Paradise

"Brother Zhou, you're back! How did you talk to Uncle Liu?"

Lin Yu saw the interaction between Zhou Ze and Lin Bao, and thought it was pretty good. He hadn't seen his younger brother so lively for a long time. Since his parents passed away, his younger brother seldom smiled, and his little face was always cold. He is cold, his whole body seems to be covered with thorns, and he is always full of hostility towards others. He knows this is a way for his younger brother to protect himself, but Lin Yu hopes that his younger brother will be more lively and mischievous like other teenagers in the village. It is good.

"Look at this, Uncle Liu gave it to me. He asked me to practice first, and then I will go to the mountain in a few days." Zhou Ze picked up the bow and arrow from the ground and showed it to Lin Yu.

Lin Yu looked at the bow and arrow in Zhou Ze's hand, and thought of his father. He remembered that his father had a good bow and arrow in the past, but his father was seriously ill at that time, and his mother sold it in the market to buy medicine for him.

"Ayu, what's wrong with you?" Zhou Ze asked with concern seeing Lin Yu's complexion.

Lin Yu woke up from the memories after hearing the sound, shook her head, forced a smile, and said, "I think of my father."

Seeing Lin Yu like this, Zhou Ze felt a little distressed. He took a step forward, imagining how he touched Lin Bao's head before, and touched his head. Before he could put his hand on it, he was stopped by a shout.

"Hey, what are you doing, don't touch my brother!" Lin Bao said angrily, standing in front of Lin Yu, like a hen protecting its offspring, but it was not threatening.

Zhou Ze withdrew his hand in embarrassment, not knowing why, why every time he and Lin Yu got closer, Lin Bao looked like this, and he didn't do anything bad.

"Little Bao, don't be like this, Brother Zhou didn't do anything." Lin Yu stretched out his hand and pulled Lin Bao who was blocking the front, and the sadness just now dissipated a lot after being made such a fuss by him.

"Did he want to touch you just now? Didn't you see?" Lin Bao dissatisfied, but stared at Zhou Ze.

Lin Yu blushed in embarrassment, "Don't talk nonsense, we have nothing to do." Then he turned and walked away to cook.

Looking at Lin Yu who was leaving, and then at Lin Bao who was staring at him, Zhou Ze patted his head, always feeling that there seemed to be some misunderstanding, only he didn't know, but he would soon know what the misunderstanding was.

Lunch is stick noodle pancakes. The dishes are homemade. A large bowl of eggplant with mashed garlic and a plate of cold cucumber are all appetizers. They are served with burnt pancakes. It tastes really sweet when eaten.

After lunch, the sun was shining at noon. At the hottest time of the day, most people hid at home and few people came out. Brother Lin Yu went back to the house to take a nap. Zhou Ze couldn't take a nap and had nothing to do. , took a bundle of wheat straw, took a bench and sat in the main room to pick and choose straw hats.He still remembered Lin Yu and Lin Bao's blushing faces from the sun in the morning, and thought that he still had a craft, which he learned from his father when he was a child, and it just came in handy at this time.

After boiling a pot of hot water, Zhou Ze soaked the picked wheat straw into the hot water to soften it. The softened wheat straw would not be so brittle and would have better toughness.

Zhou Ze kneaded the softened straws one by one into long braided strips, and started to braid the most basic "wheat braid", but he hadn't braided it for a long time. Zhou Ze groped for a while before he became proficient in braiding.Use the flat wheat straw to "pinch the braid" with both hands.

When Lin Yu and Lin Bao woke up, Zhou Ze had already braided nine "braids".

"Brother Zhou, are you weaving a straw hat?" Lin Yu looked at the "wheat braid" beside Zhou Ze, and had a guess.

"That's right, make up one for each of you," Zhou Ze said.

"You still know how to make this up?" At this moment, Lin Bao picked up the two "wheat braids" to look curiously, touched them with his hands, and then looked at Zhou Ze's hands. His movements were nimble, his fingers were flying, and he asked him to look at them. Dazzled.

Bravo!Lin Bao secretly thought, and looked at Zhou Ze complicatedly, this guy is really not simple.

Although this straw hat is not worth much, not everyone knows how to do it. Only a few people in the village know how to do it. During the slack season, they will weave some straw hats and sell them in the market. Income.

Thinking of selling it for money, Lin Bao's eyes lit up, and he said casually, "I want to learn, can you teach me?"

"Call Big Brother to listen first." Zhou Ze joked.

"Hmph, I don't like to teach you to be defeated, I don't have to learn." Lin Bao didn't compromise.

Zhou Ze chuckled, ignored him, turned around and taught Lin Yu patiently, "Come on, Ayu, let me teach you, this is relatively simple, look at this, and do this again"

"Brother Zhou, do you think this is the way to weave it?" Lin Yu picked up his hand very quickly and got started quickly, but he was afraid of making mistakes and made it slower.

"Ah Yu is really smart. You can learn it as soon as you learn it. Just make it up like this. Don't worry, take your time." Zhou Ze pointed again and continued with the movement.

Lin Bao saw that the two made up something interesting, and felt itchy, and wanted to follow along. Unfortunately, he was clumsy and followed along. He only knew a little about it, and the way he made it up was bad, and he felt very suffocated.

Seeing his appearance, Zhou Ze didn't tease him anymore, and thought to himself, don't bark if you don't call him big brother, and when he always calls in the future, he leans over to give him advice.

