Chapter 5: The Young Daughter-in-law of the Yang Family
After eating half a peach, Lin Wanwan felt that since she had eaten Yang Daya's food, she had to help her with work.
Although Yang Daya said it was not necessary, Lin Wanwan still insisted.
In the end, Yang Daya had no choice but to give the job of making fire to her.
But he went to the backyard and started pulling out the weeds in the vegetable garden.
"Fortunately, the weeding job wasn't given to Third Aunt. It would have been terrible if she had taken these weeds home and eaten them as wild vegetables!"
Yang Daya had seen the scene where Lin Wanwan grabbed a handful of foxtail grass leaves and stuffed them into her mouth.
Although I have never heard that foxtail grass is poisonous, and the cows in the village also like to eat it, it is still somewhat strange for people to eat foxtail grass.
There are many newly grown foxtail grass seedlings in their vegetable garden.
Third Aunt even dares to eat old foxtail grass leaves. If she saw these fresh and tender foxtail grasses, she would probably compete with the old cow for the food.
Yang Daya was thinking about all sorts of things and quickly pulled out all the weeds in the vegetable garden.
All the food that could be eaten by the chickens was thrown into the chicken coop, and all the food that could not be eaten by the chickens was thrown onto the edge of the field.
"I have to go back and check if the water in the pot is boiling. Auntie San looks a bit silly. Don't let the water dry up again!"
After washing her hands in the ditch beside the vegetable field, Yang Daya walked around the wall and returned to her own yard.
Lin Wanwan was not as stupid as she imagined. After the water boiled, she stopped adding firewood to the stove.
She's just a little slow to react now, but she's not really stupid.
At this time, he was sitting under the eaves, picking the wild vegetables he had dug up one by one.
You definitely can’t eat so many wild vegetables in one meal, so you have to clean them and dry them into dried vegetables.
"Aunt San, there are so many wild vegetables."
"The vegetables in the fields are now ready to eat. Why don't we dry them and save them for the winter when there's no vegetables?"
To be honest, Yang Daya is not very happy to eat wild vegetables.
There are plenty of vegetables in the backyard. At this time of year, you can just sow some seeds on the ground and they will grow into seedlings.
Why eat these bitter and astringent wild vegetables?
But her grandmother especially likes to eat wild vegetables. Yang Daya is a little worried. If her grandmother sees her, she will probably have to eat wild vegetables again at noon.
Both of them worked quickly, and after nearly an hour, they finally sorted and cleaned all the wild vegetables.
"Grandma and the others probably won't be back for a while, so let's blanch the wild vegetables and dry them in the sun first!"
In order to prevent Cai Guifen from coming back to cook the wild vegetables, Yang Daya decided to act first and ask for permission later, and dry the wild vegetables first.
This way, grandma won’t still be thinking about eating wild vegetables, right?
"Okay, I'll go light a fire for you!"
Lin Wanwan nodded in agreement. Although she had not yet visited the vegetable garden, the vegetables she had eaten in the morning were indeed more delicious than these wild vegetables.
When she had no choice, Lin Wanwan thought wild vegetables were the most delicious food in the world, but once she made a comparison, she felt that the vegetables she had eaten in the morning were more delicious.
The two diligent men quickly blanched the wild vegetables and dried them on a large round winnowing basket.
When Cai Guifen returned with the women in her family, she found several stalls of wild vegetables drying in the yard.
The sun was very strong at this time, and the wild vegetables had lost a lot of moisture.
"Why are there so many wild vegetables in this yard? Did you go digging for them, Daya?"
Cai Guifen felt happy when she saw so many wild vegetables. It seemed that she could eat more dried wild vegetables this winter.
"Grandma, you're finally back!"
"These wild vegetables were all dug by Third Aunt. Third Aunt is really amazing!"
When Yang Daya saw that her family had finally returned, she rushed to Cai Guifen.
She knew who was in charge, so she didn't even notice her own mother was next to her.
"Grandma, Grandma! Come with me quickly, I have something to tell you."
Seeing her eldest granddaughter so anxious, Cai Guifen felt a little suspicious. Could it be that something had happened to the third son’s wife again?
When I saw the wild vegetables just now, I felt a little relieved that the third son's wife was also capable.
But after Yang Daya's mysterious move, my heart, which had been at ease, couldn't help but feel anxious again.
"Daya, is there something wrong at home again?"
Liu Huazhen followed with some concern, and saw her daughter holding her mother-in-law's hand and walking to the corner of the kitchen.
There was a large backpack with pig grass sticking out from the top.
"It turned out to be a basket of pig grass. I thought it was nothing more than that!"
"Daya, you're such a fool! A basket of pig grass is worth one work point after all. Why didn't you deliver it to the pigpen in time?"
Liu Huazhen reached out and grabbed two handfuls of pig grass, but found nothing unusual, so she looked at her daughter with some blame.
She was so sneaky just to carry a basket of pig grass. I guess her silly daughter will be scolded by her mother-in-law soon.
"Oh, no, the thing is under the backpack!"
The more anxious Yang Daya became, the more difficult it was for her to say the words.
She simply carried all the pig grass that was pressing on the backpack to the ground.
The women who saw this scene couldn't help but frown again.
What's wrong with this girl today?
Why are you throwing pig grass on the ground?
But when all the pig grass on top was removed, revealing the black and furry mass underneath, the women couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.
"Hey, Daya, where did you get that little wild boar?"
Liu Huazhen subconsciously lowered her voice, moved closer to her daughter, and stared at the wild boar in the basket.
"It was Aunt Three who caught it. The two of us were out digging wild vegetables and picking grass for pigs. A wild boar emerged from a small bush and Aunt Three beat it to death with a stone."
"Don't worry, grandma. We've been carrying people all the way here, so we won't be discovered."
Although Yang Daya knew her grandmother's character, she would not hand over the meat to the villagers.
But she was still a little worried, because this was forty or fifty kilograms of meat.
With this meat, their family will be able to have some meat every now and then within the next six months.
Although it is impossible to eat your fill, dishes with meat are still more delicious than the ones we have now, right?
"You did the right thing. The eldest daughter-in-law, go and prepare some hot water. The second daughter-in-law, go and guard the door. Wait for the men in the family to come back and quickly close the gate."
"Daya, where is your third aunt?"
After giving instructions to several women in the family, Cai Guifen asked about Lin Wanwan's whereabouts.
"Grandma, Third Aunt has been working all morning and is a little tired, so I'll let her go back to her room and get some sleep."
Speaking of this, Yang Daya felt a little embarrassed.
Third Aunt was so enthusiastic that she insisted on dragging her outside to dig wild vegetables.
But Yang Daya was worried about the little wild boar at home and refused to leave, so she persuaded Lin Wanwan to go back to her room and sleep.
Anyway, there are people doing the housework, and all the work that can be done today has been done. Instead of letting Third Aunt keep pestering her to go out, it is better to coax her to go to bed!
What's more, both my grandmother and my mother said that Third Aunt is in poor health and needs to be taken good care of.
She is listening to her grandmother and mother and taking care of her third aunt!
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