After a busy day, when he returned to the barracks, Wang Heyao lay on the black and mottled table of the Eight Immortals and began to write and draw.

Through the window, you can see the teaching field outside, and some patrolmen are training. The setting sun sprinkled on the table and floor, and the room was a golden color, which made people feel a little sad.

The years are ruthless, the vicissitudes of life, and now he is still young, but decades later, a hundred years later, or even a thousand years later, who will remember him?

There was a knock on the door, Wang Heyao said, it turned out that Zheng Ning came in with food.

"Xiao Ning, it's really hard for you!"

Seeing that Zheng Ning still had coal ash on his face, Wang Heyao said apologetically.

He is a rice to open his mouth, Zheng Ning is like his nanny.

"Fifth brother, it's nothing, it's all what I should do."

Zheng Ning said softly, his gaze swept over the paper on Wang Heyao's table.

"Fifth brother, what are you painting?"

"Doodle! The small one is the whistle, which blows as soon as it blows. The other is a bayonet, stuck in the barrel. ”

Wang Heyao glanced at the drawings and looked at Zheng Ning.

"Xiao Ning, it's not interesting for me to eat alone, let's eat together."

No need to ask, Zheng Ning definitely didn't eat it.

It's a pity that there are no pencils. I don't know if graphite has been mined in this era, so I have to continue to cultivate it with a brush.

Someday, there must be a brush leather. Life. If nothing else, it is the aspect of surveying and mapping, which is to be extremely accurate.

What are they writing in Tessie, that is, Europe in this era?

I remember when he went to church and saw that López's desk seemed to have a quill, but López seemed to use a brush to write.

Wang Heyao shook his head, a little disappointed.

Fountain pens, pencils, ballpoint pens, none of them he could make. Even if he probably knew what to use, he couldn't find them.

Zheng Ning sat down, picked up chopsticks, and began to eat.

"Xiao Ning, are you girls so delicate when you eat?"

Wang Heyao smiled.

Since coming to Dalan Mountain, Zheng Ning seems to have become a lot more silent.

"Brother Yao, there are some things I don't know whether to say or not."

Zheng Ning's eyes flickered, and he was hesitant.

"We are sworn brothers and sisters who share life and death, what can't we say?"

Wang Heyao was a little strange, and the speed of eating slowed down.

"The second brother is Brother Jiachun, he sometimes secretly takes something from the kitchen, goes out in the morning, and comes back at night."

Zheng Ning's words made Wang Heyao stunned.

Sun Jiachun, how could he do such a thing of guarding and stealing?

"Brother Jiachun's family is in difficulty, there is an old mother and a younger brother, and they all have to rely on him to support them. It's not easy for him. ”

Feeling that he had "betrayed" his brother, Zheng Ning felt a little weak in his heart.

Wang Heyao nodded and did not say a word.

People are not saints and sages, family love, resisting heaven and earth, and taking some food to honor their families, it seems to be a matter of course.

"Brother Heyao, what are you going to do with the second brother?"

Zheng Ning asked cautiously.

"Disposition?"

Wang Heyao shook his head and laughed.

When the water is clear, there are no fish, not to mention that this is not in the army.

"The second brother is a piece of filial piety. And he wrote down all the things he had taken, and returned them to me, and I gave them the money. ”

Wang Heyao looked at the door and whispered.

When it comes to filial piety, I am really useless.

"I'll count it too!"

Zheng Ning smiled and immediately expressed his position.

Wang Heyao smiled slightly.

What a simple child.

"Brother Yao, aren't you going to start a family?"

Zheng Ning's face turned red, and his eyes peeked at Wang Heyao.

"Me? I have no merit, second, I don't have a lot of money, third, I don't have power, fourth, I'm not a bannerman, I was born with everything. I'm just a grass farmer, struggling with the "little strong" on the food and clothing line, indomitable, even if my head is broken and bleeding, I still love life. ”

Wang Heyao said self-deprecatingly.

