I'm already a concubine, who wants to fight with you?

Chapter 7 Farm Life
At night, Mother Liu heard what happened during the day.

"You went to knock on the door, but there was no sound from inside?"

Shui Huaiyu said: "The girl said she was very tired. Fortunately, I didn't force my way in."

Mother Liu was mending clothes for her eldest son. She did heavy work every day, so the clothes were easily torn.

After biting through the hemp rope, Mother Liu said swiftly, "Go to that yard less often in the future, and don't get involved too much with Miss Xie."

The concubines of high-ranking families, if sent here, will not be quiet and honest. The servants just need to do their duty and not get involved in other things.

If the wealthy family wanted to punish their family, it would only take a word for them to be destroyed.

The next day was also a good day. When Xie Fei got up, he found a bamboo plaque hanging on the door with the three words "Songyueju" neatly engraved on it.

Yuan San had been busy in the yard for a long time.

He went to cut wood and bamboo before dawn. After making bamboo signs, he had to replace door frames, repair window frames, and weave rabbit cages. After that, he had to dig the ground and weed to make a piece of land for Xie Fei to grow herbs.

The temperature in the mountains was low and it was still a little chilly in the morning. Yuan San was shirtless, with one foot on one end of the tree, cutting back and forth with the saw in his hand.

Perhaps he was too tired, the rolling beads of sweat had already wet his clothes, which were wrinkled and stuck to his body, outlining his well-proportioned and strong figure.

Hearing the door open, he looked back and smiled at Xie Fei.

"Girl, if you get up so early, be careful not to grow taller."

Xie Fei pointed to his feet, which were wearing a pair of soft-soled embroidered shoes.

"Get up early and go to bed early, and exercise, so that you can grow taller."

Although he was left to fend for himself in the backyard of the Xie family, Xie Fei never lost heart.

She always feels that good health is the most important thing.

So, while other ladies never stepped out of the house and became out of breath after walking a few steps, she never stopped her exercise plan.

As long as you are not delayed by important matters, running every morning is a must.

Fortunately, she persisted in exercising and taking herbal medicine to regulate herself, so even though she was mistreated over the years, she did not become sickly.

While Yuan San was chopping wood, Xie Fei was running around the yard.

After running, she wiped her face with a towel and stood aside watching Yuan San busy.

Yuan San lifted a heavy piece of wood with one hand. His arm muscles bulged slightly as he exerted force, and his thin and powerful waist was filled with wildness and wildness.

Xie Fei tilted his head, trying to see a little bit of his real face from under the mask.

A few years ago, Yuan San's face was badly injured, so Xie Fei couldn't see his true face.

Later he said that he was afraid of scaring Xie Fei, so he kept wearing the mask.

Although Xie Fei prepared a plaster for him and asked him to apply it carefully, he never used it, saying that he had many enemies chasing him and it would be difficult to be recognized if he was disfigured.

So after knowing each other for five years, Xie Fei still didn't know what he looked like.

After being busy for too long, the sun gradually rose and Yuan San's temperature rose again. Sweat broke out on his face and dripped down from the mask along the angle of his jaw.

Xie Fei stared at it without blinking, hoping that the mask would slide off with the sweat.

But after waiting for a long time, the mask did not move at all.

Being stared at too closely by Xie Fei, Yuan San finally couldn't pretend to be indifferent anymore. He coughed dryly and turned around, with his back to Xie Fei.

Xie Fei said unwillingly, "I've seen it before, no matter how ugly it is. Don't worry about it in front of me. But you, you're wearing a mask in such a hot day, be careful of getting acne."

Yuan San raised his axe and split several pieces of wood in two with a bang. Finally, he asked, "What is acne?"

"It's just that your face is covered with pimples," Xie Fei tempted, "Take off the mask quickly and get some fresh air."

Yuan San seemed to think it made sense. He put the axe aside and reached out for the mask.

Xie Fei's eyes widened and his pupils shrank slightly.

But Yuan San just adjusted the mask, then smiled at Xie Fei, "No, I'm old and don't get acne."

Xie Fei: "..."

Forget it, let’s do it another day.

After another half hour, Fu Yu got up and went to the kitchen to boil water.

Not long after, Mother Liu came with people.

After entering the yard, Mother Liu did not look around, but just asked someone to bring some rice, flour, grain and oil to Xie Fei.

It's not much, just enough for two women to eat for ten days. "My wife said yesterday that I won't bother you often anymore. If you need anything, just tell me. I will do my best to do anything I can."

