Father's Farmer's Wife: Farming Makes a Fortune

Chapter 5 Sad Days
After Nanmenyue brought Qi Yinger back from the banyan tree head in the village, she didn't go to the field for a whole day, for fear that the members of the Yu family would make trouble again.

Mr. Qi has been lying on the bed for a long time, even the old lady brought in the lunch for him.After Qi Yinger came back from playing in the village, he was also unhappy, and went back to the house without eating a few mouthfuls of lunch.

After Nanmenyue finished her housework, she wanted to look at Mr. Qi in the back room, but was stopped by the old woman. She shook her head with a solemn expression, and she knew that Mr. Qi was not in good condition just by looking at it.

If Nanmenyue's guess is correct, Mr. Qi should have broken a bone in a fall. An elderly person loses calcium quickly, and his bones are fragile. Even a slight fall may result in a broken bone.Mr. Qi was knocked down so hard today, his tailbone sat on the ground, he must have been injured.

Nanmenyue didn't insist on entering the house, but turned around and went to the table under the lychee tree that the old man had polished halfway, and continued to help him finish the work.The old man probably won't be able to get out of bed for ten days and a half months.

Her tossing made the sun go westward.Stretching and getting up, she hurried to the kitchen to make food. She poured out all the few cups of rice left at home, and planned to cook dry rice. It was the delicious white rice that could only be eaten during the Chinese New Year.

Nanmenyue not only cooked the rice, but also fried the bacon that Mrs. Zhuang had hidden away, and cooked the only piece of lard with the pumpkin.

Eat what you should eat, and still have the strength to earn after eating.

Boiled pumpkin is served on a plate, looking at the oil stars floating on it makes me feel appetizing.After filling the meals for everyone, I went to greet them.

Qi Ying'er slept all day, feeling a little sluggish, she was a different person from the usual lively monkey, seeing the bacon on the table, she still had a dull expression.

Nanmenyue didn't know how to coax him, so she picked a few mouthfuls of lean meat and put them in his bowl, "Eat quickly, Mingerniang will take you down to catch voles."

Qi Yinger nodded obediently, took a mouthful of rice and chewed it for a long time without swallowing it.

Nanmenyue sighed, seeing that Mrs. Zhuang hadn't come out yet, she simply found a food box, divided half of the food in, and took it to the back room for the two elders.

In the back room, Mr. Qi closed his eyes tightly and seemed to be asleep. Mrs. Zhuang was reluctant to leave, and sat on the edge of the bed wiping tears.

She and the old man were both hard-working people. They gave birth to a girl who died of dystocia as soon as she got married and gave birth to a baby. As soon as her grandson was held in her arms, her son was arrested.After finally picking up a well-behaved daughter-in-law in the mountains, I thought that the days would be better, but this kind of thing happened.

Nanmenyue gently placed the food box on the bedside table, patted Mrs. Zhuang on the shoulder a few times, and went out as a silent comfort. She can't comfort others, she can only do things for them within her power .

Back in the kitchen, Qi Yinger was already full. Today's food was better than last night, but his appetite was obviously not as much as yesterday.

Nanmenyue wiped his mouth with her cuff, and hugged him down. Seeing the whole family like this, she didn't feel like eating chopsticks.She carried Qi Ying'er back to the room where they were staying, put him inside, and lay down beside her.She turned sideways to look at Qi Ying'er with a sullen face, and wanted to tell him a story.

"On a hot summer night, a star fell from the night sky. It fluttered and fluttered and landed on a meadow on the top of Ax Bottom Mountain. The stone absorbed the essence of day and night. On a sunny morning, the stone suddenly cracked , A fat baby popped out of it. The crying of the baby attracted the old man who was cutting wood on the mountain. Seeing that the baby was very cute, the old man took him home."

When Nanmenyue said this, seeing that Qi Yinger was already attracted by her own story, she deliberately stopped.

Qi Yinger blinked her big eyes, looked up at her mother curiously, "Did that doll grow up later? Where is his family?"

"Later, the old man named the baby Qi Ying'er. Where do you think he is?"

When Qi Yinger heard that the name was the same as his own, he became amused: "Mother, what do you mean, is Yinger the doll that jumped out of the rock?"

"By the way, you're so smart!" Nanmen Yue rubbed his head as encouragement.

Qi Yinger suddenly realized that he was picked up from the mountain, and so was his mother, they are a family, so he is not a wild child.

Seeing the smile on Qi Yinger's face, Nanmenyue felt joyful all over her heart. She made a gesture of silence, asking Qi Yinger to keep the whole secret and not tell anyone.

Qi Yinger stared at her feet happily, rolled around a few times and finally fell asleep peacefully.

Nanmenyue turned off the lights and fell asleep.Thinking that he didn't have to go to the ground early the next day, he slept until dawn.

For breakfast, I cooked yesterday's leftovers into porridge, cooked some sweet potatoes, and fried pickles.

After cooking breakfast, I didn't bother to eat it, so I found two dung skips, put a few pieces of unnecessary sackcloth on them, and shoveled the ashes from the stove into them.

There is a small piece of sweet potato seedlings in the field that has been planted for a while. The old woman planned to plant the field just opened and then fertilize the seedlings. Now the land was taken away by Zhou, so she decided to pick it today while she was free. up.

After the ashes were packed, Nanmenyue went back to the house and put on a coat, planning to go down to the ground after drinking a bowl of porridge.The gate of the yard was knocked again.

The voice was regular and steady, it didn't seem like she was here to find fault, Nanmenyue put down her bowl and chopsticks and went to open the door.

Standing outside the door was a man in a long indigo suit. He was not from the village, but looked like a servant of a big family.Seeing that it was a woman who opened the door, she tilted her head and wanted to look inside.

"Is this Qi Carpenter's house?"

Nanmenyue nodded, seeing that he wasn't here to find fault, she made room for him to enter the room, "My old man is inside, why don't you come in and have a meeting."

The servant waved his hand, a little impatiently, "Go tell Carpenter Qi, tell him to quickly pack up the tools and repair the flower garden for my young master, and come to the door at the agreed time, but after waiting for so long, there is no sign of anyone."

It was only then that Nanmenyue remembered what the old man had told him about repairing the flower garden the day before yesterday. She nodded and apologized to the servant, and after promising him to leave immediately, the servant left in peace.

She didn't tell the servants about the old man's injury, for fear that someone else would change the roles temporarily. Now that the family situation is like this, if they don't take over the family, they will have to beg for food.

After pondering for a while in the Nanmen Yuechu yard, she finally decided to go into battle by herself. She knows how to use the tools. It doesn’t take any skills to repair the flower garden. Just make the flower fence firm. Several parts of the yard at home were repaired by the old man. , she roughly knows what it looks like.

She didn't dare to tell the old man, fearing that the old man would stop her from going, but secretly asked Mrs. Zhuang for the address of the son's house.

Mrs. Zhuang didn't quite agree at first, but later she couldn't stand Nanmen Yuemo's ears, so she told her the address. The flower garden of the young master's house was repaired by the old man. familiar.

(End of this chapter)