Chapter 17 Fan Village

Send away the tiger head and Aunt Zhang. I lay alone in ** wrapped in a quilt, turned over and fell asleep heartlessly. When I woke up the next day, it was already three poles in the sun. I exhaled deeply, put on my clothes, and prepared to open a new page in my life.

Push the door out, and there is a small yard outside. There are two rooms opposite my room. It seems that one is a kitchen and the other is a bedroom. An old tree stood suddenly behind the yard. In the harsh winter, the green of the old tree was peeled off, and only the branches crossed the courtyard wall with their teeth and claws. I stood in the yard and began to stretch my arms and legs. My limbs have almost stiffened in the past two days. Originally, Yan Nianqing's body bones are not strong, and if I don't exercise, I may have something wrong.

"Girl." A slightly old voice came from behind me, and I shivered and almost fell into a dog and ate shit.

I turned around slowly and saw a white-haired old man standing at the gate of the courtyard, holding a square box in his hand and looking at me kindly. Although I am a little dissatisfied with his sudden voice to scare me, I don't care too much about him in accordance with the principle of respecting the old and loving the young.

I looked at him with a puzzled face, "What can I do for you?"

The old man twisted his beard and said, "I'm here to see you."

"Me?" I pointed to my nose, "What's wrong with me?" This old man is so strange that he curses me sick when he gets up early in the morning.

Just as the old man was about to speak, he heard the door next door creak open, and Aunt Zhang slowly walked out of it. I quickly took two steps to hold her. Aunt Zhang smiled and said, "Who do I still think I am? It's your old Xu who came." Aunt Zhang looked at me, clapped my hand, and said kindly, "Qier, it's your uncle Xu who cured your illness." No wonder this old man is a little fairy-fashioned.

I smiled at Xu Boyifu, "Thank you for saving my life."

Xu Bo smiled and then said seriously, "You have only got rid of two-thirds of your illness. How can you say that you are not sick?" I smiled shyly. Indeed, my throat is still swollen and painful.

"It's windy in the courtyard. Let's go back to the house and sit down." Aunt Zhang spoke at the right time, and I happily took her back to the house.

After sitting down, Xu Bo asked, "Can you let the old man treat the girl again?"

"That's Uncle Xu." With a flattering face, I moved to Uncle Xu and sat down and put my hand on the table. After Xu Bo diagnosed his pulse, he took out a few paper bags from the small box he brought with him and slowly said, "Girl, this disease is fine now. You just need to soak these herbs in hot water every day, and you can recover in 15 days."

"Thank you, Uncle Xu." I smiled sincerely.

"You'd better thank the tiger head. If he hadn't carried you back from the woods, I'm afraid your nickname would have been gone." Xu Bo habitually twisted his beard and said. After what he said, I remembered that I didn't see the tiger's head when I got up early this morning, and I didn't know what he had done.

"Aunuch, where's the tiger head brother?" I turned my face to ask Aunt Zhang.

"The tiger head went to the mountain in the morning." Aunt Zhang didn't say much, so I didn't ask any more questions.

"If you talk, I'll go back first." Xu Bo got up and said. I opened my mouth and wanted to stay with Uncle Xu, but I finally swallowed the words back. After all, I am not from the Zhang family and am not qualified to retain guests.

Aunt Zhang nodded and said, "Okay, I'll take you out." I helped her get up and sent Uncle Xu out of the door and slowly walked back to the house.

"Aun aunt, do you know where our village is?" I helped Aunt Zhang sit down on the kang and asked her sideways.

Aunt Zhang smiled, and the wrinkles on her face curved into a warm arc. "Our village is called Fan Village. After climbing over the mountain behind, it is Sui County."

"So that's it. Is this village under the jurisdiction of Sui County?" After tossing around for a long time, I almost lost my life, and as a result, I only left the distance of a mountain in the county?

"What else does it matter? Our village is remote, and there is no outsider all day," Aunt Zhang sighed. "The people in the village are very poor, and no one can pay attention to these."

It seems that Aunt Zhang is still worried about this financial situation. I thought for a moment and said, "Why doesn't Auntie Hutou go out to make a living?"

"I haven't thought about it, but the tiger head doesn't want to say anything. He doesn't trust me to be at home alone." Aunt Zhang took my hand and continued, "Son, life in our village is very hard. Can you bear this hardship?"

"Aundam, don't worry, I'm not a spoiled lady. Don't forget that I bought someone else as a maid since I was a child. This pain is nothing. I had a big-tailed wolf expression, but I was thinking about how to change the economic situation of Aunt Zhang's mother and son. Thinking of money, I suddenly remembered the dozens of silver notes I had in my arms before I left. He hurriedly reached out to look for it, groped for a long time, and finally touched the thin paper. I took out the silver ticket and squeezed it in my hand and stuffed it into Aunt Zhang's hand. "Aunuch, I have some money here. You take it first and treat it as the cost of living here."

