"Then, third sister-in-law, if you don't have enough to eat, you must come to us." Brother Chu said with a smile.
Zhou Jiaojiao smiled faintly and nodded.
Chu's mother and father watched the three brothers living in harmony with each other with a smile. At this time, Chu's mother was sincerely happy that she could marry Zhou Jiaojiao to the third brother. She was smart and intelligent. There was no other suitable and excellent daughter-in-law for the third brother in the village.
Chu San also knew that Zhou Jiaojiao was helping him. His cheeks flushed, and he was so innocent and shy that he picked up Zhou Jiaojiao and asked everyone, "Are you guys done talking? I'm going to take my wife out to dinner."
"Go, go." Mother Chu could see that the third son was clingy to Zhou Jiaojiao. She originally thought that his mental age had recovered a little and he should be at the age of shyness. However, she didn't know that even if he had the mentality of a ten-year-old, he knew that his wife was the most important.
She felt relieved when she saw this, after all, a harmonious family is the key to success.
Zhou Jiaojiao was carried by Chu San back to their own cart. Chu San carefully pulled out a package from the bottom cloth bag. When he opened it, he saw that it was filled with pastries. They were the ones he had exchanged from Xi County. The fact that they were still in good condition was due not only to the characteristics of the pastries themselves, but also to Chu San's careful preservation.
"Madam, eat." Chu San handed all the pastries to her.
The pastry is not big, but tastes good. After all, it is made by the chef of Liu Mansion, and his skills are much better than those of ordinary people.
Zhou Jiaojiao ate a piece herself and stuffed another piece into Chu San's mouth.
Chu San blushed and shook his head, "Mom, Madam, you eat."
"Since I am your wife, do you have to listen to me?" Zhou Jiaojiao felt that since his mental age returned to ten years old, he had become more shy and usually didn't dare to look at her. However, he was still very clingy, which made her feel particularly cute.
"Listen, listen to my wife..." Chu San almost buried his head in his chest.
Zhou Jiaojiao reached out and lifted his face, then fed the pastry into his mouth.
Chu San was so embarrassed that his face was flushed.
"My lady, I can do it myself." After he said that, he quickly turned his back to Zhou Jiaojiao, holding a crispy cake in his hand, and ate it as if it were a piece of gold, cherishing it.
Zhou Jiaojiao stopped teasing him. It was indeed a bit too much to tease a ten-year-old child.
But Chu San was quite cute when he was little.
Zhou Jiaojiao didn't eat much, and when she was alone, she could take some food out from the space, so her body was always fine.
She finished checking the remaining food.
It was confirmed that the only things taken away by Chen Lin were some raw food such as flour at the back, while the pancakes at the front that were easy to store and could be eaten directly on the road were left behind.
Judging from the traces, she felt that it didn't look like it was taken by a normal person. After all, a thief shouldn't just take the things from above. It would be easy to take and not make any noise and get discovered.
Since she was sure that it was Chen Lin who did it, Zhou Jiaojiao kept staring at her all the way.
Time flies, and it is mid-October in the blink of an eye.
The weather suddenly turned cold, as if it was still sunny the day before, and it was early winter the next day.
"Village chief, we can't continue. It's so cold. We need to change our clothes before we can continue walking."
"Yeah, I see quite a few refugees along this river. They must be distributing food up ahead. At least we're not on the wrong path."
The villagers in their village were united, and those refugees, who were like a group of scattered sand, did not dare to come over and make plans even if they were starving. Some refugees even came to steal things along the way.
But ever since the Chu family's human traffickers ran away and stole some of the food, the villagers have become vigilant. Even when they sleep at night, each household has to leave one person on guard.
So except for some food being stolen at the beginning, the journey was smooth.
Zhou Jiaojiao looked at the village chief.
The village chief was also shivering in the cold wind. Seeing that they were already on the road, he stopped to ask for information and agreed: "Everyone stop first and dress warmly to avoid catching a cold. We won't have much medicine when the time comes."
"Okay, Village Chief."
Every household stopped immediately and rested at the foot of the small hill nearby. Looking around, they saw only withered grass roots and most of the trees had their bark stripped off. It was obvious that the situation here was not good either.
Zhou Jiaojiao had already put on a warm cotton jacket to cover up her slightly pregnant belly. Her belly was not small anymore, it was more than eight months old and almost nine months pregnant.
Chu's mother was very diligent. When she saw the large team stopped, she immediately asked Chu's father to pick up a few stones around and build a simple stove. She placed the pottery jar on it and put the clean water that had been filtered long ago into the pottery jar to boil.
Firewood was picked up from all around, and there were dead and yellow branches everywhere in the countryside.
After a while, I heard the gurgling sound of water.
Chu's mother called out to Chu San, "Lao San, bring your wife's water bag over here so I can fill it with some hot water."
"Mom, I'm here." When Chu San heard this, he just put on a torn thin cotton jacket and ran over quickly with a kettle.
After the kettle was filled, Chu's mother quickly threw a piece of brown sugar into it and told Chu San to shake it before giving it to Zhou Jiaojiao to drink.
Chu's mother was not partial and gave the remaining hot water to her two daughters-in-law and little daughter.
Zhou Jiaojiao drank the warm brown sugar water and felt a warm and comfortable feeling in her stomach. She offered it to Chu San, but Chu San shook his head and said softly, "My dear, I have some wine to warm you up."
"Don't drink too much." Zhou Jiaojiao was afraid that he was drunk.
But she soon became overthinking, because even the wine in Chu San's kettle was only a low-alcohol wine, which would not make him drunk at all. Besides, there was not that much wine for him to drink at the moment, so what she said was completely nonsense.
Chu San was very happy with her concern: "My lady, I won't."
"You're so obedient." Zhou Jiaojiao couldn't help but reach out and touch his head. She inexplicably felt a sense of love for her son.
Chu San always felt that it was a bit strange to let his wife touch his head, but he was too embarrassed to say it, so he could only endure it with a red face, which only made people continue to bully him.
Zhou Jiaojiao hadn't spoken to Chu San for long when she heard children from other farmers' households in the village start coughing.
Doctor Lin was called over by that family.
Zhou Jiaojiao frowned slightly.
"Madam, what's wrong?" Chu San always paid attention to her emotional changes. Seeing that she was worried, he just wanted to solve the problem for her.
Zhou Jiaojiao said: "A child caught a cold and started coughing."
"That's okay, Doctor Lin will cure it. Doctor Lin is the best doctor in the village." Chu San's mental age is ten years old at this moment, so he naturally has memories before he was ten years old. In his memory, Doctor Lin has been treating the villagers in the village. Except for some terminal illnesses, almost all the patients come to him.
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