Chapter 8 Liu Niansi
"Aunt He, I just went to sow a handful of seeds, and I just finished sowing and planned to go home to rest, but Aunt He is going to wash clothes?"
"That's right! Go do your laundry, the food I gave you yesterday was delicious? ”
"It's delicious, thank you Aunt He." Cheng Qing was very grateful.
Aunt He is a peasant woman, she smiled honestly: "Say thank you, we are all neighbors, if you need anything in the future, just talk to me, you must be able to help." ”
"Eh, thank you, Aunt He."
As soon as Cheng Qing arrived at the door of his house, he heard laughter and laughter coming from inside the door, and listened carefully to the voice, it seemed to be Uncle Liu's little shuang'er.
Uncle Liu's family happens to be a family in the center of the village, and ordinary people, farming for a living, but unlike others, Uncle Liu married a twin, and gave birth to a twin, because of this, their family has been criticized by the villagers, saying that the ancestors have no yin virtue to make no queen, and what they say is a big disaster...
But Cheng Qing has a good impression of Uncle Liu's Shuang'er, although he has only seen one side, but Cheng Qing can see that the weak little Shuang'er is not the so-called reincarnation of the evil star, but a gentle and introverted child.
"What do you mean by being so happy? Let me hear it too. Cheng Qing smiled and pushed open the door, and sure enough, he saw a weak pair sitting on a stone chair and fiddling with silk threads with Xiaoyun.
Shuang'er hurriedly stood up when she saw Cheng Qing coming in, her hands intertwined, looking very restrained.
Xiaoyun looked at Shuang'er's movements, walked up to him with a smile, patted his hand comfortingly, and said, "Childe, this is Uncle Liu's Shuang'er Liu Niansi, the quilts at home seem to be a little out of line, so I'll let Niansi help." ”
"I... My name is Liu Niansi, I'm bothered today, I..." Liu Niansi was very shy and cramped, and he thought he had done something wrong.
Cheng Qing smiled: "What's the bother, my yard is big, you can come whenever you want, it's okay." We just moved in, and it's just in time for you to come, and it's too late for me to thank you! ”
"Look, let me say, my son-in-law is so good, how could he dislike you!" Xiaoyun pulled Liu Niansi to sit down and said, "Come, help me put this needle in, I've just been wearing it for a long time, and my eyes are about to squint into a slit and I haven't put it on yet..."
"Oh, good." Liu Niansi smiled at Cheng Qing, then lowered his head and began to thread the needle.
"Childe, the kitchen has just made some pastries, I'll take them out for you." Xiaoyun wanted to get up again and go to the kitchen, but was stopped by Cheng Qing, who was standing there watching Liu Niansi thread the needle: "I'll go by myself, you just do things here, eh... This needle eye is so small, how much effort does it take to put it in? ”
"The eye of the needle is small, but the thread is thinner." Liu Niansi said softly.
Cheng Qing nodded thoughtfully and muttered, "That's right..."
"Childe, what are you muttering about?"
"It's nothing, I'm going to the kitchen, you guys slow down, don't tie your hands..."
Cheng Qing patted the dust on his body and slowly walked towards the kitchen.
Liu Niansi looked up at Cheng Qing's back, and lowered his head silently, but this did not escape Xiaoyun's eyes, Xiaoyun was busy with the needlework in his hands, and said to Liu Niansi with a smile: "Niansi, I told you, my son-in-law is a good person, although he looks quite indifferent on his face, but he is a really enthusiastic person, especially when he treats Shuang'er and girls, he is even more dedicated to treating them." My son-in-law likes you very much, don't worry, in the future, just come to our house to sit, my son-in-law is now addicted to the field, I am alone at home, I am bored, you have to come to accompany me. ”
Liu Niansi raised his head in surprise, and still said solemnly: "Sister Xiaoyun, I know that you and your son-in-law are good people, but people are terrible, so I don't often come to bother." ”
"I have heard a lot of rumors in the village, but I don't believe it, it's okay for you to come, let them say if you like to talk about it, let's just ignore it!" Xiaoyun was upset for Liu Niansi, but what a good little Shuang'er had to be said by someone: "Look at you, how many dexterous hands, if I give birth to your hands, how happy I am!" ”
"Sister Xiaoyun, how can it be as good as you say..."Liu Niansi lowered his head shyly, but a trace of joy rose in his heart.
"Xiaoyun, I have made a little too much, I can't eat it, you two can eat it." Cheng Qing took a small plate of pastries and placed them on the stone table: "Eat, I'll go see the little sapling in the yard, and I'll go and water it." ”
"Do you want my help?"
"No need, you two just eat and work, and I can still do the watering work."
With that, Cheng Qing went to the backyard, took a wooden bucket and began to fill it, carried the bucket to the yard, and then went to the kitchen to get a scoop of water, and then poured it into the ground spoonful by spoonful.
Cheng Qing fell happily, but Liu Niansi, who was threading the needle and thread on the side, looked a little uneasy, thought about it again, and said hesitantly: "Cheng Gongzi, if this water falls again, the little sapling will be watered to death..."
