On the tenth day of the lunar month, Lin Xian's busy farming holiday ended. After breakfast early in the morning, Liu led his three children to take him out.

Lin Xian took off the donkey from the shed and turned around to touch Lin Chongjiu's head: "Study with your sisters, don't go out and run around."

"Dad, don't worry, I'm very obedient." Lin Chongjiu said seriously.

Lin Zhu curled her lips quietly, and Aju smiled softly.

Lin Xian looked at his wife and suddenly couldn't bear to leave. It's so good to be at home. His beautiful wife was lying on her children and having to take care of those naughty children when she went to school.

Seeing that her husband had nothing to say and didn't want to leave, Liu asked Aji to lead his younger brother and sister back to the house first. She looked around and saw that there was no one on the street, she laughed quietly: "Why, I'm reluctant to leave again?"

His wife smiled like a flower. Lin Xian led the donkey to approach Liu and whispered: "I have been busy harvesting and raising wheat these two days, and I have not been able to get close to you well even while staying at home."

After all, it was a couple for many years. After hearing this, Liu turned his face slightly and turned his head to anger him: "Don't talk nonsense in broad daylight, go and come back early in the afternoon." The man almost fell asleep as soon as he touched the kang these days. She felt sad when she saw it, and she would not think about the other side. Besides, he was so tired that he was not asking for it. The family had some savings over the years. She was worried that Lin Xian's body would persuade him to rent out the acres of land, and the rent would be enough for five people to eat every year. He would not bear to let it go and do everything himself.

It really has to leave. Lin Xian couldn't continue to procrastinate. He turned over the donkey, held the reins, and lowered his head and said before leaving.

Liu watched her husband go away, feeling ashamed and happy. This guy is already troublesome, so she will prepare wine for him. Will she have to get up tomorrow morning?

When Lin Xian turned and disappeared, Liu finally entered the yard.

Aju is washing dishes in the kitchen.

Liu refused to let her do it, so she drove her out: "You go to the house to watch Xiaojiu read and write, and Azhu will mess with him." As long as she wasn't too busy, she didn't want her daughter to help with her work, so as not to get thicker. She is a person who has experienced it, and it's nothing to be thicker. Her daughter is at her age and needs to be kept in a coquettish way.

"I'll go later." Aju insisted on finishing the bowls and chopsticks before leaving.

Liu was both relieved and helpless, rolled up her sleeves and started to clean up the stove. Forget it, since her eldest daughter likes to do these things like her, she will definitely not feel miserable when she gets married to the Meng family in the future.

Aji walked to the door of the study and heard a panic inside. She smiled and deliberately waited for a while before she opened the door. Lin Zhu and Lin Chongjiu were already sitting in front of the windowsill. Lin Zhu said something, and Lin Chongjiu shook his head and read it.

Lin Chongjiu was four years old and has now started to study "The Analects of Confucius". Lin Xian did not force him to study, but only asked him whether he wanted to work in the field or get a Jinshi in the future. Lin Chongjiu still didn't understand what a Jinshi was. He heard that he didn't have to go to the field, so he chose to study without hesitation. It was because he was forced to go to the field since he was a child and was afraid of hardship. Lin Xian taught him to study and did farm work, saying that he would not need to do it when he was admitted to the juren.

Aji didn't ask what the two of them were just naughty. She picked up the miscellaneous notes she hadn't finished reading last time from the bookshelf and chose another table to sit down.

There is a pot of spider plants on the round stool next to it, and the simple but neat study in the farmhouse is quiet and elegant.

After turning two pages, someone suddenly shouted "Xiaojiu" outside.

Lin Chongjiu immediately put down the book, turned his head to listen, then ran to Aji and said flatteringly: "Sister, Hu Zi and the others are looking for me. Can I go out and play for a while?"

"What should I do if I do the homework?" Aji asked seriously.

