Peasant woman

Chapter 12

The vine is twisted from a plant with stems and leaves. The stems are prismatic, hairy, odd-pinnate compound leaves, and cyme tops.

Xu Cao blinked her eyes, thinking that she had made a mistake.

"Daughter-in-law, what's the matter?" Seeing his daughter-in-law staring blankly at the two pheasants in his hand, Fugui thought she wanted to eat chicken, so he grinned and said, "Does my daughter-in-law want to eat chicken? How about making it tomorrow? Just stay."

Xu Cao looked up at him, with unbelievable ecstasy in her eyes, she smiled and pointed to the vine tied with a pheasant in Fugui's hand, "Fugui, where did this come from?"

Those are obviously the stems and leaves of potatoes, but there are no potatoes in this world.

Xu Cao has never seen potatoes since she came here for more than ten years. The common vegetables here are similar to what she ate in her previous life, but there are not many kinds, only cabbage, green onion, water shield, soybean, winter melon, Chinese kale, daylily, shepherd's purse, wild rice stem, Leek, radish, bracken, Malan, Chrysanthemum chrysanthemum, water spinach, amaranth, Chinese cabbage, bamboo shoots, as well as peppers, ginger, garlic and peppercorns.The latter four are the most basic condiments.

These vegetables are commonly eaten vegetables in this world, and because of the climate difference between the north and the south, some vegetables are not suitable for planting in the north or south, or the yield is low.

Potatoes were a very common food in Xu Cao's previous life, and in some poorer places, potatoes were the staple food.The yield of potatoes is high. If this thing is available, it will be of great benefit to the poorer people.

Now that she saw this potato leaf, how could she be unhappy?
Fu Gui thought that Xu Cao was referring to the two pheasants in his hand, and said with a smile, "Daughter-in-law, you are stupid, I hunted them on the mountain."

Xu Caojiao gave him a sharp look, and said with a smile: "Who said the pheasant in your hand is gone? I mean where did the vines that tied the pheasant come from?"

Glancing at the plant twisted into a vine, Fugui laughed, "I just pulled it up in the mountains, and I didn't have any hemp rope, so I tied it with this. What's wrong? My wife knows this vine?"

"It's just acquaintance." Xu Cao smiled and took the pheasant in Fugui's hand, untied the vine, and led the pheasant to the kitchen, "I seem to have seen this thing in a book, and it said it grew from the bottom If the fruit is edible, it can be eaten as food."

When Fugui heard this, he hurriedly followed, "Daughter-in-law, are you serious? I didn't see any fruit growing on this thing."

Xu Cao threw the pheasant to the corner, opened the cauldron and stirred the big bone broth with a wooden spoon, and said with a smile, "This fruit grows underground, so you have to dig it out. Fugui, you can go to the mountain tomorrow Hunting? How about I go with you?" She was very interested in the potatoes, if she could dig them back, they would sprout tomorrow in February, and they could be picked and planted in the ground.

But this land is a bit troublesome. Zhanghe Village is backed by mountains and water. There are not many fields in the village, and there are no remaining fields. She can't buy them even if she wants to.Unless it is cultivated on the mountain, this is a difficult thing, and she can only think about it now.

Fu Gui heard that his wife wanted to go to the mountains with him, so he quickly agreed.This thing is not in the deep mountains, my daughter-in-law follows him, not afraid.

In the evening, everyone had dinner together. Xu Cao fried a sausage with dried red peppers hanging under the eaves. The whole family said it was delicious and that Xu Cao was good at cooking.Said that they ate fat sausage many times, but Xu Cao didn't make it taste good.

Niu who was on the side heard the words, quickly stuffed the last piece of fat intestines into the mouth, and said mockingly: "Of course the one made by my sister-in-law is delicious. I didn't see how much rough noodles she wasted, so I don't know how distressed she is." After finishing speaking, she turned her head and rushed Fugui said: "Brother, you have only been married for a few days, don't spoil your sister-in-law, women should be disciplined!"

Xu Cao was annoyed by her constant cynicism, and before Fugui had anything to say, she had already opened her mouth and said, "What the third sibling said is that women should be disciplined, otherwise it would be really bad if you were as rude as the third sibling. gone."

Niu's face blushed with anger, and seeing her husband and elder brother staring at her, she closed her mouth unwillingly.

Everyone ate pancakes, spicy fat intestines, and drank big bone soup. They all felt that it was a blessing to be able to eat such delicious food in the countryside.

Shen Shi helped clean up the bowls and chopsticks, took Xu Cao, and carried Brother Jun to the yard and sat down.

Now at the end of October, the weather is neither too hot nor too cold. After eating dinner, it will be cool outside the house, not to mention how pleasant it is.

Xu Cao took Miao Miao by the hand, and Miao Miao cried out when she saw Brother Jun, and waved her little hand at him. Seeing this, Xu Cao hurriedly said, "Miao Miao, that's Brother Jun, Miao Miao's younger brother." , Miao Miao wants to call her younger brother."

Miao Miao probably understood Xu Cao's words, first yelled twice, and then started to yell, "Didi..."

Xu Cao was very happy when she got it right after learning it once. She held Xiao Miao Miao in her arms and tickled her, "Miao Miao is really smart, Miao Miao is the smartest child my mother has ever seen."

