In a vegetable garden of nearly half an acre, a little girl about 3 years old, wearing pink short sleeves on her upper body, light blue shorts over her knees, a pair of pink strappy sandals, two pigtails on her head, and a beaded butterfly pinned to the front of the braid. The little girl squatted in the vegetable patch and didn't know what she was doing, and with her movements, the butterflies on her head also swayed, as if they had life.

"Creek?"

"Eh, mother-in-law, I'm in the garden. ”

After a while, a hard-nosed old lady in her 50s came into the vegetable garden, saw Xiaoxi pulling weeds, and sighed with relief: "Xiaoxi is really sensible, knowing that the family is busy, so she helps pull the grass." Seeing her granddaughter so sensible and diligent, the old lady was excited.

"Where's your brother?"

"I'm still sleeping. ”

"This lazy guy. After saying that, he got up and walked back, ready to wake up his little grandson.

Seeing that her mother-in-law was about to go back and wake up her brother, Xiaoxi carried her own work tools—a small hoe (the hoe was 30 centimeters long, very small) and a small shovel (about the size of a hoe) and followed behind her mother-in-law's buttocks. The hoe and shovel were bought by Xiaoxi for his grandfather half a year ago, on the grounds that he had wrapped the weeding work in his own vegetable garden, of course, it was impossible to really let her a 2 and a half-year-old child bag, only to buy it for her to play, but I didn't expect that at the beginning, the adults in the family helped her, and she didn't need to help her later, she could clean up the vegetable garden alone.

Now Xiaoxi's half-acre vegetable garden can be lively, ordered 4 green beans (beans), 4 cowpeas (long beans), 2 cucumbers (the cucumbers here are different from the ones bought in the market, a bit like fruit cucumbers, but there is no more water than fruit cucumbers, larger than fruit cucumbers, and the juice of cucumbers is a little sticky), but also planted eggplant, tomato, lettuce, spinach, loofah, pumpkin, spicy meat, garlic sprouts, green onions (people here only eat shallots), ginger, leeks, and the rest of the place ordered a few early corn. Most of the vegetables in the garden are ready to be eaten, and the corn is also being packed.

Out of the vegetable garden, Xiaoxi asked suspiciously, "Mother-in-law, why did you come back so early?" It was about 8 o'clock and less than 9 o'clock.

"I'll come back to see you two, it's noon, the sun is on your buttocks, and you two can't get up yet. The mother-in-law teased Xiaoxi as she walked towards Xiaoxi's bedroom.

As soon as he heard this, Xiaoxi was not happy, "What's the matter, I got up early and ate breakfast, unlike my brother, a little lazy worm, who is still lying on the bed." Because Xiaoxi and his younger brother are still young, Chen's father is working outside, and all Xiaoxi and his younger brother sleep in the same bed with their mother. In the morning, Xiaoxi woke up when Chen's mother got up, and her mother asked her to sleep a little longer, and she didn't get up until dawn.

"Lazy worm, little lazy worm, the sun is all drying your ass, it's time to get up. Looking at the mother-in-law who gently pushed her brother and patiently coaxed her brother to get up, her previous life had always complained about her, resenting her for being patriarchal, and even causing me to sometimes hate my brother a little.

The 2-year-old boy wearing blue short sleeves and gray shorts on the bed turned over, covered his ears with white tender, fleshy little hands, and said in a milky voice: "Hmm~~ I still want to sleep a little longer." ”

The mother-in-law didn't listen to his request, picked him up from the bed directly, and walked to the kitchen, "Okay, wake up, go play after eating, and go to bed in the afternoon, ah"

Seeing his younger brother hanging on his mother-in-law, sleepy-eyed, Xiaoxi deliberately laughed at him: "Little lazy worm, get up and eat, still lying in your mother-in-law's arms, shameful face, I have already finished eating." ”

Chen Yubin heard his sister laughing at herself, so she said to her mother-in-law, "Mother-in-law, let me down, I'm going to eat." ”

After putting Chen Yubin on the small bench and bringing him breakfast, the mother-in-law said to Xiaoxi: "You watch your brother finish the meal and go out to play together, I will go to work." Xiaoxi nodded in agreement, Chen Yubin also said that he was obedient, and his mother-in-law went to work.

"Sister, mother-in-law, why did they go?"

"You little lazy worm, you haven't gotten up until now, today the family invited someone to plant seedlings, everyone got up early, such a big movement, you are still asleep. ”

In the creeks, when the farm is busy, they always ask people to help, first help at your house, and then you go to my house to help, take care of three meals a day, this is called au pair. Generally, some people go to other people's houses to help too much, so they will have breakfast at home, but the main family will still make breakfast, because whether to do it or not is your business, whether to eat or not is someone else's business, all Chen's mother got up before dawn to cook.

"Gee, I didn't mean to, I fell asleep. ”

Nodding his brother's forehead, "You, you can't wake up when you fall asleep." ”

Xiaoxi took the rice bowl that his brother had eaten and cleaned it with clean water, then took his brother to take a small bench and a straw hat to the vegetable garden to continue pulling weeds.

