The Little Dumb Wife of the Mountain People

Chapter 23
Before today, even though Wen Bao knew that she lived on the mountain and that there were wild beasts not far from where she lived, she didn't take these things to heart.

Having experienced the horrors of the last days, Wen Bao didn't think he would be frightened again.

But now, looking at the scene in front of her, she really has an understanding of the world.

Wen Bao didn't know how he came home. After what happened today, even though they earned a lot of money this year, there was still an inexplicable atmosphere in the Song family village.

Song Dalang came home very late, and he helped send Song Wei to the town's medical clinic, went to Wen's family to let Wen's family take care of it, and then returned home with the villagers.

Wen Bao closed the door of the cave alone at home, and was startled when she heard the movement outside, but soon she realized that it was Song Dalang who had returned.

Wen Bao didn't have time to put on his shoes and ran to the entrance of the cave, using the light from the fire pit to confirm that it was Song Dalang who came, and then suddenly threw himself into Song Dalang's arms.

Song Dalang was startled by Wen Bao's actions, he stretched out his hand to support Wen Bao, and took Wen Bao into his arms.

"what happened?"

Song Dalang didn't know what happened to Wen Bao, but soon, Wen Bao, who buried his face in his arms, began to cry, and the tears soaked Song Dalang's skirt, and Song Dalang panicked.

"Daughter-in-law, what's wrong with you? Are you uncomfortable?"

Song Dalang spoke in a hurry, but only Wen Bao kept shaking his head to answer Song Dalang.

Seeing Wen Bao's only reaction like this, Song Dalang was even more worried.

After Song Dalang picked up Wen Bao and walked towards the big bed, looking into Wen Bao's glowing red eyes, he said softly, "Daughter-in-law, tell me if you have anything."

Wen Bao had already stabilized her emotions at this time, upon hearing Song Dalang's words, she raised her head and glanced at him, then choked up and said, "It's okay, I'm just glad you're okay."

Hearing Wen Bao's words, Song Dalang thought of today's events, Song Dalang thought that Wen Bao was frightened by today's events, so he softly comforted Wen Bao: "This has not happened for many years, don't worry, I will be fine .”

Song Dalang now feels warm in his heart, the feeling of being worried by his wife is really good.

Wen Bao didn't know what Song Dalang was thinking, but when Song Dalang came back, Wen Bao did feel a lot more at ease.

What was originally a happy event, because of Song Wei's incident, although the tiger was indeed worth a lot of money, Song Wei was indeed seriously injured.

After the two of them washed up and went to bed, Wen Bao realized that the reason why Song Wei was injured so badly was because of his family's special situation, and he was too desperate.

Song Wei is just an ordinary villager in Songjia Village. He is different from most mountain people in that he has had a fiancée since he was a child.

So Song Wei had already married his aunt's niece when most people in Songjia Village couldn't marry a wife.

"Aunt Wei's parents died early, she was raised in her aunt's house when she was in poor health, and the conditions in Uncle Wei's house were not good, so naturally there was no money to treat Aunt Wei's illness. When Aunt Wei dragged her sick body to marry For Uncle Wei, the life of this family will be even more difficult."

"The child is growing up, and Aunt Wei still needs to take medicine every winter. Uncle Wei wants to hunt a prey by himself, but he meets the king."

Song Dalang put his arms around Wen Bao, he understood that it was not easy for Uncle Wei to do this, the kid in the family was already ten years old, and it was the time when the middle-aged and the poor were eating up the poor.Aunt Wei is not in good health, and the girl in the family is not in good health either. He is raising such a family by himself, so he naturally tries to earn more money.

"Uncle Wei knew the price of the king, so he was reluctant to destroy the king's skin, and ended up being injured by the king."

Song Wei only hit the tiger's eyes and neck, which is why he was injured so badly by the tiger. In the end, the people who were assigned to the first team found out that something was wrong, so they could carry Song Wei back, otherwise he would not survive.

As soon as Wen Bao heard Song Dalang's words, he understood that Song Wei wanted to earn money, but the tiger was worth money, but that was also worth the money if the tiger's skin was intact.

He was not willing to hurt the tiger's skin, and only picked on the eyes and neck, which is why the injury was so serious.

"Then is Uncle Wei okay now?" Wen Bao followed Song Dalang and called Song Wei 'Uncle Wei', and after saying this, he continued: "Did you ask your cousin to help you sell it?"

Song Dalang nodded as soon as Wen Bao finished speaking. He also knew now that Wu Houye would take them out and sell them for money.

"Well, originally we sold the king for 50 taels of silver at most, but this time my cousin's servant gave 100 taels directly."

Wen Bao was shocked when she heard Song Dalang's words. She really didn't expect that a tiger was worth such a small amount of money.

You know, the tiger skin, tiger bones, and tiger penis are all worth a lot of silver.

"Then why are you sighing?"

Wen Bao lamented the prices in her heart. She actually understood that tigers are not as valuable as modern ones. There is no protection law to protect these things. There are still a lot of these things in the deep mountains.

"Uncle Wei is injured and needs to be taken care of for at least a month. Aunt Wei is not in good health. It's really the time for autumn hunting to go to the mountains. His family is still having a hard time this winter."

