Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Chapter 3951 Envy
In mid-May, the weather was already very muggy.

And here, the rainy season is also ushered in.

On this day, it was as if a hole had been broken, and it rained non-stop from morning till night.

The water in the pond is all cloudy, just like that yellow mud.

With such dirty water, Yang Ruoqing naturally didn't dare to wash clothes and vegetables, so she washed most of the time by the well in the backyard of her house.

But those other families in the village who don’t have a well have a hard time. The clothes are finally dried after washing, and there is inevitably a faint muddy smell on them.

Liu Doukou couldn't sit still anymore.

Pulling the clothes on my body and sniffing every day, my small face wrinkled into a bitter gourd.

"Cousin, the water is too dirty. It's really useless. If it doesn't work, let's find someone to dig the well!" Liu Doukou said.

Mu Zichuan glanced at the rain curtain in the yard outside, and shook his head: "Not to mention that digging a well is not a small project, at least it takes half a month to dig without a break."

"Even after digging, waiting for the water to come out, and then filtering out the first few batches of dirty water, it may take more than a month. By then, the rainy season will have passed, and the real summer will come."

Liu Doukou looked depressed, watching the rainwater falling from the eaves and falling to the ground, splashing one after another.

The ground in the yard was all wet, except for a narrow bluestone road leading to the kitchen, the rest of the yard was covered with mud.

Liu Doukou looked down at her flowery skirt again, helpless.

If I had known that life in this country was so difficult, I should have brought two maids with me when I came here, but now I am better, I have become a maid.

Father, mother, I really want to go back!

While Liu Doukou was shouting in his heart, Mu Zichuan beside him suddenly moved.

He picked up the coir raincoat on the side and put it on, put on a bamboo hat on his head, and then walked quickly to the kitchen.

"Cousin, what are you going to do?" Liu Doukou asked loudly.

Mu Zichuan poked his head out from the door of the kitchen and said, "I'll go to Qinger's to fetch two barrels of well water and come back. We'll use the well water for washing and cooking later on."

At Yang Ruoqing's house, she was collecting dried clothes in a large room with ventilation on all sides.

Accepting the previous lessons, during the rainy season every day, there is no way to dry clothes outside, so many people almost change their clothes to empty cabinets.

So in the end, adults and children can only wear clothes that smell bad.

Otherwise, the children simply don't give them clothes to wear, and directly bare their buttocks, and the men also open their arms.

Just wait until the rainy season is over.

This is what Yang Ruoqing often experienced when she was a child, so when she and Luo Fengtang got married and built a new house, she deliberately split a piece of land in the backyard and built a big room for drying clothes during the rainy season and rainy days.

The inside is ventilated and ventilated, and charcoal fire trays can be used to increase the indoor temperature and air humidity to achieve rapid drying.

So this time, not only is she here to collect clothes, but Xiaohua and Xiaojie are also here.

The clothes of the two families were also brought here to dry, especially Feng'er's small clothes.

"Sister, I think this drying room can be put to good use now, and it will make the housewives in the whole village envious!" Xiao Hua said with a smile while arranging the clothes.

Xiaojie also said: "It's really convenient. We can change into clean clothes every day, and the clothes washed with well water have no aftertaste at all. It's great."

Yang Ruoqing said: "That's right, the water in this well is clean. I was thinking about whether I should go to the godmother's side later and take their clothes to wash."

Xiaojie said: "Sister, isn't that Liu Doukou in Lao Mu's house doing housework? She does all the clothes and vegetables. It's not appropriate for you to get the clothes and wash them. It's up to you when the time comes." What about Mother alone? Or the three of them? If you take them all, you will work too hard."

Yang Ruoqing said: "I don't care if it's hard work or not. But, that Liu Doukou, I don't know if I offended her somewhere, or what. During this period of time, I went to visit my godmother, and the chances of meeting her are all gone. not much."

"It was almost when I was in the house, she went to the kitchen, she just nodded at the meeting when she was exhausted, it seemed that she became a lot of strangers all of a sudden!"

"If I go to get the clothes again, she will think that I dislike her dirty laundry. I'm still too lazy to do such a thankless thing!" Yang Ruoqing said.

Both Xiaohua and Xiaojie nodded, "Well, then I won't go, anyway, sister, you have done your best, just visit your godmother once a day."

Xiaohua and Xiaojie packed up their clothes and were about to leave when footsteps came from the yard outside.

"It's raining heavily, and there are still people coming to visit?" Xiaojie asked in surprise.

Xiao Hua said: "I don't know which one it is, but I still have two buckets in my hand!"

Hearing this, Yang Ruoqing also poked her head out, and saw a man in coir raincoat and bamboo hat walking towards this side quickly.

Seeing the shoes on the man's feet, Yang Ruoqing recognized them at a glance.

"Zi Chuan? Why are you here when it's raining so hard?"

Yang Ruoqing yelled to Mu Zichuan who was in the rain, and quickly got out of the way to let him in to avoid the rain.

Mu Zichuan entered the house, put down two buckets, and took off the bamboo hat on his head, revealing a face wet by rain.

"The water in the pond is unpalatable, it smells like mud. I want to come to your well to fetch two buckets of water and bring them back to boil water for cooking," he said.

Yang Ruoqing nodded again and again, "Okay, okay, I just told my two younger sisters about this, and it so happened that you came here."

"Well, come to my house to wash your clothes when you come back. You go back and tell cousin cardamom that my house has plenty of well water, and there is also a place to dry clothes here. Let her come to wash clothes." She said again.

Mu Zichuan smiled and said: "I don't need to wash clothes. I come here every day to fetch two buckets of water, one bucket is used for boiling water and cooking, and the other bucket is used to wash the clothes that have been washed in the pond. It’s good that the rainy season is over.”

"Okay then, I'll leave you guys alone. Hey, the rain is getting lighter. Let's go. I'll accompany you to fetch water from the well in the backyard." Yang Ruoqing said.

Then she said to Xiaohua and Xiaojie: "You two, take advantage of the less rain and go home!"

"Well, let's go back now." Xiaohua and Xiaojie greeted Mu Zichuan again, and they left quickly with their baskets in their arms.

In the backyard, Yang Ruoqing helped Mu Zichuan fill the two wooden barrels he brought with him with clear well water, and then covered the mouth of the barrel with two bamboo hats.

"It will be very difficult for you to carry it with your hands like this. Wait a minute, I'll get you a pole to carry it for you." She said.

"Okay." Mu Zichuan replied.

(End of this chapter)