Bianshanhan [farming]

When Li Qingwen woke up again, his surroundings were pitch black, and he was still very strange. Hearing the hula la wind blowing the leaves, it took him a long time to realize that he was not on the kang, but in a straw stack...

The two sides were a bit crowded, and half of his body was numb from the pressure. When he moved, it seemed that ants had crawled over his body, and Li Qingwen couldn't help but "tear".

"Zai'er, are you awake?" Li Qinghong's voice sounded from the side.

Li Qingwen said unexpectedly: "Third brother, are you here too?"

After a few sounds, the scythe lit the oil lamp, Li Qingwen blinked, and saw Li Qinghong holding the oil lamp, and a long leg hanging on his body...

This leg belonged to his fourth brother, who was sleeping soundly at this moment, and the two nephews were also breathing heavily.

Yesterday, Li Qinghong was busy playing field. After finishing his work, Li Qingfeng came back from hunting and insisted on dragging him along. He said that he was afraid that his little nephew would be cold and that he would be warm if he slept in a crowd, so Li Qinghong was dragged here.

The three older brothers and the two younger ones slept in a straw stack, and it wasn't crowded.

Seeing Li Qingwen grinning, Li Qinghong stretched out his hand to rub his shoulders. The two of them moved, and Li Zhengming, who was half lying on Li Qingwen's body, woke up. He touched the wet spot on his face in a daze, and muttered: "Down, down!" It's raining..."

Li Qingwen froze for a moment, and immediately wiped his face with his hand, then quickly wiped the corners of his mouth dry, destroying the evidence.

After mumbling, the little guy fell asleep again.

Seeing that the three uncles and nephews would not wake up for a while, Li Qingwen and Li Qinghong extinguished the oil lamps, and carefully drilled out of the cave.

Seeing that there was still light in the yard at home, Li Qingwen was stunned for a moment, "Father and mother woke up so early?"

Li Qinghong knew that he was dazed when he fell asleep, so he suppressed a smile and said, "I haven't slept yet."

Not only are torches lit in the villages, yards, and river camps, but people are still raising the field in the middle of the night, loading grain, and then pulling it into the warehouse.

Li Qingwen just woke up, not knowing the time, and was a little confused. When he and Li Qinghong arrived at the granary, they saw the sorghum and beans brought back from the yard filling the granary non-stop, and heard some old people say that it might rain, so they knew why. What big guy is still working in the middle of the night.

In autumn, I am most afraid of rain and frost. No matter how carefully covered and protected, the grain that has been drenched by rain may become damp, moldy or sprout, and even livestock cannot eat it.

The frost falls early, and the crops will freeze to death before they are ripe, and the yield will also be reduced. Therefore, the autumn harvest is the most fearful period of the year, and there is no mistake at all.

Li Qingwen's rice was also taken back, and it was piled up in front of his house at this time, where a group of old ladies and old men were threshing the grains.

This year’s rice is better than last year’s, but the yield is still not high. The old ladies shake their heads and say, “No wonder rice is so expensive. It’s troublesome to plant, but it’s only available all year round…”

Li Qingwen sat beside them and worked together. The old ladies turned their faces away while working, "Little boy, it's the [-]th Chinese New Year. It's time to see your wife. Tell grandma what you like." ..."

Li Qingwen hurried away without getting his ass hot. It's not suitable to stay for a long time in a place of right and wrong.

In case he went to the yard and was driven back, Li Qingwen went home to cook.

There were two bags of sorghum noodles next to the stove, which seemed to be freshly ground, and hadn't been sent to the wing room yet.

Li Qingwen cleaned the pots that could be used at home, scooped noodles into them one by one with the bowls, and then poured the warm water in the pot into them, and started mixing one by one.

Liu Yuerong came back to fetch the bag rope, and when she heard the movement in the back room, her heart tightened, her uncle, aunt, and the others were all in the yard, that, that room...

Thinking that a mouse had come in, she said "Ah" on purpose, Li Qingwen covered his face with both hands, and asked what was wrong, only then did Liu Yuerong realize that it was his little cousin, and ran away after saying nothing.

