In a blink of an eye, the spring planting was over, and after a few days, it was time to harvest wheat. "Three summers are not as long as one autumn, and three autumns are not as busy as one summer", because "the autumn harvest is one season, and the wheat is ripe in one moment", and autumn can still come day by day, and the harvest can last for three months. But it is not the same for wheat harvest. When the wheat ears turn yellow, the grains will burst in the morning, and they must be quickly brought back to the field for threshing.

Therefore, wheat harvest is the busiest and most tiring time of the year. During the ten days or so before and after, everyone is exhausted.

During the wheat harvest, the team distributed meat as a reward to the members.

After the wheat is harvested, the land will be plowed and corn, millet and the like will be planted when it rains. Then the members can relax a little.

At this time of year, the vegetable garden has a good harvest of fruits and vegetables, and every household's dining table can be filled with food, especially Lin Lan's family, who brings her children to cook delicious food in different ways every day.

When the wheat was harvested, they were given three pounds of meat. In addition, Han Qingsong issued meat coupons, which could also buy eight ounces or one pound of meat a month. In the hot summer, meat and fish could not be stored. No matter how much they bought, Lin Lan basically cooked it all in one meal to satisfy the children.

Sweet and sour pork, braised pork in brown sauce, braised lion's head, hand-made meatballs, sweet and sour pork tenderloin... Lin Lan made them all, and the children ate until their mouths were full of grease.

It is midsummer now, the weather is hot, there is heavy rain this year, and mosquitoes are rampant.

Lin Lan's home is green and has more mosquitoes. The mosquitoes are also vicious and specifically bite Xiao Wang. You can say that there are a lot of children in the house, but they specifically pick Xiao Wang's delicate skin and tender flesh to bite, which makes Lin Lan feel distressed.

She first cut cotton yarn for mosquito nets from the commune, and then used white cloth to wrap the edges and sew three mosquito nets. She and Han Qingsong made one, the boys made one, and Mai Sui made one.

As a result, Sanwang was not a good sleeper. He was either boxing or practicing shadowless kicks. If he slept in the middle, the people on both sides would be in trouble, so Dawang had to squeeze him into the corner to sleep. But in this way, he would be leaning against the edge of the mosquito net. Strangely enough, even if he stretched out his legs, the mosquitoes would not bite him, but had to drill in through the gaps between his legs to bite Xiaowang specifically.

Everyone joked that Sanwang's hair was so black from the sun that mosquitoes couldn't find a place to suck his blood. After the sun got hotter during the Dragon Boat Festival, Sanwang got darker day by day at a speed visible to the naked eye, until he turned into a little Bao Gong with a crescent on his head!

As for Han Qingsong and Dawang, Lin Lan joked that they were too cold and mosquitoes were afraid to bite them, so they were nicknamed "Mosquitoes Don't Bite" and Sanwang was nicknamed "Black Pudding".

Finally, she moved Xiaowang to Mai Sui's mosquito net. Xiaowang was a quiet sleeper, so it was fine for him to sleep on the same kang with his sister.

In fact, she wanted Xiaowang to sleep on the same kang with her, but Han Qingsong disagreed.

It was hot in the summer, and people wore less when sleeping at night. He liked to stay close to her and do something with her even if he had nothing to do. The child was an eyesore to him, so he had to send her away.

In order to prevent the children from being itchy from mosquito bites all day long, Lin Lan rode her bicycle and took the ticket issued by Han Qingsong to go to the county to buy several boxes of Tiger Balm.

Dragon Tiger brand Tiger Balm is cheap and easy to use. We always keep it in the house for summer use. However, if you are not careful, you will lose it. So Mai Sui and Er Wang have to keep it in their pockets or in a fixed place. If anyone wants to use it, they can ask them for it.

If Sanwang touches it, you won’t know where you are in the blink of an eye.

Although mosquitoes are rampant, children like summer the most because they can go to the river to play in the water. Although Sanwang was beaten for going into the water during the Qingming Festival, Lin Lan did not stop him from going into the water. She only reminded him to pay attention to warming up, to be with others and not to act alone, and also reminded Dawang to take his brothers to learn swimming when he is free.

