The official road of the farmer

"Brother Zizhou, is this enough?" Ye Junzhi wiped off his sweat and showed Ye Junshu the fruits of his labor with sparkling eyes.

Ye Junshu stroked his chin and looked around, and under Ye Junzhi's nervous and expectant gaze, he nodded in satisfaction, "That's enough, thank you friends for me."

In the corner of the courtyard, the fine sand that has been dried in the sun is piled there. The sand is all fine and soft. There is not a single grain of larger stone sand, which shows that it has been carefully selected.These are exactly what Xiao Zhi brought his little friends to the river to find them.

Ye Junzhi laughed and scratched his head, "Brother Zizhou, when does school start? Everyone wants to learn calligraphy too! I told Sanshi that I could already write four big characters, but he was so envious!"

He personally wrote a few big characters in front of his friends, and was looked at enviously by his friends. He felt that he had saved face, and when he was asked by his friends, he volunteered to inquire about the news.

"Soon." Ye Junshu looked at the pile of prepared things and was very satisfied. The villagers were really motivated. He just put forward the idea, and a lot of finished frames were delivered the next day.

There is no paper to write on, so I can only think of a way by myself, and these are the methods Ye Junshu wants to come up with.Square wooden boards of similar size, framed by wooden strips on four sides, spread a layer of fine sand on it, and then use branches to practice calligraphy on it, write it directly after writing, and rewrite it, it is very convenient and convenient. It costs nothing, just a little labor.

Just wait for the tables and stools to be ready before the class can open.

Ye Junshu reckoned that there should not be too many children who can really learn characters. There are more than 200 households in Yejia Village. There are forty or fifty children in the family who are between six and 15 years old, but not necessarily all of them will be able to learn characters. Come on, so there are twenty or thirty children, or Ye Junshu estimated too much.

If he calculated correctly, the village chief will come to discuss with him the start of school in the next two days.

Ye Junshu pondered and pondered, and felt that he still needed to go to the mountains again, and when school started, he would have no time to run into the mountains.

I don't know if Uncle Li is at home...

After Lu got back to health, he led Qin all the time, busily doing what he could like a happy little bee.And Qin Geer also changed from Xiaoshan's little tail to Lu Geer's little tail.

In the past two days, the villagers either came together or entrusted others to deliver a lot of things one after another, some for a few bags of rice noodles, some for eggs, some for pickled and dried vegetables, and some for seasoning... In short They are all things that the family can afford, and they have accumulated a lot.

Luge'er's favorite thing to do now is to go to the granary and kitchen to count these things. Every time he finishes these things, he looks like a little hamster that has only hidden food, pursing his mouth and laughing.

The twins are still easy to take care of, and Xiao Shan is watching him at ease, let alone Xiaozhi.Just as Ye Junshu was about to go out, Uncle Fang came over carrying a load of firewood.

Ye Junshu's footsteps stopped.

Uncle Fang greeted with a thick face: "Boy Zhou, are you going out?"

"Yes, Uncle Fang, why did you bring firewood here again? You have given away so much in the past two days, I can't accept any more." Ye Junshu repeatedly refused. Uncle Fang's family was in trouble and couldn't give anything like rice noodles. Ye Junshu knew that if he didn't accept it, it would be difficult for Uncle Fang to send the child over. He didn't refuse at the beginning, but he never expected that Uncle Fang didn't send it once or twice. A wall of treated firewood is piled up.

Ye Junshu blushed, he was really ashamed, and he refused to accept anything this time.

"This little firewood is worth nothing. You are only a little bit big, so it is not convenient to get firewood from the mountains. Uncle Fang has plenty of strength, and there is plenty of firewood at home. Let me tell you, it is suitable to use these firewood to burn the kang when the weather is cold. Burn resistance, no need to get up in the middle of the night to replenish firewood."

"Your firewood is very valuable to sell in the county. My family really can't take it anymore. Uncle Fang, you can take it back." Ye Junshu knew that Uncle Fang often went to the county to sell firewood. Because the firewood is of good quality and handled properly, it is said that it is very popular. up.What's more, in Ye Junshu's eyes, the value of these firewood is no less than food. Their weak family can't stand the cold in winter, so they need firewood too much.

He can't cut much firewood for his small arms and legs, and Ye Junshu still plans to spend money to buy it...

"It's not worth a lot of money. If you don't accept it, Boy Zhou, Uncle Fang really has no face..."

Ye Junshu couldn't help it, so he could only say: "Well, this is the last time, and next time, boy, I'm going to turn my back on you." He stared with a straight face on purpose.

With a hearty smile, Uncle Fang carried a heavy load of firewood into the door and placed it under the kitchen eaves, and replied repeatedly: "Okay, just this time, I promise."

Ye Junshu helped put the firewood away together, and said, "I think there will be definite news in two days. After the class starts, let both Da Shuan and Xiao Shuan come over. I remember Xiao Shuan is six years old, right? He can also read and write. "

Just as Uncle Fang wanted to refuse, he thought it would be cheeky to let Da Shuan come alone for his kind of firewood, how could he come both?

Ye Junshu said incredulously: "If I don't see the Dashuan brothers by then, I will return all the firewood you sent."

So Uncle Fang stopped talking.

Uncle Fang put away the firewood, didn't talk any more, and left soon.

