Guiqing

Between the fields, it’s best to have the air conditioner blowing, drink a little wine, and add a few pieces of ice...

It's a pity that Gong Twelve doesn't have any air-conditioning, small wine and ice, only three acres of wheat fields that can be watered in the morning and dry in the afternoon.

There is also a father and a younger brother, but they are all weak and weak who are not willing to let them carry water.

So Gong Twelve could only get up early and wait until late at night, carrying buckets of water, watering it once before the sun was hot in the morning, and then watering it again in the evening when the sun went down and the ground was not so hot.

In the middle, for fear of burning the roots of the plants, it is easy not to water, but Gong Twelve can drive his father and brother who help watering back to take care of the trivial things at home, but he can't rest.

In this damn weather, the heat is so hot that the crops are almost wilting, and the pheasants only dare to come out in the morning and evening to peck and eat, but the bugs are getting more and more rampant.

The pheasants that only go to the ground in the morning and evening can't eat the bugs at all, but it's too hot at noon, the chicks will definitely not come out, but the big chickens occasionally come out to catch some bugs when the chicks are really hungry Go back, but after that, you will have to wilt for most of the day.

Gong Twelve couldn't, so he had to take the sticks and clay pots and squat in the field to catch bugs.

All kinds of fluffy, sticky and disgusting things!

Gong Twelve didn't dare to say that he was very cleanliness in the past, but a son raised by such a family, why would he need to embarrass himself with such dirty things?

Of course, when I was young, I didn’t know how to dislike it, and I had the bad idea of ​​intentionally scaring people with bugs, but in addition to dealing with Gong Shiyi, I will deliberately catch some disgusting things to tease my nieces and granddaughters, even if it’s bugs. Is she as chubby as Can'er and clean?

The result is now...

Alas, the world is indeed unpredictable!

When the bastard Gong Shixi cursed him that sooner or later he would have a day to play with the worms, he was still worried about it for two months, and then he proudly showed off to the old man that his fortune was strong, even Gong Shiyi's crow's mouth couldn't curse anything of……

At that time, have you ever thought about today?

Gong Twelve felt emotional in his heart, but the weather was so hot that his throat was dry without opening his mouth, but he really didn't dare to sigh.

Do it yourself!The water I brought in the morning disliked the smell after noon, and even if I sealed the jar carefully, it would be a pity that it would be a pity if I opened it later; Gong Apa wanted to bring him water, but he was not happy:

"I am a big man (and have a physique over forty), how can I die from the sun? Why don't I drink enough when I go home in the afternoon!"

So he deserved to tire himself out like a dog, a dead dog just fished out of the mud!

After noon today, Gong Twelve got up from the wheat field again like a group of dead dogs.

But I can't go home yet.

He waters his own land twice a day, and then catches insects on an acre of land—even though there is not much land in an acre, there are clusters of crops staring at catching insects, squatting for a while, standing for a while, and huge The sun was shining, and even a man like Gong Daishan couldn't do it, that is, Gong Twelve relied on his physique of over forty and his stamina of over forty.

And after driving to his own house, he can't just leave Grandpa's house alone.

My uncle and my uncle both have paddy fields, and they are in charge of one acre each for my grandpa and my family. Although the rice was planted earlier this year, and the care was extraordinarily meticulous, and the earing ended half a month earlier, but now is also the critical time for grouting. If you are not careful, a pile of empty rice husks will be collected in the future, and no matter how fine the service was before, it will be in vain.

Therefore, these days, although uncles and uncles are not guarding and catching insects like Gong Twelve, they are not half as leisurely as him.

Almost, Grandpa Gong wanted them to give up the few acres of rice and concentrate on serving the wheat that didn't require so much water.

But firstly, the rice grows well this year and ripens early, and it will only take a month, so the uncle and uncle are reluctant to part with it; The water in the fields is becoming more and more tiring, but the human favors have to be returned, and the family affection can't really say that I am not the original stuff, so I just ignore it.

