Farmhouse Pastoral Notes

Chapter 73
September [-]th, light rain.

Since yesterday evening, the sky has been dripping with rain.The whole town of Heishan is in a blue sky, different from the delicate spring rain and the manic summer rain, the autumn rain is bleak, the cold rain falls on people, bringing a bone-chilling chill, and passers-by will all sigh , It’s really an autumn rain and a cold!
Because of the rainy weather, the shop was pitifully cold, and there were only two or three sparrows among the customers. This was not like the Spring and Autumn family, but the surrounding shops were all the same, and some shops even closed their doors.

Chunqiu took the small bench she brought from home and placed it at the door of the shop, then sat down, put her hands on her thighs and raised her chin and stared blankly into the distance. She hasn't been thinking like this for a long time, occasionally like this, feeling Really good.

The rain was not heavy, but it was very dense, the water droplets splashed on the bluestone road, and Chunqiu stared at the raindrops in front of him with calm eyes.

Pedestrians on the road are in a hurry. Everyone is holding an oil-paper umbrella and running quickly when they pass by. Chunqiu carefully observes the pedestrians in front of him. But no matter how many there are, they are basically men, alas, Chunqiu sighed in his heart, this does not match the beauty of the first encounter in the rain in the later generations, okay?In this dynasty, the requirements for women are very strict. Women who have not left the court will basically not show up, just like Chunqiu's eldest sister, Chun Ni, who is already 11 years old. It is estimated that Gu will not come back this time. Let her come out to help, after all, she is old.

There are only two kinds of women that can be seen: one is a child like Chunqiu, because she is too young, no one cares.One is a married middle-aged woman like Yuan, who is busy with trivial matters at home.As for a grandma like Yang Lishi... well, no one cares anymore, after all, she is old.

Speaking of which, the scenes where young ladies go out like in previous TV dramas are also different. First of all, those ladies of the big family don’t go out easily, and thirdly, even if they go out, not only the maids around them will be sternly guarded. Well, the lady herself doesn't know how to get out of the sedan chair, and even if she gets out, she will cover her face tightly. Just imagine, if this is the case, how can she follow the script? Therefore, TV dramas are all lies.

Thinking about it, Chunqiu's thoughts became distorted. When he thought about the things of later generations, and compared them with the present, he immediately fell forward and backward with joy...

Spring and Autumn Played endlessly. Yuan Shi lay on the counter and counted the previous bills. Seeing her daughter's crazy appearance, she just shook her head and smiled. The accounts are all clear. Even if the Yang family is running a small business now, the cost of the account is still a lot of cost. Yuan Shi is holding a brush to make gestures, and naturally he doesn't care about the girl at the door...

Suddenly, Chunqiu noticed a bullock cart not far from the entrance of the alley. The people on the bullock cart were wearing coir raincoats and were driving the bullock cart, because the figure of the other party was somewhat similar to that of Yang Weibo. Driving out to buy goods, Chunqiu thought her father was back, Chunqiu became more and more curious as he watched, and finally had to stand on tiptoe at the door to see clearly.

Not like that, Chunqiu murmured in his heart, as the ox cart got closer, the outline of the opponent became clearer and clearer. Although it was raining, Chunqiu couldn't see it very clearly, but it was probably not wrong, her father definitely didn't Really strong, thinking of this, Chunqiu directly denied Yang Weibo, because the other party is so tall, he must not be her father.

As if confirming Chunqiu's conjecture, the bullock cart stopped directly at the door of Chunqiu's shop, and the young man on the bullock cart also came down, with thick eyebrows, big eyes, and dark skin, but this was obviously not her father, Chunqiu looked at him and moved forward Without stopping, he knew that the other party must have come to their house. Before Chunqiu thought about it, he turned his head and shouted at Yuan Shi, "Mother, there is someone from our shop."

"Who is it?" Yuan Shi didn't look up, and replied directly.

Chunqiu looked back, shook his head and said, "I don't know, I'm coming in soon, mother, come out soon"

Only then did Yuan Shi put down the account book in her hand, and walked out from behind the counter, "Who is it? Don't you know?" After Yuan Shi finished speaking, she followed Chunqiu's gaze and forgot the past. I know.

However, even though Mrs. Yuan knew each other, the young man had already walked up to Mrs. Yuan. She had no choice but to smile and say, "Little brother, come in, come in. What are you doing here?" Watching Chunqiu on the side give up a vacant seat for the other party to come in.

Hearing that you were at a loss, the young man didn't enter the door. He just stood at the entrance of the shop and looked at Yuan Shi, and said in a low voice, "I...I'm here to deliver cucumbers. My father is not free today, so let me come." After the young man finished speaking, He directly lowered his head without looking at Yuan Shi, looking shy.

