Father's Farmer's Wife: Farming Makes a Fortune

Chapter 43 Raid Inspection

Mrs. Zhuang cooked dried sweet potato porridge at noon, and she ate it with a small plate of pickles. The rabbit meat and pumpkin rice last night was a bit greasy. Today, some pickles and soft, glutinous and sweet porridge are very appetizing.

Nanmen Yuesheng sat down with porridge, and saw that Oldest Yu was about to walk to the front of the wooden house, stood up and poured another bowl, and waited for Oldest Yu to go, then asked him to wash his hands and eat lunch.

Third Yu came over after washing his hands, seeing that Nanmenyue had already served him porridge, scratched his head in embarrassment, and sat down with a smile.

"Yinger's mother, if I have nothing to do in the afternoon, I want to go to the mountains to see my mother." He was unfilial, his mother had passed the seventeenth day, and he couldn't burn something for her.

"There's nothing to do in the afternoon. Take the machete with you when you go, and bring a bundle of bamboo when you come back."

The third brother Yu agreed, and happily drank the porridge. He was not talkative at all, and he seemed very reserved when he sat alone at the table with Nanmen Yue. He quickly picked up the porridge in the bowl, wanting to finish it quickly .

Nanmenyue lowered her head and didn't have a mouthful of porridge in her mouth. She vaguely heard the sound of horseshoes, and hurriedly raised her head to look at the entrance of the mountain depression. She saw three or two officers and soldiers riding horses towards the wooden house.

Nanmen Yue secretly yelled that she was not good, and wanted to go back to the bamboo house to inform Qin Tinghan that it was too late, so she could only pretend to be nonchalant and chat with Yu Laosan.

The soldiers arrived on horseback, jumped off the horse, and walked towards them, "We are sent by the imperial court. Let's do a population registration. How many people are in your family!"

Nanmenyue put down her bowl and chopsticks and stood up, glanced at one of the soldiers holding a picture scroll, and guessed that it was the group of people stationed in the county seat, probably because they searched the county and couldn't find the person they were looking for, so they started Shimomura searched.

"There are five people in our family. Two old people and a child are resting in the house."

One of the soldiers listened to Nanmenyue's words and began to register.The leader glanced at Old Third Yu who was standing beside him, and then at Nanmenyue: "Who is he?" The way the farmer looked at this woman was definitely not husband and wife.

"He's my brother-in-law." Nanmenyue looked at the doubt in the other's eyes and answered quickly.

The soldier nodded, not doubting Nanmen Yue's words, he looked at the bamboo hut not far away, and instructed the two men: "Go to that bamboo hut to search!"

When Nanmenyue heard that there was still a search to be done, her heart skipped a beat, she was in a mess, she stepped forward and stopped the soldiers, "Several officials, you can't go ahead, someone in my family has a serious disease and is quarantined, if the infection spreads to the officials , women can't afford it."

The soldier glanced at Nanmenyue, unmoved, and pushed her away with a wave of his arm.

Nanmenyue had no choice but to take a step and followed.

The soldier made a big move, and as soon as he entered the bamboo house, he woke up Mrs. Zhuang who had just fallen asleep. She struggled to get up from the bed and hid behind Nanmenyue.

Hearing the movement, Mr. Qi hurriedly carried Qi Ying'er out of the house.

The soldier glanced at the number of people, as Nanmenyue said, no more, no less, and when he turned around to leave, he glanced at the bamboo hut where Qin Tinghan was lying, raised his leg and kicked in.

"How can the people lying in this room explain it!" The soldier pointed to Qin Tinghan who was lying on the bed under the quilt, his eyes gradually changed.

Nanmenyue greeted her with a bitter face, "Master, this is exactly what I told you about people who are suffering from serious diseases, people who are dying, their lives are exhausted, and they are no longer counted as a person."

The soldier didn't believe it, he stepped forward and stretched out his knife to lift Qin Tinghan's quilt, but was scared back by the person on the bed.

The swollen face of the man lying on the bed had already festered, and a cyan liquid was leaking out, which was sticky and frightening. It looked like he was indeed suffering from a serious disease.Holding his nose and mouth, he came out of the bamboo hut in disgust, whispered something with another soldier, then walked quickly towards the wooden hut, and met the leader waiting there.

The leader stopped the reports of the two soldiers, didn't stay any longer, got on his horse and hurried away.

After Qin Tinghan was swollen by bee stings, after smearing the dandelion juice prepared by Nanmen Yue, he looked really scary at first glance. In addition, he was covered with a new quilt and wearing new clothes. thing.

The soldier believed in Nanmenyue's words when he saw it.

After watching the soldiers leave, Nanmenyue breathed a sigh of relief. It was really dangerous. If they were found out, their whole family would be ruined. It seems that to be on the safe side, this scourge should be sent away as soon as possible.

She turned around and comforted the two elders who had been in a state of panic, "It's okay, don't be afraid, it's just a routine inspection by the government, you go on resting, I'm going to have lunch." She pretended to be calm and explained.

He turned his head and glanced at Qin Tinghan who was lying on the bed, wanted to ask some questions, but was afraid that the elders in the family would be worried, so he finally had to give up, turned around and came out of the bamboo house.

Seeing that nothing had happened, Mr. Qi didn't take the sleepy-eyed Qi Ying'er home and continued to rest.

Mrs. Zhuang didn't feel sleepy at all, she wiped her face and followed Nanmenyue out of the bamboo house, threw a handful of grass to the rabbit, and went to the stove to get busy.

Yu Laosan had already filled his stomach, so he greeted them with a machete and set off.

After Nanmenyue had finished her lunch, she packed up the dishes and saw the old lady fiddling with her crab basket, so she went over to her.

"Mom, have you caught any crabs these days?"

Mrs. Zhuang shook her head, feeling a little distressed, she didn't know if it was because her method was wrong, or there were no crabs in the river, half a crab hadn't been caught in the past few days, she was afraid that the basket would be soaked, so she had to carry it up.

"Haha, you just want to put crabs in an empty basket." She stood up, walked to the stove, opened the lard oil tank and fiddled with it, got out a few pieces of oil residue, filtered the oil, and put it on the cutting board Chop it up, find the cloth strip that covered the edge of the pot last time, tear it into several pieces, wrap the oil residue in it, and tie it tightly.

"Take me, my dear, and make sure your basket will be full of shrimp and crabs tomorrow morning." I've finished eating rabbit meat these days, so I have to think about eating some freshwater fish. I can't serve it with pickles every day.

Mrs. Zhuang was dubious, so she took her cloth bag wrapped in oil residue and stuffed it into the crab basket, just to try, and hoped not to waste her few pieces of oil residue, otherwise the shrimp and crab would not be caught, and the oil residue would be gone , she felt so distressed.

This bit of oil residue can fry several dishes of dried pickles.

Nanmenyue saw the old lady go to put the crab pots, so she was not idle, she served Qin Tinghan a bowl of porridge, picked some pickles into it, brought them to the back room, saw that Qin Tinghan was still lying on the bed, and did not disturb him , put down the bowls and chopsticks, went out of the house to find a sickle, and took it to the back hill.

He wondered if there were some wild vegetables that could be cooked tonight, Qi Ying'er was growing tall, so naturally he had to eat some fresh ones, Mr. Qin was also injured, and was stung by a bee again, he was afraid that he would collapse if he porridge and pickled vegetables every day.

It will be difficult to repay the debt if it is not clear.

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