Bianshanhan [farming]

Ever since the land was planted, Li Qingfeng no longer had an excuse not to read, holding a book every day with a look of bitterness and hatred on his face, even Mrs. Chen was curious, is this thing really so boring?

Li Qingfeng was most looking forward to having people from his family, so that they could go to the west house to hide, but Li Maoxian was most troubled by people coming from his family, especially these days, people from not only his own village, but also from other villages came to inquire about the affairs of the border town.

Although they are from other villages, they are all close relatives, and some of them have a good relationship with Li Qingwen's grandfather, so Li Maoxian had to talk to them patiently.

They are all people who have suffered a lot, and everyone wants to live a good life. Li Maoxian understands, so he took the trouble to explain, everything that needs to be said has been said, and they can't control how they do it.

Li Qinghong went out with a pig food bucket, and when he walked into the yard, he saw a man pushing a small cart and parked at the door, looking at the familiar big man, he shouted: "Second uncle!"

Chen Shanhe just put down the car to wipe his sweat, and raised his head when he heard the sound, "Oh, Hong'er!"

With Li Qinghong's sound, Mrs. Chen, who was cleaning the table in the room, almost dragged the bowl to the ground, threw the rag, turned around and ran out.

Mrs. Chen rushed out like a gust of wind, and when she saw Chen Shanhe outside, she couldn't see her eyes laughing, "Second brother!"

Li Qinghong and Chen Shi grabbed Chen Shanhe's arm from left to right, trying to pull it into the house, but Chen Shanhe hurriedly said, "Car, car..."

Li Qinghong put down his second uncle's hand and went to push the cart behind.

When Chen Shanhe entered the room, he saw Li Qingfeng and Li Qingwen, grinning and said, "Fourth nephew, little boy!"

Chen Shanhe often came to Li's house, and Li Qingwen was no stranger to him, so he called out, "Second uncle."

Chen Shanhe looked at Li Qingwen, and the smile on his face was even wider, "Your mother sent a message home, I have long wanted to come and visit our little nephew!"

Just as Li Qingwen was about to speak, Chen Shanhe stepped forward, put his hands under his armpits, lifted him up, and said, "Hey, I really grew up. In the past, Second Uncle could easily lift you over his head."

As he spoke, he swam up and down several times vigorously.

Li Qingwen was stunned for a moment, his body became straight and stiff, he was already this age, and he couldn't adapt to holding high for a while.

At this moment, Li Zhengliang rushed over and threw himself on Chen Shanhe's lap, "Uncle and grandpa lift me up!"

The little guy climbed up from behind his uncle and grandpa like a monkey, afraid of falling down, Chen Shanhe quickly put down Li Qingwen, and pulled Li Zhengliang from behind to his neck.

Riding on his uncle's neck, Li Zhengliang could reach the roof with his hands raised, quacking happily.

There were guests in the east room, so Mrs. Chen let her second brother go to the west room.

Chen Shanhe sat on the kang, but Li Zhengliang didn't want to go down, Li Qingfeng said: "Don't pee on your uncle and grandpa."

"I'm not a fool!" Li Zhengliang said out of breath.

Li Qingfeng turned his head and said to Li Qingwen: "My son, my nephew called you a fool."

Li Qingwen: "Little fourth brother, I don't seem to have heard him scolding me..."

"Have you forgotten?" Li Qingfeng said gloatingly, "You used to piss on your second uncle a lot..."

Li Qingwen: "..."

Chen Shanhe laughed loudly when he heard the two brothers talking, and said, "Children's urine is a good thing, most people can't get wet."

For the first time, Li Qingwen felt that not being able to remember things was something to be happy about.

"Why haven't you planted the land yet?" Chen Shanhe asked, "Have you finished planting the land?"

"The planting is over, there are many people this year, and there are helpers." Chen said, "Second brother, how is the family?"

"Middle, it's still the same." Chen Shanhe said with a smile, "Last year's rice and wheat came down. I originally wanted to send some to you earlier, but it has been delayed until now."

"Second brother, my family is not short of food now." Chen's heart felt a little distressed, "Besides, who is willing to eat rice, it's a bargain, and you still push it all the way..."

"Isn't it that you don't grow this thing here?" Chen Shanhe said with a smile: "The nephews say the rice is delicious, and my uncle can't give much. Let them eat a few meals."

