Chapter 018

Time passed day by day, and it was five or three years in a blink of an eye.

For several years in a row, the wind and rain are smooth, every year bumper harvest, the villagers of Maixiang Village are also living better day by day, because the annual increase in grain production has attracted the attention of the county, and the combination of intercropping and crop rotation in Maixiang Village has also been published in the newspaper, and Wang Chong's name has also appeared on it.

Wang Chong's prestige in Maixiang Village has also been pushed to another height, and he is also famous in the county.

Seeing that spring irrigation was approaching, Wang Chong was also busy, inspecting irrigation canals, weir ponds and water wheels, every once in a while, it was Wang Chong's indispensable work.

"President, you really don't have this craft, it's been four or five years, and this waterwheel is still so strong!" The old ganbang looked at the waterwheel in front of him and said sincerely.

"Okay, don't pat yourself on the back, hurry up and overhaul it, tomorrow's spring irrigation will begin, don't drop the chain for me." Wang Chong said with a serious face.

The whole body of this waterwheel is made of mortise and tenon, there is no nail, and they have been brushed with anticorrosive paint, although it has been used for four or five years, it has been exposed to the wind and sun all day long, but the whole is still very strong, and there has been no major problem.

"Hey, hey, hey!" Lao Ganbang is living a nourishing life now, except for not having any children, there are few people in the entire Maixiang Village who do not envy him.

"Brother, are you in a hurry to go back to see your sister-in-law!" Three monkeys followed and coaxed.

Wang Zhong glared at him: "Stinky boy, you also joked about me, that's right, I'm just in a hurry to go back to see your sister-in-law, what, envy?"

"Brother! You don't rub salt into people's wounds like that." The three monkeys looked aggrieved.

"You're embarrassed to be wronged, it's not like there is no big girl in our village who hasn't married, you can't look down on yourself, who is to blame!" The three monkeys are a kid with a high vision, always thinking that there is a better one, this mountain looks at that mountain high, but he hasn't seen any of them so far.

"Didn't you meet the right one!" The three monkeys cooed.

The old ganstick said: "If you want me to say, your kid is too high-minded, Ma Pozi didn't just introduce you to a Huangshi Village a while ago, you think that your family is not handsome enough, and you rejected it again."

"That girl looks too stumbling." Three monkeys disgusted the way.

"You are still picking fat and thin, picking fat and thin, is it possible that you still want to find the fairy daughter in the sky?" The old gan stick is not angry.

"Why?" The three monkeys quibbled, afraid that the old ganstick would continue to make a fuss about this matter, so he hurriedly changed the topic and said to Wang Chong: "Brother, sister-in-law is about to give birth when she sees it, right?"

"How can it be so fast!" Wang Chong said, "Ten months pregnant, your sister-in-law is only more than six months now, and there are still many months!"

"It's only been six months?" The three monkeys were surprised and said, "I see that my sister-in-law's belly is not smaller than those who are eight or nine months old or even about to give birth."

The old godstick rolled his eyes: "Could it be that my brother and sister have two in their stomachs?"

Wang Zhong smiled and didn't say anything.

The three monkeys and the old glanced at each other, and hurriedly leaned over and asked, "Brother, are you really two?"

Both of them looked curious.

Wang Zhong said, "You two have this kung fu, you should care more about yourself!"

Wang Zhong looked at the old gangster: "Brother Dao, you have been married for several years, and you still have no children, don't you plan to take a look?"

Wang Zhong also diverted the topic.

Speaking of this, the old gan stick immediately showed a little sadness between his eyebrows, and his expression was a little lonely: "Where can I look?"

Wang Chongdao: "Where else can I go, go to the county hospital and have a look!" It's best for both of you to check it out and see if there's anything wrong, and if there is, then treat it quickly."

"Still going to the hospital?" The old guy is reluctant.

Wang Zhong said: "There is an old saying, called avoiding illness and avoiding medicine, just like you, let me ask you, do you want to have a child?"

"Of course I do!" The old ganbang didn't even think about it, and blurted out.

"That's it!" Wang Chongdao: "In the past few years, you have also saved a lot of money, take advantage of the present, you

Let's both go to the county hospital to have a good look."