After Li Qingwen made the meeting, his palms and wrists were sore, Liu Yuerong came back again, this time with her elder sister, she was not taking things, but was driven back by Mrs. Chen.

Mrs. Chen wanted them to go back to sleep, so the two sisters ran to the back room to help Li Qingwen cook.

In the middle of the night, Li Qingwen didn't want the sisters to be tired, and was about to let them go when Liu Yuerong's stomach started to growl.

Li Qingwen changed his voice, "Then chop the onion for me."

Just like that, Liu Yueyun rolled the salt particles with a rolling pin, while Liu Yuerong sat on a small bench to pick the onions.

The little girl picked the green onions very carefully. Li Qingwen washed the green onions she prepared and chopped them into pieces.

Seeing Li Qingwen's proficiency in using a knife, Liu Yuerong opened her mouth. Her little cousin chopped green onions quickly and well, much better than her.

After the dough was ready, Li Qingwen started to roll it. Li Yueyun wanted to help, but Li Qingwen didn't let him. He was so sleepy that he couldn't let his cousin, who had been busy all night, do it again.

After rolling out the noodles, apply oil, sprinkle with salt and chopped green onion.

Liu Yueyun didn't fight with him, and put the firewood into the stove and started to boil the pot.

As soon as the pot was hot, Li Qingwen put a spoonful of oil into it. After the oil was hot, he started to fry the pancakes.

One pot of pancakes, the other pot was not idle, a pot of sauce was put into the pot twice, eggs and mushrooms were added, and a large pot of mushroom sauce was fried...

On their side, the scallion pancakes just came out of the pan, when someone walked around outside the back room door, it was Li Qingshun and his brothers, touching their stomachs one by one, and asked, "What do you eat? Is there a lot?"

There was dirt all over their bodies and heads, and they couldn't be patted clean for a while, and they didn't enter the house.

Liu Yuerong brought over the pancakes and sauce just out of the pan, and they were not afraid of being hot, they grabbed them with their hands and put them in their mouths, saying "really delicious" while eating.

While Li Qingwen was working, he tore a piece of pancake that had just come out of the pan and stuffed it for his little cousin. Liu Yuerong was stunned for a moment, and said in a low voice, "Let's give it to them first, I'll talk about it later..."

"You eat, this is not enough for them to swallow in a few mouthfuls." Li Qingwen said.

The cake was filled with oil inside and out, it was salty and fragrant, Liu Yuerong couldn't help chewing after taking two bites.

They had just eaten a piece, when another person came over and said, "I'm not hungry at first, but I can't stand the smell..."

In a hurry to rush to the market, many of them didn't have a bite of food at night, and they didn't feel uncomfortable after being hungry. However, Daheitian smelled the aroma of pancakes here, and their stomachs rebelled. They couldn't take it anymore, so they came to beg for a stutter .

When Li Qingwen heard the sound, he didn't dare to delay, and immediately put the cakes in the pan, while Liu Yueyun quickly cleaned the pan for frying the sauce, and put oil in it to bake together.

There were a lot of people working today, Li Qingwen always felt that he didn't have enough noodles in these basins, just in case, he continued to use the empty basins to continue cooking.

Doing such tiring work makes people hungry easily, especially those who borrow food to survive. They are reluctant to eat every meal.

They are returning to work during the autumn harvest, not helping for nothing. They stand up when they are tired and hungry, and when they see someone smelling the smell and asking for food, they also hold back and stay still.

In a hurry, he couldn't starve people to death, so Li Qingrui urged dozens of people to come back and have a bite first, and Li Maoyu, Chen Shi and Jiang Shi also trotted back, ready to cook.

They are not as troublesome as Li Qingwen's. They carry the rice directly to the neighbor's house, start to cook in two large pots, turn over the flowers to drain the rice soup, and then put it in the pot to simmer. After a quarter of an hour, two large pots of rice come out. Many people are full.

Although pancakes are delicious, sorghum rice and pickles can fill you up faster...

Those who finished eating continued to go back to work, and continued to cook on the fire here, and then called people back when they were cooked. They continued to work like this until dawn, and the bags of rice and noodles were all gone.

I was so tired that I didn't want to say a word, so I hurried back and lay down for a while.

