from widow to dame

Chapter 44

The days passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, another month passed.One day, Su Huiniang was weeding in her garden, but there was a burst of shouting outside the house, but when I listened carefully, it was the hawker's hawking.Wangjia'ao is located in a remote place, and it's a bit of a struggle to go to the town to buy and sell. So, from time to time, there will be porters carrying poles to the nearby villages to sell some cheap goods such as oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, candies and pastries.This kind of behavior is very popular with the villagers. Every time the seller comes, many people will surround him.

Su Huiniang thought that the seasonings at home were almost used up, so she put down her work, washed her hands, and walked outside.Sure enough, the salesman parked under a willow tree was already surrounded by several village women, and there were seven or eight and a half children who were looking at the pastries in the box with greedy faces, begging their mother to buy them for them. Some.

Greeting the neighbors around with a smile, Su Huiniang took out two pennies, and the salesman used a large wooden spoon to scoop out two spoonfuls of soy sauce and put them in the thick porcelain jar she was holding.Su Huiniang ordered two more packs of white cakes and one pack of peanut candy. She opened one of the packs, grabbed some and gave them to the nearby children who were staring at her eagerly.Can't wait to pick up the candy, the children laughed and ran away to play.

"These bastards don't even know how to say thank you, they can't go home and clean up!" You sister-in-law pretended to be angry and complained to Su Huiniang.However, there was a smile in those eyes, obviously the mouth was wrong.Su Huiniang couldn't help but smiled and said: "The sister-in-law should be merciful, she broke the baby, and it's the baby's father who feels distressed."

The women nearby couldn't help laughing at the same time, looking at Su Huiniang with tenderness in their eyes. For most parents, it's hard to hate someone who loves their children.When Su Huiniang was chatting lively with a few people, bursts of bleating came suddenly. She glanced and saw two sheep tied to the willow trunk, one big and one small. It seems to be sick, lying listlessly under the tree, no matter how much the lamb next to it screams.Su Huiniang immediately asked curiously, "Whose sheep?"

It was the peddler who answered, and he said, "It's mine. Do you like it, little lady? If you like it, I'll give you two for 150 Wen."

"You are a peddler with a dark heart!" The sister-in-law who had just started talking to Su Huiniang immediately said bluntly: "Your sheep, you can tell at a glance that it is going to die, and the younger one is also just born. You won’t live long, and you still dare to open your mouth and ask for 150 Wen, I think you are crazy about money.”

The salesman didn't get angry when he heard the robbing. Instead, he said with a smile: "My sister-in-law is wrong. How do you know that it is about to die. It's just that the weather is too hot, and this beast doesn't want to move. Well, This little lady, I think you bought it on purpose, just like that, and the price is one hundred yuan, what do you think?"

Su Huiniang was just asking casually at the beginning, but this seller is good, he has the essence of fighting snakes.It's just——looking at the pitiful lamb who kept rubbing against his mother's body, she felt a slight movement in her heart, and she felt compassion. After thinking about it, she said, "Eighty Wen."

After hearing this, the seller knew that there was a door, and made a distressed look, and said: "Little lady, 95 Wen, really can't be less, to tell you the truth, I just bought this sheep from a neighboring village. Ninety Wen, you can let me earn some money for running errands!"

It's no wonder Su Huiniang believed him, so she just said flatly: "It's only eighty Chinese, sell it if you sell it, or forget it if you don't sell it!"

The seller gritted his teeth and said, "Sell!"

Su Huiniang paid the money and asked the salesman to carry the sheep into her home. Seeing that her daughter could get back two sheep with just a little soy sauce, and they were two sheep worth "eighty Wen", she felt distressed.She said with some complaints: "What are you doing with that unjustified money, this thing has a strong smell and you can't eat meat."

"Mom, this goat's milk is very nourishing!" Su Huiniang said with a smile: "This ewe should be able to produce a lot of milk during the lactation period."

Su Huiniang drank goat's milk a lot in her previous life, and she misses it when she thinks about it now.On the side, Mrs. Lin said something nagging again, but she ignored it.I just went to the stove to get an old plate, poured some cold spring water on it, and then cut some fresh vegetable leaves in the garden, and drove the two sheep to the shed that was built for Xiao Hei. Looking at the ewe lying on the straw and panting weakly, Su Huiniang raised her head and touched its head with her hand, and sighed: "Work hard, your baby is still waiting for you!"

"Baa baa..." The lamb, who looked like it had just been born, seemed to understand Su Huiniang's words, and stretched out its tender red tongue towards its mother's nose, gently licking it.

