Concubine's three acres of pastoral garden

Chapter 18 Hunting
But good or bad, no one intends to get together again, after all, there is Wu Zhaodi lying sideways in the middle, and Xiang Lai can't understand Zhang's snobbish behavior.

The one thing that made people surprised by the gangsters was not the only one. Shen Dachang, who had always been spineless, also surprised Xianglai once more than ten days passed without making a fuss to pick Wu Zhaodi back.

Hearing that Wu Zhaodi cried one after another at home, Wu Dequan even threatened to find another daughter for him and marry the old Shen's son, but Dachang ignored it.

In the end, Wu Dequan had no choice but to ask Zhao Di Niang, who had a decent relationship with the Shen family, to send Wu Zhao Di Niang and his wife back.

Coming back this time, Wu Zhaodi is no longer as stubborn as before. She cooks three meals a day on time, but that’s all. As for helping Mrs. Zhang take care of Shen Wanjin, don’t even think about it. She is also indifferent to Mrs. Zhang. With a straight face, and Mrs. Zhang no longer tried to curry favor with her, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law who lived under the same roof became as estranged as strangers.

From the dominant position in the family to the unpopular little daughter-in-law, Wu Zhaodi put all the blame on Xianglai, and every time she saw it, she wanted to poke a hole in Xianglai with her eyes.

Naturally, Xianglai doesn't care about this, she can do whatever she wants, now Mrs. Zhang has turned around and started to favor her family again, and Dachang no longer obeys Wu Zhaodi as before. She has lost the right to speak in this family, and she should be clear about it Going on is still asking for trouble, so Xianglai only cares about her own work.

The foundation of the three-acre paddy field in the back has been done, and I will wait to plant rice in the field next year, but I heard that the rice here is almost as expensive as gold, so I have to find a way to save money to buy rice seeds.

The money and finances of the family have been basically emptied after the consumption of these two families, and after the death of "father" last year, the last little things that Xiang Lai Niang kept at the bottom of the box were also exchanged for money to run a lawsuit.

Although the current Xianglai family is not considered a poor family, but it is really too big for a big man. If you want to buy something as expensive as rice, you really need a lot of money.

Xianglai knew that since she said she wanted to grow rice, her mother had been worrying about rice planting, but she didn't know that she already had her own plan in mind, to use the winter to earn some money.

Although Yanjiangtun is guarding the river, it is difficult to get money from the river. The main reason is that Songning County is rich in water resources, and the fish is not worth much. It's a long way from Hanging City, and there's no large-scale transportation, so it's not exhausting enough to go all the way.

The way to make money for Shen Xianglai is not in the river, but in the mountains.

When she was alive, she often heard her grandfather talk about hunting when she was relieved of responsibility. Grandpa hunted without guns or cannons, and only a few bundles of thin wire can trap prey.

When Xianglai was a child, she learned how to use a rope to sling a bird with her grandfather, and she knew the way inside. She also heard that there were many wild animals in the surrounding mountains, such as roe deer, foxes, badgers, wolves... everything that one expects to find, these things But they are all good things paid for. Hunting is not allowed in this era, and wolves often come out to hurt people and steal livestock. When they hunt, they treat it as killing harm for the people. Such a good thing that kills two birds with one stone, she will do whatever she wants.

After basically settling the affairs of the uncle's house, she was busy with this. First, she went to the blacksmith's shop in the East Village to find Lu Dachui to buy wire.

Buildings in this era are all mortise and tenon structures, no bigger than a few silver nails, and iron wire is a rare thing here. You Hammer finally produced some iron wires that were barely even in thickness.

As for the money to buy the wire, the simple and honest Lu Dachui let Xianglai temporarily owe her on credit for the sake of teaching him a new technique.

After Xianglai got the wire, it had already had its first snowfall. When she told her mother and second aunt that she was going to go hunting in the mountains, Xianglai’s mother and second aunt were hardly scared. , except for rabbits and foxes, wild boars are considered dangerous animals.

The nearby mountains here are not bad. When people are more active, the animals will recede, but the mountains farther away are dominated by wolves and bears. Occasionally, tigers will come and go. It is quite dangerous to go into the mountains alone. .

Xianglai tried her best to persuade her mother and second aunt to let her go hunting, but the prerequisite was that she would be accompanied by her second aunt, and the two must return before sunset.

Xianglai hates doing things under other people's surveillance, but this time there is no way, if she doesn't agree to the second aunt to go with her, they will never agree to go into the mountain, but she has to bring this thing that is not related to her in her eyes. An embarrassing elder.

Before the first departure, the second aunt found a dagger that Xianglai's father had used to take with her. Xianglai carried more than a dozen wire sleeves of different thicknesses and went into the mountain with the second aunt.

Xianglai, which recognizes animal footprints, is barely good, but the position and the size of the mouth of the sleeve are not well grasped at the beginning of the condom. After setting up the condom on the first day, I went back to look for prey the next day, and only one rabbit was covered. Pulled out a few strands of hair.

Xianglai was a little disappointed, but the second aunt was happy, saying that since the hair can be shaved, it means it has an effect, and encouraged Xianglai to try again.

Xiang Lai then made the cover thinner, switched to another rabbit track and re-installed it.

On the third day after the two of them entered the mountain, they finally had a harvest. The rabbit that Xianglai moved over actually caught a rabbit, and a beast that she mistook for a fox's footprints was caught on the way out. A raccoon.

Xianglai had never seen this animal between a dog and a fox with her own eyes. If the second aunt hadn't named it, she would have thought that the fox here looked different from the ones she had seen in her previous life.

After the harvest, the two became more motivated, and Xianglai took the time to get some wire from Lu Dahammer. This time, he paid for the wire directly with the leather he bought, and then he and his second aunt devoted themselves to hunting.

In a blink of an eye, it was midwinter, and the sky was so cold that even the river was frozen.

Xianglai and Second Auntie had already accumulated a lot of prey, the furs were peeled off and sold for money, and the two families could not finish the meat of the prey. The popularity in the village is very good.

The folks talked about the girl Xianglai from Shen's second family, and they were full of praise, saying that she was smart and capable, beautiful and endured hardships, and she had a bright mind, so that Chen Xianglai was not yet 14 years old, and several of them came to the door if they wanted to kiss her. Well, even Xiufenniang beat around the bush and mentioned it several times for her family Shunzi.

But Xianglai Niang would not agree to anyone, the reason for shirk is: Xianglai is still young, and she has her own opinions, since she will decide who she wants to marry in the future.

In this era when marriage is decided by parents, Xianglai Niang's reason is really fresh, but thinking about it, most of the Shen family is now in front of Xianglai. If they grow up in two years, Naturally, her mother couldn't control her, so the people who liked Chen Xianglai changed their tactics and kept encouraging their sons to please Chen Xianglai, but it was a pity that Xianglai spent every day in the mountains with her second aunt, so it was difficult for them to touch her. With a shadow.

(End of this chapter)