Seeing that neither of them spoke up for her, Xu Feng became afraid. After all, if they really wanted to argue, they were in the wrong for coming to someone else's contracted forest to pick mushrooms, not to mention she had said such things.
She struggled to hold onto a small tree and begged her sisters-in-law, "Chunyan, Sister Zhao, I really just said that casually. Just treat it as if I was talking nonsense and don't take it personally, okay?"
Li Qiuyue sneered, "You just said that casually, and you said that my family treated the villagers like slaves. If you weren't saying that casually, I don't know how you would frame my family!
Ruilan and Aihua have heard it. You can't deny it even if you want to. You must go to the brigade today and talk to the brigade cadres to make things clear. Otherwise, no one will dare to pay people to help with work in the future."
Wangcai, who was watching from the side, saw Yang Chunyan's sister-in-law grabbing Xu Feng and refused to let go, and he also barked.
"I swear, I won't talk nonsense anymore." Xu Feng raised his hand and slapped himself twice. "If I say anything nonsense about your family in the future, my intestines will be ruptured, I will be killed by a hoe while working, I will be bitten to death by wild animals when I go up the mountain, or I will fall into the water and drown when I go out."
Then he picked up the basket and poured most of the bamboo fungus into the basket on Zhao Huifang's back. "I'll give you your bamboo fungus. I'll go to your house to pick more bamboo fungus in the future. It's up to you to decide what to do with it."
Seeing that the sisters-in-law were silent with gloomy faces, Su Ruilan also hurriedly said, "Chunyan, Huifang, we are all from the same village, and Xu Feng has sworn a poisonous oath, so why don't we just let it go this time?"
Lin Aihua hurriedly poured the bamboo fungus in her basket into Zhao Huifang's backpack, "Chunyan, Sister Zhao, please give us some face. We will return the bamboo fungus to you and we will never go there again."
"Yes, we will return it to you." Su Ruilan also poured the bamboo fungus in the vegetable basket into the backpack.
Yang Chunyan stopped the two of them and said, "Sister Su and Sister Lin are both reasonable. You can take these bamboo fungi back home and eat them yourself."
"Thank you so much!" Su Ruilan and Lin Aihua blushed and thanked their sisters-in-law.
"We let it go this time for the sake of both of you." Yang Chunyan said, looking at Xu Feng, "Don't think that it's all right now. From now on, if we hear people gossiping about people working like slaves for years, we will only look for you."
"Don't worry, we will never tell." Su Ruilan and Lin Aihua both promised.
Xu Feng also nodded, turned around and walked down the mountain. She hated Su Lin and the other man, thinking that they had sold her out to please the Zhou family.
Su Ruilan and Lin Aihua also decided not to associate with such troublemakers in the future, so as to avoid having their reputations ruined by her.
When the villagers on the hillside saw Xu Feng and the other two going up the hill, they turned around and walked towards the woods ahead.
Zhao Huifang looked at the time and said to Yang Chunyan and the others, "It's past ten o'clock. Should we go back and pick it up?"
Yang Chunyan shook her head and said, "Forget it. By the time we get back, most of the bamboo fungi will have withered. We should go back and help pull up the seedlings. It will be time for lunch."
"That's great!" Zhao Huifang nodded. "Go home and pick up the bamboo fungus while we go pull up the seedlings."
After the sisters-in-law discussed it, they walked back. When they reached the big pit, they saw Zhou's mother climbing up the mountain carrying a bamboo basket.
Yang Chunyan untied the rope that tied the fence door, walked in and shouted, "Mom, are you going down to pick mushrooms?"
Mother Zhou looked up and saw her sisters-in-law. She nodded happily, "Yes! I picked up a full bamboo basket downstairs. You go first. I'll show you when I get home. There are quite a few good things!"
"Okay!" Yang Chunyan and her sister-in-law arrived home and saw Xiao Jiuer and Xiao Long sitting on a mat playing with building blocks. Zhou Jiaming was holding a book in his hand, but his eyes were looking nowhere.
Zhao Huifang stepped forward and patted his head. "Are you reading or dozing off?"
Zhou Jiaming rubbed his head and looked at her dissatisfiedly, "Mom, I told you, you can't pat your head, or you'll become stupid!"
"I don't know how smart you are!" Zhao Huifang glared at him, "How many are there in Jialiang?"
Zhou Jiaming: "I went to the rice field to help pull out the rice seedlings and carry the rice seedlings."
Zhao Huifang and Zhang Xiuxiang took off their rain boots. "Chunyan, Qiuyue, I'll leave the bamboo fungus to you two. We're going to the rice fields."
"That's great!" Li Qiuyue, who was holding Xiaolong and feeding him, responded.
Yang Chunyan looked at Xiao Jiuer's pants and saw that they were not wet. She coaxed him for a few words and then started to clean up the bamboo fungi.
Cut off the muddy stems and clean the caps, because the smelly caps will affect the taste and aroma of the bamboo fungus.
When Zhou's mother came back, Yang Chunyan and the other person had already collected a lot of bamboo fungi. When they saw her put down the bamboo basket with a smile, they all looked into the basket curiously.
There were red mushrooms, morels, chicken mushrooms, chanterelles, brush mushrooms and blue-headed mushrooms. "Wow, there are really a lot of good things!"
Mother Zhou smiled as she picked up the mushrooms and put them in the basket. "Look, there are still a few dried mushrooms. We will stir-fry the mushrooms and cook chicken mushroom soup for lunch today."
Yang Chunyan nodded. "Okay, after we put the bamboo fungus in the oven, we'll pick up the red mushrooms, morels, and chanterelles and send them upstairs to dry."
