Chapter 30030. He punches three times, they punch seven times
"Thunder Li!"
Seeing that Lei Li didn't say anything, Zhou Yi quickened his pace and walked up to him, "Have you had breakfast?"
“No.”
Lei Li said expressionlessly, "When I opened my eyes, my husband was gone. He didn't even leave a message. I thought you ran away and was about to catch you."
"Um?"
Zhou Yi was a little confused. "Why would I run away when all is well?"
"Why don't you run?"
Lei Li suddenly approached Zhou Yi and saw Zhou Yi subconsciously take a half step back. He raised his eyes and said, "Aren't you afraid of me? If I gave you money and household registration, you would have run away long ago."
"I didn't think about running."
Zhou Yi shook his head and said, "Although I didn't choose to get married in the first place, now that we've registered our household registration and are married, this is my home...our home."
"As the saying goes, while your parents are still alive, you shouldn't travel far away. If you're going to travel, shouldn't the whole family go together?"
A family...
Lei Li stared at his expression, and Zhou Yi couldn't help but take a step back and asked him, "Is there something on my face?"
As he said this, he raised his arm and wiped it.
But there was mud on Zhou Yi's clothes, even on his shoulders, and his face was dirty when he wiped it. Seeing this, Lei Li pulled his sleeves to help him wipe off the stains.
There is nothing wrong with other people doing this.
But what Lei Li did was a little strange—the kind of strange that was too gentle and ambiguous.
Zhou Yi got goose bumps on his arms and almost tried to dodge, but he didn't. He subconsciously felt that Lei Li would be unhappy if he did.
Then he suffered.
Getting beaten is no big deal. After all, Zhou Yi has thick skin and strong muscles, so it’s okay if he gets beaten a few more times.
But after Lei Li finished beating Zhou Yi, seeing that he had no reaction, he would get so angry that he would hold Zhou Yi's head and kiss him all over.
Zhou Yi felt like a sheep in a tiger's mouth.
——And Lei Li really likes to see his expression of despair after being kissed forcibly.
It’s refreshing to see it.
Zhou Yi's heart was hanging in the balance, and he could only feel his heart dying again and again.
"No."
After Lei Li finished wiping him, he patted his sleeves and asked, "Why didn't you ask me to dig bamboo shoots? The bamboo forest is large and dense, and there are often snakes. You can't see clearly so early, and you don't have to worry about being bitten."
"I was very careful. I picked up a long stick, poked around under the bamboo forest, and knocked on the bamboo poles. I only chopped it down when I saw there were no snakes."
Zhou Yi carried bamboo shoots and went in with Lei Li. "I woke up early and couldn't fall asleep. Seeing that you were sleeping soundly, I didn't wake you up and let you sleep a little longer. I can't use up all these bamboo shoots for long by myself."
"Remember to call me next time."
Lei Li took out the bamboo shoots from his backpack, fetched some water to wash them, then took a machete and cut off the bamboo shells outside the big bamboo shoots.
As he spoke, he said, "It would save me from having to go out and look for you if you weren't around. Luckily, the aunts I just asked weren't gossipy. If Gui Fulang heard it, he would definitely say you ran away because you didn't want me."
"It's no big deal if you run away. You still have the money my father gave you to buy a jar and some salt. Two hundred coins, enough to go to a brothel and have some fun."
“……?”
Zhou Yi looked up at him with a serious expression, "Brothel? Are you going there?"
"Oh, how else would I know how much it would cost?"
Lei Li saw that he frowned, looking very disapproving, so he smiled and moved closer to him, "Are you unhappy? You don't want me to go to the brothel?"
"Of course not."
"Why?"
Lei Li teasingly touched his face with her wet hands. Seeing him avoid her unhappily, the teasing in her eyes intensified. "You're not letting me touch you... The young men in the brothels all let you touch and hug them, and you won't let me go?"
She pinched his chin again and bit him twice forcefully, "Is it so hard to bite him? When you heard me cheating, you remembered that you are my husband?"
"Cheating?"
Zhou Yi's brows deepened. "You went there after the wedding? When did you go?"
"When you don't know."
“…”
Zhou Yi thought back to when they got married. Lei Li didn't take him to do work every day. Sometimes he said he wanted to go to the mountains and asked Zhou Yi to pull weeds in the fields and watch the ducks.
Could it be those days?
Zhou Yi's frown deepened.
Lei Li was still laughing. "Are you really angry? How about this, you consummate your marriage with me tonight, and I won't go there again. I'll only touch you and no one else."
“It’s not the same thing.”
Zhou Yi's face was stern, and his tone was admonishing, just like a dean of studies addressing a student who had gone astray. "It's fine if you went before the wedding, but you went after the wedding. Isn't that morally and legally wrong?"
"Even if I'm not your husband, but someone else is, two people shouldn't have affairs after they get married. Even if Niu Dali went, I would still control him if I knew."
“……?”
The smile on Lei Li's face faltered for a moment. "I'm your husband. I understand you're angry if I go there. But if Niu Dali goes there, why do you care?"
Suddenly, an idea flashed in his mind. "Zhou Yi, if you don't touch me, does that mean you like men? Do you like Niu Dali?"
Zhou Yi: “???”
Zhou Yi was so frightened by this that he couldn't even hold the grass knife steady, and almost cut himself. "What nonsense are you talking about? How could I possibly like Niu Dali?"
"Then you suddenly mentioned him..."
"I'm just making an analogy."
Zhou Yi sighed and patiently explained, "No matter who it is, even if it's someone like Niu Dali who has a grudge against me, if I know he's cheating or doing pornography, I'll still give him some advice."
