frightfiction Chapter 306: Why are you staring at those guys?
Chapter 306: Why are you staring at those guys?
Nothing happened that night. Shen Youyou and his friends went to Fang County early to set up their stalls, and Shen Zhiqiu and his friends also started working.
The wasteland west of the river is bustling with activity.
The women bent over and cut the thatch with a "swish, swish, swish" sound. When they looked back and saw edible wild vegetables in the fields, they would pick them up and put them in baskets. The baskets were their own, which saved Shen Zhiqiu and the others a lot of trouble.
Some ladies chatted while working: "Harvest the wild vegetables. They don't have much food to begin with, and they provide meals for so many of us. Eating more wild vegetables can also save food."
In fact, Shen Zhiqiu and his men didn't have much food, and anyone with a discerning eye could see that, so they didn't eat much dry food yesterday.
The first reason is that the dishes and jelly are really delicious. The second reason is that we want to save some food. In fact, no one is a fool. No matter how delicious the jelly is, it still contains water.
Although I can eat my fill, I get hungry quickly. I can just eat my fill at night if I don't work, but I still need to eat some food at noon, after all, I still have to work hard in the afternoon.
Tang Xin's mother also replied: "My Tang Xin went to dig bamboo shoots this morning. There are quite a few in the forest, and the shoots are big now. I'll send them to them after digging them."
"Oh, why didn't I think of that? I'll let my little girl go too."
At this time, another woman interrupted. Her family lived in the east of the bamboo village, close to the bamboo forest. "As soon as the sun rose today, the boys from the Nine Clans went into the bamboo forest carrying bamboo baskets. I guess they were going for the bamboo shoots."
"It's so early. Those guys look really capable, and some of them are really good looking."
Tang Xinniang chuckled: "Aunt Wu, your family is full of boys, not a single girl, why are you staring at the boys?"
The person who just spoke is Tang Wuye's wife. Tang Xinniang's father-in-law is the third child. Their two families have a good relationship and are within the fifth degree of mourning, so they don't hide anything.
Aunt Wu said: "I don't have a daughter, but I have a niece on my mother's side!"
Tang Xin's mother wiped the sweat off her face and said, "Come on, it's not easy. We finally got some good guys here, but you're still thinking about your parents' home. There are so many girls in our village who are still single. Don't be so mean."
Aunt Wu was not angry either. She gave her a sidelong glance and said, "If someone else said this, it would be fine. But aren't you afraid that if this gets out, it will ruin Xin'er's reputation?"
Tang Xin's mother didn't care: "We are all family, who can spread the news? Besides, I just like the boy from that group, there is nothing to be afraid of. If our Xin'er is really that lucky, she can eat Jingshu's cooking every day."
Her words made the group of women laugh. The daughter-in-law of Tang Liuye said, "Then you must have fallen in love with the two adopted sons of the scholar. Otherwise, his baby is too young."
This refers to Dahu and Erhu, who are introduced to the outside world as the grandsons of Li Quan and the adopted sons of Shen Zhiqiu.
So no one in Tangjia Village knew that Dahu and Erhu were actually servants before.
Tang Xinniang said: "It doesn't have to be those two adopted sons. I think the one from his eldest brother's family is not bad either. But those two adopted sons are also good. I heard they have martial arts skills."
At this time, two other families, who lived close to the house where the Nine Clans were staying temporarily, also interrupted and said, "The boys all know Kung Fu. I woke up before dawn and heard some noise outside. I stood on the wall and saw that they were all practicing Kung Fu. There were dozens of them, right on the main road."
"No wonder. When we told them there were wolves here, they just accepted it calmly. It turns out they all have kung fu skills."
"Yeah, now that our village has this group of people joining us, will Yangjia Village still dare to challenge us?"
After saying this, Aunt Seven waved the sickle in her hand.
My goodness, how much resentment do they have towards Yangjia Village?
At this time, a daughter-in-law also asked: "Seventh Aunt, why hasn't Cuicui come back recently? How is she?"
Aunt Seven was annoyed: "It was her own choice anyway. She can go back or not. I will just pretend I never gave birth to this daughter."
It turned out that the second daughter of Aunt Qi had married into Yangjia Village. The two villages had always had a bad relationship, but why did she still marry there?
In fact, it would be more accurate to say that the girl fell in love with Yang Renxiao, a scholar from Yangjia Village, and she would not marry anyone else, so her family had no choice.
This Seventh Aunt is really not one who favors boys over girls. She tried to persuade him and made a fuss, but the second daughter was determined to get married.
So this person was full of resentment towards Yangjia Village, and even felt that this was a conspiracy of Yangjia Village.
It can only be said that not only sons have no control over their mothers when they grow up, but daughters also have no control over their mothers when they grow up.
There were more than twenty people from the nine clans, plus Shen Guangxing from Tangjia Village, his four sons, and his dozen apprentices, all from Tangjia Village. Most of them had the surname Shen, but there were also two boys from other families.
There are a total of fifty carpenters. Of course, in terms of professionalism, most of the people in the Nine Clans have to be excluded, because most of the carpenters in the Nine Clans are half-baked, except for my eldest brother-in-law Wang Fuxi.
They kept lifting the boards to make a cart, which is the kind of wheelbarrow they push when walking on mountain roads. Two legs are installed at the back. When pushing it, they just lift the handle and walk away. If they are loading soil, they can put it directly on the ground and it can stand.
Tang Guangxing: "This cart is very convenient. The single wheel and two legs form a tripod. It is also small and light, and is very useful for pushing soil and grain."
Wang Fuxi said proudly: "Yes, we took the mountain road when we were fleeing from the famine. The mountain was very rugged and we relied on it to get through."
"This was also thought up by the eldest nephew of the Shen family."
The eldest brother-in-law nodded and said, "Yes, the situation was very tense at that time. My third brother said to hide in the mountains, but we couldn't lose all the stuff.
He asked us to dismantle the cart and make it like this, and told us not to throw away the extra wheels, and to change them back when we get down the mountain.
There are many people who have made curved plows. Is there any family in Tangjia Village that doesn’t have a curved plow?
It can be used directly by moving it here. The men who have already finished cutting the grass can only use people to pull the plow because the animals cannot pass through.
The person in front has a straw rope on his shoulder, and the person behind holds the handle of the curved plow. With two people, one curved plow can plow three acres of land.
There are a total of one hundred groups of people working on the land, which means they can plow three hundred acres a day.
More people, after deciding on a piece of land for digging a river or pond, would carry the excavated soil to the location for building a house to lay the foundation. Since there were only a limited number of wheelbarrows, most people still used dung buckets to carry the soil.
Its shape is similar to a winnowing basket and a basket, but it is deeper than a winnowing basket and shallower than a basket. It has a handle in the middle and is usually made of rattan, ash and locust branches, but can also be made of willow branches.
Those with good craftsmanship can weave it delicately and densely.
As the saying goes: A flower grows in crops, all depends on fertilizer.
So this kind of tool is generally used to carry animal feces, but it is very useful for carrying things, and it is also very convenient for carrying soil.
Two dung baskets were placed on each side. When the men digging the soil filled the mud horses with soil, one of the men would use the hooks at both ends of the carrying pole to hang the handles of the dung baskets and carry them away.