Li Maoxian and Li Qingrui still didn't go home, and they directly pulled the soybeans and wheat from the punching to the camp. This was to hand over the grain to Jiang Cong and the others, and they didn't need to hand it over directly, so they didn't have to go back and forth.

The officers and soldiers just woke up, yawned and weighed the grain, the head of the grain collection only opened a bag, grabbed the rice grains and rubbed them with his hands, the grain was clean, he nodded, and the Li family moved in.

It was supposed to be checked bag by bag. I don’t know if it’s troublesome or I trust them, but no one checked them later.

Fearing that it would not be enough, Li Maoxian and the others deliberately pretended to be more, and there was still a lot left after handing in, so they had to push it back.

After a whole night of busy work, he was exhausted, and within two hours of lying down, he heard someone shouting that it was cloudy.

A group of people woke up from their sleep and ran out to see that the sky was completely covered by gray clouds. It seemed that the rain was inevitable.

Although sleepy, everyone endured it and quickly went to the yard to continue working. The rain will not stop for a while, and if they can recover more food, they will waste less.

There are enough people, and the horses pull the stone rollers in a circle. After pressing, more than a dozen people immediately go up and overturn. The wind is strong enough. After lifting, someone will pack the bags and pull them back one by one.

After being busy for a long time like this, the crops in the yard are getting less and less, even if the clouds in the sky are rolling more and more intensely, there is no need to worry too much.

Li Qingwen cooked for another day, and everyone else said that it was okay to collect it in time. He couldn't help thinking that Jiang Cong and Jiang Liping didn't know if their trip went well or not.

At this time, Jiang Liping and others had already arrived at the post station for help, but they came a step late. Several postmen here died, some had their necks bitten off, and some had half their bodies gnawed off. miserable.

Following the trail left by the wild beast, they arrived at a cellar, where a person was hiding, and at this time there was only one breath left.

This person must have been frightened, and after waking up, he shouted wildly, "No, it's not me, it's not the bastard I caught, no, don't surround yourself, let's go, let's go..."

While they were digging a grave, they listened to this man's nonsense, and asked the person who ran to ask for help. Only then did they know that someone in their post station secretly took out a bear cub, but the bear followed him to find it. Come.

I don't know if I want to hide the bear cubs or to lure the bears to hunt. At first, only the horses in the station died. The strong smell of blood attracted more wild animals, and then this tragedy happened.

This station can no longer be used, and the vengeful female bear will definitely continue to attack. Jiang Cong and the others rode to a nearby station and told the people there to be careful in the future.

There is still a little bag left in the courtyard of the Li family. The raindrops fell, and the big ones fell into a hole on the ground. The rain was so heavy that it took less than a stick of incense. At the ankle, it becomes a river in one go.

Not only was it raining, but it was also freezing cold.

Although the exiles farmed little land, they moved slowly at that time, and the grain had not yet been harvested, and it was directly soaked in soup, and the bean pods and sorghum ears flowed along the water like low-lying depressions.

Many of them stomped their feet anxiously. Regardless of whether they are good or bad, they have been busy for a year. At this time, they have paid water tickets, what to hand in next, and what to eat in the next year...

Li Qingrui and the others were all wet and shivering from the cold. They wanted to go home to shelter from the rain, but when they saw some exiles crying, they turned around and bent down to grab the grain in the water and put it into sacks.

Li Maoxian also rolled up his trouser legs, and shouted at the people who were stunned in the rain: "Stop standing there, pack up the food quickly!"

Without waiting for their reaction, Li Maoxian rushed over with his men in the rain, first put the sorghum particles and beans that had been knocked out into sacks, and urged them to pull them back, and quickly set fire to dry them, so as to save as much as possible.

Although it is not their own, none of the people who have planted the land all their lives can bear the heart of the crops being ruined at this time of autumn, and others have come to help.

The Sun's family was also soaked in several bags of grain. Li Qinghong and Li Qingwen helped carry the grain back and moved them to a house where they lived with few people.

When the kang starts to heat up, mix the drained grain with a pinch of salt, sprinkle it on the kang and start to bake.

