In the next few days, Xu Fugui was busy with his feet not touching the ground, getting up before dawn every day, first filling the water tank, and then boiling water to sharpen the knife.

In the morning, I ate two bites of sweet potatoes, brought a bottle of water, and carried a hoe to the field, and only when it was dark did I drag my tired body home.

Mother Xu and Jiazhen didn't expect him to be so hard-working, and every time they came back to look at him, their eyes were full of distress, and even Xu's father's impression of him changed.

There's no way, it's September, and you have to race with God to sprinkle the seeds in the ground.

Three acres of land, there is too much work to do, but fortunately he is not working alone, Laishun is also a strong laborer.

In the morning, he went to fetch water, and Laishun went to cut sheep grass, although Laishun was not very good at working in the field, but he had great strength.

With the unremitting efforts of the two, they finally turned over the three acres of dry land, and then sprinkled the seeds into the ground and simply watered them.

The sky was beautiful, the seeds had just been sown, and the next morning, when Xu Fugui got up, he found that it was drizzling outside.

This rain came at the right time, not too big, just enough to moisten the soil and allow the seeds to germinate better.

Of course, if there is too much water in the soil, it is easy to rot.

However, Xu Fugui is very confident in the ground he hoes, as long as it is not a continuous rainstorm, there will basically be no water accumulation in his field.

"Young Master, are we still going to the ground today?" Lai Shun yawned, looking like he hadn't woken up, he didn't expect to be so tired from farming.

Xu Fugui shook his head, "Let's eat first and see if it will rain heavily." ”

Jiazhen walked out with her stomach held up, holding a coat in her hand, "I don't know how to wear more when it's cold, so I'll rest at home today." ”

Xu Fugui put on his clothes, glanced at Feng Xia, who was still asleep, walked into the stove room, dug a few bowls of cornmeal, and prepared to cook a pot of corn paste.

It's not for chickens and ducks, it's for them.

This cornmeal was sent by the Chen family next door, and I couldn't refuse it, so I had to accept it.

Changgen sat in front of the stove to help him light the fire, looked at the young master with skillful movements, and smiled quietly, the current young master couldn't see what he looked like before at all.

"Fugui, how can you cook, I haven't seen you do it before." Jiazhen said curiously.

"See what others have done, just draw a scoop according to the gourd." He still has this kind of rhetoric, otherwise he can't explain it clearly.

Mother Xu and Father Xu heard the movement and got up one after another, Father Xu's face was a little ugly, and his brows were furrowed.

"Dad, what's wrong with you?"

Xu's father didn't say anything, and Xu's mother said, "What's the matter, my leg hurts, it hurts when it rains, and I've had an old problem for many years." ”

Father Xu sat next to Changgen and hammered his legs, "Old cold legs." ”

"Master, I'll pinch it for you." Changgen skillfully helped him relieve his pain.

"All the seeds were sown in the ground?" Father Xu asked without raising his head.

Xu Fugui responded, and Xu's father said again: "Yesterday, Wang Xi sent ten salted duck eggs over, you can cook one for Jiazhen to eat." ”

"Master, why did Wang Xi send us duck eggs for no reason?" Lai Shun asked with a big grin.

Father Xu sighed, "It's all from the same village, if any family is in trouble, others will help a little, and life is not like this." ”

"In the past, if something happened to any family in the village, I would waive his family's tenant rent for one year."

Changgen and Rong Youyan, "At the beginning, Wang Xi was hit by a cow and lay directly at home for a month, and the master not only exempted him from a year's rent, but also let me send a pound of bacon and ten eggs. ”

Lai Shun suddenly realized, "No wonder the people in the village respect you so much." ”

When Xu Fugui heard these words, he realized in his heart that his father had done a lot of good deeds on weekdays.

No wonder the people in the village often took care of their family in his previous life, especially in the two years when he was captured by the southern army to be a strong man, if there was no help from the villagers, Jiazhen and the child would definitely not survive.

Mother Xu came over to help him, glanced at Father Xu, and said softly: "Your father was like you when he was young, he was a bastard, and he ran to the county seat when he became an adult." ”

"I can't walk anymore, so I can stay at home with peace of mind, who in the village asks him for help, and he agrees to come down, and your grandfather scolded him for being a loser."

Father Xu shook his head proudly, "That's not it, brute, the people in the village can still call you young master, it's all for the sake of your old son and my face." ”

While chatting, the corn paste was also cooked.

In the 21st century, after people's lives are better, corn paste is used as pig food.

However, Xu Fugui ate very fragrant, and after eating sweet potatoes for several days, he finally tasted something else.

After breakfast, Mother Xu took out two pairs of straw sandals and handed them to him and Laishun, which was the result of her two days.

Lai Shun walked twice on his feet, closed his mouth happily, and thanked Mrs. again and again.

Xu Fugui also tried it on his feet, the size is very suitable, and it is definitely not as comfortable to wear as cloth shoes, but he can't stand it and don't need money, at least he can protect his feet a little.

Putting on a straw hat and picking up a bamboo knife, Jiazhen saw his dress and hurriedly asked him where he was going to go when it rained.

"Go to the mountains to cut bamboo, every day to carry water is not a thing, water has to be saved, take advantage of the fact that I don't have to go to the field today, I bring the water in the mountains to my home."

When Lai Shun heard this, he immediately became interested, "Young master, wait for me, I'll go with you." ”

There is only one firewood knife at home, which he bought two days ago when he went to the county seat, and Laishun went directly to the Chen family next door to borrow a firewood knife.

"You know where our hill is, right? Don't cut down other people's bamboo. Father Xu said uneasily.

"Yes, don't worry."

The two walked into the rain, and their figures disappeared after a while.

"Fugui has changed a lot." Mother Xu held the wooden door with her hand, and said with some joy and sadness.

Jiazhen glanced at the rain curtain affectionately, touched her stomach, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help but raise slightly, giving her a little more confidence in her future life.

Although the rain was not heavy, as soon as the two of them walked out of the village, their clothes were wet, and the straw sandals on their feet were also stained with mud.

Xujia Village is located at the foot of the mountain, more than 300 meters to the west of the village, is a lush longevity bamboo forest.

This bamboo forest is also their family, and the ancestors of the Xu family are buried in it, and it is the location of the ancestral grave of the Xu family.

Skirting the bamboo forest, there is a dirt road up the mountain, and the half-human-tall weeds around it are bent over by the rain, dripping rainwater onto the ground.

The mountain road is very slippery on rainy days, but Lai Shun has been used to running in the mountains since he was a child, and this mountain road can be walked even with his eyes closed.

Not to mention Xu Fugui, he lived a hundred years old in his last life, and he didn't know how many times he had walked this mountain road......