Chapter 24

Not to mention the tedious work Li Dahua did, he had to be extra careful. If the number of broken threads exceeded the number, the loss would be directly deducted from the deposit.

"Is Grandma Sun okay?" Gou Sheng asked after bringing out a small plate of fried beans as snacks for the little ones.

"I'm not sick, but I can't leave the kang." Darong replied, "Oh, yes, the method of keeping accounts you mentioned last time..."

Gou Sheng felt a little envious in his heart, God is really unfair, some people are born in the land of wealth and honor, while some people are born with abnormal brains - such as the mountain official, such as the one in front of him.

Darong once accidentally saw Gousheng using strange symbols on the ground to settle accounts, and he quickly saw some tricks. After asking Gousheng a few words, he took heart. Multiplication and division, Dayong can use this method to settle accounts; and Shan Guan can use it in reverse after he knows how to memorize ninety-nine tables!

Gou Sheng felt that if he didn't have those inexplicable "strange things" and courage, he would probably only starve for the rest of his life...

"I discussed with Master Yang two days ago, and in two days, I will learn to read characters with Li Xiucai with Xiao Yuan every morning. If you don't mind, you can come to my house to read a few characters together when you have time in the afternoon!" Rong carefully put away the charcoal that was held in a cloth, and there was not even a black spot on his hand after writing and drawing for a long time.

"Really?" Gou Sheng exclaimed in surprise.

"Although it's cold now, the advantage is that there are not many things to help the family. I think you should also be free." Darong said gently.

Gou Sheng's eyes lit up, and a surge of joy surged in his heart, but he couldn't control the corners of his mouth that rose.

"Ha ha……"

"Come here!"

"Little brother, you're crushing me!"

Li Qingyuan and Zhu Tou soon got tired of the game of picking the lottery, and together with Dacao, the three of them rolled and tumbled on the kang.

The so-called "picking sticks" actually means that the player holds a bamboo stick in his hand, holds the bamboo stick and then lets go, trying to find a way to pick one without moving the other sticks, until he can't find anything to pick, or pick one. Until the other sign is accidentally moved, it will be the next person's turn...

Li Dahua listened to the noise outside, sprinkled the beans with water, looked at the sparsely pulled garlic sprouts beside him, gritted his teeth, picked up the big ones and pulled them out—even if he had traveled the farthest in his life The best place is Qingpu Town, and Li Dahua also knows that being able to read is a great thing!

Gousheng is really idle and has nothing to do, so he and Darong play nine-square number reasoning games with each other.

The three little guys quarreled for a while, and soon fell asleep due to the warm kang, and fell asleep staggeringly.

"Ah, fell asleep!" Gou Sheng put down the half-filled board, unfolded the quilt, and covered the little ones.

"Oh, then we'll go back today, and you and Zhutou will come to my house the afternoon after tomorrow." Darong wrapped Li Qingyuan in the quilt he brought and hugged him.

"Okay, no problem!" Gou Sheng replied happily.

"Aunt Liu, we're going back!" Darong said to the inside.

"Hey, wait a minute!" Li Dahua chased out dragging his cotton shoes, "Take this back to taste something fresh, and give Qingyuan a change."

"This is - Suan Miao!" Darong said in surprise.

"Your dog leftover brother made it out of his imagination, and he didn't grow a few!" Li Dahua said with a smile on his face, "Those are sprouts from hard beans. Putting some chili with the meat and cooking it will be very refreshing, you can taste it first when you take it home, if you think it is good, I will send you some next time when my aunt sends it!"

"Then thank you, Aunt Liu!" Darong took a step back, probably a little frightened by Li Dahua's sudden enthusiasm.

"Gousheng and Zhutou are both stupid, Darong, don't be polite when you teach them how to read, Auntie said, if you can't learn it, just scold them severely!" Li Dahua said in an exaggerated tone while sending people out.

"Don't worry, Aunt Liu, Gousheng and Zhutou are sure..."

Dayong's voice gradually became inaudible, and he probably walked out.

Gou Sheng lowered his head weakly, knowing that Li Dahua would not suddenly become generous, and return Darong's meatloaf as a gift...

The roads are difficult to walk in winter, and Liu Datie didn't come back until it was dark, shivering from the cold.

Li Dahua and Gou Sheng hurriedly grabbed the snow, rubbed Liu Datie's hands and feet respectively, and soaked in hot water for a while when they became conscious.

"Stigma, bring Dad a bowl of hot water to drink!" Gou Sheng shouted.

The stigma responded, and scooped half a bowl of warm water from the wooden bucket filled with boiled water on the kang.

