Zhu Tian: The Fiery Years Begin with Taking Qin Huairu as a Concubine

Chapter 21 The Ladder is Ugly
Qin Huairu didn't want to go into the fields either. What if she got tanned?
The only person of similar age to her in the village is Zhang Kaiwu.

Zhang Kaiwu was also very generous and often managed to get some food for himself.

Fill an empty stomach.

The other people in the village, even though they were all from the same clan and had the surname Qin, were reluctant to even have a bowl of boiled water.

It’s better for Brother Kaiwu to be more generous.

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Zhang Kaiwu was concentrating on practicing archery and ignored Qin Huairu beside him.

Before I had a job, this thing was a good way to make a living.

At least it is a way to cover up eating meat. If you are afraid of making too much noise, bows and arrows are really useful.

If he wasn't afraid of the bad influence and the noisy fighting in the village, he would have practiced his shooting skills.

Among last night’s haul, there were more than 500 bullets of various kinds.

These were treasures found from the guards, the head of the village, and the village chief’s homes.

You have to practice your shooting skills to at least level two, so that you can be sure of killing a tiger.

After an afternoon of practice, my archery skills had reached 230 points, not far from the upgrade line of 500.

Around four o'clock, her father and others were probably going home, so Qin Huairu also went back.

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Zhang Kaiwu stopped practicing and used two three-meter-long tree sticks as the main body.

He used some firewood sticks to make the crossbeams, but he didn't have any nails at home.

Use ropes to tie bundles together and make a super simple ladder.

The ladder is ugly, but it works.

I plan to climb the wall of the Zhou family's young lady's courtyard at night and bring her some food to replenish her body.

Although he could secretly shout at the door, it was too dangerous to do so.

Zhang Kaiwu has the storage space to back him up, so it is very convenient for him to use this ladder.

Both of them are outsiders and have no right to make mistakes.

Other people in the village who were having affairs were discovered and caught in bed.

Most of the time, big things become small, and small things become nothing!
What’s the big deal!?

If Zhang Kaiwu was heard by people in the village, even if nothing happened.

If the whole village comes to catch the adulterer, it will be a big deal.

If they don't handle it well, they will be blamed.

The old farmers in Qinjiatun dared to drown Zhang Kaiwu and Zhou Zhaodi into the river.

Happily dividing the pots, pans, and utensils.

No carelessness is allowed.

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After Qin Huairu went back.

Around four o'clock, the women in the village began to return.

They brought their children and baskets of various wild vegetables and hurried back to cook cornmeal porridge.

Or just pure wild vegetable porridge.

The men should come back later and watch the wheat in the fields for a while longer. They must not be careless.

The wild vegetables in the basket, plus some green onions from the vegetable garden, can also make the cornmeal porridge thicker.

If there was a mouse or something...

That tastes a little bit better.

The temperature is high in this season, and wild vegetables grow a lot, such as gray-gray vegetables, dandelions, mahan vegetables, etc.

As soon as they appeared, they were picked up by experienced women.

Some wild vegetables can be dried, chopped and packed for use in winter.

Maybe this year is not a good year, and we can rely on wild vegetables to save the lives of our family in the winter.

It's unrealistic to rely on the vegetables in the vegetable garden.

In the small vegetable garden at home, every onion, every cucumber, and every green vegetable has a quantity.

They all have uses.

Because ordinary villagers don’t have a large vegetable garden, and any larger land will be used to grow crops.

Looking forward to harvesting two more corn cobs or a handful of sorghum. Women and children, every day, pick some wild vegetables and gather some firewood. This is a normal rural life.

They are all hardworking rural women who work diligently to earn a living for their families.

of course!

When they have a chance to eat something delicious, they run away as fast as they can.

Without hesitation, he transformed into a werewolf...

Rural women like Qin Huairu hang out in the village all day long.

It is really rare if we don’t go out to get some wild vegetables to supplement the family income.

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When it was getting dark, no one was walking around in the village, everyone went to sleep.

Zhang Kaiwu leisurely ate scallion pancakes, boiled eggs and a plate of green vegetables he had fried himself.

I ate eight scallion pancakes, four boiled eggs, all the green vegetables, and drank a bowl of boiled water.

My stomach is finally full.

He was extremely anxious because he had meat but couldn't eat it.

Zhang Kaiwu did not light a tung oil lamp. In today's era, which decent rural person would light a tung oil lamp?

We are not a wealthy family, so we can't light an oil lamp to read books or newspapers.

Tung oil lamps are only used in emergencies.

In the countryside, people go to bed when it gets dark, and turning on a light means something has happened.

Besides, nowadays we all live in thatched houses with thatched bedding, so it’s easy to burn down the house when you light a lamp!

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Wait until it's pitch dark.

There was no movement in the village, and silence was everywhere.

Zhang Kaiwu then quietly groped his way out of the house and headed towards the young lady of the Zhou family.

Yi Gao people are bold.

After a while, he arrived at the backyard of the young lady of the Zhou family and looked around to see what was going on.

He took out a ladder, climbed up to the top of the wall, and then put the ladder away.

He then easily put down the ladder, slowly climbed down, and put the ladder away.

He took out a small vegetable basket, which contained four scallion pancakes and four hot boiled eggs.

A small jar of lard, about two pounds.

He also picked up a bag of corn flour weighing more than ten pounds.

It’s not that he didn’t give the young lady from the Zhou family flour and meat, it’s just that those things were too hateful and it would be bad if someone found out.

She ran a small private school, and sometimes the little brats would run to the backyard to play.

It would be hard to explain if those little bastards saw the flour.

He gently groped his way to the door of the Zhou family's young lady's room and knocked softly.

He whispered, "Little lady! Little lady!"

Zhou Zhaodi had already fallen asleep when she heard his familiar voice.

He hurriedly put on his clothes and cloth shoes and ran to open the door.

Zhang Kaiwu saw that she was wearing a simple garden shirt, fur pants, and a flowery bellyband underneath.

Afraid that he would wait for a long time, she opened the door without even putting on her clothes.

Maybe you think he can't see!
Why did he feel that Qiao Nai looked three points bigger than usual?

Bulging.

It's even bigger than Qin Huairu...

I was too embarrassed to ask why he was so fierce.

He walked into the room quietly and closed the door.

Putting the vegetable basket and corn flour bag on the table, he whispered, "Zhao Di, the scallion pancakes and eggs are still hot, eat some quickly."

Zhou Zhaodi said excitedly in a low voice: "Kaiwu! The situation is tense right now, why would you take such a big risk at night just for a little food?"

She was moved and ate a scallion pancake. She touched the egg and found it was still hot.

Zhang Kaiwu smiled and said, "Take good care of yourself. You look so weak that you won't be able to serve me as a concubine."

(End of this chapter)