After returning at noon, Qing Shu urged Qingyang and them to wash their hands and faces, and then let them sit in a row. She took out the needle, asked Xiaoyu to light the oil lamp, and then roasted the tip of the needle on the fire of the oil lamp, and gave Qingyang and them the unbroken blisters in their palms one by one.

Qing Shu looked at them wilting, "Does it hurt?" ”

didn't speak, but shook his head collectively in tacit understanding.

"Tired or not?"

Only Qingyang whispered that he was not tired, and the other three all nodded.

Qing Shu chuckled, "Your task in the afternoon is to dig another tree pit for each of you." Give up or continue, and tell me again after lunch. Let's go, let's go and have dinner. She got up, let the four of them stand up, and led them to the kitchen. She took the lead and took a pair of chopsticks (a medium bowl, a pair of chopsticks) and handed the bowl to Xiaojuan, who was standing by the stove.

Xiaojuan took her bowl, scooped a large spoonful of sorghum rice from the pot on the left and put it into the bowl, scooped a spoonful of fried mushrooms with slices of meat from the pot on the right, and poured it on top of the sorghum rice, and then handed the bowl back to Qingshu.

Qing Shu took the bowl and walked to the kitchen door to wait for them, "How much can you eat, let it be as much as you want, as long as it is served, you must eat it all, and no leftovers are allowed." ”

Luo Xiaorong agreed, handed the bowl to Xiaojuan, and said that it would be the same as her sister. Luo Xiaorong's meal was served, followed by Qingyang, then Hao, and finally Chen Qiaojiang. They all served the same as Qingshu, the rice and vegetables were added together, and a little tip came out of the middle bowl.

Qingshu took them back to the hall, and then the five of them sat around and ate with their heads down.

Xiaoyu sent a plate of pickles, returned to the kitchen, and whispered to Xiaojuan, "The young master's hands are blistered, and the young master said that the young master will dig a tree pit in the afternoon." The young master is still so young, and he doesn't know if he can stand it? You remember, at dinner, put more meat in the young masters' bowls, and keep it quiet, so that the young lady doesn't see it. ”

"There is no meat dish at night! The meat I brought yesterday was all used for cooking at noon. The young lady said that she would have to eat vegetarian with the young masters at dinner, and she was not allowed to add meat to the dishes. Xiaojuan whispered, quickly put two bowls of food, one bowl was handed to Xiaoyu, the other bowl was held by herself, took the chopsticks and said, "Let's go out, the big brother of the guard is waiting to come in and eat!" ”

Speaking of Qingshu's side, Chen Qiaojiang and Luo Xiaorong were not used to eating sorghum rice, but they were afraid that Qingshu would say that they were picky eaters, so they could only force themselves to eat it. Even if you force yourself to eat, how good can that expression be!

Qingyang is eating with a comfortable face. Probably because Qing Shu often ate coarse grain rice with him when he was short of money, so that he did not reject eating coarse grain rice in his heart. Hao is also okay, although he eats slowly, he does not show a painful expression that is difficult to swallow.

In any case, none of them had any leftovers at the bottom of the bowl in the end, and they all ate them cleanly.

Qing Shu told them to take a nap for two quarters of an hour, then called them up and took them to the wasteland again. Similarly, Qing Shu accompanied them to dig tree holes, and from time to time to keep an eye on their movements from the corner of his eye.

Boys are boys, relatively not as delicate as girls, and not as fragile as girls. The palm of the hand burst, and then grabbed the tools to work, and everyone knew that it would hurt. And they endured it, no one cried out in pain, digging the soil one by one, and there were still minds to compete with each other. They have already given up comparing progress with Qing Shu, and now they are thinking about each other, and the four of them are digging each other faster.

Seeing that he was digging more and more slowly, and he had fallen last, Luo Xiaorong was in a hurry, his eyes were red, and he seemed to be about to cry.

Qing Shu noticed his strange appearance, quickly put down the shovel, came over a few steps, squatted down and asked softly, "Xiaorong, what's wrong with you?" ”

Luo Xiaorong threw away the shovel and threw himself on Qing Shu, shedding tears while saying, "Xiao Rong is useless, Xiao Rong can't dig tree pits, and my brothers are faster than Xiao Rong." ”

It turned out that it wasn't because of the pain in his hands that he was crying, Qing Shu calmed down, patted him on the back, smiled and coaxed, "Who said Xiao Rong is useless?" Xiao Rong is amazing! Xiao Rong digs slower than his brothers because Xiao Rong is the youngest. When you are young, your strength is small, this is a matter of course, and Xiaorong does not need to be sad. ”

Qingyang and the others threw their shovels and came around, some touched his head, and some patted him on the back like Xueqingshu, and they actually coaxed him with words. Especially Qingyang, he actually patted his chest and said that he wanted to help Xiaorong's younger brother dig.