Didn't see Li Qingzhuo, Chen Shanhe thought he was still studying medicine in the county, and after asking about it, he found out that he was going to study in the capital.

There was a lot of movement in the west room, and the people in the east room knew that the Li family had a visitor, so they got up and left after speaking.

Li Zhengliang was carried down by his father, his mouth was pouted, but he was unwilling to leave.

He was just at an active age, sitting beside Chen Shanhe and playing with the palm-sized hand, "Grandpa, why are your hands rotten?"

With his sound, everyone in the room looked at Chen Shanhe's hand.

"It's nothing, I'm worn out from work..." Chen Shanhe shrunk his shoulders and wanted to block it with his sleeves, but Chen quickly grabbed his sleeves, twisted his wrists, and saw the palms of his hands were bruised.

"Second brother, what did you do?" Mrs. Chen frowned, and called Mrs. Jiang to get the ointment.

"It's nothing, it'll be fine if you don't move it." Chen Shanhe said disapprovingly, "We farmers, what is this injury called?"

"It's not made by hard work, it looks like it's hot..." Chen didn't want to be fooled by him, and asked: "What did you do?"

Mrs. Jiang took the ointment and handed it to Mrs. Chen. Li Qingwen grabbed Chen Shanhe's hand, and Mrs. Chen applied the ointment on it.

"It's a small injury not worth mentioning, and it's a waste of medicine." Chen Shanhe shook his head.

When Li Maoxian came back after seeing off the guests, he saw the wound on Chen Shanhe's hand, and asked, "Second Brother, why are you so burned?"

Li Maoxian asked, but Chen Shanhe couldn't fool his sister, so he had to tell the truth: "I accidentally burned the brick when I fired it, it's okay."

"Brick burning?!" Chen said happily, "Dingxin learned how to burn bricks and opened a kiln in the village?"

Chen Dingxin is Chen Shanhe's only son and Li Qingwen's cousin.

Chen Shanhe smiled wryly, "No way, dozens of kilns were burnt out, and they didn't make a single piece..."

Mrs. Chen was taken aback, and asked anxiously: "Dingxin has been studying for five or six years. He may not have much experience just getting started. You can ask his master to have a good eye. If you do a lot of things, it will be fine."

"That old man is not a master, but an old liar!" Chen Shanhe rarely opened his mouth to curse, "He took dozens of apprentices, the long ones worked for him for seven or eight years, and the short ones worked for him for two or three years. I learned it. I told my boss a long time ago that you can’t work hard, you have to be careful, that person seems to have a bad mind, and he receives more than one boxing ceremony a year. I have never seen him open his mouth to his apprentice in all these years of life. Want something!!"

Hearing that her nephew had been cheated, Mrs. Chen was stunned.

A few years ago, I heard that someone in the north taught how to burn bricks. Chen Dingxin wanted to learn the craft, so he went there with his bedroll on his back.

Listening to her nephew's daughter-in-law crying, Mrs. Chen advised her to wait for a few years, and when her nephew learned the craft, she would open a kiln and burn bricks at the door of the house, and never run far away.

I never dreamed that all these years have been in vain!

Li Maoxian frowned and said, "Did you report to the official?"

"It's useless to report to the official." Chen Shan said calmly: "That person is used to finding faults. When he accepted apprentices, he said nicely. Only apprentices who win his favor will teach all the skills. These foolish boys heard this. He worked hard for him. Carts of bricks were burned and taken away. He kept all the money, but he was picky about these apprentices. He could tell a lot of faults to anyone. I think he clearly came from I didn’t want to teach people my true skills from the beginning!”

Li Qingwen was also worried when he heard this, this kind of verbal apprenticeship did not sign a contract, even if that person did such unconscionable things, there was nothing he could do if he got involved in the government, because he didn't force it, it was all voluntary by these apprentices.

His son Bai has worked for that old thing for so many years, and he has put in a lot of etiquette. When Chen Shanhe thought about it, he wished he could stab that man with a knife, but when he looked back at the whole family, he still had to work hard. .

Seeing his younger sister, he opened up the conversation box, and he couldn't help but vomit bitterness, "It's my fault for talking about it, I told my boss since I was a child, don't be afraid of hardship in everything he does, and put his heart into everything, he really listens Oh, I didn’t say a word when I came back after suffering so much trouble from that old guy, if it wasn’t for the boy from the Liu family who learned crafts with him to come and say these things, I wouldn’t know..."