In Yuanshen's memory, not to mention the long-standing favor, when he was ill before, his grandfather and uncle seemed to be still indifferent, but if they hadn't delivered food, helped with work, and paid for the medicine in advance at Dr. Wang's house , this body probably won't be able to survive the palace twelfth come doves occupy magpie's nest.

In that case, who knows whether Gong Twelve can continue to be his dandy brother, or died in that weird shipwreck?

In a sense, this is also a life-saving grace.

So Gong Twelfth had to get up earlier, and was not in a hurry to go back to rest at noon. Before the two waterings in the morning and evening, he helped several families fetch water, covered them and put them on the side of the field.Although the trip at night often evaporated two or three points when it was time to water, but uncles, uncles, grandpas and grandpas can water no matter who comes, and there is no need for uncles and uncles to be busy at both ends, and there is no need for these things. The old and the weak are tossing about with water on their shoulders.

Moreover, most of the fields of the three families are connected to the members of the Gong clan, and they are not afraid of some black-hearted tricksters who will greedy the water. Even if the clansmen meet someone who is envied and praised, they may not have never been greedy, and they dare to put it into action Yes, in the end not.

Even people of other surnames coming and going on the other side of the field did not dare to make up their minds. Occasionally, they were so greedy that they came a little closer, and they would have to stop the Gong clan.

Gong Twelve didn't say anything, but as long as he had enough time to fill his own bucket, he didn't mind picking some for the elderly and weak in the clan.

It's just getting more and more tired, that is, Father Gong is very willing now, and can put two large pieces of meat on the bottom of Gong Twelve's bowl every day. After these few days, Gong Twelve has become so tired that he has lost a lot of weight.

He is thin and dark, and sometimes he doesn't even bother to take a shower, and just lays down after washing his feet. It's hard to imagine that he was a proud second-generation ancestor a few months ago.

But people, if you want to maintain a heart, sometimes you need to tire your body like a dog.

Besides, Gong Twelve's energy is not in vain!

On the third day when the old and the weak carried water in the Twelve Clans of the Palace, although the other clansmen were not as strong as him, they didn't dare to be so ruthless, but they were willing to push him to go one or two more times in the morning and evening. One or two buckets of water will come out evenly for the old and the weak in the clan;

On the seventh day, a little brother who could help with watering, although unable to help carry water, had a sudden idea:

"Why don't you dig some holes in the ground for water?"

This sounds a little silly at first glance, the water in the small rivers and streams where the mountain springs converge will dry up, the muddy ground will crack if it is not watered for a day or two, and the water in the pit will be drained after a while. Evaporated and drank dry?

But if it didn't indicate how long it was stored, it was just that the men picked it up and poured it down, and the waterer immediately scooped it up to water it...

The more people in the clan who are willing to distribute water for others, the more this bucket feels insufficient!

After all, the water can be evenly distributed, but the bucket is still used by the family!

Fortunately, it is close to the mountains, so there is no shortage of wood and stone materials. Although everyone needs help when building a house, most of the materials are self-provided.

But this year, due to the good times in the past few years, the emperor's governance is also strong, and the people in the palace family have more connections than ordinary farmers. money.

Among the Gong clan, three families wanted to build another big house made of bricks and tiles, and there were five other families who only built mud and tile houses on the original site, and they had prepared a lot of materials.

Even the clan didn't say it before, but in fact, after the busy spring plowing and the watering battle did not start, they prepared enough materials for the twelve palaces to build a three-room main house with blue bricks and large tiled houses. All the tiles to be purchased have been picked, and the clan has paid a full 15 taels of silver, and they have all been bought back!

At this time, a few shallow pits were dug in the fields of each house, and stones and bricks were placed inside to prevent the water from leaking too quickly, and a large stone slab was built on top to prevent the water from evaporating too much. Weak watering can make the men carry a few more loads...

It is even cheaper to make than to buy a lot of wooden barrels, and those stone bricks can still be used when they are turned back!

What are you waiting for?

Gong Twelve dug six shallow pits on the three-acre dry land of his own family. It was also at that time that Gong Twelve heard that the family was thinking Kindness to build a big house for his family.

