continuation [farming]

Originally, Xia He had been hungry for half a day, but she was woken up early in the morning by her stomach, and slipped to the kitchen to cook a bunch of food, but she never expected that Li Mu would wake up so early, and come to knock on herself so early. door.Originally, the food for one person had to be divided between two people. Xia He saw that Li Mu's posture with chopsticks was extremely elegant, and thought that eating like this must not be delicious and not fast enough. As long as he eats faster, he will definitely eat more than half of it. Yes, just as he was about to put a steamed bun in his left hand and a bowl of porridge in his right hand, he felt an unpleasant look.

Looking up, it was Li Mu who was sitting opposite him. He seemed to be very dissatisfied with the way he ate. He straightened his body, put down the chopsticks in his hand, and stared at him.Being bitten like this, Xia He couldn't help but feel his scalp tighten, quickly put down the bowl, ate the steamed stuffed bun in small bites, then touched the spoon that he had left aside a long time ago, and stirred it in the porridge.

However, Li Mu still kept looking at him.

In all fairness, Li Mu's appearance is very good, and he has a temperament, but he usually has no expression, and occasionally he has a fierce look in his eyes.Xia He's happiest time is when he eats three meals a day, but when Li Mu stares at him like this, Xia He suddenly loses his appetite.

He stuffed a steamed bun indiscriminately, and patted his chest. Fortunately, the Li family kept a lot of steamed buns, and he had already hidden two, so he could eat them when no one was around.After thinking about it, Xia He wiped her mouth, looked up, and saw that the bowl and chopsticks in front of Li Mu were still unmoved, and asked strangely: "Mr. It should be, isn't this man hungry? If he didn't get hungry, why did he get up so early?

Xia He thought that Li Mu also got up early to find something to eat, and now he didn't eat like himself, probably because the food was not delicious.

Li Mu shook his head and said, "I've used it a little to fill my stomach. Don't eat too much. When mother wakes up, you have to serve her for dinner."

Xia He nodded, a little guilty, it turned out that Li Mu wanted to have dinner with Mrs. Li.

The Zhang family is not as well-behaved as the Li family, and they have to pay their respects to the elders before they can eat.Xia He has always been hungry early, when she was young, Lan Niang made the food the first day and left it on the stove, waiting for him to get up in the morning to fill his stomach.Later, when he was older, he fumbled to make something by himself.

Xia He was secretly worried that she would be regarded as unruly. Hearing the threats from the sister next door, her mother-in-law was very strict and intimidating. She would be picky about this and that.

After all, it's not at the knees of my parents.

Mrs. Li was busy with the banquet last night, and she was disturbed by Xiao Jinbao for a long time when she returned to the house. She finally fell asleep, and she was much later than usual, so she naturally got up late today.Taking advantage of this time, Li Mu went to the study to hold a book and read, Xia He had nothing to do, watching the dawn, his hands began to itch.I walked around the house, but I couldn't find what I was looking for, so I had to run to find Li Mu and asked, "Well, Mr., where are the hoes and rakes at home?"

Li Mu was taken aback: "What?"

"It's... the guy who farms the land!" Xia He blinked. Could it be that Li Mu doesn't know these guys who eat?

"..." Li Mu was speechless, "Why do you want those things?"

"Uh, don't you have any land at home? Before the old lady wakes up, I'll rake the ground first, and I'll have to sow some beans in two days." Xia He said.

Hearing this, Li Mu recalled the tactile feeling when he held Xia He's hand yesterday, and couldn't help but frowned, saying: "Since you married into the Li family, you don't have to suffer like this anymore. If you have nothing to do, you can embroider, your sister has left a lot of drawings, I will get them for you."

He originally intended to feel sorry for Xia He who had suffered too much, but that frown made Xia He mistakenly think that he was angry, and his heart rose.When Li Mu talked about embroidery, Xia He shook his head hastily as if he heard the man on the other side saying that he was going to be thrown into hell: "No, no, no... no need! I, I... I'm going to prepare something for the old lady to eat when she wakes up!"

"No need, someone will do the housework." Li Mu said calmly, putting down the book in his hand, wondering why his bride was so flustered, as if she saw something scary, "Also, call mother."

"...Huh?" Xia He didn't react.

Li Mu patiently emphasized it again: "You should change your name to "mother". You don't have to always call me old lady. You can call me birthright for nothing. From now on, we will be a family."

Xia He touched his nose, and asked himself, but he was a bit speechless.After all, in his 15 years of life, the warm word "Mother" specifically refers to Lan Niang.

He rolled his eyeballs and thought, or else he would follow Li Mu and call Mrs. Li "Mother".

