The official road of the farmer

The high-hanging full moon is quiet and bright, and the silhouette can still be seen when it reflects on the body.

The farmhouse was quiet.

Under the pitch-black eaves, one of the rooms was suddenly lit with dim yellow candlelight, and then brightened.

Ye Junshu lit the candles in the study room, then turned around, and whispered to Xiao Shan who had been hanging his head, "Xiao Shan, let's have a good talk."

Ye Junshu coaxed the twins to sleep, and it was not late at night, and it was obvious that Xiao Shan was still up, so he decided to take advantage of tonight to have a good chat with Xiao Shan.

I can't find a gap during the day, so I can only pick this time.

So he quietly took Xiao Shan out, sat in the study, and prepared to have a long talk.

Xiao Shan barely pulled himself together, "Well... what do you want to talk about, brother?"

"Recently, you have been very distracted in class, you have regressed in your studies, and you often look in a trance. Can you tell my brother, what are you thinking?"

Xiao Shan twisted the corners of his clothes with both hands, bowed his head in silence for a long time, and then said in a muffled voice: "Brother, I don't want to study anymore..."

Hearing this answer, Ye Junshu didn't change his face immediately, but still asked gently: "Can you tell me why?"

Ai Ai Xiaoshan Qiqi: "Five children and six children need to be taken care of, I have to take care of them..."

Sure enough, Ye Junshu thought helplessly that it was Wuwa's injury that cast a shadow on Xiaoshan, and he said: "But during the day, uncles and bomu help to watch, Xiaoshan doesn't need to watch all the time! You can still read and write during the day of."

"But what if the five babies and six babies get hurt if they don't watch it all at once? It's safer to have one more person watching!" Xiao Shan said urgently.

"Xiaoshan..." Ye Junshu suppressed his smile, "Why do you think so? At your age, you should be able to read and write. Five babies and six babies are not your responsibility. They are my elder brother's responsibility, and you are too. my responsibility."

"I'm the second brother, and I can take care of my younger brothers. Big brother, I want to help you share the burden, but I can't even look at my younger brother, and he hurt himself..." Xiao Shan said, his nose sore, Tears burst into tears, "Brother, I'm sorry... I won't study anymore..."

After Xiao Shan's intermittent description, Ye Junshu finally knew that Xiao Shan was practicing strokes while seeing that the five babies and six babies hadn't woken up yet, but because he was too focused, he didn't notice when the five babies woke up and crawled out, so he I fell off the kang.

How could Ye Junshu blame Xiao Shan? After all, it was his fault.

Xiaoshan himself was still a child, but he didn't see two babies under one year old living there, especially the babies at this age, when they were exploring the world, they loved to crawl around, it was his negligence.

"Brother works so hard every day, but I can't even take care of five or six children. I'm really useless." Xiao Shan was extremely depressed.

Since the absence of father and mother, the burden of the family has been on the elder brother alone, so that the elder brother can't even read. He worries about the livelihood of the brothers all day long, except for teaching the villagers how to read. I have to do laundry, cook, water the floor and clean up, feed the five and six children, and hold them to pee and poop...

And he can't even do the simplest childcare...

"Who said, you've done a good job. Xiaoshan."

Ye Junshu said sincerely, "Look at your friends who are the same age as you, they are still chasing chickens and ducks to play around. You can already help elder brother watch younger brother do housework. Xiaoshan is very good. It is elder brother who didn't do well. When I can't live without people, I don't pay too much attention, I only show up when I'm needed...

You look at the little doll in Uncle Dali's house, and I heard Ming's mother said that two people usually take care of it.Big brother knows his mistake now, he shouldn't have left five babies and six babies to you to take care of alone, can Xiaoshan forgive big brother? "

Xiao Shan blushed anxiously, "Brother, it's not like this, brother is so hard and busy every day, I want to help him share it!"

"Brother understands, but no matter how busy I am, I shouldn't ignore my five babies and six babies. This is indeed my brother's mistake. Can Xiaoshan forgive my brother?" Ye Junshu asked again.

Facing Ye Junshu's apologetic eyes, Xiao Shan sniffled and said with red eyes, "I forgive you, even five children and six children understand..."

"Then, Xiaoshan, from now on, can you and your elder brother take good care of the five babies and six babies?"

Xiao Shan puffed out his small chest and replied loudly: "I am willing!"

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After finally calming Xiao Shan and putting him to sleep, Ye Junshu suddenly felt very tired.He lay upright on the bed, not feeling sleepy for a long time.

What he said to Xiao Shan was not just to coax Xiao Shan, he did realize that he didn't pay enough attention to the five babies and six babies.Except when he had to help, Xiaoshan basically let Xiaoshan watch at other times.

Because Xiao Shan took good care of him at the beginning, he usually took care of Xiao Shan as a matter of course, completely forgetting that Xiao Shan was only eight years old, and he was still just a child.

