Abandoned Daughter's Beautiful Pastoral

Chapter 9 Provocation
Before Mrs. Zhao could speak, Zhang Baoyin yelled, "Big sister, what do you mean? Big brother is useless, what if people are cheated like before?"

In the past, Zhang Baojin brought money to the town to buy seeds, but when he got to the town, he ran into a scammer who cheated him of all the money he had on him. Because of this, Mrs. Zhao didn't feel at ease giving him money to go to the town to do errands.

Zhang Baozhu said bitterly: "Hmph, at that time the eldest brother had no experience, and now he is a father and will be cheated by others? If you promise to give the extra money to your mother, then you go!"

Seeing what she said, Zhang Baoyin's expression turned pale immediately, and he was thinking of getting some benefits out of it and buying that little slut something to please her!
"If you buy two catties of pork and wine with this little money, what will you have left? It's the Double Ninth Festival, so the price of pork and wine will rise. This little money may not be enough!"

Zhang Baozhu knew that what he said was right, but he was unwilling to compromise on it: "On weekdays, pork is only [-] Wen, and that wine is only [-] Wen. Even during Chinese New Year, pork is only [-] Wen. Here is a hundred Wen , where will it all be spent?"

Zhang Baoyin's temper was already irritable, and when he saw her insisting on gnawing at her, he immediately became angry: "Mother didn't say anything, I want you to meddle in your own business!"

Mrs. Zhao, who was cleaning the chrysanthemums with her daughter-in-law Mrs. Liu, saw that their brothers and sisters were arguing over this matter, and couldn't help being annoyed: "How old are you, and what does it look like to be so noisy? Second child, you are too, every time I gave you money, but I took it out and never brought it back, and your sister was right."

Seeing Zhang Baoyin's unconvinced expression, he said to Zhang Baozhu in a blink of an eye: "Baozhu is the same, he is always your elder brother, and you as a younger sister don't blame him all the time. It's just such a small matter, you have to hold on to it." put!"

The two were beaten fifty times each, and they didn't dare to say anything, but they hated each other even more in their hearts.

Zhang Xiaocao, who was busy making chrysanthemum cakes in the kitchen, had no expression on her face when she heard the lawsuit. As long as they don't blame her, they can do anything!

It's just that she didn't know that it was because of her indifference that an event that happened in the near future caught her by surprise and almost ruined her life!
It was also that time that she narrowly seized the opportunity to completely break with this superb family!

Zhang Xiaocao looked with satisfaction at the yellow and fragrant chrysanthemum cakes placed in the bamboo dustpan. Although the appearance and taste were much worse than those in the previous life, the sweetness contained the unique fragrance of chrysanthemums, and the taste was still the same. Not bad, at least much better than what the original owner remembered!
As soon as Zhang Xiaocao walked out of the kitchen, she listened to Mrs. Zhao's order: "You go to the back mountain to pick some chrysanthemums and come back, this little is not enough for the night!"

Zhang Xiaocao couldn't wish for it, she was just looking for a reason to go to the back mountain!

"Mom, I'll go right away, but I still have to pick some, I'm worried that I won't have time to make lunch!"

It is necessary to boil chrysanthemum water to wash the hair and bathe the whole family, and to make some dried chrysanthemums for pillows, which is indeed a little less.

Mrs. Zhao was in a good mood, but urged her to hurry up, but impatiently said: "I'll make lunch with your sister-in-law, you don't have to hurry up!"

Zhang Xiaocao responded happily, and went to the back mountain with the cloth bag.

The reason why Houshan is called Houshan is because it is located behind the entire Zhangjia Village. It is said to be a mountain, but in fact it is just a relatively tall and huge earth bag. It is covered with rocks and only a small amount of wasteland, so no one spends it. Trying hard to gnaw on this piece of chicken rib, but there are many short shrubs and lush wild flowers and weeds, such as mountain chrysanthemums, which are particularly lush.

Zhang Xiaocao came to a place where chrysanthemums were in full bloom, looked around and saw no one else, so she walked down the hillside at the back.When picking chrysanthemums here a few days ago, I found a lot of rabbit droppings in different dryness and wetness. I knew there must be wild rabbits walking around here, so I set up a few simple traps here, but I don’t know if there are any. to prey.

Before she walked in, she found movement from the extremely overgrown grass, Zhang Xiaocao was overjoyed, could it be that she was caught?

Walk in and take a look, hey, there really is one, it's not too small!

Zhang Xiaocao was overjoyed, and walked forward cautiously, even though she knew the rabbit couldn't escape, she was still afraid of disturbing it!
The back mountain is full of yellow and bright chrysanthemums, and even the air carries the unique bitter fragrance of chrysanthemums, neither thick nor light, fresh and pleasant.

Zhang Xiaocao happily picked a whole cloth bag, carrying four fat hares, and was about to go home happily, but just after walking a few steps, a flash of light suddenly flashed in her mind, thinking Thinking, put down the mountain chrysanthemum and the rabbit, pulled a lot of weeds on the spot, threw the rabbit on it, and wove a long rope with the weeds, and tied the haystack with the rabbit.

Zhang Xiaocao walked briskly down the mountain with a bundle of long grass on his back and a cloth bag in his left hand. He met several people along the way and couldn't help thinking that it was dangerous!

She didn't intend to take all four rabbits home and confiscate them!

All the way to Grandma Zhang's house, I saw the door of the yard was open, so I walked in, and Grandma Zhang was cooking in the stove.

"Grandma Zhang!" Zhang Xiaocao yelled sweetly, and before Grandma Zhang could speak, she dropped the bag and carried the long grass into the stove.

"Hey, Xiaocao is here, grandma's meal is ready, you come and eat with me too!" Grandma Zhang said with a smile, her wrinkled face was unusually loving.

Zhang Xiaocao untied the straw rope and said, "It's done at home, I'm here today to ask grandma to do Xiaocao a favor!"

"Why can you help? Tell me!" Grandma Zhang said briskly, wiping her hands with a worn-out but very clean rag.

Zhang Xiaocao brought up the three rabbits and handed them to Grandma Zhang, and said with a smile: "These three rabbits will be kept here by grandma, grandma will eat the rabbit meat by herself, and save the rabbit skins and sell them for Xiaocao next time I go to town! "

If the three rabbits were brought home directly, she probably wouldn't even see a single rabbit fur, let alone sell the rabbit fur for money!

When Grandma Zhang saw that Zhang Xiaocao took out a few rabbits with undamaged fur, and was still angry, she was a little shocked, and when she told her to give her the rabbit, she waved her hands anxiously and refused: "What's the matter?" ? You got the rabbit with great difficulty, so you should take it back, how can grandma want it!"

Zhang Xiaocao knew that Grandma Zhang would not agree, her face collapsed, and she looked at Grandma Zhang with tears in her eyes: "Xiaocao also wants to take them all back, but mother knows that Xiaocao will catch rabbits, so I will let you go next time." Xiaocao catches the rabbit, but Xiaocao can't catch it, what should I do? If I can't catch my mother, I should scold Xiaocao for being useless!"

After all, she looked at Grandma Zhang pitifully, with an attitude of "If you don't agree, I will cry for you"!

These words really scare Grandma Zhang. She is not worried that Mrs. Zhao will scold Xiaocao, but she knows the situation of this poor child at home and who Mrs. Zhao is. Regardless of Xiaocao's safety, he made a decision to let Xiaocao and a child go to the mountains to catch rabbits. Who doesn't know that there are wild boars and wolves in the mountains. If they meet them, they will die?

(End of this chapter)