Master Zhu muttered in his heart.

Tang Quan was overjoyed.

And Wen Qing had already taken the bus back to the county, and half an hour later, he arrived at Aunt Xiao's tailor shop.

Aunt Xiao's tailor shop is very busy.

"Aunt Xiao." Wen Qing shouted.

Aunt Xiao raised her head: "Hey, Wenqing, you're back." ”

"Hmm." Wen Qing saw that Aunt Xiao was selling fabrics, shoes, and sewing clothes, so she stepped forward to help without saying a word.

When the number of guests gradually became scarce, Wen Qing proposed: "Aunt Xiao, let's recruit another person in our store, right?" ”

"Recruitment?" Aunt Xiao wondered, she was a little busy, but it wasn't urgent, and it wasn't that she couldn't be busy, and besides, didn't Yao Shiling come over when she was slack?

"Hmm." Wen Qing nodded: "Recruit someone who is about the same age as me, Aunt Xiao, what do you think of Baohong, the granddaughter of the shoe repair uncle?" ”

"Carmine doesn't know how to make clothes, huh?" Aunt Xiao said.

Wen Qing said with a smile: "But she is likable, she is also smart, and she can look at her eyes, isn't that enough?" ”

"But ......"

"Aunt Xiao, I want to take some clothes from the garment factory and sell them in the store." Wen Qing said: "Sell it with the shoes I made." ”

"Selling clothes?" Aunt Xiao immediately objected: "It's definitely not okay to sell clothes, now the big guys are buying cloth to make clothes, and there are few people who buy clothes directly, besides, the size is different, whoever will want it, it will definitely not be sold." ”

Wen Qing smiled, it was true in the past, every household made clothes out of fabric, and there were few finished clothes, but with the development of the whole country and the improvement of living standards, everyone no longer insisted on the essential attributes of wearing, wearing, and using, and gradually began to pursue beauty, and even some goods reached the point where supply exceeded demand.

Wen Qing doesn't know much about other industries, but in this industry, she wants to seize the opportunity, at least so that her mother and younger brother can have no worries about food and clothing.

"Aunt Xiao, believe me, you can definitely sell it. We can take twenty pieces of goods first and try it. Wen Qing said.

Although Aunt Xiao was reluctant, since Wen Qing said it, she had no choice but to give it a try.

The matter of recruiting the granddaughter of the shoe repair uncle, Baohong, was finalized.

After Wen Qing told Aunt Xiao about Baohong's work, she handed over the recruitment to Aunt Xiao to talk to the shoe repair uncle. And Wen Qing explained to Aunt Xiao that she would not come to the county seat in the past three days.

Aunt Xiao asked curiously, "Is there something wrong at home?" ”

Wen Qing said: "It's nothing, it's just that I have to plant corn and sweet potatoes at home, and I'm very busy, so I'll help out, and I usually cook." ”

"Farming is a busy person, okay, you are busy, I will watch this store, you can rest assured." Aunt Xiao said with a smile.

Wen Qing nodded: "Thank you, Aunt Xiao." Then he left Aunt Xiao's tailor shop and walked towards the big dirt road.

After walking for half an hour, I walked to Shuiwan Village. However, instead of taking a detour from the shoemaker, she walked directly from the door of Aunt Wang's house in the east of the village.

Before the intersection under the shade, there will always be three or three neighbors in twos and twos, today is empty, this Wen Qing is not surprised, the wheat straw stacks have been burned, who has the leisure to enjoy the shade and gossip.

Wen Qing passed by the door of Aunt Wang's house, and at a glance, Aunt Wang's courtyard was empty, but she could hear crying from the courtyard.

Wen Qing didn't stop, and went back to his yard directly.

Before entering the yard, the neighbor Sister Zhou came out of the yard, looked up and saw Wen Qing, and said politely: "Wen Qing came back from work?" ”

"Hello Sister Zhou." Wen Qing responded with a smile.

Sister Zhou said a few kind words and went back to her house.