Lin Chongjiu's eyes turned around and reached out to touch the leaf of the spider plant, but was patted by Aji. Lin Chongjiu retracted his hand angrily, then hugged the elder sister's arm and shook it: "Good sister, I'll go out to play for half an hour. I will definitely finish writing three big words before lunch!"

Aji looked at the spider plant and didn't speak.

"Sister..." Lin Chongjiu stretched out his voice.

Aji then felt relieved and said seriously: "It has been agreed that he will not leave the village or go to the river to play in the water. If he comes back late, I will tell my father."

Lin Chongjiu nodded repeatedly.

Aji personally sent him out. Three boys who were about the same age as Lin Chongjiu stood at the door, and Aji still reminded them.

The three children looked at each other and lowered their heads shyly.

Lin Chongjiu gently broke away from the elder sister's hand and ran away first. The three children immediately chased after her and shouted.

Aji was relieved to see them running to the south instead of the north.

"Xiaojiu, your elder sister is very strict in charge. So will we still go to the river today?"

Under the willow tree at the entrance of the village, four children gathered together, squatting or leaning against the tree, and discussed quietly.

Lin Chongjiu had a hot face. He was the only one who was in trouble for the four of them to go out. When he got home a little later, his elder sister would come out to find him. At this time, he saw that the three friends were looking at him suspiciously, as if he had expected that he would break the appointment. He couldn't help but straighten his back and said naturally: "Go, of course you have to go. In this way, we will go again after lunch. At that time, the adults were asleep." Now it was hot, and the villagers had the habit of taking a break.

"Okay, let's meet at the north intersection. Xiaojiu, be careful and don't let your elder sister catch it again!"

"I know!"

After discussion, the four of them went home.

Lin Chongjiu came back after playing for half an hour. Aji was surprised and surprised. She felt that her brother was becoming more and more sensible, and kept praising him.

Lin Chongjiu wrote obediently to hide his guilt.

After lunch, Aji and Lin Zhu went back to the house to rest, and Lin Chongjiu and Liu were together.

Lin Chongjiu closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep. After confirming that his mother was asleep, he quietly got off the kang, tiptoed to open the door of the house, and ran away with his waist.

The sun was exposed, but he didn't feel hot at all. He ran excitedly towards the intersection of the north village road where the three friends were already waiting. After meeting, the four of them laughed like thieves and rushed to the north river together.

"We'll go west here?" When we arrived at the riverside, Lin Chongjiu dared to speak loudly.

The Beihe River is more than three meters wide and flows through the section of their village. Most of the water is shallow, only to the knees, but there is a section that is not deep in the neck at the east end. Usually only adults will take a bath there, and some older children of thirteen or fourteen years old are good in water and will also go there to play.

"This time I'll teach you how to slap your son!" Hu Zi, who has the tallest body and the strongest body, said that he is ten years old this year and has no mother at home. His father often takes him to the water to play.

The other two children immediately agreed excitedly. Lin Chongjiu was stunned. He looked at the three of them and hesitated for a while and lowered his head: "Then you go, I'll play here." The eldest sister knew that he would definitely beat him to the deep water in the east. Although the eldest sister was easy to talk to, he really did anything bad. The eldest sister was not ruthless when she beat someone.

"I know you dare not!"

"Yes, yes, Xiaojiu listens to his sister the most!"

"Stop making trouble, Xiaojiu is still young!" Hu Zi glared at the two of them and patted Lin Chongjiu on the shoulder comfortably, "Then Xiaojiu, you play here first, we will come to find you after playing for a while." Before he came, he had already discussed with the other two, and Lin Chongjiu would not go, so he had to separate first.

Lin Chongjiu nodded silently.

Hu Zi led the other two to the east, and a child turned around and made a face at Lin Chongjiu.

Lin Chongjiu stood there blankly, keeping holding his hands. Go, the eldest sister will be unhappy. If she doesn't go, they will all go...

Suddenly, his eyes turned.

There was a poplar forest diagonally across the bank. At this time, a tall man walked out of the forest. He wore a blue robe and walked to the rocky beach, waving to him from a distance. There was also a man in gray robe next to the forest. When Lin Chongjiu looked over, he found that two black horses were tied between the trees.

