Wear ancient times with a house

Chapter 344
Baizhuang Village, Liujiagou Town, in a remote county like Qinxi County, is also an obscure village under its jurisdiction.

In Song Nian's initial visit arrangement, there was actually no Baizhuang Village, because this village was not very representative, and there were neither urgent livelihood issues nor sharp ethnic conflicts.

The reason why I chose to go here later was purely because Qi Xianwei, who led the way, lost his way.

Knowing the way in ancient times was a very talented job. There was no navigation, no satellite positioning, and no high-accuracy maps available. After all, detailed maps belong to strategic materials and cannot be circulated.

Qi Xianwei is already the best in this group of people with the best way-finding talent, but when he went deep into the vast northwest countryside, he still lost his way and plunged into the grassland.

The group of people trembled for two nights with the sky and the earth as their quilt, and the sun and the moon as their couch, before they stumbled into Liujiagou Town by mistake.

Now that you're here, let's take a look.

Qin Erzhu is an ordinary villager in Baizhuang Village, the second in the family, planting ordinary land, living an ordinary life, the first three generations are incompetent, and the next three generations...

Probably not able to show patience.

The biggest official he has ever met in his life is Li Zheng whom he met when he was a man and divided the fields.

Back then, in order to give him a better piece of land, his mother saved up money to cut two catties of meat, and secretly sent it over at night.

However, I don't know if their family members are stupid and can't speak well, or if the two catties of meat really can't compete with other people's gifts, and they didn't get a good land in the end.

After that, Qin Erzhu was even more afraid of meeting officials.

Therefore, when a group of glamorous people appeared at the ridge of his house, and an old lady talked to his daughter-in-law curiously, Qin Erzhu wanted to wink at his daughter-in-law to prevent her from inviting the group of people to eat at home, but was afraid Don't dare to be too obvious if you are annoying, so that the expression looks hideous.

However, in the end, it didn't go as Qin Erzhu wanted, and Song Nian and his party went to his house as guests.

Qin Erzhu's daughter-in-law is much better than her husband. She is timid, but she can answer fluently. Along the way, she greets the villagers who come over curiously, and chats with Mrs. Song:
"Yes, there are three children in the family. We live by ourselves. What do we plant? We planted beans and wheat, but my land is not very good, and the wheat harvest is not good, so we need to water more. We planted a ridge for the children to eat, and occasionally Give some to the old man."

Qin Erzhu has separated and lived together. There are several brothers in his family, and the children in the family are born one after another. Soon there are conflicts because of trivial matters. Your child has an extra chopstick egg, and his child drinks an extra bowl. sugar water.

In fact, it's not that adults care too much, but that they are really poor. Once they become poor, they won't even give up a single piece of firewood.

"I also raise sheep, but I don't raise many, only three. In fact, it is useless. The sheep are not fat, and it takes a lot of effort to raise them. That is to say, the grass is not worth much. We don't need to send someone to mow the grass, otherwise we would have stopped raising it. "

Walking on the small road in the village, Song Yun can still see the occasional sheep strolling slowly on the road, their hair is dirty and knotted into strands.

The sheep raised by the poor are also skinny, and they are not as strong as the pet dogs raised by rich people in the county.

Qin Erzhu's daughter-in-law followed Song Yun's line of sight and explained:

"I can't help it. During the Spring Festival Gala, we don't even have much grass. In autumn, we have stored a lot of grass, which has become dry grass. The sheep don't grow meat after eating it. But it will be better when the weather is warmer, and life will be easier. "

Regarding the feed for livestock, something flashed into Song Yun's mind, and it disappeared quickly, but she still secretly remembered it, and was going to go back to check it out. She vaguely remembered that there was a better way to store grass.

This village is not big, even if Qin Erzhu and his wife didn't choose the shortcut - because the shortcut is not easy to take, the snow falls thickly in winter, covered with animal feces, and when the sun freezes, it turns brown and deep yellow, Ice surface of different shades.

In February and March, the ice has melted a little, but not completely. When you walk up a pit, your shoes will soon become wet and smelly.

Most of the people in the village wore straw sandals with straw woven soles, and they left as soon as they walked, but Qin Erzhu looked down at the cotton shoes and leather boots on the feet of Song Nian and his party, and then at the straw sandals on his own feet where the big toe was exposed. He didn't say anything, but thoughtfully changed his way.

Even with a long detour, Qin Erzhu's house will arrive soon.

Qin Erzhu's family just built a house in the east of the village two years ago. To be honest, it is still a half-new house. It looked a little dilapidated, and from the side of the low wall, three small heads poked out timidly——

An eight or nine-year-old girl with withered hair and a dark red face;

A five or six-year-old boy with snot scabs on his face, dark and thin, ran away when strangers approached, like a vigilant stray cat;

The youngest girl couldn't even walk easily, and leaned softly against her elder sister. She was a little fairer than her older siblings, but only a little, and her cheeks were also chapped red by the wind and snow.

There is also an old man in Qin Erzhu's family. This is Qin Erzhu's father. He recently came to help his second son break some wooden cabinets.

This should have been done a long time ago, but two years ago, the money from the family split was used to build the house, which was no longer enough. They were all borrowed from relatives and friends, so the furniture in the house has not been completed.

The manpower is enough, but the craftsmanship, in the era of men farming and women weaving, if you want to live a convenient life, you need to know a little bit of various skills, so the Qin family also has the skills of making furniture.

It's just that strong wood is not easy to come by. There are few mountains here, far away, and most of them have owners. You go hunting and picking wild vegetables, and the owner will pass by with one eye closed. Trees cannot be cut. , this is for sale.

However, I heard that some places will divide the forest land into several parts to provide the people with the things they need from birth to death--beds, new furniture for marriage, and coffin boards.

But Qinxi County doesn't have it, so it doesn't have it. The people of the farming people are always the most docile. As long as they have a mouthful of food, they can endure many things in a daze.

Speaking of Qin Erzhu's house, the old man Qin was making a cabinet with wood scraps all over his head and body, his ears were a little useless, and he didn't hear the voice of the visitor.

Song Nian's father is a carpenter, and his craftsmanship must be higher than that of the old man Qin, but the appearance of rubbing the rough wood surface with his hands covered in wood shavings is very similar. up.

He just waited for old man Qin to be surrounded by the granddaughters who followed in and tell him the situation gesticulating, before he raised his head in surprise.

(End of this chapter)