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No one knows what Ho was thinking when she locked herself in the house that afternoon, and even when she went out, her face was already calm and she couldn't see a trace of crying secretly.

Half an hour before dinner, Roche brought his two children over and asked the He family to come over for dinner. He shook his head and refused, let Luo convey his apologies, and went into the stove room in person, but startled Yang Liu, who was busy in the kitchen.

The highlight of the evening was naturally the snake that Li Cong caught last night, locked in a cage densely woven with thin slices of yellow scorn and starved for a day and a night, but still tenaciously alive. was chopped off by Li Cong, peeled, remembered to grind the wheat tomorrow, only made the head and tail of the snake, and kept the good middle section for tomorrow to eat.

At the dinner table, He assigned the work and decided where the children in the third room would sleep tonight. Tie Zhu slept with He, Qiaoqiao slept with Xiao He, and Dashan slept alone in the dog's room, so they went back to their rooms to rest. Because I was too tired during the day, the lights were turned off in each room, and no one noticed that the candles in the original dog's room were lit for most of the night.

After walking so many roads during the day, Yang Liu's feet were blistered, and he was soaking his feet with grinning teeth. Carefully drying his feet, looking at the translucent blisters, Yang Liu picked up the embroidery needle and roasted it on the candle flame a few times, picked it up, and squeezed out a small pool of liquid in the shape of clear water. After a few simple scrubs, I lay down on the kang and fell asleep. Even Li Cong didn't know when he came in after taking a shower.

Early the next morning, it was Li Cong who woke up first and woke up Yang Liu, but early in the morning, the first sentence was not very good.

"Lady, you snored last night." It seems that this is not enough for Yang Liu to lose face. Li Cong added: "It's so loud, it's so noisy that I don't even fall asleep." ”

Yang Liu deliberately looked around Li Cong's eyes. There are no dark circles under the eyes, who is blinded! She has no habit of snoring. I guess I snored yesterday when I was tired, and you still don't like it. He said loudly: "Don't you look at how many miles I ran yesterday, can I not be tired and snore?" ”

"Look at my feet." Yang Liu pulled up the trouser tube, revealing the foot with the toes buttoned inward, and the blisters that were broken last night bulged again, bright and good-looking, and if they were worn out, they would be punished: "They are all blistered." ”

Li Cong glanced at it: "It's true, what did you do yesterday." My feet were blistered. ”

Yang Liu told me all about the place she ran yesterday.

Li Cong subconsciously looked at the only pale of his foot with relatively white skin on his body, which was intact and there was no blister at all, and he couldn't help muttering: "I don't have blisters." ”

Yang Liu's chin raised: "Are you trying to be squeamish with me?" ”

"No, no, no." Li Cong waved his hand, the second uncle was right, sure enough, the women who were angry couldn't be taken care of, because they weren't reasonable at all. Li Cong also changed the topic in time, "Can you wear shoes?" ”

"Do you think my mother will not let me go to work?" Yang Liu came quietly. I can't sleep enough.

"You can exchange with Xiuxiu" Li Cong couldn't say it anymore, standing in his mother's position. Whether it's a daughter or a daughter-in-law doesn't have to be considered at all. If he went to tell his mother, he wouldn't let Yang Liu fall a few times, saying that she was too squeamish, and the blisters didn't want to kill her. Still resting? Now that the family is already understaffed, and two laborers have gone at once, it is even more impossible for Yang Liu to stay at home. I had to say with some distress: "I have wronged you." ”

"Isn't it? Be nice to me. Better it, you know? Yang Liu did not hesitate to admit that he had been wronged.

When Li Cong came back to his senses, he nodded in agreement. I saw that Yang Liu was already putting a second sock on his foot and opened his mouth. It's better to get off the kang and wear clothes, or if you have an extra layer of cloth, you will suffer less sin.

The rotation at home is chaotic during the busy farming time, and in the past few days, Yang Liu has been in charge of the house, but I didn't expect her to get up a little late today, and no one cooked when she got up this morning. Looking at Xiao He and Yu freshening up and talking leisurely in the yard, Yang Liu raised his eyebrows, it seems that she is going to perform a Romance of the Three Kingdoms early in the morning, she really thinks of herself as a young grandmother, holding her arms and waiting for someone to cook for her.

"Yo, wake up early enough." Hearing the creak of the door opening, Yu turned his head and said the opposite with a smile.

