Peasant woman

Chapter 13

Xu Cao touched the bracelet and jade pendant, her hands were smooth, delicate and cold to the touch.She felt a little strange, what kind of person is the rich mother?Why is there such a precious thing?She was surprised, so she asked.

Fugui just smiled and said he didn't know either.

Seeing this, Xu Cao didn't ask any more questions, and put all her remaining nine taels of silver into the brocade box, then locked the small lock on the brocade box, and then put the brocade box into the big wooden box and locked it up , this is a sigh of relief.After thinking about it, she looked back at Fugui, and remembered that Fugui married a daughter-in-law before, why didn't this thing be handed over to the daughter-in-law for safekeeping?
"Fu Gui, why didn't you give this thing to Miao Miao's mother for safekeeping?"

Fugui's grin slowly disappeared, and his brows frowned inadvertently, "What are you talking about her for? She's not good. Naturally, I won't hand over the things mother left behind to her for safekeeping."

"Not good?" Xu Cao was a little surprised, she always thought that Miao Miao's mother was a weak-tempered person who couldn't stand up to Mrs. Chen's insults all day long, so she ran away.Could it be?

Fugui thought about it, and felt that it would be better to explain the past things clearly to his wife, otherwise it would be bad if the daughter-in-law got sulky.

"I can't marry a daughter-in-law. Miaomiao's mother came to our village that year. She thought that this woman who was picked up for nothing didn't want money, so she decided to take her in as my wife. I don't like the look in her eyes." Fugui seemed to sigh as he said, "Later, I thought about it, since I married me, I should live a good life. Later, she became pregnant and gave birth to Miao Miao. She has a bad temper and is not good to Miao Miao. Mother often scolded her , she took her anger out on Miao Miao, she was not kind, and then she probably thought I was boring and stupid, and I didn't protect her, so she ran away."

When it comes to this matter, Fugui is aboveboard and feels nothing to be ashamed of.Although he didn't like Miao Miao's mother back then, he treated her well.It's just that she wholeheartedly thinks that he's not good, and it's too boring to live a life like this. She doesn't like a man like him, so she goes to find her own happiness.

Just run away, he doesn't like her anyway.

Xu Cao was surprised, it turned out to be the case.She only saw Miao Miao's mother once from a distance, and she was a little blurry. She only remembered that she looked good, and she didn't pay attention to the rest.

Before Xu Cao came back to his senses, Fugui had already hugged her horizontally, grinning happily.Xu Cao was taken aback and let out a small exclamation.

"Daughter-in-law, let's not talk about these unhappy things, we'll have a rest early, and we have to get up early to go to the mountains tomorrow." After saying that, she hugged Xu Cao and got under the covers.

Xu Cao blushed, but fortunately he just carried her onto the kang and did nothing.

"Daughter-in-law, take a rest." Fugui hugged his daughter-in-law and took a nap in satisfaction.

Noticing the hard thing against her underneath, Xu Cao felt ashamed to death.

Fortunately, he just hugged her tightly against her and did nothing.Only then did Xu Cao gradually relax.

After a while, he fell asleep in a deep sleep.

In the morning of the first day, after drinking brown rice porridge, and handing Miao Miao to Shen Shi, asking her to help take care of it for a day, Xu Cao followed Fugui and took Heizi to the mountains.After only two steps, Xu Cao remembered the precious jadeite bracelet and jade pendant in the room, and hurriedly turned back, whispering something in the ear of Xiaobai who was watching at the gate of the courtyard.

Xiaobai understands human nature, and sometimes he can understand simple commands.Xu Cao asked him to guard the door, not allowing others to enter.

Xiaobai glanced at Heizi and Fugui, barked twice reluctantly, and agreed.

Xu Cao smiled and patted Xiaobai's head, "Be good at guarding the door, and I'll reward you with delicious food when I come back."

Xiao Baibai glanced at her and barked twice.

Only then did Xu Cao happily walk towards the mountain.

She has no choice but to suddenly have a treasure, so she naturally wants to hide it well so that it won't be stolen by others.

As the two walked towards the mountain, Fugui told her some things to pay attention to in the mountain, as well as what happened in his usual hunting, Xu Cao listened with great interest.

Heizi behind them followed them calmly.

After walking in the mountains for about an hour, the surrounding trees have gradually become thicker and taller, and there are many shrubs that Xu Cao doesn't recognize.

Even the sound around gradually quieted down, occasionally some birds chirped.Xu Cao couldn't help but even breathe a lot lighter.

