Chapter 15: Small Punishments and Great Commandments

After understanding the basic situation of this time and space, Ye Feng began to plan how to realize his dream. It's just that I don't know what to do after thinking about it for a long time, but it's the most important thing to live here first.

The experience of passing the wheat a few days ago made him understand a truth, that is, the work in the field actually depends on Chen Jixing and Ye's. It's okay to do a small favor, but he can't do heavier, more tiring work.

His abilities are simply too limited.

Thinking of this, since he couldn't do too much for the time being, and he didn't want to eat and live for nothing, Ye Feng decided to start with the things around him, and help the family do what he could whenever he was free.

For example, when Ye cooks, he helps to choose vegetables, wash vegetables, and light a fire; When he was fine, he went to the well to fetch water instead of Chen Jixing, and when he couldn't pick up a load at a time, he carried half a bucket and half a bucket from the well to his home; Pulling Qianyan and other children, one of them carried a small basket and went to the forest to pick up some dead branches as firewood......

In this way, with Ye Feng's help, Ye felt that the housework was much easier, and Chen Jixing didn't have to go to fetch water in the night after returning home from working in the field, and he could sit and rest for a while.

In addition, the pigweed, chicken food and other things at home were also contracted by Ye Feng, and occasionally taught Qianyan to recite a few simple ancient poems and talk about the meaning. More often than not, they use branches on the ground to teach Qianyan to do the simplest arithmetic.

Anyway, she doesn't have to study for the imperial examination as a girl, reading some ancient poems is just to cultivate sentiment, and she can also "bluff" at critical moments, but strictly speaking, it still belongs to flower fist embroidery legs.

Learning basic arithmetic is more practical, at least when doing business, you can reduce the chance of being deceived.

In this way, the life of the family is enjoyable.

On the one hand, Ye Feng didn't feel like a waste who only knew how to eat when he had something to do, and on the other hand, Chen Jixing and Ye Shi also found that since Ye Feng came to the house, not only was it much more lively, but he did help share a lot of housework.

But at the same time, the more this is the case, the more Ye and Chen Jixing want to have a biological son of their own, the stronger it becomes. It's just that no matter how hard the couple "work", there is still no news about Ye's stomach.

Fate is indeed unpredictable in many cases. The more you want to get it, the more you can't get it.

The matter of giving birth to a child has not been settled, but Ye Feng has made a lot of progress in "teaching".

After several "teachings", Ye Feng found that Chen Qianyan was an extremely smart girl, first of all, those ancient poems, Ye Feng taught them a few times, and then explained a little, she would soon be able to remember.

The second is arithmetic. From the simple addition and subtraction within ten at the beginning to the addition and subtraction of two digits, and then to the arithmetic that is more difficult and needs to turn around and think about it, although the speed of Qianyan mental arithmetic is slower, but through slow understanding, you can eventually learn and get the correct answer.

Listening to Ye Feng say that his daughter learned well, she seemed to understand quite quickly, and on this day, Chen Jixing, who was weaving bamboo at home after finishing his work, had the heart to test a thousand words. In his opinion, at Qianyan's age, he would count at most or something. Unknowingly, the result of the test surprised Chen Jixing.

Chen Jixing brushed off the bamboo crumbs on his knees, pointed to the several fish baskets that had been made in front of him and asked, "Although the prices of the fish baskets in the city vary now, generally speaking, a fish basket can be sold for at least ten yuan." So, girl, tell your father, how much money can you get for all the fish baskets here? ”

Ye Feng saw that there were several fish baskets in front of Chen Jixing. This is not only to test the number of thousands of words, but also to test her arithmetic.

Hearing this, Qianyan stepped forward and said, "Daddy, wait, I'll count first, one, two, three...... Seven, eight" Qianyan counted the number of fish baskets correctly while breaking his little fingers.

"Well, Dad, there are eight fish baskets here. A fish basket costs ten cents, then eight is ...... Well, eighty dollars. Daddy, isn't that right? ”

After speaking, Qianyan looked at Chen Jixing with anticipation. It's just that she looked at Ye Feng slyly first. Seeing Ye Feng smiling, she knew that she had answered correctly.