"Huh?" Cheng Qing was puzzled: "Won't it?" I don't pour much, huh? ”
"I think this sapling is very clean, it should be newly planted, right?"
"Well, I just planted it two days ago."
"When the sapling is planted, it has to adapt to everything underground, so if you pour too much water now, the sapling will not be able to adapt to it, and the sapling will die easily. When the saplings gradually sprout, then the tree is considered alive, and it is too late to water it again. ”
Cheng Qing nodded teachably: "How do you know so much?" ”
Liu Niansi smiled embarrassedly: "When I was bored at home alone when I was a child, my father gave me a small sapling for me to raise, and I have experience when I raise it." ”
"Then you must teach my son-in-law more, otherwise it will not be enough to buy a sapling." Xiaoyun teased.
"Don't dare, I..."
"That's right, Niansi, come to my house when you have nothing to do on weekdays, I don't know anything about these things, I really need you to help me, okay?" Cheng Qing walked to Liu Niansi's side like grasping a life-saving straw, looking at him expectantly.
"I..."
"Niansi, you should teach me, you can tell me if you want anything, and I will definitely promise you."
"Cheng Gongzi, don't dare, I don't dare..."
"What is your name Cheng Gongzi, I am a few years older than you, just call me Brother Cheng, how about it?"
Liu Niansi's eyes widened, looking at Cheng Qing blankly, Cheng Qing changed his cold appearance in the past, and his face was full of expectation: "How is it?" What do you think? ”
"Brother Cheng..."
"That's good." Cheng Qing smiled and touched his head, pulled him up from his position and walked to the little sapling: "Quick, what should I do next?" You can't wait in vain, right? Right? ”
"Just turn over the soil often, nothing else." Liu Nian thought about Cheng Qing's actions just now, and couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth: "If Brother Cheng doesn't mind, I can help you take care of it." ”
"That's great!"
Since then, Liu Niansi has become a frequent visitor to Cheng Qing's house, as long as he has time, he will come to Cheng's house to help, and his relationship with Cheng Qing Xiaoyun has become more and more harmonious.
At night, Xiaoyun was serving Cheng Qing to wash his feet, and Cheng Qing was holding a book on agriculture and forestry with an oil lamp, reading it with relish.
Xiaoyun sprinkled hot water on Cheng Qing's feet continuously, and massaged Cheng Qing's feet lightly and heavily: "Childe, you have been busy and tired these days, and you haven't rested well, looking at this book all day and night, can you see a flower?" ”
"There is Yan Ruyu in the book, there is a golden house in the book, you can read more books if you have nothing to do, those books in my study, as long as you are interested, you can read them." Cheng Qing only glanced up at Xiao Yun, and then immersed himself in the book.
"Forget it, I don't have a deep relationship with books." Xiaoyun pouted and said, "Childe, can Xiaoyun ask you a question?" ”
"Just ask."
"Although Childe is a good person who is rare in a hundred years, but he has not been so kind to others, although Niansi is also a good person, but it has not reached the point where Childe can treat him like a younger brother, what does Childe like Niansi?"
"Do I have to think about what is good for him? Doesn't your son look like a good person? Cheng Qing slapped Xiaoyun's head with a book funny: "You are raising this white-eyed wolf for nothing, let's go, don't do it!" ”
Xiaoyun immediately begged for the most: "Son, can't bury me?" Didn't I praise you in the last sentence? ”
"What are you complimenting me on?"
"A good man who is rare to see in a hundred years!"
"Just you can talk." Cheng Qing smiled: "You're right, I'm not a kind person, but I'm not a wicked person, he's a shuang'er, I can help if I can." ”
Xiaoyun: "That's true, Niansi is really pitiful, and he is told so much gossip by the villagers." ”
"You have time to pity yourself, so you might as well pity yourself."
"What does Childe mean?"
"I see that Niansi's hands are indeed a pair of skillful hands, look at you, not to mention making clothes, even simple needles and threads are going to be rusty, if you really want to make a few clothes in the future, can you only stare at those pieces of cloth?"
Speaking of this, Xiaoyun complained: "What about me? Laundry, cooking, and cleaning the house every day, as well as serving the son, are busy every day and night, how can they have time to learn to make clothes? ”
Cheng Qing laughed and said, "What do you mean to blame me?" Did I buy you back to make you a bodhisattva? ”
"Childe is burying me again, I'm just complaining, Childe always says that my hands are not lucky, in fact, I said it wrong, Xiaoyun is just rusty, and my hands are ingenious!"
"Clever and ingenious?" Cheng Qing smiled: "You, it's good on this mouth!" Okay, if you soak for a long time, it's uncomfortable, so wipe it off. ”
"Okay." Xiao Yun hurriedly dried Cheng Qing's feet with a white cloth and put his feet on the bed before standing up and pouring the dirty water outside.
Cheng Qing was lying on the bed reading a book, and when he remembered something, he hurriedly said to Xiaoyun outside: "Xiaoyun, come in!" ”
Xiao Yun had just put the wooden barrel away, and when he heard Cheng Qing's call, he hurriedly responded loudly and hurried to the house: "What's wrong?" Didn't you say you would have to read the book for a while? ”