Spring scenery in the fields

Chapter 342: Breaking the Corn

"Okay, you put it there and I'll carry it back."

Shen Rongshan picked up a shoulder pole, carrying two baskets of corn, and fell into the main room.

By noon, the corn had been harvested and a few rows of corn stalks had been cut.

Shen Yuanshan went home and cooked dinner: "Where's Brother Liang?"

Ji Wenhe replied: "I went back and asked him to come to our house for dinner, but he refused to go. He also told us not to go to his house and ask him to come, but he refused to come even if we asked him to."

Taking off the face cloth, he panted and said, "Send a bowl of pickled cucumbers and beans to their home in the evening, chop the corn stalks in the afternoon, and irrigate the land with more manure water after plowing it."

Shen Rongshan held the corn stalks and spread them on the path: "Let's go home for dinner. We can finish the land in the evening."

The roots of the corn stalks are in the ground. After plowing the land, they are raked out, dried and used as firewood.

Shen Wenshan walked at the back, his clothes soaked: "I don't have much appetite, I don't want to eat."

Ji Wenhe turned around and said, "I have fried sour beans and eggs. Eat some. If you can't eat more, I won't force you."

He responded.

I washed my face and drank half a bowl of water.

Shen Wenshan said he couldn't eat any more, but he still ate a bowl of rice.

Ji Wenhe sat in the yard, took off his shoes, turned around and looked at the person who was coming over: "Brother Shen, why don't you go to the house and sleep for a while."

"I won't sleep, you go ahead."

"I'm not sleepy, I'm just tired. Sit down and rest for a while."

Four people sat in the yard.

Shen Yuanshan said: "After the wheat is planted, the farm work at home is done, and the house is almost built."

I feel reluctant when I think about living separately.

Shen Rongshan replied: "We live separately and eat together. When you get married, we will eat separately completely."

"Brother, sister-in-law." Shen Wenshan said, "Can we have a meal together during the holidays in the future?"

Ji Wenhe took over the conversation: "We definitely have to eat together during festivals. It's more lively when there are more people, such as the Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, New Year's Eve, etc., and birthdays, we also eat together."

The two of them nodded with a smile.

After talking for a while in the yard, the four of them went down the mountain to cut corn stalks.

"We finished collecting it in one morning. The more people there are, the faster it is."

Ji Wenhe straightened up: "Aunt Wang, have you finished harvesting the corn?"

"My family bought all the wasteland yesterday, so there isn't much left." Wang Erfang looked at the land on both sides. "Seeing your family buy so much wasteland, I want to buy some too."

"Sure, 500 coins per acre, and you can plant it in two years."

She shook her head: "Shen Liao hasn't married yet, so I don't dare to spend the money carelessly. Besides, we don't have manure at home, so it's hard to cultivate the land."

The water from the toilet was all used to water the vegetable garden.

Ji Wenhe turned around and cut the corn stalks, saying, "I heard from Qingdai that Shen Liao wants to see me next spring."

"Yes, that's what he thinks. His father and I don't think so. Let's wait until the New Year and let Lin Yue Niang take him to see the girl. If they can settle down sooner, we won't have to worry anymore."

"Otherwise, my mother-in-law would say every day at home that if I don't find a marriage for my grandson now that he's so old, I'm afraid it will be hard to find one in the future. She keeps nagging me and it's getting to the point where I'm having a headache."

Wang Erfeng saw Li Yujiao coming out and said in a low voice.

"Since you married your daughter-in-law, your Aunt Wu rarely comes out. She stays at home with Yujiao all day long."

Ji Wenhe smiled and said, "When you have a daughter-in-law, you will be like Aunt Wu. Look at Aunt Lan, she has a daughter-in-law at home, and she is pregnant, so she must be taken care of carefully."

"That's right, Wen He. You don't have parents-in-law. If you have a child in the future, you will have to take care of it by yourself. No one will help you. It will be very tiring."

"Isn't there Brother Shen here? I can't take care of the child by myself. I would collapse if no one helps me take care of the child. But it would be better if my mother-in-law helps."

Wang Erfeng nodded: "Although my mother-in-law has many faults, she came to take care of me at night when Shen Liao was born. After Qing Dai was born, she stopped helping. She only thought about her grandson."

"Aunt Wang, you are not so patriarchal and you are very nice to Qingdai."

"I want a daughter. How should I put it? If the first child is a daughter, I should give birth to a son. Every family has a son, but your family doesn't. You will be laughed at."

Ji Wenhe agreed: "That's right. I heard from a friend before that in their village, someone had three sons, and their family had four daughters. They said that their family couldn't have sons."

"It seems that because of this, the two families were unhappy and almost had a fight. The fifth child was only a son."

I remember when I was in junior high school, one of my classmates was the eighth child in the family, with a younger brother and seven older sisters.

"Aunt Wang, there aren't that many children in our village. There are usually two or three."

Wang Erfeng replied: "Some have moved away, and some have lost their children. They may not be able to raise them if they are born. If we had not encountered war and famine and could not afford to raise them, we might have given birth to more children."

Ji Wenhe put his hands on his waist and said, "It doesn't matter if it's a boy or a girl, I only want one in the future."

"It's up to you. If you have money, you can have more children. Your family won't have to worry about not being able to support them. But you still have two younger brothers-in-law. If you give birth to a daughter, their family won't be left without descendants here."

"Auntie is an experienced person. At the beginning, my mother-in-law urged me to have two more children, but I said that the family had no money and could not afford to raise them. Raising two children was very hard work and it was very painful."

Zhao Sanniang carried the child over and said, "What are you talking about? I've been standing here looking for you for a long time."

"Just chatting, Sanniang, are you planning to have another child?"

"I won't have any more children. I can barely afford to raise one, so how can I dare to have a second one?"

Wang Erfeng stepped forward and touched the child's face: "Luckily this baby is a son."

"Yes, Shen Ping said that having a daughter is fine, but in fact, he wants a son the most."

"You can't trust a man's words too much. My family was the same. They said that having a daughter was good. When Shen Liao was born, I was so happy that I couldn't sleep all night."

Zhao Sanniang looked at Ji Wenhe and said, "Wenhe, can you fix this today?"

"Yes, the four of us are busy."

"We will be busy for half a month next month because we will be harvesting rice and planting wheat. Your uncle Ping said that we should finish building your house before the frost falls."

Wang Erfeng took over the conversation: "I think it can be built before the Frost Descent, and then their family will move in. Wen He, you have to treat us to a feast."

Ji Wenhe smiled and replied: "Of course you will. Bring your family members along."

"We won't bring our family members. If every household in the village comes together, you'll have to host more than a dozen tables."

"Yes, one person from each family will go." Zhao Sanniang said, "Wen He, you and Rongshan should have a bigger house."

"Yes, we bought a piece of land before, built a shed, and bought the land next to it. It's 20 to 30 more than Wenshan and Yuanshan."

"I just said it looks bigger than their two houses."

Wang Erfeng looked over and said, "It is big, but they live in the same house, so it can't be much bigger. When they have money in the future, let them rebuild a brick house themselves."