As soon as Aunt Zhang heard this, she quickly pushed the silver ticket back into my hand, "You child, what are you talking about? If you live at my aunt's house, can I still let you spend money?"

"Aunuch, just take it. Anyway, it's useless to put it here. It's better to add some home use to the house.

I stuffed the silver ticket into Aunt Zhang's arms. She picked it up and looked at it carefully and said, "Why is this money? It's obviously paper. Why are you confused, child?

"Aunuch," I smiled and explained to her, "This is a silver ticket. You can get it to Qianzhuang to exchange silver. Later, let Brother Tiger Head take it to Qianzhuang to exchange it, and we will have silver."

As soon as Aunt Zhang heard this, she hurriedly returned the silver ticket to me and said, "I can't take it. Keep your hard-working money for yourself."

I pushed the money back again like playing Tai Chi. "Aunta, I really don't have much money. I can't do anything to stay. Or let Brother Hutou exchange it for money and add something to the house, so that I can live comfortably. I have no choice but to move out of myself. I want to change things. This time, my aunt can't refuse, can she?

"Alas..." Aunt Zhang was a little embarrassed. "When the tiger head comes back, I will tell him to buy whatever you want. But I really can't take this money. If you give the money to the tiger head and buy how much is left, I will ask him to give it back to you.

"Aunuch..." I'm a little anxious, but looking at Aunt Zhang's firm face, I can't force others any more.

"Aunuch, I will cook all the meals at home in the future." After thinking about it, this is the only thing I'm good at.

Aunt Zhang nodded and agreed, which was beyond my expectation. I thought she would object, but I didn't expect her to agree so quickly. So I took office and became the prospective chef of the Zhang family.

At almost noon, I went to Zhang's kitchen to see the situation and make some food for them. Similar to what I imagined, the kitchen is almost empty, and there are very few ingredients that can be used. I looked back and forth, and there were only cabbage and radish, not even an egg. As the saying goes, it is difficult for a smart woman to cook without rice, which is probably my current situation.

I turned back and forth inadvertently and accidentally found some vermicelli covered with coarse cloth in a basket next to the stove. There was a burst of joy in my heart. With vermicelli and radish and cabbage, at least I can make a pot of stew.

It took me a long time to make the fire. Thinking about the past, Ziqin would have prepared these things for me in advance before I cooked, and I didn't need to do it at all. Now that I think about it, I really lived a life of wearing clothes and reaching out my mouth. Everything was taken care of by Ziqin and my brother, and I was completely carefree. Thinking of Ziqin and Yan Yingchen, I felt a little uncomfortable. I, a selfish guy, made both of them have no peace of life.

Shake your head, force yourself not to think about these things, and turn your mind back to the pot in front of you. When the stew was almost done, the tiger head came back from the mountain. He brought back a rabbit and a pheasant, which made me extremely happy. I didn't expect to hunt these wild animals in such a cold season.

But now it's a little too late to make chickens and rabbits. I asked the tiger head to help me bring the stew to the room. I put rabbits and pheasants in the back sun to ensure that they are fresh. The weather is cold enough to be comparable to the refrigerator.

I returned to the room with rice. Aunt Zhang sat on the edge of the kang table and looked at me happily and said, "Qier, your cooking smells really good."

After listening to Aunt Zhang's words, I smiled like a flower and quickly served rice for the two of them and said, "Aunuch, Tiger Head Brother, come and try Nianqing's craftsmanship."

The tiger head smiled and put a piece of radish into his mouth. After swallowing it, he looked at me with surprise and said, "Sister Nianqing, this is really delicious. I have never eaten such a delicious radish." After saying that, he picked up some vegetables and devoured them in a bowl. He was extremely hungry.

"If you like it, I will often cook it in the future." In the past, I heard that the happiest thing for cooks is to see the happy expressions of cooks.

Aunt Zhang always looked at me with a very admiration and loving expression. Seeing that I was uncomfortable, I quickly put the meal in my mouth and quickly solved the battle. After dinner, Hutou insisted on washing the dishes, saying that the water was too cold to let me touch it. I don't insist anymore. It's true that I suffer from too much cold water. Because I found that since I wore it, although other places are different from Yan Nianqing, the deadly abdominal pain is the same when my period comes every month.

Because Aunt Zhang has the habit of taking a nap, when she sleeps, I pulled the tiger's head into my room and began to "brainwash" him. In short, I want to coax and deceive the tiger's head to accept my money.