Yuan was taken aback, then realized that this should be Mrs. Hu's grandson, and laughed out loud, "Oh, it's my aunt, I don't remember well, you should be Mrs. Hu's grandson, my shop ordered one with Mrs. Hu before." The cucumber contract needs to be delivered once every three days, but it turns out that Brother Hu has always come to deliver it. I didn’t expect to change someone today.” Yuan Shi said, and directly greeted the young man at the door, “Come in, it’s okay, there is no one in the shop, come and sit down "

"Hey..." The young man was obviously not as nervous as before when he heard Yuan's words. Although he was still a little cautious, he still entered the room.

After the young man entered the house, he put the coir raincoat on his body at the door, and walked in. Only then did Chunqiu see the whole picture of the young man in front of him. His height was estimated to be 180+, and he was really tall.

The young man scratched his head, looked at Yuan Shi shyly and said, "Today, my father asked me to come over because of some business at home. Auntie, this is my first time here. Please bear with me." After the young man finished speaking, he was still embarrassed. bowed his head.

"Pfft..." Yuan Shi was teased and laughed, "What's the matter, Auntie didn't blame you, it's the same for anyone who gave me cucumbers? How many catties did you give this time?" After finishing speaking, Yuan Shi stretched out her hand to the young man After a glance, he didn't see the back basket, so he was a little confused.

"Ah..." The young man glanced back, and ran out again. Without putting on his coir raincoat, he directly unloaded the back basket from the bullock cart and carried it back to the house.

"Why did you rush straight away? What should I do if I have a cold?" Seeing that there was something she didn't understand here, Yuan Shi looked worriedly at the young man in front of him whose clothes were all wet.

"It's okay, I'm in good health" the young man said with a smile, and then pointed to the basket on the ground, "Auntie, these are cucumbers, a total of 100 catties"

"Oh oh oh, just in time, there are not enough cucumbers in the shop recently, and the delivery is really timely." After Yuan Shi finished speaking, she took the opportunity to look at the basket on the back. The juicy cucumbers were covered with water drops, which looked particularly Juicy.

"By the way, this is money, you take it well." Yuan Shi took a bunch of copper coins and handed them to the young man, "Also, for cucumbers, it has been raining for the past two days, so the shop won't be able to use so much, and they will be delivered in two days." Let's go" Yuan Shi glanced at the blue weather outside, the rain probably won't stop.

"Okay, that aunt... I'll go first." The young man took the copper plate and put it in his arms, nodded at Yuan Shi, picked up the coir raincoat beside him and put it on, and then drove the ox cart away...

Chunqiu raised his eyes to see the young man leave, Yuan Shi had already gone back to settle the accounts when the young man turned to leave, Chunqiu saw no one but herself, no, uh uh...she still had a basket of cucumbers.

"Mother, what about cucumbers?" Chunqiu shouted directly.

"Let's move when your father comes back," Yuan replied.

"Oh, I know," Chunqiu said, and sat back on the bench.

Cucumbers, cucumbers, cucumbers... Chunqiu was talking about the basket of cucumbers that had just arrived, wondering if she forgot something, whoops!Chunqiu yelled directly, didn't he just forget, the grater hasn't been made yet?How slowly the cucumbers are chopped by hand every day!

"Hey, what's wrong with you being so startled?" Yuan asked, worried about Chunqiu when she heard Chunqiu's voice.

"It's okay, it's okay, I'm going to the backyard." Chunqiu waved his hand, picked up the oil-paper umbrella on the side and rushed to the backyard. She remembered seeing a small piece of useless iron before, and it happened to be used.

Seeing her daughter's turbulent appearance, Yuan yelled anxiously, "Slow down, is it still raining?" But before Yuan finished yelling, Chunqiu disappeared, which made Yuan a little helpless, this girl , What are you crazy about!

Chunqiu didn't care about her mother, she was rummaging around in the back room with her ass pouted now, Chunqiu opened a small cloth bag, no, and opened a small jar, nothing... Oops, where did she see it before? ?Why don't you have any impression?Chunqiu straightened up and rubbed his head to think, because it was too long ago, Chunqiu still didn't remember...

Forget it, don't think about it, Chunqiu just gave up.Resigned to his fate, he searched earnestly. In the dustpan...no, on the shelf...no, on the broom pile...still nothing. Finally, Chunqiu found the piece of iron that he was thinking of in a pile of scrap iron. It was not easy!Chunqiu kept two seas and wide tears in his heart, crying and chirping!
After finding the iron piece, Chunqiu took out iron pliers and a piece of iron wire.Only then was he contented to close the back room and return to the front yard.

Get a basin of clean water from the kitchen, and Chunqiu carefully cleans the iron pieces and wires. Although the iron will form rust when it meets water, Chunqiu Station can’t care about other things. She is more worried about the iron pieces being rusted. An accident happened if the washing was not clean!

Scrub, scrub, scrub!Chunqiu turned into a hardworking bee. In ancient times, there was no technology to raise steel. Iron and copper are commonly used utensils. Besides, Chunqiu thought with a big heart, didn’t the iron spoons and shovels in the house all come out in this way? ?Can you supplement iron when you eat it?
Finally, Chunqiu put the cleaned iron piece on the table, took out the pliers at the side and made a circle around the two ends of the iron wire.