It was said that it would take several days to bake, so the Sun family also burned the kangs in several other houses, and piled the bedding on top of the cabinets. At this time, the most important thing is to get the food back as soon as possible.

In the past, the firewood and straw in the border towns were piled outside. Later, when people fleeing famine came, sheds and houses for firewood began to be built. Of course, these places cannot hold all the firewood, but they are just in case. If it rains, there will be no firewood to burn.

The Su family also got one, so now they can bring back dry firewood to burn the kang immediately. I don't know if there are other exiles.

While baking and turning, I couldn't sleep again this night.

The cold wind blew into the house with humidity, and it still felt cold after being so busy, so I had no choice but to take out the clay pot and put some fire in it.

The first time it rained during the autumn harvest, Li Qingwen shivered and thought, it might as well be snowing.

Snow is also cold, but it will not ruin so many crops.

As soon as the rain stopped, the Su family asked the Li family brothers to go back to sleep. There was no way for them to live because there was food on the kang.

When the two of them walked back on the ground, their mother poured a large bowl of ginger soup. Their eyes were wet from the hotness, and they didn't know how many slices of ginger were cut when cooking.

After drinking, he took off his clothes, rolled onto the hot kang, and fell asleep without turning over.

Li Maoxian and the others helped the exiles get food back, but they didn't know how to bake the food. When it rained, some of the firewood that was wet was snatched back, but it still smoked and choked to death when it was burned.

The sudden rain was very frustrating, but officers and soldiers soon delivered an order prohibiting the handing in of food soaked in rainwater. Once it was found out, the food would be fined twice.

Most of the grain soaked in the rain will become moldy, and the cattle and horses will die if they die.

As soon as they heard about this, the exiles finished cursing and ran out of the camp. Those who had money bought the freshly harvested grain in the village, and those who had no money just gritted their teeth and borrowed it.

Many people came to the house, Li Qing was woken up, and went to sleep in the camp with his little nephew on his back.

Li Qingwen let his little nephew sleep on his mattress, and he slept on Jiang Cong's.

Li Zhengming didn't lack sleep, he got up after lying down for a while, and chatted with old Xingtou. Afraid that he would disturb Li Qingwen, old Xingtou took the child to the stable.

After a while, Li Zhengliang also came. The two of them were always curious about the stables and cowsheds, but this time they finally got a clear look, and they were carried by Lao Xingtou to ride the cows, horses and sheep.

When Jiang Cong returned to the camp in the rain, he happened to run into people from Yangshu Village and told them that the food was ready. Jiang Liping and the others were worried all the way, so it was useless to worry.

Qi Min got off his horse and said, "I told you that the people in the village will definitely collect it for us. If you insist on rushing like this, the bones in my butt will hurt."

Of course they knew that the people of the Li family and Yangshu village would not ignore their crops, but after all they were far away and could not see them, so they were worried.

As soon as Jiang Cong came back, he saw someone in his bed. Even if he wasn't close, he could clearly see the blue-white face, and paused for a while while undressing.

Li Qingwen was fast asleep, and when he noticed movement around him, he thought it was his little nephew, so he put his arms around his head and brought it to his chest.

He fell asleep, and didn't realize that this head was bigger than Li Zhengming's, and he resisted a little...

In the end, he didn't bring his nephew over. Instead, he smelled a familiar smell and slowly moved closer to Jiang Cong's side.

Jiang Cong, who was a little sleepy at first, couldn't fall asleep, and the snoring in the room became louder and louder. He looked at Li Qingwen's dark eyelashes for a long time, and raised his hand to tuck the blanket around him tightly.

Li Qingwen, who was about to come to his side, was restrained, kicked the lower half of the quilt uncomfortably, and kicked towards the next quilt with his feet.

Of course, in addition to the feet, there are also bare thighs...

Jiang Cong closed his eyes.

When Li Qingwen woke up and found that Jiang Cong was back, he was naturally very happy, so he immediately told about the piece of wood.

Jiang Liping and others have seen his good luck many times, but they are still surprised. The things in the legend can be found, which is a bit too unbelievable.

After sighing, they all cast envious looks at Jiang Cong, this kid is taking a big advantage.

