was indescribably delicious.

Ting Shuang originally wanted to keep some of the marinated duck eggs for her own use, and take the rest to restaurants to sell.However, he no longer looks down on these small coins.He simply kept all of it for himself to eat, and took out part of it as a gift for others.

In addition to the salted duck eggs, there are rice dumplings and cakes. These cakes are made by himself, filled with freshly fallen fruits, and ground with freshly harvested wheat. They taste sweet and soft.

Ting Shuang put on the most beautiful clothes for Xiaolan, and said, "You should give your grandpa and grandma a proper salute, you know?"

"Got it." Xiaolan put on her beautiful clothes, and looked left and right in front of the mirror.She has always loved beauty, but she broke her head during the fire during the Lantern Festival, leaving a small inconspicuous scar. She looked in the mirror two hundred times a day and was worried.Ting Shuang felt that she was a little vain, so she taught her well: "The most important thing is for a girl to be kind-hearted. Don't always look in the mirror, it's not good."

Now, she looked in the mirror again and again, and after she was sure she was beautiful, she followed Ting Shuang into the city to visit Shijia and his wife.

Ting Shuang carried her into her own ox cart, and set off for the city with the ceremony.

When she arrived at the door of Shi's house, Xiaolan touched her hair and found that the braid had been blown away by the wind, so she quickly took out the comb from her small bag.

"My braid is messed up, so my elder brother combed it for me."

"Oh, your pigtails are done well." Ting Shuang said so, still took the comb, combed her hair and braided her pigtails, tied them up with red strings, and suddenly remembered "The White-haired Girl" and sang: " His daughter has flowers to wear, but your brother can't buy them with little money, so he pulled back a two-foot red-headed rope..."

"Puchi..." A chuckle came from nowhere.

Ting Shuang followed the sound and looked over. Apart from him and Xiaolan, there was also a green silk cart with a green cover and beautiful flower balls hanging on the cover. The cart was pulled by a mule with pure black fur. The woman following the car can be seen as a rich man's car.The curtains were closed tightly, there should be female relatives in the car, and the laughter seemed to be the voice of a young woman.It was only then that I realized that the strange song I was humming just now seemed like a bad tape had been twisted. Although it would not attract wolves, it was still very nerve-wracking.

Although Ting Shuang's face was thick, she also blushed for a while, and then saw the car driving into the gate of the Shijia, and a young maid came down, and the person in the car helped the maid's hand to get out of the car, and saw a slender hand like a spring onion , wearing an emerald green bracelet, stretched out from the curtain, and there was a soft rustling of dresses and rings. A group of people entered the second door, probably Smith's girlfriends.Ting Shuang looked at her shabby ox cart, and because she had just been laughed at, Niao quietly shrank aside, waiting for her to go in for a while, and then led Xiaolan in with a basket.

The old couple of the Shi family received him warmly, liked Xiaolan very much, grabbed fruit for her to eat, and then ordered the maid to take her to the back house to play.

Shi Jie stayed in Tingshuang to drink tea and eat fruits in the front hall, and the two chatted a few gossips. When Shi Jie got to the point, it was time for Tingshuang to consider personal issues.

Ting Shuang was only thinking about revitalizing the family business, but she didn't think about that.Hearing what Shi Jie said, he chuckled: "I haven't considered that yet, let's talk about earning a family business first."

"Family and career are not in conflict." Shi Jie did ideological work for him, "So-called, there are three ways to be unfilial, and having no offspring is the greatest. Your brothers have already reached the age of getting married, so you have to hurry up. There are no offspring. It's not safe to live under the spring."

Seeing him take down his parents' hat, Ting Shuang felt a little headache. Marriage or not is a personal freedom in modern times, but in ancient times it was a big issue about loyalty and filial piety.

"This matter is not urgent." Ting Shuang thought up the excuse, "Look at the current situation of my family, people from a good background look down on our shabby and poor family, and my brother looks down on us, what should I do? ?So I still work hard to earn money, to cheer up the family business, and start a family for my younger brothers first. My business is not urgent."

"Why are you not in a hurry?" Shi Jie reminded him again, "You must know that seniors and young are in order. How can there be any reason for a younger brother to get married before an elder brother?"

"Ah..." Ting Shuang was going to faint, you mean that if I don't get married, my younger brothers can't get married either?Why are there so many broken rules in ancient times?But how can I have the time to fall in love now, even if I have the time, this era does not allow holding hands and pressing the road before marriage.

With a heavy heart, Ting Shuang stayed at the historian's house for dinner, then left and went out to visit the county magistrate Qi and several other acquainted merchants, and gave gifts.Seeing that it was getting late, I drove the ox cart home.

When I got home, I found a lot of rice dumplings and duck eggs in the main room.

"Is this a gift from the villagers?" Ting Shuang conveniently peeled a rice dumpling and ate it. The fresh reed leaves were fragrant.

Xiao Lan immediately pointed at him with her little finger: "Brother, you didn't wash your hands."

Ting Shuang blushed, and argued, "Isn't this wrapped in zongzi leaves? Don't pick on me. Today, because of you, I am ashamed at the door of the Shijia."

Baoqi hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?"

Ting Shuang talked about braiding Xiaolan's hair and singing strange songs at the gate of Shi's house and was laughed at. Everyone laughed. Ting Shuang was thinking about getting married and didn't want to play with them. What's the matter?"

"Uncle Shi said that we brothers should consider getting married. I'm so annoyed." Ting Shuang ignored Baoqi's face and turned stinky, flipping through the rice dumplings, duck eggs and fruits on the table.He asked again: "Didn't anyone send a sachet when they gave these things?"

Ting Hui said: "Of course someone gave it to me. Dayingzi from Zhou's family and Ernier from Uncle Sun's family. But I don't want girls from the village."

