Peasant woman

Chapter 8

Xu Cao was a little embarrassed standing by, and smiled at Shen Shi.

Shen covered her mouth with a smile, and said: "Sister-in-law, there is no need to be ashamed, it is a blessing that elder brother treats you well, but sister-in-law, you really should make up your body, it is not easy to have children with such a thin body."

Hearing this, Xu Cao looked up at Fugui, then hurriedly lowered her head.

Shen smiled, and drove Fu Gui out, leaving Xu Cao to stay.Xu Cao saw that Shen threw ten eggs into the boiling water in the big pot and boiled them, then broke the remaining ten eggs into a bowl, added some salt and stirred.

Xu Cao helped add a fire to the stove, and Shen stirred the egg liquid, and cut half of the pumpkin piled up in the corner of the kitchen, peeled off the skin, and chopped into small cubes.

After a while, the eggs in the pot had already floated up, and after cooking for a while, Shen Shi scooped up all the eggs.Shen raised her head and glanced at Xu Cao, passed the eggs in cold water, wrapped the boiled eggs with Fugui's egg-wrapping clothes just now, and stuffed them into Xu Cao's arms, "Sister-in-law, quickly take the eggs back to the room Go here, if my mother and the third siblings see it, they will say nasty things again."

Xu Cao nodded, "Okay, I'll just keep a few, let's keep a few for Brother Jun."

Shen smiled and said: "It's okay, I'll let Brother Jun eat in your room tonight."

Xu Cao went back to the room with the egg in her arms, but she didn't expect to see Niu walking towards her yawning as soon as she left the kitchen door.This person can really sleep, and he didn't wake up until now.Xu Cao didn't bother to talk to her, and walked to her room with the egg in her arms.

Niu saw what Xu Cao was holding in his arms at a glance, "Hey, what are you holding, sister-in-law? Don't want to eat alone with second sister-in-law."

Xu Cao raised her head and glanced at her, "Which eye of yours saw me eating alone with my second sibling? What, you slept all afternoon and became confused?"

This Niu Shi is not at odds with her at all, and she doesn't need to curry favor with Niu Shi, let alone show weakness in front of Niu Shi.

Niu Shi was so angry that he glared at Xu Cao and said angrily, "Then what are you holding in your arms? Keep it secret, why don't you steal food in the kitchen?"

Xu Cao thought it was funny, and was about to say something when Fugui hurried over, pulled Xu Cao and walked into the room, saying as she walked, "Daughter-in-law, what do you want her to do, come on, let's go back to the room .My daughter-in-law and I brought something to eat, and she still has a reason to say, and I don’t think she still eats alone all day long.”

To be rich is to be straight-tempered, able to say anything, regardless of whether others are embarrassed or not.

Niu stomped his feet on the spot angrily, but didn't even dare to make a sound.

Xu Cao followed Fugui back to the room, thinking about it was still a little bad, "Fugui, why don't we leave the eggs tomorrow morning, each of us will have one, and it's not good for me to eat alone."

Fu Gui quit, "What's the matter? I found this egg specially for you. Besides, don't you have two Shantiao? I'll sell the roe deer tomorrow. Let's eat one at Shantiao. Take the remaining egg back when you return home. Seeing how thin you are, you should make up for it, and you can keep this egg and eat it yourself."

Xu Cao didn't say much anymore. After dinner in the evening, Xu Cao was about to go back to her room to rest when she heard two familiar dog barks outside.

Hey, isn't that Xiaobai's voice?She hurriedly went out to see that it was Xiaobai, the little local dog at home. Xu Cao knelt down and touched Xiaobai, "Xiaobai, why are you here? Did my mother bully you?"

Probably because she wasn't here, her mother wanted to kill Xiaobai to eat.When she was still at home, it wasn't just a matter of a day or two for her mother to pay Xiao Bai's attention.Now that she is married, her mother must have wanted to kill Xiaobai to eat stewed meat, that's why Xiaobai came to find her.

Xiaobai barked twice, and wagged his tail at Xu Cao's doggy legs.Xu Cao glanced at Heizi lying next to him, and said to Xiaobai, "If you're not afraid of Heizi, you'll be fine with the Yang family from now on?"

Xiaobai barked twice more, but he didn't know whether he agreed or not.

Seeing Xiaobai yell at her twice, Xu Cao came up to Heizi, with her tail between her legs, and softly yelled at Heizi twice as if to please her.Heizi raised his eyelids, and closed them again after a while.Xiaobai yelled happily twice, and crawled cautiously beside Heizi.

Xu Cao laughed twice and went back to the room.Fu Gui is holding Miao Miao carefully, the burly man can't even hold a child, and he is light-footed, afraid of bumping Miao Miao.Seeing her coming in, he said with a simple smile, "Is it your little white dog?"

Xu Cao hummed, took Miao Miao from his arms, and said with a smile: "My mother probably called Xiaobai's attention again, and Xiaobai came to look for me, Fugui, if Xiaobai will stay in Yangzhou in the future Are you okay at home?"

Fugui smiled innocently, "What's the matter, just let it follow Heizi."

When Xu Cao heard this, she smiled and turned all her attention to Miao Miao in her arms. "Miao Miao, call your mother"

"Wolf"

Xu Cao was very patient, "Miao Miao, it's your mother, not a wolf, it's your mother." She even made her mother's tail sound long.

