The two young men who came out of Doctor Liu's house and followed Old Zhao to send Wei Jingshu over couldn't help but start a conversation: "Sister Shu, what is that thing you have in your hand today? I have never seen such a weapon."
"I picked up a stick on the roadside. I guess someone dropped it and didn't pick it up." Wei Jingshu lied without changing her expression, her eyes were full of sincerity, and people could not doubt her at all.
She looked up: "Do you like it?"
The man touched his head honestly and nodded slightly: "I think that thing is quite practical."
Wei Jingshu nodded in agreement, but then changed the subject and said like a calf: "That's mine, I won't give it to you."
The man was immediately frustrated and stared at Wei Jingshu with resentment, while Old Zhao and the other man laughed so hard that they couldn't straighten their backs.
After sending Wei Jingshu home, Old Zhao specifically gave Li Rou some instructions. Wei Jingshu's hand was injured and she had to take good care of it. She couldn't do heavy work recently.
Wei Jingshu immediately became a key protected person. The two children were afraid that he would bump into something, so they didn't allow him to touch this or that. Wei Jingshu, who
was so bored that she was panicking, set her eyes on the pheasant that her family had not yet taken to the county to buy. She squatted in front of the tied pheasant and swallowed her saliva with drooling.
I haven't had pheasant soup for a long time. I miss it!
Little did she know that the scene of her squatting in front of the pheasant had been heard by Wei Shuang to Li Rou.
"Xiao Shuang, take your sister out for a walk. Xiao Yu and I will kill a chicken to nourish your sister."
Wei Shuang cheered and ran away. She tricked people away with just a small snack to eat.
The last time she made chicken soup, she just boiled it and it didn't taste great. This time, Li Rou was determined to nourish Wei Jingshu. She gritted her teeth and exchanged it for a casserole, some green onions, mushrooms, winter bamboo shoots and half a jar of rice wine from Uncle Wei's house.
Kill the pheasant and drain the blood. Boil water in the casserole and put the processed chicken in to blanch it.
After taking out the chicken that had been rinsed, Wei Yu diligently poured water into the casserole to clean it, and then filled half a jar of water and put the chicken in, just below the water surface.
He picked up a short-weight cattail leaf fan to help the fire.
Li Rou put ginger slices and rice wine into the pot one by one. After the water boiled, she carefully skimmed off the foam, and then put in the chopped mushrooms and winter bamboo shoots one by one. She covered the casserole with a lid, and finally showed a warm smile.
She tiptoed to look outside. Le'er was sleeping soundly with saliva bubbles in her mouth.
"Sister-in-law, I'm here." Wei Yu patted his chest and fanned a few more times. The fire was burning very vigorously, and the soup in the casserole was "gurgling". Gradually, a rich fragrance kept running out of the casserole. Wei Yu took a deep breath and smiled foolishly: "There will be delicious food tonight."
Li Rou smiled: "The good days are still behind, a pot of chicken soup is nothing."
Wei Yu nodded repeatedly.
A pot of chicken soup was already cooked, and Li Rou generously cooked half a pot of white rice and fried a few side dishes.
When everything was ready, she sent Wei Yu to find Wei Jingshu and Wei Shuang, and she put some salt in the casserole and continued to simmer on low heat.
When Wei Jingshu came back, the chicken soup at home was just out of the pot. She ran straight to the kitchen, staring at the fragrant chicken soup, unable to move, and her stomach, which was not hungry, began to rumble again and again.
She stroked her belly and looked at Li Rou pitifully: "Sister-in-law, my stomach is protesting."
Li Rou didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and quickly made a bowl of chicken soup for Wei Jingshu. Wei Jingshu couldn't wait to drink a mouthful of the chicken soup. She was immediately grimaced because of the burn, but she still smiled foolishly, like a silly daughter of a landlord.
Satisfied with the taste she had been longing for, she ran out with it again. Not long after, she heard her smug voice: "This is given to me by my sister-in-law. You two don't have it, do you?"
"I knew that my sister-in-law loves me the most."
A simple and silly air came over her, but Li Rou felt that her heart was filled, and the corners of her mouth were involuntarily raised.
After the meal was served on the table, Wei Jingshu had finished a whole bowl of chicken soup. This time, she unceremoniously served a large bowl of rice, poured the chicken soup on it, and put it into her mouth with satisfaction.
She liked white rice with soup the most.
After half filling her stomach, she raised her head from her rice bowl and asked casually, "Sister-in-law, if we can split the family, will you agree?"
Li Rou seemed to understand what she meant and said firmly, "If we can split the family, sister-in-law will take you guys with us."
"What about you?" Wei Jingshu looked at Wei Yu and Wei Shuang again.
The two looked at each other and said in unison, "Second sister, we are willing."
"Anyway, grandma and my uncle and aunt don't treat us as family, so it's better to split it up." Wei Yu clenched his fists, "In this way, the good things we find will not be snatched away by my aunt in the name of honoring grandma."
Wei Shuang nodded in agreement.
Seeing that the three did not object, Wei Jingshu's mouth was grinning to her ears.
"Sister-in-law, do we need to plow the land after the grain is harvested?" Thinking of what Doctor Liu said, Wei Jingshu asked.
"Yes." Li Rou nodded, "After the rice roots in the field are dry, we have to plow the field so that we can plant crops next year instead of sowing seeds."
Li Rou thought about it, and then told Wei Jingshu the key points of plowing the field. Wei Jingshu wrote them down one by one and started to think about it again.
The Zhou family of three was not even willing to harvest the crops. If they split up, they would definitely not want the land. They had to plant the land themselves. They plowed the land and planted some things in the spring of next year. When they made money, they would hire a few people to take care of it.
Thinking of something, Wei Jingshu suddenly looked at Wei Yu: "Do you like the private school in the village or the private school in the county?"
Wei Yu was stunned, and he didn't get over Wei Jingshu's jumpy thinking for a long time, but he still replied seriously: "My eldest brother said that although the private school teachers in the village are also capable, they are still inferior to those in the county. If possible, I want to go to the county."
"I want my brother to go with me too." Wei Shuang raised her hand and cheered, "My eldest brother said that women also need to be able to read and write, and women are no worse than men."
"When your elder brother was alive, you two were not so active." Li Rou teased, patting Wei Yu's head, "Especially you, you are like a naughty monkey all day long."
Wei Yu yelled dissatisfiedly: "Although I am a little naughty, my academic performance is the best in the private school. When I dropped out of school, the teacher came to find me." As soon as
Wei Yu finished speaking, Li Rou and Wei Shuang fell silent. At the beginning, Wei Yu was forcibly pulled out of the private school by Zhou. The teacher couldn't bear to see Wei Yu's talent wasted, so he came to the door and said that he could not collect Wei Yu's tuition, but was beaten and scolded by Zhou with a broom. After the teacher went back, he fell down in bed in anger.
It happened that Zhou was holding a family hostage at that time, and the teacher hadn't seen Wei Yu for a long time, so he gave up this seedling.