"What's wrong with the girls in the village, as long as they are simple. Will those ladies in the city who are educated and come from a family like us fall in love with a family like ours?" Ting Shuang became worried. If you can't be high or low, no one will look down on you, it's so troublesome.

The next day, when the Dragon Boat Festival was outing, the villagers went out to play early in the morning.The Meng family also went to the hillside to collect dew, and wiped their eyes with dew. According to ancient customs, May is the evil month of "yin and yang struggle, and blood qi disperses". Bao, but also wash eyes with dew, it is said that the eyes are clear for a year without getting sick.

Ting Shuang followed suit, pulling a grass leaf and rubbing it on her face.The little monkey scurried around in the grass empty-handedly, and when others washed his face, he took a bath, and his whole body's hair was wet.

The small hillside at the head of the village is where children roll their eggs in previous years. This year, the village was hit by a disaster. The children of rich families still have eggs, but the poor children have none. Ting Shuang boiled a pot of eggs for these poor children to choose.The children happily stretched out their hands to grab the eggs, and Huanhuan followed behind to join in the fun, and also stretched out their claws to grab an egg.

When they came to the small hillside, the children rushed up screaming, lined up, and rolled down the hard-boiled eggs to see whose egg would not break.The eggs rolled down the hillside one by one, and the bones fell down the hillside, no matter whether they were broken or not, they all fell into the stomachs of the children.

The children had a good time, and the adults were not idle. The ingenious girls embroidered exquisite sachets, filled with herbs and atractylodes, and gave them to the boys they liked during the Dragon Boat Festival outing.

The most popular guy in Sanhua Village used to be Ting Hui, and girls often came to chat with him if they had nothing to do. Later, Bao Qi came, and his appearance was even better, which caught the attention of more girls.It's just that although Baoqi is handsome, she has a bit of a temper. She looks arrogant and doesn't talk to people very much, and she is not easy to get close to.Unlike Ting Hui, who has a good temper and a lively and approachable temperament, so the two shared the eyes of the female compatriots in the village equally.This Dragon Boat Festival, the two each received a lot of sachets, but Ting Shuang didn't receive any. Last year, she didn't feel much about worrying about her livelihood. This year, she felt... um... a little lonely.

Brothers and sisters are lonely these days, and Ting Shuang feels lonely even after eating and drinking. She looks up at the sky at a 45-degree angle, which is bright and sad, and opens her mouth again: "Slender clouds make a coincidence, flying stars spread hatred,...that what... …When the golden wind and the jade dew meet, they will win but there are countless people in the world.”

"What is that?" Baoqi sat beside him.

Of course Ting Shuang was embarrassed to say that she didn't learn literature well, and she forgot what the previous sentence of "Golden Wind and Jade Dew" was, and just said: "I don't know what I am thinking about."

Tsk, I feel sour.

Baoqi became serious: "Could it be that your thoughts are separated from yours by a silver man, and there is no boat to cross?"

Ting Shuang couldn't understand, she couldn't help but her face twitched, and she laughed dryly. You bullied me for not learning literature well.It made me angry, and I will give you two Mao Xuan Deng Lun, universal gravitation, conservation of momentum, etc., and a few birdsong, so that you will immediately find a noodle and hang yourself in shame.

The little rooster named "Lu Xiaofeng" in the family raised its beautiful big tail high and led a group of little hens wandering in the yard arrogantly. Ting Shuang looked very upset and kicked over. "Lu Xiaofeng" was so frightened that he flapped his wings and flew away.

Baoqi said to him: "Why are you kicking chickens for no reason?"

Ting Shuang snorted angrily: "It has so many wives, but I don't have any. I'm jealous."

Baoqi laughed and covered her stomach: "In spring, everything grows. Animals such as deer and ducklings are in heat, and you are also in heat, haha."

Ting Shuang glared at him viciously, and stretched out her hand to pinch his neck, when a soft voice came from outside the door: "Is Brother Meng here?"

"Yes." Ting Shuang's fierce expression immediately changed into a gentle and elegant attitude, so fast that Baoqi thought she was dazzled just now.

The person who came was the eldest daughter of Wei Shuangquan's family in this village. Her name was Yumei. She was the prettiest girl in the village. Wearing makeup, wearing a pair of new embroidered shoes on the feet, obviously specially modified.A pair of jade earrings with red pomegranate flowers make her look fresh and lovely.

"Miss Wei, come here..." Ting Shuang was a little surprised, she probably came here to give a sachet.

Sure enough, Yumei took out the sachet with a blushing face and whispered, "This...please brother..."

Yumei lowered her head and couldn't continue, but Ting Shuang understood: "But give the sachet to my second child? He's not at home, so I'll pass it on for you."

"No..." Yumei shook her head, blushing even more.

"Oh?" Ting Shuang wondered, could it be for Baoqi, but he is right next to you, why didn't you just give it to him?Or for Xiaoye or Ping An?This is a good thing, if you are embarrassed, I can be a courier to ensure that it will be delivered to me as quickly as possible.

Yumei lowered her head, her voice was as low as a mosquito humming: "It's for big brother, please accept it."

"Me?" Ting Shuang pointed to her nose in surprise, and couldn't help crying lasagna.

In his previous life, he was very mediocre in appearance and aptitude, and never confiscated girls' little things. In this life, there are two handsome men, Bao Qi and Ting Hui, around him, and the eyes of female creatures within ten miles have not fallen on him. Now, finally, there are beautiful women with discerning eyes Zhu, found our real gold buried in the sand.

A crush sent me a sachet, oh oh oh, I finally no longer live under the shadow of two handsome men oh oh oh!!

Heaven, earth, which angel sister has heard our inner calling! ! !