1940s: I supported my wife and sister-in-law by hunting.

He soon returned to the window of Widow Liu's house.

Meow~~

He had barely called out when the window opened, and Liu Chuncao's large, alluring peach blossom eyes, big and watery, embraced him tightly.

"My darling, you're finally back! My heart was in my throat. Now that I'm with you, I can't stand any of the other little sparrows."

Chen Gaoshan looked around to make sure no one was watching, so he didn't need to be so serious. Anyone wandering around outside in the middle of the night was definitely not a decent person.

"Chuncao, I'm still a child. You're trying to ruin me."

Liu Chuncao opened her mouth and bit his lips, making it sound like she was suggesting an old cow eating young grass.

This was the first time he had ever climbed through a window and gotten directly onto the kang (heated brick bed) in the west room.

The essence of Cao Cao's treachery lies in two words: stealing and robbing.

On the kang (a heated brick bed), Widow Liu was incredibly excited, as if she had been injected with chicken blood. She pushed him down onto the kang and pressed her large buttocks firmly against him.

Chen Gaoshan was holding her hands, seeing that she was covered in sweat and still hadn't caught her breath. Her headlights were bobbing up and down, showing that she had really put in a lot of effort.

By the time he climbed out of Widow Liu's window, it was already three in the morning.

To be honest, Liu Chuncao is a real slut.

Except for his hands, which are a bit rough from working, his skin is incredibly soft and smooth all over, with little body hair.

Especially that voice and those eyes, it's like they've taken some kind of blue pill, making it impossible to finish even if you want to.

"That woman! She's a real vixen. No wonder Da Ya's father, Gouzi, died so young. With a woman like that in the house, what man could stand it! He'd be completely drained at night, and during the day he'd be out in a daze. It's no wonder he'd get into trouble when he went fishing in the river."

Having expended a lot of energy, he took out two meat buns from his spatial storage, ate a bite, and entered the courtyard. He had just bolted the gate when he reached the wooden stake at the top.

Where have you been?

That shout almost scared him to death. He turned around and saw his father walking towards him from the outhouse in the backyard.

"Dad, what are you doing? You almost scared me to death!"

Old Chen walked over and looked him up and down. "You have too much energy for nothing? Aren't the two at home enough to keep you busy? If you really can't stay idle, you should plow two more acres of land tomorrow. What are you doing out there? Don't think I don't know. There are some widows you can't mess with. Don't end up like a smear on your hands that you can't shake off or wipe away."

"Then our Chen family will be truly shameless, running around the whole village in disgrace. I'll break your legs so you can stop messing around like that."

Chen Gaoshan knew his father would definitely cover for him, and chuckled twice.

"Dad, don't worry, I know what I'm doing. Go back to sleep, Mom is waiting for you."

"You need to take this to heart and stop making a fuss over nothing. Your wife is heavily pregnant."

Chen Gaoshan felt a little embarrassed by his father's words, so he quickly went back to his room, took off his clothes, and planned to take a nap. Just then, he heard Lianhua start humming and moaning.

"Shanzi, where have you been? Got diarrhea?"

"Hmm, you have diarrhea. You ate too much tonight. You went to the outhouse for a while. Go to sleep. I'll hold you and pat you to sleep."

Chen Laonian watched his son go back into the house, and he sighed. Regardless of whether Shanzi liked it or not, he, as the father, had to say everything he needed to say.

As soon as I entered the house, I saw that Shanzi's mother had lit the kerosene lamp.

"Old Nian, just say a few words. Shanzi isn't a pushover either. You men are all like that, as long as you can walk, none of you can keep quiet."

As she spoke, Chen Liu yawned. "Hurry up and go to bed, we still have to go to the fields today."

As Chen Laonian watched Shanzi's mother, dressed in a bellyband, swaying in front of him, he immediately felt a surge of desire, just like when he had mentioned Shanzi earlier. The two of them were only in their early forties, the prime of their lives, so it was only a matter of time before it happened.

"What did you just say to Shanzi? You're the first person to talk nonsense in the middle of the night. You're the kind of person who would sit back down after taking a dump. Do you not want your old back anymore? You're not going to farm anymore."

"Don't you know how old I am? You'll be done in no time."

Don't be fooled by how well Old Chen talks about his son; when it comes to himself, he talks nonsense. Right now, he's practically pushing the kang table all over the kang.

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With her daughter-in-law able to cook, Chen Liu Shi was much more relaxed, no longer having to spend time around the stove before dawn.

Early in the morning, before dawn and even before the roosters crowed, she slung a willow basket over her shoulder, took a small shovel in her hand, and went out to collect manure.

In the village, especially during spring plowing, manure is like a gold nugget in the field.

Crops thrive on fertilizer; the bigger the manure pile and the more manure there is, the better the crops will grow that year.

Sheep dung is picked up on the hillside, human dung is picked up in the corner, dog dung is picked up at the corner of the wall, donkey dung is picked up and down the slope, and cow dung is picked up on the wasteland.

Chen Liu kept these words in mind and never left empty-handed while collecting manure.

With her diligence, you couldn't find another person in the whole village who could collect manure better than her.

Every day, the manure they collected was piled up in the large manure pit opposite their own yard gate, overflowing with it.

Of all the various kinds of manure, human excrement is the most potent and effective when applied to the land, making it the best fertilizer in the eyes of farmers.

The children in the village were all incredibly wild, running around and playing outside all day long. When they couldn't hold it in any longer, they would just find a corner, squat down, and relieve themselves. They would never think of holding it in at home.

If the adults in the family catch you defecating in your own latrine, you'll definitely get a good scolding for being ignorant and wasting good fertilizer.

This is the crucial time for spring plowing. The cattle, horses, donkeys, and mules in the village work hard in the fields all day long. They are exhausted, and only in the evening will their owners lead them out to the river to drink water and graze on some grass. The livestock pull along the way, and manure is everywhere on the road and the grassy banks.

But once it gets dark, visibility is poor, and it's impossible to pick them up. You can only wait until the early morning of the next day, when no one is around and the manure hasn't been picked up by others, and then you can quickly go and collect it.

So those who went out in the village before dawn were all old men and women, as well as their children, each carrying a manure basket and a shovel.

You have to be quick to collect manure; if you're even a step too late, everyone else will have already taken it all. The earlier you arrive, the more you can collect.

Chen Liu left early, before dawn. Everything was shrouded in a hazy gray, and her eyesight was poor, so she couldn't see clearly what was on the ground—dung, dirt, or stones.

She had her own methods and wasn't flustered. She pressed the small shovel in her hand onto the ground and relied on the feel of it to distinguish the different areas.

Soft and loose manure is the kind that can be used on the ground; quickly shovel it into the manure basket.

If it's hard and sticky, like something that would hurt a shovel, it's probably a brick, a pebble, or a clod of dirt; just throw it aside.

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