"My daughter is so smart!" Chen Jixing happily picked up Qianyan and threw it into the air. Of course, this height is not high, that is, Chen Jixing is happy and intends to make his daughter happy.

Seeing that the father and daughter were amusing there, both of them laughed, seeing this, Ye also wanted to test his daughter, because he said: "Then the mother also came to ask you, if a fish basket sells for fifteen yuan, then how much money can be obtained here?" ”

Ye knew that arithmetic within ten years was not difficult for a thousand words, so she simply made it difficult to see if her daughter could.

As a result, Chen Jixing felt a little struggling with Ye's question, and began to calculate it in his heart.

Unexpectedly, Chen Jixing hadn't calculated the result yet, but Qianyan took the lead in reporting the correct answer: "Mother, I calculated it, it's one hundred and twenty yuan, right?" ”

At this time, even Ye Shi was a little surprised. And the smile on Ye Feng's face was even bigger. This girl really didn't disappoint him.

Ye is a housewife, holding the "financial power" of the family, and there is always some time in the year to go to the county to buy and sell, buy some necessities, sell some grain, and naturally do simple arithmetic.

But why is Qianyan's girl so fast, is she right?

Obviously, Chen Jixing was also confused, because he asked: "Girl, tell your father, how did you figure it out?" ”

Ye Feng smiled proudly, there was a feeling that the student had been praised and the teacher himself was honored. Since Qianyan doesn't know how to multiply, but he is still memorizing the formula, then the clever calculation method is very practical.

I only heard Qianyan say: "My little uncle taught me, that's very simple." Eight fish baskets, one ten cents can get a total of eighty cents; Now one sells for an extra five yuan, which is a total of 40 yuan, plus the previous 80 yuan, it is 120 yuan. ”

When Chen Jixing heard this, he unconsciously continued: "That's right! Why didn't I think of it, isn't that the reason! ”

However, in a blink of an eye, I felt a little regretful in my heart, if only this girl were a kid, with her talent, if she studied with Ye Feng for a few more years, not to mention the county, it would definitely not be a problem to be a shopkeeper in the town.

It seems that we must hurry up and create people!

Thinking of this, he glanced at Ye Shi with some ambiguity.

Seeing that he was silent, Ye Shi guessed a few points in his heart, so he had to pretend not to know and remain silent. At this time, seeing him looking at himself like this, he understood even more in his heart, and immediately blushed a little.

This old and unorthodox ......

Ye Feng didn't know that Ye and Chen Jixing had a good heart, and they had a lawsuit, so they dragged Qianyan to continue teaching.

Qianyan is too small after all, and it is already very good to teach her two-digit addition and subtraction. Arithmetic within ten can still be counted on your hands, but what if it exceeds ten? Qianyan has not yet fully mastered the ninety-nine multiplication formula, and the addition and subtraction of a large number is more difficult, let alone multiplication.

After thinking about it, Ye Feng went to the lake to pick some reed poles, cut off the straightest part of the reed poles, and used scissors to cut small sticks of the same length and length, a total of 100 sticks, as props for learning arithmetic in a thousand words.

In this way, after another ten days or so, the weather was getting hotter and hotter. The sweet potato seedlings in the field have begun to grow wildly, and the rape is almost ready to be divided.

On this day, because they could plant corn and rape in a few days, after breakfast, Ye and Chen Jixing went to the field to prepare. First they are to remove the grass from the field and turn it up. There are no cattle at home, so they can only prepare in advance.

After passing the wheat, Chen Jixing turned over the ground roughly. It's just that it's not meticulous enough, and you can't plant corn directly. Moreover, somehow a lot of weeds grew out of the ploughed ground.

In terms of ploughing the ground, Ye Feng and Qianyan couldn't help, so the two of them sat in the yard, doing some housework, and watching the house by the way.

After learning new arithmetic techniques, Ye Feng and Qianyan sat in the courtyard while mixing chicken food, and talked and chatted with each other.

