There is a Wangfu wife at home

Chapter 167 Seeds Sowed, Try New Shoes (Part [-])

"How do I know? I don't know them." Li Jiaoniang shook her head with a helpless expression.

Luo Fucai was still not discouraged, and continued to inquire, "Think about it carefully, what did they say when they left? They are not locals, so they will definitely settle there. What information can they tell you?"

Li Jiaoniang is speechless, is this breaking the casserole and asking the end?
She shook her head, "I really don't know, Uncle Six, they are all rich people, I was so scared..." She made a trembling expression, "My head is covered, besides, my family The donkey was mischievous and kicked over the manure bucket of Xiang’s eldest brother, and the manure splashed half of the lady’s body. I was always worried that they would punish me. How could I have the mood to think about anything else? What did they say at that time, I don't remember anything."

"Did you really not write down the address?" Luo Fucai asked with blinking eyes.

"No." Li Jiaoniang shook her head.

"Is that so..." Luo Fucai tapped his forehead with a folding fan, bowed his head in thought for a while, and walked away with his hands behind his back.

Li Jiaoniang: "..." What's the matter?Don't ask her about dice today?

"Hey, eldest nephew, I almost forgot something, come here, guess what time it is." Luo Fucai, who had walked a few steps, came back again.

He took a small bamboo tube from his sleeve, shook it a few times towards Li Jiaoniang, and asked cheerfully.

Li Jiaoniang was speechless.

She thought the sun came out from the western sky, but it turned out that it still came out from the eastern sky.

Luo Cheng couldn't stand it anymore and said, "Uncle Six, Jiaoniang is not feeling well today, so don't ask her."

Luo Fucai said, "It's physical discomfort, not brain discomfort. Thinking about problems depends on the brain. Oh, Luo Cheng, please don't make a cross....Come on, big niece, let's take a guess?"

Li Jiaoniang didn't know whether to laugh or cry, could it be that she couldn't get rid of it?
She tilted her head and pretended to be guessing. After a while, she said, "It's windy today, so I can't hear you clearly, six three two?"

Luo Fucai hurriedly opened the lid, "Oh, I was wrong, it's [-]. Come again, come again..."

Unwilling to give up, Luo Fucai started shaking again.

Li Jiaoniang was speechless, she looked at the little gray fur sitting on the roof, and blinked at it.

The little gray hair immediately jumped down from the roof and ran away.

After a while, some villagers shouted outside, "Whose cow is that crazy and running around, Luo Cheng, is it your family?"

After sweeping the ground, Luo Cheng put the broom on, "I don't have any cows at home, don't I?"

Luo Fucai stomped his feet, "That's my cow! Hey hey, where did the cow go?"

He quickly ran out of the courtyard door and looked around.

"Isn't that? Hurry up and chase them, they're all gone!" said the villagers outside the courtyard.

"Damn cow, okay, why did you go crazy all of a sudden!" Luo Fucai rushed forward, "If you get lost, Li Zheng must give me a good beating!"

Li Jiaoniang patted her sleeves, smiled and said, "Finally left."

Luo Cheng twitched the corner of his mouth, knowing that she had played tricks again.

However, thinking that Luo Fucai was still obsessed with guessing dice, he shook his head and said, "There is no house at home, so he still doesn't give up on gambling?"

Li Jiaoniang also had a headache, "It seems that we have to find a solution once and for all to cure his problem."

……

In the afternoon, Luo Feixiang and Luo Feipeng finally irrigated the field.

After working for two whole days, the two brothers were so tired that their eyes were dull.

Seeing Luo Cheng and Li Jiaoniang approaching, they immediately said, "According to the request, we have finished our work, so you are not allowed to look for us again."

These two people have been wandering around their house, staring at the small ditch, probably thinking about it, and Li Jiaoniang also wanted to tell them to leave earlier, so she waved her hand and said, "I always keep my word, we two Cleared."

Once it was cleared up, the two each carried buckets and ran away quickly home.

"Heh!" Li Jiaoniang sneered, "Run like a rabbit."

……

After irrigating the two acres of paddy fields, Luo Cheng borrowed a neighbor's big rake to mix the soil and water evenly in the fields.

It is convenient to transplant rice seedlings.

In the evening, he sprinkled rice seeds into the fields.

The next step is to wait for the seeds to germinate.

After the seedlings are drawn, they can be planted in paddy fields.

"It's the end of May, and we can't keep up with the mid-season rice. We are planting late rice." Li Jiaoniang looked at the sky and said, "I don't know how much we can harvest by then."

