Chapter 450 Busy Autumn
The sound of the alarm clock's timer music suddenly sounded in his ears. The tip of the brush in Zhou Banxia's hand suddenly tilted, and he looked at the imperfections on the rice paper page with regret.
Let out a sigh of relief.
He closed his eyes and turned off the alarm clock, then opened his eyes and looked sideways. Gu Wenxuan, who had agreed to go home with her, was still working hard in front of the desk to his surprise.
Judging from his current state, it was impossible to stop for a while, but it was really getting late, almost midnight, and he would have to go to the county school tomorrow morning.
Zhou Banxia coughed lightly, then coughed heavily. She thought about it, but when there was no response, she hit him with a pillow.
"Daughter-in-law?" Gu Wenxuan turned around and blinked in confusion, "My throat doesn't feel good. Is it cold or is it a fever? What time is it and you're not asleep yet?"
Pack!
Just pretend!
Zhou Banxia glared: "No, I can't sleep even if you don't sleep. You disturb my normal routine at home. I fell asleep before the second watch last night.
I think you will come back in five or six days. If you are still worried, I will have someone deliver the letter to you every other day. That would be great, and you don’t have to travel back and forth. ”
Roll your eyes!
Give you a blank look, give you a blank look again!
Zhou Banxia burst out laughing when he saw this, "Don't I feel sorry for you? It doesn't matter if I go to bed late. I'll just get up later tomorrow morning. It's not like you have to rush.
How much is left to write tonight? If you don't want me to temporarily interrupt your train of thought, how about putting it away first and talking about it tomorrow after you have rested? ”
Gu Wenxuan was very fast. Before Zhou Banxia could finish speaking, he had already stood up and threw the brush in his hand into the washer, "It has been written long ago, only modifications are left.
You are stupid enough. I wonder if I have developed a habit of checking an article first before revising it after every time? I'm still coughing. Why don't you tell me to go to bed early?
Even if you forget, you can lie down and rest first. Don't tell me that you were lying down and just got up now. The pen and ink are not even dry yet, and you have to take the scientific examination? ”
"No, this dynasty is short of a female number one scholar and I'm waiting to fill it." Zhou Banxia said with a smile and put away the rice paper that had been placed on the kang to dry.
This moment frightened Gu Wenxuan, fearing that she would overwhelm her stomach, he ran quickly to the kang, "I'll do it, I'll do it, I'll sort it out."
"It doesn't matter, if it's far away, I will naturally get off the kang and pick it up again. After all, I'm not a puppy, so I still have to lie down on the kang and do this, right?"
Gu Wenxuan quickly sorted out the rice papers scattered on the kang while listening. When he heard "such and such", he looked up and burst into laughter.
"Shh, keep your voice down, it's quiet at night, and there's a newborn baby opposite." Zhou Banxia subconsciously turned to look at the window, "Lights out?"
"It's okay, I can't hear you." Gu Wenxuan moved narrowly to the right and immediately blocked Zhou Banxia's view of looking out, "No, you can't see me from this position.
Be careful when you fall off the kang, there is still candlelight in the south room. Why didn't I hear the child cry tonight? Did I not notice it for a moment, or did I not cry in the first place? ”
You’ve asked the right person!
Zhou Banxia didn't bother to remind him how far away he was from the edge of the kang at this time. He always wanted to give the novice father a period of adaptation so that he could feel at ease.
"It's not that the child didn't cry. Aunt Ma came to take care of my sister-in-law during the confinement period again tonight. It's because the child didn't have time to cry twice more and was picked up by his grandma."
Gu Wenxuan thought that this was also the case. According to the information he had checked, newborns would only be quiet for a few days, and things would get worse after the full moon.
As the lung capacity increases, the crying becomes louder. After two months, the crying becomes even louder. No matter how well-behaved the child is, there is no one who does not cry at night.
She cries when she is hungry, cries when she pees, or cries when she poops. If she feels uncomfortable or unhappy, she will cry at the top of her lungs to alert the adults around her. Fortunately, by the time the little nephew started crying, his wife was almost three months old. Even if she was not in a hurry to move, she could stay with him in the county town for some time.
The next day.
Gu Wenxuan still got up early, and Zhou Banxia was still asleep when he left.
It is a lie to say that it is safe to leave a pregnant daughter-in-law at home alone. It does not matter whether her parents are at home to help take care of her. If she is not under her eyes, she will always feel uneasy.
However, he also knew that his wife's tolerance for letting him go out early and come back late every day was almost reaching its limit. If it rained, she would definitely jump when she saw him coming back.
Fortunately, God doesn't know whether he was moved or Qiu received it, it didn't rain for a week, and every household in the village was working crazy from dawn to dusk.
The autumn harvest has officially started.
Except for the Gu family, Zhou Xiucai's family, and the Ma family, all the other families in the village, from old to young, are busy as dogs.
It was at this time that Gu Erzhu, who had been preparing for several days, quietly took the other half of the first batch of workshop guards and set off with several carriages and mule carts.
The sudden loss of the head of the family does not seem to affect the autumn harvest, but in fact it is still different even if there is a newly appointed farm head, hired long-term workers, and servants participating in the harvest.
The autumn harvest takes time, and it also involves drying. I have been busy for more than ten or twenty days. I finally finished the autumn harvest, and then sowing the autumn seeds.
Zhou Banxia could see with the naked eye that her poor father suddenly lost weight, so she sent people to follow her father and not let him do anything, only to supervise.
After the work in the fields was finished, she would then clean up the vegetable garden and go into the mountains without her father having to worry about it. Finally, she had time for her father to rest and relax, and the corvee came.
This time the corvee work in Qinghe Village was not long, only one and a half months, but the work of the corvee was not easy. It was not clearing silt and widening the river, but it was still blasting rocks to build roads.
I don’t know if it’s because it’s located in an important area of Gyeonggi Province, but the official road is still easy to walk, the road is smooth and regularly maintained, but problems have arisen, and the corvees who blast stones to build roads have also come.
It's just that compared to the five taels of silver required to serve in road construction for one and a half months to avoid military service, more people still don't want to waste the money and just go to serve on their own.
Originally, this year's corvee had nothing to do with her natal family and her husband's family, but her father began to worry that there were too many people serving this year, and it was difficult to find manpower to start building the workshop and village.
Who doesn't know how to calculate an account? Twenty cents a day, nine hundred cents in forty-five days, not even one tael of silver, but only five taels of silver spent to avoid military service.
Once people are afraid of poverty, most people just want to grit their teeth and get through it after a month and a half.
After all, twenty cents a day, including food, is already a lot of wages, but how much work does it take to get five taels of silver together, not to mention that it's winter after working for a month or two.
After winter comes, it’s winter again, and it’s almost the end of the year again.
In other words, there will be no good work to make money in the second half of the year. If you save five taels of silver, you can still have a relaxed year.
Her father was extremely anxious right now. There was not enough time right now to hire people to start building adobe bricks. When they came back from the service, it was going to snow and nothing could be done, and it wouldn't be until the spring of next year.