The fertile water of farming does not flow to outsiders' fields

After lunch, the two father and son took their hoes to dig a pit in the field.

For convenience, most people in the village dig a pit in the ground as a latrine, which is very convenient to bury and decompose on the spot. The land of his home is a bit far away, so Xue Yinsong repaired it for the convenience of the little scholar and his son to go to the latrine. In my own home, it is more troublesome to bury the fertilizer pit every time, and I have to go to the field with a load of loads.

Father Xue chose a place to dig, and he chatted his teeth while digging: "My son, how are you and the scholar?"

"That's it," Xue Yinsong replied relaxedly, "just like you and Aunt Huan."

No matter how ambiguous this sentence sounds, the old man hurriedly said, "What I mean is, do you think it's not good to find a man?"

"No." Xue Yinsong immediately denied it.

"Tiger, the scholar has to rush for the exam in the spring." The old man sighed.

Xue Yinsong pretended to be stupid on purpose: "What's the rush for the exam? Isn't it possible for us not to pay taxes if you pass the exam?"

"Who told you that the tax is not taxed, I mean...you are a scholar if you are admitted to a scholar, and the master of a scholar is an official, so...can't you always suppress you."

Xue Yinsong was surprised: "How do you know, you peeked?"

Father Xue blushed and scolded: "Who has the leisure to peek at you? I heard you guys quarrel last time. The scholar said it himself."

Xue Yinsong laughed: "Cut, don't say that he is the emperor's father, as long as he is my wife, this matter is a certainty."

Father Xue grinned: "Blow it, you can blow it, if he is really the emperor, he will drag you to beheaded first."

Xue Yinsong said: "You don't understand, and you don't understand after talking about it, it's all right, don't worry about this matter."

Father Xue thought for a while, and suddenly comforted himself: "Fortunately, I remarried, otherwise my old Xue family would really have no successor."

The cesspit does not need to be too large, just about one square meter is enough. Xue Yinsong puts on a homemade mask and goes home to carry the manure after the cesspit is dug.Because of the experience of last time, Xiao Xiucai immediately dragged his son to escape to play in the wine shop.

Father Xue and his son each carried a few burdens, and took off their big padded jackets because of the heat. It was already the beginning of spring, and the sun was shining with warmth, making people warm.

Xue Yinsong thought to himself that he was the only full-time laborer in the family, so naturally he had to carry all the heavy and tiring work by himself. He gritted his teeth and finished the last four tasks in one breath. The moment he put down the burden, he felt that his feet were weak when he walked.

Chenjia Village is located in the south of the mountain, and there is basically no strong wind all year round, and the smell will not dissipate for a long time.Xue Yinsong himself was also smelled badly, so he washed his hands and feet and hid in the wine shop with his father.

The sun was setting and it was almost dinner time, Xue Yinsong and his father walked, only to see Xiao Xiucai standing at the door of the wine shop, talking to some people, probably dancing and gesticulating after getting excited.

"What's the matter?" Xue Yinsong walked over and asked with a smile.

The little scholar hurriedly said: "They want to buy something, but they are afraid that it will be bad. I am explaining."

"How do you explain that?"

"A gentleman is magnanimous, the ancients said that a gentleman..." Xue Yinsong stopped immediately before Xiao Xiucai finished speaking. Isn't this playing the piano to a cow... Although this word is not used correctly, it is very appropriate.He turned to the two old mothers and said, "What do you want, let someone pack half a catty for each of you, use it up and pay for it next time."

The two old mothers glanced at each other, and one of them asked in vernacular, "No money?"

"I want money," Xue Yinsong replied affirmatively, explaining slowly in case the other party didn't understand: "I'll make an account for you and pay next time."

One of them was from the village, and she spoke without an accent. She smiled and said, "What if I don't come to buy it next time?"

"That proves that the things in my house are not good. If you think they are good, you will naturally buy them again."

The old mother made sense after thinking about it, and the two of them discussed in low voices for a while, and bought some salt and vinegar respectively.