"Brother, don't you know how to take the pulse!" The three monkeys grinned and said, "You can show me and Chunmei."

"I'm just a wild man, I just learned a few hands with Barefoot, how can I compare with the doctor in the county hospital." Wang Chong's words are pure modesty.

The old ganbang was silent for a while before he said, "Then when the spring irrigation is over, I will take Chunmei to the county hospital to have a look."

After inspecting the waterwheel and irrigation canal, Wang Chong went straight home.

In the chimney on the roof, there are cooking smoke birds and birds, and in the house, Jiang Hongguo is standing on the edge of the eucalyptus board with a big belly and cutting vegetables.

Wang Zhong hurriedly stepped forward with a reproachful face: "Didn't you say this and wait for me to come back!"

Jiang Hongguo smiled and said, "It's not that I can't move, how can it be so expensive."

"You are pregnant with twins, unlike ordinary women who are pregnant, your belly is only six months old and can support other people's eight months, but you have to be careful."

Listening to Wang Chong's words of concern, Jiang Hongguo's face couldn't help but smile, and his heart was warm: "I know, I will be careful."

Saying that, Jiang Hongguo had already walked behind Wang Chong with a feather duster, and skillfully dusted Wang Chong's body.

Wang Chongdao: "When the spring irrigation is late this time, I will take Dahong Erhong into the mountains for a trip, hunt a few pheasants and hares, and pick some herbs by the way to come back and replenish your body."

"Hmm!" Jiang Hongguo's hand movements did not stop.

"It's just spring now, it's the time when wild things are active, I don't know when I'll come back, if you have anything, just call Ma Renlian's daughter-in-law to help."

"Don't worry!" After two years with Wang Chongdu, Jiang Hongguo will not be like at the beginning, Wang Chong entered the mountain and did not come back at night, he was frightened: "I can take care of myself, but you, there are many snakes, insects, rats and ants in the mountains, be careful yourself."

"I wish I could have more of them, I'm worried that there are no good things to put into medicine." Wang Zhong said with a smile.

In addition to herbs, snakes, insects, rats, ants, and some parts of various living creatures are not the same due to different regions and habits.

The fifth-level medical skills are in the body, and concocting medicinal materials is as simple as eating and drinking water for Wang Chong.

For dinner, I had a yellow bun made of cornmeal, a stir-fried rape, a pickled radish pickle, and a plate of egg soup with two eggs.

Although there is no shortage of food at home, and you can eat a full meal for three meals a day, Jiang Hongguo has always been thrifty, and the white noodles at home are only eaten once in three days, and the meat will only be bought once in ten days and half a month unless Wang Chong brought it back from the mountains.

The radish was soaked by Wang Zhong himself, slightly sour and refreshing, and very appetizing.

After dinner, Wang Chong helped Jiang Hongguo to go out for a walk in the village for half an hour, seeing that it was almost dark, and the two of them returned home.

At this time, it is still early spring, the day is quite warm, but the temperature is still very low in the morning and evening and at night, the two of them sit on the hot kang, Wang Zhong leans on the cabinet of the kang head, Jiang Hongguo is half leaning on Wang Chong's arms, Wang Chong is still holding a thousand-character text in his hand.

"The first writing is clothing; Push the position to give way to the country, and there is Yu Tao Tang.

Hanging the people, Zhou Fa Yin Tang; Sitting on the court asked, hanging the arch and flattening the chapter."

Wang Chong held the book in his left hand, and the index finger in his right hand was the two lines of text on the book.

"Let's learn this sentence first: the first word."

"The original text!" Jiang Hongguo looked at the words pointed by Wang Zhong and read along.

"The beginning is the meaning of the beginning, these four words, talking about the ancient period, Cangjie made the allusion of words, historical records, the earliest text was created by this called Cangjie, at the beginning, this text is not what we are learning now, there was no paper at that time, the words are engraved on the wall, tortoise shell and other things, and the oracle bone inscription is how it came.

Later, people began to transcribe words on some bells and tripods, and there were bells and tripods, and then people carved words on bamboo slips."