When Zhou's mother saw that there were a lot of bamboo fungi in the basket, she hurriedly said, "Then let me help you light the oven first." After she said that, she put down the basket and walked towards the kitchen.
Yang Chunyan and Li Qiuyue cleaned the bamboo fungus, put them neatly into the baking tray, put them into the oven, set the alarm clock, and then started to clean the other mushrooms.
After cleaning a few pounds of big-foot mushrooms, slice them and put them in the oven together with morels and a few pounds of red mushrooms to dry. Put the chanterelles in a dustpan and take it upstairs to dry. Come back and wash a few red onions, miscellaneous mushrooms, and chicken mushrooms, and put them in a dustpan to drain the water.
"Third sister-in-law, let's go to the firewood pile in the back mountain and find some sticks as thick as calves. Wait for Huai'an and the others to come back and fence off the fish pond outside to prevent Xiao Jiuer and Xiao Wan from going out and getting insecure."
"I wanted to say it the other day, but I procrastinated and forgot about it."
Yang Chunyan's sister-in-law asked Zhou Jiaming to take his younger brother to the firewood pile in the back mountain, took down the straw mat covering it, found dozens of wooden sticks, and moved them to the baking room.
Mother Zhou came out with a basket and saw them there, "Pick some green and red peppers, and pick a few vines to stir-fry for lunch."
Yang Chunyan took it, and the two of them entered the vegetable field and saw a small row of leeks growing thick and long. "This row of leeks has grown so long, how about cutting some and blanching them and making a cold dish?"
"Okay, I'll go back and get the sickle." Li Qiuyue put the green pepper in her hand into the basket, turned and walked towards the fence gate of the vegetable garden.
Zhou Jiaming held Xiaolong in his arms, followed by Xiaojiuer, and came to the edge of the vegetable field. "Aunt, pick a cucumber for me."
"Okay!" Yang Chunyan picked a tender cucumber and handed it to him. "There are small thorns on it. Peel the skin before eating."
"Oh!" Zhou Jiaming took it and pointed to the vegetable garden, "Aunt, Jiuer went in."
Yang Chunyan turned her head and saw the little guy coming in. She grabbed a cucumber and said, "Jiuer, cucumber!"
"Okay, eat the cucumber." Yang Chunyan hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed the cucumber and took it off. "Give it to me, brother. I'll wash it for you and eat it."
"Wash it and eat it!" Little Jiuer nodded, squatting in front of the vine and watching her pick the vegetables. Suddenly, she stretched out her chubby little hands, grabbed a plump cabbage worm, put it in her bib pocket, her eyes widened, and after a while she grabbed another one and put it in her pocket.
Li Qiuyue took out a sickle and quickly cut a few bunches of leeks. "Chunyan, have you seen enough?"
"That's enough. The second meal of cold leeks won't taste good." Yang Chunyan saw that there was enough lettuce in the basket, so she walked to the lettuce and took the hand of Xiao Jiuer who was squatting there, "Son, let's go and eat some melons."
"Eat melon." The little guy grabbed her two fingers and went out of the vegetable garden together.
Zhou Jiaming gave the peeled cucumber to Xiao Jiuer and took him to the backyard, while the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were picking vegetables in the house.
"Aunt, come and see what Xiaojiuer is doing?" Zhou Jiaming shouted from the back door of the kitchen.
Zhou's mother smiled and said, "Let me see if you have made a mess."
“No way?” Yang Chunyan took two steps at a time and walked out, and saw the little guy squatting on the ground with six fat, green cabbage worms lined up in front of him like soldiers.
Anyone who tried to crawl out was pulled back by him, and lined up again, muttering something.
Zhou Jiaming looked at Yang Chunyan, rubbed his raised hair, and said with admiration: "Aunt, Jiuer is really good. He is better at finding things to play with than us!"
Yang Chunyan looked at the little guy who was having fun, and said, "Xiao Jiuer, let's catch the big bug and feed it to the ducks!"
Little Jiuer looked up and saw Yang Chunyan. He grinned at her, drooling, "Dad, let's go fishing."
Yang Chunyan was a little confused when looking at the plump worms. The cabbage worms were used to fish, but how big a fish would it take to eat them?
Li Qiuyue rubbed her arms with a look of disgust, "Oh my god, it makes my hair stand on end."
Zhou's mother followed out and said with a smile, "It's all the fault of the youngest. He saw a catfish in the fish pond that day, so he took him to the vegetable garden to find some pigworms to catch the fish, and Jiuer remembered it."
Yang Chunyan held her forehead with her hand, "This Huai'an, really."
"Looking for dad, let's go fishing!" Xiao Jiuer caught the bug and put it back in his pocket, then took Yang Chunyan's hand and went to find Zhou Huaian.
Zhou's mother and the others looked at the squirming little bag on his bib with a smile on their faces, "Chunyan, take him to call your husband and the others to eat."
"Okay, mom will take you to find dad!" Yang Chunyan squatted down and looked at him, "Mom is afraid of big bugs, so Jiuer, let's catch the big bugs and release them first, okay?"
"Okay!" The little guy nodded, and immediately reached into his little pocket and grabbed a handful of worms, and two worms came out.
Zhou's mother hurriedly took a leaf to catch the cabbage worm, and shook her head repeatedly as she watched the worm, which was already dying after being pinched and rubbed by him.
"I thought he was an honest man like his mother, but after all this time, he turned out to be a troublemaker like the youngest."
When Xiao Jiuer saw Zhou's mother put the worms in the basket, he took Yang Chunyan's hand and said, "Look for Dad, let's go fishing." (End of this chapter)
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