The best peasant woman

Chapter 39
"If I tell the truth, I will be beaten to death by my mother! She kept saying why I didn't wear a handle... oh... Third Aunt, why didn't Ah Xing wear a handle?" A Xing raised her red and swollen face from crying Looking at Zhang Axiu with his eyes, he asked.

"Whether you want to take the lead or not is up to your father to decide, A Xing, I told you, you may not understand, let's go, it's getting dark." Zhang Axiu said while walking by the river. Pulled some dead man's grass near the edge.

When passing by Wang Butcher's house, he spent two cents to cut half a catty of pork.

A Xing looked at half a catty of raw pork, and her saliva flowed out.

"Third Aunt, did you cut the raw pork for A Xing?" A Xing asked.

"You can also say that." Zhang Axiu nodded with a smile.

Zhang Axiu took A Xing home, and her mother-in-law Xu was stunned when she saw A Xing.

"Why did you bring Axing here? Where are her parents?" Mrs. Xu was washing wild vegetables at the mouth of the well, so she turned to look at Zhang Axiu and asked.

"Grandmother, woo... My parents don't want me anymore. Fortunately, my third aunt passed by, so I followed my third aunt here." A Xing immediately started crying again when she saw Mrs. Xu.

Seeing that her task was completed, Zhang Axiu turned around and went back to her yard, minced meat, scooped up water to wash dead grass, kneaded flour, and was so busy that she lost her head.

"Axiu, since A Xing is willing to live with you, you can take her in first. I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep in the room. Tonight, A Xing and you can sleep together. I'll take her to her parents' place tomorrow." The mother-in-law Xu took A Xing's hand and walked towards Zhang Axiu.

"Huh? Ah Xing will sleep with me?" Zhang Axiu hesitated for a moment, and after seeing Axiu's expectant eyes, she nodded and agreed.

"Axiu, do you want me to help?" Seeing Zhang Axiu chopping meat, Xu felt itchy in her heart. She also wanted to eat meat.

"Don't bother mother-in-law, I can do it myself!" Zhang Axiu shook her head, she couldn't see her mother-in-law's greediness, so she immediately refused.

"Huh." Xu groaned, shook off A Xing and left.

Zhang Axiu shook her head, pretending she didn't see Xu's expression, then she called Axing to sit down.

"Third Aunt, I know how to wash vegetables, can I wash dead grass for you?" A Xing said proactively.

"Alright then." Zhang Axiu nodded.

The two of them worked together, and quickly made the dumplings. Half an hour later, the snow-white dumplings came out of the pan, and they were so fragrant that it made people salivate.

"Third Aunt, this is the best dinner I've ever had!" A Xing finally showed a smile on his face.

"Then you eat more." Zhang Axiu saw that she had a sweet mouth and was good at working, and felt strange in her heart, such a good girl, why did Mrs. Li whip her?

"Ah Xing, why did your mother beat you so hard today?" Zhang Axiu asked.

"I don't know, I just saw her fighting with someone on the bed, and I asked her a question, and she started to wear clothes, and then hit me." Although A Xing said vaguely.

But Zhang Axiu seemed to understand the point.

"You mean that when you saw your mother, she was naked and was putting on clothes, so the person in her room is your father?" Could it be that A Xing saw her mother cheating?

"No, that man looks better than my father, and he is also naked. At that time, I saw that he seemed to be fighting with my mother, but my mother was indeed smiling. It's so strange, why is he laughing while fighting?" A Xingren Small, what he said was also a bit ridiculous.

But Zhang Axiu couldn't laugh. Apparently Li Shi saw that the scandal of her fooling around with other men was exposed, so she wanted to beat A Xing into a fool, what a vicious woman!
"Ah Xing, you are a good boy, don't mention this matter in the future, just pretend that you have never seen this matter before, and no one can tell you, understand?" Zhang Axiu asked with a serious pretty face. she said.

"I see, Third Aunt." A Xing nodded, after all, it's a child, so it's whatever the adults say.

Zhang Axiu helped A Xing wipe some grass ashes on A Xing's wound, let A Xing sleep in the inner bed, and then told A Xing "The Story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs".

After the story ended, Ah Xing fell asleep. Perhaps there was another person sleeping beside her. Zhang Axiu tossed and turned for a long time before falling asleep.

In the early morning of the second day, Zhang Axiu asked her mother-in-law to take Axing to Li's side, while she went to the Zhen's courtyard to see Miss Zhen San.

However, Miss Zhen San is not at home, and it is said that she has gone to town.

Zhang Axiu thought that she should go to Zuiya Restaurant to work first, and the matter of her mother-in-law going to the restaurant to wash dishes will be mentioned later.

When I arrived at the entrance of Zuiya Restaurant, I saw shopkeeper Zhang chasing away a farmer who was selling strawberries with a burden.

"Strawberry!" Zhang Axiu was so excited when she saw the strawberry.

"Girl, this isn't a strawberry, it's a red snow fruit. Do you want it? The shopkeeper won't let me set up a stall here. I'll go back as soon as I sell out. There's still a sick mother to take care of at home!" The man smiled. Simple and honest.

"That...can I taste it?" Zhang Axiu really wanted to confirm whether this was the legendary strawberry or not?
In the private room on the second floor, a handsome young man with a fan was leaning on the window and looking at the scenery downstairs. When he saw Zhang Axiu sniffing the scent of red snow fruit with his nose, he actually burst out laughing.

"Ming Rong, what interesting things did you see?" Qiu Suifeng asked strangely.

Qiu Suifeng saw that Xie Mingrong didn't answer, so he followed Xie Mingrong's line of sight, hey, isn't that Miss Zhang?

"Are you spying on people?" Qiu Suifeng said narrowly.

"Where are you peeping, I just didn't expect someone to buy the red snow fruit and smell it!" Xie Mingrong shook his folding fan, smiling coquettishly, he thought to himself, she is really a different girl!

After Zhang Axiu sniffed the fragrance of the red snow fruit, she put a piece of red snow fruit in her mouth, and the long-lost honey juice echoed in her mouth. It was so delicious that she wanted to buy them all.

"I want it all, how much is it?" Zhang Axiu thought that the red snow fruit could be used to make jam, and later went to buy some flour and rewarded herself by making a cake.

"Seeing that the girl likes it so much, let me give you ten cents!" The farmer raised his hand and scratched the back of his head and said.

"Ten Wen? You wait for me first, I'll go to the shopkeeper to borrow some." Zhang Axiu thought in her heart that she only brought three Wen when she came out today, which must not be enough.

Shopkeeper Zhang readily advanced twelve Wen to Zhang Axiu, so Zhang Axiu bought two baskets of red snow fruits, thinking that it would be difficult to take them home later, so he also bought the baskets. A total of twelve Wen was spent.

"Axiu, is this red snow really so delicious?" Shopkeeper Zhang asked strangely when he saw that Zhang Axiu had bought all of them.

(End of this chapter)