Chapter 53 Luo Lao Si must be crazy
Wang Ziru refused again and again, but Luo Laosi had made up his mind and insisted on inviting Wang Ziru to accept the wild pheasant.
"My wife gave birth today, and you helped a lot, sister! Although I am not very happy that Junxia gave birth to a girl, I later thought that next year, when Junxia recovers, I will let her have another child."
On the ridge of the field, Luo Laosi said with a chuckle.
I'm just looking forward to letting my wife have a good rest after the baby is born so we can fight again next year.
Several other strong men stared at the wild pheasant reluctantly. Originally, the three of them could each get one prey.
However, Luo Laosi asked them to give the fattest pheasant to Wang Ziru as a thank you gift.
"Then I'll obey your command! This pheasant is really solid," Wang Ziru looked at the pheasant in Luo Laosi's hand with a smile.
"Wait a minute, I'll go cut a vine to tie up the chicken's feet." Tian Da Kui quickly dropped the hoe in his hand, climbed onto the ridge of the field, pulled a vine from the edge of the woods, and tied up the wild pheasant's feet.
Luo Laosi was in a hurry to take the wild rabbit home, kill it and make rabbit soup for his wife in the evening.
With a few companions, he rushed down the hillside in a hurry.
The wild pheasant was left on the edge of the field. Baoer squatted beside it curiously and used a small branch to tease it.
"Girl! If you want to go home early to slaughter the chicken, go back first and leave the work in the field to me." Tian Da Kui saw the young man squatting on the edge of the field, carefully guarding the wild pheasant, thinking that Wang Ziru might also want to take the pheasant home quickly and stew it for the whole family to enjoy in the evening.
Seeing such a large sloping land, no matter how fast Tian Da Kui turned the land, he couldn't finish it by himself.
How could Wang Ziru have the nerve to go home first?
"It's okay! I'm not in a hurry to go home, I can go back later." Wang Ziru smiled, and raised the hoe with her thin arms, and started hoeing the ground. "By the way, Da Kui, how is Sister Xiuxiang's recovery these two days?"
If it weren't for the recent dew, the soil on the hillside would be damp.
Wang Ziru was holding a very blunt hoe. She lifted the hoe and dug into the soil several times before she could dig out a piece.
It seems that she is not destined to be a hard-working farmer.
Tian Da Kui looked at his young wife's unfamiliar posture of hoeing the ground and knew that she was not good at it.
"Thanks to you, my sister, who goes to the woods every day to help her collect herbs. She has to drink Chinese medicine and take medicine internally. I took a look at her last night and she is almost recovered." Zhuang Jiahan said shyly.
"I'm glad my sister-in-law has recovered! As long as you pay more attention to cleanliness in the future, nothing will happen..."
"Okay, okay, I will wash it thoroughly next time."
Tian Da Kui was also very puzzled. Wang Ziru was so young, but she had no scruples when talking about women.
When it comes to that matter, she can talk about it better than the female comrades at the town’s health center.
On the hillside, the two continued to plow the land until Wang Ziru saw that almost two-thirds of the dry field had been plowed.
Tian Da Kui saw his young wife looking at the children and wild pheasants on the ridge of the field again and again.
She took the initiative to say, "Girl, there's not much left here. You can take Baoer home and stew some chicken."
Wang Ziru looked up at the sky. It was almost five o'clock. If she went home at this time, she would kill the chicken and stew it. She would not be able to drink the chicken soup until dark at the earliest.
"Mom, Uncle Tian asked us to go home first." Baoer was also waiting anxiously.
"Then...Brother Da Kui, I'll take Bao Er back first. If you have something to do at home, you don't have to finish digging. Let Bao Er's dad come up and dig the remaining dirt when he's free."
Tian Da Kui smiled and said, "It's okay! I'll finish digging in a while, you guys go home first."
Wang Ziru walked to the edge of the field, put the wild pheasant into a small bamboo basket, took her child and carried the hoe down the mountain to go home.
Walking on the village road, whether men or women, when they met Wang Ziru, they all smiled and greeted her.
Several women were carrying dustpans and carrying dry manure to the terraced fields outside the road.
I saw a wild pheasant in the small bamboo basket that Wang Ziru was carrying!
The middle-aged woman with thick skin and flesh, who was carrying dried feces, was surprised and asked, "Girl, where did you get this pheasant?"