Liu Datie drank it in one gulp before regaining his breath, wiped his hands and feet clean, shrunk down on the kang, and deliberately rubbed the grass with his cold feet.

"It's so cold, Dad!" Dacao dodged to the side and laughed "giggle".

"Little girl, are you obedient and obedient at home today!" Liu Datie teased, covering himself under the quilt.

"Yes, I'm still playing with brother Qingyuan..."

Li Dahua took the back basket that Liu Datie had brought back and looked at it, "What did you buy these for?"

"It's almost Chinese New Year, and it's not easy to go to the town. I got a lot of money today, so I'll bring it back with me!" Liu Datie yawned.

"Don't fall asleep, Dad, I'll go to the hot porridge, eat something before going to bed!" Gou Sheng took out the dirty water and poured it out.

"I know, brat!" Liu Datie struggled to sit up.

"Wow, there's candy, Dad, you're back from buying candy!"

In the room, the pillar screamed excitedly.

Last time, Gousheng brought a few candied haws, and he almost didn't enjoy Gousheng, Dacao, and Xiaocao. The three of them were afraid that the children in the village would snatch them away, so they hid in the house and licked them for a long time before eating them. When going out, he was reluctant to throw away the bare wooden stick in the end, and asked Li Dahua to curse a few words, so he stopped secretly licking the stick.

Gousheng went to the firewood room to grab a bundle of firewood, and the chickens shrank up in the cage and started to "grunt and grunt".

When it got cold, Liu Datie changed a large basket at home into a chicken coop, put some grass in it, and locked the chickens in the woodshed so that they would not be exposed to the wind and rain.

Liu Datie said something with a smile, and Zhu Tou and Dacao laughed sharply together.

Li Dahua carried a few large bags into the kitchen, cut the meat into pieces and hung them under the beam near the door. As long as there is no brazier in the kitchen for one night, the meat will be frozen hard and will not be thawed. question.

Gou Sheng turned up the fire in the stove and took a look with his head. Unexpectedly, Liu Datie bought a pack of white noodles, a pair of pig offal, a few big pig bones and a small pack of melon seeds.

Muttering to himself, Li Dahua took care of everything, and helped Gousheng bring the porridge, fried white cabbage and meat pies from Da Rong to the main room.

The family set up a small table on the kang, and dinner was settled in three to two minutes.

Zhutou pouted, his face full of displeasure, even though he had just eaten half of the meatloaf—because Li Dahua put away the candy brought back by Liu Datie, saying that he would not be able to eat it until the New Year.

Dacao was also unhappy, but he didn't dare to make a bad face with Li Dahua directly like Zhutou.

Children's emotions always come and go quickly. When they wash their faces and put their feet to sleep, the pillars have forgotten that they just got angry. .

"Then you go to sleep with mother, the little sister comes to sleep with us, I will tell them stories at night, you won't be able to hear them!" Gou Sheng had already got into the warm quilt, stretched his head and said deliberately.

Probably this half year finally started to have a few full meals, and the things that used to flash in my head gradually emerged clearly. Telling a few short stories to amuse the little doll, and teaching some simple truths is completely convenient Pick up.

As expected, the column head hesitated - it's not how attractive Gou Sheng's story is, the two little guys often have small purrs after listening to three sentences - the main reason is that others have it but they don't!

Li Dahua touched Liu Zhutou's forehead with his head, carried him out, and put him under the quilt.

The stigma will be tightly covered as soon as it rolls along the trend.

"Grinding people!"

Li Dahua helped the dog sleeping outside to tuck in the quilt before entering the inner room, and closed the door behind his back.

There was a "squeaky" voice from inside.

Gou Sheng picked a short story about "Wolf is Coming", and before he got to the "essence" part, the breathing of the column head calmed down.

Dacao slept in the warmest part of the kang, and the column head slept in the middle. Gou Sheng stretched out his hand and pulled the quilt up, covering the exposed shoulders of the column head.

The family slept until dawn.

If it weren't for the hunger, no one would be willing to come out of the warm quilt!

……

"Go, he doesn't want to follow you, you can coax him well, a child... Next winter, I will have to rely on firewood to buy some food..." Shi Niang growled with a ferocious face.

Hua Ya huddled next to Xiao Jiu, trembling.

The mountain official sat beside the brazier that flickered on and off, letting Shi Niang beat and pinch him.

"What are you still doing sitting here, go!" Shi Niang grabbed the mountain official vigorously and pushed it away, the veins on the back of her hand were exposed, and the bones on her wrist were protruding high, as if they might break at any time.

Shan Guan stood outside the door and shrunk his body. It took a long time to come back to his senses, and his eyes looked at the front blankly...