On the second day, Su Huiniang specially invited the husband of the third aunt to come over. He is quite experienced in breeding and can be called a veterinarian.Su Huiniang saw him turn the ewe over, first felt it around, and then brushed off the dirty long hair, and sure enough, she saw a large pustules raised on it, pressed the four hooves, wiped it with a The alcohol knife cut all the pustules open, and after the pus inside drained away, the chewed herbs were pasted on it.After doing this, the ewe looked much better, and she fell down on her side, letting the lambs beside her lean on her.

The most unwelcome of these two sheep at home is Xiao Hei, because it is occupied by the old nest, it looks very manic, always barking around the sheep, frightening the poor lamb always trembling .In the end, it was Su Huiniang who couldn't stand it anymore, and urgently did something else to stop this increasingly domineering puppy.

As expected, the ewe's injury has greatly improved, and within two days she started to eat again, and after eating, she was able to produce milk.The lamb, who has been hungry for many days, can finally fill his stomach a little.Su Huiniang also took good care of them, feeding them with fresh grass every day, and drinking the cold spring water in the space from time to time, just like that, after another seven or eight days, the ewe had returned to normal. Get up in spirits.

Su Huiniang also got the first barrel of artificially expressed raw milk.

Goat milk has a strong smell, and most people are not used to drinking it.However, Su Huiniang knew how to get rid of the smell, and it was easy to say, just boil the goat milk and put some almonds on it.Although her body was nourished by the spring water in the space, her previous foundation was really not very good. If she could replenish more nutritious things, she would naturally not miss it.In this way, Su Huiniang has to drink a cup for a while before going to bed every night. Among other things, the quality of sleep alone is much better than before.Not only did she drink it by herself, but she also forced Wang Qilang to drink it together. Children don't like the taste, and every time they drink it, their faces are wrinkled into balls, which is very interesting.

Probably because her body has been recuperated a lot. That night, Su Huiniang suddenly felt chills all over her body, her stomach throbbed in her sleep, and there was a faint sticky feeling in her legs. She had a premonition in her heart instantly. Looking down, it turned out that it was not the case, she was Kwai Shui.

This is the first time this sunflower water has come since wearing this body, but after all, Su Huiniang is not waiting for a yellow-haired girl who doesn't understand anything. She lit the lamp, took out a clean cloth from the cabinet, folded it and placed it between her legs, She changed into a pair of underwear again, her stomach hurt so badly that she didn't have the energy to think about it anymore, she just hoped that after sleeping, the pain would be gone.

The next day, Su Huiniang didn't get up when it was time to get up. Mrs. Lin came over to see her daughter hunched over the bed, sweating profusely on her face. , Only slightly relieved, Wang Qilang was also very worried. He thought that sister Hui was ill, and he seemed worried. If Lin didn't stop him, he would rush out to find a doctor.

"Sister is fine, she'll be fine in a while, you go to school!" Wang Qilang was a boy, and Su Huiniang couldn't say anything directly, so she just kept urging him to go out.As a result, full of uneasiness, Wang Qilang turned around and walked away. After he left, Su Huiniang lay on the bed for a while, drank a large cup of steaming goat milk, and felt much better. After a while, he got up and began to wash and wash.

Her body is already fifteen years old this year, but it is her first menstruation, and in some respects she is really a late bloomer.After Wei Wei used some food, Su Huiniang sat on the kang and prepared to make some "special equipment".Cut the clean gauze into long strips four fingers wide, put clean cotton inside, and sew it up. This is a very popular "female item" in Beijing and China after many years. Of course, what she does is only the simplest. One kind, made ten in a row, Su Huiniang felt that it should be enough to deal with this time, so she opened her hand just now.

Lin still felt very distressed towards this daughter, and knowing that she was suffering, she let her rest and took care of all the housework by herself.Fortunately, Su Huiniang's body gradually got used to this "discomfort". After another day, her stomach no longer had that cold pain in her stomach.

Wang Qilang heaved a sigh of relief when he saw this, his little face was finally no longer so tense.

Although he didn't understand why Sister Hui didn't tell him what was wrong with him, but seeing that she seemed to be getting better and she was no longer so uncomfortable, he naturally became happy.

He would rather stab himself with a knife than make Sister Hui hurt a little.

But then again, what is the disease?
Wang Qilang raised his foot and kicked Xiao Hei next to him irritably, puzzled.

"Woof..." The silly dog ​​who had been kicked for no reason turned around in circles aggrieved.

(End of this chapter)