"Luo Laosi and his friends went into the mountains to hunt for mountain products, and gave me one." Wang Ziru said truthfully.
"Is Luo Laosi crazy? That idiot didn't even think about making chicken soup for his wife who was in confinement at home..."
The woman who was picking up dung immediately thought that Luo Laosi was giving the mountain products he had brought back as a tribute to Wang Ziru's family.
He was spraying feces in his mouth and the women were about to drive Luo Laosi crazy by scolding him.
Seeing this, Wang Ziru smiled faintly, "They killed three in total, a wild rabbit, and a smaller wild pheasant they brought back."
"You got so many mountain products?!"
They all eagerly chased the wild pheasants in Wang Ziru's small bamboo basket, their souls almost being hooked away.
The mother and son returned to Zhai's yard.
Many people have noticed that it takes no more than two hours for a young wife to take her children out to plow the fields.
Are you going to call it a day and go home?
It’s not even dark yet.
Xu Ping was mixing sand and cement in the yard. She then scooped up the mud-like cement mixture with a shovel and poured it into a dustpan.
When he turned around, he saw the third son's wife coming home with her child after plowing the field.
"Hey, Baoer, you guys finished plowing the land in the back hill so quickly?"
Baoer held her mother's hand and ignored her second aunt. She ran to her father with a smile, "Dad! We have chicken soup tonight. Go and kill the wild pheasant."
"Wild pheasant? Where did the chicken come from?" Zhai Ximo stood at the door of the newly built kitchen of the old family. He turned around and saw a chicken's head popping out of the bamboo basket carried by the woman. He was stunned for a moment, then he strode over with the child in his hand.
Wang Ziru was about to explain.
Hearing his son's happiness, he said in a clear voice, "These are the mountain products that Uncle Luo and his friends got from the mountains."
"Which Uncle Luo?" The man took a look at the wild pheasants in the bamboo basket. They looked the same as the hens raised at home. Although they were not big, they looked to weigh at least two or three kilograms.
Xu Ping also hurried over to check it out. "It's indeed a wild pheasant. It's quite big."
"It's Luo Laosi! A few of the men went into the mountains at noon and caught a wild rabbit." Wang Ziru said, looking down at the wild pheasants in the bamboo basket.
When Zhai Ximo heard that it was sent by Luo Laosi, he immediately understood what was going on.
Luo Laosi was also a grateful man. He brought back some mountain products and even knew to give them one.
He immediately rubbed the cement on his palm and said, "Give it to me. I'll take it to the back of the house to kill it, and then go to the stream to clean it out."
The family walked into the main hall amid everyone's different looks and disappeared at the door.
Several masons laughed and said:
"When we are done with this period of work, we will also go into the mountains to buy some mountain products."
"I'm afraid that by then they'll have conquered the entire area around the village."
"There's nothing around here, so let's go deeper..."
"You're not afraid of encountering a black bear! It would be troublesome if you encounter that thing."
Behind Hongmei Village is dense forest, a primeval forest. Normally, one would not dare to go in and look for something.
When they have free time, they invite each other to go into the mountains.
Although Zhai Ximo was working for his elder brother, he was a mobile helper and usually did some heavy work.
At this time, he didn't even say hello to his eldest brother. He went straight to the back of the house, got a kitchen knife from the stove, and went to the grass behind the stove to kill a chicken.
Wang Ziru lit the fire in the stove and boiled a pot of water to cook the chicken.
Watching the man standing on the grass behind the house plucking chicken feathers seriously, Wang Ziru felt a little moved. A family needs a man.
Her mother-in-law had gone somewhere and when she returned home she saw her son, daughter-in-law and grandson plucking chicken feathers behind the house, as if they were eating her hens.
With fire rising from his chest, he walked over and angrily scolded, "These are the only three hens we have at home. Can't you kill some chickens later if you just want to eat them?"
The old woman's meaning was obvious; she wanted to secretly pick up a few eggs to eat.
If all the hens in the chicken coop are eaten, why would she eat the eggs?
Wang Ziru looked back at her mother-in-law's angry expression and said coldly, "My chicken, I can eat it whenever I want, why do you care? Also, you secretly ate the dry rice I cooked in the hanging pot at noon. Don't you plan to apologize to me?"