Civilian Edition Traveling Farming Diary

The first snow in winter is usually not too big, and it will not fall today, but the sky is overcast and gloomy, and it feels like there will be another snow in two days.

Fortunately, it is not wet.

Chen Xiang was lucky, he didn't have a fever in the middle of the night, and he was sweating all over the bed, and the fever had subsided this morning. Liu Zhaoshi was relieved, and said that as long as he took medicine and drank ginger water, the disease would pass, and it shouldn't Repeatedly, she patronized Chen Xiang all night, she didn't sleep well, and went home without eating in the morning.

The old lady is still very nice.

Today Chen Xiang is a little more energetic, and his clothes were drenched with sweat again. Fortunately, I had the foresight to wash his underwear in water last night before going to bed, and hung it by the stove to roast it. At night, Mrs. Liu and Zhao got up to fill the fire twice, by which time the clothes were already dry.

I brought the clothes to him, his face was red, and I was startled, thinking he was on fire again, but he said no, he just held the clothes and lowered his head with a blushing face.

I suddenly understood, wow, I washed my little brother's clothes, it's still the inner clothes, fortunately only Liu Zhaoshi saw it, and she wouldn't talk nonsense, otherwise it would be even more innocent.

Speechless~ The evil old society!

I cooked two bowls of noodles for breakfast. The noodles were dried noodles bought at a grain store. The dried noodles of this era have a very pure taste, with the aroma of wheat, and they are delicious.

There was a poached egg lying on each bowl of noodles, Chen Xiang thanked him, and ate the poached egg in small bites, it looked delicious, watching him eat, my appetite seemed to improve.

After breakfast, Chen Xiang got off the kang for a walk. He insisted on brewing the medicine by himself. I didn't fight with him. I went into the house to find fabric and cotton. After he boiled the medicine, I asked him if he knew how to make clothes. Say yes, I said that you can lean on the kang and make yourself a padded gown.

In this cold winter, even on the hot kang, you can't just wear unlined clothes, not to mention going to the toilet. The toilet is in the yard!

Chen Xiang is wearing my cotton padded jacket at the moment, which is obviously much bigger for him, making him look very small and thin.

After hesitating for a long time, he asked me why I was so kind to him.

I said I didn't think too much about it, I just felt that I couldn't just leave him alone.

He said: "Brother Zhang Cheng, you are a good person, but if you gossip about you like this, I am an unclean person. Now the fire is gone, and I want to leave early."

I said, "Where can you go in this cold day?"

He stopped talking.

I said, "I didn't bring you back to let you die again. Even if you want to leave, you have to wait until the spring freezes to survive."

He lowered his head and wept quietly.

I asked him if he was just running to die.

He sobbed and nodded.

He said: "A person like me will be reviled wherever I go. The world is so big, but there is no room for me."

I said why did you agree to stay, why didn't you just leave last night.

He cried more fiercely, knelt down and hugged his knees and cried loudly.

I am also very helpless, people can live, who would want to die, probably because they are really desperate, they can’t see the future if they live, but they really don’t want to die, so they do such contradictory things.

I also knelt down, patted him on the back, and said, "Okay, after crying, go sit on the kang and sew cotton-padded clothes. There is still a long way to go, so let's stay here now, and I don't know how to do it either." Meal, you can cook for me, can you take it as repayment? You can cook, right? "

He nodded with his head on his knees.

After crying this time, he seemed to be in a much better state, obediently sitting on the kang and sewing cotton clothes.A young man who looks quiet and well-behaved, meticulous in every stitch and thread.

The medicine prescribed by the doctor is especially good for sweating. After taking the medicine in the morning, Chen Xiang was drenched again, and his whole body seemed to be picked up from the water. I had no choice but to find my clothes and change it for him. I had worn the clothes, he was a little embarrassed, but he changed into them obediently.

I took the clothes he had changed to wash together with the ones he had changed before, but he insisted on doing it by himself, this time I couldn't let him do it, he had just recovered from his fever, so he had to avoid touching the cold water.

Even if I add some hot water to the basin, the temperature is still a bit low.

