Bianshanhan [farming]

Hearing about Li Qingwen's intention to come, Qin Shuyuan reassured him that it was not a deal.

Li Qingwen didn't know whether to be happy or sigh.

Because of the Sun family case, Li Qingwen owed Qin Shuyuan a favor and was willing to stay in Beijing, because after the victory, the whole country would seek peace, the north would have to redefine its territory, and the imperial court would have to put all its strength on the border towns. It made no difference whether he went back or not.

Of course, there is another reason, that is, Jiang Cong was promoted to governor of Dongzhou, which is close to the capital, so they can be together in the future.

Qin Shuyuan's words were true at all, and the engagement really came to nothing.

Jiang Liping and his wife and children are going back to visit relatives, and Jiang Cong is going back to the border town to prepare for his appointment next year. The Li family brothers and their fellow clan members went on a boat together, but they saw Hong Yi waiting at the pier.

Li Qingwen thought he was running away from relatives, but later found out that he was going to the border town to take up his post.

The group stayed on the boat for several days. After the war, the pier built in Linsu became lively again. The long streets were very lively. Although they bought a lot of things in the capital, they bought a lot of sea things here. .

There is a station every fifty to one hundred miles from Linsu to the border town, which was hastily built during the war, and it was convenient for them to go home with them for the transmission of military information and battle reports.

Because of the fast journey, when they arrived at the border town, there were still more than ten days before the Chinese New Year.

The children and dogs of the village ran out to greet them like thousands of horses, and their cheerful barking almost pierced the gray sky above the border town.

After the great victory, the border town ushered in a peaceful day. This was a happy event. After a few years, the children in the family came back for a New Year reunion, which was even more joyful. Every family was happy.

Seeing her son and daughter-in-law, Chen couldn't help being overjoyed. Hearing that Hong Yi was also here, she cordially invited him to celebrate the New Year together.

Although it was Hong Yi's first visit, he and Li Qingzhuo were classmates and good friends, and they were not outsiders.

Hong Yi didn't refuse either, and thanked him politely, and brought the fine wine brought from the capital, and changed into Li Qingrui's leather coat.

Hongyi sat cross-legged on the kang, responding to the questions of the Li family, big and small, no one could see that his reputation in the capital was so scary.

It is rare that there are not many pigs in the family this year. The next day, the Li family will kill pigs.

As soon as this decision was made, Li Zhengyan thoughtfully packed the pillows for the second brother, and Li Zhengming obediently went to the camp to live with Lao Xingtou.

Li Qingwen held Zhou Zhenzhen in his arms, and wanted to find a free time to talk to his father about business, but there were so many guests at home that he never had a good chance.

Sprinkle clear water on the whetstone, Li Qingzhuo sat on the small bench and sharpened the knife, Hong Yi stood by and watched, Li Zhengfu tugged at the corner of his clothes, "Uncle, I'll take you to ski. "

After staring at this little girl who was not even as high as her legs for a while, Hong Yi silently picked her up and went outside to a high snow slope. Sitting on the top, while sliding down quickly, screaming.

At Li Zhengfu's age, it's still a bit dangerous to slide this way. After thinking about it, Hongyi let her sit in his arms, and then slid down hard...

This afternoon, because of his superb skiing skills, Hongyi won the admiration and admiration of the children in several villages.

Early the next morning, Li Qingwen had just crawled out of the bed when Li Qingrui and Li Qingzhuo jumped into the pigsty and blocked the big white pig raised at home in a corner, then pushed it down, tied the front and hind legs with ropes, and lifted it up come out.

The short-legged table was placed in the yard, and when Li Qingwen came out with a long puff of white air, the pig's blood had already been caught, and he couldn't help swallowing as he watched his second brother carefully deboning and cutting the flesh.

Mrs. Jiang and Lu Xuening took the sorghum stalks and stirred the basin containing the pig's blood, adding green onion, ginger, salt and noodles to it. Li Qinghong was cleaning the pig's intestines outside, while Li Qingwen and his eldest nephew bent down to pick up the pig hairs on the ground.

