See you in the world

Chapter 91

The small animals in the room were scared away by Li Qiu's breath, and it was much easier to clean up.

When the sun was setting to the west, the master and apprentice, who had been busy for a long time, finally tidied up the house to the point where it was barely livable.

But after all this was cleaned up, both the master and the apprentice were ashamed, and those who didn't know thought they had gone to dig coal.

"Master, you have a chicken feather stuck on your face." In the main room, Yun Jing grinned and pointed at Li Qiu's face with a smile. As for where the chicken feather came from in this house that has been empty all year round, he doesn't think about it. problem.

Li Qiu was not annoyed, looked at Yun Jing and said, "Jing Er, you still have spider webs on your head, it looks like a bird is going to build a nest on your head."

"Hey...", Yun Jing smiled, and touched his head with his hand, the spider web was a little sticky.

The master and apprentice looked at each other and smiled, harmonious and warm.

At this time, Yunjing couldn't help but sigh in his heart. His master was so delicate. No matter what, he was his teacher. In the end, he was two strangers at the beginning. Get up, thus invisibly narrowing the relationship between the two parties.

If it wasn't so, he might have some way to avoid this humiliating crime.

"Let's go, there is a well over there, let's go wash it," Li Qiu found a usable wooden bucket, put a face cloth in it, and said while holding Yunjing's hand.

Obviously he had stepped on it a long time ago, and the well was just a few hundred meters away from the house.

The water source of the well comes from groundwater, which is extremely clear, and it is a bit cold on a hot day. It is very comfortable to pour a handful on your face.

When he came to the well, Yun Jingxin said that if he soaked the whole watermelon earlier, cut it open and ate a bite, that would be An Yi. Having said that, he didn’t seem to have seen a fruit like ‘watermelon’ in this world, so he didn’t know. Do you have.

The well is leaning against a stone wall, and was built with stone slabs into three small pools with a stepped lower water level. Each pool is four or five square meters, and the water is no deeper than a thigh. There are many finger-sized fish and fish in it. shrimp.

People can stand by the side of each pool. Seeing this layout, Yunjing probably guessed that the top pool, where the water outlet is, should be the place where people usually fetch drinking water, followed by the vegetable washers, and then the raccoon. laundry.

The stone slabs on the edge of several pools are very smooth, obviously people often come here, and there are some vegetables and so on in the second pool...

Yun Jing was only six years old, and he had the experience of "walking birds" when he was a child. He was not afraid of being shy, and washed naked by the sink where he washed clothes. Li Qiu would be much more civilized, cleaning himself with his clothes on.

When washing up, Li Qiu took out a raw material that he guessed was saponin ash and used it for cleaning, not to mention, the effect was not bad.

Just when Yun Jing wondered whether his master could clean his clothes, he was soaked, and he poured a bucket of water full of soap foam up and down, several times in a row. When the water cleared, his body lightened slightly, With a bang, a cloud of water mist rose around him, and then the clothes on his body seemed to be shaken by a dryer...

Although it is afternoon now, the sun is still a bit vicious. It will not take long for the clothes on his body to dry completely. Isn't this too convenient?
"I don't usually do this as a teacher. It's not limited to save trouble. Jing'er, would you like to dry your clothes for me?" Li Qiu pointed to the washed clothes next to Yunjing and smiled without hesitation.

Yun Jing has gotten used to his master's ability, so he is not surprised, but it is good to not have to wear wet clothes, nodded and said: "Master, please trouble me."

"No problem"

Li Qiu smiled, picked up Yunjing's clothes and shook them a few times, and the water on the clothes was almost shaken...

Although the clothes were shaken almost dry, they were not completely dried on the ground, and Yun Jing was not wearing them, so he was going to take them back to dry. He had heard from his mother before that wearing wet clothes was easy to get sick.

As for my master, I don't think I care about this issue.

Standing by the well, Yunjing visually checked the water level of the well and the house where he would live in the future. The water level of the well was higher. He said, "Master, can we use bamboo pipes to lead the well water to the house? That would be convenient. a lot"

Li Qiu was taken aback for a few moments, then looked at Yun Jing slightly surprised and said, "It's totally feasible, Jing Er, who taught you this method?"

"No one taught me. I saw the paddy field at home, and there was a ditch beside it to divert water to the field, so I asked." Yunjing casually found a reason.

When he was at home, his father picked water from the creek in the morning. It wasn't that Yunjing didn't want to install 'tap water' at home, it was because the conditions didn't allow it.

The stream in Xiaoxi Village is much shorter than his home. If it is going upstream to divert water, it will take several kilometers. He can't handle it by himself, and his family doesn't have time to complete this 'big project'. Originally, he wanted to think about it later. , Now we can only wait for the future.

