Exile at the beginning: I rule the world by drawing cards

Chapter 21 Foreman Li comes to visit

After the heavy rain, the water level of the Xunjiang River rose, and the river water in the village also rose a lot.

Construction on the river embankment was temporarily unavailable, so the villagers took advantage of this gap to dig channels for drainage in the fields to prevent the rice from being flooded again when it rains.

Qin Mengshang had nothing to do and took his fishing net and bamboo basket to catch fish in the river. Zhou Lingqi was left to look after the house.

The river water rose after the rain, so she did not dare to go deeper. Instead, she set up a simple fishing trap in a weedy area and dug up river crabs along the shore.

Jin Bao, who was following her, saw her entering the water and was so anxious on the shore that he tried to jump off several times but was thrown back by Qin Meng Shang.

In ancient times, the water quality was good. There were many fish, shrimps and crabs in the river, and there were more after rain.After searching for more than half an hour, I found a dozen river crabs and touched a few small river fish.

When I was in high spirits, someone suddenly came calling from the shore. I looked up and saw that it was Ji's daughter, Chunhua.

"Sister Qin is not good. Someone from the government is coming. My mother asked you to go back and take a look!"

Qin Mengshang was distracted and answered, but his finger was pinched by a crab. He grimaced in pain and did not forget to throw the crab into the barrel.

He came up from the river barefoot, picked up the bucket and shoes, and walked home, casually asking what the government was doing.

Chunhua shook her head: "I don't know. I only saw Foreman Li and a man with a big belly going in. There were also two men with knives guarding the door. My mother was afraid that something would happen, so she asked me to come and call you."

Upon hearing Li Zhang's name, Qin Mengshang's eyes darkened.

The matter last time is not over yet, now people come to the door in person.

Since ancient times, people have not fought with officials. Sanjiang Village has a special nature and often has official contacts. Although everyone is used to it, they are still in awe of the officials and do not dare to poke their heads out easily at this time.

When I got home, I happened to see Li Zhang and another man with a big belly coming out.

The two of them had smiles on their faces, and the plump man walked in front with a bulging belly. Li Zhang respected him very much, thinking he was the one from above.

Qin Mengshang felt that there was nothing good going on, so after they left, he quickly entered the door.

Zhou Lingqi stood in front of the main room. When he saw her coming back, he walked over and took the bucket from her hand with a calm expression. He glanced down inadvertently and saw a pair of delicate white feet, and his eyes dimmed a little.

"Put on your shoes and come in."

Qin Mengshang didn't realize that women in ancient times couldn't show their feet at will. Thinking that his feet were stained with mud, he took a ladle of water and rinsed them clean before putting on his shoes and entering the house.

After getting along for so many days, the two of them were already familiar with each other. She didn't beat around the bush and went straight to the point: "What did they tell you?"

Zhou Lingqi squatted beside the barrel and looked at the stuff in the barrel curiously, and said, "You just asked me to go work on the river embankment tomorrow."

There was no ups and downs in the voice, I guess it was expected.

When he was seriously injured and unconscious, unable to get off the ground, Commander Wang asked Qin Mengshang to take his place.

Although it is said to be hard labor, working in the kitchen is not tiring at all. You get hot meals to eat every day. It is much easier than going to the Xishan quarry to move stones or build river embankments.

Qin Mengshang saw him staring into the bucket with a strange look on his face. He was helpless and funny. Even though he was like this, he still wanted to stare at the crabs.Then she thought about it. After Zhou Lingqi recovered from his injury, it was inevitable that he would serve on the river embankment. The only thing that made her worried was Li Zhang.

Chen Ergou had secretly observed outside the door a few days ago. As soon as the rain stopped today, Li Zhang came to the door with his people.

Qin Mengshang didn't believe it if they said they had nothing to do with each other.

"Your injury hasn't healed yet. Can you go to work at this time? How about it be postponed for another two days?"

"No need," Zhou Lingqi lowered his eyes to cover the strange color in his eyes, "I have to go sooner or later, I don't care about the next day or two."

In his last life, he only lay down for three days before going to work on the river embankment. Now, after lying down for half a month, his health is almost better.

Thanks to the excellent medical skills of the doctor who treated him at the beginning, he was able to bring him back from the dead. Otherwise, he would not have been able to recover so quickly with just that little medicine.

