continuation [farming]

Li Mu was just in the next place, his whole body was in pain, as if he had taken the exam for nine days and nine nights in a small cubicle, and he dragged off the work that could have been done in half a morning for a whole day .He only knew that he was slow, but he never thought that he would be so slow. The Zhang family was kind and didn't say anything. The people who worked with the Zhang family also delayed a lot of time to watch the excitement. Did not compare.

If it wasn't for the fact that on the way home, he heard two people chatting aside, loudly using this as a topic of conversation, and laughing at each other after talking, Li Mu would not have known about it.

While smiling, one of them spotted Li Mu not far away, and stabbed the other, and the two fell silent, for fear that he would be angry.

Li Mu was not angry. He was a novice, but he thought he was doing well, but now he is quite disappointed.Xia He was angry, but was grabbed by Li Mu.

It's just that Li Mu almost got up late the next day, until Li Laosi came to the door to wait for someone, Xia He looked at Li Mu's yard for a long time, but he still didn't see Li Mu come out.I had no choice but to knock on the door and shout: "Sister, get up!"

The sound was louder than the sound, and after a long while, Li Mu was finally called out.

Aunt Lin was a little unhappy when she saw Li Mu not walking so neatly when she came back yesterday, but she was even more dissatisfied when she saw Li Mu leaning on the wall when she came out of the courtyard today. Shrunk his neck.It's just that when he saw Li Mu's appearance, he felt a little guilty.

After all, he is a scholar, so there is no need to ask him to stay in the field for a day.

So Xia He took the bookcase from Li Mu's hand very consciously, and said, "I'll carry it for you!" Then, like the wind, he put Li Mu's salute on the donkey cart, not letting Li Mu touch it .

After sending the man away, Aunt Lin took the time to complain: "Master is a person who does great things, how can he go to work in the fields!"

Xia He muttered: "The emperor still plows by himself every year."

Xia He knew that this was just from books, how could Aunt Lin know that, she was a bit puzzled when she heard the words: "Then our farm family has to pay rent to the emperor every year, our family can eat as much as we want Now, your majesty has such a large piece of land to collect rent, and you have to grow it yourself?" Aunt Lin has no idea how big this big Minjiang Mountain is, but she only knows that no matter where she goes, she can't get out. The site of the Min Dynasty.

"..." Xia He was stopped by the question and did not speak.Seeing that Aunt Lin was still chanting, he hurriedly turned around and said, "Hey, yesterday my mother said she missed Jinbao, so I'll take Jinbao back today!"

After Xia He finished speaking, she went back to the house and left with Jin Bao in her arms.He went back to Zhang's house very diligently. At first, there were people pointing and pointing. Later, he learned from Aunt Lin that the Li family's mother and son had no objections, so no one talked about it anymore.

This time, before entering the house, Xia He saw that the house was busy.When he took a closer look, it was the eldest sister Dongmei who came back with her eldest brother-in-law and Gouwa.

It's been a long time since I saw Dongmei, Xia He looked at her from a distance, and became happy, calling: "Elder sister! Brother-in-law!"

"Xia He." Dongmei smiled, and quickly walked to the door of the house, opened her arms towards Xia He, and wrapped him and Jin Bao in her arms, holding him upright.Immediately afterwards, he took Jin Bao away and said: "Oh, this is the poor baby of the second sister. Come, auntie hugs."

Jin Bao groaned, turned his head to look at Xia He, and then at Dongmei, although he was not very happy, but he didn't struggle.Satisfied, Dongmei carefully discerned Jin Bao's unopened face, and said, "This doll looks like our family!"

After Xia He handed over Jin Bao, he planned to provoke Gou Wa, Gou Wa hugged his mother's thigh, and hid when he saw Xia He, thinking that he was raped by Xia He who was a half-grown child when he was younger. The tossing was not light, and I remembered that there was a little aunt in my grandfather's house who could be a tosser, her face was wrinkled, and she seemed unhappy.When he looked up and saw a younger brother he didn't know in Dongmei's arms, he was even more wronged.He didn't speak clearly, but he also complained softly: "Mother, don't hug me, hug him! Hmph."

"Hmph, mother didn't hug you, could it be that you walked this journey by yourself?" Dongmei said to Gou Wa, "Holding you, little pig, made mother's arms sore from hugging you, and you all went to grandparents' house Now, do you still want your mother to hold you?"

Xia He immediately greeted Gouwa: "Come on, mother doesn't hug, auntie hugs!"

Seeing that it was my aunt, Gouwa ran from behind Dongmei to the farther behind Xia He's elder brother-in-law with her calves, only showing a pair of eyes to look at Xia He.

Xia He clutched her chest, pretending to say: "Oh, my aunt is really sad. Gouwa kissed my aunt when I was young, but now I don't care about my aunt."

Seeing Xia He talking poorly, Lan Niang said with a smile: "Okay, you, if you hugged Gouwa back then, if you could do half of what you do with Jinbao now, Gouwa won't see you and run away!"

Xia He curled her lips and said, "I was still young at that time, and I didn't know how to take care of children."

The head of Dongmei's family smoothed things over and said, "This daughter has grown up only after getting married. Xia He was still a little girl when Gouwa was born, and now she can take care of children."

"Okay, Xia He is still childish. I just came back not long ago, and I heard that you started fighting with the elders of the Li family two days ago." Dongmei said yes to Xia He.

Xia He hurriedly said: "I drank alcohol that day, I was drunk! It doesn't count!"

"Slapping is just hitting. Do you think you can gag someone's mouth by saying you're drunk?" Dongmei scolded.

