Farming Comb Paintings Return Home

Shenshi, the light sun is setting to the west, and magpies are feeding.

The pair of cloth shoes on the field ridge was inexplicably familiar, Xiao Xian raised his head, and the man stood in front of him with folded arms, his tall body was covered by a dark shadow, and the bright sun was cast on the coarse cloth clothes, It seemed to reflect a layer of halo inlaid with gold.

Xiao Xian's face collapsed, although he couldn't see the man's face clearly with the backlight, but after all, he had been facing him day and night for many days, how could he not recognize who it was.

Seeing Xiao Xian clapping his hands and standing up, Li Cong opened his mouth to speak, but Xiao Xian immediately pulled him aside.

"Brother, hehe... You, aren't you working, are you done? Are you tired?" Xiao Xian grabbed Li Cong's arm and trotted to pull him back on the way back, squinting his eyes and grinning indiscriminately Being courteous, he dragged the person far away from the original place before stopping, and looked back cunningly, thinking that if those yellow-haired children saw Li Cong teaching him a lesson, he would be ashamed.

Li Cong let go of Xiao Xian's hand, stopped and stood up straight, folded his arms and teased, "Where is the horse gait I asked you to do? I think the yard is not cool enough, so I changed it to this place?"

Li Cong raised his posture as if he wanted to settle the final score for Xiao Xian. Xiao Xian was stupefied. He knew that he had no reason, so he didn't argue any more. He raised his hand, held his ear and lowered his head. He admitted his mistake very well and said: "I was wrong, I was reckless. , I'm impatient, brother, please scold me."

It's a pity that I'm used to Xiao Xian's second-guessing, Li Cong has long since given up on his tricks, and continued to frown and ask: "Are you talking about what I have told you?"

"Don't run around alone, don't be naughty."

"anything else?"

"Don't forget everything as soon as you see something interesting. Take good care of your horse and take a good look at the house."

"What happened to those children?"

Li Cong was aggressive and took advantage of his height to stare at Xiao Xian from top to bottom. Although he didn't say anything, his eyes were so oppressive that it made Xiao Xian break out in a guilty conscience until he asked about the child's condition. I finally got a chance to catch my breath, and impatiently pointed at a group of little bastards behind me: "He, he, and the others are too much! I am walking well, and they hit me with mud and broke into the house." Going to make trouble here, and saying that a wooden ball can turn into a rabbit, and you insist on showing them the transformation, you are talking nonsense with your eyes open, I can't handle them, so I brought them to you!"

Li Cong looked at Xiao Xian, and heard that his complaints contained the grievance of being bullied and complained to the adults, so he couldn't help being amused, and didn't ask any more questions, and asked another question: "Then come out and lock the door?"

Xiao Xian was still waiting for Li Cong to avenge him, but he didn't expect the other party to change the topic suddenly, didn't react for a while, scratched his head blankly, and said hesitantly: "Ah...it seems not..." After finishing speaking, he curled his lips, But I remembered that the door was indeed unlocked when I came out, but I was so poor, what else was there to steal.

Li Cong seemed to have seen through Xiao Xian's mind, pointed to a group of children behind him and said, "I think you are about the same age as them, no matter how poor your family is, they can't stand your trouble."

"Fuck you, I'm already 20 years old." Xiao Xian lowered his head and muttered.

"What?" Li Cong asked, wondering if he could hear Xiao Xian's thoughts clearly.

Xiao Xian shrank his neck, laughed and said: "I said that I was a child at first, and I am only seventeen this year, seventeen haha, brother disciplined me right!"

Li Cong snorted. I really don't know where he got his glib tongue. He obviously goes in one ear and out the other, and he seems to listen carefully every time. However, he has to do something ridiculous every time afterwards. .

