Chapter 11: The Brothers Come Home
Wormwood was looking forward to getting home as soon as possible, but she was really talked about by Ji Lao Niang all the way, and she couldn't stand it.
With a clang, Wormwood kicked open the door first, and saw ...... sitting in the yard
She shouted happily, "Second brother, you're back!" β
It's just that I didn't see the other one, so I asked curiously, "Where is my third brother?" β
She had never been so happy to see her brother back, and now her mother could divert her attention.
Erhu was sitting by the well, washing sweet potatoes, when he heard the door open, and looked up to see them coming back.
Hearing Wormwood's question, he immediately said: "We have just arrived home for a while, and you are not at home, seeing that the time is almost up, we are going to cook lunch first." Let your third brother go to the backyard to pick a few eight-sided melons, and fry them for a while. β
When Ji Lao Niang saw her son who she hadn't seen for a long time, she really didn't have the time to find trouble with wormwood.
"Why are you back so late? Listen to what your little sister said about that...... It's the ...... in the village Well...... Your classmate, I saw him yesterday. Ji Lao Niang couldn't remember the name of the second classmate, so she only replaced the Tao with "your classmate".
"It's Ye Shoujun, right?" Erhu thought for a while and said, "It seems that Ye Wu's father is sick, and he came back with leave early." β
Wormwood saw that the second tiger was concentrating on washing sweet potatoes, and he didn't raise his head when he spoke, and he thought carefully, and the pheasant on the bright side had already eaten, so ......
Quietly touched Ji Lao Niang with her shoulder, glanced at her in the utility room, and then said with his mouth: "Pheasant." β
Immediately sneaked into the utility room, although the hand can't move, but you can use mental power to remove a pheasant and some fungi, so that her second brother burns at noon, and she doesn't dare to put more, because as long as it is taken out of the warehouse, it is a pity.
Ji Lao Niang is about to be angry with her stupid girl, this emergency really needs to be changed, when no one pays attention later, put it in secretly, and burn it at night!
Engaging in such a small action in person, if she is seen, she doesn't know what excuse to make, and she has to rush back to work immediately.
It wasn't until her daughter came out of the utility room and closed the door that she breathed a sigh of relief.
Then he said to the second tiger: "Second brother, I have to go to work soon, your little sister just saved a baby in the village, and her hands were strained, you pay attention not to let her move, there is a pheasant in the utility room You burned it at noon, make up for it." Erhu suspected that he had heard it wrong, during the busy farming period, even if Father Ji knew how to hunt, he didn't have time to go.
"Did you hear me?" Ji Lao Niang looked at his stupid appearance, and she was not sure if she understood, so she hurriedly asked.
Erhu heard her mother's question, but nodded unconsciously.
After making sure that he heard clearly, Ji Lao Niang left in a hurry, she had taken a lot of leave in the past two days, and some people had already started gossiping, leave early, do more, and let people talk less.
Erhu looked stunned with both eyes, and her wife walked out of the courtyard gate, without turning her head, and instinctively asked at Wormwood: "Are you okay if you are injured?" β
"It's okay, it's just that you can't move for the next two days, and it'll be fine in a few days."
After hearing her little sister say that it was okay, she reacted in hindsight and asked uncertainly at the wormwood: "I just heard the old lady say let the pheasant be roasted?" β
"Pheasant? What pheasant? The three tigers held a few eight melons in their hands, walked over, and shouted just after listening to half a sentence.
Wormwood rolled her eyes and said: "Yes, what my mother said just now is the pheasant, in the utility room, you kill it, eat it at noon, I can't help here, go back to the house to rest." After saying that, he turned around and left, without the face to look at the stupid faces of his brothers. It's too unfocused, where is this? Since you can't go back to the farm to refine your spiritual power.
"Second brother, the new rice will come down soon, let's cook the rice at noon!" Wormwood suddenly thought of it, turned to the two tigers and said.
"The old lady will be angry." Erhu was a little worried, not only wanting to satisfy his little sister - listening to her, but also worried about making the old lady angry (his father didn't care about anything).
"It's okay, I'm sick, my mother, she will definitely listen to me, and she won't be angry." Her mother knows best what her situation is, and she must be fine.
"Second brother, just listen to my little sister! When the old lady was angry, she said that I wanted it, I have rough skin and thick meat, just let the old lady beat a few times to get angry. "The three tigers don't care about the three seven twenty-one just want to satisfy the little sister, and to be honest, he himself is greedy, every day is either mushy or wild vegetable dumplings, and he hasn't eaten authentic rice for a long time.
