Chapter 3 Midnight Thief
"Who!" Xu Jiaoxing sat up from the wooden bed suddenly, staring at the outside with her eyes tightly.
At this time, the cold moonlight was draped on the dilapidated wooden door. From the gap, you could vaguely see a hunched man blocking the door.
Xu Jiaoxing knew that there were many troubles in front of the widow's door, but she didn't expect it to come so quickly. Driven by her thoughts, she took a bottle of anti-wolf spray into the clinic. At this time, a laugh came from outside: "Xing'er, it's my Gu Laosi, you Brother Qiushi, open the door quickly, I have something to tell you."
It turned out to be the bastard brother-in-law who almost took advantage of her during the day!
Xu Jiaoxing knew that he was not kind, so she didn't talk to her now, so she just took a stick and walked slowly towards the yard gate. After she opened the door, she sprayed the anti-wolf spray on Gu Qiushi's body, and immediately heard Gu Qiushi's scream. Then, she took the stick and greeted Gu Qiushi, and while beating, she cursed: "I beat you little thief to death, I beat you little thief to death!"
Gu Qiushi's eyes stinged, and he couldn't escape her stick at all. After being beaten by more than a dozen times, he hurriedly shouted: "Xing'er, I'm the fourth brother, I'm your uncle! Stop, stop quickly!"
Xu Jiaoxing pretended not to hear it, and the stick in her hand didn't stop at all. Seeing that Gu Qiushi could not coax the woman today, he had to hold her head and run to the village.
Xu Jiaoxing gasped, and saw that the person had already stumbled away, then closed the door and returned to the house.
"Mom, what's wrong?" Aman sat up from the wooden bed in a daze. Xu Jiaoxing put down her things and hugged him and continued to sleep: "Mom is beating a mouse."
Aman did not doubt that there was him. He closed his eyes and said vaguely to help her beat the mouse, and then fell asleep again.
The next day, Xu Jiaoxing found a worn-out clay pot from the waste pile, and then filled it with water and cooked sweet potatoes over the fire.
Aman sat aside with firewood stuffed, and Xu Jiaoxing looked into the house for a barely useful broken backpack, preparing to fill it with wild vegetables for a while.
The small bag of sweet potatoes given by the Gu family could not be eaten for too long. Xu Jiaoxing planned to go to the mountain to find wild vegetables. After the sweet potatoes were cooked, the mother and two men held one in the palm of their hands and walked into the mountain one by one.
The mountain they were going to was right behind the village, and the people in the village called it Baigong Mountain.
Their melon shed is outside the village. After walking half a cup of tea along the path behind the house, they reach the edge of the mountain. Baigong Mountain is not high, but the vegetation is very rich. Even the edge of the cliff has a lot of wild brutus, lush and lush.
The more you go into the forest, the fresher the air will be.
Looking around, Xu Jiaoxing felt that there were big trees like Metasequoia around him, and the fields at the foot of the mountain were already full of people who had turned over the ground. Xu Jiaoxing reminded Aman to pay attention to his feet, while looking for wild vegetables everywhere.
The forest is quiet, and from time to time, a few "chirping" birds are heard. Xu Jiaoxing found that there are many good things in the Baigong Mountain, and many of the stumps are covered with black fungus. After walking a few steps, clusters of thatched mushrooms can be found.
Thatched mushrooms in this season are a rare thing. They can be sold for fifty or sixty-one pounds in modern times, and this era should not be bad.
Xu Jiaoxing's eyes lit up, picked up thatched mushrooms and put them in the backpack. Aman wanted to speak but stopped. After a while, he couldn't help but say, "Mom, Grandma hasn't come back yet. If we eat this, we don't even have a straw mat."
Xu Jiaoxing was stunned and heard Aman say again: "This mushroom is poisonous, and some people in our village are poisoned to death by this mushroom."
She naturally knew thatched mushrooms looked very similar to poisonous mushrooms, and she believed that she would not admit her mistakes, but when she thought about it carefully, Xu Jiaoxing's face was suddenly covered in black.
It turns out that he has even thought about the way to bury her!
Xu Jiaoxing grinded her teeth and couldn't help wondering if she was too kind to him. At this time, Aman had already picked up a handful of thatched mushrooms and threw them into her basket: "Mom, there are many more there, I'll help you pick them up!"
Xu Jiaoxing was so amused thatched mushrooms nearby were picked in the basket and picked a lot of purslane. The sky became gloomy. Xu Jiaoxing was afraid that the rain would fall, so he hurriedly pulled Aman down the mountain.
"Mom, look, there is taro there."
Xu Jiaoxing looked in the direction of Aman's finger and saw a few taros that were growing well.
Speaking of which, there are many families in the village who grow taro, but they are all in wasteland and planted in rotten fields by the river. However, this wall of taro vitality can produce large and large taros no matter how bad the environment is.
Xu Jiaoxing ate sweet potatoes several meals in a row, but was tired of it, so she took Aman to dig taro. After all the taros were dug out, the sky became more and more gloomy.
