back to the field

Chapter 47

The festive atmosphere of the Chinese New Year lasted until the Lantern Festival passed before it cooled down a little.It's just that the weather has not warmed up due to the beginning of spring. Instead, the cold wind is still howling. With the spring rain, it is so cold that the bones are as painful as being pricked by needles.

The Qin family's citrus fruit period has completely passed, and the rest are bad and sour fruits that are not good in appearance.Tang Qingman originally thought that the Qin family would spend a lot of money hiring people during the slack season, so she shouldn't increase the Qin family's burden, and wanted to find another livelihood.

But Qin Zhen persuaded her: "If you help me for a few more days, the remaining citrus will not be sold. The skin and flesh are still useful. Please help me take them all back."

Tang Qingman stayed in the Qin family's orchard for a few more days.

Qin Zhen planned to peel the collected oranges, use the skins to make tangerine peels, and distribute the remaining pulp to the people in the village.

It's not that she was ill-intentioned and deliberately distributed these unsalable citrus, but that when the Qin family chose to discard the fruit in the past, the neighbors said they were a waste, and children from poor families often went to the orchard to pick up the rotten fruit. citrus to eat.

Seeing this, Qin Yu had no choice but to distribute the unsold citrus to those who wanted it.No matter how sour the citrus was, they wouldn't complain, and Qin Zhen was able to recycle citrus peels to make tangerine peels, so he made the best use of them.

Tang Qingman took the citrus peeling home to do. She sat in the yard and piled up the citrus into a hill, separated the citrus peels and put them in two baskets.

She was so busy here that she couldn't get away. When she looked up, she saw Tang Sixian squatting in front of the medicine garden, taking care of the herbs leisurely.She called the idler to help, and said: "The Qin family didn't make much money from the orchard this year. If we finish the work earlier, the Qin family can save one day of employment and one day's wages."

Tang Sixian has never seen such an employee who considers the labor cost for the boss, even at the expense of his own interests. If she leaves it elsewhere, the boss will not be moved to death, and will give her a "Top Ten Employee Award"!

These oranges cannot be sold. Whenever Tang Sixian thinks about the bad fruit, he feels very uncomfortable and wants to stay away. How could he help peel the oranges.

"Sister, it's not that I don't want to help you. It's all Miss Qin's painstaking efforts. How can we let us down? Think about it, she has gone to great lengths to get you a few more days' wages, and you can do the work so quickly. It's over, she can't help you if she wants to give you a few more days' wages, right?"

Tang Qingman glared at her: "You are just lazy."

"That's right, she's just lazy." Qin Zhen smiled from outside the fence.

Seeing her, Tang Qingman raised a smile on his face, put down the citrus, ran to open the door a little more, and invited her in: "Mother Zhen, you are here!"

"Well, you brought us festival gifts from Raozhou during the Chinese New Year. My mother said she would give us a gift in return, so she made some mochi and asked me to bring them to you." Qin Zhen opened the food box, and there was a reunion inside. Huhu, mochi sprinkled with sesame seeds and flower crumbs.

"This is delicious!" Tang Sixian jumped over, and was about to reach into the food box as soon as he stretched out his hand.

Qin Zhen took the food box away and said, "You have touched the medicine garden with your hand, it's dirty."

Tang Sixian ran to get water to wash his hands, while Qin Zhen put the food box in front of Tang Qingman, sat down beside her, and said, "Not much, let me help you, finish the work early, so that I can save my family money." Isn't it daily wages?"

Tang Qingman scolded: "Ms. Zhen, you are making fun of me!"

"No way!"

Tang Sixian came out after washing his hands, and wiped his body. Hearing this, his teeth immediately became sore.

Seeing her like this, Tang Qingman asked, "Sixian, why are you making faces again?"

Tang Sixian: "..."

God damn grimacing, is her expression distorted by sourness, okay? !

"Citrus is so sour, I'm sour," she said.

Tang Qingman ate a piece of citrus and said: "Actually, it's not too sour. If it is marinated in sugar and made into candied fruits, it must be delicious."

