Chapter 50

Fang Yumin and Lin Qiulai took the contract with them and returned home with their four children.As soon as Xiao Ming saw his parents coming back, he threw himself on Fang Yumin: "Mother." Then he tilted his head and looked at the four children following behind his parents.

Fang Yumin patted Xiao Ming's head, and said to the four timid children: "This is Xiao Ming, you can call him Xiao Ming from now on. Xiao Ming, call him brother."

Xiao Ming looked at his father suspiciously, then at his mother, and then said: "Brother."

"Xiao Ming."

Fang Yumin said to Xiao Ming: "Xiao Ming, take your four brothers to the backyard to feed chickens and rabbits, tell them how you do things, and then think about how you want to allocate work to them. Can you do it? "

"Yes, sir!" Xiao Ming grinned when he heard that he, the youngest, was leading the brothers to work, and asked again, "Mother, what are the names of the brothers?"

"I'll talk about this later. I'll go to the rice field to catch two fish for cooking. After dinner, we'll have a good talk."

Seeing that the four children were restrained with their heads lowered, Fang Yumin softened his tone and smiled at them: "Follow Xiao Ming to familiarize yourself with the environment at home first, and you will live here in the future. Don't Don’t be nervous, there are no tigers here.”

"Yes."

"Okay, Xiao Ming, you can take them there."

Fang Yumin watched the four children go to the backyard, and then said to Lin Qiu who was standing beside her, "Let's go inside and talk."

The two sat down, Fang Yumin stopped talking.She held her breath in her heart, but she couldn't be too presumptuous in front of Li Zheng, after all, their family had to live in Lin's Village.Here are the crops they planted hard, the newly purchased land, and the bright future planned.But they stuffed four children for no reason, and gave them a superficially gorgeous explanation. Didn't this mean that Fang Yumin couldn't have any more children, so how many did she buy as adopted children?

Even if Zhang Cuihua always wanted to extort Fang Yumin's property and give it to her eldest son Chunlai, it would be a small matter. As long as Fang Yumin becomes strong, how would she dare to force her?Although the people in the Lin family village are jealous, they all take it to heart. Who will come for it?

But since they are all brought back, we have to find a way to solve them.Fang Yumin couldn't help but stare at Lin Qiulai fiercely. If Lin Qiulai could of course refuse in front of the county master, this would not have happened.They bought them all back, and Fang Yumin politely refused, but Lizheng still couldn't understand, obviously he wanted them to accept it.

"Xiao Min, don't be angry." Lin Qiulai scratched his head and said, "I went to inquire about it before I went to you yesterday. There was really a big flood. It also destroyed several villages, and one village was completely flooded." drowned."

Fang Yumin still didn't say a word, he was making a good plan here, he was trying to curry favor with the county master, right? !I don't know what is the relationship between them?
"Qiu Lai, is Li Zheng on good terms with the county master?"

"Yes, because he has a good relationship with the county master, the tax in our village will be less. Otherwise, like other villages, after paying the tax, some people can't even eat dry rice."

"There must be adultery!" Fang Yumin said bitterly.

"Xiao Min, don't be angry. I will be more diligent in the future."

"How diligent can you be? Do you not sleep at night to hoe the ground?" Fang Yumin slapped the table and stared at Lin Qiulai.

Lin Qiulai didn't dare to speak anymore, Xiao Min is so fierce!

Fang Yumin was discouraged, and she waved to Lin Qiulai: "Go to the field and catch five fish." Then she sighed: "Fish, fish, you haven't grown up yet, you will be eaten by us."

Lin Qiulai couldn't help laughing out loud when he heard that, seeing Fang Yumin glaring at him, he quickly stood up and rushed out of the room.

After Fang Yumin washed the rice and soaked it, she went to the backyard to see how Xiaoming and the others were doing.
I saw Xiao Ming leading four boys in front of the rabbit cage, and while feeding the rabbits with vegetable leaves in the cage, he said: "There must be no water for the vegetable leaves and the cut grass, otherwise the rabbits will have diarrhea. Rabbits will gradually increase in the house, so we will cut more tender grass. The green vegetable mother said that it will be dried and stored for winter. Then, this little brother, can you go to cut vegetables in the future? It is this kind of grass, I will tomorrow take you there."