Chen Shanhe had held this matter in his heart for a long time, and when he said it out suddenly, his nose was sore.

Chen gritted her teeth and cursed: "That old bastard is so pregnant that he has sores on his head and pus on his feet!"

Seeing that Chen was clutching his chest and gasping for breath, Chen Shanhe stopped talking, "It's nothing, just treat it as a fall and get back up. The matter is over, so don't be angry."

The room fell silent, everyone was calming down, Li Qingwen said, "Second Uncle, then your hand..."

"Your cousin and Liu Daguang, who worked with him, didn't give up. They dug a kiln at the back of the village and tried to make bricks. I'll go and help, and accidentally..." Chen Shanhe touched Li Qingwen's head forced a smile on his face, "Little boy, you should be smarter in the future, don't be fooled by those dogs."

Li Qingwen knew that he shouldn't continue to talk about this at this time, otherwise his second uncle and mother would feel uncomfortable, so he endured it and endured it, but he still held back, so he can discuss it with his father later.

Li Maoxian looked at his face for a while, his expression changed for a while, and he didn't make a sound. He just asked Mrs. Chen to order some food, and he accompanied Chen Shanhe to have a good drink or two.

After setting the table, Li Qingrui and Li Maoxian sat in it with Chen Shanhe.

When Li Qingwen went out, he saw his fourth brother aiming his bow at a wooden board on the wall, then he let go suddenly, and pierced the wooden board with an arrow with white feathers.

Li Qingfeng whispered: "Zai'er, did you hear what the second uncle said, which village is that old thing from?"

"Why, little brother four, are you going to avenge big cousin?" Li Qingwen looked at him, "Don't be impulsive, whether you kill or hurt someone, you will have to sue, it's not worth it for such a rotten fellow!"

Li Qingfeng stared at him and didn't speak for a long time.

Li Qingwen thought he was angry, and reasoned: "You don't have to do anything to teach him a lesson, tell him about his bluffing, his reputation will be ruined, and no one else will be fooled again. And if you want to steal his business, cousin and the others If it is made of bricks and tiles, he is not a unique skill in our field, one will ebb and flow..."

"Boy!" Li Qingfeng interrupted him suddenly, "Who did you learn to swear, why haven't I heard of it?"

Li Qingwen let out a sigh of relief suddenly, and after a long time, he said quietly: "I heard what Hongzhou cursed, Brother Jiang and the others..."

"Oh." Li Qingfeng said indifferently: "The methods you mentioned are too slow, and I can't understand the hatred. It's best to let him taste the pain of flesh and blood."

"Don't mess around!" Li Qingwen said nervously.

"I don't even know where he is, what else can he do." Li Qingfeng said: "Don't be like a mother, you are afraid of this and that at every turn!"

Li Qingwen from the 21st century legal civilization: "..."

I'm sorry, little brother, Li Qingwen said silently in his heart, I have been a law-abiding student for more than ten years, so I can't understand what you are doing.

At noon, Mrs. Chen and Mrs. Jiang cooked several dishes. Li Qingrui and Li Maoxian accompanied Chen Shanhe to drink. The eyes of the three who drank were all red. Mrs. Chen hid the wine and said that they would not pour anything, so the three began to eat.

After eating, Chen Shanhe walked a little wobbly, and Li Qingrui helped him to sleep on the Westing Kang.

Mrs. Chen couldn't help complaining: "I know that my second brother is not feeling well, but you still let him drink so much, don't you know that drinking too much alcohol will hurt your health?"

"He can drink as much as he wants." Li Maoxian said, "If you don't drink, it's hard to hold back in your heart."

Li Qingrui was also a little dizzy, so he went to lie down in the wing.

Mrs. Chen asked Li Maoxian if he wanted to rest for a while, Li Maoxian shook his head and greeted, "Zaier, what did you want to say to your second uncle just now?"

Li Qingwen was moving the stool. Hearing his father's question, he was taken aback for a moment, and immediately realized, "I want to ask my second uncle how the bricks burned..."

"Do you know how to burn bricks?" Li Maoxian asked.

"I don't really understand it, I just saw people burn it, so I don't know if it's the same style..." Li Qingwen said with some hesitation.

