Chapter 348 Carrying the Burden
Chen Ziqian said sincerely: "I didn't understand it before, but now I understand it after looking at the life you live." ”
Bai Mengdie took the opportunity to educate him: "So you have to cherish the life you have now, study hard, and don't be a gentleman."
In the future, you will become a gentleman, don't tell people that you and I are classmates, I can't afford to lose that person. ”
"Well, in order to be able to match you, I must be an excellent person!" The boy said with a grin in the sun.
The two of them came to the vegetable patch.
Bai Mengdie found the two reddest and largest tomatoes in the tomato field, ran to a pond not far away to wash them and handed them to Chen Ziqian: "Real green vegetables, they are better than what you buy in the supermarket." ”
Chen Ziqian thought to himself that the vegetables he eats at home are also bought in a supermarket that specializes in green vegetables.
But he didn't say anything, took the big tomato with a smile and took a bite, squinting his eyes in satisfaction: "Hmm~ It's delicious, sweet and sour, like you." ”
Bai Mengdie widened her eyes and said fiercely: "You are becoming more and more capable, you can think of me when you eat a tomato, hurry up and eat, eat and work!" ”
Chen Ziqian didn't know how to be obedient, and ate the tomatoes quickly in a big gulp, bent down and began to pick vegetables.
Bai Mengdie and Chen Ziqian only took less than half an hour to pick all the vegetables that could be picked in the vegetable field.
Bai Mengdie looked at a large load of vegetables and asked worriedly: "This dish is one or two hundred catties, can you pick it?"
Why don't you wait for me here, I'll go home and get a basket and divide some dishes, and you can pick it. ”
Chen Ziqian picked up a large load of vegetables and left: "I am a dignified man who stands up to the sky and the earth, and he can't even pick up a load of vegetables?" I'm going to be angry if you look down on me so much. ”
After taking two steps, Chen Ziqian found that this burden of vegetables was really heavy, especially the shoulders that had never carried the burden were so painful to be grinded by the flat shoulder~
But he has already boasted about Haikou, and even if he is in tears, he has to carry the burden back.
Bai Mengdie followed him closely behind, admiring it very much: "A boy is a boy, he is born with strength, don't look at my flesh, I can't even carry a burden of a hundred pounds." ”
Chen Ziqian gritted his teeth and stiffened, how dare he speak, he was afraid that if he was deflated with one mouth, he would no longer be able to carry the burden.
Finally entered the village, Chen Ziqian only felt that his eyes were full of stars, his thinking was completely non-existent, and he used all his strength to move his two trembling legs mechanically and walked towards Bai Mengdie's house step by step.
But the old men and old ladies who were full of food and had nothing to do stopped him with a smile, praising him for being a good young man in the city, and he could carry such a heavy burden.
Chen Ziqian scolded bitterly in his heart, why don't you take your grandson well, why are you pestering me?
He smiled perfunctorily and walked around the old men and old ladies and continued to walk forward, and persisted for about ten minutes or so, and finally arrived in the courtyard of Bai Mengdie's house, and was finally able to put down his burden.
Obviously his strength was exhausted, and his shoulder was painful, but Chen Ziqian deliberately pretended to be relaxed, and said to Bai Mengdie with a smile: "A burden is not heavy." ”
Bai Mengdie looked at his handsome face that was flushed from holding the burden, and praised with a smile: "You are so powerful, I adore you so much!" Then pour him water and let him wash his hands and face.
Chen Ziqian was overjoyed when he heard this, what boy doesn't like to be worshiped by the girl he likes?
Chen Ziqian insisted that Bai Mengdie wash it first, but Bai Mengdie couldn't refuse, so he had to rely on him.
As soon as the two of them had washed their faces, the old lady came back with a basket.
Bai Mengdie went up and took the basket in the old lady's hand and took a look, which contained lean meat, pork belly, pork liver, pork ribs, thousands of zhang, and yuba.
"Grandma went to town to buy so many meat dishes!"
"Uh-huh." The old lady tore off the towel hanging on the clothesline with her right hand and wiped the sweat on her face, "Your classmate is here, of course you have to cook a few good dishes to entertain him, do you want him to eat coarse tea and light rice with us?" ”
Chen Ziqian made a basin of washing water and put it on a square stool for the old lady to wash her face: "Grandma, you can just treat me as your own grandson, you don't need to prepare food for me, I like to eat farmhouse food, it is very fragrant!" ”
The old lady was overjoyed when she heard this, and washed her face with her right hand, which was fine: "When you mention the farmhouse meal, I think that my corn is the most delicious now, let Fluttershy roast a few corns for you to eat at noon, it is an authentic farmhouse snack, you may not have eaten it, try it today." ”
Bai Mengdie snapped her fingers: "I forgot that we have corn at home, Ziqian, let's go, let's pick corn." As he spoke, he carried an empty basket on his shoulder.
