Chapter 26 Chopping Wood
"I'll get up and make breakfast. I'll bake a few more pancakes and take them to the mountains. We won't go home for lunch at noon."

"You don't have to get up so early for pancakes!"

"No, you have to get up earlier, or it will be late."

Fang Qing saw that the disobedient man was already dressed, so she could only get up with him. After getting up, she took off the roof of the carriage and prepared to let the horses pull it. Can't do physical work.

"My wife, come over for breakfast!" Zhang Zelin was the one calling after the daybreak to unload the carriage after cooking.

The husband and wife packed up the hatchet, rope and pole and put them on the cart, locked the door and drove the carriage to the mountains with two cows.

Fang Qing, his wife and husband, had just left the house when they saw Zhang Cong next door coming out of the house chopping a hoe.

"Hey! Where are your families going?" Zhang Cong was about to go to the field, when he saw Fang Qing and his wife just coming out, they laughed and joked.

Seeing that it was Zhang Cong, Fang Qing smiled and said, "There is no firewood at home, let's go to the mountains."

After walking for half an hour, we reached the foot of the mountain. "My wife, should the horse and the ox be placed at the foot of the mountain, or should they be led up the mountain together?"

"Is it unsafe to put it at the foot of the mountain?"

"It's definitely not safe. Put the cattle and horses at the foot of the mountain, and we can only collect firewood nearby."

When the two of them were discussing, four people came from a distance with three children. Zhang Meng brought his family to cut wheat.

"Brother Lin, what are you and Qing girl going to do?"

Fang Qing saw the aunt approaching: "Auntie, Brother Lin and I went to the mountain to cut firewood, and we were talking about whether we should take the horses and cows to the mountain."

"I happen to be harvesting wheat here today, and you are grazing at the foot of the mountain, and I will help you two watch over it."

Fang Qing thought that Zhang Meng was harvesting wheat here, and it would be no problem to tie the cattle and horses to the foot of the mountain. "Then trouble Auntie."

"No trouble, you guys go!"

Fang Qing asked Zhang Zelin to put lunch on the carriage, and she tied up the oxen and horses, and took Zhang Zelin up the mountain with a machete, a pole, and a rope.

It took a quarter of an hour to climb halfway up the mountain. Fang Qing saw the dense branches, and she felt that she didn't have to climb any further. "Brother Lin, don't climb up, just cut here!"

Zhang Zelin saw that the branches here were good, so he sat on the ground to rest. "My wife, are you tired from climbing the mountain?"

"I'm not tired. You pick up dry branches here, and I'll chop firewood." Seeing the reddish man, Fang Qing couldn't bear to let him chop firewood, and asked him to pick up dry branches that others didn't want before.

Zhang Zelin heard his wife's love for him, and he said happily: "Okay"

Fang Qing went to the side and started chopping with a hatchet. He chopped down a tree, cut off the branches, threw the tree pole aside, cut a bundle and tied it with a rope, and then chopped the next bundle.

Fang Qing already had internal strength, and she chopped two loads of firewood in a short while, and tied them up to find Zhang Zelin.

"Brother Lin, are you alright?"

"Okay, let's pick it out." Zhang Zelin hurriedly agreed to his wife when he heard his wife's voice.

Fang Qing heard Zhang Zelin's voice and walked over to help him carry the firewood. "Why are there two bundles so big, Fang Qing asked with a frown when he saw the two bundles of firewood.

"Not much, this is the amount we usually pick."

Seeing that he didn't say much, Fang Qing turned around to pick up his own firewood, and asked worriedly when he was about to leave, "Do you want to pick one less bundle?"

Zhang Zelin picked up the firewood and said, "No, let's go down the mountain quickly."

Zhang Meng took his family and waited for Fang Qing and his nephew to come back for lunch at the foot of the mountain. Seeing them come back, he said to his husband and daughter and son-in-law: "Brother Lin and the others are back, let's go have lunch!"

