wife and husband

Chapter 24

After breakfast the next morning, Chu Yunfeng and Shanzao went to Changba. Changba is actually a very flat land, which is used by villagers to thresh wheat. When it is idle, it is used for other purposes, like The field dam is the most suitable place for this kind of work today.

There were not many people on the field, so Chu Yunfeng casually glanced around, and his gaze stayed on the wood not far away for a while.

"What are you looking at?" Shan Zao followed Chu Yunfeng's gaze, but saw nothing special.

Chu Yunfeng shook his head, looked down at Shanzao, "It's nothing."

"Brother Orion, sister-in-law, you are coming too!" Yingzi and his younger sister Juanzi came over to greet Chu Yunfeng and the others affectionately. Chu Yunfeng and the others turned around and saw that Uncle Shoucheng's family had also arrived at Changba.

"Well, we just arrived." Chu Yunfeng nodded as a greeting.

Uncle Shoucheng covered his eyes with his hands and looked into the distance, "This man from the government is slow, he hasn't come yet..."

Er Shuan asked impatiently, "Father, is it true? After waiting for so long, there is not even a ghost."

Dashuan frowned, seeing his younger brother's impatience, he couldn't help but say, "Er Shuan, when will you change your temper? You're so old and you're as ignorant as a child..."

Da Shuan was still muttering, Er Shuan's neck stiffened, and his stubborn temper came up, "What's wrong with me? I'm fine! If you have nothing to do, just take care of yourself and me!"

As soon as Dashuan's expression changed, he was about to speak again, but his wife tugged at his sleeve, and gave him a wink to tell him not to speak. Dashuan glanced at Chu Yunfeng and Shanzao, shook his head and did not speak again.

Er Shuan was not careful, so he snorted and knelt down to ask Juanzi, "Juanzi, will Second Brother take you to catch butterflies?"

Juanzi's eyes lit up, she nodded and said, "Okay, I'm going."

Er Shuan smiled and pulled Juanzi to the grass beside the Changba. Da Shuan was about to shout, but his wife hurriedly pulled him. As soon as it got dark, he started talking in a loud voice, "What are you talking about me all the time? I can't even say a word?"

All of a sudden, Dashuan's daughter-in-law was stunned by the yelling, and when she realized it, her face turned red, and her eyes filled with tears. Dashuan felt a little guilty, but he couldn't help but glared at his daughter-in-law, " Cry, cry, cry, why cry! You know how to cry!"

Dashuan's daughter-in-law was just a little choked up at first, but after hearing this, she quickly turned her face away and went over to wipe away her tears quietly, biting her lower lip and holding back her tears.

This unexpected commotion made Shanzao and Chu Yunfeng, who were standing with Uncle Shoucheng's family, feel uncomfortable. Shanzao raised his head and glanced at Chu Yunfeng. Chu Yunfeng frowned slightly. It was inappropriate to stand here now. He just wanted to speak , Uncle Shou Cheng has already changed the topic first.

"Recently, the prices are normal, and now the price of rice and noodles is also cheaper, and life is easier." He asked slowly, but his eyes turned to Dashuan, and he gave him a hard look.

Now it’s impossible to say go, Chu Yunfeng nodded, "It will be fine slowly."

Aunt Shoucheng saw that they were chatting happily, and hurriedly took Shanzao's hand and said affectionately, "Is your body better? You have to take good care of your body, and it will be easy to have children after you take care of your body."

Shanzao nodded with a smile, "Well, it's much better, let my aunt worry about it."

The two families chatted casually, and then saw someone shouting, "Here we come, we're here!"

Uncle Shoucheng rushed out of Chu Yunfeng and nodded, and the two families followed. Dashuan was worried about Ershuan and Juanzi, and confessed that he would look for them.

The visitor was dressed in ordinary clothes, with a burden on his back. He didn't know what kind of official he was. He rode a mule and wore a straw hat and walked towards them slowly. After a circle, his face suddenly collapsed.

"Why don't you build a shed, do you want to spoil my lord?"

Everyone fell silent when they heard it. Uncle Shoucheng took a look, went up and bowed to the person, and said with a smile on his face, "My lord, there is a stage in the field, and it is ventilated. It is best to sit at the moment." Cool, why don't you go there to rest?"

The visitor snorted, and Uncle Shoucheng hurried forward to take the rope of the mule, and whispered to the people around him, "Hurry up and move the bench and table, and then make a pot of good tea."

Everyone didn't dare to neglect, and immediately those who took the stools took the stools, those who moved the tables moved the tables, and those who made tea made tea.When Uncle Shou Cheng led the mule to the dilapidated stage not far from Changba, all of this had already been done.

The visitor got off the mule slowly, looked at the dilapidated theater stage with disgust, glanced at the stool and the table but did not sit down in a hurry, but stretched out his hand to look at his nails leisurely.

Everyone looked at each other, not understanding what this meant. Uncle Shou Cheng looked at the people around him and shook his head at each other.

Chu Yunfeng saw it, and sneered in his heart, thinking that he would not be a high-ranking official if he could handle such an errand, so he made a point of emphasizing it.He didn't say a word. The villagers are simple and don't understand the tricks of flattery in the officialdom. This man really acted in the wrong place.

Sure enough, the man waited for quite a while and saw no response from the crowd, curled his lips, wiped the clean table and chair with his sleeve again deliberately, and then sat down slowly.

