The next day, after Zifu returned to the door, Zilu also followed him to the state school. Ziqing remembered that family, took some vegetables and asked to go over to have a look, and said hello to the Shen family, because Lin Kangping was with him, the Shen family didn't pull it, but just instructed, "Go early and return early." ”

Ziqing thought about it, took a pen and paper, and Lin Kangping came to Lingshang Village, Ziqing stood outside the gate and said: "There should be two words engraved here, 'Orange Garden', and oranges will be grown here in the future, do you say okay?" ”

"According to you, you can say how good it is. I'm really not good at farming, so you can teach me when I'm free. ”

When the two entered the gate, the family was sitting idlely, Lin Kangping led Ziqing over and said, "This is your future housewife, when I am not there, I will look for her if there is anything, and in the future, you will all listen to her orders." ”

"Yes." The couple replied respectfully with a bend down.

"I want to know where you are, how old you are, what have you done at home before?" Ziqing asked.

It turned out that the two were from Lianshan County, near Changzhou, the family farmed for a living, the Wang family was poor, Wang Tieshan was twenty-five this year, the eldest in the family, his mother gave birth to him and died, and the stepmother gave birth to several children. No, in time for this year's drought, his family ate a lot, and the few small ones at the bottom also grew up, so he drove them out.

"I do general farm work at home, and my wife mainly cooks, raises chickens, feeds pigs, and grows vegetables." Wang Tieshan replied.

Ziqing saw that the hands of these two people were indeed the hands of perennial labor, so she asked, "Are you willing to sign the death contract or the life contract?" ”

The two looked up at Ziqing and didn't understand what Ziqing meant, so Ziqing had to explain: "The death deed is that your family has been sold to us, and the living deed is the two of you, at least sell me for ten years, and give me ten years of work, without selling your body for money." I will pay you only your wages. If you want to leave in 10 years, you have to tell me in advance, of course, you are willing to do it for a long time, and I am very welcome. "Ziqing is still a modern person in her bones after all. I hope that everyone is equal, and thinking of what happened to Lin Kangping, let's leave some hope for the children of this family.

"Let's sign the deed of living, don't worry, the two of us must work hard, we can endure hardships, and we can endure any hardship." When the children are older, let them find their own way out. We will remember your great kindness for the rest of our lives. When Wang Tieshan heard that he didn't have to sell his body, he could just stay and work to get paid, and nodded busily to ensure that he would do things well.

Lin Kangping wrote the contract and said, "Then sign it for ten years first, so that you don't have to go to the government to file it." Your month's salary is a penny, and you can grow your own vegetables and eat in this yard, and you will raise chickens in the future. Eggs can also be eaten casually, done well, and a red envelope of one or two silver will be given at the end of the year. "Finished. Let the two of them press their handprints.

Ziqing handed over the half-hanging money and said: "This month has just come, you also have to settle, first give you half a hanging money, and later, on the first day of the new month, pay the wages of the previous month." I'll find something for you to do this month to make up for you. By the way, you guys will go out with us and buy some farm tools. He also asked Wang Tieshan about the tools he would use to dig tree holes, and then took him to the blacksmith shop to buy hoes, pickaxes, shovels, and other things.

After sending Wang Tieshan back to the orange orchard. Ziqing and the two went home, Ziqing found a big wooden board, asked Lin Kangping to clean it up, painted it, Yang Zeng Ruixiang wrote the word orange garden, and found some old cotton clothes from Shen, Ziyu and Zixi. filled two big bags, found rapeseed again, thought about it, went into the stove room to find a piece of meat and bones, and pulled Lin Kangping back to the orange orchard.

Ziqing handed over the meat and bones and said, "The children are still young, and they have been scared all the way these days, I'm afraid they haven't eaten a full meal, so let's cook a meal for the children." I've found some clothes for the four seasons, which are worn by my family. What is missing, there are those sold under the mountain, and your man also knows the place, tomorrow is the ruin, you can go and see it. Turn out the vegetable plot first, and you can also save some money on the vegetables. I got you some rapeseeds. ”

Li Shi took the meat and bones, and immediately cried, saying that the children had long since remembered what the meat tasted like, and saw that Ziqing opened the package, and the clothes inside were still five or six percent new, without a single patch, and the tears couldn't stop flowing out. Ziqing remembers that when she first came, seven or eight years old Zilu was busy working with Shen all day long, and there was really no farm work to go up the mountain to collect firewood and hug pine hair.

Li Shi hugged the two children and asked Ziqing to kowtow to thank her, but Ziqing hurriedly dodged away.

Ziqing asked Wang Tieshan, "Have you ever dug a tree hole?" ”

"Dig it, three feet square."

"Okay, I'm going to plant trees on this piece of land, and I'll dig two pennies for a tree hole, can you dig it?"

"Mistress, didn't you pay us? It's supposed to work, why can you still ask for money? ”

Ziqing was stunned for a moment, glanced at Lin Kangping, didn't bother to explain, and said: "Okay, since you say so, I will leave this job to your husband and wife, tomorrow I will open the vegetable field first, and then dig a tree hole, start digging from the innermost edge, dig one every fifteen feet, I will find someone to help you draw a line, two pennies a tree hole, I will come over to plant trees in two or three days, and I will settle it for you then." I know you're definitely strapped for money right now. ”

The husband and wife looked at each other when they heard this, they were both surprised and incredulous, this work is still paid for the salary, this is really a cheap thing that has never been heard of. In fact, Ziqing also thought about asking outsiders to dig tree holes, first, this matter is not very anxious, the saplings are big and small, and second, the main thing is that these two people are honest and kind, so they want to help.

