Xiuse Farmhouse

Chapter 4 Poor Wife

Wanwan happily walked over. When the pheasant saw someone approaching, it immediately jumped up, jumped twice and then fell down. It seemed that the foot was injured. If it is alive, it can be raised, and maybe there will be eggs to eat.

Although it was strange to see Baishou's stinky face, she didn't feel anything, and walked over to greet him happily: "You brought this pheasant back? Why don't we raise it? I don't know if this pheasant is a male." It’s still a female. If it’s a female, maybe we can have eggs to eat in the future. Why don’t you kill a few more live ones in the future? We can still sell them in the future, the living ones should be sold for more money than the dead ones, right?"

Hearing this, Baishou's face gradually calmed down, and he looked at him strangely, and didn't talk to him, so he got up and walked to the stake to start chopping firewood.

Wanwan shook his head, this man is really strange.

Seeing Wan Wan enter the kitchen, Bai Shou took a second look. When she came out, she was holding two green vegetables in her hand. Then Bai Shou was cutting firewood in a trance, while watching Wan Wan squatting beside her to feed the pheasants.

In the end, he found that Wanwan was the same as the previous two days, and Baishou was relieved. When he came back from hunting, he found that Wanwan was not at home. The matchmaker speaks.

He hates that matchmaker, so he must be uneasy and kind enough to instigate his daughter-in-law again.

Since the daughter-in-law woke up, she seemed to have changed a lot, she would take the initiative to talk to him, she was much happier than before, and she no longer had a sullen face to him.When she used to eat, she wished he could sit as far away as possible, but now she took the initiative to let him go over to pick up food, and even let him sit and eat together.

He didn't go there, afraid that if he sat there, his wife would be upset, and he would ignore him and not talk to him like before.He doesn't want to be like this, he likes his wife to talk to him.

When I was a child, I was so happy when my father was there. Every day, the family was happy. Since my father left, my grandma also left not long ago. Everyone in the village detested him. How much he wished that someone could live with him. When he married his wife, he thought that his wife was different from other people, but it turned out that his wife didn't like him either.

Baishou's eyes are sad!

Thinking of his daughter-in-law smiling at him several times in the past few days, Baishou was a little happy, but what if the daughter-in-law ignored him one day?
Baishou began to worry about gains and losses!
After Wanwan fed the pheasant, he found Baishou sitting by the door with his head down, a little downcast.

Walking over in a crooked manner, he asked him strangely, "What's wrong with you?"

Baishou shook his head, stood up in a muffled voice and continued to chop wood.

Wan Wan shook her head, and began to look for grass around the yard. She remembered that when she was in her hometown, the few chickens raised by her mother all ate green vegetable leaves.Later she dug small worms under the tree, and the pheasant ate them.It turns out that pheasants, like domestic chickens, eat vegetable leaves and worms.That's a good way to raise it.

Bai Shou chopped firewood for a while, dragged out the bamboo he cut a few days ago, and weaved the back of the betel, while looking at the bend of the yard.He thought it was a good day like this!
In the evening, Bai first boiled the medicine for Wan Wan, then cooked porridge, fried a vegetable and put it on the table, then turned around and went into the kitchen.

Wanwan sat at the table and took a spoon to scoop up the clear porridge in the bowl. A few grains of rice could be clearly seen in a spoonful of porridge.Baishou was still busy in the kitchen, she thought she was cooking other dishes, but saw him walking in with cakes.

"No more food?" Wanwan asked, stretching his neck to look at the cakes in the bowl.

Baishou lowered his head, Nana said: "It's gone."

She looked at the porridge in her bowl and the cakes in his bowl, and she was surprised: "Why only one bowl of porridge? Don't tell me we have no rice at home?"

Baishou looked at Wanwan uneasily, and said in a low voice, "I haven't gone to the market to exchange money for the past few days, so I'll go buy it tomorrow." He was so busy taking care of his wife these days that he even forgot that there was no rice at home.