Who is not greedy in these years!
"Okay, listen to you." In case the old lady gets angry when she arrives, he will block it.
Wormwood knows that her brothers are thinking too much, but they don't know the current situation at home, and it's normal to worry!
It's really happy to have her brothers protect her like this, so she has to work hard.
"I'm back in the house." After a brief explanation, I couldn't wait to go back to the farm to see how much merit the boy I had just saved could have.
Personal attribute - Host: Wormwood
System Level: 2
Vitality: 30 years
Mental Power: Beginner 129/1000
Merit Value: 1
Brawn: 5
Affinity: 12
Amount: 27,860 gold coins, 85 silver coins, 69 copper coins
"Ash, why is it only 1 o'clock? And how did the affinity go up? Wormwood was a little disgusted and a little happy, very conflicted.
"It's based on the amount of merit, just now that boy, if you don't save it, he will break a leg, but there is no danger to his life, so there is only 1 point,"
"Affinity is what rose when you saved the boy and the spectators around you had a good impression of you."
Through this incident, Wormwood found that she had a flaw in her personality and was not calm enough. At the last moment, he only relied on instinct to save him, and he couldn't think about whether he would be okay or hurt afterwards.
Although I always wanted to find good things to do and increase my merit points, I never thought that I would be hurt because of this.
Although she is a little contradictory like this, Wormwood still cares about her little life very much, if she is so impulsive every time, the injury is a trivial matter, and she is afraid that her little life will be played with by herself.
Hey~ Forget it! Don't want to! I don't know if I can change my personality like this, as long as I can save my life!
The boat will naturally go straight to the bridge, and then let's talk about it!
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At the dinner table, Wormwood's hands couldn't move at all, and they could only watch everyone eat pitifully......
"Little sister, why don't you eat?" Ji Lao Niang was the first to find out and asked worriedly.
"You're not going to get sick again, are you?" Father Ji followed and asked.
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Seeing that Wormwood didn't eat, I was so anxious that everyone asked word by word.
"Stop!" Wormwood hurriedly shouted.
And then he was embarrassed and said, "I can't do it manually......."
There was silence all around, followed by "poof" and "poof......
Hahaha...... The whole family laughed, and even Father Ji couldn't help it, with a smile on his face.
Everyone was also concerned about the chaos, and they were frightened by the fever last time, and no one remembered that it was the wormwood's hand that was strained.
"Mother, feed you!" It just so happened that Wormwood was sitting next to Ji Lao Niang, which was also convenient.
"I'm not hungry now, mother, you eat first, and then feed me after eating." She is not a doll, so she is embarrassed to let her mother feed her hungry.
"It's okay, I just ate a few bites and I'm not hungry now......"
Before Ji Lao Niang finished speaking, the four tigers preemptively said: "Mother, let me feed it!" I've almost eaten, and you're all going to work soon, so I can not go, or go later. β
Ji Lao Niang looked at the empty bowl of the Four Tigers and did not object.
It's really inconvenient to do anything with a hand strain, and I didn't think of buying ointment in the mall, and drinking some spiritual spring if I wasn't feeling well.
Fortunately, on the second day, I realized that I could buy the wounded tendon herbal ointment in the mall (this wounded tendon herbal ointment is not the other tendon ointment)ββ: After applying, it will be all right the next day (that is, the price is not very beautiful, and it is distressing).
It's good, but I don't dare to let people know that she replied so quickly, she only dared to do some light work at home every day, and went to the farm to cultivate spiritual power and open up wasteland when she had time.
Time flies, more than ten days have passed in a blink of an eye, the summer harvest has come to an end, the hands of wormwood can be healed, and the village committee will also organize the villagers to go to the township to socialize the grain.
In the early hours of the morning, every family sent a strong laborer to deliver the public grain together. The village chief and the village secretary took the lead in not eating breakfast, bringing their own dry food, which was driven by ox carts, pushed by wheelbarrows, and carried by flat poles.
The peasants at the gate of the grain station consciously waited in a long queue for the staff to approve itβwhether it was first-class, second-class, or last-class grain.
When it was Xiaoye Village's turn, he directly stopped and didn't let him in, and heard...
"It's time to get off work, come back in the afternoon." After the staff announced with a blank face, they closed the door and left.
The village chief and the village secretary looked at each other, and this luck was really... I can't always come across it, and I'm used to it. It was rare to come to the township community, and the village secretary and village chief asked everyone to discuss going out in two batches to buy some necessities.