"This is Baiyun Village, right?"

He crossed his legs and asked slowly.

"Yes, yes." Everyone nodded.

The visitor looked up at the crowd, and snorted softly, "I am an official in the town, surnamed Luo, and this is my official card, please take a look." He took out a wooden sign from his pocket and put it on the table On the top, Yan Sanli was the closest. He carefully held up the wooden sign and looked at it for a long time, then handed the wooden sign back, and asked in a low voice, "Who can read? Help me see?"

Shanzao stretched her neck and took a look. The words on the wooden sign were very complicated. She couldn't understand what it was after reading it for a long time, so she couldn't help but look at Chu Yunfeng.

"Simin, who is in charge of household registration." Chu Yunfeng, who was tall and burly, had already read the contents of the wooden sign clearly, and whispered in Shanzao's ear.

Luo Simin seemed to be very proud, and like a treasure. After Yan San took the wooden sign to look at it for a while, he began to knock on the table, shouting impatiently, "Have you finished reading it? Return it to me after reading it. You won’t be able to compensate if this thing is broken.”

Yan San smiled repeatedly, holding the wooden sign, and carefully placed it on the table.

Luo Simin took a sip of tea, frowned and complained, "It's all tea foam, can this be used to entertain people?" After speaking, he sighed again, "Forget it, that's what people in the mountains are like. .”

What else can you do besides laughing?People don't fight with officials, even if they are just low-level officials, trying to deal with them is like dealing with ants.

After resting enough, Luo Simin opened the bag, took out a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and a booklet, and waved his hand, "Every household lined up, come one by one, and the head of the household stands at the front."

Everyone didn't move, Luo Simin pointed at Uncle Shoucheng again, "You, you, old man, you stand first, and then your wife stands second, and your son and daughter-in-law are behind, stand up quickly, don't stand in this place. The adults are dawdling here."

Uncle Shou Cheng hurriedly stood at the first one, and when one person moved, the second moved. Everyone soon started queuing up, reminding each other from time to time, "That family, stand up quickly, don't dawdle."

Chu Yunfeng didn't fight with others, and he and Shanzao were squeezed to a slightly back position when everyone pushed and shoved, Chu Yunfeng didn't care, he just looked at the sun hanging high in the sky, and his brows were frowned.

"What's wrong?" Shanzao asked.

Chu Yunfeng looked at the long queue and pointed to the sun in the sky, "The sun is starting to get poisonous, and I don't know how long the queue will last."

Shanzao stretched out his head and took a look, "It should be soon."

The whole line was long, and no one spoke at the beginning, but after a while everyone started chatting with each other, that's how people are, they can't go anywhere without opening their mouths.

At the beginning, everyone thought it would be over soon, but in fact it was very slow. After half an hour, Uncle Shoucheng's family hadn't finished, and there were whispers of complaints from the crowd.

This complaint was trivial and was quickly suppressed.

One hour passed, two hours passed...

Chu Yunfeng frowned more and more. Looking at the still long queue in front of him, he turned around and put his hands on his reddened face. The skin under his palms was cold, but it was covered with sweat.

"It's not going to work!" Chu Yunfeng said gloomily, looking at Shanzao with an uneasy expression.

Shanzao used his sleeves as a fan to cool himself, looked up to see that Chu Yunfeng was also sweating, and pinched his sleeves to wipe the sweat from his forehead, "What can't be done?"

Standing for too long and being exposed to the sun all the time, Shanzao was a little weak in speaking.

Chu Yunfeng looked at the long line, and many people simply sat on the dam. This would be the time when the sun was at its worst, and the ground of the dam was astonishingly hot, and every one of them would jump up when they sat down.

Looking at the blushing women and children in the whole team, looking at Shanzao who was weak, Chu Yunfeng touched her face, "You wait for me here, I'll go home, I'll be right back, don't you Sit on the ground, it's very hot."

"What are you doing at home?"

Shanzao rubbed his sore waist and asked puzzledly.

"Just wait." After Chu Yunfeng finished speaking, he strode away from the team and walked home.

After he left, Shanzao simply squatted down, his legs and feet were numb, but it was just a registration, why is it so troublesome.

After a while, Chu Yunfeng was carrying a shoulder pole with buckets at both ends. People got up when they saw it, and Mu Mu was the first to rush up to take Chu Yunfeng's pole, and said happily, "Brother Orion, how do you know we are thirsty?" ? That's great, you also brought us water."

Chu Yunfeng handed him the pole and nodded, "You pick it up first and let everyone drink some water. I'll go home and move the stools. It's so hot that we can't all sit on the ground. Isn't there a row of trees over the stage? Get a stool and sit over there."

Mu Mu looked at what Chu Yunfeng said, there were a few trees next to the stage, which just formed a shady place, even though it was a little distance from the stage, but everyone shouted to each other, and it didn't delay anything.

"Brother Orion, you don't have many stools at home. Let's just sit on the grass under the tree and drink as long as there is water. Don't go back and get it." Mu Mu said with a smile, and directly carried the water to the shade of the tree. Chu Yunfeng shouted at the team, "Everyone, go and sit over there. Let's drink water and wait slowly. It's not a problem to bask in the sun here."

Everyone stood up, shouted hello, thanked Chu Yunfeng one after another, and walked under the shade of the tree. At first, someone had seen the land but did not dare to go, but now everyone will go, so there is nothing to be afraid of .

(End of this chapter)