I farmed and built a villa in ancient times

Chapter 69 Picking up straw mushrooms
Baoyu walked forward quietly without knowing it. When he saw the field mouse running out, he shouted with a loud smile: "Oh my God! It's a snake! There is a snake!"

"Ah! Snake!" The children gathered around screamed and ran away. They were instantly frightened and lost their courage. Only Baoyu stood there, watching their reactions, holding his stomach and laughing wildly.

The children reacted when they heard the laughter. Zhou Chenyu was afraid that Baoyu would cause public anger, so he slapped him with a palm, "I was almost scared to death by you. My sister beat him for you."

After Baoyu made such trouble, the children did not dare to stay in the field digging for voles in front of the village. The group of people consciously ran to the center of the rice field and continued to look for the voles' burrows.

After watching them for a while, Zhou Chenyu and Baoyu stopped playing and started to work on the rough frame of the lounge chair. Li Xiuju was weaving her basket. A thick dark cloud floated above her head and she heard someone running back barefoot in the rice field. , not even caring about the mud on his legs, "It's going to rain heavily. It's going to rain heavily. Hurry up and collect the grains."

After the man finished shouting, strong winds suddenly started blowing up. Dead leaves and branches were flying in a mess, and someone's clothes were swept up in the air.

Li Xiuju rubbed the dust and said hurriedly: "The duck is still outside. I will go find it and bring it back. You can put these things in."

"it is good!"

The mother and son divided into two groups. Li Xiuju went to the fields to look for free-range ducks. Zhou Chenyu and Baoyu moved the finished baskets and remaining bamboo poles into the utility room, and then dried clothes and dried radishes. , bamboo shoots and dried bamboo shoots were also put into the house one by one.

After they finished doing this, they didn't see Li Xiuju come back, so they hurried out the door, and then saw Li Xiuju returning to the yard carrying a cage of ducks, "Shu Qing's family has dried a lot of millet, and Hong Mei and Grandma Wang are too busy. Let's If you have nothing to do, you have nothing to do, so go over and help collect the grains."

"okay."

After speaking, Baoyu quickly took a wooden rake and rushed to Zhou Shuqing's house. Li Xiuju followed closely behind. Zhou Chenyu had difficulty moving, so he locked the door and followed slowly with a cane.

When she arrived, two piles of rice had been raked up in the yard. Mrs. Wang was holding the bags and filling them with red plums. Apart from these, there were still two loads of rice drying in the yard.

A heavy rainstorm is coming. If the rice is not put away in time, it will be in trouble. It is best to dry it in time when the sun comes out the next day. If it rains for several days in a row and the millet sprouts, it will be useless.

Baoyu hurriedly started raking, and Li Xiuju swept wildly with a broom. Dust was flying in the sky, and several people were sweating like rain.

Hongmei's son was locked in the room alone, crying loudly. Hongmei felt sorry for her child, but had no time to spare, so she could only leave him there.

Zhou Chenyu held the child and sat down where he could see the red plums, coaxing him, "Baby, look, is that your mother?"

When the child saw the person, he stopped crying and clapped his hands happily.

Hongmei looked at the three people helping in the yard, wiped her sweat, and smiled happily.

Black clouds crossed the sky like a black cloth, and the surrounding light dimmed instantly.

Zhou Shuqing looked up at the sky when he returned home, "No, it's going to rain heavily! There is still a pile of millet drying in the house. Only my wife and grandma are at home. They can't collect it. I have to go back quickly!" "

The delicate-looking Wang Zhao on the side looked at the sky. Anyway, he was on the way, so he hurriedly caught up, "Cousin, I'll go back with you. If you have more people, it's faster."

Zhou Shuqing looked at his cousin and nodded, "That's fine."

There was a strong wind all around, and the swaying woods on both sides of the mountain road were like a group of demons. The wind and sand blew into their eyes. The two of them ignored it and ran all the way in the direction of Zhoujia Village. They did not dare to stop along the way. They rushed to the entrance of the village, and the heavy rain hit them. It was splashed down one step ahead of them, causing ripples in the pond.

Zhou Shuqing watched his neighbor's millet soaking in the water. Their house was exposed to more sun, and the situation was probably even worse.If the millet gets wet in the rain, most of the hard work of the year will be wasted.

"Grandma, red plums." He returned home in the rain. As soon as he entered the house, bags of millet were piled intact in the utility room without getting wet at all.

Hongmei, grandma, and Aunt Xiuju's family were all sitting under the eaves, and everyone's face was covered with sweat.

Seeing this situation, Zhou Shuqing felt relieved.

Hongmei saw him and her cousin Wang Zhao running in, soaked to the skin, and quickly found a clean handkerchief and handed it over, "The rain is so heavy, why don't you find a place to hide? Are you stupid?"

Wang Zhao took the handkerchief and said with a smile: "Cousin, my brother was worried that you and grandma wouldn't be able to collect the millet at home, so he ran all the way back regardless of the rain."

Hongmei walked up to him with her back full of energy and said, "Fortunately, Aunt Xiuju, Baoyu and Chen Yu are here to help us. By the time you come back to collect the millet, we will have been soaked in the rain."

"Daughter-in-law, it's my fault, my fault." Zhou Shuqing comforted his wife and thanked her repeatedly, "Auntie, thank you very much."

Li Xiuju didn't know how to say such polite words, so she shook her head with a smile, "We are all neighbors, why are we saying these polite words? We are really out of touch."

Zhou Chenyu, who was sitting silently on the side, exposed his lame leg, tilted his head, and asked Zhou Shuqing: "Brother Shuqing, you can't thank me? I am physically disabled and mentally strong. No one can forget me if I forget!" "

Baoyu watched the excitement and didn't mind it being a big deal, so he also joined in, "There's me and me too!"

Zhou Shuqing turned red with embarrassment, rubbed his head and giggled happily, "Blame me, blame me, I'm here to apologize to Chen Yu Baoyu."

Li Xiuju gave everyone a slap on the forehead, "You two are fooling around again."

Zhou Chenyu and Baoyu raised their heads and giggled.

Wang Zhao from a distance was staring straight at this beautiful girl, her smile so dazzling that he couldn't bear to look away.

After Hongmei finished laughing, she saw the big basket placed aside and vaguely smelled the fishy smell, "Hey, what is that?"

Zhou Shuqing came to his senses and came over with the basket, "The employer who worked today is a big pig farmer. He slaughtered a pig today and left a lot of pig offal and bones. Seeing that Wang Zhao and I worked hard, he gave it away There are many of us. Wang Zhao doesn’t want to deal with these troubles and refuses to take them away, so it’s not all our fault anymore.”

Hongmei opened the lid and took a look. There was a whole pile of pig liver, pig lungs, pig intestines, and a few large bones. "So many? It's hot. If you don't finish it, it will go bad."

"Yeah, I'm worried about this? Wife, what do you think I should do?" Zhou Shuqing doesn't cook often, his eyes follow Hongmei closely, and he does whatever his wife says.

Hongmei looked around at the people in the room, silently counted their heads, her eyes lit up, and she said with a smile: "Why don't everyone here tonight stop going home to cook, and eat at our house before leaving?"

Zhou Shuqing hit his cousin Wang Zhao on the chest, "Did you hear that? Your cousin-in-law asked you to stay and eat before leaving."

(End of this chapter)