Spring scenery in the fields

Chapter 236 Small talk

Zhu Danian said with a smile: "Rabbits run fast. You two definitely can't catch them with your bare hands. Dahei and Erhei have caught two rabbits, and your eldest brother is skinning them by the river."

Ji Wenhe brought out a small stool: "Uncle Da Nian, please sit down."

"No, I'll take them for a walk halfway up the mountain."

"Okay, go ahead. I'll call you when the meal is ready." He turned to look at the two brothers, "One of you goes with Uncle Da Nian, and one of you stays behind to cook with me."

"I'll stay." Shen Wenshan said.

"Okay, you light the fire and I'll cook."

First, stir-fry the meat and winter melon. Then wait for Shen Rongshan to come back and ask him to chop the wild rabbit and cook it with the beans.

Today's dish is quite rich.

Stir-fried fat with bamboo shoots, stir-fried fat with green beans, stir-fried lean meat with green beans, stir-fried fat with dried winter melon, stir-fried lean meat with cabbage, and stir-fried rabbit meat with green beans.

The two rabbits were plump and took up most of the pot.

Egg custard and steamed pumpkin, exactly eight dishes, plus pickled beans and pickled cucumbers, a total of ten dishes, and today's meat is all you can eat.

At the dinner table, Ji Wenhe was gnawing on rabbit meat, listening to the two people chatting, and occasionally interjecting.

Zhu Danian threw the bone on the ground and looked at Shen Rongshan: "So many people were taken away from our surrounding villages, but you are the only one who came back."

"A few days ago, I heard from a village woman that in a village to the north, a man's son was also captured to serve as a soldier."

"Since my son was taken away, I have been ill and bedridden. I thought he would never come back. But when I heard that you were back, I regained hope."

"It was around the beginning of this month. He didn't make it and died. He never saw his son until he died."

Shen Yuanshan took over the conversation: "The imperial court captured people to serve as soldiers, which ruined many families. In the end, the families got nothing, not even their bodies were left."

It is a blessing in disguise that their eldest brother can come back.

"Yes, sometimes it's good for a person to be thin and small, like your elder brother. People took him to be a soldier just because he was tall and strong."

Ji Wenhe turned his head and looked at him: "Brother Shen inherited my father-in-law's characteristics. He is tall and strong like my father-in-law."

Then he looked at the two people next to him and said, "They both inherited their mother-in-law's genes. If I didn't know you, it would be hard for me to imagine that you three were brothers."

Speaking of this, Shen Wenshan recalled: "When we went to a distant village to sell goods, several aunts asked who my eldest brother was to me. I told them that he was my real eldest brother, but they didn't believe me."

"They said that my eldest brother looked like a bandit, tall and strong. If he had entered the village alone, he would have been chased out by the villagers with knives."

Everyone laughed happily.

Shen Rongshan sometimes felt helpless. He just had a fierce look, but he thought he had a good temper and didn't like to quarrel with others.

But when one person looks at another person, he or she usually looks at the face first.

Zhu Danian patted his shoulder and said with a smile: "There are good and bad things, otherwise I would not have chosen you to be my apprentice."

Ji Wenhe agreed: "Nothing is perfect. I think Brother Shen is very good like this." It makes people feel safe.

"These two are eating well now, and they are starting to grow taller. They are a head taller than me now."

She drew a stroke with charcoal by the door and she had grown a lot taller, about 1.57 meters tall.

It is probably impossible for her to grow to 1.7 meters, but she hopes to grow to 1.6 meters. After all, who doesn’t like to be tall?

After lunch, Zhu Danian sat in the yard for a while, then stood up and said goodbye.

"I'm going back now. I won't delay your business. I'll come back another day when I'm free."

Ji Wenhe heard the voice in the house and ran out quickly: "Uncle Da Nian, wait a minute."

She went into the kitchen and brought out a large bowl of hare meat: "Take it home and eat it in the evening."

"I'm here to eat, so I can't bring any back. Leave it for you to eat."

After saying that, he walked down the mountain with the two big black dogs.

"There's still some in the pot. We cooked a lot of rabbit meat today and didn't finish it. You can take a bowl back so you don't have to cook tonight."

Shen Rongshan took it from her and put it in the basket: "Wen He, I will take Master down the mountain."

"Okay." Ji Wenhe nodded, turned around and went into the house with the basket, going to Lan Qiuhua's house later.

She went to the toilet and changed her sanitary belt inside. Looking at the three belts in the basket, she decided to go to the river to wash them first.

When she came back after washing, Shen Rongshan and the other man had already left with the cart.

"Yuanshan, I went to Aunt Lan's house."

"Okay." Shen Yuanshan was sitting in the yard knitting. There were women talking together, and it would not be appropriate for him to follow them.

As soon as I reached the steps, I saw a few aunts carrying small stools in one hand and holding baskets in the other, and walking towards the shed in tacit understanding.

Wang Erfeng said with a smile: "What a coincidence, we all came here together today."

She looked at Miao Zhaodi: "Sister Miao, how is your Shen Liang?"

"It's nothing serious. We'll go to town tomorrow morning. The father and son talked it out, and now things are back to how they were before."

Seeing the happy smile on her face, everyone felt happy too.

"That's good." Zhou Xiaoyu sat opposite her, "How can there be any hatred between father and son?"

"Let your tree stump walk around the village and talk to people instead of staying at home all day. We won't look down on him."

"That's right." Li Chunhong agreed, "If you stay alone, you will get sick. It's not like my son, whose legs are completely unable to walk, so he has to lie down at home."

Zhao Sanniang looked up at her. Although she had been in the village for some time, there were still many things she didn't know.

I was too embarrassed to ask them more, so when Shen Ping came back, I would ask him about the things in his village.

At this time, He Yuxiang came over from a distance: "You are all here."

Wang Erfeng looked up: "What's the matter? Tell me what's going on."

"Shen Zhiyan is seeing the kiss."

"Isn't today the Mid-Autumn Festival?" Ji Wenhe was puzzled. "The Mid-Autumn Festival is for marriage, why not postpone it a day or advance it a day?"

"Oh, what festival is it? There are people looking for marriage partners on New Year's Day. One came this morning, and now another one has come."

Zhou Xiaoyu asked: "Yuxiang, have you seen the person? What does he look like?"

He Yuxiang shook her head: "Neither of them is very good. The one I saw this morning was short, and this one is dark and thin, like a bamboo pole, but his teeth are quite white."

From a distance, his smile was quite creepy.

"Then their families can't take good care of these two people."

She shook her head: "Sister Guilan told me that these two people didn't like Shen Zhiyan, saying that she was thin and small, and she was afraid that she would have difficulty giving birth."

Wang Erfeng said with disdain: "Those two men are not that good themselves, yet they look down on others. It's good enough that others don't look down on them."

"Of course." He Yuxiang continued, "The families of these two men are very poor. One family only has one acre of land, and the other family has two acres of land."

"The family with two acres of land has an old mother who needs to be taken care of. Wouldn't it be a living hell for Shen Zhiyan if she married him?"