"The bamboo slips were thick and heavy, and people were highly knowledgeable at that time

People, each family of bamboo slips can be piled up in the whole room, so there is the word "rich five cars", said that people with advanced knowledge, read the books, with a big car to load, can fit many, many cars······

Wang Chong's teaching method is very interesting, only a few words are taught, but many things can often be derived, and all kinds of allusions are also easy to come by, like telling stories, rather than cramming teaching.

Compared with being a teacher in school, teaching those children to read and read, how can it be interesting to teach their daughter-in-law, red sleeves add fragrance, and read at night with candles, which is not interesting.

Jiang Hongguo's learning speed is not fast, and it took almost two years to learn a three-character scripture and a hundred family names, which is not only related to the meticulousness of Wang Chongjiao, but also inseparable from Wang Chongjiao's teaching to the bed.

[In view of the general environment,

However, the things of the readers, of course, cannot be described by those foul words.

In Wang Chong's words, this is called romance and taste.

Jiang Hongguo is a woman in the traditional sense, and she didn't even refuse to be dragged by Wang Zhong to take a mandarin duck bath in broad daylight, let alone add fragrance to her red sleeves.

The eight sentences were explained by Wang Chong procrastinatingly, and it was not early, and the atmosphere gradually became charming.

The temperature was getting lower and lower at night, Wang Zhong blew the lamp and got into the quilt with Jiang Hongguo in his arms.

When I didn't marry a daughter-in-law, I lacked a woman with a warm quilt around me, but after marrying a daughter-in-law, it was inconvenient to get up and practice again this night.

Wang Chong could only postpone the time of practice until the next morning, and slept until about three o'clock every day, and then got up to practice.

Now Wang Chong's qi cultivation technique has reached the fourth level, and with unremitting practice, the true qi in Wang Chong's body has become more and more vigorous and pure, and he has entered the realm quite quickly.

Early in the morning, when Jiang Hongguo woke up, Wang Chong had already made breakfast and went out, the firewood in the stove was almost burned out, only the charcoal fire remained, and there was a steaming drawer in the middle of the cauldron, which was still steaming outside.

Jiang Hongguo opened the lid of the steaming drawer, and there were a few white flour buns and a bowl of egg custard lying inside.

The egg custard has been steamed for a longer time, and the taste is slightly lacking, but the nutrition has not been lost at all.

On the side of the Maixiang River, the river water is gurgling and flowing, the waterwheel moves with the water, a tube of river water falls into the wooden diversion canal, goes along the canal, flows into the weir pond, the old ox pulls the overturned car on the top side, and the river water goes up layer by layer.

Along the irrigation canal all the way to the east, where the fields of Maixiang Village are located, the villagers have been waiting in the fields with hoes and nail rakes, guarding the side of the irrigation canal, always keeping an eye on the situation of the irrigation canal, so as to avoid silting.

"There's water!"

"There's water!"

With a shout, the expressions of the villagers became serious.

Spring irrigation is also exquisite, more water will be waterlogged, less water and drought, the specific amount, all depends on experience, and the amount of irrigation in each period is also different, but there is a general standard, as long as you can ensure that there is no water in the field overnight, it is almost the same.

There are three spring irrigations, one in early spring when the soil thaws, and then one again before and after flowering.

Now for the first time.

However, due to the size of the waterwheel and irrigation canal, although the number of waterwheels has increased to two, and the new one is 10 meters high, it cannot completely irrigate the village's fields in a day.

Especially in the past two years, the village has successively reclaimed two or three hundred acres of wasteland.

Two waterwheels worked for three days to complete the first spring irrigation of all the wheat fields in the village.

After the spring irrigation was over, Wang Zhong brought enough dry food and water, and led two red dogs, who were more than two years old, into the mountain.

With the wind and rain in recent years, the Maixiangling area has ushered in a bumper harvest for several consecutive years, and the wild animals in the mountains have also grown wildly.

If nothing else, there are many more pheasants and hares than before.

By the time Wang Zhong came out of the mountain, it was already three days later.

