Chapter 23
At the entrance of Lingshui Village, brother and sister Fu An and Fu Ning had been waiting eagerly.
Looking from a distance, Uncle Chen smiled and said, "Your nephews and nieces really like you as their aunt."
People who are liked by children must not have bad tempers.
When they arrived at the village entrance, Yu Ying gave Uncle Chen a copper coin.
Uncle Chen originally wanted to say that he didn’t have to pay for the round trip in the future, but because there were other people on the ox cart, he decided to wait until next time.
After all, the ice cream made by Madam Yu attracted a lot of diners to Wu's restaurant. The restaurant's business was good, his son got more dividends, he received more vegetables as gifts, and he earned more money. Naturally, he couldn't ask her for the car fare anymore.
As soon as Yu Ying got off the ox cart and gave the copper coins, Fu An came over and carried the empty backpack on it, and picked up the wooden barrel in his hand.
Yu Ying glanced at Fu An, reached out, and said, "I'll hold the bucket."
Fu An, however, changed his hand and said stubbornly, "I can lift it."
Because there was nothing in the bucket and it was very light, Yu Ying just let him go. But when she saw his slightly hunched back, she was silent for a moment and reached out to lift the backpack behind him.
"What are you doing?" Fu An turned around and looked at her in confusion.
"Give me the backpack. I need to get some things out."
"Oh." He obediently put the wooden barrel on the ground and then took the backpack off his back.
Yu Ying picked up the backpack, passed her arms through the shoulder straps, and hung it across her chest. She looked at Fu An, who was curious about what she would take out of the backpack, and said, "Forget it, I won't take it. I'll show you when we get back."
Fuan: ...?
It seems like something is wrong, but it also seems like nothing is wrong.
Yu Ying took the hand of the little girl Fu Ning, and the three of them walked back together.
On the way, they met a strange woman who was tending to crops in the fields. She was a little surprised to see them.
The woman first looked at Yu Ying, then looked at Fu An and asked, "Fu An, where are you coming from?"
Fu An's face darkened and he didn't intend to pay attention to her.
Seeing that he ignored her, the woman frowned and said, "How can you be so uneducated? I asked you a question, why didn't you answer?"
Yu Ying frowned when she heard that.
I thought she blamed Fu An for being uneducated, but how could what she said be considered educated?
Fu An curled his lips and retorted, "A well-educated person wouldn't talk about being uneducated."
The woman in the field suddenly turned black in the face, spat, and cursed in a low voice: "You wild thing without the education of your parents."
When Yu Ying heard the low curse, she paused, turned around, and looked calmly at the woman in the field who was about thirty years old.
The woman was suddenly stared at by her. She didn't think anything of it at first, but the other party didn't say a word and just looked at her quietly, which was quite creepy.
But then he thought, the Fu family is an orphan and a widow, the old one is blind, the young one is disabled, the youngest one is mute, and they only have an eight-year-old child who has no ability at all. What does he count for?
Even if I have a daughter-in-law now, so what?
Why is she afraid of the Fu family?
Thinking of this, the woman suddenly exclaimed, "Oh!" "This new bride of the Fu family can even glare at people. I'm really scared."
Yu Ying's eyes were indifferent, as if she was angry.
Fu An was afraid that they would fight. There was no one at home who could fight, and he was afraid that she would suffer, so he quickly pulled his aunt and whispered, "Aunt, forget it, let's go back."
Yu Ying pulled him behind her, then let go of Fu Ning's hand and slowly walked towards the woman.
When the woman saw her coming, she was a little confused and thought she was going to attack her. She was not afraid, but instead gripped the hoe tightly in her hand.
Yu Ying approached, keeping two steps away before stopping. She bent down and spoke slowly in a voice only the two of them could hear: "Not only can I glare at people, I can also poison them. It's a colorless and odorless poison that can kill people without them even noticing."
There was no one around except the woman, so Yu Ying didn't have to worry about others hearing what she said.
The woman originally thought that she would curse back, and she was prepared to curse back, but she didn't expect that these were the first words she opened her mouth, which really stunned her.
While the woman was stunned, Yu Ying raised her chin slightly, but her voice was not angry at all, instead she said lightly: "Don't think that I am easy to bully just because I am a woman. Before you have such thoughts, I advise you to first find out what kind of person I am, Yu Liuniang. If anyone dares to bully me, I will repay you double. If you don't want that mouth of yours anymore, I can help you poison it to pieces."
