Chapter 421 Pick and Pick
Uncle Qian looked up and asked Qian Dalang to go to the kitchen to get some food for Zhou Dalang and his brother. Zhou Dalang quickly said, "Dad, we just came here after eating. We are not hungry yet."
Zhou Erlang nodded repeatedly and said with a smile: "Uncle, why don't we go to bed now? I estimate we have to get up at four o'clock."
Uncle Qian thought the same and quickly asked them to vacate their room so he could go to sleep.
The Qian family's housing was much tighter than that of the Zhou family, so Mrs. Qian Da and Mrs. Qian Er took the children to one room and slept with them, while the four cousins squeezed together.
Fortunately, it is summer now. I can close the doors and windows, swat the mosquitoes, and sleep directly on the ground.
After sleeping for less than three hours, Uncle Qian, who had not closed his eyes much, got up in the dark, went to the room to wake up the four people, and then he followed the moonlight in the sky to Uncle Qian's house not far away.
The eldest aunt also went to wake up the third brother and his wife. The man went to carry out the wheat, and the woman went to the kitchen to make some noodles for them to fill their stomachs.
Everyone moved very quietly and didn't dare to make any loud noises.
A light came on at Uncle Qian Er's house not far away, but after a while, it dimmed again, and then it was Uncle Qian San's house.
Everyone worked for most of the hour. Before five o'clock in the morning, they gathered together to eat a bowl of noodles, and then picked up the wheat in the yard.
Each person carried one load, with two bags placed outside the wheat and tied tightly with hemp rope. Each person could carry two bags in one load.
Zhou Erlang felt a little regretful and whispered, "I left in such a hurry. I should have pushed the cart here."
Zhou Dalang also felt a little regretful, "I was a little panicked at the time, I didn't expect so much."
Qian Sanlang laughed muffledly and said nonchalantly, "It's okay, it's okay. You'll remember it after doing it many times."
Zhou Erlang nodded in agreement.
Zhou Dalang thought to himself: If this happens a few more times, my life will be shortened.
He didn't sleep much last night either.
A few of them prepared the carrying pole and set off just as they were waiting for Uncle Qian to come back. Then Uncle Qian came back, followed only by Uncle Qian San.
He waved at Zhou Erlang and said, "Erlang, go with your third uncle to your second uncle's place. There are two bags of grain there, one for your second uncle and one for your third uncle."
Zhou Erlang didn't ask any more questions, just took the carrying pole and left.
Third Uncle Qian was very happy. He walked over, put his arm around his shoulders and walked away, whispering, "Come on, come on. Third Uncle just made some pancakes at home. Do you want to have some?"
Zhou Erlang smiled and said, "No need, Third Uncle, I just had some noodles."
"Okay, take it with you and I'll give it to you on the way..." Uncle Qian San took Zhou Erlang away.
Qian Sanlang couldn't help but pout, "Dad, what is Uncle San doing?"
Uncle Qian glanced at him and said, "Why are you talking so much nonsense? Let's go and wait for them at the village entrance."
After saying that, Uncle Qian also took a shoulder pole to pick up the grain bags.
"But after my second cousin left, we only had two bags left." Qian Sanlang was a little unhappy. "One dou costs one hundred and fifty coins. If there's not even ten dou in this bag, there must be eight or nine dou, right?"
Uncle Qian patted him on the back with his carrying pole and scolded him in a low voice: "Auntie is not only your auntie, but also the auntie of your cousins. Your eldest cousin is here."
"My eldest cousin is my brother-in-law!"
"Well," Uncle Qian said calmly, "So he picked our two grain bags."
Qian Sanlang stopped talking.
Zhou Dalang gave them a foolish smile and shrank aside, not daring to speak.
Aunt Qian hadn't been worried at first, but after hearing her youngest son's calculation, she felt heartbroken. She glanced at the two bags of wheat that had fallen in the yard, gritted her teeth, and said to Aunt Qian, "Go get two more bags, and we'll split them up and carry them together."
Uncle Qian: "...Aren't you just kidding?"
"What nonsense! We may not be strong enough, but who in the family hasn't carried things? We women carry all the water in the house. Dividing two bags of wheat into four isn't much."
Aunt Qian finally divided the wheat out, then gave some instructions to her two daughters-in-law, and then she and her eldest daughter-in-law picked up the load and followed.
The village was quiet and no one had a dog. As long as one moved quietly, people who were sleeping soundly would not know that someone was walking outside with a torch.
They stopped at the entrance of the village and waited for a while. Not long after, Uncle Qian Er and Uncle Qian San also came out with Zhou Erlang and his sons.
Among the three families, Uncle Qian's family has the most people and carries the most wheat.
Uncle Qian was extremely envious. He used to think that having too many sons was a burden, but now he realized that having too many sons also had its benefits.
Uncle Qian San took a moment to glance at his two sons while carrying the grain bags, looking somewhat depressed.
When everyone got together, they picked up their food bags and set off together. Because the journey was still long, they simply extinguished three torches and only used the remaining ones for lighting. They decided to light these three torches when they rested halfway.
Because they were carrying bags of grain, it took them an hour to reach the destination, a distance that should have taken more than half an hour, and they even took a short break in between.
It was already five o'clock in the morning when we arrived at Qili Village, and roosters began to crow in various parts of the village.
Old Zhou and Qian woke up a little when the cocks crowed. They closed their eyes and slept while listening to the sounds outside.
So they got up as soon as they heard a noise outside, but Xiao Qian was even quicker than them. She was still asleep with her clothes on, so she got up and opened the door as soon as she heard a noise at the front door.
Outside the door was a crowd of my wife's family.
When Xiao Qian saw her aunt, she was stunned for a moment and couldn't help but exclaimed, "Mom, why are you here too?"
The aunt smiled at her and bent down to carry the load in. Little Qian quickly took over and whispered, "I'll do it, I'll do it."
Almost everyone in the Zhou family was awakened, except the children.
Manbao didn't wake up at all. She didn't even hear any movement. She was sleeping soundly with her belly lying on her back. Her chubby little white hands reached out to the edge of the bed and she was chewing something with her little mouth. I don't know what delicious food she was dreaming about.
When a ray of light from the horizon shone into the bed from the window and the chickens behind her room started crowing again, she yawned, stretched and got up from the bed.
She rubbed her eyes and looked outside. Seeing that it was getting light, she got out of bed and ran to the yard to wash up.
In order to make it easier for people in the small courtyard to wash and brush their teeth, and also to separate the flow of people so that a large group of people wouldn't have to crowd together in the big courtyard to wash and brush their teeth early in the morning, Old Zhou bought a large vat and placed it in the small courtyard.
Manbao rinsed his mouth and washed his face, then ran into the house, combed his hair, simply tied it into two small buns, let his hair hang down, and ran out.
Of course, she also brought her little bookcase.
As soon as I ran to the yard, I saw a group of people sitting in the yard, napping and talking.
Little Qian was busy in the kitchen. When she heard the noise, she came out to take a look and waved at her with a smile, "What are you standing there for? Don't you recognize your uncles? Call them uncles!"
Manbao was most familiar with Uncle Qian Da and Uncle Qian San, so he greeted them familiarly. Then he went into the kitchen and saw Aunt Qian Da, and discovered that her mother was there too.
(End of this chapter)
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