Chapter 3 Jinjiang First Release Chapter 3 Even the scholar’s bullwhip was shocking…
Yu Dayou and his two sons took turns carrying the stone home.
They all knew that the stone had been there from the beginning, but no one had thought of what to do with it, and no one had touched it.
When Yu Qinglong mentioned getting more dandelion seeds, they started thinking about expanding their vegetable cellar. With the family expected to grow, they wanted to plant more radishes and cabbages this year. Perhaps they could save some dandelions, too?
It's definitely not okay to keep it too long, but it's definitely longer than leaving it outside. At worst, you can eat the unnecessary dishes later and the ones you don't need to keep earlier.
So the three of them carried the stones home, washed them, and prepared to put them in the expanded vegetable cellar to store vegetables.
After waking up in the morning, Yu Dayou took his eldest son and second son to dig the vegetable cellar deeper and wider, and then put stones underneath.
Yu Qinglong squatted at the edge of the cellar and called inwards, "Brothers, is it cold in there? I want to go down and take a look too."
Yu Qingye said, "It must be cold. You'd better not come down yet. Be careful not to fall."
Yu Qinglong looked listless after the question. He had barely slept that night.
There were only two rooms in the house, and the east room was given to the eldest brother and his wife. As newlyweds, they didn't want to live in the same room with their younger brothers.
Yu Qinglong slept on a kang in the west room with his second brother and parents. His second brother snored, and the room smelled of earth. Yu Qinglong, already restless and unable to sleep, was now even more unable to sleep.
Finally closing his eyes, he began to have another nightmare. In the dream, someone pulled out his stick and ran away with incredibly long legs. No matter how hard he tried to chase them, he couldn't catch up, and he was so angry that his heart was pounding.
"Brother, is there anything I can help you with?"
"Go to Dad's place and see if there's anything you can do to help." Yu Qingjia said, "There's nothing you need to do here."
"Dad said the same thing." He originally wanted to plant dandelions, but they were all planted by these three men.
At first, the family members didn't know how much injustice the original owner had suffered at the hands of his grandparents. Later, when they found out that he was not only scolded but also beaten, they felt very sorry for him and tried not to let him do any hard work.
The original owner didn't say anything, just finding something to do. Washing clothes, cooking, or steaming buns. He remembered these things, but he was worried about not cooking well and ruining the ingredients. The food here was too precious, and he couldn't afford to mess with it.
But now it seems that the only thing left to do is washing clothes.
There was a large, clear river at the south end of the village. He could walk straight south from his home and reach it, so he wouldn't have to worry about getting lost. But he hated washing clothes. He had never even washed a pair of socks himself.
Forget it, just treat it as an experience of new life.
Yu Qinglong put the dirty clothes that his family had taken off into the washing tub, picked them up and said, "Dad, I'm going to wash the clothes."
Sister-in-law Zhou Jianer said, "Don't worry, Long'er. I'll go wash it in a while."
Yu Qinglong said, "I'll go. Sister-in-law, you've worked hard helping Dad get food. You're pregnant too."
What Yu Qinglong was thinking in his mind was that he should go to the river and see if there were any fish or shrimps. If there were, he could find a way to get some later.
There wasn't much soap or laundry detergent here. The family couldn't afford soap. Yu Qinglong took a laundry hammer and some wood ash.
Zhou Yuehua was worried. Washers were often found by the river, and he was afraid his youngest son would hear gossip and feel depressed if he went there, so he wanted to call him back. Then the head of the household said, "Let Long go. He's right. The more he hides from those people, the more they think he's easy to bully."
Zhou Jianer said, "Father, Dad, how about I go with you and take a look?"
She only heard about her younger uncle's broken engagement yesterday after returning from her parents' home. Although people outside always say that her younger uncle is not good in this way or that way, after she got married, she felt that this younger brother was very easy to get along with and a very good person.
Zhou Yuehua said, "Listen to your father. You should also take care of yourself now."
The head of the family is right. Perhaps it is time to let the younger son have more authority.
Yu Qinglong carried the basin and went to Nanhe alone.
It wasn't even noon yet, but he was already feeling hungry. He hadn't eaten much in the morning and had no appetite. But he couldn't bring himself to eat early. The only thing was that there wasn't much food at home, and since he did the least work, he felt embarrassed to even ask for food.
Yu Qinglong walked, taking in the surrounding scenery. It was spring, and many villagers were busy working in the fields. Young and old, hunched over, few looked away. Their hopes for the year rested on the land beneath their feet, and it wasn't easy.
"Qinglong?"
Suddenly someone called him from behind.
Yu Qinglong subconsciously asked, "Ah?"
Turning around, he saw a boy about his age. He was small, with a pointed chin, fair complexion, and big eyes. He was a familiar figure in his memory, named Hu Bo.
Hu Bo also came running over with a basin in his arms: "Are you going to wash clothes too?"
Yu Qinglong couldn't help but frown upon hearing this. Why ask such an obvious question? Isn't this just nonsense? He smiled and turned the basin around, deliberately separating himself from the man. "Yeah, you're going too?"
Hu Bo said, "Ah, the sun's out now, it's not so cold anymore. Go wash up quickly. Um... I heard what they said about yesterday. You better not take it too seriously."
Yu Qinglong glanced at those twinkling eyes and asked, "Are you talking about Wang Fugui?"
"Um."
