Chapter 49 Wild Boar Descends the Mountain
After a day of climbing the mountain and wielding a hoe for a day, Gu Jiu rode his bicycle to the county town. He was sore and weak. When he finally reached the door of his house, the sky was filled with the afterglow of the setting sun.
"Brother Ninth, where have you been today and why are you back now?" Xu Ting walked out of the neighbor's house.
As soon as Gu Jiu unlocked the door, he heard Xu Ting's voice. He looked back at her, pushed the door open hard, and pushed the bicycle inside.
Seeing that he did not answer her directly, Xu Ting looked him up and down, and soon she found that his shoes were stained with a lot of yellow mud.
"Brother Jiu, you have a lot of mud on your feet. Have you left the city?"
Gu Jiu parked his bicycle and turned around and asked, "What do you want from me?"
Xu Ting's face was a little shy and she smiled slightly: "I don't have anything to do, I just came to see you." Look at you."
Then she looked around the room and asked, "Where is Comrade Lin Shu?"
"She has gone home. I'm fine. It's getting late. You should go back quickly." After that, Gu Jiu went into the kitchen to boil hot water.
Lin Shu had told him when he was on the mountain, after climbing the mountain and riding a bicycle, that he must boil hot water to take a shower when he got home, not cold water, otherwise it would affect the body's heat dissipation. As the old saying goes, "Shut up."
Now that he has a partner, he must be a man who listens to his partner.
Only then did Xu Ting notice that there were a lot of stains on his white shirt, "Brother Jiu, where did you go during the day? Why are there either mud marks or grass juice on your shirt? This shirt of yours is really good. The fabric is not cheap.”
What she didn’t dare to say was that this shirt looked like it was 90% new, and she didn’t know if the stains on it could be cleaned.
Doesn’t he feel bad if a new shirt is ruined like this?
Seeing her following her in, Gu Jiu frowned and asked, "I'm preparing to boil water for a bath, are you sure you want to stay here?"
"I" Xu Ting is from a girl's family after all, and has little social experience. After taking one look at his tall figure, his face turned red after a moment.
Gu Jiu kept staring at her. If she didn't leave, the confrontation would continue like this. Xu Ting was no match for him. She was defeated and fled in less than a minute.
“Cut!”
Gu Jiu heard the sound of footsteps running away and cut. He poured the hot water from the coal stove into the bucket, filled it with some cold water, and put the pot on Keep burning on the stove.
Before taking a bath, bolt the door of the ancestral house.
After taking a shower and changing into clean clothes, he didn't want to cook anymore. He cooked himself a large bowl of egg noodles, ate and drank enough, and lay on the bed to relieve his muscle soreness.
He has never done farm work since he was a child. Today's climb to dig for medicine was a bit physically exhausting for him. In front of Lin Shu, he has always maintained the so-called dignity of a man.
Now that he has returned home and is full of food and drink, he really can’t hold on any longer.
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Lin Shu slept until he woke up naturally.
Liu Xiao'e and Lin Xiaojun were sitting on the porch peeling broad beans. Zhuang Zhuang was sitting at the table eating breakfast. He saw Lin Shu coming out of the room sleepily.
"Auntie, the sun is shining on your buttocks, so you just got up."
The two people sitting on the porch heard Zhuang Zhuang's voice and looked over.
Liu Xiao'e threw the peeled broad beans into the basin, "The breakfast is warm on the stove. After you wash up, go and serve it yourself."
Lin Shu smiled and nodded. When passing by Zhuang Zhuang, he reached out and rubbed the little devil's head.
The strong head struggled out from under her palm and shouted dissatisfied: "Auntie, you are so annoying."
"Haha." Lin Shudang didn't hear it and went to wash up first. Then he brought breakfast out.
She sat opposite Zhuang Zhuang and asked Liu Xiao'e, who was sitting on the porch peeling broad beans, "Mom, you didn't go to work today?"
"Your father and your brother asked me to stay at home. Just take care of your family and don’t go to work anymore.”
Seeing the smile on her face, Lin Shu knew that she must be quite satisfied with this arrangement.
This is not because Liu Xiaoe wants to be lazy, but she is genuinely happy to be cared about by her family.
