Uncle Wang was surprised, "There is still such a way?" ”

Cheng Xi smiled and nodded, and Xiong Er on the side didn't forget to brag to Cheng Xi, "My master is very smart, and he can always come up with something unexpected." ”

Xiong Da, who has always been honest and rarely talkative, nodded approvingly at this time.

Cheng Xi was a little embarrassed by the braggadocio of these two brothers, where is she smart, it is that she has lived two lives, and she knows more than them, and she is all borrowed from other people's knowledge.

Cheng Xi interrupted Xiong Er embarrassedly, "Let's get down to business, the matter of harvesting fruits is still troublesome Uncle Wang, these few of us are definitely not enough, you can hire people from the village to help, you can pay the salary, and then you can pay the account directly from me, and then you have to help me find a group of people to peel peaches, preferably women, a little smarter." ”

Uncle Wang nodded in response, "No problem, the old slave has been in the village for most of his life, and everyone in the village knows each other." ”

Cheng Xi nodded, and said to Xiong Da Xiong Er, "You go and collect the pickles for me, collect as much as you want, and then buy more sugar and come back, honey can also be used." ”

Xiong Dao, "How much do you charge?" If you collect too much, you can't use it up? ”

Cheng Xi responded, "The jar is not a fruit, just continue to use it after you don't use it, by the way, find out if you can find a factory workshop that makes jars, you can cooperate with them directly, and you don't need to collect it everywhere, but we are in a hurry to use it now, and we are afraid that it will be too late, and we still have to collect a batch of ready-made ones." ”

Xiong Daxiong Er nodded in response, "We'll go early tomorrow morning, but we're going to leave this house......"

Cheng Xi responded, "Don't worry, it'll be fine." ”

After Xu Sanlang left, Yu Zhaocai specially instructed the two of them to protect Cheng Xi's safety, no matter what time there must be someone by Cheng Xi's side, before the county seat, the two left, Cheng Xi is still on the territory of the prince in the county, but this Lihua Village is too far away from the county seat, if they leave, what should happen?

Even if Cheng Xi said that it would be fine, Xiong Da Xiong Er was not at ease, Xiong Da directly took everything down, "Second brother, stay at home, I'll take Brother Ping to Zhang Luo for this matter." ”

Cheng Xi originally wanted to leave Brother Ping to help Uncle Wang, but at this time, seeing that Xiong Da looked at ease if he didn't leave anyone at home, he simply responded, "It's okay, Brother Ping will also go out to exercise, Xiong Er, you can stay at home to help Uncle Wang." ”

After that, everyone began to get busy, the crops had been planted on the side of the grange, and they were all taken care of by a tenant farmer, although Cheng Xi also had plans in his heart on the side of the grange, but now that the crops have been planted, he can only make plans after the crops are harvested.

There are not many villagers in Lihua Village, although they are all poor, but Cheng Xi feels that the villagers in Lihua Village are much more simple than those in Shiqiao Village, and they are honest in doing things, but they don't have as many flowers and intestines as those people in Shiqiao Village.

Cheng Xi can provide them with so much work to do, the villagers are happy and grateful, and they work even harder to do things.

Originally, Cheng Xi also assured Xu Lan that she didn't need to go to the field to farm, but when she came here, the land was not planted, but the work in the orchard was not less, and even Cheng Xi himself was just as busy going in and out, plus the weather was getting hotter and the sun was bigger, and the white and tender skin that Xu Lan and Cheng Xi raised in the county town originally tanned in a few days.

Cheng Xi didn't think there was anything, wheat-colored, very healthy, but Aunt Fu often talked about it as a child, asking them to run less in the orchard and leave the things in the orchard to men to do.

Cheng Xi followed the method of the previous test, peeled and pitted the peaches, boiled the sugar into sugar water, and put the peeled peaches into the kimchi jar together and sealed tightly.

In fact, Cheng Xi has been looking for a long time for the container, of course there are no glass bottles here, fortunately, there are ceramic products fired in the earthen kiln, and things like kimchi jars have the lowest cost and are quite applicable.

After being busy for more than half a month, at the end of July, it was finally almost busy, and everyone could take a breath.

At this time, Xu Lan mentioned the things she was worried about and found Cheng Xi.

Seeing that Xu Lan looked like she wanted to speak and stopped, Cheng Xi urged, "You just have to say anything, why are you still talking to me." ”

Xu Lan responded, "My eldest brother and sister-in-law's village is not far from here, and now it's not busy, I want to go over and have a look." ”

Cheng Xi said, "By the way, I've been so busy during this time, I haven't even asked you, how is the situation in this house?" Your father and mother are going to separate from the Xu family during the Chinese New Year, what will happen after that? ”

Xu Lan sighed and responded, "It's divided, but the milk doesn't let my father and mother live at home, so I give three taels of silver, let my father and mother divide it out and rebuild the house by themselves, it is normal to separate the family and repair the new house by themselves, but how to repair the new house with three taels of silver, and the food in the family is almost sold, and the rest of the food, after the separation, there are not enough rations, my mother is thinking of leaving three taels of silver for emergency first, but my milk catches my mother every day and scolds, my mother really can't stand it, My brother didn't know where to find out about my father's situation, so he came back and took my father and mother directly to him. ”

Cheng Xi was a little surprised when he heard it, "So your father and mother are not in Shiqiao Village anymore?" All went to your brother's? ”

Xu Lan nodded, "I also told me later when my mother went to the county seat to find me, but I have been working in Yu Gongzi's teahouse, and I can't leave, so I haven't gone to my brother's current home to take a look." ”

Cheng Xi glared at Xu Lan reproachfully, "Then you don't know how to say it earlier?" Since it's not far from here, we should have gone over and had a look. ”

Xu Lan said with an embarrassed smile, "Aren't we too busy, I don't think about it for a while, it's not too late to talk when I'm done." ”

In fact, Xu Lan still took Cheng Xi into account that she was not very happy to see her father, in the past, her father followed the fourth uncle and her grandmother to calculate the idea of the third brother and three sisters-in-law to beat them, she had worked in the morning tea house for so long, and she knew too much about the world than before, and knew that Cheng Xi was actually an understanding person and could see everything clearly.