I didn't say a word of gratitude in my mouth, but my potential exploded more and more, adding up to fifty or sixty buckets of water every day.

The title of Scud, which came out of the pheasant and rabbit, became more and more indestructible, and more nicknames were called Undead. From a distance of ten miles and eight villages, there will be no other man who can match him in 80 or [-] years.

Father Gong: Seems like something's wrong?

☆, work together

Gong Twelfth's sense of existence in his original body is too limited. He is well-behaved enough, but he is too well-behaved and too quiet. The most meaningful days in his life are probably because he went fishing in the river to satisfy his younger brother's wish and fell ill In those days, it was even said that before the arrival of Gong Twelve, even the two neighbors on the left and right could not hear the voice of this little brother all day long——

Obviously he is a good boy who takes care of his family so much that he stays at home doing housework and networking, except when he goes out to help with work. He never runs around, but because his voice is so soft, the neighbors are not sure if he is really at home o(╯ □╰)o

After changing Gong Twelfth, the sense of presence was stronger, but it was too strong, and the red mole on his forehead fell like that when he first arrived, and fell into a slightly winding linear scar.

Not to mention, the three arcs with slightly different lengths and thicknesses intersect together, and the resulting scar shape has a post-modern aesthetic feeling. In addition, the location is just right on the forehead, which complements the original scar. The small and fresh face also has a mysterious grace.

But no matter how graceful she is, she will completely get rid of the red mole that symbolizes her brother's identity!

In addition, Gong Twelve's performance was too tough after he came, so it's no wonder that even Gong's father occasionally forgot that he was his eldest brother, isn't he the eldest?

As for outsiders, it is...

Look at the few cousins ​​in the clan who are able to discuss with Gong Twelve such things as "while there is still some water in the river, let's take the time to swim two laps" and the like.

Everyone forgot the gender of Gong Twelve!

Recently, even the titles of Big Brother and Twelve Brothers have disappeared. The elders, including Father Gong, call him Twelve or Junior Twelve, and his peers, regardless of whether they are older or younger, call him Twelve Brothers. Gong Twelve himself had forgotten the terrible embarrassment of gender, when the group of half-grown men greeted him to swim together tomorrow, he was really moved!

Because a few young men in the clan who couldn't carry water offered to help the Twelfth Palace's land catch insects after watering and the sun was not too high!

Twelfth brother, you can go and play, carrying water is hard these days O(∩_∩)O~

Gong Twelve was decisively moved.

But just before he acted, the side beside him was also cheerfully thinking that Xiao Twelve was exhausted these days, and there would be nothing wrong with taking a rest for a long time. When he caught sight of Xiao Shuanzi and his twelve cousins, suddenly Shocking——

Nima, this rhythm is wrong!

Although they are all the little twelve in this generation, but the one in my family is the twelve brother!

No matter how much you act tougher than the twelve boys, you can't really treat him like a kid!

Then he turned his face viciously, and first of all he pushed the [-]th boy of the [-]th palace, the eldest son of Gong Daisheng of the third house, the guy named Gong Xuejun, and gave Gong Daiyue two brains, and ordered:

"Tomorrow, remember to come and catch bugs for your twelve 'brothers', and let him have a rest!"

The word "brother" is especially emphasized.

Gong Xuejun covered his forehead and blinked several times before he remembered:

Second Olympic!This very powerful twelve brother, he is a brother who meows!

In the future, if my father knew that he had urged the twelfth brother and his cousins ​​to go swimming, hiss - it was definitely the rhythm of his butt blooming, even his father and grandfather would not protect him!

Hastily blinked back the tears, and patted her chest to promise:

"I will definitely catch bugs, I will catch them every day! Don't stay up in bed in the morning to catch them, and at night, take advantage of the light to finish catching them before watering..."

Gong Daixing and his younger uncle Gong Daishan are about the same age, only a little over four months older, but they can't help but get married early, and her husband will give birth too!