The little scholar quietly asked from the side: "What if they really don't come anymore in the future?"

Xue Yinsong waited for them to go far before answering: "Impossible, even if you don't come for a month or a year, you can't guarantee that you won't come to my house to buy things for a lifetime. Who doesn't have a time when there is no salt or sauce?"

Seeing the whole process, Father Xue could only let out a long sigh. He felt that he was infatuated by supporting his son to open a shop at the beginning, and now it was hard to refute. He turned around and walked home alone, ready to go back and make dinner.

Xue Yinsong has a habit of always inspecting the house before going to bed at night, closing the windows and doors, checking all the chicken coops and pigpens, feeling whether the chickens and ducks are full, and checking whether the piglets are eating normally.

Checking over one by one, I saw the piggies lying on their stomachs weakly, looking at the ground as if they had diarrhea, and then looking at the stone trough, half of the pig food inside was still untouched.

Pigs are the animals with the highest income among domestic animals. These four cubs are only a month old. If they are long-drawn, they will definitely die of dehydration. Xue Yinsong hurriedly dragged his father to see them.

The light of the oil lamp was very dim, so Xue Yinsong simply lit a firewood to light it up, only to see that the feces pulled earlier on the floor were half dry.

The old man studied it carefully for a long time, and then used a wooden stick to stir the feces everywhere, and said with certainty: "Someone has drugged it. Look, there are still undigested weeds here. This grass is called cat thorn. , if the skin is itchy, you can boil it and soak it in water to get rid of itching, but if you eat it, you will have loose bowels."

Xue Yinsong was taken aback for a moment: "Could it be that I got in without paying attention?"

Father Xue shook his head: "Impossible, cat thorns grow from climbing vines, and they like to get entangled in small bushes. Once they grow, they will be in a big canopy, which can block the light and prevent other grasses from growing up. , not to mention that it won’t mix with other grass, even if you see it, you don’t like to cut it. This grass vine is full of barbs and thorns like cat’s teeth. It's painful and itchy, how can you cut it back?"

Xue Yinsong immediately understood: "The courtyard wall of our house is short, maybe someone crawled in and threw this grass into the pig trough?"

Father Xue looked around the stone trough carefully: "Look, there is one next to this stone trough, and it was probably rushed when it was poured, and some of it was scattered outside. It seems that the grass was chopped up and boiled. Our family always loves the stone trough. Close the door, it is impossible to come in from the main entrance, besides, the scholar is in the front yard during the day, if someone comes, he should know."

After hearing this, Xue Yinsong took a torch and went to the side to look. Sure enough, he saw a muddy footprint on the stone wall next to the pigsty, which should have been stepped on when he climbed over the wall to go out.

"What should I do?" Father Xue was worried, "This countryman is just a chicken belly, and he can't see the good of other families. As long as your family's life is better, the troublemakers, borrowers, gossips, and jealous ones will be fine. Here we come. We can't stay up all night to watch, can we? Besides, the cat sting is fine, but what if it is poisoned?"

Xue Yinsong said: "This piggy is so small, he can die from diarrhea. I think it's no different from poisoning. Dad, how can we cure it now? We must stop the diarrhea first, right?"

Father Xue said: "Myrrh, we can only feed more water and let them pull it out. You go and boil some water and boil a handful of mung beans, and we will fill the belly after drying."

This can be regarded as the ancient bowel cleansing, Xue Yinsong nodded and went to light the fire, thinking who in this village could do the trick.

If it is said that his family has never offended anyone in a frontal conflict, why do these people hate the rich so much?If I don't work hard, I'm jealous of others, even if my eyes are bleeding red, it's useless.

After the boiled water cooled down, Father Xue tied the four hooves of the pig firmly with hemp rope, took a hollow bamboo tube and inserted it into the pig's mouth to let his son drink mung bean water.

This filling made a lot of noise, the little pig screamed like a pig being killed, shook its head violently when its legs couldn't move, and refused to drink any water.