This is not right, the two are lively and active babies who love to climb around, how can an eight-year-old child be able to take care of them?Even adults may not be able to do it...

Taking care of a child is hard work, but he entrusts this work to his younger brother who is also a child...

Moreover, not only the twins and the two elder brothers need his care, Xiao Shan also needs his care, he should not focus on any one.

Ye Junshu reflected on himself for a while, but he was still negligent, completely oblivious to how much pressure his actions had brought to Xiaoshan...

He sighed heavily, and the burden on his shoulders seemed to be heavier.

His responsibility is not only to keep the children from starving, but also to care about their physical and mental health in every possible way, and to create a relaxed and good environment for the children to grow up.

Now he is both a father and a mother, and also a brother...

Raising a baby is not easy...

Why doesn't he have three heads and six arms?Even a clone is fine...

Anyway, after that, Ye Junshu consciously put more attention on the two youngest ones, always paid attention to the physical and mental development of each younger brother, and would not often let Xiaoshan take care of the twins alone. He often carried one of them on his back. Do things behind, unless it is really inconvenient, let Xiao Shan and Lu Geer watch together.

The redness and swelling on Wuwa's forehead did subside after a few days of applying the red oil, and turned into a bruise, which was very conspicuous on the white and tender face. Fortunately, it faded away not long after.

When Ye Junshu opened the door, he was instantly chilled by the cold air rushing towards him.

He shivered, turned around and quickly closed the door.He rubbed his hands together and walked towards the kitchen.

Today is frost, the ground and the eaves are covered with a layer of crystal white, which is much thicker than the frost seen in the morning a few days ago, and the temperature has dropped several degrees directly, and it is time to wear cotton clothes.

Winter is coming.

According to past experience, it will snow within a month.

After the weather turned cold, the temperature in the classroom was also very cold. The children sat with cold hands and feet, and their bodies could not warm up.

The village head had brought out half a bag of black charcoal from the commune two days earlier, and burned the charcoal basin, which somehow helped.

Children have poor immunity, and they are afraid that they will get sick. Ye Junshu reckoned that classes should be suspended in a while.

With the cold well water in his mouth, his gums ached from the cold, Ye Junshu patted his face and quickly went to the kitchen.

The closer to winter, the shorter the days and longer the nights.Usually when Ye Junshu wakes up at this hour, the sky is bright, but now, the sky is still gray.

Today he woke up a little early on purpose, and by the way, he cleaned the passage of the heated kang, and opened the previously blocked opening.

In order to save firewood, Ye Junshu only connected the kang in his room.

The children couldn't stand the cold. Ye Junshu saw that the temperature had dropped so much today, and there seemed to be no sign of returning to the temperature. It would only get colder in the future, so he decided to start heating the kang today.

Brother Lu and Brother Qin had to sleep together in his room tonight. Burning the kang beds in the two rooms was not only a waste of firewood, but he also worried that the two children would sleep separately.

Anyway, his bed is big enough, it is more than enough for the brothers to sleep together, let's talk about sleeping in separate beds, they are still young now.

After clearing the Kang Road, Ye Junshu quickly boiled a large pot of hot water for the children to use after they got up.

Another big pot of viscous porridge and five boiled eggs were cooked for breakfast.

There was no smoke flowing back from the mouth of the earthen stove, and the heat from the fire could go to the kang road. Ye Junshu touched the wall, and the kang road was still smooth, so there was no need to ask someone to take care of it.

The longer he stayed here, Ye Junshu lit up the time-reading skill, and now he can estimate the approximate time by looking at the sky.

There is still a little time before class starts, but it is not too far away when I wait for the children to be served.

Xiao Shan rubbed his eyes and walked in, "Brother, are you burning the kang?"

"Yes." Ye Junshu responded, "The hot water is here."

Xiao Shan scooped up hot water and went outside to brush his teeth and wash his face.

Ye Junshu put two bowls of porridge on the stove surface, and put a boiled egg on it. He drank a bowl of porridge by himself, explained a few words to Xiao Shan, and hurried to the house.

The twins have gone to bed early these days, and he is afraid that the children will wake up early and have to watch them.

Although the weather has turned colder, most of the children come to class on time, except for a few spoiled children, such as the youngest son of Hu Erbo's family, who don't come when the weather is a little colder.

At the beginning of the class, 33 children came, and then seven or eight came one after another. Today, there are a few younger children who did not come, but the total number is still about [-].

Sitting in the classroom and listening to lectures is really cold. The classroom is too big. Even burning two charcoal basins can't raise the temperature much. Besides, most of the families are poor, and the children's clothes are not very warm.

Ye Junshu noticed that most of the children had blue lips and red fingers from the cold.

He took the morning class and skipped the afternoon class. He directly arranged for them to play games and run back and forth, so that their hands and feet would not be as cold as in the classroom.