Gong Xuejun is now seven years old, and he has been studying ethnology for two years, and he has learned many rules.

Although the Gong family was not very harsh on my brother, the world situation was like this, especially with the rise of Neo-Confucianism founded by a certain Confucian surnamed Chu in this dynasty, the world became more and more restrained on my brother.

Even if there are not so many rules in the rural farms, even if they are all cousins ​​of the same family, it’s okay to have some physical contact when working together. How dare you swim in a river with bare buttocks...

The Gong family has never had a precedent of soaking her own elder brother in a pig cage, but it must be extremely difficult to find someone who is willing to marry the twelfth elder brother.

And the guy who caused this...

If it doesn't happen, at most I will add three or five days to my father's morning and evening meals (stir-fried pork with bamboo shoots), but if I really do it, maybe my father will be so cruel that he will leave himself out of the clan!

Charge: Harming Brother Clan!

Although Gong Xuejun didn't learn all of his father's martial arts skills, he was quite courageous, but when he thought of the possible consequences, his back was sweating coldly in the scorching heat.

So the promise was made very readily, even though his family didn't actually use a little bit of water picked up by Shanggong Twelve, he also patted his chest, not only today, this month, this year, and even in the future, whenever necessary, he will take the water from the Gong family. The bug-catching job in the field is covered!

She even wished she could go all the way until "Brother, you just feel free to get married in the future, and before Brother Shuanzi grows up, I will take care of all the work of my uncle's house"!

It's a pity that he only revealed a little bit of that meaning, and gave Gong Twelve, who was shocked by the embarrassment now, several more brains!

Gong Xuejun didn't dare to squeeze his tears to make trouble anymore, he didn't even dare to cry out the pain, but he walked around the front and back with a smile:

"It's easy for Twelve Brothers to take a bath. If the well water at home doesn't want to be a disaster, I'll get you two buckets of water from the river. It's guaranteed to be more comfortable than soaking in the river!"

Gong Twelve despises: "Can you fight?"

Gong Xuejun looked at Gong Twelve's height, the two were basically looking at the same level, but the difference in strength was dozens of times, and he was a little depressed, but he was still cheeky:

"There are so many cousins! After we swim... No, no, no, before we go into the water, I will call you back first?"

Palace Twelve: Hehe!Why don't you poke this uncle's heart again, this uncle will be satisfied!

Because he was really desperate, he gave an order to a group of young men headed by Gong Xuejun:

In the future, they will sleep at night, but they have to get up before the fifth watch, rush to water early, and catch insects when they turn around. and take care of it.

Of course, the cropping in the evening is also analogous, but it's just putting watering behind the insects.

#Let you still sneak out to swim? #

Uncle Gong is very fair about equalizing the rich and the poor. The specific manifestation is that in addition to what I don’t have, you don’t want to have it.

So after the Gong clan spent half a day laying small shallow pits in their own land, the Wang family also learned to lay a lot of them. Although Gong Shishi was not as dedicated as Gong Shi, but the bugs did not need to be caught by themselves. Under the circumstances, I don't mind sharing the two more hours that are free with one and a half of Wang's, and I also helped carry a lot of water.

So, even though there were a lot of little and half-grown men who suddenly remembered that this was a brother, all kinds of embarrassments, all kinds of getting up early and greedy gangsters to work, Gong Twelfth still killed himself before July [-]th. Sun into a small black charcoal.

Although he felt that he was taller, stronger and more handsome, when Father Gong saw Da'er's appearance when he was free, he almost cried to death.

Fortunately, but even more unfortunately, there are not many times when Gong Adie has time to observe Gong Twelve's appearance.

☆, justice

Xiaowang Village was originally a good place surrounded by mountains and rivers. There is a river at the east end of the village, flowing from northwest to southeast.

This river is not very big, but it takes a while to get to the other side of the river by rowing a boat. According to Gong Twelve's visual inspection, there is always a leisurely ten meters.

In a normal year, the river is full of water, and there are many paddy fields in the east of the village, so it is very convenient to use water.