The two were whispering on the side, and Niu Niu, who was holding the wooden ball, followed anxiously, grabbed Li Cong's leg and passed the ball up: "Brother, turn Niu Niu into a bunny..." After the little girl finished speaking, she hung down her little bunny. Li Cong's face was pouted, his mouth was pouted and his waist was twisted, and he acted like a baby until he had finished, and he still grabbed Li Cong's clothes and refused to let go.

Xiao Xian was stunned watching from the side.How old is this child, why is he blushing?He was messing around unreasonably just now, why did he change his appearance immediately after changing someone?Isn't this discriminatory treatment too exaggerated?

Unexpectedly, more exaggeration is yet to come.

Li Cong ignored Xiao Xian, bent down and touched the little girl's head, then squatted down and held up the wooden ball to look around, forming a circle with the index and middle fingers of both hands, pinched the wooden ball and pressed it lightly, but didn't look at it. No matter how hard you try, two pairs of long ears and a triangular tail pop out from the front and rear ends of the ball. Then, pinch the ears below, reach down with the other hand, and turn the ball up and down. The wooden ball was divided into two parts, one big and one small, which happened to be the shape of the body and the head. The head and neck were still connected, and then spread out the palm, and a lively rabbit was already standing in the center of the palm, which made the little girl smile. , grabbed the rabbit in his hand and shook it back and forth, giggling non-stop.

Big Fatty, who was lagging behind, followed up, stuffed the piece of wood he was holding into Li Cong's arms, and shouted, "Here, become a little snake!"

This thing is much simpler than a rabbit. Li Cong broke apart the square pieces of wood along the gap, and spliced ​​them together, and the shape of the snake came out. The strange thing is that the pieces of wood are interlocking, so they can move without breaking. .

After handing the toy back to Big Fatty, Li Cong stood up and turned to look at the other children.The remaining few gadgets are ingenious and simple. They have already taught them last time, and they probably learned how to change them, so they didn’t ask any more questions, and they were enjoying themselves while holding them in their hands.

Xiao Xian looked at the pleasant-looking Li Cong who was standing among the children and was always worried, these troublemakers might want to play in the future, and they would come to make trouble every now and then, so they wouldn't be bored to death!No matter how rare it is, it's just a few pieces of broken wood. If it's such a trouble, just give it to them for fun.

Xiao Xian thought about it, and pulled Li Cong aside to discuss, "Brother, why do you hide your toys at home, making other children think about them all day, you see, if they like it so much, just give them to play, it's not too expensive Let’s play it, will it work?”

In fact, Li Cong had this intention long ago. He gave toys to the children before, but later he said he couldn’t play them, so he returned them. Every time he remembered, he went to his house to play with him. He came and went until now. Out of the doorway, he nodded and said, "Yes."

Xiao Xian chuckled, stepped forward and patted the children on the back and coaxed: "Hey, you can take it back and play for as long as you want." As long as you don't make trouble, everything will be fine!

"But Niuniu won't change!" Hearing this, the little girl was not only unhappy, but snorted, clamped the little rabbit under her arm, raised her little hand and opened her palm to move towards Li Cong, her mouth slumped. Wrinkled, that look is as wronged as you want: "Niuniu's fingers are short, you can't reach them! You won't be able to play with them after you take them back, brother knows... Niuniu doesn't want toys, Niuniu wants my brother to play with Niuniu..."

The little fat man who twisted and twisted the wooden snake also joined in the fun: "The big fat is also the big fat, the big fat can't break the little snake!"

Just now I was glad to finally be able to get rid of this group of demons, but unexpectedly, Xiao Xian frowned, the corners of his mouth collapsed instantly, he clung to Li Cong's arm weakly, stared at the group of children sadly, his face became like a pig liver color.

He is really a young child who cares about half-grown children, Li Cong rubbed Xiao Xian's head and said, "Forget it, let them go."

Xiao Xian slumped his shoulders and let out a long sigh, forget it, if you are serious with children, you will lose.

"Let's go, it's time to go back and cook." Li Cong looked at the sky and said, pulling Xiao Xian's arm.

