Liu Ximing came out of the house and found that although it was winter, he just happened to meet the sun in the sky, shining warmly on his body, and his mood couldn't help but feel comfortable. Speaking of which, this is also a common plot of the Shu people, Sichuan winter is mostly cloudy, a sun is the same as the festival, or the Shu dog barks on the day, rare and strange, hehe.

walked around the house, but his heart gradually became heavy, according to this situation, although the home is not as close to the four walls, but it must be overstretched.

The house is a typical rural concave structure, the main hall and one side of the room are still blue bricks for the wall and black tile roof, but the wall and eaves can be seen in the broken places. On the other side, the kitchen is made of mud for the wall and thatched for the roof, and Liu Chen's busy figure disappears from time to time. A small shed was set up outside the kitchen, in which a few old hens squatted quietly in the nest. On both sides of the house, there are some cabbage and other vegetables planted in the open space.

I vaguely remember that the kitchen was burned down due to a fire a few years ago, but the family really had no money left over because they had to support my father's education, so they had to repair the mud wall.

Hey, it seems that the task of leading the old Liu family to win this battle against poverty is still very arduous!

The sunlight shines through the gaps in the branches and leaves of the large trees in front of the door, shining on the roof and walls, and the interlaced tiles and thatched grass seem to tell the changes of a family in light and shadow.

It's also helpless to say, it's too difficult for an ordinary family to support a scholar these days, and if you can't get any fame in the end, it will be a loss to your grandmother's house. But for example, today's levy is too heavy, even if it is a well-off family, as long as you are targeted by the yamen officials and the big country households, you can be washed home in a few clicks. However, it would be very different if the family could produce a showman, in addition to the fact that the showcai himself was exempted from tax and servitude, he could also be exempted from the forced labor of an adult member of the family. If you win the promotion, it will be a large number of peasants who want to donate their land and hide their household registration, which is why so many people desperately want to study and become officials.

"Mother, I'll go out for a walk and I'll be back in a while." Liu Ximing shouted at Liu Chen, who was busy in the kitchen.

"Don't go far, we'll start eating later." Liu Chen said without looking back.

Walking out of the yard, the two younger brothers were riding bamboo horses in front of the house to play, Liu Ximing's heart moved, although he had the memory of the original owner, but some things were always vaguely not right, and he might be able to inquire more about these two little guys.

Liu Ximing said to them: "You two have nothing to do with me to go out for a walk, in case we meet a rabbit or something along the way, we can still open meat." ”

The two brothers, Liu Xixian and Liu Xi'an, cheered and followed, but they didn't notice that the second brother didn't bring any tools.

To be honest, Liu Ximing was also worried when he saw the two of them, the Nima twins looked too similar, and he really couldn't tell who was the third and who was the fourth in his memory.

I had to pretend to be familiar and said to the two: "Third child, how long have I been lying at home?" Now my head is not good, I really can't remember. ”

"I know, I know, the third brother asked me to come and say."

Liu Ximing recognized it at this time, the more quiet one should be the third Liu Xixian, and there is a black mole between the eyebrows.

What's more, it's also the fourth child who let me eat more vegetables just now.

I saw Liu Xi'an say: "Second brother, you have been lying down all day since yesterday, my mother said that you are tired and worried, but obviously you have not done much more than us." ”

He turned his head and stared at Liu Ximing with suspicious eyes, "You don't want to work, pretend, right?" ”

emmm, Liu Xi's heart is full of 10,000 divine beasts running by, and what about the trust between people?

"I'm not, I don't, don't talk nonsense." Liu Ximing hurriedly denied it three times.

What do you mean by looking at me like this?

"What do you look at, the third child, I feel very sad about you like this."

Liu Ximing pretended to be evil and said to Liu Xi'an fiercely: "I see that your kid doesn't know who the boss is if you don't fight for three days!" Rushed over and grabbed Liu Xi'an's face and got up fiercely.

"You're not the boss, you're the second." Liu Xi'an struggled to run away.

Liu Ximing didn't catch his hand for a while, and as soon as he grabbed the third brother next to him, he also began to rua, and the three brothers laughed and fought together.

During the play, the three of them went on the wide dirt road in front of the house, and the paddy fields on both sides were exposed one by one because it was winter. Looking along the dirt road, I saw that there were twenty or thirty houses crooked around the road, most of them with thatched roofs, and only a large blue brick house at the end. It was cooking time, and puffs of cooking smoke came out of the village, and Liu Ximing was in a trance.

Liu Ximing pointed to a few fields on the side of the road and said deliberately: "These fields can be planted with water in winter, it's a pity that they are empty." ”

Liu Xixian looked at his brother strangely and said, "Our family doesn't have strong labor, how can we be busy?" ”

Oh, it turns out that these are all my own fields. Fortunately, fortunately, Nongfu Spring still has some fields.

However, there are too few fields in this village, Liu Ximing stood at the head of the village and looked at it from afar, feeling that the land reclaimed by the entire village was only two or three hundred acres, and he asked about his two younger brothers in doubt.