Father Xue tied the pig to the bench with a rope, and held the pig's ears with both hands to fix it, urging his son to drink it quickly.

Xue Yinsong thought that each piggy would drink two big ladles, and Xue Yinsong thought it would burst the pork belly, but the miracle was that the piglets really drank it all. Except for one piglet spilling some at the beginning, the piglets in the back basically all drank it. I drank it in one gulp.

After working for more than half an hour, both of them were too tired to speak. The four little pigs wandered around in the pigsty with their swollen bellies. After a while, they heard the sound of diarrhea. It's good to hear, Xue Yinsong washed his hands and face and hurried to the front yard, only his father was watching with a lighted torch. If the situation is not good, he has to refill him. Anyway, today he has to guard until he can't stop.

It was cold in the winter night, and it was troublesome to go in and out of the house. Father Xue simply set up a bonfire in the backyard to roast sweet potatoes.

It was past the third watch at this time, and the family members were all asleep, only to hear the chickens in the chicken coop from time to time huddling and chattering, or the rustling of rabbits grinding hay.

Father Xue threw a little firewood and said: "The people in Chenjia Village have bad hearts. Do you think there are such people in our Tianba Village? Don't say that they don't have any intention of harming others, even if there are no people who steal. Can you sleep at night without closing the door?" .”

Xue Yinsong said with a smile: "We are locals from Tianba Village. We have been together for more than ten years. We don't see each other when we look up and we are familiar with each other. But the people from Chenjia Village treat my family as outsiders. We have not been here for half a year, and we are still familiar with each other. I'm not familiar with it, and it's normal for some people to be jealous. Besides, there are many people who don't want the poor to live a good life. As long as my family lives better every day, there will be people who will miss my family later. Chickens and ducks are counted, and if you use rat poison, all the livestock will die. I have heard of people poisoning wells."

Father Xue immediately became nervous: "Then what should we do? The well can't be covered, just in case..."

Xue Yinsong said with a smile: "It's so easy to kill people in the blue sky. Hatred of the rich is hatred of the rich, but it's not enough to kill people. If you don't worry, let's not directly drink the water from the well in the future, but the water in the water tank. Last time I caught some small fish and kept them in the tank, as long as the fish don’t die, it’s fine.”

Father Xue was still worried after thinking about it, and told his son: "In the future, if you have money, you should raise the fence."

Xue Yinsong smiled and shook his head: "No matter how high you raise it, it's useless. People don't know how to build a ladder? Besides, if you build the fence too high, people will think that you have something in your house, and they will miss it even more. If you want me to say, it's better Raise a dog that doesn’t like to bark but only bites, mother, whoever dares to come will bite off his leg.”

Father Xue felt that it was too cruel again, and hurriedly said: "Just raise a dog that loves to bark, as long as it barks to scare people away, if you really want to bite people, how can you do it, the human heart is made of flesh, but You can't harm others, besides, this kind of thing is usually done by men, and labor is needed in the beginning of spring, if someone has a broken leg and lies down for half a month, won't it delay the farming work?"

Xue Yinsong said with a sneer: "He doesn't want anyone to crawl into my house? If he doesn't enter my house, he will be bitten by a dog? This time, the pig is not killed. Maybe it will come again in a few days. In case the four piglets are taken away next time." It’s really poisoned to death, who will accompany me to lose it? As for money, these four bastards will have to hang up a few times, does my family have so much money that they can be squandered casually?”

Father Xue sighed: "Outsiders are just being angry." Xue Yinsong didn't say a word, what happened to outsiders, outsider monks can recite scriptures.

Fortunately, the concentration of the poisonous water was not high, or the taste was not good. In short, the piglets didn't eat too much, and they stopped after pulling seven or eight times.Father Xue put on some snacks even if he didn't see diarrhea. He picked out the sweet potatoes and the two peeled and ate them, and then went back to their rooms to sleep.