Chapter 24: Chen Miao’s sadness
Chen Miaozheng and his mother used yellow mud to block the gaps in the granary at home. This was arranged by the elder brother before leaving with the elder brother of the Liu family. He must strictly follow the elder brother's requirements.
In the past few months, Chen Miao found that his elder brother had changed, and his eyes were no longer as fierce as before. Of course, he could not describe the eyes of his elder brother, but the eyes of his elder brother were very comfortable, and he was no longer afraid of the eyes of his elder brother.
However, the same thing as before is that the elder brother still has so many things according to the order, and it seems that there are more than before. As long as he sees that he is free, he either does things or writes, but it is not a heavy work, and the elder brother does the heavy work. But he hates practicing writing and really doesn't want to write!
Thinking of practicing calligraphy, Chen Miao looked up at his mother who was looking for a gap, and sighed in his heart, "My mother doesn't care anymore, and she used to have a mother to help him." Now she doesn't want to practice calligraphy, so she cried and asked her mother for help. But she found that she told her eldest son that she could use bamboo strips. Instead of using bamboo strips to write, she asked big ones to use bamboo strips to punish herself.
He saw his elder brother gritting his teeth several times, but in a short while he became a serious persuasion. He remembered that as long as he could recognize enough words, he could go out of the farmhouse and go to the county town or Chang'an to do all kinds of easy work, no longer facing the loess and back to the world to do farm work. If he learned enough, he might become an official.
He didn't believe it at first, but his mother said that people who can write are all in the city, and in the countryside, there are also wealthy families with millions of fertile land.
He wanted to let go of everything and only focused on his studies. As a result, he was beaten by his elder brother. When he was beaten, his elder brother said: "My family does not raise four bodies and does not have any diligence. Do you think you are a primary school student in later generations? You either make up for your lessons or play every day, and in the end you even think of leeks as wheat seedlings."
The eldest brother didn't do much, and he knew it was a warning. However, what he didn't understand was who could not distinguish between leeks and wheat seedlings, which was impossible.
What is a tutoring class? What is a primary school student? Recently, he learned from his elder brother and Liu's elder brother that they still have to learn "The University". Should they still have to learn "Primary School" after learning college?
Chen Miao went to ask his elder brother and got a "get out".
However, he believed in what his elder brother said at this moment. Whether it is doing academic research or farming, as long as he does it very well, he will definitely gain more.
Now, my elder brother went out with his friend to visit, and someone sent beef, mutton and a bag of green salt in the evening. My mother said that this pound of green salt is worth a pound.
He knew how much money he always had, and only knew that he had to sell a lot of food.
There were more than ten kilograms of beef and mutton. He only ate one slice last night, and it was when my mother saw him drooling constantly. My mother said that she would wait for my elder brother to come back to eat together.
"Bless the gods, brother, go home quickly." Chen Miao said silently in his heart.
Oh, I seem to hear my elder brother calling me. Could it be that the gods really appeared?
"Mom, it seems like the eldest brother is calling me?"
Chen Wu put down the yellow mud and pushed open the door, and heard Chen Yue's shouting.
Chen Miaote was happy, threw down the yellow mud, wiped his hands casually on his body, and then rushed out of the warehouse.
Chen Miao ran and shouted happily: "Brother, are you back?"
"Um!"
When he ran out of the warehouse, Chen Miao saw a strong cow following his elder brother. The elder brother did not look at him, and was lowering his head and tying the reins to the stone mill.
What a strong green cow! Chen Miao dared not get too close, he was a little afraid of the cow.
There is something on the cow's back, and when you smell it, it smells meaty.
"Brother, did you borrow this cow from Wangjiazhuang?" Chen Miao asked carefully, but his body had already walked to the meat hanging on the cow's back.
"It's not borrowed, it's my boss who gave it to me." After Chen Yue tied the reins, he said to Chen Miao, "Go and ask your mother to help me."
In fact, Chen Miao didn’t need to call him, Chen Wu had already left the warehouse.
"Dalang, is this given by the Wang family?" Chen Wu was incredulous.
Chen Qi was a little depressed. He said he would not call him "Dalang", but he still couldn't change it, forget it.
"Yeah!" Chen Yue pulled Chen Miao away and said to Chen Wushi, "Mom comes to help me get something. I told them how to tame cocks, and the owner of the Wang family gave me this cow and a plow."
Chen Miao wanted to help pick things up from the cow's back, but Chen Yue despised others for being short and weak, so he had to stand aside and watch his mother and elder brother pick things up from the cow's back.
The weeds are wrapped in plows, and the linen is filled with beef and mutton, which is twenty or thirty kilograms.
Because it was summer and the weather was very hot, Chen Yue didn’t want fresh meat, but bacon. Of course, he didn’t want fresh beef, only fresh mutton.
Therefore, Chen Miao can smell the aroma of meat from a certain distance.
"Mom, eat meat tonight?" Chen Miao picked up a piece of beef and said happily.
Chen Wu ignored him and asked Chen Yue worriedly: "Dalang, the Wang family gave us so many things, what reward do you ask for?"
What she was most worried about was that the Wang family wanted his two sons to be slaves and servants. The most important thing the man said to her before he died was that she could remarry, but she could not let her become slaves and servants, otherwise he would not let her go if he turned into a ghost.