After school, when Sanwang is not mowing the grass, he likes to go swimming and catch fish. He is a good swimmer and is very good at catching fish, so he can improve the family's mood every now and then.

This is also because Han Yongfang's management team is more relaxed. Their team does not raise fish. The fish in the river basically come here during the flood season. Members can touch them if they want. He does not insist that private individuals are not allowed to touch public property. If the fish are raised by a team like Linjiatun, members cannot touch them. If anyone catches them without permission, it is considered stealing, and if caught, they will be sued.

Lin Lan asked Dawang and Sanwang to be responsible for teaching Erwang and Xiaowang how to swim. At that time, many people in the village were landlubbers. She felt that boys still had to learn to swim, as it would save a lot of trouble in taking a bath in the summer.

If it weren't for the inconvenience of being in the village with so many people, she would have wanted to take Mai Sui into the water and teach the girl how to swim!

Xiao Wang learned quickly. He was young and had great trust in his eldest and third brothers. When the third brother said, "Don't gasp for air or sink into the water. I'll hold you up," Xiao Wang followed his instructions. He believed that his eldest and third brothers would hold him up. So it only took Xiao Wang an hour to learn how to hold his breath and breathe. He just swam a little slower, but at least he wouldn't sink by floundering in the water.

Da Wang took him to play in the shallow water.

Erwang learned a little slower because he didn't know how to swim before, and now he was a little scared and didn't dare to put his head into the water. Once he bit the bullet and pinched his nose to sink, it seemed that it was just like that, once there was a second time. After a few times, Erwang learned it in two or three days.

So the four brothers swam back and forth in the river like four fish, sometimes forming a straight line, sometimes forming a V-shaped formation. While lining up, Sanwang suddenly raised his hands and grabbed the mouth and gills of a fish, "Hahaha...you came to me on your own!"

This guy is very good at catching fish. He can chase a group of ducks and geese while they swim and snatch fish from their mouths, which makes the geese so angry that they will nag him whenever they see him.

So at noon, the members often saw Sanwang being chased all over the river by a big white goose, while Dawang picked up Xiaowang, and Erwang followed obediently, and the three of them hid aside to watch the excitement.

Xiao Wang: "Little Third Brother is amazing, he swims faster than a white goose!"

Erwang: "If I'm slow, I'll get bit on the butt and be lame for days."

Da Wang: Idiot. You can hold your breath for so long, you can just slip away from the bottom of the water, why do you have to be chased all over the river?

Since boys all like to go into the water, Han Qingsong directly included swimming in the morning exercise program, in addition to running, push-ups and other items.

For this purpose, Han Qingsong specially asked someone to buy several pairs of swimming trunks and two sets of women's swimsuits from the provincial capital, one for each person, and Xiaowang got them all.

After getting the swimsuits, Sanwang and Xiaowang no longer have to go into the water naked.

During morning exercises, Sanwang wanted Han Qingsong to swim with them to see who was better, but Han Qingsong never went into the water once. He just blew the whistle and directed them to jump into the river like dumplings, while he stood on the shore with his hands behind his back and watched.

Sanwang whispered to Erwang: "Second brother, do you think our father can't swim?"

Erwang: "Of course, my father has participated in winter swimming."

"Then why doesn't he go in the water now, in the summer?"

Erwang couldn't figure it out, but he didn't dare to ask.

They instigated Xiaowang to ask.

So on the way home from morning exercises, Xiaowang, wearing straw sandals, chased after Han Qingsong, "Dad."

Han Qingsong thought he was walking too fast and he couldn't keep up, so he reached out and lifted him up and sat him in his arms.

His action made Xiaowang very happy, and he kissed Han Qingsong right away.

Han Qingsong: “…………”

"Dad, I have a question."

Han Qingsong: “Yeah.”

"Why don't you go in the water? Can't you swim?"

Han Qingsong: "Yes, it's inconvenient."

Xiao Wang: "Why is it inconvenient?"

Han Qingsong: "You don't understand."

Xiao Wang: "You tell me, and I understand."

Han Qingsong: "Go play with your brother."

