Bianshanhan [farming]

This year's border town snowed a bit late, Li Qingwen and the others passed a few post stations before the cotton-like snowflakes fell.

After the snow fell, it was not so easy for the carriage to move, but they didn't have any trouble, because it was very fast.Li Qingrui led someone to meet them with a sledge.

The long-haired pony has big hoofs and is not afraid of slipping in the snow. Next to them are two sleds pulled by dogs, on which Li Zhengliang and his brothers sit.

The female relatives first got on the sledges that had been arranged in advance, even if they were driving against the wind, they would not be frozen. Li Zhengliang strongly invited Su Yuanbao to sit on the sleigh pulled by a big dog. It's enthusiasm.

Su Yuanbao was reluctant to suffer from the big dogs, but he knew that if these guys didn't run for a while every day, it would be very difficult.

Because Su Yuanbao's eyes were too hot, a half-sized dog who was not pulling a sled and following along for fun threw its tail to him. Su Yuanbao covered the tip of its tail with thick gloves. This was probably the first time the dog saw it. He is so well-behaved, he walks smoothly, and his eyes keep flying on the sled.

At night, the dog slept outside Su Yuanbao's sleeping bag, one person and one dog, head to head, sleeping soundly.

Su Shuqing slept on the boat all the time, and after getting off the boat, he was much more energetic. Originally, he and Xu Qingyuan both brought thick clothes, but the further north they traveled, the clothes on their bodies couldn't bear it, so they changed into the leather jackets and pants brought by Li Qingrui .

When the two of them set out from the capital, they were all dressed in elegant clothes. After the journey, their neat hair gradually became messy, and their well-fitting robes became animal skins and leather boots. , unless it is a last resort, I don't want to take it out...

If their acquaintances stood opposite, they might not recognize them for a while.

It was also snowing in the capital, but not as big as here. Su Yuanbao looked around with his eyes wide open. When he saw wild animals looking for food on the snow, he couldn't help but exclaimed, "Fox!"

Li Zhengliang looked over, narrowed his eyes, and said, "It's foxes and musk deer. These two meats are not tasty. When you encounter roe deer and pheasant, let fourth uncle call you to eat."

Su Yuanbao didn't want to eat these pretty little things. After that, he didn't say anything when he saw anything, his eyes were bright, and he just looked at them from a distance, afraid that he might see them in the bowl.

There are few people in the north of Linsu, but the snow is very lively, and you can see all kinds of footprints everywhere. Although Li Zhengliang and the others don't hunt, they have lived in the border town for so long, and they can recognize wild animals when they see footprints. Su Yuanbao thinks He is too powerful, and he praised him sincerely.

Li Zhengliang's snot bubbles came out. He felt that the children from the capital were honest. No wonder my uncle kept him in his heart.

After several days of walking in the snow, they could faintly see a few streaks of blue smoke in the white snow, and they finally arrived at the border town.

Since the officials and exiles were taken to the new city, there were very few strangers here in the camp. When they arrived, there was a lot of movement, and half of Maodong's people in the village came out.

Li Maoxian and Li Qingrui led Lu's relatives to eat at home first, and Li Qingwen took Xu Qingyuan and Su Shuqing's uncle and nephew to the camp. After the officers and soldiers moved away, the place was much more spacious, and a new brick house was built for them to live in.

He knew that Jiang Cong was busy, but he didn't see it when he came back. Li Qingwen didn't feel too disappointed. He first set up a fire, heated the two big and one small people lying on the kang in the pot, and then went home.

The Li family kang was full of people, and those who could sit were all from the Lu family. After all, they came from afar, and many people from the same clan came to join in the fun.

Considering their hard journey, the big guys just came to say hello, and then left one after another. The Lu family had a hot meal, and then went to rest one after another.

Mrs. Chen held Lu Xuening's mother's hand, very affectionately, and said: "We are too far away from here, which makes you suffer. After they get married, we will go to the capital to visit you in the future."

Lu Xuening's mother was a little tired from the journey, but the smile on her face didn't stop, she nodded repeatedly, and invited Mrs. Chen to live in the capital early.

Li Qinghong and Lu Xuening's marriage was decided early on, and the Li family had already made preparations. The new house was in the new city, and the furniture and bedding inside were all brand new, waiting for them to come back for the wedding.

Now, the new house is used to house the people from the Lu family.

After the exiles from Linsu moved to the border city, because there were enough people, the outer city wall was finally erected. The width and height were almost the same as the inner city, but there was an urn in front, arrow towers and row buildings on it, and a city gate outside. It looks more powerful than the inner city.

A group of people took a sledge to the inner city, and they had to come down when they reached the city gate. The snow on the main street was swept away, and the sledge couldn't move inside.

