Bianshanhan [farming]

No matter how many people there are, it will not be enough during the autumn harvest, because every household is busy in the fields, and children have to go to the fields, and there are no idlers.

In addition to the helpers, the Jiang family and Ma Yongchen also harvested crops for the Li family. Chen Wen's loud voice rang out in the field again, urging the prisoners to work faster. After the buckwheat was harvested, there were beans, millet and sorghum. , The movement is so slow, if it catches up with the rain, it will have to harvest less food.

Zhou Fengnian cut the crops with a sickle in hand, but he couldn't bear it, and couldn't bend others for so long. Sometimes he would curse a few words when he was very tired, and he had to continue working after cursing.

He had escaped those turmoil, and had originally said that he would go back, but after Lin Tan left, he was instead raised up, worried and tired every day, and the little salary he received was not enough to drink a meal of flowers and wine.

No matter how much resentment he had in his heart, Zhou Fengnian didn't dare to give up. The one on the dragon chair was not a good person, and he didn't want to lose his head at a young age.

Although he hadn't been in the field for several years, Li Qingzhuo still didn't stop working. He bent down a few times and "swish, swish, swish", and the millet in his few ridges was only stubble. Most people couldn't keep up with him.

Li Qingwen also arrived in the field, but he just led the mule, and the others carried piles of crops to the cart. He drove the cart forward little by little, and then turned around when it was full, and pulled it to the yard. Someone unloads the car.

When the autumn harvest was busy, Puju finally got a reply, saying that they had no intention of conflicting with Daliang, and they were willing to coexist peacefully in the future, and asked them to release the people of Puju first.

Puju used to be a subsidiary of the Wusong tribe, with excellent shipbuilding technology. Half of the land is on the shore and half on the island. It has always been at odds with Daliang. Now it only answers one letter and wants to take so many people back. Zhou Fengnian Both Jiang Cong and Jiang Cong felt that the other party was not very sincere.

Puju doesn't care about these people who are being driven away at all, and they don't come to pick up the connection, as if life and death are the same.

However, as long as there is no fight, they and Puju are not considered hostile. With so many people in the camp, they not only need to be kept, but also guarded against.

In the end, Zhou Fengnian decided to put Cui Yuan and others back.

Upon hearing the news, the Puju people in the camp hugged each other and cried bitterly. Now they can finally go home!

Zhong Yuan was also very happy. He entrusted Cui Yuan and others to go back and help me find a wife and children. Cui Yuan and the others had received a lot of care from Zhong Yuan, so they naturally nodded in agreement.

Because he was busy with the autumn harvest, Li Qingwen couldn't send Cui Yuan too far, so he brought him enough dry food and stuffed him with two gold beads, hoping that he would go back smoothly to reunite with his family and live a good life.

Zhou Fengnian and Jiang Cong took the officers and soldiers to send the Puju people off, while the rest of the camp continued to harvest crops.

The granaries of every household are filled with the increasingly cooler autumn wind, and smiles are on the faces of men, women and children.

No matter how busy she was, Zhou Yao opened her mouth, and there was no shortage of manpower in the medicinal field.

Li Qingwen has been staring at the few acres of rice. Not only him, but those in the camp who have eaten enough rough grain are also looking forward to the rice being grown.

These people in Hongzhou grow a lot of rice. Jiang Jiahe knew that Li Qingwen cared about it, and he had to look at the ears of rice many times from morning to night. From his mouth, he learned that it would be ready in about 20 days. Count the days on your fingers.

Li Zhengliang and Li Zhengming were also drooling over the rice. They had eaten the rice from their uncle's house. It was snow white and much tastier than sorghum rice.

Li Qingwen, who had been drinking millet porridge for several months, also had green eyes. It wasn't that the millet was not tasty, but drinking it every day was enough.

The eyes of the three uncles and nephews with a group of big dogs and puppies staring at the rice were so pitiful that the Jiang family and his smile narrowed their eyes and said, "Follow me back to Hongzhou, and eat rice for three meals a day. "

Li Qingwen said "yes", but he was thinking in his heart, if Uncle Jiang knew about himself and his son, he might be asked to spit out the rice and return it back...

Thinking of this, Li Qingwen immediately felt that the rice was not delicious.

Seeing the corner of Li Qingwen's mouth curled down, Jiang Jiahe said in a gentle voice, "What's wrong?"

Li Qingwen squatted on the ground, looked up at him, and said, "Uncle, if my brother and I do something that makes you unhappy..."

"That must be your brother's fault." Jiang Jiahe looked at him, "I will teach him a lesson for you."

Li Qingwen: "..." This was not the answer he wanted.

But Li Qingwen didn't dare to continue, for fear of revealing his secrets.

He and Jiang Cong almost parted ways, and they showed their hearts to each other in the Chatu tribe. Li Qingwen was pleasantly surprised. The person he likes also likes him. This is a miracle.

It's just that this miracle only belongs to the two of them, not including the Li family and the Jiang family. After all, the two families are still looking forward to their marriage and having children. If they know that there is such a relationship between them, they will be scared to death.

