Liangyue Farm Gate

Chapter 195
Seeing him coming at the old juncture, he pretended to cough and said with a straight face, "Let Yang'er sleep with me from now on."

Yang'er was taken aback for a moment, and said puzzledly: "Why do you want to sleep with Zuzu?"

"Because Zuzu likes Yang'er and wants to sleep next to Yang'er." The old man shook his head and led Yang'er and said, "Doesn't Yang'er want to sleep next to Zuzu? Then Zuzu will be sad..."

Yang'er suddenly became anxious, waved his hands again and again, and said in his mouth: "No! Father wants to bully mother, Yang'er wants to protect mother at night, and sleeping with Zuzu can't protect mother!"

Guan Wen was taken aback for a moment, A-mei burst out laughing with a "puchi" and ran away with a flushed face, not even daring to look at Guan Wen.

Guan Wen, a big man, was uncovered in public by a child, and his face was embarrassing, he twitched his mouth and said, "Grandpa, let's build a chicken shed."

The old man responded cheerfully, knelt down and patted Yang'er's little buttocks to let him play by himself, then headed towards the bamboo forest with Guan Wen.

On the road, he said with a smile at the old juncture: "You two should be more restrained at night. Yang'er is young. From now on, when he falls asleep, he will be hugged away. If he doesn't disturb him, he won't wake up."

Guan Wen replied shyly, and winked at him at the old juncture: "According to this battle, you two will have a baby of your own soon, right?"

"Grandpa..." Guan Wen paused, looked towards the room, turned around and said to Lao Guan, "Don't mention this, it would be nice to have Yang'er."

At the old moment, my eyes were bulging, and I wanted to scold Guan Wen but couldn't bear it, so I took a few breaths and said, "Why can't you think about letting your wife give birth to a son? No matter how sensible and filial Yang Er is, It's still not as good as your own."

Guan Wen said silently: "Grandpa, you also know about Xiner's past. Didn't you poke her heart by telling her this? About the child... She and I will let nature take its course, whether we have it or not, It depends on whether God gives us this blessing."

At the old juncture, he moved his mouth, but still snorted after a long time, and muttered, "Then you have to work hard yourself." Recalling what Yang'er told him today, he pursed his lips and laughed at the old juncture, holding the heels of both hands After rubbing it, he said, "Let Yang'er urinate on your bed and call a baby."

Guan Wen shook his head amusedly and said, "Grandpa believes this?"

"Of course you have to believe it, the method passed down by the ancestors."

At the old juncture, he gave him a displeased look: "Don't take what grandpa said seriously. Grandpa still wants to have a grandson. You are the boss, so you have to come first."

Guan Wen hesitated for a while, thinking that the fourth siblings were married, maybe they already had ones in their stomachs at the moment, after all, they still didn't want to disappoint the old juncture, so they only replied vaguely: "Then I'll work harder... "

At this old moment, I was satisfied, and brought up the old story again: "Yang'er will sleep in my room, and you will get up earlier in the morning and take him back, so that he doesn't know."

This was what Guan Wen was happy to see, so he quickly nodded in agreement.

The grandparents and grandchildren continued to work on the chicken coop, but Guan Wu came in the afternoon, and this time he was looking for Guan Wen to talk about the quarry.

"...Brother, the foreman didn't pay me, and owed me three days' wages."

Guan Wu found Guan Wen and complained to him.

The work in the quarry is inherently difficult, and what Guan Wu does is not quarrying in the true sense, but to help people find strange stones, and the daily wages are fixed.

Guan Wu said: "Originally, wages are settled daily, but three days before the Chinese New Year, the foreman said that the money from the superior has not been paid, and he asked to delay the payment for a day or two. As a result, everyone will be busy with the New Year's work after a day or two. , and didn’t ask for it from the foreman. Yesterday, those of us who didn’t get the money all asked the Venerable Master, but the foreman didn’t see him, and no one at the top knew about it, so the money was just stuck there and wouldn’t be given to us…”

Guan Wen frowned: "You don't even know who you work for?"

Guan Wu wept bitterly: "I want to do a little bit every day to get a little bit, and I'm not afraid that people will cheat me, so I didn't think so much..."

Li Xin pressed Guan Wen and asked Guan Wu, "Second brother, didn't you say that you didn't go there to pick stones, but to help people find stones?"

"Ah, yes." Guan Wu nodded hurriedly: "There are strange stones in the quarry. It's not every year that there is a gem fair. I guess the person who hired us to find the stone just wanted to find a good stone to go to the gem fair. of."

Li Xin frowned.

There are three famous things in Hui County, one is old wine, the other is lychee forest, and the third is strange stone.If the offered stones are favored by the superiors, there is no need to mention the benefits.

Although it makes people feel a little crooked, it is still a shortcut to the blue sky.Now that the Quartet is stable, Joy among the nobles also likes to play with these things.

Guan Wu said to Guan Wen with a bitter face: "Although three days' salary is not too much, I still feel it is a pity that it is gone for nothing. Anyway, the money is a little bit of cloth, and eating two meals is always worth it. Enough..."

