I am Fugui

Chapter 97

When they got home, the whole family breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that Chang Gen had returned safely.

"It fell so badly? I don't know if it hurt any bones." Jiazhen looked at it and said.

Father Xu walked over with a cane, and joked with a smile, "Chang Gen, you will be like me in the future, holding a cane all day long."

Chang Gen first smiled, and then began to cry again.

"Changgen, why are you crying, eat your food first, Fugui, go to the neighboring village and invite that barefoot doctor over."

There is no doctor in Xujia Village, not even a barefoot doctor, but there is a barefoot doctor in the next door village.

Although the level of medical skills is far inferior to that of doctors in the city, there should be no problem with the inspection.

Xu Fugui went to ask for it immediately, Chang Gen cried and said: "Madam, Master, I'm afraid I won't be able to work in the future."

Father Xu laughed and scolded: "You are just like Laishun. You are a fool. You don't know how to enjoy life when you are old. Just stay at home and talk to me. No one asks you to work."

Chang Gen shook his head, "Let the young master support so many of us alone, the young master will not die from exhaustion."

"He deserves to die from exhaustion, who called him a beast."

"Snapped!"

Xu's mother slapped Xu's father on the shoulder, "Without Fugui doing business and farming outside, can you have food to eat?"

After finishing speaking, he comforted: "Changgen, let's eat first, as long as the people are complete, we are not afraid of being poor."

"That's right, come to eat, my father brought back a lot of food, Uncle Gen, try it quickly."

The tears on Chang Gen's face could not be stopped, Laishun took a set of clean clothes for him to change into, and took out a wet sackcloth to wash his face.

After a while, Xu Fugui led the barefoot doctor back. After checking, he said, "There should be no bone injuries, but at such an advanced age, it is better not to do heavy work in the future."

After hearing this, Chang Gen breathed a sigh of relief, and laughed, seeing that the barefoot doctor wanted to bring him ointment and traditional Chinese medicine, he quickly refused, "No, no, it will be fine in two days, no need to take medicine."

Xu's father hit the ground hard with his crutches, with a straight face, not arrogant, Chang Gen didn't dare to speak anymore.

"Uncle Gen, you should rest for the next two days, and don't think about work." Xu Fugui instructed.

Chang Gen said in a pleading tone: "Master, please help me chop some thin bamboo and come back. I can still move my hands anyway, and I can weave a few bamboo baskets and so on."

Xu Fugui nodded helplessly, "Sure, I'll chop some thin bamboo back when I have time."

Laishun suddenly remembered something, took out a handful of copper coins and French coins from his pocket, and handed them to Jiazhen, "Young Mistress, here it is."

This is the money I got from selling lo-mei today, and Jiazhen is in charge of all the money in the family.

Jiazhen reached out and took it, "Laishun, just ask when you need to spend money."

There was still some time before dark, Xu Fugui and Laishun changed into dirty clothes, carrying hoes and sickles, and prepared to go to the fields to do some work.

"Father, I'll go with you." Feng Xia followed him bouncingly with a kite in her hand, while Ping An followed her wagging her tail.

"Fengxia, wait for grandma, you girl can run really fast."

"Mom, why don't you go with me?"

Mother Xu laughed and said, "I've been in the house for a long time, and I want to go out to bask in the sun."

Xu Fugui did not refuse, since the field is not far from their home anyway.

When they came to the field, Laishun continued to cultivate the dry land. Xu Fugui counted the days, and the paddy field also had to be plowed once, then composted and planted with rice.

So he rolled up his trouser legs and stepped into the paddy field.

"hiss"

Although the sun was shining brightly, the water in the field was extremely cold. With a plow, he turned the cultivated soil in the field vigorously step by step.

This is a labor-intensive job, but it's a pity that there are no cattle at home, otherwise it would save a lot of labor to cultivate the land.

If it weren't for his great strength now, these paddy fields would not be able to be plowed.

"Fugui, Laishun, slow down, come up to drink some water and rest for a while."

Mother Xu sat on the ridge, and said distressedly after a while.

Xu Fugui wiped the sweat from his brow, watched Fengxia pick wild flowers everywhere and put them on the ridge of the field, smiled slightly, and continued to bury his head in farming, the sweat reflected crystal light under the sunlight.

Suddenly he heard Laishun cry out in pain, looked up, Laishun in the field threw away the hoe in his hand, hugged his right foot with both hands, and jumped up and down in pain.

Xu's mother hurried over to take a look. Laishun's right thumb was scratched by a hoe about two centimeters wide, and blood was gushing out.

"You child, I told you to slow down, it's all right now."

Mother Xu said something reproachful, and grabbed a piece of mud to block the wound.

"This land is the most nourishing place. There is a wound, and once it is muddy, it will be healed in two days."

Laishun put his right foot down with a smile, "It's really not bleeding anymore."

"Go sit and drink some water, take a break, strength is not used like this, it is easy to hurt yourself."

Xu Fugui straightened up, and joked: "Laishun, don't learn from me when I tell you to work. I can use a hoe quickly, but I know it won't fall on my instep."

"How long have you been working? Farming is a hard work, so you have to learn it slowly."

Laishun muttered: "Young master, it sounds like you've been planting the land for a long time."

Xu Fugui laughed loudly, "I used to see that others planted a lot. If I saw a lot, I would know how to do it myself."

Xu's mother pointed at him with her finger, and said rather resentfully: "Fugui, you have a bright mind, but you just like playing too much."

"If I had followed Mr. Private School seriously, I might have been able to earn back the more than 100 acres of land your father lost."

Xu Fugui walked to the ridge of the field and took a breath, "Mother, what you said is wrong, what kind of stuff does that shitty private school teach? It's useless."

"What he teaches are the Four Books and Five Classics. If you look at the world, how can you use things like the Four Books and Five Classics?"

Mother Xu shook her head and smiled, "I can't say no to you."

"Father, what kind of flower is this?"

Fengxia held up a pale pink flower, raised her head and asked.

"Ask your grandma."

"Grandma, what kind of flower is this?" Fengxia asked obediently.

Xu's mother smiled and said: "Take it home later and ask your mother, your mother may know."

It wasn't until it was dark that Xu Fugui came out of the paddy field, dragging his exhausted body towards home.

As soon as he got home, there was a strong stewed smell. Xu Fugui smelled it, and the smell of Jiazhen's cooking seemed to be getting more and more fragrant.

"Fugui, Laishun, there is hot water here, come and wash quickly, look at you, your body is covered in mud."

Xu Fugui looked down and saw that the clothes were indeed covered with a lot of mud. He chuckled, "Anyway, they are clothes for work, so I don't feel bad when they are dirty."

"Wash and change your clothes and come to eat. Put the clothes there and wash them tomorrow. By the way, Dad said the wool can be sheared. He told you to cut the wool later and sell it in the city tomorrow."

(End of this chapter)