Liangyue Farm Gate

Chapter 232 Trivial matters at home
In the next few days, Guan Wen went to Hetanzi to work every day, because he had obtained the documents from the government office, Li Xin and Guan Wen paid more attention to Hetanzi.

Guan Wen on the stone field did not delay, and called Guan Wu to help clean up the rocks in front of the cave.Guan Wu's house was being built, and Guan Wu also ran around during this time, busy with his new house and helping his elder brother with something, and he didn't complain—he now eats three meals a day at Guan Wen's house, and sleeps. He was also there, although he was given the money, but he was still a little embarrassed, and helping Guan Wen with his work finally made him feel that he didn't owe his elder brother much.

There is one thing worth mentioning.

Guan Quan helped Guan Wu to connect the materials of the house. Perhaps Guan Quan really had a shrewd mind, and he also saw Guan Wu helping Guan Wen to clean up those stones.Seeing that the stones were all about the same size and specification, Guan Quan was moved, and contacted the stone dealer himself to see if they were interested in the stone land, which really led him to find someone to buy such a large, round and irregular stone. It is said that it is to be used as a rockery garden decoration in the homes of wealthy families.

Wealthy people like to add wild fun, and the person Guan Quan is looking for will not lie to him, after all, this is a business without capital.

Guan Quan found Guan Wen and told him about it, and asked his elder brother if he could have all the big rocks transported out. Although the money he received was relatively small, it was still money. Not a small sum.

Although Li Xin knows that sometimes strange stones are very valuable, the Jiangnan garden industry has a set of rules about stone selection.It's just that in Yizhou Prefecture, this kind of situation is rare.

Li Xin couldn't help asking Guan Quandao: "If you want a big round stone, isn't there also in the water?"

"The ones in the water are not easy to catch, and people will die if you are not careful." Guan Quan explained: "Besides, the stones in the water are not as good as the stones in the mountains. If you want to talk about wildness, the stones in the mountains are more wild. Some, the moss and so on are all grown by themselves, and they look natural. Stone merchants like this."

Guan Wen was very happy that the stone could be sold for money.That kind of big one can be moved away by the stone dealer without spending his own labor, so why not do it?Guan Wen naturally agreed, even the price didn't bother him much.

Guan Quan wants to take [-]% of the money, and Guan Wen is not dissatisfied.

Li Xin didn't say anything else. This idea was put forward by Guan Quan. Although the stones came from their mountains, but without Guan Quan, he had to spend time and effort to get the stones out.If according to what Guan Wen said, it would be a big project to smash stone slabs to pave the road.

So Li Xin acquiesced to Guan Wen's attitude, although she also had some doubts in her heart, maybe the price Guan Quan said was actually lower than the price actually offered by the stone dealer, and he probably took more than [-]% of it.

But that's all, you can't tell Guan Wen her calculating thoughts - after all, his fourth brother helped Guan Wen when he was seriously injured, even if he took advantage of it, Guan Wen might be I won't say anything either.

Just because during this period of time, Guan Quan was busy with the materials of Guan Wu's house and the stones of Guan Wen's stone field, so he often ate and drank at Li Xin's side.

In a few days, Hu Yueying also ran here frequently.

What puzzled Li Xin was that Guan Ming and Guan Zhicheng didn't respond at all.

Li Xin wanted to inquire about the father and son with Hu Yueying, but after thinking about it, forget it, they didn't come to the door, shouldn't she be Amitabha?

Time flies to March.

The chickens that Li Xin raised years ago have grown fat and fat. After the new chicken shed was built, they were all driven to the new chicken shed. It is more spacious and stronger. I don’t know if it’s because of psychological reasons. Li Xin feels that The chicks are even happier with their new home.

Immediately afterwards, Li Xin's plan to raise rabbits was also brought up.

Guan Wen doesn't have the time to help her catch rabbits in the mountains now, but he will at every juncture. When he has nothing to do, he will walk around in the forest by himself. According to my sister, grandpa is setting traps in the forest. , Catch small animals like rabbits and pheasants.At first, Li Xin thought that the old juncture was because he was idle and had nothing to do, but he didn't pay much attention to it.

Who knew that one day the old juncture really caught a rabbit and came back.

The rabbit had wounds on its legs and was still dripping blood.At the old juncture, he walked very slowly, with wrinkled smiles on his face, he held the rabbit and said to Li Xin: "Awen's wife, how good is this rabbit?"

Li Xin hurriedly picked it up, holding the rabbit's ears, the rabbit kicked its legs a few times and then fell silent, shrinking its front legs.

Yang'er felt cute when he saw it, and kept clamoring for a hug, but Li Xin refused to give it to him, saying it was not clean, so he threw the rabbit into the original chicken shed, which was regarded as "waste recycling", throwing some vegetable leaves and Grass for it to eat.

It has been going on for more than a month, and at the old juncture, a rabbit will be caught and returned every now and then.But Li Xin didn't touch those rabbits, he was a little unhappy at the old juncture, so he asked Li Xin to burn the rabbits to eat.

Li Xin reluctantly took a chicken instead, and stewed a big pot of chicken soup, and finally smiled at the old juncture.

Later, at the old juncture, I didn't go to the trap of Zi'an in the mountains, and told Li Xin that this was enough, and there must be a limit to eating mountains.Li Xin understands that there is a concept in the old juncture, which is similar to the modern concept of "sustainability".

