Village Flowers and Female Scholars

On the way back, Xie Yan said to Zhuang Wan: "Xiucai, I have made up my mind. When this book is finished, let's write a story called Liancheng in the next book, okay?"

"If you think it's good, there's no problem."

Xie Yan thought for a while, then shook her head and said, "Forget it, the second and second volumes of "Legend of Xin Shi Shi Niang" haven't been finished yet, wait until you finish writing it, so as not to get confused when you get it."

After speaking, he lifted up the small pan on his back, which was filled with meat and bones, and some miscellaneous things for the family, which were heavy and heavy.

Turning around, she saw that Zhuang Wan was putting down the box on her back, and asked in puzzlement, "What's wrong?"

"Put down the backpack, and I'll switch backs with you."

"No, you don't have a lot of flesh on your body, maybe you are not as strong as me, so I can carry it by myself." Xie Yan didn't even want to refuse.

"I'm tall, and I'm a few years older than you, and I have more energy than you, so let me go." Zhuang Wan said.

"I can carry it by myself, and you can blow it away with a gust of wind. I have more strength than you."

The two argued for a while, Zhuang Wan didn't waste any time talking with her, she held on to her little pannier tightly, Xie Yan couldn't hold back the other's fixed eyes and finally changed his gaze.

As soon as the two of them reached the village, they ran into a woman. Xie Yan remembered that this woman was the younger sister of Fang Wenbo's grandma in Wutong Village next door, Pan Erniang, who married into their Li family in Shangyan Village. Pan Erniang's naked eyes stared at the heavy panniers on their backs, and her greedy eyes naturally didn't miss the pig's trotters and bright red pork protruding from Zhuang Wan's back pan.

Xie Yan knew that the people in the village paid close attention to her movements, and she had long been used to all kinds of probing eyes. Thinking of the things that Fang's family did before, she didn't even have a good impression of the woman in front of her, and she didn't look at her seriously. Just look at her, and walk past her eyes with her small chest up and her chin raised.

Seeing Xie Yan's arrogant and petite appearance, Erniang Pan was so angry that her teeth were itchy but helpless, she spat hard at the backs of the two of them.

When we got to the branch road, Xie Yan said: "It's only noon now, I'll take my things back and put them away first, and then I'll go to the ground to find my mother. Granny Yu is probably with my mother too. Remember to come to my house for dinner at night."

The two changed their baskets, Xie Yan walked a few steps and then turned around and said, "Don't be too anxious about the story, a combination of work and rest is the long-term solution."

Zhuang Wan hummed and agreed.

After Xie Yan went back, he put the meat he bought into the kitchen, and put the paper and ink that he planned to experiment with to make a simple mimeograph machine into the hall.

The halls of ordinary rural people are mainly used to put shrines and ancestral tablets, to post genealogy or to receive guests, but their family does not have any tablets to display, and the only people who come to the family are Yu Po and Zhuang Wan. He just talked with his mother in the kitchen or in the yard, and spent most of his time in his own room to write. This main room has been vacant all the time, and Xie Yan plans to use it as his own laboratory in the future.

Cao E has been weeding and loosening the soil in the dry land these days. Before that, the farmer rented the land to He Laosan's family. That family is also lazy, and there are many weeds growing in the field.

Taking advantage of the beginning of the new year to start planting, Cao E thought about using this time to hoe the grass and loosen the soil in these fields.

Most people in the village use oxen to rake the ground to loosen the soil. Xie’s family has no oxen, so they can only do it manually. They use iron shovels to insert them into the ground, and then turn them over with shovel after shovel. Raking a few acres of land is considered a relatively large project. quantity.

Previously, He Lao’s three kinds of land didn’t rake the land at all, and he planted them directly with a hoe. It’s a good hand to be lazy and tricky. This way, the land is not thoroughly turned, the soil is easy to harden, and the fertility in the land is not good. Evenly, the grain in the field also grows unevenly.

Before Xie Yan came here, she boiled a pot of hot tea at home, steamed the buns, and then went to the field with her things.

Sure enough, from a long distance, she saw Granny Yu sitting on the ground talking with her mother, while Cao E bent over to dig the ground with a shovel.

Xie Yuangu was having a lot of fun running around in the field with a few dogs. When he saw his sister, he ran over with a scurrying of legs, and the big bastard followed behind. in the back.

