Traveling to Daliang Kingdom starts from falling into the water

Chapter 450: Busy Autumn
Suddenly, the sound of the alarm clock rang in his ears. The tip of the brush in Zhou Banxia's hand suddenly tilted, and he looked at the imperfections on the rice paper page with regret.

Let out a sigh of relief.

She closed her eyes to "turn off" the alarm clock, then opened her eyes and looked sideways. Not surprisingly, Gu Wenxuan, who had promised to go home to accompany her, was still working hard at his desk.

Judging from his current condition, it is impossible for him to stop for a while, but it is really late, almost midnight, and he has to go to the county school tomorrow morning.

Zhou Banxia coughed lightly, then violently. She had thought it through and didn’t react anymore. She just threw the pillow at him.

"Wife?" Gu Wenxuan turned his head and blinked in confusion. "Your throat is uncomfortable. Is it because of the cold or the heat? What time is it? Why haven't you slept yet?"

Pack!
Just pretend!

Zhou Banxia glared: "Of course, I can't sleep unless you sleep. You disturb my normal sleep schedule when you are at home. I went to bed before the second watch last night.

I think you should come back every five or six days. If you are still worried, I will have someone send you a letter every other day. That would be great, and you don’t have to travel back and forth.”

Roll your eyes!
I give you a cold look and then another cold look!
Zhou Banxia burst out laughing when seeing this, "I just feel sorry for you, it doesn't matter if I go to bed late, I can just get up later tomorrow morning, unlike you who have to rush on the road.

How much have you not finished writing tonight? If I won't interrupt your thoughts, why don't you put it away first and talk about it tomorrow after you have rested? "

Gu Wenxuan was very quick. Before Zhou Banxia could finish, he stood up and threw the brush in his hand into the brush washer, "I have already finished writing it, and all that is left is to revise it.

You are so stupid, don't you know that I have developed a habit of checking and revising every time I finish writing an article? I also coughed, so you won't tell me to go to bed early?

Even if you forgot, you can just lie down and rest. Don't say you were lying down and just got up now. The ink isn't even dry yet, and you're going to take the exam too?"

"Yes, this dynasty is lacking a female top scholar and I am here to fill the position." Zhou Banxia said with a smile as he put away the rice paper that had been placed on the kang to dry.

This frightened Gu Wenxuan. Fearing that she would collapse on her stomach, he quickly rushed to the kang and said, "I'll do it, I'll sort it out."

"It's okay. It's too far. I'll get off the kang and pick it up. After all, I'm not a puppy. I have to lie on the kang and tidy it up, right?"

Gu Wenxuan quickly tidied up the rice paper scattered on the kang while listening. When he heard "this and that", he looked up and burst into laughter.

"Shh, keep your voice down. It's late at night and there's a newborn baby across the street." Zhou Banxia subconsciously turned her head to look at the window. "Are the lights off?"

“It’s okay, I can’t hear it.” Gu Wenxuan moved to the right mischievously, immediately blocking Zhou Banxia’s view of the outside world, “No, you can’t see it from this position.

Be careful not to fall off the kang, there is still a candlelight in the south room. Why didn't I hear the child crying tonight? Did I not notice it for a moment, or did he not cry in the first place? "

You’ve asked the right person!
Zhou Banxia was too lazy to remind him how far away he was from the edge of the kang at the moment. He had to give the new father some time to adapt so that he could feel at ease.

"It's not that the child didn't cry. Auntie Ma is here to take care of my sister-in-law again tonight. It's just that the child didn't have time to cry any more because he was picked up by his grandmother."

Gu Wenxuan thought this was the case. According to the information he had checked, newborns would only be quiet during these few days, but would become very serious after one month.

As the lung capacity increases, the crying becomes louder. After two months, the crying becomes even louder. No matter how well-behaved a child is, he will cry at night.

He cries when he is hungry, pees, or has poop. He cries at the top of his lungs to alert the adults around him when he feels a little uncomfortable. Fortunately, when my nephew started crying, his wife was almost three months old. Even if we didn't rush to move, she could stay with him in the county town for a while.

The next day.

Gu Wenxuan still got up early, and Zhou Banxia was still sleeping when he left.

It is a lie to say that you feel safe leaving a pregnant daughter-in-law at home alone. No matter whether your parents are at home to help take care of her or not, you will always feel uneasy when she is not under your supervision.

However, he also knew that his wife's tolerance for him leaving early and returning late every day was almost at its limit. If it rained, she would definitely be furious when she saw him coming back.

Fortunately, I don’t know if God was moved or autumn was coming, it didn’t rain for a week, and every household in the village was busy from dawn to dusk.

The autumn harvest has officially begun.

In the entire village, except for the Gu family, Zhou Xiucai's family, and the Ma family, the rest of the families, from the old to the young, are busy like dogs.

It was at this time that Gu Erzhu, who had been preparing for several days, quietly took the other half of the first batch of the workshop guard team and set off with the goods in several horse-drawn and mule-drawn carts.

The sudden loss of the head of the family seemed to have no impact on the autumn harvest, but in fact, even with the new head of the village, hired farmhands, and servants participating in the harvest, it was still different.

Autumn harvest takes time, including drying, and it takes more than ten to twenty days. After finally finishing the autumn harvest, autumn sowing and planting begins.

Zhou Banxia could see with her own eyes that her poor father was getting thinner all of a sudden, but she still sent someone to follow her father and not let him do anything but just supervise him.

After the work in the fields was finished, her father no longer had to worry about tidying up the vegetable garden and going into the mountains. She finally had some time to relax, but then the corvée came.

The corvée labor in Qinghe Village was not long this time, only one and a half months, but none of the corvée work was easy. It was indeed not about clearing silt to widen the river channel, but about blasting rocks to build roads.

I don’t know if it’s because it’s located in an important area around the capital, but the official road is still very easy to travel on. The road is flat and is regularly maintained. But problems also arise: the corvée labor of blasting rocks to build roads has also arrived.

However, compared to the one and a half months of service in road construction, which required five taels of silver to be exempted, more people did not want to waste money and just went to serve directly.

Originally, this year's corvée labor had nothing to do with her family or her husband's family, but her father began to worry that too many people would go to serve this year, and it would be difficult to find people to build the workshop and farm.

Who doesn't do the math? Twenty wen a day, forty-five days only make nine hundred wen, less than one tael of silver, but you spend five taels of silver to be exempted from military service.

Once people are afraid of being poor, many of them want to grit their teeth and just get through it for a month and a half.

After all, twenty cents a day including food is already a considerable wage, but how much work does one have to do to scrape together five taels of silver, not to mention that after working for a month or two it will be winter.

After the winter comes, we hibernate again and the New Year is coming soon.

In other words, there will be no good work to make money in the second half of the year, and saving five taels of silver can allow you to have a comfortable year.

This made her father very anxious. If he didn't hire people to start making adobe bricks right away, it would snow by the time they came back from military service and he wouldn't be able to do anything until the beginning of spring next year.