Spring scenery in the fields

When he came out, he said to her again, "I'm going to the market tomorrow. Shall I buy some meat?"

Ji Wenhe thought for a moment and said, "If I don't buy it, I can only eat meat once every two weeks."

I can’t afford to eat out often, so I save money to buy a residential plot.

"Brother Shen, I put the money in my purse, under the pillow, don't forget to take it with you."

"Well, get up early tomorrow and I'll go cook. I guess you didn't have enough for lunch."

He kept watching her and saw clearly that she didn't pick up the meat or vegetables, but only ate the few dishes in front of her.

Ji Wenhe lowered her head and smiled sheepishly because her stomach growled: "A little."

Shen Rongshan's eyes softened: "I'll go cook."

"it is good."

After he left, I sewed the sleeves of my clothes and went to help in the kitchen.

For dinner, we still had wild vegetable cakes and wild vegetable dumpling soup with a little lard and two beaten eggs.

There are the most wild vegetables in this season. Get up tomorrow morning and take a walk around the foot of the nearby mountain.

After the chicks were born, they also needed to eat wild vegetables, so they had to go looking for them every morning. Usually the three of them took turns.

After finishing his meal and washing up, Ji Wenhe lay on the bed, facing outward, waiting for someone to enter the room.

After Shen Rongshan had finished packing, he came in and she said, "Brother Shen, how do we build the rabbit cage?"

There should be no iron nails here, and even if there are, they are too expensive for them to afford.

I asked Aunt Lan last time, and it seems that iron is quite expensive.

"Tie it up with vines, tie it outside, and wrap it several times."

If you don’t have any cloth strips at home, you can use them if you do.

Ji Wenhe moved inside and asked, "Will rabbits bite vines?"

"Some can, some can't." Shen Rongshan sat down beside the bed, "Watch carefully, there are many vines on the mountain, if you bite them, just rewrap them."

As he spoke, he took off his coat.

"Don't worry about the rabbit cage. I'll take care of it. The day after tomorrow I'll go cut the straw and build the shed as soon as possible."

"Tomorrow Wenshan and I will go find some thatch, and we'll also look for wild vegetables and dig bamboo shoots. We can't let you do everything at home."

She helped with whatever she knew how to do and what she could do. If she couldn't do some of the hard work, she had to let them do it.

Shen Rongshan lifted the quilt and gently lay down on the bed: "We will take care of the housework. Since you have married me, I will not let you suffer with me."

Ji Wenhe blinked, was silent for a while, and said softly: "Brother Shen, you are really good."

It was so good that it made her a little moved.

"Brother Shen, if two people who don't like each other get married, will they fall in love with each other over time?"

He replied without thinking: "Yes."

He doesn't know others, but he knows himself.

"Wen He, you may not believe me when I tell you this, but when mom and dad got married, they didn't like each other."

Ji Wenhe had never heard him talk about what happened between his father-in-law and mother-in-law.

"So did they have someone they liked before, or..."

"No." Shen Rongshan replied softly, "My father and mother were introduced by the matchmaker. My mother is pretty and looks down on my father who is big and strong."

"My father disliked my mother because she was thin and small, and thought that she would be difficult to give birth to. At that time, the two of them looked down on each other."

"Then what happened next? Why did you get married?" Ji Wenhe asked.

The two people who disliked each other got married and eventually gave birth to three sons. He also mentioned that his father-in-law and mother-in-law had always had a good relationship.

What happened during this period made them change their minds?

Shen Rongshan lay flat on the bed, looking upward, and said calmly: "Grandma found three matchmakers to arrange a marriage for my mother, and all three of them were with my father."

"so coincidental?"

"Yes, it was indeed a coincidence, so coincidental that my mother suspected that the matchmaker had arranged it. Later, after asking around, she found out that it wasn't true."

"And your mother agreed to marry your father?"

"No, my mother still disagrees. It's my grandma and grandpa who think that seeing the same person three times is the same person, and that is their fate."

"So he decided to marry me. My father accepted the betrothal gift and told my mother."

Ji Wenhe was puzzled: "What about the father-in-law? Why did he suddenly agree?"

Don't you look down on her? Do you think she is not good at giving birth?

Shen Rongshan said calmly: "Because my father also thinks this is fate, it is destiny."

"My mother said that after my family accepted the betrothal gift, she cried and made a scene many times, asking them to return the gift, but my grandparents did not agree."

"In the end, I had to listen to my grandparents and marry my dad."

When they first got married, they appeared to be a loving couple to the outside world, but at home his mother completely ignored his father.

Ji Wenhe turned over and lay on the bed, holding his chin with both hands: "Brother Shen, don't you have any relatives in your family? Doesn't my mother-in-law have any brothers or sisters? Or any distant relatives?"

"No, my mother had a younger brother who died of illness the year before she got married."

Two years after his mother got married, his grandparents were too sad about their son's affairs and their health deteriorated day by day. In the end, the two of them...

His grandparents' home was far away from Shenjia Village. He was still a child when they died and had no memory of what they looked like.

"So my father-in-law and mother-in-law fell in love with each other over time. As they got along, they gradually fell in love with each other."

Shen Rongshan tilted his head slightly to face inwards: "Well, my mother said that after getting married, she discovered the good in my father, and slowly she began to accept him in her heart, and so did my father."

He thought they would be the same as his parents.

Ji Wenhe looked at him in the darkness. Neither of them could see each other's faces clearly, and they were both looking at each other.

There was an indescribable atmosphere in the cave. They didn't say it out loud, but they all had the same thought in their hearts.

At night, Shen Rongshan had a dream. In the dream, they bought a residential plot at the foot of the mountain and opened a grocery store.

His younger brothers got married, and he and Ji Wenhe had a child. Under the peach tree in the yard, she snuggled in his arms, and they watched the peach blossoms bloom together.

I opened my eyes and looked at everything around me and the people around me, then I realized that I was dreaming.

She was sleeping soundly, seemed to be smiling, and perhaps had a good dream.

Shen Rongshan got up quietly. It was pitch dark outside. He held the oil lamp and waited until he reached the kitchen to light it. The light came on, illuminating the night.

Hearing footsteps, he looked back and saw Shen Yuanshan walking in, rubbing his eyes: "Brother, why didn't you call me?"

He was just thinking about getting up and going to the toilet when he heard the door open. He knew it was his elder brother who had gotten up, so he decided not to sleep anymore.

"I plan to call you after I finish cooking."

He yawned and said, "I'm going to the toilet and will come back to help you cook."

Shen Rongshan nodded.

The rice is cooked and placed in the pot. When they get up in the morning, they can heat it up and eat it.

He carried a few wild vegetable cakes with him, carried a basket on his shoulder, and carried two baskets on his back, and went straight down the mountain to the town.

Shen Wenshan got up and walked around the trap. He found a pheasant that had just died inside it. He happily carried the pheasant back home.

Seeing people in the yard washing up, he said, "Look, sister-in-law, we hunted a pheasant."