Both pots were burning, and Jiang Cong was cooking and washing vegetables. Mrs. Chen was busy all the time, and would ask Jiang Cong a few things about his family when he had time.

After the intestines were cleaned up, Hongyi and Li Maoxian poured blood sausage together.

Pork, blood sausage, liver, lung, and heart are boiled together in a large pot, and then dried vegetables that have been stored for a winter are placed on top.

Before the pig-killing dishes were cooked, Li Zhengyan and his eldest brother went to call for someone, and soon Zhou Yao, Lao Xingtou, Li Maoyuniang, Lao Sun, Xu Qingyuan, and Li Qingyun's family arrived.

Li Qingfeng came back later, followed by Li Maoqun, Dong Ming and others, and a cart full of wine.

Because of the large number of people, guests and elders sat on the kang in the main room. Hongyi was on Li Maoxian's left, Li Benshan was on the right, Jiang Cong and Li Qingrui sat on both sides of the kang. This seat is usually occupied by the eldest son of the family. It is convenient for serving food and pouring wine.

Jiang Cong was sitting here for the first time.

No longer in vain, Li Qingwen no longer sat with the children, and moved to the round wooden table on the floor of the main room this year.

The place where Li Qingwen was sitting was close to the Kang, and because the place was not wide enough, Li Qingwen leaned his back on Jiang Cong's lap from time to time to act as the back of the chair.

The elders in the clan are first concerned about the battles of the past two years and the government orders in the future, so Hong Yi and Jiang Cong who have not taken over from Kang Shang are the most asked by everyone. Promising children are also mentioned.

Li Qingwen and Zhou Zhenzhen were holding a bowl of doudou juice on the kang. Doudou is blueberry. There is a large area of ​​blueberries planted in the north of the camp. The fruit is picked and squeezed for juice. It is sweet and sour.

Zhou Zhenzhen wore a lot of clothes, and there were many people in the room. She kept moving in the heat, and her elbow touched Li Qingwen's itchy flesh. Li Qingwen, who had just taken a sip of blueberry juice, couldn't hold back, turned his head, and spat it out with a "poof".

Seeing black spitting out of his mouth, Jiang Cong's heart shook violently. He didn't notice when the bowl dropped, and hurriedly picked up Li Qingwen's face, "Boy, where does it hurt?"

"I, I'm fine..." Seeing Jiang Cong's pale face, Li Qingwen was taken aback, "I was touched just now, it's a little itchy..."

Immediately reacting, he whispered: "Brother, I vomited juice, I'm already healed."

Seeing that his eyes were as bright as before, Jiang Cong calmed down slightly, his throat rolled, and he said in a hoarse voice: "Wipe it, just wipe it clean."

That being said, after Li Qingwen wiped his mouth clean, Jiang Cong's hands were still shaking and his eyes were red.

Even after so many years, the scene of Li Qingwen lying there lifeless and vomiting blood was still his nightmare. If he was touched even slightly, his fear and heartache made him unable to control himself.

Because it was a trivial matter, the people in the room didn't notice anything wrong, so Li Maoxian put down his chopsticks, saying that he wanted the guests to taste the fruit wine made this year.

The wine is in the wine cellar inside the camp.

When Jiang Cong went out to get wine, Li Qingwen followed, wrapping his fists by his sides with both hands.

"Brother, I'm fine, I will always be with you." Li Qingwen said.

Jiang Cong lowered his head and held him in his arms, not letting go for a long time.

It was very early in the winter in the border town, and Hong Yi went to the new town to sort things out. Jiang shi pulled the children to the wing room early. When Li Qingwen and Jiang Cong arrived in the main room, Li Maoxian sat there, as if waiting for them.

"Father..." As soon as he opened his mouth, Li Qingwen burst into tears and knelt down on the ground, "The child is unfilial and has failed father's expectations..."

