On the eighth day of the first month of March, the wedding date of the eldest son of the Xiao family, Fusheng, arrived, and Ziqing took Zishou to greet his relatives, because the Xiao family's hometown did not have many relatives and was not in the local area, so everyone in Peng's central went to cheer.

Ziqing and Xiao Xiushui went crazy together for a day, and at night several unmarried guys wanted to secretly listen to the room, Xiushui also wanted to steal it, and wanted to pull Ziqing as a companion, Xiao Fusheng's new house was the one where the Shen family lived, and it was repainted, although Ziqing also intended to join in the fun, but the Shen family took her back early, "How can any girl listen to this, she has no face and no skin." Ziqing felt deeply regretful.

The next morning, a rare sunny day, Shen and Ziqing sat on the side of the mat, the rape at home had already been taken back, and it had not caught up with the good weather, this was not Shen Shi took out the rape early in the morning and turned it over, which would be kneading while beating, Ziqing was helping to pick up the chicken on the side, Zishou and Zixi took off their shoes, and stepped on the rape pole on the mat with thick socks to play, Zixi walked not particularly steady, swaying, but knew that he fell and got up, which made Ziqing and Zishou laugh, and the little guy saw it, and played more happily.

Shen was talking to Ziqing that there were more peas sold in the city this year than last year, and the price had dropped by a penny. As he was talking, suddenly, the weather became cloudy, and the wind would rise after a while, He ran out to see the sky, saying that he was afraid of rain, and hurriedly hugged Zixi into the house, and the three of them hurriedly just put the rape into the gatehouse, and a gust of wind blew over, flying sand and stones, black and pressed everywhere, and then thunder and lightning, heavy rain poured down, and the three of them hurriedly hid in the house.

In the afternoon, Zilu came home from school, saying that the road was full of broken branches, and there were collapsed thatched houses, He said that he had not seen such a strong wind for many years, and the wheat must be affected, Ziqing heard that he quickly went out to see the vegetable patch in the yard, it was okay, after all, there were houses on all sides, and they didn't blow up, and the seedlings in the watermelon field were all crooked, and Ziqing asked everyone to come and help help them up.

At this time, Ziqing heard someone calling the door, it turned out to be Zeng Ruiyu coming, saying that he had gone to see the wheat field here, because it was a depression, the loss was not big, but he needed to be helped up, afraid that it would sprout if he soaked in the water, and said: "I also heard on the way I just came that someone in our village was blown up and flew up, fell into the canal on the other side of the reservoir, and was rescued. ”

Everyone was surprised when they heard it, they had never heard of it, there were still people who were scraped off, and they were joking, Qiuyu came to deliver a letter, it turned out that it was Zhou who was scraped off, Ziqing felt that Zhou's weight was still fat among women, and it was necessary to replace it with someone else, and I couldn't tell where it was.

When Shen heard this, he quickly shook off the mud in his hand, wanted to see Zhou, hurriedly picked up twenty or thirty eggs, explained a few words to He, and Ziqing followed.

Only then did I know that Zhou's feet and neck were very swollen, and they were carried back with a board, and they couldn't walk at all, and the old man looked for Zhou Langzhong, who had treated Ziqing at the beginning, and when Ziqing arrived, he didn't know what medicine was used to do massage, and Zhou's pain was screaming, and the doctor kept saying don't move, but Zhou's tears and snot were there, and he counted while crying, and said that the child's father was not at home, and the things at home were all pointing to her to work, and then complained, saying that the old man's land was not good, if it was the land of the second family, and there will be no such sin.

The old man listened outside, and his brows became more and more furrowed. Tian also sighed, and Ziping could only wipe her tears on the side.

Shen hurriedly asked, "Dad, did you send a letter to your eldest brother?" ”

"I told Lao Tian on the street and asked him to pick him up, anyway, Lao Tian is going to send people to the city." The old man said that Lao Tian was a donkey cart driver, and he waited on the street every day to pull people.

After a while, the old man went to see Zhou Langzhong, and Shen sat on the edge of Zhou's bed and asked what was going on. It turned out that Zhou was picking peas in the sand when the sky changed, and there was not much left, so he wanted to finish it in one go and save another trip. When I saw that something was wrong and wanted to run, I couldn't run anymore, and then I didn't know what was going on, I was dizzy at that moment, and when I realized that I was already in an abandoned dry water canal. This canal is deeper than a person, Zhou fell and shouted for a long time before anyone heard it, he was frightened, cold and hungry, I don't know which way I collided with the ghosts and gods, and I asked Ziping to go and worship incense.

Shen boiled some hot water, scrubbed Zhou a little, and then went to the stove room to cook two poached eggs and brought them in, saying, "Eat a bowl of eggs and heat it." Recently, don't move, I didn't hear what Lang Zhong said, it will take a hundred days to hurt my muscles and bones, tell my mother, don't start a gang, and the two families will go together. ”

After speaking, Shen asked how to arrange the work in the field. "That's fine, let my brother do it. I know you're too busy with your own family's affairs, so I won't bother you. Zhou said.

As he was talking, Tian came in and said that it was dark, and Shen hurriedly stood up to say goodbye and took Ziqing home.

On the way home, Ziqing discussed with her mother, wanting to wait for the silver sold by watermelons this year to buy the small barren mountain behind, "Mother, I want to plant fruit trees, you believe me, it will work, I have already raised seedlings." Moreover, in a place as big as the mountain, you can also raise chickens, and raising chickens is also very profitable. Mother, you see, I've never planted watermelons, haven't I also planted them?"

"That big mountain, you can't pay back dozens of acres, and my mother still wants to save money to buy good paddy fields. Or the paddy fields are real, you see which landlord does not have silver to hoard paddy fields. ”

"It's a barren mountain, and I don't need much silver, so I will only buy the land this time, and you will use all the silver in the future to buy paddy fields. I promise that I can't lose, if I lose, then my mother won't have to give me a dowry, I just want this barren mountain. ”

"You are shameless, this is also something that you can say as a girl, who you learn from all day long."

Seeing that Ziqing didn't say anything, he said again: "Where does our family have the money to buy a mountain, your eldest brother goes to the official school, Master Xu's account is settled, how much is left in our family?" ”

Master Xu and the others went back two days ago, and there were more than ten taels of silver left at home, which was really not enough to do anything.

"Mother, I didn't say to buy it now, you see that our yard is wasteland, and it only cost fifteen taels of silver to gather together, and our family will take back more than two hundred taels a year, how appropriate." Ziqing explained to her mother.

Shen pondered for a while, and finally, finally agreed to wait for Zeng Ruixiang and them to come back to discuss.

When I got home, I washed up and went to bed all night. Who knows, in the early hours of the morning, I heard the wind whistling outside the window, the movement was bigger and crazy than the one during the day, Zishou woke up frightened, crying and calling his mother, Zilu hugged him and coaxed: "Don't cry, little three, my brother will take you to find your mother." ”

Shen was busy holding his little son and sitting on Zilu's bed, coaxing Zishou with Zilu, He and Ziqing had already woken up, and the two also sat on Zilu's bed. He said that the weather this year was abnormal, and he was afraid that it would be bad, so he asked Shen to prepare more rice grain.