And the village turns north from west to the south of the village, and there are continuous mountains. There are also springs on the west mountain that converge into a small stream and flow to the village. It is on the side of the hillside where everyone loves to pick wild vegetables. The wasteland is only one or two miles away.

The creek runs from northwest to southwest, and then meanders all the way down to the southeast, converging into a small pond in the village. Occasionally, the water flow is enough, and it will continue to flow eastward along the ravines planted with shrubs on both sides, and finally It flows into the Baishui River at the east end of the village.

At its peak, the creek was only two meters wide and two meters deep, but because there were no villages above the stream, no matter how young the year was, there would still be a palm-deep water flowing down it, which would definitely not be enough to serve the crops, but a village Quenching thirst is probably okay.

This brook will really stop flowing only in extremely bad years. It is said that during the more than a hundred years that the Gong family has been here, the number of times it has stopped flowing can be counted with one palm.

But now, although the stream has not been completely cut off, there is only a thin stream of water flowing through the hillside, not even enough to flow into the small pond, and it evaporates halfway.

The Baishui River hadn't stopped yet, but the big river, which was originally at least ten meters wide, was now less than half wide, and the weeds and moss on the embankment were almost all dead.

The keel waterwheel has been unable to fetch water for a long time, and people with paddy fields carry buckets even earlier than Gong Twelve, but now, even if they want to fetch water, it is not an easy task.

The river embankments on both sides exposed the part that should have been soaked by the river in the past, and the river mud that was stained gradually dried and cracked into turtle shells, and even fell off.

On the bank, where the river bed is relatively high, some of them are exposed to the water, and they look as if they are dry and cracked like turtle shells.

— but only as if.

If you really think that those places are already dry and hard, if you dare to step on them, it is nothing to step on half of your body in mud, and you are lucky if you can crawl out alive.

The old people in the village said that the silt was deep there. There was a similar scene a few decades ago. At that time, I was taught by the elders. I killed a few men with good water skills. One of them, speaking of it It was the uncle of Wang Dazui's direct relative, and he couldn't even dig out his body!

So this time, when ordinary men go down to fetch water, they have to wear big clogs that look like simple sleds, and tie a rope around their waist, and the other end is tied to a big rock on the bank, so as not to be caught by Wang Dazui. His uncle took him as a companion.

As tough as Gong Twelve, he didn't dare to play exceptions lightly.

But in this way, the speed of the big guys fetching water is not only slow at 01:30.

Fortunately, the rice filling is almost done, and the harvest is definitely not as good as in previous years, but it is extremely lucky to be able to grab [-]-[-]% of the grain!

Without the big head of water, this can slow down the speed of fetching water by several times or even ten times, and it can barely supply the remaining crops.

What's more, in a few days, everyone will no longer have to worry about wasting time when the rope is untied.

Because no matter how fast the speed is, the water in the Baishui River is so low that if you pump it faster or more, it will bring up half a bucket of mud.

Although it is not dead, but it is also very shabby.

——This is because Xiaowang Village, especially the Gong clan in the village, has accumulated a great reputation in these villages for more than a hundred years, and the upper-class villages dare not cut off the water flow!

I heard that in the upper reaches of the Baishui River, the branch of Taohua River branched out opposite Taohua Village, Shangxi Village and Xiaxi Village have fought several times to grab water. Not to mention the injuries, several people died!

Then Shangxi Village and Xiaoxi Village have been in touch for many years.

But what can be done?

Food is the life of farmers, but water is the blood of food

The Dragon King refuses to rain, so everyone has to work hard for blood?

If you fight hard, you may die, but if you don't fight, you will definitely die. Naturally, there is nothing to say.

Taohuaxi is not too far away from Xiaowang Village. Although it is on the other side of the river, traffic is slightly less, but because the people of Xiaowang Village are not as conservative as ordinary farmers who don’t even go out of the village, and there are waterways, even Going upstream is also easier than traveling by land, so it is inevitable that some people go there to do business.

The second husband of the one-eyed boy, um, was the one who had made an appointment but died before he even got through the door, and he was from Shangxi Village.

