Spring scenery in the fields

Ji Wenhe joked: "You have to bring back some straw for me when you go, and I don't have any food to treat you yet."

Shen Suya smiled and said, "Then I'll eat at home. Besides, I'm helping my sister-in-law, not for the food at her house, right, mother?"

Lan Qiuhua smiled and agreed: "Xiaoya is right."

"What are you laughing at? Tell me and I'll laugh too."

Niu Guilan came over from the vegetable field and spoke to them from a distance.

"We are going to help the Wen He family carry thatch. Why don't you come with us?"

"I'm busy at home. I'll help your family when I'm free."

Ji Wenhe said with a smile: "Aunt Niu, you are joking. My family has nothing to do. We just need to build a shed to keep out the rain."

Shen Suya called out obediently, "Aunt Niu."

"Hey." Niu Guilan looked around mysteriously and said in a low voice, "There was a quarrel in the Zheng family last night."

"quarrel?"

The three of them looked at each other.

"Gui Lan, how did you know?"

Ji Wenhe was also curious about how she was so well-informed.

"I passed by the village head's house last night and heard a fierce noise inside."

In fact, there were two tables of food left at Li Zheng's house during the day, so I thought of going to take a look, maybe they would send her some dishes.

As soon as I reached the door, I heard the sound of quarreling coming from inside.

They suppressed their voices, but she still heard them clearly.

Of course, she would not tell them the real reason why she passed by the headman's house.

Lan Qiuhua asked curiously: "What are they arguing about?"

Ji Wenhe and Shen Suya also pricked up their ears and listened quietly beside them.

Niu Guilan glanced in the direction of the headman's house and said slowly, "Isn't Liuyun's husband a man in the town government?"

Several people nodded. This was not a secret and everyone knew it.

"The village head and Shen Congti asked their grandson-in-law to help the two brothers find a good job in town. It would be even better if they could enter the government office."

"And his eldest grandson is thirteen now. He will be able to look for a marriage partner next year. If he works in the government office, he might be able to marry a girl from a town family."

Ji Wenhe understood that if there was someone capable in the family, relatives or family members would think of asking them to help take the child up.

If Shen Rongshan became rich, he would definitely take Shen Wenshan and his brother with him, but it would depend on whether the people being taken along have a grateful heart.

"Then why are they fighting?"

"Why else? These two just got married and they asked someone to use their connections. Tao Xing'er naturally disagrees. She's afraid that there will be a rift between them."

"The village head is the same. He doesn't seem to love his granddaughter that much on weekdays, but now that his granddaughter has married into a good family, he wants to get benefits from them."

Niu Guilan clicked her tongue twice.

Lan Qiuhua shook her head slightly: "This is someone else's business, let's just listen to it. We still have to go outside to cut thatch, Guilan, you are busy."

He turned his head and looked at the two people behind him: "Let's go."

They nodded, said hello, and the three of them walked out of the village together.

After leaving the village, Ji Wenhe asked, "Liuyun's husband works in the government office in town. With such good conditions, why didn't he find a girl in town, but instead fell in love with the village head's family?"

When girls reach a certain age, they tend to look for men from nearby villages and rarely marry far away.

Besides, most people in town would not date country girls, of course, there are exceptions.

"I heard that Liuyun followed her mother to the market and was spotted by her husband, who asked a matchmaker to take a look at her."

Lan Qiuhua heard it from Jiang Hongxi.

"To be honest, that person was attracted by Liuyun's appearance. If he is a caring person, he can treat her well. Otherwise, Liuyun will have a hard time in the future."

It is no exaggeration to say that Shen Liuyun is the village beauty. In the surrounding villages, there is no girl prettier than her.

Ji Wenhe nodded: "The head of the village is too anxious. It's only been one night since the wedding, and he's already anxious to ask people to help find a job. Anyone would feel uncomfortable."

Moreover, he did not consider Shen Liuyun's feelings or what her husband's relatives would think.

Shen Suya listened to their conversation. She used to envy Shen Liuyun, but now that she thought about it carefully, she didn't live as well as she had imagined.

"Mom, sister-in-law, let's not talk about them. Where is Brother Wenshan?" She looked around but saw no one.

Lan Qiuhua pointed to the opposite side and said, "It's in front."

After crossing the road and arriving at the woods on the opposite side, I walked for a while before I saw someone bending over to cut thatch.

"Wenshan, this is enough."

Seven or eight piles of thatch should not be enough.

Shen Wenshan straightened up and turned his head to look at the haystack: "It's not enough. I need to cut more and lay it thicker."

The toilet also needs to be renovated.

"I'll cut a few more piles, that'll be enough."

"it is good."

Ji Wenhe walked forward, picked up a pile of straw, and slowly followed the two people in front.

"It would be great if we had a donkey cart in our village so we could carry the whole load in one trip."

"We have a donkey cart, it's convenient for us to go to town." Lan Qiuhua stopped and waited for her, "When are you going to buy a wheelbarrow? You can't carry much flour in a basket."

It's very troublesome to run back and forth.

"Brother Shen and I have discussed this and we are not planning on buying a wheelbarrow. If we are going to buy something, we'll buy a donkey cart, which can carry more things."

"Sister-in-law, your family bought a donkey cart, so we can take your cart to the market instead of walking."

Shen Suya likes to go to the market because there are lots of fun things and delicious food there, but she doesn’t want to walk there because it’s too tiring.

Ji Wenhe smiled and said, "Okay, I'll take you to the market together every time I meet you."

"Sister-in-law, you can collect one or two cents from people riding donkey carts like in other villages."

"I have thought about it, but I don't have the money to buy a donkey cart right now. I'll think about it later."

Looking up at the sky, I realized that it was almost noon. I would take all the straw home and make lunch.

The four people made two trips back and forth and brought back all the thatch.

Ji Wenhe patted his sleeves and said, "Aunt Lan, Xiaoya, come to my house for dinner tonight."

"No, I don't know when Rongshan will be back in the evening. You guys are busy. Xiaoya and I are going home."

Seeing this, she stopped trying to keep him: "Hey, go slowly."

After seeing them off, Shen Wenshan came out of the kitchen, holding a bowl of water: "Sister-in-law, how about cooking pheasant meat tonight and sending half a bowl to their family."

"Okay, I was just about to tell you, did you cook all the wild celery in one meal?"

"I'll listen to my sister-in-law."

"Then let's burn them all. They're good with meat."

Shen Wenshan put the bowl on the table and said, "Sister-in-law, just have something for lunch. I'll go to the river to wash the pheasant and wild celery."

Ji Wenhe had never plucked chicken feathers or killed a chicken before, but he had killed fish before: "We'll scald the pheasant in boiling water so that we can pluck the feathers. Go wash the wild celery and we'll cook it tonight."

"Sure, I'll go then."

He picked up the wild celery in the basket and went straight to the river.

The lunch was simple, with wild vegetable dumpling soup and an egg.

I was injured by drinking brown rice porridge some time ago, and now I can't eat anything.