The little boy who was pointed nodded and said, "Okay."

"Chicks eat insects to get fat. In addition to catching vegetable worms for chickens to eat, we also need to dig earthworms. You see, there is a soft and wet grass in the chicken shed, where we put earthworms. Chickens eat earthworms every day. Lay eggs." Xiao Ming pointed to one of the boys and said, "Can you dig earthworms?"

"Okay." The boy nodded.

"Well, the task my mother gave me is to feed the rabbits, feed the chickens, and water the vegetable garden. If the other two brothers water, then I have no work to do?" Xiao Ming said distressedly.

"Xiao Ming, you are still young, we can do all these."

"Mother said that only by working can you show your worth." Xiao Ming scratched the back of his head and said, "After dinner, let's ask mother, my mother is very capable."

"Ah."

"Xiao Ming, why don't you take us to mow the grass now. In fact, the chickens also eat grass. They like to eat it, so they don't need to eat the leaves. There are cows at home. The four of us will go together. Mow, you will be able to mow a lot before eating. In this weather, hogweed is also growing lushly, if your family raises pigs, you can still mow hogweed.” The older boy suggested.

"Okay, I'll go and tell my mother, lest we can't be found in a while."

"let's go together."

"it is good."

Fang Yumin saw a few children standing up, so she pretended to pass by the latrine, and shouted at them: "Go to the kitchen to light a fire and cook, mother will be here in a while."

"Okay." So the five villains ran to the kitchen.

Fang Yumin went to inspect the rabbit shed and the chicken shed, and they did a good job. The ground was cleaned and they were quite clean.There was also a pile of grass in front of the calf.

That's all, let's take care of it first.

Fang Yumin took over the cooking, and Xiao Ming took the four children to cut grass.Lin Qiulai caught five fish and brought them back to raise in wooden barrels. Fang Yumin said, "I'll go to the river to catch some small fish and put them in the fields."

"Well. If you are free, you can also raise fish in the other two acres of paddy fields. Before there was only Xiao Ming, but now there are four more, and they must be nourished."

"Okay, I'll go right now."

"Don't take too long, come back for dinner later."

"Okay." Lin Qiulai picked up the hoe, carried the wooden barrel and the simple bamboo net and went out.

The first time Fang Yumin dissected the fish, it was a pain in the ass, perhaps because the fish was too small at that time, but now she dissects the fish quite neatly.In the end, she only killed three fish, and kept the remaining two in the bucket.

The three fish are all used to make soup with soybeans, and the slow fire is boiled to milky white like milk.There is still a crock pot for the dried tofu and pigs at home. Just fry two more vegetables, add dried tofu and kimchi.

After eating, Fang Yumin said: "Come on, everyone sit down, mother has something to say."

After everyone sat down, Fang Yumin said to Xiao Ming: "Xiao Ming, these four little brothers will live with us from now on. You remember to get along well with them, support and love each other, you know?"

"Mom, I got it." Xiao Ming nodded. He was obviously very happy that there were four younger brothers of similar age in his family.Just now we fed the chickens and went to cut the grass together, and the children easily became one with each other.

"Good boy." Fang Yumin touched Xiao Ming's barbecued pork buns, and then said to the four children: "You will live with us in the future, so don't be nervous or afraid. You have grown up to remember things, you should still remember Your own family, your relatives, right? Don’t listen to what Li is saying about ‘forget the past and live a new life’, maybe your relatives are still alive and looking for you. If you tell yourself to forget the past now, you can wait for it later Maybe I really can’t remember when I’m looking for relatives.”

Fang Yumin paused, waiting for the four children to digest her words.He also said: "Don't worry that we will send you back to the county government. Since you have kowtowed to us and called you parents, then we are a family. It's just that mother thinks that you can't forget who you are Don't forget your parents. Okay, now you all introduce yourself and tell us how old you are this year? What's your name? What village did you live in? What housework do you do? Come one by one, don't be afraid .”

