No matter if you are a human or an immortal, you can still farm for me after traveling through time!

Everyone frowned and listened to Li Erlang telling stories about his life in the barracks.

"Although I have lost a lot of weight, I can now easily lift a fifty kilogram weight and hold it for several hours. I can pull the plow for a longer period of time next year without breathing."

Dad Li: "I and you, Aweng, went to the cattle market to see a calf. It's still sucking milk from the cow. We can get it back after the new year, but it won't be used for spring plowing next year."

The three cousins ​​immediately answered: "Next year it will be our turn to pull the plow. Xianglang, just follow behind and sow the seeds!"

Li Aniang echoed: "You should not work hard until you have nourished your body. If you don't nourish it well, you will suffer when you grow old."

When there are more people, people take turns to share the hard work.

The topic came to spring plowing, and the two families discussed next year's farming plan. Next year, they will pay taxes according to the new tax rules. The summer tax is based on the amount of land and head, and the autumn tax is a small part of the total harvest. The grain tax can also be discounted. Money tax collection.

If you are good at arithmetic, you can calculate that within a certain harvest value, the grain tax paid under the new tax is less than before. Those families who farm a hundred acres pay less grain tax than before, let alone Li Erlang's family.

New taxes are aimed at "agricultural land tycoons", with high taxes forcing some landowners to give up part of their fields.

After discussing with Li Aweng, Aunt Li made a plan for next year: "We will plant 70 acres of land as before, with additional treatment of mulberry trees and fruit trees, as well as garlic. We will keep 300 kilograms of garlic seeds for Daqing and the others. Some make up a hundred pounds, and we can plant half an acre of the rest.”

The last time Li Daqing signed a contract with his hostess, he bought 80 kilograms of garlic seeds. His brother Li Dacai agreed with him that he would privately provide him with 100 kilograms of garlic seeds so that he could plant two cents of land.

Having never tried growing garlic before, Li Daqing was still a little nervous. Li Dacai comforted his younger brother: "Manager Zhang is in the county now. When the time comes, he will come over in person to supervise the planting. As long as they stop Hu Shang from causing trouble, we will just farm."

Li Aweng suggested: "Our two families will plant the garlic in the same place to facilitate management and care."

Li Daqing nodded and agreed to his father's proposal.

After talking about Hu Suan, Ji Qingyue also had something to say. After picking up the dishes for Li Erlang, he put down his bowl and cleared his throat. Everyone stopped chatting and looked at him consciously.

Ji Qingyue had the feeling of a leader concluding a meeting: "Next year I want to borrow an acre of land from Uncle Cai's house to plant something new."

The cotton-padded clothes worn by Li Dacai's family and the quilts used by Li Daqing's two babies were all Ji Qingyue's ideas.

Everyone knew what Ji Qingyue was going to do and remained silent, waiting for him to continue.

"I can't say more about some important matters inside now. You can just wait quietly. The reason why I chose to plant here is not only because I am familiar with the people and the environment here, but also because I have a little selfishness. You just know it in your heart."

Everyone was shocked. If that were true, they would be much better off in the winter.

Although wool clothing is not bad, compared with white folds, it is slightly inferior. It is neither light enough nor soft enough, so it is really not suitable for making linings or something.

Ji Qingyue added: "If outsiders are curious, just say it was my idea as usual. Everything has not been settled yet, so what I mentioned today does not need to be too public."

He just said something less important so that everyone wouldn't worry all the time.

Ji Qingyue's words seemed to be like a tranquilizer, calming the hearts of everyone present.

After the business was finished, everyone gradually relaxed and became more and more cheerful as they chatted. Unknowingly, the subject of Li Erlang came to mind again.

"Erlang, I will be eighteen next year. Your mother-in-law has already secretly met a girl for you. Your cousins ​​had no choice at that time, but you are different. The situation at home is slowly getting better, and it is time to get married. It's time." Aunt Li Liu received the signal from her sister-in-law and urged Li Erlang to marry him.

Li Erlang was confused and looked at Ji Qingyue quietly, only to see Ji Qingyue eating calmly, nothing unusual.

He quickly refused: "Uncle, I don't want to say goodbye."

"Why don't you talk about marriage? Now is the perfect time to get married and have children!"

Li Erlang was so anxious that he rushed up with a bad temper and slammed the table. Ji Qingyue, who was sitting closest, was obviously frightened and almost dropped the bowl. Li Erlang quickly stretched out his hand to hold it, anxious, angry and annoyed. : "I just don't want to talk about kissing. Don't mention it again before I think about it clearly!"