This grass was harvested by Ye Feng and Qianyan yesterday together, and Ye Feng also picked up some screws and threw the mussels on the lake after fishing with the villagers. Now, he and Qianyan cut grass one by one, and smashed the mussel shells and snail shells with stones to take the meat, and then chopped them up and fed them to the chickens.

In the past, he had seen the male and female protagonists feed chickens like this in novels, which is said to increase the egg production of chickens and ducks. So he also wanted to see if this trick would work. If you really can, you can save some bran and the like, and you can improve economic efficiency, and these things don't cost money, it's like killing two birds with one stone.

After stirring, Ye Feng poured the mixed ingredients into the trough made of stones, and the chickens and ducks really ate happily.

It seems that this can be continued in the future.

After doing this, it was still early, and Qianyan felt a little bored.

Seeing her little eyes blinking and wriggling on the stool, Ye Feng knew that she couldn't sit still.

Sure enough, I only heard the little girl say: "Uncle, let's sit like this and be bored, or why don't we still call Brother Niu and Brother Bolt to come over to play?" ”

After speaking, he looked at Ye Feng with expectant eyes.

Ye Feng was happy when he heard it.

Because he described himself as a young child, but a ten-year-old child, no one in the village regarded him as an adult. Although he is not greedy for fun, and he also thinks that children's games are boring, he can't bear to play with Qianyan and her friends.

When I was bored these days, I accidentally got excited and taught them the game of "eagle catching chickens". No, after the children of Qianyan played, they were a little obsessed, and now they want to pull the children in the village to play.

Brother Niu and Brother Bolt in Qianyan's mouth are not very far from Chen Jixing's house.

Of course, in fact, it is not far, but it is still some distance away. However, the other children in the village are farther away and older than Qianyan, and they don't like to play with her. It's not because she's a girl, it's because of her age.

In general, older children are less inclined to play with younger children. The younger ones are more willing to play with older children.

And Brother Niu and the plug in Qianyan's mouth are about the same age as Qianyan, they are the age of being active, and they live closely, so they are the best candidates for playing games.

After thinking about it, there was nothing at home anyway, so Ye Feng followed Qianyan and asked the two of them to come over to play.

When the two of them heard that it was a game, they were very excited. The bolt said: "Brother Ye Feng, do you want to play eagle to catch chickens?" ”

After speaking, a look of anticipation.

"Yes, yes," Qianyan clapped his hands and said, "Uncle said that he would teach us to play a new game today, which I have never played before." ”

Hearing this, the bolt said, "I'll go and ask Dalin and them to play together." After saying that, he ran away. After a while, the plug was sweating profusely and brought several children over.

This game is really more fun when it has a lot of people.

After explaining the rules of the game and clarifying their respective roles, everyone had a good time.

Ye Feng felt that it was noisy, so he sat under the eaves and watched them play.

Just when everyone was having fun, they suddenly heard the door "creak". Subsequently, an obese middle-aged woman "flashed" in.

Don't look at her bloated figure, but her movements are really brisk, and the door just opened a small slit, but she twisted her body and floated in lightly.

This strange and harmonious movement made Ye Feng couldn't help but smile.

And unlike Ye Feng's smile, the other children were a little scared. The older ones are full of disdain.

"Why are there so many fat women in this village? Everyone's living standards are not good, could it be because she ate the family's rations alone? Ye Feng scolded in his heart.

When she got closer, Ye Feng was surprised to find that this fat woman was none other than Aunt Cha Wu, who had come here to find fault before.

It's no wonder that Ye Feng didn't recognize her for a while, today she changed her hairstyle and clothes, and her whole person seemed to have changed. It's just that this dress is obviously a little small, and the lifebuoy on Le's waist is protruding.

Thinking of the previous "grievances and grievances", Ye Feng couldn't sit still. In fact, those things before were just trivial things, but according to Ye's family, this fifth aunt was the most stingy. It's definitely not a good thing to look like this at the moment, and to pick the time when the adults are not there.