Luo Cheng comforted her, "Let's take as much as you can. It's enough for the two of us to eat. It's better than buying all the rice. Now the price of rice is one penny more expensive, and it has risen to six pennies per catty."

"So expensive?" Li Jiaoniang's heart sank, "Prices are rising too fast."

Luo Cheng said, "The craftsmen who repair the house have work on hand. They will be free the day after tomorrow, and the field will be ready. I will be free tomorrow. I will go to the mountains in the morning. I will hunt some game and return it for money. I will not worry about my family. gone."

Li Jiaoniang said with a smile, "Let's go together, and I'll collect herbs. Some rare medicinal materials cost one or two pennies a catty. If we pick a thousand-year-old wild ginseng, we'll be rich, and at least it's worth a hundred dollars." It's eighty."

Luo Cheng shook his head, "No, you are not in good health yet. Tell the aunt that you have to rest for at least five days."

Li Jiaoniang laughed, "It will be fine tomorrow."

Regarding the matter of the woman Kuishui, Mrs. Xiang taught Luo Cheng a good lesson, and Luo Cheng knew exactly what was going on.

He sullenly said, "Don't coax me, how about that soon?"

Touched by his concern, Li Jiaoniang smiled and said, "Why should I force this kind of thing?"

Luo Cheng still shook his head, "It's not cool in the mountains, it's hot."

"No, it's agreed to share the blessings and share the hardships. If you don't take me there, I'll go by myself!" After Li Jiaoniang finished speaking, she turned and walked home.

Luo Cheng had no choice but to say, "Alright, I'll take you there."

Li Jiaoniang looked back at him and laughed, "It's not too bad."

The two returned home from the field.

At the gate of the backyard, Chunya stood.

Chun Ya smiled and called them, "Brother Luo Cheng, sister Jiao Niang, you are back."

"Hey, Chunya, when did you come?" Li Jiaoniang said with a smile.

"Just came."

"Come on, come in and sit for a while."

Luo Cheng opened the backyard door, and Li Jiaoniang led Chunya into the yard.

Chun Ya waved her hand, "No, it's getting dark. I came here to ask Sister Jiao Niang, will you go to the mountains to gather medicine tomorrow morning? If you do, take me with you. I dare not go alone."

Li Jiaoniang taught Chunya how to know several kinds of herbs. In the past few days, when she was free, she wandered around in front of the house and behind the fields to dig some herbs.

But in this kind of ordinary place, she dug, and others also dug, and the grass in these places was removed as weeds that affected the growth of crops before they grew.

There are not many herbs dug.

She wanted to go into the mountains to dig, but she was afraid of big wild animals and getting lost, so she came to ask Li Jiaoniang.

Li Jiaoniang smiled and said, "It's just right, brother Luo Cheng and I are going to the back mountain tomorrow, you come to me, we will go together."

"Okay." Chunya was happy, why is she so lucky? "When are you leaving?"

"Mao Shi, the sun is not out before heading up the mountain, it's cool at that time." Li Jiaoniang said.

"Okay, I'll come to see you tomorrow morning." Chunya said happily.

……

There was nothing to say all night, and it was the next day in a blink of an eye.

Li Jiaoniang and Luo Cheng got up early.

The road into the mountains is not easy to walk. If the straw sandals are stained with dew, the toes will slip when walking in the shoes, and it is easy to fall.

Li Jiaoniang took out the pair of new shoes she had made and asked Luo Cheng to put them on.

"Come on, wear this pair, it's convenient for climbing." She smiled and nodded to Luo Cheng while carrying the new shoes and socks.

Luo Cheng had seen this pair of shoes a long time ago, but he was reluctant to wear them, "No, just wear straw sandals."

"No, change it!" Li Jiaoniang ordered seriously, "You have the final say on major family matters, and I have the final say on small matters such as dressing and eating."

"These shoes are so good, it took you a lot of time to make them..." Luo Cheng felt sorry for her hands, and when she took the soles of the shoes, her fingers were pricked several times.

I advised her not to do it, and told her to buy a pair, but she refused to listen, saying that the shoes made were cheap and strong, but the ones she bought were expensive.

"Put it on when you're ready, what a stubborn man!" Li Jiaoniang was going to laugh angrily at him, so she pushed him on the chair and sat down, "Come on, try on the shoes."

Luo Cheng could only sit down.

Li Jiaoniang wanted to help him put it on, but Luo Cheng snatched it and put it on himself, "I'll do it."

