Bianshanhan [farming]

In the evening, Li Qingwen went to see Cui Yuan. Those Puju people rescued from the north were all in the camp.

The relationship between Puju and the border town is delicate, Zhou Fengnian can't let them go at will, just let them live in the camp with peace of mind, they will negotiate with Puju, and after the negotiation is completed, they will be sent home.

If it's not right, it's hard to say.

Cui Yuan and the others are walking freely in the camp now, but they cannot leave. It is useless for them to be anxious.

Li Qingwen was taken care of by them when he was in the mine, and now he takes care of Cui Yuan and the others, at least food and clothes, these people have no shortage at all, in Li Qingwen's view, they have suffered a lot in Luo Cheguo, no doubt The ordeal continues as the two behemoths pull.

Cui Yuan was not discouraged at all, he went fishing by the river every day, basked in the sun, and got a lot of wine from Zhong Yuan.

It started to rain before dark, which dissipated a lot of heat, and Mrs. Chen came to pick up her youngest son with an umbrella, for fear that his bones would be blown by the wind and rain again.

The couple walked back along the river and passed by Li Benshan's house. Something was clanging and hammering in their shed. Li Qingwen looked with his head, and it seemed that they were chiseling a stone mill.

In the past, when they were in Bingzhou, they ate sorghum rice every day. As long as the hard shell on the outside of sorghum rice was crushed, they could eat sorghum rice.

After arriving in the border town, every household planted dozens of acres of fertile land, and each family could produce tens of thousands of catties of grain. After not worrying about starvation, this year they planted buckwheat and wheat.

Both buckwheat and wheat have to be ground into flour, so the grinding disc is not enough. Last time I went to the north riverside to get stones, I left a lot of large stones alone, and chiseled them into stone discs or 碡碡.

Looking back at the river flowing to the south, Li Qingwen casually thought, it would be nice to make a windmill or a water mill, so as to save people from having to push it hard.

After the weather is cold, the water will freeze, and it will not be used for half a year. It may be better to use a windmill, after all, there is no shortage of wind in the border town.

After returning home, Li Qingwen told his eldest brother and father about this idea, "It took a little effort to build it, but after it is set up, as long as the wind doesn't stop, the mill can keep moving day and night, which saves effort."

Li Maoxian knows carpentry and knows that a windmill can drive its shaft and wheels to move by the force of the wind, but he has never seen it before, so he doesn't know how to do it.

Li Qingwen saw it in a book and probably understood it, so he drew an outline on the paper with a pen. He is not good at drawing, and the fan leaves are very abstract, so he had to explain while drawing.

Li Qingzhuo also came over. He was looking at the crooked windmill when he suddenly caught a glimpse of the red patches on the back of Yaodi's ears and neck, "Zai'er, you were bitten by some insect on your neck. Does it itch? Do you want to apply medicine?" ?”

Li Qingwen was taken aback for a moment, but then realized that he almost threw the pen away, and said in a stumbling manner, "No, it's okay, second brother, it's not a poisonous bug, I don't even feel bitten..."

The second brother's words reminded Li Qingwen of the half afternoon he had been tossed about, and he was extremely ashamed and flustered.

When he lied, his hands trembled, and two drops of ink fell on the crumpled windmill, making it a paste.

Li Qingzhuo vaguely saw a lot of tooth marks on his red-headed ears, but he didn't pay attention, thinking that he was bitten by his little niece.

So tidy, it should not be bitten by a dog.

Not to mention being taken aback, Li Qingwen's previous efforts in painting were also wasted, and he had to start over.

This time Li Maoxian didn't let him waste the paper. Li Qingwen was drawing at the door with a wooden stick. This kind of solid feel and the convenience of being able to erase and redraw at any time made his clumsy drawing skills not so conspicuous at last.

Fortunately, the things that can be drawn are not complicated. The whole family thinks that the windmill mill is a good idea, but it does take a lot of effort to make it, and it has to be calculated with the villagers.

In this way, after dinner, Li Maoxian and Li Qingrui went to the patriarch's house again.

The rain outside was getting heavier and louder, but the house was very quiet.

The Li family sat on the kang and talked. Li Zhengliang put his hand on his mother's swollen belly, and made a wish: "I want another Zhengyan."

Li Zhengyan is courageous and is very favored at home. Even Li Qingrui has never touched a finger of her daughter. She also knows how to protect her brother. Sometimes when Li Zhengliang is mischievous and beaten, she will lie on the body of her brother, making it impossible for her parents to do anything.

It's just that she was too small, so she was carried away easily, and then Li Zhengliang's ass had to suffer.

Everyone laughed, Chen looked at the three sons on the kang, and said, "Your elder brother has four children, are you not in a hurry?"

Li Qingfeng turned his head and hugged Li Zhengming, Li Zhengming understood, and said: "I, I will be the father of my fourth uncle..."

The room fell silent for a moment, Li Qingfeng squeezed his little nephew's mouth tightly, and said viciously, "Say it again?!"

Li Zhengming knew that he had made a slip of the tongue, sniffed tearfully, and said, "Little Fourth Uncle, Little Fourth Uncle will be my son..."

"Hahahahaha!"

