Chapter VII
"Don't go back yet?" Mingxiu walked for a while, and found that Xie Zhan hadn't followed, and couldn't help but wonder.
It's going to be dark, what is he going to do if he doesn't go back?
"I'm going back." Xie Zhan came back to his senses, took a long step, and caught up with her in three or two steps, "Didn't you say that you went into the mountains in the morning to find food?" And you found these fruits? ”
He didn't see anything that could be eaten, although the wild fruit looked non-poisonous, but Niu Ergou just ate a fruit and fell unconscious, even if Xie Zhan believed that Mingxiu didn't mean to harm people, and she herself had eaten it before, but before figuring out the situation, it was still better not to eat this fruit.
But apart from these fruits, Mingxiu didn't get anything else.
On this day, will you say goodbye to the wasted labor, and nothing will fall?
"Isn't this food?" Mingxiu rolled her eyes, why did this person suddenly look like he had eaten gunpowder.
Although her family is poor, it has not reached the point where there is nothing to eat, right?
Myeong-su clearly underestimated the level of poverty in his family.
"Xiu'er is back, your mother left food for you, hurry up and eat." Ming's father smiled and looked at the two who returned side by side, his daughter was born well-looking, and after he came over, he cleaned himself up, and he really didn't look like a girl in the township, and although Xie Zhan was a beggar, he didn't look bad when he cleaned up, if the two of them really became it, his grandson and granddaughter should also be good-looking in the future.
Xie Zhan felt that Ming's father looked at him with strange eyes, which made him uncomfortable, and after smiling and greeting, he quickly walked past Mingxiu and went straight to the stove house, and the food left by Ming's mother for them was put inside.
Although the Ming family has burned it clean, the pots and pans are iron and pottery, which are not afraid of burning, but it has reduced a lot of losses for the Ming family, at least they still have something to eat.
Mingxiu only thinks that Xie Zhan is hungry, not to mention that he is a big man, Mingxiu is hungry without eating anything for a day.
Everyone in the desert country has two meals a day, and the rich and noble people can still have some snacks to eat at noon, but the Ming family can't even eat, where is this condition? Mingxiu had to eat two fruits at noon.
This kind of eating habit made her very uncomfortable, and after making up her mind to improve the conditions at home, she encouraged her mother to eat three meals a day in the future.
"It's really coarse tea and light rice."
After seeing the food left by Ming's mother, Xie Zhan couldn't help frowning.
The rice is gruel, and the vegetables are just a plate of wild vegetables, looking dusty and unappetizing, and the entrance is even more bland and tasteless.
He used to only treat it as coarse tea and light rice, but now he really eats it.
Mingxiu knew that her family's conditions were not good, there was nothing in the house and fields, but she didn't expect to be so poor, the Ming family's parents were very good to her, and naturally they would not deliberately make these things because they were reluctant to give her food, so the conditions of the Ming family were already difficult.
After hearing Xie Zhan's words, he was even more unhappy.
"If you don't like it, you can skip it."
At this time, the salt manufacturing industry is not very developed, although the people eat salt, but they are not very reluctant, the poor people can put a little taste of each meal so that the family can supplement the salt is very good, if you want to say that there is a taste, then don't think about it.
She directly stepped forward and brought all the food in front of Xie Zhan to her, "My family is poor, and I can't afford to eat the delicacies of the mountains and seas, but I will disappoint you." ”
"I'm telling the truth." On the way back, Xie Zhan listened to the words of those people, and his heart was originally uncomfortable, but now he was even more dissatisfied when he saw Mingxiu so covered in thorns, and couldn't help but say sarcastic, "Don't you even let people tell the truth?" ”
"Then did you know that people have to bow their heads under the eaves? If you dislike my family's lack of food, you can go by yourself. Mingxiu rolled her eyes, she couldn't afford to serve the eldest young master, and if she didn't serve it, wouldn't she be able to wait? Originally, taking in Xie Zhan was a temporary soft-heartedness, but now he can't look down on that or that, since that's the case, then don't leave the two to get tired of each other.
"You woman!" Xie Zhan was angry, he had never seen such a woman covered in thorns, hadn't her father taught her what it meant to be docile and virtuous?
It doesn't look like a woman at all!
"How?"
Now on his own turf, Mingxiu is not afraid of Xie Zhan's anger at all.
After a long period of luck, Xie Zhan finally suppressed the anger that was about to erupt, and after calming down, he also noticed the place next to him.
"Have you read a book?"
Xie Zhan's eyes were full of inquiry, there are many people who understand the truth of "people have to bow their heads under the eaves", but there are not many who can say this, Mingxiu can't say this if she is really just a country girl.
What a sharp mind!
Mingxiu's eyes flashed slightly, but he didn't expect that it was just a casual remark during a quarrel, which could make Xie Zhan notice that something was wrong.
She was faintly a little weak in her heart, but she had a reasonable look on her face, "What does it have to do with you?" You just have to remember that now you live in my house! Then you have to listen to me! ”
After talking to him so much, Mingxiu didn't have the heart to eat more, it was getting dark, and there was no nightlife at this time, so it was better to eat less before going to bed.
Throwing the rest of the food to Xie Zhan to solve, Mingxiu took the back basket and went to the chicken pen next door.
was interrupted by Xie Zhan and temporarily put down the live experiment, but he had no less plans in his heart.
Since the family next door said that she stole the chicken and robbed her land, she had to pay a price.
Now, it seems, there is nothing more suitable for live experiments than the chickens and ducks next door.
Taking advantage of the fact that no one in the family was paying attention, Mingxiu secretly went to the edge of the chicken pen next door, broke the apple that had been stung by the wasp and threw it in, according to the time when Niu Ergou became ill, it should not be a matter of a while to get the result, Mingxiu directly moved a chair to sit down.
Ming's mother came back from washing clothes by the river, and her face was a little ugly.
"What are you doing here?"
It should have been time to rest, but Mingxiu was still sitting in the yard, no wonder Ming's mother felt strange.
"I'll take a break." Mingxiu had already planned his rhetoric.
Ming Mu really didn't doubt it, she nodded, "Then you go back to sleep early, there are still a lot of mosquitoes outside." ”
"Your face was a little ugly just now, what's wrong outside?" Mingxiu is worried, there is only a matter of Niu Ergou today, Ming's mother is being sneered at outside, although she has not been with Ming's parents for a long time, but she also knows that both of them are soft and soft, and they can only suffer if they are bullied.
She, who is a daughter, has no reason to see it as if she didn't see it, if Ming's mother was really bullied, she, a daughter, would have to make up for her.