Wen Qing entered the yard and saw Yao Shiling sitting in the yard picking sweet potato seedlings, a handful of green seedlings, with a ball of soil underneath, and then Yao Shiling stacked them one by one in the bamboo basket.

"Mom." Wen Qing shouted.

Yao Shiling raised her head, and then smiled: "Wen Qing is back." ”

"Hmm." Wen Qing stepped forward, sat next to Yao Shiling on the stool where Sister Zhou had sit, and reached out to grab the sweet potato seedlings on the ground.

Yao Shiling stretched out her hand to stop: "Don't touch it, it's all dirt, I'll just come by myself." ”

"It's fine." Wen Qing stretched out his hand and took a handful, learning from Yao Shiling's appearance, like a decent person, Wen Qing asked, "Why are there still sweet potato seedlings?" ”

"This is the seedlings of sweet potatoes in the cellar in the spring, and now they are planted, and when they go back to winter, the wheat is not enough to eat, and the sweet potatoes and corn are ground into flour, and they can be helped to survive to the next crop of wheat." Yao Shiling said.

Wen Qing lowered her head and picked up the sweet potato seedlings, and then stacked them in the bamboo basket, listening to Yao Shiling talk about these little things in life, which she had never heard of in her previous life, and felt very cordial, and then asked, "Mom, what is Sister Zhou doing here?" ”

"Borrow sweet potato seedlings from us to grow sweet potatoes."

"They don't have one?"

"Yes, they're all roasted to death."

"How did you get roasted to death?" Wen Qing asked suspiciously.

Yao Shiling looked at Wen Qing and said, "You forgot, there was a fire yesterday." ”

Wen Qing then remembered.

"Sister Zhou's cellar is shallowly dug, and it is attached to the root of the inner courtyard wall, and the wheat straw is stacked at the root of the outer wall. Yao Shiling said: "No, I'm going to plant wheat stubble sweet potatoes soon, and there are no seedlings, so I have to come to me to beg, but fortunately I got a lot in the spring." ”

After hearing this, Wen Qing nodded again and again, and then asked, "Sister Zhou has lost so much, Aunt Wang doesn't plan to compensate?" ”

As soon as Yao Shiling heard that Qing said Aunt Wang, she hurriedly looked outside the courtyard, and then whispered, "What to lose?" This morning, she went to the village chief's house to make trouble, saying that Erhuzi didn't have a wheat straw stack, and the wind was blowing. ”

"Poof." Wen Qing couldn't hold back and laughed: "It's okay?" ”

Yao Shiling said: "It's not all, saying that it is the loss of his family, and he wants the village chief to make a report to the boss, saying that his family is a difficult household, and he hopes that the boss will help him for half a year." ”

"What did the village chief say?"

"The village chief said that this is all relief, and the state has opened the granary and there is not enough to eat."

"That's it." Wen Qing responded.

Yao Shiling stood up, carried an empty bamboo basket and continued to stack sweet potato seedlings: "I was deflated at the village chief's house in the morning, and I ran to the second team captain's house in the morning. The village chief asked them to compensate for the loss of six or seven of our wheat straw stacks, and Aunt Wang patted her thigh and said that it was the fire blowing by the strong wind that burned the wheat straw stacks, and it had nothing to do with their family. ”

Wen Qing wanted to roll her eyes when she heard it, and Aunt Wang, who was losing this reason, could think of it.

"In the afternoon, the corn growers and the sweet potato growers came back from the fields. When Wang Da and Aunt Wang saw it, they remembered that they still had two acres of land empty, but their corn seeds were all burned out, and there were no sweet potatoes. So I borrowed it from my neighbors, but I didn't expect that no one was willing to lend it to them, and they all said that they just had enough to plant, and there was nothing superfluous.

Aunt Wang is in a hurry, she can't grow beans, the yield of beans is low, the yield of corn and sweet potatoes is high, and after the wheat is eaten, corn and sweet potatoes can still be eaten for a while, and beans can't be eaten for long. Aunt Wang borrowed all the people in the village, and none of them were willing to lend them money. ”

"They did it themselves." Wen Qing asked, "Have you borrowed our house?" ”

Yao Shiling: "That's not true, I guess I don't have the face to borrow." ”

"Not necessarily." Wen Qing said thoughtfully.

