Chapter 126
At noon that day, the family finally drank goose soup again, but Feiyun was punished by being starved and not allowed to eat meat.
Xiao Huang was kicked by He Qin and hid in his nest feeling aggrieved and refused to come out.
In the afternoon, the village chief sent three granaries over. While He Qin was seeing him off, he asked the village chief to find someone to help him build a house while there was still time in the next few days.
The village chief agreed and brought people to his house that night to measure the dimensions and build the foundation.
Lu Xiaobai looked at the busy crowd and asked He Qin: "Is it so simple to build a house without bricks?"
brick?
He Qin chuckled softly and said, "Tiles are a luxury, not to mention bricks, which are just made of stone and mud. But the town next door produces tiles, and since it's closer here, tiles are cheaper and easier to transport. Anyone with a slightly better-off family can afford tiles."
But there is no one here who makes bricks, transportation is inconvenient, and building a house requires a lot of bricks, which are difficult to transport back, so no one does it.
What's more, loess is as strong as wooden houses.
Lu Xiaobai curled his lips and said helplessly: "Okay."
Yeah, it seems their other rooms are like this too, without any bricks.
But it's fine as long as it's habitable.
Lu Xiaobai doesn’t ask for much now, because living in a room is much better than living in a shed.
In the past few days, Lu Xiaobai witnessed with his own eyes the rapid rise of a house. There was no cement or lime, no bricks or sand, just some stones, wood and soil, and the house was built in three and a half days.
But it is not habitable yet. We have to wait a few days for the mud to dry up before we can live there.
But Lu Xiaobai still marveled at the wisdom of the ancients, praised the workers, and even personally delivered water to them.
But He Qin was jealous for a while, and finally he grabbed the man and held him in the room, covered him with a quilt and chatted with him, so that he didn't run out to show his affection.
The house has been repaired, the millet is about to ripen, and the cotton left over from last time is also ripe.
He Qin invited the same people from last time to process the cotton and started threshing the millet the next day.
Threshing is very busy and tiring, and even He Qin went to the fields to help.
Zero One and Thirteen used knives to cut the rice from the roots one handful at a time and placed them in an overlapping manner. Zero Three and Zero Two grabbed a handful of rice and then placed the rice on the edge of a square wooden barrel, letting the rice fall into the barrel.
Ling Si and He Yu took the backpacks and carried the millet that fell into the wooden barrel back home, while He Qin took the scoop and put the millet into their backpacks.
Lu Xiaobai, wearing a big hat, was sitting on the edge of the field peeling oranges.
These oranges were given to him by Qiu Ge'er, so he could eat them himself.
But now everyone was working, and it was not good for him to eat alone, so he peeled them one by one and put them aside, and whoever wanted to eat could take one.
He also prepared water, so if you are thirsty you can drink it directly.
Threshering millet is much slower than breaking corn in the field. Lu Xiaobai was getting very anxious watching it. If he hadn't had a big belly, he would have wanted to go to the fields to help.
But now, he could only sit there and watch, and help pass water.
He Qin saw Lu Xiaobai sitting there sweating from the heat, so he walked over covered in mud and stood in front of him.
Lu Xiaobai quickly picked up a bowl of water and handed it over, saying like an adult comforting a child, "If you're tired, take a rest. Don't worry."
He Qin didn't take the bowl either. He lowered his head to look at the water in the bowl and said, "Feed me."
After hearing this, Lu Xiaobai would definitely ignore him under normal circumstances.
But today was different. He knew everyone was very tired, so he quickly knelt up, handed the water to He Qin's mouth, and whispered, "Drink it."
Looking at Lu Xiaobai's well-behaved and virtuous appearance, He Qin curled his lips, lowered his head to drink the water, and then asked, "Is it hot?"
Although it is the beginning of autumn, the weather is still very hot, especially in the fields, which is no different from summer.
Lu Xiaobai nodded gently and said, "It's hot... not hot."
He was very hot, but he knew that He Qin and the others must be hotter than him, so he couldn't make a fuss.
He Qin was worried that Lu Xiaobai was getting too hot in the fields, so he said gently, "I'm hot too, but I want to drink some mung bean soup. Can you go back and make it for me? I want it chilled with well water."