Xie Yan handed him the bun in her hand: "Take it and share it with Granny Yu and Mother."

Xie Yuangu happily ran back with the buns in his arms, scoring one by one.

Granny Yu always felt that their life was so hard, and it cost a few pennies to buy a bun, so she had the nerve to take advantage of them, so she waved her hand and said she wouldn't eat it.

When Xie Yan approached, he said with a smile: "Mother-in-law, you can eat at ease. Didn't I tell you and my mother earlier that I recently wrote a story book with Xiucai and sold it today. Guess how much we got for it?" ?”

Before Granny Yu could speak, Cao E on the side said angrily: "You child, you can't read all the characters. How can you help a scholar write a storybook? It's all a scholar who is busy. What kind of person is writing together."

Xie Yan couldn't help but coquettishly said: "Mother, don't look down on people, this story is really made up by the two of us together, the story is my idea, the scholar will polish it, process it and write it into words, and finally you will bind it into a book. book."

There will be more and more things about the script in the future, and the two families will know sooner or later, and Xie Yan doesn't intend to hide it.

"If you can come up with something good with your little brain, don't take advantage of other scholars."

After hearing this, Granny Yu hurriedly said: "Da'ezi, the children's affairs are for themselves to decide, we will not interfere. Jin'er and Wan'er are both delicate and clear-minded people, who can take advantage of the other."

Hearing Yu Po's words, Xie Yan loved the old lady a little more. Good parents would not interfere with their children at will, and then said to her mother: "You just think me so bad, I will How can you do such a thing as taking advantage of a scholar."

Cao E gave her an angry look: "I'm afraid that your child is ignorant."

Yu Po finally smoothed things over and said, "Xiao Jin'er, haven't you told us how much money you earned today?"

Xie Yan stretched out five fingers to gesture.

"Fifty Wen?"

Seeing Xie Yan's disdainful gaze, Cao E hurriedly changed her words: "Five hundred Wen? Tsk, is there really that much? It's more profitable than picking wild goods."

Seeing Xie Yan shook his head again.

Yu Po cautiously guessed: "In the past, Wan'er could earn a hundred coins a day for copying books. This time, the two of them have been working on this script in secret for four or five days. Watching Xiao Jin'er talk five Baiwen is wrong—ah, are there really as many as five taels?"

After Yu Po finished speaking, she couldn't help but pat her chest for fear of slipping her own tongue, let alone Cao E beside her.

Only then did Xie Yan unravel the mystery: "There are three volumes in this set of scriptures, the first volume was sold today, and after selling for three taels, we collected the deposit for the next two volumes, so We earned a total of five taels today, and we kept one tael for pens, ink, paper and inkstones and other expenses, and the rest were split in half."

Granny Yu stroked her little heart and said, "Da'ezi, the two children are so promising, we can eat these buns with open stomachs.

Xie Yan took the shovel to let her mother rest for a while. She bowed her waist and started digging the ground, but Cao E couldn't sit still, so she squatted on the edge and started pulling weeds again.

Now life has hope, and the brows that were tightly locked in the past are now slowly relaxed, but after a few days, I feel that the whole person seems to have changed, and with Yu Po talking to her every day, Cao E looks so good. No one in childhood could talk to her for so long in one day, not even the dead Xie Rongsheng.

"Mom, next time I go to town to get you nodding oil and body balm, and you will be five or six years younger just by putting it on."

Cao E gave her an angry look and said, "What are you doing with those things when you're too old?"

"Da'ezi, if you are old enough, what is my old lady? She listens to Xiao Jin'er and dresses up. The days to come will be long. Even if you don't want others to look at you, you will feel comfortable looking in the mirror, right? "

Xie Yan nodded again and again: "Grandma Yu lives the most transparent life."

Yu Po sighed and said, "I've lived a long time and seen a lot, so there's nothing to worry about. I'm worried every day, and I'm happy every day. Worrying is useless."

Just as she was talking, she saw a figure in the distance getting closer and closer, she squinted her eyes and said, "Xiao Jin'er, do you think that is Wan'er from my family? Did you actually come to the field today?"

Xie Yan took a closer look, and it was indeed Zhuang Wan, and then she smiled and said: "Isn't Xiucai and I working together on story books? As long as we do it steadily, we can get by, but this job is long-term, and we are bored at home copying all day long." Writing is easy to block the mind and make the body boring, so I asked her to go out when she has time. I didn't expect this boring gourd to listen to the persuasion. It's really rare——Grandma Yu, you should also persuade scholars to go out more when you are at home Just walk around."

