Aman returned with a box. There was a letter in the box, and some bits and pieces, boxwood hairpins for my mother, and gadgets for my brothers, all of which were objects that children pay attention to and like. But Qiu Chen didn't care about this, and only took a thick stack of letterheads and looked at them over and over again......

I started writing the letter almost as soon as I left home, and I sent it back together after a few days, one page after a few days, and after accumulating it for a long time. Most of the letters are Aman's little girl's descriptions of interesting things in various places, the language is immature, the words are simple, but they are particularly lively and vivid, watching the little girl happily talk about what delicious things she ate, what interesting things she saw, what interesting people she met, and what good gifts she received...... Qiu Chen knew that the little girl was living a very happy life, and her long-term concern finally let go.

can look at the cheerful words again, although she also greets her mother, but more about how her brother Chengzi takes care of her, she is tired, and Brother Chengzi carries her; She was sleepy, and Chengzi's brother took care of her to sleep; She was hungry, and Brother Nariko took her to eat...... Even the family's own brother Ah Fu, as well as the uncle and several cousins were compared...... Qiu Chen couldn't help but feel a little sour in his heart, a little stunned, his daughter was not yet four years old, how could she give birth to a feeling of giving birth to a daughter?

Moreover, this little girl with no conscience is so worried that she worries about her stomach every day, Ah Fu and Junwen also talk about it every day, the little girl looks very cheerful, she doesn't miss home at all, and she doesn't want them! It made her so lost and uncomfortable.

After being stunned for a while, his eyes turned to the Ah Fu and Jun Yan Junzhang who were gathered not far in front of him, looking at each other with eyes full of eyes and not daring to step forward, Qiu Chen couldn't help but almost burst into laughter. However, in an instant, Qiu Chen's face turned cold, his eyes swept over the few bodies in front of him, and he said lightly: "The letter and things sent back by your sister Man'er...... However, don't think about this at this time, clean up after breakfast, and go to clean up the forests in Henan. I have just sent Zhao Jiu to the village to buy it, and I will clean it up in the future, and you will have a place to practice in the morning and evening in the summer, so that it will not be sunburned. ”

Junyan was the initiator last night, and he didn't dare to make a sound at this time, but his hand was behind him vigorously pouting Junzhang and Ah Fu to speak.

Unbearable, and really worried about Aman, Ah Fu was the first to speak: "Mother, the son doesn't remember the things that my sister brought, but my son is worried about my sister, and I want to know Sister Lu Dao?" ”

The corners of Qiu Chen's mouth twitched, and he said with a sour taste: "Your sister is living very fast, and Chengzi takes good care of her, okay, you, you don't have to worry about her!" ”

Ah Fu listened to a smile in his eyes, and arched his hand: "Thank you for telling my mother, my son will be relieved." ”

With that, he took a step back and returned to the brothers.

Qiu Chen looked at the calm appearance of such a little older son, and couldn't help but be a little worried, like this, he is obedient, but no matter how he looks, he has a tendency to become a nerd!

After a pause and reining her thoughts, Qiu Chen asked the children, who were still drenched in sweat, to take a bath and change clothes, while she hurriedly took Chunxiang Yuegui to the kitchen with a blue potato.

Pick out a few pieces of potatoes and let Chan cut them into shreds, a few into thick strips, and a few directly cut into pieces and put them in the pot to steam. With the help of the Chen family and the Daxing family, a small pot of sour and hot shredded potatoes, a small pot of french fries, a small pot of potato cubes for stewed meat, and a small pot of steamed potato pieces were brought into the house. Naturally, there is also a small bottle of homemade tomato sauce that Yufeng took out at the back.

For each of them, Qiu Chen prepared more, except for the four gentlemen and Qin Li, who had always had the same food as in the room, he also left some for everyone to taste.

Originally, the big kitchen prepared breakfast, plus Qiu Chen's temporary addition, naturally there were a little more, the children all loved to be fresh, plus a few foods made of potatoes tasted really delicious, a few small pots of vegetables only worked for a while, and they were swept away by the hungry children who had been practicing in the morning, even Yang Shumeng and Qiu Chen only tasted everything, and then looked back, the basin was already empty.