Cleverly, he immediately asked about the second stone he touched. Li Qingwen said that he would give the second stone to the fourth brother, if he could find it later.

Qi Min was the first to stand up, and said, "Apart from Jiang Cong, I'm second in archery. Let's make an agreement first, and then it will be mine. You..."

Before he could finish speaking, he was dragged away with his mouth covered.

The others looked at Li Qingwen eagerly, and asked him what errands he wanted someone to do.

Knowing that they were teasing, Li Qingwen laughed.

The big guy wanted to say a few more words, but seeing Jiang Cong around, most of them held back.

He taught Liu He how to make candles and gave him sweet sorghum seeds. Liu He insisted on exchanging furs and medicinal materials. Li Qingwen asked him if he could teach others how to make furs. They can get a lot of furs every year, but Because of improper handling, it can't reach the top grade, not only the good leather is ruined, but also the price can't go up.

Liu He had seen their tanned leather, and it was really bad. Hearing what Li Qingwen said, he agreed. He didn't think about making money or not, but he didn't want the fur to be ruined like that.

So, when he went to the forest this time, he selected some people from Jiang Liping, and some from the village, and learned how to make leather from Liu He.

As soon as he opened his mouth, Lao Sun was the first to agree, and the others were also willing. They also wanted to know how Liu and the people in the tribe made the leather so soft and soft.

As soon as the autumn harvest was over, the matter of going to the capital surfaced. This is also a big matter and must be discussed carefully.

Therefore, Jiang Liping and Jiang Cong went to Yangshu Village, and the elders sat together to discuss this matter in detail.

Although I knew it would be difficult to go out in the cold weather, many young people in the village were thinking about going to the capital.That's the capital city, where the emperor lives, they can't imagine what it's like in their dreams...

Thinking about it, no one is clamoring to go, it's useless for them to shout out their throats, it's up to the elders to decide.

Li Qingwen is a junior and young. It stands to reason that he would not appear among the elders to discuss this kind of thing, but he has walked in border towns and Bingzhou many times, and has planted so much food to save people. Now he is in the village And the status in the clan is not ordinary.

Of course, he insisted on coming here because he wanted to go to the capital.

This time I went to the capital to pick up people, sell things, and buy some things that are lacking in life. Whether it was picking up people or selling things, or seeing Li Qingzhuo, Li Maoxian's family had to take the lead, so Li Qingrui and Li Qinghong had to go this trip. Just pick some young people who are bold, careful, strong and flexible.

When the elders were talking, Li Qingwen didn't interrupt, but he kept giving his father and his elder brother winks. He didn't know if he really didn't see it, or pretended not to see it. The three of them didn't mention him.

Li Qingwen pinned his hopes on Jiang Cong, but Jiang Cong didn't want him to take risks so far away, let alone speak for him.

Hearing that the candidates were selected one by one, Li Qingwen couldn't help but said: "Second Grandpa, Uncle Guo, Dad, let me go this time too. I can ride horses and archery, swim, run fast, and understand people from the capital. speak..."

Bingzhou has its own dialect, which is different from the one in the capital. People in the village don't go out, so most of them can only speak the local dialect. When Zhou Fengnian spoke, many people couldn't understand it.

He counted a bunch of his own advantages, and the elders and old people in the room laughed, "Little boy, you are a very promising kid, I didn't let you go because I thought you ran too much errands this year, so you should rest at home." rest."

Li Qingwen quickly said that he was not tired, everyone looked at Li Maoxian, this is the child's father, he is the one who can make decisions.

Sitting cross-legged on the kang, Li Maoxian had long seen his son's dark round eyes flickering, sighed inwardly, and finally nodded.

Apart from reading, he seldom restricts what the children do or don't do, and they have to go their own way after all.

In this way, Li Qingwen's long-awaited trip to the capital finally came to fruition.

After discussing it over here, they went to see Zhou Congxin and asked when they were going to leave and what to do with the boat after going to Linsu.

Although it will take more than two months to leave, many people are now excitedly talking about it.

After returning to the camp, Li Qingwen found that Jiang Cong didn't talk much today. Although he didn't talk much usually, it was obviously less today.