After Qin Ling and the others had left, he dragged the cut bamboo to the front yard.
"Why did you come back so soon?" Tian Cai asked curiously. Even if she was fast, it would take her half a day to go back and forth, plus the time to cut bamboo. She returned to Qinling in less than two hours.
"We didn't go back to where we came from. Mimi took me to another bamboo forest. It's closer."
Tian Cai looked at the little guy in surprise. She didn't expect that this little thing could help find bamboo. It must have been looking for it specially in the mountains when Tian Cai brought back so many last time. She reached out and touched its big head, praising it, "How amazing!"
"Ao" Mimi shook her short tail and rubbed her head against Tian Cai's palm.
The next day, Qin Ling tried to make a bamboo chair in the yard. Tian Cai didn't plan to make a stool this time. There were already so many small stools and benches at home. It would be better to make bamboo chairs in the pavilion and make the table into woven bamboo, which would be beautiful and comfortable.
Mimi was lying lazily on the side, but suddenly, its ears moved, and it sat up, looking at the door with wet eyes.
This little guy has been reluctant to stay at home recently. After the hot weather, home is not as cool as in the mountains. Its thick fur on its back has become much thinner recently, and it has entered the shedding period that cannot be stopped even by dew. Tian Cai just used a comb to comb off a lot of its hair, and then gave it a bath with slightly cool well water. The whole cat felt much cooler all of a sudden.
Mimi shook its half-dry fur, took two steps forward, and let out a soft cry. Tian Cai also looked over when it cried, "What's wrong?"
Qin Ling put down the hammer in his hand and thought for a moment, "I guess someone is coming."
Tian Cai felt a little surprised. In the past, when villagers came over, it was always lazy, but today it took two steps forward. She thought to herself and opened the half-closed door.
There was a familiar face standing outside the door that he hadn't seen for a long time. Tian Cai couldn't help but smile when he saw it.
"Why didn't you just come in when you came? Why were you standing at the door? Or did Mimi notice me and come to open the door? Otherwise, how long would you have been standing there?" Tian Cai was immediately happy when she saw it was her. "When did you come back? Your husband wasn't with you?"
Luo Xiuyan has been pregnant for six months. Her belly looks like a basin. Normally, she should be fatter than before, but now she looks thinner and her complexion is not very good. Tian Cai can see brown spots on her face without getting close.
Mimi came over and sniffed her, then circled around her. Just as she was about to leave, Luo Xiuyan grabbed her and beat her up. Then the little guy turned his head as if he was angry, and went back to where he had been lying.
"There is still a lot of work to do in the team. He can't leave. I have nothing to do at home, so I just came back by myself," Luo Xiuyan had satisfied her desire to masturbate, smiled and nodded towards Qinling, and winked at Tian Cai.
Tian Cai rolled her eyes at her. If it weren't for her pregnancy, she would have definitely pinched her. "Come on, I'll take you to the backyard to see my bamboo house. It's beautiful!"
Luo Xiuyan put the basket aside and said, "Even if you don't tell me, I want to see it too. I heard from my mother that it's cool inside. Come on, take me there!"
The two greeted Qin Ling and went straight to the backyard. As soon as they turned around, they saw the bamboo house.
"Ah - this is so beautiful!" Luo Xiuyan's eyes suddenly became starry, she was so moved that she almost died. She looked so useless like Qu Ting, and she couldn't help but walk around the bamboo house several times.
"There are two windows here, and they open up and down. Look, standing here, don't I feel a bit like the rich lady I used to feel?"
"Is the bottom still suspended? That way there's no need to worry about moisture coming back. You're so creative!"
"Oh, it doesn't wobble at all, it's built really solid!"
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Tian Cai opened the door and asked, "Come in and take a look?"
Luo Xiuyan didn't bother to be polite with her and walked into the house. Instead, Tian Cai, fearing that she would fall, quickly reached out to help her.
Needless to say, Luo Xiuyan was full of admiration when she entered the room. After she had seen and touched enough, the two of them sat on the bed and talked.
"The last time I saw you was during the Chinese New Year. We met in such a hurry that I couldn't even ask you how you were doing at your in-laws' house. Is Liu Chuanjie good to you? How are your in-laws? Are they easy to get along with?" Tian Cai gently touched Luo Xiuyan's belly and asked questions like a machine gun.
Luo Xiuyan moved her hips and said with a grin, "You asked so many questions at once, I don't know which one to answer!"
"Then answer them one by one."
"Okay," Luo Xiuyan blinked. "Life is pretty good at my husband's house. It's a different era now, and they don't set rules for daughters-in-law. My mother-in-law is a bit fussy, but I got pregnant shortly after I got married, and there's nothing wrong with her. I didn't even go to the fields for spring plowing. I just stayed at home to help with cooking and washing clothes. My mother-in-law fell a while ago, and my eldest sister-in-law and I are the only ones who run the house. It's pretty good, isn't it?"
"So is your sister-in-law easy to get along with?"
Luo Xiuyan said disapprovingly, "It doesn't matter whether she's easy to get along with or not. She doesn't have the final say in this family anyway. Even if she wanted to, she couldn't get into her brother-in-law's room."
After hearing this, Tian Cai felt relieved. "How is your mother-in-law? Do you want me to go over and take a look?"
Luo Xiuyan shook her head and said, "We saw Doctor Liu right after she fell. We're family, so we don't trust outsiders. But I saw she was able to walk a few days ago. When I left this morning, she was still feeding chickens in the yard. But I thought she was old after all, so she should rest for a while to avoid any underlying illness. I've been doing all the housework lately."
Tian Cai smiled. How could she have forgotten about Doctor Liu? "Doctor Liu has been treating patients for so many years, so injuries are definitely not a problem for him. He can't be wrong. But you're still pregnant, so don't do everything yourself. Don't you have your sister-in-law? If you don't know how to do something, ask her. There's a fine line between doing and not doing. You're just new here, so don't give her the impression that you're easy to bully because you do too much work, or she might develop a habit."
Luo Xiuyan's sister-in-law, she met Qu Ting once when she attended the wedding. She didn't look like a good person. The two of them lived under the same roof and had not separated, so friction was inevitable.
Luo Xiuyan looked at Tian Cai with sparkling eyes, wanting to say something but not opening her mouth. Cai Cai was absolutely right. Her sister-in-law wanted to bully her just because she could work. They had a little quarrel in the morning. However, she didn't even tell her mother about this. "I know. You know my temper. If you really bully me, I can still hold it in. Don't worry!"
Tian Cai looked at her face carefully. "When did this start? It looks a bit like a stretch mark to me."
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