It was Ah Mian's first time eating eel rice, and she accidentally ate a whole bowlful.
It's not appropriate to eat to your heart's content when you're someone's guest.
Farmers often use things they themselves are reluctant to eat to entertain guests, and guests should also be considerate of the hosts and only take a small taste. This is what my mother taught me when I was a child visiting other people's homes.
After finishing her meal, A-Mian blushed and murmured. Her second sister-in-law chuckled and poked her shoulder, "Oh my, Meng San, where did you find such a lively character?"
Meng Chijian also raised his head: "It's okay, those four always eat and drink to their hearts' content at our house."
Second Sister-in-law, hands on hips: "How much food can those two little ones eat? Honestly, look how stingy you are. If A-Mian stayed at my house, I could fatten her up in just two months."
Unable to argue with her, Meng Chijian simply pulled A-Mian back to his side, gave her a clean pair of chopsticks, and fed her two more slices of eel.
After she had eaten and drunk her fill, she rode the donkey home and fell asleep on its back.
She didn't go to the city for several days, and instead spent a lot of time playing at the foot of the back mountain.
Therefore, what A-Mian didn't know was—
"The person you mentioned didn't come." The triangular-eyed thug wandered around aimlessly, meeting up with someone in the city's alleyways. "You said her family was wealthy and I could extort a lot of money, so I came. But look what happened! It was all a waste of time!"
The thug pulled out a bag of dead flies and said in a vicious tone, "You've wasted several days of my time, how are you going to settle this score?"
Lu Weiwei jumped back with a "Ah!" and was now ready to go all out. "What do you mean by 'how to calculate'? I only said a few words to you. Did I promise you anything? If you're not satisfied, go report it to the authorities yourself!"
Having been a local thug for years, this was the first time he had encountered someone even more unreasonable than himself. So he resorted to intimidation and finally managed to get fifty coins from them before leaving with a cold snort.
Lu Weiwei's eyes reddened, and she felt a tightness in her chest. She knew that A-Mian mostly ran a food business, which was why she came up with this idea.
However, he wasn't the kind of person who was specifically looking to do bad things; plans can't keep up with changes.
Zhang Yixing returned home from the academy and frowned upon seeing the situation: "What's wrong now?"
Lu Weiwei was equally annoyed by him: "If you hadn't failed the exam, things wouldn't be like this now! It's pointless to talk to you. I was blind to marry someone as weak as you..."
"Me? If you hadn't insisted on coaxing Uncle Lu to change the marriage contract to your name—"
Lu Weiwei stomped her feet a few times. "What, what do I lack compared to A-Mian? Fine, you'd like to be her concubine, do you think she'll even acknowledge you?"
"How could you say such awful things!" Zhang Yixing angrily smashed the teacup and stormed off.
The place was a complete mess.
With a broom in hand, Ah Mian was cleaning the chicken coop.
"Two more eggs!" Meng Jing carefully picked them up. The three hens they had bought had all grown up and were ready to lay eggs. Every month, they would hand over ten eggs to the family, which were placed in a blue porcelain bowl in the kitchen. The rest could be saved and sold in town, with the two of them splitting the copper coins.
The remaining two roosters have also grown up and are now very fierce, trying to peck at anyone they see.
How could Ah Mian allow them to run rampant? She grabbed her straw sandals and swatted them away, sending them flying everywhere.
"We'll slaughter you all after the autumn harvest!"
Meng Jing picked up a broom and joined in beating the pecking chicken. "Ah Mian, Ah Mian, let's keep one. Maybe we can hatch chicks!"
"It was cold then, and the chicks might not survive the winter."
Ah Mian had planned it all out perfectly: one for the autumn harvest and one for the New Year's Eve dinner.
Two more days passed, and Meng Chijian returned and said, "Doctor Mo sent someone to the shop and told you to go and learn the Eight Pieces of Brocade tomorrow."
"good."
This time, she went to "learn martial arts." Ah Mian changed into the old clothes she wore when catching eels, tied her hair up tightly, and put two sets of clothes to change into and two salted duck eggs in her basket. She arrived at the pharmacy with great interest.
As soon as I arrived there, I heard people gossiping.
"Miss Mo must be heartbroken now..."
"Not necessarily. I think Miss Mo has truly let go."
"This is really something, they've ruined their own reputation for no reason."
Amian went inside. "I'm here to see Doctor Mo. Oh, Doctor Wen, what are you doing here?"
Ever since Wen Qiao saw the anatomical diagrams that day, she has been obsessed with them and wants to read more medical books.
However, as a man from outside the county, he naturally couldn't just visit the magistrate's house casually, so he would come here from time to time.
"I've come to learn about medicine." Wen Qiao noticed their unusual attire and was curious about what they were up to.
When they reached an open space in the courtyard, Mo Man had already arrived.
With only one student, A-Mian, Mo Man first led her through warm-up exercises, and then began to teach her basic standing posture and breathing techniques.
"Today we'll start with simple movements. Watch me do it once, then repeat it three times yourself... Remember, the Eight Pieces of Brocade is a slow but powerful exercise for health..."
Ah Mian started to imitate it very well.
Wen Qiao had heard of "Eight Pieces of Brocade," but he felt that Doctor Mo's moves were different from what he had heard before. However, from the viewer's perspective, they were gentle and graceful, with a certain elegance within them.
Every half hour, they could rest for a while. Ah Mian took out a salted duck egg and gave it to Mo Man.
Seeing her like this, Mo Man wasn't curious at all about the scandalous gossip surrounding her. Instead, she felt a desire to tease her: "Was that your husband who came to the school that day?"
"Um."
"How have I treated you?"
“That’s great. He let me raise chickens at his house.”
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