Soul Travel: I was bought by the fierce man in the village to farm

The rabbit skin was ready by the river. Mao Xiaosui put his hand into the river and tried it. It was too cold.

Others were so anxious that they urged, "Hurry up and send it."

When she asked before, other people didn't mind the cold water, and they used to use cold water to wash clothes in winter in exchange for money. Mao Xiaosui didn't say anything more and divided the rabbit skin.

While they were washing, he and Ding Pingshun went to cut grass.

Mao Xiaosui asked him, "Are you tired?"

"I'm not tired." Ding Pingshun said, "When I went back, the mules carried the burden. I was only responsible for beating. I could do it for two days in one day. It was very easy."

"Have you read the book?"

"Yes." Ding Pingshun still said, "I already know a lot of the Three Character Classic that Ankang taught me before."

"Are you sure you don't want to go to school?"

When they asked Li Ankang before, they asked Ding Pingshun by the way, but the old master did not refuse. However, when Li Yunshan asked Ding Pingshun later, Ding Pingshun was unwilling. At first, he thought it was about the money, but Ding Pingshun said he wanted to learn on his own.

"No." Ding Pingshun smiled and shook his head. "I want to learn slowly by myself. I have learned a lot, and my uncle will teach me a little bit at the farm."

Mao Xiaosui laughed. Li Yunshan has been very busy recently and rarely studies, but he has learned a lot before, and it is enough to teach Ding Pingshun now.

Mao Xiaosui just didn't know the words, but she still understood the meaning of some words. This also caused her to learn much faster than others. Even Zhang Qing praised her.

After beating two bundles of grass and a basket of chicken grass, Mao Xiaosui went to check the rabbit skin.

She picked out four that were not very clean and told those people, "These are not good."

The person she found fault with didn't just muddle through with laughter, but instead apologized seriously.

Mao Xiaosui was not angry when he saw their sincere attitude, but just told them to be clean again.

After putting away the rabbit skin and distributing the money, she got back to work.

After finishing the grass and chicken grass, they dug some wild vegetables, planning to go back to steam the vegetables in the evening or give them to the old lady.

Ding Pingshun said, "I caught ten roosters and five hens this year."

"Can you raise it?" Mao Xiaosui asked him.

Raising rabbits is much easier than raising chickens. Chickens can pick grass, but rabbits can't, so picking grass has to be slower and more troublesome.

"Yes." Ding Pingshun said, "I also caught the three piggies."

"You have almost finished moving the family, so your father deserves to scold you." Mao Xiaosui joked with a smile.

Ding Pingshun also smiled happily, "My grandparents are old, and I'm not at home. It's hard to raise them too much. It's the same if I work harder and earn money to spend on them."

Mao Xiaosui laughed when he saw his serious look.

At noon, Ding Pingshun had to go back to cook and left first. Mao Xiaosui inspected their second batch of washed rabbit skins.

At this time, the sun had warmed the body, but the hands of several people who had been soaking in the cold river water were red and swollen from the cold, but their faces were still smiling happily.

At noon they ate the dry food they brought as usual, and Li Yunshan and Zhao Hui brought food to her when they came to carry rabbit skins.

Stewed rice with scrambled eggs and pork and beans.

For those who only ate dry food and drank river water, the smell of rice was really tempting.

Several people couldn't help but glance away. There was only one bowl of rice, and Mao Xiaosui could only pretend that he couldn't see it.

It gets cold early in the afternoon during this season, and the wind hurts my wet hands.

By the time they finished washing, the sun was almost setting, but they still left in no hurry and asked, "Is there any more?"

Mao Xiaosui shook his head, "It depends on when they come."

While talking, Li Yunshan and others had already walked down.

Without carrying anything behind him, Mao Xiaosui stood up directly and said, "Go back and rest."

They all made a lot of money today and were very happy. They knew that Mao Xiaosui was going to be with Li Yunshan. After telling her, they left together.

Zhao Hui and Niu Si were responsible for carrying the rabbit skin back, while Li Yunshan took Mao Xiaosui and walked slowly into the town.

He looked at the people in front and asked, "Have they complained?"

"No." Mao Xiaosui said, "These aunts are too tolerant. Their hands are swollen from the cold and they are still thinking about making money."

"It's normal." Li Yunshan said, "It's one thing to live in poverty. Some women's mothers-in-law just dislike them for not making money at home and dislike them everywhere. Compared with the hardships they endure outside, many women are actually more reluctant to suffer from family members. It’s hard to give.”

Mao Xiaosui thought what he said made sense.

The sun had already set when they got home. Li Ruyi and Li Ankang were warming up by the fire at the old lady's house. Heizi heard the noise and ran out of the old lady's house.

Mao Xiaosui called out to the two children and went back to cook.

After washing the fungi and adding some meat to stew a pot of rice, she and Li Yunshan went to bed first, while Li Ruyi and Li Ankang wrote for a while in the side room.

The next day we set off at the usual time. Ding Pingshun was already herding the mules. After Mao Xiaosui divided the rabbit skins, he helped to clear the grass as usual. When he was about to go back to cook, he asked, "Are there two pots on top?"

Ding Pingshun nodded, "One small pot, one big pot."

"You boil some rabbit soup in a big pot and let Yunshan pick it up. Let them drink some to warm them up. It's too cold."

"Okay." Ding Ping complied.

It was windy today, and the sun had gone out after a while in the morning. Mao Xiaosui was wearing a thick cotton coat and his body was not cold, but his feet were cold.

After they finished eating the dry food and were sitting waiting for the rabbit skin, they saw Li Yunshan and others coming from a long distance away.

Niu Si was carrying two buckets, and Li Yunshan and the others were carrying baskets.

As the others approached, Mao Xiaosui greeted the others, "Come over and drink soup."

The ladies thought they were calling Li Yunshan and the others, so they stood still.

Until Niu Si greeted and said, "Aunts, hurry up and drink some soup to warm yourself up. Our landlady specially asked us to cook it for you."

The ladies looked at Mao Xiaosui in shock and said words of thanks.

Although Mao Xiaosui was a little embarrassed by Niu Si's remarks, she was quite satisfied with the attitude of the others.

The rabbit meat soup is not very flavorful, but on this cold and windy day, not to mention the meat soup, even a mouthful of hot water is very fragrant.

They brought bowls and basins from the farm, and Mao Xiaosui was responsible for serving soup. Each person had three spoons of soup and one spoon of meat.

Mao Xiaosui also drank half the bowl, and he felt warm after drinking the whole bowl.

As the soup was boiled more and more people drank it, each bowl was empty. Chen Yue washed her own bowl and then took the initiative to wash the bucket.

When Mao Xiaosui grabbed a handful of plant ashes and prepared to wash the dishes, he heard Chen Yue shouting, "Give it to me. If your hands are dry, don't touch the water. It's too cold."

Mao Xiaosui gave her the bowl, gave them a few instructions and then went to pull the weeds.