Yang Liu tore off the washcloth on his shoulders and threw it into the basin, and washed his face with water without taking care of it. Li Cong saw that the atmosphere was not right, so he answered for Yang Liu, indiscriminately took two handfuls of water on his face, rubbed it, and then picked up the flat pole to carry the water. Today, I want to grind out all the ears of wheat, and I have to go to the town to deliver food to the third brother, I am afraid that I will not be able to spare the labor to carry water, and I don't have to wait for the round to carry water before breakfast.

The smile on Yu's face couldn't be contained, even if he choked two sentences, what did it mean to ignore it?

"Hey, Willow, I'll talk to you."

"Second sister-in-law is talking to me?" Yang Liu's action of washing his face stopped, revealing half of his face from behind the veil, and turned his head slightly to look at Yu.

"Just pretend, I don't believe you really don't know I'm talking to you."

"The second sister-in-law has wronged me by saying this, she didn't name or say her surname, you say, who knows who you're talking to? I'm not alone in the courtyard. Maybe I'll be said to be amorous if I talk to me, and I'm afraid. "Please forgive my second sister-in-law, I am a new daughter-in-law, thin-skinned, afraid of being embarrassed and making people laugh. I'm here to accompany my second sister-in-law. ”

is a good one, not to mention proficient in acting, but she will also.

Yu Shi was stunned for a moment, and then shouted: "You still have reason to get up late, what are you rubbing, why don't you cook quickly?!" ”

Yang Liu pretended to turn his head to look at the stove room, and said in surprise: "It's really a cold pot and a cold stove, I thought I missed the meal, you have all eaten." But I'm the one I was on duty yesterday, so whose turn is it today? ”

After the willow, it is naturally time for Xiao He's to burn on himself, and he has to squeak if it hurts or not. Xiao He, who was watching the play on the side, had to stand up and laugh: "Isn't it all messed up, I thought "

"Whether it's chaotic or not, who should be on duty doesn't have a score in mind? I don't believe that this round started to mess up after I arrived at the Li family, what did you do in previous years? "Yang Liu really doesn't believe it. I feel that it is good to be at home, and I don't have to bask in the sun to suffer. But the work at home is real, you don't do it. Whether it is well done or not, people will know it at a glance. You can sit down and rest for a while when you are tired in the field, even if you rest for a while and get scolded twice, it doesn't matter. Besides, you are with several people, and you can see something if you are slow, and some people will say that you are happy. Of course, there is another meaning when she says this, that is, she wants to try what kind of person Xiao He is, she used to think that the Wen family was not bad, and she was angry enough yesterday. Xiao He's has always been silent and low-key in this family, I don't know if it's a master who pretends to be a pig and eats a tiger, Yang Liu doesn't want to be bitten again inexplicably. The sooner you recognize it, the sooner you are prepared.

Yu and Xiao He stood together with a smile. At this time, seeing Xiao He's loss, how could he not help: "Aren't you not able to do farm work?" The family in the field must always occupy the same, how can there be a family that is busy just because you are idle. ”

"I can't do farm work, but I can do it at home? Although I am an unfavored concubine, I am also a person whose index finger does not touch the spring water before leaving the cabinet, but who cares whether I will do it or not, and I don't leave it alone after a day. Can you do everything in a day? Have I ever complained about the temper of the eldest lady? No! No, I don't have to do it, because I know that if I am someone's daughter-in-law, I can't help it. Yang Liu also has a tough attitude. She is not a white lotus, and the work at home is also on duty, all of them are other people's daughters-in-law, so why should she do it alone. Others are idle? If someone cooked, she would help, but that was clearly not the case now. She threw the wrung out handkerchief back into the basin and said, "I had a heat stroke two days ago. I was supposed to rest, but I was worried that you wouldn't be able to keep busy. Or did I take care of the work at home. But I don't do much work in the field, and it's not that I can't get a good word from you. What's the matter, I'm the last to enter the door, and I'm a bully, so let's gang up and bully me. ”

"Don't say it so pitifully, who bullied you? It's like no one knows how to do it, didn't we all survive by drinking the northwest wind before you got married? "The Yu family will not admit that he united with Xiao He's family to bully Yang Liu, at most he wants to take advantage.

"I'm also curious, why did you all become young grandmothers as soon as I got married, and you wanted me to cook and cook when you moved your mouth, and you copied your hands and chatted? I'm afraid that this is a privilege that has made a great contribution and is only given by my mother-in-law. Let me think, did you harvest all the crops or did you make a lot of money for your family? How come I don't know at all? Yang Liu also pretended to be stupid.

