Splendid Pastoral: The Strong and Hot Wife

Chapter 81 Missing!Ignite, mess up
Qiu Yongzheng was writing with a brush in his hand.Suddenly remembered the scene when Xiao Bailong left with Xu Xiaomi in his arms.

Xu Xiaomi, who was lying in Xiao Bailong's arms at that time, was pale and angry like gossamer...

Thinking of this, Qiu Yongzheng couldn't hold that heavy writing brush anymore!

Putting down the pen, he suddenly stood up, his heart heaved and his brows were furrowed, he really wanted to yell, to vent, for such a powerless thing, seeing the impatience but being helpless.

However, I thought of what Xu Xiaomi once said, be calm when things happen...

So, he sat down on the chair again, lying on the table in frustration, and wept silently.

This young man with a strong heart, he doesn't care about many things, and he doesn't care about many people.But once it was about Qiu Jiajun and Xu Xiaomi, he cared very much.

When he was feeling sad for not knowing Xu Xiaomi's recent situation, the door opened and Qiu Zhongxiang had just gone out to inspect it.

He originally came in with a face of joy to tell his son that there was mud on the road outside and the sun was very warm, so Qiu Yongzheng accompanied him to go outside to bask in the sun.

However, when he came in, he saw his son lying on the table, Qiu Zhongxiang thought he was sleeping!He approached the table and seemed to hear his son's gasp.

Qiu Zhongxiang hurried forward and patted his son on the back with his hands.He asked gently: "What's the matter? You're a big man, and you're still crying? Did you miss your mother? Did you go to see her this time when you returned to Beijing?"

Qiu Yongzheng hurriedly wiped away his tears, looked up with red eyes, looked at his father embarrassedly, and said, "I was in a hurry to go back this time, and my mother went to Guangji Temple to burn incense. I didn't have time to see her..."

Qiu Zhongxiang was very pleased to hear him say that this son is bold and careful.

This time, if he hadn't disregarded his dissuasion and risked his life to go to the capital to ask for food and grass, and then deliver the food and grass at the speed of a god.This snowstorm might really be the limit for Qiu Jiajun.

He looked at his son who had grown a lot taller and said with a smile: "Don't cry! A real man bleeds and doesn't shed tears. Since I miss your mother, go back and see her!"
Anyway, you are going to send that Zhong...back to Beijing, look at the chilblain on his face, it will fester if you don't go back to treat it, you can leave tomorrow! "

Qiu Zhongxiang thought to himself: This child is already very good. He has followed him to Dingzhou, a bitter cold place, to practice at the age of nine. He has not seen his mother for four years since he left home, so it is time for him to go back and stay with his mother for a while.

Besides, he and his wife had a very good relationship, he never thought of taking concubines, and his wife gave birth to three sons and a daughter for the Qiu family, and all of them were good-looking, thinking of this, Qiu Zhongxiang felt very satisfied.

In fact, he also misses his wife very much. He hasn't seen her for four years. I don't know if she is thin or fat, alas!The female relatives of the military family are really pitiful!This is really what people say about guarding vacant rooms every night!

Thinking of this, Qiu Zhongxiang heaved a long sigh, and looked up at the dead branch that was frozen to death outside the window.

Qiu Yongzheng became happy when he heard what his father said.He looked at his father and said, "Father! Then can I go and see that Miss Xu who helped us? I don't know if she is in good health? I'm very worried..."

Qiu Zhongxiang was thinking about when it would be appropriate to make an appeal and request to return to Beijing to visit relatives.

Hearing his son's question, he said, "Go! That child is a prudent one. He came to help us at such a young age, so we should visit her. But, you have to go back to the capital first, and then visit her! "

After hearing this, Qiu Yongzheng happily agreed, "Yes! Father! Go prepare now, my son."

Qiu Yongzheng said, turned around and walked out!

Xu Xiaomi's lime kiln will be officially ignited today, and Xu Xiaomi still gets up early in the morning to make breakfast for the whole family, before dawn.However, everyone got up, including Xu Xiaoting who got up with everyone today.

Xu Xiaomi made arrangements for everyone to have breakfast, and then asked people to get the coal to the wooden ox horse and transport it to the side of the kiln.

Such a means of transport has attracted crowds from the village.Everyone asked Xu Erqiang who thought of this?
Regarding this question, Xu Xiaomi had already told his father how to answer it, so Xu Erqiang followed what his daughter said: "My father-in-law made this, and we still have to do it at home!"

Many people envied and said: "Hey! Er Qiang! Your family has cows that don't eat grass, so it will save you a lot of trouble to harvest wheat in the future! Tell your father-in-law and ask him to make two for our family... "

After hearing this, Xu Erqiang said: "Where can I do it? This thing is troublesome, you guys have to do it? Maybe it will cost a lot of money, right? You can ask the old man about this yourself! I don't dare to make decisions!"

When those people heard what Xu Erqiang said, they had no choice but to leave happily.

Many villagers gathered around the kiln by the river to watch the excitement. A few days ago, someone asked what was going on here?In order to have a market for his lime in the future, Xu Xiaomi told everyone that this is to burn a construction adhesive like glutinous rice pulp.

