After breakfast was ready, Fang Jing handed a bowl of shredded noodles with vegetables and meat to Fang Yuan's hand, and the little girl just kept sitting on the chair at the door, looking not far away, not knowing how to comfort her.

"Little sister, Xiong Er just went out for a few days, and he will come back in a few days, and it's not that he won't come back, don't be sad, eat this bowl of green vegetables and shredded meat soup cakes." Fang Jing really didn't know what to do.

"Brother Jing, Xiong Er will come back, right?" Lizhi held a bamboo bowl and sat side by side with Fang Yuan, looking at Fang Jing with both eyes.

"Don't worry, Xiong Er is just going out to play for a few days, and he will definitely come back in a few days." Of course, Fang Jing didn't know if Xiong Er would come back, but he thought that Xiong Er just had a wife, and after a few days, the freshness would pass, and he would definitely come back.

After breakfast, Fang Jing moved a chair, sat on the edge of the entrance of the hall, and looked out of the door, the sun was gradually rising, and there were no trees planted near the building, the sun shone on the walls of the building, fortunately, it was not directly at the door, otherwise the family would not be able to stay.

"Cousin, what are we going to do today? It's so hot that I don't want to go out. Da Chu also moved a chair over and sat next to Fang Jing.

"Summer is like this, there is no way, our Fangjia Village has been calculated, how can there be a village in other villages like our Fangjia Village, the weather is too hot to work in the field, and they have learned to take a lunch break, but this day is indeed getting hotter and hotter, and it is difficult to go out." Fang Jing knew what Da Chu meant, but there was no way in this hot weather, let alone going out to work, so only those who were more diligent would choose to work in the fields in this hot weather, or even some poor farmers who had no food to eat.

"Oh, by the way, Dachu, if you're okay, go and call your little uncle and aunt back to rest, just after breakfast, go to the soybean field to weed, although you can still do some work now, and in another hour, it is estimated that you can sunburn people to death." Fang Jing said to Da Chu, Chen Erlin and his wife are indeed diligent, and as soon as they finished eating, they went to the field to weed with farm tools.

"Okay, cousin, I'll go to the field and call my father and mother to come back in a moment." At the beginning, he knew that his cousin was distressed by his father and mother, but his father and mother were idle people.

"I'll go to the ditch for a while, dig a larger pool, convenient for our family, and convenient for the villagers, if you can draw water from the bamboo forest, it would be the best, but the bamboo forest didn't find a water source, I'll look for it in the afternoon." Fang Jing was thinking about something in her heart, and she was talking about what she was going to do today.

"Cousin, is this pool going to be dug very big? The pool on the other side of the ditch is a little small and easy to get muddy, so if you dig the pool, you have to dig deeper. After listening to Fang Jing's words, Da Chu estimated the depth and size of the pool in his heart.

"Let's go and see it later, Xiaotuanzi and them, alas, this Xiong Er is also yes, if you don't leave early, you won't leave late, you have to find a wife at this time, you let Daying watch them." Fang Jing thought of Fang Yuan and them, they didn't know what they were doing in the house, anyway, there was no sound, they were probably all in a daze.

"Cousin, isn't it a good thing that Xiong Er has found a husband, maybe when the time comes, Xiong Er will be able to bring his husband to the house." At the beginning, he was quite interested in Xiong Er's ability to find a wife, but he hoped that Xiong Er would bring a partner home one day.

"Dachu, you think too much, this Xiong Er's husband has been growing up in the mountains and forests, and he is really wild, but he doesn't dare to bring it home, what if he really bites someone? It's not like Xiong Er, who was raised at home since he was a child. After listening to Da Chu's words, Fang Jing explained the difference between Xiong Er and his partner.

"It's also oh, this beast that grows up in the mountains and forests, you really can't bring it home, it's really going to bite people, that's a big deal." Da Chu responded to Fang Jing, although Da Chu was not as old as Fang Jing, but now he is already fourteen years old, and in another four or five years, he can say that he will be a mother-in-law and start a family.

Fang Jing is only four years older than Da Chu, but now Jing is about to become an adult, according to his household post, it is in mid-August, and there is no complete record of which day.

Fang Jing has never had a birthday, Fang's village was poor before, let alone a birthday, he didn't even have a bowl of gruel to drink, and the people in the village didn't know a single word.

Speaking of this birthday, in fact, from ancient times to the present, do not respect the birthday of the saying, some are only some bureaucrats and scholars are likely to have a birthday, ordinary people, the meal is not enough, how to celebrate the birthday, however, the origin of the birthday, Gu said from the south to the north, really began to become popular, should be in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, there is a birthday, a birthday, but not once a year, but only in the corresponding age stage, will have a birthday.

Although Jing is about to be eighteen years old at the moment, but at present, the Tang Dynasty is not respecting Confucianism, and there is little talk of crown ceremony, the Tang Li royal family, but the Taoist thought is the country's governing concept, but Confucianism is deep-rooted, can not regret its status in the hearts of the people, but for the crown ceremony, it is a laissez-faire attitude, your own family will be crowned if you want, if you are unwilling, the court will not promote and force you.

But for adult men, you must be required to start a family, which has clear provisions in the law of the Tang Dynasty, women can get married when they reach the age of cardamom, that is, at the age of thirteen or fourteen, and at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, there was a law urging marriage, if you don't get married, you have to pay a fine, but not more than eighteen years old at the latest, otherwise the parents will be punished.

