It took half a month for Chu Tianyi and Song Jiahui to work together to soak all the jars with medicinal wine; The medicinal liquor was moved into the utility room, and the originally spacious utility room became crowded.

"Cousin-in-law, how long do you have to soak these medicinal wines?" Song Jiahui exhaled a breath of turbidity, looking at the room full of medicinal wine, his heart was a little heavy, "So much, can you really sell it?" ”

"Don't worry! Good things don't have to worry about not being able to sell, besides, the cost of these things is not high, even if they can't be sold, it's okay to keep them for yourself. Chu Tianyi clapped his hands confidently, bent down and picked up a jar of about twenty catties, turned around and walked out of the utility room.

Song Jiahui rubbed to Lei Ce's side, squeezed his eyebrows and winked, "Cousin, you can marry a ruined daughter-in-law." "The cost of a hundred dollars, isn't it high?

Lei Zer gave him a cold look and walked out hobbly.

Song Jiahui laughed wickedly, glanced back at the twenty large jars of hundreds of catties, walked out of the utility room, turned around and closed the door.

"Uncle, aunt." Chu Tianyi walked into the hall and put the wine jar in front of them, "This is a medicinal wine for treating rheumatism and bone pain and calming the nerves, and you can drink it in about ten days." A small cup every night is enough, and the effect is a bit great. ”

Song Sancheng looked at the wine jar and looked up at her again, "Why did you make us medicinal wine?" The wine that Jiahui bought back was all good wine, and it was a waste for us to drink. ”

"Uncle, you can't say that; Reitzer is drunk, why can't you drink it? I saw that my aunt had to beat my waist and legs every night, and I thought that you would work in the fields all year round. There must be rheumatism on the body, so I will soak a jar for you, and you can drink it and try it; If it works, I'll give you another bubble. ”

Song Sancheng opened his mouth, but the words did not come out; was intercepted by Wu Cuihua, "Cheng, since it is you and Ce'er who are filial, we will definitely drink it; Thank you for your hard work, daughter-in-law. ”

"What's hard, it's just a handy thing; Uncle and aunt, you drink and see, I'll go back first, it's time for my brother to change the dressing. "Chu Tianyi doesn't care much, the time for real hard work has passed.

Wu Cuihua smiled and said, "Go!" By the way, Ce's daughter-in-law, the harvest will be threshed in a few days; When the time comes, we'll have to trouble you to make our meals. ”

"Okay. Auntie, I'll go first. ”

"Okay." Wu Cuihua touched the wine jar with her hand and sighed, "It's still Ce'er's vision, since marrying this daughter-in-law, our family has been a lot more lively; I also know how to honor us, and I don't know if the daughter of the Xu family will honor us like her daughter-in-law in the future. ”

Song Sancheng glanced at the jar, lowered his head and smoked a dry cigarette, "It's a good one, it's her brother'......"

"What are you worried about this? They have been married for more than half a month, and they don't see Chu Bocheng's leper coming; Looking at Ce's daughter-in-law's fierce appearance of beating Ge Qiang, it may have been solved a long time ago. Wu Cuihua glared at him, and went to the back room with the jar like a baby.

Song Sancheng looked up, lowered his head and continued to smoke.

"Jiahui, I've worked hard for you these past few days, go back and rest!" Chu Tian asked Lei Ce and Song Jiahui brothers to come over, and directly pulled Lei Ce away.

Song Jiahui turned his head to watch the husband and wife enter the room, touched their heads, and went to the hall.

August and September are the hottest seasons of the year. It is also the best time to harvest and thresh, and every family is busy.

It's 1976, and it's still more than a year before the package arrives at the household; During this period, the system of collective work was still practiced in various parts of the rural areas.

The time they chose to threshing was from August 20 to mid-September, when threshing is the sunniest time of the year, and the beaten grain can be stored in a large warehouse after three or four suns.

And the large-scale harvesting also means that the drying field is not enough; Therefore, it must be harvested in batches.

Early in the morning, Song Sancheng got up to prepare, took out the threshing tools he had prepared before, and put them in front of the house.

"Dad, I'm ready, let's go!" Song Jiahui walked out of the house with the help of ropes on his legs and hands.

"Uncle, I'll go too." Lei Ce and Chu Tianyi walked out of the room.

Song Jiahui frowned, "Cousin, you have to take good care of your legs, and our family will only have three acres and nine points of land; It can be done in a day, and I don't need you. ”

Chu Tianyi looked at him worriedly, she also thought the same, but she couldn't resist him.

"Jiahui, one more person can also earn some centimeters for the family." Lei Ze's cold eyes condensed slightly.

"Ce'er, you can't go to the field, just cook for us at home with your daughter-in-law." Song Sancheng made a decision in one sentence, carrying the bamboo basket and preparing to leave.

Lei Ce had a cold color and frustration in his eyes, Chu Tianyi saw it in his eyes, sighed, and stopped Song Sancheng, "Uncle, my brother is not at ease staying at home, it is better to let him go with you!" Let him dry the grain on the threshing floor. ”

"No, Ce'er's leg is not yet complete, so she can't go." Song Sancheng glanced at Chu Tianyi reproachfully, he was just an uncle, and it was not easy to talk about this nephew and daughter-in-law.

Lei Ce held her hand and comforted her silently, "Uncle, I want to go, I have lived in your house for so long, and I also helped me get my daughter-in-law, I should do this." ”

Chu Tianyi was silent, and when he spoke at this time, he was erecting a target.

"Since Ce'er wants to go, let him go! There is nothing wrong with turning over the millet in the drying field. Wu Cuihua took over the conversation, her mind was much more delicate than Song Sancheng; How could you not see that this matter was led by Lei Ze.

