Ge Ba looked at the donkey cart with its rear lights plugged in, standing messy in the spring breeze.
Everyone else thanked him, but Miss Xu refused the general's reward.
Rejected?
Xu Tianxin understands better than anyone else that no matter in modern times or here, powerful relatives in the family will be very helpful.
Especially here, even people are divided into three, six or nine grades of scholars, farmers, industry and merchants, which is only more serious and obvious than in modern times.
And the Xu family has more or less borrowed power because of their acquaintance with powerful people.
She does not shy away from this, and is very happy that because of this, she has not received any suppression so far.
Otherwise, you can imagine how many people would be jealous and secretly resentful if a poor peasant family with no foundation suddenly became popular. Some people don't even block his way, just because they can't bear to see you turning around and ruining you.
Therefore, we must admit that the Xu family has been protected by powerful people.
But Xu Tianxin felt that it was like giving two thousand logging permits. It was better not to take advantage of this kind of thing. You could afford this kind of thing by gritting your teeth, but you couldn't do anything without clinging to the powerful.
It is true that one sentence can solve our big problems, but we can't think about things like that. We should fight step by step. We can eat as much as we need in a big pot. The right way is to stop it and tailor it according to our own situation.
At this time, Mrs. Xu looked back at Geba who was messy in the wind. While waving her whip to drive the car, she smiled and said something more straightforward than her granddaughter:
"After all, those powerful people like the general are not related by blood to our family, but they just look familiar.
Not to mention that if we are in a relationship with someone, even if we are in a relationship, we can't accept everything. It will make people feel shameless, not to mention that we are not in a relationship yet.
Dabao, you are right to refuse. People want face, and trees want bark. If our family can uncover the pot, Nai still likes to want face.
Are you just trying to trouble that guy named Ge Ji? Emma, the name of the general is too poor. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. The singer will have to go to trouble to send back the logging certificate. "
When Xu Tianxin heard her nickname for someone else, Ge Ji turned into a singer and laughed.
Mrs. Xu and Xu Tianxin entered the village in the evening, and their grandfather and grandson were still humming along the way: "Where is spring? Where is spring? Spring is in the green mountains and forests, and there are those little orioles that can sing..."
The whole table was far away and he ran out into the howling spring breeze. He lost his turban and patted his thighs and shouted: "Oh my god, sister, you are in Leijiawo Gaha, why did you stay here for so long?" go home?"
From the words spoken all over the table, one can definitely tell that she really misses her elder sister.
Because in the Northeast, if I ask you Gaha, it means I miss you.
If it were changed to ah or gaha, it would mean that it annoys you.
Lao Zhai also threw down his hoe excitedly, ran a few steps forward in a daze, and shouted with a smile on his face: "Tian, Tian..."
After calling out "Tian Xin" several times, but still unable to say a complete sentence "Tian Xin", he enthusiastically stretched out his hand to grab the donkey and helped Xu Tian Xin unload the things on the car.
And do you think he gave up?
When all the things in the car were unloaded and Xu Tianxin was surrounded by a group of old ladies, Old Zhai Tou held back the second half of his sentence: "...Xin'er."
Lao Zhaitou has some persistent spirit. It doesn't matter if you stutter, as long as you can finish what you said, it doesn't matter if it's late.
Xu Tianxin was grabbed by Grandma Da'ezi's hand and praised: "Don't you think this is a strange thing? Did I see it wrong? The child has only been gone for a few days. Why do I feel that it is like that crop seedling? I have been able to make mistakes for a long time. Quite a bit tall. Is he five feet tall?"
Cai Baozi affirmed: "You read that right, I think a five-foot tall person can still have four-foot legs. Those who used to say behind my back that Tian Xin is not tall will regret it."
The eggplant bun wife and the second lazy daughter-in-law couldn't help but praise: "Going to Lei's home seems to have changed a lot. In the past, our Tian Xin had a starry face, with small spots all over our face. To be honest, I didn't look like that before." They’re all a bit toothy.”
