The project was not easy: in addition to installing the water wheels, it was also very tedious and delicate to open up the bamboo joints, build the water tower, and calculate the connections and inlet and outlet waterways.

At the moment, the leper disposed of the bamboo according to what Lin Chun said, and Lin Chun helped the cuckoo make a water tank.

was busy, and the eldest brother of the Li family next door sent two baskets of charcoal to the cuckoo.

It turned out that the day before yesterday, the cuckoo brought back beef and gave a few catties to the Li family and the leper family. The Li family has to open a kiln to burn charcoal every winter, in addition to their own use, they often exchange some bits and pieces with the villagers. He was grateful to the cuckoo for the meat, so he gave her two baskets of charcoal.

Come here, Lin Chun and they are getting tap water.

After asking about the situation, and then looking at the tap water of the leper's house, Brother Li immediately requested: He also wants to have a gang, and the three families will get this thing together; He also said that his family has bluestone and wood, and their father and son are both strong laborers and can help make it.

Lin Chun couldn't ask for it, so he agreed.

At the moment, the work was reassigned, and the Li family was responsible for building the water tower.

The cuckoo was stewed in broth with beef bones last night, and this morning some offal was mixed with beef and stewed with various ingredients. At this time, I estimated that it was almost over, so I went to the backyard and plucked four or five large white radish, washed and cut them into pieces, and threw them into the pot to boil with the beef offal and brisket.

After getting it done, she sat down under the porch to choose vegetables, while watching Lin Chun make the water tank.

When Lin Chun saw her coming, he raised his head and smiled: "It's so fragrant!" ”

The cuckoo also smiled and asked, "Are you hungry?" ”

Lin Chun shook his head and said, "I'm not hungry." ”

After a while, he said, "I'll wait for the beef to eat." ”

The cuckoo laughed when he heard this, and blurted out, "What a child." ”

Lin Chun listened and looked at her with resentment.

Obviously he is older than her, and he is much taller!

The cuckoo looked at his face. Consciously lost his words and busily changed the topic. Raising the yellow cabbage in his hand, he said, "Look at this dish—it's big and tender." The mud in that ditch really works. Erni said that her radishes are not as big as my parents', and the vegetables are not as good as mine. ”

Lin Chun nails wooden nails on the side. "That's right." ”

After a few words of gossip, the cuckoo asked about the situation when Huang Que'er got married.

Lin Chun smiled and said, "The second sister-in-law is here, and the family is much more lively." My father and my mother laughed from morning to night. Oh, we were playing last night, and my dad lost a lot of copper plates to Sister Finch. ”

The cuckoo laughed when he heard this, and said, "Uncle Big-headed is not distressed to death!" ”

Lin Chun said: "That's no way, can he play with my second brother and sister Qi'er?" Later, I went up to help him get his book back. ”

The cuckoo laughed even more.

Lin Chun said again: "Father and mother asked you to go to dinner tomorrow." ”

The cuckoo fell silent. "No, I'm not going." Didn't you say you were going back to Yangu? ”

Lin Chun knew her thoughts and said, "If you don't go, you won't go." I'll go back in the first month. ”

As he was talking, there was a dog barking at the gate of the courtyard, and Erni walked in with a small dustpan, "Oh, it's so fragrant!" What is this dog called? I don't even recognize it, what's the use of raising you! ”

The two black dogs were scolded by her and ran down the porch with their tails between their legs.

Because he smelled the smell of beef in the kitchen, he stretched out his head and sniffed at the door of the house.

The cuckoo said to Erni, "You can take a bowl later." "He paused the ground with his foot and scolded the dog." Go down! Don't go inside. It's not time to eat yet, look at your slander! ”

The dog ran down the steps.

The cuckoo beckoned Erni to sit.

Erni said: "Didn't you give me beef, what else is it!" Neither can you take advantage of it. So saying, he dragged a small bench and sat down beside the cuckoo, and handed her the small dustpan. Said: "This sand is for you." ”

The cuckoo took it and saw that the dustpan was full of fine sand.

