Farming Comb Paintings Return Home

"It's getting late, go to bed early." Li Cong entered the room and said to Xiao Xian.

Xiao Xian was stunned for a moment, guessing that it's not yet eight o'clock, why go to bed so early?But after thinking about it, the ancients worked at sunrise and rested at sunset, and this is a rural area, so it’s time to sleep when it’s dark.Go to sleep and sleep, travel to this remote village in the poor mountains, there is nothing to do even if you don't sleep at night.

Xiao Xian moved his body and lay down a little bit, saw Li Cong standing in front of the couch with his back on his back, bent down and pushed all the tables and chairs in the room to the wall, and opened the cabinet door to look for something, he was so busy that he didn't know where he was. what to do.

Xiao Xian slept all afternoon today and gained some strength, but he always felt that there was something wrong with his body. It's just that Li Cong is here, and it's not easy to lift the quilt to check what's wrong with his body, so Xiao Xian hesitated for a while, Sighing, scratching his head, he still opened his mouth and said, "I..."

After Xiao Xian said a word, Li Cong stopped turning over the cabinet, turned his head to stare at Xiao Xian and waited for him to continue.

Xiao Xian pursed his lips and lowered his head: "I, I want to take a bath..."

Xiao Xian's hesitation was not unreasonable. He went out twice during the day and did not see a bathtub in Li Cong's house. Maybe taking a bath is a luxury for poor families. Forget it, I won’t bring it up.

After listening to Xiao Xian's words, Li Cong frowned and thought for a while, then raised his head to discuss with Xiao Xian: "Xiao Xian, the doctor said that you can't go into the water if you are not well, and he just washed you in the morning. If you feel uncomfortable, bring some water for you." How about you wipe yourself off?"

Xiao Xian shook his head: "That's no need, I want to wash my face and then rinse my mouth."

Li Cong didn't speak, nodded, closed the cabinet door and went out. After a while, he came in with a washbasin and water cup, sat on the side of the couch and put the washbasin in front of Xiao Xian for him to wash his face.Xiao Xian straightened his back, pulled up his sleeves, took out a silk handkerchief that was soaked in water from the basin, held it in both hands and wiped it off his face, as a result, when he lowered his head, the long hair on the sideburns fell down.Xiao Xian shook his head to shake his hair to the side, but the more he shook it, the more it fell, and some of it fell over his shoulders and got into the water.It's awkward for people to carry a basin to wash their face. Seeing his naughty hair suddenly growing out, Xiao Xian was a little anxious and wanted to put his hair on it, but his hands were wet. He looked at his hands and shook his head. Somewhat overwhelmed.

Li Cong was holding the water basin with both hands. Seeing Xiao Xian like this, he freed up one hand to take the silk handkerchief from Xiao Xian's hand and threw it into the basin. Putting the water basin on the chair, he went around to Xiao Xian's back, stretched out his arms and caught the hair hanging down on both sides of Xiao Xian's cheeks so that he could wipe his face.

Li Cong's fingers were a bit rough, but warm. They slid across the side of his cheeks and touched his ears. Xiao Xian couldn't help shrinking his neck. Hanging down to his pink neck, Li Cong lowered his head and hesitated for a moment, then made a bunch of hair in his hand, picked out the disobedient strand of hair from behind the ear and put it together, the feeling of the hair pulling away from the skin was horrible Xiao Xian felt itchy even more, but he didn't dare to move any more, and held his breath involuntarily until Li Cong brushed his hair that was running around from his cheeks to the back and held it in his hands, then stood still and didn't move. He breathed a sigh of relief, and with a stiff neck, he quickly wet his face with the water basin, then wrung out the handkerchief and wiped it carelessly to finish the job.

Li Cong tilted his head, looked at Xiao Xian's movement like a cat washing his face from the back, and secretly thought that this lazy temperament was the same as that of Lin Chuan when he was a child, so he reminded him aloud: "Behind the ears."

Xiao Xian was taken aback, and quickly twisted the handkerchief again, turned his head and rubbed his ears with the handkerchief wrapped around his head.

Qu Xian's ears are small and delicate, and in the eyes of fortune tellers, he doesn't look like a rich man, because he is a maid, and he has been pierced, which is very unlucky among men, but when Li Cong looked at it like this, he felt that The pair of small ears are indescribably white and lovely, the earlobe is small, it is slightly pink because of the kneading just now, with the light behind it, it seems that the delicate fluff on it can still be seen.

After wiping his ears, his hair was still in Li Cong's hands, so Xiao Xian had to carefully turn his head away, feeling that Li Cong seemed to be in a daze, so he said, "Okay." He signaled that he could put his hair down.

