Bianshanhan [farming]

Li Qingwen was still thinking about it in his heart, Li Qingfeng was already turning over happily on the kang, "There is food, there is food, no need to count rice grains in the soup every day!"

After turning a few pages, Mrs. Chen yelled, "The kang was collapsed by you, so I can only sleep in the kang cave at night!"

Seeing the food and money being happy, Mrs. Chen was all smiles all day long.

Li Qingfeng grinned, "Mom, let's make a dry meal today."

Mrs. Chen didn't agree, and she still owed someone a hundred catties of glutinous rice. She had a debt, and she thought about it even when she was sleeping.

Jiang's eyes were brighter than usual, and while combing his son's hair, he said: "Zai'er is as capable as our father and grandfather, and our family will enjoy the blessing."

Chen said: "He will be very capable in the future, and he can't forget you as a sister-in-law. You will unpick and wash his mattress and wash his pants the next day after you have taken care of him for so many years, and he is more meticulous than my mother. Not a heartless one."

When Jiang shi and Li Qingrui got married, Chen shi suffered from an old problem of overwork, her back hurts and she broke out in a cold sweat when she moved, the doctor saw it and told her to rest.Jiang's newly married daughter-in-law rolled up her sleeves and started doing housework on the second day of her marriage, washing and cooking, and taking care of her mother-in-law and uncle.

Until now, thinking of that time, Chen feels sorry for the eldest daughter-in-law.

Jiang Shi didn't care, and said: "Mother, it's been a few years since the sesame mung bean incident, and I still take it out..."

While talking, a woman's cry came from outside, mixed with a man's roar.

Li Maoxian got up to go out, Mrs. Chen listened for a while, then got off to put on her shoes, and specially told them to stay at home and not run around.

After the father and mother went out, the noise outside became louder, Li Qinghong listened at the door for a while, then came back and said: "It seems that Brother Qingmu is shouting."

Li Qingfeng said: "Father has to go to their house dozens of times a year, you don't need to listen to know what's going on..."

Before he could finish speaking, Mrs. Chen came back with a crying woman, followed by a strong man, who cursed angrily, "Get out, go back to your Liu family!"

The one who cursed was Li Qingwen's cousin Li Qingmu. His grandfather and Li Qingwen's grandfather were uncles and brothers, and the two families were close.

A few peers from the same family stopped Li Qingmu, and Mrs. Chen took the woman into the east room, wiped her face, and persuaded her in a low voice: "Don't take it to heart, he is talking angry."

The few people sitting on the kang in the west room stopped talking, and they all listened to the movement in the east room.

The woman cried for a long time, sobbing and said: "Auntie, Auntie, I don't blame him, I did something wrong, but, but if I don't give food to my mother's family, my parents will have nothing to eat... I am If you are married, you can't just watch your natal family starve to death..."

The crying woman, Mrs. Liu, is Li Qingmu's daughter-in-law. Although she is thin and weak, she is very capable, but her natal family is very poor, so poor that the child grew up without wearing a single piece of clothing that can cover her body.

There are only a dozen households in Liujia Village, Liu’s natal family, and each family does not have a few acres of land. There are stones under a layer of soil in the field, and the harvest is not high. Because they cannot pay enough taxes and grains, people in their village are arrested by the government every year. .

Li Qingmu is Li Qingwen's cousin. He is very honest and serious. He has a sick father and an elderly grandma. Although life is better than Liu's Village, it is still tight.

After Mrs. Liu married into Yangshu Village, she couldn't bear the suffering of her mother's family, so she sneaked in to help her. It was fine once or twice, but she went to her mother's family to make up for it for many years.

Mrs. Liu couldn't watch her blood relatives starve to death, and Li Qingmu couldn't watch the food at home all the time. Because of this, Mrs. Liu and Li Qingmu often quarreled.

There was a torrential rain at the end of summer this year, and the crops in Liujia Village were washed down, rotted in the ground, and there was no harvest.

There was no food in the family, and they would not be able to live on the northwest wind for the next year. The Liu family sent a message to their daughter. Liu cried secretly for a few days, and finally carried the food outside the village in the dark to his brother.

Afraid of being found out, Mrs. Liu filled empty bags with soil. As a result, the family ran out of food before the autumn harvest, and there was no rice to put into the pot, so things couldn't be covered.

There were more than ten people in the family, young and old, who had no food and could only drink northwest wind. Li Qingmu was so angry that he kicked Mrs. Liu out of the house.

Mrs. Liu was crying in the house, and Li Qingmu was wiping tears in the yard, "Uncle, you know the affairs of my family best, and I have troubled you for so many years, but I really can't do anything about it, I don't know how to live... "

Li Maoxian sighed and did not speak.

"Don't talk about conscience, Shan'er's mother is capable and filial, and she takes good care of my grandparents. She doesn't pick any of these things, but she just can't let go of her mother's family and insists on dragging that big family..."

