Before Liu Lanqing left, Old Man Liu took twenty taels of silver for him to spend money during the winding and examination period, Guo Shi was even more unhappy when he saw it, and when there was no one around, he chattered in front of Liu Boyu again.

"Xianggong, Qing Yanzi went to take the exam, and as soon as my father made a move, it was twenty taels, and our family could only save a few silver a year. If you can't pass the test, the money will be wasted! We also have a copy of this family, but we only spent a few dollars a year, and my father is too partial to the eldest brother's family.

When Liu Boyu heard this, he glanced at Guo Shi coldly and said, "Then what do you say your father should do to be not partial?" ”

Guo Shi didn't know about Liu Boyu's unhappiness, Gu Zi said: "According to my meaning, how much silver the eldest brother's family spent, how much silver should my father give us, as for how to use it, that's our own business." ”

Liu Boyu sneered and said, "It's better for us to split up and live separately, it's not better for you to be in charge of the house yourself." ”

Hearing the separation, Guo was shocked and hurriedly said: "Splitting up? How can I divide the family, I have to do all the housework by myself, and the land allocated to us also has to pay taxes, and the family must not be divided. ”

Liu Boyu looked at the woman in front of him with cold eyes, and suddenly his heart swelled with a wave of boredom, he used to think that she was just vain and lazy, but he didn't expect it to be so selfish and greedy, the disgust in his eyes condensed, and his eyes gradually became as cold as ice.

Guo Shi saw that Liu Boyu's face and eyes were getting colder and colder, and he immediately panicked.

"Let me ask you, when you married into our Liu family, have you ever been harsh on you in terms of food and clothing? My sister-in-law is busy doing things at home from morning to night, and you haven't even helped wash a bowl, does your father and mother treat the two of you differently? The current situation of this family is maintained by relying on the fame of the eldest brother. Qing Lingzi used the eldest brother's silver to study, and never used the family's public middle school, and the annual silver was handed over in full, and now Qing Lingzi spent some money on the exam, and you actually said that you would also give you so much silver, I really don't know where you have the face to dare to say such things! After Liu Boyu finished speaking, he turned to the side and stopped looking at Guo.

"Xianggong, I'm just saying it casually, don't take it seriously, I won't mention it again in the future." Guo Shi made a look of extreme grievance and wiped the corners of his eyes with a handkerchief.

Liu Boyu snorted lightly and brushed his sleeves away.

Guo Shi looked at Liu Boyu's back, and his heart was cold.

At the beginning of April, because there were still more than two acres of sandy land left unplanted, Mr. Liu thought that he would have to plant soybeans while the weather was fine these days.

The land is on the hillside not far behind the Liu family, with plenty of sunshine in the shade and sunshine, and although it is sandy, the soil layer is very deep, which is considered a high-quality dry land.

The land is divided into two pieces next to each other, the upper one is about one acre, and the lower one is more than one acre.

Today, except for the Jiang family, everyone else is dispatched. The family is divided into two groups, Liu Boyu, Guo and Qingzhi planted the upper piece, and Old Man Liu and Liu Qingyan's mother and daughter planted the larger one below.

The old man and Liu Boyu were responsible for spreading fertilizer, which was piled up next to the sand, which was made of fire soil ash made of turf, fallen leaves and dead branches, and then poured with human urine and mixed well, which was the ancient organic compound fertilizer.

Xie and Guo are digging in the pit, and the two little girls are responsible for ordering beans, the bean seeds are carefully selected, each round and full, and it is a piece of golden beans that can make money!

The first time Guo went to work in the field, he complained of back pain in less than half an hour, threw a hoe and sat on the ground to slack off.

Liu Boyu twisted his eyebrows and looked at the old man below, seeing that the old man was concentrating on his work and did not notice the situation above, he lowered his face and whispered to Guo: "Hurry up, how long has I been working, so that my father will be angry when he sees it." ”

Guo Shi pursed his mouth, slapped his back with his hand and said, "My back hurts, can't I do it again?" ”

Liu Boyu gritted his teeth in anger, glared at Guo Shi too lazy to say anything more about her, and picked up a hoe to dig the pit himself.

Guo Shi rested enough, and then slowly got up and continued to work.

After digging the pit for a while, Guo Shi excused himself to go back to cook, so he went back alone.

The villagers who were also planting beans in the field not far away saw it in their eyes, and went back to spread the word, and Guo's already unbearable reputation became more and more stinky.

After the last spring rain of late spring, it is the beginning of summer, announcing the arrival of early summer.

Summer inherits the vitality of spring, but compared with the charm of spring, summer has a little more surging passion, exuding a scorching atmosphere everywhere, showing more colorful charm.

After breakfast this day, two little girls, willow branches and catkins, came to call Liu Qingyan and Qingzhi to go to the mountain to pick mushrooms.

Since the last time she taught them to play the willow flute, Yoo Qingyan has quickly established a friendship with each other, and now they are playing well.

Hearing that she was going to pick mushrooms, Liu Qingyan jumped three feet tall happily.

Although the wild miscellaneous mushrooms are not as good as the bamboo sunflower, but it is also a delicious mountain delicacy, at the moment with the bamboo basket that usually beats pigweed, and then two little girls of the same age joined the team on the way, talking and laughing together to the west of the village.

