In mid-May, the weather was already very hot.

And here, the rainy season is also ushering in.

On this day, it was like a hole had been opened. It rained non-stop from morning to night.

The water in the pond is turbid, just like yellow mud.

Naturally, Yang Ruoqing did not dare to wash clothes and vegetables in such dirty water, so she mostly washed them by the well in the backyard of her home.

But other families in the village who don't have wells are in trouble. After the clothes are washed, they have a hard time drying, and there is inevitably a faint muddy smell when they are worn.

Liu Doukou couldn't sit still now.

Every day I pull at my clothes and smell them, my little face wrinkles like a bitter melon.

"Cousin, this water is too dirty. It's really useless. If it doesn't work, let's find someone to dig a well!" Liu Doukou said.

Mu Zichuan looked at the rain curtain in the yard outside and shook his head: "Not to mention that digging a well is a big project. It will take at least half a month to dig without interruption."

"Even after digging, waiting for the water to drain out and filtering out the first few batches of dirty water will probably take more than a month. By then, the rainy season will have long passed and the real summer has arrived."

Liu Doukou looked depressed, looking at the rainwater falling from the eaves and falling to the ground, causing splashes one after another.

The ground in the yard was completely wet. Except for a narrow bluestone path leading to the kitchen, the rest of the yard was covered in mud.

Liu Doukou looked down at her floral skirt again, at a loss.

If I had known that life in the countryside would be so difficult, I should have brought two maids with me when I came here. Now it's better, I have become a maid.

Dad, Mom, I really want to go back!

While Liu Doukou was shouting in his heart, Mu Zichuan beside him suddenly moved.

I saw him pick up the coir raincoat on the side and put it on, put a bamboo hat on his head, and then quickly went to the kitchen.

"Cousin, what are you going to do?" Liu Doukou asked loudly.

Mu Zichuan poked his head out from the door of the kitchen and said, "I'll go to Qing'er to fetch two buckets of well water. Later we'll use the well water for washing and cooking."

At Yang Ruoqing's house, she was collecting dried clothes in a large room that was ventilated on all sides.

Accepting the lessons learned from the past, during the rainy season, there is no way to dry clothes outside, so many people have to change almost all their clothes until the cupboards are empty.

So in the end, adults and children can only wear clothes that smell rancid.

Otherwise, the children would simply not give them any clothes to wear, and they would go bare-chested, and the men would also have their arms exposed.

It will be fine once we get through the rainy season.

This was something Yang Ruoqing often experienced when she was a child, so when she and Luo Fengtang got married and built a new house, she specially cleared a piece of land in the backyard and built a large room specifically for drying clothes during the rainy season and rainy days.

The inside is ventilated and breathable, and you can also light a charcoal fire plate to increase the indoor temperature and air humidity to achieve rapid drying.

So now, not only is she collecting clothes here, Xiaohua and Xiaojie are also here.

The clothes from the two families were also brought here to dry, especially Feng'er's small clothes.

"Sister, I think this drying room is coming in handy now, making all the housewives in the village jealous!" Xiaohua said with a smile while sorting out the clothes.

Xiaojie also said: "It's really convenient. We can put on clean clothes every day, and they are washed with well water. There is no aftertaste at all. It's great."

Yang Ruoqing said: "Yes, the water in this well is clean. I'm thinking about whether I should go to my godmother later and bring their clothes to wash."

Xiaojie said: "Sister, isn't there Liu Doukou in Lao Mu's house who is taking care of the housework? She takes care of the clothes, dishes and everything else. It's not appropriate for you to go get the clothes and wash them. I'll do it for you then."

Is it for my mother alone? Or for the three of them? If you take them all, it will be too hard for you."

Yang Ruoqing said: "I don't care whether it's hard work or not. It's just that Liu Doukou, I don't know if I offended her somewhere or what. During this period, I went to visit my godmother and had no chance to meet her.

not much."

"She would go to the kitchen almost as soon as I was in the room, and she would just nod her head when we met. It seemed like she suddenly became a lot more alienated!"

"If I run to get clothes again, she will think that I dislike her for not washing them properly. I am still too lazy to do such a thankless task!" Yang Ruoqing said.

Xiaohua and Xiaojie both nodded, "Well, I won't go then. Anyway, sister, you have done your best and just visit your godmother once a day."

Xiaohua and Xiaojie packed up their clothes and were about to leave, when footsteps came from the yard outside.

"It's raining heavily, and there are still people coming to visit?" Xiaojie said in surprise.

Xiaohua said: "I don't know which one it is, but I'm carrying two buckets in my hand!"

Hearing this, Yang Ruoqing also poked her head outside and saw a man wearing a raincoat and a bamboo hat walking quickly towards this side.

Seeing the shoes on the man's feet, Yang Ruoqing recognized them at a glance.

"Zichuan? Why did you come here when it's raining heavily?"

Yang Ruoqing shouted to Mu Zichuan in the rain, and quickly stepped aside to let him come in to take shelter from the rain.

Mu Zichuan entered the house, put down the two buckets, and took off the bamboo hat on his head, revealing a face wet by the rain.

"The water in the pond is unedible and smells like mud. I want to come to your well to fetch two buckets of water and bring it back to boil water for cooking," he said.

Yang Ruoqing nodded repeatedly, "Okay, okay, I just told my two sisters about this, and it just so happens that you are here."

"Well, come back and wash your clothes at my house. You can go back and tell Cousin Cardamom that my well has plenty of water and there is a place to dry clothes here. Let her come over and wash your clothes." She added.

Mu Zichuan smiled and said: "There is no need to wash clothes. I come here every day to fetch two buckets of water. One bucket is used to boil water for eating and cooking, and the other bucket is used to wash the clothes washed in the pond. Wait until this

It will be fine once the rainy season is over."

"Okay then, I'll just follow you. Hey, the rain has eased a bit. Come on, I'll accompany you to the backyard well to get water." Yang Ruoqing said.

Then she said to Xiaohua and Xiaojie: "You two should take advantage of the rain to go home quickly!"

"Well, we're going back now." Xiaohua and Xiaojie said hello to Muzichuan again, and they left quickly with the basket in their arms.

In the backyard, Yang Ruoqing helped Mu Zichuan fill the two wooden barrels he brought over with clear well water, and then covered the mouths of the barrels with two bamboo hats.

"It will be very difficult for you to carry it with your hands like this. Wait a minute and I will get a pole for you to carry," she said.
Chapter completed!