I farmed and built a villa in ancient times

Chapter 148

Li Xiuju knew that sisters Zhou Chenyu and Zhou Wanqiu were exhausted after returning from carrying firewood in the mountains. She still had the energy to cook dinner, so she prepared it early.

Zhou Wanqiu had been helping all afternoon, but due to both emotion and reason, she had to leave someone to eat before leaving, so she smiled at Zhou Wanqiu and said, "Wan Qiu, why don't you stay and eat tonight before leaving."

Zhou Wanqiu wiped his sweat with his sleeves and stood up nervously, "Auntie, no need, I have to go home."

Li Xiuju looked at Zhou Wanqiu, who was getting thinner and thinner, and knew to some extent her difficult situation at home. She thought to herself, "Baoyu is not at home today. Your sister and I are the only ones at home. How deserted is it? You don't go anywhere else." We're just having dinner at my uncle's house, what else do your parents dare to say? If they dare to say something wrong about you, I'll explain it for you."

The pair of mean old guys didn't dare to say anything on the surface, but it wasn't certain what they might do behind the scenes.

Zhou Chenyu received Zhou Wanqiu's look asking for help and smoothed things over, "Wan Qiu just told me that she would have to go home to cook for the family in a while. Old lady, you are full if you leave her to eat at our house, but there are still The whole family is waiting for her to be fed."

Zhou Wanqiu's tense nerves relaxed, "Yes, Auntie, I have to go back."

"Is that so?" Li Xiuju sighed, "Since the family is waiting for you to go back to cook, I won't keep you here."

"Hey, then I'm leaving."

Zhou Wanqiu slowly walked out of the door and walked straight back home with an uneasy feeling.

At this moment, a large family was eating. Zhou Wanqiu looked at the scene in front of him, stood stiffly outside the door, and called someone carefully.

Xu Huiru, who was beside Zhou Baoquan and holding her child, snorted, "Every day, her voice becomes as quiet as a fly. Who can hear her? I really don't know who is following this temper."

Zhou Wenwu raised his head and took a sip of wine. Chen Cuiping stopped with her chopsticks and chewed her rice unhappily.

Zhou Baoquan also hoped that Zhou Wanqiu would find him a good job, so he choked his wife: "Okay, she is so petty, but she is my sister after all, so please stop saying a few words!"

Xu Huiru looked at his hypocritical way of protecting her sister and rolled her eyes disdainfully, "I don't know who hit her the hardest in the past few days. He treated people badly sometimes and treated them well sometimes. When things don't work out in the future, he might be the one who hit her the hardest. Another face.”

Zhou Baoquan slapped his chopsticks with his palm and said, "Xu, I haven't hit you recently. Are you itchy again? If you keep nagging, believe it or not, I will slap you in front of your son!"

Xu Huiru looked at his fist and glanced coldly at all the people in the room named Zhou. She felt so angry that she picked up the bowl angrily and returned to the room with her son in her arms.

Zhou Baoquan heard a clang and sneered disdainfully: "A stinky bitch really turned against her!"

After he finished speaking, he looked at Chen Cuiping with a smile, "Father, mother, don't be angry, our matters are more important."

Zhou Wenwu quickly finished his meal and looked coldly out of the corner of his eye, "Have you done all the things your mother told you?"

Zhou Wanqiu tightened her clothes and turned pale, "Not yet... not yet..."

Zhou Wenwu's sharp eyes pierced her, and he gnashed his teeth and cursed angrily:
"Zhou Wanqiu, your mother's old life and your brother's bright future are all counting on you. If you continue to play tricks on us and do not satisfy Mr. Qian, neither you nor your mother will do anything. It will end well, do you know that?!"

"Why are you yelling at the child?" Chen Cuiping saw Zhou Wanqiu's face and put away her displeasure. She pulled her into the house and cried: "Wan Qiu, mother originally didn't want to be in such a situation, but it was a helpless move. Who? I asked you Chen Yu to confuse right and wrong, angered Mr. Qian, and implicated his anger on you?"

"Good boy, no matter how good this outsider is, he can't compare to your biological parents and your brother and sister-in-law. If you don't think about yourself, you have to think about us." "The lives of our family are all in your hands. ”

The people in the room dispersed, and Zhou Wanqiu walked into the room with a bloodless face. She had eaten very little of every dish, so she put away all the dishes.

I stayed in the kitchen alone, added half a bowl of rice to myself, sat down in front of the stove with the small bowl in my arms, chewed the tasteless rice, and tears fell one after another into the bowl.

Zhou Wanqiu smiled bitterly with tears in her eyes, "If you all ask me to go, I will just go."

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During the day, the sky was clear and cloudy, but at night, Zhou Chenyu and Li Xiuju sat in the courtyard to eat. They should have been able to see the sky full of stars, but because the autumn harvest was over, the straw piled in the rice fields had been burned, and all the gray smoke floated over the streets of Qingshui Town. above.

Li Xiuju put down her chopsticks after finishing her meal, "The rice has been harvested. Tomorrow the chickens, ducks and geese at home can finally be released. This will save them from being locked up at home and causing me a headache every day due to the noise."

"Oh, no, it's better to keep those ducks in a cage. When it's time to lay eggs, let them out. The eggs will be picked up by others."

"Okay." Zhou Chenyu smiled and put down his chopsticks, unable to eat anymore.

Tonight, the two of them were at home, and they only fried vegetables and fried eggs with vegetable stems. Most of the fried meat was eaten, and most of the fried eggs with preserved vegetables were left untouched.

Li Xiuju winked and said, "Why don't you eat it? If you leave the omelette at night, it will attract centipedes, so I've finished eating it."

"You still want to eat?" Zhou Chenyu was reluctant, but he picked up his chopsticks, took a small bite, put it in his mouth, tasted it, and frowned, "Old lady, don't you think the omelette you made tonight is good? Does it smell fishy?"

fishy smell?

Li Xiuju ate a piece doubtfully, "Oh, duck eggs are like this. Whether fried or boiled, they don't taste as good as eggs."

Zhou Chenyu immediately put down his chopsticks, and Li Xiuju smiled helplessly, and suddenly thought, "I estimate that if I stock up on duck eggs this winter, I will need dozens of them. The duck eggs are not worth much money if they are sold, so you might as well keep them for yourself. You If you don’t like fried food, why don’t we keep a dozen or twenty of them to make salted duck eggs.”

Salted duck eggs?
Zhou Chenyu wondered, "Yes, yes, but can it be done?"

Li Xiuju put the remaining preserved vegetables and omelette into a bowl, "Yes? Why can't you do it?"

Zhou Chenyu likes the yolk of salted duck eggs the most. It tastes soft and salty. Then he orders sauerkraut and eats it with porridge. It tastes great.

She smiled and nodded at Li Xiuju, "Okay, let's make it into salted duck eggs. I like it."

The temperature in late autumn is similar to that in early winter. When people sit indoors after eating, the leftovers of the food quickly cool down and the fat condenses into a white solid.

Zhou Chenyu and Li Xiuju exchanged a few words, took turns taking a hot bath, soaked their feet, climbed into bed while they were hot, and slept comfortably all night.

Although there is no snow in the south in winter, it is not drier than in the north. Rain with sleet often falls, so that the indoors are colder than outside. At this time, the charcoal for the fire comes in handy.

(End of this chapter)