Chapter Six
"You must listen carefully to these. If one day I am not at home, you have to be self-reliant. Being hungry is not a trivial matter."
Mei Xue nodded repeatedly, picked up the dry firewood and put it into the fire like building blocks.
With the perfect cooperation between mother and daughter, the goat's milk boiled in a short while, and a layer of white foam appeared on the surface of the boiled goat's milk. After taking it out, Mei Sanniang quickly urged: "Xue'er, take out all the fire."
Cooking goat's milk in a large iron pot consumes some ingredients, and it will only become less and less if you keep boiling it.
After skimming off the foam, she scooped up a bowl and let it cool.
Before she could put down what she was doing, a rough yet cunning voice reached Mei Sanniang's ears.
"Sanniang, I brought a chicken over, and your baby will be my baby from now on."
Although Wang Ma had a sharp beak and monkey cheeks, she was attracted to this chicken. How could the chicken fly away when it reached her mouth? She wiped the water stains on her hands and quickly took the hen.
"This chicken is fat, isn't it worth a lot? Why am I so embarrassed to accept it?"
There were all kinds of excuses in front of me, but I consciously withdrew my hand.
"Sanniang, my family doesn't speak foreign languages."
"Have you cooked this?"
Wang Ma looked in and happened to see the boiled goat's milk. Before he could say anything more, a strong figure appeared at the door.
Xu Erzhu came to visit Mei Sanniang almost every day, so naturally he would not leave any food behind.
When today came, I didn't expect Wang Ma to come to Sanniang's house blatantly.
He rolled up his sleeves and walked in fiercely. Before Wang Ma could even react, someone lifted up his clothes.
After he came to his senses, he begged for mercy again and again, "Er Zhu, you misunderstood!"
"Misunderstanding!"
Wang Ma yelled and asked Sanniang for support: "Sanniang, please explain to Erzhu."
"Sanniang, save me..."
Before he could finish his words, Xu Erzhu raised his fist.
There was only a click, a crisp sound. Ouma covered his mouth and opened it to see that it turned out to be a black tooth.
"Two pillars..."
"Sanniang, save me..."
Wang Ma Jin almost cried in pain, and Mei Sanniang thought that it was almost over. Just when she wanted to say a good word to Wang Ma, God seemed not to let her help, and the sound of crying coming back to the hall came from the back room. Compared to this,
She doesn't care about Wang Ma's life or death.
Xu Erzhu was furious and couldn't see Wang Ma taking advantage of Sanniang, so he dragged Wang Ma out.
The first time I came back to visit Sanniang, I put on new clothes and carried hens, but when I returned, I turned into a homeless man who crawled out of a trash can. His hair was unkempt, and his clothes were torn by stones.
After dealing with Wang Ma, Xu Erzhu was so anxious that he couldn't wait any longer. He entered the room and said anxiously: "Sanniang, are you okay?"
When he saw Sanniang breastfeeding, he was stunned. He returned to the hall and ate deliciously, sucking Sanniang's fingers with a look of enjoyment.
"Are you okay?"
Xu Erzhu rubbed his head and said naively: "It's okay."
Mei Sanniang pursed her lips, and a smile appeared on her face. Xu Erzhu was fascinated. This was probably the happiest time in Sanniang's history.
"No need to thank me, Sanniang is good to me."
Some companionship is the longest confession of love, but she is not the Mei Sanniang of the past, and it is impossible for her to make a promise to him.
"It's thanks to Ouma that I can drink fresh milk when I return to the hall. It's a good thing for you to drive people away indiscriminately. How can I explain this?"
Faced with Mei Sanniang's question, Xu Erzhu looked confused and opened his mouth so wide that it looked like he could swallow an egg. Mei Sanniang also expected that this fool didn't know what he was doing, so she joked: "Don't worry, it's all thanks to you that I drove him away."
Wang Ma.”