Sticks of nearly human height were used as flat poles, and on each side hung four or five prey, mostly pheasants and hares.

Soon after the beginning of spring, everything recovered, and the hares that had been cats in the cave all winter were not as fat as they were in the middle of winter.

"Woohoo!"

Before Wang Zhong entered the door, the two red dogs ran all the way to the house, and Jiang Hongguo came out of the house happily, still holding a bowl of warm water in his hand.

"Master, why did you go so long this time?"

Wang Zhong smiled and said, "I met two raccoon dogs and was delayed for a day."

"Look at the fur." Wang Zhong pointed to the two raccoon dogs, and a bright smile on his face.

"Beautiful!" Jiang Hongguo couldn't help nodding when he saw it, the raccoon dog is also known as the ocelot, it is not big, but its fur is very beautiful.

"Go back and make two vests for the two children, or make a blanket."

Jiang Hongguo couldn't help but show a little anticipation in his eyes when he heard this, "I'm afraid it's too small to make a blanket."

After a few words of greeting, Wang Chong went into the bathroom to wash, and Jiang Hongguo made hand-rolled noodles for Wang Chong.

On the table of the Eight Immortals, Wang Chongzheng was burying his head in a big bowl about the size of his head and eating noodles, Jiang Hongguo was sitting next to him, and suddenly said: "On the day you first entered the mountain, Secretary Zhou from the county came to the village, and he came by car.

"It's Captain Zhou Yihu Zhou!"

"Yes, yes, yes! It's called Zhou Yihu." Jiang Hongguo said: "But the person is the secretary now, and I heard that the secretary of Wanchun is the number one."

"The branch secretary also said that when you come back, let you go to him, saying that he has something to tell you." Jiang Hongguo remembered Wang Wanchun's advice and hurriedly said.

"Don't be busy, I'll go look for him after packing up the prey outside."

After eating a big bowl of noodles, the water on the stove was almost boiled, the pheasant was scalded, Jiang Hongguo sat on a small stool under the porch and plucked his feathers, and Wang Zhong also set up a table under the porch, and skillfully skinned the hares and raccoons.

Because of the Maixiang River, there is a waterwheel irrigation, which is as short of water as the previous two years, and the drought can still ensure that the irrigation is bumper for several consecutive years.

After the public grain is paid, the grain produced in a year, in addition to meeting the family's food for the whole year, can also have a lot of surplus, and the villagers are willing to cut some meat and come back to eat it for ten days and half a month.

However, the villagers buy meat, and they also buy as much fat as possible, and this kind of game that seems to be hit by the king still has to be brought to the city to sell at a price.

However, Maixiang Village still has such an alternative as Ma Renli.

Hearing that Wang Chong was full of harvest and went home with a lot of prey, Ma Renli couldn't wait to come over like a cat that smelled fish.

"Yo, you've hit so many prey!" As soon as Ma Renli entered the door, he gave a thumbs up, looking like a dog leg with a beard and a horse: "He is worthy of being the captain of our Maixiang Village militia team, he is amazing."

"Okay, don't be a sycophant, and pick what you want."

Looking at the two beautiful furs like golden leopards, Ma Renli's eyes instantly lit up: "There are still raccoons this time?" He swallowed as he spoke.

"We don't see many raccoons here, if you kid put this mind on serving the field, Niu Dare will probably have to bow down in front of you." Wang Zhong joked.

"Incomparable!" Ma Renli waved his hand again and again and shook his head: "President Niu, that's one of the best people in our Maixiang Village, how can I compare with him."

This kid was also scared, and now he was slippery like a monkey, Wang Chong didn't continue to joke, picked up the kitchen knife, grabbed a raccoon dog and asked, "How much does it cost this time?"

"This ······" Ma Renli looked at the raccoon dog that had been skinned, and he was already thinking about how to get it, but when he remembered his thin purse, he still hesitated after all: "What do you say about the price?"

"Don't say I don't take care of you, three catties of white flour for one catty of meat!" Wang Chongdao said that the price of ordinary pork on the market is five to six times that of flour, and if Wang Chong brings this raccoon dog into the city, he can sell it even higher when he meets a knowledgeable buyer.