Thinking about this, Li Qingwen suddenly thought, his brother and Zhou Fengnian had been sending someone off for almost a month, so it should be going well, right?

While entangled and missed, the busy days passed quickly, and of course, the cold weather also passed quickly.

All the food in the Li family has been put into storage, and the frost has arrived like in previous years. This time, many people are staring at the rice. Dozens of people inspected the rice fields, and they all said the same thing, and they did not freeze to death!

This is exciting news. These rice seeds that survived the cold moon have indeed mutated and become cold-resistant.

After hearing the good news, Chen Wen also came, patted Li Qingwen on the shoulder, and said that he must be credited with this great contribution.

Li Qingwen didn't dare to be careless, as long as the rice was not harvested for a day, he couldn't take it lightly.

It was getting colder day by day, the wind was getting stronger, and the leaves of the rice were getting yellower and yellower. Finally, when it was time to harvest, the tension in Li Qingwen's head was finally loosened.

On the day of harvesting rice, dozens of people were busy together, and a few mu of land was cleaned up in half a day. This time, those who went to pick up the ears of rice were all careful women. These rice will be seeds next year, and none of them can be blind.

A total of more than 200 catties of rice was harvested, which is not much compared with the grain that the big guy just entered the warehouse, but it is amazing to be able to grow 170 catties of rice per mu in such a cold place. Everyone's surprise.

Lao Sun and the others all patted Li Qingwen on the shoulder, grinned and said, "We did what we said, and we really planted it. We still remember the five-year bet!!"

The others didn't know, so they asked.

Lao Sun smiled and said: "It was the first winter when we arrived in the border town. Zi'er was only 13 years old at that time. He said he would grow rice in the border town. We didn't believe it. Lao Jiang made a bet with him. Zai'er said five years Within a few days, more than 150 catties of rice per mu will be planted..."

I made a bet that year, but there were no rice seeds at that time. Later, when Li Qingwen returned to Bingzhou, he took the seeds from his uncle's house and pulled them to the border town. out.

The big guys were talking and laughing, and suddenly their eyes got wet. These years, it was not easy. They can survive, just like the border towns can grow rice, which is just as unbelievable.

After being exiled, everyone felt that they were going to die in this extreme north. Only Li Qingwen believed that they would be free. At that time, he was only 13 years old, but he gave them all hope for a large group of men.

Not only did he encourage with words, but he was also actively making money and saving money, and then let the big guys see so much money that they had never seen in their life, and the family in Hongzhou also benefited a lot...

In the eyes of more than 40 men, Li Qingwen was an incredible existence.

Looking back on the past few years now, they can't believe that their dreams have come true.

The scene of a group of big men crying is not very good.

Li Qingwen held the rice and let go of it little by little, the rice slipped from between his fingers, it felt so good.

Hearing the sound of sobbing, Li Qingwen turned his head and saw a group of people crying with red eyes behind him. He was startled, and when he let go of his hand, all the rice fell into his pocket.

Before Li Qingwen could speak to comfort him, someone suddenly shouted, "It's snowing!"

Everyone came out of the house, large snowflakes fell from the sky, and the first snow in the border town came.

When Li Qingwen turned his head, Lao Sun and the others had already wiped away their tears, and each of them reached out and patted Li Qingwen's head vigorously.

Li Qingwen was like a young sapling, tossed to and fro by them.

Fortunately, fortunately, Ma Yongjiang and the others went to the forest, and Li Qingwen couldn't lift his head after being rubbed. He was thankful in his heart that those people did not attack lightly or severely, so they greeted him together, otherwise his neck would not have been broken today.

Different from the fear of the heavy snow at the beginning, everyone is very happy to see the snow now, because they are wearing thick clothes, and because there are warehouses of food, they don’t have to worry about starvation, because they can lie on the hot kang, Because after the snow fell, they could go around on the sledge.

The border town is still the same border town, but they are not the ones who came here at the beginning of the year, wandering and frightened.

Before everyone finished expressing their emotions, a group of children, big and small, rushed out. They raised their heads, let the snowflakes fall on their faces and mouths, and then giggled.

It was snowing, and Mao Mao was also very happy. It ran into the snow, printed a few cute footprints on the ground, turned around, and ran back to Li Qingwen.

The other dogs were not so reserved. They ran and rolled in the snow, but the snow wasn't thick enough for them to enjoy themselves.

After going home for a few months, Li Qingwen finally had a thin layer of flesh on his body, but Mrs. Chen was always afraid that he would be cold, so the quilts were double-layered, and the clothes were the thickest. The hat and gloves were like armor .

As soon as Li Qingwen went out, he felt that he was a mobile bunker, invulnerable.

Of course, this is also beneficial, that is, when the children saw Li Qingwen, they all stretched out their arms to hug him, because it was very warm at first sight.

A few children were stuck on his body like cakes, Li Qingwen couldn't walk, so he didn't go out, and sat on the kang to listen to his second brother's lecture.

Just when Li Qingwen had almost forgotten about his embarrassing things, Jiang Cong came back.