Concubine's three acres of pastoral garden

Chapter 28

Dachang was annoyed by her scolding, and said: "Why are you arguing, isn't it all Xianglai..."

He barely stopped talking, looked at Xianglai and dragged Wu Zhaodi into the house, complaining to her in a low voice while walking.

Seeing the murmurs between the two, Xianglai knew that there must be something wrong with Wu Zhaodi again, but she didn't care, she wasn't someone to mess with, as long as she wasn't afraid of burning her hands, feel free to pinch her!
After hearing Dachang's words, Xianglai Niang also asked in a low voice: "Xiang'er, what's the matter? Why did you come back a day late?"

Xianglai carefully lifted the rice seeds from the sledge, fearing that the bag would be scratched and a few grains would leak out, so she replied casually: "It's nothing, mother, I also bought some medicine for uncle, but it turned out that I didn't have enough money to buy rice seeds. The rice seller did something to exchange for money, which wasted a day."

Xianglai Niang asked suspiciously: "What are you doing for him?"

Xianglai was worried that if she didn't explain clearly, her mother would think wildly, so she said, "I just helped him sort out a book, which made my hands and neck hurt from copying. Look, it's still swollen."

As she said that, she stretched out her hand, and Xiang Lai Niang saw her wrist and fingers and knew that she was really tired of copying books. Although she still didn't understand how copying books could make so much money, she felt sorry for her daughter even more. Looking at it with his hand, he said sadly: "Look at the one who tired me Xiang'er, it's all mother's useless..."

Xianglai saw that her mother was about to start dripping rain again, so she hurriedly tried to interrupt her, and shouted at the second aunt who was carrying medicine into the house: "Second aunt, the medicine is not all from our family, but also uncle's, you wait Come on, I'll go and admit it!"

As he spoke, he quickly ran away from his mother.

Before Xianglai's feelings began to pour out, she had no object. After being slightly startled, she took it back, bent down and dragged Xianglai to take down the bag of rice seeds on the sledge.

Xianglai went to the second aunt to find out the uncle's medicine. Seeing that the second aunt was carrying it to the east room, she went back to the sledge, took the rice seeds that the mother had dragged for a long time, and said: " Mom, your body is getting weaker and weaker. This time I went to the most famous Mr. Han in Songning to consult you, but the doctor said that you cannot be diagnosed without going to the patient, so I prescribed some tonics for you. Come back, I'll take you there when the weather gets warmer, and I'll show you to take a good look."

Xianglai Niang watched her daughter pick up half a bag of rice seeds and walked into the house, hurried to the front to help her open the door, and said: "Oh! What's wrong with my mother, she was born so useless, what kind of work I can't do it, you don't have to worry about your mother..."

After talking into the room, Xianglai directly carried the rice seeds into the kitchen and said, "Mother, I want to put the rice seeds out of the rice tank. This thing is too expensive, and I can't waste a single grain."

Xianglai Niang said repeatedly: "Okay, I will free up the rice vat right now."

At this time, Tianlai, who dumped all the odds and ends on the sledge into the house, came over and took Xianglai's hand and said excitedly: "Sister, you bought a lot of things, including meat and noodles. We can eat dumplings again this Chinese New Year!"

Xianglai smiled and said, "Well, yes, I even bought you a sugar figurine, have you seen it?"

Tianlai smiled and said, "I see it, but I don't know who I bought it for, so I dare not eat it!"

Xianglai said: "You are the only child in our family. If it's not for you, it can be given to someone else."

As he said that, he took Tianlai into the back room to get the sugar man.

Listening to her words, Xiang Lai Niang was scooping rice out of the vat while thinking: Isn't my daughter a child too, she has never eaten sugar when she grows up, but now she wants to look like an adult To set up a family, if it was back then... Alas, everything is fate, I just hope that she can live smoothly for the rest of her life, no matter what the glory and wealth...

The day after Xianglai and Dachang returned from Songning was New Year's Eve.The snow didn't stop until this morning, and the snow in the yard piled up on the thighs. Although it caused a lot of inconvenience, the first sight after the snow added some joy to the New Year.

Two days before Xianglai went to Songning, she heard from her mother and second aunt that they would kill the chickens and save them for the New Year, but they didn't find any chickens until she came back.

Xianglai didn't understand why at first, but it wasn't until the morning of the [-]th when she saw her mother squatting there worryingly while holding a chicken in one hand and a knife in the other, then Xianglai realized that neither mother nor second aunt dared to kill, probably because of the job Father Xianglai did it in the past, and they were all sad thinking about it.

Xianglai shook her head quietly, thinking that this matter seems to have to be done by herself. Originally, there were fewer people during the Chinese New Year this year. If they are made to suffer because of these things, the more they want to die, the more sad they will be. I am afraid that this year will be difficult. All right.

Thinking of her coming to Mother's side, she said: "Mother, you are weak, don't let the chicken run away, let me do it!"

Xiang Lai Niang's eyes widened in surprise, and she said, "Xiang'er, do you dare to do this?"

Xiang Lai said: "It's nothing, isn't it similar to chopping vegetables?"

"The Ke Cai is dead, but the chicken is alive!"

Xiang Lai thought: You think I want to attack living things, isn't it also for you...

So he pretended to be relaxed and said: "It's okay, mother, just give it to me."

As he said, he took the chicken and the knife from his mother, grabbed the warm chicken wing root and thought: "Chicken, it's not that I, Chen Xiang, are ruthless, you must die today, why don't I let you suffer less. "

Thinking about it, she bent the head of the chicken and held it together with the wings in her hand, plucked the hair off its neck, and then pressed the knife on the neck of the chicken and cut it in heavily.

The knife cut all the way to the bone, the trachea and esophagus were completely severed, and blood flowed into the porcelain bowl below.

This scene happened to be seen by Wu Zhaodi who was going out to hold firewood, and she grinned her mouth in fright, went into the room and muttered to Dachang: "What do you think about Chen Xianglai? He has changed since your second uncle died. It seems that, aside from meddling with needles and fire, he became ruthless, just now he was killing chickens there, and he didn't blink his eyes when he stabbed him, tsk tsk, as if he was aiming at something."

Dachang heard the words, and said: "It's the New Year's Eve, what nonsense, our family doesn't believe in ghosts or gods, what can she do, it's not that the second uncle died too badly, she also became cruel."

Wu Zhaodi blinked there, and said: "That's right, the leader is gone, and the three girls have a little burden, so they have to leave for whatever reason..."

Seeing that Xianglai killed chickens, Xianglai's mother was not afraid, so she went to catch two more and let Xianglai kill them together.

Chen Xianglai learned to kill chickens from his father in his previous life. After controlling the blood of the chickens, he slowly put the chickens on the ground, and the chickens will lie down obediently until they die without jumping around.

After she finished killing three chickens, they laid them out in a row, when Xiu Fenniang was wading through the heavy snow with a roll of red paper in between, she saw the scene and said, "Oh, why are the chickens neatly arranged, it's Dachang What did you do?"

Xiang Lai Niang said shyly, "Well... my family Xiang Lai killed her."

Forget about Xiufenniang's surprise, her eyes widened and she said, "Hey, why did this girl become so bold?"

(End of this chapter)