Through the small days of farming

"It's not like we're so weak that we can't even do such trivial things. Wouldn't it be nice to have two more people working?" Bai Niannian wasn't angry either, he knew they were doing it for the sake of being too slow, but they didn't keep their fingers crossed Yang Chunshui's brother, "If we are not allowed to go, we will go by ourselves."

"Brother Ning's health is not very good. As for you, you are skinny. When you get fatter, even if you want to go to the fields, we won't stop you."

Chen Mingren secretly regretted that he shouldn't have softened his heart and let him go last night, lest he still have the energy to toss when he gets up.

Now that he's full of energy during the day, they can try that seemingly difficult pose at night.

"It's okay, both of us are fine, we just need to exercise more, and our body will gradually get better." Bai Niannian said, feeling in his heart that proper labor is beneficial to the development of physical and mental health.

"We're tired, I promise we won't force it, so go and rest." Bai Niannian added another word of assurance, "You can just pretend that the two of us are going to the mountains to watch you work."

Their home is at the foot of the mountain, and it only takes about ten minutes to go up the mountain to collect firewood. Their village is surrounded by mountains, and there are not many other things. Firewood can be seen everywhere on the mountain.

If it doesn't work then, just drive them home again.Chen Mingren couldn't say no to him, so he could only acquiesce that the two of them went to the mountain together.

After 'convincing' Mingren, Bai Niannian went to tell Brother Ning the good news, "It's ok, let's go with them."

"How did you convince Big Brother Chen?" Big Brother Chen doesn't look like such a talkative person?Ning Geer asked curiously.

"Hahaha, there is nothing he can do if he doesn't agree. The feet are growing on us. I told him that if he disagrees, we will go by ourselves."

Brother Ning didn't expect that he was threatening people directly, he thought it was some kind of lure.

"You..." Ning Ge'er gave him a helpless look, "Be careful at night, and see how Brother Chen will deal with you at night." Ning Ge'er looked at the ambiguous mark on his neck and covered his mouth and laughed.

Unconvinced, Bai Niannian carefully looked at his neck, trying to find some clues to laugh back at. He looked at it for a while, but found that there was not even a trace, "I don't believe you don't have any."

Shen Wei is a rough guy, he doesn't know the seriousness, maybe what he looks like under the clothes.

"Okay, okay, I have it, but it's not like you, it stays on your neck brightly, you have to talk to Brother Chen, if you are seen by other people, don't be ashamed to see you, there is a new one in the village It's a topic." Ning Ge'er straightened his face, and told him seriously, being seen by other people, it was another matter of right and wrong, which ruined Nian Ge'er's reputation.

"Well, I'll be more careful next time." Bai Niannian replied.

This was purely an accident. It was the first time, they were a little excited, and they couldn't control it!

The ointment was applied to the man when he got up, and it faded after two days, but Bai Niannian took a look at Brother Ning, how many times a night is the correct way to do it?

I didn't talk to him about this aspect, so he just read that kind of book scribbled once last night. The book is full of pictures, and he didn't say how many times he can do it in one night. How many times is it considered temperance?

He was really embarrassed to ask the two of them.

Take a good look at the book again at night, it may be mentioned in the book, but he missed it last time.

"Where did Shen Wei go? Why didn't you see him here? Didn't you plan to go to the mountains after lunch?" Bai Niannian watched the shoes form under his hands little by little, and had nothing to say.

"He, I'm going to cut bamboo." Brother Ning said without raising his head, "If you go to the mountain to pick firewood, you have to tie firewood. Our two families don't have any bamboo, so we should go to the bamboo forest of Aunt Chen's house to cut it." bamboo."

I have a lot of firewood on my body, so the best choice to pick them up is to use relatively tough bamboo, cut them open, the width is about the size of a little finger, and then cut off more than half of the thickness.

The firewood in the village is picked from the mountains, either bamboo or vines from the mountains. There is a kind of vines growing in some places on the mountain. When they are just cut down, they have good toughness and are convenient for binding firewood.

However, they still prefer to use bamboo instead of looking for vines. Sometimes there are caterpillars on the vines, and if they accidentally touch them, they will be painful and itchy.

"In fact, our family also has a bamboo forest, but it's just taken over by the uncle's family. Next time you want to use bamboo, just come to me. I'll take you to cut it." Bai Niannian said indifferently, holding his chin .

"Okay." Brother Ning nodded, compared to Aunt Chen's family, he still prefers to owe favors to Brother Nian and the others.

"Brother Ning, have you prepared your winter clothes?" Bai Niannian asked, although it's cold now, it's not really cold yet. The winter here is much colder than in the town. It's not convenient, and basically no one will go out.

After so many years, every household has prepared things for winter. Their village is not rich, it can even be said to be poor, but in their village, no one will starve to death or freeze to death every winter.

Unlike other villages in winter, people will freeze to death and starve to death.

