Taoyuan Farmhouse Daily

Although Chang Xile is young, she has a lot of things on her mind, and she has the temperament of a literati.

At the beginning, Chang Xile agreed to be engaged to the daughter of the Qian family. On the one hand, she really had a good impression of that woman-the engagement was the fourth daughter of the Qian family. She was raised in a deep boudoir since she was a child, and she was completely different from the peasant girl Chang Xile knew who was busy running in the fields. , such a difference has an inexplicable attraction to Chang Xile who is still young; on the other hand, it is also for the money of the Qian family.

Chang Xile is studying abroad, so he naturally knows how difficult the road of scientific examinations is, and it is not just a matter of good knowledge.Don't talk about anything else, just talk about the money that will be spent. The eggs and firewood from the villagers alone are not enough for him to continue the exam.Even if it could be offered, it was based on draining the entire village. How could Chang Xile agree?So he agreed to the marriage proposal of the Qian family, and used his marriage to lighten the burden on the family and the villagers, paving the way for his future.

This practice made Chang Xile very ashamed, but he had already reached this point and there was no way out.If he doesn't make a name for himself, how can he face his parents who are full of expectations for him.What he reads is not books, but the friendship accumulated by the villagers with their blood and sweat.Maybe the people in Taoyuan Village didn't think that what they did would put so much pressure on Chang Xile. They were active in paying money and things on weekdays, but they rarely asked Chang Xile about studying.But Chang Xile is too eager to rise to the top, and wants to change the current poverty, for herself and for these lovely people.

But because of this, the invisible burden on Chang Xile's shoulders became even heavier.He can only study desperately, hoping that one day he will win the toad palace.

Unexpectedly, a disaster ruined everything.Chang Xile felt that this was the filthy retribution in his heart, because he couldn't be moved by poverty, so God was punishing him.The self-esteem of a literati made him feel guilty all the time, and he was unwilling to pursue what was right and wrong when something happened.Although the Qian family's resignation made him extremely painful, he was also relieved from the bottom of his heart.When he didn't have to face the Qian family, he always felt that his character was despicable, and he bowed his head in front of money.

However, he no longer has the face to face his parents, fellow villagers, and his parents and family members who save money for themselves and save money.He can do nothing but read.Now that he has become like this again, don't say that after repaying, he is afraid that he will be a waste and a burden.

Chang Xile fell ill completely, and he would not have left immediately, but he wanted to do something for his father and fellow villagers, so Chang Le came.

Chang Le is already dead, maybe it is fate, Chang Le can replace Chang Xile, and Chang Xile's only request is to let him repay his family and people in Taoyuan Village.Chang Le wanted to live, so he agreed.

Since then, Chang Le has become Chang Xi Le.

Chang Le should be called Chang Xi Le now. He is no longer a simple person, but a new individual who combines the memories and emotional responsibilities of two people.He struggled to get up from the bed, covered in sweat. This kind of rebirth took a lot of energy and energy from him. He was already sick, but now he is even weaker.

"Uncle, you're awake!" A little black figure rushed in quickly, shouting joyfully, and supported Chang Xile's body before he collapsed, letting him lean on the head of the bed.

"Water." Chang Xile spoke with difficulty, her voice hoarse.

"Uncle, wait for me to get you some water." The little black shadow, Chang Chenghuai, the eldest son of the third householder of the Chang family, rushed out as soon as he heard this, shouting loudly as he ran, "Grandpa, grandma, Father and mother, little uncle woke up, he wants to drink water!"

Chang Xile's waking up was a big deal, and the whole yard became lively, but in the end only Mrs. Sun and the eldest daughter-in-law, Mrs. Wang, could enter the house, so as not to disturb him.

Chang Xile was fed sugar water by Grandma Sun, and only then did she have the strength to speak, "Mother, I'm hungry."

