Chapter 2: A Hard Woman
"Look at the ruthless mother-in-law of the Lian family, today she actually went up the mountain to dig sweet potatoes by herself, isn't the sun rising in the west?"
"Sister-in-law, don't you know, Asu is sick now, and she has no one to call, so she has to work by herself!"
"This old Lian family doesn't know what kind of sin he has created, he married such a daughter-in-law, just entered the door, he killed her husband, and now even the little uncle is half dead, how hard is this eight characters! What a broom star reincarnation! ”
Qi Zhen hated people the most in her previous life that she was hard, because Lian Jun and Lian Su had gone one after the other, and it was very difficult for her to even remarry, otherwise her mother's family would not have sold her directly to an old eunuch who had no roots for a sum of silver.
glared fiercely at the two women with broken mouths, Qi Hao ignored them, turned the back basket behind her, and went back to Lian's house directly.
Walking to the kitchen, Qi Zhen put down the back basket, took a few sweet potatoes, and put them in a basin to wash and wash them, although Qi Zhen was a little unskilled in making a fire to cook, but in the end she was also a peasant woman, and it didn't take much effort to light a fire in the stove, boil water on the stove, add some rice to the pot, and cut the sweet potatoes into thumb-length pieces and put them in.
After the porridge is boiled soft, the kitchen also exudes a rich sweet fragrance, and the sweet potatoes in Dawan Village are very sweet, even if they are boiled in water, they still taste good.
After beating three poached eggs in the pot, after the eggs were cooked, Qi Zhen directly took out the porridge and walked out of the kitchen and shouted.
"Bo Yuan, Zhong Qi, come over for dinner!"
Hearing the woman's voice, Lian Boyuan pulled Lian Zhongqi to the kitchen slowly, Lian Boyuan was older, looked at Qi Zhen with vigilant eyes, Qi Hao ignored him, and filled a bowl of porridge, in which a poached egg lay and sent it to Lian Su's room.
Knocking lightly on the door, Qi Zhen directly brought the sweet potato porridge to the bed, Lian Su glanced at Qi Zhen, pursed his lips, and didn't say anything.
Looking at the man lying on the bed who had taken off his face, Qi Zhen pursed his lips secretly, only feeling that it was useless to be a scholar, it was just a small wind and cold, Lian Jun couldn't stand it, and this Lian Su was also tossed almost half his life.
"Get up and get something to eat."
As she spoke, Qi Zhen put the porcelain bowl on the wooden table, helped Lian Su sit up, and put a cushion on his back.
Picking up the porcelain bowl, Qi Hao asked, "Feed you with me?" ”
Lian Su raised his eyebrows, and looked at Qi Zhen with dark eyes, and the look in that look made Qi Zhen's back cold.
Fortunately, Lian Su quickly took over the porcelain bowl, although he didn't have any strength, but he was still able to pick up a bowl of porridge, because he had been hungry for a long time, so Lian Su couldn't care about the heat, so he drank the porridge in the bowl, and even swallowed the poached egg in one gulp.
The two hens only laid three eggs, Qi Zhen gave the three boys of the Lian family, she didn't catch them herself, watching Lian Su eat deliciously, Qi Zhen swallowed her saliva and secretly scolded herself for not being productive.
Seeing that Lian Su finished eating, Qi Zhen took the porcelain bowl, returned to the kitchen, and drank his bowl of sweet potato porridge, at this time, the soup on the stove was bubbling and bubbling, walked to the stove, looked at the amount of about a bowl of water, Qi Zhen pinched the handle with a rag, poured the soup into the bowl, and brought it to Lian Su in the room.
To tell the truth, Qi Zhen is really not familiar with Lian Su's little uncle, Lian Su can't look down on her love for vanity and greedy for small profits, and Qi Zhen can't look down on Lian Su's look like she can't wait to get into the book, Lian has two dolls in the family, and the land in the field is not cultivated, and now it has long been abandoned.
Look at other people's fields, they have now harvested a lot of grain, but their Lian family's fields are overgrown with weeds, and the rice jar has also bottomed out, if you don't go to the mountains to dig sweet potatoes, I'm afraid you will have to go hungry.
Speaking of which, although Lian Su is Qi Zhen's brother-in-law, he is one year older than Qi Zhen, but the two of them are not very familiar with each other, Qi Zhen has been married for less than half a year, and he has never said a few words to Lian Su.
However, Lian Su was still very knowledgeable, and when he saw Qi Zhen taking the medicine, he didn't pretend to do so, and directly swallowed a bowl of dark lacquered decoction.
Qi Zhen had drunk the medicine prescribed by Dr. Liu in the past, the taste, bitter people can spit out all the bile, after marrying the old eunuch, Qi Zhen has some scattered silver money in his hand, whenever he wants to drink bitter medicine, he will go to Rong'an Fang to buy some candied fruit to eat, that taste, Qi Zhen thinks about it now, and feels sweet to the heart.
"What are the conditions for these things you are doing today?"
Lian Su suddenly spoke, in his eyes, Qi Zhen is a person who is unprofitable and can't afford to be early, and it is really not a simple matter to let this woman take the initiative to take care of this big family.