At this moment, Wen Liang came back with a bundle of grass on his back, followed by Wen Peng, who was sweating profusely.

"Big sister!" Wen Peng ran over with great enthusiasm.

"Sister, you're back." Wen Liang said, and went to the cowshed with the grass on his back.

Wen Peng held a straw hat and came over excitedly: "Sister, you see that I have caught a lot of climbing monkeys." "The climbing monkey, also known as the cicada monkey, is the predecessor of Zhili, which grows in the soil, and after breaking the soil, climbs to the tree, sheds its shell, and becomes Zhili. This shell is called the Zhili shell, also called the climbing monkey shell. Wen Peng especially likes to look at the ground, as soon as he saw a small hole, he poked it with his hand, poked it open may be a climbing monkey, climbing monkey shell can be used in traditional Chinese medicine, every year someone comes to collect climbing monkey shell, I heard that Peng said that it was forty yuan a catty, but picking up the monkey shell for two years, it did not reach a catty.

"Why are there so many?" Wen Qing asked.

Wen Peng said: "It rained on the other side of the grove today, and they all crawled out, so I caught it." ”

"Don't get down to business." Yao Shiling said Wen Peng.

Wen Qing smiled: "Mom, this is a big deal to fill your stomach." Then he asked Wen Peng: "Do you want to eat fried climbing monkeys?" ”

"Yes!" Wen Peng's favorite thing is to eat.

"Okay." Wen Qing stood up, took a straw hat and said, "Mom, I'm going to cook now." ”

"Mom, I'll go light the fire." Wen Peng followed Wen Qing closely.

That night, Wen Qing made fried creeping monkeys, fried bean sauce with chili peppers, corn kernel porridge and thick dough cakes.

The oil explosion creeping monkey was fragrant, and before it was brought to the table in the yard, it attracted the onlookers of the neighbors.

"Wen family, what are you eating? So fragrant? ”

"It smells so good."

“……”

Yao Shiling didn't eat behind closed doors this time, nor did she let Wen Liang and Wen Peng put it away, after all, climbing monkeys are not a rare thing, so she said generously: "It's a few climbing monkeys that Wen Peng caught during the day, and Wen Qing will fry them." ”

"Climbing monkeys can also be fried and eaten?"

Yao Shiling said: "Of course you can. So he picked two of them and gave them to the neighbors, who praised them and said, "This monkey has cost a lot of oil, right?" It's delicious and delicious, but it's too oily, and one meal is enough to fry vegetables for two days. ”

Yao Shiling said with a smile: "Wen Qing's cooking, I don't know the province." ”

Wen Peng sat at the table and pouted in displeasure.

Wen Qing stretched out his hand to twist his face, the neighbors are good and bad, and they are bad like Aunt Wang, looking for fault with you everywhere. It's better than a relative. Wen Qing has the heart to let Yao Shiling get along with a few neighbors who are like relatives, so that she will go to high school in the city and feel much more at ease at home. Therefore, I did not resist them to visit the door.

"You can eat two more." Yao Shiling said.

"No, no, it's taken a lot of oil, you can eat it yourself." Neighbors said.

Yao Shiling enthusiastically stuffed two more to the neighbor, and the neighbor chatted with Yao Shiling, Wen Qing drank porridge and listened.

The neighbor said that Aunt Wang was crying at home again, because she had no money to buy corn seeds and sweet potato seedlings, and the people in the village saw that their family was too bad, so they deliberately did not lend them to them. Aunt Wang was crying urgently.

"Well deserved!" Wen Peng whispered.

Wen Qing glared at him, and he quickly silenced.

The meal was spent listening to the gossip, and when she was making shoes at night, Yao Shiling said: "When Aunt Wang is evil, it looks annoying, and it is quite sympathetic when she is pitiful." Will these two acres of land be barren for a year? ”

Yao Shiling sighed again and again.

