After the summer heat, there were several heavy rains. The water-washed sky is as blue as the sea, and the storm sun bakes the rain-soaked earth like fire, vowing to take back the white clouds that the earth has taken from the sky.

This is a contest between heaven and earth, fire and water.

The scorching sun is shining in Kyushu, and a lot of moisture is steaming up and returning to the sky. How could the earth easily let go of this source of life, it fought hard with branches, leaves, flowers and plants, and refused to admit defeat easily.

As a result, the Great Zhou entered the most difficult time of the year as opposed to the cold: the summer heat. Plants are growing wildly, animals are changing their moults, and people are desperately drinking water!

Qin, who came out of the cotton field, held the kettle and drank violently, and then let out a sigh, "It's so hot in the morning!" ”

But on such a hot day, the insects refused to rest, or went around stealing cotton peaches and flower bones, and the Qin family took people to the cotton fields to catch insects every morning as soon as they got up, two hectares - two hundred acres of land, and they had to turn around in three or four days.

That's the case, I can still occasionally see the cotton peach that has been hollowed out by insects, Qin's heart is distressed and angry, and he can't wait to get out of the ground.

Xiao Nuan, who had been catching insects for more than an hour with her mother, shook her dew-soaked skirt, "Mother, do you want to hire some more people to catch insects?" ”

Last year, farming with my mother was a battle between people and grass; This year, planting cotton with my mother is a fight between people and insects. In comparison, Xiao Nuan thinks that grass is cuter than insects, and they can't run without feet. No, insects don't have feet and can only squirm, thinking of this, Xiao Nuan couldn't help but feel a chill......

Qin shook his head, "No, there are already more than twenty people in Zhuangzi." If you hire someone to catch insects and save those cotton peaches, you may not be able to earn back the wages you spent. ”

Xiao Nuan curled the corners of her mouth, and her mother will also look at things from the perspective of income and expenditure, and there is progress, "It's okay for insects to eat a few peaches, just don't suffer the heat." ”

Qin nodded, "Mother is not stupid, I know when I should come out to drink water and rest for a while, don't worry, those who are so hot in the field that they are all trying to be lazy and stop working in the field." ”

"Sister Xiao Nuan, Sister Xiao Nuan!" The big cow rushed over, "Zu Mobo has a heat stroke!" ”

Little Warm ......

Xiaocao, who combed the rhubarb, stood up and asked loudly, "Did you suffer from heat stroke in the ground?" ”

Qin's ......

"In the grass hut next to the grave, when someone went to deliver breakfast this morning, he was found to have fainted from heat stroke! The brothers of the Ma family carried him home and woke him up and poured medicine, and Zu Mobo had to go to the grave to guard, because the grandmother was crying for this. After the big cow finished speaking, he looked at the grass with blank eyes.

Xiaocao patted the position next to Rhubarb, and Da Niu immediately ran over to sit down, took the comb and gave Rhubarb a beautiful hair.

Rhubarb is the most afraid of heat, Xiao Nuan let people dig a puddle by the rhubarb's nest at the bottom of the slope, raise lotus flowers in the puddle and put turtles, plant wormwood and mint to repel mosquitoes on the edge of the puddle, and put a comfortable bamboo couch under the big tree next to it. This place has become a good place for a litter of children such as Xiaocao, Ah Niu, and Da Niu to cool off.

Qin looked at the eldest daughter, "Do you want to take a look?" ”

Xiao Nuan shook her head, "Grandma can't persuade me, why am I going to do it, I'm sweating all over my body after a trip." ”

After the death of Old Man Chen, the remaining three members of the Chen family lived in three places: Pi lived in the village, Chen Zumo lived by the grave, and Chai Yuyuan lived in Qinghu Courtyard. Chai Yuyuan would come back every other day to take a look at Chen Zumo, but Chen Zumo ignored the grave three feet away. And Pi didn't know why, so he never went to Old Man Chen's grave to see his son.

Xiao Nuan shook the wet skirt on her legs, since the death of Old Man Chen, the Pi family has been alive, and she doesn't see her making trouble or walking around, she should be weak-hearted.

