Chapter 10 Settling Down
The cart was piled with miscellaneous belongings, plus five sacks of grain, making it extremely heavy to pull.
Especially on the muddy dirt road where it had rained yesterday, the wheels of the car sank from time to time, making it particularly strenuous.
However, there was no boredom or boredom on the faces of Shui Qing and the five little ones, and they were all very excited and delighted.
When Shui Qing thought about not having to live with her mother-in-law, sister-in-law, nephews and nieces, she was so happy that she wanted to run around in circles.
Not bad, you can live your own free life
"Hey, Fan's family, what are you doing?" A villager asked when he saw it.
After receiving the answer of family separation, we became accustomed to it. The tree was divided into branches and the family was divided. Fan's own children were also grown, so it was normal for the family to be divided.
When the cart gurgled away, a woman waved and said, "Hey, you don't know yet, right?"
"What do you know?" He smelled the smell of gossip and asked as several people gathered around him.
"It belongs to everyone. She actually has the idea of Da Ya Er Ya. You all know that Aunt Fan always favors everyone.
Fan's family was making a fuss at noon. It was completely different from their usual cowardly nature. "
"If you still have the same cowardly temper as before, I'm afraid the grass will grow on your grave, right? People, you just can't be too weak!"
"Aunt Zhou is right! You see, the Fan family has made a lot of noise, and life has become easier. Even the family is divided."
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The old people want to be separated without a house or money, and life is difficult.
But the young woman's eyes were full of envy. What does temporary suffering mean? It feels good to be able to make your own home!
Then I thought sadly, it is good to be the master of the family, but it will be miserable when the farming is busy.
Sowing, plowing, harvesting... none of them require labor.
Fan and his wife have four sons. If they live together, life will be easier if they support each other in the future...
The cart gradually left the village and reached a flat land slightly higher than the village.
This piece of flat land is wide, more than ten acres in size, and the soil is hard. It also rained yesterday. The dirt roads in the village were muddy and difficult to navigate, but the flat ground was very hard.
Looking from the top down, you can see most of the village, but there is a short distance between them.
"This land is good!" Shui Qing praised sincerely.
Away from the hustle and bustle of the village, enjoy the tranquility of the mountains and forests.
Fan Jin stopped the cart and began to move the things on the cart. After hearing Shui Qing's praise, his dark eyes were filled with smiles, and he raised his head and replied: "The soil in this land is hard and is not suitable for land reclamation, so It has been abandoned.
The three hills behind, including this wasteland, are all ours. "
"Wow!" The five little ones cheered happily.
Even if the land in front of me is overgrown with weeds, even if my stomach is empty at this moment, I am still happily looking forward to the day when I will be away from my grandma.
"There is a mountain spring over there, and we will build a thatched house at the spring for easy washing.
After earning money, build a brick house. "Fan Jin explained the plans he had thought of one by one.
Shui Qing raised his eyebrows, "Have you thought about it a long time ago?"
So I chose three connected hills mainly for this piece of land - land suitable for building a house.
Fan Jin nodded obediently. His dark eyes and fair skin looked very soft. He looked at it and wanted to squeeze it to see if it was as soft as marshmallows.
Fan Jin, who didn't know what she was thinking, explained as he moved the things on the cart: "I have always wanted to move out and have a small home of my own, away from the chaos of the village and my mother and sister-in-law."
His brows furrowed slightly, thinking that it was not a gentleman to talk behind someone's back. He stopped and smiled apologetically at Shang Shuiqing.
Shuiqing didn't care much either.
She was quarreling with Fan's mother and Sun Jinhua because they lived together before, which really affected her. Now that she has moved out, she has no time or energy to listen to their gossip.
Fan Jin pursed his red lips and unloaded all the things very quickly. Then he pulled the empty cart and said to Shui Qing, "The things have been moved. I will return the cart to Uncle Li first."
Shui Qing replied: "Okay, you go ahead, I'll sort out these things." The cart is very useful. Maybe someone is waiting for it at home, so it's not easy to borrow it for too long.
Fan Jin went to the five children and ordered them one by one: "Yan Qiu and Xing Hui, come and help your mother sort out the sundries;
Jiang Hehu, the three of you are going to cut thatch. That thing can make your skin itchy when you cut your hands. Don't let your sister and mother do it. Wait until dad comes back to cut thatch with you. "
The five children responded loudly and started doing things one after another.
Fan Jin took the cart to return it.
The three of them from Jiang He Hu went to cut the thatch, and Ya and Ya ran over. The three of them quickly arranged the items.
In fact, although the things are heavy, they are not much.
Put the bamboo bed in place and put the clothes and bedding on it to prevent it from getting dirty.
Their family had very few clothes, and each child only had two sets of patched linen clothes;
Fan Jin wore two sets of coarse cotton robes, which were slightly flatter. He must have worn them decently because he was going to work in the city.
The original owner's clothes were also made of coarse linen. Fortunately, they were not leftovers from someone else's clothes. Except for two sets that were patched, the remaining one was unpatched.
Farm tools are on one side and kitchen supplies on the other.
There are five bags of grain, one bag of corn, one bag of millet, most of the bag of rice, most of the bag of flour and one bag of wheat bran.
Wheat bran is wheat husk ground into powder, add two handfuls of flour to increase the stickiness and mix together to make black-faced steamed buns.
Shui Qing felt her throat hurt when she thought about the taste of black-faced steamed buns.
Da Ya Er Ya looked at the five bags of food that were not quite full, and felt a little worried.
"Mom, I'll build a chicken coop first and lock the chickens in it. I'll go to the village to ask for some vegetable seeds from my little sister's house.
It's the end of August now, so plant them in early September. Plant more, so that the family can have vegetables to eat in winter."
Thinking of the carefully tended vegetable garden, the dried peppers, dried eggplants, and dried cowpeas that were dried in the summer...all left at Old Fan's house, Erya felt distressed.
Da Ya looked around the bare surroundings and had an idea in her mind. She turned to Shuiqing and said, "Mom, I'll go to the bamboo forest to pick some bamboo mushrooms and make soup."
There is little food, so we have to add more wild vegetables.
It rained yesterday, and there are many mushrooms in the bamboo forest. Although they are a little old now, it's okay. The mushroom soup is fresh and the most delicious among wild vegetables.
Shuiqing was very happy to see that her two daughters arranged their daily affairs in an orderly manner.
When she heard that Daya said she was going to pick mushrooms, she asked worriedly, "Yan Qiu, some mushrooms are poisonous. Do you know them?"