After washing up, they waited until after ten o'clock before the children came back noisily. Mr. and Mrs. Shen slept in the front yard to guard the door for them.
"How was it? What did you gain tonight?"
Before Shen Anyan and Uncle Qin could say anything, a group of children started chattering, asking for credit and reward, saying how many they had caught. The two short guys, Cao Siheng and Shen Zixi, who were squatting on the ground picking up the low spots, were not inferior to their brothers at all.
"Grandma, am I great?"
The little guy's eyes begging for praise couldn't be more obvious. Mother Shen didn't dislike the sweaty kid. She squatted down and hugged the little guy, "Yeah, that's great. It's worthy of grandma's peanut hug, right?"
"And little brother Guazi, he's awesome too, come here and let grandma hug him."
In Shen Ma's arms, the two little guys were so happy. Although they were short, their bones were soft and their bodies were flexible. It was much easier for the two little kids to move around in the peach orchard than for older children and adults.
"Okay, come on, go take a shower. You're all stinking of sweat. Hurry up and take a shower and go to bed. You've been playing all day, so you'll definitely have to stay in bed tomorrow."
The mother of the two younger children placed a large wooden barrel directly in the kitchen. The older children were already seven, eight, and ten years old. They had the shame of being boys and asked to wash themselves. The adults didn't care about them. They just mixed the water and controlled the time, and let them play however they wanted.
Two fair, tender and chubby babies are sitting in a bucket playing with water, which makes people happy just by looking at them.
After giving my grandson and granddaughter a bath and putting them in clean short-sleeved shirts and shorts, I looked at the two little guys on the kang and asked, "Are you going to sleep here with your grandparents tonight?"
"No, no, grandma, my brother and I agreed to sleep with our brothers."
Upon hearing this, Shen Yiyuan and Qin Shuni were not surprised at all. Each of them carried a baby to the room in the front house. It was the largest room in the entire yard, with the largest kang, which was four meters long and just against the walls on both sides. Not to mention six children, even six adults could squeeze in.
There are two electric fans in the room, so there is no need to worry about the children getting hot at night. Moreover, the older boys are very responsible and consciously put the two younger brothers to sleep in the middle, for fear that the two younger brothers will roll around in their sleep at night.
"This little quilt is for covering your belly at night. It's not thick and doesn't keep you warm. Grandma has to come over to check on you at night. If anyone throws it away, I'll beat them up."
Although the children did not believe Mother Shen's words about beating people, they still agreed to it out of respect. They all knew that adults also needed to be coaxed.
When closing the door, Shen's mother leaned against it and listened for two minutes. After making sure that there was no noise of anyone playing around inside, she went back to sleep.
The old couple who returned to the house naturally showed their affection. After not seeing each other for such a long time, they still had to pay their due taxes. Because they had been eating and drinking well and sitting in the office every day for more than ten years, a man in his fifties looked only like he was in his forties. Shen Yiyuan hugged his wife and gasped. After all, he was old and his physical strength was not as good as before.
Qin Shuni pushed the man out. There was only an electric fan in the room and no air conditioning. She was sweating all over. Although she enjoyed it, she still didn't like the sticky touch.
"Let go first and let me take my time. Tell me what's been going on during this period."
"Deep in the mountains, you wouldn't have thought it was at the bottom of a cliff. The fire was so big that it destroyed some of the exterior buildings. The glazed tiles on the roof were painted with flammable paint, which was also old. Plus, it rained the night the fire started, so the interior was not damaged.
Wife, you don't know that we arrived that afternoon, but we couldn't get in at all that day. The first few people who were exploring the way came out in about an hour, and then they went in with the young soldiers and carried out more than a dozen bodies. It was probably more than ten years ago. The village chief told me that there was an explosion on the mountain more than ten years ago, and I guess it was those people who did it.
Listening to these strange and creepy things in the middle of the night, Qin Shuni pulled the man closer to her and asked, "So, nothing happened this time?"
"It's okay. You don't know who is leading our team. He's the most superstitious. He leads us to worship three times a day. I don't know where this old man gets so much incense in his backpack. It's hard for him to carry it up there all the time."
After hitting the man twice, Qin Shuni said, "How can you talk like that? He's not your teacher. He doesn't help you, but you're still making sarcastic remarks."
"Wife, this is not an easy task. Judging from the parts that have been discovered so far, they should be from the Western Han Dynasty. I estimate that this trip will take three months. The key is that it is difficult to transport the items out. Some of them need to be restored and studied, which all takes time."
Qin Shuni expressed her understanding. Isn't this how they've been doing all these years since they got married? "Oh, by the way, you've always carried your amulet with you, right?"
"Don't worry, I've got it with me. Let's not talk about this anymore. Don't you miss me, wife?"
After being coaxed by the man to do it again, Qin Shuni was really tired. She fell into a deep sleep without caring about the sweat all over her body.
The six boys in the front room naturally didn't make any noise at all tonight. They were really tired after a whole day. Even the most energetic children couldn't stand playing like this for a whole day. They didn't know until they lay down, and once they lay down, they naturally wanted to sleep.
The next morning, the sun came out a little after five in the summer. The adults woke up early, took a walk around the village, and went home to make breakfast, but few children got up.
"Let's eat first and ignore them. We were exhausted all day yesterday. I guess these kids won't get up until they're hungry."
Shen Yiyuan had a day off yesterday, and today he had to go up the mountain with the two groups that had finished their rest. He didn't know how many days he would stay there, so Qin Shuni packed some food and two sets of clothes for him.
It was not until nine o'clock that the two girls, Shen Zixi and Qin Shutong, got up. They went out and looked at the sun above their heads. The yard was very quiet.
"What's going on? We got up late. Is everyone at home?"
Shen Zixi saw the warm breakfast in the bowl in the pot in the kitchen, and a note on the stove, "Tongtong, grandma and the others are visiting the neighbors nearby. Let's clean up and eat first, then go find Xiaoxue and the others. I guess they must have gotten up late like us." We are all students in school, who doesn't like to sleep in early?
After dinner, they passed by their younger brothers' room and pushed the door open to take a look. Wow, there were six boys sleeping in a slumber. The kang was so long, but they were all squeezed together and didn't feel hot at all.
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