Liu Xi was determined to leave the house and found that although it was winter, it happened to be in the sky, which made the body warm, and his mood suddenly felt relaxed. Speaking of which, this is also a common plot among Shu people. Sichuan is mostly cloudy in winter, and when the sun comes out, everyone is like celebrating the festival. Otherwise, it would be rare and strange to say that Shu dogs barking on the sun, haha.

After wandering around the house at home, his heart gradually became heavier. Judging from this situation, although the family is not as scattered as the house, it must be difficult.

The house is a typical rural concave structure. The main hall and the ear house on one side are still blue bricks and black tiles as the roof, but the damaged areas can be seen on the walls and eaves. The kitchen on the other side is made of mud and thatched, and Liu Chen's busy figure appears and disappears from time to time. A small shed is built outside the kitchen, and a few old hens are squatting quietly in the nest. There are some cabbage and other vegetables on both sides of the house.

I vaguely remember that the kitchen was burned due to a fire a few years ago, but the family had no spare money to support my father in school, so they had to repair mud walls.

Alas, it seems that it is still very difficult to lead the Liu family to win this battle against poverty!

The sunlight penetrates the gaps between the branches and leaves in front of the door, shining on the roof and walls. The interlaced tiles and thatch seem to tell the changes of a family in the light and shadow.

It’s helpless to say that it is too difficult for ordinary families to support a scholar these days. If they fail to get a good fortune in the end, they will suffer a loss to their grandma’s house. But today, the labor service levy is too heavy. Even if a well-off family is targeted by the clerks of the yamen and the wealthy people in the countryside, they can cleanse you home in a few seconds. However, it would be very different if a scholar can be produced at home. In addition to the scholar himself exempting taxes and labor service, he can also exempt a grown-up employee from the family. If he passes the imperial examination, then a large number of farmers want to contribute land and hide their household registration, so so many people are desperately trying to study and become officials.

"Mom, I'll go out for a walk and I'll be back in a while." Liu Ximing shouted at Liu Chen, who was busy in the kitchen.

"Don't go far, the meal will start later." Liu Chen said without looking back.

When he walked out of the yard, his two younger brothers were riding a bamboo horse in front of the house to play. Liu Ximing felt aroused. Although he had the memory of the original owner, some things were always vaguely unmatched. He might be able to inquire about it with these two little guys.

Liu Ximing said to them: "You two have nothing to do and go out for a walk with me. If you meet a rabbit or something along the way, we can still have sex."

Liu Xixian and Liu Xi'an followed with cheers, but they didn't pay any attention to the second brother's tools.

To be honest, Liu Ximing was worried when he saw them. The twins looked so similar, but the impression in his memory was that he couldn't tell who was the third and fourth.

He had to pretend to be familiar and said to the two: "Third brother, how long have I been lying at home? Now my head is not smooth and I really can't remember it."

"I know, I know, my third brother asked me to say it."

Only then did Liu Ximing recognize that the quieter one should be the third brother Liu Xixian. There was a vague black mole between his eyebrows. The fourth brother Liu Xiian jumped out and he should be the fourth brother Liu Xiian. He has a more casual temperament.

Damn, I was the fourth child who asked me to eat more vegetables just now.

Liu Xi'an said, "Second brother, you have been lying down all day since yesterday. My mother said you are tired and worried, but you obviously don't do much more than us."

He turned his head and stared at Liu Ximing with suspicious eyes. "You don't want to work, pretend, right?"

emmm, Liu Ximing ran by ten thousand divine beasts in his heart. What about the trust between people that promised?

"I'm not, I don't, don't talk nonsense." Liu Ximing quickly denied the third consecutive time.

What do you mean by looking at me with this kind of eyes?

"San, what are you looking at? I feel very heartbroken when you look like this."

Liu Ximing pretended to be vicious and said to Liu Xi'an: "I think you don't know who the boss is if you don't fight for three days!" He rushed over and grabbed Liu Xi'an's face and started to rude.

"You are not the boss, you are the second." Liu Xi'an struggled to run away.

Liu Ximing slipped his hand for a moment and couldn't catch it. The third brothers caught him and started to rude it. The three brothers laughed and quarreled together.

While playing, the three of them went up to the wide dirt road in front of their house. The paddy fields on both sides were exposed because it was winter, and the rice stubble was exposed. Looking along the dirt road, they saw twenty or thirty houses located around the road, basically all thatched roofs, and only a large blue brick house at the end. It was cooking time, and smoke came out of the village, which made Liu Ximing feel dazed.

Liu Ximing pointed to several fields on the side of the road and said deliberately: "If these fields are put on water, you can grow some vegetables in winter. It's a pity to be empty."

Liu Xixian looked at his brother strangely and said, "Our family has no strong labor, how could it be so busy?"

Oh, it turns out that these pieces are all my own fields. Fortunately, Nongfu Spring still has some fields.

However, there is too little land in this village. Liu Ximing stood at the entrance of the village and looked from afar. He felt that the entire village had only two or three hundred acres of land reclaimed. He asked his two younger brothers in confusion.

The third brother replied seriously: "Who dares to farm now? If he really opens wasteland and hasn't planted anything yet, the county servants will come to collect taxes. In addition, the various corvee labor levies will be paid by ordinary people."

While talking, a woman wearing a thick blue and white skirt, wearing a short black apron on her head, and wearing a blue towel wrapped around her head, walked over a small path on the right in a basket of vegetables. Seeing the three brothers of the Liu family standing by the roadside, she waved her hands to the several people and smiled: "It's almost noon, why are you guys not having dinner at home?"