The Chen family next to me was overjoyed when she heard this, "Zai'er, if you know, you have to help your eldest cousin. Your second uncle has always been kind to our family, and they have been cheated very hard this time."

"Mother, I'm still not sure about this matter." Li Qingwen said: "I'm afraid that if I tell my second uncle, it won't work out in the end, and it will make him happy for nothing."

"You can't go wrong if you try!" Chen said hurriedly: "Anyway, they have tried it many times, and it doesn't matter if it breaks a few times."

Li Maoqun nodded, "Boy, tell Dad what you know."

Li Qingwen used to live near the town where there was an earth kiln for burning bricks. It was not big. It used to be a one-story house. To build a house, you asked a potter to burn bricks in the cellar. You asked relatives and friends to help. You only need to give the potter wages and cigarettes. What, much cheaper than buying bricks.

His grandfather is an old kid who likes to join in the fun. Every time he burns bricks, he takes him there. After a few times, he gets to know him well. His grandfather helped the potter watch the fire, and the potter's grandfather even burned a soil pig for Li Qingwen...

Li Qingwen knew all the steps of burning green bricks, but he only knew about it, knowing that it might not necessarily make it, so he didn't open his mouth before.

Li Qingwen said emphatically that what he knew did not mention the fact that he had only played with mud.

What he said in detail, the more Mr. Chen listened, the more reliable he became. He kept looking at Li Maoxian, telling him to make up his mind quickly.

Chen's eyelids were about to cramp, and when he couldn't help but speak, Li Maoxian said: "Zai'er hasn't been to his second uncle's house for a long time, so go and stay for a while while you're still here, and you'll stay with me for a while too. Tian Niang's house."

Chen Shidang smiled openly, "Then I have to pack my things quickly!"

"What are you packing now?" Li Maoxian said: "Why can't we leave tomorrow, let the second brother sleep a little longer today."

Chen stepped out with one foot, and heard Li Maoxian say: "Don't talk about Chen Shan'an."

Originally, Chen Shanhe was full of things in his heart now, and if he heard about Chen Shan'an, he would definitely feel even more uncomfortable.

When Chen Shanhe woke up in the evening, he knew that his sister, brother-in-law and several nephews were going to his house, so he said cheerfully, "Okay, I'll let your aunt cook rice."

"Don't." Chen hurriedly said: "Second brother, you don't know how much these guys can eat, they can eat the bottom of your rice jar!"

After the matter was settled, Chen Shanhe was also much happier.

They talked and laughed that night, and on the second day, only Li Qingrui and Jiang shi were left at home, and the rest, big and small, followed Chen Shanhe to Laoniuwan.

The horses and mules of the Li family were all loaned out to farm, so the sorghum rice and Li Zhengxing were put on the shelf cart, which could only be pushed by people.

Chen Shanhe didn't let them bring anything, they just went back. How could Mrs. Chen go back to her mother's house empty-handed, and took whatever was at home.

From Yangshu Village to Laoniuwan, if you take the road, it will take a long detour. If you want to save effort, you can take a shortcut and walk under the ditch, as Chen Shanhe did when he came.

After being washed by water, a layer of sand was deposited at the bottom of the ditch, which was still flat and the road was not difficult to walk.

But Li Zhengliang yelled, "You can't walk in the ditch, and you will be washed away in the flood!"

This is what the adults in every village will tell the children over and over again, because every year when it rains heavily upstream or somewhere, the ditch will flood quickly, and many children will fall into the water and die.

But when Li Zhengliang said this, his little face turned red with excitement, obviously not because of fear.

"It's fine if the adults in the family are with you." Chen said, "If you are alone, or other children come to play in the ditch, your father will beat your butt to pieces and I will beat you harder if I don't stop you. "

Li Zhengliang stuck out his tongue, "Grandma is so majestic!"

Chen Shanhe looked at his nephews pushing Li Maoxian's cart one after another, and couldn't help sighing: "It's good to be a child. Not only is it lively, but we can support each other when there is anything. There is only the eldest one in my family..."

"Come on." Mrs. Chen snorted, "We have a lot of brothers and sisters, so what happens when something happens? Zai'er was like that. Every time I go back, they are afraid that my parents will secretly give me money. See My eyes are like beggars, I really want to spit in their faces."

