pastoral life

When Wang Mingchuan opened his eyes, it was broad daylight. At first, his mind was a little drowsy and he didn't remember anything. Suddenly, he found something in his arms. Wang Mingchuan looked down and his handsome face was blood red.

The events of last night flew back and forth in front of his eyes in an instant, Wang Mingchuan only felt that he wanted to find a crack to get in, even he himself didn't know why he was so reckless last night, while cursing himself for being stupid, he hugged others and was unwilling to let go , only blushing and peeking at the still sleeping Pearl. The body of a 14-year-old boy is always thin, and because of Zhao's harsh treatment, Mingzhu is thinner than children of the same age, so she has the illusion that she will break if she is hugged in her arms with a little force.Wang Mingchuan did not live a hard life when Mr. Wang was still there, so he still grew as much as he should have grown these years, but recently he has lost some flesh due to life, even so, he is much taller and stronger than Mingzhu .

Wang Mingchuan glanced at the man's long and slightly curled eyelashes, looked away, then reluctantly turned back to take another look, and repeated this until Mingzhu had a tendency to wake up before gently letting go of Mingzhu, being extremely careful. After getting off the bed, he jumped out the door without waiting to stand still.

click——

After the slight sound of the wooden door hitting the door frame, Mingzhu's eyes slowly opened.

Hey.

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After that day, the two of them had a very tacit understanding and didn't bring up the matter of that night. During the day, Wang Mingchuan went to water and fertilize the fields and Mingzhu took care of the children's sandals in the yard. It's just that Xiaotan has grown taller. Is there enough food for the family? It's simple, normal, and—embarrassing.

Well, no matter how hard they try to pretend that what happened that night didn't happen, the two of them are still a little embarrassed. Before the boundary was crossed, the relationship between the two of them was actually more like brothers. In the eyes of outsiders, they were husband and wife, but whether it was Mingzhu Or even Wang Mingchuan couldn't accept the identity of husband and wife for a while, because the two of them still acted as friends and brothers in the name of husband and wife, even if they really had some ambiguous thoughts, they didn't notice it.

But Wang Mingchuan crossed the safety limit on impulse that night.

No brother would lick each other's palms, and no brother would hug each other for a whole night. Mingzhu couldn't stand thinking about a 15-year-old child, and Wang Mingchuan was at a loss for this strange love. , so both of them chose to be turtles.

Now two turtles are sticking their heads out to eat on the table.

"Brother Mingzhu, I'm full, I need to feed the rabbit!"

Xiaotan put down the wooden spoon and showed Mingzhu the bowl on his own initiative. After getting permission, he happily ran to the yard and took the rabbit grass that was just cut this morning and fed them one by one. Reach out to the cage to grab a handful of white and soft fur on the rabbit's buttocks.It didn't take much effort for Mingzhu to get ten pairs of straw sandals, so the rabbit had replaced them a few days ago.Wang Mingchuan made a bamboo cage with his own hands and kept the two of them together. On weekdays, he only asked Wang Dahe to bring a few small ones up the mountain to pick up some rabbit grass to feed the rabbits. The rotten vegetable leaves that are not eaten are also used to feed the rabbits, so there are two more mouths in the family without much thought.

"Be careful with your hands, don't pull the rabbit's fur again!"

Mingzhu looked at Xiaotan with sharp eyes and stretched out her hand to grab the rabbit and yelled hurriedly. The little girl withdrew her hand with a whoosh, and then stretched out to the rabbit's buttocks unconsciously. Fortunately, although she was small, she was not slow to react. He teased the two rabbits all the time, wishing he could gnaw their tails without being bitten.

"Xiaotan's quick reaction is fine. When you eat, you didn't eat much even after taking care of her at first."

Wang Mingchuan put a chopstick of cabbage into the pearl bowl, took out some diced bacon from the plate and put them into his bowl one by one, and then gave some to the smaller ones, but he himself had a little minced meat Not dipped.

"There is still some bacon from years ago, enough for us to eat for a while, don't worry, everyone has it."

Mingzhu gave Wang Mingchuan more than half of what was in her bowl. The latter looked at it and wanted to refuse, but Mingzhu stared back.

"I dislike the drool on my chopsticks or something?!"

"I didn't mean that, so don't think too much about it."

