Chapter 26

Hua Ya hugged Xiao Jiu and didn't dare to lift her head.

The corner of Liu Datie's mouth twitched, obviously he was not good at dealing with such children.

"Father, sit down and eat! I'll send some to the Shanguan later." Gou Sheng divided the porridge, rolled a thin pancake and handed it to Hua Ya.

The food on the table was quickly eaten up by the wind and the clouds.

Gou Sheng went to Shanguan with the porridge that had been served in advance.

The room was dark and cold, and Shan Guan was leaning against the door in the inner room, wondering what he was thinking.

Gousheng felt sour for no reason—every winter in the village, a group of people who couldn’t make it through were quietly carried out and buried in the cemetery beside the village. Perhaps in the spring, they would find out that they had fun playing together last year. The little friend suddenly disappeared, or the mother-in-law who helped you dig wild vegetables a few days ago never appeared again, or even just like a mountain official—in the village, the only way to get sick in winter is to rely on hard work. You can’t hire a doctor, and you don’t have that spare money—people have long been used to waking up one day to find that there is another acquaintance around them...

"Eat something!" Gou Sheng called softly as he put the bowls and chopsticks on the small table in the main room.

Shan Guan walked over slowly, holding up the bowl with difficulty as if his hands and feet were rusty.

"Ah, that, you, don't be too sad, aunt, uh, aunt is gone, you have to take good care of your body, that, Hua Ya and Xiao Jiu..." Gou Rang racked his brains to think of comforting words.

"Boom!" Shan Guan put the bowl and chopsticks on the wooden table.

Gousheng looked down, and it took only a few words - the burritos and porridge were all eaten clean, and the bowl was glowing with a slight porcelain light, it was impossible to tell that the porridge was served!

"It's delicious!" Shanguan said expressionlessly.

The dog choked, how could anyone worry about this!

"haha, really……"

"Is your mother out?" Shanguan asked suddenly.

"Well, I went to my grandma's house." Gou Sheng was a little puzzled when asked.

"I'll take you back!"

"Hey, what are you giving away! A few steps away..." Gou Sheng put away the bowls and chopsticks and said.

Shan Guan took a look at Gou Sheng.

The dog can't say what is left on his lips—what are you staring at, hmph, if it weren't for the fact that you just lost your mother...

"Brother!" Hua Ya called out, with a rare joy on her face.

Xiao Jiu yelled "Yeah" and rushed towards the mountain official.

The lines on Shan Guan's face softened, and he hugged Xiao Jiu in response.

"Shanguan, how is it? Is everything in order at home?" Liu Datie asked while sitting at the door of the woodshed.

Moth-eaten, rotten, too thin...you need to pick out firewood to sell in the town, that's it, when the time comes, the women in the town will still have ways to lower the price!

"Uncle Liu, my mother is gone..."

Liu Datie showed a little helplessness on his face.

"...When my mother was here, my sister was still young, so I just gave her a hand... I will give your family two hundred catties of grain, fifty renminbi a year, and a cart. From now on, it will be considered as a public property of our two families..." Shan Guan hugged Xiao Jiu and whispered.

Liu Datie rubbed his hands, not knowing what to do.

"The food was moved to your house twice, once before the spring sowing, and once after the autumn harvest..." The mountain official didn't give Liu Datie any time to react, and continued to talk in detail.

Gou Sheng finally knew why the mountain official asked Li Dahua just now. If Li Dahua was there, he might not easily let go even if he had enough benefits!

"In this case, at least you still have to grow vegetables in your yard." Gou Sheng came out and said.

It's just that we put more rice and water in each meal to cook porridge. If we have two hundred catties of grain, it will be more than enough for three children for a year...

"Also, they usually give us two carts of firewood!"

"En!" Shanguan agreed without hesitation, holding Xiaojiu with one hand, took out a bunch of tinkling copper plates and handed them to Liu Datie.

It took Liu Datie a while to react, "This, this, you just gave the food to eat, anyway, it's a fire together..."

Gou Sheng walked over and took the copper coin, "When my mother comes back, you can bring the grain over."

Without the fifty coins, it would be hard to explain when Li Dahua came back!

"Ah."

Gou Sheng took Xiao Jiu over, "It's still very cold at night, so I put the kang on when I sleep..."

Shanguan nodded.

"Do you want to use the car these two days? We are going to tow two trucks of firewood to sell it." Gou Sheng asked the mountain official to the gate of the yard.

"Brother, brother..." Xiao Jiu struggled to be hugged by Shanguan.

"Hey, sleep with my sister at Brother Gousheng's house tonight." Shan Guan patted Xiao Jiu's head and said, "You guys go pull the cart tomorrow."

Gou Sheng responded and closed the courtyard door...

