There is a Wangfu wife at home

Chapter 151 Picking Up a Nest of Teal Ducks (Part [-])
Luo Cheng helped the bamboo hat on his head, his voice was cold, "No."

Cuiniang was not reconciled, "There is still a lot of space on your donkey cart, and there is room for one person to sit."

Luo Cheng couldn't be bothered with her, so he drove the car over without answering.

Li Jiaoniang was sitting with Luo Cheng on her back, and after the donkey cart ran past, she happened to be facing Cuiniang.

She shook her head and said, "Cui Niang, it's not that Brother Luo Cheng doesn't take you, but our donkey cart is small and can only accommodate one person. If we take you, what will Brother Jiawen do? He walked back alone. ? Ten miles away, he has no one to talk with, isn't he lonely? So, I'm sorry, Cui Niang."

Luo Jiawen was shy, but not stupid, and immediately realized that Cuiniang wanted to run home easily by herself, leaving him alone to walk ten miles under the sun.

It's summer, it's almost noon now, it's hot, and he's still carrying dozens of feet of cloth bought for Cuiniang, how can she leave him and run away?
Luo Jiawen kept a cold face and refused to leave. He stood where he was and said coldly, "Cui Niang, do you want to leave me alone?"

Cuiniang hurriedly said, "No, I...I, I..."

"Then why do you want to take someone else's car?" Luo Jiawen asked angrily.

"I... my feet hurt." Cui Niang acted coquettishly, stamping her feet.

"You stomp your feet so hard because your feet hurt?" Luo Jiawen became even more unhappy.

"You..., I don't want to talk to you anymore!" Cui Niang angrily walked forward alone.

They are all men, how can there be such a big difference?Luo Cheng is so good to his wife, yet Luo Jiawen is showing his face to her?

"If you don't say it, don't say it!" Luo Jiawen turned his head away, walked to the other side of the road, and walked alone with his head sullen.

Cuiniang panicked again, and immediately ran over to walk with him, consoling Luo Jiawen in a loud voice, said a lot of good things, and pretended to be wronged, Luo Jiawen said, "Okay, okay, I won't be angry anymore Hurry up. Luo Cheng and his wife have already gone out of sight."

Cuiniang said bitterly in her heart, why doesn't Luo Jiawen have a donkey cart?

……

Li Jiaoniang was wearing a big sun-shading hat with a wide brim on her head, and she was playing with the bronze mirror in her hand.

She cleared her throat, and said in a hoarse voice on purpose, "Mirror Mirror, tell me, who is the man who treats me best in the world?"

Then, she turned to Luo Cheng.

Luo Cheng looked back at her, and couldn't help but twitch his mouth.

Li Jiaoniang looked at Luo Cheng in the mirror and said with a smile, "The magic mirror said it was you, Brother Luo Cheng."

"Hmm." Luo Cheng suppressed a smile.

"The magic mirror said, if you treat me badly, it will punish you." Li Jiaoniang deliberately kept her voice calm.

"Yes, I understand." Luo Cheng smiled.

Li Jiaoniang also smiled and put away the mirror.

Then, she took out the shoes and looked at them, learning other people's craftsmanship.

When I looked up again, I found that Cuiniang and Luo Jiawen were already far away from their donkey cart.

Just two little black dots.

Li Jiaoniang couldn't help smiling and said, "Brother Luo Cheng, just now Cui Niang wanted to take our donkey cart, why didn't you let her sit? There is still one person in this cart."

"You said it all, if she sits down, won't she leave Brother Jiawen behind?" Luo Cheng muffled.

Li Jiaoniang laughed angrily, "Didn't I help you lie? How embarrassing it is for you to directly reject someone like that."

She said that on purpose, who called that Cui Niang, who spoke in a strange way?It's okay to talk in a yin and yang manner, and stare straight at Luo Cheng.

Ouch, do you think she is dead?

A big girl stares at a married man as if she doesn't know what's going on?

Even dare to think about her man?Uncle can bear it, but her aunt can't bear it!

As long as that Luo Jiawen is not a waste, she will definitely teach Xia Cuiniang severely, she doesn't know if she will be beaten up or not, anyway, she doesn't have a good face.

"She's not my wife, I don't care if she's embarrassed or not?" Luo Cheng snorted coldly.

Li Jiaoniang burst out laughing.

Well, a straight man speaks in a straightforward manner.

