Farmhouse vicious stepmother, she is super fierce

Chapter 52 The Uninvited Guest

Here, Li Godan's grandma opened the cupboard, selected a dozen or so green-skinned duck eggs, scooped up a scoop of yellow millet, and asked Quan to deliver it to Widow Shen, and specifically instructed Li Goudan to give it to Widow Shen. Kowtow more.

Quan's agreed, carried his things, and brought Li Goudan to Mu's house.

Shen Jiayan has collected a lot of herbs these days, such as Polygonatum Polygonatum, Chicken Intestine Wind, Rhizoma Drynariae, Scrophulariaceae, Gastrodia elata, etc., and they are almost ready to be processed one after another.

She didn't go up the mountain for these two days, and concentrated on arranging and drying these medicinal materials at home so that they could be sold in the county.

Seeing Quan's bringing Li Goudan to the door, carrying things, and making Li Goudan kowtow as soon as she entered the door, she was startled, and hurriedly helped him up.

Over there, the Quan family thanked each other without saying a word, and stopped calling Shen's sisters, and they talked about each other, wishing to recognize a sister on the spot.

Just talking and laughing, another unexpected visitor came to the yard.

Originally, the door of Shen Jiayan's yard was always closed, but because Mrs. Quan knocked on the door, she only opened it, so she didn't close it.

The uninvited guest immediately barged in, who is it not Zhao Chunhua?
She came today, but she has lost the arrogance of the past, like a defeated rooster, with a gray face, disheveled hair, swollen face, black eyes, and a little limp when walking.

When I came in, when I saw Shen Jiayan, I apologized in a low voice: "Widow Shen, I was wrong before, I was deceived by lard! I bullied you because of your good temper! Now I know I was wrong! Widow Shen, I I’ll apologize to you! Your lord, forgive me this time! I was speaking out of anger before saying that I would not rent out your land. I really can’t count it! From now on, your land will still be mine, and we will Do you think it’s okay to pay [-]% more rent?”

"We have a family of about [-] people, and we are counting on Widow Shen to keep your land alive! You can do me a favor, take back the land and give it to our family! Our family will remember you well!"

The Wu family has become a joke in the village now, who wouldn't laugh at their family, they calculated too much, and now it's all gone?
Originally, the paddy fields where Mu's family was tenanted, the seedlings had all grown, and they only needed to put in a little more work, and they would be able to harvest in autumn, so Shen Jiayan was really offended if he wanted to die.

As for the Sun family's land, their family only bought the worst acre of dry land, the paddy fields were gone, and the money was spent. The family still didn't know how to live in the second half of the year.

Relying on the wheat harvested from that acre of dry land, it won't last until next year, right?
There are about [-] people in the Wu family, so they can't starve to death, can they?

Everyone was arguing at home, blaming this and that, and in the end it was all Zhao Chunhua's head. They thought it was all caused by her stinky mouth, so naturally she had to solve it.

You can't let the man in the family show up, can you?Can the man from the Wu family hold his head up in the future?

How could Zhao Chunhua be willing to come? It was because Wu Dazhui had moved hands with Zhao Chunhua at home and said that if she didn't ask Shen Jiayan to rent back the two acres of paddy fields, she wouldn't go back to Wu's house.

Isn't Zhao Chunhua helpless, she can only be cheeky and beg for help.

After hearing this, the Quan family laughed first: "I said Wu Dachui's family, you are shameless! Don't you know? That day you shouted to return the field, but our family and Zhu's family took this Two mu of land has been given to the tenant! The deed was signed in front of Lizheng, and everyone signed and pledged as a witness! You may not go back to that land, anyway, your Wu family is not a big business and you look down on it With so much labor and so much open space on the side of the mountain, let’s open up wasteland again!”

"Just open another two acres of dry land, and when it's mature, I'll find a good wife for your youngest son. Good times are yet to come—"

A thick-skinned woman like Zhao Chunhua was ashamed of what she said.

He opened his mouth to say something, but Li Goudan swept him out the door with a broom.

Zhao Chunhua was still reluctant to leave, and wandered outside the yard for half a day, seeing that Quan Shi and Li Goudan had not left, unable to wait, so she stamped her feet and left unwillingly.

After she left, Quan stood up to say goodbye, and said a few more words: "There are many Wu family members, and now it's such a field, be careful of them jumping over the wall! Be alert when you go to bed at night! The Zhu family is next door. If there is anything wrong, call Once they won't come out to help—"

Shen Jiayan thanked her with a smile, and sent the Quan's mother and son out of the courtyard gate.

Turning around, I saw that Quan's had put the delivered things in the corridor without knowing when.

Shen Jiayan looked at the dozen or so green-skinned duck eggs, and then at the small bag of millet, but it was hard to return it, so he had to accept it.

But the weather is getting hotter, and the duck eggs can't be stored for a long time. It's better to marinate them into salted duck eggs.

The salted duck eggs are also easy to marinate. Because there is no high-alcohol liquor, they cannot be washed with raw water. Boil a pot of boiling water, let it cool, and then clean the shell of the duck eggs.

Then go outside the yard, dig a piece of loess and come back, mix salt and a proper amount of rice wine with water to melt the loess into yellow mud, roll the duck eggs in the yellow mud, and wrap the outside with a layer of plant ash.

Put these duck eggs into a jar with a small mouth and big belly, seal it well, and put it in a cool place. After a month, these duck eggs will be marinated.

It is perfect to eat with mung bean porridge in summer.

As for this millet, Dongguang Village doesn't grow much here. Occasionally, a few families plant a little bit, and it is reserved for the elderly and pregnant women at home to replenish energy and blood.

The Li family's ability to produce these things is really full of sincerity.

Shen Jiayan hadn't eaten millet porridge for a long time, so he boiled a pot that day and served it with the small pickles he made. It couldn't be more refreshing.

After waiting for two days, the Wu family and Zhao Chunhua never came again, but I heard from the Bai family that now the Wu family is arguing about splitting up, and everyone's head is almost like a pig's brain, and they don't care about other things.

It just so happened that Shen Jiayan's medicinal materials were all ready, so he packed them all up, and asked someone with a bullock cart in the village to give him a lot of money to help deliver them to the town.

Because there are two puppies, big black and little white, at home, Li Goudan was entrusted to feed some water every day, so as not to starve them to death.

After explaining everything, he got into the bullock cart with two baskets full of herbs.

He set off early in the morning, and arrived in town very early, and luckily, there was a carriage to the county seat, and as long as he paid for it, he would take her along.

When we arrived at the county seat, it was not yet time to close the city gate.

Still living in the previous inn, the second child still remembered Shen Jiayan, and he walked up to say hello and helped move the things down.

As usual, Shen Jiayan asked for a room, moved the medicinal materials in, and ordered food and hot water.

After washing up, I ate a steaming hot dinner happily, and my whole body came alive.

Although it is not far from Dongguang Village to the county seat, it can be reached within a day, but the bumpy mountain road is really too difficult. Every time you go back and forth like this, your bones will fall apart and reassemble.

(End of this chapter)