The Little Widower (farming)

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The weight of a basket of corn is still incomparable to that of a load. Chen Qing walked much faster than before.

When he could see Li Xin standing at the door of his house from a distance, he thought about what had just happened. Was it because he was afraid that Li Xin would be tired from helping him, so he came to help?

The joy I felt just now turned into a little bitterness.

I don't know if they made good contact when they went to town that day, and when will they get married? Will the child be a boy or a girl?

"What are you thinking about?" Zhou Yuan suddenly spoke, and Chen Qing was startled.

Then he blurted out: "Is it a boy or a girl?"

Zhou Yuan raised his eyebrows: "I can do it, what about you?"

"I..." Chen Qingcai realized what he had just said, and his face turned red instantly, wishing he could Digging into the soil, this question is not unanswerable, but it is too strange that this conversation happened between him and Zhou Yuan.

Zhou Yuan also knew that enough was enough, so he quickened his pace a little, and then poured all the corn into Chen Qing's yard.

His yard is not big, and the corn needs to be sun-dried for a while before it can be threshed better. The corn harvested from the field on the mountain alone will fill up his yard, and there are still several pieces of land left. This yard There definitely isn't that much room to put it.

There is an open space outside the village ancestral hall. During the autumn harvest, everyone needs to go early to occupy the space, otherwise they will not be able to grab the open space. Only at this time will Chen Qing and Aunt Sun feel that it is very inconvenient to have no man in the family. They want to Move it in the morning and take it back in the evening.

Many men from other families slept directly on that open space.

"Auntie, can I just pour it here?" Zhou Yuan asked.

Aunt Sun quickly said yes, and kept thanking Zhou Yuan, saying that she would let him stay at home to eat. Anyway, Li Xin and Niu Niu were there, so there was no need to avoid any suspicion.

After Chen Qing poured out the corn from his basket, he was in a hurry to cook. Aunt Sun, Li Xin and Zhou Yuan were sitting in the yard tearing corn husks.

Zhou Yuan's peripheral vision fell on Chen Qing in the kitchen. He saw Chen Qing move his shoulders, and then looked at his own shoulders. Zhou Yuan stopped what he was doing and told Aunt Sun that something was wrong. I have to go home first.

After Zhou Yuan left, Aunt Sun smiled at Li Xin: "Zhou Yuan is quite nice this time. He helps with anything he needs."

Li Xin also nodded: "Yes, Auntie."

"I heard that your father is already here. Are you looking for someone else? Zhou Yuan's conditions are very good, so don't miss it. When it happens, our two families will be neighbors. If you and A Qing are so good, won't the future be even better? "Aunt Sun kept moving her hands, and her words were also very dense.

Li Xin, however, felt as if she was facing a formidable enemy and quickly said: "Auntie! No! It's not like that."

Aunt Sun just thought he was shy and nodded repeatedly: "Auntie, I know, but I haven't decided yet. It's hard to say, hard to say. "

Li Xin: ...

It happened that Zhou Yuan came back at this moment and called Li Xin outside the fence.

Li Xin hurried out and saw Zhou Yuan holding a medicine bottle in his hand, handed it to him, and whispered: "Please give him medicine."

Li Xin pouted: "How long are you going to use me as a cover ? , the longer it goes, the more time passes by, I won't be able to clean myself up even if I jump into the Yellow River."

"Soon." Zhou Yuan replied, since the aunt has the idea of ​​marrying Chen Qing out, there will be a big change in the matter, "then. You sit at the head table."

Li Xin has always been a very intuitive person. When he came back from his grandfather's house and met Chen Qing, he felt that something was wrong with Chen Qing after they talked about Zhou Yuan. They went to town together that day. It was discovered that something was wrong with Zhou Yuan.

When Chen Qing left, he looked at Zhou Yuan. As Chen Qing's good friend, he naturally had plans for Chen Qing.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Yuan was also very honest. After Li Xin asked, he directly admitted that he did have some thoughts about Chen Qing.

It's just that Chen Qing's character and his special identity indicate that this road will not be easy.

So before Chen Qing knew it, Li Xin was already checking for him.

Zhou Yuan didn't know when he fell in love with it. He just looked at Chen Qing's back from the beginning. Looking at it became a habit.

After finishing speaking, Li Xin put the medicine bottle into his sleeve, then went into the kitchen to look for Chen Qing, and then pulled Chen Qing into the room without any explanation.

Chen Qing was still chopping the chicken. This was the chicken he hadn't finished eating last time. If he didn't eat it today, it would be spoiled. His hands were covered in chicken fat and he hadn't even washed them, so he could only raise his hands: " What are you doing?"

Li Xin took off Chen Qing's clothes, looked at his red and swollen shoulders, took out medicine from his arms and applied it to him slowly. Chen Qing gasped in pain.

Every autumn harvest day in the past happened like this, and my shoulders would go through this every year, so I didn't even need to apply medicine.

"Oh, no need for medicine." Chen Qing wanted to pull up his clothes, but Li Xin held him down and refused to move.

"He's almost ready." Li Xin applied medicine to him very carefully.

"This is how we live in the past years, and we have to use our shoulders for two days." Chen Qing said with a smile, "I have never seen you care so much about me before."

Li Xin snorted and pressed Chen Qing again as if to make trouble. Qing's shoulder: "I don't care about you enough?"