Xiaowang didn't dare to pester him, so Sanwang and Erwang caught up with him and asked, "Did you find out?"

Xiao Wang looked confused, "Dad said it's not convenient."

Sanwang laughed: "I'm not a woman, why is it inconvenient?"

Da Wang heard it and flicked him, "Go home."

After returning home, Sanwang hid and asked Lin Lan quietly.

Lin Lan: "I won't let him go into the water."

Sanwang doesn’t understand, why?

Lin Lan poked him with a finger and said, "It would be great if you studied this carefully. You're quite nosy."

Why? That's easy! She just doesn't want other women to see her husband's perfect body! Haven't you seen those people peeking their heads out when he's doing morning exercises? Once he wore a vest and shorts, revealing his smooth and beautiful muscle lines. Damn, all the old ladies in the village ran to the intersection to take a look.

What are you looking at!

So later when Han Qingsong went out for morning exercises, Lin Lan asked him to wear only a single shirt and pants, and not to wear a vest or shorts to expose his skin!

If he went into the water wearing only swimming trunks, wouldn't the riverside be crowded with old women going to wash clothes early in the morning?

Originally, because Sanwang mentioned something about a big dick, some people were curious and were looking for opportunities to peek at him the whole day. If he went swimming... hehe.

Sanwang had no idea why Han Qingsong didn't go into the water, and he was so curious that he kept thinking about it as a big problem.

After the busy farming season, Han Qingsong took a few days to take a few people to build the wing room in the west house, which became their bathroom.

The bathroom was designed by Lin Lan and Han Qingsong themselves. The floor is paved with green bricks, leaving a waterway so that the water for bathing can flow directly outside the wall. The bathroom space is divided into two parts. There is a stove outside to heat water, and a bathtub inside. In addition, there is a homemade shower device. In fact, it is a tinplate bucket with a spray device similar to a flower pot welded underneath. It is covered with a leather lid, and you can open it to spray water for bathing.

This was custom-made by Han Qingsong from the iron sheet group under the county supply and marketing cooperative. It was not cheap, but he felt it was worth it as long as Lin Lan liked it.

In this way, when the boys in the family went to the river to take a bath, she would take Mai Sui to take a bath at home, and she no longer had to drive the boys out in broad daylight to take a bath as before.

In the hot summer, the only way to cool down is to take a shower. Put the hot river water in the yard into a tin bucket, then stand under it and take a shower. It is so comfortable.

If she goes out during the day, the first thing Lin Lan does when she gets home is to take a shower. Even if she doesn't go out during the day, she will still take a shower when she sweats a lot.

Han Qingsong felt that this bathroom was particularly worth building.

Even after having a bathroom, Han Qingsong still didn't like to go out to take a shower at night, and said that he sweated a lot in the summer and asked her to rub his back more often. He obviously went to take a shower whenever he had time from morning to night, so where did he get the rub? Every time he took a shower and washed her until she was soaking wet, he still said seriously that since they were already wet, they might as well take a shower together.

After dinner that day, Sanwang took a lantern and a match, led Xiaowang, and hurried to look for Zhiliaogui, "Brother, second brother, sister, hurry up. If you go too late, Zhuzi and the others will find everything."

Catching cicada turtles is also a daily routine for many members after meals in summer. It is addictive and they feel uncomfortable if they don’t catch one for a day. After all, it can help digestion and catching cicada turtles can be a snack. It is also a good entertainment activity.

The five children went out together to look for the cats in the woods around the village. In one night, depending on the time, they found more than 40 to 50 cats, and sometimes more than a hundred cats, which was quite a considerable number.

Sanwang was particularly obsessed with it, and Erwang and Dawang, who were not obsessed at first, were also taken by him to look for it every day.

If conditions permit, take a flashlight or lantern to shine, and those who are brave can feel the shadows in the moonlight. If you see a dark bump on the tree, touch it. It is most likely a tree tumor. If you are lucky, it is a cicada turtle. If you are unlucky, you may touch a snake or an insect.

After the children left, Han Qingsong helped Lin Lan pick up the dishes and wash them.

Lin Lan: "I'm going to take a shower first." She went over with the clean clothes she had prepared.

