"Wait a minute, I'll catch two ducks and bring them along." After locking the door and holding the ox rope, Chen Xiaoyi unlocked the lock again, entered the backyard, tied two big fat ducks, and threw them on the ox cart.

"...... are you?" Liu Shi did not know.

Chen Ping and Chen An also looked at Chen Xiaoyi, the little lady didn't understand the affairs of their own family, but Chen An and Chen Ping knew about it.

His father has a gap with his wife's family, and he quarreled with his mother some time ago at night, and Chen Ping also listened in the western room.

But this will, this performance, the contrast is really bigger.

A year ago, I went back to my parents' house, which was a custom and should be, but most of the women went back alone, and according to the previous situation of Chen Ping's family, the Liu family had not returned to her parents' house at the age of three or four.

The birth of the little lady Chen Zhen was also told by the villagers who went to Shangwan, and no one came to Liu's mother's house, and the two families seemed to have broken off contact.

Of course, the reason for this situation in Chen Ping's family is that Chen Xiaoyi is not treated by Weng's wife's family, and the three brothers in the family guard some thin fields and a few thatched houses, which cannot be compared with the Weng woman's family of half of the landlord.

It is said that the ancients valued virtue, but that does not mean that they will not pay attention to silver money at the same time, Chen Xiaoyi was angry, and the situation at home has not changed, which is naturally unwilling to go to Weng's wife's house.

This year, the situation of the family has changed greatly, there are more livestock in the yard, the roof has been renovated, and the two rooms are built with a fire kang, even that Aunt Li often comes to ask about this fire kang, and there is a corresponding bacon hanging under the beam of the hall, and there is no shortage of hares, pheasants, and flower deer.

With such a change, when Liu said that he wanted to go back to his parents' house, even if it was a bad day, Chen Xiaoyi did not object, but rarely said that he wanted to go together.

"Lu Yuan, I heard from the chief that there has been a recent disturbance in the county, and he has been dead for several days, and the bandit has not been caught. You are a woman's family, and you have a few little girls, which makes people worry. Chen Xiaoyi explained it this way.

Liu's maiden home is in Shangwan Village, more than 20 miles away from Baitu Village, and the village is next to a bay, which is how the name of the village comes from.

Although Shangwan Village is far away, it has not yet been out of the scope of Liuhe County, and the river water in that bay comes out of Tushui, which can be regarded as a tributary of Tushui.

Living along the river, this is in the south of the Yangtze River, and the water conservancy is self-contained.

The sky was gloomy, there were not many pedestrians on the road, and most of the people stayed at home on such a cold day, and there was no farm work in the field.

A family of five, Chen An and Xiao Niang sat on the ox cart, crowded in the goods, Chen Xiaoyi led the ox rope in front, Liu Shi held on the side, taking care of the noisy Xiao Niang and Chen An on the ox cart, Chen Ping followed behind without hurry, occasionally pulling down the bowstring.

This daily exercise has never been broken, there is no shortage of meat nutrition, there is more meat on Chen An's body, Liu's complexion is ruddy, Chen Xiaoyi is loud voice, but Chen Ping is not like this, now Chen Ping can eat two and a half bowls of dry rice in a meal, plus two or three pieces of meat, such a amount of food, almost the same as two cows.

But even so, Chen Ping's figure did not develop in a horizontal direction, his body was taller and stronger, and there was a thin layer of cocoons on his palms.

The yellow cocoon is not thick, and after a pause for a few days, it can be removed by soaking it in water, but Chen Ping did not do this, not because he was lazy, but because he felt that it didn't matter. The days of exercising like this will continue forever, so what is the difference between cleaning up and not cleaning?

"I'm afraid it's going to rain on this day, and I don't say that I shouldn't come out at this time, what should I do if the child is drenched in the rain and caught the cold?" The sky was gloomy, not getting better, and it was even more bleak after walking a while, Liu Shi said worriedly.

"Didn't you bring Demoikasasa?" The rain gear was on the ox cart, and the snow melted a few days ago, and it was sunny for a day or two, but there was still soft mud on the road, Chen Xiaoyi carefully avoided it, preventing mud stains on his robes and shoes, and replied, "It was delayed for two days, and this has to wait a little longer, and it will be the first day." ”

"Why can't you go on the first day?" Chen An asked on the ox cart.