Mrs. Li Liu is not afraid of Li Erlang's quick temper, but she has not seen him so angry and anxious for a long time, and she is so angry because she proposed marriage to him. It is really strange and makes people a little confused.

Li Erlang refused, so Li Liu had to give up temporarily. She looked at her sister-in-law with a helpless expression, and there was nothing she could do.

Fortunately, no one was affected. It was lively when there were many people, and the atmosphere at the dinner table picked up again after a while.

While Li Erlang was eating, he glanced at Ji Qingyue from time to time, feeling agitated in his heart. What a disaster, no more food.

After eating, it was already dark. Li Daqing and the others did not stay any longer and hurried back before there was frost and ice on the road.

He wanted to chat with Ji Qingyue alone for a while, but after eating a full meal, Li Erlang felt tired. He was really too tired. He rushed back from Ganzhou cautiously. It took nearly five days and he didn't get a good rest along the way. , cold and hungry, it was simply miserable.

After taking a bath, Li Erlang went back to lie down and fell asleep soon. Ji Qingyue took a look before going back and saw that Li Erlang was already asleep. He felt the warmth in the room and made sure that Li Erlang would not be cold anymore. , finally said good night to Saburo and the others and it was time.

Ji Qingyue suddenly turned into nothingness, disappeared in place, and returned to the painting.

Even though they knew Ji Qingyue was fine, no matter how many times they experienced it, people who watched Ji Qingyue disappear out of thin air couldn't stop their hearts from beating crazily.

Amazing!

Ji Qingyue returned to the dark painting, went back to the room and lit the oil lamp. The fire in the stove had not been extinguished. He only needed to add some firewood to return to the open flame.

While taking a bath, he thought about a way to politely reject Li Erlang, but he felt a little bit happy in his heart.

Li Erlang's sudden words about "should I chase or not" made him confused for a long time. He tossed and turned every night, constantly thinking about whether the hidden meaning was what he thought. It would be great if it was just the feeling of a younger brother admiring his older brother... …

Okay?

not good.

To be honest, Li Erlang's refusal to marry him again and again really made him feel good.

Yes, he likes men.

Li Erlang suddenly came back. He was both looking forward to it and afraid. Anticipation was the result of love, but fear was because the outcome was decided.

Ji Qingyue held up a handful of water and patted his face. He clearly remembered every expression and movement of Li Erlang after he entered.

Li Erlang was tightly gathered up by his large cloak. The cloak was covered with ice particles, which would crack and fall when shaken.

Li Changji took the reins and pulled the horse to the backyard.

Li Erlang took off the scarf covering his face, revealing his bright eyes, as well as his deeply sunken eye sockets and cheeks.

Facing everyone's shocked eyes, Li Erlang smiled and saw Ji Qingyue at the back of the crowd first. Ji Qingyue was also shocked by Li Erlang's sudden weight loss. He opened his mouth slightly and said "nothing" softly.

After entering the house, Li Aniang helped take off her cloak and hood. Not only her cheeks, but also her original strong muscles were gone. She could no longer support her clothes, making her clothes look wide, big, and empty.

Li Aniang couldn't help crying anymore, and Ji Qingyue felt uncomfortable.

Doesn’t it mean that the training intensity in the military camp is moderate? How can people be trained to look like this!

Li Erlang was still comforting everyone. Even though he was thinner and disfigured, he was more energetic, and there was a faint fierce light in his eyes that could not be restrained. He is no longer the reckless boy who was knocked away by a wild boar last year. If he faces an out-of-control wild boar again, he has many ways to subdue the beast.

Ji Qingyue first scooped out a bowl of medicinal porridge and gave it to Li Erlang to warm his stomach.

When the meal was ready, Li Erlang specially sat next to Ji Qingyue. In front of him was a large pot of rice piled as high as a hill in a pottery pot by Li Aniang. He was smiling. Ji Qingyue pretended to glance over casually while picking up the vegetables. He saw it. Too much. When Ji Qingyue started picking up vegetables, he turned his chopsticks and put them into Li Erlang's rice bowl.

"Thank you Yue Lang!"

Next, Li Erlang's aunt came up with a different method to urge the marriage. Ji Qingyue was stunned when he picked up the vegetables, and calmly put the vegetables into his bowl. Suddenly, his heart felt as if it was pressed by a stone, and he was a little breathless. Don't be angry.

Although Li Erlang refused...

But what about this?

Rejecting marriage is Li Erlang's choice now, and rejecting Li Erlang is also the best choice he can make now.