This time I used saponin powder, washed the clothes and dried them in the yard, together with my clothes.

Mrs. Liu Zhao came at noon, saw the clothes in the yard, and asked me if I wanted to live with Chen Xiang.

I said it was just a chance meeting, and I have no such plan for the time being.

She said yes, then let me introduce a little brother to you.

I:? ? ?

We talked in the east room. The kang in the east room was hot and the temperature was high. Chen Xiang was sewing cotton clothes in the kang, and Liu Zhaoshi and I were talking beside the kang.

The younger brother Liu Zhao introduced to me is from a family named Su in the village. His younger brother is named Su Mai. He is 16 years old this year, just at the age of marriage. Deshuiling is good in the village.

Mrs. Liu Zhao said that Su Mai is very docile and can work well. After observing me for a while, the family members think that I am good, can make money, and have good character. After saving Chen Xiang yesterday, the family not only did not say anything , On the contrary, I felt that I was kind, so I asked Liu Zhaoshi to talk about it. If it works, this matter will be settled like this.

Su Mai is a pretty good guy, and there are a few people in the village who want to marry him. I have seen his family on the way back several times, and I have seen him hiding behind his family. Thinking about it now People may be waiting for me on the road.

I don't have a bad impression of Su Mai, but I don't really like this kind of marriage where the two will live together for a lifetime without saying a few words.

Seeing my hesitation, Mrs. Liu Zhao asked me what was wrong.

I said what I thought, and Liu Zhao said that it would be easy to do, as long as you get along with each other, you will know that it is almost Chinese New Year, and the two families can sit and walk around more, if it feels good, I will go to work in his family's field next spring, This is even a statement of intention.

I:……

It's easy to say, but farm work is no good!

In addition, why does it feel like a door-to-door son-in-law?

Mrs. Liu Zhao said it was all like this. Didn't Liu Dong help the girl's family chop firewood all winter!

I:……

Liu Zhaoshi asked me to think about it and pay more attention to Su Mai, and I agreed.

Sending Mrs. Liu Zhao to the gate, she whispered to me that if she wanted to develop with Su Mai, she had to settle the matter of Chen Xiang as soon as possible. The family has no objection to my saving lives, but if you keep a little brother If you live at home, people will be more or less unhappy.

I thought about it for a while and said that Chen Xiang has to live until spring. It is not safe for him to live alone in this winter, and there is no place for him to live. The dilapidated earthen house at the entrance of the village has no food, and there is air leakage from all sides. It is impossible to live, and the little brother who lives alone is easy to be targeted by bad guys.

Mrs. Liu Zhao stomped her feet anxiously, saying that who would dare to marry you if you are like this, Su Mai is a good boy, don't let others hurt your heart, I said that we can only talk about it after Chen Xiang is gone.

Liu Zhaoshi shook his head and left.

Back in the room, Chen Xiang was still sewing cotton-padded clothes obediently, as if what Liu Zhaoshi said just now had nothing to do with him.

It really didn't matter, he didn't hear the part that mattered.

At noon, Chen Xiang said he was going to cook. I saw that his condition seemed to be relatively stable, so I agreed. He asked me what I would like to eat, and I wanted stewed chicken!

God knows how much I want to have a serious meal when I, who can’t cook at all, usually only have one dish at Fulai Inn, but I’m embarrassed to come back and let Liu Zhaoshi do this and that for me. I’m really greedy Chicken stew!

Seeing me looking greedy, Chen Xiang smiled. He really looks good when he smiles, especially shy and gentle.

Then he started to prepare for cooking. First he took out a chicken and chopped half of it. We couldn't finish one.Then put away the rest of the chicken, soak the dried shiitake mushrooms.

With a knife in his hand, he quickly cut half a chicken into small pieces, then filled the pot with cold water, put the chicken pieces in, added green onion and ginger, boiled until the water boiled, took out the chicken, and poured out the dirty water , brush the pot clean, turn on the fire again, after drying the pot, put oil, fry the onion and ginger, add chicken and shiitake mushrooms, add soy sauce...

The whole process is very clean and neat.It is pleasing to watch.