As soon as Xiao Xian regained his energy, he immediately stood up straight, grabbed Li Cong's arm and shouted, "Tofu meatball?"

Li Cong nodded.Fried tofu balls, the dish that was agreed yesterday.

Xiao Xian nodded his head violently a few times as a response, then pointed to the five children on the ridge and said: "Hey, brother and I are going back to eat meatballs, the kids don't hang around outside, let's all go home!"

It's okay not to say, but with such a shout, the children who were concentrating on toys exploded again.

"Meatballs!" Niuniu raised her head in a drawn out voice.

"Eat meatballs, eat meatballs! Xiaohua wants to eat meatballs!" Xiaohua raised her hands.

"Xiaoyong wants to eat meatballs!"

"Big and fat people also want to eat, eat and eat pills!"

"It's meatballs, meatballs! Idiot! My brother makes meatballs and eats them. Go to my brother's house to eat meatballs!"

Li Cong smiled, and said to Xiao Xian, "Look at you, you didn't make it clear, where are there meatballs and tofu balls."

Xiao Xian gritted his teeth and flicked his sleeves to chase people away: "I heard that, there are no meatballs, only tofu balls! Go home, go home, Cengfan is not welcome!"

The children refused to let go at all: "I want tofu balls too, I like tofu balls the most!"

To actually snatch food from him, what a big deal!Xiao Xian bit his lip and looked at Li Cong angrily, but Li Cong waved his hands disapprovingly and said, "It's okay, there are a lot of tofu, just put more tofu and less meat."

Xiao Xian was surprised: "Huh?"

Li Cong shrugged: "I just bought three taels of meat."

"Hey...Okay." Knowing that the family is poor, it's good to be able to eat meat not during the Chinese New Year, and it's good to taste some meat.At worst, it's enough for each of these bastards to share one of them, and the rest is their own.So Xiao Xian struggled for a while and compromised.

However, Xiao Xian's unprecedented generosity was not reflected in the end. The two adults and a group of children came down from the ridge of the field, and when they reached the entrance of the village, they met the village women who came out to look for someone.

Li Cong had already told the village chief about Xiao Xian, and everyone in the village knew about it. Although he was surprised, he didn't say much, it was a tacit agreement.And Xiao Xian met strangers other than Aunt Shen and Li Cong for the first time, and greeted them one by one politely, thinking that there was nothing rude, but always felt that there was something wrong with the way they looked at him.However, he has always been careless and lacking in brains. He thought it was a bit strange at the time, but he forgot it after a while.

Several village women led their children and said some polite words to Li Cong, but Li Cong didn't answer, just nodded silently.Xiao Xian was not familiar with them, so he didn't interrupt, and obediently followed Li Cong's footsteps.

After that, the village women said goodbye and prepared to go back, chatting with each other, "What kind of food did you cook today, how is the work in the field, and the children at home are naughty again", etc., and they talked all the way.Some of the children held their mother's hand, some jumped together and ran towards their own direction, only Niuniu followed behind slowly, looking back at Xiao Xian's side every step of the way.

My house was very close, at the entrance of the village, Li Cong had already entered the house, Xiao Xian was standing at the door of the house, seeing Niuniu looking at him all the time, pointing to himself in doubt and asking the little girl what else was up.

Niu Niu snorted, stuck out her tongue at Xiao Xian and made a grimace. Xiao Xian was so angry that he opened the door and wanted to enter the house, but before he could step over the threshold, he heard the girl running back slowly, dragging He pulled him aside with his arm, first called him "silly lady" with great momentum, then grabbed Xiao Xian's arm to make him lower his body, and whispered to his ear: "Niuniu asks you, ah Dad said that the dumb is the one who can't speak, why does brother Dasha who can speak, everyone say he is dumb?"

Xiao Xian was surprised: "Mute? Who said my elder brother is dumb? My elder brother is obviously fine, but doesn't he have ears?"