The Chen family has seven brothers and sisters, three sons and four daughters. Chen Shanhe is the second eldest among the sons, and Chen is the youngest in the family.The brothers and sisters grew up together, they have different tempers, and they don't get along very well. Mrs. Chen only has a good relationship with her second brother, Chen Shanhe, and gets upset when they mention the others.

When his parents were still there, Chen Shanhe tried to persuade his younger sister, but after many things happened, he was also disappointed, so he stopped talking and only went to see his younger sister once a year or two.

Li Maoxian said: "Second brother, there is not only one Dingxin, there are so many cousins, he will walk around more in the future, and run more when he has something to do, he is no different from a brother."

Chen Shanhe nodded again and again.

After walking at the bottom of the ditch for a long time, Li Qingwen couldn't find the southeast, north, south, and north of all kinds of turns, and finally went up the slope.

"The village below is Laoniuwan." Li Qinghong pointed to the front and said.

Li Qingwen stood on the slope and looked down, and saw a large group of farmhouses crowded together, the same earthen houses, among which there were a few particularly square and conspicuous green brick and blue tile houses, which should be the leading ones in the village. However, it can reach about three major villages in Yangshu Village.

It's much easier to go downhill, you don't have to push, and you have to pull the car to prevent it from rushing down.

Laoniuwan has more land than Yangshu Village. At this time, there are still many homes that have not been planted. Seeing them and their group, many workers straightened up, "Oh, isn't this the little girl of the old Chen family? She hasn't come back for many years. If I hadn't stood with your second brother, I wouldn't have dared to recognize him..."

Chen responded with a smile: "It's not been a few years, Auntie, you are not old at all, I can tell at a glance!"

"Why are there so many people, all of them belong to your family?"

"My man, my son, my grandson..."

"Tsk tsk tsk, you have grandchildren, you really don't let it go, it's too soon, I always feel that you are still not married yet..."

While walking down, she was talking with the villagers next to her. When she reached the entrance of the village, Mrs. Chen looked around, but she saw a familiar figure at a glance, frowned and lowered her head, pretending not to see it.

Chen Shanhe also saw it, but didn't say anything, and went straight to the house with a few people.

Originally, Mrs. Lu just went out to see if the man came back, but was pestered by Mrs. Wang to ask about the burning of bricks. She didn't want to make a fuss and let others see the joke, and kept saying that she didn't know.

Mrs. Wang stepped on her feet and looked into the yard, "Didn't it be that several people came to Dingxin? Do you see bricks coming out?"

"Sister-in-law, I don't know about men's affairs. I just cook and wash clothes." Lu frowned, and she wanted to close the door, but Wang blocked it with her hands. All these years have been thrown away for nothing, and you haven't learned anything?"

Just as Mrs. Lu was about to use his strength, she saw Chen Shanhe and Mrs. Chen and others behind him beaming with joy. She immediately ignored Mrs. Wang, and hurried up to meet him, saying, "I heard the magpies calling in the morning, so I said there was a magpie today." Congratulations, I really guessed it!"

Mrs. Chen stepped forward to hold her hand, with a smile on her face, and shouted affectionately: "Second sister-in-law!"

Li Qingwen and the others shouted in unison: "Second aunt!"

Seeing several nephews at once, Lu said "Hey" several times, and recognized them one by one. When he saw Li Qingwen, he said, "Oh, our little nephew is getting more and more handsome. How many girls will he be fascinated by when he grows up?"

As soon as Li Zhengliang finished shouting, he was hit on the back of the head. His little fourth uncle said with a straight face, "What's your name, aunt? You should be called uncle and grandma."

Li Zhengxing in the car immediately put his hands on the back of his head and changed his words timidly, "Uncle, grandma!"

The group of people talked and reached the door, only then did Wang recognize Chen, and twitched the corners of his mouth, "Oh, sister Yao is back, and she was exhausted from the journey, so hurry up to rest, it's getting late, sister-in-law has to go back to cook meal."

"Sister-in-law, slow down." Chen yelled at her back: "I won't go to your house for dinner, so don't be afraid, if you walk so fast, you won't be afraid of falling, hahaha!"

Letting them into the door, Lu Shi smiled and said: "She has never had a good mouth, if you provoke her, maybe she will say something about you behind her back."

"When I was avoiding her, she also talked about me." Chen snorted, "Anyway, I'm far away, so I can't hear anything."