After listening to Song Dalang's words, Wen Bao understood that every year at this time, the villagers of Songjia Village would go into the mountains. Except for these three days, the whole village would go into the mountains together. When the villagers in Jiacun save things for the winter.

For the remaining half a month, they will not go into the deep mountains again, but they will still go to the nearby mountains.

Mountain mushrooms, mountain fruits, and those small prey, the villagers of Songjia Village will get home one after another in this half a month.

But at this moment Song Wei was injured, his wife must take care of him, not to mention she is not in good health, even if she has so much money, but there is not much left for medical treatment and medicine.

"Don't worry, isn't our family going to make wine? Aunt Wei can't do heavy work, so it's always okay to help wash the grapes. When the time comes, we will pay her, and you can lead the stones from Uncle Wei's house to hunt some small prey nearby." , can always pass."

Wen Bao was still pondering in his mind, when he saw Wu Houye, he had to ask carefully, it's impossible for this well-preserved tiger to be worth such a little money, right?
Wu Houye didn't know that his cousin had already started thinking about his money, and now he was thinking about how to get rid of the tiger.

This is a good thing, that tiger skin and tiger penis, many big shots like it.

As soon as Song Dalang heard Wen Bao's words, he was moved and hugged Wen Bao tightly. There are so many people in Songjia Village, Uncle Wei treated him the best. When his father died and his mother didn't care about his remarriage, Uncle Wei was only a half-baby. Every time he hunted something, he gave him some.

"Daughter-in-law, you are so kind. I learned hunting skills from my father at first. After my father died, Uncle Wei taught me the most. If it weren't for Uncle Wei, I might not be able to survive."

Wen Bao really didn't know that Song Dalang and Song Wei still had such a relationship. Originally, she just looked at Song Wei's family sad and wanted to help. What's more, she originally planned to find two helpers in the village to wash grapes together. Yes, otherwise she wouldn't be able to brew all the wine so quickly.

But now after hearing what Song Dalang said, Wen Bao knew why Song Dalang was in such a bad mood.

Song Wei is not an ordinary villager, he has a very good relationship with Song Dalang, and from Song Dalang's tone, Wen Bao can tell that he has a deep affection for Song Wei and Song Dalang, even deeper than the mother who gave birth to him.

"These are trivial things. Let's help. When Uncle Wei gets well, their family's life will not be difficult."

When Wen Bao said this, Song Dalang nodded again and again, as long as he survived these days, he would not be sad.

Song Wei was sent back at noon the next day. They hired a bullock cart in the town. Wen Bao and Song Dalang rushed to Song Wei's house as soon as they heard the news at home. I ordered twenty eggs and two catties of brown sugar.

This is Wen Bao's first time going out to someone else's house in the village since he was married to Songjia Village for so long. Song Wei's house and Song Dalang's house are not far away. From this, it can be seen that the relationship between the two families is indeed very good, otherwise they would not live together. so close.

You must know that although there are few people in Songjia Village, Songjia Village is very large, and the distance between each family is not too close.

When Wen Bao and Song Dalang arrived at Song Wei's house, many villagers had already come. Wen Bao saw that the yard of Song Wei's house, which was a circle larger than his own, was neatly tidied up. There was also a wooden shed in the yard. A lot of firewood was neatly arranged.

Song Dalang helped carry Song Wei into the cave, and Wen Bao also followed Song Dalang into Song Wei's cave.

Different from the inverted L shape of his own house, Song Wei’s cave is straight inward, about [-] square meters. In the main cave is a large table and a stove with two eyes near the entrance of the cave. There is a small cave.

Song Wei and her daughter-in-law lived in the cave on the left, and there was a small wooden bed in the innermost part of the main cave. Wen Bao saw two pieces of boy's clothes, probably their son Shitou lived there.

Although Song Wei is awake now, he bleeds too much and his face is very pale. Most people come here with empty hands, some with a handful of vegetables, some with a handful of mountain mushrooms, and some with a wild chicken or hare, etc. After they were all gone, Wen Bao handed his basket to Aunt Wei.

Aunt Wei is only in her twenties now, but Wen Bao looks at her as if she is 40 years old.

"Aunt Wei, these are eggs and two catties of brown sugar brought by my brother. You make two brown sugar egg soup for Uncle Wei every day."

Wen Bao also knew that eggs and brown sugar were expensive things in Songjia Village, because Songjia Village was on a mountain, so it was inconvenient to raise chickens, so naturally there were no eggs.

This brown sugar is even more expensive. Many people in Songjia Village can only buy two taels of brown sugar to drink with water when they give birth.

The gift Wen Bao brought was too heavy, and Aunt Wei obviously didn't know what to do.

"Mother, take what Dalang's wife gives you."

Song Wei knew what his daughter-in-law was thinking when he saw her appearance, and he also knew that the ceremony was serious, but he felt that although he was not in the same generation as Song Dalang, his relationship was like a brother.

With Song Wei speaking, Aunt Wei naturally accepted the gift.

She knew in her heart that what Wen Bao said was reasonable, the child's father lost so much blood this time, he really wanted to make up for it.

(End of this chapter)