"already"

"Mother" Xu Cao continued to correct.

In the evening, Miao Miao was fed by her. In the past, Miao Miao was not allowed to go to the dinner table, and Mrs. Chen came to feed her every day.She must have been fed wholeheartedly every day. Miao Miao ate quite a lot tonight, half a bowl of pumpkin scrambled eggs, a steamed bun, and now her little belly is lying in Xu Cao's arms, hey hey straight at Xu Cao Le, I returned it in my mouth, the wolf howled.

The child who is only two years old doesn't remember much, and Miao Miao is not a child who is afraid of people.And Xu Cao treats the child sincerely. Although the child doesn't understand the truth, he can still feel who treats her sincerely.During the whole night, Miao Miao was stuck to Xu Cao, and she wouldn't let Mrs. Chen touch her.

"Daughter-in-law, you are so kind." Although Fugui has a straightforward temper, he can tell the sincerity and malice of others.He knew Xu Cao before, and always felt that although she was stubborn, she was kind-hearted, and she was really many times better than his previous daughter-in-law.One is in the sky and the other is on the ground.Thinking of that daughter-in-law before, Fugui frowned in disgust.

"What are you talking about, we are all a family now." Xu Cao's face turned red again when he stared at him so blankly.

Looking at the shy daughter-in-law, Fugui secretly sighed in his heart, the daughter-in-law is so thin, when will she be able to eat her.

Xu Cao didn't know what the simple and honest man in front of her was thinking, she just cared about having fun with Miao Miao.

After a whole night of teaching, Xiao Miaomiao can finally call her mother, and the pronunciation is correct.Make Xu Caole laugh straight away.

At night, Xiao Miaomiao also slept on the kang, Fugui's wish of simply hugging his wife could not be realized.

When I got up the next day, it was Niu's breakfast, and the meal was really not ordinary. I ate the noodles cooked in the morning, but Xu Cao resisted and ate up the bowl of noodles.The rest of the Yang family looked the same way.Even Niu himself didn't eat a single noodle.

Seeing that the big guys had finished eating, Niu came to Fugui and said with a smile: "Brother, I'm going to go to the town today. Do you want to sell the prey you hunted yesterday? Or give it all to the town?" Me, let me help you take that prey and sell it."

A few people nearby sneered, afraid that if you take this prey and sell it, all the money will go into your own pocket.

When Fu Gui heard this, he hurriedly shook his head, "No need, I'll go to town later, and I'll sell the roe deer myself." The roe deer was wounded on the leg, and it's still alive, so the price will be two cents higher.

When Niu heard this, he was a little unhappy, but he didn't dare to say anything more, he just asked, "Brother dragged the roe deer to sell? Those two mountains jumped?"

"Keep one for us to eat by ourselves, and the other will be taken with me when my wife and I return home tomorrow." Fugui said, grinning, and looked at Xu Cao.

In the morning, Mrs. Niu was going for a walk in the town and refused to break corn in the field. Mrs. Chen gave her a resentful look, but dared not say anything.Fugui carried the roe deer to the town, and Xu Cao asked him to buy some rock sugar and honey to make grape jam.

Then, the rest of the people went to the field, but there were two children in the family, and the mother-in-law Chen stayed to take care of the two children.

After working in the field for a day, when Xu Cao came back, she saw her mother-in-law's face was dark.Looking again, her man, Fugui, was pounding wild grapes with a big sack. Seeing Xu Cao, Fugui smiled and said, "Daughter-in-law, come and have a look. I went to the mountains this afternoon to pick the purple fruit for you. You said you want honey. I dug out another honeycomb for you, and picked up about thirty eggs, and I will bring these eggs with you when you return home tomorrow."

When Xu Cao heard the words, she saw a big honeycomb next to it, and she said why she smelled the scent of honey before entering the door.

As soon as these words came out, Chen's face became even more ugly, and he shouted: "I went out to hunt all afternoon, and I brought back a bag of purple fruits, and the thirty eggs I couldn't pick up were sent to their home. What a shame! Prodigal!" After she finished speaking, she seemed puzzled, and shouted loudly: "Fugui, don't move the beehive, I'll save some stewed tonic for Brother Jun."

Fugui turned his head and smiled, "Mother, it can't be done, my wife said to use honey to make jam, if there is any left, I will leave some for you."

The choked Chen couldn't say a word.Chen didn't dare to scold Xu Cao in front of Fugui, she knew that this unrelated son was protecting his shortcomings.

When Xu Cao heard this, she also laughed and said, "Mother, I'll make jam out of honey and sell it in the town, maybe I can earn a few taels of silver. Don't be angry. Then I'll pull some cloth for Brother Jun and Miaomiao." and make them two sets of clothes."

Mrs. Chen was stunned for a moment, "The thing you said can really make money?"

"There should be no problem." This grape sauce tastes sweet and delicious, popular taste, and most people like to eat it.However, after the jam is ready, the price is a bit expensive, so she plans to sell it directly to rich people.

Hearing that he could make money, Mrs. Chen couldn't say anything more, so she went back to her room after muttering a few words.

(End of this chapter)