The age of marriage for men is sixteen years old, and those who do not marry must pay a fine until they are twenty years old, otherwise their parents also need to be punished, zero to four years old is yellow (the source of Huangkou children), four to fifteen years old is called Xiao (the source of children), sixteen to twenty years old is a middle man, twenty-one to sixty years old is called Ding man, and more than sixty years old is called old.

Although Fang Jing is almost eighteen years old at the moment, the special existence of Fangjia Village makes the officials of Xiaohe Town or Pingli County not dare to come to Fangjia Village to talk about matchmaking, or to urge marriage.

At present, the Tang Dynasty has just been established for about ten years, and there is a lack of a large population, there are more women than men, and there are even more women to the point that it is impossible to calculate, just like Fangjia Village, the ratio of men and women is completely out of balance.

"At the beginning of the year, I'll dig the pond, you go to the field and call your uncle and aunt to come back, this grass can't be cleaned no matter how you get rid of it, and you can remove it later, when the sun is not so big." Fang Jing got up and went to a firewood house next to the livestock house, took a hoe out, and prepared to go to the ditch to dig a pond.

"Brother Jing, what are you doing?" Li Zhen ran out of the inner room, and saw Fang Jing outside the door resisting the hoe, but asked Fang Jing what he was going to do.

"I'm going to dig a pond so that you can swim, dig bigger and deeper, and then you can go to the pool and play." Fang Jing responded casually, raised her leg and went to the ditch.

Li Zhen watched Fang Jing go away, she didn't know what she was thinking, but she was quite interested in swimming, usually taking a bath was boiled by the entourage and brought them into the house, poured into the big wooden barrel to bathe, but if they really bathed in the small river in the wild, they hadn't tried it yet.

"Sister Yuan, Sister Yuan, Brother Jing went out just now, and he wants to dig a pool by the ditch, saying that it is for us to swim, let's go and have a look." Lizhi ran back to the back room, took Fang Yuan's little hand, and said excitedly.

Fang Yuan didn't have any interest in swimming or not, he only thought about his Xiong Er, how Xiong Er was now, and when Xiong Er would come back.

Li Zhen looked at Fang Yuan's appearance, and didn't know how to comfort Fang Yuan, so she could only accompany her, but her heart was open, thinking about what kind of pool Fang Jing dug for a while, if she could swim in the water today, it would be the best.

"Sister Yuan, let's go see Brother Jing digging the pond, I want to swim." Li Dexian was wearing a sleeveless short coat, with a pair of short pants cut in half by Zhang Xiaoxia underneath, and a pair of small sandals specially made by Zhang Xiaoxia on his feet.

The little babies at home are basically dressed like this, the weather is too hot, but they can't wear any long coats and coats, let alone any cloth shoes.

The small sandals are still taught by Fang Jing to Zhang Xiaoxia, in order to wear them on the feet in the summer, and not to walk awkwardly, the practice of sandals is actually simple, sew some cowhide and cut strips to sew, the sole can only thicken the cowhide, there is no soft rubber, there is no rubber, you can only use a simple way, the material is expensive, but it is better than no sandals to wear, Fang Jing doesn't want to always ask the dumb fairy for sandals to wear for the little babies.

"Okay." Fang Yuan looked at the few little girls in the house, and it was not good to spoil their mood, nodded in agreement, and then went out of the inner room and went to the ditch.

Fang Jing was coming to the edge of the ditch at this time, looking at the flow direction of the ditch, calculating in his heart which terrain would be more convenient for drainage and water intake, coupled with the problem of this terrain, Fang Jing thought more about convenience and durability.

Fang Jing walked to the side of the ditch with a hoe, a small piece of wasteland here was completely enough to dig a pool, at least fifteen meters long and three meters wide, but Fang Jing would use the three-eye well model, the first well was used for eating, the second well was used for washing things, and the third well could only be used for watering vegetables and trees.

Swinging the hoe and starting to dig hard, there was no need to calculate even the edgeline, for Fang Jing, digging a few holes was not so complicated.

"Brother Jing, is this the pool that will be dug in the future? Brother Jing, how big are you going to dig? Lizhi and a group of little girls all ran over and watched Fang Jing digging the pond with a hoe.

"It's not too big, just enough for you to swim, but once you've dug it, you'll need to get some rocks to spread it on, so that the water won't be so muddy." Fang Jing turned his head and glanced at the little babies in response, and began to dig hard again.

Fang Jing dug for about a quarter of an hour, and Da Chu and the big-headed green finch also ran over, but they didn't come to help, they just asked a word.

"Cousin, shall we go to the melon field and pick some melons and come back, and put them in the pool below?" Da Chu opened his mouth and asked Fang Jing, the big head wanted to come down to help, but was stopped by Fang Jing.

"Go, you three go to the melon field to pick some melons and come back to soak, the water in this ditch is quite cold." After Fang Jing finished speaking, he continued to dig the pit.

After hearing this, the three of them turned their heads and left, probably going to pick up a few baskets at home, and Chen Erlin also came over.

"Jing Wazi, why is this pool digging him? It's not that there is no water available. Chen Erlin didn't understand Fang Jing's thinking mode, not to mention that this ditch was not too far from home, that is, a distance of one or twenty meters, if you wanted to fetch water, you only needed to pick a bucket to come over.

"Uncle, after this pond is dug and built, it is convenient to get water, fetch water, do laundry or something, and save the small pond over there from being muddy if you just mess it up." Fang Jing had to explain the reason for digging the pool, not to mention the water used to eat at home.

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