The inner city is not big, so you can reach the place after a short walk. A row of red lanterns has been hung at the door of the new house, and two big "囍" characters are pasted on the door. A layer of snow.

The main room and the east and west rooms have been on fire for the past few days. At this moment, the interior is warm and comfortable. After the Lu family members arrive, they can live in directly. There are pots and pans in the kitchen, and daily utensils are also bought from the capital. .

Li Qingwen still wanted to stay here longer, so Li Qinghong told him to go back to the camp first, fearing that Su Shuqing and the others wouldn't be able to find food after they woke up.

Li Qingwen came to the new city on a horse, and deliberately walked a long way past the general's mansion, and found that the back was still empty, so he couldn't help but give Zhou Fengnian two thumbs up in his heart.

Zhou Congxin, wearing a leather hat, took two breaths of air when he came out, sneezing and sneezing non-stop. He looked up and saw a familiar figure from behind, and opened his mouth to say "hey".

Li Qingwen got off his horse, turned around with Tianzao in his hand, called "Brother Zhou", and said: "This time when I come back, the Zhou family brought a lot of things, and I'll send them to you later."

Seeing his appearance, Zhou Congxin knew that the scientific examination must have passed, and while wiping his nose, he said, "Jiang Cong is outside, I'm afraid he won't come back for a while."

Li Qingwen knew about this a long time ago, he told the merchants he met in Linsu, Zhou Congxin curled his lips, disapprovingly said: "Puju people ran to the north of the forest to occupy the mountain and became king, we were ordered to expel, and those who didn't want to be arrested Don't worry, Brother Jiang didn't hurt a single hair."

Li Qingwen said righteously: "I am also worried about the safety of the officers, soldiers and common people in the border towns."

Zhou Congxin patted him on the shoulder with a smile, "My good brother, I really grew up."

Now that they met, Zhou Congxin called the soldiers to drive, followed Li Qingwen back outside the camp, and pulled back the three carts entrusted by the Zhou family.

When Li Qingwen went to the camp, he first went to see Xu Qingyuan and the three of them, and found that they were still asleep, then went to the side to find Fang, and handed her the letter from Hongzhou.

Fang also just came back from Li's house, holding the letter happily for a long time, and then carefully put it away. Her two sons are literate in the border town, and they haven't finished school yet, so they have to wait until they come back to read the letter.

After leaving Fang's place, Li Qingwen went to see Lao Xingtou again. He was still raising cattle and horses. He was in good spirits, but he lost a few teeth. He was afraid that he would not be able to eat meat after losing all his teeth. He was forced to start serious work. Clean your teeth.

Zhou Yao went to the army to see a doctor, she was not there, the crying girl was also sleeping, Li Qingwen didn't stand up, he greeted his aunt and cousin and went back.

Su Yuanbao had a dream. In the dream, he was a rabbit who was grazing grass. Somehow, he was caught and put into hot water.

"I, I'm actually not tasty..."

With a yell, Su Yuanbao opened his eyes and found that he was not in the pot, heaved a sigh of relief, then noticed that his buttocks and back were very hot, and when he wiped it with his hand, his face was covered with sweat.

Li Qingwen came over with a candlestick, seeing how hot he was, he untied another piece of clothes for Su Yuanbao, the little guy limply lay on Li Qingwen's shoulder, raised his hand to look carefully, it wasn't a claw.

After lying on Li Qingwen's body for a while, Su Yuanbao went to eat at the back. Li Qingwen made pickled cabbage stewed with big bones and braised fish. The pork bones were covered with meat. Because it was soaked in the smell of pickled cabbage, it was not greasy at all. It was a sweet and sour fish. It was also an appetizer, so Su Yuanbao ate two bowls of rice with the vegetable bowl.

Li Qingwen touched his protruding belly, and didn't serve Su Yuanbao any more food.

After he finished eating, Su Shuqing and Xu Qingyuan also came back. They walked around somewhere, and when they came back, they shrank their necks, shivered, kicked off their boots and rolled onto the kang.

It was the first time for the two adults and one child to sleep on the hot kang, so Li Qingwen soaked honey water in fear that they would not be able to bear it.

After a while, Li Zhengliang and Li Zhengming came, they came with pillows in their arms, and wanted to roll with Su Yuanbao.

Li Zhengming grabbed Su Yuanbao's arm and took him to see the urine bucket in the outhouse. He said seriously, don't be afraid to let him pee at night, wake himself up, and go with him.

In fact, it was Li Zhengming himself who was afraid. Courage really didn't grow with his size. Although he looked like a young man on the outside, he was afraid of many things.

