Druid's Country Retirement

Chapter 26
Outside the old house.

The villagers worked in full swing, and with their participation, the progress of clearing the ditch was many times faster. As soon as the sun came out, a section of the ditch had already been cleared.

Dig up the silt and weeds in the canal to reveal the bluestone strips used to build the canal.

The whole canal is 2 meters wide and 2 meters deep. It is built by the split-layer method as a whole. Each bluestone strip has a uniform specification. The starting point is from the backyard col to the pond, and flows into the meadow around the courtyard of the old house.

Li Hongbing tapped the bluestone strip lightly with a shovel, and the stone strip made a crisp metallic sound, and there was no weathering due to perennial mud and water erosion.

"How about it, my craftsmanship is not bad!" Shuisheng walked to the bluestone bar with a hoe on his shoulder and squatted down, stroking the uneven surface of the stone bar with his palm with exposed veins, full of emotion.

"Back when the old man was repairing the canal, Tie Zhu and the others went to Wuya Ridge to collect stone strips. I built them bit by bit with a trowel. The days passed so quickly. After more than 30 years, many old brothers are gone."

The iron pillar digging the silt on the side said contemptuously.

"Don't be shy, it would be as thin as bean sprouts. If it weren't for the hands of the old men, you wouldn't even be able to lift the stone."

Da Kui also interrupted to tease.

"That's right, you do the least work and eat the most meat. When it's meal time, you're the fastest runner, even the rabbits can't catch up."

"Yeah! I remember that after finishing work that day, I went down to the river to take a bath, he"

"No wonder Leng Buding wants to marry Chunlan, it turns out."

Shuisheng became the target of a group attack, one after another embarrassing incidents in the past, and was shaken out, Shuisheng was not a good stubble, and started to fight back.

Soon, the target of the siege changed from one person to the same person, and everyone was laughing and revealing each other.

Li Hongbing didn't get involved. First, he didn't stay in the village for long. Second, everyone called him uncle, but he didn't want to put on airs.

Besides, all of them are men in their 50s and [-]s. It's okay to joke around, but when it comes to wives, I really can't interrupt indiscriminately at my age.

Obediently beat the side drums beside you, just to set off the atmosphere.

As for the silly boy, he doesn't even talk nonsense. When he sees everyone laughing, he also laughs along with him. As for why he laughs, that's not important.

"The tea is here."

Guifeng's sister-in-law led the other sister-in-laws out of the yard carrying buckets.

With a yell, everyone immediately shut up. There are some things that the gentlemen can talk about in private, but let the women know that there will be a meal of Jiuyin White Bone Claw.

The sisters-in-law looked playfully at the old men who were chattering just now, "What are you talking about, it's so lively, why didn't we say anything when we came here?"

Dakui's mouths were like zippers, and they didn't gnaw anyway when they were beaten to death.

Li Hongbing smiled, took the tea bucket, and joked, "They are more beautiful than other sister-in-laws, and they are virtuous in managing the house."

"Then who won?" The eyes of several sister-in-laws lit up at the same time,
Li Hongbing sighed, "After the evaluation, the results are evenly divided. The sister-in-laws are all beautiful, and they are going to fight for this Dakui."

Goose, Goose, Goose, Goose!

The sisters-in-laws were trembling with laughter, quite satisfied with their man's performance, and they gave him an extra meal in the eyes, and they liked Li Hongbing, an uncle who came back from the big city, even more.

Fusheng, Shuisheng, and the other helpers thumped their hearts, secretly feeling sorry for their old waist, but Dakui wanted to cry. Yesterday, Uncle Hongbing said that he was not allowed to have intercourse, so his mother-in-law drove him to live in the firewood room.

Rest for half an hour.

Everyone continued to work, working harder than before, and never put down their shovels in order not to eat extra at night and use all their strength.

This operation makes cleaning faster.