This time, Lin Bao didn't hold back, he listened obediently and learned, and soon got started.

The three of them braided a bunch of "wheat braids" all afternoon, and finally Zhou Ze asked Lin Yu to bring needles and threads, and carefully sewed these "wheat braids" together with needles and threads.

When they saw him sewing with a needle and thread, Lin Yu and Lin Bao couldn't help being surprised again. It was the first time they saw a big man holding a needle and thread. Judging by his technique, he was actually very flexible.

Lin Bao sighed, "You can even needle and thread, and you can't?"

Zhou Ze smiled, "I know a lot of things, if you call me big brother, I will teach you everything I know, how about it?"

"Hmph, you are not qualified yet." Lin Bao muttered softly.He stared at the movements of Zhou Ze's hands without blinking.

Zhou Ze was busy until it was almost dark, and then Zhou Ze sewed the straw hat in his hand. It looked ordinary and not exquisite, but it was not bad to be able to do this for a long time. After sitting for a long time, his body was a little numb, so he put the hat on. On the side, Zhou Ze stood up, stretched his waist, and stretched his arms and legs. At this time, Lin Yu and Lin Bao were gone, and they were going to cook.

Zhou Ze came to the yard with a straw hat in one hand. The two Lin Yu brothers were cooking at the cold stove. The dinner was simple grain porridge. Zhou Ze walked up to the two and put the straw hat on Lin Yu On the jade head.

He smiled, "Ayu, how about trying this hat?"

"Brother Zhou, the straw hat was sewed so quickly." Lin Yu blushed slightly, lowered his head not daring to look into Zhou Ze's eyes, and reached out to touch the straw hat on his head. He liked it very much. He didn't expect Zhou Ze to put the hat on himself directly. Yes, this is the first time he has received something from someone else.

"Don't touch my brother." Lin Bao frowned again

Lin Yu's family still has two acres of land, all of which are fertile fields, more than half of which are planted with sticks, and the remaining half are planted with millet, millet, sorghum, beans and so on.

The two mu of land was the last reliance of the two Lin Yu brothers. Originally, when their parents were still alive, their family had more than seven mu of fertile land. Later, an accident happened and sold most of it. Before Lin Bao fell ill, he sold another mu of land. In the end, Lin Yu didn't dare to move the two acres of land. Even if he ate less and was hungry, he never thought about selling the land. This land was his and Lin Bao's life.

Because of the hot weather, people in the village go to the fields early in the morning or in the evening. Lin Yu prefers to go in the morning. When the sky is just dawn, he carries a grass basket on his back and takes a hoe to weed the fields.

This year's drought, the crops in the field didn't grow very well. Zhou Ze, who followed Lin Yu to the field, frowned when he saw these yellowed and wilted crops. These crop seedlings were worse than those he had seen in modern times. The grass in the field is not much, probably due to Lin Yu's frequent weeding, but that's it, there is no water, and there is no good fertilizer. These crops are long and thin, and the leaves are yellow and wilted. If you want a good harvest, don't think about it for a long time.

Zhou Ze clearly realized once again that people's lives are far more difficult than imagined at this time, and farming is not easy.

In the past few days, apart from going to the field with Brother Lin Yu and weeding, Zhou Ze spent most of the rest of his time practicing archery. There was no target, so Zhou Ze used the trunk of a locust tree in the corner as a target, and practiced arrow after arrow tirelessly. Archery, he has the experience of practicing shooting, and he knows everything. From the beginning of archery, he can hit the tree trunk slowly, and then he can hit the position he wants to shoot. His archery skills continue to improve.

"Boom!" Another arrow hit the tree trunk, and the eyes of the Lin Yu brothers who had been paying attention to this side all lit up, and Lin Bao even yelled "Okay".

Zhou Ze looked back at the two brothers who made the "wheat braid" with a smile, and said, "Ayu, Xiaobao, do you want to come over and have a try?"

"Brother, let's go, let's shoot arrows too." Lin Bao looked eager to try, and Lin Yu was also very curious, so they went together.

Zhou Ze first taught Lin Yu to draw the bow. Lin Yu stood in front of him, and he stood behind him. He wrapped his arms around the front and held Lin Yu's hand to draw the bow together. Standing so close, Lin Yu could hear Zhou Ze's breathing behind him. Realizing the current posture of the two, Lin Yu regretted coming to learn archery.

"That's it, draw the bow and release the arrow," Zhou Ze said while guiding Lin Yu to release the arrow.

There was only a sound of "Boom!", and the arrow shot steadily on the tree trunk.

"It's shot, brother, you've shot it!" Lin Bao cheered happily. He was only paying attention to archery, but suddenly noticed the posture of his brother and Zhou Ze, and his face turned dark again, "Hey, what are you doing?" He started to touch my brother again."

Hearing this, Zhou Ze realized that he and Lin Yu were very close to each other at this time. When he lowered his eyes, he saw Lin Yu's slightly red side face and the flushed neck. Hot, also felt so uncomfortable, subconsciously let go of Lin Yu's hand, took a step back, touched the back of his head, and smiled embarrassingly.

Lin Yu was still immersed in the joy of hitting the arrow, and looked back at him with a happy smile, "I hit it!"

Zhou Ze didn't know why, but he felt that Lin Yu was very good-looking in his eyes, and he was so beautiful in his heart. When the thought came out, he was startled.