Thinking of this, Ye Feng stood up, ready to see what she wanted to do, and then waited for the opportunity to "see the move". Before Ye went to the ground, he told him and Qianyan to take care of his home, and since this was the case, he had to fulfill his duties.

This fifth aunt didn't seem to see this group of children, but she walked straight in front of Qianyan, and while looking around the yard, she said disdainfully: "Qianyan girl, where is your father?" ”

Obviously, Qianyan didn't want to see Aunt Cha Wu, but he thought of Ye's teachings, so he said politely: "My father and my mother have gone to the ground, do you have anything to do with Aunt Wu?" ”

After speaking, he blocked her vision with his small body and prevented her from looking at his kitchen. can't blame Qianyan, her eyes looking at the kitchen are really a little naked, as if she is looking at some kind of food.

"It turned out to be the surname Cha, this surname is rare." Ye Feng thought in his heart. She had heard the Ye family call them before, but she always thought that she had heard it wrong. Now that I hear it, it is indeed the surname "Cha".

At that time, the boss of his classmate's company was surnamed Cha, so everyone shouted "Mr. Cha" and "Mr. Cha" every day. Later, everyone thought it was weird, and finally even the boss found out, so they asked everyone to change their name to "boss".

When the woman who was called Aunt Cha heard this, her face was obviously happy, and this was what she wanted. Since the adults are not there, and there is only a group of little hairy children in the yard, it is more convenient for her to do things, and there are no taboos.

Thinking of this, she showed a smug look on her face, and said to Qianyan: "Since your father and mother are not at home, when they come back, you can say, I will borrow you a handful of chili peppers, a few pairs of chopsticks and a bowl, and I will return it to you when it is empty." ”

As he spoke, he quickly walked quickly in the direction of the kitchen.

Before Qianyan could react, she had already moved her fat body and rushed into the stove at a rapid speed. When Qianyan appeared angrily at the door of the stove room, she was about to flash out, holding a handful of chili peppers, chopsticks and the largest clay bowl in the house.

This series of actions can be called smooth, and Ye Feng can't help but be dumbfounded. What does it mean to be flexible? It's called flexibility. Ye Feng suddenly thought of the "bucket-like water snake waist" mentioned in the sitcom "Wulin Gaiden", probably like this.

Ye Feng really didn't know what to do with this kind of strangeness, and in the eyes of the villagers, he was just an outsider. Do you want him to go up and grab it directly? Again, it seems too unruly.

Just when Ye Feng was hesitating what to do, Xiao Qianyan had already crossed his hands on his hips, blocking the kitchen door with his thin body, which was not enough to check the fifth aunt's teeth.

Then, he raised his right hand and said with great momentum, "Aunt Cha, why did you come to get our things again!" said it was borrowed, and you said that you paid us back once. My father and mother are embarrassed to say it, but I don't follow it. Today, if you don't return what you borrowed before, you won't be allowed to go out! ”

However, Aunt Cha didn't take all this into account at all.

Not only the Qianyan family, but also other families in the village who are easier to talk to, she has been to. Especially in Chen Jixing's family, she either "borrows" an egg or pulls a few vegetables, or chopsticks.

In this regard, Chen Jixing and Ye Shi both turned a blind eye. Since the adults are silent, when will it be the turn of a yellow-haired girl to accuse herself.

Ye Feng reacted at this time, from the word "again" that Qianyan had just said, he knew that this was not the first time. Looks like he's a repeat offender! I've seen love taking advantage of small things, but I've never seen such arrogance.

For such a superb repeat offender, a little bit of cheapness may not be enough. However, the feeling of satisfaction that comes from getting something without sweating is very refreshing. From time to time, taking advantage of a little bit and rubbing the oil may be the greatest pleasure of this kind of person.

Sure enough, I only heard Aunt Cha sneer, "Yo, little girl, don't say that I haven't taught you your aunt, it's not good for a girl's family to be so powerful, if you accidentally spread the reputation of a dominatrix, it will be difficult to marry someone in the future!" Adults don't care about children. ”

After speaking, regardless of the frightened or disdainful gazes of a group of children, with only a slight squeeze of his body, the thin Qianyan staggered, stood unsteadily, and finally fell to the side of the door.