By noon, the drains in front of the old house had been cleaned up, and Shawa had caught many eels and loaches hiding in the mud.

Looking at the 2-meter-wide and 2-meter-deep canal made of bluestone strips, thinking that it will be filled with water in the future and pass around the old house, there is a feeling of picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence, leisurely seeing Nanshan, and escaping from the world.

"dinner's ready!"

Guizhi's sister-in-law rang out loudly, startling the pheasants foraging for food in the meadow.

In the middle of the courtyard was a table for the Eight Immortals, on which were placed five or six large porcelain pots, in which piles of meat and vegetables protruded.

Stir-fried bacon with chili, cabbage with soy sauce, smoldering air-dried chicken, roasted eggplant with bacon, a pot of wax gourd cured pork soup, and a pot of rice soup.

Among them, the peppers, cabbage, eggplant, and winter melon were all brought from home by several sister-in-laws.

This meal is undoubtedly of a high standard. There is more meat and less vegetables. If you do heavy work and digest quickly, you have to eat meat, or you will have no energy.

It's not so well-behaved if they are all their own people, Li Hongbing took out a box of local roasted liquor, put it on the table, and signaled whoever drinks it should take it.

Except for the pitiful Da Kui, Fu Sheng, Tie Zhu, and Shui Sheng each took a bottle of wine, filled their bowls with vegetables, and sat in twos and threes under the shade of an old oak tree, drinking and eating meat.

Li Hongbing walked among them with a bowl in his hand, and chatting was naturally indispensable after eating and drinking.

"Uncle Hongbing, did you buy that three-wheeler outside?"

"Well, I just bought it."

"That will cost a lot of money!"

"Not expensive, just over 1."

hiss!
More than 1 is not expensive.

Everyone gasped, they worked hard for a year, and at the end of the year, they could save 2 to 3000 yuan, which is considered a good fortune. If there is another catastrophe and serious illness, they might have to invest their savings for several years.

"People from the city come to make money quickly. I knew that I would go out with Master Defu back then." Tie Zhu grabbed the wine bottle and took a big gulp with regret, the corners of his eyes twitching unnaturally.

Master Defu is out!
Li Hongbing understood that what Tie Zhu was talking about was what his father had done back then, so he gave up the job of eating imperial food in the forest farm, and resolutely walked out of the mountains.

However, Li Hongbing's eyes fell on Tie Zhu's face right now, he looked at it for a moment, and asked.

"Tie Zhu, do you often have various sounds in your head, such as the sound of running water, buzzing, birdsong, and insects, or the sound is non-stop, or it sounds for several days, and you feel restless and restless. Ning, it's like going crazy."

Tie Zhu nodded blankly, "Yeah! The old problem caused by shooting cannons when you were young, you can just drink some wine to suppress it. It's a little bit worse recently, and drinking doesn't help. Your sister-in-law told you?"

"Don't eat yet, follow me to the main room." Li Hongbing put down the bowl and chopsticks.

"Wait a minute, the bacon doesn't taste good when it's cold." Tie Zhu looked at the sticky bacon in the bowl and was a little reluctant, but Da Kui snatched the bowl away in the next second, "Uncle Hong Soldier is very skilled in medicine. If you let you go, you can eat it." Go, less jabbering."

Xiu'e's sister-in-law, who heard the movement, came over to ask the reason, immediately grabbed Tie Zhu by the ear, and dragged her into the main room forcefully.

This situation made Li Hongbing seem to have known each other. Could it be that Caogou Village is the birthplace of strong wives and weak husbands.

After Tie Zhu sat still, Li Hongbing rested his fingers on his pulse, and three fingers beat on Tie Zhu's wrist like raindrops.

The door of the main room was full of villagers, stretching their necks to look inside.

Especially seeing Uncle Hong Bing's serious expression and his strange way of feeling his pulse, the atmosphere suddenly became tense, and sister-in-law Xiu'e's face turned pale.

(End of this chapter)