As soon as he drove the ox cart into the yard, he heard Xiaoqing crying and shouting, "I'm in pain!" Mom, I hurt! ......", Zhang Zhimu felt a tangle in his heart, threw down the whip and rushed into the house, and the scene he saw made him furious. Huang Yukun was biting his lip with tears in his eyes and wrapping Xiaoqing's feet with a white cloth, Xiaoqing's eyes were full of tears, and he screamed. Xiaohu next to him saw his sister crying, and he also cried. Zhang Zhimu pulled Huang Yukun away as soon as he passed, and opened the cloth on Xiaoqing's feet, which were already red. Zhang Zhimu was just about to rub it, but Xiaoqing shouted: "It hurts!" Zhang Zhimu hurriedly stopped. At this time, Huang Yukun understood and said: "Brother, you can let the child suffer all the sins at one time, the child is eight years old, and if you don't wrap your feet well, the bigger it is, the worse it will be, and this sin will have to suffer sooner or later." Glancing at Huang Yukun, Zhang Zhimu didn't speak, went to the courtyard and brought the wine gourd, poured some wine on Xiaoqing's feet, gently rubbed it with his hands, and poured some more after volatilization, repeating it several times. Zhang Zhimu knew that this was to cool down to avoid edema, as long as there was no edema, it would be good quickly. Huang Yukun said: "Brother, this won't work, you can't marry if you don't wrap your feet." ”

"Then don't marry." Zhang Zhimu said indignantly.

"Not really, brother. It's because my family feels so sorry for me, my feet are not wrapped properly, and when I marry into the Qin family, I don't suffer a lot of white eyes. ”

"Stupid."

"The child's father also said that if he knew that I was so big-footed, he wouldn't let me enter the Qin family."

"Bastard."

"It's all a rule handed down by the elders, and we can't help it."

"I'm just here to change the rules! As long as I am here, I will never let Xiaoqing wrap her feet. ”

I applied alcohol to Xiaoqing a few times and asked Xiaoqing if she was better. Xiaoqing said that it was better, and it didn't hurt anymore.

"It doesn't hurt, let's see what good things my uncle brings you!" Pull Xiaoqing to go out. But the left foot that Xiaoqing had wrapped didn't dare to touch the ground. Zhang Zhimu picked up Xiaoqing and said, "Let's go out." At this time, the child suddenly lay on Zhang Zhimu and cried loudly. Huang Yukun was about to stop it, but Zhang Zhimu waved his hand. He knows that an eight-year-old child, without father's love, sees that the family is having a difficult time, and strives to share it with his immature shoulders for his mother, and at the same time how much pressure he is under psychologically, at this moment someone loves and protects himself so much, and all the grievances have erupted. The child cried bitterly, went to the yard, and said, "All right! Scared the good stuff away. ”

After all, he was still a child, and when he saw a cart of things, he burst into tears and laughed.

Huang Yukun was also happy and said, "Brother, are you going to open a livestock shop?" You can't put these things in the house at night. ”

"You can put some in my room. In the future, I will build a big room for them. ”

When he had unloaded everything and saw that it was still early, he said, "I will go to the river and cut some wicker and make cages for the chickens." ”

Then motioned, Huang Yukun entered the house. He took out the gold and silver from his bosom and handed it to Huang Yukun, saying, "Three horses, sold for a total of two hundred taels of silver." ”

"So many, I said those horses are not ordinary." Huang Yukun was surprised.

"Brother, what did you say were in those two bags yesterday?" Huang Yukun asked.

"Okay, I'll talk about the rest in the evening. Do you have a needle and thread? Zhang Zhimu asked.

Zhang Zhimu picked a needle, burned it red on the lamp, then bent it into a fish hook, and then combined several strands of silk thread into a strand and wrapped it around the small stick. Then he drove the ox cart with the two children to the river. Zhang Zhimu used a sickle to cut a few and felt that it was laborious, so he used a single knife with willow leaves and cut them with both hands. These effects are much better, and after a while, they are cut down in a bunch and loaded on the car according to different thicknesses. The two children were also going to get in the car, Zhang Zhimu said, "Don't worry. ”

When he came to the water's edge and saw that it was deep, he stopped and tied the silk thread to the stick, tied the other end to the fishhook, and dug an earthworm by the river and hung it.

"Uncle, what are you going to do?" The two children are strange.

"Fishing." As he spoke, Zhang Zhimu threw the hook into the river.

There are really a lot of fish in the river, and after a while, I caught seven or eight catties of fish. The two children jumped up with joy, they had never seen such a thing, and they ran and helped to put the fish on with thin sticks.

Back in the yard, Huang Yukun had already made the rice, steamed steamed buns mixed with white flour buds and rice noodles, and stir-fried wild mountain vegetables with pork. It turned out that the mother and wife were not idle during the day and dug a lot of wild vegetables.

"I'll eat later, I'm going to make fish." As he spoke, he picked four crucian carp of about half a catty, and the rest had to be fed to the chickens. This is pure wild green, Zhang Zhimu feels a little pity.

The four fish lins were scraped, and the intestines and gills were removed and washed. Put half a pot of cold water in the pot and put the fish in and boil. Until all the time with the ceasefire, ceasefire. Put it in a small basin, add salt, pepper noodles, chopped green onions, and wait until the white vinegar is finished again, and the clear soup will immediately turn milky white. Looking at everything Zhang Zhimu did, Niang San was stunned. It is unheard of for a big man to be able to make fish, and to do so. Looking at the fish soup in the basin, Niang San didn't dare to move the chopsticks. Zhang Zhimu took a sip with a small spoon, although there was no MSG, he felt that it was still delicious. Say, "It tastes great, drink it!"

