Chapter 57: Immortal Blessing
Mom, lying is so tiring.
One lie requires countless lies to cover it up, just think of the eggs that were stolen yesterday.
Jiang Fubao still said it out loud.
Watching the expressions of my family members gradually becoming more convinced.
She breathed a sigh of relief.
"Mom, Fubao, she won't meet an immortal, right?"
Sun Pingmei looked a little nervous.
Even though the weather had warmed up, she felt a chill pass through her body.
My legs began to tremble unconsciously.
"When the child was just born, I went to the kitchen to get some hot water to wash Yan Zi, but when I looked up, the sky was full of auspicious clouds. I guess it was God's sign for us. Do you remember? That day, Yamato said Fu Bao was dead, but a little later, Fu Bao suddenly came back to life. How can a dead person be resurrected? He must have been saved by the gods!"
Zhang Jinlan was sorting out various things in her mind.
Finally she came to a conclusion.
The old man with white beard that the granddaughter met was the immortal.
After saying that, she put Jiang Fubao on the ground and knelt down with a bang.
He didn't care how dirty the mud in the backyard was.
"Thank you so much for saving my granddaughter's life. I will never forget this great kindness. I only hope that you can protect my granddaughter and let her grow up safely. Even if it reduces my life span, I will not hesitate. I hope you can protect her. Thank you so much, thank you so much..."
Zhang Jinlan said this while kowtowing.
The other members of the Jiang family also reacted.
Then they knelt down together.
They all kowtowed toward the sky devoutly, thanking the immortals for saving Jiang Fubao's life.
Everyone's forehead was covered in mud and chicken feces to varying degrees, and their skin was red and even slightly swollen.
But they seemed to feel no pain until a quarter of an hour later, when the ceremony of thanksgiving ended.
Slowly they stood up.
"Fubao survived a great disaster, so she will surely have good fortune in the future. Our family has also benefited from Fubao. You must be nice to Fubao in the future, understand? Also, you are not allowed to tell anyone about what happened at home.
Otherwise, Fubao will be worried about her life. There will definitely be people who will covet Fubao's fortune. We are old, but Fubao is still young. When we both pass away, you must protect her. Do you hear me?"
Jiang Shoujia wiped the dirt from his forehead with his sleeve as he spoke.
His expression was serious.
Everyone nodded in unison.
Only Jiang Fubao had red eyes.
At this moment, it seemed as if a light shone into her heart.
The Jiang family in front of me.
They will be her relatives in the future.
"Grandma, Grandpa, are you in pain?"
Tears dripped onto the ground, feeling a little hot.
Jiang Fubao sniffed, hugged grandma's legs, and asked in a hoarse voice.
"Hey, why are you crying, Fubao? Grandma doesn't feel bad. Fubao is a blessed and good kid. As long as you are safe and healthy, it's okay for grandma to kowtow to you one more time. Come on, grandma will take you to wash up. This morning, everyone in our family will get two boiled eggs each!"
Zhang Jinlan picked up her granddaughter. She smiled happily, but the redness and swelling on her forehead were clearly visible.
Jiang Fubao used his small fleshy hands to wipe grandma's face.
There was heartache in his eyes.
"Mom is so generous, sister-in-law, let's quickly clean up the eggs and boil them. I haven't tasted what boiled eggs taste like yet."
Sun Pingmei was originally holding her forehead and grimacing in pain.
I heard there were eggs to eat.
Who cares about the forehead?
She ran to the utility room, got a backpack, squatted on the ground, picked up the eggs and put them in it.
While putting them together, he counted them: "One, two, three, four............"
The joy in his eyes could not be concealed at all.
"You glutton! Wash your face first!" Jiang Eryong shook his head helplessly.
A quarter of an hour later.
Jiang Fubao held an egg in each hand and sat on a small chair, savoring them slowly.
The other members of the Jiang family also had smug looks on their faces.
There were egg shells scattered all over the floor.
The greedy Jiang Tongtu almost choked and rolled his eyes because he swallowed a whole egg in one bite. Jiang Eryong was so angry that he hurriedly gave him water, scolding him and patting his back.
"You little brat, have you never eaten in your life?"
We took a while to shoot.
Jiang Tongtu finally came back to his senses.
He grinned awkwardly and laughed dryly twice: "Hey, Dad, I'm so hungry."
"Dad, you don't want to eat this egg? Give me half of it."
Before Jiang Eryong could continue to scold, Sun Pingmei thought of the eggs. When she was feeding him water just now, Jiang Eryong's eggs were placed on the windowsill and had not been peeled yet.
"Oh! No wonder it's mother and son. They've eaten one piece. Take it, eat it." Jiang Eryong sighed heavily, and he put the remaining egg in Sun Pingmei's hand.
He turned around and went to the backyard to chop wood.
It seemed like looking at this mother and son for even one more second would make me feel annoyed.
Seeing the lively Jiang Fubao, I almost laughed out loud.
"Mom, Pingmei and I just put all the eggs in the backpack and bamboo basket. There are 360 eggs in total. With the 10 left over from yesterday, we ate 32 eggs this morning, so there are 338 eggs left. I happen to have nothing to do today, so let the boy's father take them to the town to sell them, otherwise they will go bad if they are left for too long."
After breakfast.
Zhu Yingqiu suggested selling the eggs.
"It's time to sell them. Leave them for eight nights. Sell 330 of them. Guangda and one person are tired of carrying them, and the bamboo basket can't hold them all. Eryong and Siyin will go too. We just happen to have three baskets.
Remember to pad the eggs with straw to prevent them from getting damaged on the road. By the way, Yamato, after selling the eggs, buy a big bone. I will make some egg pancakes with the bone soup tonight."
Zhang Jinlan was giving detailed instructions beside him.
In the time it took to drink a cup of tea, the three brothers went out with their bamboo baskets on their backs.
There are many children in the family, and several grandchildren are old enough to do farm work.
So the brothers Jiang Tongjin and Jiang Tongmu followed their grandfather to the fields.
The others split into two groups.
Along the way, I caught insects and got grass seeds to feed the chickens, and along the way, I went to the mountains to dig wild vegetables.
Jiang Fubao followed the wild vegetable team.
The things in the space have already been revealed in disguised form, so there is no need to find holes to hide the eggs.
Follow the grandmothers to pick wild vegetables and try your luck in the inner part of the mountain.
Just in case you see ginseng again.
And you can make a fortune.
The five-member team of wild vegetable diggers headed deep into the mountains.
Knowing that their granddaughter was blessed by the gods, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were no longer afraid of the inner part of the mountain.
This time they changed the place to look for wild vegetables.
When they reached a hillside, Sun Pingmei, who had the sharpest eyes, pointed at a patch of green and shouted, "Mom, look, is that mustard greens?"
"It seems so. Let's go and take a look." Several people hurriedly stopped, turned in another direction and headed towards the hillside.
"You are really shepherd's purse, sister-in-law. How come you have such sharp eyes? You can see from such a long distance."
Zhang Yanzi really admires him.
"Can you compete with her? When she sees food, she runs faster than anyone else. Looking from a distance, I thought this field was full of weeds, but she can tell them apart at a glance. If she were sent to the border as a spy, wouldn't she be making a great contribution? Oh, that's right. She only spies for food, not people. Well, she'd better be a boiler maker, hahahaha."
Zhu Yingqiu teased her with a smile.