Li Qing was serious, listening to Li Zhenfu's words, and from time to time, he nodded and agreed, "Uh-huh"

"Okay, let's go play"

"Come back, come back, Qing'er, go to your uncle's house, borrow a firewood knife, I'll chop bamboo, weave a chicken coop, your mother said, the old chicken coop can't be used,"

"Hey!"

Said the village child

"Xiaoqing, let's go home for breakfast, and I'll come back to your house later to read the villain's book."

"Good"

Li Qingmai opened two thin legs, soared, and ran towards his uncle's house.

"Dad, is this the knife?"

"Yes,"

"I also have one of these knives at home?"

"My handsome is not grinding, not fast"

"The sun is at the door, Feng'er, the two of us will carry the bamboo bed home."

"Okay, second sister"

Li Qing put a pile of villain books into a cardboard box and put them back next to the bookcase in the hall.

Li Feng was holding a copy in his hand, looking down and looking through it,

"Hmm~ Second sister, this one, I haven't finished reading it yet"

"Haha, Feng'er, you can take it home and see it"

Li Zhenfu put on a straw hat, put on an old long-sleeved tunic and old trousers, a pair of old yellow shoes, a pair of gauze gloves, held a firewood knife in his right hand, and a towel around his neck.

Li Qing also took out a set of old long-sleeved clothes from the wooden cabinet in the West House, put on a pair of old stepping shoes, put on a straw hat, only found a gauze glove, put it on his right hand, stood on tiptoe on the top of the cupboard, and found the firewood knife at home.

Li Qing held a firewood knife in his right hand, stepped into the bamboo forest, and his body flashed left and right into the bamboo forest.

I saw Li Zhenfu bending over, holding the bamboo in his left hand, holding a knife in his right hand, cutting the fallen leaves next to the bamboo roots, digging a small pit with the tip of the firewood knife, and the roots of the bamboo were exposed.

Li Zhenfu waved his right hand up and down, one knife, two knives, and the straight bamboo fell crookedly, leaning on the other bamboos next to him.

Li Zhenfu raised his feet and filled the small pit with the loose soil that had just been dug up.

"Dad, I'm going to chop bamboo, too"

"Qing'er, what are you doing here? That knife is too blunt to cut bamboo."

Li Qing didn't believe it, so he also held the bamboo with his left hand, and waved the firewood knife with his right hand.

"Huh? I really can't cut it."

"Qing'er, that's this year's new bamboo, don't cut it, take the bamboo I fell, take it to the gate,"

"Okay"

Li Qing shuttled through the bamboo forest, holding the roots of the cut down bamboo with both hands, kicking the ground with both feet, leaning to the side, dragging hard to the outside of the bamboo forest, dragging to the gate, Li Qing cut off the bamboo branches with a knife.

Li Zhenfu cut a total of seven or eight large bamboos and a dozen small bamboos.

The large bamboo is broken with a knife, and then broken into a piece, ready to be woven into a chicken coop.

Li Qing brought a small wooden stool from home, and Li Zhenfu sat on the small wooden stool and knit it up.

"Your mother talks about autumn, buy dozens of chicks, let me make a dense chicken coop, hehe"

"What about the bundles of bamboo?"

Li Zhenfu tied up small bamboos of about the same length and thickness and erected them against the earthen wall.

Song Nanzhi and Li Feng also came over and sorted out the bamboo branches on the side.

"Tomorrow we will go out on the street and sell the little bamboo."

"Qing'er, it's about to be the third year of junior high school, you have to study hard, your eldest sister won't study anymore"

"The eldest sister's grades are so good, aren't you ready to repeat?"

"She couldn't live or die by herself, and the head teacher brought a letter and asked her to repeat it"

"There is a small shop on the street, it is from the village, and it needs to be run by three people, so she has to do it, she has breakfast today, and she has already gone to the store."

Li Feng squatted behind Li Zhenfu and grinned

"Dad, the chicken coop you made is not good-looking, hehe"

"Your dad is not a professional craftsman, so he can use it at home, it's almost fine."

Li Zhenfu laughed.

"Oh, it's half past ten, I'm listening to the radio telling the time,"

"Zhenfu, in the afternoon, go to the street to buy two batteries, since you bought a radio, Qing'er can't do without the radio, but it also saves you from telling stories every day, and you still take it to bed to listen at night,"

"Haha, I fell asleep listening to it at night, and when I woke up, I turned it off at the slightest sound"

"Qing'er, you go to the vegetable garden to pick a few peppers, I'll fry dried tofu at noon, pick the green ones, and I'll keep the red ones for chopped peppers."

"Hey"

Li Qing moved his legs quickly, entered the kitchen like a float, stood on tiptoe, and put the firewood knife on the top of the cupboard.

Carrying a small bamboo basket, he turned around and went to the west wall, crossed the bamboo forest, and stepped on a narrow ridge behind the house.