Fang Yumin looked at the four children who were at a loss and showed gentle smiles, then softened her voice and said to the oldest child, "You will start first."

The child looked up at Fang Yumin, bit his lips, and said, "My name is Wang Xiaoyang, I am eight years old, and my family is in Wangjiacun. The four of us are all from Wangjiacun. His name is Wang Xiaozhu. They are brothers, and the elder brother's name is Dabao." , my younger brother is Xiaobao. We often work and play together. When the flood rushed to our village, the four of us happened to go back to the mountain to pick mushrooms early in the morning. It rained for many days in a row, and the mountains were full of Wild mushrooms. We watched the flood rush into the village, and then watched the landslides collapse... woo woo woo~"

Speaking of this, Wang Xiaoyang began to cry, and the other three children also cried.Xiao Ming saw that his little brothers were crying, and his little mouth was flattened, and he wanted to cry a little bit, but when he saw his mother's eyes coming over, he immediately widened his eyes and dared not cry.

Wang Xiaoyang cried for a long time before saying: "We dare not move on the mountain, and it was raining heavily. Later, some villagers went up the mountain one after another. They said that there was no one down the mountain and the village was flooded. They also said that other villages in our village People either drowned or were washed away by the water. Huh~ We had no choice but to follow them, and finally arrived at Nantou County, huh~"

Speaking of this, Wang Xiaoyang burst into tears again, and the children finally stopped, probably thinking of the sad things during the fleeing process, and they all cried loudly again.I saw them crying louder and more miserable, as if all the food they ate was used up for crying, and the room was filled with the sound of children crying.

Fang Yumin was silent, and Lin Qiulai was also silent.

"Qiu Lai, go and bring some warm water. They have been crying for so long, they must be short of water."

"Okay, I'll go right now."

"En." Fang Yumin picked up a charcoal pencil and wrote on the rough straw paper: "Wang Xiaoyang, Wang Xiaozhu, Wang Dabao, Wang Xiaobao, eight years old, Wangjiacun." ' Then he took another piece of paper and drew two wooden frames with bunk beds.

Xiao Mingyi watched his mother draw pictures on Fang Yumin's body, and then looked up at the sobbing brothers, but he didn't make a sound.

Fang Yumin has never given birth to children, nor has she ever raised children, and she doesn't know how to comfort them.She can only treat them as adults, and wait for them to stop crying before asking questions.

The crying gradually subsided, Lin Qiulai had already poured four bowls of warm boiled water and put them in front of them, Xiao Ming also took a handkerchief to wipe the tears of the little brothers under Fang Yumin's gesture.

"The matter is over. Since you are saved, your relatives may be saved as well. Come on, drink some water first, let's talk about other things when you are smooth."

It was Wang Xiaoyang who took the lead to hold the bowl, and the other three did it, and this child was their leader.Fang Yumin asked: "Xiaoyang, what do you do at home?"

"I know how to do housework. Usually, I go up the mountain to pick wild vegetables, mushrooms and fruits, and also hunt pigweed. I can also weave baskets and sieves."

"What about the little pillar?"

"Almost, the four of us often go hunting hogweeds together, dig bamboo shoots in the mountains, and pick wild fruits. When farming is busy, we help the family dry millet and break corn."

Fang Yumin nodded and asked, "Will Dabao and Xiaobao do it too?"

"It's something we're used to doing. We'll go to the river to catch shrimps in spring, and there are a lot of them at that time."

"Do you have pigs in your family?"

"Yeah, I keep a pig at home, and I only eat pork during the Chinese New Year."

"Oh, if our family also raises pigs, can you take care of them?"

"Yes." The four children said in unison.

"Qiu Lai, did you hear that? Go get four piglets and bring them back to raise. Each of you will be responsible for one in the future, okay?"

"Okay. We can also take good care of our chickens and rabbits. In fact, my family also feeds chickens with earthworms, but instead of feeding them directly, they are boiled, dried and ground, and then mixed into rice bran. That can last longer. In winter, it becomes very difficult to find earthworms."