Chen Ziqian secretly touched the shoulder that had hurt from picking up the burden just now, and was about to get the empty burden.
Bai Mengdie pretended to be casual and said: "Don't use the burden, hang two big baskets on the back seat of my eldest brother's bicycle to pick corn, and you can drag more than a hundred catties of goods, isn't it easier than carrying a burden?" ”
Chen Ziqian was so aggrieved that he was about to shed lasagna tears: "Then you didn't call me like this when I picked vegetables just now......"
Bai Mengdie said uncomfortably: "People didn't expect it at the time~ Our family rarely uses bicycles to go to the fields to haul crops back......"
Chen Ziqian did as she said, hung a big basket on both sides of the back seat of Bai Sheng's 28 bicycle, and went to pick corn with Bai Mengdie.
The old lady sat in the yard and picked the vegetables picked by Bai Mengdie's two children.
After choosing the vegetables cleanly, Bai Mengdie and the others transported them back to the city only need to wash them to make barbecue and sell them, which can save a lot of trouble.
Although Bai Mengdie's family of three earned nearly 1,000 yuan last night, the old lady could imagine how hard the 1,000 yuan was earned with her toes.
At home, the vegetables that should be marinated are marinated, and the vegetables that should be cleaned are cleaned, which is already very tiring, and you have to pull them out and sell them, and do more than ten hours of work a day, so that you can take a break when you eat and sleep.
If you can help them lighten their burden, try your best to help.
The two Bai Sheng brothers went to fish for crayfish, and Bai Aimin picked all the vegetables that he could use to make barbecue, put down his burden and went to work in the fields again.
There is also a moonlight scene, many crops are about to be harvested, and the crops must be tended well during this time to produce high.
Tian Chunfang's steps were brisk, and he soon arrived at his mother's home.
All five members of her mother's family were working in the fields, and when they saw Tian Chunfang coming, they were all taken aback, walked quickly to the edge of the field, and asked her how she ran to her mother's house during the busy farming season.
Tian Chunfang pressed the two thousand yuan in his pants pocket: "Don't be busy, go back with me, I have something to tell you." ”
Everyone saw that she was mysterious, and they didn't know what was going on, so they all followed her back to their homes with anxiety.
The younger brother and daughter-in-law poured Tian Chunfang a cup of tea.
Tian Laohan asked nervously: "Chunfang, what is the matter, you hurry up and say, don't make our hearts hang." ”
Tian Chunfang pursed her lips and smiled, took out a small stack of 100 yuan bills from her pants pocket and handed it to Mrs. Tian: "Dad, Mom, these two thousand yuan are the money that Fluttershy gave you to Lei Lei to eat and sold them in the city, and I sent them to you today." ”
Tian Laohan's family was all shocked: "What! A big soft-shelled turtle sells for so much money?! ”
"Uh-huh!" Tian Chunfang said proudly, "What is it that a soft-shelled turtle sells for 2,000 yuan?"
Fluttershy and I set up a food stall in the city with her dad and made a net of a few hundred dollars in one night.
Today Fluttershy and I came back to pick up the goods, and there weren't many vegetables left in our vegetable plot, so my mother-in-law asked me to go to your house to buy your vegetables for three cents per catty.
There are also crayfish, calculated at five cents per catty, you can catch as many as you can, if you don't finish this time, you will definitely want it next time. ”
Tian Chunping said excitedly: "Then I'll take Yongkang to fish for crayfish and let your brother-in-law pick vegetables!" ”
The family of three immediately took action, and those who took the fishing nets took the fishing nets, and the empty burdens who picked up the empty burdens all went out.
Old Man Tian smiled and said: "I sent that big turtle to your family, I wanted to ask for a good fortune for our grandson, but I didn't expect to be exchanged for such a large sum of money by our granddaughter to come back......"
Tian Chunfang picked up the tea that her brother-in-law had just poured for her on the table and took two sips: "Dad, the two children have said that the heart will arrive when the color is reached, and it is not necessary to eat the soft-shelled turtle, it is more affordable to change a sum of money to subsidize the family for Dad and Mom!" ”
Old Man Tian nodded and said: "Although I said that, this soft-shelled turtle must be eaten, there are still a few days before Lei Lei takes the college entrance examination, your brother and I hurry up to see if we can catch another soft-shelled turtle, even if it is a small soft-shelled turtle." ”
Tian Chunfang knew that he would not feel at ease if he didn't let his father catch a soft-shelled turtle for Shi Lei to eat, so he had to nod and agree, and left after drinking the water, she had to rush back to help pick vegetables.
As a result, when she rushed back, Bai Mengdie and Chen Ziqian had not only picked all the vegetables in the vegetable field, but also picked a lot of corn and piled it in the yard.
Chen Ziqian and the old lady sat under the jujube tree in the courtyard to choose vegetables, and the next generation actually chatted quite a lot, some talking and laughing.
Bai Mengdie is making lunch in the kitchen.