Li Maoxian sighed, but did not help him, his voice was sour, "Zai'er, you should think about it, this is not just a matter of your life, Jiang Cong, you..."

Before he opened his mouth, his father's words seemed to have known this for a long time. Li Qingwen didn't understand, but he couldn't care less about it at this moment, and said in tears, "Father, I only like him in my life."

Jiang Cong also knelt down beside him, called "Uncle" with a firm face, "I am also full of joy for Zi'er, he is the only one in this life."

Seeing this, Li Maoxian's eyes turned red. These two children, one and the other are the best. From the bottom of his heart, he didn't want the two of them to take such a difficult road, but their relationship has not changed after being separated for thousands of miles. It's God's will Fool!

"I beg father to help us!"

Outside the door, Mrs. Chen covered her mouth and burst into tears. After eating, she felt that the child's father had something on her mind, and wanted to explain a few words, but unexpectedly, she heard her son and Jiang Cong say such words inside.

Li Qingrui and Li Qingzhuo supported his mother, Li Qingrui silently smacked his lips, Li Qingzhuo's expression was a bit dazed.

Li Qingwen and Jiang Cong kowtowed inside, but Chen finally burst into tears and rushed in, "You, what are you doing..."

When Li Qingfeng came back later, he found that the door of the house had been locked so early, so he climbed over the wall and came in. As soon as he entered the room, he heard his mother crying, stepped in, and saw Li Qingwen and Jiang Cong kneeling on the ground, brother He was with the second brother, the third brother was wiping mother's tears, and the father was trying to persuade her not to cry.

Li Qingfeng was stunned for a moment, then took Zhou Zhenzhen out of his arms and put her on the kang. The little girl's hair was messed up like a bird's nest, she turned over several times, away from the stinky Li Qingfeng.

"What's wrong?" Li Qingfeng said: "Mom, what are you learning from Zhou Zhenzhen, she doesn't cry, you cry when there are many people."

Li Qingwen got up, and passed the cloth to his mother, his eyes were red and swollen, "Mother, it's all my fault, hit me a few times, don't cry and break your body."

Hearing his mother's weeping voice, Li Qingfeng's eyes widened, he looked between Li Qingwen and Jiang Cong, and said for a long time: "At least the fat water didn't flow into outsiders' fields."

Chen stared at him, "Take the child to the Westinghouse!"

Li Qingfeng came back late in the first place, and now he didn't want to move, he said: "You have long regarded Jiang Cong as our son, what's the difference now, or are you just being polite..."

Hearing this, Chen's tears fell even worse. She regarded her as a son, but she never thought that the two of them would like each other. Two men, what will happen in the future, children, and children, son He and Jiang Cong will have no children anymore!

Although he was shocked, Li Qinghong still felt that Li Qingwen and Jiang Cong's palms and backs were fleshy, and he couldn't bear it, so he could only bite the bullet and ease it, "The two of them have always had a good relationship, and they are a good match..."

Li Qingwen immediately cast a grateful look at his third brother. He didn't know that his third brother was also buzzing at the moment, and he didn't know what he was talking about.

This night, except for a few younger ones, everyone in the Li family didn't close their eyes.

Jiang Cong was lying alone in the West Wing, while Li Qingwen and his four brothers were on the Kang in the West Wing.

"Zai'er, when did you and Jiang Cong happen..." Li Qingfeng asked as he leaned against the wall.

"Just, the year you were injured..."

In the dark, Li Qingzhuo reached out and touched his younger brother's head. He had already noticed that his younger brother and Jiang Cong were acting too close, but he didn't expect that the relationship between them turned out to be the love between husband and wife.

"This is Jiang Cong. If it's another person, I'm afraid my father will have to pick up the knife..." Li Qingfeng sighed: "Since you two have been able to hide it for so long, why did you say it?"

