Chapter 41: The Sound of Spring Rain
The door of the firewood room was inexplicably open, Chen Wen thought that his grandmother had forgotten to close it, and walked over to close the door, but unexpectedly saw Zhang Alan squatting.
Zhang Alan squatted next to the bamboo shelf, with one hand on the shelf, and a mulberry leaf in the other, standing still, staring at the silkworm without blinking, so serious that Chen Wen blocked the light, she didn't turn her head to look.
"What are you looking at?"
Chen Wen suddenly leaned over, so frightened that Zhang Alan suddenly raised his head, stood up, and almost hit Chen Wen's chin, but fortunately Chen Wen reacted quickly enough to dodge.
"Why did you suddenly make a noise and scare me?"
"It's that you are looking too seriously, I am blocking your light, and you don't even notice me."
Chen Wen glanced at it and saw that the silkworms that had grown up a lot were gnawing on mulberry leaves.
Because silkworms grow too fast, they eat more mulberry leaves than when they are larvae, and they have to be changed twice a day.
Moreover, although there are silkworm eggs that cannot hatch silkworms, most of them have hatched during this time, and the dustpans on the upper and lower floors of the bamboo shelf are full of silkworms, and some of them cannot be placed on the shelves, so they are placed on small stools.
The amount of silkworms eating mulberry leaves is also large, and the workload of changing mulberry leaves and cleaning up every day is also quite large. Chen Wen was also afraid that the leaves of those mulberry trees would have to be stripped off by her, and it would not look good when the time came.
This is the first time Zhang Alan has seen silkworms, it turns out that the silkworms hatched from those dense silkworm eggs look like this, their bodies are soft, and they have a lot of feet.
The most amazing thing is that she has been watching here for a long time, and they have been eating, and they are still eating fast, and those who don't know still think that the leaves are delicious.
Chen Wen grabbed a silkworm that ate mulberry leaves too seriously and accidentally turned over, and caught it on the mulberry leaves.
After catching it, I saw Zhang Alan staring at her, and asked her: "You haven't replied to me yet, is it nice to watch silkworms eat leaves?" ”
Zhang Alan pointed to his ears, "Listen carefully." ”
Listen? Chen Wen pricked up his ears, only heard the sound of silkworms gnawing on things, and understood.
"Do you think the sound of them eating is funny?"
"Hmm!" Zhang Alan nodded heavily and said happily: "When silkworms eat, they actually make a sound like rain." ”
Silkworms eat very often, and when so many silkworms eat together, you can hear it very clearly when the surroundings are quiet.
It's like a non-stop, dripping spring rain.
It's just that Zhang Alan has been listening, which is a bit exaggerated.
Chen Wen grabbed one of her hands and pulled her out.
Zhang Alan was a little numb in his legs because he had been squatting for a long time, and he was unguarded, and he was pulled by Chen Wen and staggered.
"Leg numbness."
"How long have you been squatting?"
"Forget."
Chen Wen took her out, closed the door of the firewood room, let her sit on the chair and beat her legs, and went into the house by herself to put down the things in her hand.
After coming out, Zhang Alan also stood up, "Where have you been?" ”
"I went to the merchant and bought something."
"What to buy?"
"Cotton thread, it's just that it's out of stock, and the merchant said to bring it to me next time."
"Oh." Zhang Alan suddenly realized: "I know, you took over the embroidery business and made a lot of money." ”
"I said I want to teach you, but you don't want to learn."
Speaking of which, last time Liu Yinxing said that she wanted to learn, but she didn't come back after she went home.
"I don't want to learn." Although that thing can make money, Zhang Alan looked at his rough hands, he had the strength, but he didn't have the strength to lift the embroidery needle.
“……”
"I almost forgot to come to you for something important, my sister and I picked a lot of star fruit, if you are free, let's make wine together?"
"Okay." At that time, who promised to make wine together, Chen Wen patted Zhang Alan on the shoulder: "Then I'll call grandma to go with me." ”
After listening to Chen Wen, Li Suniang quickly stood up.
She's idle at home with nothing to do, just right.
When I arrived at Zhang Alan's house, I saw Zhang Ajun and Liu Yuzhen each with a large basin in front of them, which was filled with uncleaned star fruit.
Liu Yuzhen raised her eyes and saw a few coming, and hurriedly asked Zhang Ajun to get a small bench.
"We plucked all the trees bald, and I squatted and washed with Ajun for a long time, and I was afraid that the star fruit would not be fresh after one night, so we asked Alan to call you to come and help together, and stay and eat together at night!"
"You're welcome." Li Suniang immediately sat down and got started: "It's just fine, and I was originally here to help." ”
The two adults chatted about family life, and a few little girls got together to wash star fruit.
Chen Wen washed his trousers so wet that he didn't care, Zhang Ajun saw it, shook off his hands, and pulled up the trouser legs for her: "It's not uncomfortable." ”
"Thank you, Sister Ajun."
Zhang Alan straightened his legs, "Sister, I want it too." ”
Zhang Ajun looked at his sister, touched her little brain dotingly, and gently pulled up her trouser legs.
Chen Wen saw everything in his eyes, and felt that Zhang Ajun and Zhang Alan were simply two personalities, one quiet and the other noisy.
Zhang Ajun is very good at taking care of people, has a gentle and gentle personality, and is still a good hand at housework, whoever marries her is really a blessing.
No, Chen Wen was thinking about it, grandma and Aunt Yuzhen happened to be talking about Sister Shuhua.
"Time flies so fast, in the blink of an eye, I see that the children who grow up are about to get married."
"Yes, Shuhua is one year old apart from our family, she is almost there, I heard that her husband's family has several acres of land, now Ah Lian can rest assured, Shuhua can live a good life." Liu Yuzhen smiled, and was also happy for Ah Lian: "When will Shuhua hold a wedding banquet?" ”
"Come on, there's still a month to go."
"Then I'll have to get ready."
Speaking of members, Li Suniang thought of Zhang Ajun.
In the past few years, there have been few happy events in the village, and that is because the girls are still young, but now that the girls have grown up one by one, the happy events should be no different.
Li Suniang took the opportunity to look at Zhang Ajun, who was squatting quietly and listening to Chen Wen and Zhang Alan's speech, and said to Liu Yuzhen: "Ajun is one year old apart from Shuhua, when will you find your in-law's house?" ”
Liu Yuzhen glanced at her daughter and shook her head: "It's still early, I've seen a few, but I haven't found a suitable one." ”
"Isn't it appropriate?"
Liu Yuzhen said angrily: "That girl doesn't like it." ”
"What about our Ah Jun's high vision?"
Speaking of her eldest daughter, Liu Yuzhen was a little angry and glared at her.
are all eighteen years old, and they haven't been optimistic about each other, Xi Niang has introduced so many families to her, all of them are not bad, what is she not satisfied with? Don't be stubborn!
I think that at the beginning, I was most satisfied with the third family introduced by the bride......
That family is really good, there are a few acres of fertile land at home, and a cow, the in-laws are strong and capable, and the young man is good-looking, except for a little stuttering, everything is good.
If Ah Jun marries, it will be a proper and blessed life.
In order to persuade Ah Jun to agree, he talked about it every day, talking about the good of others, and said it, but this girl was very stubborn, and she didn't agree!
I don't know whose girl that good guy marries in the end.
Thinking of this, Liu Yuzhen was both a pity and a helpless, so she had to glare at her daughter fiercely.