The smell of meat wafting from the kitchen makes you want to drool when you smell it.
Tian Chunfang said, "It's so fragrant!" ", went into the kitchen and looked at it, then came out and said to the old lady with a smile: "Dad asked me to tell my mother to buy more good dishes to entertain Ziqian, and before I could say it, my mother had already bought it." ”
The old lady was dissatisfied: "Ziqian is a distinguished guest of our family, I will definitely prepare a few good dishes when he comes, and this is also for your father's orders, I am like a fool." ”
Tian Chunfang smiled, moved a small bench and sat down next to the old lady, and chose vegetables with them.
After a while, the aroma of roasted corn wafted from the kitchen.
Chen Ziqian didn't choose any more dishes, and said to the old lady and Tian Chunfang with an embarrassed smile: "Grandma, auntie, I want to eat roasted corn." ”
Tian Chunfang and the old lady both said kindly: "Go, go, you shouldn't have been allowed to work as a guest." ”
Chen Ziqian ran into the kitchen with a smile, Bai Mengdie had already dragged several roasted corn from the stove with tongs and threw them on the ground: "Hot, eat later." ”
"I can't wait, I'm going to eat it now." Chen Ziqian grabbed a handful of straw mats for starting the fire, squatted down and took a roasted corn.
With the other hand, he carefully pulled off several layers of corn skin, revealing the golden and steaming kernels inside, and a rich aroma of roasted corn lingered under the noses of the two men.
Chen Ziqian looked up and saw Bai Mengdie swallowing a mouthful of saliva, the corners of her mouth hooked, she stood up, and handed the peeled corn to her mouth: "Come, take a bite." ”
Bai Mengdie turned her head away: "You eat it yourself, you see that you are like a little gluttonous cat and give it back to me~"
Although Chen Ziqian couldn't resist the aroma of roasted corn, he still had to eat it until Bai Mengdie took a bite.
Bai Mengdie found that she would never be able to resist Chen Ziqian at the critical moment, so she had to rely on him and nibble on corn.
Chen Ziqian happily took a bite of corn, chewed and chewed with satisfaction, and said very seriously: "I'm not a little gluttonous cat, I'm a little gluttonous wolf, one day I'll eat you with a mouthful." ”
Bai Mengdie turned her head and looked at him a few times: "I don't think you look like a wolf, you look like a dog." ”
I thought to myself, the more I looked at it, the more I felt that he looked like the dog she had raised in her previous life.
Chen Ziqian viciously gnawed several mouthfuls of corn in a row: "It's not that I look like a dog, but you treat the wolf as a dog." ”
Then he took a stick of corn from the ground, peeled it off, and thoughtfully placed it on the stove, so that Bai Mengdie could eat two bites when cooking.
He took another corn and peeled it, one corn in each hand, and walked out of the kitchen to stand in the yard and eat it with a bow left and right, feeling sluggish to himself.
Tian Chunfang and the old lady looked at him and smiled slightly, no matter how big he was, he was still a child.
Two corns were in his stomach, Chen Ziqian was about to go back to the kitchen to get two more corns to eat, and saw Bai Sheng and the two brothers each carrying a load of crayfish into the yard.
He hurriedly greeted him: "Big brother, second brother, I'll help you carry the burden." ”
The two Bai Sheng brothers all grinned: "You are a guest, how can I ask you to work, you can sit and rest." ”
Chen Ziqian said seriously: "Don't treat me as a guest, don't treat me as your younger brother." ”
The smiles on the faces of the two Bai Sheng brothers deepened, and they carried the crayfish burden to the corner of the wall and put it away.
thought to himself, if he really became their younger brother, he would be the son-in-law of the Bai family.
When Bai Mengdie made lunch, the old man, Bai Aimin and Shi Lei all came back.
As soon as Shi Lei entered the yard, he was unhappy when he saw Chen Ziqian, and this guy came to their house again to arch the cabbage he carefully cared for.
Chen Ziqian greeted him very brightly, Shi Lei responded coldly, and stopped dumping him.
Bai Mengdie gave the old man a basin of water for him to wash his hands and face, and by the way, he glanced at the crayfish that the two Bai Sheng brothers had retrieved, and said, "I'll weigh the lobster later, so I can count the money for you." ”
Bai Sheng helped bring food to the hall: "When I came back, I had already gone to the village office to weigh the scales, and the lobsters I and your second brother caught together were more than two hundred and twenty catties, and you only counted two hundred catties." ”
The pole scale at home can only weigh fifty catties at most, Bai Mengdie and Bai Aimin father and son weighed the vegetables planted by the old lady and Bai Aimin's vegetables several times, and wrote down the weight of the two families.
The old lady said: "The vegetables I grow are yours, you don't need to remember the weight, your grandfather and I are a family with you." ”
Bai Mengdie took a notebook from her room as an account book: "Of course grandparents belong to our family, but we have to give the money for the vegetables grown by grandma." ”