After a few more rains, the sweet potato seedlings planted in the yard were pumped a few centimeters, and everyone had their own busy methods. Zhiping sat in the courtyard, his little face wrinkled.

Cai has sent Xiaobao over, and he is sitting in the middle room at the moment, holding a thousand-character text in his hand, reading it at a glance.

Zhimin nodded Zhiping's head angrily: "Can't you learn to learn how Xiaobao can recognize a few more words?" ”

Zhiping picked his palm and didn't make a sound.

Zhimin knew what he was angry about, and he didn't care about him anymore.

Zhiping was even more resentful, and continued to stare at the spring return who was weeding the vegetable patch by holding on to the door frame.

Chungui also endured not to hug him, it wasn't that she was ruthless, it was really that this child was used to being lawless. Early this morning, she thought that the small pool in the yard was full of water, so it was just right for Zhixing and Qi You to go to the river to catch a fish and come back to raise it, Zhimin is a half-grown girl, so she stayed at home and watched Zhiping. But Zhiping stopped doing it as soon as he heard it, and he was going to go noisily. The river in the village is enough to reach Zhixing's chest, how dare she let Zhiping and a little person follow her. Zhiping watched the two brothers go farther and farther, and finally became so angry that he refused to read anymore with tears in his eyes, and only sat by the door and made a fuss alone.

During this period, Xiaobao persuaded him twice, but he still didn't use it.

In addition to the weeds, Chungui saw that he was still staring directly at himself, and finally sighed, squatted in front of the little cub, and poked his face.

"Tell me how old you are."

Zhiping looked at her blankly: "Six years old." ”

"After the New Year, you're seven years old, and you know that you're angry with your sister-in-law when you're six years old, do you have to have a bigger temperament at the age of sixteen?"

Zhiping couldn't listen to Chungui talk about him at all, and tears were already in his eyes.

Chungui continued: "Do you know how deep the water in the river is, there are two of you who are so high, what should you do if you fall, where can my sister-in-law go to find a Zhiping again?" ”

"At what age do you do what you should do, do you understand? Xiaobao is much better behaved than you today. ”

Chun Hui wanted to say a few more words, but Zhiping had tilted his head and tears fell down, and he reached out to her to hug her aggrievedly.

Chungui has no choice but to pick people up, and the children who are used to being out of their own hands can't stand being scolded or left out in the cold.

She was distressed when the little cub's head suddenly rubbed against her neck, and he squeezed out a sentence: "Wrong." ”

Come on, at the age of seven or eight years old, although her cub is coquettish, she can admit her mistake.

Chungui carried someone into the kitchen, took out half a bowl of brown sugar from the cupboard not long ago, poured hot water and melted it into a large bowl of sweet sugar water, divided it into three parts, and asked Zhimin to send a bowl to Xiaobao.

Zhiping took a sip of the sugar water, finally stopped his tears, and said while sniffing: "Sister-in-law, the sugar water is delicious." ”

Chungui nodded his forehead, and then looked at the sweet potatoes in the half of the yard. In more than half a month to October, this sweet potato can be harvested, in addition to being the staple food to fill the stomach, it is also a delicious sugar water to be boiled soft with sugar. Children will love it.

When I thought of planting sweet potato seedlings, I didn't expect this stubble, but it was Cai's small bowl of brown sugar that inspired her. In addition to sugar water, sweet potatoes can be ground into flour, can pull wide noodles, and are very useful, this half of the land is not enough, and the next season will have to be expanded.

When the time comes...... Chungui looked next door, and discussed with Qi You when the time came, to see if he could reclaim a piece of land in his house.

At least they are self-sufficient in their daily necessities.

Zhixing and Qi You only came back in the evening, and all the small fish in the basket were alive and jumping except for the four big fish.

Hearing that Zhiping cried because he didn't go to catch fish with him and cheated a bowl of sugar water to drink, Zhixing was so angry that he wanted to pinch the little cub's face, Zhiping laughed and hid behind Qi You. The little cub is now very shrewd, and knows who in the family has nothing to do with him, and who often protects him.