Fortunately, there are nearly ten rabbits in the rabbit shed now. If they can reproduce naturally, the number will certainly increase.

But the rabbits had to wait for Li Xin to cut the vegetable leaves and grass for them to eat, and feed them in the rabbit shed.Rabbits are not like chickens, they know how to go back to the chicken shed when it gets dark.So raising rabbits is a bit of a hassle.

Fortunately, Amei is very interested in raising rabbits and feeding chickens. She is also free now, so Li Xin entrusts her to do all these things. When she is free, she enlightens Yanger and teaches him to calculate. Simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division within ten, and even drew a ninety-nine multiplication table for him to memorize.

One day, when the invitation sent by Wei Shusheng was handed over to her, Li Xin suddenly remembered this matter.

Amei was also there when she received the letter, and she lowered her head slightly when she heard Wei Shusheng's name was reported, showing the shy and coquettish attitude of a little girl.

Li Xin thanked the messenger with a smile, opened the letter and read it, then gave it to Amei.

A-mei blushed and said, "Sister-in-law, I, I can't read much..."

"It's okay, I can even guess it." Li Xin said with a smile: "My sister can recognize quite a few characters now."

A-mei herself likes to learn to read and write. In addition to feeding chickens and rabbits and doing needlework, she and Yang Er let Li Xin teach how to read and write.

A-mei spread out the letter and read in a low voice: "Fifteen, one...say, waiting..."

After finally finishing reading, A-Mei asked Li Xin in a low voice: "Did Wei Shusheng invite elder brother and elder sister-in-law to visit his house when he was fifteen?"

Li Xin nodded, seeing A-Mei biting her lip, she couldn't help but smiled and said, "Of course, A-Mei also wants to go together."

A-mei immediately raised her head to look at Li Xin, her eyes sparkling.Li Xin reached out and touched her head, took the letter in her hand and said, "It's better for sister-in-law to give it to your elder brother, and let your elder brother keep it first."

Amei was ashamed, knowing that unmarried girls should not have men's things around them. Although the peasants didn't mind much, it was always unpleasant to say it.

"It will be the day after tomorrow, and there is still plenty of time." Li Xin patted Amei on the shoulder, looked at Amei who seemed to be a bit taller, and thought to herself, seeing Amei really meant that, if I go back To be able to chat with Mrs. Wei... It would be a good thing to settle on this marriage.

only……

Think about it, if Amei got engaged before Axiu, there would probably be gossip in the village again.As soon as words like "Axiu from the Guan family is unmarriable and nobody wants her", the village women who like to gossip about their tongues spread the word ten to ten times, and it might make Axiu's reputation even worse.

But right now, I really can't find a young man who matches Axiu...

Those who are high may look down on their family, and those who are low may not like Axiu herself.The three families I looked at looked at Feng Defa's family as more reliable, and Gong'an and Ma Juncai were directly left behind by her. Thinking about Ma Juncai being the rabbit master of a certain young master of the Shen family... Li Xin just Some sense of powerlessness.

Let's talk about the two families Myolie mentioned.Bai Guliang will not say anything, Guan Wen definitely disagrees.The continuous filial piety has been delayed until now, and it can only be said that Bai Guliang is really unlucky.And another shy boy who was younger than Axiu... If Li Xin had to say it, Axiu would definitely not be happy.

It's really tricky...

Guan Wen came back from the river beach, washed his feet, and said to Li Xin: "The river beach is almost in order. According to what you said, the depth and height have been slightly adjusted." He wiped it off. Face said: "The weather is going to warm up, it will be spring soon."

Li Xin squinted his eyes, and echoed a few words: "You solve the problem of diverting water to the lotus pond." After a pause, he said: "By the way, Wei Shusheng treats guests to the town on the fifteenth. There are no lotus root seeds and fry for sale, if there are, buy lotus root seeds and plant them, then you can divert water to the lotus pond.”

Guan Wen nodded. He was a bit busy these days, so he fell asleep when he got home.Li Xin also felt sorry for him, so he was naturally happy to see him take care of family affairs.

Guan Wen took off his clothes, got on the bed and fell asleep, Li Xin just tidied up the room and kitchen, and fell asleep next to him.

At fifteen, Li Xin and Guan Wen took Amei and Yanger to Wei Shusheng's house as guests.Originally, I also wanted to go to the old juncture, but the old juncture was tired and lazy, and refused to move my nest no matter what, I moved the deck chair and sat in the sun in the yard.Li Xin couldn't resist him, so he had no choice but to give up.

On the way, I went to Anhetang to pick up Axiu, and the two sisters, Axiu and sister, chatted happily together.

Axiu said: "Scholar Wei came to An He Tang early this morning to ask me when you will arrive."

Li Xin smiled and said, "I won't miss the meal."

A-mei leaned close to A-Xiu's ear to talk, A-Xiu blushed for a moment, cast a reproachful glance at A-Mei, and muttered, "What are you doing..."

A-mei just laughed, Li Xin must have been told by A-mei to Axiu to help her embroider mandarin duck quilts, century-old pillows and other things that married women only have.Li Xin was also happy to see the two sisters kissing each other warmly.

During the chat, we arrived at Jiuzi Lane.

(End of this chapter)