When the donkey cart passed a shallow pond, the donkey suddenly called out ah-oh-oh.

Li Jiaoniang, who got up early, was dozing off on Luo Cheng's back when she was tired, and was startled by the braying of the donkey.

"You stupid donkey, what do you want to do? You suddenly startled me by barking." Li Jiaoniang said angrily.

The donkey ignored it and continued hooting.

Luo Cheng twitched it lightly, but the donkey didn't go away, but stopped, and gnawed the peonies on the side of the road.

Luo Cheng was surprised, "This donkey actually likes to eat flowers?"

Li Jiaoniang remembered that the donkey's name was Peony Flower.

She smiled and said, "It won't leave, so let's rest for a while? There's a pond in front, I'll wash my face."

"Okay." Luo Cheng took off the basket hanging from the handlebar and handed it to her, "Drink first."

"OK."

Li Jiaoniang took a sip of water, took out her washcloth from the basket, and came to the pond.

Yunhe County in Chuzhou is a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, and ditches and ponds can be seen everywhere.

And the place where they rest is not close to the village, and the water in this pond is crystal clear.

In a field of reeds, there are calls of wild ducks and pheasants from time to time.

Li Jiaoniang's eyes lit up, she wrung out the washcloth and put it on her neck, and walked towards the reeds lightly.

Luo Cheng was drinking water, and saw Li Jiaoniang's waist bent, her eyes fixed on the water, but her hands were busy taking off her shoes and socks, wondering what she wanted to do in the water.

He hurriedly put down the bowl, walked over and grabbed her wrist, "Jiao Niang?"

This woman!
Does she know that women can only show their faces and hands, and nothing else can be shown to outsiders?
This is on the main road!
"Hush—" Li Jiaoniang waved her hand, motioning him to stop talking.

Wild ducks and pheasants are more timid than domestic chickens and ducks. If they make any noise, they will be scared away.

"Don't take off your shoes, put them on." Luo Cheng whispered.

"Squeak———" Several wild ducks flew into the air.

Li Jiaoniang: "..." She glanced at the five wild ducks flying away, and glared at Luo Cheng angrily, "Look at what you did, you scared them away."

"Your feet...can't be seen by outsiders." With a sullen face, Luo Cheng bent down to put on her socks and shoes.

"Isn't it just to be looked at by others? As for what? How can wild ducks be important? Five wild ducks are worth more than 300 Wen." Li Jiaoniang hummed.

"Your feet are more important than wild ducks." Luo Cheng frowned.

Li Jiaoniang: "..." She laughed angrily, and muttered, "Old feudalism!"

Luo Cheng didn't hear clearly, "What?"

"Aha, I praise you." Alas, generation gap, 270 generation gaps.

Luo Cheng glanced at her, and continued to put on the other foot's shoe and sock for her.

After dressing Li Jiaoniang, he took off his shoes and socks, "I'll go into the reeds to have a look."

"Hey, don't move, shhh—" Li Jiaoniang suddenly pulled him and pointed to the front.

Luo Cheng stood still, and followed her gaze to look forward.

I saw a few taupe ducklings huddled in a grass nest among the reeds.

Luo Cheng's eyes lit up, and he said, "Like a duckling that just hatched, it can't walk or fly yet, I'll catch it."

He quickly took off his shoes.

Li Jiaoniang said, "Be careful."

Luo Cheng got into the water, approached the reeds gently, and brought out the nest of ducklings.

Li Jiaoniang stood by the bank and waited. When his hand reached out, she quickly held it in her hand, counted and said with a smile, "There are nine of them! Brother Luo Cheng, let's take them back and raise them."

Luo Cheng climbed onto the shore, took off his coat and wrung the water, and said, "I'm afraid it's not easy to raise. Wild ducks can fly when they grow up."

Li Jiaoniang thought for a while, "Take it back first, I can always figure out a way."

Luo Cheng nodded, "Okay."

He put on his shoes, and put the wet coat casually on his body. The summer sun was basking in the sun and the wind was blowing. After a short while, the wet coat was almost dry.

Li Jiaoniang was sitting on the donkey cart, holding the wild duck and thinking of a way, why not cover it with a net and raise it?

……

Luo Cheng and Li Jiaoniang returned home.

As soon as the donkey cart stopped at the front yard gate, a man came out from behind the big tree, "Hey, Luo Cheng, great nephew, are you going to the market?"