Grandma Sun burst into tears. Chang Xile has been losing her appetite ever since she found out that she was unable to take the scientific examination.If I eat too much, I will vomit, which makes me lose so much weight in such a short period of time. Now I am asking to eat. Is it possible that the disease will be cured? !

Wang quickly said: "Mother, you are here to take care of my uncle, I will go to Zhang Luo."

Talking about rushing out the door, everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they heard that Chang Xile actually wanted to eat on his own initiative.If you want to eat, it means that the disease is more than half cured!

Because she hadn't eaten normally for many days, what Wang brought was millet porridge that nourished the stomach. Chang Xile drank a bowl of it, and only then did she truly feel alive.Although his body is still heavy and his hands and feet are not easy to control, it is still much better than when he was lying on the hospital bed dying in his last days in his previous life.

Chang Xile had been lying on the bed for three days before she could barely get off the ground. After walking a few steps, she felt a little dizzy. Her health was really bad and she had to recover slowly.

Seeing his face turning pale, Xing'er quickly stepped forward to help him, "Uncle, sit here."

Chang Xile didn't dare to be brave, so with the help of Xing'er and Yang Zi, she sat down on the grass pier in the corner.Although it was already summer, it hadn't started to be hot. The sun shining on Chang Xile made him feel very comfortable.It's just that the grass pier is a bit short, and I'm not used to bending my legs.According to my memory, there are no chairs in this world, only country people like to sit on plinths made of straw, while city people sit on their knees.

Xing'er is the daughter of Chang Xisheng, the third son of the Chang family, and Yang Zi's last name is Chang Cheng. Yang is the youngest son of the old family. The former is six years old and the latter is just five years old.Because they were small, they were left to take care of Chang Xile. The other older ones went to help with the work in the fields, and the younger ones were carried up and down by their mother on their backs.

There are four sons and one daughter in the three households of the Chang family, Chang Xile is the youngest, the elder sister above has married out, and the grandchildren currently have three sons and three daughters.The oldest is nine years old and the youngest is less than one year old.Except for the married women, there are fifteen people in total.

This world is not only Taoyuan Village, but all farmers are like this. They work at sunrise and rest at sunset. Because of low productivity, they can barely make ends meet in the busy year round. the extravagant hope.

Although Chang Xile has inherited the memory of her predecessor, her real memory is extremely barren. It is all about how to study hard and is ignorant of external things.But this is not a big problem, and he will slowly understand when his body recovers.Don't worry if there is any difference in words and deeds, everyone will only think that he learned it from the city.Most of the people in Taoyuan Village have never been out of the village, and they probably know less about the outside world than he, an outsider.Therefore, no one doubted his accent and other issues at all, and it was automatically explained that he learned it from outside.

Chang Xile looked around and appraised the house.

The layout of Chang's house is a large house in the north, a small house in the east and a small house in the east, and a fence in the south with a door to enter and exit. The layout is similar to a courtyard house.The open space in the middle is very spacious, and the ground is very flat.The small house on the east side was specially built for Chang Xile. He lives alone in a room so that he can have a quiet environment to study. Like the big house, it is a mud-tiled house.Although to Chang Xile the house was very crudely built, it was spacious and bright, and it was also very clean and tidy.The house on the west is the kitchen, which is a relatively simple mud thatched house.

The big house is very spacious. About one meter of the ground is built with stones, and the top is rammed earth walls. If you want to enter the house, you have to walk up stairs made of stones.The gate is two heavy wooden doors, and there are small rectangular wooden piers on the left and right sides outside the gate. To pass through the gate, one has to step over the calf-high threshold.

The big house was built very high, separated by wooden boards in the middle, and divided into upper and lower floors.The lower floor is divided into a main room and four small rooms, two in the north and one in the east.The main room is very spacious, not only for entertaining guests, but also the collected millet, etc. are piled here, as well as pedal rice pounders, etc., are all piled here, and even now they are used to raise silkworms, and you can smell it before entering the house. There is a peculiar smell of silkworms.