Fearing that Mingzhu would be angry, Wang Mingchuan was busy defending himself, although he was still reluctant to eat it, but he was forced to put those diced meat into his mouth in the end.I haven't tasted the taste of meat for a long time, but eating these few grains of bacon all of a sudden relieved my old cravings, and the food tasted better than usual.

Looking at Wang Mingchuan's appearance of carefully hiding his happiness, Mingzhu couldn't help but feel sad. There is enough food in the family, but the meat is pitifully small. Now what he eats is the bacon made from killing pigs the year before last. There are not many people left to eat, and they always eat every few meals, so that Mingzhu can't help swallowing the smell of stewed meat from other houses, let alone these children .

You have to find ways to improve your livelihood.

On the second day, Mingzhu slaughtered a male duck heartlessly and stewed a pot of sour radish and old duck soup for the whole family. Both the big and the little ones ate their bellies round and were very satisfied. Naturally, when they were full, they should do some work to digest the food. Hey, but there was nothing to do in the field and the bamboo work was done enough, Wang Mingchuan couldn't think of anything to pass the time for a while, and finally Mingzhu waved his hand—the whole family went out to catch sparrows!

Wang Dahe took out his long-abandoned slingshot and ran to the hillside with Wang Xiaohu to harm the birds. Wang Xiaoxi and Wang Xiaotan couldn't catch up, so they had to stand beside Mingzhu and Wang Mingchuan to watch Mingzhu toss the wooden frame.I saw that he took three long and thin wooden sticks and tied them into a tripod, and took out a thread from the sewing basket to wrap it around the top of the frame and leave a section hanging on the ground. I got some paste fruit and smashed it to smear on the tripod.

"Okay, let's try it first, and do more if we can succeed."

After finishing speaking, he took the worm caught early in the morning from Wang Mingchuan and tied it to a thin thread. After setting up the frame, he let the worm crawl around the tripod, while the four people were hiding behind the firewood and watching secretly. He didn't dare to make a sound, waiting for a long time to no avail, when he was about to get impatient, two sparrows landed.

hold your breath—

Concentrate.

A sparrow found the bug struggling under the shelf, rubbed its slender claws on the ground, paced around for a while, and forced Mingzhu and the others' hearts into their throats, just as the sparrow was about to rush over However, the one next to him who found the worm late pierced it, pecked at the worm, and then dragged it hard. The shelf fell under the force, and the paste all over it naturally stuck to the feathers of the sparrow. The more it struggled The more sticky it was, until finally when two of the three shelves were stuck to it, Mingzhu swooped over and grabbed the sparrow——

"Grab it, grab it!"

Wang Xiaotan happily walked around Mingzhu, clapping and shouting, and pestered her to watch the sparrows, but Wang Xiaoxi, who was only one year older than her, was not in a hurry, took a spare wooden stick and began to imitate Mingzhu's appearance and make a show.After Wang Mingchuan handed over the bamboo baskets and filled them with sparrows, he also built a tripod together with Wang Xiaoxi. In the afternoon, he made more than a dozen and placed them in the yard on the field ridge and in the vegetable field. Even the youngest, Wang Xiaotan, caught five by dark.

"Hey, it's better to have more sparrows now."

Looking at the two baskets full of sparrow pearls, he smiled and swallowed his saliva. He did this a lot when he was a child. Later, when he went to the city, he couldn't see a single sparrow's hair. It's not like there are too many sparrows now, and the harvest in one afternoon is worth several meals for their family.

Before it was completely dark, Mingzhu Fan didn't bother to make one and deal with the sparrows one by one. Wang Mingchuan was also helping at the side. When Wang Dahe and Wang Xiaohu came back, there were still a lot left, and the two little sparrows were not expected. Didn’t catch the bird’s eggs but got a dozen or so, Mingzhu smiled from ear to ear, these things in front of her eyes turned into plates and dishes dangling on the table, thinking like this, the movements under her hands became more and more nimble, until Pickling all the sparrows with their feathers all plucked is still very energetic.

"Let's catch it tomorrow!"

"it is good!"

"it is good!"

Here the Wang family smiled happily because the oil and water on the dining table were gone, but the Xue family exploded over there. In the final analysis, the trouble was caused by Xue Jiaojiao's marriage.

"Hmph, don't marry? You have ruined your reputation with that prince's private relationship. If you don't marry, who else can he marry!"