The next day, it was very rare that no one got up early. They took advantage of their free time to sleep until daylight, and then got up when they were satisfied.

Their late rise was still too early for Ji Qingyue. Ji Qingyue was awakened by the sound of reading in the study room. The two children were reading neatly in the study room, and he felt full of energy.

Ji Qingyue yawned and came to the bridge. He waited until the reading stopped before speaking: "Did you get up so early?"

Li Silang: "Brother Ji, it's already late. Have you had breakfast? I'll ask my second brother to bring it in for you."

Ji Qingyue agreed.

While eating breakfast, he listened to the sound of reading in the study and was full of smiles.

After studying, it was Sanlang's turn to review his homework. The study room was never empty. When Ji Qingyue came out, everyone gathered together. He never found a chance to chat with Li Erlang alone.

So it goes until New Year's Eve.

Ji Qingyue showed off his skills and cooked three dishes in the painting, including pot-roasted pork, earthen pot chicken and ginger duck. After they were done, he took them out to the old house.

The three dishes conquered the taste buds of Li Daqing's family as soon as they appeared. The seasonings here are already very rich, including oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and sugar. The spiciness can be supplemented from other places, but it is not as addictive as chili. Also, thanks to the iron pot, his cooking skills have skyrocketed and he is highly sought after by everyone.

In fact, Tai'an Restaurant's dishes are not entirely to his taste, because iron pot dishes have not yet become popular, and he always feels that dishes without pot gas have lost their soul.

Mutton is an indispensable dish on every New Year's Eve dinner table. Roast lamb legs, roasted lamb and stewed sheep head... A sheep can make flowers, but after eating it for so many years, there will be a time when it gets tired. Just like now, seeing everyone moving their chopsticks after the pot-roasted pork and ginger duck, Ji Qingyue is certainly happy that the food he made is popular.

"Don't worry, the fried pot meat weighs five or six kilograms, and there are four ducks. Every kid can have a portion of the duck legs!"

These ducks were all killed and chopped by Li Erlang. He stood up and took the initiative to distribute the ducks to the children, one leg per person.

There were eight children and four ducks. The children who got the whole duck leg became quiet and immersed themselves in hard work.

"Ha ha ha ha!!"

The adults heated up rice wine and drank freely at the dinner table, rejoicing and hoping that the coming year would be like this one, with peace and good harvests.

Ji Qingyue liked this kind of life very much. Seeing everyone smiling, he lowered his head and continued eating.

As soon as he lowered his head, he saw a duck wing shank in the bowl. When he turned around, he saw that Li Erlang had taken one for San Lang.

Didn’t you say just leave the thigh meat?

Li Erlang came over quietly: "Only these two are left, let's eat."

Ji Qingyue felt a little sour in his heart, so he accepted his kindness and lowered his head to nibble on the duck leg.

Everyone ate and drank enough and stayed for a while. After setting off firecrackers at night, Li Dacai's family returned home.

The dry and cold night had probably reached several degrees below zero or ten degrees below zero. In the past, if they had put on all their clothes, wrapped themselves in cloaks, and huddled into a ball, they would have been shivering with cold even after walking for half an hour at night. But now they wore Wearing a thick cotton robe and drinking hot soup and warm wine, the heat in my body still lingered until I returned home.

It’s really fun!

It was only seven or eight o'clock when we got home, and it would be a while before Ji Qingyue went back. Although we couldn't stay together, we could still drink and play poker together.

Ji Qingyue had long thought about adding some fun to everyone's boring Maodong life. Sanlang, Shilang and Yulang couldn't read all day long, so they always had to have some leisure and entertainment.

So he used oilcloth and rags, added some paper, and glued three layers together to make cards, so that they were not too transparent and hard enough.

One to ten correspond to Chinese characters, JQK and Big and Little Wang were replaced by swords, sticks, guns and the moon and sun, so the playing cards were called sun and moon cards by Li Erlang and others.

After explaining the rules, you only need to practice them once and everyone will be impressed.

The two brothers Ji Qingyue and Erlang Sanlang were playing "Fighting Landlords". Of course they couldn't be called "Fighting Landlords". Sun God and Moon God were fighting against Landlords. No matter how you look at it, Ji Qingyue changed it to "Fighting Tengu".

It will not violate taboos and reflect local culture.

After only one round, the three-person card game attracted everyone in the room, and everyone gathered around to watch the three people playing cards.

