Chapter 21 You are the light I picked up
When the system saw Wu Yuetang's angry face, it immediately disappeared without a trace and no matter how she called it, it no longer appeared.
"Which direction is your home?"
After walking for a while, Ye Jingchen found that Wu Yuetang did not follow him. Looking back, he saw her standing there in a daze, not knowing what she was thinking.
"Oh, go straight ahead and then turn right at the second downhill."
Having said that, he jogged after him, and then remained silent all the way. Wu Yuetang kept cursing the system in her heart, but unfortunately no one responded.
The two walked for nearly an hour before arriving at Wu Yuetang's house. When Li and her two sisters-in-law saw the two wolves thrown in, they were stunned.
"Sister-in-law and second sister-in-law, wait for the eldest and second brothers to come back and deal with these two wolves. Make sure to peel off the fur completely. We can make furs to keep out the cold in winter. Then I will make the wolf meat into jerky to eat on the road when we escape from the famine."
Wu Yuetang immediately made arrangements to her two sisters-in-law. These two sentences stunned everyone and they could only nod silently.
Seeing Ye Jingchen standing at the door in a daze, he couldn't help laughing.
"Come in. Don't just stand there at the door."
"Tang'er, who is this person?"
Li also noticed the young man at the door. She walked behind Wu Yuetang and asked in a low voice.
"The second son of the Ye family from Liuwan Village."
"What? The Ye family of Liuwan Village?" Li became anxious when she heard it.
"You silly girl, why are you getting involved with the Ye family of Liuwan Village? This family is notorious for being cunning and mean, and their reputation is already rotten to the sky. This second child in his family is pitiful, he is the only normal person in the whole family."
As Li spoke, she stamped her feet, and there was even more sympathy in her eyes when she looked at Ye Jingchen.
"It's okay. He was bullied on the road, so I helped him out. He then said he wanted to give these two wolves to us."
Wu Yuetang shrugged indifferently, turned around and went to the kitchen, pouring out the ingredients she bought today.
"Mom, Ye Jingchen is having dinner at our house today, please prepare an extra pair of bowls and chopsticks."
After saying that, Wu Yuetang squatted on the ground, fetched water from the space into the basin in the kitchen and started washing vegetables and rice.
Ye Jingchen walked slowly into the yard. He looked uneasy. Seeing how uncomfortable he was, his sister-in-law walked over to him.
"Just sit here. Tang'er cooks quickly and we'll be able to eat soon. Let me pour you a glass of water first."
As he said that, he walked into the house, took out a pot of water and poured a cup.
Wu Yuetang didn't pay attention to what was happening in the yard. She was concentrating on cutting vegetables and meat. Lard was being refined in the big pot on the stove, and the aroma was slowly wafting out.
After taking out tomatoes and some spices from the space, he put the pork into the pot. After the pork was half cooked, he poured beans, potatoes, eggplants, and tomatoes into the pot all at once and started stewing the Northeastern hotpot.
Then he took out the big meat buns he bought yesterday from the space, put them on the steamer, and started steaming them. After he was done, Wu Yuetang looked towards the yard and saw Ye Jingchen sitting at a table, with his two sisters-in-law and Li sitting opposite him, looking at him.
What's going on? Why does this look so much like an interview?
"Hey, is there anyone coming to our house today?"
As Wu Shoutian's voice sounded from outside the door, Li and the others also looked away and stood up.
Li took the hoe and sickle from Wu Shoutian's hands, pulled him aside, and told him what happened between her daughter and Ye Jingchen today.
Unexpectedly, Wu Shoutian did not go to find Ye Jingchen first, but went to look at the two wolves lying on the ground.
While examining the wolf's body, he praised Ye Jingchen in amazement.
"Boy! That's amazing! The wolf only had one arrow wound, but you were able to peel off the entire hide. It was a fatal blow!"
Hearing their father's praise, the eldest and second brothers dropped their farm tools and came over. Although they felt a little uncomfortable about their father praising someone else's son, they were really good at shooting wolves.
At this time, only the third brother Wu Zhiyun took out a wet towel from some room and handed it to Ye Jingchen.
"You'd better wipe your face first. We worked in the fields all day, but we didn't have as much dust on our faces as you do."
