I farmed and built a villa in ancient times

Chapter 164

After Li Xiuju finished speaking, she quickly took the chicken out.

Zhou Chenyu slowly turned around and faced Zhou Wanqiu, "Would you like to sleep a little longer?"

Zhou Wanqiu looked out the window and saw the morning sun shining through her. She shook her head, "Sister Shen Yu, I want to go out and bask in the sun."

"also."

Zhou Chenyu went outside the house and picked up some new hemostatic herbs, and crushed them into puree for Li Xiuju, "Come on, the medicine applied last night may have dried up, now it's time to change it."

"Hey, thank you so much, uncle." Zhou Wanqiu carefully took off his clothes, Zhou Chenyu closed the courtyard door and walked next to her.

One night passed, the blood around the wound on Zhou Wanqiu's back solidified, and the skin began to be sutured. Compared with the bloody condition last night, it looked much better.

Zhou Chenyu helped Li Xiuju, apply the medicine on her back, and then tied it up with cloth strips.

Zhou Chenyu sat in the yard, looking at Zhou Wanqiu's back with only bones left, and felt mixed for a moment.

When they were applying medicine to her yesterday, they stayed in the room, the light was not clear, and the wound on Zhou Wanqiu's back was swollen, so they could not see her condition.

Today she was sitting in the yard, relying on the daylight, but she could see her body clearly.

The little girl, who was obviously fifteen or sixteen years old, had reached the age where she was about to grow. Not only was she as small as a ten-year-old girl, she couldn't even pinch out a few pieces of meat, and was as skinny as a skinny girl.

Where does he look like a child who is developing during puberty?
Zhou Chenyu looked at her and couldn't bear to ask, "Don't you have anything to eat at home?"

Li Xiuju turned cold, put away the things on the table, and said sullenly: "What good things can she get in that house? If she can feed two people on weekdays, it's not bad. What good things don't go to those two precious sons first?" , give her the rest."

Zhou Wanqiu lowered his head and was silent for a long time, "The meat porridge my sister fed me this morning was the first meat I've eaten in the past few months."

Zhou Chenyu couldn't believe it when he heard these ridiculous words.Chen Cuiping, Zhou Baocai, and Zhou Baoquan all raised themselves to be generous and fat. They were so cruel to Zhou Wanqiu. They were always like this. No wonder they beat her to death.

Li Xiuju saw Zhou Wanqiu looking like she was about to cry again as she spoke, so she stopped and touched her face: "Good boy, don't be afraid. The situation in my uncle's family is getting better now. If you feel uncomfortable in the future, feel free to come to our house."

"Well, thank you, auntie." Zhou Wanqiu stopped crying.

Seeing her swallowing her anger, Zhou Chenyu snorted coldly, "It's a good thing they didn't raise a daughter like me. If anyone dares to deny me meat, I will overturn the dining table and no one will be able to eat."

"My temper is getting worse." Li Xiuju sneered and poked Zhou Chenyu's face with her hand. Seeing Zhou Wanqiu also pursed her lips and smiled, Zhou Chenyu lost some of his anger.

The weather is very good today. The autumn sunshine passes through the eaves and shines on the radish stems on the dustpan.

Li Xiuju looked at the sky, stood up, and shook off the medicine residue on her body: "The weather is good today. I will go to the vegetable garden to pull out some peanuts and bring them back to dry. If I don't pull them up, they will all be eaten by mice."

"Pull peanuts? I want to go too." Zhou Chenyu stood up excitedly. Seeing that Zhou Wanqiu was also coming, he ordered: "You stay here."

Zhou Wanqiu looked at them uneasily, neither standing nor sitting.

Li Xiuju took the pole through the dustpan, put it on her shoulder, and smiled: "You don't have to sit uncomfortably. We pulled out the peanuts and plucked them in the yard. There are fewer bugs here, so it's more comfortable."

Zhou Chenyu put on his bamboo hat and waved to Zhou Wanqiu.