Yu Po smiled and said: "I always told her in the past, and she just answered verbally, except for going to the private school, other times she was bored in the house and couldn't come out. To be able to go out today is because the sun has come out from the west. "

Zhuang Wan didn't walk towards them directly, but circled around the edge of the field in a big circle, stopping and walking, looking from a distance in a white dress with a handsome appearance, but this posture seemed to be an old cadre patrolling.

It wasn't until the dogs who were playing with Xie Yuangu saw their master and ran towards her with their chubby buttocks barking, that Zhuang Wan squatted down at this moment, picked up Sanmao, the youngest, and slowly moved towards her. They come.

Such a picture of a beauty holding a little milk dog, even Xie Yan who was plowing the ground couldn't help but stop and watch.

The clothes are still the same plain color as before, because she is tall and thin, no matter how thick the clothes are on her body, there is an air of elegance. Walking on the trails criss-crossing the fields, the dark green mountains are behind her. Spreading, she stood in it, blending into one, like a dark green watercolor painting.

"Sister Xiucai—"

Seeing Zhuang Wan approaching, Xie Yuangu called her excitedly.

Children especially like open places outdoors, and now there are a few puppies to accompany him. The innocence fun that has been missing for several years has been found all at once. No matter what he is particularly interested in, he is no longer around. There are no annoying cousins ​​in the Cao family, there are mothers who love him, kind old ladies, and beautiful and capable sisters, so how can we not make him happy.

Zhuang Wan came to his side with a hum, put the three hairs in his arms into his arms, reached out and touched his head, and then walked towards Granny Yu.

"Wan'er, do you feel bored in the room today?"

In the past, Zhuang Wan didn't like to go out, but now she was able to come outside. Although Granny Yu was happy, she couldn't help worrying that she might not be able to hold on due to fatigue these days.

"It's not boring, it's just that I want to combine work and rest." Zhuang Wan said, her eyes glanced at Xie Yan who was at the side intentionally or unintentionally.

Xie Yan lowered her head and smiled, this scholar is really arrogant.

"It's not enough to just go out and relax. You have to move your body and exercise to prevent your bones from getting rusty."

After Xie Yan finished speaking, she handed the shovel in her hand to Zhuang Wan and said, "Try it, after digging this land, you will be able to sleep very soundly tonight."

Zhuang Wan said expressionlessly, "I sleep very well at night."

Although he said so in his mouth, he stretched out his hand to take the shovel, walked to Xie Yan's side, gently squeezed her away, then thrust the shovel into the ground, raised his long legs and stepped on the shovel, his thighs slightly As soon as she exerted force, the shovel sank into the soil in an instant. She put her feet down and exerted force with both arms, and the shovel turned over in her hands, revealing the black fertile soil.

The whole movement is done smoothly and effortlessly, and it looks effortless, and it is also pleasing to the eye.

Xie Yan looked at the woman in front of her, dumbstruck. She still hadn't figured out how the rumored female scholar, who didn't work hard and couldn't distinguish grains, could do farm work as well as herself.

"Butterflies are about to fly into your mouth."

Zhuang Wan's always elegant voice came to her ears, Xie Yan hurriedly closed her mouth, she was fascinated by seeing the beauty turning over the ground, she became a little annoyed and said: "Who cares about you."

As soon as the words fell, I realized that I had such a skill of speaking without silver 300 taels here, and the woman in front of me, who did not know when there was a half-smile on her face, Xie Yan knew that this person was looking for it on purpose. I was so happy, I snorted and said: "Since you do the farm work so well, then you are responsible for turning over this piece of land."

Zhuang Wan didn't say anything, but tightened the wooden handle in her hand, and vigorously kicked the other end of the shovel into the soil.

And Cao E who was on the side hurriedly said: "You child, how can you let Wan'er, a dignified scholar, do this. If you are lazy, go home and have a rest. Mother will finish it after a while."

Before Xie Yan could say anything, Zhuang Wan's voice floated over: "It's okay, Aunt E, I've been copying books at my desk all this time, and the bones on my shoulders and back are almost stiff, and it's not good for my body to move occasionally. good."

