Soon after the day dawned, Second Uncle Wang took his two sons to Lan Yi's house to help her fence with a cart of fine bamboo.

The area of the vegetable garden is not small, but the three of them work very neatly, first cut the bamboo into a meter high bamboo section, densely inserted into the soil at the edge of the vegetable field, just two days ago it rained, the soil is wet, and it does not take much effort to insert bamboo poles. Then it was fixed with a sturdy rattan sandwiched with a thin bamboo, and it took less than an hour to make it.

Lan Yi boiled millet porridge in the morning, baked a stack of white-flour sesame cakes, and left the three of them to eat. After the meal, the two brothers Lin Xi and Lin Yuan left in a hurry, and the second uncle stayed behind to build a sheepfold next to the thatched house with the remaining thick bamboo. After Yu'er finished baating the grass, he helped with Uncle Wang in front and back, which was very impressive, and Second Uncle Wang smiled a little more when he saw Yu'er, and said that he went over to play with Dafuku.

Lan Yi cleaned up the yard and fed the chickens and geese, so she took the baby over to help. The second uncle has good craftsmanship, the sheepfold made of bamboo frames on the south wall, about two meters wide and four meters long, and a simple roof shelf made of wood from the firewood house on the west side, and a thick conical straw roof is pressed on the top, and the simple sheep shed is made.

"Eldest daughter-in-law, this sheep doesn't have to be locked up at home every day, you go to the field and lead it, tie it to the ground and let him gnaw the grass, the sheep loves to eat and grows fast."

"Well, second uncle, I wrote it down."

"Taking advantage of this rain, tomorrow I will find ploughing oxen and plough sticks to plough out the slopes, and you will not have to go over, there will be enough manpower." Second Uncle Wang also told him that he borrowed two ploughing cattle from five acres of sloping land, and he could finish plowing it in half a day.

"Yes, thank you Second Uncle. I'll get you the money I borrowed from the oxen. ”

Second Uncle Wang waved his hand: "I don't have a lot of money." ”

Second Uncle Wang has always said yes, Lan Yi nodded when he heard him say this, and went home with Second Uncle Wang to borrow a flat pole and a bamboo basket, planning to collect the sheep manure at home and scatter it into the ground, and by the way, see if she can pick up some other fertilizers to use. She didn't dare to touch the thatched house, although it was also fertilizer, but it was really beyond the psychological limit of what she could bear, it was too disgusting. In the past few days, when she went to the toilet, she locked the door in the firewood room with a urine bucket, and then poured it into the thatched house, so she still had to be nauseous several times a day, although it was imperative to clean up the thatched house, but she also had to plow the field first.

Lan Yi released the chicks and goslings from the firewood room and let them bask in the sun in the yard, Yu'er and the baby squatted curiously and watched, Lan Yi told Yu'er not to let the baby scratch it.

"Yu'er, my mother has to pick up a few times of dung in the ground, you help my mother watch my brother, okay?" Lan Yi wrapped her head with a handkerchief, put on a purple and gray coarse cloth narrow-sleeved jacket, tied a gray waistband, and dressed as a standard peasant woman, ready to start work.

"Okay." Yu'er nodded.

"Then are you going to play at home, or are you going to the second grandfather's house to play with Daifuku?" Yu'er and Daifuku have also become familiar with each other in the past few days, and Lan Yi thinks that this will allow him to have more contact with Daifuku and have a playmate.

Yu'er thought for a while: "At home, watch the chick and don't let the lynx go." ”

"Okay, Yu'er is awesome. You take your baby, don't go near the well, you know? Lan Yi was most afraid that they would go to the edge of the well to play, although she buttoned the lid on the well, she still told her several times a day. Now that the baby can walk, running around crookedly, Lan Yi is most afraid of any danger to him.

"Yes."

"Baby, listen to my brother and play here." Lan Yi took out their small toys, laid out straw mats in the yard for them to sit on and play, and took snacks and put them on the side, so that she could take care of her back and forth.

