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It was only a few moments, and overnight, the cool breeze that was originally just the texture of a head man had soaked into the bone marrow in an instant.

Even if the streamers seem to come from Lotus Mountain, the streams surrounding the city and countryside of Lianxi are still murmuring, and the Lotus Mountain not far away is still green, but the sparse and gray countryside and mountains are still covered with a layer of frost, and the tranquility and simplicity reveal the unconcealable loneliness.

It's just that Zhoujiawan, which was not prosperous, is an exception.

This winter's season, not only is it not like in previous years, "one kind of wheat, one hand arched" only to see the desolate withering of reeds by the stream, but from the bones reveal vigorous vitality and liveliness.

Every day, the sky has not yet revealed a trace of light, the rooster just crows all over the head, Zhoujiawan sounded the "crunch" sound of opening the door and the sound of squirming footsteps, the old and young Ding Zhuang has braved the thick fog and the biting morning wind of the winter moon, carrying the guys, and walked out of the house in high spirits, and went straight to Lianxi.

Especially with the old people in the Spring and Autumn Period, somehow they have such good muscles and bones, and they are more willing to work than the strong Houshan in the prime of life.

There are also a number of half-grown and underage boys, although it is inevitable that they will be careless, but they are willing to work hard, but they can also make a small job.

These people don't need to shout at all, they already perform their duties in an orderly manner.

Penny, or holding a five-board boat, singing the brisk and tactful boat song of the countryside on one wall of the misty lotus stream, and the other wall is full of river mud; or carrying a crooked flat shoulder, "creaking" from the board boat leaning on the big wharf in front of Qin's house, picking up river mud on the shore; Or singing witty and funny trumpets one after another, relying on manpower to drive piles on the ridges...... There are also those who change the soil at the foot of the embankment, those who repair the wall with slurry on the embankment slope, and those who carry the twisted drill to explore the anthill and rat hole little by little......

In such a season, the biting cold wind drills into the cracks, and no amount of clothing can withstand the cold, and the hand arches idly and waits for the natural cold to soak only to the bones.

But once they get to work, when the sun comes out, even if most of these strong people are thinly dressed, there are already beads of sweat shining under the sun on their foreheads.

It is the work of men to open rivers and build embankments, and the women in the village rarely go up the ridges, but they have to hold all the work in the fields of the family in their hands, so that the men can concentrate on opening the river and building embankments.

And after they are busy with the work at hand, they often have to find time to go to the Qin family to help.

Or help the women who also come to the Qin family to help the kitchen before dawn grind tofu, cut pickles, boil water, steam steamed buns, make pancakes, kill fish and chop firewood, clean the water, and cook tea and rice cleanly.

Or help Yao's concubine to serve the vegetable garden, feed the chickens and pigs, and even do the work of collecting firewood, chopping firewood, and grinding rice and noodles, so it is difficult to have free time.

Even if it is rare to be a little idle, the east and west family are talking and laughing, and they are busy weaving straw shoes and straw ropes.

Ding Zhuang who came and went in the mud in the **** water on the ridge of the creek was the most shoe-fed, and the shoes made of straw and reeds were thick and cold-proof, which was specially prepared for them.

And many little girls and big girls who are about the same age as fennel cloves, after helping their mother and grandmother take care of their own affairs, also like to follow the elders to the Qin family, or to light the fire or hold firewood, or follow the elders to weave shoes, or to send soup to the ridge, in short, they can do as much as they can, their hands are non-stop, and their hearts are also warm.

And the younger ones, the same age as the pepper bay leaves, and even the little boys and little girls who are even younger, herding sheep and ducks, teasing cats and dogs, although they can't intervene everywhere, at first they only run around to see the excitement.

It's just that I don't know when it started, and suddenly under the reminder of my uncles, I found a number of small fish and shrimp that were still alive and covered with black mud in the mud, as well as river mussels and snails that were hiding in the mud and pretending to be dead.

It's like opening up a new world for them, surprised and delighted, all are very happy, go directly to catch it, pick up the snail mussels fish and shrimp that move or don't move, and put them in a fish basket or basket, some say that they want to take it home to feed the ducks and geese, and some are Xingxing to send it to the Qin family, saying that they want to add a dish to everyone.

The Qin family has always been particular about how to behave in the world, opening the river and building embankments, the men, women and children of Zhoujiawan have come to help, and there are many neighbors in the surrounding villages, who have to take care of their food.

The custom of the Qin family is that since it is to manage the rice, the meat must be seen on the table.

Two meals a day, either meat or fish.

Only once, the Qin family didn't say anything, the women who helped the kitchen secretly felt pain for the Qin family, the old uncle nodded a little head, and before he had time to discuss with Father Qin, the old man in the village made a plan for the Qin family.

Don't talk about it, just say that this half a fan of pork every day, according to the market price, will cost six or seven dollars of silver.

It's too bad to make a living!

In fact, most of the dealers are still honest and kind.

What's more, now that the Qin family is very different from before because of the matter of opening the river and building embankments, the style is naturally different.

It is said that although the Qin family is now developed, this silver did not fall from the sky.

Green vegetable tofu is safe, which is already a good thing. Besides, with a side of water, the descendants can get fish from the stream as long as they exert some effort, which is the best.

What's more, there are these delicious meat and vegetarian dishes on the table, just two dry meals a day can be eaten, and you can swallow them alive without eating vegetables.

I shrunk my chopsticks.

He also said that opening the river and building embankments was originally for their Zhoujiawan, in order to accumulate virtue and dedication, this is not the love between the villagers and neighbors, it is already their duty, if the Qin family still wants to go out like this, where do they still have the face to swallow this meal.

There is also an old man who worked as a helper in the Chongtang squire's house when he was young, and he sincerely pointed out to Qin's father, saying that the Qin family is no longer what it used to be, and some rules should be established.

According to the old rules of Chongtang, the dietary arrangement of long-term and short-term workers has always been one day of meat and two days of vegetarian in summer and autumn, and three days of meat and three days of vegetarian food in spring and winter......

But the ancestral family rule that Father Qin has adhered to since he was a child is that writers need to treat helpers and tenants well, so under the trade-off, although the pork that is half a fan a day is changed to two and a half fans for two days, a pig's head is also added, and the other is heavy fish and heavy lard.

Stewed fish can have oil and salt condiments, and don't think about waste firewood, these simple neighbors are more fragrant than eating stewed meat. (To be continued.) )