A Husband Who Traveled Through the Famine and Developed a Chronicle

Chapter 5

Seeing that Bai Xia turned around and went in, not as obedient as before, Li Xiuyuan's eyes were wide open, thinking of the beating he received yesterday, he touched his ears that still hurt a little.

Looking at the sky again, there should be a while before his mother comes back.

In the end, he could only sigh like a grown-up: "Master is right, but women and villains are difficult to raise."

After finishing speaking, he picked up the bookcase at his feet, and walked towards the house with his little face flushed.

He has only just begun to enlightenment now, and he has learned mostly the Three-Character Classic and the Thousand-Character Classic. He has learned these from nowhere, but he just heard the master say something occasionally, and he remembered it in his heart.

As soon as he entered the yard, he saw Bai Xia grinding a wooden stick with a hatchet in the corner. Li Xiuyuan was not in a hurry, and carried the bookcase into the house first, put it away neatly, and then left the house. In front of Bai Xia, she asked curiously, "Lady, what are you doing?"

Fist hardened.

Bai Xia took a deep breath, glared at him, and warned: "Don't call me your wife in the future."

Such a big doll calling her that name not only made people feel weird, but also made her feel ashamed and guilty.

Li Xiuyuan was silent for a while, and said to himself, everyone says you are my wife, why don't you let me call you?
But after glancing at Bai Xia's hatchet, he swallowed silently: "Then what should I call you?"

Bai Xia was also silent.

"Sister"

Although she has dozens of people, it is a bit strange for a five-year-old doll to be called sister, but who made her body only nine years old.

In addition, she was adopted by Lin's, so it's not an exaggeration for this baby to call her sister.

"no"

Li Xiuyuan's face was sullen.

He knew that Bai Xia was his daughter-in-law since he was very young, so he imitated his master and called her a lady like Shi Niang, but Bai Xia asked him to call her sister, which was not in keeping with etiquette.

He has been enlightened for a year, and he knows more than many children, so when Bai Xia said this, he disagreed.

"why not?"

Bai Xia was surprised, she was older than him, wouldn't it be normal for him to call her sister?
"You are my daughter-in-law"

Li Xiuyuan puffed up his face and stared at Bai Xia.

"You're only a little old, do you know what a daughter-in-law is?" Bai Xia laughed, she's just a little baby.

"Anyway, I can't call you sister"

Li Xiuyuan has her own insistence, never calling her sister.

Bai Xia shrugged her shoulders. If she doesn't call her sister, then she shouldn't call her sister. She doesn't lack younger brothers.

"Okay, then call me by my name"

After finishing speaking, he ignored him and began to cut two grooves on both ends of the polished shoulder pole for easy tying of ropes.

"Three... Sanya, what are you doing?"

Li Xiuyuan has only called her two titles, Niangzi and Bitch, but she was not used to being called Bai Xia at first.

Bai Xia paused for a moment, and didn't want to pay attention to him at first, but thought that education should start from a baby, so she sat him down on a low stool and asked him, "Do you know how everyone fetches water? "

"water bucket"

Li Xiuyuan answered firmly.

Bai Xia choked for a moment, and then said patiently: "After the bucket was filled with water, did you bring it back with your hands?"

Li Xiuyuan nodded, and then looked at her a little strangely, not carrying her with his hands, so what's the use?
Bai Xia didn't explain, and asked him to help pass the rope, and then put the rope on the shoulder pole.

She has already thought about it, there is no iron hook, but the rope can still be used.

Although it is not as convenient as an iron hook, it can save money. Who said that the Li family is short of money now, so she can only use this stupid method.

After setting it up, she came out with two buckets, tied the rope on the pole to the buckets, picked them up with her shoulders, and said to Li Xiuyuan who was sitting beside her, "Come on, carry water with me."

Li Xiuyuan's eyes lit up, and he instantly understood the function of the pole.

Compared with carrying water in buckets, this is obviously faster.

If Bai Xia had asked him to fetch water together before, he would definitely not have gone, but now when Bai Xia called, he followed in a hurry.

When we arrived at the well, even after a night of backwatering, the water level in the well was still lower than yesterday when someone fetched water. Bai Xia silently fetched a bucket of water and poured it out. Half into another bucket, tied with a rope, and picked up.

Well, a little heavy.

But still bearable.

Bai Xia pinched the ropes on both sides of the pole with both hands, stabilized the pole, and walked towards home with a little wobble.

When I got home, the sky was almost dark, and I met Mrs. Lin who was coming back from work. Mrs. Lin saw Bai Xia who was carrying water at a glance. Take the burden on her shoulders and transfer the burden to your own shoulders.

After carrying water for a day, my hands were sore, but now that the burden was on my shoulders, neither of the two buckets were filled, so I just felt very relaxed.

"Sanya, where did you come from?"

Lin took the water into the kitchen, tried it, and knew it was good, so she asked Bai Xia.

Bai Xia didn't hide it either, she just said her thoughts, she just said that she felt that carrying water was too tiring, thinking of the pigweed cutting basket and carrying so many things on her shoulders, she didn't feel so tired, so she wondered if she could use it Carry water on your shoulders.

At first I thought about using a basket to carry it, but I was afraid of splashing water on my back, so I came up with the idea of ​​carrying water on a pole, so I thought about making a water-carrying pole.

"Mother, what Sanya said is true, I saw her do it"

Lin was a little skeptical at first, but when she heard Li Xiuyuan testify against Bai Xia, she immediately believed it.

"Well done, Sanya"

Lin patted Bai Xia's head in relief. She was worried that she would be too busy carrying water to irrigate a few acres of paddy fields, so Bai Xia came up with such a thing. You can carry two barrels at a time, which is much faster than carrying one barrel at a time.

Unexpectedly, this stupid girl would come up with such an idea, Lin felt that she should be rewarded.

"Sanya, I'll cook, you go to the mountains and pick some wild vegetables and come back"

Lin's heart was broken, and she planned to have an extra meal tonight, not only to reward Bai Xia for carrying the water load, but also because her body couldn't bear it after a day of farm work.

There is still a lot of work to do in the future. If she falls down and leaves these two children behind, I don't know what to do!

Lin was worried.

Bai Xia was overjoyed, she was almost starving to death.

If it weren't for the conscience in her heart, she might not be able to resist cooking all the food in Lin's house.

"Hey, I'm going right now"

"Mother, I'm going too." Li Xiuyuan didn't play much every day except for reading, and when he heard that Bai Xia was going to pick wild vegetables, he hurried to go.

Lin was glad that they had a good relationship, so she hurriedly responded.

When going out this time, Bai Xia took a basket, and since it was getting dark, the workers in every household had gone home, so she brought Li Xiu Yuan to the mountain and taught him to recognize wild vegetables.

"Did you see? These are edible wild vegetables, be careful when you pick them, and don't rush." ​​Bai Xia reminded, and Li Xiuyuan nodded repeatedly.

(End of this chapter)