Cheng Xi thought that it was not too early today, and if he really wanted to pass, he still had to prepare and prepare, and he couldn't go over empty-handed, so he responded, "Then tomorrow will pass, I will go with you, and when your third brother didn't leave, he kept talking, saying that he was going to see the eldest brother, but it didn't happen." ”

So this ancient traffic problem, Cheng Xi is really a little unaccustomed, obviously in a county, just go to a place for half a day, some even a few days, go to other counties or state capitals, it is even more exaggerated, to say the least it will take ten days and half a month, that is still the case of horse-drawn carriages or ox carts.

Xu Lan heard that Cheng Xi was actually going too, and responded very happily, "Okay, let's go over early tomorrow morning." ”

Early the next morning, Cheng Xi asked Xiong Er to drive the newly bought ox cart and sent her and Xu Lan to Xu Dalang's village.

Cheng Xi had heard before that the village where Xu Dalang's daughter-in-law was located was very poor, and when the ox cart swayed for a long time to arrive at the village, Cheng Xi felt that it was no wonder that the place was poor.

This village called Xiangmu Village is even more remote than Lihua Village, but Lihua Village is a beautiful place in Cheng Xi's eyes, but the location of this village is bare, the wind and sand are also big, and the crops planted are all half-dead, where the crops in other villages are growing gratifyingly.

Looking at the village in front of him, Cheng Xi had in addition to the song of the Loess High Slope in his head, and the word infinite desolation.

The population in the village is not large, and most of the villages here rely on the soil to feed their families, just on the land of Xiangmu Village, Cheng Xi looked at the crops that were growing bleakly, and I am afraid that there are too many people to support them.

There was a bullock cart in the village suddenly, and many people in the village came to watch, and it was no wonder that the people in the village were scarce.

Several people found the yard where Xu Dalang was while asking, the ox cart stopped at the gate of the yard, Cheng Xi looked at the dilapidated yard, it was really poor enough, but almost everything in this village is like this, and this dilapidated yard is normal in such a village.

Cheng Xi and Xu Lan got out of the ox cart, still holding the things on the ox cart, and heard Xu Wenqiang's scolding from inside, "It's all a group of useless broken goods, why did I marry such a useless slut like you, and gave birth to this group of useless broken goods, I can't count on any of them, people say that raising children to prevent old age, I think it's a fart, it's a group of debt collectors, it's better to raise a good girl to rely on, I'll go to the county tomorrow to find Lan girl, you group of broken goods are left to fend for yourself in this broken house." ”

Xu Lan heard the familiar scolding inside, and stood in place with something very embarrassed, not knowing whether to go in or not, Cheng Xi sighed and urged, "Let's go, you always have to face it." ”

The courtyard door was closed, and as soon as Cheng Xi and Xu Lan passed, they smelled a strong smell of medicine, and Xu Lan, who was hesitant to go in, stepped forward quickly and pushed open the courtyard door with a worried face.

In the courtyard, Xu Wenqiang sat on the threshold with a black face, Ma was boiling medicine with a small stove on the side, I didn't see these other people, listening to Xu Wenqiang's scolding just now, there should be more than one Ma in the family, and the others should be in the house.

Xu Wenqiang, who was sitting on the threshold, was the first to see the two people who suddenly appeared at the door, Xu Wenqiang just swallowed back the curse words on his lips, and then a smile appeared on his face, "Why are you here?" ”

Ma, who had originally lowered his head to boil medicine, raised his head to look at the door, and when he saw the two people at the door, he was also surprised.

Xu Lan called her father, and then went into the courtyard with Cheng Xi with her things, Xu Wenqiang stood up and greeted the two of them into the house courteously.

The two followed Xu Wenqiang to the house, and Xu Lan asked, "Mother, who are you boiling medicine for?" Who is sick? ”

Ma Shi sighed and replied, "Your sister-in-law, since she had a miscarriage, she has fallen ill, and she has been taking medicine for a long time, and the family has no money left to take medicine for her, and her body is getting worse and worse." ”

Xu Wenqiang heard Ma's words, and his heart became angry, and he said in a very bad tone, "If you want to die, it's just a burden, dragging down the family." ”

Cheng Xi frowned slightly, and said in a slightly cold voice, "It's not your Xu family who tossed it." ”

Xu Wenqiang felt the impatience in Cheng Xi's tone, so he hurriedly closed his mouth and stopped mentioning the matter, and said with a smile, "It's really difficult for you to come to see us from such a distance." ”

And Xu Dalang in the house also came out when he heard the movement, and was stunned when he saw Xu Lan, and then said, "This is Lan'er?" They have all become big girls, and the eldest brother is almost gone. ”

Cheng Xi looked at Xu Sanlang, the eldest brother who was still worried about before leaving.