The second floor has a similar layout, divided into four houses for children who can sleep alone.The public area is also used as a warehouse, and two coffins are placed.It was Chang Lao San who prepared it for himself and his wife early on. This is a local custom. Basically, the third generation has to lay a coffin for himself in case of emergencies.Most of the things in the farm are self-sufficient, except for some things that cannot be manufactured, such as salt, etc., otherwise they will never spend money to buy things, and the cash in the hands of the farmers is too little.If you don't prepare in advance, you will leave so suddenly that you won't even have time to hit the coffin.Because the firewood has to be cut on the mountain by itself, and then dried in the sun to make it, which requires a long process.

There is also a small door on the west side of the second floor, and you can go out from there. The door is so small that adults have to crawl out.Outside is a bamboo frame platform supported by wooden piles. The platform is about 20 square meters, and it is used to dry clothes, dry millet, etc.Taoyuan Village is a mountainous area with few flat lands. This is to use the space to build flat lands, so almost every family will build such a platform, also known as the balcony.

Although this family is a bit shabby in Chang Xile's eyes, from the memory of the original person, the third house of Chang's family is one of the best in Taoyuan Village, especially the big house, which looks very grand, and I don't know how many people envious.Most people in Taoyuan Village live in mud thatched houses, and the poorer ones are bamboo houses or all-thatched houses. In summer, it’s fine, but in winter, the cold wind is very harsh, and it is easy to collapse in heavy rain.

The third house of the Chang family is able to have today's wealth, thanks to Chang's third son who dared to go out and venture out, plus he is capable, so he earned this family fortune.However, now that Chang Xile was almost squandered, there were only these unsalable items left.Although the house is not bad, people from outside will not come to buy a house here, and the locals in Taoyuan Village will also reject outsiders. After all, there are only so many resources, and outsiders coming here are equivalent to dividing up their own interests.Besides, the criminal law in this world pays attention to continuous sitting, so it is even more reluctant to accept outsiders.And the people in this village couldn't afford it, and they didn't want to buy it, so they kept it.

"Uncle, do you still feel uncomfortable?" Yang Ziyuan stared at Chang Xile with flickering eyes, and asked seriously, like a little adult.

Chang Xile came back to her senses, and smiled slightly, "I'm much better, if you want to go out to play, go, but don't run around, and don't forget to go home after playing."

Children who are only five years old are having fun, especially when the children here are young and have to go to the fields to do some light work, and the time for the farmers to play is very short.For the past few days, Xing'er and Yang Zi have been taking care of him, pouring water for him and helping him, it makes him feel very sorry to be taken care of by such a big kid.In the previous life, such things would have been on the news.

Yang Zi waved his hands and shook his head again and again, and said like a little adult: "I don't like to play when I grow up, I want to take care of my uncle and take him to pee."

Chang Xile couldn't laugh or cry when she heard this. Although the two children are still very young, they are really useful.Although he is immature now, he is not disabled, but the movements are not convenient, so the Chang family will let the two little ones stay to take care of them.And Yang Zi has always been the youngest boy in the family, and there is only a cousin who is under one year old. This time, he was entrusted with a heavy responsibility. He always felt that he was a little man now, but he tried his best to show that he would not walk away, let alone look back. I will definitely be scolded.

"I can do it myself now."

At this moment, Xing'er brought two grass mounds over, handed one to Yang Zi, and sat down beside her, "Uncle, we don't go anywhere, we will be scolded to death by grandparents, parents, and the like."

Xing'er's temperament is obviously more outgoing than Yang Zi's, and she is also more playful, but although she doesn't want to stay at home, she is also very obedient and serious in doing things, and will not neglect in the slightest.

Chang Xile had just come back from the ghost gate, and the Chang family members were worried. They told the two children to take good care of Chang Xile, and they kept it in their hearts.If it weren't for the delay in farm work, the Chang family would definitely leave a labor force to take care of Chang Xile.It was Chang Xile who insisted on refusing, and she really didn't have the time, so she was replaced by the two little ones to take care of her.

