Lucky husband

At this point, the Bai family next door to Li's family finally moved into Shanghe Village and settled down in Shanghe Village.

On the second day after moving to the new house, Bai Yao took Bai Zhiwen to the village chief Bai's house to borrow a ox cart, went to the county town with the village chief Bai and his wife, tidied up all the missing things at home, and then began to nest at home, mother and child three There is no need for people not to go out, and they write low-key and safe on their foreheads.

The Bai family is currently in the period of filial piety, and it is inconvenient for Bai Yaoshi to go out as a widow. Apart from studying every day according to the previous arrangement, Bai Zhiwen will help Bai Yaoshi with housework that is more convenient for him to come forward, such as choosing Water, firewood and so on.

Li Mingjin has always been curious about their little brother, and wanted to go play with him, but he couldn't find a suitable reason, and Jiang Zhiyun and Mrs. Li were unwilling to take him there, so he could only go to the second grandpa's house to get his cousin. , playing around in the open space in the middle of the courtyard of the three families, intending to attract the little brother from the Bai family next door to come out.

These movements did not attract Bai Ziyi, but made Bai Zhiwen interested. His window happened to be facing this open space, and he could clearly see Li Mingjin teaching Li Qiusheng to write, and making gestures on the ground with a wooden stick.

From his point of view, both Li Mingjin and Li Qiusheng's characters are very stupid, big, and ugly, but what is rare is that Li Mingjin didn't write the characters wrong, and he can clearly explain the meaning behind the characters. It's interesting to bring his own thoughts.

In this way, the people outside the window taught the other one, and the people in the window watched silently. Sometimes when the two younger brothers of the Li family left, he still stood in front of the window thinking about it.

Bai Yaoshi saw this scene, and asked Bai Zhiwen strangely: "Zhiwen, what are you looking at here?"

"It's nothing." Bai Zhiwen took his eyes away from the words on the floor that were already flattened before he left, and walked to the desk next to him with better light, sat down, and began to read.

Bai Zhiwen had already learned the three hundred thousand of Kaimeng when he was seven or eight years old. In the next few years, his father would teach him alone every day. Now it is not difficult for him to read some books that are not too profound. .

"This pot of water is hot after boiling, you can drink it after cooling down, remember to take a break after reading a book." After telling his son, Bai Yao left his son's room.

In order to save money, she did not build a separate study room for Bai Zhiwen who needed to study, but only reserved the largest and most sunny bedroom for him, and placed an extra desk for him in front of the window.

Bai Zhiwen didn't think he had to have a study room if he wanted to study. Now that money is tight at home, he originally thought that he didn't even need to buy a special desk. If he wanted to write, he could go to the dining table in the main room, but Bai Yao insisted on buying him one and letting him Able to have a place at home to read quietly.

Day by day, the days are getting longer, the weather is getting warmer, the winter is about to pass, and the spring plowing is coming soon.

In order to ensure a smooth spring planting and autumn harvest in the new year, Village Chief Bai organized the villagers to clean up the canals.

This canal has been dug for more than ten years. The purpose is to divert the water from the Qianshui River to the fields in the village, saving everyone from carrying water to irrigate the crops on weekdays.

In summer, the canals will play a greater role. All the paddy fields will never be short of water. It is very convenient and less laborious to replenish water in someone’s paddy fields if there are canals. This is the advantage of building a village by the river.

The canal is convenient and practical, but cleaning the canal is hard work. The silt under the canal must be removed, otherwise the dirty and smelly water in the canal will be used to irrigate the crops, and the crops will die easily.

This is the work of the whole village. Every household with land property must send someone to repair the canal, and the family with a lot of land property must have two people.For example, in the Li family, Li Chengzhi and Li Chengli were always invited to go together in previous years.

This year the Li family split up. It is reasonable to say that each of the three sons of the Li family has paddy fields under their names, so each of them should contribute a strong labor force. Come, Village Chief Bai will remove their family's quota, and accordingly, they will not be able to share the silt.

Cleaning the canal every year not only ensures that the water in the canal is clean this year, but also can supply water to the fields in the village. The silt at the bottom of the canal is also very useful. Every household is scrambling for these fertilizers. Only people can get it, so although it is not easy to build aqueducts, every household is willing to go.

Early in the morning, Village Chief Bai took the lead in blocking the place where the canal connected to the Qianshui River, and then emptied the water in the canal.

At that time, there were a lot of fish in the river in the canal, and these fish were no longer randomly distributed to the villagers. Village head Bai led people to catch all the fish and sell them to the county town as money for road repairs and ancestral hall repairs in Shanghe Village.

Although the fish caught are no longer their own, everyone is still very enthusiastic about catching fish, full of a sense of harvest, and many people will go to watch.

After draining the water in the canal in the morning, Li Mingjin ran to the door of Li Erye's house after lunch: "Cousin, come out with me quickly, let's go to the canal to catch fish, every year we can see Once, very interesting!"

Li Mingjin's voice was not low, and it floated to the Bai's house next door, causing Bai Zhiwen, who had just had dinner and was reading silently in the room, to open his eyes and look over.

Li Qiusheng poked his head out of the room, and said to Li Mingjin very embarrassedly: "Brother Jin, I have to help my mother with something today, but I can't go, why don't you ask Mingchun and Mingxia."

