I am Fugui

Chapter 15
The drizzle lasted only one day, and then Xujia Village was shrouded in thick fog, just enough to moisten the soil.

On the second day, there was no rain or sun. There were thick clouds in the sky, strong winds, and the temperature dropped a little. Short sleeves and undershirts could no longer be worn.

In front of the thatched hut, Xu Fugui's muscular upper body was naked, and he was carrying a bamboo, which stretched in from the back of the kitchen and put it on the water tank.

Laishun hammered a wooden fork on the ground, and the bamboo just fit on it firmly.

"Fifth brother, the bamboo is ready." Laishun shouted.

Chen Yunsheng responded, and split the water flow in his own bamboo into two, and another stream of clear water immediately flowed into the brand new bamboo at the other end.

The water flowed quickly, smoothly passed through the bamboos one after another, and merged into the water tank in the kitchen, making a rattling sound.

"Fifth Brother, I'm sorry to trouble you." Xu Fugui wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Chen Yunsheng waved his hand, "Don't talk about that."

Back in the house, Jiazhen brought out hot water, washed her face well, put on coarse clothes, looked around, and asked, "Why didn't I see Fengxia and Uncle Gen?"

"Fengxia went to play with the children in the village. Uncle Gen went to the mountains to look for fungi with a basket on his back. He said that after the rain, there will be a lot of fungi in the mountains."

After Jiazhen finished speaking, she sat on the bamboo bed and continued to make a thousand-layer bottom with a needle and thread in her hand.

After taking a short rest, Xu Fugui leaned against the door and said, "Jiazhen, don't tire yourself out."

Jiazhen smiled, "I think it's because you don't want to tire yourself out, you don't have enough work."

"I'm not tired at all."

Walking out of the house, Laishun was holding a hoe to hoe the weeds in front of the house, preparing to build a yard, otherwise the thatched house would look lonely.

"Master, go and rest, I haven't seen you rest in the past two days."

"I don't feel comfortable if I don't work." He replied, seeing that there were a lot of scraps of bamboo on the ground.

With a heartbeat, I took out the hatchet, found a complete piece of bamboo, sat on a wooden bench, and polished it carefully.

After a while, a delicate and small samurai sword appeared in his hand.

He picked it up, gestured twice, grinned, and carved two small characters on the handle of the knife——Fengxia.

"For Fengxia?" Mother Xu said with a smile.

Xu Fugui hummed, walked over and squeezed her shoulder, "Mother, don't keep staring at the straw sandals in your hand, you won't be able to see well in the future."

Xu's mother felt her son's concern, she could not close her mouth from ear to ear, she nodded in agreement, but the movements of her hands were not slow at all.

Xu Fugui had no choice but to get up and help Xu's father.

Father Xu has not been idle at home for the past two days. He polished and fired bamboos one by one, preparing to make a bamboo bed and bamboo table.

The weather was getting colder, and Changgen couldn't sleep on the ground all the time, he had to have a bed.

"Father, why didn't I know you still have this kind of craftsmanship." Although the bamboo bed is much simpler than the wooden bed, there are many tricks in it, especially the size and position of the groove must be precise.

Otherwise, even if the bamboo bed is made, if you turn over while sleeping on it, you will always feel the bed shaking and creaking.

Father Xu snorted triumphantly, "Do you think I'm the same as you? I'm idle and doing nothing? I know a lot of things. What didn't I do when I was young?"

"Then will you do business?" Xu Fugui never forgot Wang Wenchang's proposal.

Xu's father kicked him, "If you have nothing to do, walk away from me, don't get in the way."

Mother Xu exposed his disguise:
"Your father knows how to do a shitty business. After he couldn't do those ridiculous things before, he thought about going to the county town to do some business and earn back the lost land."

"I didn't think about it. In just one month, I lost hundreds of silver dollars. Your grandpa jumped up and beat him in anger, and repeatedly ordered him not to fool around."

"Your father is honestly guarding the Xu family's ancestral property. He usually goes to have a look when he has nothing to do. He said that he can walk around the ground by himself, or watch the excitement in the village."

Father Xu knocked the bamboo strips into the groove vigorously, and said dissatisfiedly: "You know how to expose my old background, and let the junior see my jokes for no reason."

"What? Don't let others tell you after you've done it?"

"I can't say no to you." Xu's father was very strong in front of many people, but he was very weak in front of Xu's mother.

Mother Xu smiled triumphantly, "Your father has been like this all his life."

"By the way, Fugui." Mother Xu said suddenly, "If you have time, accompany me to Osmanthus Village."

Xu Fugui froze for a moment, "Mother, do you want to go back to your mother's house?"

In his impression, no matter in the previous life or in the present life, Mother Xu rarely went back to her natal home, and he didn't know why.

Xu's mother nodded, Xu's father's face turned ugly instantly, and he muttered: "No one recognizes you as a member of the Liu family, so why go back?"

Mother Xu ignored him, "Fugui, when do you think you have time?"

"It can be done at any time, there is no work in the field, just go and have a look in a few days."

"Okay, let's go tomorrow." Mother Xu lowered her head after she finished speaking, knitting the straw sandals in her hand, not knowing what was going on in her mind.

Mother and Osmanthus Village, there should be some secrets that he doesn't know.

Xu Fugui thought, no wonder he had no impression of the people from his natal family at all, as if he had never seen them since he was a child.

I'm too lazy to think about it, these things are irrelevant, I still have a lot of things at home, I don't have the mind to worry about anything else.

"Father, father!" Fengxia ran back from the outside, and her clear and loud cry could be heard from a long distance away.

"Slow down, I'll throw you a somersault." As soon as the words finished, Fengxia slipped and sat down on the ground, her body was stained with mud, turning into a mud child.

Fengxia got up indifferently, looked down at her clothes, narrowed her eyes with a smile and said, "Father, you can't hit me."

Xu Fugui wiped off the mud on her face, dumbfounded, "What did you play, you are covered in mud, I asked your mother to change your clothes for you, leave your clothes there, I have time to wash them for you."

Fengxia took her big hand, and while walking towards the house, she asked: "Father, why do they say I'm not a young lady anymore?"

Xu Fugui stroked her hair, "Because your father lost all the family property."

Jiazhen snorted and rolled her beautiful eyes, "It's a shame you still have the face to say it."

"What am I embarrassed to say, Fengxia, I ask you, do you want to be a young lady?"

Fengxia shook her head like a rattle drum, "I don't want to be a young lady. If I were a young lady, I wouldn't be able to see my father every day. In the past, whenever my father went out, he wouldn't come back for several days."

When Jiazhen heard this, she looked at him jokingly, Xu Fugui laughed a few times, not knowing what to say.

After changing Jiazhen into clean clothes and throwing all the dirty clothes outside, Xu Fugui took out a small samurai sword.

Fengxia happily took it, made a few random gestures, her small mouth pouted and automatically dubbed, "Swipe! Swipe! Swipe!"

Xu Fugui watched this scene with a smile, turned his head, and the sound of beating gongs and drums suddenly sounded in the village.
(End of this chapter)