Crossing the Farmland Happy Events

The carp is hooked to its mouth with willow sticks. It must be as long as an adult's forearm, and it is estimated to weigh two or three catties.The color of the fish body is grayish yellow, with a little red on the tail, it looks like a wild fish.Ye Chengliang would be overjoyed if this had happened before, after all, he hadn't had a serious meal for several days.But at this moment, he couldn't laugh, because such a fish, Zhang Dazhuang, the idiot, actually turned his lips white from the cold, and his hands were red as if they were about to bleed. water over.It is enough to imagine how cold it is to touch the water outside for a long time on such a day.

Zhang Dazhuang also smirked and said: "Ah Liang, this fish is big enough, you can finally eat more tonight, don't waste any more."

Ye Chengliang, who was about to take the fish and clean it up, paused for a moment, looked up at Zhang Dazhuang, and asked in disbelief, "You went to catch the fish because I didn't have enough to eat?"

Zhang Dazhuang said seriously: "Well, I know you are good to me and my mother. My mother told me that you always lie to me that you won't give her food, but in fact you are good to her, so I can't let you go hungry."

Ye Chengliang: "..."

Zhang Dazhuang saw that Ye Chengliang turned back into the firewood room to clean up the fish and ignored him, thought he had said something wrong, and asked honestly, "Ah Liang, are you angry?"

Ye Chengliang was silent for a long time before he said viciously: "No, just sit down! I'll pour you hot water to soak your feet!"

In fact, Ye Chengliang had somewhat forgotten what it was like to be cared for so simply. Although he had friends in modern times, they all had their own homes and lovers, and almost no one lived alone like him. In my 20s, I have a car and a house, but my heart is always empty, and I always feel that I owe something.At first, I thought that it would be impossible to live like this for the rest of my life, but I didn't expect to have such an adventure.

Ye Chengliang sighed and continued to scrape the fish scales.

In the evening, some dried beans and potato chips were supposed to be steamed, but because of the fish, Ye Chengliang changed his mind and stewed the fish.But the whole fish was too big, so he stewed the fish head with some fish meat into a soup, added some soaked dried vegetables in it, and put a little salt on the rest of the fish tail and put it outside , plan to save the next day to eat.

The fly in the ointment is that there are very few seasonings here, or Zhang Dazhuang's family has very few seasonings, basically except salt, not even soy sauce and soybean paste.What's more, one of the legs of the table fell off when the dishes were about to be served!In the end, it was Zhang Dazhuang who crossed his legs against the bottom of the corner of the table that was missing a leg and managed to eat the meal! ! !

Ye Chengliang was speechless.I thought ten taels of silver was quite a lot before, but now that I think about it, I really don't want to think about it anymore.If you want to make up for all the things you need at home, you need at least a few more taels of silver, and you have to buy practical and inexpensive things.

The only good thing now is that I don't have to worry about eating in a short time.

Zhang Dazhuang sat on the pile of firewood with a bowl of boiling water and caramel and drank it. He didn't understand why Ye Chengliang had to make him sweat, but when Ye Chengliang stared at him, he felt nervous and dared not stop drinking.

Ye Chengliang didn't want Zhang Dazhuang to catch a cold. After all, the saying that the spring breeze is like scissors is not just for listening. After being in the water, it is really cold to be exposed to the wind, and there is no special medicine in this year, so the disease can't be caught once.

Seeing Ye Chengliang sitting on the side without speaking for a long time, Zhang Dazhuang asked, "Ah Liang, what are you thinking?"

Ye Chengliang didn't say a word, just sat there and settled the score.He, Zhang Dazhuang, and Li Jinge didn't have any spring or autumn clothes. It was okay when it was cold, but it would be worrying if it was hotter.Li Jinge is still making up, there are two things that can be made up, but he and Zhang Dazhuang really don't have one, and it's impossible not to do it.And this table, Zhang Dazhuang can't be used as the fourth table leg every day, right?And I have to buy a few more sea bowls in the kitchen, and...there are so many that I can't even count them.

If it wasn't because Zhang Dazhuang was so busy opening land every day that he didn't have time, Ye Chengliang would have asked Zhang Dazhuang to take him to the county town to have a look, so he wouldn't have waited until today.But he didn't know the way to go by himself, and if he couldn't find it, he would lose himself to death.

Fortunately, there was a guide soon, although he was not going to the county.

This day, Ye Chengliang brought some homemade sugar triangles to Situ Chenfei's house. He originally wanted to tell He Yan if he could go with him when he entered the county, but he saw He Yan holding a basket and didn't know where he was going. Then he asked: "Brother He, what is this???"

He Yan said: "My master's birthday is coming soon, I'm going to the town to buy some vegetables, what do you want?"

Ye Chengliang hurriedly gave the sugar triangle to He Yan, "I want to go too, can you take me?"

He Yan smiled very softly with a baby face, "What's wrong with that? There is a fair in the town today, and there are quite a few people going there. Everyone gathers at the entrance of the village and rides a bullock cart. Just give one copper coin to each person. How will you know?" Go get ready as soon as possible before it's too late."

Ye Chengliang lifted his legs and ran home to get the cloth bag, poured water for Li Jinge, put two sugar triangles on the bed, and it didn't take long when he and He Yan arrived at the entrance of the village.