Wen Qing didn't react at all, and he made shoes seriously with a thimble on his index finger.

Yao Shiling asked in wonder, "Wen Qing, what do you think in your heart?" ”

Wen Qing: "What do you think, what does their wasteland have to do with me, could it be that I still give them the corn seeds at home?" Besides, don't help the poor, read your Shengmien remember your revenge, Mom, let's not rush, wait. ”

The next morning, Wen Qing did not go to the county seat, which surprised Yao Shiling, Wen Liang, and Wen Peng.

"Eldest sister, why don't you make money?" Wen Peng asked.

Wen Qing said: "I will rest for two days and farm with you." ”

"Did Aunt Xiao agree?" Yao Shiling asked.

"Promised."

"That's good." Yao Shiling did not object.

So, a family of four led the cow, and the cow carried a sack, bamboo basket, corn seeds, sweet potato seedlings, water, steamed buns, bean paste, sickle, etc., and walked from the east end of the village to the east, meeting many neighbors on the way, and the neighbors also greeted them politely.

"Going to plant corn?"

"You have to plant for a day, right?"

"Wen Peng seems to have eaten fat!"

“……”

Yao Shiling responded with a smile one by one.

I don't know if it was the spread of public opinion about the fire incident the day before yesterday, or the attitude of the village chief and captain, and I wondered if it was the residual temperature of yesterday's handful of sweet potato seedlings and a few oil-blown climbing monkeys.

"You see, the bamboo baskets of the Wenqing family are all corn seeds and sweet potato seedlings."

"No, my sweet potato seedlings are borrowed from Yao Shiling, Yao Shiling is really good, as soon as she opens her mouth, she will borrow it. I used to think that she was poor and arrogant, but now I look at it quite peacefully. ”

"Yesterday I went to her house, and she gave me a few oil-fried creeping monkeys to eat.

"Don't you know? Wen Qing earns ten yuan a month in the county seat, and he can afford to eat oil. ”

“……”

As the neighbors said this, the words reached Aunt Wang's ears.

Aunt Wang turned her head and went into the room to find Wang Da: "Huzi and his father, have you heard?" Wen Qing's family has a lot of unused corn seeds and sweet potato seedlings, or let's borrow some, anyway, we can't use many seeds in an acre of land. ”

Wang Da immediately straightened his face and scolded: "You go to borrow, you have forgotten how you scolded others, you see if they lend it to you, don't let people spit on your face!" Don't be cheeky! ”

"What then? We don't want two acres of land? ”

"How? Where to find seeds! ”

Aunt Wang turned around: "I'll go to Shanwan Village to borrow it." Saying that, Aunt Wang walked to Shanwan Village, where she had a few playmates from her childhood, thinking that she could definitely borrow them.

Wang Da sat in the room with a sad face.

At the same time, Wen Qing's family was arranging tools in the field and began to throw pits to plant sweet potato seedlings.

Yao Shiling took a hoe to hoe the ground, Wen Qing and Wen Liang squatted on the edge of the ground to plant sweet potato seedlings.

Wen Peng led the cow and let the cow graze by the small ditch: "Mom, Aunt Wang went to Shanwan Village." ”

Wen Qing raised her eyes to take a look, Aunt Wang raised her chin and went to Shanwan Village, without looking at Wen Qing's family.

"Herd your cows." Wen Liang reprimanded Wen Peng, and then planted sweet potato seedlings with peace of mind.

It was planted until noon, and the planting was completed in five minutes.

Wen Qing's family of four sat in the shade of the tree on the ground and ate steamed buns dipped in soybean sauce, while the cow lay on the side and squinted to sleep.

The breeze is blowing, and the grass is fragrant, not only does it feel hot, but it is very comfortable and comfortable.

Wen Peng gnawed on the steamed buns and looked around, to see if there were any birds, whether there were any shells, and suddenly said again: "Mom, Aunt Wang came back from Shanwan Village, why did she come back so early, why didn't she come back after eating in Shanwan Village." ”

"Pengpeng, you talk a lot." Wen Liang said Wen Peng.