But not asking Xia He to cook, and not asking Xia He to farm, really made him idle.Farmers are used to being busy. Even during the festivals every year, they have to be busy cleaning and worshiping, and they are always unwilling to teach themselves to stop.Xia He didn't want to embroider, and didn't dare to show that she was idle in front of Li Mu anymore, so she slid into the yard and started spinning around.

The yard of Li's family is very clean. It can be seen that someone is cleaning it specially, and there are some flowers and plants planted, all of which are things Xia He doesn't know.After all, Xia He's family, like other families in this village, has such an open space, so they are busy planting some fruits and vegetables that they eat every day. When they want to eat, they can eat fresh ones. It can be carried to the town to sell every now and then.

Xia He looked at those flowers and plants like looking at a pile of useless things, and wanted to pull them out one by one, and then go home to ask for some seeds.

But he only dared to watch, and never wanted to ask Li Mu if he could do this again, for fear that he would say that he no longer had to suffer from farming and could go to embroidery if he had nothing to do.

For Xia He, farming is just a little tiring, not to mention suffering, but embroidery is the real torture.

It's not that Xia He has never learned embroidery at all, although Lan Niang seems unwilling to teach him this, Zhang Shiyi pays more attention to his knowledge than teaching his two older sisters.

However, Xia He followed Qiuyue and Dongmei when she was young, and followed her two sisters to meet many girls in the village.The little girls got together and chattered, there was no other important thing to do, it was nothing more than comparing each other on how capable they were, and the most common comparisons were these little tricks.

Xia He has always been the last one among them. The mandarin ducks she embroiders can't be seen as birds, the flowers she embroiders are broken into pieces, and every time she pokes a row of holes in her fingers, she looks aggrieved , Seeing the two sisters was both funny and distressed.Gradually, the older sisters let him go. Every time someone teased Xia He and asked Xia He to show her embroidery for comparison, the older sisters would take the initiative to stop him.

However, Xia He remembered the painful pain of the needle pricking his fingertips in his heart. With his elder sister's connivance and his parents not caring, he avoided the embroidery like a tiger and wolf, and never touched it again.

When he almost bald the soles of his shoes, a female voice came from the front, saying: "Master, the old lady has woken up and is calling you to come over."

The one who spoke was a woman, her clothes were better than Xia He's, she was not young, her face was wrinkled, but she raised her head when she was walking, until she was close to Li Mu's courtyard. Only then did he see Xia He who was spinning around there, and he was surprised: "Ah, this is the new lady, right?"

Xia He always felt weird when he heard this title. He thought it belonged to the rich family in the town, and only the servants in the family called their master that.He is used to staying in the village, and he has never heard of anyone having such a title.

But Li Mu didn't notice any difference, he put the book in his hands down, walked out of the room, nodded and said: "We'll go right away." Then he pointed to the woman, and said to Xia He, " This one belongs to the Lin family and works at home."

Xia He suddenly remembered such a person, her husband's surname was Lin, and like the Zhang family, they all came from outside, but the Lin family settled down earlier.It's a pity that the head of the family left early, and there was no child. Mrs. Li took him to her home out of kindness, and asked her to take care of the household sundries and provide food and clothing.

But the Lin family didn't come out of this courtyard very often, and Xia He had never seen her before, so she called "Aunt Lin" to say hello.Mrs. Wang of the Lin family timidly, with crooked eyebrows, came up and grabbed Xia He's hand, and praised: "The child of this family is really a good one. The original wife is already in good shape, but it's really a good one. Unexpectedly, the new wife is more handsome."

Xia He touched his nose, very embarrassed, and glanced at Li Mu from the corner of his eyes.

Seemingly having got Xia He's letter, Li Mudao said: "Let's go, don't make mother wait in a hurry."

Aunt Lin quickly said: "Yes, the old lady is holding the young master in her arms, and she wants to show the young master to the lady, it's time to go quickly."

Xia He suddenly looked forward to seeing little Jinbao!

The Zhang family didn't like to come to Li's house, let alone bring Xia He, so Xia He had never met Jin Bao, and only knew that the child left by his second sister Qiuyue had such a rich name.In Xia He's imagination, Jin Bao was probably about the same size as the dog of the elder sister Dongmei's family, not as tall as her own waist, staggering when she walked, with a tiger's head and a tiger's head, so she could be teased.

Dongmei is carrying the second one, and it is not convenient to go back to her mother's house these days, and Xia He hasn't seen Gouwa for a while.Thinking that Xiao Jinbao could play with her instead of Gouwa, Xia He smiled and rubbed her hands.

But when he really saw little Jinbao, he was at a loss.