Fisherman

When Zhao Qian returned to the small cave, she fell headfirst on the mat, with her head resting on her hands, as if she was going to sleep.Brother Zhou picked up the oil lamp and shook it: "This oil lamp won't last long."

"It's okay, take it easy, and try to support the village until it's built. Everyone is working hard, and the village shouldn't take long to be built."

Brother Zhou lit up the oil lamp, looked at the person who was sleeping on the bed without moving, and asked, "Didn't you say you still have things to do?"

"Huh?" Zhao Qian's drowsiness dissipated, and he became more awake. Looking at Zhou Ge'er who was bewildered, he couldn't help laughing: "You really want to be busy?"

Brother Zhou didn't know what he was laughing at, so he stood aside and didn't go to sleep, just stared at him: "Didn't you tell the village chief?"

"Come and sleep quickly, why are you so stupid, I just lied to the village chief casually, do you really believe what a lonely man and a widow can do at night." He sat up and blew out the oil lamp in Brother Zhou's hand, and put The man pulled to the mat: "Besides, it's not the time to be busy."

Brother Zhou suddenly realized the meaning of his words, his face flushed belatedly, but he couldn't see it at night, he thought he was going to pack up his things and move to the village to sleep tomorrow, so he had to work again After a while, who knew that Brother Zhao was so unscrupulous, playing charades with the village head.

He slept with his back to Zhao Qian all night.

The next day, the men in the cave brought their belongings for sleeping at night to the new village. The men continued to build houses, while the brothers built simple sheds to shelter them from the wind and rain at night.

The people from Shangyu Village came to learn a lesson, but they didn’t come to find fault later on. Everyone devoted themselves to building the house, and the progress was extremely fast. Of course, this was also due to the fact that everyone wore The coir raincoat does the work.

But the number of coir raincoats is limited, Zhao Qian distributed all the coir raincoats to the villagers, but in the end he did not have any. In order not to delay the construction period, he worked under the thin spring rain. After two days, the woman in the cave collected It was fine again when the good palm skins were made new for him.

In about two months, the village was finally built.

In order to thank Zhao Qian for his constant help, everyone finally decided to let him and Brother Zhou choose a house first. Zhao Qian didn't take advantage of everyone because of this. There are only him and Brother Zhou in the house, and they can't live in a big house.

The two chose a small house by the river. This house was much smaller than the previous one in the village, but fortunately it was newly built so that it would not leak when it fell asleep.

Hu Lingling, who had been staying on the mountain all this time, came down today to choose a house with her elder brother. After watching Zhao Qian and the others choose, she pulled Hu San'er and said, "Brother, we also choose a house next to the river. Well, it will be convenient to do laundry in the future.”

The location of the houses built by Hu San'er is very clear. The houses in the village are not too far from the river, but there are only two houses next to the small river, and the two houses are far away from the rest of the houses. The relationship between the two households will be very good, and he also wants to live closer to Zhao Qian, but thinking of his sister's thoughts, he has to give up his thoughts.

"Brother has already found one before, it's much better than being by the river."

Hu Lingling refused, "Brother!"

"Let's let go of some impossible things, otherwise it will make everyone feel uncomfortable, do you understand?" He said seriously.

Hu Lingling suddenly lowered her eyes. He thought that Hu San'er didn't know that she went to Zhao Qian and was rejected. He held a glimmer of hope in his heart, but he never thought that his elder brother and Zhao Qian were close, so how could he not know.

"Brother Zhou is the only one in Zhao Qian's heart, so you can treat them as a whole, maybe Zhao Qian will remember you well."

Hu Lingling lowered her head, did not mention living by the small river, and did not answer his words.

Hu San'er patted his younger sister on the head, and he pulled the little girl towards the other direction of the river.

Everyone has chosen the address one after another, and moved all the things in the cave to the newly built village on the same day, but the things that everyone used together before became a difficult task, and the villagers put all the things. Put it in the dam of the new village and let the village head distribute it.

After all, there are only houses in the new village, and there are no other household items. According to the old rules, pots, pans, and pans that everyone chipped in to buy are distributed to each household according to the number of people. I don't know how to distribute it, the village head wants it to be raised first.

But the villagers do not agree to continue raising seafood, because they have been busy repairing the house these days, have not gone for food for a long time, and they can’t even lift the lid of the pot at home, and they all hope to share the seafood.

"That's it. Since everyone wants to share, let's give it. Let's settle down first, and every day we will go to the mountains together to take the seafood and share it."

The villagers cheered and went home with their things on their shoulders.Zhao Qian and Brother Zhou were no exception, and entered the new house happily.

Now the house has only one floor, and there are still only three rooms, the bedroom, the main room and the kitchen room. Although it is not as good as before, it is much better than the days in the cave.

Zhao Qian looked at the empty house with her waist in her arms. Not only did she not have the slightest worry about living in poverty, but she felt a sense of joy spontaneously. Thinking about living here with her daughter-in-law in the future, she felt that the house was full.

Just when he was happy, there was a sound of spring thunder outside, and he sneezed in response to the occasion. Brother Zhou carried the cushions and quilts brought out of the cave into the back room, and came out quickly when he heard the sound of him sneezing.

"Brother Zhao, don't you have a fever?"

