When Chen Qing returned to Qingping Town, it was already more than half of noon (three o'clock in the afternoon), he went to Tongji Cloth Store to hand over embroidery, and hurriedly bought the items that the eldest aunt wanted, and then hurriedly jogged back to Chenjiagou.

I went up the mountain and hid the silver, and when I got home, it was Shen Shi (6 p.m.). In the past, Chen Qing would arrive home before he went to the town, but this time he was an hour late, so Chen Bi didn't even eat dinner, and stood at the door after washing the dishes and looked out.

Seeing Chen Qing's figure from a distance, the little girl rushed forward with tears in her eyes and buried her brother's chest. Chen Qing touched the girl's head, picked up the aggrieved little face and said, "It's too late to come back, so I'm worried about Abi"

"I know that my brother will be fine, but I am a little anxious" Chen Bi bit her lip and said, she was afraid that something would happen to her brother, and she was even more afraid that her brother would leave Abi alone.

"Don't worry, it's all very smooth, I have met a good thing today, I'll talk to you when I go home in the evening" Chen Qing blamed herself and wiped away the tears from the corners of her sister's eyes.

"I left you dinner, go eat it quickly, I didn't eat breakfast, I'm afraid I'll be hungry all day" Chen Bi pulled her brother and walked to the uncle's house.

The things were handed over to the eldest uncle, and she was indispensable to nag, but for the sake of the copper plate, it was not impossible for Chen Qing to eat.

Abi's embroidery work was exchanged for 30 wen, and there was still 15 wen left over with the cost of planing the herbs, which was not less in this poor peasant family with no other inputs.

When I got home in the evening, the two brothers and sisters practiced calligraphy and narrated, and they were happy. Chen Bi heard that his brother had been wronged in the county, and he couldn't help but complain a lot about those rich sons, even if what his brother said was interesting, Chen Bi could still find those humiliations from just a few words.

Seeing that the girl accepted the smiling face, Chen Qing touched her nose, raised the corners of her mouth and said, "In addition to the 12 taels of silver earned by the brush, the last embroidery work was also exchanged for five coins of silver, the better our craftsmanship, the more silver we can exchange for in the future, plus the previous savings, there are 20 taels of silver." It's enough to buy a set of heads (a set of jewelry) for Abi."

100 Wen is equal to one money, and 1000 Wen is consistent money (one tael)

"These are all the credit of my brother, and Ah Bi's craftsmanship can't be exchanged for much money" Chen Bi knew that at least 7 percent of the five coins of silver were exchanged for his brother's embroidery.

"Who said that, my aunt praised you for your craftsmanship has improved a lot, and it won't take 2 years to get to the top grade, Abi is much smarter than my brother" Chen Qing praised his sister proudly, as if his aunt praised his sister for being smart, and he was happier than praising him.

"That's what Auntie said? hehe...... That's what my brother taught" Chen Bi finally showed a smile, put down the brush, and nestled into his brother's arms.

"That's, don't look at who you are sister" Chen Qing also rarely sighed, smiled and played with his sister for a while, and when he saw that the sky was dark, he asked Chen Bi to collect his things and prepare to wash.

"The brush is so profitable, will we still do it in the future?" Chen Bi was worried that if he went to the county again, his brother would still be wronged, so what should the rich young master who suffered a loss do if he retaliated against his brother?

"Why don't you do it? Since you make money, it's the same if you don't go to the county to sell it, even if you can't sell it at a good price in the town, it's still more profitable than digging herbs," Chen Qing replied affirmatively.

"Well, don't go to the county to sell it in the future, just sell it at the town college. But you have to be careful, if you let Chen Ping see it, the eldest aunt will come to fight the autumn breeze "Chen Bi is young, a ghost."

"Well, if the eldest aunt knows, she will definitely guess that we have hidden private money, and when the time comes, I am afraid that it will be bad, and I will really have to be more careful in the future" Chen Qing also said in a low tone, there are many acquaintances in the town, and Chen Ping often sneaks into the town to play with that group of students. If you do, it's really not going to end well.

Chen Qing and the others washed up, it was already 8 o'clock in the evening, tired for a day, on the pillow, until the sky was slightly bright, and then woke up quietly.

It took a whole day for the brother and sister to put all the dry goods in the yard in place, and the autumn harvest arrived.

At the time of the autumn equinox, the fields are full of gold, and every household is busy with the autumn harvest, they have to rush to harvest and dry the crops before the cold dew arrives, and they still need to threh and husk, and some of them have to be busy.

Chen Qing is already half an adult, and he obviously feels a lot more relaxed this year, at least he will not be so tired that he will fall asleep as soon as he goes home. Chen Laohan didn't dare to spare his strength at this autumn harvest moment, but fortunately he didn't catch up with the rain, otherwise he would have to spend more time drying it.

Most of the upland is planted with wheat and buds. A small part is planted with potatoes and sweet potatoes for home consumption. Chen Qing also sprinkled some bean seeds in the field, planning to make tofu in winter.

Chen Qing does not take on work when he is busy with farming, and Chen Bi does not need to do embroidery work for a month, but cooks and takes care of livestock every day. In his spare time, he brought food and water to the fields.

Miao Rencui led her in-laws to return the recovered crops at home, and everyone in the family except Chen Ping needed to work. The buds need to be stripped off and tied into long bunches to hang on the rack to dry, and the wheat is turned and dried together with the rods, and will be threshed and removed from the stems after drying.

Chen Qing wiped the black before carrying the food home with the uncle, and when he got home, he didn't care about drinking water, so he peeled the bud grain by the firelight, cleaned up the bud grain that he carried back, and then pulled his sister home to wash.