Wen Peng retorted: "Second brother, I haven't spoken all morning, why am I talking too much?" ”

Wen Liang ignored him.

Wen Qing smiled and touched Wen Peng's head, and then raised her eyes to look at Aunt Wang, in the morning Aunt Wang walked with her chin held high and her hands empty, and now she came back with her head down and her hands empty, as if she had been wronged, she hung her head and wiped a handful of tears, and then hurried home.

Wen Qing looked at Yao Shiling.

Yao Shiling looked at Wen Qing.

The mother and daughter looked at each other, tacitly.

In the afternoon, when the family of four planted corn and returned to the village, they heard that Wang Da and Aunt Wang not only quarreled, but also fought. The captain came to persuade him, and after persuading him, the husband and wife borrowed corn seeds and sweet potato seedlings from the captain.

Later, the captain couldn't stand Aunt Wang's two acres of wasteland, and wanted to borrow beans for the two of them to plant, Aunt Wang cried and said: "The yield of beans is low, and our family has no noodles to eat." ”

The captain asked who had sweet potato seedlings and corn seeds, most of them really didn't have them, a small number of people had them and kept them for their own family to eat, and a few more families were afraid of lending them to Aunt Wang, and Aunt Wang would not pay them back.

Therefore, in the end, Aunt Wang's family still found nothing.

In the evening, the cry of Erhuzi came from the east end of the village.

"Aunt Wang is beating the second tiger again." Yao Shiling said.

Wen Qing cut the cloth by herself: "I heard it." ”

Yao Shiling hesitated for a while: "Wen Qing, why don't I hand over our cobs of corn and a bamboo basket of sweet potato seedlings to the captain, and let the captain hand them over to Aunt Wang's family, I can't let two acres of land be wasted." Give it to the captain, and I'm not afraid that they won't pay it back. ”

Wen Qing asked rhetorically: "Why?" I'm not Guanyin Bodhisattva, the person who scolded me, burned my wheat straw stack, not to mention compensation, but also said that the wind was blowing the fire, all of this, I also lent her food, I am sick. ”

"Hey, why do you little girl talk like that?"

"Am I not right?" Wen Qing asked with a smile.

Yao Shiling has nothing to say, Wen Qing is right, but Yao Shiling is soft-hearted.

Wen Qing began to hum a little tune leisurely.

Yao Shiling: "......" Yao Shiling unknowingly, she made Wen Qing the head of the family, Wen Qing said that she would not borrow, and she did not take the initiative.

In this way, another day passed, and it rained, and the villagers of Shuiwan Village were very happy, and they all said that the rain was good and timely, and not only the beans rose well, but also the corn and sweet potatoes would be more productive.

Many villagers gathered together to talk about how many catties of corn and sweet potatoes they could harvest, and they were very happy.

Only Aunt Wang watched the rain with a sad face, until the rain stopped one day.

Aunt Wang swayed back and forth at the door of her house, swaying for less than half an hour, and finally took a step, walked to the courtyard of the Wen family, stood at the gate of the courtyard, stood for a while and turned back, and then ran to the gate of the courtyard of the Wen family, back and forth several times, and finally mustered up the courage, when she was about to shoot the wooden door, she suddenly heard a horn, Aunt Wang was startled, and looked back, a black car slowly drove in from the east end of the village.

"Whose car is this?"

"Mom! I see the car! ”

"Hey, it's a car, I'm seeing you for the first time."

“……”

The people in the village came out of their yards and houses to observe the car, only to see the car driving straight to the gate of Wenjiayuan, before everyone could reflect, the car door opened, and a string of firecrackers was thrown out, crackling and exploding.

Aunt Wang sat on the ground in shock, and she ran up neatly.

"What is this for?"

"Who is this?"

"Yo, the car has stopped at Wen Qing's house!"

"Why did you stop hearing about the Qing family?"

“……”

The villagers of Shuiwan Village almost all went out, and they all flocked to the courtyard of Wen Qing's house in an instant.