Chapter Twenty-Three: A Bucket and a Half of Wheat Employs Two Men
"You go home, you don't have to herd sheep anymore!"
After Chen Lao decided on Han Cheng, he turned his head to look at the mule over there who was holding a sheep whip and trying to stop the sheep, but couldn't stop it, frowned and said loudly, with some disgust.
The mule, which seemed to be afraid, was about to cry because of these sheep, but now when Chen Lao said this, he immediately burst into tears.
If you can't herd the sheep, you will earn back the food, and if you can't earn the food, the family will starve, and maybe the brother who is already sick will also die......
The more the mule thought about it, the more sad it became, how could a seven or eight-year-old child have too many ideas when he encountered such a thing? I forgot to stop the sheep with the sheep whip, and I couldn't help crying when I stood there.
Luo Dawa stood there dumbfounded, blaming herself and anxious, sweating a little on her forehead, but she couldn't think of anything.
For him, this is an eternal problem.
"What are you crying about? Howling? Put the whip down and hurry back! ”
Chen Lao was not moved at all, but his face was angry, and he scolded the mule loudly.
The mule was scolded by him like this, and cried even more, although he didn't want to put down the sheep whip, but in this case, he still subconsciously let go.
"Chen Lichang, let him stay, let's herd the sheep together, and the two of us will divide the bucket and a half of wheat equally."
Han Cheng opened his mouth to Chen Li on the side.
When Chen Laoli heard Han Cheng's words, his face immediately changed, and he was about to criticize Han Cheng and educate him about what it means to be economical, but when he heard what Han Cheng said later, he immediately turned into a surprise on his face.
Originally, a bucket and a half of wheat could only hire one person, but now it has become two at once, although the other small one does not look like the material that can herd sheep, but it is naturally a thing to be happy to be able to take advantage of and have one more person.
Afraid that Han Cheng would see the look of surprise on his face and realize that he had suffered a loss and would regret it, Chen Laoli quickly changed to a calmer expression, looked at Han Cheng and hurriedly asked: "This is what you said, one and a half buckets and a half, you two will divide it equally, and you will herd sheep for me." ”
Han Cheng nodded and said, "Well, I said it." ”
Seeing that Han Cheng nodded in confirmation, Chen Lao, who couldn't suppress the joy on his face, turned his head to look at the crying mule with a tearful face: "What about you?" Would you like to?! ”
Of course the mules were willing, they were already about to be driven away, but now there was a turnaround, a bucket and a half of wheat were divided between two people, although it was much less than before, but it was still able to earn back some food for the family, it was better than nothing, Wen Yan quickly picked up the sheep whip on the ground, held it tightly in his hand, and looked at Han Cheng's eyes, all of which were grateful.
Han Cheng smiled and nodded at him.
"Great! That's great! I said that this early in the morning, how could there be a piece of magpie feces on my head, it turns out that there is such a good thing waiting for me! ”
After Han Cheng, Luo Dawa and the mule drove the sheep and cattle away, Chen Lao, who no longer had to suppress the words, was so happy that he flew up, and felt that the kid of the Han family looked really pleasing to the eye.
Of course, such a good thing should be celebrated!
So this morning, the people who served the rice in the Chen family were surprised to find that Chen Lao had drunk half a bowl of gruel!
"Brother Cheng'er......"
On the way to the wild with the cattle and sheep, Luo Dawa scratched her head and looked at Han Cheng, full of entanglement and guilt, and she didn't know what to say for a while.
The mule on the side didn't speak, but was just driving the sheep hard, stopping as many disobedient sheep as possible and not letting Han Cheng do anything, he was expressing his gratitude to Han Cheng in his own way.
"It's okay, it's a little abrupt for me to come here, and some mules who can't stand it."
Luo Dawa shook his head, he always felt that he didn't get things right.
The mule shook his head like a rattle, he remembered what happened just now very clearly, if it wasn't for Han Cheng, Chen Lao would have driven him home directly.
"Brother Cheng, when it's time to divide the wheat, I'll give you half of mine."
Luo Dawa said seriously.
He was greeted by Han Cheng's slap: "Where did you come from so many things?" Did you say anything more when I went to your house to borrow salt? Do you still want to marry my little sister? ”
After Han Cheng moved the little girl out, Luo Dawa suddenly quieted down, this is really one thing and one thing.
In fact, the reason why Han Cheng suddenly reflected and wanted to follow Luo Dawa to herd sheep for Chen Lao's family was not to earn this bucket and a half of wheat, with a fish hook and a fish cage, their family was not as short of food as before.
The most important purpose is to take the opportunity to get in touch with Chen Laojiao more and see if he can think of a way from here to solve the problem of facing the ground at home.
Through the understanding of Chen Laojiao from other people's mouths in the past few days, Han Cheng always felt that after the autumn harvest, his family's dozens of acres of land would not be guaranteed.
For the land, Han Cheng is not as persistent as the people of this era, but Han Xiao takes it very seriously, even more than his own life, once the time comes to get the money, and the family's field is taken away by Chen Lao, Han Cheng doesn't need to think about it to know how miserable it should be.
These days, although Han Xiao has not said anything about the earth, he has always been worried about it in his heart, Han Cheng is not a fool, so he can naturally see it.
After the salted fish matter was in the soup, Han Cheng thought about it and was ready to start from Chen Laojiao, as long as the matter of the land could be solved, then the rest of the things would be easier to do.
This is also the biggest reason why Han Cheng divided half of the bucket and a half of the wheat and left the mules, after all, his biggest purpose was not the wheat.
He thought so, but Luo Dawa and the mule didn't think so, and they couldn't be moved by Han Cheng's previous righteous actions.
"Big baby, where are we going?"
"Then I became, I know a place where the land is not good, there are a lot of big rocks, there are no crops but grass, and cattle can be grazed."
"Brother Cheng, look!"
"Moo~"
Under the leadership of Luo Dawa, the three of them drove the cattle and sheep for a while, and came to the good place for grazing that Luo Dawa said, so they don't have to look at the cattle and sheep so tightly.
Luo Dawa's performance was about to get up, and he greeted Han Cheng and the mule, and after seeing that both of them were looking at him, he smiled, and rushed towards a calf that was about to grow up, holding the cow's head with both hands, and as soon as his body was forced, this calf, which looked extremely strong and was about to become an adult, was directly pressed to the ground by Luo Dawa, mooing and screaming, but he couldn't get up.
Han Cheng, who watched such a scene, couldn't help but sniff, this future brother-in-law is really fierce!
The mule was even more frightened, and the whip in his hand fell to the ground.
Successfully showed off Luo Dawa's triumph, and pressed the soon-to-be-grown calf to the ground for a while, then let go and got up.
The calf that was freed from the clutches of the devil got up from the ground, pulled out his legs and ran to the side, just wanting to stay away from the pervert Luo Dawa.
It may be that he was bullied by Luo Dawa miserably, the big calf was very hurt in his heart, and came to the tall stone wall alone, stretched out his tongue and brushed the stone wall one by one, looking very melancholy.
Han Chengcheng, who was watching, felt some sympathy for this calf.
But his sympathy soon vanished, and was replaced by a heart full of surprise, and a pair of eyes stared at the calf licking the stone wall, as big as a bull's eye!