jdhmnovel Chapter 395: Smart Li Xin
Chapter 395: Smart Li Xin
"Are there many of the small peaches you picked a few days ago on the mountain?" Gu Qingqing asked.
Li Xin nodded. "A lot is a lot, but a lot has been eaten by birds, and some has been blown to the ground by the wind."
"If we get them all back, do you know how much there would be?"
What are the characteristics of wild peaches?
The flesh is thin and the hair is thick.
Many children in the village like it, but adults usually don’t pick it. Even if they do, they only pick it for their children. In the eyes of adults, it is really worthless to eat it.
Li Xin thought for a moment and said, "Bring back all the good and the bad. I think there will be three or four baskets."
Gu Qingqing was delighted when she heard this. "That's enough, wait until your uncle comes back. I'll ask him to get the good stuff back, and I'll make delicious food for you."
"Are peaches delicious?"
"Well, I'll see if I can make some canned food for you." Gu Qingqing felt greedy as she thought about it.
"Oh, then I'll give the chicken to Grandpa Yang." Li Xin said as he took out the chicken that Dahei had just brought to the backyard.
"Did your aunt tell you how she wants to eat it?" Old Yang took the chicken and looked at it while asking Li Xin.
As a result, he waited for a while but no one answered. When he looked up, he saw him running hurriedly outside with a bamboo basket on his back and another bamboo basket in his hand.
"Well, what is this kid going to do now that he just came back?"
After leaving the house, Li Xin went to the hillside to find Zhao Danju, who was doing nothing under the shade of a tree. "Have you finished eating the twisted candy?"
"We finished eating a long time ago. What? Aunt Qingqing wants to make it again?" Zhao Danju couldn't help licking his lips after saying that.
"Auntie is pregnant with a son now, so she can't do these hard work. I haven't finished eating yet, so follow me and help me work. When I come back, I'll make you a dough."
When Zhao Danju heard this, he followed Li Xin without asking what he was supposed to do.
Seeing this, Zhao Lulin wanted to follow, but was rejected by Li Xin, "You are too young, I will just find your brother."
"I want some candy, too."
Seeing that Li Xin didn't say anything, Zhao Danju hurriedly said to Lu Lin, "Wait for me at home. I'll bring you some twisted candy."
Then he urged Li Xin to leave quickly, as if he wanted to come back early.
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"Is Qingqing at home?"
Gu Qingqing was in the backyard and vaguely heard a loud voice coming from the front yard. She was startled at first, but then she figured out who the voice belonged to. She stood up and said to Wen Xin and Sheng Xi, "When you're done, go play. I'll go to the front yard to take a look."
Old Yang, who was working on pheasants in an open space outside, smiled and shook his head. The Geng family's daughter-in-law had a really loud voice.
When Gu Qingqing came to the inner yard from the backyard, she saw Geng Chunhua holding a sewing basket in her hand, and taking Xiaoyang and Xiaoguang to the side of the tank in the yard to look at the fish inside.
Seeing this, Gu Qingqing laughed out loud, "Sister Geng, it's ok that you didn't bring Geng Wen and Geng Wu, but why did you bring these two idiots?"
Niu Xiaoyang listened to Gu Qingqing's voice, turned his head and called out sweetly, "Auntie."
"Aunt, why are there still two fish in the tank? Why don't they give birth to baby fish?" Niu Xiaoguang is not very tall and can only stand on tiptoe to see the fish in the tank.
Gu Qingqing looked at Niu Xiaoguang, who looked disappointed, and smiled and spread her hands at him, "I don't know either."
"Well, two is fine." The child comforted himself.
It was only then that Geng Chunhua answered her previous question, "I met the siblings in the village. I said I was coming to your house, and they followed me."
"Why did you feel like coming to visit me today? Have you finished the work in the fields?" Gu Qingqing said as she picked up two bamboo stools from the steps in the yard and placed them in the shade in the yard.
Geng Chunhua was not polite. She sat down with her sewing basket and said, "There is no end to the work in the fields. There is no interruption in the big work without weeding. Your brother Li took the children to weed. I took this opportunity to make two new pairs of shoes for the children. The children in my family grow up in the wind. If we feed them wild vegetables every day, their feet will not be able to stop growing. The shoes I made for the eldest child last year are too tight this year."
Geng Chunhua is really a good mother and a good woman.
She can plow the fields during the busy farming season, and when she sits down, she can pick up an embroidery needle and do needlework very well.
Wow, so enviable!
Gu Qingqing agreed with what she said. Her family had good food, and her children were as skinny as bean sprouts last year, but now they have grown into beautiful young girls with plump faces and bodies, looking festive.
"That's right. The same goes for the ones in my family. The new clothes I made last fall have the pinched parts stretched to their maximum. They fit just fine now. If we wait until this fall when it gets warm, we might not be able to wear them." Gu Qingqing chatted with her.
"Then, huh? Wen Xin? Who is Wen Xin?" Geng Chunhua turned her head and asked her, but the needle on her hand that was sewing the soles of shoes did not stop.
Then Gu Qingqing told her about the names given to several children in the family.
"My daughters do have proper names. At first I thought your family would use Dahua and Erhua as their names, but they are still young now, so it's not too late to give them proper names."
"We think so too. If it's a son, he can be given a cheap name and raised easily. But if there's a daughter in the family, she will most likely not be liked and will be given a sloppy name." Gu Qingqing agreed.
Then Gu Qingqing suddenly asked, "Didn't the village build a kiln behind the village to burn lime? Didn't you go to carry the stones?"
Geng Chunhua was very happy when she talked about this. "I have to thank you. Just like the county magistrate said, our village was exempted from the autumn harvest. The village chief exempted my family from carrying stones."
Gu Qingqing has not been out of the house these days, so she really doesn't know some things happening in the village.
"Ah? Why?" she asked.
"The village was divided into groups, and each group had its own responsibilities. The village chief saw that my family knew a few words, so he let me continue to work as an accountant, specifically recording how many stones the team carried back today, how much lime was burned, and how much each family took away. I also benefited from this and didn't have to do the heavy work."
Gu Qingqing was happy for her, "That's a good thing. Brother Li has finally found a suitable job. Although you can't make money, it can at least give you a break."
"That's right. It saves me from having to carry stones. Your brother Li feels sorry for me." Geng Chunhua's carefree personality made Gu Qingqing not know what to say.
I could only lower my head and laugh.
Geng Chunhua didn't think that those words couldn't be said at all. Why couldn't her man say them just because he loved her?
However, she seemed to remember something, and suddenly stopped what she was doing, and said with a proud look, "You don't know, our village is very popular now. You don't know that our married girls or young wives who marry into our village are very proud now."
Gu Qingqing's gossip fire gradually burned. "What's wrong? Did something good happen?"
"Isn't it because the county magistrate said that our village should be turned into an experimental field? Now when the surrounding villages heard that our village didn't have to pay autumn taxes, they all became jealous and came to ask what was going on. What they found out was that the grain yield in the fields could be increased. They all asked their wives or the girls who married into our village in a friendly manner what this composting method was."
Gu Qingqing found it strange when she heard it. Logically, this matter had nothing to do with her directly, but seeing her smiling from ear to ear, no one would believe her if she said it had nothing to do with her.
The key point is that her child is young and unmarried, and she doesn’t have any brothers or sisters. If someone really wants to find out, who will find her?
Thinking of this, an idea flashed through Gu Qingqing's mind. Could it be...