Little wealth

The morning sun slowly moved from the door to the center of the yard. There were some freshly cut wood in the yard, and two large dustpans were placed on the two stools, and there were some mushrooms and fungus drying in the dustpans.

These mushrooms and fungus were picked by Josh when the men of the family went up the mountain to cut trees a few days ago. Besides these mushrooms and fungus, there were also two little rabbits in the cage. They caught them together from the mountain that day of.

Of course, he didn't catch the rabbit, it was caught by their uncle, and he brought it back and kept it in their yard.

Since the addition of two little rabbits at home, their son's daily life has added a new joy, that is, he runs to pick the vegetables grown in his vegetable garden every day, and picks the leaves of the vegetables to feed the rabbits.Every time he was caught, he looked at him innocently, as if nothing happened.

In the vegetable garden, in addition to the green vegetables planted at the beginning, several wooden frames were set up. He sprinkled the seeds of cucumbers and cattails in it, and the grown seedlings had already climbed up the wooden frames. The vegetable garden looks very lush.However, he always turned a blind eye to these little bad things his son did. As long as his son didn't uproot the melon seedling's head, he felt that he would not want to beat his son for the time being.

"Em~"

"Hey, don't come here."

As soon as he looked up and saw that little boy was about to run over, Josh turned over the mushrooms and fungus on the dustpan, and the little boy had already run to his feet, with two small hands wrapped around his legs.

"... Tell me, what are you doing running out? You haven't seen the sun outside like this, have you? If you want to get tanned, you will turn into a black bastard." Looking at the little bastard who ran to his feet, Josh didn't even turn over the other side, so he quickly took his son back to the house for education.

At this time, the sun outside was a little bit hot, so he didn't let the children run out to play in the yard. The summer sun is not a joke. You are not afraid of getting tanned. The most fearful thing is that you will get sunstroke.

"Is it hot?"

"Hot."

The little baby now also knows that it is hot, and it will sweat when it is hot, it is hot!

"Why are you sweating so much? Stop running around." Touching the child's back was soaked, Josh sat down on the stool, pulled the child to him, pulled up his clothes, Wiping the sweat off the child's back with a clean handkerchief, he discussed: "Let's play in this room, okay? You're going to take a nap after playing."

"No!" Xiaowaer dragged her little bicycle and ran away, firmly saying not to sleep.

Josh looked at his son who had run away, and couldn't laugh or cry, "Stinky boy!" He still couldn't tell him, who taught him!Obviously he has never taught this kid such nonsense words!

"Let him alone, he will get sleepy after playing for a while." Zhao Amu laughed.

He is sewing flowers with a needle in his hand. He has been making hairpins with his daughter-in-law these days. Now he has learned to make simple patterns, but compared to the patterns made by his daughter-in-law, he is not very good at it.

Before, he didn't know that his daughter-in-law could make this kind of thing. One day, he saw his daughter-in-law sitting at the door with sewing and rags to mend, and she sewed a small flower, which looked very nice on the hairpin.Fortunately, his daughter-in-law is willing to teach him, and he can make more money than he can do other things with shoe soles, so he has been learning it very hard, and he has been learning it for a few days.

"I don't know how he learned so many words. We don't seem to be able to teach him. I'm a little surprised when he pops out a word from time to time." Josh also picked up the half-finished hairpin in front of him and picked it up. Continue to sew while chatting with Eminem who is sitting opposite.

"Hehe, maybe it's like when you were young. The boss didn't like to talk much before he was three years old. At that time, his father was still there, and the boss played with wood behind his father all day long, and he didn't cling to me. His temperament is completely different from that of the boss..." Zhao Amu talked about some things about her two sons when they were young, with a little smile on the corner of her mouth, as if she was immersed in the past.

"Well, he's a man of few words."

Josh listened quietly to his mother's speech, and occasionally made a mouthful and asked a few words related to that man.

There was a knocking sound from the other side of the wooden house, and they were watching the children while doing their work on the other side of the house.

They may not have much time to go to town these days, but he thought that anyway, if he had time, he might as well find something else to do, so that his life would not be too boring.He wanted to go to the wooden house to help, but every time he went in, he would be followed by a little follower, so he had to give up the idea.

The two were surprisingly consistent on this point, and they didn't let the children run into the wooden house to play.The sawdust flying around in the wooden house is one thing, but the main house is full of wood and tools on the shelves. They are afraid that the children will run in and play in it, so they are not allowed to run into the wooden house. play.

The child in their family is still young, naughty and active, and someone must follow him at all times, so even if Josh wants to help with some things, he is powerless, so he has to take care of the child and do a good job every day. Three meals, and occasionally doing his handicrafts and other work.However, they don't have time to go to the town recently, so they can save up these ready-made things first, and bring them to sell when they go to the town to set up a stall.