Although He Qin is not the emperor now, he has been an emperor after all, and at the very least he still has the identity of the Second Prince of Nanhe. Not only has he gone to the fields to thresh the grain, but he also complains about being tired and says he wants to drink mung bean soup.
This made Lu Xiaobai very distressed, and he quickly stood up and said, "Then wait for me, I'll go back and cook."
He Qin nodded: "Well, the main thing is safety, don't burn the house down."
Lu Xiaobai blushed, raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead and said, "I know, I won't."
It's not like he's clumsy. He's done it so many times that he's already mastered it.
Lu Xiaobai picked up an orange and fed one to He Qin. He said, "I'll go back first. Wear your hat and don't get tanned. It's ugly if you get tanned."
He doesn't like it if it's ugly.
After Lu Xiaobai finished speaking, he went home.
"Um."
He Qin adjusted his hat, lowered his head and smiled, then stood up and went ashore, sitting by the ditch to wash the mud off his body.
The others were concentrating on their work and didn't speak.
He Qin washed himself clean, put all the oranges peeled by Lu Xiaobai into a bowl, and took it to the shade of a tree in the distance, where he rested and ate the oranges.
Thirteen looked at He Qin enjoying himself, pouted and said to Lingyi, "Brother, I want to eat oranges too. Master Xiaobai clearly peeled them for everyone, why did the master take them all?"
Zero Two agreed, "I wanted to eat some too, but it was so far away I couldn't even smell the orange."
This was the first time I realized that the master was so stingy that he didn’t even give them an orange to eat.
Lingyi turned his head and glanced at Thirteen and said, "Get to work."
Zero Four kicked Zero Two on the butt: "If I really give it to you, do you dare to eat it?"
Those were peeled by Master Xiaobai himself, because he felt sorry for them working so hard, and he peeled them with full patience and a flattering attitude. Could the master possibly give these to other men to eat?
Ling Er actually understood that he was just complaining about eating oranges. After being kicked, he turned around angrily and said, "Can you please talk nicely if you have something to say? I find that you like kicking my butt more and more!"
Ling Si did not answer, but walked away carrying the full basket that He Yu had given him.
He Yu sighed helplessly and said, "If I believe Second Brother's words again in my life, I will not be a human being!"
Ling Er stopped what he was doing, raised his hand and patted He Yu on the shoulder and said, "Third Prince, you must learn to obey now that things have come to this."
He Yu: ...
The bamboo mats at home were already full of millet. Lu Xiaobai took off his hat as soon as he entered the door, took the prepared mung beans and the rock sugar that He Yu brought from the imperial city, put them in the pot, added water and started to boil.
When it was almost lunchtime, Ling Si cleaned up and went to the kitchen, poured out the cooked mung bean soup and put it in the well, then started to cook lunch.
After the food was cooked, we had to carry the rice and vegetables to the fields, so no one even had time to go home for dinner.
Lu Xiaobai was at home, wearing a hat and holding a wooden rake, raking the millet on the bamboo mat back and forth to dry it.
In the afternoon, everyone came back from the fields and took the millet they threshed today back to the room.
After a busy day, everyone was exhausted. After dinner, they lay down on the bed without saying a word.
The atmosphere was heavy, and Lu Xiaobai lay sleepily in He Qin's arms. He wanted to ask how long it would take to finish threshing the grain, but then he heard He Qin say, "I'm so tired."
Lu Xiaobai quickly said, "Where do you feel uncomfortable? Let me massage you."
He Qin nodded; "Okay, here..."
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Lingyi and the others have gotten used to it, only Shisan and He Yu can't stand it.
He Yu collapsed and covered her ears: "At this time, why does he still have so much energy to do this? Shouldn't he consider our feelings?"
Ling San ignored him and turned back to sleep.
In the next room, Ling Er smiled helplessly and said, "The master is fooling people again. I'm so envious."
If he also had such a soft-hearted girl as his wife, he would do this every day and make sure that his wife couldn't get out of bed.
Lingsi was so tired that he ignored his imagination.
Outside, the hot-blooded Thirteen stood by Lingyi's bed and whispered, "Look, Big Brother, I've been thinking about this too. What should I do?"
Lingyi opened his eyes and saw Thirteen standing eagerly in front of him. Then he moved back slightly and kicked the man out of the shed.
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