Li Qingmu squatted under the wing room, his eyes were red, "I don't have much money, but I have done a lot for their old Liu's family over the years. She secretly went to her mother's house to get money and food, let alone, Shan'er, his uncle I was imprisoned in the yamen for not paying taxes and food. I begged my uncle and the people in our village to save people. I found Huo Deji Shan'er's second uncle and third uncle in the county. They broke things and I compensated them. The gangster bullied me to get ahead... Our family also remembers her kindness. She has a stomach, and the whole family eats bran and swallow vegetables to make up for her. I'm hungry..."

Li Qingmu held his head in pain, "It's all because of my incompetence. If I could make money, my life wouldn't be like it is today!"

Listening to the movements in the house and the yard, Li Qingwen felt like a pendant was hanging on his heart, feeling heavy and depressed.

After his nephew finished venting, Li Maoxian said: "You are also in trouble."

Others also rushed to persuade them that every family has scriptures that are difficult to recite, whether it is beaten or scolded, life has to go on.

In fact, everyone knew in their hearts that no matter how much trouble there was, the two couples would be inseparable in the end.After leaving the Li family, Mrs. Liu will never find someone who can tolerate her like this again, and Li Qingmu's family, young and old, cannot do without a capable woman.

Li Maoxian pulled Li Qingmu up, and the people in the courtyard slowly dispersed.

Mrs. Chen went to the wing room and took out a bag of rice, and said: "You two can argue all you want, the elder and the younger have to eat, so take the grain back and top it off."

Li Qingmu wiped his eyes and said, "Auntie, your family doesn't have much food..."

"Take it." Li Maoxian said: "It's not for nothing. You should have nothing to do these days. Come and help when you have time. The boss hasn't come back yet, and there are not enough people in the family."

Li Qingmu was stunned for a moment, and quickly said: "It's okay, I'll be fine until the autumn harvest, uncle, just say something if you have any work."

"Go back early." Li Maoxian patted his nephew on the shoulder, "Your father and grandma should be worried."

Li Qingmu looked at the room hesitantly, Chen said: "Shan'er's mother is dizzy from crying, I'll let her lie down for a while, you go back first."

Li Qingmu left with the food on his back, and Liu Shi soon woke up too. She had to take care of the old and the young at home, and it was really impossible to stay longer.

Seeing her like this, Mrs. Chen sent her back, sat and talked with Li Qingmu's grandma for a while, and went home after the sun went down.

After dinner, Mrs. Chen called out to her younger son, "Zai'er, you've been bored all night, and your hands still hurt?"

Li Qingwen shook his head, "Mother, my hand is fine, I'm fine."

Li Qinghong stared at him for a long time, and said: "After Brother Qingmu and the others came, Zi'er seemed to be a little sluggish, it's okay to be scared, it's okay, brother and sister-in-law have quarreled and it's fine."

Seeing the concerned eyes of his mother and elder brother, Li Qingwen still told the truth, "After hearing about Brother Qingmu's family, I feel that life is quite difficult..."

Chen was happy, "every family has scriptures that are difficult to recite, and everyone's life is full of bumps and bumps. Your Qingmu brother just encountered a little trouble for a while, and you can get over it with a little help. It's not difficult. It's really difficult It was a disaster year, when there was no food in the urn, no crops in the fields, the whole family gnawed on the bark, and only those with the most fatalities survived."

Speaking of this, Mrs. Chen talked a lot, "Let's not talk about it, let's say that the year before last, we were hit by hail, there was no food, the roots and insects were dug out and chewed, and all the villages and villages ran out. Beg for food. Thanks to your uncle who traveled hundreds of miles to deliver a few bags of rice, or else it would be fatal."

"There is also a lot of land in our village. You may be able to count the days when you are full with your fingers. There will be a severe drought in three to five years. You usually eat less and save a grain, and you can get back a piece of food in disaster years. Fate, I dare not open my stomach to eat..." Jiang also said with emotion.

Hearing what his mother and sister-in-law told about the starvation they experienced, Li Qingwen suddenly felt a great sense of crisis in his heart. There is no scientific irrigation system, no chemical fertilizers and high-yielding seeds, and the ability to resist disasters is very low. It's really miserable.

Since he came, he will be safe, Li Qingwen thought, he can't go back now, so he has to find a way to live a good life, food and money are indispensable!

With money from selling sugar, Li Maoxian wanted to go to the county town to buy glutinous rice the next day. Before he left, someone came to his house first.

"I met your second boy in the county yesterday, and he asked me to bring this pack of medicine back." The visitor said, "I drank a few cups yesterday and fell asleep when I came back. The delivery was late, so it didn't delay things, right? "

As soon as he smelled the medicine bag, Li Maoxian knew it was a mother's medicine, so he quickly said it was fine.

"Is this medicine brought back by Zhuo'er?" Mrs. Chen heard it in the wing room, and after someone delivered it, she came out, "Isn't it on credit? Sigh, this child is really..."

Mrs. Chen has never liked to owe others, especially her son's employer is not very reasonable. If he owes medicine money on credit, he might look at others again.

Li Maoxian was also very surprised, his son had no money, how did he get this medicine?

"I'm going to the county right now." Li Maoxian brushed the dirt off his body, "Stop thinking about it."

Today, Li Maoxian took on the burden of buying grain. Li Qingwen wanted to see how Zitang and Panda Candy were selling, so he followed him to the county seat.