Yipin Farmer

It is a joy to have a good harvest, but something bad happened, the wild boar raised at home disappeared.

After careful inspection of the scene, the pigsty that had been in disrepair for a long time was not stable, and the wild boar knocked over the earth wall and ran away.

Ting Shuang was so angry that she jumped up and scolded: "Bastard pig, I picked you up from the hillside, healed your wounds, gave you food and drink, but you ran away, ungrateful guy..."

"Forget it, just keep it after throwing it away." Xiaoye advised him.

"But, this year's Chinese New Year, I still want to kill pigs and eat meat." Ting Shuang was very upset when she thought that the braised pork that she had missed for a long time was gone.

"That's why the pig ran away. Knowing that you have murderous intentions, why don't you run away and wait to be slaughtered? What a smart pig." Bao Qi added fuel to the fire.

Mrs. Li suggested: "Raise another one, and instead of raising wild boars, raise domestic pigs."

"There are already a lot of animals in the house."

No, apart from cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks, there are two deer and two dogs at home, not counting the eels in the pond.But Mrs. Li insisted on raising another pig. She felt that a family without a pig would not feel like a home.Ting Shuang is helpless, because there are people in the hairy house, it is not counted, you have to have a pig to call your home, Chinese characters are very magical, and the Chinese people's thinking is also... oh... Just raise it.

Soon, there were two more piglets in the family, which were bought from Sun Shengcai's family in the village.Mrs. Li took the little pig and smiled, and put it in her arms and stroked it as if she was holding her own child.

The hired workers immediately repaired the pigsty, and went up the mountain to cut wood and branches, built a cow shed, sheep pen and duck nest for his family, and enlarged the chicken coop so that the wing room could be freed up for people to live in or store food.He piled several tall stacks of straw and bean stalks for his family before finishing work and leaving.

Xiaodouzi is like an adult, after picking the ears of rice, he puts ducks in the rice field to eat the rice grains in the field, he is reluctant to waste any of them.

After harvesting the rice, the land was plowed immediately. The only cow in the family was very strong and could plow three mu of land a day. In order to hurry up and fear that the cow would be exhausted, Ting Shuang wanted to open up more wasteland, so she went to a neighboring village to buy one. The little donkey, riding all the way home, singing: "I have a little donkey, I never ride..."

Baoqi looked at him from the head of the village and smiled as he watched him come happily covered in the golden sunset.

This person looks ordinary on the outside, but inside is like a rich treasure mine. Although he has read books, he doesn't know much about the Four Books and Five Classics, but he has a rich understanding of certain knowledge and often has unique insights.Sometimes he is childish, but he is as considerate as an elder in taking care of his younger brothers.Be mean to yourself, but generous to others.The more I get along with him, the more I feel that he is an endless mine, and I never know what new tricks he will have next.

Also, he looks ridiculous riding a donkey.

Seeing him greet her at the entrance of the village, Ting Shuang urged the donkey to run a few steps with his legs clamped, and said with a smile, "You miss me if you don't see me for a while?"

Baoqi snorted: "Who cares about you, I just want to see who rides a donkey so ugly."

"If you think I'm ugly on horseback, you can buy me a horse and ride it so I'll look handsome."

"In the future, I will definitely give you a good horse." Baoqi solemnly swore.

Ting Shuang used the newly bought donkey herself, and asked Bao Qi to learn how to prepare the land. Ting Zhi didn't want to go to school anymore. Come out and sow the seeds again.Tinghui and Pingan Xiaoye drove the oxen to plow another piece. Everyone was very motivated, and more than half of the land had been plowed and sowed in six or seven days.

Ting Shuang saw that the land was almost plowed, and had a new plan, and asked Ting Hui to resume delivering goods into the city. In addition to sending roast chicken, he also sent fish, shrimp and crabs from the rice fields, and the ducks were raised to the point of slaughter. , keep the breeding ducks, and sell the rest to get some money.

