The happy life of peasant woman Wan Xiaoliu

Chapter 42
"Well, you Wan Xiaoliu want to throw grass on me." Wan Chunhua got angry.

"Don't get me wrong, do you have it on you? I obviously threw it on the ridge of the field." Wan Xiaoliu asked Wan Mofei, "Do you think I'm the kind of person who throws grass on Wan Chunhua?"

Wan Mofei raised his head to look at Wan Xiaoliu's serious face, the corners of his mouth curled up, and he shook his head.

"Here, you see, he will testify for me. Don't trouble us all the time. We have to do something." After Wan Xiaoliu finished speaking, he lowered his head and pulled weeds, and let Wan Chunhua stop talking no matter what he said on the ridge of the field. Well, Wan Mofei didn't even look at Wan Xiaoliu.

The two lowered their heads to pull weeds, Wan Chunhua kept talking, but there was no response.The last person said nothing interesting, as if he remembered something, he went to the village.

"Eh, rice field eel hole." Wan Xiaoliu saw a small hole, threw the grass in his hand, and dug along the hole with his fingers, with both hands in a hugging posture.Suddenly shouted: "Ah, yes, it's so rough."

Wan Mofei stared blankly at her struggling with the mud.

"Get ready, if I can't catch you, catch it." Wan Xiaoliu quickly picked up his hand from the mud, and Wan Mofei, who was in a state of preparation, also reached out to hold the writhing eel together.

"Hahaha, it's so big." Wan Xiaoliu was very happy: "Go to the ridge."

Two people walked towards the edge of the field holding the writhing eel in four hands.On the ridge of the field, he put the eel on the ground, and Wan Xiaoliu asked Wan Mofei to take care of it, and went to make grass roots to tie the eel.

"Pinch it tight, I'll pass this bush through its mouth." Wan Xiaoliu got a few long vine grasses, twisted them into strands, and passed them through the eel's mouth.

"Okay, this one can't run away, just make a mud to press it down, and take it back when I go back next time." Wan Xiaoliu made a mud to press the eel under it, and then went back to the field to continue weeding just now event.

Wan Mofei looked at the eel under the mud and Wan Xiaoliu who continued to work. It seemed that what happened just now had never happened.Then I went down to the field.

A large field, not much, and the two of them soon got almost done.

"Do you think we should eat pheasant or eel for lunch?" Wan Xiaoliu asked Wan Mofei.

"You can eat whatever you want." Wan Mofei is a kind and understanding person.

"Well, eat rice field eel at noon, stew pheasant in the afternoon, and eat at night." Wan Xiaoliu saw that there were not many, so he pulled it out even faster.

"okay."

"My waist is so sore, how about you?" Wan Xiaoliu asked Wan Mofei.

"I have internal energy to protect my body, so I'm not tired." Wan Mofei looked at Wan Xiaoliu's thin body, seeing it in his eyes, but feeling pain in his heart.

"Hey, the ancients are good, they know martial arts, they can keep fit without being bullied." Wan Xiaoliu subconsciously became envious again.

"Ancient man?" Wan Mofei was puzzled.

"It's someone like you who knows martial arts." Wan Xiaoliu looked at Wan Mofei's white hands covered with mud and water, feeling indescribably in his heart.

"Hey, look, there are water chestnuts in the ditches." Wan Xiaoliu pulled up a tree to have a look, and then showed it to Wan Mofei: "Here, look, this little fruit is water chestnuts, which are edible and delicious. , It’s just that this grows very fast in the field, so I have to pull it out. Pull it up and take it to the ridge to see if you can get some to eat. Improve our food. But I found out, since you came After we got here, our living conditions have greatly improved. The meat I ate before was the fried screw meat, and the other meat didn’t smell a little bit. When you came, there were pheasants and hares to eat, and now there are rice field eels. Hey, I can’t even think about this. But we will get better and better. When the chicks grow up, they will have eggs to eat. If we bring a wild boar back to eat in winter and marinate it for the New Year, it will be more perfect Hey, I only eat wild boar hot pot at home all winter, put potatoes, sweet potatoes, and Chinese cabbage in it and cook them together, and eat them around the stove, and those days are called nourishing." The greedy Wan Xiaoliu looked forward to it.

"Is there a wild boar here?" Wan Mofei asked.

"Of course there are wild boars. The crops on the side of my house are sometimes ruined by wild boars. One year my father made a wild boar in a clip. The wild boar was too strong and broke the bamboo clip and ran away. After a few years The wild boars did not come. On the east side, as long as the corn is ripe, the wild boars will appear. In the village, young and middle-aged people often gather to see the wild boars. One year, a group of wild boars went down the mountain, and every household closed their doors and dared not come out. The wild boars are too barbaric. It’s easy to hurt people. Later, the village head took the lead in setting up a torch to drive the wild boar away. Otherwise, the village would really suffer. But that time, a little wild boar fell into the pigpen of the village head and was beaten to death. After I ate it, my family was far away, so I didn’t contribute, and I didn’t share it. Later, my uncle gave some, and my dad was sick, so I boiled it for my dad. So I am very grateful to my uncle. My dad is dying of illness, so I want to eat it Meat, although he didn't say it, but I know."

Wan Xiaoliu was talking, but suddenly his voice changed, so he stopped talking, Wan Mofei could only silently accompany her by his side.Both of them were doing things in silence.

The two of them spent the whole morning until the sun passed the middle to clean the grass in the field.Wan Xiaoliu and Wan Mofei went to Tiankou to wash their hands and feet, picked some big water chestnuts, and went home with the eels.

"Xiao Liu." Walking to the edge of the bamboo forest, someone shouted from behind.

"Village head." Wan Xiaoliu turned around and saw the village head calling himself in a straw hat.

"Xiao Liu, come here for a while, I have something to do." The village chief's tone was really bad.

Wan Xiaoliu glanced at Wan Mofei, and felt a little bit in his heart, could he be letting him go?It's a blessing, not a curse, and it's a disaster that can't be avoided.Bite the bullet and walk towards the village chief.

The village chief was holding a hoe, and he had come back from the field, his legs were covered in mud, and he was smoking a cigarette with a yellow pipe in his mouth.That foolish look despises all living beings.But he is also a village head anyway, and he is also the head of Wanjia Village.

"Member Liu from outside the village will come to our Wanjia Village to give alms in the morning of the day after tomorrow. Don't go out like before." The village chief glanced at Wan Mofei again, and said to Wan Xiaoliu: "What's wrong with him? Did we live in the village? Or be your door-to-door son-in-law?"

The village chief's eyes and tone made Wan Xiaoliu want to beat him to death.But reason prevailed over impulse.Wan Xiaoliu lowered his head and said timidly, "I will definitely come the morning after tomorrow. He doesn't remember anything. When he remembers, he will leave."

"Well, you can do whatever you want. Anyway, he is an outsider, so he won't be able to share the land. You can eat the rations for one person. You don't need to be buried if you die of starvation." The village chief walked away proudly after finishing speaking.

Wan Xiaoliu looked up at his back, and really wanted to go up and kick a few times to relieve the hatred of words.In the end, he could only walk back with a snort, Wan Mofei was still waiting in the bamboo forest.

(End of this chapter)