The daily farming life of the black-bellied young lady

Chapter 96 Escorted from the Mountain

Chu Ying has always been a light sleeper, and she couldn't sleep to death in this mountain. Even though there were 5 men by her side and guards in turn, Chu Ying still held the dagger and squinted her eyes.

Chu Ying thought that the unpredictable environment in the wild was the biggest challenge, but she didn't expect that the most difficult thing to deal with was people. Chu Ying walked quickly, but she was only 9 years old and even though she had grown taller recently, she was still not as fast as the person next to her.

Li Zhongjing opened the road ahead, and would tell Chu Ying about any snakes, rats, rats, ants, and height differences, for fear that Chu Ying's feet would slip and fall.

"I'm going back now, can you stop following me?" Since waking up in the morning, this man left his team and followed him, and took care of himself everywhere, but he didn't say a word, and there was no expression on his face.

"I'll leave when you get home safely. Be careful here, hold this branch with your hand." Chu Ying's two short legs couldn't run this strong man who often hunted in the mountains, so she could only obediently follow behind, and let him go. Find your own way.

"Why do you help me like this? We have no relatives and no reason, and we have never met." Chu Ying was a little tired from walking, so she leaned on the branch to take a rest.

Li Zhongjing poured some water from the water bag into Chu Ying's bamboo cup, "I'm worried about you, a child. There are a lot of wild boars in this area, and going north is the territory of black bears. I'm afraid you will die and go back."

Chu Ying didn't say much. In fact, human beings are the most ferocious animals. There are many species that are on the verge of extinction because of human preferences. People here are afraid of wild animals because they don't have powerful weapons such as shotguns.

When they arrived at a relatively open area, Li Zhongjing took out a pancake and gave it to Chu Ying, "You can go out of the mountain if you keep going this way. Take this pancake and don't starve to death. You're going to enter the mountain again. It’s too young, let’s go into the mountains when we grow up.”

"Brother, what's your name?"

"Li Zhongjing, others call me Xiao Zhong, go back quickly, the family must be waiting impatiently, don't go into the mountains like this in the future, if you go to the mountains, you will either kill the wild beast, or the wild beast will eat you, this is not a play " Looking at Li Zhongjing's hurried back figure, Chu Ying was a little moved, after all, it was really not easy to bring herself to a safe area without relatives or reasons.

Chu Ying followed the way she came here to find the place where the male deer had been hunted before, climbed up a tree, and took down the antlers that had been hidden before. The antlers were relatively large and heavy, so they were not suitable for carrying on adventures, so Chu Ying took them It hid it, and now it was going to go back anyway, so it was memorized.

This time the expedition is still somewhat rewarding, but next time you must pay attention to avoiding those hunters, especially that Li Zhongjing, or you will be escorted back again, and it will be the afternoon when you get home. Take it out and continue to dry it, but when you enter the house, you don't see Ye Qiu.

Chu Ying cooked the rice, added fodder for the rabbit, and looked at the wheat on the ground. Now the grains of wheat are quite full, but I don’t know when it will rain. Waiting for one more day will make the wheat grow a bit more, but if In case of heavy rain, these ears of wheat will be hit on the ground by the rain.

Therefore, autumn harvest is also called rush harvest. You have to watch the timing and move quickly. Fortunately, you don’t have a lot of wheat. If you have more than 5 acres, you have to harvest some first. Will drop a lot.

Chu Ying went to the grove to look around but didn't see Ye Qiu, but went to the kitchen and saw two red eggs, presumably they were brought by Wang Naiyuan, and just happened to be hungry, so Chu Ying peeled them and ate them.

After Chu Ying cleaned the bow and arrow several times, she saw Ye Qiu walking back with some difficulty carrying something on her back. Chu Ying hung up the bow and arrow and ran to help.

"You boy is back, no, no, I'll come, you have little arms and legs, did you eat outside? You're starving to death, drink meat soup tonight, and go to the city today to exchange some money for embroidery."

