Chapter 4 The old Tang family is busy farming

Tang Qing'er happened to hear clearly and see clearly outside, seeing that her grandmother was looking intently at her father and second uncle who were working outside, and guessed that the words of the third aunt just now had a certain effect on her grandmother, as long as anyone was adding fuel to the fire, this family would be able to divide it faster, she had been looking forward to it for a long time.

Her father Tang Tiezhu looked at his daughter's eyes and said with a smile: "Girl, why did you get up so early today," since his daughter fell into the water from that time, people have become better, not to mention, but also smart, Tang Tiezhu saw it in his eyes, happy in his heart, and later got a twin son, he smiled every day, and he didn't feel tired of working, but felt that life was getting more and more rushed.

"Dad, I can't sleep and get up, I'll go and help my mother pick up buds," she said and walked to her mother Li's side and sat down, and said to Huang: "Fourth aunt morning." ”

Huang looked at Tang Qing'er and smiled faintly as a greeting, and continued to bow his head to do the work in his hands, Tang Qing'er didn't care, and said to her mother: "Mother, I washed your and Daddy's dirty clothes yesterday and put them in your closet, and when I went to the field for a while, I changed into clean clothes, yesterday I saw that my father's trouser legs and sleeves were a little wet, if I still wear it today, I am afraid that it will take a long time to wear it, and it will not be good for Daddy's legs and hands," so I told her mother: Her father is prone to rheumatism.

Li Shi smiled and said: "Where do you talk so much, where are the crops so clean, they will be clothed when they are buried, and the grain in the field is cleaned up, and they are changing into clean clothes to wear," Tang Qing'er heard her mother's words and knew that her mother disagreed, and said in a panic: "Yesterday, when I went to the river to wash clothes, I met a barefoot doctor in the village, and he told me, mother, if you don't pay attention to your father's body, and wait for your father's leg to really hurt, you won't be able to work, how to feed our family at that time, I'm not always busy at home, When I'm idle, I wash all your clothes, and I can dry them in a day, so you can change them and save yourself wearing wet clothes every day, and it doesn't take much effort,"

Li Shi heard that the doctors said that wet clothes are not good for the body, and he was a little nervous, if the croppers were not in good health, how could they live their lives, so he quickly nodded and agreed: "Well, okay!" Later, after your father finishes chopping firewood, I will let him change into clean clothes," Tang Qing'er nodded with a smile, and the Huang family, who didn't like to squeak, heard Tang Qing'er's words, and also said that the master should change clean clothes.

Li remembered that his daughter fell into the river in the past, and couldn't help but advise again: "Be careful when you go to the river to wash your clothes, pay attention to safety, and don't wash by yourself," Tang Qing'er smiled and nodded in agreement.

After breakfast, everyone went to work in the field again, the family's land from the original seven acres of dry land to twenty acres of dry land, all of them brothers got up early and greedy from the wasteland to reclaim the paddy field, the paddy field from the original four acres to six acres, the paddy field is not like the dry land, can be reclaimed from the wasteland, from the wasteland to reclaim the dry land, it costs half a tael of silver, the village can give you the land deed of the dry land, and the paddy field must be bought from the villagers in the village, a good paddy field on one acre is about five taels of silver, The purchase of these two acres of paddy fields still depends on the family's usual frugality, and they praise it little by little.

The family's twenty acres of dry land, respectively, three acres of sorghum land, three acres of peanut land, seven acres of sweet potato land, seven acres of bud rice field, sweet potatoes were harvested by the women of the family two days ago, the remaining bud rice land and sorghum land were harvested by the men, and the women went to the field to harvest peanuts, and even Tang Jing, who was going to marry at the end of the year, went to the field to help with a scarf, and the family's lunch and dinner fell on Tang Qinger's body.

This Tangjia Village, there are more dry land in the village, so most of the people in the village have some bud rice, soybeans, sweet potatoes, peanuts, sorghum and other waterlogging and drought-tolerant crops, paddy fields are of course mainly rice, after the autumn harvest, the yamen will send people to collect the autumn grain, after removing the autumn grain, where is there still how much food is left, with more and more people in the family, every winter, adults can only eat half a subcontract every day, children can not help but be hungry, so the food at home is mainly children, otherwise the food is simply not enough to eat, if you want to catch up with the drought year, Some families may not even survive the winter.

There are also some hunters in the village, every winter, while the pheasants and wild boars that go up the mountain may come out to find food, go up the mountain to hunt, her father will occasionally follow, of course, hunt things are rare, occasionally lucky can also hunt a pheasant, to satisfy the family's hunger.

The adults all went to work in the fields, the children also got up, it is the autumn season, the weather is cool in the morning, the sun is still very poisonous at noon, yesterday Tang Qinger was drying clothes in the yard, making a sweat, no wonder some people from ancient times to the present, autumn tiger, autumn tiger, this autumn sun is no less than the summer sun, and the people who roast are not angry.

The children of the poor family are in charge of the house, although the two younger brothers are only five years old, they can also dress themselves, and when they see that she is too busy, they also help her do some work within their ability, Tang Qinger went to the house to dress Jiao'er, and when they were all cleaned up, they went to the second aunt's house, and saw that Tang Fei'er had already dressed her brother, picked up the tiger's head, and kissed him on the face. Serve egg custard and boiled sticky rice to the two little ones who eat liquids, stir them together, and start feeding Tang Jiaoer and Tiger Head to eat, and the other three children eat by themselves at the dinner table.

After they finished eating, Tang Qing'er explained that Mu Shi and Fei'er took care of her younger brothers and sisters at home, while she went to the river to wash clothes, and when she left, she told Mu Shi that no matter who came, don't open the door, only when she comes back, the two nodded and agreed, and she went to the river to wash her clothes with confidence.

Tang Qing'er walked to the river with clothes, a wooden basin and a wooden stick, and saw that many girls in the village were already washing clothes by the river, and saw that there was an empty space next to Zhao Yan, the little girl of the old Zhao Tou's family next door, walked to her side, put down the clothes and began to wash, Zhao Yan saw Tang Qing'er and said with a smile: "Qing'er, why is it late today, so I came out to wash clothes." ”

"Feed your younger brothers and sisters to eat, wash, and wait until they are all cleaned up before they pour out and wash their clothes," Tang Qing'er explained to Yan'er with a smile, Zhao Yan is ten years old this year, and she is the little daughter of Lao Zhaotou, her three brothers have already married, and her two sisters are also married, and she is left with a girl in the family. She's so happier-

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