The next day, before dawn, the village chief took a small bag, filled it with a few pieces of coarse noodles and a bag of smoked fish, picked a few fresh cucumbers, and set off. And Ah Qing helped Geng Qiu and they got the things to Zhao Laosan's house first, and asked the little dog to call someone to come over and help get the roof. Geng Qiu and Ah Hao didn't know what they needed and how to get it, and they couldn't interfere with the matter, so the two of them were idle, playing together, or picking up some firewood and grass around, and Ah Niu still stayed with Ah Qing's sister-in-law.

Geng Qiu looked at the four big men, carrying bamboo, dry thatch, orange poles and other things, and using these things, they rebuilt a roof. The earthen walls in the house are still well preserved, but the door and wooden windows are a little broken, and Brother Amu, who can do a lot of carpenter's work, helped to repair the wooden door, and took new wood to make the windows. The bedroom on the right should have been the residence of the master and his wife, and it was a whole room, with only a dilapidated wooden bed, which was also repaired by Amu. The room on the left is divided into two, which was originally for their children, but now it is empty and there is nothing. The hall was even emptier, and there was not even a single broken table or chair left.

The kitchen at the back of the yard is still very intact, with two stoves on plate, one large and one small, leaving a few big black holes, and there is no pot or bowl left. There was also a small wooden table with a broken leg in the small dining room in the middle, and the table was also repaired by Brother Amu, and before it got dark, all the work was done. Since there were no stools, Ah Qing brought two small bamboo chairs from home and asked them to use them first. There is an old man in the village who is good at bamboo weaving, and he promised to make a few chairs for them in the next few days. As for the salary, it is two catties of thick noodles and a few pieces of fish. Bamboo is cut in the mountains, no money.

When the house was repaired, Geng Qiu had already fried a large pot of thick dough cakes on a simple earthen stove set up outside the house, stewed a bean, heated a large pot of fish pieces, and beckoned everyone to dinner. When they came out, the old lady brought them some beans and cucumbers and large bowls, and asked them to entertain the helpers to eat. This is also everyone's habit, where you help to work, you will eat at that house.

"Such a good meal, it really broke your bank." As soon as Ah Qing saw these foods, he said embarrassedly. The people in their village rarely eat a full meal all year round, and almost all of them eat a coarse batter mixed with various vegetables, and it is still thin, not to mention meat and vegetables.

"Everyone is tired all day, so we have to greet everyone to eat a full meal." Geng Qiu smiled and beckoned everyone to eat again and again.

Because this meal is indeed hearty for everyone, especially the black fish pieces, which makes everyone feel fresh and delicious, and the beans stewed with meat make them feel better than eating during the New Year, as well as fried thick vegetable cakes, these things are the New Year, and they can't let go of eating. And Geng Qiu also deliberately made more, and everyone had four big cakes. A few people didn't finish eating, everyone left a lot of bread to take home, and Geng Qiu also gave each of them a bowl of fish, which was a reward.

Sent everyone away, it was completely dark, A Qing's sister-in-law also sent Ah Niu back, Geng Qiu boiled hot water to bathe Ah Niu, and Ah Hao sat on the side in a daze, as if he was not satisfied with this new home.

"Hey, what's going on? With the baby in my arms, I went to make the bed. Geng Qiu stuffed Ah Niu into his hands to do housework, and he didn't expect Ah Hao, obviously this guy hadn't done it before, and he couldn't do many things.

On the empty wooden bed, two thick robes were spread, two were covered with a coarse cloth as a sheet, and the other two large jackets were used as quilts, barely making a bed that could sleep. Now Geng Qiu realized that they really needed a lot of things, if it wasn't for the hot weather, they would have to get two quilts first. Although they slept like this in the wild, they didn't feel anything wrong at the time, but now it feels completely different.

"Do you need a quilt?" Ah Hao frowned and said.

"Let's buy it in a few days, where are I going to get a quilt now, and I don't know how much a quilt will cost?" Geng Qiu said sullenly. The last silver in hand is only fourteen taels, and I really dare not use it. Of course, these silver are still Ah Hao's, he came to this dynasty, and he hasn't earned a tael of silver, and his food and clothing these days depend on Ah Hao, and even hunting depends on Ah Hao. I don't know if he will have to rely on Ah Hao to live in the future? As soon as he thought of this, he couldn't sleep in a state of boredom.

