pastoral fragrance

Chapter 295
Qiuyue interrupted Xu Nuo's ramblings, and said very seriously: "Brother Xu Nuo, I know you treat me well, but I like Brother Ah Cheng for several years. Now I have gotten my wish and married him! Xu Nuo Brother, don't go to the dark alley, open your eyes and look at the girls in and out of the village, there are quite a few gentle, virtuous, sensible and well-behaved girls."

Seeing Xu Nuo's dull expression, Qiuyue didn't care whether he had figured it out or not. "That's all I've said. Brother Ah Cheng is still waiting for me to go home. I promise brother that we will see you later. I hope you have already made a marriage agreement, or you already have a lovely wife and beautiful family by your side." Qiuyue finished. Then, he took the silk flower from Xu Nuo's hand, left the yard without looking back, and ran towards his own yard.

Xu Nuo was stunned on the spot thoughtfully, his mind was buzzing, and his heart was full of mixed feelings.

After returning home, Zhang Cheng and his wife got into the carriage to say goodbye to their natal family.At this moment, everyone stopped crying, but smiled and said goodbye.Seeing that the car had driven out of the village in an even and stable manner, everyone withdrew their gazes and went back to the house together.

As soon as she entered the door, Mrs. Han sighed, "If I had known that Xu promised that the child was thinking about Qiuyue, we would betroth the eldest sister to him, so that we would not see each other several times throughout the year."

Xu Nanshan smoked a dry cigarette, "What are you talking about? It's not bad for Ah Cheng. Besides, he said that he led his daughter-in-law to our place often! Don't say this anymore. If Ah Cheng hears it, How sad should you be?"

"I just sighed like this. If you really marry so close, I'm afraid it won't work. As the saying goes, far away is fragrant and near is stinky. You see how strange it is for Mei Xiang to come back. If she really lives with us, If you don't look up and look down all day long, the family spirit will be much less."

Mei Xiang recalled that when she was at her mother's house, she wandered around with her parents all day long, and she couldn't bring up any intimacy.Now I went to Stone City with Qiusong, every time I come back, don't my parents walk around her and do their work intimately?This kind of intimacy is really rare for Mei Xiang.I'm afraid that if I really stay in Luoshui Village all day long, my parents won't be as affectionate to me anymore.Isn't this the mother-in-law's phrase "Far fragrance near near smell?"Man, what a strange thing.

The eldest sister's wedding is over, and Qiusong and his wife are leaving for Stone City.This is only a few days off with the county magistrate, so I can't stay longer.On the second day after Qiuyue returned home, Qiusong and his wife also took a carriage, took some souvenirs and went back to Stone City.

Originally, Mrs. Han planned to let Mei Xiang stay. After all, she was pregnant and the journey was exhausting. How tiring.It's better to raise the baby in my hometown and return to Stone City after giving birth.It's just that the relationship between these two people is too tired and crooked, how can they listen to Han's words, Han has no choice but to ask Meixiang's mother-in-law and girl to take good care of the master.

As soon as the eldest sister Qiuyue got married, Qiusong and his wife returned to Stone City, and Qiuhe studied in the school all day long. Now the house is getting more and more deserted.

But life in the countryside is still passable.In a blink of an eye, the waking of insects has passed, and the busy spring plowing at the farm is about to start again.It's time to get busy plowing the field and preparing it for farming.The silkworm eggs will also be bought to start the new year's silkworm raising, as well as hatching chickens, buying piglets for the whole pigpen and so on.The miscellaneous work seems to have popped up out of thin air.

Now that Qiuyue is married, Qiulin drags Xia Yan along to buy seeds and silkworm eggs in the town.Anyway, they are both engaged now, and there will be no one else to gossip.

Now that there are two more servants in the family, Qiulin bought more silkworm eggs.Now the family is planning to raise spring silkworms. As for summer and autumn silkworms, it is a toss up, and the output is not as high as that of spring silkworms. In addition, every household in the village has started to raise silkworms, so they can't make much money.It's not worth it to earn so much money through hard work.So Han shi gritted his teeth and decided not to raise it.

Silkworm eggs are easy to buy, and they can be bought in a short time. Seeds are more difficult to buy. Who would buy herbal seeds for ordinary people?Now the production of honeysuckle and dry pinellia in the family is quite large, and these two kinds can no longer be grown.You have to buy some other seeds to plant, such as Nanxing, Gastrodia elata, Astragalus, Pueraria lobata, and chicken bones.If only there were a variety of herbs in the woodland.

He and Xia Yan walked the streets and alleys, and visited all the seed shops in the town, but they couldn't find all the above varieties, and the quantity was also small, but it's better than nothing.Bring back the seeds and herbal seedlings, and have them planted on the slopes on the same day.

Last year, Qiulin's family bought another large field, where they planted millet, rice field eels, loach, lotus roots, and taro.In the field, we grow wheat, yams, sweet potatoes, peas and peas, and then we grow oily cabbage, Chinese cabbage, celery, garlic, and cauliflower. These vegetables are grown in season. There are a lot of servants in the house, and they want to eat them with their bellies open.There are also some lands specially used for planting herbs, such as honeysuckle, pinellia, mulberry, Panax notoginseng, coptis, lobelia, motherwort and so on.