After a while, almost more than 20 minutes, Chen Yubin twisted around on the small bench, and used a small stick to dig a pit here and there on the ground, and drilled an eye there (that is, the meaning of a small hole), Xiaoxi knew that this was his younger brother who couldn't sit still, and said helplessly: "You go play, don't run around, huh?"

"Hmm. After Chen Yubin finished speaking, he ran out.

"Wait a minute, move your stool back. ”

After all, my younger brother is only a 2-year-old child, no wonder I can't sit still, although I am only 3 years old, but after all, I am in my twenties.

After more than half an hour in the vegetable garden, about 10 o'clock, the sun shone on the skin, and began to get hot, Xiaoxi packed up his things and prepared to go home, so he had to take good care of his skin. Xiaoxi's mother's skin is very white, probably with her grandmother, her father is very dark, especially when he worked on the construction site later, the whole person is like black charcoal, and he can't find anyone darker than him in the entire Chen family, all Xiaoxi's skin is born relatively yellow, dull, plus he was used to being wild in the countryside when he was a child, and the sun in the south is relatively big, and then he knew to take care of his skin, and he fished for three days and dried nets for two days. Xiaoxi is very envious of those girls who are born with white skin. All, you must start protecting your skin from an early age and make it a habit so that you don't have to envy others in the future.

After taking the tools for work home and putting them away, I saw in the kitchen the ingredients prepared by my mother and mother-in-law in the morning, soaked about 3 catties of a piece of full-fat bacon, and a piece of fresh meat that my grandfather bought yesterday when he went to the market (to catch the market, buy things), soaked some dried shiitake mushrooms, dried fungus, kelp, took a basket (I don't know if the words are right, it is made of bamboo, and the sides are warped up to hold things), and I went to the vegetable garden to pick some spicy meat, eggplant, green beans, and tomatoes.

When he returned to the kitchen, he chose the most tender cucumber, which his mother picked before going out in the morning, because the old man said that the cucumber should not be picked after the sun came out, otherwise the cucumbers on the whole cucumber vine would be bitter. Half of the cucumber sliced and half juiced in a bowl and then put it in the bedroom, and I didn't find my brother when I went around the house, so I guess I went to someone else's house to play.

Just right, you can go into the space and have a look.

Speaking of space, when Xiaoxi can walk steadily, it takes more than half of the space as an adventure. I don't know if it's more than half, because I have to walk on two legs, and the creek people have short calves.

With the wooden house as the center, there is a lake on the right with no end in sight, on the left and in front of it is the black soil with no grass in sight, and behind it are countless mountain peaks that spread out to border the lake and run into the distance.

The first place where Xiaoxi ventured was the wooden house, the wooden house has two and a half floors, the first floor is very empty, you can see it at a glance, there is nothing empty, the area is very large, it is the size of two football fields, but it is not so big from the outside, and it is really inside. From the stairs outside the house to the corridor on the second floor, there are three rooms on the second floor, the big room in the middle is a bedroom, it is an antique boudoir, there is a round wooden table in the middle, there are four round wooden benches, and on the left is a very simple, sturdy solid wood bed, 2 meters long and wide, I can't see what kind of wood it is, but it feels very strong. On the right, next to the wall, there are two Duobao Pavilions, which are full of ceramic and glass bottles and jars.

Out of the bedroom, there is a study on the left. As soon as you enter the door, there is a black and red solid wood desk and a chair of the same color placed at the window of the corridor on the left, and there is a bookcase on the wall facing the desk on the right.

Out of the study, go to the room on the right side of the bedroom, as soon as you enter the door, there is a low table 2 meters long, 1 meter wide, and half a meter high by the window against the back mountain on the left, under the table is a carpet of unknown material, and there are two wooden boxes on the right. It was filled with jewels, including gold and silver hairpins, gold and jade bracelets, bracelets of various colors, agate gemstones, various ornaments, necklaces and rings, and two palm-sized small boxes containing black and white pearls, about twenty or so. These jewelry pieces are packed into a packed box.

Another box opened, filled with scrolls, several books, and a small box the size of a ring box. When I opened the book, I saw that there was a book called "Living Colors and Fragrances", which taught the making of incense and incense, a copy of "Herborist", which talked about various herbs, a book called "Jiu Body Technique", which was similar to yoga and softened the limbs, a "Collection of People's Livelihood", which was similar to "Qi Min's Techniques", which taught the art of cropping, and a copy of "Chen's Boxing", which taught the art of strengthening the body and self-defense.

Open the small box the size of the ring box, and there was a milky white jade plaque of 3 cm in size, Xiaoxi picked it up and looked at it closely, and there were complex patterns painted on it, covering the entire jade plaque. Xiaoxi didn't notice that the finger that had just been cut by the hairpin began to bleed, and then it was sucked off by the jade plate. Suddenly I felt dizzy, and a slightly old woman's voice came out of my head, "Congratulations, you have become the next master of the space, I am its previous master......"