"Do you dare to do this?" Fang Yumin asked, she got goosebumps when she thought of cooking those earthworms, she didn't even dare to touch them, Xiao Ming did all the earthworm digging.

"We often do it. Feed the chickens with earthworms, and the chickens grow fat." Wang Dabao bravely said, his little face turned red.

"Dabao has experience, so I'll leave this job to the four of you. When the chicken is fattened up, we'll cook it. Hehe."

The five children swallowed their saliva and nodded quickly, even Xiao Ming said, "Mom, I will do it too!"

"Okay, you should learn from your brothers."

"That, that," Xiao Yang glanced at Fang Yumin, then suddenly lowered his head, pulled the hem of his clothes with his hands and stopped talking.

"Speak directly if you have anything to say." Fang Yumin said: "In our house, you don't have to hide it, you have to be open, you know?"

"Can we really call you 'mother'?" Wang Xiaoyang looked up at Fang Yumin, hesitant to speak, but finally did not continue.

Fang Yumin smiled and said: "Didn't you all call in the morning? If you still miss your father and mother, you can also call me 'aunt' and him 'uncle'. It doesn't matter, it's just a title. The most important thing is that we know in our hearts that we are a family. Understand?"

"Understood." Wang Xiaoyang nodded and said, "Let's call you Uncle Qiulai and Aunt Xiaolian."

"Okay, as long as you like it." Fang Yumin smiled, looked at Wang Xiaoyang and said, "Among the five brothers, you are the oldest. From now on, you have to watch out for your younger brothers not to be bullied."

"Yes, don't worry, auntie."

"That's good. These days, you can help out at home with Xiao Ming. When your uncle buys piglets and comes back, you will be busy."

"Okay." Wang Xiaoyang only showed a smile at this time, he turned his head to look outside the house, and said to Fang Yumin: "Auntie, many fruits in the mountains are ripe this season."

Fang Yumin was overjoyed, but when she saw that these children were still so thin, she said, "There is no hurry. You should stay at home and have a good rest these days. After two days, people in the village will be busy again. Let's go up the mountain together."

"it is good."

"Qiu Lai, hurry up and build two wooden beds. There are bunk beds and a wooden ladder here. Take a look and ask me if you don't understand." After speaking, Fang Yumin handed over the blueprint to Lin Qiulai
"Okay." Lin Qiulai took the drawing and looked at it. Fang Yumin said, "I still have some wood at home. Is it enough to make two beds?"

"You can figure it out. If it doesn't work, everyone will squeeze together tonight. Ah, yes, there are also clothes and quilts to make. Xiao Ming, you go to Aunt Chunhua's house and ask Miss Xiaohong to come over when you are free. Help me make some clothes."

"Okay, I'll go right away." After Xiao Ming finished speaking, he took Xiao Bai out.

It was around twelve o'clock at noon, and the sun was in the sky!Fang Yumin squinted her eyes to look outside, and said, ""The weather is so nice, why don't you help me make dried eggplants and vegetables. "

"it is good."

Fang Yumin showed the children how to make dried eggplants and vegetables. It couldn't be simpler, that is, steam or boil them, and then dry them in a cold river.Or you can directly dry the vegetables in the sun, and when the leaves are wilted, rub them with salt to get out the water, and then put them in the sun.

The four children got started very quickly, and the work was done neatly. Fang Yumin was very satisfied with this.These children are also very well-behaved, so let's take it as doing good deeds.

The other two acres of paddy fields also need to be cultivated, and the mud dug up will be brought back to expand the vegetable garden.And the vegetables in the vegetable garden are also growing very well, and I am afraid they will rot if they are not harvested.Waste is shameful, and Fang Yumin would never do it in such a poor valley.

These dried vegetables, eggplants, dried tofu, etc. were all stored for winter. She didn't expect to eat white radish and Chinese cabbage all winter.Fang Yumin also plans to try to make greenhouse vegetables in autumn, but she has only seen others make them on TV but has never done it herself, so she doesn't know if it will work?

The four children were busy with Fang Yumin.Fang Yumin knows very well that this place is different from modern times, and everything needs to be prepared for a rainy day.

(End of this chapter)

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