Not to mention the next day, Liu Datie took some time to pack the selected firewood and hurried to the town; the mountain official went to the cemetery to burn a few pieces of straw paper for the old lady, and carried the rake to dig the ground as usual Gou Sheng led his younger brothers and sisters to look for young grass sprouts that were just green, and prepared to go home and mix them in the cesspit to boil more fertilizer.

"I'm going out to play, grandma, grandma, I'm going out to play..."

In this room, little fat man Yang Lingyi managed to put away some of his three-layer fat chin, and after raising it for a winter, it grew back completely, and stomped on the kang with his bare, chubby feet.

Mrs. Yang couldn't hold her little baby in her arms at all, "Little boy, it's cold outside, let Duck ride a horse with you, okay?"

"Brother has gone out, I want to go out to play too!" Yang Lingyi turned his head, kicked the soft quilt on the kang into a ball, sat down and howled.

Yang Lingyi's two older brothers returned to the academy in the city a few days ago.

The old lady was afraid that her little grandson would suffer from asthma again, "Okay, okay! Duck, duck, come quickly, and dress Ling Yi!"

Yang Lingyi wiped the corners of his eyes, "Grandma is the best!"

The old lady's face immediately turned into a flowery smile, "My dear..."

Yadan, who had been guarding the outside of the house, walked in quickly, found Yang Lingyi's underwear from the cabinet familiarly, quickly put them on, and put on two layers of cotton socks before putting on his shoes.

Holding the little fat man, who was white and soft, with thin blue veins and palm-sized feet, the 11-year-old duck swallowed hard, his throat inexplicably itchy...

"Are you ready, Brother Yadan?" Yang Lingyi asked impatiently.

Ya Dan came back to his senses suddenly, coughed dryly, and put on the little fat man's shoes and socks in a panic.

"Grandma, I'm going out. You wait for me to come back for dinner tonight, and I'll bring you a meal!" Yang Lingyi said, waving his fat hand with four dimples.

"Good! Good! Grandma is waiting for you..." Mrs. Yang said with a smile.

Yadan took a cloak and wrapped Yang Lingyi up, picked up the little fat man and went out without any difficulty...

"Brother, it's Yang Lingyi and Brother Yadan!" Zhutou shouted happily, looking at Gousheng expectantly.

It is really difficult for them to ask a few little guys to help with the job of finding grass buds!

"Let's go play for a while, but at least half of the grass sprouts will be in the basket when you come back at night, remember?" Gou Sheng confessed.

"Uh, uh..." Lao Gao ran over with a smile on the head of the column.

"Big grass, let's play too!" Gou Sheng turned his head and said.

"No, I'm playing with Sister Huaya!" Dacao shook her head.

The two little girls got together and randomly pulled out the grass that had just sprouted, and seemed to have endless words to say.

Xiao Jiu was picked up by the mountain official early in the morning and brought to the field together.

"Why haven't you come out to play for so long?"

Zhutou took Yang Lingyi to a new "secret base" he had discovered - a relatively short and thick willow tree by the lake. There is a triangular branch on the high place, which can sit firmly on it.

"My grandma said it was cold outside..."

Yadan nervously watched the two little guys sit safely on the branch of the tree before heaved a sigh of relief, staring at the tree, helping weed around the willow tree...

"Brother Darong, I'm done!" Li Qingyuan ran out with a "thump", and threw himself on Darong who was picking garlic sprouts.

At this time, Grandma Sun was making tea in the kitchen, and Li Qingyuan practiced calligraphy for a while.

When I went to Gousheng’s house a few days ago, Li Dahua gave a handful of garlic sprouts and fried a plate of bacon. Li Qingyuan picked up the garlic sprouts and ate them. Darong was amazed at the tender yellow garlic sprouts, and quickly figured it out For the joints, I also gave birth to a few baskets on the kang, and they have only grown up now, enough to satisfy the little guy.

"Go and play by yourself, brother, come and see later." Darong said calmly.

Li Qingyuan cheered, raised his feet and ran outside.

Da Rong paused for a moment, watching the little man jump out of the house in the end - he explained every time he went out, and in the end he ran back yelling "Wow" within a quarter of an hour. The dolls in the movie are all stubborn, even if it's a big deal, it's just forgotten in the back of your mind...

Gou Sheng threw the grass sprouts into the cesspit, poured half a bucket of water into it, made sure that the grass was submerged, covered the wicker cover, told Dacao and Huaya a few words, and went to Darong's house with the board and charcoal.

Li Qingyuan's cry and Darong's reprimand were heard outside the yard.

"Don't cry, did you hear that brother scolded you wrongly? Or did he beat you?"

Gou Sheng stopped and decided to wait a while before going in.

