Bianshanhan [farming]

There were also a lot of people at the rice shop, and Li Qingzhuo bought a whole bag. The clerk saw that he was thin and looked like a weak scholar. It’s not far away, why don’t you wait for a while, when our rice delivery guy comes back, let him push you home.”

There are small wooden wheelbarrows in the rice shop, and if you buy too much and can’t carry it, the staff will help you push it back. There are so many people today, and the inside and outside are very busy.

Li Qingzhuo shook his head, thanked him for his kindness, carried the bag out of the shop with both hands, and held it until he reached the open space. There was no one around, he lowered his body, and threw the sack on his back.

The little guy who followed was shocked when he saw Li Qingzhuo's quick movements, not only because of Li Qingzhuo's strength that didn't match his thin appearance, but also because of his skillful movement of carrying the sack, which was almost the same as those coolies who resisted rice in the shop... …

Li Qingzhuo walked back with the rice on his back, and when he turned into an alley, two people came to meet him, one tall and one short, both wearing leather hats that covered their eyes, and covered the lower half of their faces with cloth scarves.

After brushing past each other, Li Qingzhuo felt someone snatching his sack, and there was a light on his back, and then he heard a hoarse voice saying: "If you want to survive, keep your food."

As soon as Li Qingzhuo turned around, the short man jumped on him and said viciously: "Hand over the money on your body too!"

While grumbling, he touched Li Qingzhuo's thin waist, and murmured: "Why do I feel two, two... I'm thin again. Does it mean that I don't have money to eat if I'm so thin?"

The tall man holding the sack next to him coughed vigorously, staring at Li Qingzhuo with his exposed eyes, "If you find the money, hurry up and leave!"

Li Qingzhuo hugged the troublemaker with a blank expression, and said, "What are you going to do, come home with me!"

The cap of the person caught by Li Qingzhuo fell off, revealing Li Qingwen's face that couldn't hold back his smile, he said: "Second brother, why do you want to let the bad guy who robbed you go home."

Li Qingzhuo looked at Brother Yao, whom he hadn't seen for more than two years, and his face couldn't hold back anymore, with a deep smile on his face, "I'll take care of you when I go home!"

Li Qinghong next to him also straightened his hat that got in the way, slipped the sack to the bottom of the wall, and held Li Qingwen and Li Qingzhuo in it with open arms, "Second brother, long time no see."

At the entrance of an alley in a corner of the capital, the three brothers of the Li family hugged each other tightly.

Li Qingwen was caught in the middle, sucked his nose, and said for a long time: "If the fourth brother is here, he will definitely be able to run away after grabbing the second brother's things..."

Li Qinghong said: "He might even put a sack on the second brother, he's more of a robber than a real robber."

Fortunately, Li Qingfeng came back this time, the three of them thought so in their hearts.

Li Qingzhuo picked up the hat from the ground, threw off the dirt on it, and put it on Li Qingwen's hairy head, "I received a letter from my father, saying that the village has gone to a border town, where is it going, how did you come here?"

"Okay, everything is fine, let's talk as we walk." Li Qinghong let go of his hand reluctantly, "It's been a long time since I've been out, brother and the others are probably impatient to wait at home."

Li Qingzhuo was taken aback, "Brother is here too?"

"Not only elder brother, but also brother Qingshun and the others went to the capital together." Li Qinghong picked up the sack.

At this time, Li Qingrui was talking about the border town with Fang's family of three and Miss Qin. When Li Qingshun and the others saw the three brothers coming in, they immediately opened the door. !"

Li Qingrui stood up and looked at his second brother, whom he hadn't seen for more than two years, taller and thinner, with straight shoulders and waist, standing there like the green bamboo they had seen in Hongzhou, tall and slender.

Li Qingrui put his hands on Li Qingzhuo's shoulders, looked him up and down, and said with a smile at the corner of his mouth: "Second brother, how are you doing in the capital?"

Li Qingzhuo nodded again and again and said yes, seeing his elder brother's face full of wind and frost, he was both happy and sour, "Brother, the family is doing well. How are father and mother?"

"Okay, everything is fine." Li Qingrui squeezed his thin shoulders, "Why did you become so thin? Is it because the food in the capital is not suitable for you, or because you are too busy with your studies? We are the ones to lose. If your mother and your sister-in-law see You look like this, I'm afraid you're going to cry."

"Brother, since I was a child, I have never been able to hang on to my body, you should know that." Li Qingzhuo said helplessly.

Li Qingwen said for Li Qingzhuo: "Second brother's body is quite firm, I touched it just now! But he's a little skinny, these days in the capital, I have to cook four meals a day, and weigh ten catties and eight catties for second brother! "

Li Qinghong clapped his hands and applauded, no matter what, their momentum is full!

Li Qingshun and his cousins ​​also surrounded him, and they all said that Li Qingzhuo seemed to be a different person, he looked like a son from the capital.

Li Qingzhuo smiled, he didn't care what he looked like, as long as he remembered where he walked out from.

Seeing that the second brother was surrounded, Li Qingwen went to look for the stove, and just as he took out the cabbage, Qin Dongmeng also followed in, and said softly: "You guys are exhausted after coming from the border town, go out and talk to the second brother Li and the rest for a while Rest, what do you want to eat, I'll make it."

