Chapter 32: Favors Must Be Repaid

Chen Ergou took the hen with both hands and was so excited that he almost cried.

"Sister, you are so polite. I will remember this favor and will definitely repay you when I have the chance in the future."

I originally wanted to put a few eggs in Chen Ergou’s backpack.

However, Wang Ziru thought about it and realized that the eggs were bought for the whole family, especially Baoer who needed some nourishment.

Er Gouzi sent her such a big pig's trotter, but she only gave him a chicken in return.

Wang Ziru felt a little embarrassed, and quickly smiled and said, "Your family is not having a good time either. Your wife just gave birth to a child and needs to replenish her body. Take this chicken back and make soup for her."

Zhang Kang now looks at Wang Ziru in a different light.

Originally, when he was in the army, he felt sorry for his old comrades. However, after Wang Ziru saved someone in the health center yesterday and gave a return gift to Chen Ergou today.

After these two things, Zhang Kang felt happy in his heart.

The old comrade was extremely lucky. The woman he married was not only sensible, but also had extraordinary abilities compared to the women in the village.

"I really hope that after I get married, my partner will be as sensible and generous as my sister-in-law. But I hope he won't be like the two sisters-in-law in the Zhai family, who are vicious and unreasonable." Zhang Kang whispered to Zhai Ximo when leaving the Zhai family.

Zhai Ximo quickly pushed his old comrade away and signaled him with his eyes to stop talking.

This is to prevent my two sisters-in-law from hearing this and causing chaos at home.

After seeing the guests off, the couple turned around and went back to the side room.

Looking at a pig's leg that weighed more than ten pounds, Wang Ziru pinched the fresh pork leg meat and said, "Bao'er's father, go get the kitchen knife. We have to thank everyone who has taken care of us over the years."

Zhai Ximo asked in surprise: "Who else are you planning to send some meat to?"

"Well, Uncle Zhang usually takes good care of us. Sometimes when he goes fishing in the stream, he will help watch Bao Er."

"We should thank Uncle Zhang."

Zhai Ximo turned around and went to the kitchen, fetched a kitchen knife, and asked, "How much should I cut for Uncle Zhang?"

"Uncle Zhang has his own pension, and his life is better than ours. Just a small piece is enough as a token of your appreciation." Wang Ziru took the kitchen knife from the man and cut off a piece of fat and lean pork leg. "Give it to Uncle Zhang, and say thank you for helping us take care of Baoer."

"By the way, who rescued Baoer when he fell into the pond the day before yesterday?" The man's eyes were deep.

How could Wang Ziru forget her son’s savior?

She was holding a kitchen knife and cutting the pig leg. "It's Liu's second dog, and I think Uncle Luo Qi is there too."

Wang Ziru vaguely remembered that on the day Baoer got into trouble, she rushed to the village pond and saw Ergouzi and Uncle Luo with their legs rolled up. Ergouzi, in particular, was soaked in water and his teeth were chattering from the cold.

Many villagers nearby were watching the excitement, but only the two of them, honest and simple-minded, braved the freezing cold water to help pick Bao'er up. Otherwise, Wang Ziru couldn't imagine the consequences.

She has always been clear about gratitude and resentment.

If someone has done you a favor, you must repay it.

She held back the hot tears in her eyes, cut two more beautiful pork legs, and asked the man to bring a small bamboo basket.

Put three pork legs into the bamboo basket, and then put six eggs in the bamboo basket.

She put an old floral cloth on top to cover it. After finishing, she handed the things to the man and said, "Give each family a piece of meat and two eggs."

"Well, I'll go right away."

Liu Xiangqin was standing in the kitchen making breakfast, cooking a small pot of corn grits porridge. When she turned around, she saw her brother-in-law carrying a small bamboo basket.

The bamboo basket was filled with pork and eggs, and his eyes were filled with jealousy.

If Zhai Ximo had not lost his temper in the main hall just now, I'm afraid Liu Xiangqin would be like Xu Ping, wanting to take the property in the third brother's house as her own.

Zhai Ximo ignored his sister-in-law's ugly expression and walked out of the Zhai family yard carrying the bamboo basket.

Liu Xiulan came back from a walk outside her yard and saw her son carrying a bamboo basket out of the yard with a piece of floral cloth on it. She guessed that the basket contained good things.