After several days of high-intensity labor, even in the prime of life, he was a little unbearable, but Chen Qing never complained, he cherished the hard-won second life, even if he was tired, but he lived a more realistic life.

I don't know if I'm tired, Chen Qing, who has never worked in the previous life, is now a day without working and his muscles are tense, probably people are really servile, once the body and mind accept and get used to the current life, I feel that this qiē is all right, and it is a normal thing to conform to the principles of heaven.

All kinds of things in the past are getting farther and farther away from Chen Qing with the integration into this era, if you don't deliberately think about it, you will no longer remember the past, and you are really living in this world as a little brother.

Habit is really a terrible thing, at first Chen Qing couldn't accept that he was a gender confused being, and couldn't tolerate the backward production of conservative thinking, and even some superstitious social state.

But with the passage of time, even the mind has been kidnapped inadvertently, and I am accustomed to obeying the laws and regulations of this society in everything I do, and the starting point is also from the practical consideration, not deviating from the norm, and breaking away from the inherent rules and regulations of this society.

Chen Qing is most unbearable is the inequality between men and women, and although his little brother is in a gray area, once he marries a brother, he will be placed in the need to guard women's morality, respect her husband as heaven, and even rely on men for a lifetime.

Rather than live without dignity, Chen Qing would rather be a man and be a man with his chest up and his head up to survive. This is Chen Qing's only bottom line, if he really agrees with the identity of the little brother, then this Chen Qing is not Chen Qing, he really bids farewell to the past and lives in this world as a new life.

Potatoes and sweet potatoes are relatively difficult to harvest, and the crops buried in the ground need to be dug out, Chen Qing often brings out one or two bruised potatoes with a spade at the beginning, but with the accumulation of experience, pry loose the soil, and lift it hard, a bunch of potatoes will be pulled out of the soil.

Potatoes and sweet potatoes are planted as winter rations, so the amount is not large, and the removal of seeds is enough for an old snack in winter and spring.

Chen Qing and Uncle were busy for three days before finishing the work, sitting on the ground to puree the freshly dug potatoes and put them into the back basket.

"Uncle, you can pretend to be on my back" Chen Qing took over the laborious work, Chen Laohan nodded, and let him rest when he was tired.

There is a bluestone slab in the yard of the farmhouse, which is used to dry the grain, and the potatoes are large, and as long as the mud wrapped outside is dried, it can be stored in the cellar, so it is not placed on the bluestone slab to dry, and it is piled up separately in the corner of the yard.

After a few trips back and forth to transport the potatoes home, Chen Qingcai took the water bowl handed by Abi and drank it all the time.

"It's time to harvest the paddy fields tomorrow" Abi obediently beat his brother's shoulder, and his delicate little hands have been a lot rougher these days, and there are still a few small wounds on them.

Chen Qing took her sister's hand and looked at it carefully, a girl's hand is the most precious, if it is properly maintained, it is white and soft, and it looks countless times better than a man. However, Chen Qing tried not to let Chen Bi do heavy work, and it was inevitable that he would hurt his hands when he was born in a farmer's family.

The young lady in the city is the real ten fingers that do not touch the spring water, and if you want to raise a pair of delicate hands, you can't be born in a farmer's house. Chen Bi knew that his brother loved his hands the most, and he was afraid that he would talk about himself again, so he hurriedly retracted his hands behind his back.

It seems that next time I go to the town, I should buy some flour oil to wipe my sister's hands, Chen Qing thought silently.

The more he loves his sister, the more distorted his heart becomes, and faintly Chen Qing has been so persistent that he has to raise his sister into a pair of rich hands.

He didn't know that his stubborn thoughts had deeply affected Chen Bi, who thought that his brother cared so much about his hands because his brother's hands had been working all year round and were full of calluses. The more my brother cared, the more Chen Bi blamed herself.

"I still have to take back the hard beans first, don't always get wet, lest the wound scar" Chen Qing finished instructing his sister, so he picked up the sickle and rope and went out to work.

When Chen Laohan saw Chen Qing going to cut hard beans, he knew that the amount was not large, so he didn't move, and sat in the yard beating his legs to rest.

"Dead girl, your uncle is tired like this, and I don't know how to beat my shoulder" Miao Rencui glanced at Chen Bi.

Chen Bi bit her lip, stood behind the uncle with a wooden face and beat his shoulders, his brother is still working, but the uncle can rest, hum~

"Look at that dead face, for you to eat, for you to wear, you don't even have a smile, it's really frustrating" Miao Rencui has been a little tired from working for the past two days, and her mood is naturally not much better, and she is used to taking Chen Bi out of anger. That Chen Qing still dared to contradict her, but Chen Bi was a good bully.

"The clothes I wore were all changed from my mother's clothes when she was alive, and I didn't wear your clothes" Chen Bi puffed out her mouth and glared at Miao Rencui.

"Yo, this is going against the sky today! Look how I teach you!" Miao Rencui's heart was on fire, and she raised her hand and gave Chen Bi a slap.

The little cheek was slapped to the ground by this powerful palm, but the raging anger burst out of the eyes. Chen Bi gritted her teeth and didn't snort, her little fists clenched, and she glared at the eldest aunt fiercely.

Miao Rencui was inexplicably weak by the little girl's glare, but she was used to scolding on weekdays, so she was not afraid of this stare, and slapped Chen Bi on the back while scolding. In the past, he scolded Chen Bi, and he tried to hit him out of sight, but today he slapped his face, for fear that he would attract Chen Qing's anger, but he beat him all the times, so it would be better to hit him twice more to relieve his anger.