Shanghe Village is nestled against the mountains and beside the water, and the air is exceptionally fresh in the morning, making it perfect for a morning run. With each breath, the moist air flows through the trachea into the lungs, and when you exhale, you expel the stale air that has accumulated overnight.
A refreshing and pleasant feeling travels straight to the top of your head.
Only a pair of large E or F cups on the chest are really too tiring.
These days, it's fashionable for girls to wear bellybands.
It's like wearing an undergarment; it's completely useless.
As Su Hua ran, she secretly planned that once the family's snail business had saved up some money, she would definitely buy some soft fabric to make a few sets of underwear. Otherwise, she would always feel embarrassed, like she was running around naked, because she was wearing nothing.
It was only a short time before dawn, but smoke was already rising from chimneys all over Shanghe Village, and many women were washing dirty clothes by the river.
Seeing Su Hua run past on the path, everyone turned around to look.
"Hey, what's that youngest daughter of the Su family rushing off to? Why is she running?"
"They don't seem to be in a hurry. If they were really in a hurry, why would they be running so leisurely?"
"I must say, this youngest daughter of the Su family eats a lot every day. Now at thirteen, she already has a great figure, and she's definitely someone who can bear children easily!"
"Yes, if the Su family's little girl could lose another ten or twenty pounds, and be a bit fairer, she might even be a beauty in the making. After all, Su Bai was a great beauty when she was young, and the Su family's eldest daughter, Su Sui, is also the most beautiful girl in our Shanghe Village..."
Su Hua wasn't annoyed by the crowd's chatter; instead, she greeted them with a smile.
"Third Aunt! Aunt Zhou! Sister-in-law Xia Hua! Sister Da Mai... Good morning, everyone!"
She raised her hand and called out names.
If you didn't know better, you'd think some important person was on an inspection tour of the countryside.
Everyone was startled by the sound, then they followed Su Hua's example, waving and grinning, "Good morning, Hua! The ground is covered in dew this early in the morning, run slowly, or you might slip and fall..."
After Su Hua finished running a lap around Shanghe Village, she looked as if she had just been pulled out of a sweat pool. If you gently wrung out her clothes, you could probably wring out two pounds of water.
Su Hua stood at the end of the village wiping her sweat. Seeing that there was no road ahead, she was about to turn around and go back to her own courtyard.
Suddenly, a 'clang' sound was heard.
She looked in the direction of the sound and saw Xiao Jinhan sitting in front of the brand-new wooden house, intently chopping wood.
Although he was chopping firewood, Xiao Jinhan didn't have an axe in his hand. Instead, he simply rolled up his sleeves and used the skillful force of his palm to chop. The sturdy and large fir trees broke in two the moment his palm touched them.
"What a prodigy..." Su Hua clicked her tongue in amazement.
If someone saw this scene in the middle of the night, most people would probably die on the spot.
Who in their right mind would chop wood with their bare hands?
Not to mention such a beautiful and exquisite woman!
Sometimes God is really unfair. Some people are like a tiny speck of clay that God can just casually mold in his hand, ordinary in every way, while others are meticulously crafted from head to toe, even down to every single hair.
He's practically a male version of a vixen.
Even wearing a burlap sack would look good.
"Miss Su, have you seen enough?"
A deep, magnetic voice rang out.
"Ah...more or less." Su Hua chuckled, turned her head slightly to wipe the drool from the corner of her mouth, and tried to slip away. "You go ahead and do your thing, I won't bother you anymore."
But before she could finish speaking, she heard the man's voice again, "Miss Su, please wait a moment—"
Su Hua turned around upon hearing the sound.
Then she saw Xiao Jinhan striding towards her with his long legs.
The warm morning light shone on the man, softening his originally sharp and cold face.
"I'd like to ask you something, young lady." The man's lips curled slightly, his voice tinged with a hint of intoxication, "Where did you catch that wild rabbit meat last time?"
"Huh? Wild rabbit?" Su Hua was a little confused, recalling the braised rabbit meat from the night before last. "That was a rabbit I caught by chance in Fuhu Mountain. There's a bracken forest there. If you want to eat rabbit, there should be quite a few more next to the bracken forest."
As she spoke, she twitched the tip of her nose.
There was a distinct, delicious aroma of roasted rabbit in the air.
With just one glance, she noticed a cluster of rabbit bones scattered in a patch of black ashes beside the wooden house. When she was in college, her anatomy professor always liked to use rabbits as subjects for dissection. It could be said that she knew more about rabbit bones than her own.
I never expected this guy to like eating rabbit so much.
"Thank you." Xiao Jinhan bowed to Su Hua.
Su Hua waved her hand dismissively and walked towards her own courtyard.
At the hour of Mao (5-7 AM), Su Bai was gutting a fish in the courtyard to make preserved fish. It was a 12-pound grass carp. The head was used to make fish head tofu soup, and the rest of the fish meat was cut into small pieces, marinated with coarse salt, and after marinating for two days, it could be smoked with the charcoal left over from the firewood and the rice husks left over from last year.
Fish smoked with rice husks not only has a golden color but also a rich aroma.
As for the fish offal inside the fish's belly, Su Bai didn't throw it away. Instead, she cleaned it up and planned to make a spicy fish offal dish for lunch. Although she had never heard of spicy fish offal before, since it was her little girl who mentioned it, she figured it must taste good.
"Hua'er, the water in the pot has just boiled. I'll go get some for you. Wash up first, and then we'll get ready for breakfast. Your brother and sister-in-law should be back soon." Su Bai turned around at the sound of footsteps.
The chopping motion in his hand paused.
She felt that her daughter seemed to have gotten a lot fairer after running around outside.
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