Sucking his nose, Li Qingwen said: "I also hesitated for a long time..."

"Father should have known about it a long time ago." Li Qingrui said suddenly, and added, "Me too."

Now, the other four people were startled, Li Qingwen murmured: "No, it's impossible..."

"It was you who told me that it was in Duke Lowe's manor." Li Qingrui sighed, not knowing whether it was for himself or for his younger brother.

I don't expect Li Qingwen to remember it anymore. After all, he was seriously injured and almost unconscious at that time. Li Qingrui smiled wryly, "I thought Zai'er had been with Jiang Cong for too long, so I couldn't tell the difference, so I thought, let's keep them separated. Just take it slow...Jiang Cong promised me not to take the initiative to find Zi'er, but he didn't expect..."

Unexpectedly, in the past four or five years, the two of them get together less and leave more, and their relationship still remains unchanged.

Although very surprised, but from the tone of the eldest brother, it seemed that he did not object to the matter between him and Jiang Cong. Li Qingwen asked, "Then, when did that father know about it?"

"Sometimes, it should be that you didn't mention the days when you got married." Li Qingrui speculated.

Li Qingwen thought about it carefully, it seems that since he came home from a serious injury, his father didn't mention this much, so early? !

He was still thinking, when Li Qingzhuo asked suddenly: "The Jiang family already knew about this?"

Li Qingwen let out a "huh" and kept his mouth shut when the fourth brother asked him "how did he know that".

It's a bit embarrassing, don't mention it.

No matter how you feel, the sky is still bright.

Mrs. Jiang got up early to cook, and when she was halfway through eating, Mrs. Chen opened her red and swollen eyes and realized that Jiang Cong was not there.

He didn't have much appetite, so he ate a few bites hastily. Mrs. Zhang gave Li Qinghong the hot food and asked him to deliver it to Jiang Cong.

Li Qingfeng saw it, and murmured: "Mother, if you agree to the matter of the two of them happily, you still have to send it back and forth in such a troublesome way?"

Mrs. Jiang glared at him, "Both Zai'er and Jiang Cong are good, I just think that the two men's lives are unreasonable! You should stop running around like crazy in the future, whether it's in the border town or in the capital, find a suitable family. , and have children!"

"I already have a child!" Li Qingfeng raised Zhou Zhenzhen with both hands, "We will go sailing together in the future!"

Zhou Zhenzhen's eyes lit up when she heard the big boat, and she waved her little hand, "Let's go, let's go!"

"Don't talk nonsense and tarnish Miss Zhou's reputation, I can't spare you!" Chen said angrily.

After Li Qinghong and Li Qingfeng left, Li Zhengyan climbed onto the kang, gently touched Chen's eyes with her small hand, "Grandma, does it hurt?"

Seeing the delicate appearance of her little granddaughter, and thinking about Li Qingwen and Jiang Cong's breakup, Chen's tears fell down again.

Li Maoxian sighed and persuaded: "Don't cry. The two of them are not feeling well. The child is not wrong. They have been enduring it for the past few years. Do you think they will worry about it for the rest of their lives?"

Li Maoxian didn't fall asleep for a long time when he realized that the two of them were wrong. He kept watching and understood that the youngest son and Jiang Cong had experienced too many things, and many worldly things could no longer restrain them. It's family.

At that time, the youngest son was going to study in the capital, and he thought about seeing the two of them separately, but it turned out to be useless.

Mrs. Chen hugged her little granddaughter and wiped her tears, "They have a good relationship, what will they do when they get old, the incense is cut off like this..."

"You can't just stare at that." Li Maoxian said: "The Taoist priest who divination to Zi'er also said that the moon is full and the moon is losing. Our son is getting better and met Jiang Cong again, so we can no longer expect too much. ..."

Thinking of all the past, Chen remained silent for a long time.

On the other side, Li Zhengfu also wanted to comfort her little uncle, but after yawning twice, she fell asleep next to Li Qingwen.