The one-eyed old man was also righteous, and he didn't ask for a dowry from that family. He even mentioned that he would welcome the brother's tablet back, and was even willing to bury his body in the Wang family's ancestral grave, but the brother's father said yes I don't want to part with him, and I want to take him and bury him in one place in the future, so that's all for the one-eyed third child.

Anyway, I only met once, so I can't talk about any feelings, but it's not easy for the poor unmarried brother to have a funeral, but it's a way to go with his own father, although he is definitely not in the family's public sacrifice, but he can't enter The ancestral hall is at least able to live with his own father, so it is not completely lost.

In this way, the two families are not regarded as serious relatives, but they can also be regarded as old friends.

Now that everyone in Xiaowang Village heard this, they couldn't help sighing for a while, feeling a bit sad about the death of a rabbit and a fox, and being so clear-sighted, they had to be polite to the Gong family.

Under such circumstances, Lizheng did not say that the river was blocked, but also discussed with the village elders that the water in the Baishui River could only be used for half a day and rest for half a day, and the decision to leave some life for the people downstream, although Some people have doubts behind their backs:

"Who else lives downstream? Except for the Chengjia Village on the other side, it's all mountains——

Could it be that Li Zheng was partial to his brother-in-law (the younger brother of Li Zheng's family married into Chengjia Village on the other side)? "

But because the Gong family is quite supportive, and they don’t just focus on harvesting their own rice and soybeans and disregard other families, the water in the river is not allowed to be picked hard, and there are many wells in the village, they still carry water for the old and the weak They don't distinguish between Gong's, Wang's or other foreign surnames, so the villagers are tolerant and not harsh.

Occasionally, there are those who have doubts, but they just go through it in their own minds. What should be busy, they should be busy on their own.

But then, before the middle of July, there was another news that the people in Xiaowang Village could not sit still.

The incident also happened in Chengjia Village, because that village and Xiaowang Village are slanted across the Baishui River, but they are further downstream. Naturally, there is no condition for water cutoff and interception, and they have no courage to go to Xiaowang Village to snatch it. Water, but his grandma, what he did was even worse than what Shangxi Village did to Xiaxi Village!

——It is said that in order to sacrifice to the Dragon King to pray for rain, the boy will be sacrificed.

That's all, any stupid thing is done ruthlessly at the critical moment of life and death, and the people of Xiaowang Village also know that the amount of water they leaked for half a day is really not enough for Chengjia Village to order. , although outsiders can't bear to hear it, they don't have such a big face to interfere.

Although everyone in Xiaowang Village has rushed to collect all the rice and soybeans a few days ago, they still have some food.

In addition, due to the kindness of the Tuo Gong family in the village a hundred years ago, there were already three deep wells, and the one dug by the Wang family members earlier is four deep wells, all of which are still producing water, and the water volume is still quite large;

In addition, the richer families are accustomed to the Gong family style, and if they have money, they can afford a big brick house, so they will inevitably have to dig a well...

So far, a village can actually have more than thirty wells. Although the twenty or so wells that are not deep enough have been out of water for more than half a month, there are still eleven wells. Those who are not dying of thirst may even have some surplus to irrigate the land.

That's it, don't you feel anxious when you look up at the cloudless sky and look down at the dry river?

Xiaowang Village has not used children to sacrifice to heaven for at least two or three hundred years, but they can't interfere with other people's family doing it.

——If the child who was sacrificed had nothing to do with Xiaowang Village at all.

But how is it possible?

Chengjia Village is the closest village to Xiaowang Village. The first husband of the one-eyed old man's family was married there. Besides the one-eyed old man, the two villages, especially the surnames Wang and Cheng, have been in touch for hundreds of years. dear.

Didn't even Li Zheng's elder brother marry there?

Because of this, many people in Xiaowang Village would pump water into the wells to irrigate their crops as much as possible long before Lizheng made it clear that they could only pump water from the Baishui River for half a day, in order to benefit the old friends downstream. Save a little life.

