Husband and Father Youwei

Before the Tu family was exhausted by the Li family, they ransacked the house. In order to make Tu Wenqiang's family have a sustainable life, Tu Lin bought a yard in the county town with Tu Xinmei, and bought a yard that he bought last year. He also gave them ten acres of land.

It's just that in this way, Tu Lin and the others will lose an acre of land under their name, so they have to buy it again.It just so happens that there are two shops in the family now, and there is no need to worry about being suspected even if you spend a large amount of money, so Tu Lin plans to buy more this time.In addition to the fields, Tu Lin also plans to buy a few hills near his home to plant fruit trees because of the plan to produce canned food next year.

It was easy to buy hilltops, so Tu Lin went directly to the village head, Sun Jinlai, and bought the two small hilltops behind his new house, with a total of about 600 mu of mountain land.However, uncultivated mountain land is the cheapest, only four cents and six cents per mu. In the end, it cost nearly [-] taels of silver in total.

It happens that there is a relatively gentle valley between the two hills, where the canning workshop can be built. Although a road needs to be built, it saves the trouble of transporting the fruit.

After the title deed was completed and the purchase was officially made, Tu Lin recruited many people from the village to help clean up the weeds, shrubs, rocks and wild trees on the mountain. Seedlings can be planted directly.It's just that it's not easy to clean up the wasteland of more than 1000 mu. Until the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, it hadn't been completely cleaned up, and about one-fifth of the area was left.

Fortunately, there is not much left, and it is still in time to wait until the new year is over, so Tu Lin stopped this matter first, so that the villagers can rest and prepare for the new year.As for their own shop, it didn't close until the 28th of the twelfth lunar month. At the same time, Liu Bao and Wang Fu didn't have to make soap anymore, but started to work with Tu Lin for the New Year.

The wet nurse Qi was only hired by the Tu family, and there were family members at home, so it was natural for her to go home to reunite with her family during the Chinese New Year.Fortunately, Tu Xinmei's restaurant has also closed down, and the family has moved back to the village for the New Year, so Qiuqiu can drink her aunt's milk for a few days.

As for Yuan Rui and Su Bai, although both of them have lost their relatives, they still want to pay homage to the deceased relatives.It's just that Yuan Rui was too far away from home and it was inconvenient to travel, so he just burned some paper money and joss sticks near Tu's house, while Su Bai decided to go back to Fucheng to pay homage to the Wen family's ancestral grave in person.However, just in case, he moved forward one day and decided to go to Fucheng on the 29th.

This time, before Tu Lin and Ruan Tang could speak, Yuan Rui offered to accompany Su Bai.But even though Su Bai was a day earlier, there was no guarantee that he would not meet the Jiang family, so he didn't want Yuan Rui to take risks with him.But Yuan Rui insisted, and Ruan Tang said that if Yuan Rui was not allowed to accompany him, he would not feel at ease, and Tu Lin also felt that it would be safer for Yuan Rui to go with him.

Being pinched by the three, Su Bai had no choice but to agree and let Yuan Rui go with him.It took several hours to go back and forth to Fengyang in Fucheng, but because they wanted to avoid the Jiang family, it was not easy for them to stay in Fucheng, so when it was only dawn on the 29th, the two went to Fucheng regardless of the severe cold of the twelfth lunar month.

Fortunately, they were lucky to go to Fucheng this time, and they didn't meet anyone from the Jiang family. Before the sky completely darkened that evening, they returned safely, which made Ruan Tang, who had been waiting at home, completely relieved. Come.

The next day was thirty, and Tu Lin, along with Liu Bao and Wang Fu, had prepared all the necessities needed for the New Year.It's just that this year's Tu's New Year's Eve is a little different from last year's. Because there are many more people in the family, the family stayed at home and did not go to the Zhao's to spend the New Year with Tu Xinmei and the others.

Ruan Tang has to take care of his daughter Qiuqiu, while Su Bai doesn't know how to cook at all, and he is now a guest of the Tu family, even if he can cook, he can't let him cook, so Tu Lin brought Yuan Rui to cook for thirty nights For the New Year’s Eve dinner, Liu Bao and Wang Fu went to take care of chores at home and feed the animals.

When the New Year's Eve dinner was ready, there was no talk about the distinction between master and servant. Liu Bao and Wang Fu followed Tu Lin and the others to the table. Six adults plus Tu An, a child, just sat around the table.Before the New Year's Eve dinner, Ruan Tang carried his daughter Qiuqiu to Zhao's house and asked Tu Xinmei to help feed her, and she was already sleeping in the back room.

Although Ruan Tang had just given birth, he didn't need to breastfeed, so he didn't have any taboos.While chatting and laughing at the dinner table, they drank a lot of wine without knowing it, everyone was slightly drunk, and then for some reason, they talked with Su Bai, who was a little drunk, that they would marry each other.

After getting along with each other in the past few months, Ruan Tang and Su Baiben are more close to each other than others because of their identities as twins, and their temperaments are also very congenial, and their relationship can be said to be very close.

Ruan Tang was originally an orphan. Although he was raised by adoptive parents, he had no brothers and sisters. The same was true for Su Bai, even more lonely than Ruan Tang who already had a son and a daughter.If the two become sworn brothers, Ruan Tang will have one more brother, and Su Bai will have one more nephew and niece and one more family in addition to brothers, so they will no longer be alone, which is a very good thing for both of them. matter.

Naturally, Tu Lin would not object to what Ruan Tang wanted to do, neither did Liu Bao and Wang Fu, and Yuan Rui was quite happy for Ruan Tang and Su Bai at first, but soon, he suddenly remembered something, Can't help but make a silly face.

