Good farming at the foot of Changbai Mountain

Chapter 4
As soon as Han heard her husband's words, her face fell, "What's wrong? The child has never eaten such a dish, what if I pick some meat for him to eat? I can't let the child be hungry, right?" He pushed the chopsticks vigorously. Put it on the table.

Chen looked at it and was really a little angry.Thinking about it again, today is a reunion day, it is really not easy to get angry, so I smiled and said: "Fourth, it's nothing, my child, the food is good at your place, I must not be used to it when I go home. Let The fourth daughter-in-law gets some meat to feed them, the children can't go hungry." As he spoke, he picked up a few more pieces of meat and put them in Wen Xing's bowl.

"Mom, let's not stay here, I want to go home, I miss my grandma." Wen Xing twisted his body, but he refused to eat and said he wanted to leave.

Now, the old man was really angry, "Fourth, this is your good son. You live in the town all year round, so it's fine if you don't come back. You can't get away from that school, and I don't blame you. If you don’t kiss us when you come back, I’ll admit it. Why didn’t we help look after the child for a day? But he is the root of our Xu family. If you kissed his grandma, why didn’t you go back in the door? "The old man was so angry that he dropped his chopsticks and went to the side.

"Old man, why are you so angry about nothing? Wen Xing is still young. When he grows up, he will naturally know that he is from the Xu family. Why isn't his surname Xu? Look at you, hurry up and eat. "Chen naturally has to persuade her husband. When the fourth child came to the town, the old man disagreed.But the fourth child had a crush on the Han family, and the Xu family had no choice but to agree. "Fourth, it's not what mother said. When you were studying, our family also saved money to support you. After you were admitted to the scholar, you became a relative and lived in the town. Our family is incompetent. I can't afford the money to run a school for you, but I haven't owed you anything these years. Whenever we come back, we will bring you some things back. After all, this child's surname is Xu, and you have to take care of it. Can you not recognize your ancestors?" Chen Shi said these words, and it was a bit uncomfortable.

"Father, mother, don't be angry. Wen Xing has a child like this. Doesn't he just kiss whoever looks at him? After a few years, it will be fine. The fourth child is not easy, we can't help What, don't pick these." The boss said. "Fourth daughter-in-law, hurry up and coax the children to eat. It's rare to come back. There is really nothing good about our family. You girls can just order."

Mrs. Han nodded, put her arms around the two children, fed them, then ate a little, and left the table, "Father, mother, we are full, you eat slowly." The child is out.She has never served her in-laws since she got married, which is a bit unreasonable.

The old lady and the boss all persuaded the old man, and the old man finally ate some, "Do you think this dish is good? Fourth, what do you eat when you are in town on weekdays? Let me see one by one. They are all very good." The old man picked up a piece of meat and chewed it in his mouth.

"Father, it's not that the food is so good. I have taught more than [-] students, and there is not much Shuxiu for a month. The main reason is that the two children often go to their grandma's place, and if they can eat something good, they eat them. I'm used to it." The fourth child said hastily.

Jinghan and the others sat at the table on the ground, eating in silence.Just kidding, how can there be such a good dish on weekdays, if you don’t rush to eat it, what are you waiting for?So the children all ate there without saying a word.After hearing what uncle said, Jinghan felt that there was quite a lot of water in it.I'm afraid there will be a lot of Shuxiu for a child in the town, and with the New Year's and festivals being collected as gifts, he should be able to earn some money this year.There are too many sons, that's it, everyone is careful.

Looking at these people in the family, Jing Han can actually see that the fourth uncle's family is really doing well.Clothes and everything are new.The third aunt's home is still in the county seat, but there are still patches on the third aunt's clothes, as do Jing Wan's and Jing Xian's.But the clothes were washed very clean, and the stitches of the patches were very fine, which showed that the third aunt was clean and tidy.In this era, there are very few people without a single patch on their body.

Lunch was finished like this, and everyone cleaned up the dishes together.The old man said, "Tomorrow is Qingming. All the men will go to the grave to worship their ancestors, and the female relatives will be at home. Old lady, cook some eggs tomorrow morning." Mrs. Chen agreed over there.

In the early morning of the next day, Mrs. Chen really boiled eggs, and she boiled them per head, one for each person.The children were naturally overjoyed when they saw the eggs, and held them all in their hands, reluctant to eat them.Xue put the eggs away and kept them for Wenxuan to eat, and Zhixin did the same, he was not willing to eat them at all, and kept them for the children.

Wei Shi didn't care about that, he finished the eggs in two or three bites, and then picked up the bowl to drink the porridge.Wen Cheng was older, and knew how to love his younger brother, so he kept the egg and put it in front of his younger brother Wenchang, "Brother, you can keep it and eat, brother won't eat." Wenchang refused to take it, and pushed it back to his brother, "Brother, You eat it, I have it."