"One or two are lazy and sleepy, and you're in good spirits, right, you don't cook yet, you're waiting for my wife to serve you." He appeared at the gate of the courtyard with the dewy grass on his back, obviously not wanting to waste time, so he got up early to prepare forage for today's cattle. I don't know how much I've heard, anyway, I don't have a good look at Yang Liu.

It can be regarded as Yang Liu's bad luck, but what she said made He hear. Yang Liu didn't care, she had a clear conscience and was afraid of something. He wrung out the handkerchief, splashed the water, and went back to his room.

"What are you doing there with two wooden stakes and pestles, and you want me to do it myself, right?" Yang Liu obviously didn't take her words to heart, He's face became even more gloomy, and he sat down heavily in the back basket into the yard, and the grass in the back basket was lifted out better.

The He family is not very powerful in this family, but it can be regarded as a necessity. It's not that she has much ability, she has several good sons who are filial, and naturally someone helped clean up her daughter-in-law before she wanted to rebel. However, He himself has a degree in his heart, and he will not go too far, so as not to offend the anger of the public.

Yu and Xiao He consciously entered the stove room, and He took Li Cong to the field. Today, wheat picking and everything is delicate work, and women are more careful, so Li Cong was sent to cut wheat stalks.

"Pick some neat and rough wheat straw and cut it, anyway, it's just for ignition, and you don't need much." Yu said.

Li Cong didn't think so, after all, there was a lot of rain in the summer, and the roof had to be renewed, and the roof should be replaced, and the wheat straw and thatch were mixed together, just to build the roof. In previous years, all the wheat straw was also cut and carried home, in addition to repairing the roof, it is also very convenient to light the fire and make cakes, and the wheat straw of more than ten acres of land can also be burned until the next year. However, he also understands that there are so many things in the family this year, and the He family is worried that there will be a shortage of manpower and will be left behind, which makes her proud that she has five sons, how can she stand the labor? So he only nodded, and had another plan in his heart.

After breakfast in the early morning, everyone arrived at their posts according to the assignment last night. Qiaoqiao and Xiuxiu are in charge of the family's affairs, and the delicate work of shelling and dusting is what women are good at, so He and a few daughters-in-law do it.

As another male laborer in the family, no one asked for it, so Dashan naturally picked up the sickle and went to cut the wheat stalks with Li Cong.

Li Laohan has already taken his family's ploughing cattle to the field now, and he is holding the forage in one hand to feed and the other hand to smooth the cow's hair. Li Laohan, who has no children and no daughters, in addition to his superficial wine-making skills, exchanges some money in the tunzi, which is accompanied by farming cattle. He didn't bother to plant any land alone, so he simply ordered it out, and the annual rent was enough for him to eat, and his life was not bad. He rents a small amount of land, and the land is also good, and there are many people who look forward to renting his land every year.

Yang Liu recognized at a glance that this ploughing cow was the happy cow that was borrowed by Li Cong as the power of the wedding car on the day she got married.

The cow also seemed to be aware of the willow's sight, and the huge bull's eyes looked at the willow, and his ears trembled. Then he turned his head and continued to chew, flicking his tail.

Ignored by a brute. Yang Liu touched his nose in a daze,

The mill is a cylindrical stone, and the arc surface of the iron cone is carved with an oblique diamond pattern to increase friction, and the middle runs through, and when it is used, it is only necessary to insert a wooden stick smaller than the hole in the middle, and the rope is firmly tied to the two ends of the wooden stick, and the rest is hung on the neck of the cow.

After saying hello, he was busy, Yang Liu stepped on the wheat ears in white cloth socks, and was responsible for raking the milled wheat ears to the unmilled wheat ears with a bamboo rake, and the wheat grains with wheat husks were swept out by Yu Shi and gathered into a pile, Xiao He and He Shi were responsible for separating the wheat husks and wheat grains with a coarse sieve, and then used a fine sieve for secondary screening.

Although Yang Liu was busy, he didn't ignore the cow, and his intuition felt that he was unlucky today. After a while, I saw the ox's tail arch upwards by an amplitude, and Yang Liu's eyelids jumped, and sure enough, Li Laohan roared: "Hurry up, Xiao Huang is going to." ”

She immediately jumped to the side and trampled some grains of wheat.

But I saw that Li Laohan quickly loosened the rope on his neck, and drove the old ox out of the wheat ear pile with a flick of the leather whip, and scolded with a smile: "You fool, you think this is ploughing the land, you don't look at it, and you shit when you lift your butt." (To be continued......)

PS: I hate the most to make up for something, tired