Yu Ying spoke threatening words in a gentle tone.
The woman glared: "How dare you!"
Yu Ying stood up and said slowly, "You can try, but before you do, you should first find out more about my character, Yu Liuniang."
After all, Yu Liuniang has a bad reputation, so Yu Ying uses this bad reputation to intimidate others.
After saying this, Yu Ying turned around and walked back to Fu An and Fu Ning, saying to them, "Let's go back and make dinner."
The woman's glaring gaze followed Yu Ying closely. Yu Ying turned back and gave her an indifferent look.
There was no anger in his eyes, but rather a calm look, so calm that the woman felt a sense of conspiracy.
The woman felt a little uneasy, vaguely remembering that others had talked about the new bride of the Fu family.
I heard that the child from the Fu family who was mistakenly taken away hated the Fu family, and hated Fu Jia Zhenjilang even more for occupying his identity for more than 20 years.
So the kid had Fu Erlang's legs broken, and found an ugly and bad-character daughter of a criminal to be his wife in order to humiliate him.
This guilty daughter seemed to have poisoned someone in a village a hundred miles away. The woman originally thought that she was a young girl and would never do anything to poison someone.
But when I heard her say that just now, for some reason, I felt a chill down my spine.
After the three of them walked away, Fu An raised his head and looked at his aunt.
No one stood up for him for a long time.
He has always been the one to protect his grandmother and sister. Today is the first time someone has protected him since his father and mother were no longer around. It feels wonderful.
Not annoying at all.
After walking for a while with his head down, he asked, "What did you say to Aunt Cuilan just now?"
Yu Ying: "I scolded her a few times. You kids shouldn't listen to swear words."
Hearing this, Fu An curled his lips and said, "I've heard of people being cursed in the most unpleasant ways."
At this point, he hesitated for a moment, afraid that she would think he was really an uneducated child, so he explained: "I didn't mean to not reply to her, it's just that she is such a disgusting person, always gossiping behind people's backs. Some time ago, she laughed at my grandmother and said that she was blind and blindfolded, which was unnecessary. She also said that Ningning was dumb and no one would dare to marry her when she grew up. She also said that my uncle not only had a weak leg, but also couldn't do that job, so he didn't need a wife..."
At the end of the conversation, Fu An asked curiously: "What kind of work is that?"
Yu Ying: ...
When she heard the first half of his words, her brows furrowed, but after hearing his last sentence, she fell completely silent.
How could she explain this?
Yu Ying thought about it and could only pretend to be calm and said, "I don't know what it is either. She must have said it nonsense. Just ignore it."
As soon as they finished speaking, they returned to the outside of the Fu family's yard.
Yu Ying asked Fu An to wash the pot and boil water, while she went to the river to wash the pig lungs.
I don’t know why, but Fu An is more obedient tonight than usual. She is no longer stubborn and whatever she says is what she does.
After Yu Ying came back from the river, she first cut the pig lungs into pieces with scissors and blanched them in a ceramic pot on the stove.
Blanch it twice and then wash it with cold water to reduce the fishy smell.
After washing, it was put back into a ceramic pot with half a pot of hot water.
She also boiled the hatchet in hot water, then cut a few slices of large pieces of ginger that she bought for a penny and threw them into the clay pot.
There were seven pears weighing one and a half pounds. I took out three and kept four to make jelly.
After washing the pears, she cut them into pieces. Yu Ying ate a small piece, which was very sweet. She then gave another piece to Xiao Fu Ning, who was helping to light the fire.
The little girl tasted the sweet fruit, squinted her eyes and smiled, licked her lips, and had a lingering aftertaste.
Seeing that she was greedy, Yu Ying fed her another piece.
After feeding the little Funing, Yu Ying put most of the pears into the ceramic pot and stewed them with the pig lungs. The remaining pears were used as after-meal fruit. While stewing the soup, Yu Ying also took out a few thicker bamboo sticks.
The pig lungs are stewed with snow pears, and soon a faint sweet aroma wafts out.
Since there was already a soup, Yu Ying didn't cook the pork bones. But because it was hot and she was afraid they would stink, she blanched them and half-filled an old basin with water. She then placed the bowl of pork bones inside the basin.
The pig lung soup was ready, and Yu Ying added some salt and lard, which made it taste good.
