farmhouse ditty

Chapter 11
"Chuge, did you bring the bamboo pole back?"

"Um……"

"Then what are you doing with the rope?"

"I'm going up the mountain, I want to gather some firewood... get ready."

"Oh, yes, it seems that there are not many people in the house."

"Um……"

"What about the firewood?"

"Ah?" Chu Ge slammed down the hatchet with the wrong hand, and pulled the bamboo tube to the ground.

Xiu Niang went over to help pick it up, put it in front of him, and then squatted obediently by the side, looking at him with watery eyes.

It was uncomfortable for people to stare straight at him like this, Chu Ge straightened his neck, moved his back a bit, and muttered in his heart, what happened to Xiu Niang today, she didn't say many words to him before.

But now she is talking more frequently, Chu Ge thought, and glanced at Xiu Niang, the slap-sized face was not smeared with white and red, it was comfortable to look at, and it still had dimples when it just laughed.

Xiu Niang blinked and looked at him, Chu Ge collected himself, and replied in a muffled voice, "Today, today, the mountain is so humid that firewood can't stand it."

"Oh, yes," Xiu Niang said and looked at the sky, and Chu Ge looked over again, unexpectedly, Xiu Niang happened to turn around too, "Then you chop up that bamboo pole and use it as firewood. "

"What, what?" Xiu Niang's small face moved closer, Chu Ge shook abruptly, and swept the half-split bamboo tube aside, and almost let Xiu Niang run on the ground.

Fortunately, Xiu Niang held him by the hand and asked, "What's wrong? Did I scare you?"

This time Chu Ge really burned his face, he lowered his head, "I...can't sit still." He gently pulled out his arm, and rushed forward to get the bamboo tube that had rolled away.

Xiu Niang watched quietly from the side, and finally couldn't hold back and secretly smiled. Just when she saw Chu Ge's ears turned red, she thought that she had never seen a shy man before, so she made a bad plan. It's teasing, I didn't expect this idiot to follow her wish.

She was laughing happily, Chu Ge had just picked up the bamboo tube in front of him, and suddenly thought that this bamboo pole was broken by Xiu Niang, and he chopped it into small pieces for the stove after it was over. Why should he be so afraid? After all, he hasn't said about Xiu Niang, how can a woman use this hatchet randomly? What if I cut my hand.

Chu Ge thought about it and turned around, "Xiu Niang, you can't..."

After hearing his voice, Xiu Niang raised her head, looked at him, her little mouth was still smiling, "Huh?"

When Chu Ge saw Xiu Niang's face, the two dimples were so beautiful, he didn't say anything, he hesitated, "You...can't...but..."

"Brother~~~" Coincidentally, a voice came from outside, and Chu An ran in grabbing two sweet potatoes, "Brother, we are back."

Xiao Xiang'er followed behind with one in her arms, and when she saw two adults in the courtyard, she obediently called, "Brother, sister-in-law, sister-in-law."

Chu Ge just answered, took the bamboo tube and put it aside, "Well, I'm back."

Xiao Xiang'er was short, and looked at Chu Ge passing with her head held high, thinking about what to say.

Xiu Niang watched Xiao Xiang'er struggling to hug her, and went to take the big sweet potato in her arms, Xiao Xiang'er looked at her, blinking her eyes timidly.

Xiu Niang smiled and wanted to touch her head like Chu Ge, but she thought that Xiao Xiang'er would shrink back, so she had to give up and just said, "Xiao Xiang, be good, it's tiring to hold such a big potato head." gone?"

Xiao Xianger shook her head, her mouth moved, "No, I'm not tired."

Chu An rolled the sweet potato in his hand to the corner of the wall, and snorted at Xiu Niang, as if to say, he doesn't care about being praised.

"Xiang'er, come here." Chu An called her to come to him, dragged his sister and ran to the west room, where there was an upside-down bamboo basket.

Chu An asked Xiao Xiang to stand aside, rubbed his hands together and grabbed the bamboo basket, his little face was wrinkled intently, Xiao Xiang was stared back when he just wanted to move.

Xiuniang looked amused, Erwazi's serious mockup seemed like there was something serious in the bamboo basket.

She stood on the side and watched, watching Chu An lift the bamboo basket all of a sudden, her calf moved back a few steps hastily, and then there was a sharp "cluck cluck", a red-haired flower A little long-tailed pheasant swooped up, but it was thrown back halfway. It wiped the ground and kicked its paws to get rid of the rope tied to its leg.

It was the first time for Xiao Xianger to see this kind of strange chicken, and she was taken aback when it swooped up, and hid behind Chu An with her mouth flattened.

Chu An looked carefully, threw the bamboo basket aside, turned around and said, "Brother, this pheasant is so big."

Chu Ge stood the hatchet behind the door, "Anzi, don't move too far, the knife has sharp claws."

Xiu Niang was also looking at it. This wild pheasant is pretty good, at least it weighs more than three catties. She said to Chu Ge, "You went up the mountain to hunt this?"

Chu Ge didn't expect Xiu Niang to ask suddenly, and nodded embarrassingly, "Well, I just hit him when I saw him on the road."

Xiu Niang burst out laughing, "It's still easy to hit, you can say it's light, this thing is hard to catch, flapping its wings and gliding very fast, it's gone when it makes a little noise, let someone else take a look at it Look."

Hearing that Xiu Niang seemed to be praising him, Chu Ge didn't know what to say, but just remained silent.

Xiaoxiang said in a low voice, "Brother, do you still have to go to town tomorrow?"

Chu Ge thought about it, looked at the clothes that Xiu Niang washed for himself, and then smiled at Xiao Xiang, "Brother Ming'er won't go out, let's keep this pheasant for a few days, let's see if it can grow stronger." .”

Xiaoxiang laughed when she heard that, that's great, brother will be at home tomorrow, so she can follow him to play in the field.

Chu Anjue is weird, brother usually sells good mountain things in the town first, why not go today, he shook his head thinking about it, and suddenly came across the clothes that Xiuniang had washed , he raised his eyes to look, and then glared at Xiuniang angrily.

Seeing that Chu Ge was there, he was not too airy, "Why did you wash brother's clothes?"

Xiu Niang smiled and said, "Oh, it just so happened that Sixth Sister-in-law came to join me. I found it and went to the stream to wash it. What's wrong?"

Chu An said angrily, "No wonder brother said he won't go to town tomorrow, this pheasant is ruined."

Xiu Niang didn't understand what she heard. She turned to look at Chu Ge, and Chu An snorted, "It's very cold in the village at night, and tomorrow's clothes will be damp. Who would wear them?"

Chu Ge glanced at Xiu Niang, and said to Chu An, "An Zi, what are you talking about?"

Chu An wrinkled his nose and muttered in a low voice, "Lazy lady, drink cold water."

Xiuniang smiled into her ear, this brat is quite slippery, she watched everyone keep silent, Xiaoxiang looked around anxiously, Xiuniang thought for a while, and moved to Chuge's side...

(End of this chapter)