Fang Qing put down the firewood, saw Zhang Meng and the others coming, raised the basket and said to Zhang Meng, "Auntie, come and have lunch."

"Come on, I'm waiting for you and Brother Lin to come back and eat together!"

Zhang Zelin put away the firewood, walked to Fang Qing's side, took out the cakes baked this morning from the back basket, and took out three white flour cakes and handed them to his nephew and niece first.

Seeing the white flour cakes, the three children accepted the cakes from their uncle with crooked smiles. Seeing the white flour cakes brought by Fang Qing, Zhang Meng thought that his niece and daughter-in-law's family background was not comparable to theirs. Those two cows... just know.

Fang Qing handed a cake to Zhang Meng: "Auntie, eat this first."

Zhang Meng took the cake from his niece and daughter-in-law, took a bite of the cake and said, "I heard from your new aunt that the servant who hired your farm yesterday came."

Zhang Zelin distributed the white flour cakes to his uncle and brother-in-law, and listened to the chat between the aunt and the head of the wife, and he listened to the aunt asking about the servants.

"Auntie, the wife-owner took back three acres of paddy fields and three acres of medium-sized fields."

Zhang Xiaoling took a bite of the cake and said, "It's good to harvest a few acres, and you and your siblings will grow some rice by yourself in the future."

Seeing what her cousin said, Fang Qing nodded and said, "I'm going to raise rice flower fish."

"What kind of fish is rice flower fish?" Zhang Meng asked subconsciously after hearing her words, she had never heard the name of this fish.

"It's the fish raised in the rice. That kind of fish is delicious, and it's rare. I'm going to raise some." Fang Qing told Zhang Meng of her decision. Zhang Meng is Zhang Zelin's aunt, so there's no need to hide it.

"Can this work?" Zhang Meng had never heard of raising fish like this. She was afraid that her nephew and daughter-in-law would ruin the paddy field, so she said worriedly.

"Ha! I'll use an acre of land to test the water first, and if the cultivation is good, I will raise more."

"Brother and sister, it would be nice if I learn to raise fish with you." Zhang Xiaoling heard her brother-in-law's idea, and she thought she could try it too.

"Okay, I'll teach you when the time comes." Fang Qing also wanted to make life easier for her family, seeing her cousin said that she wanted to learn how to raise fish from her, she said straightforwardly.

"You two little bastards, don't mess around, you can't ruin the field." Zhang Mengcai was worried that his niece and daughter-in-law would ruin the paddy field, and when she heard her daughter's words, she couldn't help laughing and scolding the two of them.

"No, the first time I don't raise too much, I just raise an acre of paddy fields." Fang Qing finished eating the white flour cake, picked up the thick cake brought by Zhang Meng, and said in a mouthful.

Zhang Meng looked at the two people who needed to be beaten, and was choked immediately. She felt that she would have to take good care of these two little bastards in the future, and she couldn't let them bring disaster to the water field.

After Fang Qing ate, drank, and rested, she took Zhang Zelin to continue walking up the mountain. She felt that she needed to cut more firewood for preparation, so as to save time from going up the mountain during the rainy season.

Zhang Zelin and Fang Qing chopped together in the afternoon, and they stopped to pick up firewood and went down the mountain when they had cut eight bundles. This trip was a bit too much, and the two of them took two trips to finish picking.

Fang Qing piled the firewood on the carriage and let the horses pull it home. Zhang Zelin led the two cows and followed Fang Qing.

Fang Qing and the others wanted to go home, seeing that Zhang Meng and the others were still busy, she said to Zhang Meng: "Auntie, let's go back first!"

"Hey! You guys go back first, we'll come back later." Seeing the two walking away, Zhang Meng thought with relief, the nephew has found a good wife, and the second child should feel at ease underground.

 Thanks to the eagle in the wind, cgh who feels good about himself, for the reward, thanks to Xia Yu, Sanzhi, and Zilan for their recommendation tickets, and thanks to all the book friends for their support, thank you!

  
 
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