The mother and son hurried down the mountain, along the ridge of the field, passing through the vegetable fields, and at the village entrance, they met many farmers carrying hoes. Whenever they saw Xu Jiaoxing, they couldn't help but cast confused eyes at her.
Xu Jiaoxing just pretended that she didn't notice it. When she met a familiar face without any malicious intentions, she smiled at the other party.
When I walked straight to the single-plank bridge in front of the Land Temple, I saw a thin and delicate young man on the bridge from afar. Although he was wearing a wide-sized roe dress and had a childish and weak face, he had a high and beautiful atmosphere of books.
The young man was talking and laughing with his companions behind him. When the ostentatious light swept Xu Jiaoxing, he was stunned for a moment. When he realized that Xu Jiaoxing was walking towards him, the smile on his lips was fixed on his lips, his thin body trembled, and he was about to plant it in the canal.
Fortunately, his companion behind him pulled him, and he forced himself to move his eyes away and stabilize his body like a loss of his soul.
Xu Jiaoxing's mouth twitched, and she couldn't help but touch her face. Is she that scary?
After seeing the man rolling the corner of his robe and running away in a panic, Xu Jiaoxing then remembered that he was Gu Chunlai and Liu Guixian's treasure!
It was a weak scholar. This person was afraid that she would become like this, but it was difficult for him to have the courage to coax the original owner to cheer people up.
Xu Jiaoxing tskated and withdrew her gaze. But she couldn't help but remember the fact that the original owner was blocking Gu Chunlai at the village entrance and that in order to marry Gu Chunlai, she was willing to drug him, but by chance she accidentally came to Gu Yuhuai, the second son of the Gu family!
Xu Jiaoxing shivered and couldn't help but think about what the original owner had done without conscience.
"Mom, you won't chase after Uncle San, are you?" Aman's uneasy voice came from his ears.
Xu Jiaoxing has been busy with her livelihood these two days and has never sorted out the original owner's memory. Now when I think about it, I can't help but say shocked: "So, does your father have to marry me?"
In my impression, Erlang of the Gu family joined the army overnight before entering the bridal chamber. He had never sent a letter to her for four or five years. It can be seen that the man had no feelings for her, and he might even hate and despise her extremely.
Xu Jiaoxing couldn't help but think badly, fortunately the man died, otherwise his life would be difficult.
"Mom, you won't block Uncle San, right?" Aman's voice came from his ears again. Xu Jiaoxing faced his expectant and scared gaze, feeling shameless, pointed to the potato in the backpack, and changed the topic: "Want to eat steamed or cooked?"
Aman breathed a sigh of relief: "Everything is OK. As long as it is made by my mother, I like to eat it."
"Then make it into a glutinous taro ball." Xu Jiaoxing said softly, trying to alleviate the shock and embarrassment caused by the original owner.
After my mother returned to the house twice, Aman cooked the taro on fire, Xu Jiaoxing moved the stone mortar out of the space. When the taro was cooked, they peeled the skin one by one, put it in the stone mortar repeatedly pounded it.
Aman had never seen her mother make such food, and for a moment, she was also immersed in the sight.
After the glutinous taro ball was released from the pot, Xu Jiaoxing served a bowl for herself and Aman.
"Mom, it's so delicious!" Aman took a bite and couldn't help but look up and said sweetly. Xu Jiaoxing grinned and started eating.
Although the process of this taro stir-frying ball is complicated, the soft and glutinous feeling it feels in your mouth is really not comparable to steamed taro.
If you add a little sesame oil and scallion, you will definitely swallow your tongue! However, now the conditions do not allow it. When she makes money, she must buy some seasonings back.
Not only do you buy seasonings, but you also have to buy iron pots, sickles, kitchen knives from the village blacksmith's house... The most important thing is a hoe. This dry land is a good place to go.
Thinking of this, Xu Jiaoxing looked up and said, "I'm going to the county to sell mushrooms tomorrow, so you can wait for me at home."
Xu Jiaoxing remembers that the county where she is called Linxian, which is the largest of the eleven counties in Qingzhou Prefecture. Linxian is not far from Baimiao Village. In short, the distance from Baimiao Village to the town is similar to that from the county, both of which are eight or nine miles away, but the prices in the county are high, so her mushrooms have to be sold to the county.
But the distance is too far and Aman is too small, so she doesn't plan to take him.
After a long time, Xu Jiaoxing looked at Aman in confusion, and saw him looking at her with round eyes open: "Mom, are you going to the third uncle's private school, right?"
Xu Jiaoxing's face turned dark and before she could speak, she heard Aman say timidly: "My mother, you won't come back, are you?"
Xu Jiaoxing was so angry that she couldn't help but poke his forehead: "Gu Aman, what are you thinking! I worked hard to pick mushrooms, just to sell money to buy food and clothing for you?"
"Then I will accompany my grandmother to the county, I'm afraid my grandmother won't remember the way back."
"The road is too far, you can't walk." Xu Jiaoxing just finished speaking, and Aman's eyes were already foggy: "My mother just doesn't want to take me."
Xu Jiaoxing was speechless for a moment, afraid that he would cry, so she had to beg for mercy and said, "Okay, okay, okay, if you want to go."
Chapter completed!