Xiaoyaoshanjun

Chapter 4 I'm so tired

After going to the toilet, Hu Yuwei went back to bed, took a few sips of bean and rice soup, and then held the wine gourd tightly.

The more you drink a pot of old wine, the slower it tastes.

Tian Buli didn't feel very hungry. After drinking a little rice soup, eating a bean cake and a plate of vegetables and tofu, he felt full.

At this time, Dou Niang lifted the curtain and walked in, and saw the leftover fried beans and taro bean cakes on the chopping board beside the bed.

"Why haven't you finished eating yet? Two grown men, but they eat less than a kid."

Tian Buli stood up and said, "I'm full. Is there any work to do at home?"

The dragonfly advised: "How can you have strength if you only eat this little? Eat more."

"It's okay, I'm not hungry. Why don't I put it in the room and eat it when I'm hungry."

Tian Buli touched his stomach and found that he was not hungry and was not tired anymore.

Dou Niang said helplessly: "Let's put it here first. If we take it back to the kitchen, it will be eaten up by some boys in no time."

Tian Buli nodded and said, "Then I'll go out and help you, sir. You should have a good rest. I'll help you earn more money so that the children and mother-in-law can have enough food."

"Children are growing up, and only when they have a full stomach can they grow taller."

Hu Yuwei didn't say anything. He lay on the bed, shaking the wine gourd and feeling the solid weight in it.

Lady Bean ignored the man and reached out to pick up the cold taro in the bowl. The taro was as thick as two fingers, and she put it into her mouth in no time.

He ate another vegetable pancake made of bean dregs, raised his hand to pick up the bowl of rice soup that Tian Buli had left, drank it up in a few gulps, then licked the rice grains in the bowl with his hands.

Then he cleaned up the dishes and went back, leaving some taro and beans for Hu Yuwei.

Hu Yuwei sighed only after Dou Niang left.

Not as confused as before.

The family didn’t have enough food to eat, the three sons were short in stature, and the mother, who was old, had to work very hard, and it looked like she wouldn’t live long.

Fortunately, the woman I married when I was young did not run away when encountering problems like other people. Although her complaints have been increasing in recent years, she has been supporting this family.

While I was thinking about something, a little guy came in.

The six-year-old Gou'er timidly approached the bedside, "Dad, Tian Ge'er helped me soak the beans, so I came over to talk to you."

"Yeah." Hu Yuwei nodded, "I'll sleep for a while, you lie down and sleep too."

It was already night outside, and the family began to prepare for tomorrow.

The beans need to be soaked for several hours, and then the tofu is ground in the middle of the night. The soy milk that comes out needs to be hung up with a cloth to drain out the clean soy milk, and then the soy milk is used to make tofu.

After completing a series of processes, it is already daybreak, sometimes even into the morning. At this time, we have to rush out to sell fresh tofu.

The three children in the family are responsible for soaking and cooking the beans, while the adults are responsible for the tasks that require skill and strength.

Farming was indeed tiring for people in ancient times, but if they were to eat ancient food and do assembly line work in a modern factory, they would basically rebel.

Most of them are actually very idle and have nothing to do.

It is really unrealistic to expect these men to get up in the middle of the night every day to do the hard work of grinding tofu.

Anyone who can endure this kind of endless hard work day and night is either the pillar of the family or a woman.

Men are unwilling to do this kind of thing, including my sons. I have never heard of making tofu being a family inheritance.

If you don't have the strength, you will be exhausted. It's better to use the strength to do other things.

Tian Buli helped prepare the beans for soaking, and packed up the filtering cloth and wooden barrel in advance, and even helped to carry the firewood to the earthen stove.

It felt like it was around eight or nine o'clock in the evening. Tian Buli washed his face and wiped off the sweat on his body before going back to the house to rest at Dou Niang's urging.

Dou Niang didn't dare to look for Tian Buli at this time, for fear that he would not be able to get out of bed at night.

Tian Buli was lying alone in the cold earthen house, feeling a little stuffy and unable to sleep.

After tossing and turning for a few times, I suddenly saw a silver disc outside the cave.

