I farmed and built a villa in ancient times

Chapter 26 Mountain Crab Feast

Hongmei lowered her head shyly, "I have to thank you for this, aunt? If it weren't for your matchmaking, I wouldn't have married that stupid idiot, and it would have made people angry." At the end of her sentence, there was something in her words. Some people are angry and say they don't like it, but their hearts are filled with sweetness.

Zhou Chenyu listened to Hongmei's reluctant words and took a mouthful of dog food.

Hongmei found a seat nearby and sat down. Although she and Li Xiuju were separated by a generation, they had a common topic of parenting and had a great time chatting.

Zhou Chenyu stayed aside silently, passively absorbing a lot of parenting knowledge. After listening for a while, the clear and childish whispers of several small children came from downstream. They came up from the downstream, there were boys and girls, the older ones in front. The little one followed behind, carrying a basket with a few fish, a few shrimps, and even a small crab.

Although it had only been a few days since the last time he ate meat, to Zhou Chenyu it was already as far away as the last century.

She said, "It turns out there are so many small fish and shrimps in this creek."

People in the village rely on the mountains to eat and the water to drink water. There are not only fish and shrimps in the streams, but also stone snails and river mussels that can be made into dishes and served on the table.

How could someone who grew up in a village not know this?

Li Xiuju looked at Zhou Chenyu's eager eyes, feeling distressed but smiling and said: "Yes, it's hot. If you want to eat, let's go get some."

Zhou Chenyu's little thoughts could never hide from the old lady's eyes, so he no longer concealed them: "Okay."

Hongmei was a little puzzled, thinking of the rumors she heard during her confinement period, and said with a smile: "These fish and shrimps are small and don't have a few ounces of meat on their bodies. They are just children, caught and played. Auntie, Sister Chen Yu wants to To eat, you can go look for them near the spring in the back mountain, there will be plenty of them."

Li Xiuju opened her eyes wide, "Really? I have limited legs and feet and have never been there before. It turns out there is such a treasured place."

Hongmei rubbed her clothes a few times, "Last time, Shuqing went into the mountains to cut firewood and picked up a lot of firewood. I couldn't get used to eating these, and grandma had bad teeth, so she threw away a lot of them. If no one has been there, there must be a lot of them. reward."

Li Xiuju washed the sheets. Zhou Chenyu and she each took one end and twisted it in opposite directions. "The weather is perfect today. When we go back for lunch, I will dig up some earthworms and bring them back with the cage to have a look."

They came back to dry their clothes, took a light nap, had enough food and sleep, and when the sun set a little, Zhou Chenyu and Baoyu took the earthworms prepared by Li Xiuju and walked to the spring in the back mountain.

Zhou Chenyu and Baoyu both put on light and simple clothes and entered the forest in early summer. The breeze floated and the leaves rustled around them.

They followed the path from the vegetable garden behind the house deep into the forest, uphill all the way to the top of the mountain, then walked down the forest path to the bottom, crossed a single-plank bridge, and climbed to another mountain.

The deeper you go, the denser the woods become and the fewer traces of people there are. The strong sunlight can only shine in through the gaps in the leaves, and the wind blows in, which makes it cool and shady.

Baoyu walked in front, "Sister, there are thorn bushes here, don't catch them."

Zhou Chenyu took the thorn branches branching out from the roadside from Baoyu. The branches were covered with small leaves. Only when he looked carefully could he see the dense cone-shaped thorns all over the branches.

If you grab it with force, you will definitely get several bloody holes in your palm.

Zhou Chenyu avoided the thorn bushes and carefully followed Baoyu. He heard the sound of gurgling water and felt the ground under his feet was obviously wet.

"Baoyu, are we almost there?"

"It's here."

Zhou Baoyu emerged from the woods, and the water flew down from the three-meter-high stone slope, like a small waterfall, dripping through the stone, and over time formed a crystal clear pool.

He took off the things on his back, put the earthworms into the basket to serve as bait, and threw them into the pond together, waiting for the fish and shrimp to take the bait automatically. "Sister, let's go up there to look for crabs, and then take this basket with us when we return the same way." "No problem." Zhou Chenyu dipped his hands into the pool to wash himself. The water was clear and cool, like water made of ice, with a few fallen leaves floating on it. It was much cooler than the stream passing through the village.

She stared at the basket and said, "There's no sign of a fish down here. Can we catch shrimps?"

Zhou Baoyu rubbed his hands and said confidently: "Sister, you don't know this, right? The cleaner the water, the more fish and shrimp there are. There must be fish and shrimp here."

This kid has always been unreliable. Zhou Chenyu expressed her doubts. The next second, a leisurely little fish swam past her, as if it deliberately hit her in the face, "Hey, don't run!"

Zhou Chenyu stepped into the pool and slipped. Before he could catch the fish, he fell flat on his face and his clothes behind him were all muddy.

"Sister, look at it, I told you not to believe me." Baoyu smiled proudly.

"Zhou Baoyu, you are still laughing, why don't you come and help me quickly! Do you believe I will beat you?"

Zhou Baoyu helped her up while suppressing a smile, and suddenly said with a serious face: "Sister, this is the mountain god's home, you can't talk nonsense!"

"Mountain God? I'm still the Earth God!" Zhou Chenyu looked at the dirty skirt and rolled his eyes at him.

"Don't talk nonsense anymore!" Zhou Baoyu hissed nervously, "Look, you didn't believe me just now. Didn't that anger the mountain god and make you suffer?"

what?
You really can’t say it?
Zhou Chenyu looked at the silence around him, as if there was a cold air seeping into his clothes.

In the past, she had a double-standard attitude towards this type of feudal superstition.What is harmful to her is feudal superstition; what is beneficial to her is that her left eye will jump to wealth and her right eye will jump to disaster.

But the experience of visiting the mountain during the Qingming Festival forced her to believe this.

One must be in awe.

Zhou Chenyu stared closely at the surroundings, a little panicked: "Then what should I do to calm down the mountain god?"

"Ah?" Zhou Baoyu's trembling reply was accompanied by a snicker. He didn't expect that in just a few words, he could scare his tough sister who was not even afraid of a mountain of money.

Zhou Baoyu cleared his throat, looked at his direction, and widened his eyes, "Sister, according to our customs, you have to kowtow three times to the west, and then the mountain god's popularity will disappear."

Knock three times?
Although he has gold at his knees, in order to save his life, it doesn't seem to be a big deal to knock the gods.

"Then I'd better kowtow to him. Where is the west?" Zhou Chenyu grabbed Baoyu's arm.

Baoyu stamped his feet and stood up: "Sister, this way, this way."

which side?

When Zhou Chenyu saw the direction Baoyu's finger was pointing, he was stunned for a few seconds. He silently let go of his hand, straightened his back, and smiled at him: "Really? I only need to kneel down for three times and he will let me go?"

"That's natural."

Zhou Baoyu was still immersed in joy when he suddenly saw his sister showing a sinister smile, which was exactly the same as the one she gave to Qian Rushan that day.

(End of this chapter)