Qingshu didn't want to break the rules she had set, but before she could speak, Luo Xiaorong sniffed and rejected Qingyang.

The people had already been coaxed, Qing Shu glanced at the sky and clapped his hands, "Okay, little men, let's get started." Dig early, go home early. When they were all in place, she said, "If you want, you can do it together." But there is one thing, the two people who work together must be voluntary, and they must not complain about each other, and they must not say that they think that their partners are doing little and doing it slowly. ”

She didn't look at the expressions of the four people, "You can divide and cooperate in doing work." For example, one person specializes in loosening the soil, and one person specifically throws the loose soil out of the pit. Another example is that peers can take turns working and resting. It's just a simple job, but with a good division of labor, it can also be done happily. Where we are now, it's easiest to dig a tree pit. You see, if you dig like this, it's basically dirt, and there are very few rocks, and it's very small. ”

She pointed to the place where about 50 people were digging a tree pit in the distance, "There is the foot of a small hill, and there are a lot of stones dug down, not only gravel, but also very large stones. When they dig, they are more skillful and more laborious than us. Therefore, they chose to divide labor and cooperate, some were responsible for digging out the soil to dig out the stones, and some were dedicated to clearing the soil in the pit. At this point, she stopped talking, but dug a hole in one of her trees as fast as she could, and left the four of them in place, and went on patrol with the little fish herself.

Instead of digging the other side of the tree pit, she went to the other side of the land. Because the land has been barren for many years, and people from nearby villages used to come here from time to time to dig herbs, chop firewood and grass or cut tree roots, so it is not flat, some places are full of potholes, and in some places there are pits left by people digging traps to hunt small animals.

Since there is a need to grow vegetables here, leveling the land has become a priority. Seeing that more than 40 people were in full swing to level the land, and at the same time, the ground was also turned over, Qing Shu followed behind and stopped to watch, and kicked the newly turned clods under his feet a few times from time to time. As she thought, except for the rocks at the foot of the hill, there are basically no stones in the soil here, and there are only a few small gravel sporadically, which does not affect the cultivation of vegetables or crops.

After the first turning, apply farm manure, and then carry out the second turning. After that, the vegetable planting place is regularized to produce vegetable furrows; Where the crops are planted, they can enter the plough rod and plough out the ridges of the field. Next, it's time to sow the seeds. After that, it's about serving, and it's about looking at God's face. Because she can't solve the water source problem now, there is no possibility of artificial irrigation at all, and it depends on whether God will make the farmers have a smooth weather.

She walked for a while, and saw Mr. Lu and his guest Song Xian talking to each other in a distance; And Song Xian's two sons were working together to unfold a large cloth or leather and stand in front of Mr. Lu and Song Xian, as if they were also talking about something.

Why did Mr. Lu bring Song Xian's father and son to the wasteland? She was very curious about this. It's just that Mr. Lu has been refusing to say, and she is not sure whether Mr. Lu's trip is for personal matters or for hers, so she endured it and never asked. Now that you've met it, why don't you come forward and take a look! This thought flashed through her mind, and she walked in the direction of Mr. Lu and them without hesitation.

When she approached, Mr. Lu and Song Xian didn't speak, just looked in the direction of Liangzhou from afar, as if they were thinking about something. And Song Teng was squatting on the ground sorting out the large cloth bag they were carrying, and Song Da was collecting a large scroll.

"Second Brother Song, take the liberty of asking, can you let me see what you have in your hand?" Qing Shu would be so abrupt because she suspected that the large scroll in Song Da's hand was probably a map. What the ancient map looked like, she really wanted to see.

Song Da was surprised and looked at his eldest brother. Seeing that his eldest brother nodded his head, he handed the large scroll he had just put away forward.

Steward Ding, who was following Qingshu, stepped forward to pick it up and handed it to Xiaoyu. Xiaoyu then handed it over to Qingshu.