There are two ox carts parked at the entrance of the village, one of which is driven by Lizheng's son Sun Jie, and Sun Jie's mother, three members of Liu Datong's family, and two 30-year-olds who Ye Chengliang has never seen are sitting in the cart. woman.

In the other car were Wang Jinhua, Wang Xique, and a few others who were about the same age as Wang Jinhua, all sitting and chatting there, as if they were talking about Wang Jinhua's going to be a grandmother soon, and they were all congratulating her.Wang Jinhua said, "I don't know if it's a boy or a girl." She smiled from ear to ear, until she saw Ye Chengliang, the smile on her face faded, and she said disdainfully: "It's really unlucky, see you when you go out." With vixen."

Ye Chengliang pretended to be her farting and said whatever he liked, sitting there and continuing to tease the little fellow.Later, most of the people who agreed to come got on the carts, so Sun Jie set off first with the ox cart.

Li Yufen said to Ye Chengliang: "Ah Liang, my little brother likes the candy you sent. If you make it again later, tell sister-in-law, can sister-in-law exchange glutinous rice with you?"

Ye Chengliang was still thinking about eating glutinous rice cakes again, so naturally he would not object, and said with a smile: "Okay, sister-in-law, if Xiao Tong likes it, I will send some of the candies to you in the future. But one or two spoonfuls a day is fine, don't worry about it. ate too much."

Sun Jie sat close to Ye Chengliang and could hear it most clearly. He hurriedly asked, "What kind of sugar? Can't sugar be made from sugar cane? Why can we make it here?"

He Yan said: "A Liang made it. His family's ancestral recipe can make sugar from grain."

Originally, everyone wanted to ask again, but once He Yan said that it was an ancestral prescription, no one was bothered to ask again.After all, it was passed down from generation to generation. If you want to tell outsiders, how come no one has heard of it so far?It's better to be a little more sensible.

Ye Chengliang glanced at He Yan gratefully, and asked Li Yufen, "Sister-in-law of the Liu family, which one in this town sells solid cloth with a reasonable price? I want to pull some cloth."

Everyone in the car knew that Ye Chengliang was picked up by Zhang Dazhuang, and Zhang Dazhuang's family was in such a situation. Naturally, they all thought of the issue of changing clothes during the season, so they shared their opinions in twos and threes.Li Yufen said: "I know that there is a Wangji cloth shop that has good and cheap materials. I'm going to buy some spring clothes for Xiao Tong later. Ah Liang, if you want to buy cloth, you can go with my sister-in-law."

At this moment, Lizheng's wife said, "Xiaotong's mother, did Wang Jinhua visit Xiaotong when you gave birth to him?"

Li Yufen shook her head, "No, it's a good thing her son had the nerve to let the head of my family go when his son took the middle school entrance examination. It was really a good plan, and she was thinking about all the benefits."

Another woman Ye Chengliang didn't know said: "Isn't that fierce woman thick-skinned? When his family vigorously married that girl Qiufeng, she was ashamed to find Da Zhuang's mother, and she didn't know what she was thinking about. This time Qiufeng is going to give birth, and I'm afraid she will go to see Da Zhuang's mother again, so she won't be safe if she doesn't return the ten cents, and when she sees people, she will say that she gave Da Zhuang money back then, but Da Zhuang's mother didn't return the gift."

Ye Chengliang was chattering and croaking in his ears, and the women were talking non-stop, so he was listening to a show.Anyway, in this way, I can learn more about the situation in this village from the side, and there is nothing wrong with it.It's that big sister, why do you have to pull him in!

"Ah Liang, do you have enough to eat at Da Zhuang's house? I heard that Da Zhuang recently opened land on the mountain, but if he doesn't collect firewood, where will you get money?"

"Yeah, it's because the Zhang family is too wicked. Da Zhuang's father took away all the land as soon as he left. It's not easy for Da Zhuang's mother to take Da Zhuang all these years."

"Who doesn't say it, but what can we do? Now that the patriarch of the Zhang family has become... Forget it, how can we ordinary people talk about these people."

Ye Chengliang glanced at He Yan and saw He Yan smiling, but he didn't say anything, so he didn't ask at that time.But since it was a matter of the Zhang family, it might have something to do with Da Zhuang in the future, so after getting off the bullock cart, he asked He Yan, "What's wrong with the patriarch of the Zhang clan? Is he very powerful?"

He Yan said: "Isn't it just that my granddaughter married the head of the county? Actually, it's nothing special."

The chief secretary of the county is just a ninth rank, which is really nothing special, but for the villagers in the countryside, he is also a person who can talk to the county magistrate, so he is a little jealous.

Ye Chengliang nodded knowingly, "By the way, Brother He, where is the Wangji cloth village that Liu's sister-in-law mentioned just now?"

He Yan raised his hand and pointed in a direction, "Here, just turn right ahead and walk for a while."

Ye Chengliang looked in the direction of He Yan's finger, and saw that there was indeed a road turning right not far away, but a person came out of that road suddenly, but Ye Chengliang was so shocked that he subconsciously hid behind He Yan! !

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small theater:

Ye Chengliang: Da Zhuang, what if someone wants to take me away?

Zhang Dazhuang: Let him take me away by the way!

Ye Chengliang: Huh? !why?

Zhang Dazhuang: Otherwise, if I go to find you, I still have to eat my own food, but if the other party takes both of us away, wouldn’t it be eating their food?

Ye Chengliang: ...