Chapter 126 Let's see if her belly moves

Wang Dajun exclaimed in amazement: "Oh my goodness! In addition to the three hundred, there are still five hundred here!"

Fortunately, the big man didn't expect that there was money in Li Qiaoqiao's bag, otherwise he would have suffered a great loss!

Wang Dajun hummed a little tune and started walking back with satisfaction!

With these eight hundred yuan, and the fifty yuan from selling Li Qiaoqiao, he can spend one hundred yuan to get a place to return to the city, and then he can go back to the city to eat and drink delicious food!

However, he had only taken a few steps when Xia Juanjuan suddenly appeared behind him through space, holding a stick in her hand, and knocked him unconscious with it!

Xia Juanjuan squatted down and took away all the 850 yuan in Wang Dajun's pocket.

Li Qiaoqiao was truly ruthless. Xia Juanjuan guessed that she might steal money, but she didn't expect that she stole so much.

It is estimated that all of Liu Lan's savings over the years were taken away by Li Qiaoqiao.

But it’s better this way, so she doesn’t have to find another way to get the rest back.

Xia Juanjuan put the money into the space.

She had already saved more than 3,000 yuan from selling supplies before and after the New Year. Adding this 850 yuan, it was more than 4,000 yuan.

In that era when materials were scarce, the average monthly salary of workers was 20 to 30 yuan, and one work point in the countryside was equivalent to 1.5 cents, this was a huge sum of money!

After taking a look at Wang Dajun who was lying unconscious on the ground, Xia Juanjuan untied his belt, tied his hands tightly, then entered the space, and teleported directly to the house in the county town through the space.

She wrote an anonymous letter with the paper and pen in the house, and went to the police station in the county town to report the case under the cover of night.

Arriving at the police station, Xia Juanjuan did not intend to show up, but stuffed the anonymous letter in, then knocked on the door, and without waiting for the person inside to come out, she entered the space and teleported directly back home.

Although she disliked Li Qiaoqiao, she hated the traffickers even more. After reporting the case, whether Li Qiaoqiao could be rescued depended on her life.

The next morning, Xia Juanjuan got up early as usual, squeezed some fresh milk from the kitchen and heated it up, then took out a few steamed buns with fresh meat, and cooked some white porridge, with a dish of spicy cabbage and a dish of beef chili sauce, which was considered a meal.

While eating, Xiaowen said, "Mom, the elm trees have started to make money. Today we have an appointment with Chaoyang Qiming and the others to go get some money to eat."

Xia Juanjuan was stunned for a moment, remembering that there were several elm trees next to her house. Now they were full of tender green round elm seeds. Could they be eaten?

However, she seemed to have seen on TV that people of this era would pick it and bake it into elm money cakes, or mix it with flour and steam it in a pot without adding water, making it a steamed dish to eat with garlic sauce.

In spring, there is a shortage of food; this is the wisdom of the poor masses to satisfy their hunger and survive.

However, Xia Juanjuan frowned and did not agree, as their family was not short of food.

"Elm trees are so tall. What are you going to do? Climb them? What if you fall down?"

When Xiaowen and Xiaowu heard this, they both shrank their heads guiltily and lowered their heads to eat their meals quickly.

When Beibei heard that her mother forbade her from climbing trees, she said in a baby voice, "Mom, my brothers were climbing trees yesterday..."

Before she could finish her words, Xiaowen blocked her sister's mouth with a small basket. She said with a strong desire to survive: "Mom, we didn't climb the tree. Let's go pick shepherd's purse today."

When Xia Juanjuan saw the reactions of the three kids, she knew that it must be Xiaowen and Xiaowu who were naughty and ran to climb the tree.

He scanned the two men's faces several times, and when he had enough intimidation, he said:

"It's good that you didn't climb. If anyone dares to climb a tree and I catch them, I'll beat you up."

After dinner, Xiaowen helped to wash the dishes. The three kids carried small bamboo baskets and held small hoes, and went to the fields to pick wild vegetables with Zhou Qiuhe's Huanhuan and Yingying.

Xia Juanjuan always felt a little lazy and sleepy recently, and had no appetite, and she didn't know what was going on.

It just so happened that she had to go to the cowshed these two evenings, so she planned to ask the master to help her diagnose her pulse.

Xia Juanjuan has already started to learn how to take a pulse, but she has no practical experience from just listening to explanations and reading medical books. Although she has taken the pulse of Shen Wanxue, her master, a few other kids, and herself, except for Shen Wanxue, everyone else had a normal pulse. She has never seen the pulse mentioned in specific medical techniques, so naturally she cannot tell the difference.

During the past few days, she was assigned the task of planting corn, which was also about half an acre of field. She had to turn the ground with a hoe, then scatter corn seeds and cover the seeds with soil. It had just rained, so the ground was still wet, so there was no need to water it again.

This job is not easy either. However, when Xia Juanjuan is tired, she gets some spiritual spring water from the space to drink. After drinking the spiritual spring water, her body will be strengthened to a certain extent in a short period of time, and she can do farm work much faster.

By the afternoon, she had finished her part of the farm work and was walking home, carrying the hoe on her back.

During the spring ploughing season, every family is required to do the minimum work points during the busiest half of the month. After that, they don’t have to work any more, if they want to. There are no more requirements.

Xia Juanjuan naturally only wanted the minimum work points. Therefore, after finishing the work of planting corn today, she planned to rest for a few days and not collect any work points.

Seeing her walking home, the women who were still working in the fields were almost jealous to death.

"Ah! Look at other people's wives, they only do eight work points of work, and they only get paid every few days. Their lives are so happy!"