Li Qiu looked at Yunjing and exclaimed: "Not bad, not bad, Jinger, you can think of the convenience of life from the details, it is really rare, well, as you said, we will lead the well water to the residence, but it will be the day after tomorrow. It's going to be dark soon, let's cook and eat first."

"it is good"

Under the setting sun, the master and apprentice walked to the residence.

After Yunjing finished drying the clothes, Li Qiu took out two sets of bedding from somewhere. He reckoned that they were bought from a certain farmer's family. They had patches and looked old, but they were very clean and smelled like sunshine.

Make your bed, then build a fire and cook.

There is no shortage of firewood at present. When they cleaned up the house, they threw out a lot of broken and unusable furniture.

Li Qiu said that they only had half a month's ration, and it was true. Half a tank of brown rice should be enough for them to eat for half a month.

After cooking half a pot of porridge, there were only pickles and lumps in the dishes, and there was nothing else. The master and apprentice also ate deliciously.

During the cooking of the porridge, Li Qiu took advantage of Yunjing not paying attention and sprinkled some unknown things into the porridge. Anyway, it was a good thing to nourish the body. He wanted Yunjing to experience the difficult days, but it wasn’t true. To abuse him, after all, Yun Jing is still growing up.

It was getting dark after dinner, the master and apprentice packed up and went to bed, and they had to continue working tomorrow.

It took a long time to tidy up the house, although it was not heavy physical work, but Yunjing was still young, so tired that he fell asleep in bed.

Having been taught by his master during the day, he no longer thinks about martial arts training, so he doesn't worry if he doesn't see his master practicing martial arts. He thinks that at Li Qiu's level, he doesn't need to be like a normal martial arts practitioner. .

In the next few days, Yunjing and Li Qiu were busy around the house, repairing the furniture that could be used, clearing the weeds in the yard, drawing water from the well with bamboo pipes, and repairing the holes in the roof. ...

No matter how big or small, everything has to be done by hand.

It took them three full days to tidy up the house. The house was clean, the yard was leveled, and they could still drink 'tap water'.

This afternoon, Li Qiu washed his hands in the tap water. He asked Yun Jing, "Jing Er, how do you feel cleaning the house with Wei Shi these few days?"

Yun Jing took a handful of cold tap water to wash his face to get rid of the heat, and after hearing what Master said, he thought for a while and said truthfully: "Tired!"

Although what he did was just small pieces, but he was busy all day, and Yun Jing felt that he was really tired.

"What else?" Li Qiu nodded and asked again.

Yun Jing looked around at the clean and tidy house, and said again: "Happy"

"It's normal to be tired. After all, there's so much work. It's also normal to be happy. Now, don't you feel that you have a sense of accomplishment in your heart after tidying up the house like this with your own hands? The sense of accomplishment comes from achieving a certain goal through your own efforts. Pleasure, usually this feeling does not need to be recognized by others, do you have this feeling?" Li Qiu laughed.

He was afraid that Yunjing would not understand the word sense of accomplishment, so he explained it incidentally.

Yun Jing nodded and said, "It's really like this."

"Really?" Li Qiu smiled, and then said: "After cleaning the house for a few days, you will feel tired. Then think about it now, in your house, your mother does housework every day, and it's not a big deal. Two days, but day after day and year after year, so is she tired?"

After Yun Jing heard this, he was silent for a moment, his heart was a little touched, and he said: "I think my mother must be very tired."

"That's right, so, usually you may know that your mother is very tired doing housework, but you don't know where the tiredness is. Maybe you are used to the picture of your mother doing housework, and you haven't even thought about it. Now, you personally After going through it, with personal experience, do you understand how difficult it is for your mother? What we have done these days is far less than your mother’s daily care. I heard that your family also has chickens, ducks, pigs and cows, and Your brother, you need your mother to take care of these things, right? She still needs to cook for the family, three meals a day, work in the fields, do needlework, etc..."

"I tell you these things as a teacher to tell you that there are many things that you know are the same thing, but if you don't experience it yourself, you will never be able to experience it personally, and you will always stay at the stage of 'I know' and 'I understand' To put it bluntly, it’s just rhetoric, but it can’t touch the heart. Only when you experience both body and mind, will you truly understand something. This is what the teacher wants to tell you.”

It turns out that Master still has these deep meanings in doing these trivial tasks these days.

Precepts and deeds, nothing more than the case.

Knowing his intention, Yun Jing respectfully said: "Your apprentice is taught."

"It's good to understand, so starting tomorrow, we will dig the land. You may have heard that farmers are very tired from farming, but how tired and where is the tiredness? You have to experience it yourself to truly understand!"

Li Qiu pointed to a few pieces of wasteland in front of the yard and said...

(End of this chapter)