After putting it on, he stepped on the ground, and it turned out to be just the right size.

Luo Cheng was amazed. Unexpectedly, the first time she made cloth shoes, she could make them fit so well.

"How is it? Is it big or small?" Li Jiaoniang asked him hastily.

"Hmm. Very good, not too big or too small." Luo Cheng said, sighing at her dexterity in his heart.

"Not bad, let me boast about myself first." Li Jiaoniang said cheerfully, "Ah, it's the first pair of cloth shoes in my life."

Looking at her, Luo Cheng sighed in his heart, she must have never been in touch with making shoes before, girls from rich families are not good at making shoes, but she made shoes for him...

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Seeing that it was not early, the two went into the kitchen together to make breakfast, baked some more cakes, and cooked a pot of tea for dry food on the road.

After breakfast, Luo Cheng and Li Jiaoniang were packing their baskets, shovels, bows and arrows and other tools when Chun Ya came.

The little girl is full of energy, wearing a bamboo hat on her head, carrying a bamboo basket on her shoulders, a gourd filled with water hanging on her waist, and a small shovel in her hand.

"You are going to gather all the herbs in the back mountain, right?" Li Jiaoniang teased her with a smile.

"Sister Jiao Niang makes fun of me." Chun Ya smiled embarrassedly.

After closing the courtyard door, Luo Cheng walked ahead with Xiao Huimao, Li Jiaoniang and Chun Ya walked behind him.

At this time, the sky has just dawned.

It takes time to climb the mountain. We set off now, and when we entered the back mountain, the sun just came out.

Today, the three of them entered the mountain together, and there were many people talking and chatting lively. Along the way, they were not lonely at all.

By the time they descended the mountain in the afternoon, all three of them had gained something.

Chunya picked a basket of herbs and a small Ganoderma lucidum.

Li Jiaoniang said it was worth hundreds of Wen, and Chunya was so happy that she wanted to come every day.

Li Jiaoniang dug up a ginseng tree, which she estimated to be a hundred years old.

In addition, she also dug some other herbs.

Because of the little gray fur to help her, she picks rare herbs.

Luo Cheng caught a litter of wild rabbits and a little hedgehog.

The hedgehog is cute and small, and Luo Cheng gave Xiao Huimao as a toy.

But the little gray hair didn't appreciate him, but straightened his neck and cursed, "Damn it, what can I do with it, it's full of thorns!"

Chunya and Luo Cheng didn't understand, they thought it was hungry and begging for food.

Luo Cheng threw a wild fruit to it, and Chunya tore a piece of pancake, but it threw them away.

Li Jiaoniang understood, and kept smiling.

At the foot of the mountain there is a fork road, one leads to Yushan Village and the other leads to Jinshan Village.

Chunya waved to them and went back to Yushan Village.

Li Jiaoniang and Luo Cheng returned to their home in Jinshan Village and raised the hares.

……

Except for the next day, Li Jiaoniang's family was repairing the house and did not bring Chunya into the mountain. For five or six days in a row, Chunya came to Li Jiaoniang and Luo Cheng early in the morning.

However, on the seventh day, Chun Ya did not come.

Li Jiaoniang thought she was busy with other things, so she didn't take it to heart.

On the eighth day, it started to rain lightly, so it is not suitable to enter the mountain.

Luo Cheng was at home repairing broken tables, chairs and furniture, and Li Jiaoniang was mending one of Luo Cheng's old clothes.

The two of them were sitting in the main room, chatting while busy, when Miss Chun, Mrs. Zhong came.

She entered the door anxiously, and before Li Jiaoniang could ask her, she hurriedly said, "Jiaoniang, help your aunt."

Probably walked in a hurry, she didn't hold an umbrella or a bamboo hat, but came in the rain.

There was a large smear of mud on the hem of the skirt, and it may have been dropped.

Luo Cheng stopped hammering the nails and looked at her suspiciously.

Li Jiaoniang hurriedly asked, "Sixth Aunt, what's the matter?" Seeing her appearance, she left in such a hurry, did something serious happen?

"Chun Ya, she... she's gone..." Zhong said anxiously, her voice still tinged with tears.

Li Jiaoniang and Luo Cheng looked at each other, and they were both taken aback.

No wonder Chunya didn't come to look for them yesterday, she disappeared?
"What's going on? Aunt Six, don't worry, just talk slowly." Li Jiaoniang put down her sewing clothes, stepped forward and helped her sit down.

(End of this chapter)