"Yeah, it's nothing like us, who work hard every day to earn a dozen work points, and the man in this family still thinks I'm lazy!"

"Come on! Are you jealous of her? Your man can't be the same as her man. I wonder if you are still jealous!"

"That's true, hahahaha..."

"Hey, why did I hear that Lizhan is not good at being a man? It seems to be a rumor, right?"

"Is it true? Where did you hear that?"

"My man said it. Don't men like to talk dirty when they are working? A foul-mouthed one laughed at Li Zhan in front of the third brother. In fact, the third brother of the Li family has heard it many times in the past and always turned his head away. I don't know what happened this time, but the third brother of the Li family directly beat up the foul-mouthed one!"

"My husband was there at the time and saw it with his own eyes. Li Jie also said that his brother told him personally that he was not injured at all and was fine! He also said that if he heard anyone talking about Li Zhan again in the future, he would beat them up!"

"Tsk! Li Lao San said his brother is fine, so he is fine? Whether he is fine or not, produce the evidence! Didn't Li Lao Si come back for the Chinese New Year a few days ago? Let's see if there is any movement in his wife's belly!" One person didn't believe it and said something sarcastic.

When the other women heard this, they laughed and said, "That's true."

A more sarcastic one sneered, "However, it depends not only on whether she is pregnant or not, but also on the attitude of the Li family towards her. If she is really pregnant, it may not be Li Laosi's child, right? Maybe she is having an affair with another man..."

Before she finished her words, Aunt Wu, who was passing by after work, heard her and interrupted her with a roar:

"Sun Xiaohua, have you lost your conscience? Why are you saying such rude things? Didn't your family eat the two wild boars that Li Lao Si and his wife killed before the Lunar New Year? How can you be so shameless as to ruin their reputation?

Humph! Who doesn't know that before you got married, Liu Lan wanted to marry you as the fourth daughter-in-law, and the betrothal money was sent to your family, right? As soon as those rumors about Li Zhan came out, you immediately forced your parents to return the betrothal money! What? Now that you see that Li Zhan dotes on his wife, it may be a rumor that he is not good in that aspect, and you feel unbalanced?

Hehe! You are feeling unbalanced! Look at the kind of man you have found? He doesn't work to earn points during this busy time, but goes to play cards and gamble with the village scoundrels! I'm waiting to see how much food you get after the summer harvest, and whether you will be hungry! And is your man really brave? If he is brave, how come you have been married for almost a year and there is no movement in your belly? ..."

Sun Xiaohua, who was scolded, was both embarrassed and angry. She dropped her hoe and ran to the card room to make trouble with her man!

Aunt Wu glared at the remaining women present and scolded, "You haven't even finished your work yet and you still have the nerve to gossip about others! You are so shameless!"

Then he left.

The women waited until she was far away before they dared to speak in low voices.

"She's gone, right? You can't hear me, right? Oh my god! I don't dare to say a word when I see Auntie Wu! I'm afraid she'll turn me upside down too!"

"If you're fine, why would you be afraid of what she would say?" someone laughed.

"Hey! Am I afraid of you? Then why were you so quiet just now?"

"Ah... She also said that we were gossiping! She is the worst gossiper in the whole village!"

"That's right! But why did she get off work so early?"

"Don't you know? I heard that a matchmaker is coming to her house to find a wife for her little son!"

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When Xia Juanjuan returned home, the three children also came back with bamboo baskets on their backs. In addition to shepherd's purse, they also picked a lot of amaranth.

Xia Juanjuan took out some meat filling from the space, chopped it up with shepherd's purse to make filling, mixed it with white flour and sweet potato flour to make dough, and rolled it into dumpling skins to wrap the dumplings.

Although shepherd's purse is the most common and easiest wild vegetable to dig, it is not available in the summer. Therefore, it is very rare. After it is cooked, dip it in vinegar and take a bite. It is fragrant and has the breath of spring fields.

Amaranth is also common. Use fresh and tender amaranth, blanch it in boiling water, take it out, wash it several times with clean water, put it in a plate, and mix it with sesame oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, mashed garlic, etc.

Another way to eat it is to wash it clean, coat it with flour, steam it in a pan, and then dip it in garlic juice and eat it.

This time, Xia Juanjuan directly made steamed dishes and added garlic juice. The garlic juice, sesame oil and salt were enough for seasoning.

In the evening, they had shepherd's purse dumplings and steamed amaranth. Xia Juanjuan put some of each in a bowl and went to the cowshed under the cover of night.

Shen Wanxue and Yang Qiushi were both still awake, waiting for her to come over.

During the spring ploughing season, the villagers were busy, and the cowshed was even busier. The cows had to plow the land, and the grass and water they needed to feed them were much more than in winter. They also had to dry the cow dung. In addition, they were assigned a lot of hard work in the fields.

The only thing that was better than before was that Xia Juanjuan sent them food, meat, and medicinal herbs from time to time, so they could still hold on physically.

Shen Wanxue's eye disease has almost recovered, but she still has trouble seeing people clearly, so she needs some time to recover.

The two of them praised Xia Juanjuan's craftsmanship.

After eating dumplings and steamed vegetables, Xia Juanjuan asked about some things she didn't understand when reading medical books these days, and then said a little embarrassedly: "Master, can you help me take my pulse? I have been feeling a little tired these days, and I didn't understand it even after taking it myself..."

Yang Qiushi naturally agreed immediately after hearing this, but after a while, he couldn't help but look at Xia Juanjuan with a strange look on his face.

He did it again before letting go of Xia Juanjuan's hand.

Seeing that his expression was not right, Xia Juanjuan became a little nervous: "Master, is there...something wrong?"