Li Cong came back to his senses, lowered his eyes and frowned in embarrassment, then pouted as if remembering something: "And the bottom of the neck, it's all wiped clean."

Xiao Xian curled his lips, slandering Li Cong in his heart for demanding more than his deceased mother, but he wiped his neck with a handkerchief neatly in his hand, then wrung the handkerchief clean and put it on the side of the basin, holding it over his face The cup next to the basin began to rinse his mouth.After he finished rinsing, all the water was in his mouth, but he didn't know where to spit it out, so he puffed up his cheeks and stared at him desperately asking Li Cong what to do.

Li Cong pointed to the washbasin and said, "It's fine to spit in the basin."

With Li Cong's consent, Xiao Xian lowered his head, spit out all the water in his mouth with a "splash", rinsed it a few more times, and the task was completed.

Li Cong came back from the washbasin, dragged out a mat from under the cabinet, then squatted down with a cloth towel and began to wipe the mat.

"What's this for?" Do you need a mat in winter?Xiao Xian lowered his head, pointed to the mat at Li Cong's feet and asked strangely.

"Making the floor." Li Cong kept moving his hands, scrubbing the bamboo mat on the floor.

"Brother," Xiao Xian called out, stretched his arm out of the bed and grabbed Li Cong's sleeve, then patted the inside of the bed and said, "It's very cold on the ground, come up and sleep, there are still vacant seats on the bed."

Li Cong paused, stood up and thought for a while.There wasn't enough quilt, and if there was a cover, there was no cushion, and it was not an option to sleep directly on the mat, so he sighed, picked up the corner of the quilt and carried the quilt to the bed, intending to spend the night with Xiao Xian.

Although they were not thinking about the same thing, the two of them lying on the couch were indeed embarrassed.Fortunately, the bed was not too small, and I could barely sleep on it.Xiao Xian was short, and he huddled on the side of the wall to take up no space. Li Cong was afraid that Xiao Xian would be uncomfortable, so he bound his hands and feet on purpose, and tried to lie on the outside of the bed as much as possible. But there is still a gap of about a punch, and no one is next to anyone.

Li Cong tucked up the quilt for Xiao Xian, and pressed the old padded jacket on his lap, the two of them occasionally looked at each other, speechless.

"Go to sleep." Li Cong said, Xiao Xian nodded, so Li Cong extinguished the fire, put the oil lamp under the window, pulled up the quilt and prepared to fall asleep, but before he fell asleep, the people around him turned over several times Although the movement was not big, he still noticed it, and slowly opened his eyes.

Li Cong sleeps very well and doesn't snore much. He used to be teased by his younger brother that he would turn into a stone man as soon as he fell asleep, and he would wake up in the morning as if he had slept, even the wrinkles on the quilt were the same.Li Linchuan's words are of course exaggerated, but half of them are true. It's just that after the disaster at home, Li Cong was always dragged out of the cell for half a night to be tortured. As a result, he fell into a problem of light sleep, which he couldn't correct after so many years Come on, so at this moment Xiao Xian just turned over and he woke up.

"Did you sleep well?" Li Cong opened his mouth and asked tentatively.

"No, it's not." Xiao Xian shook his head.Just now I just turned over by myself, I didn't realize that I was going to quarrel with Li Cong, I was embarrassed, so I settled down, pulled the quilt under my eyes and stopped moving.

But Xiao Xian really didn't sleep well, but his body was uncomfortable.The strange feeling I noticed just now when I was eating is getting stronger and stronger now. My stomach is a little swollen, but it doesn’t feel like I’m full. I'm embarrassed to see it, and I'm even more embarrassed to tell Li Cong.

"Then go to bed earlier." Seeing that Xiao Xian had lost his voice, Li Cong said so.Xiao Xian thought it was crowded and couldn't bear to talk about it, so he moved outside again so that he could sleep more comfortably.

"En." Xiao Xian buried his head in the quilt and replied in a muffled voice.

After Li Cong told Xiao Xian so, he couldn't fall asleep.Thinking that he was used to being alone in the past, he could just open his mouth, he could live with him after Quxian, and it was obviously impossible to live like he used to.The wages of the two long-term workers in the county are really too little, which is only enough for him to eat and drink alone. Now that Qu Xian is ill, even with the money he saved before, it is still not enough to live on, and the work in the county grandfather's mansion and Huang Yuan's family is too much. Time-consuming, often have to come back from morning until dark, how can there be time to take care of Qu Xian's meals?There is also the problem of sleeping at night, the back room is so small, if there is another bed, there is almost no place to turn around, so I can't just sleep with Qu Xian day and night.Even if I only regard him as my younger brother now, but sharing the same bed does not have the status of husband and wife, so it will inevitably cause people to gossip.