"Ah Tang, you are so smart. In the past, my mother came up with such a way not to waste citrus, and the preserved fruit can be sold in the grass market!" Qin Zhen praised.

The two discussed how to make preserved fruit.

Tang Si, who was left out in the cold, pursed his lips, moved over and took the food box away, and took a piece of sweet mochi to eat, so as not to be sour again.

Occasionally, I also brushed the sense of presence: "Ma'am's craftsmanship is really good, sister, you should try it too."

"Sixian, eat by yourself, I'm busy!" Tang Qingman said perfunctorily.

Tang Sixian felt that she was really rejected, but she was not really lazy.She looked at the pile of citrus, and found that some of the skins were rotten. As long as she stared at it for a while, she felt that worms would come out of it.

She was frightened by her own imagination and ran away.

Qin Zhen glanced at her, and said to Tang Qingman, "Is it because Brother Ling is afraid of bugs, so he dare not touch these citrus?"

Tang Qingman was taken aback. She really never thought about the possibility of Tang Sixian being afraid of bugs. After all, this person usually looks fearless and has no weaknesses.

But as long as you think about it carefully, there are no signs at all. When she mentioned sericulture earlier, Tang Sixian resisted.Whether it was fishing before or raising fish now, she has never seen her use worms, earthworms and the like; she must not do the work of washing vegetables; in addition, there must be no toilets in her room, and she will not even use the toilets in the village. take a look...

She used to think that Tang Sixian might be a pampered little lady, so she didn't want to do this kind of dirty work.But in fact, apart from these jobs, Tang Sixian has done all the hard and tiring jobs, not because she is afraid of being dirty and tired.

"No wonder she didn't eat oranges when she brought them back in the past."

Qin Zhen asked: "Did she tell you that she doesn't like oranges?"

Tang Qingman nodded, Qin Zhen picked a good citrus, peeled it, and divided it into petals, then waved to Tang Sixian: "Tang Dalang, come here."

Tang Sixian got tired of eating two mochi. Hearing this, he also wondered why she was looking for him, so he went over.Seeing the peeled citrus spread out in her hand, she immediately became suspicious: "Why?"

"Your sister peeled it for you to eat." Qin Zhen said without changing his expression.

Tang Sixian glanced at Tang Qingman, seeing that she also looked expectant, so he reached out to take a flap and tasted it.She was worried that the citrus was too sour, so she didn't dare to eat more, but the acidity of the citrus happened to relieve the greasy, within her acceptable range, so she ate some more.

While eating, she realized something was wrong: "Why are you looking at me like that?"

Why does she feel that they are acting like their owners are feeding cats and dogs?

Tang Qingman looked at her with shame. If he had known that she was afraid of bugs, he shouldn't have let her go to the silkworm house with him.

"A Tang, you don't know!" Qin Zhen felt a little weird. Tang Qingman had been with "Tang Sixian" for more than ten years. Could it be that he didn't know this?

Tang Qingman was terrified, he didn't care about Tang Sixian, and thought about how to fool him.

Tang Sixian recalled it.Recalling that I told Tang Qingman that she didn't like citrus before, although it was a bit of a slap in the face, but now is not the time to study the slap in the face, and said: "You said that I am afraid of bugs? Of course my sister doesn't know, because I How can a man be afraid of bugs? What if I let others know my weakness and use it to attack me? So I never let others know what I am afraid of."

Qin Zhen believed that she was telling the truth. The reason why she gritted her teeth and refused to admit it before was not for the so-called face, but purely because she didn't want people to know her weakness.If she hadn't been pushed too hard, she would not have chosen to admit it, because once she did, it would undoubtedly expose her weakness.

"But I still know." Qin Zhen smiled.

Downs muttered enviously: "Yeah, let others know, at most it's just to make fun of me; let you know, I have to shed a few layers of skin."

"Am I so scary?"

Tang Qingman suddenly realized that he was just in a daze, so he couldn't get involved in their topic at all.But she can probably see that something must have happened between Tang Sixian and Qin Zhen before she knew it, so that the relationship between the two seemed to her to be more ambiguous and unpredictable.