"The thing is like this, Wang Ma and his wife were having some conflicts, and I took advantage of the situation and put on a good show to add fuel to their fire. This is not Wang Ma's courtesy."
He didn't believe this when someone else said it, but the other person was Sanniang.
"He dares to plot evil against you, but that's not allowed."
In these years, thanks to Xu Erzhu, Mei Sanniang would have been killed by Wang Ma long ago, but she still remembers his kindness.
"Don't worry! Wang Ma doesn't dare to do anything!"
"How can you let go of the old hen you got? I, Sanniang Mei, will keep it."
Xu Erzhu also laughed, "Sanniang is so amazing."
"No way, it's my first time to be a mother, and many people can't do it, so I'm still worried!"
"Ah?" Xu Erzhu's face was filled with confusion.
It was also her fault that she quickly slapped her lips together. Mei Sanniang was already the mother of two children, so she knew how to order a few things. Otherwise, she would not have been able to raise Mei Xue up. She quickly made excuses: "Xue'er was raised by her mother-in-law in the past. I didn't care much about it, and the family got separated after the famine broke out."
Xu Erzhu felt guilty when Sanniang mentioned the unbearable past. He apologized repeatedly: "Sanniang, it's all my fault. It's okay not to mention what happened this time. It's okay. I can learn from it."
Mei Sanniang knew he was kind-hearted and didn't really blame him.
"If you really want to help me, a widow, you might as well teach me how to do farm work and grow crops."
"Sanniang, these are things that men do, just be your master."
It was easy to say that, but Mei Sanniang didn't want to owe him too much. After all, Xu Erzhu was not her cup of tea. She couldn't live by men all her life. Only by taking matters into her own hands could she be considered truly capable.
"I'm the only one in the family. I don't have much to learn. How can I live?" Mei Sanniang sighed secretly. It's okay if she doesn't want to care. If Mei Xue was a little older and her life could be guaranteed, she wouldn't be involved in this problem.
It's all helpless to say too much. She has to spend her best years in Poshan Village, and just thinking about it makes her feel sad.
She thought hard about this matter for a long time.
When the family's living conditions are better, she can leave, thinking that the two siblings will not starve to death. After all, this is not her child, and she does not want to take on the backbreaking work of raising it since childhood.
To put it bluntly, I just look at these two miserable children and pity them.
Fortunately, Xu Erzhu was willing to help, otherwise she would have had to dig wild vegetables all the time, and they would go to the ground to loosen the soil the next afternoon.
This big-ass little thing works neatly, unlike her who digs the soil with a hoe and bends over to become senile all of a sudden.
Xu Erzhu was responsible for carrying water, Mei Sanniang was responsible for digging the soil, and Mei Xue was responsible for sowing. The three of them made arrangements properly. In a short time, tomato seeds had been sown on an acre of land.
At this moment, the warm sunshine gradually disappeared, and a ray of afterglow shone on everyone. Mei Sanniang habitually picked up the cotton cloth and wiped the sweat. She also took out the wrapped "March Bubbles" from her backpack and handed them to Xu Erzhu and Xueer. .
"March Pao" has a slightly sweet and sour taste in the mouth, and the sweet and sour taste brings back countless people's childhood memories.
Just as Mei Sanniang was still enjoying her meal, she inadvertently spotted a figure flashing across the hillside. Judging from the size, she looked like Wang Ma.
To say that she wasn't afraid was really not the case, it was just that it was inconvenient to show panic.
Compared with a strong man, even though she has practiced Taekwondo, her body looks a little like a chick. If Ouma plots something against her in the middle of the night, she will lose her virginity.
Mei Sanniang was heartbroken and her heart was beating very fast. She could no longer stay where she was.
"Sanniang? Sanniang?"
At this time, Mei Sanniang came back from her fugue and said "Hmm". She was so shocked that she broke into a cold sweat and asked, "What's wrong?"
Chapter completed!