Zhixing grabbed left and right, but he didn't bring the person back from Qi You's hands.

"Hey! You're helping that little thing! ”

Qi You sighed: "You recruit him again, and Sister Chun will have to coax him for a long time after crying later." ”

"No! No one is allowed to coax him! ”

Qi You glanced at Chungui helplessly.

Chungui held his chin with both hands and looked at it with a smile: "Okay, Zhixing went to pour the small fish into the pond, and Zhiping helped his sister-in-law send these weeds to the chickens to eat." ”

Yesterday, the two Chen Shi brothers went up the mountain to hunt and harvested a lot, and divided their two pheasants, one was lame, and they raised it in captivity when they returned to spring, and the other had already plucked its feathers, and Zhimin cleaned it and hung it on the beam.

The two brothers were tasked and the courtyard finally fell silent.

"Qi You, come here." Chungui remembered something and beckoned to him.

"I want to go to the market tomorrow, Zhixing is too jumpy, tomorrow you can help me watch these children."

Qi You sat down on the wooden bench on the side, raised his eyes and asked, "Sister Chun is going to pick up work?" ”

Chungui nodded: "Now the family is becoming more and more stable, but whether the foundation is thin or not, you still have to plan early." ”

Qi You was silent for a moment and took out a cloth bag from his arms.

Chungui raised his eyebrows: "What are you?" ”

He smiled lightly: "This is the silver that was given to me on the day of the grain release, and now in addition to the surname, I am also half of the Liu family, and Sister Chun can use it to maintain the family." ”

He had foreseen that Zhixing would have such a reaction at the dinner table that day, it can be seen that the Liu family's family was already overstretched, otherwise Sister Chun would not be so anxious to go to the market, and it is still a problem to think about the constraints of Zhixing at the beginning of spring next year.

"Nonsense!" Chungui reacted and pushed his hand back directly.

"This is the shackles of your schooling, although it will only be half of it next year, but what about the year after tomorrow, what about the year after tomorrow?"

Chungui shook his head: "You don't need to be like this, you are smarter than Zhixing, you don't need to get money for the imperial examination in the future, so you have to worry more about yourself." ”

Qi You seemed to have thought that she would refuse, but pushed the cloth bag over, and insisted: "From the time when the grain was released to the present, Sister Chun has worried too much about me, you only want me to repay the peach, if Sister Chun is too reluctant to ........"

He raised his eyes to the clear eyes of Shangchun Gui: "Can you still leave me here to eat after the beginning of spring?" ”

Chungui was stunned for a moment, and then "fluttered" and smiled: "Of course, you think that when you go to school, I will drive you away?" ”

Qi You's eyes suddenly deepened when he heard this: "Sister Chun agreed?" ”

Chungui took a long breath, took the cloth bag with his backhand, and then stuffed it into his hand and clenched it: "You, it's been so long, it's the first time I've heard you say what you want." "For the first time, I looked like a child.

Qi You's eyes fell on the two hands he was clasping, and the warm and delicate touch came from the back of his hand, and when he heard Chungui's words, he was a little speechless for a moment.

Chungui stood up, let go of his hand, and patted him on the head like he patted Zhiping.

"I was asking that night, I went back to him to leave you for dinner so that it would be more convenient for you and Zhixing to review your homework together, isn't it that the two of you will review your homework together in the spring?"

Chungui was a little helpless, just saw that he was a rebellious child, and left everything, but now there are more things that should be cared about, and I know that I have fought for it.

Thinking of this, she opened her mouth and assured him: "Don't worry, my sister will always keep your food in the pot." ”

Qi You lowered his head slightly, and after a while, he said "um".

"As for this money, if I don't earn a penny before the beginning of spring, I will unceremoniously ask you to borrow it!"

Qi You was dumbfounded, this is the meaning of refusal again.

"Okay, in this way, let's go to this market together tomorrow, and no one will be left behind."

