Days of farming with bamboo horses

"Alan, did the baby kick you?" Su Zipei sat on the head of the bed, looking curiously at Chen Lan's slightly curved stomach.He was wearing a slim light blue cotton jacket and was tightly wrapped before being brought out by Zhou Chengyu to see Chen Lan.

"How can you kick now?" Chen Lan laughed. After a period of recuperation, her pale face finally became ruddy. "The child is only three months old and hasn't formed yet. But it's so cold today, why is Cheng Yu willing to let you?" Out?"

Su Zipei pursed her lips and smiled, a little proud: "Chengyu promised me, but I drank two bowls of soup today."

"You still want Chengyu to watch you eat every day, and if you want to eat better at other people's houses, you have to plan to come and go." Chen Lan was laughed at by his words, so he pulled him out, "Come out with me for a walk. The room was stuffy for many days, and Chengxuan refused to let me go out."

"Hey, don't!" When Su Zipei came, he knew it was windy outside, so how could he let him go out like this, looked around, went to the chair and took a thick coat, "Alan, put your clothes on Come on, what if you catch a cold? You are always like this, you don’t take yourself seriously, what are you doing so hard for?”

"Where is it very hard, isn't it just to feed the sheep?" Chen Lan didn't take it seriously, and went out with him for a walk after getting dressed.

Winter is approaching, and the people in the village are very busy. They have to harvest the rice and grind it for next year to eat, set aside a part to pay taxes, and turn over the land to plant some cold-resistant crops.So during this period of time, the number of people hanging out in the village has decreased a lot, but there have been many more people in the field.

Zhou Chengyu and Zhou Chengxuan are not people who attach great importance to farming. They both have their own work, so they don't need to calculate carefully. What kind of planting will be more cost-effective, and they don't have to worry about the harvest. Anyway, they have to hand over to the government. They are all planning to come out.So they just took the time to harvest the rice in the field and spread it in the yard to dry. As for what to plant, they just kept it and waited until the spring plowing.

Su Zipei accompanied Chen Lan for a walk around the village, and greeted a few people he knew. Originally, he wanted to go home directly, but at the head of the village, he met a man who came to sell charcoal. Chen Lan thought that he could also store some at home. Over the winter, just walked over.

"Excuse me, how do you sell this charcoal?" Chen Lan looked at it, and felt that the quality of the charcoal was good, and it shouldn't be caused by a lot of smoke, but when she raised her head and met the gaze of the person opposite, she was a little stunned.

It has been less than a year since the last flood, but it seems to have been a long time in his heart. Those memories in Liangcun before seem to be dusty, and Chen Lan is unwilling to recall them. At this time, seeing Seeing a familiar face, he was a little startled.

Su Zipei was a little strange. Seeing that his face was not very good-looking, he pulled the corner of Chen Lan's clothes and asked worriedly, "Alan, what's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell?"

"It's okay." Chen Lan regained her sanity and smiled at him slightly.The past was over, and during this period of time, he deliberately did not inquire about the life and death of those so-called relatives, because he just didn't want to have anything to do with them, and then they were not qualified to manage him.

"Alan?! Is that you?" Chen Xin was obviously very excited, and hastily dismissed the two villagers who bought charcoal, with surprise on his face, "I, I always thought—that's great, you're fine ,Very good."

Chen Xin was the only person Chen Lan talked to in the village. He didn't believe in Chen Lan's saying that he was "a dead star", but he was an orphan and his family was very poor, so there was no way to help him.

Originally, I always wanted to save enough money to propose marriage to Chen Lan's uncle and uncle.But before he had saved enough money, the flood came, and the village no longer existed. In the past few months, he went to many villages for work, but he couldn't find Chen Lan. He thought Chen Lan was gone.

"Well, I was rescued by people from this village, and I have been living here." Although Chen Lan didn't know why he was so excited, maybe it was rare to see people from that village.

"Alan, do you know each other?" Su Zipei nodded lightly, with a look of sudden realization, "It turns out that when you go out to buy charcoal, you will meet acquaintances? Is this an old acquaintance in a foreign land?"

"Hmm." Chen Lan was amused by what he said, and pursed her lips lightly. He didn't dislike Chen Xin, but he didn't have much contact with him. In his impression, he was the kind of taciturn and buried in his work.So he relaxed a bit, chatting a little bit about family life: "Chen Xin, how are you?"