Hearing that Li Qiusheng would not go, Li Mingjin was a little disappointed, and asked again to confirm: "It's really interesting, are you really not going?"

Li Qiusheng nodded: "Well, I won't go, I will help my mother choose the seeds for spring plowing at home."

In fact, he wanted to see it, but he loved his mother more and wanted to do more things for her.

Li Mingjin sighed like a grown-up: "Okay, then I'll go and see, and I'll come back later and tell you what happened."

Seeing him like that, Bai Zhiwen couldn't help laughing in the room, Li Mingjin heard it when he was walking back, looked up and happened to meet Bai Zhiwen's eyes again.

Li Mingjin looked at Bai Zhiwen's smiling eyes, suddenly felt embarrassed for some reason, and ran back to Li's house with red ears.

After a while, the strange feeling disappeared, and Li Mingjin ran to the entrance of the courtyard on the right side, peered inside, and listened to the movement inside.

After confirming that there was no voice from his second aunt Qian Xinghua, he walked in: "Second Sister, Fourth Sister, are you there?"

If Qian Xinghua was at home at this time, she would definitely come out and roll her eyes at Li Mingjin, dislike Li Mingjin for coming to find her two girls, and run on Li Mingjin overtly and secretly.

Qian Xinghua was not at home today, Li Mingjin went into the house smoothly, looked at the room that was more messy than the last time he entered, and glanced at his mouth slightly: "Second sister, fourth sister?"

"Brother Jin, what's the matter?" Li Mingxia came out from the back room.

"Clean up the canal today, let's go catch fish." Li Mingjin happily prepared to catch Li Mingxia.

"Brother Jin, Second Sister and I can't go." Li Mingxia smiled awkwardly, her mother had arranged things for her and Second Sister when she first left.

"Why can't you go?" Li Mingjin muttered, frowning.

"Is there anyone else who can't go?" Li Mingxia asked curiously.

Li Mingjin replied truthfully: "Cousin, he will stay at the second grandfather's house to help my cousin choose the seeds for spring plowing."

"Second sister and I are also picking seeds at home." Li Mingxia spread her hands, telling the mission her mother had left for the two of them.

Generally speaking, if the family has fields to be cultivated, when Village Chief Bai calls to clean up the canals, the family members will start picking seeds for spring plowing.

In previous years, the Li family had no separation. This work was done by Mrs. Li with several daughters-in-law, and no grandchildren were involved. This year, the family was separated, and there was no elder arrangement in the family. Qian Xinghua didn't have the patience to do this kind of work, so she just Pushing the matter to the two daughters, she ran out with her hands in her hands to watch Li Chengli and the others catch fish.

Li Mingjin flattened his mouth, he didn't want to go to catch fish alone, and also felt that it was not good to leave his cousin and fourth sister aside to play by himself, so he fell into a tangle.

Li Mingxia didn't know what Li Mingjin was thinking. Seeing that Li Mingjin hadn't left for a long time, she was worried that her mother would say something bad when she saw her when she came back, so she persuaded him: "Brother Jin, go and see, wait a while Come back and tell me about something interesting that happened by the river, and I'll go see it myself."

Unexpectedly, Li Mingjin shook his head: "Forget it, I'm not going either."

Shanghe Village does not have brothers of the same generation as Li Mingjin, so he usually plays with his brothers, sisters and cousins, and rarely plays with other boys or girls. When he goes to the canal to watch fish, he has no familiar people. , he also found it meaningless.

After making a decision, Li Mingjin smiled at Li Mingxia: "Cleaning the canals is done every year. It's nothing special. If you don't go, I won't go either. Go back and look at my brother and Mingyue."

After finishing speaking, Li Mingjin ran out, waved to Li Mingxia in the courtyard and went back to the courtyard of Li's house.

After a while, Qian Xinghua came home, she went into the room and directly pulled up Li Mingchun who was still sitting on the ground picking seeds: "Chun girl, come with me."

Li Mingxia glanced at Li Mingchun worriedly, and asked, "Mother, what are you and Second Sister doing going out, do you need my help?"

After groping, Li Mingxia gradually mastered the way of talking to her mother. She was worried that Li Mingchun would be called out to do other things that were more difficult. If she only asked them what they were going out for, she would definitely be scolded or even beaten. It would be much better to say "use or not to help".

Qian Xinghua walked outside, swearing: "Lazy and greedy girl, do your job well. When I came back, I found that you didn't work hard. You can take care of you as if you had your father protecting my mother."

When passing by the yard, Qian Xinghua asked Li Mingchun to take a small bucket, and Li Mingxia became even more worried after seeing it.

Li Mingchun walked quietly behind Qian Xinghua with a bucket in his hand, bowing his head, not daring to ask too many words.

Qian Xinghua and Li Mingchun were walking towards the canal. When they were about to reach the canal, she stopped and tugged at Li Mingchun's ear and said to her, "I'll wait for you at that position with a bucket. You go to the canal." Be smart and watch the fish you can get in the ditch and quickly pick them up and bring them to me."

It turned out that Qian Xinghua called Li Mingchun to come here because she saw someone sneaking fish in the canal just now, and she was also moved.

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