Ouch, he is so hardworking!
But can this hard work be used for the serious work of farming and making a living?

This is Luo Fucai, holding a bamboo tube in his hand.

Come to ask for advice on recognizing dice again.

Li Jiaoniang frowned speechlessly.

Luo Cheng only called out lightly, "Uncle Six." Then he went to open the gate of the courtyard, and was busy moving things to untie the donkey cart, ignoring Luo Fucai.

Luo Fucai came here not to find Luo Cheng, but to learn from Li Jiaoniang.

He shook the bamboo tube in his hand, and asked Li Jiaoniang with a smile, "My niece, guess how many dots are inside?"

Li Jiaoniang looked at the sky, "Two stones, one dice, one point."

Luo Fucai glanced at her, quickly opened the bamboo tube to look in, and said in surprise, "It's really a little bit, big nephew and big nephew, tell me quickly, how did you guess it?"

Li Jiaoniang tilted her head, and said with a very serious expression, "Listen to the sound, the stone is slightly heavier, the sound is heavy, the sun is light, and the sound is shallow. As for why it is a little... Six uncle, think about it, dice Have holes been dug on the six sides to make dots? The holes on each side are dug differently. If you dig more, it means that there is less material on that side, and the sound is soft, and vice versa. reason."

Luo Fucai slapped his forehead, and suddenly said, "What the eldest niece said makes a lot of sense!"

Then, he lifted his robe and ran away.

Li Jiaoniang breathed a sigh of relief and finally sent her away.

Luo Cheng glanced at Luo Fucai who ran away, and said, "Jiaoniang, you were talking nonsense just now, but he actually believed it."

Li Jiaoniang snorted softly, put her hands behind her back, and said with a very mature appearance, "Have you ever seen someone who is so professional in nonsense?"

Luo Cheng twitched the corner of his mouth, "No."

"That's right, haha, if you can coax people, you are a professional, if you can't coax people, you are talking nonsense. Hehe..."

Luo Cheng glanced at her, suppressed a smile, and shook his head.

After moving the things, he untied the cart and returned it to Xiang's house.

Li Jiaoniang fed sorghum rice and water to the donkey, and took the duckling to the backyard.

This wild duck is too small, and it has to be hand-fed for a few days before it can be placed in the small ditch.

On the way back just now, she had made up her mind to tie bamboo fences at both ends of the ditch and cover them with nets, so that the wild ducks would not be able to fly away even when they grew up.

And in that ditch, she can also raise some domestic ducks and plant some lotus roots in it.

Grandpa Luo Cheng was a hardworking man who used to make a living by weaving baskets for money.

Therefore, large and small old and new baskets and baskets can be seen everywhere in the house.

Li Jiaoniang found an old basket with half of the bottom broken, cut off the worn part, leaving only the top half intact, and put it in a cool place in the corner of the yard, and cut some grass and threw it into the old basket.

After doing this, she put in nine teal ducks.

The little wild ducks came to an unfamiliar new place, chattering and jostling non-stop.

"Miss, stop arguing, I'll find food for you!" Li Jiaoniang took an old straw mat and covered the basket, and went to the ditch to find food for the ducks.

She brought up two fish nets, and put the big lobsters in a small bucket in the kitchen to keep them for lunch.The smaller ones, the size of a little finger, were broken and put in a broken bowl, and some millet was sprinkled into the bowl, and put into the wild duck's basket.

I found another old earthen basin, filled it with clean water, and put it in the basket.

When the wild ducks saw the food and drink, they walked crookedly one by one, squeezed over, and started to grab food.

Li Jiaoniang smiled, "How long has it been since you've been hungry, and you've managed to snatch like this?"

After watching the wild ducks eat for a while, Li Jiaoniang covered the straw mat, washed her hands, and walked into the kitchen with her sleeves rolled up.

Luo Cheng carried fifty catties into the kitchen, put it on the floor and went on to do other things.

Putting rice in this way is not acceptable, as it will cause insects and mildew.

Li Jiaoniang untied the rice bag and poured the rice into a rice jar specially used for storing rice.

As for the dishes, shrimp is indispensable, as well as green bucket and lentils.

Only she and Luo Cheng had lunch at noon, and three dishes were enough.

……

At the gate of the front yard, the donkey was eating grass happily.

At this time, someone walked towards the donkey lightly.

He looked around and found no one around, so he boldly went to untie the donkey's rope.

(End of this chapter)