Dazed by his smile, Chen Xin scratched his head in embarrassment: "When the flood just came, I woke up and wanted to find you, but the row of houses collapsed. The flood rushed to Liujia Village next door. Afterwards, I took the government subsidy money and have been doing some small business in the village."

Chen Lan just listened and didn't speak again, but Chen Xin wanted to talk: "I am not the only one in the next village, there are many people from Liangcun, but you know, those of us who came here have no land and no houses. It’s tight, so everyone is going to the town to do some work, or do a small business like me. I saw your uncle and the others a few days ago, helping people unload goods at the dock, quite—”

"Needless to say." Chen Lan lowered her eyes, "I don't want to find them, and I don't want to know their news."

Su Zipei was stunned when he heard it, so the flood brought so many sequelae?Ruined so many lives.But he didn't expect that A-lan had other relatives. Seeing that he was always alone and never mentioned looking for relatives, he thought that A-lan was alone too.

Chen Xin was a little dumb. Thinking of what the family did to Alan, he secretly cursed himself for saying the wrong thing again, and was a little anxious: "Alan, I didn't mean that, I just talked too fast, don't take it to heart."

Chen Lan shook her head: "It's okay. How do you sell this charcoal?"

"No, there's no need to sell it." Chen Xin blushed and stammered, "I'll deliver it to your home as much as you want."

"?" Chen Lan was a little puzzled, she turned her head to look at Su Zipei, "Zipei, do you want to buy it?"

"Buy it! It's cold these days. Buy more and go home. Chengyu said before that he would go to the town to buy it." Some sell, of course you want to buy.

Chen Lan nodded, then turned to Chen Xin: "We both want to buy it, please tell me the price."

Chen Xin smirked: "Then the usual money is one catty, and I'll send it home for you as much as you want."

"Twenty catties?" Su Zipei pointed his fingers and looked at Chen Lan innocently.Chen Lan snapped off his fingers with some amusement: "Zipei, don't you know how long a catty of charcoal can burn? Such a small amount is not enough."

"I don't know." Su Zipei shook his head honestly, how did he know these things, Cheng Yu taught him to buy charcoal for heating.Usually at home, Chengyu would teach him some simple life skills so that he would not be caught blind. Sometimes he felt that he was useless, but Chengyu forbade him to think so, and only asked him to paint well. To do woodcarving is also to ask him to draw pictures.

Seeing this, Chen Xin quickly said, "It's okay. I still have a lot here. You have as many as you need. I will come again soon. Even if I don't buy enough this time, it's okay next time." There are several large bags of charcoal, and there are still many seats vacant, and it seems that there are many sold.

"Then can you help deliver it home?" Su Zipei asked, Chengyu was still in the field, and he couldn't carry it alone.

"Yes!" Chen Xin agreed decisively, glanced at Chen Lan, and smiled brightly, "Alan, how much do you want? I'll send it to your home for you."

Su Zipei looked suspiciously at this man's enthusiasm for Ah Lan, why is he so courteous like what Cheng Yu told him?

"Fifty catties." Chen Lan thought for a while, "How often do you come here? If it's not enough, I might buy some more."

"Soon, I will come again in half a month." Chen Xin smiled happily.

"Hey, Alan, Zipei, are you here to buy charcoal too?" The one who spoke was Zhou Xing's father, a very kind father. He was carrying a vegetable basket, and he obviously just came back from the vegetable field. After looking at Chen Lan, his eyes stayed on his abdomen, and he joked, "Why didn't Chengxuan come out with you? Is he at ease?"

Since Chen Lan had a child, Zhou Chengxuan gave all the goods to his partner first, and didn't go out for two months. He was busy at home, invited a doctor, and made delicious food. It's very important, and he is not willing to let him do the work in the field, and he has done it all by himself.Many people in the village are envious, and it is also a blessing to find such a husband.

Chen Lan's originally pale face was slightly red, and she felt satisfied with her husband's attention and love: "My husband went to the field with Chengyu, and Zipei accompanied me for a walk. Thinking about buying some to take home. Does father also buy charcoal?"

Su Zipei also smiled lightly: "Did Daddy just come back from the field?"

In the village, Chen Lan usually left everyone with the impression that he was smart and capable, did the housework properly, didn't have to worry about it at all, and had a good temper. I don't know how many men envied Zhou Chengxuan.And Su Zipei gave people the impression that he was like a child, extremely well-behaved, and Zhou Chengyu took good care of him, and everyone usually wanted to tease him.

"That's right, Zipei also came out by himself, that's really rare." Zhou Xing's father also smiled cheerfully.