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Chapter 105 Well, I'm Busy Again

Seeing that the big guys ate about the same amount, Xiu Niang put down the bowl, and said to Father Chu and Mrs. Shen, "Grandfather and mother-in-law, there is still some dough in the stove, shall I make another bowl for you?"

Father Chu's mouth was full, and he waved his hands, "Hey, no need, the second one's, my bowl is just right."

Mrs. Shen looked at Father Chu and said, "Father, I'll have another bowl. Didn't you eat a bowl full of noodles before?"

After listening to what Shen said, Xiu Niang felt a little helpless, which clearly implied that she didn't fill up Father Chu.

Father Chu probably understood Shen's words, he frowned and said, "You old woman, what do you mean by eating a bowl full? If the noodles with stewed seeds are filled in a bowl, it will be lumpy, then Can this brine be scooped up?"

Mrs. Shen cleared her throat, and cast a look at Father Chu, "You old man, if you like to eat or not, you will fall down if you don't eat."

Xiu Niang said to Father Chu, "Elder-in-law, let me order some more noodles for you."

Father Chu pulled the remaining noodles in the bowl into his mouth, and said, "Oh, no, I had to serve half a bowl, but we are old now, and we can't hold that much in our stomachs, just ask the boss and they still have more Can't eat."

Chu Ge took a few bites from the bowl, then shook his head at Xiu Niang, "I don't need it either, just ladle a bowl of noodle soup and drink it later."

Xiuniang knew that every time Chu Ge ate noodles, he would end up drinking a bowl of noodle soup, not to mention Chu An, it would be good if this kid could eat a bowl.

She responded to Chu Ge, then turned to look at Chu Fu, "Brother, how about you?"

Chu Fu saw that Wen Shi only ate half of the bowl, he smiled and said, "I don't need it anymore, your sister-in-law still has leftover..."

Wen wiped his mouth with a handkerchief, got up and said to Chu Fu, "Oh, I'm having a bad stomach right now, Chu Fu, help me back to the room."

Chu Fu saw that his parents were downcast, so he had no choice but to take Wen to the main room to rest, "Well, parents, Juan'er didn't sleep well yesterday, and she is a little tired now, I Take her to rest first."

Wen asked Chu Fu to help her into the main room, walked to the edge of the bed, Chu Fu pulled his quilt to the outside, so that she could lean on it softer.

He said, "Daughter-in-law, we just finished eating, you sit down first, and lie down later."

Wenshi covered his stomach with one hand, supported his waist with the other, slowly bent his knees, sat on the bed, and said with some annoyance, "Well, I see, I'm so tired of eating that bowl of noodles, where can I lie down?" .”

Chu Fu helped her put away the shoes, "Then daughter-in-law, you rest, I will go to Lao Liu's house first."

Wen looked up at him and asked, "Why are you going to his house?"

Chu Fu said, "Isn't this what my siblings said? If you want to go to work, you have to ask Ji Laoliu first."

Wen Shi thought about it and said, "Chu Fu, why don't we go, I only give you a penny for carrying a bag of rice noodles, I think it's not worth it."

Chu Fu smiled honestly, "Daughter-in-law, I know you love me."

Wen's glanced at him, "Go, I'm serious with you."

Chu Fu stretched out his hand to cover Wen's hand, and patted it soothingly, "Daughter-in-law, don't worry, I have been to the rice noodle warehouse, and the work is not tiring. You carry the rice noodle bag out of the warehouse and put it on someone's board. It’s done on the cart.”

Wen Shi pursed his lips, and thought about it, "But how heavy is that bag of rice and flour, you can carry it."

Chu Fu said, "Hey, how heavy can that be? I can carry two bags on one shoulder. I thought about it when I was eating just now. If I carry it more diligently and my legs and feet are more agile, I can get a few bags in a day." Three couples hang money, after a month like this...it will cost a few taels of silver, and it is more than the money earned by doing long-term labor in a big house."

Looking at the simple and honest appearance of his man, Wen could not help but sigh, "Then, you can go to work, but you have to weigh it yourself. If you really can't carry it, don't be brave."

Chu Fu cracked his mouth and smirked twice, shook Wen's hand, then stood up, "I know my wife, then I'll go."

Seeing that Chu Fu was about to leave after finishing speaking, Wen Shi straightened up and called him to stop, and waved him to sit beside him, "Chu Fu, wait a moment, I still have something to say."

Chu Fu sat down obediently, "What's the matter, daughter-in-law?"

Wen's turned his head to look outside, and whispered to Chu Fu, "Chu Fu, when you find someone else, ask your brother to find us a big house."

Chu Fu asked incomprehensibly, "The big house? Daughter-in-law, why are you thinking about living in the big house?"

Wenshi touched his stomach, "What's wrong, do you want our son to be born in someone else's house?"

Chu Fu frowned, and said with some dissatisfaction, "Daughter-in-law, why is this someone else's house? Isn't this my brother's house?"

Wen Shi smiled, "No matter what you say, it's not our own home anyway."

Chu Fu paused for a moment, and Wen looked at it and said again, "I'll leave the bottom to you first, and I have saved some silver taels, it's okay if we don't move to Shangyang Village, but we have to come from alone."

She pointed to the dark blue floral bag in front of the bed, "Just put the money there, you know it in your heart, and let your brother find us a similar one, huh?"

Chu Fu listened and pondered for a while, then went out after saying yes...

Xiu Niang leaned back and was cleaning the table, when she saw Chu Fu coming out, she pointed to a bowl of noodles in front of her and said, "Brother, hurry up and eat this noodles, or they will be cold in a while."

