Chapter 21 There's rice and oil!
Zhou Ruiyuan didn't reply immediately. He rode his horse and looked back at Du Wanchun with a worried expression. "How are you? Were you frightened?"
Du Wanchun, supporting the carriage, shook her head and said, "I'm fine, but what about your leg, husband?"
After she finished speaking, she shifted her gaze to his legs.
Zhou Ruiyuan sat on the horse, gripping the reins tightly with both hands, and struggled to move his leg, which now had strength. "It seems I can move it."
Du Wanchun was overjoyed to see the leg move slightly. Her eyes welled up with tears, and she smiled as she replied, "That's wonderful, my husband! Your leg can finally move!"
Zhou Ruiyuan's face was also full of joy. He raised his sword-like eyebrows slightly, straightened his back, and sat on his horse, letting the night wind blow his long hair at his temples.
The silvery moonlight poured down, illuminating his handsome face and highlighting his extraordinary and distinguished appearance. From afar, he looked like a refined young master from a noble family, someone who could be unforgettable at first glance.
Du Wanchun sat in the carriage, gazing at his figure with a slight daze. Unconsciously, a gratified smile appeared on her face, and her two small pear blossoms shone brightly under the same moonlight.
The two sped up and hurried home.
When Aunt Zhou heard that Zhou Ruiyuan's feet could move, she was serving rice. Her hand trembled, and she almost knocked the bowl over.
Zhou Zhao took the bowl from her hands and called out loudly, "Mother, food."
Aunt Zhou woke up with a start, immediately threw the rice scoop in her hand into the pot, turned around and looked outside. When she saw Zhou Ruiyuan being helped in by Du Wanchun, she couldn't help but cry.
"Ruiyuan, can you really stand up again?!"
Du Wanchun lifted Zhou Ruiyuan's clothes, revealing one of his legs that he could barely stand up, and replied, "Mother, my husband can't stand up completely yet; he can only support himself with one leg for a while."
When the two of them got off the carriage, she asked Zhou Ruiyuan to try to stand up. Unexpectedly, he also had strength in his other leg, and he was able to stand up.
However, because he hadn't walked for a long time, he couldn't stand for long.
Aunt Zhou quickly helped Zhou Ruiyuan sit back down in his chair, wiping away her tears as she said, "It's alright. The fact that you can stand up now means that you will definitely be able to stand up like before in the future. We can practice slowly."
Du Wanchun nodded. "Mother is right, husband. I'll help you practice from now on."
Zhou Ruiyuan looked bewildered, still reeling from the joy of being able to walk. Hearing Du Wanchun's words, he looked at her tenderly and said gratefully, "Thank you for your hard work, my wife."
This was the first time he had ever called her "wife" like that.
Du Wanchun was very happy to hear this. At this moment, she immediately remembered the rice in the carriage, stood up and said to Aunt Zhou, "Mother, we sold radishes today and got 120 coins. We used these coins to buy 10 catties of rice and 1 catty of oil."
Aunt Zhou looked up at the carriage outside the door and exclaimed in surprise, "These radishes can sell for so many copper coins?"
Du Wanchun smiled and nodded, saying, "We're lucky today. Aunt He likes our radishes, and she paid half of the copper coins to buy all the rest of our radishes."
Aunt Zhou hadn't seen so much rice and oil in a long time, and coupled with what happened with Zhou Ruiyuan earlier, she was so excited that her legs were weak.
As she walked towards the door, she called out to Zhou Zhao, "Zhao'er, come with me and let's carry the rice and oil inside!"
"Mom, wait a minute, I'm coming right now." Zhou Zhao quickly put down the bowl he had brought and ran after her.
After settling Zhou Ruiyuan in, Du Wanchun went outside with him, and the family carried rice and oil inside.
With this rice and oil, the Zhou family no longer had to worry about going hungry.
Du Wanchun wiped the sweat from his forehead, looked at the grain sacks on the ground, and said to Aunt Zhou, "Mother, in a few days we'll take the radishes and duck eggs out to sell. With the money we make, we can use it to make some clothes for you and my second and third brothers."
Aunt Zhou patted the dust off her clothes and took out a handkerchief from her waist to wipe the sweat from her temples. "Silly child, when we have some copper coins, the first thing I'll do is buy you a decent piece of jewelry. Look at this pretty little girl, she doesn't have anything on her head."
Du Wanchun touched her bald head, smiled with her eyebrows curved. Before her mother passed away, she had a small pearl hairpin, which was part of her mother's dowry when she married into the family. However, after Liu Shi married into the family, she took all the jewelry that her mother had left her.
When she came to the Zhou family that day with her bundle, she only brought her wedding dress.
"Mother, it's alright, we'll have all these things in the future." She put down her hand that was touching her hair bun, turned around and took the dishes that had been prepared on the stove out.
"Mom, let's eat first."
Aunt Zhou snapped out of her daze and helped carry the dishes to the front room.
It was pitch black outside, and everyone in the village had gone to sleep, except for the Zhou family who were having dinner.
Aunt Zhou has been waiting for Du Wanchun and Zhou Ruiyuan to come home for dinner, and she's been waiting ever since.
At this time, everyone was hungry and sleepy, so they quickly finished eating and went to sleep.
However, Zhou Ruiyuan was still reading outside tonight, and Du Wanchun lay in bed, not seeing him come in until she fell into a deep sleep.
The next day, early morning.
Today was her homecoming, and Du Wanchun got up early to change into the new clothes that Aunt Zhou had made for her. It was a light yellow pleated ruqun, which was one of the best in the entire Changliu Village in terms of both style and color.
In addition, her fair skin and slender waist made her look exceptionally beautiful in the clothes. At first glance, someone who didn't know her might mistake her for a young lady from a wealthy family.
Aunt Zhou liked it more and more as she looked at it. She pulled Du Wanchun and looked her over from left to right, smiling as she said, "You're so beautiful. I wish I had a daughter like you."
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