In the house, around people close to him, Chen Qing's character was much more lively. After the two of them laughed and made trouble in the house, they ran out of the room and said they wanted to cook, otherwise It's too late.

He hurried out of the room and met Zhou Yuan's eyes on the road. Then Chen Qing quickly moved away and returned to the kitchen.

Zhou Yuan looked at him. There were two red marks on his face, which must have been stung by corn leaves.

Chen Qing returned to the kitchen. The salted chicken was not very tasty no matter how braised it was. He chopped it up and washed it with clean water. After blanching it, he stewed it slowly on the stove in a casserole at home. He found the chicken that had been processed before. Chicken offal.

Boil the remaining chicken fat, grab a handful of soaked cabbage leaves from a jar on one side, chop them up and stir-fry until fragrant, and then add the washed chicken offal. The aroma of oil mixed with the aroma of kimchi makes the cows outside swallow their mouths with greed. saliva.

A chicken soup and a fried chicken offal are definitely not enough to eat, not to mention that there is such a big guy Zhou Yuanzai, who made another stewed potato and beans. The family has not bought meat for a long time, and the lard jar is about to be bottomed out. Chen Qing gritted his teeth and stewed potatoes, eggplants and beans with lard. He simmered it for a long time but never simmered multi-grain rice.

On weekdays, Chen Qing and Aunt Sun both eat miscellaneous grain steamed buns.

Although Luohe Village is surrounded by mountains and rivers, they don't grow rice here for some unknown reason, so the price of polished rice is very expensive. Ordinary people just buy some grain rice mixed with some inferior rice, so they actually don't grow rice. Seldom buy.

Chen Qing didn't know how to cook these dishes at first. His hometown is far away from Luohe Village, and his eating habits are also very different from here. His cooking skills were taught by Aunt Sun.

When the dishes were ready, the chicken soup over there was also simmered. Chen Qing added some Codonopsis pilosula that he had not eaten last time when he was sick. The chicken soup was also very rich in flavor.

There are usually not so many people in their home, there is only a small table, and there are not even extra stools.

However, Li Xin and Zhou Yuan didn't mind and sat directly in the corn pile.

Niu Niu swallowed, and Chen Qing quickly served him a bowl of rice. Then he added chicken soup and used the soup to make rice for Niu Niu to eat.

"I know your craftsmanship is very good." Li Xin ate happily, while Chen Qing held the bowl, lowered his head and pursed his lips with a smile.

Zhou Yuan rarely saw Chen Qingxiao, so when he suddenly saw him smiling, he was a little stunned.

Aunt Sun watched Niu Niu eat and didn't notice their condition.

Li Xin held the bowl and looked at the sky speechlessly.

After Niu Niu finished eating, Aunt Sun started to eat by herself. After eating, she told Zhou Yuan that she wanted to borrow an ox cart later. The remaining land they had was in a spacious place where the ox cart could go.

Of course Zhou Yuan said yes, and also said that he could help them collect it together. Aunt Sun quickly refused: "It would be great if you can use the ox cart for us."

Li Xin twitched the corner of her mouth: "It's better to do this, aunt, I think his family That yard is very big, why not just dry the corn in his yard, so that you don't have to go to the ancestral hall to get a seat, and you can't get it, do you still want Chen Qing to keep vigil there at night?"

Aunt Sun and Chen Qingdu looked at Zhou Yuan.

Zhou Yuan nodded: "Okay, Auntie, just bring him to my house then."

"It's so troublesome for you." Aunt Sun gave him a piece of chicken.

"It's okay. I also have something to trouble my aunt. The land I allocated was not planted last season. After this season, I should plant the land. I can't just sit there and have nothing to do."

"Okay, when the time comes, you will plant the land. I will take Ah Qing with me. " Come help you."

Chen Qing was in a daze, still thinking about what Li Xin said just now. Is Li Xin able to help Zhou Yuan take charge of his family affairs now?

He bit his lip, recalling his state of mind for so long.

Because of the misidentification at first sight, he thought Zhou Yuan was Meng Tao, and then his mind became completely confused.

All avoidance of suspicion is due to the fear that one can't help but want to get close. Avoidance of suspicion is also due to competing with oneself, thinking that as long as there is no contact, one has no other thoughts. The moral level of guilt is too heavy, and it is too heavy. Chen Qing couldn't straighten his waist.

Even his mother said that although he had a reticent temperament, he had always answered when someone said hello to him when he met people in the village. It was not like he had never been in contact with men in the village. Why was he so repelled by Zhou Yuan?

Chen Qing did not dare to say that the rejection was because of his own evil intentions. He only said that he would change it after he found out.

But this seems to be counterproductive. The more depressed you are, the more things will flourish. This is wrong.

Li Xin is his good friend, the one who opened his heart to him when he first came here and had no friends. He does not allow himself to do any harm to Li Xin.

Thinking of this, Chen Qing felt suddenly enlightened.

The more secretive you are, the more you look like a villain; being upright is better than anything else.

Li Xin had just finished the rice in the bowl and turned around to see Chen Qing smiling. He looked at Chen Qing with some confusion: "Why are you laughing?"

Chen Qing shook his head: "It's okay, I just figured something out."

Sun The aunt answered at the right time: "A Qing is always in a daze on weekdays. I don't know what he is thinking about. A small person has eight hundred pounds of thoughts on his mind."

Chen Qing scratched his hair and felt that his face and neck were all numb. It was a little itchy, so I scratched it hard, making my face and neck red.