The young lady and brother failed to resist the temptation of the strong fragrance wafting from the fish pond, and each tried to drink a little. "It's delicious." Then I couldn't stop it, and drank it one bite after another.

Huang Yukun looked at the two children in surprise, then looked at Zhang Zhimu and said, "No one of us eats this." ”

"Didn't you say it, I'm here to change the rules. Try it! It's gone for a while. Zhang Zhimu encouraged.

Huang Yukun tasted it cautiously, and said, "It's okay, you can make this thing taste like this" and began to drink.

After a while, the fish was revealed. Zhang Zhimu said: "Wait first. It's time to go back to the pot. So he put the fish back into the pot, boiled some water and simmered for a while, and then added the seasoning, and said, "Fish soup, the best thing to drink is this soup." Let's try it. The two children couldn't wait any longer, so they stretched out their spoons and drank. Huang Yukun also smiled and drank it. The two children who drank this fish soup had a round belly and only burped. Xiaohu couldn't drink it in his stomach, so he couldn't finish saying, "Tomorrow, I have to drink fish soup." ”

"It's easy, as long as you are obedient, you can drink fish soup every day." Zhang Zhimu thought that it was easier to catch fish than to dig wild vegetables.

After eating, Zhang Zhimu thought while chopping fish, this wild river fish in his previous life was a good thing. After chopping the fish, he chopped up the remaining wild vegetables and scraped some bean cakes with a knife. Asked Huang Yukun to bring a large basin, put half of the minced fish, wild vegetables and bean cakes in the basin, put rice bran and bud rice noodles, and put less salt. Stir well and start feeding the chickens. Huang Yukun couldn't help but say on the side: "Brother, this chicken eats better than many people!" ”

"It's tomorrow, and you'll see how these chickens lay eggs. Remember neither to feed sorghum bran. Sorghum bran eggs. Zhang Zhimu said.

"Just now, I went to Liu's house and picked up two bundles of grain and grass, which are enough to feed the cattle and sheep today. Tomorrow, tell Brother Liu that it's better to buy some. ”

"Okay, buy more, it's best to feed the livestock grain."

A few piglets are too small, and the feed is more than half of the bud rice flour, a part of the sorghum bran, and a little bean cake with a pot and water to boil into porridge. Looking at the joy of a few little pigs, I felt that it was no problem to feed the piglets.

The four sheep were fed some grain and grass, and the sheep could feed themselves.

Dozens of chickens, basically no wild vegetables in the feed, Zhang Zhimu knows that the chickens are most afraid of diarrhea, so the water fed to the little J chickens is boiled and cool.

Huang Yukun helped Zhang Zhimu to cut the grain grass with a guillotine, added some corn kernels, sorghum, and soybeans, and fed the cow.

While working, Huang Yukun told Zhang Zhimu that in the two bags yesterday, there were a total of 13 gold bars of 20 taels, 9 gold bars of 1 tael, 5 ingots of silver of 10 taels, more than a dozen taels of broken silver, and a jade jade pendant, a pair of jade bracelets, and many other jewelry, which were estimated to be worth a lot of silver.

"Brother, you said that with the silver from selling horses today, how much silver can we have."

"I didn't count."

"Thirteen large gold bars, one ten taels of gold, eighteen small gold bars, seventy-one taels of silver, and four hundred and ten copper coins. and two thousand nine hundred fifty-one taels of silver. ”

"Put it away, we can't show it now." Zhang Zhimu said again: "You can use the jewelry yourself!"

"Don't worry, it's all gone, others have picked up the house, and they can't find it. I don't need any jewelry. ”

For such a woman, hiding things, Zhang Zhimu is a hundred at ease. Then he asked, "Why don't you use jewelry?" ”

"It would be nice if Uncle Chen was here, I could help you." Seeing Zhang Zhimu standing up and rubbing his waist, he looked a little tired, so he diverted the conversation and said.

"I don't know what happened to Uncle Chen, maybe something happened, otherwise there wouldn't be no news. Alas! Huang Yukun's face was full of sadness.

"Tell me what's going on with Uncle Chen?"

"Uncle Chen works the wharf from these dozens of places, and usually after a while, he will come back with some food after earning some money. But there has been no news for some days, and if I hadn't met you, I really don't know what to do. I also know that it is difficult for a coolie to feed himself, and we still drag him down. He also knows where we are now, and he won't leave us alone unless something big happens. ”

"Don't worry, isn't it the wharf on the side of the Fen River that Brother Liu said, walking along the Xiaoling River, it is only eighty miles. I'm going to look for him. Zhang Zhimu said.

"Find him, and he doesn't know you either. Otherwise, you're at home, I'll take a trip. ”

"No, you're a woman, absolutely not. I think so! Tomorrow, I will take Xiaoqing with me, get up early, and arrive in the afternoon with the ox cart. I'll be back the day after tomorrow. Xiaoqing, he must know. Zhang Zhimu said.

"Okay, that's it, go to bed early today, go to bed early tomorrow." Huang Yukun thought about it and said.

"Xiaoqing, tomorrow you and your uncle will go to Grandpa Chen together, okay?"

"Great, I'll go. I miss Grandpa Chen. "Xiaoqing is so happy, it's great to be able to go with her uncle.

"I'm going too." Xiaohu was in a hurry.

"No, you're too young, you're at home with your mother. You are a man, and you have to protect your mother at home. Zhang Zhimu coaxed. Xiaohu ran away and hummed.

"At night, the cattle are fed with good feed, and the cattle have the strength to go far away. Add some rice, sorghum and soybeans to the feed in the sack, and add less salt to the water you drink. Zhang Zhimu knew that he had to do this work himself.

"Tomorrow, bring more dry food and water." Zhang Zhimu said.

"Don't worry, I'll be ready for what needs to be prepared." Huang Yukun said.