72 A smile that I haven't seen in a long time

The sun was still a long way from the edge of the mountain, and it was still early when it got dark.

Move furniture, move tools, move farm tools, move wheat stalks, move hay, move peas, move soybeans, clean rooms, break holes in walls......

With the help of dozens of uninvited "enthusiastic" villagers, Wu Qingchen's house was cleaned up and completely completed much earlier than William Sr. had originally expected.

However, by this time, old William had long since lost the idea of taking advantage of his free time to hurry up and tidy up the cabbage and pea fields next to the big house.

Where else can I manage those now?

There was so much hay that came to the door, and although the enthusiastic "villagers" helped to move it into a large and renovated livestock shed—no wonder the former cowherd's family wanted to build such a large livestock shed—but in the chaos of the crowd and chaos, the hay bales that had been piled up in a mess could collapse at any time.

However, looking at the huge livestock shed, and the huge haystack that occupies nearly half of the livestock shed, and then looking back at the other half of the space, the existing family has a ploughing cow, a cow, three goats, five chickens, and two geese, no matter how empty they look, there is no fear that the hay will fall and hit the livestock.

With so much hay, just a few livestock, how long should I eat? - Old William never thought that he would be bothered by such a problem.

It seems that this trouble, although it will definitely take a lot of time, is not the most urgent thing at the moment.

The most important thing at the moment is the large amount of peas and soybeans received, which are not as well-behaved as wheat grains, and are always troublesome: they tend to stink when it's hot, germinate when they're cold, and when they're not hot or cold, they start to grow bugs......

We had to divide them into nests while there was still time, put the well-preserved soybeans and peas into different clay pots and seal them, and at the same time pick up the broken soybeans and the peas that had taken off the pods, and quickly pick them out and eat them.

It was a very delicate task, and it was absolutely impossible to give it to the serfs—the serfs would only make more defective products—and old William could once again foresee that most of the time saved by borrowing oxen would have to be spent on it, except for the rest of the day.

And it will bring another question that William never thought of: how to eat so many broken soybeans and peas with lost pods?

Too much hay for livestock to eat, too many beans to be eaten quickly, these are really two happy troubles.

Oh! Bean! There were so many spilled beans outside the house!

When Old William hurriedly carried a basket and ran out to pick up beans, the last bit of sweeping work in the new house was over, and the last few "enthusiastic" villagers had already left.

Leading the serfs up the path, when passing a small bend, Wu Qingchen inadvertently turned his head, and suddenly found that little Nina was squatting on the edge of the flat ground in front of the new house, helping his father pick up beans while looking at himself hopefully.

Hey, I've been so busy today that I almost forgot one!

Wu Qingchen patted the back of his head lightly, turned around and shouted at his father, "Father...... Please tell your mother that everyone has been too tired lately, so let's put a little flour on dinner. ”

Little Nina smiled all over her eyebrows.

"Ah......" said old William, standing up with a handful of peas, "I've been eating it for days...... I didn't really do much work today, so I didn't need it, right? ”

"It's okay, it's okay...... Wu Qingchen hurriedly showed his father an expression of "this is definitely my wish" and "please accept it": "If I hadn't had to clean the house, I could have done more work today...... Let's eat more in the evening, and make up for the delayed work tomorrow! ”

From the perspective of the earth, on the premise that Wu Qingchen himself is full, trying to improve the physical fitness and social status of the closest family members and defenders of natural common interests in the medieval world is the basic strategy that the staff committee recommends for a long time.

From Wu Qingchen's point of view, after living together for more than a month, limited by poor materials, although the family members in the medieval world could not provide themselves with a real full meal, both their fathers and brothers always tried to take care of themselves when they worked, and when they did all kinds of acts that seemed inexplicable in their eyes, they always gave the greatest tolerance.

Wu Qingchen believes that not to mention the medieval world, even if it is changed to the earth, such a family is absolutely qualified!

Treat such a family member, if you can steal the old man's birds, beasts, fish and insects to supplement nutrition, the extra flour is still hidden and tucked, picked and saved......

that

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call

person

Is it?

"So be it, father! It's okay to put a little more......" Saying this, Wu Qingchen turned around and led the serfs down the ramp.

"But......" Old William opened his mouth again, and there were many "buts" in his heart, but he could not say any of them.

What should be said after "but"?

Could it be that this is the flour that the baron has given to Los by name, and it is a valuable property belonging to Los personally? - But Los never cared about "his" property, the white bread that the farmer gave him last time was given to the whole family when he took it home, and the last time the lord had just rewarded this big house, the first thing Los said was to ask if he could let the family come and live with him.

Could it be that it is too wasteful to eat the delicacies of the superior people directly, and they should find an opportunity to give them to the steward or the priest, so that the position of the cowherd will be more stable? - But the steward and the priest already liked Los enough to give him a direct reward for such a big house, would they care about such a little bit of flour?

Could it be that flour is said to last for a long, long time, and should be saved for a really difficult time? - Now that you have become a cowherd, will there be any difficulties in the future?

Could it be that the family is now worried that some of the beans that are not good to preserve cannot be eaten, and more should be wasted? - That's a good way to put it.

It's just that even 14-year-old Los knows how to take care of his family everywhere, has he lived for so many years, but instead forgot that his brothers and old neighbors are still having a hard time?

Wu Qingchen/Los had already led the serfs out of the distance, but old William "but" the next words, he never said it, silently picked up half a basket of peas and soybeans, and old William slowly crossed into the new residence.

Orange sunlight poured in through the freshly carved holes in the walls, sending in a scent of earth.

The thoroughly cleaned wooden house is no longer dim, and there is no longer the rancid smell that emanates from all the time.

Near the wall, next to a specially carved "hole in the wall", is the location of the Moores' new kitchen.

On the side of the "kitchen", the smoke rising from the "wall" drifted out of the house, and the wife, who was waiting for the fire, no longer coughed and rubbed her eyes vigorously, and her face was gone