There are also fruits on the trees. Strange to say, the pear trees in his family are still bearing fruit, but not as much as before. Each tree weighs [-] catties. These have to be transported to the city for sale. There are jujubes from Aunt Zhou's family, and they are also sold in the city together.Then redeem the winter clothes pawned in the pawnshop and mother's hairpin bracelet jewelry.

Tingke went back to the city to continue working, Pingan Xiaoye and Tingzhi continued to plow the remaining land, and also opened up wasteland in the surrounding area. As long as the land is not frosty and the soil moisture is low, they can continue to sow.Ting Shuang and Bao Qi stayed at home because he wanted to dig a well.There are only two wells in the whole village, one at the head of the village and one at the end of the village, which is a bit inconvenient to use, especially since he has a large family and hundreds of chickens, so drinking water is a problem.

Ting Shuang chose the location, then shoveled the soil with a shovel, digging layer by layer, and finally only saw his head moving.The woodworker in the village helped to make a potter's wheel, which was set on the wellhead, and a rope was hung on it, and two buckets were tied to the rope. When the pulley was turned, one bucket went down, and the other bucket went up.

Baoqi and Ting Shuang went down to dig the soil in turns, put the soil into the bucket, and the other shook the potter's wheel to shake the bucket up and down.

The well was dug deeper and deeper. Before going down the well every morning, Ting Shuang put a candle in the bucket to light it and put it at the bottom of the well.

Baoqi stretched her head to look down, and in the dark well, the candles were as bright as stars in the dark night.

"What are you looking for?" Baoqi asked.

"It's not looking for something, because there's a kind of gas down there, people will die if they breathe it in, so make sure it's safe down there." Ting Shuang observed for a while, shook the bucket up, and blew out the candles, "It's safe down here now, you can go down gone."

Baoqi couldn't figure it out, why there is a deadly gas in the well, and why can it be found with candles?He opened his eyes and watched for a long time, but he didn't see that kind of aura. Even if he had this kind of aura, he would have run away overnight, so there was no need to do so much.

Ting Shuang said, "It's better to be careful."

Before going to work every morning, they would put down the candles.

Mrs. Li tidied up the vegetable field in the yard, mixed the chicken food, and dried and marinated the vegetables harvested in the field, and marinated some of the fish she caught to make shrimp paste and crabs for storage.In the countryside, there is no need to worry about food in spring, summer and autumn. There are vegetables in the fields, fruits on the trees, fish, shrimps, clams and snails in the water. In winter, there is nothing left. Even food for people, livestock and poultry must be prepared in advance. good job.

When other people went to the city to dig wells early in the morning, she carefully turned the dried radishes in the sun. Ting Shuang said that the dried radishes made by Aunt Zhou were the best in the village. She was a little unconvinced and wanted to compare them secretly.

While flipping through the pages, I suddenly heard Ting Shuang shouting nervously: "Xiaobao, Baoqi..."

Aunt Li hurried over.

Ting Shuang said: "I don't know what happened down there. Maybe Xiaobao fainted after inhaling the gas. I'll go down to find him, and you pull the pulley on top."

"No," Mrs. Li stopped him, "You can't go down."

"I must go down, I can hold my breath."

Aunt Li was trembling with fright, but she still tried her best to stop him: "What if you also faint down there, and I don't have the strength to pull you up? I'll call for someone."

"It's too late. You don't know what's going on until you call someone over."

As Ting Shuang said, she grabbed the rope and went down into the well. Mrs. Li looked down nervously and worriedly.

After a while, Ting Shuang grabbed the rope and climbed up. As soon as she put her feet on the ground and couldn't catch her breath, she shook the pulley desperately, and the rope slowly wound up. After a while, Baoqi, who was tied with a rope around her waist, was also pulled up.

Ting Shuang dragged him up and ordered: "Go get water, hurry up."

Mrs. Li hurried into the kitchen to get water, then ran out and shouted for someone, but now everyone went to the ground, and there were people in the family who were also elderly and children.