Seeing that there were only Xiuniang and Father Chu left in the yard, Chu Fu asked casually. Xiuniang said that Mrs. Shen had gone to the second uncle's place, and Chu Ge and Chu An went to fetch water to take a bath.

It is already October now. Although the sun is still shining in Xiayang Village, the water in the creek is very icy, so we can’t just wash it like this. It has to be boiled and warmed. Only then can it be poured on the body.

Father Chu was looking at the chickens in the fence, and said, "Fuwazi, go talk to the sixth child after eating noodles, hurry up and get to work so you can earn more money, and the Chinese New Year will be in two months. gone."

Chu Fu responded, took a few mouthfuls of the bowl and finished it, then handed the bowl to Xiuniang, "Father, I'll go over then."

Xiu Niang took the bowl, swept the leftovers from the dining table into the bowl, and went back to the stove to wash it. When she came out, she saw Father Chu watering the Erbao vine by the fence.

With a ladle in one hand and a cigarette stick in the other, Father Chu took a sip of the cigarette and coughed a few times.

Xiu Niang arranged the stools beside the table and said to Father Chu, "Elder-in-law, come and sit for a while, don't keep standing."

Father Chu bit his cigarette holder, "I'll just pour this water...ahem..."

Xiu Niang frowned slightly, and said, "Elder-in-law, this tobacco leaves choke your throat, you should smoke less."

Father Chu coughed twice, and smiled, "Hey, it's okay, I won't smoke this time, I always feel that my mouth is light."

Xiu Niang thought about it and said, "Then hurry up, father-in-law, I have some tea in my room. I'll make you a cup. You won't feel sour after drinking it all the time."

Father Chu took a sip and waved his hand. He didn't know if he was afraid that Xiuniang would continue talking, or because of other reasons. He pointed to Erbaoteng and said, "Oh, no, my old man drinks tea... that's right. , the second child, what are you like, I just saw it in your field... Hey, the red sorghum in your house grows really well."

Xiuniang's heart "thumped" for a moment, it's broken. Earlier, Father Chu said that he would go to the field to have a look. At that time, she didn't expect that there were Erbao vines planted in the field, so she asked Chu Ge to take him there without saying anything. .

She thought about it and said, "It's nothing, I just saw the flowers blooming on the mountain before, and I thought the flowers were very beautiful, so I asked Chu Ge to get some and plant them in the ground..."

Father Chu was dissatisfied when he heard this, "I'm fooling around, that good land, why are you thinking about planting this thing? If you care about these flowers, you can find a place in the yard tomorrow, and you can't make trouble by yourself. That's it."

Xiuniang had no choice but to respond first, "I know my father-in-law, I will vacate a piece of land tomorrow, and I will ask Chu Ge to dig out a few plants from the field and plant them..."

Father Chu said, "Hey, the ones in the field have been dug up. If the root is damaged, many of them will not be usable."

After hearing this, Xiuniang muttered, what Father Chu said was true, she used to dig Erbao vines from the mountain and planted them in the ground, some of them were broken by her, and they withered within a few days. But it made her feel bad, otherwise there would be more than so many Erbao vines in her field.

She didn't think much about it and said straight, "The ones in the field, could it be possible to pull them out and throw them away? Anyway, there are a lot of them in the field. Let Chu Ge pick them up. At worst, I'll run a few more times."

Father Chu said casually, pointing to the branches of the Erbao vine, "Hey, there's no need to ask Chu Wazi to run around specially, you can just use a pair of scissors from here, insert it into the soil after compacting it, and pour some water on it." Water can live."

Xiu Niang was taken aback, and suddenly her eyes lit up, "Really, father-in-law, just cut off a branch, put it in the soil and it will live, and then another plant will grow?"

Father Chu thought that Xiu Niang didn't believe it, so he grinned and said, "That's right, my old man's words are never false. Thinking about it, I worked as a helper for the gardener in that big house before, and I know what's wrong with him. When planting flowers, I know why people separate some from one pot and plant them in another pot, but there is a lot of attention to it..."

Xiu Niang didn't listen to what Father Chu said later, she was only thinking about one thing at the moment.

If what old father Chu said is true, cut off the branches of Erbao vine and put them in the soil to grow, so that another plant can grow, then if she wants to plant a few more acres of land to plant Erbao vine Well, with Father Chu's method, she can save a lot of money, and don't need to go to other provinces to enter the rattan seedlings.

Hehe, as the old saying goes, having an old man in a family is like having a treasure.

Father Chu didn't pay attention to Xiuniang's happy expression, and said to himself, "...In the end, you have to choose the well-watered sandy soil to plant the seedlings, so that they can be fertile... Sigh, but the second child's You don’t need to throw away the grown ones in your field, you ask Chu Ge to dig them out carefully, tie them up and sell them to the big families in the town, and their gardens have to be replaced every year..."

In the middle of what Father Chu was talking about, Mrs. Shen stood at the door and yelled, "Old man, what are you talking about, why don't you come and help me."

Xiu Niang looked out of the door, only to see Mrs. Shen coming back with two big bags.

Father Chu looked forward and took the bundle from her hand, "Hey, mother, why did you bring our quilt here? We have to go back to second uncle's place tonight..."

Shen took a breath, "Why sleep? The second uncle packed the quilts for us and sent them out. Tonight we have to sleep in the valley!"

Xiu Niang listened for a moment, looked at the two tightly bound quilts, and then at the way Shen looked at her, she raised her eyebrows, well, I'm busy again...

(End of this chapter)