The Little Widower (farming)

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The affairs of the village chief's family were the talk of everyone during the entire Chinese New Year. I only know that the village chief got sober the next day and there was a huge quarrel at home.

First, the eldest and second eldest son of the village chief's family felt embarrassed and quickly proposed to separate the family. After all, there were still younger generations in the family. Because of the dust removal, I was afraid that these younger ones would not be able to get wives in the future.

Then there was an endless quarrel over how to divide the family. After the family was divided, Aunt Wang wanted to abandon Zhang Ran, but Meng Bing, the third child, firmly disagreed and was pointed at by Aunt Wang and called a bastard.

The village chief's family fights and fights every day, which has become a topic of conversation for the villagers after dinner

. The cold winter is about to pass, and spring plowing will begin soon, so you have to take the time to watch the fun.

Unexpectedly, the matter did not end here. Within two days, Li Zheng came to the village and said that the village chief had done something immoral and was now completely unconvinced. Luohe Village would elect a new village chief. Come.

Li Zheng summoned all the villagers to the meeting hall in order to elect the village chief, but for a while the people in the village had no idea who could take on this important task.

Chen Qing did not go to the meeting hall. It was enough for his mother to participate in these matters. The winter in Luohe Village seemed to pass very quickly. It was just the tenth day of the lunar month and there was already greenery on the edge of the field.

Chen Qing and Li Xin led Zhou Yuan's cattle to the fields. The sun was warm, but the spring breeze was still a bit chilly.

"Qi Shuning is going to Fucheng to take the college examination in February. I have to go with him." They found a piece of land and some fresh grass grew on the ground. Li Xin loosened the cow rope and sat on the ridge with Chen Qing to talk.

"Can he pass the exam?" Chen Qing didn't know much about studying, but he also knew that the exam was difficult.

"I don't know, I don't know how to study, but look at how confident he is." Li Xin didn't care, "It doesn't matter whether he can pass the exam, my mother asked me to accompany him, so I can only go.

" The first time I went to Fucheng, I was worried, but this time I should be more relaxed. Li Xin asked: "Do you want to go out to play?" Chen

Qing shook his head: "The farming was busy at that time."

In the month of spring, there is spring plowing, and there are many things going on in the fields.

The vegetable patch at the door allows them to have fresh vegetables to eat this winter. After the last crop of pea tips are pinched, they have to wait for it to bloom and bear peas. The wheat planted last year needs to be fertilized once, and the weeds in the wheat field must also be removed. After pulling it out, the soil should be loosened on the empty land prepared for planting corn.

After a winter of laziness, Chen Qing felt that his bones were a little loose, and he still had to work harder.

Seeing the crowd surging, knowing that the meeting hall was over, Chen Qing took the cow back and waited for Aunt Sun to tell him who the new village chief was.

"I didn't expect that some people wanted Zhou Yuan to be the village chief." Aunt Sun said with a smile.

Li Xin burst into laughter: "Who is it? You're so expressionless."

"Qi Shuning."

Li Xin's smile disappeared instantly.

Qi Shuning is now a member of the village, so he will naturally go to such important events in the village.

The last person elected as the village chief was Old Jiang who rented his house to Li Xin and the others. Old Jiang's family was not short of money, so naturally he would not take advantage of the opportunity to make money like the previous village chief. Old Jiang was a good character and treated everyone well. Smiling.

Except for the original village chief and his family, everyone in the village was very satisfied.

"Old Jiang is a nice person," Aunt Sun said.

For the villagers of Luohe Village, whoever becomes the village head has little impact on them, and they can live their lives how they want.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, during the Lantern Festival, Li Xin came home early in the morning and said she wanted to watch the lantern festival.

Li Xin said: "Qi Shuning wanted to go and see it. He said he was about to have a hospital exam and was nervous. My father asked me to take him out to relax. There happened to be a Lantern Festival, so I took him to see it. You can come with us."

Chen Qing looked embarrassed. The lantern festival was not in the town, but in the county. Moreover, he heard that it would end late, which meant that he would not be able to make it back that day. He had not stayed out at night since coming to Luohe Village.