After rushing over, Lin Lan realized, hey, I clearly prepared underwear, shorts, and vest, so why is the vest missing?

She called out softly: "Third brother, third brother~~"

Han Qingsong appeared outside the window. "Hmm?"

"Where's my vest?"

Han Qingsong helped her take it in and said, "Give me a back scrub while you're at it."

Lin Lan: "I wash it eight hundred times a day, what's there to rub?" Why doesn't he get tired of rubbing?

You rub me and I rub you, so this bath takes a little long.

Finally, Han Qingsong carried her back to the bedroom and put her on the kang. He fanned away the mosquitoes, put down the mosquito net, and got on the kang without waiting for the children.

He lay beside her, fanning her with a palm leaf fan, and admired his wife in the light. She was wearing a white vest with pink flowers that she made herself, and shorts of the same color, revealing her slim waist and long, elastic legs. The summer sun was scorching, so the skin color of her neck and arms was slightly darker than other parts of her body, and the sharp contrast made the skin on her chest look especially white and shiny.

His eyes became more and more profound, and the palm-leaf fan in his hand also slowed down. Lin Lan felt that he was looking at her, and slowly, a faint pink color began to appear from her cheeks to her body.

She turned over and said, "Cover me with the sheet."

"Isn't it hot?"

Lin Lan: I feel even hotter when you look at me. It’s so hot.

Han Qingsong fanned her slowly with a palm-leaf fan. It was hot and he didn't want to cover her with a sheet. The two of them chatted casually while waiting for the children to come back.

Around nine o'clock, the children came back and Sanwang excitedly reported how many cicada turtles they had caught, who found more, who they met, which woodland they found the most, and they would go again tomorrow, etc.

Xiaowang was so sleepy that he fell asleep on Dawang's back.

Lin Lan asked them to wash up and go to bed quickly.

When the children all went back to the east room to blow out the lights and go to sleep, Han Qingsong also blew out the lights with a palm leaf fan. He lay down and held her in his arms, "I forgot to tell you."

Lin Lan: “What?”

"I won't be working tomorrow." He reached his big hand into her vest...

Lin Lan took a breath. She was most afraid that Director Han would not go to work tomorrow!

"Your heart rate is a little fast."

"...Don't say anything." She felt a little ashamed to speak seriously but do something inappropriate.

Then he stopped talking and did whatever he wanted in the moonlight... "Don't... do this..." Lin Lan's voice was soft. This posture was not okay. It was too embarrassing.

"You won't be tired this way."

It would be strange if I wasn't tired. If I wasn't tired once, I wouldn't be exhausted all night...

The next day, Lin Lan successfully stayed awake. She didn't know what time it was when she heard someone arguing in the main room.

"I say, third brother, are you so used to your wife? What time is it now? The sun is already high in the sky, people who work should go home for dinner, and the children should get out of school, but she is still sleeping!" It turned out to be old lady Han.

Lin Lan hurriedly got up and put on her clothes quietly.

She heard Han Qingsong say, "Mom, this family depends entirely on Lin Lan. She is too tired every day, so it's okay for her to sleep until a certain time."

Han Jinyu was about to push the door of the west room, but was stopped by Han Qingsong.

Han Qingsong whispered: "Don't wake up your sister-in-law."

Lin Lan immediately stopped thinking about it. To avoid the embarrassment of going out at this time, she might as well just pretend she had been sleeping. Haha.

Old Mrs. Han was still mumbling, "Look around the brigades and communes, there are a few wives like yours, lazy, greedy, and unfilial..."

"Mom!" Han Qingsong interrupted her, "Lin Lan is a good housekeeper, don't say these things anymore. Is there anything wrong, mom?"

Han Jinyu said sourly: "Mom, Third Brother, she...my sister-in-law is so lucky, even luckier than those who married into the city. I haven't seen many people who can be so comfortable, she is the master of her own house, she doesn't have to serve her mother-in-law, she can eat when she wants, and sleep when she wants. If it were me, I would also be happy to marry a man like my Third Brother."

Han Qingsong said seriously: "If I weren't your brother, I wouldn't want you."