I didn’t have a coir raincoat when I built a house before, so I just worked in the rain. Although the spring rain is not heavy, it is cool, and I sleep in the shed at night, not very warm. Now that the house has been repaired, the stretched string has been put down. I'm afraid that something wrong with my body has also appeared.

Zhao Qian didn't take it to heart: "How could it be?"

"Be careful, I'm going to light the fire, and you are warming up."

Zhao Qian wanted to stop the young man, but he was running so fast that he raised his hand and didn't stop him. Thinking about setting up a fire and roasting him, it would be good not only to roast him, but also to have a little smoke in the new house.

There is some firewood in the kitchen, which is the dry firewood collected by brother Zhou when the house was built. At that time, he didn’t know which house it was, so he put it outside. Now that the house is settled, he took everything in one go Come in, in fact, everyone paid more attention when building the house, only Zhao Qian had a big heart and didn't pay much attention to these details. He didn't realize how important these were until he really lived.

"There is a lot of open space next to our house. If it is free, let's build a yard. Then we can grow a la carte, enough for the two of us." Brother Zhou said to Zhao Qian after lighting the fire.

The family was allocated a hoe and sickle, so there was no need to go to the market to buy these things.

Zhao Qian heard the rustling spring rain outside, the eaves straightened after a while, and the rain was quite heavy.

"Okay, let's go when the rain stops."

Roasting the warm fire, he gradually became sleepy. Brother Zhou noticed his drooping eyelids. After turning up the fire, he got up and went into the back room to make the bed. None of them, I can only make the floor, but there are cushions, and I am not afraid of the cold. After all, it is much warmer to lay the floor in the house than to lay it directly on the ground in the cave.

After tidying up, he went to the kitchen and called Zhao Qian: "Go and sleep in the room."

Zhao Qian responded, but didn't refuse. He was really tired these days. Now that he had done something important, he felt much lighter. He swayed to the room to lie down. He only wanted to sleep for a while, but fell asleep when he fell asleep. up.

While he was asleep, Brother Zhou sneaked into the house and touched his forehead. As expected, he really had a fever. There was no antipyretic at home. He was a little worried and wanted to go out and dig some Herbs are used to reduce the fever, but just as the door was closed, someone came.

He looked at the person whose stomach was protruding a little, and said in surprise, "Zheng Shu? Why are you here?"

"We live closer now, look, we are over there." Zheng Shu pointed, another household by the small river happened to be selected by them.

Brother Zhou was a little happy: "That's great."

"Come on, this is for you."

Brother Zhou took a large handful of leeks handed over by Zheng Shu, with a puzzled face: "This?"

"I found this on the mountain, and it's specially for you." Zheng Shu smiled from the corner of his eyes: "Thanks to this wild leek, fry more for your Zhao Qian to eat."

Brother Zhou smiled resentfully: "Thank you."

"Hey, by the way, where are you going? It's still raining outside."

"Brother Zhao has a fever, I'll dig him some herbs to reduce fever." He carried a hoe: "I won't invite you to sit in the house."

"It's okay, I have to go back and clean up."

"Then I'll take you there."

When Zhao Qian woke up, the sky was already gray, and the rainy weather was even darker. He slowly got up from the bed, his head was so dizzy, he staggered and almost fell, when he went out, he saw Brother Zhou holding a The bowl of decoction was about to go into the house.

"Finally woke up."

Zhao Qian looked at the coir raincoat that was still dripping in the kitchen: "Have you gone out?"

"Well, I went to dig some herbs and made a medicinal soup, let's drink it soon."

Zhao Qian also realized that he had a cold. He didn't feel so strong before, but he became sick after sleeping. He sat in the kitchen, holding his head, looking at the bowl of black herbs, and opened his mouth.

Brother Zhou was stunned for a moment, a man of five grades, three rough men, how could he drink medicine and still have to feed him, he looked hesitant, but he still knelt down and scooped up the medicine.

"Don't go out when it's raining." Zhao Qian bit the spoon and touched Brother Zhou's wet hair.

"I'm wearing a coir raincoat, it's fine."

He raised his hand to touch the boy's face again. He didn't know whether it was because his hand was too hot, which made Brother Zhou's cheeks cold, or because the boy had been outside for too long, and the cold skin made him feel cold. Feeling a little uncomfortable, he leaned forward and wanted to kiss him, but when he got in front of the person, he suddenly backed away, fearing that his wind and cold would infect him.

Brother Zhou saw him approaching and backed away, raised a pair of dark eyes, and asked a little embarrassedly: "What's wrong?"

He took the medicine bowl in his hand and drank it in one gulp: "It's all right."

As soon as the words finished, the young man who was looking at him suddenly reached out and hugged his waist, knelt on the ground and leaned on his shoulder, and said in a dull tone, "Brother Zhao."

Zhao Qian hugged his back: "What's wrong?"

The boy hugged him and didn't speak.

Zhao Qian thought about it, probably because he usually looked too strong, painless and disease-free, suddenly fell ill, and now he changed to a new living environment, the young man was a little at a loss.

He patted the boy's back comfortingly, thinking that it's normal for a teenager to feel uneasy when someone he relies on suddenly collapses.

"It's just a little cold, sleep well and you'll be fine tomorrow, don't worry." He coaxed softly, "I've already taken the medicine, and I'll be fine soon."

Brother Zhou nodded: "Then you don't go when the seafood is distributed tomorrow, just rest at home for a day, and let me go."

"Okay, I'll listen to you."