"Bounce~cotton~"

"Bounce~cotton~"

The sun was gradually setting in the west, and under the dim red sunlight, long-lasting shouts echoed in the village.

Chen Ling drove the bullock cart slowly down the dam. After entering the village, he saw an old man and a young man, wearing dark gray cotton-padded clothes, one behind the other, carrying a large wooden bow on his back, carrying a load, walking

Shouting at the top of his lungs.

These are two cotton-players who travel through villages and alleys to play cotton.

They entered the village and didn't go far when they were stopped by the village women.

"Isn't it Du Lao's bombmaker from the Goge Camp?"

"It's me."

"Why is your old man's hair so white? I almost don't recognize him."

"Haha, what can I do? I'm so worried."

"How much money do you make every year? What do you have to worry about?"

"Well, the times are not good, I can't make any money, and no one will give me a wife when my baby is older. How can I not worry about it?"

"Look at what you said, there is a family in our village, but they are all waiting for you, Lao Du, to come, and other players will not play for him when they come. This year, you can earn enough from playing flowers, and you will find more for your children in the future.

Isn’t it easy to be a daughter-in-law?”

"Haha, it would be great if it were really that simple."

While chatting, Liang Guizhen, who was closest to home, led the two gardeners to her home.

It takes time to stretch cotton.

No matter how skilled the craftsman is, he will not be able to pop out more than ten kilograms of cotton in a day.

There is no rush for such a job, and there is no competition for it.

After the previous one finished playing, the next one started playing, one after another.

It is the slack time for farming, when people have nothing to be busy with and can afford to wait.

"Hey, Fugui, Susu, are you back?"

As soon as the cotton player left, Chen Ling drove an ox cart over.

When these old ladies saw that the young couple had returned, they crowded around with laughter and started joking around.

"Really, has your brother-in-law been beaten?"

"Definitely not. My father and mother are very kind to my brother-in-law. My mother also cooked brown sugar and egg tea for him, and she cooked six eggs at once."

"Oh, okay, Fugui, this mother-in-law is really not bad."

I accompanied Wang Susu to her parents' house for a few days, and when I returned to the village, the villagers seemed to be very friendly.

"By the way, the couple across from you are back. They just cleared out all the miscellaneous items two days ago and built a shack at home. They are about to find someone to renovate the house."

"I also heard from Brother Guoping that Chunyuan planned to open a pharmacy at home, and I went to say hello to him the night before yesterday."

Wang Lishan's mother-in-law came close to their bullock cart and whispered.

…

When they returned home, Wang Chunyuan and Qin Dongmei were indeed back. The previous door wall, courtyard wall, and main hall of their home had all collapsed in the flood. They only cleared an open space in the center of the yard and built a firewood shed.

There is a cloth curtain hanging, and there is a simple cooking stove outside.

Hearing the commotion outside, Wang Chunyuan walked out to take a look. When he saw it was Chen Ling and his wife, he was the first to talk to them with a smile on his face.

This is a young man under thirty years old. Although he is not tall, he has good looks.

Thick and long eyebrows, black and thick, a Chinese character face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, a very majestic appearance.

Wearing leather shoes, hair parted.

At first glance, he doesn’t look like a man from the village.

It is true that this man was very popular with women when he was in the rural health center.

The mouth is also easy to use.

When the young girl and the young wife saw him, they were like wild dogs seeing fresh hot shit, and they kept wanting to rub it up.

Therefore, I have a very good rapport with women. Within two years of working in the rural health center, I became close to the girls and wives from villages all over the country.

However, his conduct was not very good, he was just a talkative, and he always liked to visit widows at night.

The older girl won't touch any of them.

It is said that the little one she raised is also a delicate little widow.

Hobbies are rather unique.

When Chen Ling was not married, she heard many stories from people in the village.

When I saw him coming out to say hello, I had no choice but to say yes with a smile.

When Wang Susu opened the iron lock on the fence door, Chen Ling was about to drive the bullock cart home, but unexpectedly this man came over.

"Fugui, you have done a good job this year. The house is so well built that it can be regarded as the culprit of our village."

Heng Zhuzi is their local dialect, which means similar to the later generations of Hao Heng.

However, in this era, the meaning is mostly used to indicate whose family is rich.

Belonging means to praise someone.

Chen Ling looked at Wang Chunyuan with a playful smile in front of him and didn't know what to say for a moment.

Just a few simple polite words.

Unexpectedly, this polite person actually followed the words and said: "I am planning to renovate my house on the 21st of this month. If you have some free time, can you come over and help me?"

"Twenty-first this month? That's a bit unfortunate..."

Chen Ling didn't expect him to say that. He scratched his cheek and wondered: "I happen to be building a village on the ground. The engineering team has been found and construction will start in a few days."

"ah?"

Wang Chunyuan's smile froze, "I heard that you and Erzhu exchanged land, are you going to build Zhuangzi on his side?"

"yes."

Chen Ling nodded.

"Is that place okay? The old people say that tossing there would offend the ancestors."

Wang Chunyuan frowned: "The old tombs there are all the ancestors of our old Wang family and old Chen family. Erzhu Tada just refused to listen to his advice and built a lime factory there. As a result, he lost everything."

"Oh, you're talking about this, it's not a big deal."

Listening to this good-for-him tone, Chen Ling shook his head and said with a smile: "You don't go back to the village often, so you probably don't know that the old tomb was washed away by the flood this year, and the tombs of which families have been divided long ago.

It’s unclear.”

"Just a while ago, after the fourth grandma of our old Chen family died, the fifth uncle called the elders of the two families to the brigade, looked through the family trees of the two families, discussed it, and moved all the graves to the mountain.

Already."

"ah?"

Wang Chunyuan said "Ah" again, obviously he didn't expect it.

The people buried in the old grave can be traced back to the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, which was already far back, but after it was destroyed by the flood, it became even more unrecognizable. So based on the genealogy, the two families re-erected the monument and moved them all to the mountain.

"No one in the village informed us of such a thing."

Wang Chunyuan's face looked a little ugly.

notify?

Who should I call for notification? To you? Or to your father?

Your father and Chen Erzhu's father did everything right back then, and even the ancestors didn't recognize it.

Now I am staying in the county seat and dare not come back.

Is there anything else to report?

Chen Ling really didn't know what to say.

After a few brief remarks, he turned around and went home.

Before walking into the yard, he subconsciously glanced across the way and saw the curtain of the woodshed shaking slightly, which made Chen Ling quite amused.

This was obviously Qin Dongmei's mother-in-law peeking out from behind the curtain.

When I got home, everything in the yard was clean and tidy.

People in the village just said that Liang Hongyu and her two people came here every morning to clean, feed the sheep, chickens and ducks, and take good care of it.

"Chun Yuan didn't talk to you before. What happened today?"
To be continued...