Quick Wear: True and False Life

The next day, after eating some steamed buns with wild vegetable porridge, they left this beautiful place.

Along the way, they walked slowly along the official road. When they arrived at meaningful places, they stopped to play for a while and asked Zhou Jinghao to draw pictures for everyone as souvenirs. She also drew some, but most of them were of Zhou Jinghao, with all kinds of poses and expressions.

They passed by a village that day. It was neither early nor late, but if they continued to walk, they would have to sleep outdoors at night. So they decided not to continue their journey and stayed overnight in the village.

"Nannan, you guys wait outside the village. I'll go to the village to ask the village chief." After Zhou Yonghong gave Wei Nan instructions, he went into the village to inquire about the news.

"Sister, I want to go downstairs and play." Bai Xi said excitedly when he saw wild flowers and butterflies everywhere outside.

"Okay, but don't pounce on the crops in the farmers' fields." Wei Nan looked outside and saw the fields in the distance and gave the instructions.

As soon as Bai Xi went down, Ling Xi followed.

They were chasing butterflies on the roadside. Wei Nan really didn't understand. Wouldn't they get tired of playing this game? Every time they saw one, they would rush over to catch it.

"Nannan, flowers, pick them." Zhou Jinghao wanted to go down to pick flowers, so he pulled Wei Nan and said.

Wei Nan didn't understand why Zhou Jinghao suddenly wanted to pick flowers, but she didn't want to spoil his interest, so she led him out of the carriage and tied the two horses to a tree on the side of the road.

They walked slowly along the roadside, and Zhou Jinghao picked the beautiful ones with bright flowers, regardless of size or color, and tied them up with straw vines.

"Give it to Nan Nan, give her a kiss." Zhou Jinghao gave the flowers to Wei Nan and asked.

She was already very surprised that she was given flowers, and then she was asked to kiss her, which made her feel like the little cabbage at home was corrupted by someone.

But she liked it. She glanced around to see that there was no one around, then kissed him on the cheek.

"I really like the flowers San'er gave me. I want more in the future. I want them to be chosen by San'er himself."

"Yeah! I pick it myself."

The two of them walked back along the way, but Lingxi and Baixi ran to the foot of the mountain in the blink of an eye. Now they are chasing a rabbit and playing with it. They are really bored.

"Nannan, let's go." Zhou Yonghong shouted from a distance, and gestured with his hand to go in the direction of the village entrance.

"Lingxi, Baixi, come back quickly, we are leaving."

After shouting, Wei Nan asked Zhou Jinghao to sit on the shaft of the cart with her, waiting for Zhou Yonghong to jump on the cart holding the reins and lead the way in front.

Lingxi and Baixi, who had caught up with her from behind, jumped directly onto the roof of the car and squatted. She was too lazy to care about them. The group went straight through the village to the end of the village and stopped outside a small courtyard.

"Nannan, stay here tonight." After Zhou Yonghong got off the car, he drove the carriage into the yard and parked it.

Wei Nan followed suit and drove the carriages into the yard and parked them side by side. Then he unloaded the carriages and took the horses to the cowshed.

"Father, what's going on in this yard?"

"We just moved into the county and the house hasn't been sold yet, so they rented it to us for one night." Zhou Yonghong replied while moving things.

"That's nice."

"San'er, move the bedding quickly."

The three of them quickly moved the things they would need temporarily into the house. After finishing these things, they prepared dinner. Dinner was simple. Zhou Jinghao could cook some simple dishes now. He cooked some white porridge, Wei Nan made a plate of cold water caltrops and a wild vegetable and egg soup, and Zhou Yonghong prepared three beggar chickens and roasted them in the fire pit.

The meal was quite sumptuous, but Wei Nan was getting tired of eating chicken every day, so he thought it necessary to store some pork and eat it later.

"Father, I eat chicken every day and suddenly I want to change my appetite! Let's get some pork to eat in the car tomorrow."

"Come on! I'll go to the village chief and ask where I can buy pork."

"Thank you, father-in-law. I'll see if I can have the braised pork then."

At night, just after midnight, the gate of the courtyard was banged on and Zhou Yonghong got up and opened the gate.

Wei Nan in the room also woke up and was about to get up when Zhou Yonghong let him into the room.

"Brother, sorry to bother you!"

"Is there something that brought you here, village chief?" Zhou Yonghong found a bowl and poured water for the three of them.

"This is the Zhang father and son from our village. The Zhang's wife is pregnant and had a difficult labor tonight. They need ginseng to keep her alive, but where can they find it?" The village chief said shamelessly. There was no doctor in their village, so if they wanted to see a doctor, they had to go to the county, which was too far and would take two or three hours to go there and back.

"You want to ask if we have ginseng slices, right?" Zhou Yonghong said after listening.

"Yes, if there is, can you buy one for us?" The Zhang brothers asked hurriedly without waiting for the village chief to speak.

Zhou Yonghong became very anxious when he heard about this, otherwise he would not have come to him.

"Yes, there are 100-year-old ginseng slices. Do you want any?"

"Are there any that are several decades old? I can't afford one that's a hundred years old!" The Zhang brothers asked anxiously when they heard the word "hundred years old". They were too expensive to buy.

"No need to buy it. You can exchange it for one with your child's placenta." After Wei Nan was dressed in the house, he heard the Zhang family's questions. Knowing that he couldn't afford it, he planned to find another way to trade with the father and son.

"Really?" the Zhang brothers asked excitedly.

"Yes, I'll give you some ginseng first, and we'll talk about other things after the baby is born."

After Wei Nan finished speaking, she went back to the house and packed a piece of ginseng slice. She gave the ginseng slice to the Zhang brothers and asked them to take care of the pregnant woman first. She said hello to Zhou Yonghong and went back to the house to sleep.

The next morning, Zhou Yonghong ate some porridge with scallion pancakes, and then went to the village to inquire about the pork. This was an easy matter, as there was a butcher in the next village who would always keep some pigs to sell in the village, so that the villagers would have to walk less.

"Then can the village chief introduce someone to show me the way, please?" Zhou Yonghong was too lazy to trouble others and asked the village chief to appoint someone to lead him there.

"I'll let my grandson take you there. Shitou will take this uncle to Butcher Gao's house." The village chief thought it was no big deal, so he shouted to his grandson in the yard, pointing at him to take people there.

"Thank you, village chief."

Shitou took Zhou Yonghong to Butcher Gao's house. On the way, he kept asking Zhou Yonghong what the world outside was like. The little guy had a smart heart and wanted to fly outside.

"Madam Gao, I'm bringing people to buy meat. Open the door." Shi Tou arrived outside Madam Gao's yard and walked up to her, shouting and knocking on the door.

"Coming, coming." Mrs. Gao put down the work in her hands and quickly opened the door.

"Who wants to buy pork? How much?" Mrs. Gao said as she let the person in.

At Madam Gao's house, the slaughtered pork is usually placed inside the courtyard gate to make it easier to cut the meat.

"Let me take a look and decide." After saying that, he looked at the pork for sale on the wooden board.

This butcher Gao must be a nice guy as he left a little more fat on the meat. After taking a closer look, Zhou Yonghong asked for all the pork belly and ribs, as well as some of the hind leg meat. He paid the money and went back.

"Let's go! My hands are full. Please help me carry those ribs down."

"understood."

After buying the pork, the two of them hurried back. When they arrived at Zhou Yonghong's temporary residence, Wei Nan invited him in to drink some water and chat for a while.

"Take it. When we go back, please express our gratitude to the village chief on our behalf!" Wei Nan said, and then stuffed about a pound of meat and a bag of unmarked colorful sour candies in his hand into his hand.