After eating, Qiu Chen asked Yufeng to come over with prepared gloves, one of them issued a pair, and took a tarpaulin to cut it into small pieces, wrapped the children's ankles and calves with cloth strips, and took a snake repellent sachet to tie the children, Chen smiled and brought a handful of colorful silk threads to come in, and each child tied one on his wrist, even the biggest Junwen and Lin Xu did not let go, so he sent a group of people out of the three.

Yang Shumeng has already taken sickles, hoes and other tools and waited at the gate, from Lin Xu, Junwen to Afu Junli, his own family is eight children, plus a large group of followers, Hula Xiao No. 20 people, the big ones are naturally hoes, and the small ones are divided into small tools such as sickles and hoes, followed by Yang Shumeng, Qin Li and Qin Yong The four of them pressed the formation, Hulala set off from the door of Lin's house, bypassed the pond and went to the grassy wasteland in the south.

The children were sent to the labor camp here, and Qiu Chen turned around and saw Mr. Ding, who was about to board the bus and return home, and hurriedly stepped forward to greet him and asked about the learning status of several children.

Mr. Ding replied one by one, and said with joy on his face: "Breakfast tastes good today, but I haven't seen it before, I don't know what it is?" ”

Qiu Chen didn't expect that the first person to ask would be Mr. Ding, who didn't seem to ask about the crops, and said with a smile: "It's a foreign feudal thing brought by a friend from the south, and I just tried to grow it, and I didn't get much, so take a little for everyone to taste...... However, you can plant another batch in a few days, and when you harvest again in autumn, you can taste it often. ”

"Oh, it's a foreign domain...... No wonder! Mr. Ding sighed with a smile, and said goodbye to Qiu Chen, boarding the car and going home.

The other gentlemen all lived in the teacher's dormitory on the east side of the school, and Qiu Chen didn't go to send them in person, but just sent Zhao Jiu and Daxing's family to bring people and watch gifts to see them off.

After all, it's the Dragon Boat Festival, so you have to steam a pot of zongzi to meet the occasion. In this era, there is no supermarket where you can buy various flavors of frozen rice dumplings at any time of the year. Therefore, all kinds of seasonal foods are particularly important.

The glutinous rice was ordered to go down yesterday, and the Daxing family soaked it early in the morning, jujubes, red beans, fresh meat, egg yolks and other things were all prepared a long time ago, and what Qiu Chen had to do was to take the mother-in-law and girls at home to make zongzi together.

The morning sun is not scorching, and the trees planted in the yard have some shade after two years of growth, so Qiu Chen took the girls and mothers-in-law to form a few circles in front of the big kitchen in the backyard, guarding the fillings of various colors, and wrapping the dumplings with a smile.

Because zongzi is not only eaten by the family, but also by the workers in the workshop, it is also given to the village elders and neighbors, and the quantity is naturally large. Fortunately, Lan Ying drew a few people from the kitchen of the workshop, plus the many girls and mothers-in-law in the family, the manpower was also sufficient, and she wrapped a few large baskets in a short time. The Daxing family took people into the big kitchen and put it in a large pot with a cage drawer to boil.

While they were busy here, a little girl came in with a small bamboo basket.

Qingxing sat outward, and saw that the little girl was full of shyness, and she hesitated to come over, so she quickly got up to meet her.

After a while, Qingxing carried the basket and led the little girl to Qiu Chen's side: "Madam, this is the Yu'er girl of Mr. Tang's family!" ”

Qiu Chen saw this little girl just now, and when he saw Qingxing catching up, he didn't move, and when he heard Qingxing's introduction, he naturally got up immediately, took the handkerchief handed by Yufeng, wiped his hands, and greeted him with a smile.

Tang Yuer looks fourteen or fifteen years old this year, wearing a green muslin gown, a goose-yellow narrow-sleeved shirt, an indigo floral long skirt, her hair is simply tied in a bun, she has saved a very small bead hairpin, the big braid hangs down behind her head, and her appearance is not very radiant, but she has an apricot face and peach cheeks, fair skin, and soft eyebrows and eyes. Qiu Chen had seen Tang Yu'er twice before, but both of them were behind the Tang family's wife, and the little girl in this era paid attention to shrinking her shoulders and hanging her head, and she didn't see her face clearly.

"Miss Yu'er," Qiu Chen greeted with a smile.

