The peasant lady of the portable space

Chapter 8 Bamboo shoots are poisonous
"Yanran, how do you know so much?" Old man Chi was still suspicious.

"Father, a few days ago, I got a bit of grass leaf juice on my clothes, and I couldn't wash it off, and then I used that grass leaf juice to draw a flower pattern on the clothes, and it still hasn't been removed. That's why I thought of the way to make money." Chi Yanran said eloquently.

"What a careful child! It's father who has no ability and wronged you and your mother." Old man Chi believed her words, then he lowered his head and sighed.

"Father, Yanran is very happy to be your daughter." Chi Yanran smiled as she raised the corners of her lips.

"Okay, good boy." Aunt Chi who came in with water lifted her lips and smiled in relief.

Lou Hanxuan returned to the Jusong Pavilion of the Lou Mansion. After dinner, he wanted to find a few books to read, but he couldn't read them anyway. His mind was always filled with that lovely, lighthearted, cheerful laugh.

So the heart is not as good as the action, he elegantly sticks to a high-quality wolf hair, and smoothly outlines a pretty little figure on a piece of snow-white rice paper. The girl in the painting is delicate, smart, pure and lovely.

A white shadow shuttled through several tall sycamore trees lightly like lightning, and came lightly.

"Brother Lou, the little beauty in your painting has creamy skin, rosy white, gentle like jade, crystal clear."

He stood by his side, looked at the picture of a little beauty on the white rice paper with his hands behind his back, and thought to himself, such a little beauty is more pure and flawless than the whitest mutton jade; Be soft and crystal clear; more delicate and fresh than the most delicate rose petals; more beautiful and watery than the clearest crystal.

"Brother Duanmu?" When Lou Hanxuan saw the figure of a man in white clothes like snow, the cold and hard lines of his outline suddenly softened.

"Brother Lou, cough! Cough! I seem to have seen the little beauty in your painting before." Duanmu Ningfeng glanced down at the painting, then carefully recalled.

"Is that so?" Lou Hanxuan asked curiously, looking away from the little beauty picture just now.

"Where did you see it?"

"Cough! Cough! Look at my memory, I can't remember it all at once." A trace of guilt flashed across Duanmu Ningfeng's pale face.

"What's the matter, why did you come to my place from the capital? Could it be that you have found a cure for your disease? Or is the miracle doctor here?" Lou Hanxuan looked at his friend and asked with concern.

"I just passed by here, I just came to see you, by the way, why did you draw this little girl?" Duanmu Ningfeng was puzzled.

"Just doodling at will." Lou Hanxuan explained casually because he didn't want to share the little secret in his heart with his friends.

"Since you're here on my site, the moonlight is very bright tonight, how about having a cup of tea and reminiscing about the old days?" Lou Hanxuan said calmly, and only in front of his friends would Lou Hanxuan show his human side.

"Okay." A spring-like smile flashed across Duanmu Ningfeng's warm and jade-like face.

Three days have passed, and Chi Yanran has become acquainted with the Qixian Xiaolongfly in the portable space.

On this day, Aunt Chi was worrying about not being able to uncover the pot.

"Mom, what's wrong with you, why are you crying?" Chi Yanran said distressedly when she saw her adoptive mother crying secretly.

"Yanran, there is no rice at home. Woohoo!" Aunt Chi said with tears, "How about this, Yanran, mother will go to Huniu's house next door to borrow some rice, and return it after your father chops firewood and sells it for money." Aunt Chi knew that crying was not the answer, so she might as well go to Huniu's house next door to borrow some rice to get over it.

"Mother." Chi Yanran looked at Aunt Chi's face full of tears with pity, "The 1000 taels I brought back last time, mother, why don't you and dad use it?"

"Yan Ran, it's left for you as a dowry, how can your father and I be willing to use it?" Aunt Chi thought very simply.

"Father, mother, don't you believe that Yanran has hands and feet and can't create happiness by herself?" Chi Yanran became a little angry, why did her adoptive parents only think about her, and didn't think about the current situation.The family can't open the pot anymore, and they are still so old-fashioned.

"Yanran, you are a girl after all. You are going to marry. If you go to your in-law's house, your dowry will be small, and your in-law's family will look down on you." Aunt Chi sighed.

"Mom, I'm still young, I'll talk about these things later, you go to Hu Niu's house next door to borrow rice first!" Chi Yanran raised her tender little hand and wiped away her adoptive mother's tears.

Oh my god, she's still so young, her adoptive mother has already thought of her dowry, and she's sweating.

"Yes." Aunt Chi nodded and got up to go to Hu Niu's house next door.

Chi Yanran's heart moved, she went into the portable space, and ordered the little dragonfly to dig some bamboo shoots.

When Aunt Chi came back from Huniu's house next door, Chi Yanran had already peeled the bamboo shoots in front of the earthen stove.

"Yanran, what are you doing?" Aunt Chi was startled when she saw the milky white and tender bamboo shoots in her hand.

"This is a bamboo shoot." Chi Yanran laughed.

"Yanran, this stuff is poisonous, no one in our village dares to eat it." Aunt Chi was shocked.

"Mom, this food is guaranteed to be delicious." Will the food in the portable space be bad?

"Yan Ran, where did you pick it?" Old Man Chi shouted after he came back from chopping firewood, panting tiredly, as soon as he entered the door.

"Father, this was picked from the bamboo forest in our backyard. Yanran picked such a small amount, but mother said she wouldn't let them eat it." Chi Yanran lied when she remembered that there happened to be a small bamboo forest in her backyard.

"Yan Ran, that bamboo grove was a cemetery before, so it makes sense for your mother not to let you eat it." Old Man Chi nodded.

"Father, have you ever eaten bamboo shoots before?" She was very suspicious, why can't you eat the things in the cemetery?

"It's very astringent and tastes bad!" Old Chi looked at Chi Yanran in a daze, as if he was lost in thought.

Very astringent and unpalatable?
After hearing this, Chi Yanran understood instantly.

"Father, how do you eat these bamboo shoots?" Chi Yanran looked at him with crooked eyes and asked.

"Cook it and eat it." Aunt Chi said first.

"That's right, right? Is there any way to eat this?" Old man Chi guessed curiously with a look of disapproval.

"Father, mother, you can't cook this food directly, it must be very astringent if you eat it like that, um, how about it, let me show my skills." Chi Yanran thought that he is now a baby, if he cooks too deliciously, They would definitely suspect that she belonged to a monster, so she decided to play around to see if she could get rid of the astringency of the bamboo shoots.

(End of this chapter)