The third child replied seriously: "Who dares to farm now, if they really open up the wasteland by themselves, and they haven't planted anything, the county officials will come to collect taxes, plus all kinds of forced labor, who will bear it." ”

While talking, a woman wearing a blue and white thick skirt, a short black apron, and a blue scarf wrapped around her head walked over from a small road on the right with a basket of vegetables, and saw the three brothers of the Liu family standing on the side of the road, she waved at a few people and smiled: "It's almost noon, why don't you boys eat at home?" ”

After speaking, he smiled at Liu Ximing and said: "Second baby, you are so soon, I'll just say, what can a strong young man do, but you still have to pay attention to your body, see what your mother is worried about." ”

Liu Ximing didn't know how to speak, and the fourth child took over the words: "Aunt Wu, my mother is cooking, you haven't lit a fire yet, Brother Biaozi doesn't have to look for food all over the village." ”

Hahaha, as soon as Liu Ximing said this, a tall figure appeared in Liu Ximing's mind, it was Li Biao, the son of Aunt Wu's family. Speaking of which, this guy is also funny, they all say that half of the size eats Lao Tzu, this Li Biao is only sixteen years old, not only is he strong, but he doesn't eat much.

Aunt Wu's family is also similar to her own family, she lost her husband in her early years, and she relied on Aunt Wu to find work everywhere to pull Li Biao up, but it was even more difficult to feed Li Biao. No, often when it comes to dinner, Li Biao will carry a bowl all over the village to beg for food, not only that, but every day but when he has free time, he will look for food everywhere in the mountains and fields.

"He went to the river to fish again, I guess I'll come back later, I'm going back to cook, if you want to eat, come and try it." Aunt Wu said.

Liu Ximing grabbed the fourth foodie who was about to move, and arched his hand: "Thank you, Aunt Wu, my mother should call us later, let's go back when we come out." ”

Aunt Wu said with a smile: "The second baby is really a Sven, then you play first, and I'll go back to cooking." ”

When the three brothers were about to say goodbye, a young woman came out of the hut next to her, looking like she was twenty or thirty years old, with a pointed face and hanging eyebrows, wearing a white cloth skirt and white cloth pants, and one or two patches on it. ”

Liu Ximing's face sank immediately when he heard this, where did this Nima come from, and the shrew pointed at Sang and scolded Huai.

Aunt Wu next to her reprimanded: "Daughter-in-law of the Chen family, where are you talking like this, it's strange and ugly." ”

Liu Xixian and Liu Xi'an tightened their little faces, and the two took Liu Ximing's hand and ran forward, turned around and said, "It's really ugly, Aunt Wu, you are busy first, let's go first." ”

I only heard the daughter-in-law of the Chen family yelling angrily behind her: "Little rabbit cub, if you don't have a parenting, your mother will teach you these things, see if the old lady doesn't clean you up next time." ”

really stepped on shit when he went out, Liu Ximing's mood was destroyed all of a sudden, but there was no way, the same rice raised hundreds of people, and besides, there were all kinds of forests when the birds were big.

Listening to the third and fourth children humming angrily about the daughter-in-law of the Chen family, Liu Ximing knew that this woman had always been jealous of her family, and since her father died, she always liked to make trouble with the Liu family when she had nothing to do.

After walking into the village for a while, Liu Ximing found that the road was smoother than outside the village, although it was also potholes, but it was finally not muddy everywhere.

The houses on both sides of the road are basically mud houses and thatched huts, and many of the men are basking in the sun and smoking dirt cigarettes in the yards, and groups of children are playing nearby. Seeing the three brothers passing by, some of them nodded and said hello, and some didn't care, most of them were wearing gray-white narrow-sleeved shirts and trousers.

Liu Ximing was also stunned, in his memory, Zhangjiawan was on the side of the Jialing River, and the land in the whole village was quite flat, not to mention that it was all Ueda, but there were also more in Zhongtian, why did the living conditions of the people in the whole village be so poor.

He made an excuse and said that he had a headache and couldn't remember, so he pulled his two younger brothers to ask and check each character one by one.

When passing by a house further, Liu Xixian and Liu Xi'an pulled Liu Ximing and walked forward quickly, with a disgusted expression.

Liu Ximing turned his head to look, only to see a man wearing a tattered robe lying in the middle of the courtyard, then the third child looked at him and looked at the house, and whispered: "This is the lazy man Cao Er in the village, I heard that their ancestors also had a scholar, but when he came here, he was only left to steal and play tricks, and he didn't do any work in Pingsuli, he only knew how to steal chickens and dogs, and the people in the village were afraid that he would play tricks and dare not force him." ”

"The year before last, our big black family must have been lost by him", the fourth child said fiercely on the side.

Liu Ximing silently wrote down Cao Er, he knew in his heart that the most troublesome thing in the countryside was shrews and skins like the daughter-in-law of the Chen family and Cao Er, and what else could you do if everyone was shameless.

Zhangjiawan village is not big, after a while I walked to the side of the brick house at the head of the village, only to see that this is a two-entry courtyard, the outer wall of the courtyard is blue brick, the four corners of the hall house in the courtyard are cocked, the eaves are exposed from the side of the courtyard wall, the pattern can be faintly seen on the eaves tile of the courtyard wall, from the main entrance to see a wall wall with the word "Fu" written inverted "Fu" blocking the sight, and there is a plaque hanging at the gate that says Zhang's house.

Without waiting for Liu Ximing to ask, the fourth child opened his mouth and said: "This is the house of Zhang Yucheng's landlord's family, they have a dog, let's not get too close." The third child also nodded and said, "That's it, my mother also said that their family is not easy to get along, let's take a look and go back." ”

Liu Ximing estimated the time when he heard this, and his mother should be about to finish the meal at home, so he nodded in agreement and led his two younger brothers back.