After saying that, he smiled at Liu Ximing and said, "Erwazi, you're ready so quickly. I'll just say, what can a strong boy do? But you still have to pay attention to your health, it's up to you to worry about your mother."

Liu Ximing didn't know how to speak, but the fourth brother followed up with a chattering voice: "Aunt Wu, my mother is cooking. You haven't made a fire yet. Brother Biaozi has to find food in the village again."

Hahaha, after saying this, a tall and strong figure appeared in Liu Ximing's mind. It was Li Biao, the son of Aunt Wu's family. This guy is also funny. It's said that half of the eldest son will die of death. Li Biao is only sixteen years old. Not only is he strong, but he also eats a lot.

Aunt Wu's family is similar to her own family. In her early years, she lost her husband and she relied on Aunt Wu to find work everywhere to raise Li Biao. However, it is extremely difficult to feed Li Biao. So, when it is time to dinner, Li Biao will carry a bowl of food all over the village. Not only that, every day, she will search for food everywhere in the mountains and fields every day, but when she has free time.

"He went to the riverside to catch fish again. I'll be back later. I'm going back to cook. If you want to eat, come and try it." Aunt Wu said.

Liu Ximing grabbed the foodie Lao Si who was about to move and bowed, "Thank you Aunt Wu, my mother should call us later. We will go back after we come out and take a walk."

Aunt Wu smiled and said, "Erwazi is really a gentleman. Then you guys play first, I'll go back to cook."

When the three brothers were about to say goodbye, a young woman walked out of the hut next to her. She looked only 20 years old, with a pointed face and a hang-out eyebrows, wearing a white cloth skirt and white cloth pants, with one or two patches on it. When she saw the three brothers and Aunt Wu standing in front of the door, she said sarcastically: "Oh, this isn't the cub of the old Liu family. Erwazi, you are not dead. I said, "A good man doesn't live long, and he will live for a thousand years. How can there be anything happening?"

Liu Ximing's face immediately sank when he heard this. Where did this shrew come from?

Aunt Wu beside him scolded: "Wife of the Chen family, how ugly is there for you to speak like this?"

Liu Xixian and Liu Xi'an tightened their faces. The two of them took Liu Ximing's hand and ran forward, turning around and said, "It's such an ugly person who makes trouble. Aunt Wu, please be busy first, let's go first."

All I heard the Chen family's wife shouting angrily behind her: "Little bastard, you have no education, your mother has taught you these things. Let me see if I won't deal with you next time."

I really stepped on the shit when I went out, Liu Ximing's mood was destroyed. But there was nothing I could do about it. There was a lot of rice to raise a hundred people. Besides, if the birds are big, there are all kinds of forests.

Listening to the third brother, the fourth brother angrily talked about the Chen family's wife. Liu Ximing realized that this woman had always been jealous of her family. Since her father passed away, she always liked to make trouble with the Liu family. In addition, the few lingering wives in the village, Liu Chen had to retreat.

After walking into the village for a while, Liu Ximing found that the road was flattering than outside the village. Although it was bumpy, it was still not muddy everywhere.

The houses on both sides of the road are basically mud houses and thatched huts. Many men in the yard are basking in the sun and smoking dirt cigarettes, and groups of children are playing next to them. Seeing the three brothers passing by, some nodded and said hello, while others ignored them. Most of them were wearing off-white cross-necked narrow-sleeved shirts and trousers.

Liu Ximing was also shocked to see it. In my memory, Zhangjiawan was just by the Jialing River. The land in the whole village was quite flat. Not to mention that it was all Upperfield, but there were many Nakada. Why did the living conditions in the whole village be so poor?

He found an excuse to say that he was a headache and couldn't remember it. He pulled his two younger brothers to ask and check each character one by one.

When passing by a family further, Liu Xixian and Liu Xi'an pulled Liu Ximing to walk forward quickly with a disgusting expression on his face.

Liu Ximing turned his head and saw a man lying in the middle of the yard wearing a tattered gown. At this time, the third brother saw him looking at the house and whispered: "This is Cao Er, a lazy man in the village. I heard that their ancestors also had scholars, but when he got to him, he was only left with scammers and cheating. He didn't do anything in his daily life, but he only knew how to steal. The villagers were afraid of him and did not dare to force him to force him."

"He must have done it if our big brother lost the two years ago," the fourth brother said on the side with a fierce and erotic mother.

Liu Ximing silently recorded Cao Er. He knew in his heart that the most troublesome thing in the countryside was shrews like the Chen family's wife and Cao Er. They were shameless and shameless. What else could you do?

The Zhangjiawan Village is not big. After a while, I walked to the edge of the brick and tile house at the entrance of the village. I saw that this was a two-in-one yard. The exterior wall of the yard was covered with blue bricks. The four corners of the main hall in the yard were raised, and the eaves were exposed from the edge of the yard wall. Patterns could be seen on the eaves of the yard wall. Looking through the main door, a screen wall with the inverted "Fu" blocked the view. A plaque hung at the gate saying Zhang Zhai was written.

Before Liu Ximing asked a question, the fourth brother said, "This is Zhang Yucheng's house of the landlord Zhang. They have dogs, so let's not get too close." The third brother nodded and said, "That's right, my mother said that their family is not easy to get along with, let's take a look and go back."
Chapter completed!