Their family now eats three meals a day, cooks a little more for lunch, and saves some for lunch. Occasionally, he will order noodles or make something else for lunch.After eating something at noon, you won't feel hungry in the afternoon, and it doesn't matter if dinner is a little late.

During this time, Uncle and E'Mu have been eating at their house, coming here early in the morning, and returning after dinner in the evening.

Josh felt that the life he was living now was pretty good. It was a peaceful life with a harmonious family. This was the life he was most looking forward to in the past, so he cherished the life he could live now.A hairpin flower in his hand was finished in a short time, he put down the things in his hand, and said to Ah Mu who was still struggling with the fabric in his hand: "Mu, look at it and read it, I will go to the kitchen to prepare the rice. Heat it up, bring it over for lunch first."

"Well, you go, I'm here." Zhao Amu turned to look at his grandson who was playing, and a smile flashed in his eyes.

Josh glanced at his son who was playing with Ah Huang. Their son's best playmate should be the big yellow dog at home.

Fortunately, Ah Huang is a patient dog. No matter how the little master tosses it, he will sit there obediently and toss it for the little master. He will also play with the little master and save his son from running Sticking to him.

There are also porridge and red date cake in the pot, which he made in the morning. Half of the red date cake is eaten, and the remaining half is here.

The red dates of the red date cake are peeled and the inner date stones are removed, then the red dates are boiled until soft, made into date paste, put into the flour, and two eggs are also mixed together to make a paste, and steamed in a steamer. The red date cake steamed in this way has no slag at all, and the taste is still very soft.There is also a little bee in the red date cake, so the taste is a bit sweet.

As soon as it was ready in the morning, their son ate a large piece, and even clamored to eat it when it was finished.Fearing that the child would bloat his stomach if he ate too much, he didn't feed the child so much.

Thinking of the son who had recently learned to play tricks, Josh shook his head with a smile. He didn't think it was bad for the child to be clever. In fact, it was because the child trusted him that he played tricks with him, but people couldn't do anything about him.

Put a handful of firewood into the stove, and quickly boil the porridge and red date cake in the pot together.

Although the weather is hot now, because there are children in the family, he usually warms up the food before taking it to the children.

The last spark in the stove was extinguished, so he blocked the stove with a board, cut the jujube cake into slices, and brought it to the main room along with the porridge. When he brought it into the house, he even shouted in the direction of the wooden house, "Stop, stop, hey, I've cooked lunch, come over and have something to eat."

"Hey, here we come." As soon as he heard that he could eat, Zhao Hu was more active than anyone else, threw away the tools in his hand and ran outside.

"Want to."

"You drank the porridge by yourself."

The child who was not as high as the table was holding on to the table with both hands, propping his heels to look up, pointing to the red cakes on it and saying yes.

Josh put a bowl of porridge in his son's hand and told him to drink it all up, then brought him a piece of jujube cake, pulled his son to sit on the stool, and said, "Come here, sit and eat , don't run around."

Sure enough, every time they had something to eat, their son became honest, sitting on a small stool and eating the jujube cake in his hand, his bulging cheeks reminded him of a certain kind of kid who likes to put food in his mouth Animals are so cute.

Josh couldn't help pinching his son's little face, and smiled when he met his son's little eyes.

Zhao He, who came out from behind, washed his hands and face, took the cloth towel hanging around his neck and wiped his face and hands, and then went to the main room, brought a bowl of porridge to the door and sat down to eat.

Zhao Hu also sat opposite his brother with porridge in one hand and a large piece of jujube cake in the other, talking to his brother while eating, "It shouldn't take a month, we can make ten small wooden carts alright."

"Yeah." Zhao He nodded, but after the ten small wooden carts are finished, there are still folded stools and chairs to be made behind, so the back can't be idle.

At this time in previous years, he would go to the town to work for the landlord's house for a few months, but this year he has no such idea. These jobs at home are enough for them to do for a while. Think about something else.

Josh also made himself a bowl of porridge, and when he heard the two people discussing over there, he asked, "How many cars have you taken now?"

"We basically finished the shelves first, as well as the wheels and other things." Zhao Hu talked about their progress in the past few days. Originally, he didn't like doing these wooden jobs, but he had seen them since he was a child. Watching my father and elder brother do these things, he knew something from what he saw and heard, but the job was not as good as his elder brother.

But now he is also helping his brother, and the main thing is his brother.