"Let's go." Aunt Sun helped, "You haven't been to the lantern festival yet, it's very beautiful."

"It's inconvenient to live outside." Chen Qing shook his head and turned to look at Li Xin , "Just tell me when you look back."

Li Xin saw that he really didn't want to go, so he just did it: "Okay, then I'll leave first."

Chen Qing nodded, but Aunt Sun still felt regretful and said to Chen Qing Qing said: "You should go and see it. The Lantern Festival Lantern Festival in the county is very beautiful. I went to see it many years ago, especially the lanterns. They were very well done."

Chen Qing smiled: "There will always be opportunities in the future. I'm going."

Aunt Sun sighed: "Yes, the young couple went there. It will be the same when you get married later."

After Li Xin left, Chen Qing and Aunt Sun started to play Lantern Festival. I didn't see Zhou Yuan come to my door today, and Aunt Sun still felt a little uncomfortable.

In the evening, Zhou Yuan came back with a lantern in his hand. Chen Qing took the lantern from his hand and said, "Did you go to the lantern festival?"

Zhou Yuan nodded: "I went to the county town for something, and it wasn't time for the lantern festival to start. I just bought a lamp."

He brought it back in a swaggering way, and some of them asked him if he was giving it to his sweetheart. Zhou Yuan just smiled.

After he gave the lantern to Chen Qing, Aunt Sun asked him to eat Yuanxiao at home. He agreed and went back home again, bringing with him the piece of red cloth he brought back from the capital last time.

"It's the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and there are only a few days until the end of March." Zhou Yuan put the cloth into Chen Qing's arms, "Do you want to make the wedding dress yourself, or find someone to make it?"

Chen Qing looked up at him: "I will do it myself. Let's do it."

Aunt Sun took out the Lantern Festival and saw the red cloth. She touched it with the back of her hand and felt the silk-like touch of the cloth: "This cloth is really good, it can be used as a wedding dress. It will look great on Ah Qing."

Chen Qing rarely blushed. He held the cloth in his arms and said seriously: "I will cook it well."

It won't take long to eat a bowl of Yuanxiao. The moon was full, and the moonlight fell in the yard, like frost covering the ground.

Aunt Sun looked at Zhou Yuan and Chen Qing who were sitting in the yard: "You go out for a walk, don't live up to such a beautiful moonlight."

After walking out of the yard, Zhou Yuan still remembered that Chen Qing said he wanted to see the moon, so he held his hand Moving his hand to the back of the mountain, Chen Qing shrank his neck: "Where are you taking me?"

"To see the moon." Zhou Yuan answered.

The moonlight was so good today that the mountain road was not difficult to walk. Soon we reached the back mountain. Zhou Yuan saw a tree as big as two people hugging each other, with branches on one side extending sideways.

Zhou Yuan asked: "Can you climb trees?"

Chen Qing shook his head. There were no trees so big that he could climb in his hometown.

So Zhou Yuan picked him up with one hand like a child and used the other hand to climb the tree. Chen Qing's heart was in his throat, but in the end Zhou Yuan put him firmly on the tree and sat down. .

Chen Qing had never seen Luohe Village from this angle. The moonlight was like a veil covering the entire village.

"So this is how the village looks from here." Chen Qing looked at the village, and Zhou Yuan looked at him.

He didn't hear Zhou Yuan's reply, so he turned his head to look at him. He noticed that Zhou Yuan had been looking at him, and he was a little embarrassed: "Why are you looking at me?" "

Good-looking." Zhou Yuan stroked his hair.

Chen Qing turned his head and thought Zhou Yuan was talking about the moonlight. The moon hangs high in the sky, as if you can reach out and touch it.

Zhou Yuan sat next to him, not in the mood to look at the moon. Chen Qing looked at the moon, and he looked at Chen Qing.

I had never felt that time passed so slowly in the military camp before. There were still two months until March, but the days seemed like years.

"That incident at the village chief's house..."

Zhou Yuan raised his eyebrows after listening to his words: "What?"

"It's not as simple as you said, right?" Chen Qing just looked clumsy, but he was thinking about things privately. There is a lot of time, just don't say it out loud.