Except for Li Zhengyan, everyone on the kang fell down laughing, and Li Zhengliang was rolling back and forth while covering his stomach while laughing. The result was extreme joy turned into sadness, and his head accidentally hit the wall, screaming in pain.

Li Qingwen leaned on his second brother's shoulder, laughing non-stop, and Li Qingzhuo's body kept shaking.

Li Qingzhuo's eyes were clear, with a smile on his mouth, and he had to support Li Qingwen with one hand, so as not to let him fall to the side.

Li Maoxian and Li Qingrui were not there, and no one at home could stop Li Qingfeng. He held Li Zhengming in his arms, rubbed and flattened him, forcing him to speak again.

Li Zhengming's mouth was deflated like a duckling, being held down by the fourth uncle, he said with a crying voice: "I, I, I will give, to the fourth uncle, be my son!"

However, the big guy's stomach hurts from laughing now, and he seems to have forgotten what he said just now.

Li Qingwen and Li Qingzhuo also escaped unharmed.

Li Qingzhuo picked out their exam questions for his younger brother. Although Li Qingwen didn't go to school seriously, he didn't throw away the 12 years of books he had read in his previous life, and he answered verbally based on the books he had memorized over the years.

Although there are deficiencies in the rules, the views and opinions are very clear. Li Qingzhuo was very satisfied, rubbed Li Qingwen's thin back, and said: "Zai'er, take care of your health and go to the capital with your second brother. You are smart and serious. You should go to school. There are more things that can be done in the future.”

Li Qingwen nodded. When he was in the tribe, he discussed with Jiang Cong that he would go to the capital to study next year.

Firstly, Li Qingwen wanted to meet the students of Daliang, secondly, to realize his unfulfilled university dream, and thirdly, to make some career, so that he could have more confidence in confessing about himself and Jiang Cong in the future.

Chen Shi and Li Maoyu originally wanted to tell their elder brothers to marry their wives earlier, but when Li Qingzhuo and Li Qingwen talked about business, they didn't interrupt.

When the time came, Li Qingwen drank the honey water and went to the Westinghouse to lie down and sleep. He wanted to recover soon, especially pay attention to rest.

It was late at night when Li Maoxian and Li Qingrui came back. Li Qingzhuo took out the silver he had brought from the capital. The biggest bag was the silver earned by Li Qinghong from running a restaurant, and the remaining bags were Li Qingjiu and the others who worked together in the capital. wages.

They were reluctant to spend the money they earned outside, so they asked Li Qingzhuo to bring it back to his family.

Li Qingrui put away those small bags first, and delivered them from door to door tomorrow morning.

Opening the brown cloth bag, looking at the round silver ingots inside, both Chen and Jiang couldn't believe it, "It's not for food, why are there so many?"

Silver ingots are the heaviest, 50 taels each, and there are eleven in total, and there are some light silver nuggets beside them, add more, there are more than 600 taels.

"The recipe given by Zai'er is very tasty, and the business is good." Li Qingzhuo said with a smile: "The third brother and the others really get along well with the neighbors, many people go to eat this sheep scorpion because of the reputation, and they have suffered a lot. "

Hearing this, Mrs. Chen felt sorry for her third son, put the money back and said, "I told you in the letter, the family is not short of money, why did you bring it back from such a long distance. Second child, you can tell him when you go back, Pay attention to your body outside, you will never run out of money, so don't get tired."

Li Qingzhuo nodded, "Many old customers are urging them to go to the east city to open another one. The third son and the others don't have enough manpower there. It would be best if people in the village are willing to go. If there is no one, he will look for it in the capital."

"Yes!" Li Qingrui said: "Many people have asked me that the place in the capital is no better than other places, you have to pick some honest ones, otherwise it will be a disaster."

After speaking, Li Qingzhuo took out another purse and put it in Chen's hand, "Mother, I earned it."

"Oh, you spend a lot of money studying and taking exams every day. Where did you get the money?" Chen was surprised, "So much!"

Li Qingzhuo didn't hide anything, so he just told about his brush washing and poetry selling, which didn't take much effort and was easy.

Chen's tears turned in circles again. Originally, the second son was far away from home, so it was worrying to have no one to take care of him, and she was reluctant to eat and wear clothes. As a mother, her heart seemed to be pinched and sore.

Li Qingzhuo held his mother's hand and comforted him warmly.

It wasn't until midnight that the Li family finished speaking.

Because of this rain, the vegetable field no longer needs to be watered, but there are still many people in the pumpkin field.

Sure enough, just as Li Qingwen thought, mother, sister-in-law, and other aunts and grandmas in the village really like this kind of dish that looks good in color and can produce melons.

People who are afraid of hunger, as long as they can eat, they like it, especially pumpkins. There are many melons on a vine, and one melon is very big and heavy, which is even more attractive.

Especially from what Li Qingwen said, the meat inside is sweet and soft, toothless old people are the best, and everyone is looking forward to it, looking forward to the fruit this year, and then leave the seeds after eating, so that they can order from Li's house to plant next year.

Although Li Qingwen couldn't work, he had a good mouth and brain, and he helped several carpenters in the village make windmills.When Jiang Cong took office recently, he didn't even have a sip of the wedding wine for his promotion, and started to get busy in the dark. Every time he was free, it was midnight, and Li Qingwen went to bed early at this time.