The mountains behind Baishui Village are not strange, not high or dangerous, not the kind of lofty mountains and ravines, but undulating hills, there are no jackals, tigers, leopards, bears and other large carnivorous beasts in the mountains, only hares, pheasants, chapters, pig badgers and other small animals, the only threatening is the wild boar.

Although the wild boar is a pig, it is not stupid, and it will not run to the mountains where people often move for no reason, and will only be the king and hegemon in the depths of the mountains and forests, so Xie is very relieved to let Liu Qingyan go to the mountains to collect mushrooms, plus she thinks that her daughter used to be locked at home all day long, and she didn't even have a little sister who could play, it was so pitiful, and now that she finally has a companion, she naturally won't object.

The road into the mountain is at the west end of the village, and Liu Qingyan now knows that Baishui Village is actually quite large, about two or three miles from east to west, and the villagers are built against the mountain according to the winding terrain of the riverbank.

The blue brick mansion at the west end of the village is the home of the rich man Huang, built with two entrances, the area is much larger than the Liu family, and the carved eaves can be faintly seen over the high wall.

On the opposite side of the rich man's house, on the slope of several paddy fields in the middle, there is a small courtyard with a yellow mud wall surrounded by a bamboo fence, a simple three main houses and a small stove room, under the fence is planted a plant that does not know the name, there is a tall jujube tree and a small vegetable field in the yard, and all kinds of melons and vegetables are growing well.

The mud-walled courtyard faces the main entrance of the blue brick mansion of the rich man, just like a beggar and a local tyrant looking at each other, which is quite funny.

Liu Qingyan wondered what kind of person would choose such a place to live, lonely away from the village, wouldn't she be afraid?

A little further on is the mill in Baishui Village, where there is a gap in the river, and the villagers used the hydrodynamic power to build a mill, where rice grinding and corn milling are completed.

The way up the hill is on the hillside next to the fence yard, the path winds up, lined with dense weeds and shrubs, as a group of little girls frolic and footsteps approach, there is a sound of "swish" in the grass, I don't know what kind of small animals are frightened and flee.

Summer is colorful, climb the first mountain beam and overlook, everywhere you can see are impregnated with thick ink and heavy color, quiet is lake blue, pure is milky white, warm red, elegant silver gray, solemn ink black, colorful colors are painted all over the warm summer.

The trees on the mountain are not very tall, and there are many varieties, mostly pine trees, and there are some wild fruit trees mixed in the period, and a thick layer of pine feathers is laid under the trees, and women often come up to the mountain to collect these pine feathers and take them back as matches.

The little girls agreed to meet on the ridge before lunch, and then they went into the woods like deer, and scattered to look for fungi.

Picking mushrooms is a kind of work, Liu Qingyan, an old country child, has done it, and she probably knows what she can eat and what she can't.

The natural environment here has not been damaged at all, and the wild mushrooms are much more abundant than in later generations, and it took a lot of effort to find enough wild mushrooms to make a dish in the mountains of her hometown before she crossed over, but now it is a breeze, and soon she will be full of baskets.

Liu Qingyan walked back with the basket, and suddenly a large piece of fiery red color came into her eyes.

It's a rhododendron, and I saw this flower when I was looking for fungi just now, but it's all one or two scattered in the bushes, and I haven't seen it like this.

Ahead, clumps of red rhododendrons bloom warmly in the early summer breeze, and the flowers crowded together are like clusters of dancing red flames, set off by the green and shiny young leaves, brilliant and dazzling.

Liu Qingyan's eyes were immediately attracted by the azalea, and she walked closer to take a closer look.

This piece of rhododendron is a large-leaved rhododendron, also known as Yingshan red, the corolla is trumpet-shaped, the color is red, crimson, purple red, the stamen is the same color, and the fragrance of the flowers attracts bees and colorful butterflies to dance among the flowers. She is very familiar with rhododendrons, rhododendrons in addition to ornamental, there is also a high medicinal value, flowers, leaves, roots can be used in medicine, there is a clear heat and detoxification, replenish deficiency, the effect of qi and blood activation, can treat menstrual irregularities, internal injuries and cough, rheumatism and other diseases, after soaking, can inhibit insect pests, is a natural insecticidal pesticide.

When I suddenly saw so many azaleas in another world, I suddenly felt a sense of intimacy in my heart.

The sky is blue and deep, the birds and insects are chirping in the forest, the breeze is soft, the flowers are dazzling, and the time is so beautiful.

Liu Qingyan's heart flew in the mountains and forests, and a song that suited the occasion jumped in her mind, so she sang it loudly, breaking off the most beautiful azalea branches while singing, and preparing to take it back and put it in the boudoir.

"The weather is so sunny today, the scenery is good, the butterflies are busy, the bees are busy, the birds are busy, the white clouds are busy, ah...... The horseshoe trampled the flowers, the horseshoe trampled the flowers, the flowers, ah......"

Singing this, I can't continue it for a long time.

Because of her, I forgot the words!

Liu Qingyan is always too lazy to memorize the lyrics when she sings, she has a lot of KTV inputs, and she can sing a lot of songs, and her singing voice is good, but there are few songs that can remember all the words. The song "Today's weather is so sunny today" can remember so much, and that is all due to the TV station's broadcast of the TV series Zhu Gege every winter and summer vacation.