Tang Yu'er bent her knees slightly awkwardly, "A-Niang steamed Aiwowo and Qingtuan, let me send a few pieces over for my wife to taste." ”

Qiu Chen didn't shy away from it, he stepped forward and took her hand, the softness of the tentacles, and the slight thin calluses in his fingertips, made Qiu Chen have another good impression of this delicate and shy little girl.

The smile on his face was even gentler, and he said: "I have heard of these two things before, one is a Jingshi snack, and the other is a Jiangnan specialty, but I haven't had a chance to taste it." I didn't expect Mrs. Tang to do it too, and I could also follow Mrs. Tang to taste it. ”

"It's all home-made, it's not worth anything." Yu'er lowered her head slightly and whispered.

Qiu Chen smiled and glanced at Qingxing, took Yu'er's hand and walked forward, and said with a smile: "This gift is about a heart, a heart, and ordinary cakes are also rare." ”

As he spoke, Qiu Chen took Yu'er into the main room of the third entrance, and was not in the main hall, so he took Yu'er straight into the east room.

The tiger head has been brought home by the mother and daughter of the Qingjiang family to recuperate, at this time, in the huge five main rooms of the Sanjin Courtyard, it is safe and quiet, only the clock on the kang cabinet in the inner room makes a slight clicking sound. Qiu Chen let Yu'er sit on the clinical couch, greeted with a smile, entered the east ear room, washed his hands, took off the apron on his body and walked out.

Qingxing had already followed, and served two cups of tea and a few plates of snacks, one of which was placed on Qiu Chen's side with two green green dumplings, and the yellow-green dumplings next to it should be Aiwowo, but this was different from what Qiu Chen had eaten in later generations.

Qiu Chen took a seat and let Yu'er take a small cake to eat, and she also pinched a piece of Aiwowo and tasted it. Before I could eat it, a slightly bitter aroma of wormwood came to my nose. Qiu Chen's eyes lit up slightly, this mugwort nest of the Tang family was really made of wormwood juice.

After biting a little bit, the taste of wormwood was not as strong as imagined, and sugar was added, the entrance was not bitter, but there was a smell of herbs, and I really had Qiu Chen's appetite.

Putting the last little Aiwowo into his mouth, Qiu Chen squinted his eyes slightly and slowly savored it for a while, and then raised his eyes to see Tang Yu'er looking at her with a pair of moist black eyes, and her expression was as ignorant and cute as a deer.

Qiu Chen hooked his lips and smiled, "Mrs. Tang is clever, this mugwort not only retains the light fragrance of wormwood, but also has no bitter taste, it is really delicious!" ”

Tang Yu'er avoided her eyes in a panic when Qiu Chen looked at her, and when she heard Qiu Chen praise her like this, she relaxed a little, smiled and said humbly: "Mrs. is an award...... However, the Aiwowo made by A-Niang is very delicious, not only me and my little brother, but also my father. …… But I've been learning from A-Niang for a few years, and I can't make A-Niang's taste. ”

Frustrated because a piece of pastry is not well made...... What a simple little girl!

Qiu Chen smiled and said, "I've learned to think slowly, and I think you will be able to make such a good taste one day!" ”

Yu'er seemed to be encouraged, raised her eyes to look at Qiu Chen, her eyes were bright, and she nodded again and again. seemed to be aware of his gaffe again, and said with a slight blushing face: "Thank you for your wife's comfort, I will learn slowly." ”

Qiu Chen didn't want to say too much on this topic, so he changed his mind and said, "What does Yu'er do at home on weekdays?" I heard that your younger brother Zhenhuan is very good at reading, so I think you also read a lot of books with Mr. Tang, right? ”

Yu'er smiled and hung her head, "I haven't read too much, my father just taught me 'three hundred thousand thousands'...... That is, just two words...... In my spare time, I also take this poem to relieve my boredom. ”

Qiu Chen smiled: "I don't know much about reading, but I don't love poetry, I love miscellaneous books such as words and travelogues......"

After a few more words, Chun Xiang hurriedly held Tang Yuer's basket, which was steaming with the aroma of glutinous rice dumpling leaves. Yuegui also came over with a plate of steaming rice dumplings.

Qiu Chen beckoned Tang Yu'er to taste a zongzi, and Tang Yu'er was amazed after eating it, so she got up to say goodbye.