It was only when Liu hit the iron that he was scooping snow from the yard into the water for melting water, only then did he notice the mountain officials outside the yard that were almost frozen into lumps of ice.

There are several large public wells in the village, but I also know that it is impossible to get water in winter.

"Shanguan, why are you standing outside? When you come, call the door. What if it's freezing?" Liu Datie hurriedly pulled him into the house.

Sitting on the warm kang, it took a long time for the mountain official to start shaking.

Putting on a cotton padded coat, Gou Sheng sat up and patted Shan Guan's face and neck lightly, "Move, move slowly, it won't be so uncomfortable soon..."

When the mountain official regained his breath, his lips squirmed several times before he could make a sound, "Dog, dog, dog left..."

"What's the matter with you? Run out to get cold!" Gou Sheng lifted a corner of the quilt and motioned for the mountain official to come in.

Shanguan pursed his lips hard, but didn't speak for a long time.

Li Dahua cooked a pot of porridge, pasted a few dough skins on the edge of the pot and baked them until they were browned, exuding a burst of noodle fragrance.

Shanguan's stomach groaned loudly several times.

"Let's have breakfast first!"

Gousheng shook the stigma and Dacao, "You two little slobs, get up and eat quickly, brother will eat up all the pancakes later!"

Zhutou sat up in a jerk, and took the old cotton padded coat that was on the quilt and put it on, "I want to eat too, I want to eat too..."

Gou Sheng rolled up the bedding to the end of the kang, "Hurry up and wash your face and mouth."

The stigma and the big grass scrambled down from the kang, took the wooden basin, poured some hot water from the iron pot above the brazier, washed their faces and rinsed their mouths.

"Come up and sit for a while, I'll help my mother bring her breakfast." Gou Sheng set up the small wooden table, pushed the mountain official who was still sitting on the edge of the kang, and rushed to the kitchen.

"Come on, sit down, you're welcome, eat whatever you want!" Li Dahua greeted with a smile, "Before, the dog and the others bothered you!"

Shan Guan shook his head, but did not speak.

"This kid is just like our eggs, so gentle." Li Dahua reached out and touched the mountain official's head, and specially served him a bowl of thicker porridge.

Today there is a mountain official here, besides the white cabbage that is served in almost every meal, Li Dahua specially grabbed some pickles and mixed them with a few drops of oil - the bright yellow color makes people appetite!

Gou Sheng took a noodle cake, put a few pickles and a chopstick of Bai Si on it, folded it in half and handed it over, "Try it, my mother's handicraft!"

Shan Guan swallowed his saliva, and his brain, which was messed up by Shi Niang, started to work slowly like a rusty gear...

After the table was swept away, Li Dahua carried the bowls and chopsticks to the kitchen to tidy up.

Liu Datie changed into thick clothes, held up a long rake to break up the frozen snow on the roof, and then carefully raked it off, the thatch of the provincial roof could not bear it.

"What's the matter?" Gou Sheng touched the mountain official's hand, stayed on the warm kang, filled his stomach again, and finally got a little heat.

"My mother...Uncle Liu is in the town..." The official said without looking away.

Gou Sheng nodded his head clearly, he wanted to ask Suan Miao about it!

The winter here is really cold and abnormal, and the garlic can only be planted after the weather warms up quickly in the spring, but in Gousheng's impression, the garlic should be planted before winter, and it is the time to dig garlic sprouts to eat around the Chinese New Year.

Gou Sheng never thought of selling some garlic seedlings grown on the soil kang for money, he just wanted to change the taste, and changed his mind after seeing Li Dahua and Liu Datie's rarity, and was going to plant another batch today to try it out ——I didn’t plan to hide it from the people in the village, and it’s impossible to hide it. Maybe next year even the people in the town will give birth on the kang by themselves...

"Come in and have a look, just pay attention to watering more!" Gou Sheng pointed to the end of the kang in the middle and said, "It just needs to be warmer, but the temperature is too high and it won't grow long. Go back and try it. If you can plant it , it is estimated that there will be garlic sprouts to eat in the next year!"

Shanguan nodded, his eyes wandered around the room, "Thank you, thank you!"

"Okay, I've said it before, you cooperate with me, and when the weather gets warmer, I'll invite you to go with me to sell small frames in Jiaxing City!" Gou Sheng said with a smile.

"Yeah!" Shanguan responded forcefully.

"Gousheng, where are you doing?" Li Dahua asked suspiciously after washing the dishes.

"Mother, I'll show the mountain official this!" Gou Sheng said cheerfully on purpose.

Shanguan's lips moved, but in the end he didn't say anything...

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