I watched my son walk down the slope, not knowing whose house he was going to take him to.

Liu Xiulan felt uncomfortable all over and cursed angrily: "This heartless thing, he has good things but doesn't know how to honor his mother."

Mrs. Liu returned to the yard, walked into the main room, and prepared to go to the kitchen to make breakfast.

Passing by the door of the third son's house, Mrs. Liu saw her daughter-in-law working with the pig's trotter in the house. She couldn't help swallowing her saliva.

It's such a big pig's trotter. If I cut off a piece for her...

But she had just had a quarrel with her daughter-in-law, and she was too embarrassed to ask that bastard for pork leg meat.

The women in the house also saw that not only was there a new quilt in the third child's room, but there was also a lot more food in the room.

Baoer was holding a small windmill in his hand and running and playing happily around his mother.

Several cousins ​​were waiting for breakfast. They walked to the door of the side room curiously and stood outside to watch.

Baoer didn't go out to play with her cousins. She just played with the windmill in her hand and looked at her cousins ​​standing at the door.

Not long after, Zhai Ximo returned to the Zhai family carrying a small bamboo basket.

"Have you given all the things to them?" Wang Ziru asked.

"Well, Uncle Zhang is so polite. He even sent us a bowl of dried fish. Finally, we can stir-fry the dried fish with garlic sprouts." Zhai Ximo uncovered the small floral cloth inside the small bamboo basket and showed the dried fish inside the basket to his wife.

Hearing that there were dried fish, Bao Er said excitedly, "Let me see it."

Suddenly, I saw the dried fish in the bamboo basket and was very happy, "Dad, I like to eat dried fish."

Wang Ziru was working in the room and said with a sneer, "You haven't even eaten dried fish before, so how can you tell whether you like it or not?"

Zhai Ximo placed the small bamboo basket on the tattered drawer in front of the bed and picked up his son. "From now on, Daddy will find delicious food for you and make my baby grow up strong and healthy, so that he won't be afraid of those older kids anymore."

The little guy is so happy.

Thinking about going to Zhang Kang's house for a banquet the next day, Zhai Ximo even washed his hair.

Wang Ziru boiled a pot of water and let the man take a bath first.

Then I went to boil some water, gave Bao'er a bath and changed him into new clothes.

Normally, if there are a few children in the family who are afraid of the cold, they will bring their bowls to the fire and eat while warming themselves by the fire.

But today, the whole family had a quarrel.

Zhai Zhaodi was also called by her parents to eat in their own room.

The second brother's family also stayed in the room to the east of them, sitting on a bench at the door of the stove. The whole family sat at the door of the stove and ate a bowl of corn grits porridge.

Zhai Xiaoya looked at the corn grits porridge in the bowl and pouted: "Mom, why don't we have pork leg meat at home?"

Zhai Xiaofeng couldn't help but frown, "Mom, Third Uncle is too mean. He doesn't let us eat meat. From now on, I won't bring Baoer to play with me."

"Who asked you to be so kind as to take someone else's son out to play?" Xu Ping snorted coldly, eating a bowl of tasteless corn porridge, and felt that life was meaningless.

She raised her head and looked at her man, "Jiahao, go to the town and buy some pork tomorrow."

"I said you should eat meat!"

With his wife's permission, Zhai Jiahao was very excited.

His wife is in charge of the finances at home, and he just wants to eat it. If his wife doesn't agree, he can only eat the meat in his dreams.

In the side room, Wang Ziru poured a pot of boiling water into a wooden basin, added some well water, put her son into the basin, and carefully washed the child's hair and bathed him.

After Zhai Ximo washed his hair, he was responsible for making the fire burn more vigorously.

Watching his wife carefully bathing the child and washing his hair, Zhai Ximo felt that this was the life he wanted.

Wang Ziru gently washed her son's hair, raised her head and glanced at the man, "By the way, Bao'er's father, go to the town tomorrow and buy five kilograms of noodles and a few eggs, and send them to Chen Ergou's house."

"Yeah." Zhai Ximo nodded slightly and asked his wife expectantly, "Are you really not going to Qinglong Village with me to attend the wedding banquet tomorrow?"

"Why, you seem to be afraid of causing gossip outside? You want to take me to Zhang Kang's house so that the old couple of the Zhang family can't mention your engagement with Zhang Kang's sister five years ago?"