She simply made a decision, the money still has some purchasing power, the oil and salt that are in short supply at home should be bought, and if there is any cheap food, she will also buy some back to change the taste of a few children.

Thinking so, she hurriedly walked up to Zhiping, who was feeding the pheasants grass, and told him the good news.

Sure enough, the two immediately hugged each other, Zhiping's little face was flushed, and he was obviously very happy.

Qi You watched from afar, put the cloth bag back into his cuffs, and his heart was calm.

At night, the dinner table is especially lively, and Zhimin will not be able to go out again after two years of age, so he cherishes this opportunity to go out. By the end of the meal, the children were still talking about the last time they went out on the street.

Zhimin misses the meat buns and wontons at the entrance of the street, and Zhixing likes the shortbread next to him, Zhiping is so small that he can't remember anything, so he is so anxious that he pulls Qi You's cuffs.

Speaking of the rise, Lizheng's daughter-in-law came in from outside the door with five eggs: "Yo, it's so lively!" ”

Chun Hui hurriedly welcomed people in: "Auntie, why are you here?" ”

Lizheng's daughter-in-law put down a few eggs: "The chickens at home are also like knowing that the bad days have passed, and they have been laying eggs recently, I thought you didn't say that Zhiping was worried about this egg, so I picked a few and sent them to you." ”

She wasn't surprised when she caught a glimpse of Qi You, and beckoned, "Qi You is also eating." ”

Zhiping's eyes lit up when she looked at the egg in her hand, her two little legs kept swaying on the stool, and Chun Gui smiled and said, "Auntie, you are going to spoil Zhiping." ”

"Why are you spoiled, Zhiping eats eggs and grows taller, hurry up and grow up to give your sister-in-law a little champion!" Lizheng's daughter-in-law took out a hard-boiled egg and stuffed it into his hand, making Zhiping as happy as if something.

After the spring return signaled, he happily received it.

Li Zheng's daughter-in-law swept around the inner room and nodded with a smile: "That day, your Uncle Li Zheng came back to tell me that the spring girl would live, but I still didn't feel at ease, so I thought about coming and seeing." ”

Chungui smiled: "Auntie has seen it, how is it?" ”

Saying that, Zhimin poured a bowl of cold white boil, and Lizheng's daughter-in-law took it and hugged the person and looked at it, raised her eyes and said: "Of course you can rest assured, the family is in good order, and the faces of several children are also getting better, your credit." ”

"The one in the yard doesn't look like a domestic chicken, have you been in the mountains?"

Chungui shook his head: "That's Brother Chen Jinshanyun gave us two chickens, this one is quite neat, I want to keep it to lay eggs." ”

Speaking of laying hens, several people can't help but think of Liu Quan.

Chun Gui hurriedly said: "Auntie, when it comes to laying hens, I have something I want to ask you." ”

Lizheng's daughter-in-law nodded: "You say." ”

"I remember that our village has always raised chickens to lay eggs to eat, and I want to ask my aunt which family in these four towns and eight villages now sells chickens, and I want to buy four or five."

Li Zheng's daughter-in-law immediately showed a smile: "You are asking the right person, the sweet water village next door is now drying the seeds of spring, and their village came to ask us to borrow the grain field two days ago." I heard them say, what kind of hatching chicks, open the ground, but it is much more lively than our village. If you're in a hurry, I'll help you talk about it tomorrow! ”

Chungui was overjoyed: "That's really thank you aunt." ”

"It doesn't take much, four or five will do." She can't afford to spend this money now, and if she can earn money tomorrow, then she doesn't have to be afraid.

Li Zheng's daughter-in-law didn't understand, held her hand and said, "Don't worry, my aunt will bargain for you, and four or five chickens don't cost money." ”

Chungui lowered his head and calculated, the pond was raised with fish, the yard was full of vegetables, the fields were well manpowered, and the chickens would be raised in a few days. When she first came here, she had a charter, and tomorrow she would go to the street to take a job to save money, and her days would be more and more fulfilling.