The three of them were lying side by side, with their six feet raised high. Although it was Su Yuanbao's first visit to the border town, he knew it well. When he asked about the dog, chicken, pig, sheep and horse at home, he still remembered what Li Qingwen said. The injured roe deer I heard is still being raised in the camp, and its big eyes rolled back and forth.

The reason why Su Shuqing was able to come to the border town was because he was taking care of his nephew, and the second was because Su Shuyi wanted his younger brother to have a good rest. The household department had the most chores and could never finish.

He also knew that he had already made up his mind to either eat or sleep, without Li Qingwen's company, he drank two glasses of wine with Xu Qingyuan, turned his head and fell asleep.

Li Qingwen was originally worried about Su Yuanbao the most, but he obviously underestimated the energy of a child of this age. When he was too tired to open his eyes, Su Yuanbao still blinked his big eyes while listening to Li Zhengliang brag about catching birds.

Before falling asleep, Li Qingwen thought about what he looked like at their age, as if he had just reunited with Jiang Cong, the corners of his mouth could not help but curl up.

Li Zhengming turned his head to look at the people around him, and suddenly said: "My uncle must have dreamed about his wife, and he laughed like this even when he fell asleep."

"It's not a daughter-in-law." Su Yuanbao said firmly, "It's a beauty!"

Both Li Zhengliang and Li Zhengming looked at him. Su Yuanbao recited Li Qingwen's poems and fus in the provincial examination verbatim, and also read out his wife's explanation with emotion. The two brothers were surprised His eyes widened, no wonder my uncle has been unwilling to get married, it turns out that he likes fairies.

When the poem and fu spread all over the border town and were copied by the master for all the students to recite, Li Qingwen didn't know that the instigator was the honest Su Yuanbao.

Although he went to bed early, Li Qingwen got up early, Su Yuanbao and the others had already followed the dog to inspect the site, and Xu Qingyuan and Su Shuqing had finished eating the hot pot, so he struggled to get up.

Xu Qingyuan put on his leather boots, and said to Li Qingwen before going out, "You are busy with your work, you don't have to watch over us all the time, your aunt just sent over [-] steamed buns, [-] steamed buns and a few bags of food, we won't be hungry."

When Li Maoyu was driving to deliver things, Xu Qingyuan and Su Shuqing didn't know that there was food in them. It was the first time they saw steamed buns and steamed buns packed in sacks, not to mention two piles of slaughtered sheep and bones. The bright red blood on the meat and meat was frozen into ice, and there was a big pig's head with clean hair on the front...

After walking a few more steps, Li Qingwen went back to his home for dinner, because he was busy greeting guests yesterday, although Mrs. Chen knew that her youngest son was going to be admitted to high school, but he didn't have time to say anything more. Today, he cooked a big pot of eggs to celebrate, and Li Qingwen only ate three One stomach is full.

The day of getting married was just around the corner, and the Li family was so busy that even the Jiang family went to Xincheng to help, and Li Qingwen stayed to look after the children.

On the kang, Li Zhengfu was sitting, Zhou Zhenzhen was lying down, and the two little girls looked at Li Qingwen with dark eyes.

The two small faces are round and fleshy, which is really attractive, but once you open your mouth and start crying, it will be overwhelming.

Maybe it was because Li Qingwen was a little familiar and a little strange at the same time, the two girls looked at him curiously, but they didn't cry for a while.

Li Zhengfu is Li Qingwen's youngest niece, and she is ready to go. She had grown weeds when she saw her brothers and sisters going out to play, but Zhou Zhenzhen would cry when no one was with her. down.

Zhou Zhenzhen was weaned early, but she is very energetic. When she cries, her voice is loud, and she spits far away. When she is unhappy, she will stare at others. Just by looking at her face, she can tell when she is hungry and when she has urinated. Very good service.

Because Zhou Yao was busy, this girl spent most of the time at Li's house. Anyway, Li Zhengfu had to be watched, one and the other.

Li Zhengyan went crazy playing outside, her shoes were soaked, she had to come back, and buried herself in Zhou Zhenzhen's quilt like a silkworm chrysalis.

As soon as Li Zhengyan came back, she held her chin and kept moving her mouth, talking to Li Qingwen.

Zhou Zhenzhen probably disliked the noise, so she turned her little head aside, Li Zhengfu covered her sister's mouth with her hand, and skillfully touched a sugar ball from the side, and put it in Li Zhengyan's mouth.

The sugar ball was wrapped in sugar, but the inside was sour. The puffed cheeks moved happily at first, and soon Li Zhengyan's small face began to twitch, saliva dripped from the corner of his mouth, and he was temporarily speechless.

Li Qingwen watched the children for a few days, and Li Qingzhuo also arrived in the border town, not too early or too late, just in time for his brother's big wedding.