Lan Niang hurriedly persuaded: "Okay, we've already told him about it, and he's not allowed to drink any more."

"It's thanks to the fact that my brother-in-law's family has status. If it were another family, the Liliu's family would have been slapped. I'm afraid there will be trouble in the morning." Dongmei poked Xia He with her finger, The way is, "In the future, you can have a longer memory! Next time the eldest sister comes home, can the eldest sister only listen to people's praises all the way?"

Xia He reluctantly complied, but felt in his heart that people in this village have nothing to do, so they just like to gossip. I don't know what great good deeds they have to do in order to only hear people's praises?He didn't think he could do it yet.

Seeing Xia He's appearance, Dongmei didn't expect to be able to persuade him anymore, so she just hugged Jinbao and started making out.Lan Niang wanted to grab it, but she didn't fight, so she had to go back to the stove to work again.Dongmei saw Lan Niang working, and ordered Xia He to say: "You don't have to hurry up and help, everyone says you are an adult, and there is no work in your eyes."

Xia He wrinkled her face, and let out an oh, looking at the Gouwa not far away who had forgotten to be jealous and turned her head to make faces at a baby younger than her, she was really greedy.

Gouwa can talk, with a baby voice, which is fun. It will take another two years for Jinbao to reach this point.

Children sleep too much, Jinbao and Gouwa both start to feel sleepy after lunch.Seeing the two little faces yawning with heavy eyelids, Dongmei had no choice but to call Xia He over and said, "You hug Gouwa, let's take them back to sleep."

Dongmei is looking for an opportunity to find Xia He to be alone.

She also knew that Xia He was a boy, and when she heard that her parents were going to marry Xia He off, she was terrified until she heard that Lan Niang said that she made an excuse, saying that Xia He was a stone girl, so she would not marry her. I let go of my heart a little, but I still feel that something is wrong.

With this in mind, she found a day when she was not busy working in the field and returned to her natal home.

Sure enough, as soon as they entered the door, Zhang Shiyi and his wife were full of worries. After asking Lanniang secretly, they realized that the second brother-in-law seemed to be attracted to the third brother.

Fortunately, Li Mu kept his word and didn't really do anything to Xia He, otherwise he should have discovered Xia He's male body long ago.

Lan Niang wanted to persuade Xia He not to stay too close to Li Mu, but as an elder, she asked these words out of her mouth. Seeing Dongmei came back, she simply asked her, an elder sister, to ask.

Putting the two children down, Dongmei saw that Xia He was about to go out, so she quickly grabbed him and asked in a low voice: "Xiao He, tell the elder sister, what do you think of the brother-in-law?"

"Sister-in-law?" Xia He didn't know the uneasiness in his parents and sister's heart at this moment, but felt that Dongmei asked this question strangely, and replied, "Of course he is very good, he is also helping me with my work! It would be even better if he didn't ask me to study... But I reckon, this is what Dad asked him to do." Xia He curled her lips.

Before the Zhang family fled, Dongmei remembered everything, but she still remembered that her grandfather's family was a scholarly family. Although she had never met her grandfather, she had vaguely heard from her father's master that his grandfather was a great Confucianist. She was really puzzled by the appearance, there was only such a man in her family now, why didn't he follow the elders at all, and he didn't like reading when he was young.

But now is not the time to worry about this, Dongmei is thinking about Xia He's meaning, maybe she also has a good impression of Li Mu.Fortunately, this younger brother was taught to be ignorant of the difference between men and women, and the affairs of men and women. Otherwise, if he had been close to Li Mu, he would have already realized that he was wrong.

But she didn't know that because of a casual joke she made when she was pregnant with Gouwa, Xia He had already had doubts in her heart.

Dongmei asked again: "Then if he becomes a high official in the future and doesn't want you, what should you do?"

"Then let's make peace, we can't just let it go." Xia He quickly replied.

Only then did Dongmei feel relieved, it seemed that Xia He hadn't fallen into it yet.Perhaps Zhang's parents didn't know much about it, but she spent a lot of time with Xia He, but she vaguely sensed that her younger brother was resistant to getting married. To marry Xia He, he had no choice but to agree for the sake of his parents, fearing that if Xia He chooses by himself, he would be delayed for a lifetime.

Unexpectedly, Xia He was stunned for a moment, rather disappointed, and added: "However, I'm always afraid that I will never find someone as good as him again."

With just a few words, Dongmei's hanging heart rose and fell, wishing to knock Xia He on the head.

She was so angry that she hammered off the bed board, and her movements became a little louder. The two pieces of flesh on her chest twitched, and Xia He suddenly remembered something, and asked curiously: "Sister, what delicious food are you hiding in your arms? What are you hiding today? The moment I hugged me, I felt like it wasn't a steamed bun!"

Dongmei: "..." She almost forgot about this, she came in a hurry and didn't stuff the steamed buns into her bosom.At this time, seeing Xia He's greedy face, she couldn't help imitating Lan Niang's temperament of making up nonsense, and said nonsense with her eyes open, "Your brother-in-law's village doesn't like hiding steamed buns. The daughter's house over there They all hide a kind of cake."

"Is it delicious? Sister, I want to eat it!" Xia Hewen said it was a novelty, flattering her.

"You are not serious, except for your big stomach, which woman eats the hidden things in a day and asks others for it?" Dongmei knocked Xia He on the head and refused, "I told you to eat it." Now, what will your brother-in-law think of me in a while! Be hungry, and wait for the New Year sister to bring you a piece, okay?"