Song Sancheng glared at them, angry in his heart, picked up the bamboo basket and shouted, "Jiahui, come here, carry the mixing bucket and go." ”

Wu Cuihua glanced at Lei Ce, who had a gloomy expression, "Ce'er, you are too out-of-this, no wonder your uncle is angry." Let's go! Your uncle is just such a person, and after a while, his anger will disappear, and it will be fine. He took up the basket with the sickle and a set of utensils and walked away.

Reitzer smiled wryly.

"Brother, don't worry! As long as your leg is okay, your uncle won't be angry with you. Go for it! I'll go to the foot of the mountain to pick some wild vegetables, and I'll make you cold wild vegetables to eat at noon. Chu Tianyi patted his arm and sent him away before going back to the kitchen to pick up a small dustpan to pick wild vegetables.

In summer, the most are broom vegetables and purslane, Chu Tianyi picked some of them, and went to the mountains to pick two handfuls of honeysuckle and mint to go home; A bucket of herbal tea was burned and placed in the well to dry.

After doing this, the ground is already radiating heat, and the dishes for noon are ready; Pass the broom and purslane twice in water and let them dry in a dustpan.

Bring the honeysuckle tea from the well, take four small bowls, and go to the field.

From a distance, the golden and yellow patches are in sheets, and the heavy ears of rice are bent over the rice seedlings, waiting for people to harvest.

"Chu Tianyi, why are you here? When you get married, shouldn't you serve a man well at home? A harsh voice came, Chu Tianyi turned his head to look, several girls were turning over the grains on the drying ground, their willow eyebrows were frivolous, and Ying Ying smiled, "It turned out to be you!" Luo Linlin, you have never been married, how do you know how to serve a man? ”

Luo Linlin's face flushed, "Hmph, Chu Tianyi, you are married, what are you doing here?" ”

"Come and bring herbal tea to your family! On such a hot day, can't you drink a few bowls of herbal tea? You talk slowly, I'll go first. Chu Tianyi chuckled and left, came to the opposite threshing floor, and saw Lei Ce sweating profusely turning over the grains; Pick out the rice leaves mixed in the grains, "Brother, drink a bowl of herbal tea and continue to dry!" ”

"Why are you here?" Lei Ze stopped the broom in his hand, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and walked to her with a hobbled step, "Are you tired of being alone at home?" ”

"Can you be tired?" Chu Tianyi put down the keg and scooped a bowl of herbal tea boiled with honeysuckle to him, "Drink it!" It's all cold, and it's very comfortable to go down in a bowl. ”

Lei Zer hooked his lips and smiled, took the bowl, and touched her face with one hand, "Okay." "After a sip, I suddenly felt cold, "Although the taste is a little weird, but it is very relieving of the heat." ”

"Then you drink another bowl, I'll send it to my uncle and them, you have to take care of your legs." Chu Tianyi explained with a smile, scooped another bowl for him and handed it to him, and walked out of the threshing floor with the bucket.

Lei Ce wiped away the smile on his face, sat down on the big stone beside him, and slowly drank herbal tea.

"Retze! Your daughter-in-law is so virtuous, she still comes to bring you water to drink on such a hot day, but she doesn't give her brothers some to drink. The big man standing on the other side of the threshing floor teased.

"Yes! Seeing that they were so sweet, we were too embarrassed to come forward and ask for a bowl to drink. ”

"Brother Luo, Brother Tian, although you have a daughter-in-law, no one is as beautiful as Chu's little sister; If your sisters-in-law are so beautiful, you have to be sweet too. ”

"Hahaha......"

There was laughter on the threshing floor, and a group of men made innocuous jokes.

Lei Ze glanced at them, took a sip of herbal tea, put down the bowl, and continued to work.

Chu Tianyi carried the bucket and sent it to the field for the three members of the Song family, "Uncle, aunt, Jiahui; I'm bringing you herbal tea, come up and drink a bowl of herbal tea and then continue to fight. ”

"Daughter-in-law." Wu Cuihua screamed, pinned the sickle to the mixing bucket, and Song Sancheng, father and son, walked over and picked up the herbal tea that she had scooped in her hand; I drank it in one gulp, "What kind of herbal tea do you make?" It's so comfortable, after a bowl, people are not so hot. ”

Chu Tianyi said with a smile: "It was burned with honeysuckle and mint, and then put it in the well to dry, so it was sent to you." Uncle, aunt, you drink, give everyone a drink; It's not early, I'll go back and make lunch first, if the food is too hot, you won't have an appetite to eat. ”

"Come back! It's hot outside, by the way, did you send it to Ce'er? Song Sancheng looked at the threshing floor in the distance uneasily.

"Brother has already drunk it, uncle, don't worry! I'm leaving! Chu Tianyi smiled and walked back, and when he passed under a tree, Chu Tianyi paused and walked behind the tree; I saw Luo Linlin, He Xiuxiang and a few girls sitting together to rest in the cold.

"Chu Tianyi is married now! But it's different from before, and the skin is thicker; Today, I was told to marry and serve a man or something. Luo Linlin confided in her little girlfriends with a disdainful face.

He Xiuxiang sneered, "Chu Tianyi has changed, but he has also become ignorant. We grew up together; Will I still hurt her? asked her to marry my second brother, but she refused to live or die, she had to marry a cripple, and scolded me. I also met the donkey's liver and lungs kindly, and now they don't care about me. ”

Chu Tianyi leaned against the trunk of the tree, listening to them say bad things about her, and the corners of his mouth outlined a sneer.