Seeing her appearance, Fugui grinned and took her hand.Not long after, Fugui stopped at one place, pointed to a few plants in front of him and said, "Daughter-in-law, this is it."

Xu Cao saw that it wasn't just the stems and leaves of potatoes.She cheered and walked towards that area with a small shovel in her hand.

Not many, just like five or six plants.Although not much, Xu Cao was already very happy.These potatoes she digs back are not for eating, but for planting next spring.

There are about eight or nine potatoes under one plant. These potatoes are not very big, only half the size of a fist.Fu Gui also knelt down to help, and after a while, all the potatoes were dug out, counted, there were about seventy potatoes.

Xu Cao happily put them all into the sack.

Fugui grinned and looked at his daughter-in-law's smiling face, and felt warm in his heart.

"Fugui, is there such a thing around here?" Xu Cao lifted the sack in her hand with a smile.

Fugui couldn't help but patted her head, took her hand, and said with a grin: "I'm afraid the neighborhood is gone, let's keep going forward, I'm hunting, so you should pay attention around."

"Okay." Xu Cao clenched his big hand and answered.

Along the way, potatoes are rarely seen, and wild grapes are seen a lot, but I don’t know if it’s because the weather has been a little warmer these two days, a lot of wild grapes have fallen, and Xu Cao didn’t collect them along the way. A few bunches of grapes.

Along the way, Fugui hunted a mountain jump and a pheasant.Xu Cao saw two kinds of bows and arrows on his back, and asked curiously, "Fugui, why are you carrying two kinds of bows and arrows, wouldn't it be more convenient to carry one?"

Fugui heard her words, looked back at the bows and arrows on his back with a smile, and said: "This kind of short, thinner ones are used to hunt pheasants, mountain jumps, roe deer, hedgehogs, etc. There are also this kind of thick bows and arrows. It is used to hunt big prey. Big prey can only be found in the deep mountains, and they will not come here on weekdays, but just in case, it is better to take it with you.”

Xu Cao nodded, now he understands.

Seeing that it was getting late, the two of them went back.Heizi followed silently behind him.

When they got home, Xiao Bai stood outside the courtyard and wagged his tail vigorously at them. Xu Cao couldn't help but feel very happy. This dog is loyal. Look, every time she comes back, she will come out to greet her.Just about to praise Xiaobai, Xu Cao saw that the little dog ignored her and ran towards Heizi behind her, then wagged his tail at Heizi's favour, and circled around Heizi .

Xu Cao glared at it before entering the yard.Shen Shi was sitting in the yard looking at the two children.Seeing Xu Cao and Fugui, Miao Miao's big round eyes lit up, and she ran towards the two of them unsteadily with short legs, "Niang Niang Niang."

Xu Cao conveniently put the sack on the corner of the wall, picked up the wobbly Miao Miao, "Miao Miao not only wants to be called Mother, but also Daddy."

Miao Miao smiled at Xu Cao, and pointed at Fu Gui with her little finger, "It's gotta get it."

Xu Cao didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Miao Miao, it's Daddy, not Dede, Daddy, Daddy"

Miao Miao smiled very unhappy, "Dede..."

Xu Cao was helpless, and Shen Shi beside him couldn't help but laugh, and Fu Gui also grinned.

After teasing Hui Miaomiao again, Yang Xiaoan ran out of the kitchen, "Brother, sister-in-law, you are back, hurry up and wash up and eat."

Xiao An was about the same age as Xu Cao, a few months younger than Xu Cao, good-looking, hard-working, and sweet-mouthed.It is said that since childhood, he has made a baby kiss with Brother Hong from the next village.As soon as Xiao An reaches Ji, they will be able to get married.

Brother Hong's surname is Kong, and his first name is Zhenhong. He lives in the neighboring Gouzi Village.

Xu Cao didn't know him, but she knew that Xiao An was quite satisfied with this marriage, even Chen's relatives were very satisfied.Because Kong Zhenhong is a scholar, he will be going to take the children's examination in the spring of next year. If he can pass the exam, he will be a scholar.

There are only a few old scholars in the nearby villages.

After dinner, Xu Cao hurriedly piled her potatoes to the corner of the room, waiting for them to sprout slowly.

There were not many wild grapes, and there were not many jams to make. Xu Cao washed them and brought them to the yard for everyone to eat as fruit after dinner.She didn't keep the grape seeds either, and planned to go to the mountain to cut a grape branch in spring and come back for cuttings, which is much more convenient than planting grape seeds.

(End of this chapter)