The Road to the Imperial Examinations of Farmers in Ancient Times

At this moment, the sun had just risen in the east, and by the river were women and little girls washing clothes, squatting by the river to wash clothes.

Sun Yi took the two maids from her aunt's house to find a vacant seat, said hello to the women she knew in the village, then squatted down to wash the clothes, floated them in the river, picked them up and beat them with wooden sticks. .

Da Ya imitated her aunt and put the clothes into the river, but she knew that she was weak, so she pulled it back after getting wet and asked Er Ya to beat it with a stick.When all the clothes were wet, she also took a stick to pat the clothes.

Speaking of which, Da Ya is only seven or eight years old this year. The girl from the peasant family learned to work early. Da Ya followed her aunt to the river to wash clothes when she was very young. She knows all kinds of work at home. Dry.Er Ya is two years younger, and she learns to work after Sister A, and never complains of suffering or being tired.

There were two sisters by the river who knew that they were the two eldest girls of Li Ahua's family. Someone who knew Sun Yi asked her, "These are the two girls of your second aunt. The eldest girls will be able to get married in two years." Say kiss."

Sun Yi pursed her lips and smiled, but did not respond to these words.

Da Ya is not her own daughter, and it is not up to her, the aunt, to decide the matter of marriage.But if it was her own daughter, she would definitely not be willing to let her marry someone so early, but it's too early to talk about it now.

The woman asked her again, "Did your second aunt give birth? I haven't seen her wash clothes by the river for the past two days. Is this a boy or a girl?" Before Li Dahua came to the river to wash clothes with a big belly, They all knew she was pregnant, and everyone was talking about whether she would have a boy or a girl.

The child born this time is still a girl, and when the time comes, others will know when they take it out, so Sun Yi thought about it, and replied, "It's a little girl born."

A woman next to her said with a look of pity, "Hey, what a little girl again. Dahua has given birth to three girls, and this one is a girl again, and she has given birth to the fourth girl. There is no son here. How do you do it, don’t you think so?”

A group of women were discussing the fact that Li Dahua gave birth to a girl again, and they also said that every family gave birth to a girl, without a son, and when the girls were married in the future, they would have no sons to support them when they were old. Yo.The women are giving birth to more sons one by one. A woman who has given birth to three or four boys is naturally more proud than others.

The two girls heard these words in their ears, and they were silent.

Sun Yi lowered her head to wash her clothes, and told Daya in a low voice to remind her not to drop the clothes into the river.She didn't discuss these things with these women, lest what she said would be passed on to her second aunt later, and the relationship between the sisters-in-law would be bad.

There are many women washing clothes by the river, so there are more gossips. Sun Yi comes here to wash clothes every day, and never tells others about anyone's affairs.

The pale golden sun shines on the earth, the green grass is green, and the dewdrops on the grass and trees are disappearing little by little.Li Wen took his fourth sister out of the house and came to the field. He saw their old cow from a distance, and he wanted to go forward, but his fourth sister stopped him.

"Brother, don't go there, there are snakes." Li Siya's sharp eyes saw a snake on it.

Li Wen raised his foot and retracted it immediately. In his previous life, he was not afraid of anything. What he feared most were snakes and rats. Snakes can bite people, and rats are disgusting. These two things scare him the most. s things.

Li Wen looked down and saw that there was really a little green snake crawling on the grass in front, sticking out a tongue and moving, he swallowed with difficulty.

After the warmth of spring and the flowers blooming, all the hibernating snakes in the caves come out to look for food, so when walking in these places, you really have to pay attention to your feet, and you will encounter snakes accidentally.However, snakes are such animals that they won't bite you if you don't mess with them, but it's really hard to say whether they will bite you if you accidentally step on them.

"Brother, if only we could catch them and cook them." Li Siya saw snakes as if she saw pork, her eyes glowed green. Last time she heard Li Gousheng from the village She said that the snake was delicious when roasted, but she was afraid that the snake would bite her, so she dared not do it.

"..." Li asked.

He turned his head to look at his fourth sister, who was one year younger than him, but the soul living in his body was more than ten years older than the little girl, so he was not as courageous as a little girl?Li Wen thought depressingly, but he really didn't want to eat any snakes.

