Their original house was left to their sister and brother-in-law to temporarily live in.
Because it is impossible for the sister and husband to live here forever. Their hometown has fields and houses. When the famine is over, the sister and husband will have to take the children back.
So at this moment, even if Old Yangtou stood at the door and urged them to go back to the house to rest, so as to conserve their energy and work in the fields tomorrow.
But this young couple is in high spirits, how can they listen to advice?
So Little Mo turned to Old Yang and said, "Okay, Master, let's finish the things at hand and then go back to the house to rest."
Yang Yongqing grinned and said: "Don't worry, sir, I am so powerful now that I have endless energy!"
"Even if I stay up all night tonight to do these things, I will still have the strength to work in the fields tomorrow!"
After a pause, Yang Yongqing corrected him again: "I was wrong. In fact, I don't need to exert any effort at all. There are long-term workers, and those wages are not free. I am responsible for supervision and strategizing!"
Old Yangtou smiled and scolded Yang Yongqing: "You can just yell at me. You can't let people work long hours in the fields to plant rice. You sleep at night and others slack off, and you don't know anything!"
Yang Yongqing stared and deliberately put on a fierce look: "Who dares? You don't want the wages, do you? I, Yang Yongqing, am not my third uncle. I am not easy to talk to!"
Regarding this, Lao Yang wrote a letter.
Yang Huazhong is honest, kind and simple. To put it bluntly, the long-term workers are all fellow villagers.
Yang Huazhong would never really treat others as inferiors. On the contrary, Yang Huazhong himself took the lead in the work and did more than the long-term workers. He was the kind of boss who could make the long-term workers feel ashamed!
Looking back at Yang Yongqing... let's just write it down. Although he also went to work in the fields with him, it was because he was not very expert in many aspects of crop matters, so he worked with him to learn from his master.
When he leaves the army one day, he can know the conditions of the crops in the fields in each season with his eyes closed. By then, he will definitely be the second boss giving orders.
However, with this kind of character, you can't completely say that he is not good.
Sometimes it's just that, these long-term workers are all illiterate farmers, to put it mildly, simple.
To put it mildly, vulgar.
Moreover, everyone likes to be a little clever and has his own little calculations.
There is a saying that villains fear power but not virtue.
If they are all good-natured people like Yang Huazhong, it is not necessarily a good thing. We also need two ruthless people like Yang Yongqing who are not stingy and will fall out whenever they want!
"Master, go back and sleep in your bed. You old men really can't stay up late. Go, go!"
Yang Yongqing waved his hand vigorously towards the old man again.
Only then did Lao Yangtou return to the backyard with the lantern.
In the east room of the backyard, Mrs. Tan was not asleep yet. She was sitting on a small bamboo stool beside the bed with a cattail leaf fan, dozing off and waiting for Old Yang.
Seeing Lao Yangtou enter, Mrs. Tan stood up sleepily, picked up the small stool under her body and placed it against the wall. She yawned and walked over to lock the door of the east room.
"The Yongqing couple are still cleaning up the house?" Ms. Tan asked.
Lao Yangtou said 'hmm', "It's rare for my grandson-in-law to reunite sisters. It's a good thing that we can see each other again in our lifetime."
"What the young boy has done this time is not bad, he looks like a mature, stable and responsible man!"
Tan was already feeling sleepy, but when he heard Old Yangtou's praise of Yang Yongqing, he couldn't help laughing.
"Why does it sound so wrong to me when the words "mature and steady" are used on a young boy?
"Ha, people always grow up! Young boy's performance is really good this time, and his attitude towards his granddaughter-in-law's family is very responsible!"
"It's alright. Anyway, our old Yang family doesn't have anything else, so we still have an empty room. If we make room for them, consider it as a good deed!" Mrs. Tan said, taking off her shoes and going to bed.
"Old man, come up quickly. I'll catch all the mosquitoes in the tent. Hurry up!"
Mrs. Tan helped Lao Yangtou press the entrance of the tent, helped Lao Yangtou climb onto the bed, and then quickly closed the tent and clamped it with an iron clip.
The old couple lay on the bed, but did not fall asleep immediately. Instead, they said a few common words before going to bed as usual.
The topics are very broad, but these broad topics are actually repeated every night, like fried leftovers, they are just talked about in several rooms in turn.
When it comes to the fourth room, the topic will stop, then sigh, and skip to talk about other things in a tacit understanding.
Today, while talking, Tan suddenly changed the topic to Yang Huamei.
"Old man, please do the math for me, how many days has it been since Mei'er came here?" asked Tan.
"The last time I saw her, I thought it was the Dragon Boat Festival? Did I remember it wrong?"
And today, it is already mid-June, and a month has passed since the last time we met!
Who can imagine that a mother and daughter from the same village haven't seen each other for a month?
Old Yang lay there wiggling his fingers and thinking. After a while, the old man's voice sounded again in the darkness with continued surprise: "It seems that's really what happened. What's going on? Why haven't you been here for a month?"
"Yeah, he just hasn't come to see us for a month!" Tan said again.
"What about you, old lady? If she doesn't come to see us, why haven't you wandered over to Lao Wang's house in the past month?"
"Of course I wandered around. She was not at home twice, and she was home twice. She was either catching up on sleep in bed or taking a shower. She casually said a few words through the door and window and then left."
"The fourth room invited everyone to eat new rice yesterday. It seems that Mei'er didn't come either?" Old Yangtou suddenly asked again.
Ms. Tan shook her head: "I asked Yongqing and said I wanted to invite him. Meier declined and said he couldn't come. He said that the Xu family's relatives were coming to visit and they had to stay at home to entertain them."
"Old lady, let's do this. Let's go to Lao Wang's house tomorrow to see what's going on with Mei'er. Why does she seem to be avoiding us?"
"Old man, do you feel this way too? So do I!"
"Okay, okay, go to sleep, go to sleep, we'll talk about it when we see you tomorrow!"
"Damn old man, you are so impatient."
Tan rolled over angrily, with his back to Old Yang, and soon fell asleep.
Early the next morning.
In the Luo family, Da Mo's Gastrodia elata got up at dawn and helped Wang Cuilian with the housework and washed everyone's clothes.
Lao Chu was not idle either. He was busy carrying water and sweeping the yard.
Blacksmith Luo grabbed the shoulder pole and said, "Your leg injury has just healed, but you have to take it easy. What if the wound's flesh doesn't grow back and it collapses?"
Old Chu smiled honestly and rubbed his hands in embarrassment, "Uncle Luo, I can do it. Just pick up another load of water and that's it."
At this moment, the little Mo family on the other side of the village left the old Yang family hall almost at the same time as the old Yangtou Tan family.
But when they arrived at the entrance of the alley, little Mo went to the Luo family at the entrance of the village, while the second elder went to the old Wang family at the south end of the village...