But now everyone's life is tight, and there are not many people who can spend like this.

"I brought five catties of white noodles!" Ma Ren

Li swallowed his saliva, the smile on his face grew, and handed the cloth bag with white noodles in his hand to Wang Chong: "Give me a hind leg!"

The king took up his knife and cut off one of the raccoon's hind legs, and went into the house to take the ebony scale.

"One pound and eleven taels are prosperous, look carefully."

"No problem!" Ma Renli was very generous, but his eyes never left the weighing rod: "The president has always been fair, I can trust it."

"Alright, don't slap the horse in front of me!" Wang Zhong tied his hind legs with a straw rope and handed it to Ma Renli.

Ma Renli lifted the raccoon dog leg and said with a smile, "What I said is from my heart."

"Fuck off!"

"Okay!"

Ma Renli took the raccoon dog leg and walked away happily.

After a while, Qiao Yue, who was wearing a cotton jacket and a scarf, and had shoulder-length short hair, also came, carrying this cloth bag in her hand.

"Captain Wang, sister-in-law!" As soon as she entered the door, Qiao Yue greeted the two with a smile, and she didn't have the embarrassment of pestering Wang Zhong with her hot face and sticking her cold ass many times.

"It's Qiao Yue's sister!" Jiang Hongguo not only knew from Jinhua's sister-in-law that Qiao Yue was chasing her husband to no avail, but even saw Qiao Yue obsessed with Wang Chong, but now that these are over, Qiao Yue herself is not embarrassed, and Jiang Hongguo naturally will not feel embarrassed.

After all, Qiao Yue lives in the main house in the front yard, and she can see her yard from the window.

smiled and welcomed people into the courtyard, and exchanged three catties of white flour for a pound of rabbit meat, which was the meat on the rabbit's hind legs.

After a while, the villagers heard the news, some took white noodles, and some bought them directly with money.

The raccoon meat can also replenish the qi in the body, and can also cure hemorrhoids, and the medicinal value is quite high, but it is a pity that every person who knows the goods in the entire Maixiang Village, two raccoons, four rabbits, and a pheasant, was soon divided up, leaving only some corners, and a pheasant, and a rabbit.

The rest of these were prepared by Wang Chong and Jiang Hongguo to eat by themselves.

"It's a pity that you're pregnant with a child now, otherwise I'll make you a spicy rabbit head to taste." On the edge of the table, Wang Chong, who was disemboweling the pheasant and taking out the internal organs, looked at Jiang Hongguo, who had a big belly, and said with a regretful face.

"Spicy rabbit head?" Jiang Hongguo heard about it for the first time.

Wang Zhong explained: "It is a kind of Sichuan cuisine, it is very troublesome to make, and it has the characteristic flavor of Sichuan and Shu, but you can't eat too heavy now, but the nutritional value of rabbit head is still very high, so let's improve it and let you taste it!"

The taste of spicy rabbit head is really good, but for Wang Chong, it doesn't matter if there is food, but now the ready-made five rabbit heads are in front of him, but he can make one.

"Okay!" Jiang Hongguo smiled.

The rabbit head is more troublesome to make, if you want to really make it delicious, it takes at least two days, it is to stew a small half of a pheasant in two mouths at night, Jiang Hongguo rolled the noodles with his hands, and ate a meal in the countryside of this era, which is a very rich dinner.

"Boss, you eat more." At the dinner table, Jiang Hongguo frequently put meat in Wang Chong's bowl.

Wang Zhong said, "I haven't eaten less in the mountains, you should eat more."

As he spoke, he also sandwiched a few pieces of chicken into the ginger red fruit bowl.

didn't do much, the two sandwiched a few pieces from each other, and there were not a few pieces left in the bowl.

Jiang Hongguo drank chicken soup and ate chicken, her face was full of happiness, and she sighed: "I have lived so big, I never thought that I could live such a fairy life."

Not to mention that there is meat in the meal, but there is always a meal at the two ends of three days, the family is mixed with white noodles and stick noodles, and it is mostly white noodles, not to mention the entire Maixiang Village, that is, the entire adjacent area, and there is no family that can compare to Wang Chong's family.