Old Mrs. Xu thought to herself: If you want to praise, then praise well: "Why, who has chewed it before? And the whole thing is still there."
Tsk tsk, if not for Miss Seven-Star Ladybug Hua, she is the second best in picking problems and no one would dare to be the first.
"No, I always make the decision. Just listen to what I have to say. Looking at it now, your Tian Xin's little face has turned white unconsciously, as if we had been frosted in autumn. In the past, at home, we I can’t even notice it every day, but after being away for a few days, all of a sudden, it’s like a big change.”
"It's not frost, it's like egg white." If it's frost, sometimes it's frost in local areas. You use this word to describe it as if your skin tone is uneven.
"Ah, yes, it's like egg white. Anyway, it's just a sentence. I'm optimistic that there are only two kinds of good granddaughters. One should be like Tian Xin, and the other should be like her. Such a granddaughter. , whichever family has it will be blessed."
After the eggplant bun wife finished speaking, she put warm sleeves in her hands, nudged Mrs. Xu with her elbow and asked: "The boss is always in charge, do you think it's okay for me to be so nagging?"
That's great. If you chatter like this, you'll be very lovable and your emotional value will be maxed out.
"Don't you need to pull it up any more?"
"No need. If you praise me any more, it will overflow. It's time to praise your bald skin." Mrs. Xu pointed at the women and laughed.
"By the way, isn't my Xiaoqin here in the shop? Neither are my silly boys and grandsons?"
At this time, Yu Qiniang was pregnant and did not delay working. She was plowing in the vegetable garden at home.
If people are diligent, spring comes early, and farmers come first.
Yu Qiniang plowed the ground in the vegetable garden at home, while the old lady used a shovel to dig up the ground where she was going to build a new house.
According to the old lady, no matter how many new houses are built, vegetables must be planted first.
She asked Youyin to draw a circle for her, setting aside a place where she would build a house and dig a foundation. She planned to cultivate the rest to grow vegetables.
The first vegetables Lao Xu’s family will plant in spring are onions and garlic.
The family owns a restaurant, and no matter what the season, it is indispensable to stir-fry onions and garlic. Her second daughter-in-law also likes to sprinkle a handful of chopped green onions before the dishes are served, so the old lady plans to add more onions and garlic.
The old lady was bending down to mix the onion seeds with soil. If Xu Tianxin were here, she would definitely ask curiously: "Tainai, why are you mixing it with soil? Why don't you just sprinkle the rapeseeds directly, for fear that the rapeseeds will be blown away by the strong wind?"
This is a child who has never done farm work.
When Xu Tianxin sometimes asked, the old lady would often sigh secretly, "The child is not a man of life at first glance. What will he do if he gets married in the future?" Even with Bai Xiucai's family background, he still had to eat vegetables and grow the land.
Well, the old lady seemed to have noticed that Bai Xiucai had fallen in love with her great-granddaughter, but she didn't dare to tell anyone that she noticed, for fear that her second daughter-in-law would scold her for being careless. In fact, she could tell that there were several couples in the village who were flirting with each other.
Tian Xin is too young, so it's better not to mention it. Otherwise, if you mention it, you will get distracted and it's time to delay reading and making money. There are hundreds of families looking for girls, but our family is not in a hurry. Besides, some things are nothing to worry about. As she has lived a long time, she feels more and more that getting married is not a business. As long as our family's life is not easy, then marriage will not be easy.
After scattering the onion seeds, the old lady dug into the ground with a spade.
In addition to planting onions and garlic in the first crop, she also planted potatoes and sweet potatoes. The sweet potato seedlings have already been raised. There are also cucumber seeds, pepper seeds, celery, beans, spinach, lettuce, rapeseed, leeks, Chinese cabbage, etc. The old lady has finished raising the seedlings. Every day, I water and keep warm as carefully as I would a baby. These are the things that will be planted in the second crop.