Zhou Wanqiu watched them walk out, then carefully lay down on the bamboo chair, looking at the warm autumn sun through the gaps between his fingers, with a slight smile on his lips.Li Xiuju walked into the vegetable garden, took the shovel given by Zhou Chenyu, and shoveled away a few weeds on the ground, revealing a small piece of densely packed peanut leaves with stems as high as a person's knees.

Zhou Chenyu stood aside and watched Li Xiuju's movements.

Li Xiuju squatted down, held a peanut stem tightly in her hand, shook it left and right, loosened the soil, and uprooted the entire stem and leaves. Finally, she saw seven or eight peanuts with mud at the root.

Li Xiuju grabbed the rhizome and looked at it while hanging in mid-air. Although one peanut plant had produced seven or eight fruits, four or five of them had holes in them.

"These rats are so hateful. They ate all our peanuts. Damn it."

Zhou Chenyu was stunned, "This mouse can also chew peanuts on the ground."

"Isn't that right? Originally, I saw that the peanuts were still tender. I wanted to plant them for a while and then pull them out when they were all grown. The mice would eat them all." Li Xiuju felt worried and put the peanut plant that she had just pulled up. Move aside and continue pulling out the remaining ones.

Li Xiuju squatted aside, and Zhou Chenyu thought about hurrying up, pushing aside the weeds and walking to the other end of the peanut field.

First shake the roots of the peanut leaves to loosen the soil under the ground, and then uproot the peanuts.

The one she pulled was similar to Li Xiuju's. There were seven or eight peanuts in a bunch, but half of the shells had been hollowed out by mice, and the other half were small and soft. The shells could still squeeze out water, but there was no water inside. peanut.

Zhou Chenyu and Li Xiuju squatted in the peanut field and pulled out all the peanut leaves for more than half an hour and leveled them to the ground.

Then they tied it up with rattan and inserted the pole between the two bundles of peanut leaves. Then Li Xiuju picked it up on her shoulders and carried it back to the yard. The dustpan she brought was not used at all.

Zhou Wanqiu couldn't do heavy work, but he could still do the work of pulling out peanuts, so he brought a chair over and sat down.

Three people sat in the yard, loosened the peanut leaves, and put a round dustpan in the middle. The peanuts were torn off from the roots one by one, and the mud was thrown into the dustpan.

Although there were so many peanut leaves in two bundles, excluding the rat-bitten and tender parts, the total amount was less than five kilograms.

Li Xiuju put the peanuts into a bucket and washed them by the stream. Zhou Chenyu looked at the sky at noon and washed his hands, "It's time for us to have lunch. What do you want to eat for lunch?"

she asked Zhou Wanqiu.

Zhou Wanqiu held his hands and said, "Sister, I..."

Zhou Chenyu sneered and said, "I shouldn't ask you. I haven't eaten rice noodles with pickled cabbage and shredded pork for a long time. Let's make this for lunch today."

"Rice noodles with shredded pork and pickled cabbage... my mouth is watering just listening to it." Zhou Wanqiu smiled shyly and quietly followed the kitchen to help light the fire and cook the pot.

Zhou Chenyu first soaked the rice noodles and cut the gaps between the minced meat, chili powder and pickled cabbage. Zhou Wanqiu picked two garlics, smashed them, put two spoons of lard into the iron pot, and used the minced garlic and chili powder. Saute until fragrant, add minced meat and sauerkraut, then add a spoonful of cold water and bring to a boil.

"You wait here, I'll go to the vegetable garden to pick up some coriander." Zhou Chenyu hurried out of the vegetable garden and pulled out three coriander plants. Zhou Wanqiu stayed in the kitchen and looked at the fire, not daring to blink for fear of There was an oversight and a pot of meat and vegetables was ruined.

Zhou Chenyu was too lazy to turn on another stove. After the soup base was boiled, he directly put in the rice noodles and cooked them in one pot.

Li Xiuju washed the peanuts and returned to the yard. The rice noodles made by Zhou Chenyu were also ready to eat.

(End of this chapter)