At the door of Chen's house, Pi Shi pulled his son's filial piety clothes and shed tears in distress, "Son, you don't have to go anymore if you stay for seven days, you have to do something if you are in the shack on such a day!" Your father is gone, if something happens to you again, what can my mother do! ”

Chen Zumo, whose eye sockets were deeply sunken and his cheekbones were protruding, silently pulled his mother's hand, listened to his mother's cry step by step in front of the grave, kowtowed to his father as usual, and then went back to the cabin to lie on the grass bed with the returning tide.

Torturing himself like this, he actually gave birth to a kind of pleasure, a pleasure that was extremely bitter.

No pain, no gain! Chen Zumo, who fell from the sky, needs pain and suffering to support himself.

When his father was seriously ill, he did not rush back from Beijing to serve the illness, which was already a cause for criticism, so he had to recover the decline. If someone else keeps seven days, he will keep seven days and forty-nine days!

He wants to be an example of filial piety, so that the fathers and elders of Jixian County have a good reputation, and if they want them to mention him in the future, they have to say: He Chen Zumo is the most filial person!

There aren't many people left and right who can do anything in his current situation......

Chen Zumo sat up with a smile and picked up the book next to him to spend his days. There is only one month, even if he boils it, he has to survive for 7749 days!

In the first village, Qin sighed, "Let's go to the temple to burn incense and worship the Buddha later." ”

"Mother forgot again, my daughter is now a Taoist aunt, let's not go to the temple where the monk rings the bell, we want to go to the Taoist temple where the Taoist priest recites the scriptures." Xiao Nuan reminded.

Since Xiao Nuan sent people to inquire about the dumplings collected by the Chen family's old mansion on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the Qin family has always felt that Old Man Chen's death is doomed, and it is the Chen family's ancestral grave that wants to accept people. It is precisely because of the acceptance of Old Man Chen that others were able to live in peace. Now that Chen Zumo, who is guarding the tomb, has an accident again, the Qin family feels uneasy, so they want to take the Xiaonuan sisters to worship the Buddha and ask for peace.

This strange reasoning made Xiao Nuan smile bitterly, but since worshipping the clay statue can reassure her mother, why not let her go and worship, just so that her mother can rest for a day.

Xiaocao raised her head and asked, "Mother, let's go to Qingyu Lake to play after worshipping, okay?" ”

"Woohoo!" Rhubarb also jumped up excitedly and ran to Xiao Nuan and Qin's side to rub his legs.

Qin Shi and Xiao Nuan looked down at a piece of dog hair on their wet skirts, and smiled helplessly,

"Okay."

"Go!"

So, after breakfast, Qin took a large group of people to get into the carriage, rushed to Changchun Temple, and then went to Qingyu Lake.

In the summer, boating in the fragrance of lotus flowers and eating mung bean cake and pea yellow is not too beautiful.

Xiaocao, Zhan Hongtu, Da Niu, Ah Niu, and Qin Ernier sat on the side of the boat and watched Rhubarb lying on the wooden board fluttering in the lake, laughing and staggering. Qin's family, Xiao Wu's family, the second aunt Li, Da Niu's mother Chen San'er, Cuiqiao's mother Zheng and others sat and chatted in the room, and Xiao Nuan lay lazily next to her mother, so comfortable that she couldn't talk. Qin didn't say anything, but patted his daughter's back again and again.

She is the most tired at home, and she should rest the most.

Green Butterfly walked in and whispered in Xiao Nuan's ear, "Mrs. Chen's cruise ship is coming over, girl?" ”

Xiao Nuan opened her eyes and said in a low voice, "You guys go and watch, if she dares to cause trouble, let people sink her ship!" ”

Green Butterfly's eyes lit up, and she turned around and walked out quickly.

"Something?" Qin turned his head and asked Xiao Nuan.

Xiao Nuan stretched and sat up, "It's okay, Green Butterfly just saw a boat coming on the opposite side." ”

Qin Shi turned his head to look at the lake, and at a glance he met Chai Yuyuan.