"Brother Yao, you have changed, I don't even know what you have changed."

Wang Heyao's joy was in his eyes, and Zheng Ning's heart was becoming more and more lost.

Although Wang Heyao was cowardly and introverted in the past, he could talk to her very well, and he couldn't tell whether he liked it or not.

The current Wang Heyao is too decisive, too smart, and too enthusiastic, which makes her too difficult to accept, but she has lost the original feeling of being in love with each other.

"Xiao Ning, no matter how much I change, I am still your fifth brother. If anyone dares to bully you, I will still be angry at the crown, and the blood will flow five steps! ”

Wang Heyao's words made Zheng Ning's heart beat wildly, and he couldn't help blurting out.

"Brother Yao, you really haven't liked me?"

Fifth Brother or Brother Yao, he will protect her without hesitation, she is happy enough.

"What?"

Wang Heyao's eyes suddenly widened.

"Brother Yao, we two childhood sweethearts, I have liked you since I was a child, and you also said that you like me. Don't you mean anything to me? ”

Wang Heyao was speechless for a while, not knowing what to say.

Maybe he and Zheng Ning have no guesses, but now he is already a different person.

"Xiao Ning, in fact, you and I get along because of brother and sister love, family affection, and mutual love. When you experience the world in the future, you will understand. ”

After a pause, Wang Heyao said earnestly.

Zheng Ning lowered his head to eat and did not speak. She is a woman who knows how to advance and retreat, and she doesn't want to embarrass Wang Heyao.

"Xiao Ning, how many of our brothers are there, who are married?"

Wang and Yao diverted the topic.

In my impression, it seems that only Li Xingzhong has a fiancée.

"Your eldest brother is also a famous family, he is already eighteen years old, why haven't you seen him get married?"

Zheng Siming is dignified and famous, although his family is in the middle of the road, but ordinary women will not look down on Zheng Siming.

"My eldest brother is arrogant and stubborn, and he doesn't look down on ordinary people. Besides, there is no one at home, and the matter of the eldest brother has been delayed. ”

Zheng Ning's words made Wang Heyao's heart uncomfortable for a while.

is a dead man, and he is in prison, and there is not even an adult in the family, Zheng Siming, a "poor and handsome", is really not easy to get off the list.

Since Zheng Siming is still single, his sister Zheng Ning, who is two or three years younger than him, naturally has no promise.

"How many of them are the second and fourth?"

"The second brother's family is poor, there are two brothers, and there is a mother who is paralyzed all the year round. said a few girls, but no one was willing. The second brother has a strong temperament, so he hasn't married yet. ”

Zheng Ning's words made Wang Heyao speechless.

Sun Jiachun's family is poor, which is why he took food home from the inspection department.

In front of Wang Heyao's eyes, the scene of Sun Jiachun's patched clothes when they first met appeared again.

Filial piety to parents, love brothers, his sworn brother, is still a kind man.

"Second child, does he have a girl he likes?"

Wang Heyao sighed quietly.

"The woman surnamed Sun in Pukou Village likes her second brother very much, but her family is unwilling, so she forced her to marry in the county, and finally committed suicide by jumping into the river."

Zheng Ning's voice was full of helplessness.

"How's the fourth?"

is another human tragedy that ended without a problem. But this is the reality, and it is also the human heart. No one wants to marry their daughter to a poor bastard, which will not only hurt their daughter, but also hurt themselves.

And you are the most important thing.

"The third brother and the fourth brother are married. The third brother's fiancée is his cousin, and she will get married this year. The fourth brother is a farmer in the neighboring village of Xikou Village, but the fourth brother looks down on other girls, and his face is black when he meets. The fourth brother has lost weight now, tall and mighty, I'm afraid I don't look down on others. ”

Thinking that Wang Heyao didn't know Li Xingzhong's situation, Zheng Ning said it together.

Wang Heyao was stunned for a moment, and then laughed.