Besides, doing housework at home and taking care of the family's daily life is no easier than working. "We have enough food for the family, two pigs, a few chickens, and two acres of private land to take care of. Can you handle it all by yourself? I think working is easier than doing housework."
Cooking, fetching water and doing housework are really not comparable to the housework of later generations, and are even more tiring than working.
You can still be lazy when you are tired at work. How can you get everything done at home if you are lazy when doing housework?
“Someone has to do the things at home. If I don’t do it, why don’t I let your sister-in-law do it? If I really let them do it, they will be drowned in the saliva of the village.”
Liu Xiaoe, tell the truth, whose daughter-in-law rushes to do housework and lets her old mother-in-law go outside to bask in the sun?
As long as someone dares to do this, the gossip in the village will definitely say that such and such a lazy woman doesn’t have enough land to live in. She knows how to eat and do nothing all day long and is lazy at home.
"Oh, by the way, Haiyan came to see you in the morning and said she wanted to find you on the mountain to find fungi. I guess she went up the mountain first when she saw you hadn't gotten up."
"Yes, I understand."
Speaking of Haiyan, Lin Shu also wanted to know if there was a follow-up to her last blind date, and whether Aunt Niu was planning another blind date for her later.
Zhuang Zhuang raised his head from the bowl and said, "Auntie, did you bring us any candy when you came back yesterday?"
"No, you just said you hate me."
< br>"At worst, I won't say it next time. Auntie, I like you the most, so do you still have any candy?" The six-year-old Zhuang Zhuang is already well versed in the principle of being able to bend and stretch.
The three people present couldn't help but laugh when they heard what he said.
Liu Xiao'e asked with a smile: "Are you still going up the mountain today?"
Lin Shu noticed Zhuang Zhuang's expectant eyes and pretended not to see it, "I have nothing to do at home, so I'd better go to the mountain for a walk. Let’s go.”
She forgot to buy candy from the system when she came back late yesterday. All the candies she bought earlier were given to her mother for safekeeping. It would be fine if she stayed there. She might as well go up the mountain to earn some money for candies.
"Okay, there are a few steamed buns in the big bowl in the cupboard. You can take it with you to fill your stomach when you are hungry on the mountain." After saying that, Liu Xiao'e stood up and entered the bedroom, and took it after a while. A few candies came out.
"Two pills per person, eat slowly, don't finish it in one go."
Zhuang Zhuang's face, which had drooped just now due to lack of sugar, immediately brightened up and smiled.
Lin Xiaojun is the same age as Zhuang Zhuang. Although he looks more reserved than Zhuang Zhuang, he can't wait to peel the candy and put it in his mouth, which shows that he also wants to eat candy.
Lin Shu filled the kettle with herbal tea, wrapped the steamed buns in oil paper, put sickles, medicine, hoes and other tools into the backpack. The most important thing was to tie the cuffs of his clothes and pants tightly.
“I won’t come back for lunch at noon. I’ll come back in the afternoon.”
After leaving home, most people in the village either went up the mountain or went to work, and there were almost no people in the village.
There were many villagers working in the fields. Lin Shu didn’t want to attract too much attention, so he went up the mountain from a path behind the village.
There are a lot of oxenia grass on the roadside. The oxenia grass is called Bianzhuang when brewed, and it has very high medicinal value.
Although it is a roadside weed, it can be sold for two cents a plant on the system, which is one cent more expensive than plantain.
Lin Shu saw some bullen grass growing well on the roadside, so he squatted down and dug it with a hoe. The bullen grass was very tough, so it was easy to dig up and not easy to tear.
Just when she was digging happily, suddenly, the sound of rushing footsteps seemed to be heard on the mountain.
Then I heard someone crying and howling for help.
Lin Shu stood up, not bothering to dig up the bullweed, "What's going on?"
Halfway up the mountain, accompanied by cries for help and the swaying of branches, stood in the forest. From Shu's position, he could still hear the howls of wild beasts.
Of course, the cry for help was hysterical, and since it came from halfway up the mountain, the sound carried far away, and even many villagers working in the fields not far away heard it.
There will be another chapter later.
(End of this chapter)