Seeing that Xiao Xian didn't believe her, the little girl became upset, puffed her cheeks and said angrily: "Everyone said so! Dad took Niuniu to the town last time, and when he saw the fat cook from the county magistrate's house on the street, he also said Brother Dasha is dumb, so you still scold him!"

"Ah?" Xiao Xian was at a loss for words, and was suddenly stopped by the question.It was the first time he had heard of this, but when he recalled Li Cong's appearance in front of others, he was indeed silent. No one would believe him if he was dumb. Why?

Xiao Xian scratched his head, unable to think of a reason, and was dazed not knowing how to answer, when a cry came from a distance: "Niu Niu! Where's the dead girl? Go back to eat soon!"

Hearing her mother calling her, the little girl pouted her mouth and let out a "woo", and ran away away from Xiao Xian.

Xiao Xian stepped into the room inexplicably, wanting to ask Li Cong about it, but Li Cong called into the kitchen to help chop the meat, distracting his thoughts.

Dinner is quite simple, just a plate of minced meat tofu balls and a pot of vegetable tofu porridge.The meatballs are crispy and the vegetable porridge is refreshing, which is also satisfying. What's more, half of Xiao Xian's contribution to this meal is in it.

The method of meatballs is simple, two or three pieces of meat, half fat and thin, and only a little bit of minced meat, and the tofu with hard skin mashed into mud, and a chopped white radish is added to make a half-sticky plate The non-sticky fillings are squeezed into tofu balls after draining the water, wrapped in a layer of batter and deep-fried until golden, then drained and ready to serve.

Squeezing meatballs is a technical job. Li Cong's craftsmanship is nothing to say. When you pinch a spoon with your palm and scoop it out, you get a round ball. Xiao Xian is a little bit worse. The squeezed balls are crooked. Although it is not good for the appearance, it is good for the taste .

It was getting hazy after dinner, Xiao Xian helped to clean up the dishes, and seeing that there was nothing to do, he went to the back room to light the stove to keep warm.

Li Cong went to the village chief's house to bring vegetables and came back. After finishing the work, he locked the door. When he entered the room, he saw Xiao Xian sitting at the table with his head propped up, playing with the lamp wick. He looked out the window and said, "It's getting dark. are you asleep?"

Xiao Xian shook his head boredly: "It's too early, I can't sleep."

Li Cong took off his coat and was about to make the bed, but seeing that the quilt was neatly made, he said, "Then lie on the bed and read a book, it's cool at night."

"Yeah." Xiao Xian nodded, hanging his arms for a while, seeing Li Cong go around the table, packing up the wooden box he took out in the afternoon and going to put it back in the cabinet, he suddenly stood up to stop him, and said with a smile: "No busy Let it go, I see a bow and crossbow here... Is it the model you told me about last time? I don’t understand the last picture in the book, brother, please tell me again. Ah, still There are toys, the wooden ball turns into a rabbit, what a god! How did it change? That’s also a mechanism, right?”

"Yeah." Li Cong nodded.Anyway, it's okay, just take it as a relief.Besides, in his eyes, Xiao Xian is mischievous and mischievous, but his mind is very clever, he can draw inferences about everything, and he is literate. Not only is it not boring to tell him these things, but it is quite interesting.In the past, he only felt that Qu Xian's background was pitiful, and he couldn't bear to leave him alone. Now that he has lost his memory, he has passed through a catastrophe. Although his temper is frizzy, there is something cute about him.

Li Cong thought so, put down the box to check the contents, Xiao Xian also took the book and moved over with great interest, just as he reached down, Li Cong grabbed his wrist and said suddenly: "Wait—"

"What's the matter?" Xiao Xian asked.

Li Cong glanced at Xiao Xian as if remembering something, but didn't speak, frowned as if thinking about something, then turned around slowly, and stretched out his hand to Xiao Xian as if begging for something.