Aunt Cha looked back at the victor, snorted, and turned to leave.

Ye Feng saw that Qianyan fell to the ground, and he didn't care about the chopsticks and chili peppers anymore, so he hurriedly walked up, thinking that she had also been wronged, so he helped her up and comforted her. He really didn't expect this Fifth Aunt Cha to be like this.

It's okay to take advantage of love, but if you slap a child to the ground, it's really too much.

I thought Qianyan would cry, but I didn't expect this little girl to take it seriously at all, and she didn't need Ye Feng's help, so she stood up, patted the dirt on her body, rolled her eyes a few times, and then said hatefully, "No, I must raise a dog, if she dares to come again in the future, I will let the dog bite her to death!" ”

When the two came back to their senses, they found that Aunt Cha had long since disappeared. Ye Feng thought that she had gone home with the booty, but she heard Qianyan ask the bolt: "Brother bolt, where did the evil woman go?" ”

The bolt hurriedly pointed in the direction of the backyard and said, "She heard the chickens clucking, so she probably went to look for eggs." ”

Now even Ye Feng was angry, he took the chili pepper and the chopsticks and poured it, but now it's good, and Xiao is still thinking about the eggs. This egg is going to be taken to the city to exchange money to improve the living conditions of the family, but it can't be taken away by Aunt Cha like this.

Ye Feng saw that Qianyan was about to rush forward again, so he said anxiously: "If you rush up like this, you won't be able to beat her, but you will also be scolded, and maybe you will break the eggs." Do as I say, and I'll have a way to clean her up. ”

Because he whispered a few words in the ears of a thousand words.

Qianyan went back to the house, took a rope, set a trap outside the gate, and quietly hid it. Ye Feng walked into the courtyard and opened his throat and shouted, "Aunt Cha, Aunt Cha, it's not good!" Qianyan was angry, so he ran to your house. She said she was going to smash all your bowls, take all your chopsticks and eggs! ”

Aunt Cha was following the rooster's crow, happily groping into a pile of dry straw. She wanted to take two eggs home and give her two sons egg custard, which they loved.

It's a pity that I didn't find anything after touching it for a long time, and then I heard Ye Feng shouting at the top of his throat.

Ye Feng's voice scared her to death, she was really panicked.

Although Chen Jixing can't beat a fart with a stick, and Ye pretends to be gentle and virtuous and doesn't care about her, Qianyan, a little girl, is not easy to mess with. I really don't know that the two of them are deaf and dumb, but they gave birth to such a powerful Nizi.

Besides, she is still young, even if she really went to her house and smashed the eggs and bowls, the other villagers might not care about it, but would say that she was not. What's more, she's kept a dozen eggs in the kitchen, and she's been saving them for a while.

Therefore, he didn't care about any eggs, so he spread his feet and ran to his house. While running, he stared at a group of children in the yard and scolded: "Look at what, and then watch the old lady beat your ass." ”

Because he was running in a hurry and scolding, he didn't notice the strange expressions of the children in the yard. No, as soon as he stepped out of the gate, he fell on his stomach.

It turned out to be a trap set by a thousand words.

Fortunately, she has a lot of meat, and the grass in front of the door is just grass, and the soft ones don't hurt much, but the chopsticks and peppers in her hands fell all over the ground. Qianyan only endured and kept silent, hiding honestly.

This group of children saw Aunt Cha fall for the first time, and they were a little surprised, but more happy, because their family was more or less taken away a lot of things. Aunt Cha's fall made everyone feel very relieved, so they laughed together.

For a while, Aunt Cha was very embarrassed and angry, and she got up angrily, wanting to step forward and spank the butts of a few children. But I remembered that the big cow mother and the bolt father were out of the village's famous temper, protecting the calves, if they knew that their baby was bullied and suffered, maybe they would find themselves how to make trouble.

