allonlinenovel Chapter 267 Wen Wuyan's Study
Chapter 267 Wen Wuyan's Study
"Dad, when will you come back from school?" Erhua hung on Wen Wuyan and asked reluctantly.
Although Dahua Li Xin didn't ask any questions, he was obviously listening with his ears perked up.
"I can't say for sure now. It may take half a month, or maybe a month." Wen Wuyan looked at Erhua with a doting gaze and raised his hand to rub her head.
His reluctant gaze swept across everyone and finally stopped on the child's mother.
"What should I do if I miss my dad?" Erhua asked.
"We have to bear it. If your father can't come back, we can't get through it." Gu Qingqing said at the side in a very unpleasant way.
Wen Wuyan saw Erhua pursed her lips and the pearls in her eyes were about to fall out. He looked at Qingqing helplessly.
Then he patted Erhua's shoulder and comforted her with a smile, "Time passes faster. I will be back on time. During the time I'm not at home, you have to help me with the work and don't make me angry, understand?"
"I understand, Dad." Dahua responded.
"Don't worry, uncle. I will take good care of aunt."
Only Erhua pursed her lips and nodded silently.
"Qingqing, there are a lot of things to do at home. You will definitely be too busy to take care of the children alone in a few days. Brother Dong and his men will help the Wang family with the beam the day after tomorrow and will not go over. I have already agreed with Brother Dong that we will invite them to our house to help when the bureau is in place. We will let them take care of the land on the mountain and the fields in the fields. You just need to tell them what to plant."
Gu Qingqing nodded, indicating that she understood.
Then Wen Wuyan looked at Luo Meihua again and said, "Meihua, when I'm not at home, if you have time, please bring the children to play at my house more often."
"Well, I will come to accompany my sister-in-law." Luo Meihua knew that today was the day Wen Wuyan was going to the county, so she came to see him.
Now that I heard what he said, I naturally agreed.
"Brother Wuyan, you must study hard. When you become a high-ranking official, remember to take me with you." Niu Yuzhu chuckled on the side.
Luo Meihua glared at him, but her tone was gentle, "Why bring you along? You don't even know a word."
"Hey, I'm going to run errands for Brother Wuyan."
"What a promising future." Luo Meihua glared at him with a smile on her face.
"Okay, he hasn't shown any signs of studying yet, but you two are the first to start making trouble." Gu Qingqing looked at the two people who had a very good relationship, and followed them and joined in with a smile.
"It's getting late. You should go to town quickly. If you leave too late, you won't know when you'll get to the county." Gu Qingqing began to urge him.
Wen Wuyan handed the prepared package to Niu Yuzhu and said, "Please help take it out first. I want to talk to your sister-in-law."
With Wen Wuyan's blatant hint, everyone in the room had left.
Gu Qingqing didn't wait for him to say anything, but just handed a purse with a big flower sewn for the New Year to Wen Wuyan.
At the same time, like many wives would do when their husbands went on a long journey alone, she helped to straighten the collar of his clothes, which was not messy to begin with, and said, "There are three taels of silver in the purse, take it with you, remember to take good care of yourself when you are away, spend money where it is necessary, and if the money is not enough, send someone to tell your family. I will take care of everything at home, you don't have to worry."
Wen Wuyan held onto the hand that was straightening his collar, and said reluctantly, "I've been separated from you and your daughter many times before. At that time, the only thing I wanted was to work faster when digging the canal so that I could earn more money to give back to my family, so that you and your daughter could live better at home. Now we are used to the lively life of our family at home, and now I have to leave you all alone, and I feel very sad."
Gu Qingqing was reluctant to leave, but she appeared calm. Her hands were wrapped obediently. She kept her posture and said, "It's just going to study. If you are so fussy, how can you succeed in the future? Yuzhu is still counting on you to become a high-ranking official. Fortunately, the journey is not far. If my family is not busy one day, I will bring the children to see you."
"Okay, let me hold you for a while, and then I'll leave." Wen Wuyan said without giving her a chance to argue. He took her hands and put them around his waist, then held her in his arms.
He sniffed the fresh scent that belonged to his home with hatred.
One breath, two breaths, three breaths...
Wen Wuyan rode in a bullock cart to the town. Beside him was a bamboo basket, with spare clothes, writing brushes, ink, paper, and inkstone at the bottom, and shepherd's purse and meat buns made by Qingqing for him to eat for the next two days.
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After watching Wen Wuyan leave in the ox cart, Yang Xing came out of the village and arrived in front of him.
Seeing this, Luo Meihua did not rush back. She followed Gu Qingqing and Yang Xing to the backyard to look after the sheep, donkeys, chickens and ducks.
Luo Meihua looked at the little donkey, which was not yet fully grown, and saw that there was only some wheat bran and hay in its trough. Luo Meihua turned her head and said, "The grass in the field has just started to sprout, so it can't be cut yet. I have some dried peanut seedlings at home. I'll ask Yuzhu to bring some to the party."
Because buying a donkey was a last-minute decision, the family had no fodder prepared at all, so this time they ate some hay that Wen Wuyan had cut two days ago, mixed with some wheat bran.
Gu Qingqing shook her head without even thinking, "No, the hay at home is enough for five or six days. Although the grass on the mountain cannot be cut by then, we can let it chew slowly on its own."
Luo Meihua thought about it and realized that this was the truth, so she didn't insist. Then she looked at the two lambs.
It happened that Yang Xing took some millet that she had soaked yesterday to feed the chicks. As she pulled the door curtain, Luo Meihua saw that the house was full of chicks and ducklings.
"So many have arrived. It's a pleasure to look at. There's also this charcoal basin. The room is warm." Luo Meihua didn't go in, and spoke to Gu Qingqing who also didn't go in.
"People are more valuable than humans now. The charcoal fire in our house has been extinguished, but these little chickens are feeling comfortable guarding the charcoal basin." Gu Qingqing looked at the energetic little ball of fur, and wrinkles appeared at the corners of her eyes from smiling.
"I heard you say before that you wanted to raise chickens, so why are you raising so many ducks? Ducks eat a lot but lay few eggs. They won't produce as much meat as chickens if you kill them. And you didn't pluck enough duck feathers last year." When Luo Meihua helped make braised duck last year, she knew that she was attracted by the fine hairs on the ducks.
Gu Qingqing did not hide anything from Luo Meihua. Looking at the little duck that was still a yellow ball, she had already begun to lay out her grand plans for Luo Meihua.
"When they grow up, they can lay eggs to make salted duck eggs and then preserved eggs. At the end of the year, we can make braised duck, roast duck, or stewed duck, and then sell them in town. In addition, duck feathers can be used to make quilts and cotton-padded clothes, which is a win-win situation."
Luo Meihua was slightly surprised after hearing this. "Are you planning to use duck feathers instead of cotton?"
Now it was Gu Qingqing's turn to be slightly surprised, "Did you know that duck feathers can replace cotton?"
"When I was still at my mother's house, there was a family in the village that raised more than a dozen ducks. At that time, the family said that ducks were not afraid of the cold in winter because of their feathers. He collected the duck feathers that fell naturally at home and said that since ducks were not cold, then the clothes he made with the duck feathers would definitely not be cold either. As a result, even though the duck feathers had been washed several times, they still had a stinky smell. That would have been fine, but the good fabric of the clothes was full of holes due to the hair stems." Luo Meihua told Gu Qingqing what she knew.
"It's not done that way at all." Gu Qingqing replied with a smile.
"Ah? What should we do then?" Luo Meihua asked.