Maybe he was too eager to see the second brother. He didn't pay much attention to this Miss Qin before. Li Qingwen looked at her quietly and said, "It's okay. We slept all the way, so we're not tired."

The girl in front of her looked about eighteen or nineteen years old, she was dressed in plain clothes, her eyebrows were curved and her eyes were almond-shaped, she didn't wear any makeup, her eyes were soft, and she had a gentle temperament.

Such a girl who has not left the court, is not afraid of outsiders' advice, and dares to go from Hongzhou to the border town to find someone. It seems that she really likes Jiang Cong.

Seeing Qin Dongmeng quietly lowering his head to wash the vegetables, Li Qingwen suddenly said, "Miss Qin, Hongzhou has been stable these few years, right?"

Qin Dongmeng washed the vegetables carefully, and replied: "The floods are less than in previous years, and our Xijiang Mansion is quite peaceful."

Li Qingwen nodded and said, "That's good. Brother Jiang and the others have been thinking about the family, but it's too far away. It takes almost a year for the family letter to come and go, and we have to worry about whether the family will report the good news or not."

Hearing the words "Brother Jiang", Qin Dongmeng paused.

Li Qingwen continued: "Hongzhou is severely flooded. Our Bingzhou is prone to drought, and the border town is cold. I have never been to a place colder than the border town. When I went north with Brother Jiang and the others, it happened to be winter and there was no snow. It’s really walking against the north wind. Brother Jiang’s injured leg can’t use his strength yet. He is more stable than us walking on crutches..."

Li Qingwen opened his mouth to talk about Jiang Liping's journey northward to the border town with the shackles. He talked about all the encounters in the border town, Lu Gang's insidiousness, Zhou Fengnian's protection, and the help of Lao Xingtou, Chen Wen, and the kitchen. Listen, I didn't interrupt, it's just that the action of washing the dishes is getting slower and slower.

Fang, who originally wanted to come to help, stopped outside, but did not step in after all, stopped for a moment, turned and left.

"In the beginning, they suffered a lot. They are also very powerful. Although they are guilty of crimes, they have gradually gained a foothold in the border town with their skills..." Li Qingwen only talked about Jiang Cong, and Qin Dongmeng ran all the way. Come on over, might just want to know this.

Qin Dongmeng naturally recognized it, and after a long time, said in a low voice, "Thank you."

Li Qingwen shook his head, picked up the kitchen knife, and began to skillfully chop vegetables and meat.

He didn't want to persuade Qin Dongmeng to go back to Hongzhou or go to the border towns. At her age, she must have her own ideas, and no one can make decisions for her.

In the room, Li Qingzhuo was talking with his cousins, when suddenly his nose moved, and he said, "What's broken, why is it so smelly?"

Everyone froze for a moment, Li Qinghong went outside and took out two packs of salted fish from the burden, the special smell immediately spread, Li Qinzhuo was so close that he almost retched out of excitement.

Li Qingrui saw him dodging backwards, and said with a smile: "Zai'er specially changed it for you on the boat. I know you have never eaten salted fish, so try it out."

"It's not fresh anymore, it stinks." Li Qingzhuo said, "If you eat it, you may die."

"It's salted so much, it shouldn't smell bad." Others looked at the salted fish with a salivating look, "I heard that it tastes better when it's steamed."

They couldn't light a fire on board, so they never tasted steamed fish.

Li Qingzhuo said "you will die if you eat it" on his face, but thinking that his younger brother bought it for him specially, he felt it was a pity to throw it away, and he was frugal, so he said: "There is a stove outside, let's steam it outside, and make it inside the house." This, I’m afraid it won’t be able to live.”

The others went to toss about the stove that boiled the medicine, but no one knew who was holding back, and the stove was dismantled...

Li Qingwen didn't know that the salted fish he brought had turned off his second brother's appetite, and he was still thinking about how to make the food more delicious so that Li Qingzhuo could grow a few more pieces of meat.

After going out to ask questions, when he returned to the kitchen, Li Qingwen cooked all the meat and vegetables that Fang bought today - stir-fried white radish, stewed cabbage, braised chicken nuggets, and stewed chicken.

Qin Dongmeng was considerate and didn't rush to work. Looking at Li Qingwen's skillful movements, she thought, so those people who wrote back to say that the food is good are really good, not just made up to make the family feel at ease.

Fang originally thought that Li Qingwen had entered the back stove to talk to Qin Dongmeng. She knew what that girl was thinking and couldn't explain it herself, so she wanted others to persuade her.

When she smelled the aroma, she realized that the dishes were already messed up, and it wasn't Qin Dongmeng who did it, but Li Qingwen.

The child came all the way to the capital, and she didn't even prepare the meal. Fang was very annoyed, but Li Qingwen said: "Sister-in-law, Ma Yongjiang said that the dishes you cook are very delicious. I get hungry every time I hear him say that." Panic, wait until you go to the border town to teach me."

"Hey, good, good!" Fang nodded repeatedly, "I brought a lot from my hometown. If I want to eat, I'll make it for you now."

Li Qingwen gave up the pot, and Fang immediately washed the dried plums and vegetables, then put in oil, and fried a plate of dried vegetables.

The table and benches in front had been set up long ago, and the dishes were brought up one by one, and Qin Dongmeng also served the rice. Everyone was also hungry and began to bury their heads in eating.