Therefore, although my heart was about to explode, I had no choice, so I gritted my teeth and endured it. I don't know what kind of sabotage that girl is doing at home now! Ignoring the pain in her body and the anger in her heart, holding a few chili peppers that had been crushed in her hands, Aunt Cha Wu rushed home as fast as she could.

She was really nervous about the eggs that she had saved so hard, and she was thinking about selling them in the county one day, so she exchanged the money and praised them for her son to use as a bundle for the next school year.

As soon as Aunt Cha left her sight, Qianyan walked out triumphantly and picked up chopsticks and chili peppers on the ground with Ye Feng.

The children were overjoyed by the "huge" victory, and their expressions when they looked at Ye Feng were full of admiration. As a child, he actually punished Aunt Cha Wu, who everyone in the village hated but was helpless to the other party.

When she got home, Aunt Cha hurriedly walked to the kitchen, looked around, and did not find the broken bowls and eggs, and was relieved. I searched around again, but I didn't find any trace of Qianyan at all, so I realized that I had played a trick, and the anger in my heart became heavier and heavier.

She has always been the only one who wins, and no number of people are her opponents, but I didn't expect it to be in the hands of a few children today.

For a while, I felt relieved to count the number of eggs again, but I found a few chili peppers that had been crushed by myself, and I threw them away in disgust.

Then, one by one, she began to count the precious eggs she had been saving for a long time. When the eggs are counted to be the correct number, and the eggs are hidden again, then sit down and rest.

I just ran too fast, and now I'm sweating all over my head. So he took his hand and wiped his sweat all over his face and blew his nose.

However, she forgot that her hands were full of chili juice......

This pepper is notoriously spicy, very domineering, Chenjia Village calls it "five-finger pile", also called "Chaotian pepper". As the name suggests, it means that this pepper is five when it grows, and all of them are facing the sky.

This was originally washed before Ye Shi went to the ground in the morning, and was ready to be put into the kimchi jar at night to enhance the flavor, not the kind used to stir-fry vegetables to enhance the flavor in daily life.

And then......

"Ah...... It hurts me! Ah......h

The villagers not far from Aunt Cha's house were coldly shocked by a heartbreaking, pig-like cry. But soon, everyone calmed down and acted as if they hadn't heard.

Without him, just because this voice is too familiar, every time the five aunts quarrel, she will always let out such a scream.

At the beginning, everyone thought that her man, Uncle Chen, was "domestic violence" against her, and felt that it was quite pitiful to scream so badly, so that kind person came to the door to prepare for mediation.

After all, it's always wrong to hit a woman.

But when the well-meaning people figured out what was going on, no one came. Because even if Aunt Cha Wu quarrels, she will let out such a howl. Moreover, even if someone has a blue nose and swollen face, that person must be Fifth Uncle Chen.

What Aunt Cha didn't know was that instead of attracting the villagers to come over to support her, Aunt Cha didn't know it, but it made everyone start to misunderstand again: "Hey, the two are fighting again!" Poor Fifth Uncle Chen......"

The next day, the villagers were a little surprised to see that Aunt Cha's eyes were swollen and her nose was runny from time to time. They will be wrong, and they think that Uncle Chen has revived her husband and abused Aunt Cha. For a while, I was a little surprised, and then I was a little tempted.

So he asked.

Aunt Cha was naturally reluctant to admit that she was calculated by a few children. If they know about it, their reputation as "invincible opponent of all village women" will be threatened, and won't they be able to follow things in the future?

So he hid it and only said that he fell yesterday.

But in his heart, he hated a few people, especially Ye Feng Qianyan, and even the Ye family, thinking that he wanted to find an opportunity to take revenge on them and reinvigorate his "prestige".

Where he falls, he will get up. When the time comes, she has her own way to let the Ye family know that she is afraid.

It's just that Aunt Cha doesn't seem to know that there is a saying in this world called "harming others will end up harming yourself". But it doesn't matter if she doesn't understand, she will soon fully understand the true meaning of this sentence.

Life is everyone's best teacher.