Qiu Chen asked Yuegui and Chunxiang to carry the basket and send her out, watching the little girl's slender figure slowly disappear into the corridor of the second courtyard, before retracting her gaze and turning back.

When she first heard about this little girl, she had also considered Junwen's marriage, but now it seems that this little girl is gentle and supple and quite in line with the aesthetic vision of this era, but this temperament is inevitably too sticky, and if you are together for a long time, will you feel bored?

Turning his head, Qiu Chen put down this fleeting thought, and went to the backyard to see that Chen and Yufeng had already led people to divide the steamed rice dumplings into small baskets of wheat straw, handed them to the little girl and sent them to the front, and asked Zhao Jiu to send someone to the old people in the village.

Qiu Chen personally carried two baskets out and went to the house of the first three grandmothers to sit down. I went to Manchu's house to visit the Wang family again. During the period, standing on the north bank of the lotus pond and looking at the busy children in the grass and trees in the south, even talking and laughing was jubilant, and couldn't help but smile and relax my heart. She is also worried that the weather is too hot and the children can't stand it, and it seems that the children's adaptability is quite strong.

A group of children cleaned up the weeds for a day, not to mention anything else, but it was hot and sunny, which made the children's skin change color, and at night, looking at Ah Fu's reddened and somewhat sunburned face, Qiu Chen felt distressed first, and hurriedly took a special cream to cover Ah Fu's face......

The Dragon Boat Festival had a total of one day off, and the gentlemen went home for a reunion, and came back in the evening in the Lin family's carriage.

On the second day, the children resumed classes, and the work of cleaning up the wasteland in front of them naturally fell to the family and the temporary hired people.

On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, Qiu Chen didn't pay much attention to the things over there, and began to take people to pick potatoes, and after selecting new potatoes, he picked a piece of fertile land in Zhuangzi in Qingshui Town and planted it, and specially arranged for a family member who managed his yard to take care of it.

After the potatoes were chopped to the ground, Qiu Chen left it alone. Then take a few little girls to pollinate the corn in the backyard. The remaining ordinary corn seeds were planted on a small plot of land that had just been cultivated by the pond.

After all this, another three days passed, the weather has been clear and cloudless, the sun is getting hotter and hotter, and the weather is getting hotter and hotter. Behold, the time of the wheat harvest has arrived.

The workers in the workshop are the laborers of each family, and the weekday work can be thrown to the family, and the wheat harvest is the season to grab food from God, and there is no delay for a moment, so the workshop has a six-day holiday, so that the workers can go home to help the family wheat harvest.

The Lin family only has the 100 acres of land in Qingshui Town planted with wheat, and most of them are tenants, and Yang Shumeng and Zhao Jiu pay attention to it, and Qiu Chen doesn't have to worry about it.

As a result, the busiest wheat harvest, Qiu Chen was rarely leisurely. Then she began to ponder the codex left by Old Man Mu, prepare some pills that she had never made, and then go to the backyard to serve tomatoes, watermelons, and corn and the like, which was really a rare and excellent swim.

But it seems that she can't see her relaxed and leisurely, such a day has not passed for two days, most of the people's wheat has not been harvested, Anyang has a word, there was a riot on the river, a eunuch surnamed Lin was killed by the river supervisor, and the Lang Zhong of the Ministry of Industry was also detained!

When Xu Xiu, the new commander, heard the news, he naturally led the troops to the bomb pressure, but when he arrived at the river construction site, he saw that when the knees were full of sores, his feet were ulcerated, his skin was covered with bones, and he was almost inhuman, Xu Xiu couldn't do it at all.

In that case, even this soldier, who had been on the battlefield for a long time and had seen many tragic scenes of killing and death, couldn't help but tremble with his hands...... It's really, so miserable!

Not to mention the soldiers, many of these people are known to them, some are neighbors of the same village, some are brothers of the same clan, and some are even their fathers and brothers...... Several soldiers couldn't help but turn red on the spot, and then they became angry one by one.

Xu Xiu was accustomed to leading soldiers, so he naturally knew the consequences of the mutiny, so he immediately ordered to retreat, away from those river workers, and then reprimanded the local soldiers in a queue, and only brought his cronies and soldiers from the north to rush over and negotiate with a few river workers led by him......