"I hope my luck will be better these two days and I can catch more pheasants and rabbits and sell them in town for some money. Xiaoxuan and Mengmeng's clothes are not warm at all. It's so cold in this winter, it's too uncomfortable." Qin Zijin glanced at the two children squatting aside, staring at the pheasants and rabbits on the ground curiously, and couldn't help but sigh.
The two little guys' faces were red from the cold, and because it was too cold and dry, there were crack marks on their faces, which looked pitiful.
Hearing Qin Zijin mention her, Tang Simeng raised her head, looked at Qin Zijin, and said in a baby voice: "Mom, Mengmeng is not cold, buy me new clothes."
Qin Zijin felt even more complicated after hearing her daughter's sensible words.
It was really hard for her not to like such a well-behaved and sensible child.
Now she just wants to work hard to earn more money and be better to them.
If it really doesn't work, the money Mo Qinghua sent will be used up. At worst, I can return it to him when I make money myself.
Let’s make sure the family can survive this winter first.
Qin Zijin had a plan in mind, but didn't say anything. He just smiled and reached out to rub Tang Simeng's head.
Tang Shen looked at his wife and daughter in this state and felt more and more useless.
Looking down at his left leg, he smiled self-deprecatingly.
Qin Zijin noticed Tang Shen's expression and his eyes fell on his left leg.
After hesitating for a moment, I asked him, "If there is a way to cure your leg, would you be willing to do it?"
She had looked at the system mall and found in the medicine category that there was a medicine specifically for treating comminuted fractures, but the points required to redeem it were ridiculously high, requiring one million points.
She estimated that she would have to work hard for many years to earn so many points.
Tang Shen lowered his head, separating the different types of mushrooms, and replied self-deprecatingly, "Why waste that money? For me, it's not worth it."
Qin Zijin remained silent, lowered his head and silently sorted the mushrooms, without bringing up the topic again.
There is no point in saying more until you change the medicine.
Tang Shen was once such a proud person, but now he has become like this, he must feel sad.
If I keep mentioning his legs, he might suspect that I dislike him and don't want to live with him anymore.
Qin Zijin feels that life is pretty good now except that they are a little poor.
There are many types of mushrooms, and different types have different ways of eating and different nutritional values.
Qin Zijin picked out some good ones and left them for his family.
After all, Tang Ruixuan and Tang Simeng are too thin and need to be well nourished and recuperated.
Moreover, Tang Shen also had many health problems. Not to mention her, she almost lost her life during childbirth and was very weak. In this winter, she felt so cold that her bones ached even when she was wearing cotton clothes.
After everything was sorted out, Qin Zijin put away the food for his family and put the rest into a basket and stuffed it under the bed.
He glanced at the sky and figured it was time to make lunch, so he took the pheasant that Tang Shen had caught and went to the kitchen.
Tang Shen followed with a worried look on his face.
After all, Qin Zijin doesn't know how to kill a chicken. As a young lady from the city, she has been pampered since childhood. How could she have done such work?
When she first married into the Tang family, Qin Zijin didn't even know how to light a fire, and she even broke a bowl while washing it.
Tang Shen was afraid that she wouldn't be able to kill the chicken and might hurt herself, so he didn't dare let Qin Zijin out of his sight.
As a result, I watched Qin Zijin enter the kitchen, skillfully light a fire and boil water, then grab the chicken wings and feet with one hand, pluck the feathers from the chicken's neck with the other hand, pick up the kitchen knife, and with one stroke, cut the chicken's neck. Then he drained the chicken's blood and put it in a bowl. After draining the blood, he threw the chicken into the firewood pile.
The movements were so skillful, as if he was an old hand who had been killing chickens for decades.
Tang Shen looked at this scene and fell into silence.
The pheasant fluttered in the firewood pile. Qin Zijin added a handful of firewood to the stove and instructed Tang Shen without turning his head, "Soak some mushrooms and fungus. You can use them to stew the chicken later."
Tang Shen finally came back to his senses, looked at Qin Zijin with a complicated expression, then turned and went into the house to look for mushrooms and fungus.
But I felt extremely guilty.
If it weren't for him, Qin Zijin would have returned to the city long ago and would never have been able to live a hard life with him in this small mountain village.
In order to make a living, we now do things so skillfully that we never dared to do in the past.
One can imagine what she has been through.
Tang Shen felt remorseful and guilty, and only hated his own incompetence.
Qin Zijin had no idea that her simple action would make Tang Shen think so much. After the water boiled, she took a wooden bucket, filled it with half water, and threw the pheasant, which had no strength to struggle, into the bucket to burn its feathers.
When Tang Shen came out, Qin Zijin was already sitting in the yard, plucking the chicken feathers skillfully.
Tang Shen looked at him and felt distressed and reluctant again. He secretly swore in his heart that he must find a way to make money and not let Qin Zijin suffer anymore.
"Zijin, let me do it, you..." Tang Can saw that Qin Zijin had already dealt with the chicken feathers, and thought that she was not strong enough, so it would probably be difficult to open her belly.
As soon as he said that, Qin Zijin picked up a knife and cut open the chicken's belly very skillfully.
After the dissection, she raised her head and looked at him with a puzzled look in her eyes, "What did you just say?"
"No." Tang Shen shook his head.
I watched Qin Zijin skillfully separate the chicken bones and meat, process the internal organs, and put them all on a plate.
After a long silence, he couldn't help but speak, "You used to be afraid of blood and never killed a chicken. Why..."
Qin Zijin paused while chopping the chicken, then spoke calmly, "People always have to learn to change. I always thought I could rely on you. With you around, you could help me with many things."
"Later I realized that people still have to rely on themselves. You can't always be by my side. I always have to learn to grow up on my own."
"Actually, during the years you were working outside, I already learned how to kill chickens, fish, and cook. You just didn't know it."
Qin Zijin's voice was very soft.
This is not a lie.
Tang Shen went out to work for more than half a year, and she had to take care of two children at home by herself. Isn't there anything she has to do herself?
Some things will be learned naturally if you are forced into a hurry.
Tang Shen looked at Qin Zijin's calm expression, and his heart felt like it was hit hard by something. He couldn't help but say, "Zijin, I..."
"Don't say sorry anymore. Since I'm married to you, I won't care about these things. What we should think about now is how to live a better life. We adults don't care, but the two children are suffering too much." Qin Zijin shook his head and interrupted Tang Shen.
Tang Shen's eyes became firm, and he said seriously, "Don't worry, I will definitely work hard to make you and the children live a good life. If I can't do it, you, you..."
"Just leave me and go back to the city."
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