Zhao Hu was still very interested in the movable wooden shelf they made, and wondered if he could make one for himself, so he asked his brother, "Brother, I heard that you came up with this thing , can we make one for us to ride by ourselves?"

Mr. Zhou also asked him this question before. In fact, Josh also thought about it when he came back, but there is still a big gap between the cars made by adults and children.After thinking about it, he said, "It's not impossible if you want to be a grown-up rider. Expand this wooden frame to fit the height of a grown-up, and the wheels should also be bigger. The grown-up can be made into two wheels..."

"The weight of an adult is different from that of a child. A wooden car may not be able to bear the weight of an adult. This wooden car can be played by a child for a while, but it may break after an adult rides it twice."

"Two wheels?" Zhao Hu couldn't tell the resemblance, how to ride a two-wheeled one, but when he heard his brother say that adults can do it, he was still a little excited, "It's better to wait until it's done. After that, let's try to build one, shall we?"

"It's fine. If you want to do it at that time, just make one and try it." Although he is not too optimistic about bicycles made of wood, Josh has no objection, and thinks that everything can be tested to know if it works.

***

After lunch, Carpenter Zhao and his uncle went back to work in the wooden house.

"You're sleepy, aren't you? I'll take you back to sleep." When the child climbed up on him and wanted to be hugged, Josh hugged the little tree that climbed up, dumbfounded, knowing that the child was sleepy and wanted to be hugged. After going to bed, he hugged the little tree and went back to the house.

After a while the child fell asleep, and he left the house by himself.

In the summer afternoon, the sound of knocking on the wood in the small courtyard disappeared, and the cicadas on the tree became louder and creaked.

"Giggle..."

The hen at home laid eggs and clucked and sang, and after a while there was another clucking and singing, and it was the second hen that also laid eggs and came out.

A group of older chickens and ducks are under the crabapple tree in the yard. Under the tree, there are several pits thrown by two old hens, which are often occupied by the group of chickens and ducks.The two duck cubs were mixed with a group of chickens, and they probably thought they were chickens.

The big yellow dog lying on the doorway was dozing off, and after a while, his head fell down, and he fell asleep without making a sound.

"Aha~" Josh couldn't help but yawned, stretched out his hand to pinch the center of his eyebrows, and felt a little drowsy from the surrounding voices.Seeing her daughter-in-law yawning, Zhao Amu said, "Why don't you go back to sleep for a while?"

"It's okay, I won't be sleepy after a while." Josh continued to sew the flowers on his hand, looked up at the person opposite, and said, "Mum, would you like to sleep in the room over there?"

"No, no, I'm not sleepy. Let me tell you something, I asked the matchmaker to go to Chen's house yesterday." Zhao Amu shook her head, and told her daughter-in-law about asking the matchmaker to go to Chen's house to find out , lowered his voice to talk to his daughter-in-law, "I think what Chen Tuhu meant, maybe this matter between our two families will really work!"

Josh was a little surprised, he didn't expect his mother to move so fast, and asked: "Then Brother Chen is willing?"

"Let's see, Brother Chen might be interested in Xiaohu... You didn't see that when Brother Chen came to our house for dinner, he would sneak a peek at Xiaohu from time to time, maybe Brother Chen might be interested in Xiaohu in our family." Zhao Amu winked at her daughter-in-law, like a mirror in her heart, as if she had already seen the problem.

"I asked the matchmaker to go over to ask questions yesterday, and it happened that Brother Chen was also at home, and Brother Chen didn't say no. Yesterday the matchmaker came back and said that the butcher Chen didn't say no, and said that he would discuss it with his brother, and come back later. Write back to us... I see, this matter may really come true. If this matter can be accomplished, you, Brother Chen and us will be a family in the future. "

Although he was a little surprised, but if it was Chen Yan who married his uncle, Josh felt that he was better than those other girls and brothers in the village.However, he did not forget the wishes of the other party, and asked, "Hey, Ah Mu, have you asked Xiaohu what he means? Does Xiaohu like Brother Chen?"

"Of course I asked, hehe..." Zhao Amu smiled until the corners of her eyes rolled out when she mentioned her younger son, and said with a happy face, "The kid said let us make the decisions. I'll see, then Maybe the kid also likes Brother Chen."

"Oh, if both of them are interested in each other, then this matter can be done in all likelihood, Eminem, you can relax and wait for the good news from the matchmaker." Josh also laughed.

"Hehe, I'll talk to Sun Matchmaker tomorrow and ask her to go to the Chen family more." Chen Amu smiled until the crow's feet in the corners of her eyes deepened, changing his usually quiet temperament, He dragged his daughter-in-law and nagged a lot.

Josh listened carefully, answering from time to time, being a good listener.