However, all the valuable things in the family were moved to his mother's house by the Qi family, and even the gift money received by his brother for the funeral before, Lian Su didn't even touch it, and it became the Qi family's things.
Qi Zhen lowered her head, where would she not know Lian Su's thoughts?
Thinking that she had given so much money to the blood-sucking leeches of the Qi family, Qi Zhen was angry, then she was a good father and mother, and she regarded her daughter as a commodity at all, as long as there was a buyer who could afford a good price, she could sell it.
It's not enough to sell once, it's going to sell a second time.
Thinking of the days when he was tortured by the old eunuch, Qi Zhen's face was very ugly, and he didn't even have a good attitude, looking at Lian Su and said:
"I take care of you now, so as not to let you die, this big family has no one to support, when you are well, hurry up and find a job, save yourself from eating at home and waiting for death!"
Obviously, Qi Zhen felt very guilty about Lian Su's death, but she was originally a knife-mouthed tofu-hearted, and her mouth was very tricky, as soon as she said this, Lian Su sneered, as if she had already seen Qi Zhen's plan.
"Don't worry, as long as you don't take the money to supplement your mother's family, I won't be able to afford even a woman! Ahem! ”
While speaking, Lian Su obviously coughed heart-rending because of his anger.
Qi Hao didn't care about him, snorted coldly, and left the room directly with the bowl.
It's a hot day in August, and the dishes and chopsticks left here must be cleaned, otherwise there may be a bunch of goshawks around it tomorrow, and Qi Zhen has seen it once, and it makes her want to vomit.
By the moonlight, she put the wooden bucket in the well, shook the hemp rope with her hand, brought up half a bucket of well water, and cleaned all the dishes and chopsticks.
Sweating, Qi Zhen only felt that her whole body was very sticky, and she revealed a sour smell, she was not a clean person, but because the old eunuch's torture methods were really filthy, every time she passed through it, Qi Zhen had to wash her whole body carefully, and over time, she also developed the habit of bathing at night.
The moonlight sprinkled on the ground like a layer of white sand.
Qi Hao carried a few more buckets of well water, first brought some back to the room, poured it into the wooden bucket, then boiled a pot of boiling water in an iron pot, carried the basin to the room, carefully closed the doors and windows, and then poured the hot water in the basin into the wooden bucket.
Suddenly, the water vapor was steaming, and white smoke was curling.
Qi Hao didn't take a bath directly, she first fetched water to wash the mud on her body, looked at the fine white skin on her body, touched her rough cheeks again, and sighed heavily.
Her bottom is indeed fine-skinned and tender, but she is exposed to the wind and sun in the village every day, and she is not as well-maintained as those ladies in the capital, no matter how good her skin is, she can't stand it, looking at her calloused hands, Qi Zhen is very distressed.
The unbearable memories in her mind were something Qi Hao didn't want to remember, but she had to admit that the old eunuch did have some real skills, otherwise she wouldn't be able to serve the concubine Niangniang and let the concubine Niangniang be the only favor.
The old eunuch gave birth to a pair of skillful hands, the most good at making women's balms and sesame oil, there is no woman in the world who does not love beauty, those balms applied to the body, not only can make the rough skin become delicate again like clotted cream, but also have a whitening effect, with those faint floral fragrances, people smell in the nose, the whole person will be drunk.
In his previous life, Qi Zhen followed the old eunuch and made a balm with him, and the old eunuch made the balm and applied it to Qi Zhen when he sold the leftovers.
But the old eunuch is a pervert, obviously he has no roots, but he is extremely enthusiastic about that kind of thing, he can use any tools, and he tossed Qi Hao half to death, the more delicate the skin is, the more addictive the old eunuch is to toss.
In the end, Qi Hao was tossed to death by that bastard.
Licking her dry lips, Qi Hao knew that the concubine had been alone for so many years, and she might not be able to get rid of the balm prepared by the old eunuch.
If she can also make those balms and sesame oils and sell them, this Dawan Village is only half a day's work away from the capital, and the most important thing is rich people, as long as the things are good enough, Qi Zhen will not be able to sell them at all.
The money on a woman is also the best to earn, and Qi Zhen has a deep understanding of this when she watched the old eunuch make a lot of money selling grease in her previous life.
This thought flashed through my heart, and I couldn't shake it off.
Qi Zhen was a little impulsive, but she was naked, and now that it was night, she couldn't go out of the house at all, although the villagers of Dawan were simple, but there were many rights and wrongs in front of the widow, even if Qi Zhen didn't care about reputation, but more things were better than less, it was better to settle down.
The dirt on his body was almost wiped away, and Qi Hao walked directly into the barrel.
Her skin and flesh were extremely white, and even the plump shape of her chest was very wonderful, but her skin was not as fine as clotted fat, but a little peeling.
Steamed by the steam, Qi Hao only felt very tired, she thought in her heart, this Lian family only has more than 100 yuan left, although there is no place to use money in Dawan Village, but Lian Su's body and bones are not good, the medicine she takes is a bottomless pit, plus two young dolls, there are more places to use money.
With her brows furrowed, Qi Hao quickly took care of herself, because she was very tired, she dried her hair, put on a dress casually, went to bed and fell asleep.