Are you calling him?

The distance was too far, and Lin Chongjiu couldn't see the other person's appearance clearly. He looked back and confirmed that the man was really waving to him. He couldn't help but walk there because he was puzzled and he was slow. Huzi and the other two saw the man in blue robe, and they couldn't help but stop. Huzi ran back and asked Lin Chongjiu: "Who is that? Do you know him?"

Lin Chongjiu shook his head: "I don't know..."

Hu Zi's face changed, and he held him back and refused to let him go: "Don't be a bad person, right?"

Lin Chongjiu opened his mouth in surprise. Just as he was about to think about this possibility, he suddenly saw something flashing on the man's waist. He was stunned for a moment, looking at the man and then the horse in the forest. A thought suddenly flashed in his mind, and he broke away from Huzi and ran forward: "I'll go and see!"

Hu Zi was worried and asked his companions to accompany him.

As the distance was closer, Lin Chongjiu finally saw it clearly and shouted in shock: "Young Master Zhao?"

Zhao Chen nodded, but didn't even look at the Hu Zi and the other two behind him. He raised his voice slightly: "Come here by yourself." After that, he returned to the woods.

Lin Chongjiu didn't think much about it, bent down and took off his shoes, and answered his friends' inquiries: "Young Master Zhao is the old customer in my uncle's shop, not a bad guy. You go play in the water, I'll go find him." Although he didn't want to go to the deep water, he was still a little unhappy. If they had expressed their plans earlier, he wouldn't come.

After taking off his shoes and rolling up his trouser legs, Lin Chongjiu flowed directly under the river, and the water here was not deep.

When the man left, Hu Zi and the other two looked at each other and thought about going over. Mr. Zhao didn't call them. And they could see that Lin Chongjiu was a little unhappy, so they went to play by themselves tactfully, and looked back at the woods while walking.

"Young Master Zhao, why are you here?" Lin Chongjiu left his shoes on the shore and entered the forest barefoot.

The boy looks like a father, but his pair of peach-blossom eyes follow his mother, and he also looks like his two sisters.

Looking at such eyes, Zhao Chen was in a good mood. He pointed at the arrow and said, "I want to go hunting in the mountains. I will take a rest after passing by. It's so hot at noon, why are you coming out?" He had good eyesight. He recognized Lin Chongjiu as soon as the four children appeared. They met three times in just a few days. It has to be said that it was a kindness. Later, he saw the boy standing alone on the rock beach. For some reason, he was kind and wanted to help him rescue him.

Lin Chongjiu scratched his head awkwardly and whispered: "I want to play with water."

Zhao Chen hasn't dealt with children for a long time. Seeing that he was like this, he asked knowingly: "Why didn't you go with them?"

Lin Chongjiu's expression darkened and he lowered his head and said, "They are going to a deep water place. My elder sister said there is danger there and she won't let me go."

His elder sister...

The farm girl sitting on the donkey cart appeared in her mind. Zhao Chen was a little confused, "Do you listen to her?"

"Well, my elder sister is very fierce when she is angry. She will definitely hit me if she knows that I am playing with water here." Lin Chongjiu said helplessly. He likes my elder sister very much, but he just annoyed her to always take care of him.

"Will she hit you?" Zhao Chen smiled a little more in his eyes, and before Lin Chongjiu could reply, she asked again: "Then if there were adults around him, she wouldn't allow you to play in the water?"

Lin Chongjiu heard it and looked up at him in surprise: "You, Mr. Zhao wants to teach me how to swim?"

Zhao Chen did not answer immediately, but took off his robe in Chen Ping's shocked gaze and showed his strong chest. Seeing Lin Chongjiu staring at him with wide eyes, he laughed loudly: "Tell me, how can a man do not know how to water?" As he said that, he carried Lin Chongjiu on his shoulders and strode towards the river.
Chapter completed!