Bianshanhan [farming]

In the past few days, the wind in the border city has not stopped, and it is whining.

Because it was getting dark early, people in the camp went to bed early. Li Maoyu used to only sleep for three hours a day, and began to wash before dawn.

Sister Liu Yueyun also put on their clothes one after another, went to the stove, pulled out the ashes with a little spark, stuffed them with firewood again, and lit the fire.

As soon as the stove was on fire, the flue wall and kang gradually heated up, and the slightly cold room became warmer and warmer.

Li Maoyu's nose was sweating from work, so he took off his coat, moved down the stones on the tank, looked at the vegetables inside, tasted that they were not bad, scooped out some, and put them on the stones again.

Zhou Yao went to bed late last night, and heard the wind whistling outside, and she didn't want to get up early.

After a while, the smell of food came from the back room, and she felt hungry, so she got up.

The warm washing water and the steaming food are all ready. Zhou Yao thanked her and sat down to eat, saying sincerely, "It's great that you come to Border Town!"

As soon as Li Maoyu and the others arrived, Zhou Yao almost lived a life of opening her mouth, which was really very comfortable.

Liu Yueyun pursed her lips and smiled, "We can only do these small things. Sister, you are capable of curing diseases and saving lives."

Zhou Yao shook her head and said, "No matter how big or small it is, someone has to do it. You guys don't know what my life was like..."

When the delicious stewed chicken was served, Zhou Yao immediately stopped talking, and ate two pieces of the stewed meat, "Well, it tastes like Li Qingwen's stewed, delicious."

"It is stewed with the old soup you brought." Li Maoyu wiped his hands.

After sending the three mothers over, Li Qingwen and his brothers brought rice noodles, fish, meat and other things, telling them not to go out if they had nothing to do, because it was cold outside.

Li Maoyu and the others were reluctant to eat meat casually, so they kept freezing outside.

Zhou Yao wanted to eat, knowing that their mothers were thrifty, so she said, she wanted to eat this.

Zhou Yao not only rescued people, but also distributed various medicines. Li Maoyu and his mother respected her and tried to cook food for her.

The four women sat together and finished the sumptuous breakfast. Zhou Yao was going to get medicine, Liu Yueyun helped, and Li Maoyu dressed up and went to the house next to the stable.

The snow in the camp is shoveled every day, which is convenient for walking around, but it is still blown by the wind every day in a thick layer.

Li Maoyu was not in a hurry, and walked steadily step by step.

When she went out, the sky was slightly bright, Li Qingwen hadn't gotten up yet, Jiang Cong, Li Qingfeng, Ma Yongjiang and others were still practicing boxing.

Ma Yongjiang was almost stunned. When he saw Li Maoyu, he immediately greeted Li Maoyu warmly and helped to open the door. "Gu, why are you here so early?"

"After dinner, come over and have a look. Take out whatever you need to mend." Li Maoyu said: "You can't go out today, and if you are idle at home, you are also idle."

Ma Yongjiang immediately went into the room, rolled up his quilt, pants and socks, rolled them up, "Gu, you don't need to take them, I'll send them right away."

The snoring in the front room kept coming and going, Li Maoyu didn't go in, turned around to the stove in the back room, and saw Li Maoqun burning two pots by himself, the pots were already boiling, and white steam was rising from the sides of the pots.

Li Maoyu put down the pickle basin he brought, "I just pickled it for a few days, so I don't know if it's salty or not."

"Duzhong." Li Maoqun said with a smile: "Each of them can swallow two bowls of dry food. I'm afraid there will be enough rice in these two pots with pickles."

Li Maoqun and Li Maoyu hadn't seen each other for many years, and it was rare that they had this free time. They were sitting on a small bench, talking while watching the fire.

In winter, except for Jiang Cong and the others, there are roughly two types of people who can get up early, one is woken up by urination, and the other is unbearably hungry.

These two kinds of people are the first to eat, not to mention the hungry, no matter how sleepy the person who goes to the toilet, after going out, he must be refreshed and refreshed. Fill it out.

Because the time of waking up is different, I will not eat this meal together in the morning, and I will serve it later by myself when I am hungry.

This morning, there was not only rice, but also sour, salty and delicious radish slices. When everyone's appetite was whetted, they ate half a bowl more than usual.

Li Maoyu explained the purpose of coming, and Lao Sun and the others sent over the things that needed to be mended. They were not outsiders and did not need to be polite.

In addition to farming, these people go out to hunt and collect all kinds of things. Their clothes and shoes are badly damaged.

After dawn, Li Qingwen rubbed the stones under the blanket for a while before getting up.

After eating breakfast, he tore off the animal skin covering the window, the light came into the room, and he began to read and practice calligraphy.

When Li Maoyu went back, Li Maoqun saw her off and went to the stables to decorate things.

When Li Maoqun stuffed bunches of dried mushrooms into the sack, Li Maoyu saw dozens of holes in the next room, and said, "What is this, why is it so strange?"

