Chapter 75 You want to teach me how to do things?
Qin Yao couldn't stand eating porridge for several nights in a row, so she said to Liu Ji, "I want to eat white rice today."
Liu Ji thought to himself: This prodigal woman!
He agreed with a smile on his face, and quickly started a fire, washed rice and cooked.
She came back late today, around 8:30 in the evening. Those in the village who had eaten early had already gone to bed and fallen asleep.
The four father and sons had already had dinner earlier, but now that Qin Yao brought back the meat buns, their stomachs growled in tacit understanding, waiting for Liu Ji to heat up the buns and bring them out of the pot to share equally.
The mother and her five children sat around the dining table in the main room. Qin Yao took out the bag of broad beans from her pocket, and the eyes of the four brothers and sisters lit up.
Si Niang looked at Qin Yao in surprise and said softly, "Mother, you are better than the Buddha."
Qin Yao waved her hand, and the little girl immediately snuggled up to her, grabbing her collar with her little hands, her big eyes full of joy.
"Is mother better than Bodhisattva?" Qin Yao asked with a smile.
Si Niang nodded heavily, "Yes!"
Qin Yao was amused and pointed at her own face deliberately. Si Niang was confused at first, but then she understood. She stood on tiptoe shyly, moved closer to her, and gave her a kiss.
Qin Yao's heart was about to melt. She held Si Niang on her knees and gave her two big kisses. Si Niang laughed out loud due to the itch, and the two of them started to make a mess.
The three boys, Dalang, Erlang and Sanlang, peeled all the broad beans and put them in bowls, then pushed them in front of Qin Yao and waited for their distribution.
With her around, the four brothers and sisters never worry about not being able to share the delicious food.
Erlang thought that his younger brothers and sisters would not mind if he sucked the broad bean skins first. While waiting for the distribution, he picked up the smelly broad bean skins and put them in his mouth. When the taste was gone, he spit them out and replaced them with another small handful.
Last time he wanted to suck bird bones, this time he wanted to suck broad bean skins. Qin Yao couldn't bear to watch it.
Liu Erlang, your hobby is too special!
However, experts said that we should not interfere with children's preferences and let them develop freely, so she just let him do what he wants.
Just don't do this in front of guests.
There was a small dish of peeled broad beans, and 'Qin. Master Yao' divided the broad beans equally among the four brothers and sisters according to the number of broad beans.
As for Liu Ji, there is no need to worry at all. He can just fool a child and he will never lack food.
Qin Yao discovered that the four children in the family were quite smart when they were outside, and would not be easily tricked by other children into giving away their food.
But once the target becomes Liu Ji, even Erlang will fall into the trap.
Perhaps, this is the natural suppression of blood?
Qin Yao shook her head. She didn't understand, and didn't want to understand. She just wanted to eat.
Liu Ji specially cooked three bowls of rice. The melons he planted in the front yard had grown, but they were not yet edible, so Qin Yao's family was still short of vegetables. The rice was served with pickles that Liu Ji bought from Liu the peddler.
However, Liu Ji knew that Qin Yao liked to eat good food. When she ate well, she would be in a good mood, and when she was in a good mood, his life would be better.
So I used an egg and made her a bowl of soup.
There was white rice, side dishes and soup, and Qin Yao was very satisfied with the meal.
She didn't eat the four meat buns. After eating them continuously for several days, she wasn't that greedy anymore.
Even the children at home were not as eager for the meat buns as they were at the beginning.
At this moment, Liu Ji gave one each to Dalang, Erlang and Sanlang, and shared one with Si Niang, who had a small appetite, as a midnight snack. He then finished dinner with Qin Yao.
According to the pace of life in the countryside, nine o'clock in the evening is already late at night, but the family of six couldn't sleep because they ate too much.
Qin Yao originally wanted to tell her family tomorrow that she was going to work as a bodyguard at the Ding residence, but since she couldn't sleep, she just told them first.
Liu Ji was the happiest person. Two taels of silver!
It only took one month to earn the money that a water mill could earn in a year. If Qin Yao refused, he would scold her even if he died.
Fortunately, this evil woman was sensible and agreed.
And when she was not at home, he could even breathe freely. He only had to walk three times a day to check the water in the fields. There was not much work to do.
All I have to do is weed the vegetables in the field, and then plant some vegetables in the wasteland behind the back door when the sun goes down. The rest is some easy work that can be done easily.
What's more, we have Dalang's four free helpers, who are sensible, obedient and very useful.
Qin Yao glanced and saw Liu Ji's ecstatic look. She couldn't stand it and couldn't help but kick him.
Liu Ji screamed "Ouch!" and immediately restrained his expression and sat up straight.
The four children were already used to this, and knowing that she would be away for a month, they looked at her reluctantly.
But they also knew that she was doing it to earn money to support the family, and sensibly said that they would keep an eye on their father and prevent him from getting into trouble.
In the next few days, the four children stuck to Qin Yao and never left her side.
Although Liu Ji had restrained himself a lot, his excited steps still revealed his expectation of living a free life in the next month.
The villagers have no slack time during the farming season. During this period, the silkworms are spinning silk and the sound of looms can be heard in every household.
Compared with other families, Qin Yao's family life can be considered leisurely.
During these days at home, Qin Yao hardly left the hospital except for morning exercises and going out to fetch water.
Liu Ji could finish all the work in the fields by herself, so she took advantage of the free time during these few days to teach the children some new ancient poems.
He also gave Dalang a martial arts course and taught him some basic killing moves so that he would have something to practice and strengthen his basics during this month.
Liu Ji secretly watched the mother and son practicing martial arts, and the more he watched, the stranger he found it.
Why do the moves that Qin Yao taught Dalang look so murderous?
They were either teaching him to kick someone's calf, or to break someone's hand bones, or to stab someone's kidney with a stick. It looked like they were teaching a child how to kill an adult. Was this really a proper martial arts training?
In the evening, when they were cooking dinner, Qin Yao happened to come to the kitchen with the chopped firewood. Liu Ji thought about it and asked what she was teaching Dalang.
Qin Yao answered naturally: "It's just a trick to protect myself."
Liu Ji stared, "That's clearly a killing move. Don't you feel guilty for calling it a self-protection move?"
Conscience? Qin Yao laughed sarcastically, "Can conscience save your life?"
"What if the bandits come to rob the village again while I'm away? Are you planning to take them with you to die?"
Liu Ji retorted, "The government is already suppressing the bandits, the horse bandits will not come again."
But he himself was not confident in saying this. It had been more than four months since New Year's Eve. If they had really been suppressing the bandits, they would have been done by now.
However, people who have returned from going out recently said that horse bandits who rob merchant caravans still appear from time to time on the official road west of Kaiyang County, but they are more restrained than before.
Liu Ji muttered, "Anyway, it's not good for you to teach your children like this."
"You want to teach me how to do things?" Qin Yao narrowed her eyes dangerously.
Liu Ji waved his hands hurriedly, "I dare not, I dare not."
Qin Yao sneered at him contemptuously and glanced at the stove, "What are we having for dinner tonight?"
"Cook noodle dumplings with eggs and wild vegetables. We have a lot of flour at home, so we'll eat the flour first and then the millet. There's not much fine rice, so we'd better eat it sparingly." Liu Ji calculated.
Qin Yao nodded and walked into the storage room at the back to check the remaining food.
(End of this chapter)