Every household lends a hand so that they can survive this winter.

"I know you have already prepared the food, but apart from the food, you should prepare enough other things, such as rice, oil, salt, clothes, pickles, bacon..." Bai Niannian was afraid that they would forget to prepare these things when they came to their village for the first time , reminded.

"Pfft." Brother Ning chuckled, "Brother Nian, have you forgotten that I am originally from here?"

"We plan to buy more when we go to town next time. We already have clothes at home, and we have to buy two jars of pickles to come back."

"Yeah, if there are mung beans in the town, buy more. Whether we can eat fresh vegetables in winter depends on them." Bai Niannian said mysteriously, "There are no mung beans, soy beans are fine, remember to buy them More."

"Yes." Ning Ge'er saw him and didn't say anything, and didn't ask.

"By the way, I still have a lot of sweet potatoes at home. When I go back at night, ask Shen Wei to carry two bags home. Roasted sweet potatoes are delicious in winter, and you can make them into dried sweet potatoes." Bai Niannian said thinking of the sweet potatoes in the cellar.

The staple food their family eats now is not sweet potatoes, but rice. Although the price of rice pains him, he still needs to eat it.

He planned to share a lot of the sweet potatoes in the cellar, and for the remaining ones, when he couldn't go out in heavy snow, he would cook the sweet potatoes at home.

"No, the food at home is enough." Ning Ge'er refused.

Bai Niannian blinked, and changed his words, "I didn't give it to you for nothing, but you will give it back to me when you plant it next year."

"It's not too late to refuse after I finish speaking. I didn't have the money to plant a lot of them before. Now that I have money, I don't need to eat them. The dried sweet potatoes at home are enough, and they will go bad if they are left in the cellar for a long time. , it’s better to lend it to you first, and then pay it back when you plant it next year.”

"Alright then!" Brother Ning agreed after thinking about it.

I was thinking about how much land to plant next year.

Shen Wei soon came back with the bamboo on his back, Mingren agreed to let the two of them go together, Shen Wei could only agree, prepared things, and the four of them walked up the mountain.

After taking the medicine given by the doctor in the town, and eating and sleeping well, the two of them are not as weak as they look.

Concerned about their footsteps, the two men walking in front deliberately slowed down.

Walking to a flat place on the mountain, Shen Wei was very strong, so he took a long hook knife and hooked those dry branches on the tree.Chen Mingren took a hatchet and cut those branches into strips, piled them up to almost the same size, and tied them with the bamboo strips he had prepared earlier, while the other two picked up branches nearby.

The small ones were moved back directly, and the big ones were dragged back to be chopped by Mingren.

Not long after, they picked up several loads of firewood. Chen Mingren took the pole, threw one to Shen Wei, and told the two of them worriedly, "The two of us pick it up first, and you pick up branches near here, don't go far away. gone."

A bundle of firewood is probably heavier than him. The two of them are self-aware, and they didn't say they would jump into the river to go back. Anyway, this place is not close to home. They can see their house on the mountain, and they can also see the two of them at home. .

Seeing the two of them walking like flying down the mountain carrying two large bundles of firewood, the two of them didn't run around, just picking up branches nearby.

They also found a chestnut tree nearby, and after picking it up for a few minutes, a small pile of firewood was piled up in the open space. Bai Niannian couldn't hold back anymore, and took Ning Ge'er to pick up chestnuts.

There is only one single chestnut tree here, which is not as good as the one at the entrance of the village, so almost no one comes here to pick up chestnuts. The chestnuts on the tree are already mature, and many chestnuts have fallen on the ground. The chestnut thorns are empty, overcooked, and the chestnuts will fall from the gaps in the chestnut thorns when they are blown by the wind.

Even for those chestnuts that haven't fallen off, the gaps on the chestnut thorns are also very large, and it is very convenient to take out the chestnuts inside.

A lot of chestnuts fell on the ground, some of them had been replaced and could not be eaten, so Bai Niannian and Ning Geer picked out the edible ones, they didn't bring a basket, they picked up quite a few, and they carried them in their clothes, which couldn't hold them , piled up next to the branches.

When Chen Mingren and Shen Wei came up, they saw the two of them happily picking up chestnuts, and there was already a big pile there.

"Mingren, you guys are here. You guys are going to go home later. When you come up, help us bring two baskets from home." Bai Niannian said happily, so many chestnuts, they can eat them for several days, give it to Aunt Chen I also send some at home.

Everyone likes chestnuts, but they just don't want to mess with them. The thorns around the chestnuts will stab into the flesh if they are not careful.

He likes to eat chestnuts very much. He didn’t have time before, but now he has time. It’s no problem to get some more to eat at home. There are also many hawthorns on the mountain. The dried hawthorns made with sugar are not as sour as hawthorns. Eat it in winter.

It would be great if there was any way to preserve chestnuts for a longer period of time.Bai Niannian thought to herself.