Chu Ying held the odds and ends in her hands, and looked at Ye Qiu's basket full of rice, "I'll just go together, how tiring, don't we still have rice at home?"

"The rice shop sells old rice. It's cheap, and it's good after a little drying. It's only 2 cents a catty, and the color is still good. By the way, I just met Master Lu, and he asked me to tell you to go there when he's free. He went to his house because he has something to do. It seems to be a serious business." Ye Qiu took a deep breath, quickened his pace and carried the rice back, walking slowly made him tired.

"It's not a serious matter. I don't think you will tell me. I killed a deer and brought the deer belt back. I can make winter clothes. I will sell the antlers at the pharmacy in the city tomorrow."

Ye Qiu had already noticed the complete piece of deerskin hanging before entering the door, "It looks pretty complete, so let's sell it, don't we have rabbit skins at home, and we can make another one if we save more. And it's still far from winter."

"Okay, let's take them to the city tomorrow."

"This garlic can be harvested. If you say it can be harvested, I will collect it tomorrow, and the wheat will have to be harvested some day." Chu Ying looked at Ye Qiu who was bent over under the weight of the basket in front of her, and hurried home to pick it up. The things are put to pick up the backpack. "Let's collect it together when I come back tomorrow, or you will be quite tired by yourself."

"It's all right, what's the matter, all right, all right, you go play for a while, I'll cook. Did you get hurt when you went into the mountains?" Ye Qiu pulled up Chu Ying's sleeves, and checked Chu Ying inside and out Don't worry about washing the vegetables.

Chu Ying saw that the quality of the old rice was indeed poor, but it was edible. Chu Ying was not picky about food, and it was enough to have something to eat, and the next day Chu Ying saw what it meant.

"This is rice from Jiangbei, right? I only eat rice grown at the mouth of the Jiangnan River. What's the matter? Is Erniang busy and confused these days?" Lu Ming raised his eyes coldly, and put the bowls and chopsticks on the table.

"It's Erniang who forgot, Chunhe hurriedly asked the kitchen to do it again, what's the matter with the kitchen, don't you know that the young master only eats that kind of rice?"

A young maid hurriedly knelt on the ground, and said weakly, "Second Madam, I haven't bought the rice after eating, so this is used in the kitchen."

"Okay, okay, what's different, eat it quickly." Master Lu put the chicken thighs into Lu Ming's bowl.

Lu Ming stood up and pushed the bowl forward, "Father, eat slowly, I have to go out beforehand."

"Where are you going, kid?"

The second lady's eyes were reddish, she lowered her head while holding a handkerchief, and sobbed slightly, "It's all my fault, I've been busy these days with my request for my husband and forgot to inform the kitchen that all my favorite food will be prepared tomorrow." It’s all right, I was negligent.”

Master Lu followed Mrs. Shun's back, "It's okay, I spoiled him, you should pay more attention to Qing'er's affairs, since Ming'er is not destined to be an official, let Ming'er go out on her own, Qing'er You have to be careful here."

Chu Ying was biting her finger at the door, before she could figure out what was going on, Lu Ming grabbed her hand and dragged her into his room, "You are too troublesome, what kind of rice can't be eaten. Do you know how many people can't eat?" ?"

"What does it have to do with me that they can't eat? Come here, you made this thing yourself, right? It's very convenient to use. You can make more. There are a lot of people coming to my father's house these days, and my father also said this Good stuff, let me buy more."

Chu Ying put down her two hands on her waist, raised the corners of her mouth and squinted her eyes, and walked to Lu Ming's side in small steps. "Okay, okay, I don't know how much it will cost, and I don't know how much I will charge you. Look..."

Lu Ming looked at Chu Ying's obsequious eyes, as if Chunlou's wife saw a big guest, and took a few steps back, "This thing is inferior to writing paper, but it is quite thick and thicker. It's soft, and it's not appropriate to charge the price of a piece of paper."

(End of this chapter)