Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Winter Night Fantasy
On such a night, with the cold wind howling outside, and the carriage passing through the night, driven by her own man, how could she sleep peacefully?

I just want to stay awake, sit quietly, and be with him.

On this twelfth lunar month, there is always fear that some unruly people will come out and rob the road late at night.

And after a while, Yang Ruoqing would open the curtains and take a look outside to see where she was.

It was dark all around, and occasionally a little light could be seen in the middle of the distant fields.

Yang Ruoqing stared at the lights in a daze, imagining what it was like in those farmhouses at the moment.

On such a winter night, when a traveler is on the road, the light is a bright light in the dark night, and the light is also a source of warmth to dispel the darkness of the heart.

Every light represents a family. The family gathers together and eats a simple meal around the light. After the meal, the man sits at the table and mends the children's toys. There is no time during the day and they stay at night. .

After the woman washed the pots and bowls, fed the pigs, chickens and ducks, she brought a basin of footwashing water to soak the children's little feet.

After the children have finished soaking, add another scoop of hot water and the man will continue to soak. When the men and children are all soaked in the bed, it is the woman's turn.

Even when she was soaking her feet, she was not idle. She picked up the sewing basket and did a few stitches with the jumping soybean oil lamp.

The man put his hands behind his head, lay on the bed, stared at the yellowed and patched tent ceiling and chatted with the woman, discussing about buying new year's goods for this year's New Year.

What kind of things do you need to buy, how much do you need to buy for each item, how much money you need to spend, how much money you have at home, how big is the gap, and which relatives and friends will try to borrow the money from the gap...

Most of the children who had been stuffed under the quilt earlier were pretending to be asleep. When they heard their parents discussing new year's goods, they poked their heads out of the quilt.

"Dad, I want a new slingshot."

"I'll make it for you later, it's sure to be better than the ones I bought."

"Mom, I'm rare on red-headed ropes."

"Okay girl, I'll ask your mother to pull two for you later."

"Father, I still want a Guan Gong sword!"

"What kind of knives do children play with every family? How can they poke someone during the Chinese New Year?"

"Father, it's a wooden knife, the one inlaid with gold leaf, so domineering!"

"Don't buy it, don't buy it, children are not allowed to play with knives."

"Father, Erya next door ate sugar today, and she let me lick it..."

"Haha, dad will buy you a handful of sugar figurines and sugar pancakes for the new year."

The quilt was lifted suddenly, revealing a boy's head.

In the dark tent, the boy must have pouted his mouth high, and shouted loudly: "Father, you are biased! Buy it for my sister or not, I am not my own!"

At a time like this, the father must have lowered his face and slapped the kid on the head with his grumpy body.

"Stinky boy, are you still talking about it? This family will be yours in the future. Your sister is going to marry someone when she is a teenager. Don't you want your parents to treat her better now?"

"But……"

"It's nothing but, go to bed quickly, and then yell, believe it or not, I will cut you?"

The boy must still be full of grievances and dissatisfaction. At this time, the mother will probably put down the sewing basket, wipe her feet in a hurry, come over to mediate the conflict between father and son, then coax the son to sleep, and tell him: "Buy, everything Buy it, your father is teasing you, go to bed quickly when it is late at night..."

The boy got his mother's guarantee, and his father didn't insist on saying no to buy it, so the boy was relieved and fell asleep in anticipation...

Yang Ruoqing looked at the lights in the distant village outside the car, watching them gradually go out one by one in the night wind.

Predicting that the whole family should be going into a deep sleep, she also withdrew her fantasy and stretched herself.

Picking up the water bag next to her, she came to the front again.

"Come on, I'll pull the rein for you, and you can drink some hot water."

Yang Ruoqing sat down, stuffed the water bag to Luo Fengtang, and took the reins from his hand without any explanation.

Luo Fengtang was indeed a little thirsty, so he took the mask and scarf off, raised his head and gulped seven or eight mouthfuls.

"Are you more comfortable?" Yang Ruoqing asked him with a smile.

Luo Fengtang nodded: "My throat is much more comfortable, it was dry and astringent before."

Yang Ruoqing said: "It must have been blown by the cold wind. When we get home, the first thing we do is to drink Radix Banlangen. Use wine to soak our feet in hot water, otherwise we will get cold easily."

Luo Fengtang made a 'hmm' sound, tightened the lid of the water bag, and reconnected the reins.

"We'll be in Qingshui Town soon, and we'll be home almost before midnight," he said.

Yang Ruoqing looked around, looking at the shadowy scenes in the night, she found several iconic long dams, "It's really fast, tonight went smoothly, and there were no robbers on the road."

Even if you encounter it, you are not afraid.

As long as the two of them stretched out their hands, even if people from a village came out to block the road and rob them, it would not be enough for them to fight, and she hadn't had enough of beating Brother Dao today.

"Okay, I drank the water, you go back inside."

"Oh, you started pushing me again. It's stuffy inside. I changed the door to get some air."

"disobedient!"

"Humph."

Yang Ruoqing made up her mind to sit beside him, and he couldn't do anything else.

"By the way, what did you say when Magistrate Zhang asked you for advice today?" Yang Ruoqing asked Luo Fengtang about the follow-up of the thieves.

Luo Fengtang said: "I didn't give a clear request. After all, this is the responsibility of Zhang County Magistrate. I just suggest that each thief should be sentenced according to the depth of the crime and the attitude of admitting his mistake."

"The youngest little six son, I think in everyone's confession, his attitude of admitting his mistakes is the most sincere." Yang Ruoqing recalled that
The young man named Xiaoliuzi was the one who was caught later to clean up the rice grains in the warehouse of Yang Huazhong's house.

At the age of seventeen or eighteen, there is only one old woman in the family who needs to take medicine for a long time.

According to the people under his command who went to Xiaoliuzi's village to inquire, Xiaoliuzi was very popular in the village, he was a warm-hearted person, and he was a dutiful son.

He had never stolen before, but this year because of the flood, the family couldn't get rid of the pot, and his mother couldn't be short of medicine. Then, the young man was bewitched.

Although making a mistake is a real mistake, it cannot be killed with a stick.

Luo Fengtang took a look at Yang Ruoqing and said, "Well, I also mentioned the situation of the little six sons to the county magistrate Zhang. Considering that the others are repeat offenders and the little six sons are first-time offenders, the attitude of admitting mistakes is sincere, and the situation at home is not very good. I hope It can be punished lightly and given a chance to reform."

Yang Ruoqing smiled and nodded: "That's good. As for people like Yang Huasheng, if you give him a chance, you won't know his mistakes. We don't care about his life."

Luo Fengtang's estimation was really accurate. When the carriage stopped steadily at the gate of Wufangyuan, there was the sound of night watchmen beating watchmen in the village.

Bang, bang, bang...

Exactly three times.

The courtyard door of the fifth room suddenly opened from the inside with a creak, and Yang Huazhou came out neatly dressed, holding a lantern in his hand.

(End of this chapter)