Guan Wen could only sigh and said, "You don't know who you work for, and the foreman isn't here, where can you ask someone for money?"

Guan Wu drooped his head, sitting on the bench feeling a little sullen.

Li Xin comforted him and said, "Second brother is not discouraged either. Maybe he will be able to see the foreman in the future? He doesn't only owe you one, but there are several of you. If you see him, you won't be afraid of his repudiation. Now you and Myolie's matter is in front of my eyes, don't let it affect your mood."

Guan Wen also echoed: "Three days' wages, if you want to come back, you have to, or if you don't come back, you have to forget it. If you delay your other things because of this, then it's not worth the loss."

Guan Wu sighed deeply, nodded, and discussed with Guan Wen about his house building, and they came to the stone field.

Guan Wen said: "After the Lantern Festival is over, let's transport the stones and smash them into stone slabs to pave the road. It's convenient to go back and forth, and it won't look so muddy and messy."

"My pig shed..."

"It's the same as you." Guan Wen said: "You are on flat ground, which is better. My house is on a slope. I always find it a bit troublesome to go up and down. When it rains in summer, I may slip and fall." Wrestling or something. I’ll build a stone slope with stone slabs, and it’s much cheaper to go up and down.”

Guan Wu nodded, and asked Guan Wen about buying other materials.

The two brothers chatted happily, and Li Xin stopped interjecting, and asked Amei to carry the basket, saying that she wanted to go out for a walk.

A-mei asked strangely: "Sister-in-law, where are you going?"

"Go and see what grandpa said, the river beach behind our mountain."

A-mei paused: "Sister-in-law wants to see, when we go to the innermost part of the cave, is the last place where the small river reaches is the river beach that grandpa mentioned?"

Li Xin nodded, and A-mei frowned suddenly: "So what..."

Li Xin smiled, took her hand and said, "It doesn't matter if it's true or not, anyway, you don't have much work at home now. You do needlework all day long, so be careful not to hurt your eyes. If you sit for a long time, your buttocks will be damaged." calluses."

A-mei blushed, and Li Xin scratched her nose: "The weather is not bad today, let's go out for a walk, as a refreshment."

Only then did Amei agree, and was pushed by Li Xin to add another dress, wrapping it round.

Hearing that they were going to the countryside, Guan Wen didn't say much, telling them to pay attention to safety.Yang'er consciously took Li Xin's hand to follow, and even Er Hei ran around in the yard like he was having fun.

Li Xin hugged Yang'er, and walked and chatted with A-mei, and asked A-mei on the way: "There are so many lotus ponds in the village, are there no owners?"

"No, some have it, some don't." A-mei thought for a while and said, "For example, if there is a lotus pond near my home, it is my own. It is considered to be owned by the owner. Only the owner of the lotus seeds can get it to eat. The kind of lotus ponds where there are no people nearby are left unattended, they are wild, even if there are lotus or something, they are for people to see, and no one picks lotus seeds, just look at the lotus.”

"No one got the lotus root to sell?" Li Xin asked in surprise.

"Lotus root?" A-mei thought for a while and said, "There are also, but very few, and the family can't get much lotus root. And it's an expensive thing. Most people pick it by themselves and eat it by themselves. Few people pick it. , silt or something, bottomless, afraid of flooding."

He lowered his voice slightly and said: "In the early years, some people in our village wanted to make a fortune from this, but several people were drowned. At that time, the village chief said that we offended the lotus god, and we will not let us look at this in the future." After making a living, it was said that the gods were angry and would kill the villagers, so almost no one went to pick lotus roots afterward.”

Li Xin narrowed her eyes slightly, and A-mei continued: "Besides, the lotus ponds in the village are all made by myself, not dug by people. The ancestors who have lived in this lotus village for generations do not know how deep the lotus ponds are. After draining the water, I wanted to see where the bottom of the pool was, but the host had an accident..."

"Then the village chief still said that because he offended the gods, no one was allowed to measure the depth of the lotus pond?"

Li Xin asked, and A-mei nodded immediately.

Seeing A-Mei nodded, Li Xin couldn't help but frowned, "When was this village chief?"

"I don't know. It has been passed down like this. I don't know how many years have passed. The village head is very popular. I heard that he had no children and left the lotus village when he was old. There was no one to be found."

Li Xin couldn't laugh or cry: "That is to say, these are just legends?"

"That's right." A-mei nodded and said, "You must always abide by what the ancestors said. The old village head said that you can't pick lotus roots or measure lotus ponds, so no one dares to do it. Those who do will be punished. "

Li Xin twitched the corner of his mouth, feeling that the rules handed down in this lotus village are really weird.

No wonder no one took care of those lotus ponds. If all the villages started aquaculture, the lotus village would have become rich by now.

However, since she knew about this opportunity first, don't blame her for taking the first step - the lotus, lotus root, fish pond, and even the mulberry tree beside the lotus pond...

(End of this chapter)