Nowadays, it is even more necessary to fight and rest for a while. Although it is also due to the resolution of the village and the fact that many people's wheat can barely be harvested, isn't it still to save some life for the downstream?

Otherwise, if you are cruel, and the village elders can't keep an eye on the river, everyone fetches more water and fills the wheat with more pulp.

But it's all soft-hearted and nostalgic.

Thinking that there are still some soybeans with normal yields. When the year was good in the past two years, I also saved more food, so I would not starve to death. Many people even have enough to eat for another year. If they lose some this year, they will lose It's better than starving the old neighbor to death...

They didn't do anything.

I don't want the people of Xiaowang Village not to do tricks, but Chengjia Village wants to do something cheap!

As sacrificed dolls, the oldest was no more than five years old, and the youngest was only one and a half years old.

At the beginning of the year, Lizheng happily brought two big chickens there to eat the first-year wine——

Because the youngest one is the grandson of Li Zheng's family!

The Zheng family here has only one younger brother, who is very spoiled. Xiaowang Village is more particular, and marriages with the same surname are not allowed. People with other surnames in the remote village are not very popular. Li Zheng is reluctant to marry him away. The Tong family in the upper reaches Gouzi didn't have a brother who was suitable in all aspects, so he had to find Chengjia Village on the other side, accompanied by a generous dowry, and married Cheng Haojian, who was the first child in that village to be born as a child.

Later, Cheng Haojian failed to pass the exam for five or six years, and Li Zheng's father-in-law's plan to be a scholar was in vain, but because the younger brother married and never had a child, Li Zheng's family wanted to treat his brother-in-law with extra courtesy.

At the beginning of last year, the younger brother finally gave birth to a boy, and Lizheng was even more overjoyed, thinking whether he could ask the old Juren of the Gong family to give advice to the son-in-law, so that he could enter school as soon as possible.

Later, although it was delayed for some reason, he also took the lead in proposing to only fetch water for half a day. Who else could it be for?

As a result, after a lot of painstaking efforts, it became:

"Although he is my only son, for the sake of the whole village, it is also a blessing for my family to let him serve the Dragon Lord!"

It is really righteous to suppress the desperately resisting Wang family, his wife and son, and ignore them!

And not only this one-and-a-half-year-old doll, but the other seven dolls, no matter whether they were three or five years old, were chosen as sacrifices by Chengjia Village, all of them were born of brothers who married Xiaowang Village.

The famous tricks there are not just as simple as being sorry for Li Zheng's father-in-law, or being sorry for Li Zheng's family brother.

☆, honest and naive

Of course, not all the brothers from Xiaowang Village who married into Chengjia Village have encountered such a "righteous" top-quality product like Cheng Haojian. Most of them are still not willing to part with their own flesh and blood. , and the clan is so powerful, it is really rare for a warrior who dares to fight against a village+clan with one body.

It's rare, but it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

There is also Cheng Laoshi in the Cheng family village, um, he really is called Cheng Laoshi——

Because unlike Cheng Haojian's family, the great-grandfather's generation is said to have saved up some money for the three generations of their father and son to read some books,

Cheng Laoshi's family is just an ordinary farmer's family, and the naming is not so particular. When this honest man was born, he was named "big head" based on his appearance. Later, when he grew up to thirteen or fourteen, he became famous for his honesty. His father simply asked the patriarch to fill in the word "honest" when he was giving him the genealogy.

This elder brother who also married Xiaowang Village is also a Wang family, and even the great-grandson of the Gong family——

The Dawang's father, the Tong family, is the son of the Gong family who married into Tong's ditch.

Therefore, Mrs. Tong learned some characters from her father, and Mrs. Wang learned some characters from Mrs. Tong. Not to mention how to know books and rationale, it is no problem to draw a few accounts, read a contract and read a notice.

Cheng Laoshi didn't know any big characters at first, but after marrying his husband, he also learned a few words. At least he didn't need to press his hand when signing and drawing, and he could sign his name crookedly, and he barely got rid of the blindness. Naturally, she loves and respects her husband.