Ye Junshu went to the house to take a look. The children were all well-behaved, so he was about to go out again.

But today might not be a good day to go out. Ye Junshu had just walked out a few steps when he met someone walking towards him carrying a load of baskets.

This time Ye Junshu was really surprised: "Uncle?!"

"Zizhou." Seeing the eldest nephew whom he hadn't seen for a long time from afar, the Ye family's uncle quickened his pace and walked over.Uncle Ye's family is full of travel and dust, but he is very happy to see his nephew, and it seems that all the fatigue has been swept away.

My uncle’s house is quite far from Yejia Village. Although they are still in the same county, one is in the south and the other is in the north. In this era of underdeveloped transportation, it takes a day to drive by donkey cart day and night. Uncle so early in the morning I came here, and I knew I was on my way at night at a glance.

Ye Junshu saw the redness and blackness in his uncle's eyes, and understood that this was the result of his sleepless night's journey, and the sense of alienation in his heart disappeared.

"Uncle, you are finally here!"

"Zizhou, I'm sorry, uncle is late..." The big man burst into tears in front of the junior.

Ye Junshu felt sad for a while, combining the memories of the two generations. He still has a lot of affection for this uncle. The puzzlement and resentment that had been buried in his heart made him unable to help asking: "Why did you come here?"

Ye Junshu's family doesn't have many close relatives. Father is the only son, so he doesn't have any uncles who are close by blood, but Amu's family has a brother. For Ye's family, the only ones closest to him are his uncles.

But it was these relatives, when his father passed away, none of them came to help and pay respects.

When people from Yejia Village sent the obituary, they were told that they had no time to come because of the busy farming season.

People in the village didn't say anything in front of the children, but there was a lot of discussion behind it. Everyone said that after the death of Ye Jiu's family, the uncle's family might be broken, and even the relatives and nephews were ignored, for fear of being killed. Are you a drag?

Ye Junshu accidentally overheard it once, and only then did he know why his grandmother and uncle hadn't arrived. It turned out that he thought they were a burden...

"I'm sorry..." The 40-year-old man was crying badly in front of his 12-year-old nephew, he hesitated to speak with trembling lips, too ashamed to look directly at his nephew.

Ye Junshu is so transparent, how can he not know that there is something inside.He said, waimu and uncle have always been very close to their family, and they are also close to uncle's family, how could they really say that they don't care?

Just as he was about to ask, a sharp voice suddenly came in, "Hey! A rare visitor! It's really the uncle of Ye Jiu's family! I didn't believe it when the old Qi's family told me! Old, are you blinded?"

All the people with the surname Ye in the Ye family village are sorted according to the age of the genealogy in each generation. Father Ye is the ninth in their generation, so the village has always been called Ye Jiu and Ye Jiu's family.However, in the generation of Junzi, there are too many children, and the ranking can be ranked up to forty or fifty, so there is no sequence, and they can only sort by household.

"Ming Amu..." Ye Junshu yelled at Ming Amu who came over, begging in his eyes, his uncle was ridiculed so much that he wanted to go underground, he knew that Ming Amu was out of anger and was trying to stand up for them, but right now According to the situation, uncle really didn't deliberately ignore them.

Ming'am stared at him in disbelief, knowing in his heart that this is the only and closest bloodline of the Zhou boy's family, and it is only natural that the relationship can be good, unless it is really old and dead, otherwise Ming'am will still be a guest You are very polite.

"Your uncle has come all the way, why don't you invite him in quickly? What does it look like standing at the door?"

Ye Junshu hurriedly said: "Uncle, quickly enter the house."

"Hey!" Uncle Ye family responded, picked up a pole, and entered the courtyard with Ye Junshu.

Ming'am was an outsider after all, so he didn't follow in, and only said to call him if something happened.

After entering the hall, Ye Junshu hurriedly poured water for him. He just noticed that his uncle's mouth was dry and chapped. It was obvious that he lacked water. He hadn't drank water for a long time.

Uncle Ye family drank two full bowls of water.

The children in the room came out one after another when they heard the movement, and Ye Junshu hurriedly asked them to call for someone.

It's a pity that these always sensible children became awkward now. Brother Lu glanced at Uncle Ye's family, didn't speak, and dragged Brother Qin to run away quickly.

Xiao Shan tried to save face, but he stopped talking and ran away after only shouting.

Ye Junshu was a little embarrassed, and explained: "The children are still young and don't remember much, so maybe they don't have much impression of uncle..." This reason even felt far-fetched to him. Who didn't know that Xiao Shan and Lu Geer were the most affectionate towards uncle in the past, When Ah Mu took them away to relatives, the two of them liked to be uncle's little tail the most, and they hadn't seen each other for more than half a year, and their attitudes were so strange.

Uncle Ye's expression was gloomy, and he never showed up when the children needed him most. It's no wonder that the children had objections to him.

Ye Junshu had no choice but to change the subject, "Uncle, where's Grandmother?"

"At home... I'm busy at home, I can't leave..." Uncle Ye thought Ye Junshu was asking why his grandmother didn't come, so he hesitated to explain.

"Oh... how is Wai Mu?"

"he's good."

"..." A moment of silence.

Uncle Ye rubbed his hands together, and hesitantly said to Ye Junshu, "Zi Zhou, uncle... can I go burn incense for my brother-in-law and brother?"

Ye Junshu paused, "Of course."