After comforting the little girl, Chu Yue asked her to continue to rest in bed before getting up and going to the kitchen.
She boiled up Chu Wenzhu's medicine and looked at Yun Cuihe who was busy next to her, "Mom, I just renamed Xiaotao, Chu Wenzhu, let's call her Xiaozhu from now on?"
Yun Cuihe nodded hurriedly, "Okay, it doesn't matter if you change the name. The name Wenzhu sounds nice, and the name Xiaozhu is easy to pronounce."
"Yes, mom is busy in the kitchen, I'm going to water the ground first."
Seeing that it would be a while before breakfast, Chu Yue carried a bucket out of the house, fetched two buckets of water from the well, and then carried it out to water the yard.
Just as she gritted her teeth and picked up the water, she felt her shoulders were empty. She looked up and saw Lu Xinghe standing behind her, lifting the load of water on her shoulders onto his shoulders with both hands.
"Didn't I say that? Let me do the heavy work from now on."
Chu Yue smiled and rolled her eyes, "You can still help a little at home this year. What if you go out to study or are not at home for scientific examinations in the future? Xingping Xing'an is still young, and my mother is not in good health, so I have to do it myself. .”
"I'm not at home, so don't be picky. Aren't you afraid that you won't grow taller? Don't be so stressed that you won't be able to grow taller by then."
Lu Xinghe said, carrying water and walking out of the yard.
Chu Yue had been following Lu Xinghe closely, looking down at her still slender body, and said angrily, "I didn't let you touch my head before, but now it's become a reason for you to tease me."
Lu Xinghe, who was walking in front, pursed his lips.
"I'm not kidding you, you really have to do heavy work according to your ability, otherwise you will be easily injured, and you may also suffer from back pain in the future. You are a doctor and you should know more about this kind of thing than me."
Listening to his words, Chu Yue pursed her lips.
"You've blocked me with my words, what else can I say? Just pay attention in the future."
Lu Xinghe put the bucket in the middle of the field, turned around and touched Chu Yue's head, "Hey, I'm going to the old house to cut cabbage, and I'm borrowing a cart to come back. You can work slowly, and we'll go to town together after breakfast." superior."
"Okay, okay, I understand."
Chu Yue pretended to be nonchalant while watering the water with a water ladle.
Lu Xinghe smiled and shook his head, then went back to the yard to get the basket and basket, and led Lu Xingping to the old house together.
Chu Yue glanced at Lu Xinghe's tall back, arched her eyebrows and picked up the water ladle to continue watering.
After watering the ten ridges of land, Chu Yue gave Chu Wenzhu a bowl of the cooked porridge when she saw that Lu Xinghe and Lu Xingping hadn't come back yet.
"Xiao Zhu, it's time to drink porridge."
She put the bowl on the table, first helped Xiaozhu up from the bed, then blew the porridge to cool down and fed it to her spoonful by spoonful.
Maybe it was because of the acupuncture and medicine I took yesterday. Not only was I awake today, but my appetite was also much better. I ate more than half a bowl of porridge before I stopped.
"Sister, how long do I have to recover?"
"Aren't you much better now?" Chu Yue reached out and pinched her face, "Just after eating, take a rest. When you feel energetic, you can get out of bed and walk around before taking medicine."
Xiaozhu nodded, "Okay."
"That's right." Chu Yue looked at her and said, "Your brother-in-law and I are going to the town to buy rice later. I'm afraid it won't be until the afternoon when we get back. You have to be obedient at home and wait for me to come back."
Xiaozhu responded with a cute face, "I know, sister."
Just when he came out of the house, he saw Lu Jianqi coming outside the courtyard gate and looking in through the courtyard door. When he saw Chu Yue, he smiled sheepishly.
"Xinghe Wife, is your mother in the house?"
"I'm here, Uncle Jianqi." Chu Yue hurriedly shouted towards the kitchen, "Mom, Li Zheng is looking for you."
"Hey, here we come." Yun Cuihe asked Lu Xing'an to look at the kitchen before going out, "Brother Jianqi is here? But our village has to pay taxes?"
Lu Jianqi nodded, opened the booklet in his hand and opened it a little further. He squinted to read the words clearly before looking at Yun Cuihe.
"A total of two hundred kilograms of rice have been collected in your house this year. According to the field rent of twenty-one tax, ten kilograms of rice have to be paid. The current price of new rice is one hundred and twenty cents. There are two children and one in the house. Three adults, the child's mouth money is 23 cents a year, the adult's is 120 cents a year, the total population tax is 406 cents, which adds up to 526 cents, you can do the math for yourself right?"
After Yun Cuihe thought for a moment, she quickly looked at Lu Jianqi.
"Now that Brother Jianqi understands it, there must be nothing wrong. It's just that I have another child at home. I just brought him back yesterday. Do I need to pay for it?"
Lu Jianqi was stunned and seemed a little surprised. Now that they are young, they still have extra food to feed unrelated people. He waved his hand and said, "Since I just brought it back yesterday, if it is still in the village next year, then Let’s just submit it next year.”
"Hey, okay, I'll take the money right now. Brother Jianqi, please wait for me for a moment."
After paying the tax of 526 Wen, Lu Jianqi left. Halfway down the mountain, he happened to meet Lu Xinghe who was pushing a cart full of cabbages home.
Lu Jianqi hurriedly stepped aside and looked at Lu Xinghe's cart of vegetables with surprise, "Hey! Xinghe, why is the harvest in the field so good?"
Lu Xinghe hummed, "The fertilizer has been good this year, and the harvest is pretty good."
The Chinese cabbage grown in the past years has never been so big. If he hadn't seen Chu Yue grow it from the ground with his own eyes, he wouldn't have dared to believe that this was a vegetable that could be grown in drought years.
Not only cabbages, but also radishes are not small. He even pulled out half a basket of radishes today, but he left the remaining radishes in the field untouched. Chu Yue said he would use them to make pickled radishes and dried radish shreds.
After pushing the cabbage and radish home, the family was eating, and Xiaozhu walked slowly to the kitchen holding on to the wall.
"elder sister."
A small voice reached Chu Yue's ears. She quickly put down the bowl and stepped forward to help Xiaozhu sit on the chair next to her.
"Why don't you scream when you want to get up? If you feel dizzy, you will fall down."
Chu Wenzhu was embarrassed and said something into Chu Yue's ear. After hearing this, Chu Yue hurriedly got up and helped her to the latrine.
The hut here is different from the one at home. The floor is paved with blue bricks, which is solid when you step on it, and you are not afraid of falling. The toilet underneath is a small trough, which leads diagonally downwards to the septic tank behind the house. No excrement.
Xiaozhu untied his little hands and walked out of the hut while holding on to the wall. He looked at the spacious yard and the blue brick house in front of him, his eyes full of surprise.
Before, her parents said that her brother-in-law's family was poor, but she took it seriously.
She held Chu Yue's hand and looked in her direction, "Sister, is this really my brother-in-law's house?"
Chu Yue smiled, "We already live here, is it possible we can still have a vacation?"
There was a slight smile on the little girl's pale face. It was great. Her sister's life at her brother-in-law's house was better than she imagined. "It turns out that my brother-in-law's house is not as miserable as my parents said. I really can't believe what they said." .”
Chu Yue smiled and helped Xiaozhu into the house.
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