Crops can be grown in the Northeast for one season, and the land must be used rationally.
At this time, the old lady was very tired. She wiped the sweat from her head and thought: My daughter-in-law, are you going to wait until I turn all these open spaces into a vegetable garden before you come back? Emma, I'm going to be exhausted. I'm even more exhausted than at my old home. There's so much open space here. Mainly because she was still a little hungry.
Just as I was thinking about it, I heard the group of half-year-old children in the village who were digging for earthworms and poop shouting: "Sister Tian Xin is back!"
The old lady threw the spade away, and her daughter-in-law and great-granddaughter finally came back. It was time for her family to cook a good meal seriously, so she hurried home to cook.
When Mrs. Xu and Xu Tianxin entered the village, they learned that Liu Laozhu divided the villagers into two groups. One group dug ditches near the newly purchased wasteland in the village to avoid drought and water shortage for irrigation. When ditches were dug, river water would be diverted.
Another group of villagers is paving the road.
Liu Jingdong started school, and now he no longer thinks about going to school. He goes home after school every day, and then takes the carloads of stones to his house. Later, he saved more, so he simply took advantage of the cold weather to build a house without digging the foundation. Officially planting crops will pave the way.
Moreover, the scene was quite large, with layers of stones filled with soil and sand, and the ground was pressed with round rollers like stone mills.
"All the sons-in-law from our village are back?"
Liu Laozhu reported to Mrs. Xu: "Well, aren't we all here waiting to build a house and get paid for it? I said that we can't dig the foundation right now, and the house may not be strong, but don't be idle, and support their father-in-law and mother-in-law's quota. , come and work for our village, let their father-in-law and mother-in-law do some light work, we cannot let the father-in-law provide food for free."
"Where's the fourth uncle?"
"The fourth uncle led them to make boats. Your third son and your eldest grandson Dapeng followed them up the mountain to cut birch trees..."
Liu Laozhu reported to Mrs. Xu one by one that Xu Laoer, Xu Youyin and Dali were building a plank road up the mountain.
The so-called plank road is to repair a lot of weeds, sprinkle anti-animal medicine around it, and then smooth the ground and pave the steps with stones.
It was built until you can see the shops at the bottom of the mountain and the river in the distance. A birch log cabin was built in the middle of the mountain to provide a resting place for hunting or for businessmen to drink tea and hunt roe deer, pheasants and hares. .
Even Guan Erbal was not idle, and was following Mrs. Xu's request to prevent people from other villages from poaching her mother-in-law.
Erdaohe Village plans to lead from the shops to the river, with small yellow dandelion flowers blooming along the roadside. The foothills behind the shops and houses will be filled with purple lilacs to welcome the spring in a few days. Then there will be fireflies all over the sky. At night, when you look up at the sea of flowers under the big moon, it's so beautiful.
But dandelions will not be wasted after they have bloomed. In Guan Ertuo's eyes, everything is a treasure. At this time, he was teaching the girls who came to pick wild flowers after work:
"Dandelions are cool in nature. After admiring the flowers for the merchants, we will pluck the flowers and steam them for a stick of incense. This is the dried tea. When drinking, add some ginger appropriately. Do not peel the ginger. The roots of the dandelion should also be dried. Made into tea, it is very good at removing fire."
The girls nodded and took notes while continuing to pick the purple wild boar tooth flowers in the fields. They planned to pick them, dry them, grind them into powder, and give them to Tian Xin'er for coloring the saponins.
A few days later, when lilacs, hawthorns, wild roses and other flowers also bloomed, they had to pick in large quantities. This time they had experience. Tian Xin said that the focus this year is to develop facial lotion.
As the news of Xu Tianxin's return spread word of mouth among the villagers, it reached the ears of the uncles of the Xu family and the ears of the working girls on the mountain. Guan Ertu pulled off the newly bloomed dandelion flowers, gathered a handful of them together, and ran back. He missed his disciple very much after not seeing him for days.
