Xu Ling's old house also has a table, but the table is a wooden stake, which has been exposed to the wind and sun in the old house for a long time, and his mother wants to move to a new house, but she can't find any use, so she stays in the old house.

Just let Chen Ze wipe it, put on the food brought from the Xu family, one dish and one soup, and more than a dozen golden shortbreads, which were enough to make the mother cry.

Chen Sheng helped his mother sit up, and first brought a bowl of mutton soup to his mother's mouth, "Mother, this is mutton soup, and there is meat in it, but it is fragrant, you drink some to warm up first!" ”

Widow Chen wanted them to drink first, with one mouth and hot soup to the tip of her tongue, but she couldn't say anything to refuse, and swallowed it in her stomach.

The mutton soup is boiled into a milky white, with pepper added, you can't smell it, and you can know how energetic it is when you drink it, and the originally cold body seems to suddenly become warm.

Widow Chen drank most of the bowl of mutton soup, and only felt as if she had come to life.

"Mother, is it delicious? You eat another cake! ”

Widow Chen looked at the two children and was speechless, "Okay, mother eats cakes, and you two eat too." ”

Chen Sheng and Chen Ze put the wooden stake next to his mother's bed, and the two of them squatted on the ground, drinking soup and eating cakes, as if on a pilgrimage.

After the hot soup was served, Chen Sheng thought of Xu Ling's words just now, and also told his younger brother Chen Ze the details.

The two brothers are only two years apart, and their appearance is also very similar, and Chen Ze is also a person who doesn't like to talk.

After Chen Sheng finished speaking, he asked his younger brother again: "What do you think?" Do you want to do it? ”

Chen Ze took a bite of the cake, sucked the soup and swallowed it into his stomach: "Dry!" If we don't do it, we won't survive the winter, so if we work for him and save money for a few years, maybe we can buy land. ”

"What about the rent, isn't it a bit high?" Chen Sheng spoke very quietly, he and his younger brother did not say how much knowledge they had, but they could be wheat customers for others, and they also knew more or less about the details of other tenants' rent payments.

The rent paid by tenants is not low, usually 37, and there are a few well-meaning landlords who only collect 60% of the rent.

They farmed for Xu Ling, paid eighty percent of the rent, Xu Ling also had to pay grain tax, and the rest was Xu Ling's.

But on the other hand, although Chen Sheng and Chen Ze don't have to pay grain tax again, they still have to serve forced labor, and their lives are not easy.

"Not high!" Chen Ze directly told his brother, "You have to settle accounts separately, although we have to pay eighty percent of the rent next year, we don't need to spend money to build the house, and there is nothing to do with drought and flood in half a year, and the three of us will always have something to eat." ”

"What's more, didn't Xu Ling say it? The deed reads on it, rice, rent 28 next year, and the harvest will be determined later. But it won't exceed twenty-eight, it will only be lower, if he collects more, it means that the harvest is good, and the harvest is good, and we get more. ”

Chen Sheng looked at his younger brother and scratched his head, "Is that so?" ”

"Brother, you just listen to me, let's do it for Xu Ling, I think he is rich, and he is not lacking in affection, as long as we give him a good job, the benefits will definitely be indispensable!" Chen Ze affirmed.

"How can you tell?"

"He used to be a bastard, stealing chickens and dogs, but the people in the village beat him and scolded him, and now that he has money, do you see who he retaliates against? If I had money in the future, I would ......."

"Alright, Aze!" Chen Sheng hurriedly called his younger brother, blocked his words, and glanced at the mother on the bed again, "Okay, don't mention these, the past is over." ”

"Heh, I can't get by!" Chen Ze took a bite of the shortbread hatefully, as if he was eating someone's meat.

"Alas......" Widow Chen on the bed sighed leisurely, "Boss, you just listen to your brother, he is smarter than you." ”

"Second brother, no matter what you think in your heart, you don't have money now, you have to listen to your eldest brother, just treat it as the past, don't mess with them anymore, you can't make trouble."

"In addition to your mother, you brothers are the closest in the world, don't have any two hearts, otherwise we really can't get through this day...... Ahem......"

"Mother!"

"Mother! Stop talking! Both brothers put down their rice bowls, one gave his mother a good luck, and the other took the bowl in his mother's hand.

"The sons know, you must be good, don't let your son lose his mother......"

Chen Ze said, tears welled up in his eyes, Widow Chen touched the face of her second son, and also cried, "Mother is useless, I will drag you back, but my mother knows that my mother can't die no matter how hard she lives, and I can't let my two sons have no more mothers, you will live a good life in the future, but you must find a way to find Dou'er and Xiaohua, my mother can't see them before she dies, and she is unwilling to die!" ”

The two Chen Ze brothers agreed again and again, Chen Sheng washed the warm water of autumn pear paste brought by Xu Ling to his mother to drink, and Widow Chen drank half a bowl, spit out a few mouthfuls of thick phlegm, and her anger was finally smoother.

"What kind of medicine is this? So powerful? There was a strange light in Chen Ze's eyes.

"I don't know, the owner gave it to us, saying that it could make our mother's cough better."

"It must be very expensive...... Chen Ze touched the jar of autumn pear ointment, he went to the town to buy medicine for his mother, five pairs of medicine cost one or two silver, how many silver medicines he took before and after, and he didn't see his mother well.

"The boss treats you well because you can work for him," Widow Chen said bitterly to her two sons, "You can't be cheating and tricky, and let others hold the handle." ”

"Okay, mother, we know."

It was night, the goose-feathered snowflakes were falling flutteringly, the cold wind was howling outside, like a night ghost with a cry, the trees were swept by the wind and made a terrible sound, and Xu Ling didn't sleep well all night, for fear that the wind would overturn the roof of the old house next door.

After getting dressed in the middle of the night, carrying a night lamp, and running to the next door to see, Chen Sheng and Chen Ze moved the bed to a room with their mother, and the mother and son huddled together around the fireplace to keep warm, drowsy.

Xu Ling hurriedly asked Chen Sheng to follow him back to the house, and hurriedly took the freshly nitrated sheepskin and asked them to cover it on the bed, so that it would be warmer.

Fortunately, the roof of the old house was reinforced years ago, and it was impossible to be overturned by the wind, so Xu Ling was relieved to go home and sleep with the latched door.

Early in the morning of the second day, Xu Ling woke up from his sleep with Gu Yi in his arms, only to feel that it was bright outside.

Dressing and pushing open the window, I saw that the outside was covered in snow, and the snow was so thick that the fence in the yard was almost submerged.

Rub Rub ...... Salad salad ......

The sound of a bamboo broom sweeping the snow came from outside the gate, and Xu Ling saw that between the two brothers Chen Sheng and Chen Ze, one shoveling snow and the other sweeping snow, had almost cleared the snow outside Xu Ling's gate.

"Our mother is already up?"

"No, it's the Chen Sheng brothers, they came to clear the snow for us so early," Xu Ling got dressed, "I'll go and heat up yesterday's leftovers, will you sleep again?" ”

"I'll go, I can't sleep. It snowed so hard a year ago, and I don't know if this year will be good. ”

Gu Zhen sighed and dressed, and took stock of the food at home in his heart, fortunately, every time Xu Ling came back, he would buy a lot, and after careful calculation, even if the road was closed by heavy snow, he could still eat the snow.