Chapter 34: Cousin and Cousin
Circling around the thorn forest, Janine chose a hidden corner and split a small door on the side of the cave.
The cut thorns were wrapped around the vines, and a fence was weaved, and the door was bolted in and out, and as soon as the door was closed, it became one with the thorn forest.
The open space in the thorn forest is nearly three acres of land, and if you handle it well, you can grow about 1,000 catties of wheat.
Jian Ning made the door, bent down to pull the weeds, and cleared the stones, it had rained not long ago, and the ground was still soft.
The land was damp, and when the stones were turned over, many hibernating scorpions came out.
Jian Ning hurriedly caught and loaded it, scorpions and centipedes can be sold for five or six yuan a pound when sent to the pharmacy, but this thing is not easy to find, and it will not be weighed when it is dried, and it will take a long time to save a pound, and it will be good to sell one or two pounds a year.
At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, Jian Ning returned to the cave and collected the braised pork, sausages, and plate oil into the back basket and went down the mountain.
The braised pork has a strong fragrance, and Jian Ning wrapped it in several layers of oiled paper and tied it with hemp rope to prevent the fragrance from leaking out.
It's refreshing here, and tomorrow you can go up the mountain while smoking meat while digging a dung pit to make fertilizer, and burning a little grass ash in the soil.
With less weight on your shoulders, you can go down the mountain quickly, and you will reach the village in an hour.
"Ning girl, are you going up the mountain again?" When I entered the village, I met a group of women and mothers-in-law who were walking towards the alley courtyard, and one of the mothers-in-law who was good friends with the old lady saw Jian Ning and took the initiative to say hello.
The other women's eyes were a little interesting, and they looked like they wanted to look at Jian Ning but were slightly afraid.
In the lonely countryside, anecdotes spread quite quickly.
Which hen lays a double yolk egg, and a nest of swallows comes down from the eaves, and these sesame seeds are almost known to the whole village within three days.
As long as a thing is known by one person, it is no longer a secret.
Family ethics and romance are women's favorite prime time.
Therefore, the news that Janening had picked up a man and returned home was like wings, and it was scattered wildly all over the village at an unstoppable speed.
This incident has added a lot of after-dinner conversation to the villagers, but few people have blatantly chewed on the root of their tongues.
As soon as people come up, they will slap you in the mouth and ask you if you are false.
People are very strong, and they don't like to be reasonable.
Provoked to pretend to be a ghost in the middle of the night to scare you to death, on the first day of the new year, go to the gate of your house to burn paper money, hang white flags.... Bad luck won't kill you!
These women in the village can't beat her, they can't win her by scolding, and they can't get out, how can they be aggrieved~
If you really fight, you are the one who suffers, and men generally do not meddle in the affairs of women's families.
Once a man intervenes, the nature changes, and the Jane family is not bad for men, and Mrs. Jane is famous for protecting calves, and she can't stand it if she really wants to do a group fight.
There is a lack of entertainment, almost all the villagers love gossip, and the two things that have been popular in the village recently are due to Jian Ning, and it is really not fun to eat melons......
Treating the old lady's good friend, Jian Ning had a kinder attitude, and said to Mrs. Li with crooked eyebrows: "Granny Li, are you going to the Hutong Courtyard?"
"Hmm. Mrs. Li nodded happily: "Divide the fish today, go to the queue early to get the number, don't leave home first, go with me." ”
"I'll come back as soon as I go back. There was sausage and braised meat in the back basket, and Jian Ning didn't dare to get too close to people: "By the way, call my milk." ”
Mrs. Li: "Then you move more quickly, you can exchange a pound of loach eel in front of the line, maybe there are turtles." ”
The free-growing turtle stewed chicken in the pond is a big supplement, and the people who are more generous can still afford to pay for the body once in the year.
While the two were talking, two women stabbed each other, and I stabbed you, letting out a low rattling sound, and Jian Ning didn't have to think about it to know that she was probably talking about her.
They weren't funny and loud, weren't there any spies in the crowd.
Sure enough, Mrs. Li poured an ear of pickled words, and was immediately unhappy, and reprimanded: "I can't afford to drink coarse grain porridge for a day, and I can't pull out a lump of dry poop for three days. ”
"Renning girl is kind-hearted, willing to help others and willing to help people in distress, you don't learn from others with an open mind, just know how to pass on the words, look at your virtue, you deserve to be poor for three generations!"
There are no weak people who pile up with old ladies, and they pick up people one by one.
One of the women said angrily: "Why are you talking so ugly, we care about her, there is no man in the family, and it is not clear to recruit men from home, and it is plain to provoke gossip." ”
"Phew! I want you to care, what is there no man, Ren Deli moved in that night to take care of it, what do you chew on, it's really a fart. I think I'm talking ugly, but you have something clean in your heart, you are dirty and look at others, and everything can be related to the things of men and women. "It's not uncommon for you to say that a widow throws flattering eyes everywhere, Mrs. Li took a sip, took the hand of the other mother-in-law and sped up her pace.
Jian Ning hadn't gone far yet, and when she heard Mrs. Li's words, she couldn't help but smile, she really deserved to be her grandmother's friend!
When she got home, Janine pushed open the courtyard door and saw a bunch of children running around in the yard buzzing in the door, and Deli stood at the door of the hall with a wooden face, a face as black as the bottom of the pot.
It's all because he got carried away, and he couldn't help but show off a few words when he went home at noon to pack up a few changes of clothes.
Now it's okay, when the children heard that he had eaten meat and eggs at his cousin's house, their eyes were red with jealousy, and they all came running.
With so many competitors popping up in the cold, it was hard for Deli to be happy.
"Fourth sister!" Seeing Jian Ning enter the door, Deli's face changed, the corners of his mouth grinned, and his smile was bright: "You're back, are you cold or not, thirsty or not, come into the house and roast the fire, I'll pour you water." ”
Jian Huanhuan saw her brother's affectionate and flattering appearance towards Jian Ning, and felt deeply ashamed, if her mother saw her brother's stumbling dog legs, she was afraid that she would vomit blood in anger.
That day, after Sister Mingyu explained her intentions, her mother immediately packed the quilt and brought her younger brother to the second uncle's house, for fear that the third uncle and their family would rob the good thing of a dime that day.
My mother probably didn't expect my brother to rebel so quickly......
She was the oldest of the remaining children in the family, and she was not here to be greedy, but she had another matter in her mind and wanted to talk to her cousin.
Jian Ning entered the house, and several other children timidly gathered at the door, and Jian Ning handed the basket to the third sister: "Put it in our house." ”
Jian Mingyu took the back basket, his hand sank, and he knew that the fourth sister had made a lot of good things back, so he silently hid the back basket in the back room.
The babies looked at Jian Ning with blank eyes, the cousins and cousins didn't like to be close to the original owner, and suddenly came to the pile, Jian Ning probably knew what the situation was, but there was no snack at home: "I'll give you sugar and oil residue later, and go to the house to get the milk and go to the alley yard to divide the fish." ”