Tang Qingman made an excuse to go to the toilet and walked away, Tang Sixian asked Qin Zhen in a low voice: "Little lady, I have always wanted to ask, do you like me?"

"Yes, I've been waiting for you to come and propose marriage!" Qin Zhen blinked.

"I really want to, but you can also see the attitude of the local scholar. He definitely doesn't like me."

"I know, that's why I wiped your face."

Although Tang Sixian and Qin Zhen knew what was going on in their hearts, when she heard Qin Zhen say this, she was still disappointed.

"You..." Tang Sixian wanted to ask Qin Zhen if he knew her identity and approached her in order to avoid forced marriage, but a carriage suddenly appeared in front of the door, so she had no choice but to swallow the words back.

The low-key and simple carriage stopped slowly in front of the courtyard gate, and a man in a shirt jumped out of it. He ran to the back and shouted: "Sister, I saw someone. Someone should be at home this time!"

From behind the carriage came a woman wearing a light blue jacket, a red skirt, and a light blue trousers. She looked dignified and elegant.

And the man next to her, Tang Sixian recognized at a glance, was Xue Hao who pestered Tang Qingman that day.

"It really is them." Downs muttered enviously.

Xue Hao didn't see clearly from a distance, but when he walked to the door and saw Tang Sixian's face clearly, he suddenly recognized her, and exclaimed in shock: "It's you brat?!"

The woman next to him was startled by him, but Tang Sixian was not a dull person. He stood up, grabbed an orange and threw it over: "It's you prodigal son!"

The woman was even more confused. She saw Xue Hao wanting to rush up and hit someone, so she held him down and shouted: "Stop!"

"Sister, you don't know, this kid hit me!" Xue Hao hastily complained.

Tang Sixian sneered: "You molested a woman from a good family, and I haven't reported to the police to arrest you! Did you come here today to find someone to smoke?"

The woman probably also knew what kind of temperament Xue Hao was, she stared at him coldly, not angry.After seeing him like this, he felt guilty and dared not argue with Tang Sixian again.

"Is there any misunderstanding?" the woman asked.

"What misunderstanding? I saw it with my own eyes!"

The woman hurriedly made an apology: "I'm sorry, it's my younger brother who is ignorant and acted recklessly. I don't know which little lady is being entangled. I will apologize on his behalf."

"Eldest sister, you are a dignified lady who does business, why do you need to apologize to a mere white man!" Xue Hao said.

"I told you to shut up!" The woman reprimanded.

Xue Hao stared angrily at Tang Sixian, who also gave him a blank stare.

The purpose of the woman's coming here was obviously not for Xue Hao, she looked Tang Sixian and Qin Zhen carefully, and asked with some uncertainty: "Excuse me, are you brothers and sisters Tang Qingman and Tang Sixian?"

The author has something to say: Second update!

I didn't want the second update at first, I was afraid that tomorrow's update would not be completed today.Thinking about it later, it’s still the second update. The progress of these chapters is a bit slow, mainly to pave the way for the later chapters, and I was urged to read the relationship line...

This article has been open for more than a month, and I have been a little anxious recently. I feel that my writing is not satisfactory, so I have been adjusting during this time.I barely re-adjusted the outline yesterday (just to make the progress of the relationship line faster, and then move the rest, such as the foreshadowing of being an official, and the lines of aunt, sister, etc.) so the inspiration came back today, no constipation I feel, I believe that tomorrow's update can also be coded on time today!So there are these two updates.

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Tang Moujian's happiness is very simple, and my happiness is also simple. Looking at the comments, everyone's "hahahahaha" is very happy!

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感谢在2020-07-2101:28:19~2020-07-2114:31:23期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who threw the grenade: 1 piece;

Thanks to the little angel who threw the mine: next, where is it, not easy 1;

Thanks to the little angels of irrigation nutrient solution: 10 bottles of Xiaodandanqiqi, Thorns; 5 bottles of Sunshine Walking Under the Rainbow, Mo Jin; 2 bottles of Situ Yu;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!