Because he didn't sleep well, when he got up early, Ah Hao yawned when he saw Geng Qiuzhi, and said puzzledly: "I didn't sleep well, let's go sleep for a while." ”

"Forget it, there's a lot going on today." Geng Qiu yawned and replied, he was busy making breakfast, cooking porridge and pancakes, and as soon as the breakfast was brought to the table, the black boy of the Aqing family ran over.

"Uncle Aqiu, my mother asked me to take Ah Niu over to breastfeed." The black boy shouted.

"Ah, how embarrassing is this, let's let him drink rice soup today." Geng Qiu said.

"Don't be afraid, my mother's milk is a lot, my sister can't eat it, my milk also explained to me in the morning, let me bring Ah Niu over to feed." The black boy insisted.

"Okay, I'll feed him some rice soup first, and then send him over after we've had breakfast." Ah Hao said, and took a pancake to the black boy.

"This is the bread that my dad brought home yesterday." The black boy swallowed, but he didn't dare to take the cake. The people in the village make cakes, they are all steamed directly, or put on the side of the pot to bake, no one uses oil to fry, oil is a precious item, few can see oil in the bowl, where is there a pancake like Geng Qiu. Even the eldest grandson of the village chief's family, this black boy, has never eaten anything good, and he wears clothes with patches. It can be seen that the whole village is really poor.

"Yes, eat it. I'll go to your house with you after eating, and I'll have to borrow a sickle and a machete from you." After Geng Qiu finished speaking, he stuffed the cake into the black boy's hand.

"I'm afraid my dad will beat me." The black boy swallowed his saliva, but he didn't dare to take it. Such a big piece of cake, one and a half pieces that his father brought back yesterday, grandma cut it into small pieces, so that everyone in the family tasted it, and everyone said that such a good thing is really rare to eat. His grandmother also scolded her son, saying that Geng Qiu shouldn't have been wasted like this.

"It's fine. Our family doesn't eat bread every day, and this is what we didn't finish yesterday, and if we don't eat it today, it will be bad. Ah Hao used the excuse of being afraid of bad again, so the black boy dared to take it, and he quickly stuffed it into his mouth, he didn't dare to take it back, and he didn't dare to let his grandmother and father know. Such a big piece of cake is no more than a piece of snack or a candy.

Ah Niu drank the rice soup, and soon he was full, Ah Hao put down the bowl, took Ah Niu, let Geng Qiu eat breakfast, and went out with the black boy. Geng Qiu shouted from behind, "Return their bowls." ”

The black boy took the small basket of bowls and vegetables that he brought yesterday, followed Ah Hao, and left in a hurry.

Geng Qiu cleaned up the pots and bowls, and then remembered that the family still had to prepare a water tank and bucket, and yesterday he also borrowed the bucket from Aqing's family to carry water. There is a large bathtub filled with water, but this is intended to be used for bathing, and the bathtub cannot be covered with a lid, and I am afraid that the water will be dirty and cannot be eaten. Speaking of these two things, I remembered that I should get a cupboard, and I had to get a few jars for food, and now these grains are directly put in the basket, which is not good. You have to have cabbage for washing vegetables, and even the cutting board is still a piece away. In short, there is nothing missing at home.

When he had a headache, Ah Hao came back, still carrying half a basket of fresh vegetables, and put a sickle, a machete and a new cutting board in the basket, and also carried a small stool and a small bucket in his hand, and said to him: "The cutting board was given by Brother Amu, the dish was given by Brother Ashu, the small stool was given by Xiaohe, and the bucket was given by Brother Aqing." ”

"Oh, dare you go out and go around, and you come back with so many things." Geng Qiu said with a smile. None of these things are valuable, but they are what they need now. So he wrote down this favor.

"I don't want it either, but people give me a fortress of life and death. He also said that I don't want to just look down on them countrymen. Ah Hao said helplessly.

"Okay, let's return the favor in the future. Let's go cut some bamboo first, set up a rack for drying clothes at the door, and then we have to get some firewood back, and the firewood we picked up yesterday is almost burned. Geng Qiu said, and walked out with Ah Hao.