It is washed from the lower reaches of the Quanshui River and used to fry chestnuts, hazelnuts, melon seeds, etc. It is heated evenly and is not easy to scorch. The cuckoo said he wanted to get it. I don't have time to get it. Who knew that Erni sent it.

She hurried into the house and found something to put in the sand. Free up the dustpan and return Erni.

Then, the two said a few more words, and Erni went home for dinner.

At noon, the cuckoo took out the eggs in the belly of the chicken that he had killed in the morning, soaked some dried mushrooms, and made a delicious clear soup with the beef bone broth, and then put a pound of noodles and fried yellow cabbage before having lunch with Lin Chun.

Lin Chun was sweating from eating, because he asked her, "The fragrant beef is not good?" ”

The cuckoo said, "It's better to cook it thoroughly." This noodle is so easy to digest, I'll make offal for you to eat in the middle of the afternoon. And some more fans. ”

Lin Chun smiled and nodded.

Because he said that he would go back to Yangu the day after tomorrow, Du Juan said that he would help Qiusheng make a pair of shoelaces.

Lin Chun hurriedly stopped: "Don't do it! Last night, Sister Qi'er picked up seven or eight pairs of second brother's shoes, some cotton and some single, and packed a basket. They were about the same size as their feet, just right to wear. ”

Huang Que'er's dowry is the most clothes, shoes, socks, bedding, etc., all of which have been saved over the years, among which Xia Sheng also got a lot of clothes, shoes and socks, which are just in time for Qiu Sheng.

The cuckoo was stunned when he heard this, so he stopped worrying.

After eating, Lin Chun looked around the courtyard looking for work.

When he saw the chicken coop, he hurriedly turned around and found a manure rake to clean it up. Rufeng was lazily lying under the porch and watching him, but the two black dogs followed at his feet, tilting their heads to watch him clean the chicken coop, which was very interesting. Whenever he pulled out some chicken droppings, they would come up and sniff them with their dogs' noses. When you find that the taste is not as you would have liked, you throw it away.

The cuckoo washed the dishes and came out, and said busily: "What are you doing with that again?" I'll get it myself. When you're gone, I won't have to work on my own. ”

Lin Chun listened and said in a muffled voice: "I'm not like this. ”

Quickly clean up the chicken coop, pluck the chicken manure and pile it up in the garden.

When he came out, the cuckoo had already fetched water and waited for him to clean it.

He washed his hands and told her, "Don't catch the pigs to feed, it's too dirty." If you want to eat meat, you can ask the wind to go up the mountain to get it. ”

He couldn't see her burrowing into the pig pen.

The beast was very sloppy, and she had to wash it once she got into the pig cage.

The cuckoo hesitated: "If you don't feed the pigs, you can't save fat." ”

Lin Chun said: "How much fertilizer can you get for those few pieces of land!" When I got back, I found a few more ditches to dry up and picked up some silt. Stronger than any fat. You know how to hunt, so hunt well. Don't feed the pigs. Otherwise, you will go up the mountain, and it will be a trouble for the pig to lose home. ”

Cuckoo thought about it too. "If you don't feed it, don't feed it." ”

Seeing that he thought so carefully at a young age, his heart was touched.

She whispered to him, "Don't worry about me. In two lifetimes combined, I'm so old that I still can't take care of myself? You don't have to worry that I can't get over this hurdle, I'm a big person, I know very well what I'm doing. ”

Lin Chun listened and looked at her silently.

Thinking of her miserable and helpless appearance that night, he still felt a little stuffy in his heart.

It was the only time he had ever seen a cuckoo in his life who was confused and out of shape.

Although she is still a little lonely, she is no longer confused.

This made him both relieved and sad. It's complicated.

She is a person who has lived for two lifetimes, and she is richer than him in terms of knowledge and experience, which makes him very anxious, and secretly vows: I must work hard, grow up, grow up, become more experienced, and don't always be treated as a little baby by her.

He didn't like it when she said things like "I'm so old."

He's going to protect her like a big man!

……

In the afternoon, everyone went out together. Half of the water diversion project was done.