All in all, there is basically no room for vegetables, herbs, fish and eels in the fields at home.

The servants in the family are also divided into jobs, some specialize in growing vegetables and tending the food in the field, some specialize in farming and doing some work of feeding chickens, ducks, fish, rice field eels, lotus root and taro, and some specialize in the work of the field. Herbs, fertilization, weeding and watering are all included.There are also those who manage the rice in the fields, those who manage the forest... Uh, the Han family has always been in charge of raising silkworms.Leaving all these to the servants, Qiulin became a hands-off shopkeeper, and what he did all day long was not to go wandering in the woods, go to the fields to see how the crops were growing and so on.

These businesses in the family grew bigger and bigger, and Qiulin, who was not good at arithmetic, had to start keeping accounts.If you don't write down this account one by one, you will definitely be unclear in the future.None of the parents in the family can read and write, and the third brother is busy studying and taking the Juren exam. The rest of the people are assured that they can't read and write, and those who can read and write are more or less worried.So she could only bite the bullet and take care of the bill.

In addition, she also taught Xiaoqing, Xiaohong and Xiaohe how to read and write at a younger age.When others asked how she learned these things, Qiulin opened her eyes and said nonsense that she watched her second and third brothers read and write, and she gradually got it.

Xu Nanshan of the Han family felt that his little daughter was smart and could make small calculations since she was a child. It is not surprising that she can write a few words now.So he didn't ask any more questions, and just let Qiulin to toss about.

Qiulin felt that he had a great responsibility, and every account had to be carefully checked, and sometimes he had to be busy until late at night before he could stop and rest.Later, Xiaoqing and Xiaohong gradually got used to it, and Qiulin also divided them into small accounts, and kept the big expenses by himself.

It's just that there is no harvest season yet, and most of the accounts are miscellaneous, so Qiu Lin gradually became idle.

Now it is March in Yangchun, and the village is full of good spring.The dead wood that has been silent for a winter is in spring, and now it is full of buds.Ever since I knew that peaches, loquats and other fruits can be made into honey-soaked fruits, every household in the village must plant a few fruit trees in front of and behind their houses.Now is the time when the peach blossoms and pear blossoms are in full bloom. The pink ones are like clouds and the white ones are like snow, which looks very attractive.

I was busy with bookkeeping and reconciliation in the days of writing, but now I relax, seeing the happy spring in this village, I want to go for an outing.Doing barbecue in the wild, and having this picturesque scenery, is really a joy in life!
It's rare to have a rest in school, and the third brother is also at home.This happens to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!Qiulin dragged Qiuhe, and called Meixiang's younger brother and cousin, as well as childhood playmates such as Xu Nuo and Huaihua. Naturally, Xia Yan also had Xia Yan's share, and everyone went for an outing in the wild together.

In fact, the place they walked was not far away, it was by the river.There is a large piece of green grass next to the feet, which is suitable for barbecue!Xu Ming and Xu Yang carried the sawed pine logs as firewood, Xu Nuo was carrying several fishes that had been coated with seasoning, Xu Changshan was holding tableware such as bowls and chopsticks, Huaihua was holding a child, Qiulin Holding some flammable cypress saplings, which are used to ignite the fire; Qiu He and Xia Yan each carried rabbits, wrapped lotus leaf chicken and other houses in their hands, and other condiments, I am afraid that these will not be enough to eat. !It is worth mentioning that Huai Hua still brought a cousin from her uncle, and now she is too. Huai Hua's family died three years ago, and this girl has to serve her father for three years. Now it is the end of the period, otherwise she would not come Sophora's house is walking around.

Qiulin looked at Xu Nuo, who was walking ahead as calm as a mountain, and then at his cousin Huaihua who was following behind Huaihua to bring her a cloth bag. Qiulin had an epiphany.This spring outing has changed its nature now, has it become a blind date in disguise?

Qiulin kept staring at Sophora japonica's cousin all the time on the road, and saw that she had pretty features, and she was very gentle in her conversation, she looked quite lovely.In her heart, she also hoped that this would happen.The eldest sister is already married, so she doesn't want Xu Xu's elder brother to remain single forever, does she?These people are already in their twenties, and if it drags on, I'm afraid they will have to marry the crooked melons and dates left by others.

When we got to the river, we all sat on the grass.Sophora Hua took out a large piece of cloth from the cloth bag and spread it on the ground for the little baby to sit on.Now Xu Changshan and Huaihua's children are several months old, they are very strong, and they laugh when they meet everyone, which is actually quite likable.

Several of their big men are already busy digging out a piece of green grass to make a fire on it. A triangle iron frame is placed on the firewood, and the fish and rabbits with wooden sticks are directly placed on the iron frame to roast. The two lotus leaf chickens were directly thrown into the firewood and burned together with the firewood!
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