After blanching some cabbage in the pig lung and pear soup, the dish and soup are ready.
In order to save rice, Yu Ying did not cook tonight.
Each person gets a bowl of pig lung and pear soup, with plenty of pig lungs.
The three generations of grandparents and grandchildren ate with gusto, but Fu Wei only drank two mouthfuls of soup, ate a piece of pig lung and a few bites of cabbage, and then did not move.
Yu Ying glanced at him and found that his usually cold expression seemed a little bad. She was good at observation, smelling, asking and palpating, and from the subtle changes in his expression, she could tell that he seemed to be feeling a little nauseous.
Some people are naturally averse to eating pig offal. It's not a matter of being picky, but rather an intolerance to the smell. Even if others don't notice anything strange about the taste, their sense of smell and taste are exceptional, so they'll still feel nauseous after taking a bite.
If Fu Wei said he didn't want to eat, Yu Ying could understand, but she didn't expect him to remain silent.
After eating, Yu Ying asked Fu An to eat the pear before cleaning up the dishes.
Yu Ying poked a piece of pear with a skewer and handed it to Fu Wei.
Fu Wei followed the pear in front of him and looked up at Yu Ying. She curved her lips and smiled softly, saying softly, "Eat something sweet first to get rid of the bad taste, then rinse your mouth with mint leaves."
Fu Wei turned his gaze away from the bright smile on her face, raised his hand to take the pear from her hand, and said, "Thank you."
Took a bite of the pear flesh.
Mm, it’s sweet indeed.
After eating the pear, Fu An began to pack up. Fu Ning and Luo went to the kitchen to boil water, while Yu Ying stayed in the house to talk to Fu Wei.
She told him about selling herbs. Upon hearing that, Fu Wei raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at her.
There was unconcealable joy on her face.
For a moment, Fu Wei felt that he was indeed a useless person, not only physically but also mentally.
The whole family, young and old, including him, seemed to be counting on a thin woman.
"How can I help?"
This was the second time Fu Wei asked how he could help, and it was obvious that he was starting to care about what was happening in the outside world.
Yu Ying looked at him and said, "I'm going to go into the mountains to look for herbs in the next few days, and I'll continue to pick lychee fruits. I'll teach you how to make jelly, and from now on, I'll let you make it. How about that?"
Fu Wei nodded calmly: "I can do these tasks, but what about Fu An? Do you want to take him into the mountains?"
Yu Ying shook her head: "No, I'm worried that I'll be so engrossed in finding the herbs that I'll forget about him."
"So you're going into the mountains alone?" Fu Wei frowned slightly.
Yu Ying thought about it for a moment before nodding: "Probably."
Fu Wei was silent for a moment, his expression was so cold that Yu Ying couldn't tell what he was thinking.
After a moment, he asked, "The mountains are dangerous, aren't you afraid?"
"Of course I'm afraid." Yu Ying said truthfully.
These days, she went into the mountains every day. Fu Wei heard from Fu An that they mostly walked around the foot of the mountain and did not go deep into the mountains.
But even so, if you often walk by the river, you will get your shoes wet, not to mention the mountains and forests where wild animals roam.
Thinking of this, Fu Wei advised her: "You have the ability and there are other ways to make money. You don't have to gamble your life."
Yu Ying was surprised to realize that Fu Wei, who had previously shown no interest in foreign affairs, was actually worried about her, but she still said rationally, "There are few ways to make money. I'm in urgent need of money. Now I see a chance to make money. If I don't go into the mountains, this opportunity will be gone."
When Fu Wei heard her say that she was in urgent need of silver, his brows furrowed slightly and he asked, "What do you need the silver for?"
Yu Ying originally had no intention of telling others about Fu Jia Dalang's affairs, but since Fu Wei could accept her unknown identity and they could understand each other tacitly, he should also be able to accept Fu Jia Dalang's affairs.
It would be a good thing to have someone to discuss things with her.
After figuring it out, Yu Ying turned and walked to the door, lifted the straw curtain and looked outside. When she saw that there was no one there, she turned and looked at Fu Wei.
When Fu Wei thought she was going to say something extremely important, she said, "I want to save money to bring your elder brother and sister-in-law out of the quarry."
Fu Wei was stunned, with a look of confusion in his eyes.
After a long silence, he looked puzzled and asked, "Do you know them?"
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