Therefore, she has not remarried for so many years, and the government has come to find her, but because she has two sons, she has not asked her to remarry. If she was widowed, she would have remarried.
Of course, Chen Yue didn't know these things, so he just said seriously: "Mom, don't worry. This cow was obtained by me and the Wang family. They have more than that profits! Don't worry, they want anything from my family. Besides, there are no treasures in my family that can make people like it!"
Chen Wu is a careful person. Although she is still a little worried at this moment, she still believes her son's words. Her eldest son seems to have suddenly become very smart recently. Not only has he harvested a lot of corn under his planting, but he also used a kind of ground fire to cook rice at home. In two days, not only did he get plowing oxen and there were dozens of kilograms of meat at home.
It was the first time she had seen so much meat on the day she married into the Chen family for more than 30 years. She had seen so much meat, especially beef. She had never thought that more than ten kilograms of beef could be kept at home and eaten slowly.
Chen Wu didn't know about the biogas, but just watched it being drawn from the ground, which could ignite and cook. Although it was not available every day, sometimes every day, sometimes two days later, she thought it was earth fire.
Chen Yue looked at Chen Wu, who was stunned and thought she was still worried, so he took the cow's contract from the cow's head and handed it to Chen Wu, "Mom, this is the cow's contract, you can hold it away."
There are three copies of the contract, one copy for each of the Chen Wang family, and one copy for the government. This is an important document to prove the identity of the Chen family's cow. Without this contract, it cannot prove the origin of the cow, and it may be captured by the government as a cow thief.
Chen Wu carefully took the contract, unbuttoned the rope above, spread it out and looked at it, but couldn't understand it. However, Chen Miao, who was peeking around, pointed at the contract book, and said in the lower left corner: "This is the eldest brother's name, I know it."
"Don't come in." Chen Wu quickly put away the deed book and turned into the house, and even said that he would stop the two brothers from entering the house to read her hidden deed book.
The two brothers smiled at each other and saw that they could hide their own house. They could not find them, but they just had a tacit understanding.
Chen Yue grabbed Chen Miao's neck and lifted him away from the pile of meat. If he didn't take action, the kid would bite the meat.
Although bacon smells very fragrant, it is still raw. With the current environment and medical conditions, even if beef can be eaten raw, it cannot be eaten by the family. Who knows if there will be any bacteria growing?
Then, he dragged Chen Miao, who had retreated continuously to the edge of the plowing ox and said, "From now on, you will be free from the ox."
"I dare not, I am not as strong as it is now." Chen Miao refused.
Chen Yue looked at Chen Miao's thin body and smiled and said, "You probably have no hope of growing stronger than him. Alas, it seems that my family has genetic problems and I can't grow a strong man."
"I will."
"Impossible, do you have Ergou from Uncle Eight's family? Ergou is possible, you are impossible." Chen Yue said firmly.
Thinking about Ergou of the same year, Chen Miao had to bow his head and admit it.
Chen Yue touched Chen Miao's head and said, "Don't worry, this cow will be very talkative. However, there is no hurry now. Let the cow get familiar with the house first. You will not take it out for stocking in a few days."
If there are cows, there must be a circle. The Chen family's bamboo forest was in trouble again, and the two brothers took their knives and went to the bamboo forest. It would be better to use wood to build a cow pen, but they knew that the village chief would not agree to them cutting down a large number of trees, and it would be okay to cut less.
So I can only stare at the bamboo forest.
After cutting the bamboo, Chen Yue started to build a circle. Chen Miao took the initiative to go to mow grass and feed the cows. After getting the approval, he jumped and went out with his backpack on his back.
Chen Yue did not want to invite someone to repair the earthen wall house. One thing took a long time, and the second reason was that the earthen wall house was too dark, which was not conducive to the growth of cattle.
He had no strength to knock the bamboo into the soil, so he had to bury it by digging deep pits. Then he slowly weaved it with bamboo strips. He didn't care about it in hot weather, and in winter, he applied yellow mud on the bamboo wall to resist the wind and snow.
Chen Yue found that he was becoming more and more skilled in doing work. With the help of his family, he repaired the cow pen in more than three days. He tried to push it a few times by himself. It was very stable and it would not be a problem to use it for two or three years.
Chen Miao led the cow in. He has been mowing the grass and feeding the cows these days.
At first, Chen Miao opposed it, and Chen Wu was also very worried, but they could not stand Chen Yue.
Chen Miao had to go to the cow to timidly, but he found that with only a small amount of effort, the cow followed him, and was very docile. In order to show off, he specially led the cow around the new cow ring. Under Chen Wu's surprised gaze, he entered the cow ring and tied the reins.
In order to celebrate Chen Miao's successful involvement of a big beef of nearly a thousand pounds, Chen Wu decided to eat beef for the whole family at night, not mutton.
Since he was eating mutton, Chen Miao walked out and took a piece of bark in his hand when he came back. Then he washed the bark and threw the mutton into the pot to cook together.
The whole family finished eating more than one pound of mutton and a large pot of soup in one night.
If you eat mutton on hot days, you will definitely be very impatient if you put it in modern times. However, in the big man, everyone is fine. They just think this pot of mutton is particularly delicious and the soup is also very delicious.
Chen Miao asked to cook again tomorrow, but was ruthlessly rejected by Chen Wu.
The next day, the whole family had not been excited yet.
Chapter completed!