Rebirth and farming: the prosperous days of the eldest sister of Nongmen

Chapter 34 Ice Making
Dazhu is honest and willing to work. He got up early the next morning to fetch water and pour it into the field. Da Niu saw it and chased after him to help.

"In such a cold day, if you don't stay at home and rest well, what are you doing going out to fetch water?" Dazhu asked the big girl to put down the bucket and pole in her hand.

"I've been resting at home, it's rare to be able to help Sister Ye Xing, so why don't you just let me go together~ How long will it take for you to be alone, don't delay Sister Ye Xing's important event!"

Seeing the girl's appearance, Dazhu knew she had to go, so he reminded: "I can tell you, your sister Ye Xing only invited me, so no matter how much you do, I won't tell her to let her pay you Yes. So if you still want to, follow me."

"Okay, my brother thinks of me like that, I'm not asking for money!" The big girl followed behind Da Zhu angrily, "I just think there is one thing that can help you and Sister Ye Xing, In the end, you didn't appreciate it, but you still criticized me. Today I want to show you how good I am."

After finishing speaking, the big girl carried the bucket and quickly passed Dazhu. She made up her mind to let her brother see her ability, so that he would never underestimate her again.

Dazhu looked at the big girl hurriedly fetching water and couldn't help shaking his head, wondering what to do after being so careless.It's good to cook and feed pigs at home, but no matter how many times my mother teaches embroidery work, she just doesn't get the hang of it. If she is asked to mend clothes, she doesn't know whether she is mending cloth or piercing herself.

But there is one thing that Dazhu has to admit, without the help of the big girl, it would be really difficult for him to fill the field.Ye Xing's two thin fields are behind the village, and the reason why the fields are not doing well is because they are far away from the water source.

After a whole day, Da Zhu and Da Niu just irrigated a field, and they were so tired that they were about to lie down.Lin's heart ached when she saw it, "It's true, Xiao Xing didn't say that it must be finished today. Now it's all right, will you still be able to get up tomorrow?"

Dazhu is used to doing physical work, but the eldest girl will suffer tomorrow, so for the first time in the cold weather, Lin boiled hot water for the brothers and sisters to take a hot bath to relax.

When Mrs. Lin pressed the muscles on the big girl's back, the big girl was so painful that tears were about to fall, "Hiss! Mother, lightly lightly!"

"If you don't rub it off for you, you will suffer tomorrow!" Lin's hands did not relax at all, but she thought that she could go to Fucheng to buy some plasters for Da Zhu and Da Niu after work tomorrow.

"Mother, do you think it would be lighter if Sister Ye Xing came to irrigate the fields?"

"Is there any easy way to irrigate the fields? The easiest way is to pay someone to irrigate. I have no skills with your father, and I haven't saved anything in my life. Instead, I want you and your brother to take care of the family when they are young." Lin said As she spoke, she became depressed again. She felt that it was really useless to be a parent that made her children suffer so much.

The eldest girl heard her mother's sobbing and ignored her discomfort, so she turned around and wiped her tears, "Oh, why are you crying, my brother and I never feel bitter, you see my life is no worse than some girls in the village. What I meant just now is that sister Ye Xing can think of a more convenient irrigation method, can you ask me when you go to work tomorrow?"

Lin wiped away her tears with both hands, nodded and said, "Okay, I will ask you tomorrow. Then you can rest at home tomorrow, don't carry water anymore."

The eldest girl was afraid that Mrs. Lin would be sad again, so she nodded quickly in response, and stopped her brother who was going to fetch water the next day.Lin's original hope was that Ye Xing would come up with a solution, she just wanted her children to have a day off.

"How to irrigate the field?" Ye Xing was stunned when she heard Lin's question. She felt that she had really forgotten how big an acre of land was, and it was indeed too laborious to carry water on her shoulders.

"It's not a big deal. The big girl insisted that you might have a good idea. It's okay if you don't. You can start after you rest. Anyway, there is only one field left." Lin was afraid that Ye Xing would think that her child If you want to be lazy, find a replacement quickly.

"No, no, no, it's true that I didn't think carefully, and it's hard to work hard for the two of them all day, especially since the eldest girl is still a child." Ye Xing felt a little sorry, "But there is indeed a method, which is to see if the place is suitable. .”

Ye Xing thought of the Qushui Liushang, which can lead the water to the desired place with bamboo splicing. She seemed to have seen similar water diversion devices when she went to Shen's and Lin's houses.As long as the terrain is suitable, it can be done in the village if you want.

In order for Dazhu to understand what she said, she specially drew a diagram on the paper with charcoal, and explained it to Lin.When Lin conveyed it to Dazhu, Dazhu understood it easily this time.Coincidentally, the land of Ye Xing's family happened to be relatively low. If the bamboos were planted a little longer, water could be diverted from the stream in the back mountain to the field.

The matter of Da Niu and Da Zhu building bamboo together made Gouzi tell the villagers loudly that anyone who had nothing to do came to watch the brothers and sisters work.

"Dazhu, what are you doing chopping bamboo in the winter, and building it from the back mountain?"

The eldest girl replied quickly without waiting for her brother to speak: "We can use this to divert water from the mountains to the fields."

"What are you doing in the field? Winter is not the time to plant seedlings in spring. I have nothing to do."

"Hey, you think Dazhu is stupid, don't you look at which field they lead to, it's Pannan, no, Ye Xing's field." The man saw two brothers and sisters carrying water to Ye Xing's field the day before yesterday In the field, he said triumphantly as if he knew some secret, "That girl must have paid them to do this. Let me tell you, that girl is indeed able to cook and make money, but the farm work depends on us Old style. Da Zhu, you don’t even try to persuade her, and if the harvest is not good next year, don’t let her rely on you.”

The big girl couldn't listen to others maliciously speculating about Ye Xing, she couldn't help but argue: "Who said that sister Ye Xing wanted us to irrigate the fields for farming, that's for..."

Dazhu didn't expect that the big girl would tell the whole story about Ye Xing, so he quickly covered the big girl's mouth and pulled her away. The people standing beside him were confused, "Hey, it's not for farming but for what, you Let’s go after talking!”

"Why are you talking about everything?!" Da Zhu pulled the big girl away and scolded, "If you talk about her making money, the villagers will definitely get a share of it, and those who don't get a share will do bad things, then That's what really hurt Ye Xing and the others!"

The big girl didn't expect her brother who has always cared for her to be so angry, and said aggrievedly: "I didn't think so much, besides, I didn't mean it. Last time someone said behind our house that sister Ye Xing was guarding against our mother. , I still scolded them, and I specially made some flower-shaped pancakes to show off in the village. Later, no one said that about Sister Ye Xing again.”

"When did that happen?" Da Zhu felt that something was wrong, since his house is relatively remote, and usually no one would go to his house to gossip.

"That's when Sister Ye Xing's shop opened not long ago, didn't Gouzi still talk about it in the village on purpose?"

Dazhu immediately thought of Lin's saying that Li's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law also made flower-shaped cakes in Lao Zhang's bakery at that time, and they deliberately lowered the price to compete with Ye Xing's shop.At that time, Mrs. Lin couldn't figure out how they could make the flower-shaped cakes sold by Ye Xing. It turned out that they had planned it beforehand!
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