Two and a half baskets of sheep dung, Lan Yi didn't feel heavy on his shoulders. Although Chun Tao's body is weak, Lan Yi has been practicing martial arts with her father since she was a child, although she can only use a few sets of the most common Shaolin boxing methods and Yang's Taijiquan, but her body foundation is still good. Since the crossing, in order to deal with the dangers that may arise at any time, Lan Yi has taken the time to exercise and improve the flexibility and endurance of the body, and the results have been remarkable in the past month.

The sheep manure was carried over in one trip, and Lan Yi carried a lot of moldy broken straw and wheat stalks in the firewood room twice, went home to sleep, and told Yu'er to carry the burden to the woods on the side of the slope to clean up the rotten leaves and fertile soil. Lan Yi carried the burden, looked for the leeward low-lying in the woods, used a shovel to remove the weeds under the tree, and sure enough, she saw the rotten leaves, which are natural fertilizers that can promote the growth of plants and improve plant resistance. Lan Yi wants to collect more leaves to use in the field today, so as to increase the nutrients in the soil.

This work is easy to say, but clean up the leaves, pick out the stones and stones, and then pick them back and forth, Lan Yi also picked three times before noon. Luckily, because of the rain the day before, she also picked up a few edible mushrooms under the tree.

After arriving home, Lan Yi washed her hands and went into the house to see the two children. Because the baby peed his pants, he was playing with his brother on the kang with his bare little farts at this time, and when he saw Lan Yi coming in, the baby crawled towards her happily. Yu'er felt that she hadn't taken good care of the baby, so she peed his pants, and bit his lip with his head half-lowered and didn't dare to speak.

Lan Yi picked up the baby and patted his smooth little ass, now that the weather is warm, she is not afraid of him catching a cold.

"Baby peeing pants again? Yu'er is sorry, her mother came back late, and Yu'er took good care of her younger brother. Let's go, let's get dressed and go out, my mother picked up a lot of mushrooms in the woods when she picked up soil just now, let's fry mushrooms at noon and eat. ”

Yu'er saw that her mother didn't blame him, but wanted to make food for him, so she breathed a sigh of relief, and her tense little body also relaxed, and nodded briskly.

The family's lunch was simple and hearty: steamed white rice, a large plate of fried fresh mushrooms, and egg soup with shallots. After the meal, Lan Yi did not coax the baby to sleep, but tied him to his back with a carrier and led Yu'er to the field with the guts. Tomorrow she will plough the fields, and she will have to remove the weeds from the fields today and scatter as many rotten leaves as she can.

Lan Yi spread the straw mat in the basket under the tree on the ground, let Yu'er play with the baby, and began to pick up the fat again, and put the mushrooms collected in Yu'er's small back basket.

Now is the busy season of farming, there are a lot of people in the field, the people in the village see Lan Yi with two children busy in the field, and will mutter a few words "It's not easy for orphans and widows", "It's a pity that this flower and bone age" and so on, Lan Yi is busy with her own affairs, so she naturally doesn't care about these gossips.

When Lan Yi was tired, she sat on the straw mat and played with the child for a while and drank some hot water. The two children were playing with the puppy that Lan Yi had woven for them with ears of grass, and they were very happy.

A total of two acres of land, Lan Yi picked a few more times, and found that the nearby leaves and fertile soil had been collected by her, so she stopped to clean up the weeds in the field. At this time, the two children were already asleep on the ground covered with their clothes, Lan Yi cleaned up the big weeds, and sat on the straw mat to fan away the annoying little flying insects for the two children, but there were not many mosquitoes here. Lan Yi has been bathing with wormwood boiling water to repel mosquitoes for the past two days, and the effect is not bad, at least the three of them have not been bitten all over the body, which is much better than other children.

When Lan Yi packed up the fields and took her two children home, it was a beautiful sunset. The people in the village rushed home in flocks like tired birds returning to their nests, and their steps were full of joy. Lan Yi was in this crowd, enjoying the fulfillment brought by a day's work.

It's a feeling that is hard for people who aren't in it to understand. She is actively involved in rural life, eager to leave her mark in Beigou Village, feeling that only in this way will she become a part of reality, not a passerby, a refugee. Maybe tomorrow she will have to flee with her children and continue to run, and what she did today will become meaningless, but Lan Yi still wants to think of herself as a person who will live here permanently, as a villager here, who says that it must not be realized?

This is probably the feeling of "nowhere to be at home".

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