Pampered Tian's Wife: The Little Weaver Girl in the Farmhouse

Chapter 10 Harsh Liu

At noon, the chicken in the pot was already cooked, and the aroma filled the yard.As soon as Qi Tiankui and his son entered the yard with the pickaxe, they could smell the pungent aroma. The father and son, who were already hungry, couldn't stand it anymore after smelling the aroma.

"What smells so good? Motherfucker, it's not a festival, what kind of meat did you get? Can't you make it through?" Qi Tiankui shouted.

The life of the Qi family is ordinary, and the family has less than [-] mu of land, which is not a lot.However, the imperial court has collected a lot of taxes in these years, and [-]% to [-]% of the harvest has to be paid for tax and food, and the rest has to feed six people.The son and daughter in the family haven't talked about their marriage yet, so Qi Tiankui lives very frugally.Except for the new year's festival, the Qi family can't see any meat.

The aroma that filled the courtyard, one could tell that something delicious was made just by smelling it, Qi Tiankui's expression was not very good-looking.It's not a festival, why do you still think of stew?Isn't this a prodigal?

As soon as Mrs. Liu heard her husband's movement, she hurried out of the house, "Oh, the head of the house is back. Qiaoyun went into the mountains today, and somehow he picked up a pheasant. Now the weather can't let it go." , When I thought about it, I simply stewed the big guy to satisfy my hunger. It’s been a long time since I saw meat, you guys are tired from work, let’s eat something good.”

While speaking, Mrs. Liu came forward with a smile, and dusted Qi Tiankui with a cloth towel in her hand, "Quick, go wash your face, let's eat quickly. It's rare to have stewed chicken today, so let's have a good meal." Don't look at Liu Shi and Qiao Yun's vicious looks, but when facing their husbands, they are very courteous.

As soon as Qi Tiankui heard that it was a pheasant he picked up, his face relaxed a lot, "I didn't expect that girl to have such luck, okay, then let's all satisfy our greed today and reward us." While speaking, Qi Tiankui said Tell Qi Yongyuan to wash his hands and prepare to eat.

Here, Mrs. Liu also opened her voice and shouted, "Damn girl, it's so slow for you to serve a meal. Hurry up, the whole family is waiting for dinner."

For Liu's swearing, Qiaoyun is no stranger to it, and has long been used to it.So without even raising her head, she put all the chicken and mushrooms in the pot into the basin without saying a word, and brought them to the table outside.

All the food was ready and served, only then did Mrs. Liu call Xiumei Xiuyan to come down to eat.Everyone sat around the table, and Mrs. Liu began to serve food and vegetables to the big guys.This is the rule of the Qi family. No matter what the time is, meals must be distributed by Mrs. Liu, and no one else has this right.

There were two bowls of that kind of coarse porcelain on the table, which were quite big. Mrs. Liu picked up the bowl and turned it into a top-notch bowl of rice, and put it in front of Qi Tiankui, and then gave Qi Yongyuan another top-notch bowl.When it comes to Mrs. Liu, it is a flat bowl, Xiumei and Xiuyan are similar, both are flat bowls.

At this time, there was only a little bit of rice left in the basin, and the rest was crispy rice.Mrs. Liu mixed rice and crispy rice and filled half a bowl for Qiaoyun. "Then, let's eat."

Qiaoyun looked at the half bowl of rice, her face was expressionless, she was already numb, in Qi's family, she always ate the least and worked the most.Qiaoyun took the bowl without saying a word, but didn't eat directly, because Mrs. Liu hadn't separated the chicken yet.I stewed chicken today. Such a delicious dish must be eaten separately.

Sure enough, Mrs. Liu brought another stack of small bowls and started serving chicken and mushrooms to everyone.She had just served Qi Tiankui, she seemed to suddenly think of something, she looked at Qiaoyun and said, "Qiaoyun, go to the garden and pull some green onions, and then scoop up a bowl of sauce, there is no sauce for noon today."

Normally, I don’t eat sauce at noon, I eat it with porridge at night.However, Qiaoyun also understood that Mrs. Liu didn't want to give her the chicken, so she took Qiaoyun away on purpose.Qiaoyun didn't say a word, stood up and went out into the garden to pull the onions.

Sure enough, when Qiaoyun pulled out a handful of scallions, peeled and washed them, and scooped up the miso and entered the house, everyone in the room had already divided the chicken, and even Qi Yongyuan ate up all the chicken.There was still a little soup and a few pieces of mushrooms left in the basin, but there was no small bowl in front of Qiaoyun at all.

"It takes a long time to ask you to do some work. It takes a long time for such a few green onions. Eat quickly, and you have to work after eating." Seeing Qiaoyun coming in, Mrs. Liu rolled her eyes. Said.

Qiao Yun didn't refute, this kind of thing had happened countless times in Qiao Yun's memory.She has no other requirements now, as long as she can eat enough, the rest will be discussed later.She didn't bother to catch a pheasant to go home today not because she wanted to go home without being beaten. In the future, they would never even want to see the feathers of a pheasant.

Qiaoyun sat down, poured the soup and a few pieces of mushrooms from the basin into a bowl, and then ate the meal like this.Not to mention, the taste of this pheasant is really good, the chicken soup is very fresh, and the mushrooms are also very good, the crispy rice is soaked in the chicken soup, and it is delicious to eat.

Seeing Qiaoyun's silent expression while eating, Xiumei couldn't help curling her lips, "Bitch, you deserve to be hungry."

It's rare to eat chicken, and Qiao Yun's craftsmanship is really good, so everyone is quite full.After lunch, Qi Tiankui and his son went to work in the fields after a short rest, while Qi Xiumei and Qi Xiuyan went back to the house to embroider.

Qiaoyun hurriedly put away all the dishes and chopsticks, scrubbed them clean quickly, and went back to her room.

The Qi family has three main rooms, Qi Tiankui, his wife and Qi Yongyuan live in the east room, and Xiumei sisters live in the west room.Originally Qiaoyun also lived in the west room, but later Xiumei got upset and chased Qiaoyun out all day long, and finally Qi Tiankui let Qiaoyun live in the east wing.

Said to be the East Wing Room, it was originally a warehouse used by the Qi family to store sundries, but it was built of adobe anyway.Qi Xiumei and Qi Xiuyan kept arguing about not wanting to live with Qiaoyun. Qi Tiankui had no choice but to tidy up the warehouse. He simply built a kang and a pot and stove, and wiped the walls casually in the house. Just let Qiaoyun live.The inside of the house is very simple, except for a loom kang and a spinning wheel on the ground, there are no extra decorations.

In Qijia Village, almost every household has a loom. In Qiaoyun's memory, there seems to be no cotton.The local people can grow hemp, spin hemp thread and weave cloth, and most of them wear hemp clothes.Of course, there is also kudzu, but the cloth woven from kudzu is delicate, and most people sell it or use it as the inner lining of clothes.

Of course, Qijia Village also produces silk, including mulberry and tussah silkworms, but few people know how to weave silk.Most of the time, they are selling cocoons.Ordinary people can't afford silk clothes, and the price of silk is not low. Those hardworking girls and daughter-in-laws in the village rely on silkworm farming to earn money to supplement their families.

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