With so many people, the ox cart must not be able to sit down, and it can only be the same as when you came, and it takes three or four hours to go back, so you have to move quickly, it is too late and the mountain road is not safe.
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Wormwood looks at the fruits of her labor:
System Level: 5
Vitality: 30 years
Mental Power: Beginner 151/1000
Merit Value: 1
Brawn: 5
Affinity: 12
Amount: 60 gold coins, 6 silver coins, 38 copper coins
The level has gone up, and the gold coins have been emptied, which is not enough to upgrade, but I still sold three stupid spores, two wild goats, two wild boars, and some wild fruits.
The farm has already harvested a stubble, this time planting an acre of mung beans and some watermelon, mango, lychee, durian and other tropical fruits that they like to eat or are not common here, and after the last time the cabbage was ripe, all of them were collected and sold to the system.
The farm is already a thriving and vibrant scene, and with such achievements in a short period of time, Wormwood has an indescribable sense of satisfaction in her heart.
Guangguang's pocket, I have to go up the mountain to earn gold coins again, but fortunately, this time I took her wife with me, and the two of us can get more mountain goods.
Knock... Knock... knocked, there was a knock on the door, and at the same time I heard Ji Lao Niang shouting: "Little sister, someone is looking for it, come out." β
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Ji Lao Niang opened the courtyard door and was a little surprised to see Li Zhaodi's mother and son outside the door.
Li Zhaodi married into the village, while Ji Lao Niang was from the village, and they both had their own circles of activity, and the Ji family lived outside the village, so they didn't usually have much contact.
"Second sister-in-law Ji, is wormwood at home?" Li Zhaodi also saw that Ji Lao Niang had doubts and went straight to the point.
Ji Lao Niang didn't look like she was looking for fault, and asked them to come into the hall to sit with a puzzled face, and asked Wormwood to come out by the way.
"Let's go into the mountain later, my little sister is going to change clothes, you guys wait a minute!" I didn't make it clear, I thought her little sister was too lazy to get up yet! Just in case, you can't underestimate the gossip of rural ladies.
"It's okay, it's okay, we're not in a hurry, the main thing is to thank Wormwood for saving our family's second pillar." Erzhu's mother, Li Zhaodi, hurriedly and vaguely said that they were here to thank them, not to find fault.
"I should have come over a long time ago, but the second pillar of our family was young and was shocked that day, and it was busy farming, so I didn't come until now." Li Zhaodi explained embarrassedly, not because they were ungrateful, but because of various reasons, they didn't have time to come.
"Mother, who is looking for me?" Wormwood came in and asked suspiciously, interrupting their conversation as well. When she saw Li Zhaodi and Erzhu, she understood.
"This is Erzhu's mother, you called Aunt Li, you are here to thank you for saving Erzhu on the mountain last time." Ji Lao Niang didn't think that her little sister was stupid, and she didn't understand when she saw people, mainly for Li Zhaodi and them.
"Aunt Li, you're welcome, it's all from the same village, and I happened to be there." Wormwood already has a system reward, and it doesn't take it seriously, to put it mildly.
"How can it! If you hadn't caught Erzhu, his missing arms and legs would have been light, but you also know that our family is poor, and there is nothing good to thank you, these eggs will make up for you, don't dislike it. Li Zhaodi was a little embarrassed and handed the basket of eggs in her hand to Wormwood.
Wormwood looked at Mrs. Ji and asked her to look at it, she was still a child, and her personal contacts were not suitable for recruitment.
"Everyone is having a hard time, and the wormwood hand is also good, we will accept it, and you can take the eggs back to the children to eat!" Ji Lao Niang was also a little angry with them at the beginning, she didn't teach the children well, and she was naughty and involved wormwood. Time has passed, and the wormwood hands are also good, and Ji Lao Niang can also look at them with a normal heart. It's just that the wormwood is injured because of the second pillar after all, and the gift can not be accepted, and the words must be clear and clear.
Li Zhaodi directly put the basket on the table, pulled the hand of wormwood, and said to Ji Lao Niang with a smile: "Second sister-in-law, I am a cheerful person, one is one, two is two, I don't like to push around." I came here today to thank wormwood sincerely, there are not many things, just a heart. Don't shirk it, or I'm worried about whether you're too little. β
Since the words were all said and done, Ji Lao Niang motioned for Wormwood to pour out the eggs, and then decorate the other party's basket with a return gift.
"Okay, I'll take the eggs, don't talk about what wormwood saved Erzhu in the future, and this matter will be over." Ji Lao Niang thought it through, and it was very simple.