Later, the couple gave birth to two men and a brother, and they both learned a lot of characters from their father.

The elder brother didn't discuss marriage because he was still young, let alone him; although Cheng Daping, the eldest son, could not marry the elder brother in Xiaowang Village, because of his literacy, he was able to find some work in the town during the slack season. I feel more and more that this brother from Xiaowang Village is extremely rare.

Coincidentally, when the second son Cheng Er'an was sixteen or seventeen years old, the youngest son of the original elder brother of the Wang family, Wang Shoushou, who was always weak due to dystocia at birth, also happened to reach the age of Ji.

Cheng honestly thought that this husband's original family has always been a harmonious brother, and the brother he taught can write and count, not to mention how much dowry he wants, if he can teach a second generation of literate dolls, he doesn't want to get fame, if all If you can find an easy job in the town, you may not be able to get rid of the difficulty of digging food in the fields for several generations!

For this reason, Cheng Laoshi even felt that even if there was an eventuality, Wang Shoushou was too weak to continue the incense, and it was the same for the adoptive eldest son's child to go to the second room.

Cheng Er'an saw this cousin often when he was young, and he was grateful for the care of his uncle's family, so there was nothing wrong with it.

So Wang Shoushou married into Chengjia Village four years ago, only a year and a half later than Wang Pinger, Lizheng's brother.

It is true that Wang Shoushou has not given birth yet, and Cheng Daping and Cheng Er'an are both grown up, so sacrifices must not dare to look for them.

Cheng Laoshi could have stayed out of the matter this time.

But why is man a man?

That is, many things, even if they could not be contaminated by themselves, they would not just choose to turn a blind eye.

First of all, when Wang Shoushou and Wang Pinger were brothers in the original family, although one was weak and the other was pinched, not only were they unfamiliar, but they were also deliberately alienated.

But who made the two of them destined to marry in the same village?

Chengjia Village is quite close to Xiaowang Village, not to mention that there is a river across it, even if the first married person in the village is the opposite, there is no married brother who will return to the original home at will!

That is something that people should pay attention to.

Therefore, Wang Shoushou can take it for himself, the grandfather of his husband's family is also the uncle of the original family, and the husband and son-in-law have also known each other since childhood, and he has never liked to move around;

But Wang Ping'er couldn't bear it. Because two generations of Cheng Haojian studied, the rules were inevitably bigger than ordinary village households.

Although Pian Wang Ping'er's original family is Lizheng, it is reasonable to say that there should be no less rules than Tongsheng's family.

But Xiaowangcun has always been more tolerant towards his elder brother, and Wang Pinger is extremely favored by the family.

Even though Cheng Haojian's father looked at the dowry he brought and Xiaowangcun standing behind him, and didn't dare to make things difficult, he always felt a little uncomfortable.

So, Wang Ping'er started to take the initiative to walk around with Wang Shoushou.

Wang Shoushou is not a grudge-loving person, although Wang Ping'er likes to pick things up, he is not a bad-hearted person, as they walked, the two really got to know each other slowly.

This time, after hearing about Wang Shoushou and his little boy, Wang Ping'er shed tears on the spot, which made Cheng Er'an very distressed.

Then, there is this "more".

Cheng Laoshi has always been an honest person. When he was a child, he went to Jishang to sell some mushrooms and wild vegetables that he picked himself. He was very honest. He was so honest that he was a bit stupid.

Once, he mixed Ganoderma lucidum with mushrooms and sold it at a very low price. As a result, the buyers all walked away, and only the person who knew the goods told him.

Cheng Honesty was already 14 years old at that time, and it was supposed to be the time when young men were young, but he was too honest, so he didn’t ask that person—an uncle of the same family in the same village—why didn’t he remind him before, I didn't even think about catching up with the buyer and regretting the previous transaction, so I honestly touched the back of my head:

"Oh, really?"

He was so honest that he was ready to remember clearly this time, and just don't commit the crime next time.

The clan uncle turned pale with anger, although he was not sure