What's more, Jiang Hongguo, who has just been allocated to the land and suffered a disaster in his family just two years ago.

"It's only going to get better and better." Wang Zhong said, sandwiching the last two pieces of chicken into a ginger red fruit bowl.

The next day, Lao Ganbang came to Wang Zhong with two bottles of Lao Baigan, and his expression was a little dark.

Look at his lost soul

Wang Zhong frowned and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

"Hey!" The old ganbang sighed and lifted the wine in his hand: "Drink some, talk while drinking."

Wang Chong poured a stubble of leeks into the vegetable pond outside, beat three eggs, made a scrambled egg with leeks, a plate of fried bean sprouts, and a few yellow steamed buns as staple food, and sat on the kang with the old ganbang and drank wine.

Jiang Hongguo held up her big belly and sat by the window.

The old ganbang didn't speak, he came up and drank two bowls of wine, a vicissitudes of life and an old face swollen red, and when he was about to drink the third bowl, he was pressed by Wang Chong: "It can't be that there is something wrong with the inspection, right?"

"Hey!" The old ganbang sighed again, and said with a sigh: "The doctor at the county hospital said that I have a problem with my health, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to have children in this life."

"Poof!" When the king heard this, he laughed out loud.

The old ganbang looked at Wang Zhong incredulously.

Jiang Hongguo hurriedly hammered Wang Chong, and even made a look.

Wang Zhong said, "Is the hospital's medical certificate with you?"

The old ganbang didn't know what Wang Chong meant by this, so he nodded subconsciously.

"I'll take a look!" Wang Zhong stretched out his hand.

Lao Ganbang took out a few palm-sized diagnosis certificates from his arms and handed them to Wang Chong.

Wang Zhong took it over and looked at Hulun, and beckoned to the old man, "Stretch out your hand, I'll give you a pulse!"

The old ganbang didn't know what Wang Chong wanted to do, but Wang Chong was already like a master and a father in his heart, so he subconsciously stretched out his hand and put it on the kang table.

Wang Zhong stretched out his right hand, put three fingers on the veins of the old, felt it carefully for a while, and said, "Tongue sticks out and looks!"

The old gan stick was implemented in accordance with the law, and Wang Zhong pressed a few more acupuncture points on the old gan stick.

Wang Zhong said: "The doctor just said that it is difficult for you to have children, not that you can't have children, there is still a difference between the two."

"There is a difference?" The old ganbang instantly dissipated all his alcohol, his eyes were round, and his eyes were shining, as if a drowning man had grasped a life-saving straw: "What's the difference? Can I still have children?"

"In your case, it should be congenital deficiency, plus you have endured too much hunger in the past, which has hurt your vitality, so it is difficult to have children, as long as you take care of it properly, and slowly make up for the vitality you have lost, it is still very likely to have children."

"Really?" The old ganbang was excited, grabbing the edge of the kang table with both hands, the green tendons on his hands were prominent, and even his breathing became short.

"It's still possible to give it a try, but if you don't try, there's really no possibility." Wang Chong looked at the old gan stick and said unhurriedly: "If you believe me, I can try to help you recuperate and recuperate, but ·····."

"I believe, I believe!" Without waiting for Wang Zhong to finish speaking, the old ganbang couldn't wait.

"Listen to me first!" Wang Chongdao: "This replenishment of vitality is not something that can be done by eating a full meal, you have to eat well, supplement all kinds of nutrients that are missing in your body, and then use medicine, plus acupuncture, to achieve the effect of replenishing and nourishing qi, and this time will be relatively long, you have to have a mental preparation."

"How long?"

"You have to ask for two or three years!" Wang Zhong calculated: "It may be longer."

"I can afford to wait, as long as I can have a child, let alone two or three years, even ten years." The old gan said excitedly.

Wang Zhong held up two fingers: "First you have to do two things!"

The old guy couldn't wait: "Those two points?"

Wang Zhong leaned over and took the remaining bottle of half-old white dry to him: "From today onwards, quit drinking and smoking!"

"Huh?" The old ganbang looked stunned.