On the way back, Ziqing was sitting in the car, Lin Kangping was out to catch the car, Ziqing stretched out the curtain and pinched Lin Kangping a few times, Lin Kangping laughed and said: "Master, I was wrong, isn't it okay to be a little wrong?" Be careful, pinch the carriage again and it will overturn. ”

The next day, after lunch, Ziqing and Lin Kangping took Zishou and Zixi to draw the line, Ziqing studied engineering, it was easy to do, straightened with straw rope, and marked with white lime lines, Ziqing first drew a quarter, in the middle was a brick house and a vacant land, the vacant land was made a vegetable field first, Ziqing wanted to stay, in case he wanted to come over to live in the future, there was also a place to build a house, mainly Ziqing also wanted to build a villa-style house, and when the orange blossoms were fragrant, come and smell the fragrance of flowers for a few days.

"Sister, you are so good, you can draw such a neat square at a point." Zixi boasted.

"Where is this, sister, you haven't seen it yet? I think I was back then... Ziqing almost got carried away when she was happy.

"What do you think about back then, say?" Zixi listened to the urging.

"I think back then, when I was five years old, I would wash your butt and wipe your buttocks, all of them were stinky, and I had to wash your diapers, and my hands were carrots from the winter." Ziqing said. attracted everyone's laughter and Zixi's chase.

After drawing the line, Ziqing asked Wang Tieshan to dig a tree hole to try to see how much time it would take and what the soil quality was. A few of them frolicked around.

After a while, Ziqing heard Wang Tieshan calling: "Mastermother, I've dug it, you can come and take a look." ”

"Haha, mother, I'm laughing to death, sister, you're too anxious, you want to be someone's housewife so much. Brother-in-law, please hurry up and take your housewife, don't stay at home and harm us. Zixi smiled.

Ziqing caught up with him and was about to pinch him, scolding: "You stinky little four, chew maggots again, look at my nine yin white bone claws." ”

"What is breaking the nine yin and white bone claws, I haven't heard of it, you don't show your eyes, you can't catch up with me, pay attention to your image, be dignified, you have to smile without showing your teeth, you look at your shrewd appearance, where is there a little bit of everyone's beautiful look, don't scare your brother-in-law away before you become a housewife." If our mother wants to see you like this, she should scold you, and I will tell my mother when I go back, so that she can recite the scriptures to you. Zixi always said with a smile a few meters in front of Ziqing.

Ziqing chased Zixi and frolicked, but she didn't catch up after being tired for a long time, Lin Kangping came over and hugged her and said: "Let's do the right thing first, see that you are sweating all the time, and the wind is blowing cold, Hengzhi He wants to take the car home with us, just clean him up in the carriage." ”

Ziqing had to let go and look at the tree hole, not to mention, this Wang Tieshan is a piece of material for work, this tree hole is dug quickly and neatly, Ziqing saw that it was basically red soil, there was no sand and stone, the red soil was relatively soft, and it was much easier to dig than the mountain behind the house.

"Okay, that's good, I'll come and plant trees the afternoon after tomorrow. Get busy, let's go. By the way, you can get firewood from the small door over there, remember to lock the door from the outside every time you go out. Ziqing said to Wang Tieshan.

After returning home, Zifu and his sister-in-law Liu had already entered the door, and the family had a reunion dinner in the evening, Liu wanted to stand and wait, but Shen asked her to sit down and said: "We are in the countryside, we don't have those who are exquisite, and we don't have to be like this in the future, you live a good life, it's better than anything else." They are all women, they all came over at that time, and they know that it is not easy to be a daughter-in-law. You treat this as your own home, if you have anything to eat, you can clip it yourself, and our family does not have the habit of serving vegetables for others. ”

Liu's eyes were a little red when he heard this, and Ziqing said amusedly: "Sister-in-law, why are your eye circles red, is it spicy pepper?" ”

In a word, it was not a cry to Liu's whole, nor was it a laugh, standing there, even more cramped, Zifu hurriedly helped her sit down, and said: "I said that my family doesn't have these rules, don't you believe it?" He glanced at Ziqing again and said, "My family likes to joke and be funny, and you will know it after a long time, and you will get used to it slowly." ”

"I'm leaving tomorrow, you are not allowed to bully Qing'er when I leave, I won't follow it when I come back." Lin Kangping saw Zifu glaring at Ziqing, and said hurriedly.

"Take it away for your housewife, it's good if she doesn't bully us, we don't dare to bully her." Zixi smiled.

"Mistress, what matrium?" Zeng Ruixiang asked.

"Little Four, you talk nonsense again, see how I clean you up. Dad, it's nothing, Xiaosi and I are amused. Ziqing explained.

Zeng Ruixiang saw this, but he didn't care about it. After the meal, the Liu family wanted to clean up and wash the dishes, Ziqing helped to finish it together, according to Ziqing's meaning, he had long wanted to buy a girl or mother-in-law to cook and wash, but Shen didn't follow, and said that the land was not planted, what is this work? Besides, others can't be more blushing when they buy a maid. (To be continued)