Qing Shu grabbed it in his hand and slowly unfolded a corner. Judging by its color and the touch of the hand, she felt that the large scroll was definitely leather. As for what kind of leather it was made of, she didn't know. She was dumbfounded when the scroll was halfway unfolded, for it was either a zigzag line drawn on it, or something dotted and dotted that didn't know what was marked, like a map, but not like a map. Well, she admitted, she didn't know what an ancient map looked like. But even so, she didn't feel like it was a map. So she chose to be ashamed to ask, "Second Brother Song, what is this?" ”

Song Da replied with some restraint, "This is the sheepskin scroll that my father used to mark rivers and lakes. ”

"Rivers and lakes?" Qing Shu looked at the zigzag lines in amazement, could it be that these lines were marked rivers, and the dots of ink marked lakes? This, to be honest, is really abstract enough from the perspective of modern people looking at the map, and it is estimated that no one can understand it except for myself. Anyway, she couldn't read it, even if she knew it was a map of rivers and lakes.

Mr. Lu's gaze had already withdrawn from afar, and he was looking at Qing Shu with a smile at the moment, "Shu girl, Mr. is still guessing how many days you can endure before asking questions, but I didn't expect you to only endure for a day, and you chased after you so quickly to ask." ”

"Sir misunderstood, I was just passing by, no questions to ask." Qing Shu said this, because he didn't want to pretend to understand, so he put away the scroll and let Xiaoyu return it.

Mr. Lu laughed, "Hard-mouthed girl!" Since you happen to come over, Mr. will tell you that Mr. and Mr. Song are thinking about a major event, whether it will be successful or not, there is no accurate number, and it is not easy to publicize it for the time being. If not, you don't have to know what we're thinking. If it can be done, the gentleman will definitely sue you. Okay, we're going to have to look elsewhere, you go back and keep an eye on those four naughty boys, don't let them be lazy. ”

Qing Shu made a woman's salute, "Sir, Mr. Song, please walk slowly." ”

Song Xian bowed his head and did not speak.

Mr. Lu said, "Girl, those four naughty ones are half the size, but they are not expensive girls, where can they only dig two tree pits per day, and it is almost the same to dig ten tree pits per person per day." If you're so soft-hearted, it's hard for them to succeed. ”

Qing Shu listened and said dissatisfiedly, "Sir, you are their husband, don't just take care of yourself wandering around all day and forget your duty to teach them homework. Furthermore, whether they will become great or not depends on whether they have a good gentleman. ”

"This girl can't suffer any losses, and even Mr. dares to be sarcastic. Mr. Song, let's go quickly, if we don't leave, maybe this girl will charge Lu again, haha......" Mr. Lu laughed and walked away with Song Xian.

Song Teng and Song Da hurriedly took their things and walked behind the two of them.

Qing Shu watched their figures go away, looked up at the position of the sun, and turned around, "Let's go!" The young masters are almost done with their work. ”

And Qingshu's guess was correct, when she walked back, Qingyang and they had really finished. Probably tired, they sat in a row next to the tree pit and rested. Qing Shu personally took a two-foot-long dry branch to inspect the pit they had dug, and then announced, "Congratulations, all of you are qualified, and we will go home." ”

When I returned to the rented farmhouse in Sunjia Village, it was still early. Xiao Juan and Yuan Bao were buried along the right wall with a wooden fence more than one person high. The fence they buried was different from others, not only was it more than one person high, but it also left basically no gaps, and the fence they buried was very dense.

Qing Shu got out of the carriage and stepped forward, "What is this going to do?" ”

Xiaojuan wiped the sweat from her forehead, "Miss, you don't know, there are some women who don't have long eyes, they have nothing to do when they are full, and they peek into our courtyard all day long." The slave was afraid that the young lady would be upset when she saw it, so she discussed it with Yuan Bao and thought of such a solution. ”

Qing Shu glanced at the courtyard on the right from the place where the fence had not been buried, "You guys are busy!" Then he beckoned Qingyang and them into the house.

Steward Ding, who followed Qingshu back, asked Xiaojuan and Yuanbao to retreat, and took over the matter of burying the fence with the other two family members.

Xiaojuan glanced at the sky, "It's time to make dinner." Then he hurried into the kitchen.

When the sun was setting in the west, Mr. Lu and Song Xian, father and son, returned.

Mr. Lu seemed to be in a good mood, "Girl, come out quickly, Mr. has a happy event to tell you." ”