Having been in touch with Dayong for a long time, especially after he started to learn how to read characters, Gou Sheng felt that Dayong was not simple, he was smart and very sensible, not to mention, he learned characters quickly, and now he has surpassed the old scholar of Landlord Yang's family Every time he said something more literary than that old scholar, occasionally he inadvertently talked about the formation of troops with the two eldest sons of the landlord Yang who were studying in the academy in the city. The young master Chaotian chased him to Darong's house and talked for a long time...

Darong usually treats Li Qingyuan's precious things badly, but when he is studying and reasoning, he is not merciless in punishing him. Even Gousheng is often taken aback by that aura.

Gou Sheng also once wondered if Dayong had some strange things in his mind like himself.

"The car is running on the ground, where is the plane?"

Dayong glanced at Gousheng strangely, "Don't talk while writing!"

Gou Sheng was reprimanded by a person of his own age. At that time, his face was a little hot, he lowered his head and practiced calligraphy seriously, and he didn't dare to speak nonsense again-every one of these words seems to be familiar. There is no problem, but the words written are a bit unspeakable, even Li Qingyuan is not as good as, sometimes the words that have been practiced many times are still missing arms and legs!

"What are you doing standing outside?" Granny Sun called out from the kitchen.

"Ah, oh, Grandma Sun!" Gou Sheng yelled, and walked in with a smile.

Li Qingyuan was still sobbing softly, with several pieces of paper scattered beside him.

Gou Sheng took a closer look, and besides one or two misspelled words, many words that were not written seriously were also circled.

"Gou Sheng, first write down the words you learned yesterday." Sun Darong said lightly.

Gou Sheng responded, and obediently put the purpose-polished wooden board on the table, ready to start writing.

"Finger!" Dayong reminded.

Gou Sheng smiled embarrassedly, and changed back awkwardly.

It has been several months, and Gousheng still often makes mistakes in this posture of holding a pen. Although a charcoal pen is different from a brush, there is no way to hold a pen like Gousheng!

Darong read Gousheng's handwriting, and didn't care about the quality of the writing. He only pointed out the two mistakes, and asked Gousheng to write one for twenty times first, and then teach others...

Liu Datie went to sell firewood, and he went there for a whole day, and he didn't come back until dark.

Gou Sheng has already cooked dinner at home, and it is hot in the pot, waiting for Liu Datie and Shan Guan...

Li Dahua stayed at her mother's house for four or five days, but she missed her family and couldn't stay any longer. Mrs. Li tried hard to persuade her, but at least she played for two more days. On the eighth day, she was sent back by Uncle Li.

Most families in Liushutun usually only eat two meals, but they still have to greet guests when they come.

Li Dahua cut a small piece of bacon, stewed a pot of white cabbage, and left Uncle Li for lunch.

Gou Sheng poked Liu Datie and motioned to tell the Shanguan about it.

Liu Datie sat there with a smile, and played with Li Dahua's grass and eggs, and took out the [-] yuan he got from selling firewood—these days Liu Datie dragged three big trucks of good firewood to the town—look Li Dahua was in a good mood and brought up the Shanguan matter.

"... A few dolls, no parents..."

"Don't tell my old lady this, don't think that my old lady doesn't know... Gou Sheng looks like a smart guy, not as naive as you... I don't want to listen to someone say a few soft words..." Li Dahua put the egg on the kang, his voice It got bigger.

"Mother, this is money from Shaoshan officials!" Seeing that something was wrong, Gou Sheng handed over the bunch of coins.

Li Dahua took it and put it away, "I don't have any objections to changing the family. You think my mother doesn't know. That brat came here last winter just to ask about garlic seedlings... I just want to pick up some cheap things. It's not a good thing. In the city Which one is not a black heart... You two together can only make others succeed... It's easy for him to plant two acres of land all day long..."

Gou Sheng was speechless, he was still angry at the matter of showing the garlic seedlings to the mountain official last year - well, the mountain official was a bit unkind about this matter, but life is hard to live on, so how can he have the right to say anything Kindness... It doesn't mean that people are as bad as Li Dahua thinks in their hearts!

Li Dahua scolded him a lot, but he had already agreed to others, and even took the money, and the father and son were not enlightened, so they had to give up.

In the evening, the mountain official called Liu Datie to help, and sure enough, he picked up a full hundred catties of dry corn, and Li Dahua didn't put on a cold face...

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The author has something to say: Well, I paid [-] in debt today, and I still owe [-] in debt, and it is controlled within [-]. I will resolutely pay it off during the May Day holiday... Thank you for your support, the mobile wireless network is very cheating , Replying to comments is temporarily unavailable, hereby explain! ——I can’t even see it~

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