Xie Yan followed suit: "That's right, the keys that are used often are always shiny, and the brain will rust after a long time."

Cao E was told back by the two young men every word, so she shut up and continued to squat on the ground and pull weeds, but Yu Po, who was sitting on the edge of the field, laughed: "Look at how enthusiastic they are working, what's the matter?" The old woman wants to go to the field and work together."

"That's okay, let them toss around when they are young and have the strength. You are at your age and you should enjoy the blessings. Why bother to suffer with them."

"My children and grandchildren have their own blessings, and I can't care too much about it, but Xiao Jin'er seems to be promising, Da'ezi, you will also be blessed in the future."

Hearing Yu Po's words, Cao E stopped what she was doing, looked at Xie Yan who was pointing at Zhuang Wan not far away, and sighed, "It's because I didn't live up to expectations that I caused the two children to follow me. Jin'er has no choice but to carry the family, after all, I'm sorry for her."

Seeing that she started wiping her tears again, Po Yu hurriedly said: "Nowadays the days are running fast, why are you still thinking about those things in the past?"

At this moment, Xie Yan's voice came over: "Grandma Yu, when I came back with the scholar today, I bought a lot of meat, and I will have dinner at my house tonight."

"Zhong, you have to work hard again, the old lady will not be polite."

"You're welcome, the money is earned by me and the scholar, no one takes advantage of the other, but my vegetable seedlings haven't grown up yet, I have to go to your vegetable garden to pick some vegetables, I'm not welcome gone."

"My mother-in-law has told your mother for several rounds. You can take the vegetables at home. I planted a full vegetable garden at the beginning of the year. On weekdays, Wan'er and I can't eat much. Her uncle came back soon to pull some. Take it to the city to eat, now the vegetables and leaves all over the yard are old and yellow, I chop them up and feed them to the chickens, you can go wherever you want to eat, don’t be polite to your mother-in-law.”

Xie Yan smiled and said: "Then I can rest assured to pick it."

A few people were chatting while working in the field, Xie Yan saw that the sun was getting late, stood up and said: "It's time, I'll go back to make food first, you can have hot meals when you go back."

Yuanshen was with Cao E when he was a child, and he knew how to cook, but after being driven back to Cao's house, he hardly touched the kitchen utensils. However, Xie Yan, in order to be able to hold a spoon occasionally in order to be justified in the future, these days, his mother cooks She kept coming to her during the meal, and said that she had sent mushrooms to Jixiang Restaurant before, and that Uncle Liao, the chef, taught her some cooking skills. Now Cao E has no doubts about her cooking skills.

However, when Xie Yan turned around and walked towards the house, Zhuang Wan who was still plowing the ground also stopped what she was doing, looked in Xie Yan's direction, she forcefully stood the shovel in the soil, He patted the dust off his hands, and said to Po Yu and Cao E, "Grandma, aunt, I'm going back too."

After speaking, he strode to catch up in the direction of Xie Yan.

Xie Yan heard the footsteps behind her, turned her head to look, and said puzzledly: "Don't you still want to exercise, why are you going back now?"

"I'll go back and write the script."

Xie Yan felt in her heart that this woman would be windy and rainy for a while, and turned around and walked towards the house with an oh, but she only walked for a while, but her footsteps followed closely behind her.

"Xiucai, don't you want to go back and write the script, why are you still following me?"

"I'll go to your house to write."

"..." Xie Yan was speechless in an instant, but it didn't matter. Zhuang Wan spent the past few days writing scripts with her at home. There is also a set of pens, inks, papers and inkstones here. She can write wherever she likes. After writing, he replied, "Then you take the key and go there first, I have to go to your house to pick some vegetables."

"I will go with you."

Xie Yan looked at her in astonishment, feeling that today's Zhuang Wan was a bit... clingy?

The author has something to say:

Zhuang Wan: The mouth is so big that a butterfly will fly in.

Xie Yan: No, the butterfly in my heart is about to fly out. w hee hee

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感谢在2022-01-2820:21:19~2022-01-2920:47:58期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who cast the rocket launcher: more or less 6; Tired of listening to the wind and rain, 1 for grazing the stars;

Thanks to the little angel who threw the grenade: littlekate1;

Thanks to the little angels who threw mines: as~ileli 2; may, Xiaochengzi, Xiaozhu, uncle in pants, Xiaoyi 1;

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