Miao Miao giggled, avoiding Xu Cao's tickling, and cried out, "Mother, mother, ah."

Seeing the two people making a fuss, Shen put down Brother Jun in his arms, let him walk and play in the yard on his own, and said with emotion: "Sister-in-law, no wonder elder brother treats you well, Miao Miao is not your own." Yes, you treat her so well, you are kind and kind, if the elder brother doesn't love you, whoever loves you."

Xu Cao also put Miao Miao down and asked her to play by herself. Looking at the two children who were still not stable, she smiled and said: "What kind of heart is not, although Miao Miao is not my own, but she is Fugui's child, since I am married to Fugui, I naturally want to treat Miao Miao well." She said with a smile, "I am kind to Miao Miao, and Miao Miao will treat me sincerely in the future. in this way."

Just as he was talking, Fu Gui also came out, and chatted with Xu Cao in the yard for a while, seeing that it was getting late, he went back to his room.

Miao Miao was already fast asleep, Fugui was holding Miao Miao and standing aside, Xu Cao quickly made the bed, turned around and whispered to Fugui: "Hurry up and carry Miao Miao to the kang, I'll get water, we can wash it too Take a rest."

Fu Gui hummed, stared at his wife several times with dark eyes, and then gently put Miao Miao in his arms into the kang.Seeing this, Xu Cao blushed, turned around and went to the kitchen to bring warm water.

When the water was served, Fugui was staring at the door, saw Xu Cao, and grinned, "Daughter-in-law, come in quickly."

Xu Cao brought in water, put it on the basin stand beside him, and said to Fugui, "Fugui, you should wash it first."

Fugui waved his hand, "My daughter-in-law should wash first, and I'll fetch water later."

Xu Cao didn't refuse, and after Fugui left, she closed the door and wiped herself.After washing, I poured out the water in the basin. Xu Cao was going to fetch water from the kitchen when Fu Gui came out from nowhere, "Daughter-in-law, no need, I just washed in cold water, let's go back to bed."

When the two entered the room, Xu Cao was not in a hurry to get on the kang, and took out the nine taels of silver she left from selling jam today, and came to Fugui with a small cloth bag, and said with a smile: "Fugui, look, I'm earned silver."

When she spoke, her eyes were bright, very touching.

Fugui took a look at the silver tael, he didn't care very much, but stared at Xu Cao's shining eyes foolishly, and thought to himself, the daughter-in-law's eyes are really beautiful.

Indeed, the most outstanding thing about Xu Cao is her eyes, her pupils are watery, and she smiles crookedly, as if she can speak.

"Hey, look at that." Xu Cao found that Fugui's attention was not on the broken silver in her hand at all, and rubbed towards Fugui's eyes as if offering a treasure, and the silver was stretched out in front of Fugui's eyes, "Look, The silver I earned today."

Only then did Fugui shift his gaze to the silver in Xu Cao's hand, grinned, and stood up from the kang.Xu Cao saw him walk out of the big wooden box, opened the wooden box, and fished inside for a long time, then saw him take out a brocade box and hand it to Xu Cao with a smile, "Daughter-in-law, this is left by my mother." Among my things, there are some silver coins that I have seized, as well as a jade pendant and a pair of beautiful bracelets that my mother left me. It is said that I will marry a daughter-in-law in the future, so I will give the bracelet to her. However, these That's what my dad told me."

For Fugui's mother-in-law, Xu Cao has no impression, she only knows that Fugui's other name, Yang Chen'an, seems to be Fugui's mother-in-law.Hearing the name, Xu Cao felt that the wealthy mother should be a very gentle woman, which is really a pity.

Xu Cao opened the brocade box and saw a jade pendant and a pair of bracelets inside.There is also a tael of broken silver.

The jade pendant and the bracelet are all watery emerald green, extremely beautiful.Xu Cao was taken aback, she knew this thing, these are jade pendants and bracelets.Both the jade pendant and the bracelet are made of high-quality jadeite.In the previous life, when she saw the jade bracelets and jade jewelry in the big shopping mall, she was so greedy.But the ones that look a little better, are greener, and have a better water head, are all ridiculously expensive, and she simply can't afford them.She didn't expect that the rich mother-in-law would leave him such a good thing.

Fugui felt a little embarrassed when he saw the one tael of broken silver, "I spent all the silver when I married you. This little silver is still the money of the roe deer I sold the day before yesterday. Daughter-in-law, don't hold it against me. In the future I will definitely hunt hard and earn you a lot of money. I will let you eat well and dress well, so that all the young daughters-in-law in the village will envy you." He laughed cheerfully as he said.

Xu Caojiao said angrily, "What nonsense are you talking about?"

Fugui smiled, and said again: "Daughter-in-law, you put this thing away. I think it's worth a lot, but I think it's something my mother left us, so let's keep it as a family heirloom. You can carry this bracelet on weekdays." on."

Xu Cao glared at him feigning anger, "How dare I bring it, if my mother and the third siblings see this thing, they won't be in trouble. However, mother doesn't know that this thing has been with you for so many years ?”

Fu Gui smiled and said: "Of course I don't know, Dad told me to hide this thing so that Mother won't see it."

(End of this chapter)