"Yuan Ri still has something to do at home, how can I be free?" Chen Xiaoyi said, "After the first day, the county order will also send people to inspect, saying that they will come in person, and the open field at home has not been granted." ”

At the beginning of each year, that is, a few days after the first year, according to the Sui Lu County Order, Chen Xiaoyi just wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to see if he could strive to give his own open field and Yongye field.

This person is not at home, if the county magistrate really asks about this, won't his family lose money?

"The county order is full of opportunities, how can you have time to care about such a trivial matter, grandpa, you think about it too much." The county order must not be able to manage this matter, but it is not really because the county order is busy, think about it, Jiangdu is such a big place, the population is dense, and the fields are small, even if the county order has the heart, I am afraid that it is weak, Chen Ping put on gloves that exposed half of his fingers, using deerskin, cut decently, the important thing is to be thin and warm, and it does not affect the string.

With a buzzing sound, the long arrow flew out, landed more than ten feet in front of the ox cart, and plunged into the dirt.

"I'm going to give it a try, brother, give it to me." Seeing that it was interesting, Chen An stood up and stretched out his hand to ask for Chen Ping's bow and arrow, "I will definitely be able to shoot farther." ”

"Go, what bow and arrow do children play, it's dangerous." The bow and arrow used for practice are self-removed from the iron head, but the light rod is not accurate enough for practice, Chen Ping replaced it with a bamboo head, the danger is there, but it is not as big as imagined, even the tip of the head is not sharpened, it is blunt.

With Chen An's current strength, it is a question whether the bowstring can be pulled apart, not to mention, even if it can be pulled, can the arrow fly out?

"You just see that I have talent, you don't want to give it to me, you are jealous of me." Some words don't need to be reminded by Chen Ping, Chen An can always remember and release them at the right time.

"Bows and arrows are rare, who will I pay for if you damage them?" Chen Ping shook his head, turned the wrench in his hand, and leaned over to pick up the long arrow on the ground.

Slowly wiping the mud stains off the arrow, Chen Pingfu put on the arrow and drew his bow again, aiming at a self-determined bulge target on the road ahead, and let go of his hand as he walked.

The arrow flew out and landed on the ground, a few feet away from the raised mud, and it was a little off.

"Brother, you are so stupid, if I come to draw the bow, I will definitely be able to shoot that eagle down." Chen An teased Chen Ping to his heart's content, and pointed to the noisy flying eagle in the sky.

It's winter, and there are still lone birds, quite a big one, and they don't fly high, and they can't see clearly if they are carved down.

"With your body, you ran with me for a few days and then became lazy, and you still wanted to pull this bow?" originally wanted Chen An to exercise with him, but Chen Ping could go back and forth between Baitu Village and Xiatu Village during his morning run, and occasionally sneaked into the house of the elder to earn some food. But Chen An is good, a few days ago, the horse was hanging, and he was running with him, but he couldn't drag it behind.

Hakuba's strength seems to have passed.

"I ate meat, I can definitely do it, brother, you try it for me." His interest shifted from white horses to bows and arrows, and Chen An recently became obsessed with Guo Jing, "I will definitely be able to kill two birds with one stone." ”

"Be careful, don't break it." Chen Ping gestured to pull down the bow and handed the bow and arrow to Chen An.

Chen An took the bow and arrow, and couldn't wait to pull it away, not to mention, it really let him pull it a little, but the hand was small, and the strength was not enough, the arrow was crooked, his face was red, and he couldn't control his strength, and the long arrow flew out crookedly.

Coincidentally, the long arrow ran towards the back of Chen Xiaoyi's head, who was holding the bull rope in front.

It's also a loss that the blunt bamboo arrow, Chen Xiaoyi touched his head, nothing happened, and glared back at Chen An: "Clean up, don't get those useless things." ”

This clearly means something, Chen Ping sighed, it is indeed easy to make people numb in peaceful days, this bow and arrow is really useless, why should I pull the bow every day?

"You have little strength, so you just pull a few points away, don't force it. How many points can be pulled is a few points, the important thing is to be accurate, three points and one line, look at the index finger with your eyes, follow the arrow, and then look at the target. Chen Ping picked up the long arrow, wiped the plaster off it, and handed it to Chen An, "Side." ”