The old saying goes: If the father loves, the mother will respect; if the mother respects, the son will be at peace; if the son is at peace, the family will be harmonious; if the family is harmonious, everything will prosper; if the father is lazy, the mother will suffer; if the mother suffers, the son will be afraid; if the son is afraid, the family will decline; and the family will decline for three generations.
As a soldier of the people, we must of course actively safeguard the happiness of people's families and maintain social public order.
This is Zhou Yi's code of conduct.
"And I've told you before, if you want to find a man to date or marry, divorce me and find a good, respectable family."
Zhou Yi continued, "I'm not discriminating against places like brothels. It's just that there's a mix of good and bad people there, and many people have messy private lives. What if you accidentally get sick or go astray?"
Lei Li's expression turned grim. "With my looks, how could I possibly go astray?"
If he really became a prostitute in a brothel, he would have to be looked up to by others, right? Besides, wouldn't it be a 70% chance for him to win against those weak-spleen-and-kidney-deficient dogs?
He punched three times.
They are on the seventh day.
"Smoking, drinking, gambling."
Zhou Yi paused and asked, "Do you have any tobacco here? The kind you smoke in a bamboo pipe. It makes a gurgling sound when you light it and inhale it."
“No.”
"That'll do."
Zhou Yi nodded and turned serious again, "Drinking, gambling, and pornography are not good things. Don't go to places like brothels anymore."
"Then what?"
“No more.”
“…”
Lei Li stared at Zhou Yi expressionlessly for a long moment before slowly saying, "Shouldn't you be angry? You're my husband."
"I'm angry."
Zhou Yi said as a matter of course, "So am I not telling you nicely now, not to go there in the future?"
“…”
Lei Li is really angry now.
As a man, shouldn't you be upset and angry when you know that your husband is fooling around in a brothel?
He had a stern face, just like his father. If anyone wanted to listen to his nonsense, he would pinch their face and say viciously, "Only follow me, don't go to anyone else."
They are all better than he is now.
Talking to your cheating husband?
Damn lunatic.
"You don't care whether I go or not."
Lei Li was annoyed. "Anyway, if you dare to go, you're dead. I have acquaintances there. If you go there once, I'll skin you alive."
Seeing the bamboo shoots in his hand, he became even angrier. He threw down the half-peeled bamboo shoots and walked away angrily with a machete in his hand.
It's quite scary.
"Shoots, shoots, shoots. You only think about these broken bamboo shoots of yours every day. Peel them yourself. If you don't peel them well, I'll peel you."
“……?”
Zhou Yi was splashed with water and didn't react. He could only see Lei Li's back.
He was stunned for a moment, thinking while cutting bamboo shoots. After thinking for a long time, he still couldn't figure out why Lei Li was angry.
But when I saw the peeled bamboo shoots, white and crispy, so fresh, and thought about how delicious the sour bamboo shoots would be, I felt relieved again.
Zhou Yi happily sliced and dismembered them.
After Lei Dashan came back from visiting the rice fields, he also took a kitchen knife to help Zhou Yi cut bamboo shoots, cutting them into thin slices suitable for eating and also into long strips.
They are all crispy.
It can be used for cooking and can also be eaten as a snack.
—
Niu Ershu brought two large jars.
This was what Zhou Yi asked Niu Ershu to buy last night after he knew that Lei Li agreed to let him make sour bamboo shoots. Niu Ershu happened to be going to the town market the next day.
The jar was as tall as Zhou Yi's calf, with a belly that could only be hugged with two hands, a small narrow mouth, and cost thirty cents each. One jar could hold all the bamboo shoots he had cut.
Good sour bamboo shoots will be sweet and fresh if soaked in mountain spring water or pure white water. Add an appropriate amount of salt and do not add oil when soaking. They will become sour and edible after soaking for about a month.
If you have some sour bamboo shoots water left over from years past, you can eat it after soaking it for a few days.
Because time was limited and he wanted to ensure that the bamboo shoots were not too old before being put into the jar, Zhou Yi went to the village to fetch well water, which was also very clean and sweet.
After putting on the matching lids and adding a circle of water around the jars, Zhou Yi carried them to the cool woodshed.
Because it cannot be exposed to direct sunlight.
In fact, you can add chili peppers when soaking, but Zhou Yi didn’t have chili peppers or green pickled peppers, so he added a few five-color peppers to add some spiciness to the sour bamboo shoots.
Lei Dashan felt it was too slow, so he went to check every few days, because he was also craving the sour bamboo shoots, snails and duck feet stew that Zhou Yi mentioned.
"If it's too slow, you can also use a few pieces of bamboo shoots cut in half, add well water to boil, remove the bamboo shoots and keep the water, let it cool, and then soak fresh bamboo shoots in it. This will speed up the soaking process of sour bamboo shoots."
After Zhou Yi finished speaking, he saw Lei Dashan pick up the machete and carry the backpack, "Let's go dig bamboo shoots."
After walking a few steps, he turned around and asked, "There are some water bamboo shoots growing along the Sanli River. Can we make sour bamboo shoots from them? They're even more tender than small-headed bamboo shoots."
"That should be okay?"
No matter whether it works or not, let’s break it up first.
Zhou Yi and Lei Dashan dug up a few big-headed bamboo shoots and broke off a basket of water bamboo shoots. They sliced the big ones and cut the small ones into pieces, then marinated them with five-color peppers and soy sauce.
Very spicy and salty.
Sour, spicy and refreshing.
Taste is just one word——
fragrant!
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