Dao Wufeng smiled without saying a word, stepped forward to take the leader of the sheep baa, opened the door and walked in. Qianmo followed Lan Yi's side, showing off the hat on his head quite complacently, "Fourth girl, if it weren't for the sword hero who would make such a good hat, we would be drenched in soup." ”

"Well," Lan Yi nodded in approval, in fact, the rain hat has no technical content, but the tender strips of the big-leaved poplar are densely woven to block the rain, but now in the eyes of the light ink, the image of Dao Wufeng is very tall, no matter what Dao Wufeng does, it is with an aperture in his opinion.

Lan Yi followed Dao Wufeng to lead the cattle to the livestock shed on the south wall of the west courtyard and tied them up, Dao Wufeng looked at the black-eared female goat and the two little lambs held in the shed safely, and said with a smile: "I said why there is one less goat today, it turns out that there is another lamb." ”

"It's been a few days. Wufeng, the two deer you caught and the sheep all the time might as well be tied in, and it will save trouble to feed them together. Lan Yi suggested, "Your livestock shed is not big. ”

There is also a barn in the east courtyard, in which horses are tethered without blades, but the place is not large. The livestock shed in the west courtyard was originally built by Second Uncle Wang with Lan Yi, and after getting married, Zhou Weiji used the adobe and wood left over from the house to rebuild it, which was much more spacious.

Dao Wufeng shook his head, "It's okay, Qianmo is tied to the door, after all, it's wild, and it's troublesome to make trouble at night if it's tied to one place." ”

Lan Yi nodded, and saw Dao Wufeng staring at the two little lambs, "Wufeng, when you were a child, your family also raised cattle and sheep, right?" ”

"I raised a flock of sheep, not of this breed, with denser and finer hair." Dao Wufeng bent down and rubbed the little lamb's head, his eyes soft. When he was a child, he liked to run around with a lamb in his arms, "Second sister-in-law, I happened to run into a litter of squirrels today." I caught one and brought it back, and I'll let Qianmo send it over for the two children to play with later. ”

Lan Yi nodded speechlessly, yesterday he joked that he would catch a monkey and come back, but he didn't expect to bring a squirrel today.

Zhou Weiji came home, the kitchen light was on, his wife was cooking, and his two sons were sitting by the stove. Around a small cage made of bamboo, in the cage is a small squirrel the size of a palm, jumping up and down.

"Daddy. Daddy, look, little squirrel. Wen Xuan saw his father and happily pointed to the little squirrel.

Zhou Weiji walked over. "Where did it come from?"

"Uncle Dao and Brother Qianmo went into the woods to catch them." Yu'er looked at the little squirrel worriedly, "Dad, feed the little squirrel pine nuts and it won't eat the chestnuts, what should I do if I starve to death?" ”

"It's okay, just caught it and tossed it, just put water and food in it at night." Zhou Weiji did this kind of thing a lot when he was a child, and he has a lot of experience.

"Brother Qianmo said that the little squirrel should live in a tree hollow. Daddy dug a hole in the sycamore tree and let it live in it. Good no good? Wen Xuan was babying the little squirrel and looked up to beg.

The plane tree by the well in the courtyard is going to be unlucky.

Zhou Weiji shook his head, "We still have a lot of wooden stakes at home, and my father cut a section and dig a hole for it to live in." ”

Yu'er immediately stood up, "Cheng, brother, let's go, let's go pick up wood." ”

Lan Yi watched the two little guys run out and said with a smile, "You have a way, I've been arguing with them for a long time." ”

Zhou Weiji smiled and pointed to the two burdens on the table, "I see that it is raining again, and I am afraid that the rain will not stop tomorrow, so I went to buy some things for the festival first, and I also bought crabs, you can see what is still missing." ”

He came back late today, she thought that there was something wrong with the yamen, but she didn't expect him to buy these things, it was hard for him to remember, "It's cold, go to the fire and roast, I steamed steamed buns, and we'll fry two more dishes later, and we'll eat." ”

Zhou Weiji sat on the small stool by the stove, looked at the little squirrel, and looked at Lan Yi and smiled.

In Lan Yi's eyes, he shaved off his beard, smiled less naïve and angry, and looked very handsome, such a warm smile also made her blush, "What are you smiling at, help me peel garlic!" ”

After eating in the kitchen, Lan Yi washed the dishes, and Yu'er and Wenxuan watched as Daddy used a knife to dig a hole in the wood.

Zhou Weiji's knife was sharp, and he dug it quickly, and put a handful of dry straw in it, before opening the cage and grabbing the little squirrel out and stuffing it into the tree hole, "Yu'er, take that plank and block it first." ”

Yu'er hurriedly did so, and watched her father quickly make the bamboo cage opening, and the cage was set on the hole in the wood, "It's done, just put it in this house." ”

"Daddy is amazing!" Wen Xuan went up and hugged his father's neck and kissed him left and right, "Will the little squirrel hide the pine nuts in the tree hole?" ”

Zhou Weiji wiped the saliva on his face and nodded.

At this moment, the big white goose in the yard crowed, and there was a knock at the gate.

Zhou Weiji stood up and went to check, and came back after a while, "I'll go to Uncle Lizheng's place and come back in a while." ”

Lan Yi nodded and didn't ask what was the matter, so Zhou Weiji hurried away.

It was not Zhao Lizheng who came to call Zhou Weiji, but Wang Deshou of the old Wang family in the south of the village.

Because of the rain and the familiar village road, the two did not carry lanterns, and the two did not walk fast. Zhou Weiji looked at Wang Deshou, who was silent beside him, and asked in a raised voice, "How did Brother and Sister Defu die?" ”

Wang Deshou rubbed his hands, opened his mouth a few times, and only uttered a few words, "Second brother, it's hard for me to say, you will know when you go." ”

"It's fine." Zhou Weiji nodded, since he was asked to come over, it was not a death or accident.

Seeing Wang Deshou's nervousness and uneasiness, Zhou Weiji asked again, "Uncle and Brother Dexi haven't come back for a few days, right?" ”

"Well, it's been three months." Speaking of things at home, Wang Deshou is a lot more comfortable, "A few days ago, I came to the family letter, and my father said that he wanted his eldest brother to come back in the autumn, but the business over there was too busy to get rid of." ”

Zhou Weiji nodded in response, Old Man Wang has been running business for many years, and when he comes back, there are not many of them, and the family is all Wang Hu's decision, and I don't know if there is any need to write to Old Man Wang back this time, "The business is not our crops, we can stop watering and weeding for a few days, we have to keep an eye on it every day." Uncle is still in the shop in Dengzhou City? ”

"Yes, there is only one ready-to-wear shop at home, but my father wrote this time and said that I should go to the county town after the autumn and think about opening another one in our county." Speaking of this, Wang Deshou smiled, "Brother Tuesday, you are familiar with people in the county, are you honest and reliable among the brokers you know?"

Brokers, also known as brokers, refer to those who specialize in introducing people to buy and sell and earn commissions from them. Wang Deshou took the time to go around the city twice and didn't touch the doorway.

Zhou Weiji pointed out two brokers with good reputations to him, and thought in his heart that it seemed that the death of Dexi's daughter-in-law was not very involved with the Wang family, otherwise Wang Deshou would still have the heart to run the store. (To be continued.) )