The young couple met a lot of people on the way back and naturally heard a lot of gossip.

The last time Zhang Yiming was beaten, he was back to full strength within two days, but he has indeed not left the village for a while.

Zhang Yiju has not been seen recently, and the door is always closed. I guess he is too embarrassed to come out and see people.

Even Zhang's mother, who usually showed off wherever she went and always praised her son, has become much more obedient.

The villagers naturally knew what was going on. Although they didn't say anything, they made fun of them behind their backs.

When he was almost home, Yan Zhenshen saw Yan Zhengdao sitting in a wheelchair and watching the progress of the house.

"I'm back." Yan Zhengdao came over in his wheelchair, looking cheerful: "What did Mrs. Wan say?"

"She said it's not that important, and she also picked a date, the tenth day of next month, so there's no rush."

As for those weird things Yan Zhenshen didn't need to say anything.

In the past few days, more and more bamboo shoots have sprouted in the bamboo forest. Chu Xiao and Yan Sanmei found a place and started to pick the bamboo shoots one by one.

Today, she brought Taxue with her. Yan Sanmei was braver, so she took Taxue and ran deep into the bamboo forest. She was thinking about catching bamboo rats.

Although Yan Sanmei is quite afraid of this kind of thing, if she catches a few and takes them to the county town, she can sell them for dozens of coins.

Chu Xiao put some bamboo shoots into the backpack and put the rest into the empty space. If the backpack was full, it would be too heavy and not only would it be tiring to carry, but it would also make his shoulders red.

The bamboo shoots were almost broken off, and Chu Xiao followed in. The fallen bamboo shells squeaked under his feet, making people feel a little eerie and quiet.

He was not afraid before, but after visiting the fortune teller, he has been starting to have wild thoughts these days.

Chu Xiao had not walked far when he heard Yan Sanmei's voice. Taxue had already caught three bamboo rats and placed them neatly on the ground.

Unlike mice, bamboo rats are cylindrical in shape, with a blunt head, a large snout and small eyes, and ears hidden in their fur. Each bamboo rat is more than a foot long.

Chu Xiao had seen it in the mountains before, but he didn't think of catching it. The main reason was that this thing... easily reminded him of a rat whose body had rotted in the end times, and its body was also swollen.

Chu Xiao now hardly recalls the twenty years of life in the apocalypse, but when he encounters certain things, a certain fragment will appear in his mind uncontrollably.

He endured the nausea and wrapped the bamboo rat in bamboo shoot skin: "It's almost time to go back."

Obviously Yan Sanmei was still a little reluctant, but she still carried the backpack and followed along.

Even though this girl is interested in catching bamboo rats, in fact she doesn't even dare to touch it. The whole time, a dog was catching them in the snow. After catching them, they would bite them to death and put them together.

Now when I say put the bamboo rat in her backpack, she looks resistant.

In spring, Yan Sanmei is the most restless person in the family. Most of the time, she stays on various slopes. In addition to digging wild vegetables, she also has to cut fresh grass. She is the busiest person in the family.

After leaving the bamboo forest, the two men walked up the hillside. Yan Zhenshen was grazing cattle there at the time, and he was also cutting grass to feed the chickens, ducks and rabbits.

Yan Sanmei kept looking around as she walked along, and actually found quite a few wild vegetables. The two of them picked them as they walked, and by the time they reached where Yan Zhenshen was grazing his cattle, they had collected quite a few.

"Woof." Little Gray and the wolf cub noticed Chu Xiao, and they ran down the hillside, circled around Chu Xiao, and then went to coax Taxue.

The wolf cub is now quite big, and Taxue can't push it away even if he wants to. However, the boss is the boss, and the wolf cub droops its ears obediently when he bares his teeth.

"Brother, I caught three bamboo rats." Yan Sanmei wanted to show her achievement, but she didn't dare to take them, so she pointed at the basket and asked Yan Zhenshen to go and see it himself.

Yan Zhenshen helped Chu Xiao take the basket off. He looked at the bamboo rat wrapped in bamboo skin, which was only half full of bamboo shoots, and smiled: "It looks like it was bitten by someone walking on the snow."

"I took it there too." Yan Sanmei no longer had the mood to show off and pointed to the side: "I see there are wild vegetables over there, I'll go dig some."

Yan Zhenshen did not stop him, but took the water bag and handed it to Chu: "My backpack is full, the extra grass is here for you."

"You're cutting so much grass?" Chu Xiao drank some water and helped put the weeds into the backpack. As for the rest, he could just tie them up with a straw rope.

"Well, cut more, so that our third sister can have some free time when we go up the mountain."

Now there are more and more livestock at home. Xiaobei can only come back in the middle and end of the month. Zhao Guizhi has to take care of the family's land and vegetable garden, so the task of feeding the livestock really has to fall on Yan Sanmei.

However, no one in the Yan family is lazy. The third sister works harder than anyone else on these chores.

As for the other labor force in the family, he was also very busy. Yan Zhengdao was seen by many people in a wheelchair. As word spread, people naturally started to pay attention to him.

As soon as the busy farming season was over, many people came to ask him to help make one.

Yan Zhennan would naturally not refuse. The price he asked for was not high, one or two taels of silver for a wheelchair. However, they were all made of ordinary wood, so they would not be very practical, but they would be fine for two or three years.

So he has been making wheelchairs recently, and almost turned Qiao Qingyun's courtyard into a carpentry shop.

Seeing that Yan Zhenshen had brought several bundles of weeds in addition to the backpack, Chu Xiao joked, "Are you going to tire the cow to death?"

"I'll carry the backpack." Yan Zhenshen could drag these things back by himself even without the ox.

"Then let the cow get tired." Chu Xiao patted the cow on the back: "Eat more so it will have more energy."

It was almost time to go back for lunch, so the three of them led the cows back.

The people who came to build the house did not eat at their home, but set up two stoves in the open space. The aunt and the young man who cooked were brought by the person in charge.

Except for two men who were on guard at night, everyone else returned to the county town.

When they came back, the person in charge came over quickly and said, "Brother Yan, Brother Chu, this is what happened. Today, a few people from your village came and said they wanted to help. I don't know if they are acquaintances of yours, so I didn't refuse them directly."

"Didn't they ask my dad?" This place was not far from Yan's house. Wouldn't it be easier to just walk a few steps to ask at home? Why bother asking the person who helped build the house?

"I don't know about this. I also told them to ask the master. I can't take care of unnecessary matters. I'm just telling you." The manager's tone was not very good. It seemed that the people who came here didn't say anything good.

"I understand." Yan Zhenshen responded.

Chu Xiao smiled and said, "I think we have enough manpower and we don't need any help. If you have any more questions, just reply directly."

After hearing what he said, the person in charge felt a little embarrassed for his attitude just now, and he also gave some advice: "It's not a good idea to reject him directly. If you offend him, you will see him again in the future..."

He would leave after finishing his work anyway, but the Yan family still wanted to live in the village.

"It's okay." Chu Xiao didn't mind offending anyone. Anyway, they only had dealings with a few households in the village.

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