"Why should I be upset? I couldn't even thank him enough when his family called off the engagement. You see, a man like him who can't walk at the sight of a beautiful woman, if he doesn't have a cousin from his neighbor's house, he will have a cousin from his neighbor's house in the future. See clearly sooner rather than later, or he'll cheat you without you even realizing it."
"That's true..." Hu Bo was suspicious, unable to resist taking a closer look at Yu Qinglong. He was still that tall, stocky, and ugly. He smiled and said, "It's better than anything else that you're not upset. You don't know how worried I was about you when I heard about this."
"Oh, thank you so much."
"Why should we be so polite? But you really can't take this so lightly. You and I are the same age, and many of our brothers already have children. You've been rejected by your engagement, and you've offended the Wang family. You'll definitely have fewer people to date in the future. You should think more about yourself."
"What are you thinking? My father said that if I really don't want to get married, he and my father will support me in the future."
"Don't. Uncle Yu said so, but if you don't get married, everyone in the surrounding villages will spit at your family. Do you really want to see your father and your daddy implicated by you? You've implicated them enough. And your two brothers, I heard that your second brother's wife-to-be's family heard about the Wang family's cancellation of the engagement and are also hesitant about whether to cancel it. They will then be gossiped about by outsiders because of your mistake."
"Whoever wants to gossip can do so. Talking about others behind their backs is the shameless behavior of mean people, and it only damages their own virtue. I haven't done anything wrong, so why should I be afraid of what others say? Besides, you haven't promised to get married yet, have you? If you have time to worry about me, why not worry about yourself? Instead of sneaking around other people's homes and thinking about how to be kind, why not use your energy on yourself? If you do that, your children will probably be running around everywhere."
"You, what nonsense are you talking about? Who sneaked around someone else's door?" Hu Bo looked wronged, his eyes red with grievance. "I'm really saying this for your own good."
"For my own good? Ha!" Yu Qinglong said, "Why don't you look down at your own washtub? The only poplar tree in our village that can produce such a large flower is the one in front of my house. Don't tell me that thing floated half a mile and flew into your washtub. You don't have to pass by my front door to get from your house to Nanhe. It's ridiculous."
After saying this, Yu Qinglong glared at him and went his way, leaving Hu Bo with a face that turned pale and red.
Hu Bo felt that he didn't recognize Yu Qinglong after just two or three days of not seeing him.
Yu Qinglong has long legs and walks fast without even looking back.
He had seen many people like Hu Bo, who claimed to be considerate of others but didn't really mean it. If he really cared about him, he would have come to his house and asked him to play with him, instead of lingering outside the door. When he went out, he would not show up immediately, but would secretly follow him and hurt his feelings as soon as they met.
What good intentions can such a person have?
Furthermore, in his memory, Hu Bo treated the original owner with all sorts of pretense of concern, but in reality, he was demeaning. It took all his self-control not to hit him.
Yu Qinglong went to the river, put down his wash basin, and watched three fellow villagers washing clothes nearby. After watching, he took out his clothes, placed them on a relatively flat large rock, and pounded them with a washing hammer.
People were washing clothes, and he looked like he was going to kill them.
The three fellow villagers had wanted to gossip about him when they saw him coming, but when they saw his expression, they dared not say anything and stopped talking at the same time.
Hu Bo hesitated not far away, not daring to move forward. He wondered if the Wang family's cancellation of the engagement had driven Yu Qinglong mad.
Yu Qinglong was indeed going crazy, but he was not forced by the Wang family, but by this world.
This place is too backward, too poor, too remote! And too... lonely. No one knows what he is thinking.
Yu Qinglong vented his anger on the clothes, beat them until they smelled bad, then put them in water, shook them, rinsed them, and then tightened them.
I don’t know if it was washed clean or not, but it was washed anyway.
After washing, he put the water into the basin and walked upstream along the river.
He wants to go see if there are any fish in the river.
He'd just pounded hard here, scaring off any fish. But there might be some upriver. The water here was quite clear, and you could see the bottom in the shallows. If there were small fish in the shallows, there were bound to be big fish in the deep.
Yu Qinglong walked about fifty or sixty meters and could no longer hear the sound of other people pounding clothes.
He saw that the water was getting shallower and shallower, and many rocks were clearly visible as the hot sunlight penetrated the river water.
Maybe there are fish hiding in the cracks of the rocks!
Yu Qinglong continued walking upwards.
He took light steps, fearing to scare the fish away.
But before the fish could be frightened, he heard a "gurgling" sound. This sound was not the sound of running water. To be more precise, it was not the sound of flowing water, but the kind of sound that every man is familiar with...
Yu Qinglong never dreamed that before he saw the fish, he saw a grown man peeing!
Fang Shu came to pick up his dream stone, but he didn't take it. Feeling unbalanced, he thought he couldn't return with an empty ox cart, so he went to the river to take a look. Unexpectedly, he was caught urinating by someone.
He was so frightened that he shuddered and dropped the whip in his hand. He quickly turned around and pulled up his trousers.
Both of them were stunned for a moment.
Fang Shu looked at the person standing calmly opposite him, then he breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, with his size and no obvious marks on his body, and being so calm and composed, he looks like a real man!
So he cupped his fists, smiled awkwardly and said, "I'm sorry to have made such a fool of myself. I'm stationed down below, my courtesy name is Shoucheng, and I came here to pick up some stones."
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