Tian Buli closed his eyes and suddenly felt much calmer and more comfortable. The heat in his body was gradually replaced by coolness and comfort. Under the moonlight, Tian Buli, who had been running around all day and basking in the sun, gradually suppressed the heat in his body.

I had just slept for a few hours when I heard the door opening outside.

Tian Buli moved closer to the window and saw that the lights in the tofu house opposite were gradually turning on.

After seeing that there was work to be done, Tian Buli went out to help.

The bean lady was not wearing the plain skirt she wore to sell tofu. Instead, she was wearing a more revealing outfit, like the coarse cloth that workers wear when working. She was holding a large wooden basin in both hands and moving it to another place with great effort.

"Damn girl, be careful. I'm here to help."

Tian Buli quickly walked over to help, and the two of them carried the wooden basin to the wall, where they would fill a small bucket with beans and pour them little by little into the feed port on the stone mill.

The dragonfly's hands felt much lighter and her face was relaxed and happy.

"I wanted to let you sleep a little longer, but I didn't expect you to get up so early."

"It's okay. I'm in good health. How can I just eat and not work?"

Tian Buli took the initiative to move things, and like an animal, he pushed the tree trunk out of the millstone with both hands, and began to walk in circles near the one-meter-wide millstone.

After just a few walks, I felt that if this job was on Earth, I wouldn’t do it even if I was offered 50,000 yuan!

But this is not Earth anymore. You have to grit your teeth and stick to the path you have chosen!
Tian Buli was no longer in a hurry. He slowly turned around the millstone again and again like an animal.

After turning hundreds of times with great effort, it was still turning there.

During the time, they chatted to divert attention. Dou Niang said whatever she wanted, and when Tian Buli looked at her body, she let him look at it openly. If her eldest son and mother-in-law had not been burning a fire and making soy milk nearby, she would probably have taken off her clothes and let him touch her.

Such glamorous benefits cannot outweigh the hard work.

It's okay if you do it for one day, but if you do it for more than ten days, I'm afraid you'll lose your life.

Either be lazy or run away.

After working for four or five hours to grind all the beans, Tian Buli was exhausted and could hardly stand up.

"I'm going to go back and rest. Call me if you need anything."

Dou Niang said hurriedly, "It's okay. I'll go back with you to rest. Thanks to you, our family of three would have been exhausted in the past, but today we are relieved!"

Tian Buli rejected Dou Niangzi who was leaning against him, and said seriously after separating from her: "It's okay, I can go back by myself, you can also go back to the house and rest for a while, you still have to sell tofu in the morning, the family depends on you now, what if you are also exhausted?"

Dou Niang wiped her eyes while crying and laughing. Her sweaty face seemed to be dripping with water. Her pair of watery peach blossom eyes looked at Tian Buli.

"I'll listen to you and go to rest right away. You should also have a good rest. When I come back from selling tofu early in the afternoon, we can have a nice drink together."

Tian Buli said, "Just drink the tea, and give the wine to the gentleman."

After saying that, Tian Buli smiled and went back to rest.

The old woman and two children next door were still working nearby and could not do anything about their daughter-in-law or mother's affairs.

Tian Buli returned to the house and lay down, feeling pain all over his body.

I wanted to take a look at my attributes before going to bed, but I was shocked when I saw them!
Name: Tian Buli
External Qi: 0.75, determines strength, sound level, and speed of recovery from physical injuries.

Internal Energy: 0.11, determines the strength of internal energy, and the speed of recovery of physical strength and energy.

Body bones: 0.9, affects external skills training and defense.

Root bone: 1, affects the cultivation of internal strength.

Facial bones: 1, affects appearance

Spiritual roots: 10.001, affects the speed of cultivation and memory ability.

Daoxing: 0.2 days

Luck: 1. Accumulated once every hundred years. Can be used actively to seek opportunities that are not higher than one's own level of Taoism, but if one's strength is insufficient, one will surely fail.

Lifespan: 18/39
"Oh my god! I was supposed to be forty yesterday? Why am I thirty-nine today?"

(End of this chapter)