Chapter 102 Can't withstand this kind of torment
He nodded in agreement, saying, "Building a house is a good thing. If you're short of money, I'll make it up to your grandfather. Come to think of it, if you hadn't gotten involved, your grandfather probably wouldn't have thought about building a house so soon."
"As a reward for you, I'll take you to the city for a few days."
Shen Xuewei's eyes lit up. "Really?"
Chen Fangyang raised his chin slightly and looked at her sideways.
"When have I ever lied to you?"
Shen Xuewei smiled, revealing two rows of white teeth, and said sincerely, "Thank you, Second Uncle. You're so kind."
Chen Fangyang's lips curled up at her praise, but he quickly suppressed it and said, "Now you know I'm all better, right? Alright, just pack a couple of changes of clothes, and I'll take you out to play later. As for your grandparents, I'll talk to them for you."
Shen Xuewei looked at Chen Fangyang with stars practically popping out of her eyes.
He mentioned Grandpa Chen and Grandma Xi, and Shen Xuewei then remembered that they had asked her to come back and cook and prepare vegetables first, so that they could eat when they came back later.
"Second Uncle, Brother Xiannan, please sit down first. I need to start cooking."
She washed the rice, put the pot on a tripod to cook it, and then went to the back of the mountain.
She looked at the chickens not far away, clucking as she approached.
When the chickens lowered their guard, they quickly caught one.
Besides the two roosters and the old hen, the other chickens in the house were hatched three or four months ago, so they are still very young.
The chicken in her hand wasn't big, probably weighing a little over two pounds, but it was still edible.
Since Chen Fangyang and Zhao Xiannan rarely come back, given her maternal grandparents' personalities, killing a chicken to entertain them is a must.
So she caught one in advance, intending to deal with it when they returned.
She took a rope, tied the chicken up, and left it by the door.
After finding a wood-chopping knife, he planned to go to the vegetable garden to pick some green vegetables.
Chen Fangyang sat on the stool the whole time, just watching Shen Xuewei busy herself.
Zhao Xiannan, however, seemed a little embarrassed seeing Shen Xuewei busy with things, and stood up to say:
"What else do you need? I'll help too."
Chen Fangyang moved to another spot, lay down on a recliner, and casually said:
"Xiannan, you don't know how to do these things, just rest and wait for dinner... Never mind, then go help Xiaoweiwei, and while you're at it, get familiar with our land."
Shen Xuewei didn't stand on ceremony with Zhao Xiannan. Seeing that he really wanted to help, she led him towards the back mountain.
There is a large area of land in front of the back mountain, where the Chen family's vegetable garden is located.
Zhao Xiannan looked around the area with curiosity and asked, "Does this whole area belong to our family?"
He grew up in the city with Zhao Fang'er and rarely went to the countryside.
On a few separate occasions, I visited Xiaoli Village.
However, this is the first time I've examined it so carefully.
“Of course not,” Shen Xuewei said, pointing to several places in front of her.
"This piece of land belongs to my second maternal grandfather, this piece of land belongs to Yu Hong's family, this piece of land belongs to Uncle Chen's family, and this piece of land over here belongs to our family."
Zhao Xiannan stared intently at the plot of land belonging to the Chen family and said, "I've noted it down. I'll come and help you harvest it when it's busy farming season."
"Sure, but aren't you about to go to high school? You probably won't have much time to come then, and it's really tiring."
Zhao Xiannan smiled, his tone revealing a hint of eagerness.
"It's okay, I just wanted to give it a try."
Shen Xuewei opened the gate to the vegetable garden and casually asked, "I didn't expect you to be so interested. Haven't you ever helped your grandparents or maternal grandparents harvest vegetables before?"
When Zhao Xiannan's sensitive points were mentioned, he looked dejected, and his eyes became dull and lifeless.
“I’ve never met my maternal grandparents. My dad has a new wife and children, and my paternal grandparents… they don’t like me…”
Shen Xuewei paused, a wave of guilt washing over her, and she mentally slapped herself.
Why would she have to ask someone such a question out of the blue?
Well, now we've touched a raw nerve.
She deserves to die...
Seeing that Shen Xuewei had suddenly quieted down, Zhao Xiannan laughed instead.
"It's nothing, it's something everyone already knows anyway."
He changed the subject, "By the way, there are so many vegetables in this garden, what do you want to pick? I'll pick some with you."
Shen Xuewei pointed to a small vegetable patch not far away and said, "Then you pick this bok choy, and I'll pick some green beans and a few cucumbers."
"Okay, I'll go pick them."
Following Shen Xuewei's instructions, he picked a few bok choy plants. "Is that enough?"
Shen Xuewei was tiptoeing to pick green beans when she glanced at him and said, "That's not enough. You can get the two more portions you have, and that should be enough."
Upon hearing this, Zhao Xiannan did as she said and prepared some more according to the amount she had indicated.
This time, Shen Xuewei finally nodded.
The two picked the vegetables and put them into the vegetable basket that Shen Xuewei had brought. Zhao Xiannan quickly put the vegetables into his wrist.
Shen Xuewei was happy to have some free time and let him take it.
The two continued walking along the path towards the back of the mountain.
On the way, Shen Xuewei picked some mint from both sides of the road and put it in her vegetable basket.
Seeing Zhao Xiannan pick up a small bunch, she explained, "This is mint. Grandpa likes to put it in dipping sauce to eat with vegetables..."
Zhao Xiannan sniffed it curiously, then put it back in the basket.
Shen Xuewei walked ahead, occasionally using a machete to cut down the newly grown saplings and grass on both sides of the road.
As she walked along the path that led out of the woods, she craned her neck to look into the forest.
Upon spotting a yellow figure in the distance, they quickly walked over.
“There, the cow is there.”
Zhao Xiannan was about to follow when Shen Xuewei turned around and saw the grass seeds on his clothes, so she quickly stopped him.
"Just wait for me outside. If you wear short sleeves and get cut by the grass, and there are lots of grass seeds in here that could stick to you..."
After she said that, Zhao Xiannan watched her walk further and further away, then stopped and waited for her.
A short while later, she was seen leading a cow out.
"Let's go."
Zhao Xiannan followed behind, looking at the cow's back with a sense of eagerness.
"Those poems often describe cowherds riding oxen. I wonder what it would feel like to ride one."
Shen Xuewei tightened her grip on the cow rope. "If you want to ride, we can find a water buffalo for you to try. As for this yellow ox..."
"Scalpers aren't working out."
"Why?" Zhao Xiannan asked, while stroking the cow.
Shen Xuewei glanced at the cow's hooves and felt a little scared.
"If you try to ride on a bull's back, it will throw you off and might even step on you with its hoof..."
Zhao Xiannan recoiled as if he'd been electrocuted. "Seriously? This cow looks so docile, how come it's so fierce?"
"That's just its appearance. If you dare to sit on it, it'll give you a hard time."
The reason she knew so much was because in her past life she was the one who was knocked down and almost trampled by a cow's hoof.
If she hadn't dodged quickly, she probably would have been trampled to death on the spot.
She had previously learned a poem called "What I Saw," which mentioned a scene of a shepherd boy riding an ox, and that sparked her interest in trying what it would feel like to ride an ox.
However, you shouldn't have such thoughts in the future.
After all, she only has one life, and she can't withstand this kind of torment.
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