Qin Mengshang guessed that after he went to the river embankment, he might be preparing to return to Beijing.After falling from the cloud into the quagmire, a person who can single-handedly overthrow an entire dynasty has a good life and will not die easily.She didn't continue the topic and gave Zhou Lingqi some beef tendon from the yard, asking him to wash the crabs and make crab noodles for lunch.

"How to wash?"

Zhou Lingqi really doesn't know how to do this.

Qin Mengshang picked up a crab with chopsticks and demonstrated it to him, telling him not to get caught.

He should have agreed. When he came in with the cleaned crabs, Qin Mengshang noticed with sharp eyes that this man had a few more cuts on his hands.I admired him for being able to endure it for so long without hearing a word of pain.

But this small injury was nothing compared to the injuries he had suffered before.

Qin Mengshang put the crabs in the pot to steam and started kneading the dough.The dough is kneaded, and the crabs are also cooked. They are very beautiful in yellow and orange. Although they are not big, they have peeled a small bowl of crab meat out.The remaining crab shells were not wasted. They were used to cook the noodle soup. When it was finally served, sprinkled with chopped green onion. Just the smell of it would make you want to swallow it.

The two of them each had a bowl of crab meat noodles, and Jin Baoshou had to try it while standing by the stove.

The next day I had to work on the river embankment, and it got up at five o'clock.

There was only Jinbao guarding the house, so Qin Mengshang was worried, so he imitated Mrs. Chen and locked the food in the cupboard, then checked that the place where the money was hidden was safe, and then went out with peace of mind.

The rain stopped and normal work resumed at the Xishan Quarry. Early in the morning, I saw a car carrying stones to the river embankment. A few men in rags were moving stones under the command of Li Zhang.

Qin Mengshang saw it from a distance and was a little worried about Zhou Lingqi. He was not afraid of his death, but afraid that he was half dead.

Seeing her absentmindedness, Mr. Ji comforted her and said, "How can anyone who comes to the river embankment to work as a coolie not be tired? Don't worry too much, he always knows what he is doing."

"I see, sister-in-law."

Qin Mengshang looked away, went to the river to fetch a bucket of water and came back to wash vegetables.

The kitchen is busy here, and there are people coming from outside.

Before Qin Mengshang could see clearly who the visitor was, he heard her say in a strange tone: "I said why I've been away from home lately, and it turns out there's another vixen here!"

The woman wearing an autumn-colored sarong had a square face, high cheekbones, thin lips and narrow eyes, and a mean look.He stared at Qin Mengshang with his sharp eyes, wanting to poke two holes in her body.

Ji, who was chopping vegetables in the kitchen, heard the noise and ran out without even dropping the knife.

"Xu, what are you doing here? Your man is on the river embankment. Go over there to find him!"

Qin Mengshang suddenly realized that he and Li Zhang looked so similar.

Mrs. Xu's eyes were glued to Qin Mengshang, feeling jealous and disgusted.

She knew that her man was not related to Widow Zhang, and she thought he was hanging out with Widow Zhang when he was away from home these days.As a result, when I came to the door and asked, Widow Zhang had not come back since she went to town that day!
After asking around again, I found out that there was a little goblin in the Hedi Kitchen!

Mrs. Xu spat hard, put her hands on her hips and started to curse: "You come out to hook up with men before they are dead. You are a shameless bastard! If you have the ability to imitate Widow Zhang in doing business, why are you pretending to be innocent here?"

Mrs. Xu's voice was loud, and the men working by the river embankment looked over.

Someone recognized her and ran to tell Li Zhang.

Li Zhang looked back and saw that she was really his mother-in-law!He didn't even think about trying to persuade him. Anyway, his family had always protected him.

Zhou Lingqi's eyes darkened when he heard Xu's words. Just as he was about to go over to help, he heard his princess imitating the same example and scolding her:
"My daughter-in-law came out to flirt with women before she was dead. Those who knew it thought she was here to patrol, but those who didn't know thought she was an old rooster from some restaurant and came here to answer a note!"

"If you don't have the ability to take care of your own man, let him go out to do business! If you get the reward, I can buy you two pieces of jewelry!"

Zhou Lingqi: "."

So, is she like this in private?

(End of this chapter)