Farmhouse life after traveling back to ancient times

Seeing him staring blankly at the plate, Du Wenxiu couldn't help but laugh. She picked up the chopsticks and put all the fungus into his soup bowl.

"If you think it tastes good, Qiao'er and I will go pick some more. When you come back, whether we get any mountain products or not, we'll go to town and try to sell the fungus."

"Hmm!" He had already eaten so much anyway, so there was no point in worrying about these two or three flowers. Lu Fanghai ate them all up with one chopstick.

Just as he put down the bowl, he heard the courtyard door being slammed loudly. It was Qiu Yong and Lu Sangui coming to call him into the mountains to hunt.

It just so happened that the things had already been packed up, so she could just pick them up and go. He also carefully instructed her to keep the door closed and stay away from trouble, and to wait until he came back if she had any problems.

Lu Fanghai went to the main hall and said goodbye to Fang, who had just got up, and the three of them left.

After Fang and the others finished their breakfast together, he saw her staring at him with unfriendly eyes.

Du Wenxiu didn't want to conflict with her, so she called Qiao'er and took a basket to the back mountain to pick wood ears.

And I think it rained a few days ago, so the wood ear mushrooms grew so well. Maybe I can even dig up some bamboo shoots.

Not wanting to be scolded, I washed the pots and bowls and fed the chickens before going out. Unexpectedly, Fang still complained about using too much water.

A spendthrift wife.

After leaving the courtyard, Du Wenxiu finally breathed a sigh of relief. He looked at Qiao'er who was smiling secretly beside him, and reached out his hand to lightly touch her forehead.

"Little girl, you are still laughing at me."

Qiao'er couldn't help laughing.

"My dear sister-in-law, isn't this what it's like to be a daughter-in-law? Fortunately, my brother stood up for me, so my mother didn't dare to hit me. Sister He, who farms our land, has two children, but is often beaten and scolded by her mother-in-law. The eldest brother of the He family never said a word, for fear that my mother would chase him and scold him for being unfilial in the village."

Hearing her say this, Du Wenxiu shrank her head and stuck out her tongue. "It's so scary, luckily I didn't get beaten. But if my mother hit me, I would accidentally hit her back and hurt her."

"Haha, I can see that you are a person who won't suffer any loss." Qiao'er smiled and walked forward to her, took her arm and walked together, so that the two of them could talk in private.

"Mom wasn't like this before. Ever since Dad got sick and was bedridden, no one has been cultivating the family land, and there's no income. My brother has been away for so many years and no one knows whether he's alive or dead. The land was almost taken away by someone. If she hadn't been more capable, I'm afraid she wouldn't have been able to wait for my brother to come back, and our family would have been eaten up by this world."

"Look, Aunt Lu has been coming to our house these days. She wasn't like this before. When Dad was still alive, she would come into the yard under the pretext of visiting him, and take things from home to move to her own home. Mom was looking after Dad, and I was young, so she had to take a lot of things away for nothing."

"Later, my father passed away and there was nothing left at home. She even suggested to my mother that she sell me off. My mother didn't want to and ignored her. Later, she came less often."

Du Wenxiu listened quietly to Qiao'er chattering about the past, thinking that in this era of material scarcity, life was really hard for the lower-class people.

"It's okay, Qiao'er, your brother is back, and our family will be better and better, don't worry." Du Wenxiu patted Qiao'er's hand that was around his and comforted her.

"Yes, I know. A family cannot survive without a man. Look at Sister Yulan's father, who is paralyzed in bed and unable to move. As long as he is still alive, Aunt Lu thinks her family is much better off than ours. When Dad just passed away, many nights there were people screaming outside the wall and knocking on the gate in the middle of the night. Mom held me in her arms and curled up in bed, not daring to move."

"One night, a thief jumped over the wall and got in. My mother yelled and cursed at him, which startled the villagers who were returning home late and came to check. That's how the thief was scared away."

"After that day, my mother didn't sleep for many nights. She gave the family's land to Brother He and his friends to farm, and asked them to watch outside the yard from time to time at night, so that if anything happened at home, someone would hear it."

"Later, the village caught thieves who came to steal things from outside. We beat one to death and tied up the rest and reported to the police. People from all over the village knew that our Taohua villagers were tough and no longer dared to cause trouble. We were able to live a peaceful life."

"Although we are short of food and clothing, at least we can sleep well at night."

Looking at the girl in front of him who was smiling and telling him about her past sufferings, she was obviously smaller than her peers, her thin face was dry, and her eyes were as dark as deep pools.

"Qiaoer, don't be afraid. Your brother and I will make sure you live a good life." Du Wenxiu didn't know how to dispel the shadow and fear in the girl's heart, so he could only make a pale promise.

"Well, I believe what my sister-in-law said." Qiao'er nodded heavily, but the smile in her eyes did not bottom out.

How long will it take to heal the trauma of childhood? Du Wenxiu doesn't know.

"Qiao'er, don't worry. Your brother and I will work hard and lead our family forward bravely towards victory. When our family has a foundation and we raise our little Qiao'er well, we will definitely find a handsome, handsome and wealthy son-in-law to marry her off, okay?"

Du Wenxiu teased her with jokes so that she would not think about the dark past.

Qiao'er was confused at first and didn't understand what her sister-in-law meant. She just thought that this was the difference between herself, a country girl, and the daughter of a scholar.

When she heard that her son-in-law was getting married, her face turned red with shame, and she raised her hand to hit Du Wenxiu.

One was chasing, the other was hiding, and the two of them went to the back mountain noisily.

Although Du Wenxiu was older, he was not as agile as Qiao'er, and the mountain road was uneven, so he was caught in a short time.

Qiao'er pretended to slap her hands a few times, asking Du Wenxiu not to joke like that anymore. However, Qiao'er took the opportunity to tease Du Wenxiu a few more times, and her face turned red. She snorted and went to the front to look for wild vegetables.

Since they arrived at the place, Du Wenxiu stopped teasing her and focused on work.

After searching carefully near the place where Lu Fanghai had cut bamboo yesterday, he indeed found quite a few bamboo shoots.

The tools the two men brought were not suitable for their job, and they could not dig up the big bamboo shoots, so they picked up the small ones. In just a short while, they had dug up quite a few.

"Why are there so many bamboo shoots but no villagers come to dig them?" Du Wenxiu was a little surprised.

Qiao Er straightened up and wiped the sweat from her forehead, and smiled at her: "It's spring ploughing now, maybe they will come at night, we can't miss the farming season."

It turns out that although Du Wenxiu grew up in a mountain village, her parents worked away from home all year round and the land at home was cultivated by others, so she didn't know what to plant and when.

Qiao'er also thought that her sister-in-law was a city person who grew up in the county, so it was normal for her not to know, so she didn't say much.

"How about we pick the fungus now and go back first? Or borrow a hoe in the afternoon to dig up the bamboo shoots?" Du Wenxiu suggested.

Qiaoer nodded and said that this would be the best, but the basket was almost full now and there was no room for the fungus.

Du Wenxiu laughed and pulled out a small cloth bag from her waist. Qiao'er exclaimed in surprise and praised her sister-in-law for her wisdom.

"But is Sister Qiao'er over there?" A familiar voice came from the direction of the village.