However, he had never heard of the idea of crushing plants and applying them on the face to whiten the skin.
"Let's try and see if it works. I'm already so dark, I can't get darker the more I use it." An Hongdou said with a somewhat depressed mood.
Seeing his sister's gloomy mood, An Hongbing also felt sad. He thought that An Hongdou was sad because she was ugly.
I remember that my sister was quite fair, chubby and pretty when she was little. But after she grew up, she followed a bunch of kids around all day and became darker over time.
Other people's skin is just a little dark, but she is as dark as a lump of charcoal.
Moreover, when they are young, they are chubby and cute, but when they grow up and are still fat, it is really an eyesore.
Old Mrs. An was also upset. It was all her fault that she didn't take good care of her child when she was young. If she had known earlier, she would have kept her daughter at home. She wouldn't have hung out with a bunch of boys all day and got herself tanned into this state.
"Boss, you should go back to bed as well. It's so late and you have to go to work tomorrow." said Mrs. An.
An Hongdou came back from washing her face and applied some skin care products on it. As soon as she lay down on the bed, she heard Old Lady An still sighing.
An Hongdou hugged Old Lady An from behind, "Mom, stop imagining and go to sleep. I don't blame you for getting tanned. It's just that I'm too skinny. Don't worry, I will definitely get whiter in the future."
Old Mrs. An smiled and patted the back of her hand, not knowing whether she took An Hongdou's words to heart.
Early in the morning, before An Hongdou opened her eyes, she felt someone touching her face.
She opened her eyes and saw that Old Lady An had just taken her hands away from her face.
"I don't know if it's my illusion, but I feel that your face is smoother than before!" Old Lady An wondered. Could it be that crushing the grass picked from the mountain and applying it on the face really has a whitening effect?
An Hongdou burst out laughing, "That means my method is useful."
"Okay, okay, I won't talk nonsense with you anymore. Didn't you say you had to go to work today? Why don't you get up quickly?" Old Mrs. An said as she put on her clothes.
An Hongdou also got up.
When we arrived at the cowshed, Cui Dashan was already working. He was shoveling cow dung with a shovel and piling it in a dung pile not far away. This was the key to a good harvest next year.
An Hongdou had never dealt with such things before, and didn't know what she should do, so she simply went over to ask him, "Uncle Cui, my second uncle agreed to let me come here to help, what should I do?"
Cui Dashan stopped working, looked around, and said, "I'll do the shoveling work. There's pig grass and wheat bran in the room over there. You can help cook the pig food and feed the pigs first..."
It's not good for a girl to ask others to shovel manure right away, Cui Dashan thought.
An Hongdou obediently went over to get busy. The two of them worked for a whole morning before finally finishing these trivial tasks.
Cui Dashan already lives here and doesn't have to go home for dinner, but An Hongdou still has to go back.
Compared to the morning, the afternoon is relatively quiet.
Children would come to deliver pig feed from time to time. An Hongdou was responsible for counting the work points. Then she and Cui Dashan would spread the pig feed on the ground or on a rack, dry it in the sun, and store it in a room dedicated to fodder for use in the winter.
It is indeed as Cui Dashan said, the work is relatively easy and there is plenty of free time.
With nothing to do, Cui Dashan took two benches and placed them under a big tree outside. The breeze made the air slightly cool, and An Hongdou squinted her eyes leisurely.
Cui Dashan looked at this scene and smiled: "If you like to take a nap, just get a recliner over here. There are many rooms for storing fodder over there. Clean one up when you have free time. You can take a nap over there when you have nothing to do in the future."
"Wait a few days when I'm not busy, and let my eldest brother weave one for me." An Hongdou remembered that several of the brothers in the An family knew how to weave things, and the baskets and benches and mats used in the house were all made by their own hands.
But she wasn't sure if she could weave something as complicated as a recliner.
After sitting for a while, An Hongdou felt bored and tried to ask, "Uncle Cui, I have nothing to do right now, why don't I go for a walk in the mountains? Maybe I can find something good to add to your lunch."
Cui Dashan looked at her thoughtfully, waved his hand and said, "Go ahead, go ahead. Anyway, there's nothing to do right now, and you'll be idle here. When you're not busy in the future, you can do whatever you want, and you don't have to tell me specifically."
Normally, he would be busy all the time and wouldn't be able to rest until noon when he was alone. Today, with An Hongdou here, he saved a lot of time.
At this moment, it's just turning over the hay, which is not a very tiring job.
Looking at An Hongdou's receding back, Cui Dashan couldn't help but feel fortunate for his own wisdom.
What he thought turned out to be right. Although this child was a girl, she was very strong and could do her work very efficiently.
What's more, maybe you can actually find something to add to your meal.
Just think about it, the days from now on will be so beautiful.
When An Hongdou came back, she was carrying a pheasant and a rabbit in her hands, with a few pheasant eggs in her pocket, and a bag of dried black fungus wrapped in leaves.
Cui Dashan hurried over from a long distance.
"Girl, you really came back looking for it?" Cui Dashan swallowed subconsciously.
An Hongdou raised her eyebrows proudly, "I won't go back at noon either. How about I eat with Uncle Cui here?"
"Okay, then why not!" Cui Dashan was so happy to have the hare and pheasant that he quickly asked her, "Girl, do you want to eat hare or pheasant? We'll have whatever you want for lunch, and you can take the rest home."
He was lucky enough to get a bite, but he didn't dare to take advantage of it and wanted to swallow the whole thing.
An Hongdou didn't object. She couldn't eat much because she was trying to lose weight. No matter how big Cui Dashan's appetite was, he couldn't eat it all.
Moreover, she mainly wanted to show off her abilities so as to buy herself more free time, but she didn't want to become someone's hunting tool.
After all, there are too many cases throughout history where giving something for nothing ended up incurring no rewards and instead creating enmity.
Time passed quietly, and An Hongdou had become accustomed to the job of feeding cows and pigs. Cui Dashan still took on all the work of shoveling manure and would not let her do it even after she asked him to do it.
In his words, a girl might not be able to handle this kind of work, and if she really feels guilty, she should just help more in other areas.
After staying here for a few days, Cui Dashan already had an understanding of An Hongdou's strength.
At first, he was concerned that she was a girl and might not be able to do it, but later he realized that even if he couldn't do it, she could still do it.
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