Yuan went to school and already emptied this family, and this disease has squeezed it even more thoroughly, and the others can only work hard.Otherwise, you will not be able to pay the summer tax.

Yuan himself didn't know exactly what kind of taxation system this world was in. Chang Xile only found out when Xing'er inadvertently mentioned that everyone was worrying about summer tax.

Although children don't know much about tax policies, they can understand some information after listening and watching a lot.Every summer and autumn, some of the food and cloth weaved by the village will be taken away to the village head, and then the village head will lead a few young and middle-aged people into the county with the things handed in by everyone.Children don't know the sorrows of adults. They only know that at this time, people who go out often bring back gadgets from the city. At this time, a group of children will squat at the entrance of the village and look forward to it.

But later Chang Xile found out that his family didn't have to pay land tax because he was a scholar.Myolie misunderstood it, but it was actually because she had borrowed money from others and had to repay part of it during the summer tax, otherwise those people would not be able to pay the summer tax.

"Then play in the yard, and I'll call you if I have anything to do." Chang Xi said happily, although these two children are already more mischievous and clever in the family, they are also very sincere.After letting them take care of him, he really sat by and stared at him, almost daring not to blink.If it wasn't for the fact that he was too weak for the first two days and didn't have time to pay attention to it, he really couldn't stand such enthusiasm.

Xing'er's eyes lit up immediately, and the firmness in her eyes turned into hesitation.Yang Zi's eyes looked left and right, and he unconsciously put his little finger in his mouth, "You can't eat your fingers." Chang Xile took Yang Zi's finger out of his mouth, "You guys play, watching you have fun I'd be happy too."

Xing'er didn't refuse any more, she hurried into the house and came out after a while, holding a reed pole about six inches long in her hand, said to Yang Zi in a hurry: "Let's play stick picking! "

Yang Zi grinned, clapped his hands and said, "Okay, okay!"

Xing'er usually doesn't take him to play with these things, and his little friends don't like to play with them.

Chang Xile also became interested. When he crossed, the children either went directly to the playground or played with their IPADs. Few people play this ancient game.

"Can I play?"

The eyes of the two little guys widened suddenly, and Yang Zi said incredulously, "Uncle, you also play this?"

Chang Xile laughed, "Anyway, it's fine now."

The two little guys looked at each other with surprise on their faces. Chang Xile thought in their hearts that they would not be interested in anything other than eating, sleeping, and reading, let alone this little trick.

Chang Xile didn't explain much to them, and said, "You guys start first, I'll be last."

"Then I'll let Yang Zi start first."

As soon as Yang Zi heard this, he immediately forgot what Chang Xile wanted to join, grabbed the reed and let it go, and the reed immediately scattered.Yang Zi picked the one on the far side, and then used that one to pick the others.Yang Zi was young and his hands were not flexible enough, and he didn't know how to find the scattered sticks first, so he picked three sticks and let the other sticks move.

"It's my turn, it's my turn!" Xing'er, who had been watching anxiously from the side, said happily.

Yang Zi pursed his lips, and retreated even though he was not happy.

Xing'er was much better at playing than Yang Zi, but she only picked a handful and lost.

Chang Xile intends to give way and challenge the difficulty.After all, no matter my real age or my current age, these two children are quite a lot. Playing this is purely on a whim, so I didn’t choose the reed sticks scattered on the side, but directly picked the reed sticks that were put together, and the first one It fails.

Yang Zi and Xing'er both burst out laughing, it turns out that the great uncle also has such bad times!

Chang Xile is a powerful existence in the hearts of the whole village. Yang Zi and Xing'er think so even more. They didn't expect to be worse than themselves in picking sticks, which made them think it was too fresh.

Chang Xile shook her head helplessly, and secretly moved her right hand. She didn't feel it before, but now she really realizes that these hands are really not easy to use.