After listening to the movement for a while, Mrs. Jiang quietly entered the room and told Li Qingwen, "Mother stopped crying, son, don't worry too much."

The eldest sister-in-law is like a mother, and Jiang's love for her mother is also for Li Qingwen.

After a while, Li Qinghong came back with food and told Li Qingwen that Jiang Cong was in Xincheng now, so he could rest assured.

In the following days, Li Qingwen stayed at home honestly, and Jiang Cong didn't come over. Mrs. Chen still asked her four sons to deliver meals every day, sometimes it was Li Maoxian.

Li Zhengyan and Li Zhengfu kept asking why Uncle Jiang didn't come. When they mentioned it, Li Qingwen only said that he was too busy.

Knowing that the matter between himself and Jiang Cong was not that simple, he had to give his mother some time to think about it, but seeing that the Chinese New Year was approaching, Li Qingwen was also anxious.

When Li Qingwen was in a hurry, his mouth bulged in a circle, and it hurt to eat anything, but he was afraid that his mother would worry, so he still had to eat despite the excruciating pain.

Lu Xuening saw it, and replaced Li Qingwen with a bowl of cooler millet porridge. Li Qingwen thanked the third sister-in-law in a low voice.

Seeing her younger son like this, Chen's lips moved, but in the end she didn't say anything, just sighed.

This is rarely the case in the family, Li Qingfeng only felt his chest was tight, he scratched his hair, and said: "Zaier, second brother, what do you think of Zhou Yu's case?"

Li Qingwen blinked, but before he could speak, Li Qingfeng said again: "It's Zhou Yao's father, Zhou Zhenzhen's grandfather."

Seeing that Tao Ruoning's grandfather and the Sun's family had reversed the case, Li Qingfeng also inquired about Imperial Doctor Zhou. Due to his background, Zhou Zhenzhen could not travel around, and would not be able to take a boat with him when he grew up.

Doctor Zhou's case is a matter of the imperial court, and it is not easy to check. Li Qingwen wants to start working in the capital next year, but he has no clue yet.

Hearing her name, Zhou Zhenzhen got up from the kang, reached out her hand to touch his blue chin, although her small face was extremely disgusted, she still put her arms around Li Qingfeng's neck.

The day before the Chinese New Year, Li Qingrui went to deliver food and brought back a cart full of prey. The skin, meat, and bones were all packed, so there was no need to cut them up when they came back, just defrost them before eating.

Li Qingwen glanced at it, and knew without asking, that the one who could cut the bones so neatly must be Jiang Cong.

The brothers went out to paste the couplets, Li Qinghong was painting the paste on the wall, Li Qingwen stretched the couplets and pasted them, Li Zhengliang yelled, "It's reversed!"

Li Qingwen was still thinking about it, and then he realized that the couplet was upside down, so he quickly took it off before the paste was frozen.

This day passed in a daze. On the second day, when it was still dark, Li Qingwen only slept lightly for less than half an hour. When the door curtain was lifted, he felt a gust of wind and woke up instantly.

Li Qingfeng on the kang leaned his head against the wall, sleeping really soundly, Li Qingzhuo was about to get up, and whispered: "Mother."

"Second child." Chen's voice sounded, with a touch of helplessness, "Chinese New Year is coming, if Jiang Cong is not busy, let him go home to celebrate the New Year."

In response, Li Qingzhuo quickly put on his clothes, and when he was about to get off the kang, his clothes got caught.

A light red ice lantern was still firmly on in the corner of the wall of the Li family courtyard, and the candlelight was flickering fiercely, just like Li Qingwen's beating heart at this moment.

Hearing that his mother finally let go, Li Qingwen rushed out of the house impatiently, and when he opened the door, his footsteps stopped suddenly.

On the snow not far from the door, stood a familiar figure.

The clouds stopped and the moon fell, and the ground was filled with silver light. The two figures rushed towards each other quickly, hugging each other tightly.