Playing cards is interesting only when there is a stake. More and more people want to play cards. Li Aniang is eager to try. Li Erlang proposes to drink as a penalty. This kind of rice wine can be drunk by men, women, old and young.

The loser is punished with a drink and quits the game. If the Tengu wins, he is replaced by the two-month god.

While playing, Ji Qingyue felt dizzy: "I'm going back, you guys continue playing." After saying that, Ji Qingyue disappeared from the audience.

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and Grandma Li, the "Tengu" who had found a good hand of cards, came to her senses and urged her superiors to play their cards quickly.

Li Erlang was a little uninterested, but in the end he couldn't compete with Li A'nai, who had a good hand. "Sun and Moon God" lost to "Tengu" again.

Li Erlang made an excuse: "I'm going to light firecrackers."

Everyone was obsessed with it. Grandma Li waved her hand and asked Li Erlang to take care of it. When Grandma Li came on stage, Li Silang lay behind her and gave her advice. In fact, Grandma Li didn't believe her son's words at all. Shiro made a fuss.

Li Erlang walked into the study. The air in the study was no different from that outside. He tightened his clothes and said, "Yue Lang, are you still awake?"

Of course Ji Qingyue was still awake. He was playing cards with great interest just now. How could he calm down immediately? He came to the bridge and said, "Why did you come out? I just saw that your cards were pretty good, right?"

"Come out slowly and go back later."

The two were silent for a brief moment, each thinking.

Ji Qingyue pretended not to know what Li Erlang was thinking, but wanted to explain it clearly to him, but that duck leg made him feel unsuitable for a brief moment of kindness and hesitation. Now he is like an executioner holding a knife, with his hand rising and falling. The initiative was in his hands, and he brutally and unilaterally tried Li Erlang.

He wanted to respond but felt powerless, but just to put Li Erlang on the edge of a precarious relationship, it was better to cut the knot quickly and give him a happy ending.

"Erlang..."

Li Erlang stood quietly in front of the painting and gently touched the scroll. It was this obstacle that gave Yue Lang a place to retreat!

It's not like he didn't see Ji Qingyue's evasive eyes.

Guilt, struggle...

"Yue Lang, you know why I don't want to agree to marry my mother-in-law..." Li Erlang stopped Ji Qingyue before he spoke: "You also know what I meant by those words before I went to the barracks..."

Ji Qingyue pursed his lips: "I know."

"You are in a hurry to refuse but you think I am too young and far different from you?"

"No." How big can the difference between four and five years be?

"Do you think I will be with a girl in the future?"

Ji Qingyue became silent.

Li Erlang sighed: "If it were Li Changxiang in the past, he would definitely listen to my mother-in-law. Even if he was unwilling to do so, he would follow my mother-in-law's wishes and find a girl he had never met to get married and have children. But it's different now. Ji Qing Yue you Understand!"

There was constant laughter in the main room, faintly reaching the study room.

The atmosphere in the study was heavy.

Li Erlang's voice became louder and louder, as if he didn't mind being heard by others. "I wanted to use the subtle method again, but it didn't work. There was not enough time. I couldn't wait any longer. I will explain everything to my mother-in-law and tell her that I can never be with a woman in my life!"

Before Ji Qingyue could object, he added: "This idea did arise because of you, but not entirely because of you. Even if you don't accept it, I will still refuse to propose marriage. But, Ji Qingyue, you have to understand that once you refuse, you will never accept it." No regrets.”

"Destiny arises because of you and ends because of you. It can be regarded as having a beginning and an end."

Ji Qingyue was frightened by Li Erlang's decisiveness and didn't know how to react.

Just when there was a stalemate, there was a loud noise in the main room. Li Erlang said "wait a moment" and left the study. When he came back, his face was filled with excitement and joy.

"Yue Lang, grandma and grandma said that she might have another sister-in-law!! Next year our family will have another niece and nephew!!"

Xu Qing in the main room finally couldn't bear it anymore and vomited. Everyone stopped playing cards and quickly sent Xu Qing to the meeting room.

When Ji Qingyue heard this, he felt happy for her in his heart.

The joyful atmosphere fell silent, and the stalemate returned to the previous situation in the study.

Ji Qingyue sighed heavily, truly defeated by him: "If you want to confess to your aunt, talk to me first."

Li Erlang was secretly happy, and his anxious heart finally dropped heavily: "Okay!"

The next day, Li Changji went to the village and invited the doctor over to show his wife. Sure enough, it was as grandma and grandma said, her wife was pregnant! !

This is really the first happy event of the new year for their family! ! !

Li Erlang muttered: It's the second one! !