Seeing these houses, Li Maoqun said with nostalgia in his tone, "When we first came here, we had no place to live, so we asked for these two houses. They used to be used for storing sundries. We lived here for a cold winter, and later we built After buying a new house, this place is empty, and there are all kinds of vegetables grown by Xiao Zaier, and these holes were also dug out later, so that the vegetables inside can see the light."

Li Maoyu stood at a hole and looked in through the window paper. There were baskets all over the kang inside, and there seemed to be something growing in the baskets, which couldn't be seen clearly.

While she was watching, Li Qinghong suddenly opened the door and came out. He came to burn the stoves in these houses every morning, and poured water on the vegetables in these baskets by the way.

"Guy, come in and take shelter from the wind."

When Li Maoyu entered the house, it wasn't cold at all, it was a bit stuffy, no wonder green vegetables grew here.

"Gu, if you want to eat fresh ones, you can come here to pick them. Just lock the door tightly when you leave." Li Qinghong said.

Li Maoyu nodded repeatedly. She had never eaten fresh vegetables in Bingzhou in winter, but she was surprised and proud to be able to see them in this cold place in the border town. This was something her nephew figured out.

Li Maoqun packed mushrooms and pine nuts and carried them outside Zhou Yao's room. Li Maoyu originally wanted to invite him to come in and sit down, but Li Maoqun waved his hand and left.

After entering the house, Li Maoyu separated and folded the messy clothes on the floor, then took out the sewing box and began to mend.

There was warm water in the pot, and after she finished sewing, Liu Yuerong scooped warm water into the basin, soaked the clothes she handed over, and rubbed and washed them.

After washing, the mother and wife wrung out the clothes together, and then took the clothes outside to dry on the hemp rope.

As soon as the clothes were spread out, they were frozen straight.

Liu Yuerong had never experienced such a cold day before, she poked her clothes with her finger, shivered, wrapped her clothes and ran into the house.

In addition to mending and washing clothes, Li Maoyu also brought over their shoes, cut the leather and mended the inside and outside. In this cold day, leather boots can't go wrong.

After Zhou Yao finished making the medicine, she went to Li Qingwen's place to fetch distiller's lees and fish, watched him practice calligraphy, and said, "You will also go to the capital to study in the future?"

Li Qingwen put down his pen, rubbed his wrist, and shook his head, "It's too far away, no one can say for sure."

If he goes to the capital to study, what will happen to the other side of the city?

Apart from going home, Li Qingwen didn't want to leave here for too long.

"If you don't study and become an official in the future, what are you doing now that you are tired?" Li Qingyong asked with his head.

Although he was arranged to live in another house, he stayed with Ma Yongjiang and Li Qingfeng every day, and he forced a place on the kang, where he lived and ate.

In his opinion, memorizing those messy and incomprehensible things, as well as practicing calligraphy, is worse than working.

With one sentence, Li Qingwen was stopped.After thinking about it for a while, the only reason is that I don't want to be illiterate.

Zhou Fengnian said that the imperial court has been arguing for many years about the complete reopening of scientific examinations. Only those academies specially set up by the imperial court cannot meet the needs of selecting talents. Under the general trend, there is no way to stop it.

The kings of all dynasties are shrewd. When the big exam is closed, the children of the powerful and powerful will flock to occupy various important positions, and the power will be more concentrated in the hands of the princes and nobles. This is not conducive to the stability of the dynasty. No one wants to see this scene.

This is what Li Qingwen's history teacher said when he was lecturing, about the significance of the imperial examinations.

Li Qingwen thought, if one day all the members of the girders could take scientific examinations, he would definitely go, because he has the status of a scholar, so it is convenient for him to do everything.

Now, he only needs to practice his handwriting well and memorize all the books.

Mentioning this, Li Qingwen couldn't help being stunned, wondering how his second brother's final exam was going.

After practicing boxing and kicking, Jiang Cong and the others were sweating. It was cold outside, and the sweat turned into a puff of white smoke, which looked as if they had become immortals. Li Qingwen found it interesting, so he would look at it a few more times every day.

It's been a while since they arrived in the border town, and the big guys didn't go out, they were recuperating in the house, and they were really exhausted from the previous walk.

There are also people with good physical strength, like Li Qingfeng, who after practicing kung fu every day and eating enough, will take people out, harness horses, drive sledges, and look for rabbit holes and dig rabbits everywhere.

The rabbits were taken out, the meat was eaten, and the thick and soft leather would be turned into hats or gloves.

The people in Yangshu Village have been counting the days on their fingers. They set out in the first month of the lunar year, and they should have walked on the road for more than two months. It seems that it will soon be April, and there is still snow outside, and the ground under the snow is very frozen It's hard, when will this, this be able to farm.

They didn't worry for too long. Soon, Jiang Liping and Jiang Cong took people out to chop wood.

The warm days in the border town are very short. As soon as the frost thaws, they have to be busy with farming. There is almost no free time until the autumn harvest. They have to make preparations before the snow melts.

This time, they borrowed horses and pulled dozens of sledges, and everyone who could move went. Besides them, there were people from the Sun family and other refugees.

Whether it's burning a fire or building a house, wood is necessary. They have long wanted to get it, but no one is leading them. follow.