In the future, people don't need glutinous rice to build houses, they can just use the burned lime, and the painted walls are still very white.

It was the slack season at this time, and everyone saw that there were so many people in Xu Xiaomi's house, surrounded by them, and they also wanted to see how Xu Xiaomi did it?

At this time, Xu Yaowu also rushed to hear the news, and saw that 80.00% of the people in the village had come, so he took advantage of this time to announce to everyone that Xu Xiaomi's family rented a river bed.

Xu Yaowu walked into the crowd and shouted to the villagers who were chattering about asking Xu Xiaomi questions: "Villagers of Xujia Village, please be quiet and listen to me."

With this shout, everyone stopped talking and turned to look at him quietly, he cleared his throat and continued: "Everyone saw it!
Xu Erqiang's family has rented out the entire riverbed. They want to invent a new building material for Da Zhou using stones, and we all have to support them.

Because, if they make it, they will pay our village one tael of silver every year. If they don’t make it, our village will have nothing. These stones are still stones. "

Xu Xiaomi and his family, especially his grandfather Zhou Xuewu, laughed happily when they heard Xu Yaowu's words.I thought: As long as Lizheng said so, everyone would not come to trouble them for the sake of money.

However, there are always some people who don't like Xu Xiaomi's family, for example, Wen Xiuniang!After hearing what Xu Yaowu said, she jumped up on the spot.

Said: "One tael of silver, we have so many people, how much can one person share? Why don't we distribute this riverbed to each of our families to grow some food! Do you think so?"

Xu Yaowu was so angry that he blew his beard and stared at her and said, "Wen Xiuniang, you have been married to Xujia Village for more than ten years.

For so many years, their family has not rented this place, why don't you plant it!None of us stopped you!

You just need to pay one hundred catties of wheat to the village every year after planting, and you can't afford the annual rent of one tael of silver.

If you have the ability, you should first pay the rent for the past ten years, a thousand catties of wheat! "

After hearing Xu Yaowu's words, Wen Xiuniang blushed and lowered her head, muttering softly, "I didn't grow any crops in those ten years. Where can I get the wheat? Isn't this bullying?"

Mrs. Wu who was standing beside her smiled and said, "I said, Daqiang's family, our Daqing River has been flowing for hundreds of years, and there is no one who picks up a few stones here and gives them money. !

Now, the second strong family finally wants to give us the whole village welfare, what are you messing up here?If you are capable, you give the village two taels of silver every year, and we will let you rent it out! "

The Wu family had a grudge against the Wang family, and Wen Xiuniang was usually not pleasing to the eyes. Today, seeing that the whole village is about to get money for nothing, Wen Xiuniang doesn't know what to do, so she wants to mess around here.

She couldn't stand it anymore, and said what everyone was thinking.

Wen Xiuniang blushed even more after hearing Wu's words, lowered her head even lower, and stopped talking.

The good women in the village all looked at her with contempt, and no one paid any attention to her.

She thought to herself that she was looked down upon by others because of Xu Xiaomi's family, and she would definitely not let Xu Xiaomi and the others have a better life.Now, she is alone.

Moreover, the reason why she was alone was because of Xu Xiaomi.

I heard from my father-in-law that my husband was locked in the prison of the county government. It is not clear whether he is dead or alive, but Xu Xiaomi and Xu Yaowu sent him there.

Her son also got into a fight with Xu Xiaomi during the Chinese New Year, and was scolded by his father-in-law and ran away. He hasn't returned yet. She has all these grudges on Xu Xiaomi's head.

Xu Xiaomi now only cares about doing her own thing well, so she can't control what Wen Xiuniang wants to do!

She just needs to fire the first shot and build her own house.From now on, there will be no need to worry about the burnt lime being sold out, and the silver will flow into the pockets at that time.

Thinking of this, Xu Xiaomi seemed to have heard the sound of money flowing into his pocket now!
After Xu Xiaomi finished checking everything, she asked her father to stand at the door of the kiln and shouted, "Light it up!"

After everyone heard a burst of crackling firewood, they saw thick smoke billowing in front of the stove, and after a while they only heard the whirring sound of burning in the stove.

At this time, the coal in the stove was connected to the fire and slowly began to burn.

Xu Xiaomi told Xu Erqiang in front of the stove, just look at the fire like this, and when you see that the coal inside has turned white and red, you can add more to it.If it is fired with coal, it will take about two days to burn a kiln.

In the end, everyone felt that there was nothing to see, and there was nothing to see in the raging fire.So, they went home in small groups.

Standing beside Xu Erqiang, Xu Xiaomi seriously explained to his father that he didn't have time to worry about the time and heat of the kiln.

That night, after dinner, Xu Erqiang and his father-in-law Zhou Xuewu stood by the kiln, chatting while watching the fire.

The moon in the sky hangs like a disc, illuminating the ground as clearly as day.

A black figure flashed across the embankment, Xu Erqiang stood up, rubbing his eyes when he saw no one, and took a closer look.

He still didn't see anything, he thought he was delusional, so he didn't care, and continued to watch the fire in the stove and chat with his father-in-law.

(End of this chapter)