Chapter 299： Home, a word that has long been erased from the dictionary

Taohua bit her lip, stepped forward to take the pannier from her father, and carried it on her own, "You stay at home for a while, and I'll pick it off. You're no better than me at picking mugwort leaves. All of them have already been plucked, and you won’t have to pluck them even if you go.”

"You know if you tell me, I'll pick it up. You're a big girl, and it's almost as dark as mine after being exposed to the sun all day long."

"Tell you that you may not be able to find the place, it took so much effort, I have already picked it back later." Taohua didn't say any more, and went out with a straw hat on her back and a basket on her back.

Lin Cuifang heard the voice coming out of the house, and when she saw this, she dragged the old men into the house, "Okay, Taohua is working quickly, let her go. You also have a rest, you are spinning like a spinning top all day long, and you can't wait." What if you are a young guy?"

Chen Jianhe didn't say a word, and stood outside for a while before returning to the house.

Lin Cuifang knew what he was worried about, her eyes dimmed, and she sighed silently.

Daughter has been forcing a smile in front of them during this time, how could they not see it.

Rumors are spreading everywhere now, all about how miserable my daughter is.

But what can I do? The people who went to Huang's house and went to Huang's house did not admit that they made up the rumors at all.

They also couldn't do anything like the old lady of the Huang family.

The bigger the trouble, the more disadvantaged is their peach blossom.

On the other side, Taohua has already walked out of the village.

When the food factory recruited workers, her family also had a quota, but the family gave up the quota.

Both father and daughter have ideas. She and her father have been researching the planting technology of fruit trees before, and it has already started to be implemented in the spring of this year. A fruit forest was drawn on the mountain and planted with plums and summer oranges.

Her father is mainly in charge of the watermelon fields in the mountains behind the village, while she mainly takes care of the fruit trees.

The fruit forest is located on the low hill beside the rice fields at the entrance of the village.

She remembered that there was a large area of ​​wormwood around the orchard.

Peach Blossom moved neatly. It took less than an hour to go up the mountain to pick wormwood and then go down the mountain.

The back basket is full, and when the time comes, bundle the wormwood and burn it to smoke the yard of Heizi's house. She reckons it should be enough.

It was too hot when I returned to the village entrance. When I passed by the river bank, I saw the gurgling water in the river. Peach Blossom couldn’t hold it back. She rolled up her trousers and stepped on the stone steps carefully squatting on the riverside. After washing her hands, she took a handful of water and patted it. On the face, the skin that was scalded by the sun immediately felt cool.

The feeling of cooling makes the whole body comfortable and lingering, the young girl dawdled for a long time.

"How long are you going to play? I want to go ashore."

The sudden male voice startled Tao Hua so much that she almost fell into the river.

Looking up and following the source of the sound, the man's body was half submerged in the river, his bare upper body was exposed, his chest muscles were smooth and firm, and the water droplets flowing down the river refracted the bright light under the sunlight and fell straight down. firm abs...

"..."

"what!"

The scream of the woman resounded over the village entrance.

The cry was really shrill, and it startled the villagers who were hiding from the sun.

Soon there was commotion in the village, and someone rushed towards us.

The two eyes met by the river.

Heizi's mouth twitched, "Calling you father? What happened to me?"

"I'm not! You, you don't have any clothes on!" Tao Hua quickly turned around, her back was facing the man, her cheeks were flushed, she was at a loss and wanted to run left and right, like a blind fly.

Finally, I found that I couldn’t run either way, because I would bump into people.

She also knew that she had lost her composure, and this time attracted the villagers, and she really didn't know how to end it later.

"Have you ever seen someone bathe and get dressed? Isn't it normal for men to take a bath in the river? Haven't you seen it? Make a fuss." The sound of water splashed. The man stepped ashore, picked up the clothes thrown on the shore, and put them on.

Then he turned his head and looked at the girl who was still spinning around, "I'm not leaving yet, waiting for people to come and watch?"

"If I run back now, won't all the villagers see me?" The girl was anxious and ashamed, almost crying.

"Tsk, run up the hill! Stupid!"

Hearing this, Tao Hua ran away as if someone had pushed a switch, without daring to look back.

The appearance of fleeing in a hurry is really embarrassing if not in a panic.

When the villagers arrived, they saw a man in neat clothes, walking slowly back from the river.

Except for the dripping hair, it can be seen that he just took a bath in the river, and there is nothing unusual about him.

"...Heizi, who yelled so loudly just now? Did you scare people?"

"Who can I scare? I was just taking a shower, and I heard a scream out of nowhere, which scared me half to death. Why don't you go ashore and see what's going on?" Heizi frowned slightly, puzzled and dissatisfied. what happened?"

"Didn't someone shout at the entrance of the village just now?"

"I clearly heard the voice coming from the village."

The villagers looked at each other in dismay, turned around and ran back to the village, worried in their hearts, not knowing what happened to which house, and screaming terribly.

When all the villagers had run away, Heizi turned his head, and could vaguely see the slender figure carrying a basket on his back and desperately heading up the mountain.

Heizi frowned and whistled.

It was quite fun.

Regarding the scream in the afternoon, because no one was caught, it became an unsolved case in the village.

After a few days, people still mentioned this matter, talking about whose child and daughter-in-law yelled like that, as if they were being bullied.

Unfortunately, no one came out to clarify.

By this time, Heizi's house had already been cleaned up. Chen Jianhe smoked the inside and outside of his yard with dried wormwood. There were indeed fewer mosquitoes and flies, and even the strange smell that had been emitting before dissipated a lot.

It finally looks like a normal yard.

"Second Uncle, drink tea! Qiqi specially put it in the refrigerator for a while, it's delicious." Whenever Chen Jianhe appeared at Heizi's house, Qiqi's little figure was always by his side.

Chen Jianhe took the herbal tea and took a sip slowly. The cold feeling permeated his lungs, making him extremely comfortable on a hot day.

He rubbed the baby's head with his big hands, and looked at the yard in front of him that he had tidied so that he could finally see it, "The next time I go to the market, I will go to the town to buy two bags of lime, and then I will mix the lime mud and smooth the ground... this It's like a home."

Heizi didn't speak.

The sun is still very big today.

The man who has been working in the sun all year round has a tanned complexion, and beads of sweat glisten in the sun.

It's a bit eye-burning.

Home... He erased the word from his dictionary a long time ago.

Days have always been muddling along.

He understands a man's temperament, is rigid, upright, and has no tolerance for sand in his eyes.

But the mouth is hard and the heart is soft.

Heizi looked away, looking boredly at the void.

For a reform-through-labour prisoner like him, what should he do?

Worry about people.