Baoqi's eyes were tightly closed and she was unconscious. Ting Shuang sprinkled water on his ears and then listened to his heartbeat, with a serious expression on her face.He folded his hands and pressed rhythmically on his chest, pinching his nose every four times and blowing into his mouth.

After a few difficult minutes, Baoqi opened her eyes, and the first thing she saw was Ting Shuang's anxious and concerned face.

Seeing him open his eyes, Ting Shuang breathed a sigh of relief, and stretched out a hand in front of his eyes: "Can you see it? What is this?"

"paw."

"Oh..." Ting Shuang really wanted to beat him up, but it turned out that this guy had an outrageously poisonous tongue, and he didn't forget to hurt people just after he came back from the gate of hell.

Baoqi touched her lips, just now there was a soft feeling on it in a trance, what was it?Baoqi was a little distracted, feeling an unprecedented feeling tickling her heart.

"Hey, did you put candles down before going down the well today?" Ting Shuang Heihu glared at him.

Baoqi came back to her senses: "No..."

Ting Shuang raised his hand and gave him the back of the head, scolding: "Stinky boy, do you know how dangerous it was just now? I told you to put candles before going down the well, why didn't you put them? I'm too lazy to remember? If you follow you, you won't hit, right?"

Baoqi rubbed the back of her aching head, and was about to fight him for three hundred rounds, when she heard Aunt Li's shout.

Aunt Li from Lizheng's family followed behind, because she was at home because she wanted to see her grandson, so she hurried over when she heard something happened.Mrs. Li came back to see that they were all right, she slapped her thighs and cried, "Oh, you scared me to death..."

"I'm fine..." Baoqi felt a headache when he heard the woman crying.

"Why are you all right?" Aunt Li complained, "Xiaoshuang found something wrong, and I will go down to rescue you immediately, I'm afraid he will also faint down there, and I don't have the strength to pull you, so I'm going to call someone. But Xiaoshuang Shuang is afraid that it will be too late, and I can't wait to ask someone to go down to save you immediately, I'm going to be scared to death, so I can't be careless..."

When Baoqi learned that Ting Shuang had risked her life and immediately went down to the well to save him, she suddenly didn't want to fight back and bickered, she touched her lips, the warm and soft feeling just now was not bad.

After a while, the people working in the field also came back in a panic, and were relieved to see that they were all right.

During dinner at night, Ting Shuang stared at Bao Qi for a few times, and Bao Qi asked, "Why do you look at me? I know I'm good-looking, so you don't have to look at me that way."

"Disgusting," Ting Shuang vomited, "Seeing that you have been in a trance, I wonder if you have become stupid after inhaling that kind of air. How good is this, you are already stupid enough, and now you are even more stupid."

"What does it matter if I'm stupid or not?"

"Of course it's relevant. If you continue to be stupid, it means that you can't remember where your home is, and if you can't remember that I have to continue to support you, and you only have brute strength and can't do anything. It will be a big loss for me to support you. "

"Hmph, you won't lose money if you raise me."

Ting Shuang made a serious expression: "But I still want to solemnly remind you to be more careful in the future. As the saying goes, be careful to sail for ten thousand years..."

"I know, it's really wordy." Baoqi has accepted this approach in her heart, but her face is still impatient, "It's all your fault that you didn't explain exactly what kind of gas down there is so dangerous. If I had known, I would have been careful."

Ting Shuang couldn't explain to him what carbon monoxide is or what modern knowledge is. Even if he told him the simple experience accumulated by ordinary people in their daily work, he, a son of a wealthy family, would not understand it.

Before going to bed at night, Ting Shuang counted the money as usual, and then took the paper to calculate and draw pictures to make plans. Baoqi couldn't sleep, and tried to talk to him several times but couldn't bother to talk to him.

Baoqi was so angry that she turned over to sleep, and cursed in a low voice: "If I answer you again in the future, let me stay in this poor mountain valley for the rest of my life."