Mrs. Zhao put her hips on her hips and yelled at Xue Jiaojiao, until she called her darling baby into a promiscuous *baby* slut before she stopped, Xue Da was smoking a cigarette at the side She didn't say a single word, only Xue Jiaojiao was left blushing to face Zhao Shi, wishing she could tear his mouth to pieces.

"You spitting blood! It's clear that you took advantage of the Wang family and wanted me to marry and be a widow. You have a heart of iron. If you forced Xue Mingzhu away, you still have to force me. If you really want to sell Xue family one by one. It's all about it!"

"Huh, I'm bloody? If you're the one who's the one who owns the veil that the prince is holding in his hand, you embroider well and the stitches are fine. My eyes are flawless and I can still recognize which veil was embroidered by you." What's more, you still have your name on the veil, and you still have to deny it when people come to your door with tokens of love?"

"Shut up! The veil clearly disappeared early in the morning...it's you! You must have stolen my veil because you were afraid that I would refuse to nod your head and wanted to use your reputation to force me——Dad, you just let this bitch bully your only kin Girlfriend!"

Xue Jiaojiao broke up with Mrs. Zhao, but in the blink of an eye, Xue Da, who was smoking a cigarette, couldn't help but focus on him. She knew that Xue Da felt guilty for her, otherwise she wouldn't have allowed her to treat her coldly for so many years. He has been holding on to it all the time, and now that things are not going well, although he is not reconciled, he still has to rely on Xue Da's guilt to save the situation.

"Jiaojiao."

Xue Dachang exhaled smoke, the room was a bit choking due to poor ventilation and the smell of smoke could not go away, but Xue Jiaojiao couldn't take care of it at the moment, only thinking about Xue Daneng protecting her as usual, who would have thought that she would hear it and let her It was a desperate answer.

"Your elder brother's future still needs to be taken care of by Mr. Wang. As long as you can marry into the Wang family and leave an heir for Mr. Wang... In the future, when your elder brother becomes famous, he will naturally not treat you badly."

Hearing this, Xue Jiaojiao was totally stunned. If it was out of financial considerations, her own father might fight for her, but once her elder brother's future was involved, there was no room for change.

Having a girl is not as good as a boy.

This is a truth that has existed since ancient times.

The cycle of karma is not good, she asked Xue Mingzhu to win the chance of high marriage for herself, and now she has to fight for the chance for her brother to marry the person who will disappear someday.

Xue Jiaojiao clenched her fists tightly, and her pointed nails dug into her palms, but she didn't say a word, she just stared at Xue Da, complaining and regretting at the same time, and even thought that it would be better to marry at the beginning than to end up now. It was Wang Mingchuan's idea.

That's right, if she had married Wang Mingchuan back then, she wouldn't have married into the Wang family, and if Xue Mingzhu hadn't robbed her of her marriage, Xue Jiaojiao wouldn't have ended up where she is now.Relying on your brother to fly to the top?That's a joke, my elder brother will have a sister-in-law sooner or later, and she was just a widow at that time, so what kind of blessings can she enjoy, but Wang Mingchuan's family is different, Wang Mingchuan was a good seedling who studied since he was young, if he married himself, he would take his natal family's With money to support the family, Wang Mingchuan will definitely be able to continue studying, and a scholar will definitely be able to pass the exam. It is not a problem to be a master of Juren. Yes, if Xue Mingzhu hadn't taken her marriage, she should be the wife of the master Juren's family in the future Instead of the daughter-in-law of the half-dead son of Mr. Wang's family!

The author has something to say: la la la, spill dog blood, I am happy when dog blood is spilled, but you see, the nest is also a person who can spill dog blood!

I have actually done the method of catching birds in the article. I used to think about disasters and disasters when I had no meat to eat in the countryside. My brother tossed out such a tripod. After a few days, I can get a lot of sparrows and can’t eat them all. Take it to the market and sell it. Don’t tell me about protecting animals. At that time, I was so poor that I even ate bugs. It would be nice to be able to eat sparrows!

Well, the paste fruit is also a childhood memory. The compatriots in Shudi played with a small fruit when they were young. It was like a small knot on the vine. It was very sticky when smashed. I remember that I used to beat it in physical education class. Stuff...the playground where everyone was squatting on the ground and beating things. Although they felt useless after beating, they just threw it away...but next time they will continue beating in physical education class.