I told him not to be stingy with the oil, he added a lot, and after adding water and stewing, he smelled the fragrance soon, I swore I stopped drooling, but Chen Xiang still laughed.

The chicken was stewed for a long time before it was crispy. Chen Xiang took out the chicken, cleaned up the pot, and cooked white rice.

He originally wanted to make multigrain pancakes, but I thought that would be a waste of the deliciousness of the chicken, so I insisted that he make white rice.

In fact, there is no need to persist, he is very good.

White rice is also very fragrant.

By the time the white rice was cooked, I had already stolen several pieces of chicken, hey, no, this is my chicken, not stealing.

Each of us has a bowl of white rice, and a large plate of tender and delicious chicken stewed with mushrooms, my God, it's so delicious!

Chen Xiang's stomach growled, and I heard it.

Hahaha.

This meal made me very satisfied. After the meal, it started to snow again. Before the snow fell heavily, I quickly picked up the pole and bucket to fetch water in the east of the village.

There is a well at the east end of the village, and a simple shelter from the wind has been built around it. Unless it is the middle of winter, the well water will not freeze.

There were two other villagers fetching water in front of me. I waited for a while before filling two buckets of water.

My bucket is very big, so I don’t have to worry about spilling the water even if I have half a bucket full of water. I am very skilled at carrying water now.

Four buckets of water can fill my water tank. I went back and forth again. When I came back for the second time, the snow had already fallen heavily. Said that this year's snow looks bigger than previous years.

The clothes are still drying in the yard. I have to collect them quickly, otherwise the clothes will become brittle and break easily.

Then I noticed that two clothes were missing from the clothesline.

It was Chen Xiang's own two pieces.

A bad premonition suddenly rose in my heart. I ran into the house and saw that the dishes and chopsticks were all washed and put on the shelf, and the pot was also clean. I rushed into the east room and found the sewing basket and Make a small half of the clothes there.

Only Chen Xiang was missing.

he's gone?

I dug out the jar where I kept my money, and it was untouched, and there were a lot of clothes in the closet. My cotton clothes were folded and put on the kang to dry.

This guy actually wore his tulle-like clothes and didn't take a penny away?

The snow outside is so heavy and the sky is so cold, I still feel bitingly cold in my cotton-padded jacket.

he……

I quickly grabbed my cotton coat and ran out. There was only one road into the village. I ran to chase after it. On the way, I met some villagers coming home in the snow. I asked them if they saw Chen Xiang. Although they didn’t know Chen Xiang , but said that he saw a little brother wearing very little clothes walking over there.

I hurried to chase, and after a long distance, I saw the fool holding himself in both hands, walking forward step by step in the snow, walking very slowly, as if he might fall down at any time.

"Chen Xiang!" I shouted.

The figure in front stopped for a moment, then ran quickly.

I'm so fucked!

I quickly ran over to catch up with him, pulled him over, and wrapped him in a cotton coat. I was so angry that I yelled at him what he was going to do, was he sick!

His lips were blue with cold, and he said tremblingly that he could not delay my finding a wife, if I left him at home, no one would marry me.

I knew it was because of this, this kid looked calm, but he knew everything in his heart.

I picked him up and walked back step by step. He was probably frozen, and he couldn't even struggle except for the slight voice of words on my shoulder.

When I got home, I threw him on the kang and wrapped him in a quilt, then turned around and boiled ginger water. Chen Xiang stopped me, crying and saying sorry.

I really couldn't help him, so I boiled ginger water in a dull mood, we each drank a bowl, and made medicine for him. Originally, there was no medicine for this meal, but after he made such a fuss, I think I still have to take it a meal.

He drank the ginger water and the medicine silently, and I didn't speak. We were in a stalemate, and finally he spoke first.

Still say I'm sorry, and talk about my looking for a wife.

I said you can stay here, I have been single for 28 years, I don't care how many months, he didn't say anything.

Fortunately, I found out in time, Chen Xiang didn't have a fever this time, and I didn't see his condition worsen after taking the medicine twice, so I was relieved.

In the evening, Chen Xiang made multigrain pancakes and stewed cabbage with bacon, which was delicious.