Seeing that his expression was different, Tu Lin asked him, "What's wrong?"

Yuan Rui turned to look at Tu Lin, and asked in a daze, "Uncle Tu, from now on, do I have to be called Mr. Su, Uncle Su?"

He called Tu Lin uncle, and Ruan Tang was Tu Lin's daughter-in-law. At first he called her aunt, but Tu Lin refused, so he changed his name to Tu Lin's uncle, but now Su Bai and Ruan Tang accepted the obeisance. The two became brothers, so wouldn't he have to call Su Bai uncle?

Tu Lin didn't expect Yuan Rui's face to change because of this, but this is indeed a problem, otherwise if Su Bai and Yuan Rui get together in the future, there will be chaos for generations, so he said to Yuan Rui: "Then From now on, don’t bother me and your Uncle Ruan as Uncle, call me Brother instead.”

Yuanrui will be eighteen this year, but he is only one year older than Zhao Xiuxiu, so Tu Lin has always regarded him as Zhao Xiuxiu's generation, and asked him to call himself uncle, but in fact, he is just Little Tu Lin is less than nine years old, and little Su Bai is only five years old.Calling Uncle Tu Lin is already very reluctant, and calling him Uncle Su Bai is even more inappropriate.Left and right, they were not really relatives, so they just changed their words.

As a year passed, Ruan Tang lost one person called his uncle, and two more people called his brother.

Years later, the pigs and sheep have been raised at home for almost five months now, and it is time to go to the slaughterhouse, but so many pigs and sheep cannot be slaughtered at once, so according to the daily needs of the family, each time Slaughter is enough for three days, and at the same time, new piglets and lambs must be continuously added.

As for the slaughtered pigs and sheep, all the fat and suet that can be used at home are kept, and the rest are sent to Tu Xinmei's Shilixiang, so that they will not be wasted.

The first month came out soon after the busy time, and after the second dragon raised its head in February, the earth recovered and the weather became warmer, so Tu Lin started to work in the mountains again.

What he wants to grow are common local fruits, such as loquats, plums, and prickly pears, so fruit tree seedlings are not difficult to buy, and he is even very lucky to meet someone who sells grown fruit trees.Although it is much more expensive than ordinary fruit seedlings, the advantage is that you don't have to wait for several years to bear fruit. As long as the transplant is successful, you can get something in that year.

While waiting for the fruit seedlings to arrive, Tu Lin led his people to clear out the last part of the mountain, and erected a wooden fence around the outermost edge to enclose his orchard.After the land on the mountain was cleared up, the fruit seedlings were brought in, and Tu Lin led people to dig holes and plant seedlings again.

Because the mountain that Tu Lin bought was behind his house, and there was a small river flowing from the mountain not far away, so it was very convenient to fetch water, so Ruan Tang only went up to the mountain every day at noon to deliver lunch.

But on this day, Su Baiji suddenly came up the mountain before the lunch was delivered in the past.

Seeing him, Tu Lin asked, "What's the matter? Is there something wrong?"

Su Bai walked up the mountain quickly all the way, he was a little out of breath at this time, but he didn't dare to delay for a moment, he hurriedly said to him: "Xue Qianhu from the Fengyang Guards came, came home with two people, and is waiting And you, hurry down the mountain."

Xue Qianhu and Tu Lin naturally didn't forget it, so he stopped asking any more questions and asked Yuan Rui to continue planting saplings with others, while he went down the mountain by himself.

Su Bai sent the news to Tu Lin, but he was not in a hurry to go down the mountain, so he looked around and found an open place to sit and rest.Seeing that his tired face was pale and sweaty, Yuan Rui went to fetch water to quench his thirst.

When he got home, Tu Lin didn't bother to wash and change his clothes, and went straight into the hall in the front yard.In the hall, Ruan Tang and Xue Qianhu were sitting on the upper seat, one on the left, and the other on the right, talking, while on the lower seat on Xue Qianhu's right, sat an old man with a long beard who looked to be in his 50s, and a man with some A familiar youth.

"Master Xue, I'm sorry to keep you waiting for so long, please forgive me." Tu Lin clasped his fists as soon as he entered the room.

Although Xue Qianhu is a member of the fifth rank and No. 1 in Fengyang Guard, he is very straightforward and friendly, without any arrogance. When he saw Tu Lin came back, he stood up to greet him, very approachable , holding Tu Lin up, and said with a smile: "So I took the liberty to disturb you, little brother Tu, you are being polite, there is no need to do so."

Xue Jingnian came to Tu's house today without official uniform or military armor, only wearing ordinary clothes, presumably he did not come for official business, Tu Lin lost a little bit of solemnity, and relaxed his expression and tone casually.

After a few words of politeness, the two sat down again.Tu Lin came back, since he was here to entertain the guests, Ruan Tang got up and found an excuse to leave, and Tu Linji sat in the seat that Ruan Tang had taken.

Tu Lin knew Xue Jingnian, but he didn't know the other two who came with Xue Jingnian, so Xue Jingnian introduced him.Only then did Tu Lin find out that the old man with the long beard was a military doctor named Wei Zhixun in the guard, and the young man was the one who was slashed to the chest in Heifeng Village and almost died Xiaobing, named Xing Jin.

At this time, Tu Lin suddenly realized, no wonder he thought the young man looked familiar, but he couldn't remember who he was.At the beginning when he sewed up Xing Jin's wound, he naturally saw his appearance, but he couldn't see the blood on Xing Jin's face at that time, so Tu Lin couldn't recognize him for a while today.