In the evening, Lin Chun returned to the village with the two large casserole offal that the cuckoo had given him.

The beef was brought to Feng Mingying, because the eldest aunt and cousins lived in the Ren family, and the cuckoo was given to them to eat. Although Lin Chun had already sent the master beef. But she also has to do her part.

Everyone ate the homecoming wine at Huang's house at noon, and Feng Mingying only ordered some potato vermicelli at random in the evening, and got some sauce, bamboo shoots and green vegetables. Everybody is eating.

Lin Chun brought the offal and was immediately brought to the table.

Only one bite was tasted. Everyone said yes, it's even better to be with this fan.

Feng Mingying asked Lin Chun, "Are you from the cuckoo?" What does she do? ”

Lin Chun smiled: "It's been a busy day today. Help her and the leper get running water. ”

Speaking of this, the eldest aunt and others were amazed.

It turned out that they had already gone to Lin's house to see the tap water installation, and they were very strange. Feng Zhicai and Feng Zhiming admired Lin Chun even more, pulling him to ask long and short questions, and they couldn't even take care of eating.

Cui'er listened to Lin Chun's words, her eyes rolled, and she hurriedly intervened to interrupt her brothers' words, and asked Lin Chun, "Is the cuckoo busy?" Shall I go see her tomorrow? ”

Lin Chun remembered the pot of fragrant offal, and hurriedly said, "That's what she told me, saying that she wanted to invite you over to play." Because I didn't have time to come today, I said that I would find a day to invite Aunt Huang and Auntie, as well as Sister Qi'er and Second Brother to dinner; Of course you have to go, aunt, or she won't be able to get over it. Why don't you go tomorrow? I'll go over and talk to her tomorrow morning. ”

Cui'er immediately said that she would go in the evening to talk to the cuckoo.

She didn't talk to her properly because the cuckoo was in a bad mood these days. However, the matter involved the cousin of the Huang family, and she didn't know how to persuade her, so she was very depressed. Through what she has seen and heard in the past two days, she feels that Lin Chun is very capable, handsome, and still studying in Fucheng Academy, which is not worse than Huang Yuan's cousin, and Du Juan is very good at marrying him, so she is relieved.

Feng Mingying looked at her and said, "I just said that I would go tomorrow, and it will be night in a blink of an eye!" ”

The crowd laughed.

Cui'er argued forcefully: "There are so many people, I can't go over to help earlier!" ”

The eldest aunt Du Shi said: "That's right. ”

For he said to his daughters and nieces, that they should go to the cuckoo at night.

Du Shi likes Du Juan's niece very much.

She ate a chopstick offal and sighed: "This braised beef offal made by cuckoo is really fragrant!" Much better than the beef we made the day before yesterday. Cui'er, you have to have half the ability of the cuckoo, and your mother will close her eyes when she dies. Don't bother her when you go, talk to her well. ”

One face to the girl made a look.

Cui'er nodded hurriedly when she heard this.

Lin Chun was very happy when he saw that he had said it, so he took his leave.

Then he went to Huang's house.

The Huang family was also having dinner, and the two rooms were accompanying their new son-in-law Xia Sheng.

Seeing Lin Chun, everyone hurriedly beckoned him to sit down and eat.

Lin Chun smiled and said that he had eaten, and while scanning the table, he asked, "What about Brother Huang?" ”

Xiaobao hurriedly said: "He is a little uncomfortable, lying down." ”

Lin Chun said that he went to see him, and went to the east chamber with a hello.

In the east wing, Huang Que'er was sitting on the edge of the bed and feeding her brother soup.

Huang Yuan leaned on the bed, with a red cotton belt filled with cotton wrapped around his head, his face was still haggard, and he looked at the soup bowl in his eldest sister's hand in a daze.

This soup is stewed with Ganoderma lucidum, red dates and chicken, which nourishes qi, nourishes blood and calms the nerves.

The Ganoderma lucidum was harvested by the cuckoo and Ren Sanhe and Lin Dameng into the mountains.

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