The two of them went to the distant mountains and forests to cut down about thirty bamboos, picked up a few bundles of dry branches, cut a few bundles of live branches, a few bundles of grass, and picked up a basket of dried leaves and some dead grass, and the two mules were full of loads on their backs. As he walked through the swamp, Geng Qiu cut two more sheaves of thatch and brought them back. It took most of the day, because there was no firewood and grass to pick up in the nearby mountains and forests, which proved that they were all picked up by the villagers, and they ran a long way.

"No wonder the ancients said seven things to open the door, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, we spent almost a day just chopping wood, how can we live in the future?" Geng Qiu washed his face with water and laughed at himself.

"Hurry up and cook, I'm hungry." Ah Hao washed his hands and face indiscriminately, picked up the bowl and drank a few big sips of water, handed another bowl of water to Geng Qiu, watched him finish drinking, and urged him.

"You said that if we eat up this bit of food, will the two of us starve to death?" Geng Qiu said with a smile.

"How can we starve to death, don't we still have silver?" Ah Hao asked puzzled.

"So, according to the speed at which we eat food now, we spent four taels in Xiangyang Town last time, and I gave the village chief two taels yesterday, how long do you say the rest can be used? And after eating all this silver, what should we do? Geng Qiu put down the work in his hand and asked him seriously.

"What are you afraid of, I'll go hunting." Ah Hao said with confidence.

"Hey, right here, what wild things for you to fight, many mountains can't even grow trees." Geng Qiu said funny and angry, the mountains here are all stones, and the nearby mountains are basically bare, only some weeds and low bushes can grow, except for producing some firewood and grass, there is no other use. Just now they had to go a long way to chop firewood before they got so much firewood back.

Ah Hao was speechless by what he said, and it took a long time to point to the distance and retort: "It's a big deal, go farther." Look, aren't there mountains over there? ”

"Okay, then I'll count on you to raise it." Geng Qiu smiled, blushing a little, and did not continue the topic. To be honest, during this period of time, he has indeed relied on Ah Hao, although he has done a lot of things to take care of Ah Hao and Ah Niu. But in fact, the relationship between him and Ah Hao is like an employment relationship, Ah Hao contributes money, he contributes, he is a super personal nanny, eating, drinking, and Lasa everyone solves it together. It's just that Ah Hao regards him as his own man, and the three of them are also a family in everyone's eyes.

"Hehe, Brother Qiu, you seem to be blushing." Ah Hao suddenly stared at him and laughed.

"What are you happy about, go and help me take these dishes to the water and wash them before coming back." Geng Qiu was embarrassed and threw him a handful of green vegetables.

Ah Hao smiled, his good-looking lips were grinning, which completely destroyed this beautiful face, and Geng Qiu couldn't bear to look at it directly. Geng Qiu found out that Ah Hao was very beautiful at the beginning, and even a little feminine, but this guy had a sword eyebrow, which brought out a trace of heroism, which made people know at a glance that he was not a woman.

Of course, when Geng Qiu saw it for the first time, his kind of image would never make Geng Qiu feel that he was a man. In fact, even now, Geng Qiu doesn't know if he's a man or a woman, well, he's understood now. In this country, there are three genders, in addition to men and women, there is also a kind called Xianggong, that is, people like Ah Hao, who look the same as men, but can have children. He'd seen a few along the way.

It's just that although Xianggong can sleep with a woman, he can't make a woman pregnant. can only be with men, get pregnant and have children by themselves. Therefore, the father-in-law is generally married, but there are a few father-in-law who can marry a wife. This is what only people with no boys in the family and a good family background do, marry a wife, and at the same time accept a man back. Then he gave birth to a child and was raised by himself and his wife. There is even a man in the Xianggong family, such as Geng Qiu, who is this identity.

Xianggong's gender is not discriminated against here, but Xianggong is very popular with ordinary people and poor people, because he can be a man or a woman, and the poor family wants to marry a Xianggong back, first, Xianggong can have children, and secondly, Xianggong is much stronger than women and does more work. However, large families do not necessarily like to marry a husband and come back, because the husband is not very good at interacting with women, and there are also a few powerful high-ranking officials who will marry both the husband and the female wife, and the two have equal status. The husband generally interacts with men, while the female wife interacts with women, and the two serve the same husband, but this will bring a lot of contradictions, so there are not many people who actually do this. Of course, the palace is absolutely a matter of princesses and women being concubines or queens. Today, there are also a few princes and princes, among whom the rank is very high, and he is named a servant, which is equivalent to the rank of a noble concubine among the concubines, only a little worse than the queen.