A thin stream in front of him blocked the way.

The stream flowed happily into the green seedling fields, and there were many small fish and shrimp in the river.

Li Qing raised his legs, crossed the stream, shook off his arms, and trotted to the small vegetable garden.

Remove the small rings twisted into the wire with your hands and push open the door of the small vegetable garden made of small branches.

Glancing around, I went straight to the low pepper strain, which was full of chili peppers, green and red.

Li Qing bent down, picked five or six green chili peppers, smelled them, and put them in the bamboo basket.

Turning around and walking briskly out of the vegetable garden, he pulled up the branch door, put the wire ring on it, and walked to the creek.

Li Qing poured the chili pepper on the grass on the ridge.

Use a bamboo basket to lock the stream, the mouth of the bamboo basket is upstream towards the stream, hold the bamboo basket with both hands, and after two minutes, lift the bamboo basket again.

Several small fish, the size of little fingers, are jumping around in the bamboo basket.

The fish was too small, Li Qing poured the small fish into the river again, and the little fish swung its tail happily and swam away with the water.

"Zhenfu, let's take a break, and I'll make it up after dinner."

"I'm going to the countryside in the afternoon."

After lunch and resting for a while, Li Zhenfu rode a bicycle and went to work, Li Qing and Li Feng, next door, played with the children in the village, catching stones.

At five o'clock, Song Nanzhi called Li Qing to go to the vegetable garden to water the vegetables.

"Qing'er, let's go, let's go and water the vegetable garden, your eldest sister hasn't come back yet, let's carry it"

"Oh"

Li Qingdong ran to the hall and behind the door, picked up a longer wooden pole, and walked to the room Song Nanzhi.

Song Nanzhi moved the dung bucket out of the corner of the room.

Li Qing passed the flat burden under the bucket made of bamboo chips, Song Nanzhi caught one end of the flat burden with his hand and put it on his right shoulder, Li Qing held the other end of the flat burden with his hand,

"Let's go"

Song Nanzhi clamped the dung bucket with his right hand, pulled it to himself, and held it.

The two carried the dung bucket to the vegetable garden behind the house, and when they reached the west wall, Song Nanzhi took the dung scoop and put it in the dung bucket, and the two shook it and walked to the stream.

"Qing'er, stop, I'll add some water"

"Hey"

Li Qing stopped, held the flat pole with his hand, and moved his shoulder,

Song Nanzhi also moved the flat shoulder down,

Li Qing took the flat pole out of the dung bucket clamp, erected the flat pole, held it in his hand and stood aside.

There are green seedlings everywhere, smooth and straight and narrow ridges, and the ridges are full of edamame plants, nodding gently in the breeze.

Song Nanzhi held the long dung scoop handle with both hands, took the dung scoop out of the dung bucket, stretched it out into the small river and scooped water, scoop by scoop, and did not stop until the dung bucket was almost full.

Song Nanzhi held the dung scoop in his left hand and lifted the dung bucket with Li Qing

"Qing'er, is it okay? It's too heavy, take a break, or wait and scoop less water."

"Okay, it's not heavy, I can lift it"

Carried to the vegetable garden and put down, Song Nanzhi held the long handle of the dung scoop with both hands, and splashed water on the vegetables one by one, and some poured them next to the roots of the small vegetable plants.

Li Qing was in the vegetable field, looking around, there were several chili peppers hanging under the sturdy green pepper plants, as well as oval-shaped bulging smooth eggplants.

The two-meter-high bamboo pole and the long bean shelf are covered with long bean vines, and the vines hang slender and tender green long beans, through the layers of green leaves.

The fence side is water spinach ... One day at a time, the vegetable garden is full of life.

Li Qing had nothing to do, so he ran to the vegetable garden to see how long the beans had grown? Are green peppers still blooming?

Song Nanzhi and Li Qing carried four or five buckets of water before watering all the vegetable fields.

"Go home, I'll water it tomorrow, this vegetable is just like a person,

I can't stand it when it's sunny, I can't stand it when it's raining, hahaha"

"Our teacher said that vegetables are also alive"

"Of course."

When he came back from the vegetable garden, Li Yun had already cooked the porridge.

"Qing'er is going to carry the dung bucket, can you carry it?"

"If you can't lift it, you have to lift it, Qing'er's shoulders are crooked, exercising is not a bad thing, you are seven years old, don't you start cooking?"

"Hehe, I'm the eldest in the family, I can't help it"

Li Yun said to Li Qing and Li Feng

"I bought a TV in the next village, let's go watch it, shall we? Qing'er, I heard that in the martial arts film, Huo Yuanjia"

"If you want to collect money, five cents a person"

"Do you want to bring a small bench?"

"No, she has stools at home, row by row"

"Mom, let's go and have a look."

"You three go, your dad and I will take care of the house"