The sun is scorching, even the chickens at home don't like to lay eggs, Ziqing they are busy watering the ground as soon as the sun goes down, Zeng Ruixiang usually gets up early to work in the fields, and comes back at about ten o'clock, and goes again at four or five o'clock in the afternoon. At this time, Ziqing missed the short skirt she wore before, as well as the camisole, the three of them were crammed into a small bed, and there were mosquito nets, it was hot and stuffy, if only there was a bamboo bed to sleep outside.

Zeng Ruixiang listened to Ziqing's thoughts, and immediately went to buy two bamboo beds and put them in the yard, but this is not good in summer, there are many mosquitoes, and Shen burns a lot of wormwood in the yard every day to smoke mosquitoes, but in the end, it is still much more comfortable than squeezing on a small bed.

And watering every day is not an easy job, the vegetable field is too big, Ziqing wants to have a water pipe. Wait, the water pipe, there is a bamboo forest on the edge of the village, but it's fine bamboo, fine bamboo can't work, you have to have that kind of big and thick bamboo, cut it and use it, forget it, tell Zifu about this idea, let him have a headache. Of course, Ziqing's excuse was seen in the book, the Miao people planted land and terraced fields in the mountains, and not all of them used this water diversion for irrigation.

Zifu listened to it and thought it was feasible, after all, he was the main laborer of watering, he took Zilu out to look for a circle, came back to find Zeng Ruixiang, Zeng Ruixiang came forward to find Zeng Ruiyu of the third mother-in-law's house, and really cut back a lot of bamboo, connected the bamboo pipe on the side of the vegetable field, Zifu dug a pit in the vegetable field, bought a large mouth of low water tank to receive water, this watering is much easier.

After the second crop of rice at home was planted, Qiuyu came to deliver a letter, saying that Chunyu had given birth to a son on June 28, and Chunyu's family would make a meal of milk, full moon, and three banquets in 100 days. After the notice, Qiuyu walked around the yard and saw Zeng Ruixiang saying that he wanted to pick a watermelon, Ziqing said when he heard it: "Little aunt, you wait, I'll help you pick one." ”

Qiu Yu looked at Zeng Ruixiang and said, "Second brother, take me there, what will she choose?" ”

Zeng Ruixiang said with some displeasure: "You go with her, she will be cut off at home." ”

Dare to love the family still doesn't trust herself, Ziqing really wants to leave with her hands. went to the melon field, looked for it, knocked several, Ziqing really wanted to pick a raw one for her to go back, Qiuyu looked at her and asked, "Ziqing, what are you knocking it for?" ”

"Listen to the voice and see if it's familiar."

"Oh, Ziqing, I look at a few extra big ones over there."

"Sister-in-law, it's kept for seeding, and it's not ripe yet." The vision is good, no wonder you want to come with yourself.

"Qingqing, my aunt asked you, how much can this watermelon be sold for?"

"Now it's five cents a pound."

"Five pounds and one catty, there must be thousands of pounds of watermelons all over the ground, one pound of five pounds, one thousand pounds is five taels, and two thousand catties is ten taels, and your family must not sell dozens of taels of silver this year."

"Sister-in-law, you can count."

"What's so difficult about arithmetic, your father taught me when I was a child, and besides, I always go to sell embroidery, how can I do it if I don't know how to count?"

"Ziqing, is this watermelon easy to grow? Do you think it's good to let my aunt's family grow some watermelons too? Or, you can pick a big one for your little aunt to plant, and you can see if there is a ripe one? Auntie will embroider a beautiful purse for you tomorrow. "The fox's tail is leaking out.

It turned out that he was thinking about it, and he wanted to buy himself with a purse. Ziqing wanted to take the opportunity to extort a pair of shoes, but according to Qiuyu's temperament, she didn't know how to arrange her own house when she went back, forget it, don't make trouble. "Auntie, you should keep the purse for yourself, my mother gave me one during the New Year."

Ziqing didn't say much after speaking, she picked a big one, anyway, her own watermelon seeds are about the same, every time Ziqing picks melons for her family to eat, she picks the biggest, and then puts away the watermelon seeds. Rather than letting Qiuyu go back to make trouble, it is better to make her satisfied, and the watermelons that left and right her own rely on the market to make money early.

Qiuyu left with the melon in her arms, Ziqing went back to the house and told her father about it, Zeng Ruixiang hurriedly looked at Shen's family, and said with a smile: "It's okay to let his family plant some melons, there are too many children in the family, and my brother-in-law is a bad one." ”

"Didn't work out? I didn't make it possible to make three meals of wine together, and I specially notified me, don't you just want to receive three gifts and take care of a meal, I haven't heard of it in almost 30 years, which one treats you like this? Is there anything more calculating than he? When don't you live in the old house for a month, if there is something at home, when is the whole family not coming? The last time I went to give a belly gift, I took the pork belly and eggs, as well as two feet of muslin, eighty yuan of things, my mother was too little, I reprimanded me, I didn't catch the chicken, I held my stomach and went to your sister's house, my brother-in-law heard that I and my sister-in-law could not stay to work, immediately changed his face, and refused to even cook a decent meal, and those children ate as if they hadn't seen anything for hundreds of years. ”

After Shen said this, he took a breath, and then said: "Actually, she wants to generously say that she wants to plant watermelons and find seeds, can I not agree?" My relatives are doing well, and I'm happy, or I don't all come to our house to fight the autumn breeze, I haven't got those angry yet. You said to send something this time, last time your mother was too thin, I said I couldn't go past my sister-in-law, you said this is the reason? Besides, in the past ten years, have you seen him send something to his family? It's a Lord of light that doesn't come in and can't leave. ”

"You can't go past the eldest brother, the eldest brother is also a face-saving person, you better go and discuss with your sister-in-law, you can go in this half a day, and it will only be a matter of these two days. You'll have to work hard. ”

In the afternoon, Shen went to the old house to find Zhou, Zhou was much more angry than Shen, and scolded him for never seeing such a person who asked for money and did not want to save face, and gave four gifts within a few days of giving birth to a child, and he didn't even have to eat. The result of the discussion between the two was a gift of ten eggs and a pound of meat, so three gifts were thirty eggs and three catties of meat, and Zhou was distressed that it would cost more than eighty yuan. Zhou said: "Brother and sister, if you all go to the whole family, when they come and don't come as a family, you also go to eat him for a day, so that he can feel distressed, your eldest brother is at home, I will let him go too." ”

"I have a lot of children, and it's troublesome to come and go, so I won't bring it, or I'll take Ziqing with me, and I also have a companion with Ziping. Sister-in-law, you say, will my mother say anything again this time? The Shen family was still worried that the Tian family was too polite.

"No, tomorrow my father will be at home, your eldest brother will also be at home, and my father will not look down on his son-in-law's style, so if you don't have money, don't make music and wine, and don't accept gifts." Zhou firmly believes that this time Tian should not be in trouble.

When Shen went home and told Ziqing that she was going to take her to Yan Village, Ziqing was really reluctant, several people excused themselves and excused themselves, Zishou was too young, and he would not resist if he went to suffer a loss, or Shen said that he would be with Ziping as a companion, and Ziqing was the most suitable. Ke Ziping is not friendly to Ziqing at all, what kind of companion is she?