Zhao Guohao used to be a big fat man, although he had a bit of momentum, but his figure was not flattering. He is now practicing every day, and in two months, he has lost thirty or forty pounds of meat, and his whole person's spirit is very different, and he is a proper man.

That girl must be an ordinary person, otherwise she would have dumped Zhao Guohao when he was fat. People don't dislike Zhao Guohao, but Zhao Guohao doesn't appreciate it and throws his face.

All living beings are living flesh and blood men and women, and no one is exempt from vulgarity.

Wang Heyao's gaze swept to the door, one foot was half exposed, as if he was familiar, he immediately changed his words.

"Xiao Ning, I think that dog is good, and he is also smart. Have you thought about it? ”

"He! My mouth stinks all day long, and I don't know if I clean my mouth. Besides, he's him, I'm me, fifth brother, don't get me wrong. ”

Zheng Ning frowned and immediately refused.

"People have been eating hundreds of meals since they were children, and no one teaches them, so they can't blame others. Speaking of which, he is more pitiful than you, you still have a big brother who loves you, but he is alone! ”

Wang Heyao laughed, picked up the rice bowl and ate it in a big gulp. He glanced at it, and the cloth shoes outside the house were gone, and the person who had come had quietly left.

"By the way, fifth brother, let someone come with me to the town tomorrow, pull some straw, and buy some meat, vegetables, fruits, rice wine, etc. The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, you have to worship the moon god and eat moon cakes. It's a pity that I can't watch the tide. ”

In addition to the Mid-Autumn Festival in Zhejiang, watching the tide can be described as another Mid-Autumn Festival. The custom of watching the tide in the Mid-Autumn Festival has a long history, as early as the Han Dynasty. After the Han Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival tide watching was more popular.

Wang Heyao nodded. Although the inspection department does not have much money, it can get by no matter how hard it is.

"Pull the straw? Is it used to make a fire for cooking? ”

Wang Heyao asked curiously.

He is a man, in addition to reading and writing, and now he practices every day, and his ten fingers do not touch the spring water, and he has paid attention to these things there.

"Yes! I'm afraid that on rainy days, firewood and straw will be damp, and there will be no fire for half a day, and the house will be full of smoke, which is too annoying! ”

Zheng Ning pouted and said.

"Then why not...... Wood and charcoal? ”

Wang and Yao stammered and asked.

In this era, there is no natural gas, so we can only burn wood and coal.

"Brother Yao, and you won't, it's really rare!"

Zheng Ning laughed softly.

"Wood is about as expensive as rice, and you can afford it. In general, people use straw and wheat straw. Twenty or thirty taels of straw per load, so many people in the inspection department, excluding the wood cut on the mountain, it costs ten taels of silver a year, but it is a lot of expenses. ”

"Then why don't you use charcoal?"

Wang Heyao's face turned red.

Why not minced meat? I'm talking about myself.

"One tael of silver can only buy about 500 catties of charcoal, but you can buy 3,000 catties of straw. Tell me, ordinary people, who can afford charcoal? ”

Zheng Ning's eyes were full of smiles.

Wang Lao Wu, who knows everything, turns out to have things he doesn't understand.

"But in comparison, coal ...... The combustion value of coal is higher, and you are talking about the price of coking coal. If it's coarse coal, it's much cheaper. ”

The coking coal is easy to burn and has many less impurities. After a meal of raw coal is coking, there is less than seventy percent of coke, let alone one more burning.

The point is that in this way, it is easy to make a fire, not to mention, and there is no need to cut down trees all over the mountain, making chickens and dogs jump.

In Wang Heyao's mind, an object immediately flashed to him, which made him excited.

"Zheng Ning, in a few days, I will give you an object, and you will no longer have to worry about making a fire!"

Zheng Ning looked at Wang Heyao's excited face, confused.

I don't know, what kind of surprise will her fifth brother give her?

Her youthful "love affair" with her fifth brother ended without a problem?