Ye Jingchen took the face towel and said "thank you" softly.
The sound was very small, but Wu Zhiyun heard it.
After the men in the family came back, the atmosphere in the yard became much better. Several grown men gathered together to discuss how to hunt with one fatal blow.
Half an incense stick of time later, Wu Yuetang ran out holding a big pot and shouting.
"Dinner is ready, get out of the way!"
A full pot of Northeastern stew was placed directly on the table. Seeing this, the sisters-in-law went into the kitchen to serve rice and get bowls and chopsticks for everyone.
Although there is only one dish today, it is a solid dish and the portion is more than enough for so many people in the family.
Wu Yuetang looked at the house next to her wall, then turned around, took out a bowl, filled it with food, and ran out.
Aunt Liu was a little surprised when she opened the gate. She never expected that it was Wu Yuetang who knocked on the door, and at dinner time.
"Aunt Liu, last time something happened at my house, it was thanks to you that you came to call us. Otherwise, my parents would definitely not be able to surpass that old lady Sun. I cooked a delicious meal at home today, so I served you a bowl too, so you can try my cooking skills."
Having said that, before Aunt Liu could react, Wu Yuetang stuffed the bowl into her hands, then turned around and ran away, shouting as she ran.
"I'll come get the bowl tomorrow!"
Aunt Liu looked at the food in her hand, feeling both amused and helpless, and then smiled with relief.
"This girl."
After Wu Yuetang came back, she urged everyone to eat. Northeastern hotpot is really a delicious dish. One spoonful of it contains meat, vegetables and soup. It is a great dish to go with rice.
Even I find it more delicious the more I eat it.
Not to mention Ye Jingchen standing by. He was very reserved at first, taking only a small piece of food and a small bite of rice. But after tasting the food, he started to gobble it up and feast on it.
I've never eaten such delicious food before, not to mention that there was meat. Think about it, when I was at the Ye family, I had no idea when I would get to eat next meal, and I didn't know if I would get to eat a piece of meat in a year.
I'd thought about roasting some meat while I was hunting, but it always came out dry and astringent, with an unspeakable fishy smell. I'd never cooked my own food again since then.
The whole pot of food was eaten up, and only six of the sixteen meat buns were left. Wu Yuetang couldn't help but admire everyone's fighting spirit.
Seeing her sister-in-law and Mrs. Li starting to clean up the table and the kitchen, Wu Yuetang pulled Ye Jingchen's sleeve and motioned him to come outside.
"I've thought about it, and I can give you that one or two taels of silver, but not right now. From now on, if you don't sell your prey in town, you can come to me and I'll buy it. But as for the payment, you can deposit it with me first. I'll keep 80% and leave 20% for you to take back to the Ye family. Of course, you can also eat at my house, and I'll deduct the meal money from the payment. If you need money anyday, just come to me."
Ye Jingchen frowned. He understood what she said, but it felt a bit like her husband handing over his wages. Thinking of this, Ye Jingchen blushed unconsciously.
Wu Yuetang thought he didn't understand and was about to explain it again when she heard Ye Jingchen speak again.
"Okay. I promise."
"Okay, don't worry, I'll keep a separate account for you." As he spoke, he handed him the package in his hand. "Here are four meat buns and two hundred coins. You can take them back."
After Ye Jingchen took it, he held the package tightly in his arms.
"I'm leaving."
When he turned around and had already walked a distance, Wu Yuetang shouted from behind: "Be careful on the road!"
The sun had already set, and the dusk had stained the clouds into a translucent silk, with the last streak of gold slowly falling into the horizon. Ye Jingchen turned around after hearing the call, his silhouette against the light blurred by the wind.
The woman standing not far away and waving and giving instructions seemed to be standing in a waterfall of light, her hair stretched out like butterfly wings in the afterglow, and it seemed as if thousands of stars were pouring down from the rosy glow.
At just this moment, Ye Jingchen felt that all the noise in the world had sunk into the amber dusk, and only Wu Yuetang's figure was like the rising morning glow, ironing the dark wrinkles in his life inch by inch into eternal traces of light.
"Will you be...the light...that I found?"
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