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Chapter 29 Harvesting Rice

Shen Jia gave the prescription to the shopkeeper and asked with a puzzled face: "Shopkeeper, I think you are very good to your wife. She should have consulted a doctor for her illness. Why is she so emotionally disturbed?"

The shopkeeper handed the prescription to the waiter, that is, his son, who went to grab the medicine, and sighed: "Four years ago, she occasionally caught a cold, and she was almost fine. Who knew there was bad news from her parents' side... …”

It turns out that the shopkeeper's surname is Mo, who is from the county town, and this store was passed down from his ancestors. His wife, Mrs. Lu, is from Rongshan Village. It is more than 80 miles from Rongshan Village to the county seat. She has to climb many mountains to reach the county seat. Some people in the mountains do not go to the market twice a year.

The first time Ms. Lu went to the county town with her parents, she went to shopkeeper Mo to eat rice noodles. Shopkeeper Mo immediately fell in love with the honest, honest and beautiful Mr. Lu.

They proposed marriage to Lu's parents on the spot. The parents were of course very happy that their daughter could walk out of the mountains. After everyone inquired about Shopkeeper Mo's good character, they agreed.

The relationship between the two was also very good after marriage. Mrs. Lu gave birth to two sons, one of whom learned to make rice noodles from shopkeeper Mo, and the other who was quite talented in reading and studied in school and had already passed the examination to become a child student.

A few days before the Mid-Autumn Festival four years ago, someone from Rongshan Village came to the county town for the market. They brought news that Lu's eldest brother and second brother went missing while hunting in the mountains. Several young people were missing in the village one after another.

After hearing the news, Mrs. Lu forced herself to go into the mountain despite being infected with the cold. Shopkeeper Mo had to accompany her. Only when they arrived at Rongshan Village did they realize that there were already more than a dozen young people missing from the village, and the whole village was shrouded in... In sadness.

When Lu was a child, her parents were busy and had no time to care about her. She was basically raised by his two brothers. The relationship between the siblings was very good.

She was already weak and emotionally disturbed, and over time, she became like this.

Shen Jia was thoughtful, and suddenly an idea flashed in his mind. Could it be that Magistrate Meng's secret mining of gold mines had anything to do with them?

"Shopkeeper Mo, are they all missing in the same place?"

"Yes, I heard that that place is very evil. As long as people go there, they will disappear. No one has dared to go near it in the past few years."

"How far is it from Rongshan Village?"

"It's not far, just a few mountains away."

'oh'

Shen Jia knew everything he should know, so he didn't ask any more questions. Before leaving, shopkeeper Mo insisted on paying the consultation fee, but Shen Jia couldn't refuse, so she took him a hundred cents.

After all the busy work, Shen Jia had already arrived at Shenshi, and Shen Jia had no intention of shopping anymore, so he planned to go to the pastry shop and buy a bag of sugar and two bags of cloud cakes.

Unexpectedly, I saw people from the village in the pastry shop.

"Xiaojia, it's really you."

The person who came was a young man about thirteen or fourteen years old. He had handsome features and a slender figure. His black hair was tied up with a band. He was wearing a lake blue gown embroidered with green bamboo. He exuded a strong bookish air. .

"Brother Xu Fan, why are you here too?"

Xu Fan is the son of the widow Jiang from Beili Village. His grandfather's family fled from the Central Plains and settled in Yixian County during his grandfather's generation.

His grandfather only gave birth to a son, Father Xu. Xu Fan was the third sibling. He had two older sisters who were already married.

His father died unexpectedly last year, leaving behind Xu Fan, his mother and elderly grandparents.

His mother was a very strong woman. She worked early in the morning and worked late at night to plant all the more than ten acres of farmland in the family. Xu Fan also often helped copy books for the county bookstore, so the life of their family was not bad. Li Hu once harassed Jiang, who chased him for three miles with a kitchen knife and almost cut off Li Hu's hand. Later, he became honest.

Xu Fan liked to come to the Shen family to play since he was a child, and he and Shen Hao often studied together with Shen Zhuoyun, so he had a good relationship with the Shen family.

Xu Fan is smart, diligent and eager to learn. He ranked among the best in the county examination in February and the government examination in April this year. After passing the college examination in August, he will be a scholar and can be exempted from taxes and corvee.

Xu Fan looked at Shen Jia who was completely different from the past. Although he was confused, he was sensible enough not to ask. He just said with a smile: "Double rush season, the school has a month's holiday."

After what he said, Shen Jia remembered that Emperor Jingwen attached great importance to people's livelihood and asked all academies across the country to suspend classes for a month during the busy farming season, so that children from poor families would not delay their farm work at home.

The two walked on the path one after another, occasionally chatting for a while.

At this time, a dark cloud suddenly floated in the sky in the direction of Beili Village. Shen Jia secretly thought that it was not good, it would definitely rain in this situation.

"Brother Xu, it's going to rain soon. I'll leave first. The rice is still drying in the sun at home. You should go home quickly." After saying that, there was a 'swish' and only an afterimage was left.

Xu Fan was left standing there in a mess in the wind, looking at the sky and the ground, rubbing his eyes again, thinking: When did Xiaojia become so powerful?

Shen Jiacai didn't care what he thought, the summer rain was coming at any time, and she had to rush back to help harvest the rice.

When Shen Jia arrived home, Shen Zhuoyun had just returned from the fields.

Shen Hao and Gu were gathering the rice in the valley into the middle of the valley. The two little guys, Shen Yun and Shen An, were humming and loading the rice with shovels and pouring it into the basket.

Shen Jia took the shovel from Shen Yun and said, "Yun'er, go get the broom." After saying that, he quickly loaded the rice with the shovel.

The broom is made of rice straw and bamboo. First tie a handful of rice straw, then tie it from the middle down to form a round head, chop off the tail, and insert a piece of bamboo in the middle to make the broom pole, and the broom is made. .

Use a broom to sweep the scattered rice into a pile before loading it into the shovel.

Shen Jia collected two loads of rice and gave the shovel to Shen Hao: "Brother, it's getting darker and darker. Come and load the rice. I'll carry this load of rice into the utility room first."

The rice that has not yet been dried is put in the utility room first, and then placed in the warehouse after it is dried.

Shen Zhuoyun came out of the utility room and saw Shen Jia carrying a load of rice. He was frightened, "Jia'er, put it down quickly. The load of rice is so heavy that it will crush your body. Daddy can carry it alone." "

"Dad, I can do it. It's going to rain heavily soon. Hurry up and pick in the rice that Mom and the others have collected." Shen Jia said as she moved lightly to avoid Shen Zhuoyun's hand.

Shen Zhuoyun saw that Shen Jia was really easy to carry rice on a pole, so he let her go and hurried outside to pick up another load of rice.

Shen Hao and Shen installed the rice, Gu and Shen Yun swept the rice, and Shen Zhuoyun and Shen Jiaqi picked the rice. The family cooperated tacitly and finally put the rice into the utility room before the heavy rain came.

Even the grains were rolled up, tied with ropes, and put in the utility room to prevent them from getting wet.

‘Rumble’ The dark clouds spit out a dazzling and tragic light, and thunder sounded, echoing in the mountains for a long time.

After the thunder subsided, another slender zigzag-shaped lightning shot straight down from the sky like a sharp sword, hitting the mountain as if it was about to tear the mountain in half. Then, raindrops as big as copper coins crackled. 's fell down.

(End of this chapter)