Now that he had guessed it, Zhou Yuan no longer tried to hide it from him. He detailed what happened that day and told him: "If they hadn't set their sights on me, I wouldn't have done this."

Chen Qing looked at She stared at him for a while and then looked away. But when he looked away, Zhou Yuan heard a vague sigh from him.

Zhou Yuan didn't let him turn his head, and directly grabbed Chen Qing's chin with a pair of big hands, making him look at him.

Chen Qing couldn't get away and looked at him with innocent eyes: "What's wrong?"

"Why are you sighing?" Zhou Yuan asked.

Chen Qing didn't expect that he would notice even his slightest movement: "I didn't sigh."

"If you have something to say, don't hold it in your heart." Zhou Yuan said, that's what Chen Qing is bad at. It's not a good habit to keep it to yourself.

"I really didn't think about anything." Chen Qing curled his lips, "It's a bit cold. Are you going back?"

Zhou Yuan just looked at him solemnly. Chen Qing felt a little scared when he saw him, and his voice trembled when he spoke: "I... ..."

Zhou Yuan moved closer to him.

Chen Qing was startled and subconsciously hid behind him. He forgot that he was sitting on a tree trunk and almost fell. Zhou Yuan caught him and the two got closer.

Chen Qing has never been so close to a man. The last time he kissed Zhou Yuan's chin at night was the most outrageous thing he had ever done. Now Zhou Yuan is so close to him, and his hand is on Zhou Yuan's wrist could not stop trembling.

Maybe Zhou Yuan would ask Chen Qing if he was afraid of him in the past, but now he knows that Chen Qing is shy.

"Go back, go back." Chen Qing let go of Zhou Yuan's hand and did not dare to look at him, but he could not take his hand back and was held by Zhou Yuan.

"Okay." He agreed, but made no move at all. He just held Chen Qing's hand and kept looking at it.

Chen Qing knew that his hands were not good-looking. There were many large and small bruises on them, and his fingers were not slender and slender, but rather short and fat. Moreover, after coming to Luohe Village, he was not used to the climate here in the first year. I have frostbite on my hands. After the first year of birth, it will appear again every year. However, it is getting better now, but there are still some marks, which are not very nice. So he wanted to take his hand back, but Zhou Yuan stopped him.

"How did you get hurt here?" Zhou Yuan took his hand in front of his eyes and asked, pointing to a bruise on the back of his hand.

Chen Qing shook his head: "I don't remember." He had too many things to do, and this little injury seemed nothing to worry about.

"The frostbite seems to be getting better." Zhou Yuan gently touched the red and swollen area on his hand.

Chen Qing nodded: "The chilblain ointment you brought back is very useful, and the weather is getting warmer."

Zhou Yuan held his hand and kissed it: "I will bring more if I have a chance next time, but I heard The hands will itch even more when they are warm."

Chen Qing stammered: "No, no, it's much better now."

Chen Qing felt that his palms were sweating, and the areas where he had frostbite started to itch. , not only on his hands, but also as if there were bugs crawling on his back, and his heart felt more like being scratched by a cat.

Zhou Yuan moved closer to him. Chen Qing's heart skipped a beat, but he didn't move back any further.

When Zhou Yuan's kiss fell, Chen Qing held his arm tightly, and Zhou Yuan could feel the strength of his pinch on his hand through his clothes.

It was no longer like the gentle kiss on the chin last time. This time they were so close that Chen Qing even forgot to close his eyes when their lips touched each other.

He just kept his eyes open and stared at Zhou Yuan with bright eyes.

The surroundings were so quiet that he could only hear Zhou Yuan's rapid breathing and the sound of water as lips and tongues intertwined.

Many pictures flashed through Chen Qing's mind, including lanterns, red cloth, the moon, corn, wheat, and many more.

When he came to his senses, Zhou Yuan's hand was holding his shoulders and another kiss fell on Chen Qing's eyes.

The moon seems to be hanging on the treetops, confusing people's minds. Chen Qing's eyes are brighter than the moon, Zhou Yuan thought.