Mother Liu's tone was neither friendly nor distant, just polite.

After Xie Fei thanked them, Mother Liu took her people away again.

Fu Yu went to the kitchen to take inventory and came out and said, "Girl, in addition to rice, flour, grain and oil, there are also firewood and some coarse grains, such as soybeans, wild vegetables, and sweet potatoes."

They are all vegetarian dishes, without any oil or meat.

I don’t know whether Xiao Shirong had ordered not to provide good food, or if this was the only way to go on the farm.

Xie Fei thought about Shui Huaiyu's shriveled and skinny appearance and felt that the latter was more likely.

Later, Fu Yu went to make a simple breakfast. After eating, she drooled as she looked at the wild rabbit in the cage.

"Girl, when can we eat it?"

"Didn't I just grill a fish last night? Are you craving for it again?"

Fu Yu swallowed and said, "The fish has no oil or smell, and it's grilled. There's not even any salt." Three people shared the fish, but no one could tell its flavor.

Xie Fei tapped her head amusedly and said, "Go, I still have some money in my purse, go down the mountain and buy some things."

They have to live here permanently, and they are short of many daily necessities.

Xie Fei cannot go out casually, as he will be followed by a bunch of people.

But Fu Yu did not need that. He took the silver and Xie Feilie's list, left the village on his own, and went to the town to make the purchase.

By the morning, the sun was getting brighter.

Yuan San took some time to set up a hammock between two ginkgo trees.

Xie Fei lay leisurely on the hammock, his hands behind his head, the sunlight shining through the leaves above his head.

"Yuan Datou, you said Pei Yuan has no salary, but he has to support a lot of concubines and hundreds of people in his house. Where does he get the money from?"

It would be a lie to say that he was not envious. When Xie Fei thought about how extravagant the Lord and Lady of Pei Mansion were, he became so jealous that his eyes turned red.

Not far away, Yuan San was weaving a rabbit cage with bamboo strips.

His palms were broad, with thin calluses on the fingertips. His slender fingers moved flexibly, and the bamboo strips were more obedient than water snakes. Soon, a delicate and small rabbit cage was formed.

"Miss, if you are interested, I will go and investigate at night to see if they have any hidden stash of cash?" It was too sunny, Yuan San wiped the sweat off his face without looking up at Xie Fei.

Xie Fei thought for a moment and said, "Forget it. What if I can draw out your thief's heart again and you go from stealing things from the dead to stealing things from the living? Wouldn't that make me sin deeply?"

Yuan Sanle said, "You know what, that night I went to Xiao Shirong's room, it was so magnificent and splendid, I was so itchy that I wanted to tear down even the glazed tiles."

Xie Fei imagined that scene and felt that he was too moralistic.

Otherwise, with Yuan San's ancestral skills, why would she have to eat coarse food here?
After making the rabbit cage, Yuan San carried the skinny hare into it and it fit perfectly.

There is heavy fog in the mountains at night, so we cannot let the rabbits outside and have to bring them back into the house in a rabbit cage.

Then he built a wooden shed in the corner of the yard, which was the rabbit's activity area during the day.

The top is covered with bamboo boards to prevent eagles from the mountains from catching the rabbits.

After finishing all this, it was already noon. Fu Yu had not come back yet, so Xie Fei went to cook by himself.

In the kitchen, besides the wild game brought back from the mountains yesterday, there were also grains and oils sent by Mother Liu.

The rice should be produced by the village. Each grain is slender and slightly yellow, not evenly distributed and full, and does not smell like much rice.

The oil was rapeseed oil, only half a can, like kerosene. The bottom of the sediment was pitch black, and you could see the rapeseed that had not been cleared out.

In addition, there is half a can of salt, a pot of vinegar, and a pot of soy sauce, which are all the seasonings in the kitchen.

Xie Fei rolled up his sleeves, tied on an apron, and first neatly dissected the two water snakes, dug out the snake gallbladders, and then cut them into evenly-length segments and put them into the pot to make soup.

There are too many mushrooms and they will rot quickly if they are not finished in one meal, so the leftovers after frying them at noon need to be cleaned of impurities and sand, then dried in the sun for use in making soup later.

There are crabs and fish in the water tank. The crabs are just shells, and it would be a waste of oil to fry them. It would be better to use them to make soup later, which would have a little more flavor.

As for the fish, it is relatively fat and would be good for braising, but with the things I had on hand, they couldn't be cooked to any flavor.

But even so, Xie Fei is full of energy.

After all, it was up to her to decide.

(End of this chapter)