Wei Shi looked at the two sons who pushed me to let me in, and said: "Hurry up and eat, if you don't want to eat, give it to me, and I will eat." The two children ate the eggs.

The same goes for Wen Han, who left the eggs for Jing Han, "Little sister, you are just fine, so keep it as a supplement." Jing Han doesn't want it.He gave it to his younger brother Wenxuan, but Wenxuan shook his head and refused, "Sister, you should keep it for food."

Seeing it from the side, Mrs. Xue said with a smile, "Eat them all. You can eat eggs during the Qingming Festival and Dragon Boat Festival a year, and you can eat your own, so you don't have to give up." So the children ate their own eggs. up.

After breakfast, the old man led the boy to the grave.The Xu family's ancestral grave is on Nanshan, and you can see it after turning over a mountain.At this time, in the shady part of the mountain, the snow had not completely cleared, and it was quite cold in the morning, and the ground was still a little frozen, so it was still easy to walk.Everyone took burning paper and joss sticks and walked all the way up the mountain.

When they arrived at the Xu family's cemetery, the old man took the lead to clean up the dead grass around him, then placed joss sticks and lit paper.Everyone knelt and kowtowed in front of the grave, and then the old man poured wine in front of the grave again, paying homage.Then everyone packed up, waited for the paper to be completely burnt through, pulled it away with a stick, let the ashes cool, and then went down the mountain.

Back home, the fourth child said that he was going back to the town, and the third child also said that he had only asked for two days off from the pharmacy, so he had to go back quickly.I made an agreement with others yesterday, and I will go back today.

The Chen family stopped keeping them, and brought some dried vegetables and beans to the two families, and some dry food to the third family.From here to the county seat, it takes more than three hours, so bring some dry food and cushion the road.Mrs. Zhu took the things and said: "Mother, the family is not rich, so you don't need to bring it to us. Now the third child earns a lot of money, so our life is not so tight. But at home, there is still a fifth brother who didn't say anything. Daughter-in-law, my younger sister is not married yet, so it costs money."

"It's okay, and it's not a good thing. Your sister-in-law and I have nothing to do in summer, so we just save it for this time. You are in the county town, and you have to buy every bite. Save as much as you can. Seeing Jing Wan When you grow up, you have to plan early." Chen never showed Zhu's face for his daughter-in-law to give birth to a girl, and he still treated her the same.

"Okay, mother, I'll take it." Zhu carried the bag, led her daughter, and left with the third child.The third child saw that his wife was not very good at carrying the bag, so he took it, carried it on her shoulder, and waved back to his parents, "Father, mother, go back."

The third child left, and the fourth child also packed up and left. Mrs. Chen gave the things to Mrs. Han. Mrs. Han looked at it, curled her mouth slightly, and said, "Mother, we don't want this thing, keep it at home. Let's eat. The children don't like it." After speaking, he led the children away.The fourth child hurriedly said to his mother, "Mom, let's go first, and we don't need anything. Let Wenhan and Wencheng come to study with me after a while." After finishing speaking, he also left in a hurry.

Looking at her son's back, Mrs. Chen couldn't help feeling sad, "You said raising children and raising children, what's the use of raising so many sons? All of them are not around. When you come back, it's like lighting a fire." , walked back in a hurry. Alas, it’s better to be the boss, it’s in front of you, and you can use it.” After finishing speaking, he turned and went back to the house.

The old man, together with Zhixin, discussed some things about building a shed.Jinghan wanted to know more about some things in this world, so she listened to it with Wenhan.

"Boss, it will take a few days to build a shed this year. By the way, are there enough wooden boards? Do we need to get some more? When the wooden boards were built last year, I saw that some of the boards were rotten." Yes." The old man asked.

"Father, we need to change some boards. It's okay. There are a lot of logs felled last year next to our ginseng. My fifth brother and I took a saw. We will break some boards tomorrow. Anyway, the pillars were smashed last year. Now, it’s faster to build a shed.” Zhixin looked at his younger brother Zhixiang, “Fifth Brother, I’ve tired you for a few days.”

The fifth brother Xu Zhixiang smiled, "Brother, what are you talking about? These years, if you hadn't supported me to study, I wouldn't be where I am today. It's just a small job, it's nothing, I have done it before. If I can do it this year If we can try it, our family will be better in the future. It’s really meaningless to plant this stick or not. We have to hand in so many sticks every year, and there will be three catties and five catties left in the last ten feet. Can’t get a good price.”

"You can't say that, we're just pointing at the planting sticks. Although we hand in a little more, it's not bad to have three to fifty taels a year, and we can't earn money from farming. So much." Zhixin did not agree with his younger brother's statement.In their village, they all rely on growing ginseng to make money.There are about a hundred households in the village, and every family grows ginseng.The ginseng they planted was immediately confiscated by the government. This thing is so precious that most people can't afford it.

(End of this chapter)