"Siya, snakes are not tasty. They are all bones and have no meat." Li Wen just wanted to let the little girl stop eating snake meat. Anyway, he would not help the little girl catch the snake. No kidding.

"Hey, I can't catch it either." Li Siya sighed in a dignified manner, her small face was not mature enough for her age.

After the little grass snake crawled past them, Li Wen dragged Li Siya away quickly, thinking how long had it been since their family had eaten meat?Thinking about it this way, it seems that I haven’t eaten meat for a long time.No wonder the little girl's starry eyes were full of hunger, and she wanted to eat snake meat when she saw a snake.

But there is nothing he can do if he wants to eat it. He is afraid of snakes, even if they are caught, he will not handle them, let alone eat them.

The cow was still here yesterday. The old cow was grazing with its head down. Li Wen stroked the cow and said hello to the cow. He took Siya's hand to touch the cow. Siya was a little afraid of the cow.The cow in their family is a tempered cow. Not everyone will touch it for you, but I don’t know why, since the first time he came to herd the cow, this cow seems to like him very much, and he listens very well. his words.

Everything in the world is sentient, and a cow is also sentient.

"Siya, look at its beautiful eyes." Li Wen felt that the eyes of the cow seemed to be able to talk, and they were very beautiful.Li Siya raised her head and followed her brother to look at the cows, and hummed twice, "Brother, you are right."

The little girl felt that everything her brother said was right.

Seeing a small flower blooming beside it, Li Siya ran over to pick the flower, picked a small yellow flower, and turned around to ask her brother, "Brother, do you think it looks pretty?"

"Well, it looks good." Li Wen said this with perfunctory, he is not a little girl, why do you like that kind of thing?

He climbed up to the big rock where he lay down yesterday, and sat on it to think about life. He felt that he had a great possibility to become a great thinker and philosopher, and maybe this was a great way out for his future. .

"Brother, why did you climb up again? Aren't you afraid of falling?" Li Siya picked a handful of wild flowers, but when she turned around, her elder brother disappeared. Climb up the big rock.

"Not afraid. Do you want to come up?" Li Wen sat on the top, lowered his head and asked the little girl below.

"No, I can't go up." Li Siya said.

Li Shanshan, who was working in the field not far away, straightened his waist, and saw his son standing on the big rock. He took a look, then lowered his head and continued to do his work, ignoring the boy.Li Shanmin followed his elder brother to work in the field, and the two brothers pulled out all the new grass that had grown in the field.

Many people are working in the field, and many people pull out the grass that grows like them. Otherwise, if the grass grows too much, it will affect the growth of the crops in the field. few.

Everyone who farms the land is not looking forward to a little more grain in the field, they just rely on the grain in the field to support their families, so everyone hopes that there will be more grain in the field, and come to the field every morning Work, go back down the mountain at night, and take care of the crops in the field carefully.

It's not the busy time for farming, the women don't work in the fields, now they finish their homework, and when they are free, they will sit down by the big tree in the village and gossip.Diligent women can also do some needlework. If someone sells it in the town, they can sell it for a few pennies in exchange for some subsidies for the family.

"Mum, Sanbao and Siya went to see the cows, haven't they?" Sun Yi asked her mother who was sitting there when she didn't see Sanbao and Siya.

"Well, I'm going to see the cattle." Mrs. Li sat on the small stool at the door, and the old lady didn't know what she was thinking.Hearing the daughter-in-law asked about her grandson, she said.

"Oh, that's okay, I'll go over and have a look later." After washing the clothes by the river, Sun Yi hung the washed clothes on the rope to dry, and helped the two little girls wash them back. Clothes hang up.

After hanging the clothes to dry, Sun Yi took the wooden basin and went back to her room to put it away, and took out the half-filled shoe soles to continue to put them away.

She found that the shoes on her Sanbaoer's feet were a little too small. The child grew up fast, and the clothes and shoes soon did not fit.Walking in small shoes would be uncomfortable, Sun Yi thought about making a new pair of shoes for her son, and replaced the smaller pair under her feet. The woman held a needle in her hand and threaded it on the insole, with a smile on her lips.

"Cough cough..." With a low cough, Sun Yi covered her mouth and coughed, continuing to be busy with the work at hand.She remembered that some of the clothes her husband wore were torn, and she would look for them later, and find the broken places to mend.

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