Pastoral Valley Fragrance

Chapter 11 The Difficult Sun and Moon

Although the field was divided, it was not yet time to plow the land. Li Dequan went to repair the ridge alone, just waiting for the spring water to flow in, and then there would be time to dig the field and make a bamboo rake. It is much easier than digging a field.

He stayed in the field for a long time, trying to find out what happened.Sitting on the ridge of the field without getting up for a while, I stared at my field, as if I wanted to see the rice.

At home, there is almost no rice to cook.

A bag of coarse rice cannot afford the food of a family of five. Most of the money brought back is used to buy pots, pans, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and agricultural tools. I read a private school for Jing Zhe.There is skill in craftsmanship, but I don't know if it is useful or not. If I go out to make furniture by myself, who will plant the three acres of paddy fields and the eight acres of sloping land?Li Dequan, a man, is so stumped.

Li Dequan didn't even dare to go home. Seeing his sensible eldest daughter, who was about to reach the age of marriage, the family was so poor that he might have humiliated her. The youngest daughter, Gu Yu, was sensible and smart, but after all, she just had a serious illness. He hasn't done it well yet, Jing Zhe, let him study no matter what, he thought about it, raised the pickaxe in his hand and dug vigorously into the field, as if he was making up his mind.After thinking about it, I was worried again, the child's mother was still pregnant with the child...

After pondering in the field for a while, Li Dequan couldn't think of any good solution after all, so he returned home with a pickaxe.

In the field not far away, two people stopped what they were doing and looked at him.

Not long after lunch, Xiaoman followed Mrs. Wang to sweep the house and scrubbed every place in the house. When the time comes, she will not be able to move after giving birth. Li Dequan also went to the back mountain to drag a tree back, and made a simple small bed by himself. , set up in the room.

Cooking and washing dishes fell on Gu Yu. Although she was not very skilled, An Jinxuan looked cold and did not stand idly by when he saw Gu Yu's clumsy appearance. Gu Yu was not such a stupid person. In a word, it looks good when it is done.

These days, she has also become a little worried. The rice in the bag is about to bottom out. The radishes that have been eaten at home for a long time, she calculates that the money brought back by her parents is almost used up. This field is there. But rice can't come out right away, so what should we do?

Suddenly, she remembered something, and hurriedly rummaged under the pillow. It was the copper coins she got during the Chinese New Year, and there were more than [-] of them, most of which were given by her second uncle. Gu Yu held these copper coins and ran to the room In front of Li Dequan who was sitting foolishly, "Father, I got it for New Year's greetings. I'm tired of eating every day. Take these to the village to buy some sweet potato and corn from other people. We cook porridge with rice and eat it. That's delicious." .”

Li Dequan looked at the copper plate in Gu Yu's hand, and his eyes became hot. Sweet potato porridge is not delicious. If you eat too much, you will start to see acid water. This is a sensible girl. At this moment, he looks at Gu Yu's eyes, not knowing whether to accept .

Gu Yu put the copper plate on the table, went to wash the dishes on his own, and said coquettishly: "Father, remember, Gu Yu wants to eat sweet potato porridge tonight."

Gu Yu naturally has a small calculation in mind, if it is sweet potato porridge, even the vegetables will be saved.After a while, the weather will gradually warm up, and seedlings can be raised. There will probably be some wild vegetables by the river in the wild, and then I can deal with it for a while when I dig wild vegetables. As for starvation.

After dealing with this for a while, the baby in the mother's stomach is about to come out, confinement can't be too hard, but there is no way to get money.

Gu Yu shook her head, trying to get rid of these troubles. The bowls had been washed twice, so she stacked them neatly one by one, picked up the tub, and poured water to the corner of the yard, so as not to make the yard muddy.

Something was on her mind, and she accidentally flew out of the wooden basin with water. She hurried out to pick it up. This wooden basin was kindly given by her second uncle. A plank fell out.

Li Dequan hurried out when he heard the noise, "Gu Yu is all right, dad, check to see if he fell."

Gu Yu's small face wrinkled, crying, "Father, I didn't fall, it's just the wooden basin, which was broken by me."

Li Dequan felt relieved and patted Gu Yu's head, "Silly girl, I forgot what your father does. A wooden basin is nothing. Later, my father will take you to chop some bamboos, make them into bamboo nails and put wooden boards on it. Just make it up.

Gu Yu then smiled a little, heaved a sigh of relief, and continued: "Father, when you went out, the second aunt came over and said that she brought dozens of eggs from her mother's house, half of them were placed in the yard over there and the other Give it to us, if we buy a hen and give birth to chicks, we can raise them in the yard."

While talking about Gu Yu, he dragged Li Dequan to look, the eggs were neatly stacked in the basket, there were about twenty or thirty eggs, and Bai Shengsheng looked gratifying.Gu Yu said with a smile: "Father, let me raise the chickens when the time comes, and when they grow up, kill the chickens for mother to eat during confinement."

Li Dequan felt a little sour. Mrs. Wang was going to give birth in a short time, so he couldn't wait for the chicken to grow up, but he couldn't bear to spoil Gu Yu's interest, so he followed her words: "Yes, our Gu Yu will come in handy at that time."

Gu Yu ran into the house and said to Xiaoman Wang who was busy, "Mother, sister, I will go chop bamboo with my father, and my brother will pass by there after school. We will come back together at that time, and cook when I come back."

Before Mrs. Wang said anything, Xiaoman was wringing out the rag, and said angrily to her: "There is nothing you don't care about!"

The cold spring is expected to be cold, but the life of a farmer is always not idle. No, someone is already digging the field in the field. When the spring water comes, it can be leveled for breeding. In the haze, I saw some branches of trees, far away It seems that there is some greenery in it, but there is still nothing when you look closely, everything is sprouting.

Gu Yu bathed in the cool wind, and she was also in a good mood, watching her father wield the machete, chopping bamboo, and after the bamboo was cut down, he had to cut off the branches and leaves.Gu Yu hurriedly stopped him: "Father, take this back to the yard, and when the unusable things dry out, they can be used as firewood."

Coincidentally, Jing Zhe had already finished school, so he came over without saying a word, and handed Gu Yu a glutinous rice dumpling, "Gu Yu, eat something first."

Jing Zhe studied in a private school at the landlord's house, and was very close to the son of the landlord's family. The little landlord found a companion, so he stayed Jing Zhe to eat in the private school at noon, but Jing Zhe often ate a little, and saved some to take back.

Gu Yu didn't answer, frowned and said, "Brother, how can you study if you don't have enough to eat, and I don't want you to bring something back to eat in the future."

Jing Zhe smiled, and distinguished: "This glutinous rice dumpling will be full after eating one. Besides, I won't be hungry if I sit all day. I'll leave this for Gu Yu to eat." After speaking, he stuffed it into Gu Yu's hand, and went to pull the bamboo : "Father, take a break, I'll just drag this bamboo back."

Gu Yu looked at the glutinous rice dumpling in her hand, and swallowed, the shiny glutinous rice was very attractive, but she stopped, thinking, save this for mother to eat, after eating, it will be raw Child.

(End of this chapter)