He took out the iron piece and gestured upwards, and then pinched the iron piece to the circle with pliers. He was weak in age, so he didn’t intend to do it himself, but just wanted to make a template, and then asked Yang Weibo to make it. So Chunqiu doesn't care if it's clean or not, anyway they don't eat it.

After both sides are fixed, Chunqiu shakes vigorously from side to side, and then nods in satisfaction.

He also took out the small iron nails on the side, fixed the iron sheet, and then fixed it against the iron sheet. When three rows of small holes appeared on the iron sheet, and each row of five small holes was arranged in parallel, it was basically completed.

Chunqiu took out a not-so-good-quality cucumber from the basket on his back, ran up to Yuan Shi, and picked up a freshly baked grater to wipe the cucumber in front of Yuan Shi's unclear gaze.

"Mother, look, how is it?" Chunqiu rubbed half of the cucumber, then pointed to the freshly rubbed cucumber shreds and looked at Yuan Shi.

"Is this... wiped out?" Yuan Shi reached out and picked up the cucumber shreds beside her, and looked at it fiercely before her eyes, her tone uncertain.

"That's right, just use this, so that the mother-in-law doesn't have to cut it up? How about it?" Chunqiu said proudly.

"It's really good, let's try it, mother." After Yuan Shi finished speaking, she couldn't wait to take the grater from Chunqiu's hand.I rubbed it directly with the remaining half of the cucumber.

The cucumbers are getting smaller and smaller, and each one is neatly placed aside, Yuan's smile is getting bigger and bigger, and finally put down the grater, and kissed Chunqiu, "Oh, my mother's Niuniu is so cute!" Clever, how did you come up with this? It's amazing?"

"Hey" Chunqiu laughed out loud, "Didn't I watch Mother cut cucumbers? Mother cut them so neatly, I wondered if I could replace them with something. That day Dad went to the back room to look for something, and he found it all at once. I bought this useless piece of iron, so I took advantage of my free time today to try it out, and I didn't expect it to work." After Chunqiu finished speaking, he stuck out his tongue in embarrassment.

"What's so embarrassing? Mother's Niu Niu is amazing, but this piece of iron is not clean, let's make a new one when your father comes back." Yuan's smile deepened, and she didn't let go while hugging Chunqiu's small body.

"Mother, put me down quickly." After Chunqiu finished speaking, he twisted down vigorously.

"I'm still shy, let's go play" Yuan Shi said angrily, put Chunqiu down immediately after speaking, and splashed all the cucumbers on the counter into his hands, ready to throw them away.

"Hey" Chunqiu responded, ran not far away and poured out the water in the basin, and sent the used pliers and nails back to the backyard.

In the evening, Yang Weibo drove the ox cart back home. As usual, he carried the flour that had been blown up by the tarpaulin on his back and put it in the back room. Although it rained all day today, the flour was covered with a thick layer. The straw and water cloth, the flour at the bottom was not wet by the rain.

"Are you back? Didn't you buy more this time?" Yuan Shi stood at the door of the shop, and when she saw Yang Weibo came back, she hurriedly greeted him.

Yang Weibo replied, "Well, I bought ten bags, which is almost enough for this month. By the way, what about Qiu'er and Huzi? Why are you alone?" Seeing that there was no one behind Yuan, Yang Weibo couldn't help asking. .

"It's so late, I'm going back to bed, and you should pack up quickly, the weather is very cloudy." Yuan Shi rolled his eyes at Yang Weibo, and then stretched out his hand to push him, motioning him to move faster.

"Hey, I'll move right away." Yang Weibo smiled, and then moved all the flour into the shop.

"Let's put it aside, we're moving inside tomorrow, close the small door, let's go back to rest, this weather is really depressing," Yuan Shi complained, and then locked the small door with an oil lamp.

"You went to Qingshan County to buy goods, is there anything wrong?" Yuan asked worriedly, because there were not enough flour shops in Heishan Town, so Yang Weibo directly thanked the ox cart for going to Wushan County.

"It's nothing serious, but people in Wushan County say that it may not be peaceful recently, and it seems that the late rice harvest in the north of the city is due to the heavy rain..." Yang Weibai chattered after Yuan Shi, who was in front Nodding their heads from time to time, and echoing a few more words, the two walked back one after the other like this...

　Thank you Baozi for your reward~~

　　Thank you sunshine.Very warm reward ~ ~ must add more

　　Facts have proved that the author of this article is still thinking too sweetly, because he decided to pull the male lead out for a stroll, but I accidentally got Cavin... Really, it’s been so long since this article, the first time Cavin is still Because the hero...

　　Alas, I’m so stuck that I only wrote less than one chapter in the morning, and I’m still thinking about how the hero will appear~
　　Okay, not much to say, my hand speed still hasn't exploded, the author apologizes~

　　
　
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