I farmed and built a villa in ancient times

Chapter 149

However, most of the charcoal circulating on the market is supplied to large households. Ordinary households with small households will light a fire for cooking every day. The large pieces of red charcoal left by the fire are put into the porcelain jar, covered with a lid to isolate the air, and wait until Take it out when you use it, and the stool can survive the winter.

The winter in Qingshui Town lasts for more than three months from mid-November to early February next year. The firewood collected by Zhou Chenyu yesterday was far from enough. After resting for one night, he would go up the mountain the next morning.

Li Xiuju was afraid that she would be hungry on the mountain, so she brought a few hard-boiled eggs, sweet potatoes, and a pot of water and put them into Zhou Chenyu's backpack. "Take these with you for when you get hungry on the way."

Zhou Chenyu looked at the several kilograms of burden and just wanted to pack lightly and take things with him if possible. "I don't want it. I'm going to chop wood, not go up the mountain to play."

"You've been here for a long time, and you've been doing all the physical work. You can't hold your stomach until noon. Mom is here, be obedient, and take everything with you!" Li Xiuju glared at her and stuffed the things into her backpack.

Zhou Wanqiu pushed the door open and walked into the courtyard. He looked at the two of them and smiled hard, "Auntie, Sister Shen Yu, I'm here again."

When Li Xiuju saw her, she hurriedly took out two hot eggs and sweet potatoes from the cloth bag and stuffed them into Wan Qiu's hands, "Here, I'll give you two."

Zhou Wanqiu took the things in a daze, raised a timid look, and said, "Mother, can you give me the basket from yesterday? I want to follow Sister Shen Yu into the mountains to collect firewood."

"You still want to go?" Li Xiuju was stunned, and Zhou Chenyu walked up to Zhou Wanqiu, "I was so tired after working for a long time yesterday. You still want to go with me? Don't go."

Zhou Wanqiu blinked her swollen eyes and held the egg tightly, "Sister Shen Yu, I want to go. All the work at home is done, and I have nowhere to go alone."

Li Xiuju looked at Zhou Wanqiu's thin body, which seemed to be getting thinner day by day. She was afraid that she would be tired, "Wan Qiu, you stay here to talk to my mother-in-law."

"Auntie, I..." Zhou Wanqiu saw the backpack placed in the corner, walked over and put it on his shoulder, "Auntie, I don't want to go anywhere, I still want to stay with Sister Chen Yu."

Li Xiuju knew what her daughter was thinking and wanted to play together. She had no choice but to smile and said, "Then you two take care of each other and go back early."

Seeing Zhou Wanqiu's determination, Zhou Chenyu put all the eggs and sweet potatoes in her basket into his own, "Okay, you're not tired, what should I be afraid of? With so many people, it's too late for me to be happy."

After getting permission, Zhou Wanqiu nodded, held on to both sides of the basket, and like a little follower, followed Zhou Chenyu's footsteps, and the two of them went up the mountain together.

After leaving the house, Zhou Chenyu looked at her and said, "It's too late for others to be lazy when they see these heavy tasks. Why are you following me?"

Zhou Wanqiu pursed her lips and touched the scar under her sleeve, "Sister Chen Yu, do you think I'm annoyed?"

"Why am I bothering you? I'm afraid you'll be tired." Only then did Zhou Chenyu see her slightly swollen eyes, as if she had cried.She said in a deep voice, "Did your parents and your bastard brother scold you again?"

Zhou Wanqiu gritted her teeth and held back tears welling up again.

Zhou Chenyu saw her crying like this, but she still wanted to be brave. He leaned over and hugged her, "It's okay. In front of me, you can cry if you want to, and laugh if you want to laugh."

Zhou Wanqiu cried and smiled, "Sister Shen Yu, let's go. It's hard to get up early and go up the mountain, and we still have to collect firewood."

Zhou Chenyu smiled and said, "As long as you don't cry, I can do anything."

In this way, Zhou Chenyu and Zhou Wanqiu worked together, getting up early and going up the mountain at dusk every day, collecting dry firewood for six days, and piling everything under the eaves around the house.

Zhou Wanqiu worked here for several days, and Li Xiuju felt bad about it. She cooked several dishes on the last night and asked Zhou Wanqiu to eat before going home.

After eating, Zhou Chenyu sent people outside.The autumn harvest is coming to an end, and the gray smoke in the rice fields is getting weaker and weaker with the sunset and sunset.

Zhou Wanqiu took a shortcut home, which was a burned-out grassland. The bleak autumn wind blew up the remaining ashes on the ground, knocking her down with it.

Like a grass rooted in barren soil, she stared blankly at the darkness falling to the west, and the last bit of light in her eyes dimmed.

After seeing off Zhou Wanqiu, Zhou Wanqiu returned to the yard.

Li Xiuju's legs have returned to their original state, and she can move around without the crutches, and there is basically no problem.

She was cleaning the dust and garbage in the yard. Zhou Chenyu stared at her every move. His heart jumped into his throat. He wanted to take over, but she stopped him. "You don't need to come, I can do it."

Zhou Chenyu stood aside and looked at it, "It seems to be almost the same as before."

"It's more or less the same?" Li Xiuju pursed her lips and smiled, "I see, you don't even need to take medicine."

"That won't work." Zhou Chenyu slumped on the chair. Li Xiuju swept up to her feet. She hung her legs and said tirelessly: "My feet are fine, but I still have to take medicine. In short, everything depends on Dr. Shen's advice." . People are professionals and what they say is what they say.”

Li Xiuju smiled sweetly and said, "Okay, don't you have to go to the city to get me medicine tomorrow? Take a hot bath early and cover yourself in bed."

"Oh." Zhou Chenyu moved the chair back into the house and entered the bathroom with his clothes.

Two buckets of hot water continued to steam, and soon the room was filled with steam. She took a comfortable hot bath, warmed her whole body, and got back into bed.

She kept spinning for several days and suddenly stopped tomorrow, but she didn't know what to do.

Zhou Chenyu opened his eyes and calmed down. After reviewing what he had done in the past few days, he couldn't help but sigh.

This kind of day is not as busy as going to work, and it is not like lying in bed and surfing the Internet every day. Day after day, year after year, the future days seem to be visible to the naked eye.

For someone like her who is not destined to be a housewife or a good wife and mother, staying at home and working every day is really a bit of a waste.

"In the final analysis, I still don't have any money, and the work I put in does not match my income. I am still struggling to make ends meet."

Zhou Chenyu turned over, took out the money bag hidden in the corner, and counted it carefully.

Since Li Xiuju got sick last time, the financial power of the family has been handed over to her. She still has more than six taels of silver in total. She only went to the hospital once and lost half the family's income for half a year, all of which were hard-earned money.

If we come here a few more times, it will be too much for anyone.

Winter is coming soon, and the whole family's hope is on Baoyu, but it is uncertain whether Baoyu's hunting harvest will be good or bad.

"It's not an option to rely on the sky all the time." Zhou Chenyu rested his head on his head, crossed his legs and lay on the bed, then turned around again: "You have to do business to get rich."

But the premise is, how can she kick the stumbling block Qian Rushan into the gutter?

(End of this chapter)