After coming to Qingliu County for six full years, Li Cong didn't really start worrying about lack of money until tonight.I didn’t feel it when I was alone, and it’s not uncommon for me to spend a day without money and only eat one meal, but it’s different now, and the thousands of words and questions in my mind finally turned into two words: money.

Only go to the dock to find a job.Li Cong secretly sighed.

The wharf was the last place Li Cong wanted to go.Although there is more money to go to the wharf to move goods, it is always inevitable to compete with others.The ferry boats on the river make two trips in the morning and evening, because the wages are calculated according to the amount of goods moved within a fixed time, and the strong hands and feet can earn more quickly, but each ship only ships so much goods, and they have to be replaced after moving The next one, in this way, the one who earns a lot of money will naturally attract people's envy. In addition, the tools for moving the goods are rough people. Treating people as human beings, seeing the coolies scrambling to annoy them, they even come to vent their anger. This is how they treat ordinary people, let alone slaves.

Even if you see the pier on weekdays, you have to walk around it, so you won't make such a bad move unless you have to.But after thinking about it, moving goods pay more money but not many hours. As long as you work in the morning and evening, you can go back at noon, and you are free for dinner, so you won't be late to take care of Qu Xian. Li Cong's face has long been I don't know where he threw it. As for other considerations, I dare not say anything. Since he was a child, the most he can endure is punching and kicking. It will be fine after a while.

Li Cong made up his mind, turned his head and saw Xiao Xian's eyeballs were still rolling around under his eyelids, and he looked like he was not asleep, so he patted Xiao Xian's shoulder sideways and said softly: "It's always crowded like this. It’s not a solution either, you’re not in good health, you’ll probably be bedridden this month, and the money you saved at home is running out, so if you’re wronged, squeeze for a while, and in a few days, when elder brother saves enough money, I’ll add another room for you to sleep in.”

Hearing Li Cong talking to him, Xiao Xian opened his eyes and turned to look at him.Li Cong brushed away the hair that fell from Xiao Xian's face, then tilted his arms slightly and pointed to the place behind the room outside the window, and said, "It's just behind here, connected to the outer room, and I'll help you install a door so you can sleep too." Be safe."

Li Cong stared straight out of the window with his eyes slightly curved, as if a house had been built there.

I don't know what's going to happen in the future, but this brother has thought so carefully.Xiao Xian muttered in his heart, and looked in the direction Li Cong pointed.Outside the window is the backyard, the window is low, and you can get a rough look by leaning up slightly.It was said that the yard was really a yard, and it was empty, so it was surrounded by a sparse fence, and two chicken coops were tied up, and a cart was parked in the middle. The gaps in the tree shadows spilled into the window, leaving a bed of silver spots.

Xiao Xian suddenly felt that all his worries were gone. No matter what happened in the future, he would never forget the first night when he first came to this world. The half-stranger man next to him smiled and told him that he was in this strange place. , in the future there will be a room of his own where he can settle down.

Thinking of the timid hesitation and depression before, Xiao Xian secretly wondered when did he become so stupid and worry so much?However, when encountering a little bit of setbacks, you will become less like yourself, which is too unreasonable.Looking at the person in front of him, even if he is not Li Cong's younger brother, the smile on this person's face will not change, right?Eyes are full of kind people, what is there to be afraid of?

Xiao Xian lowered his eyelids and felt a warm current seep out of his heart. He opened his mouth and murmured to Li Cong: "Thank you..."

"I called my brother, and I didn't say thank you..." Li Cong was stunned for a moment, and then smiled.He actually smiled this time, his bright eyes narrowed, and two shallow dimples appeared on his cheeks, which added a bit of softness to his tough face, Xiao Xian was a little dazed seeing it .

Seeing Xiao Xian's dumbfounded appearance, Li Cong stretched out his hand to pinch Xiao Xian's face, just like what he always did to his naughty brother in the past, almost touching him, he hesitated whether it was too much, and finally retracted it. hand, patted Xiao Xian's shoulder covered by the quilt, and said in a deep voice: "Okay, don't talk, go to sleep."

"En." Xiao Xian responded, retracted his body and faced the window, and lay down without moving.

At Haishi, the second watch has passed.

The world outside the window is silent, the moon is falling, and the shadows of the trees are mottled. It is a good sleep.

Xiao Xian yawned, listening to the subtle breathing of the people around him, his head gradually became confused.

The days in mid-spring are short, I wish you a good night's sleep.