Wanwan's eyes widened in disbelief: "You mean the family has no money?"

Bai Shou blushed and nodded.

Looking at the dilapidated house, I should have realized that there is no way for this family to be rich!

After thinking for a while, he said, "Why don't we borrow some rice from the villagers and pay it back tomorrow?"

Bai Shou was startled, bowed his head and said in a rough voice for a while, "I won't go."

Looks a little angry.

Wanwan looked suspiciously at Baishou who was sitting by the door eating a cake.

The next day, Baishou went to the market early in the morning with the prey he had hunted back yesterday, and Wanwan didn't know when he got up, anyway, it was high in the sun outside.

Patients need rest and exercise.

She managed to find a rag, fetched water with a basin, and wiped the edge of the table, the cabinet, and the table and bench. There was really nothing for her to clean up in this house.Then I went to check the pheasant tied to the tree yesterday.

Wanwan first threw a green leaf to it, maybe yesterday he saw that Wanwan would not hurt it, and the pheasant didn't flutter like it did when it approached Wanwan.Then she dug a few more worms around the yard and threw it at it.

Finally, I sat on the hillside and looked down, not knowing which direction Baishou would come back from.Everything here is strange to her.Now she can only believe in Baishou, at least he is her man in name, isn't he?

I don't know how long I sat until my hands and feet felt cold. The weather here is also strange, and the weather in September has begun to cool down.

Wanwan walked back to the house again, lay on the bed for a while, couldn't fall asleep, and sat by the door again, looking eagerly at the slope, she was a little hungry.

After searching in the kitchen for a while, I couldn't find anything edible. There was no grain of rice left in the rice jar.He ate up all the cakes that Baishou baked yesterday, and it was even more impossible to find any snacks in this house.

Wan Wan leaned weakly by the door and looked at Po's direction.

She guessed it was already noon, because there were wisps of smoke rising from the roofs of the village.Wanwan walked back to the yard, glanced around, he couldn't starve himself to death like this, could he?
Then they turned around the house, and there was a bamboo forest not far from home. The place where they live should be at the foot of the mountain. I don't know how high the mountain is?When she went out to play before, she found that in some places on the mountains of those tourist attractions, local farmers would grow some vegetables, fruit trees and the like on the mountains, and she didn't know if there were such things on the mountains.

Carefully pay attention to the way out, and searched around but did not find any fruit trees or the like, she sat on the side of the road depressed, how did she fall to the point of looking for wild fruits to satisfy her hunger!
Suddenly, I found something familiar on the edge of the ridge. I carefully peeled away the mud, pulled out a stick and smelled it, and it turned out to be zhezi.

When she was studying at school, she liked to eat this food. The cold salad was delicious. At that time, she went to the mountain behind the school to look for it with her classmates in the same dormitory.Didn't expect this to exist in this place.

Live a little hopeful.

Wan Wan immediately dug out the zhe zi zi in the mud. She was pleasantly surprised to find that after digging bit by bit, there was a large handful at the end. After making sure that the place was gone, Wan Wan tied the zhe zi zi together. Excited to go home.

In order to make sure that she did not admit her mistake, she first pulled out one and cleaned it in the basin, then took it to her mouth and chewed it.

Well, it tastes exactly the same.

It was not so smooth for Baishou to go to the market with his prey to exchange for silver today, because the prey was brought back at noon yesterday, and he usually only comes home in the afternoon, because he was worried about Wan Wan yesterday, so he shot a few and came back. It has been left at home overnight, and the things are not very fresh, so people have lowered the price.

On the way, he hurried back without taking a breath, walking uphill, he saw Wanwan sitting in the yard, with a pile of grass in front of him, and he stuffed a straw into his mouth, she actually ate it happily laugh.

When Bai Shou saw her like that, he couldn't help feeling distressed.He strode over to snatch the Zheer vegetable in Wan Wan's hand.He felt so guilty, he came back late today, and his wife was already so hungry that she ate grass!
(End of this chapter)