mtlumby2d Chapter 36 The Widow Returns to the Village
Chapter 36 The Widow Returns to the Village
Ning Huaizhi suddenly felt uncomfortable when he saw his wife staring at him like that. He didn't dare to look Jiang Yuwei in the eye, but just lowered his head, and his face turned red all the way to his neck without him noticing.
Seeing Ning Huaizhi's expression, Jiang Yuwei seemed to realize that her eyes were too explicit just now, so she coughed a few times and said:
"Today I went to the market and bought a lot of food. I also ordered some furniture. You can pick it up in fifteen days. Now I see that our house is being repaired very quickly. It will be almost finished in ten days. When the house is finished, I will go to the forest to find wild ginseng for you."
Ning Huaizhi was stunned when he heard that Jiang Yuwei still remembered to find wild ginseng for him. It turned out that she had always been thinking about him. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but smile:
"Wife, let's go back to the house."
Jiang Yuwei heard Ning Huaizhi calling her his wife, and she didn't know what to say. Did she have to call him husband? Just thinking about it, Jiang Yuwei's face turned red as if blood was dripping.
Ning Zhao saw that his parents were standing at the door without entering, so he rushed out and shouted:
"Mom, go back to the house quickly, it's going to rain."
Jiang Yuwei heard this, looked up at the clouds in the sky, and murmured:
"It doesn't look like it's going to rain even though the sky is clear. However, these clouds are very unique, arranged neatly like fish scales. They are very beautiful."
Seeing that the two had no reaction, Ning Zhao pulled Jiang Yuwei's hand. Jiang Yuwei smiled and handed the backpack to Ning Zhao, and pushed Ning Huaizhi's wheelchair into the house. Ning Huaizhi could move freely by pushing the wheels of the wheelchair, but he walked slower. However, Jiang Yuwei would take the initiative to help Ning Huaizhi push the wheelchair whenever it was convenient for her.
As soon as the three of them entered the house, they heard lightning and thunder behind them. When Jiang Yuwei looked back, she saw heavy rain pouring down. She was immediately overjoyed. Could it be that Ning Zhao had some talent in astronomy and geography?
At this time, Ning Huaizhi was staring at his son Ning Zhao with a complicated expression, as if he was worried about the child's future.
Jiang Yuwei just thought that if the child really had talent in this area, it would be good to find a good teacher to teach him in the future. However, the child is illiterate now, so enlightenment is also very important.
Although he knew a few characters of this era, he was not proficient in them. He also did not have time to teach his children to read and write, so he looked at Ning Huaizhi and said:
"I went to town a few days ago and bought an enlightenment book. I wonder if you can read?"
When Ning Huaizhi was in the village, Chen Guixiang only cared about letting him work on the farm and was reluctant to let him read and write. Fortunately, when he was in the army, he saved a man and became his master. That man taught him to read and write and also taught him the art of war, so he was promoted to the position of general.
Ning Huaizhi thought of his master, feeling uncomfortable, and replied perfunctorily:
"Yeah, I know a little bit."
Jiang Yuwei was very happy to hear Ning Huaizhi say this, and she directly grabbed Ning Huaizhi's hand and said:
"Why don't you teach the two children how to read first? It would be a good idea to send them to a private school when we have extra money in the future."
Ning Huaizhi looked at Jiang Yuwei holding his hand, his body stiffened involuntarily, and he stammered:
"Okay, I'll do as you said. I'll teach the children to read."
Jiang Yuwei then nodded happily, stuffed the enlightenment book she bought into Ning Huaizhi's hand, and went to busy herself with making dinner.
Jiang Yuwei thought that she could make more for dinner today so that Ning Huaizhi could heat it up and eat it at home tomorrow at noon, so she took some chili sauce and made some pickled vegetables. People who do heavy work always like to eat something heavy-tasting to replenish their energy.
I kneaded the dough and baked six large pot cakes made of cold flour. There would be no problem eating them until tomorrow night. This kind of pot cake does not need to be heated and is delicious even when it is cold.
Jiang Yuwei took out the pork tenderloin she bought at the market today and sliced it, thinking of making some sweet and sour sweet and sour pork in a pot for the children for dinner. Jiang Yuwei was busy in the kitchen for a while before she brought the dishes and rice and called Ning Huaizhi and the children to eat.
Ning Zhao looked at the golden sweet and sour pork on the table, his eyes lit up a little, he couldn't help but pick it up with chopsticks and stuffed it into his mouth. Seeing this, Jiang Yuwei hurriedly shouted:
"Zhao'er, eat slowly, be careful of the heat!"
Ning Zhao accidentally burned his tongue because he ate too quickly. He kept sticking out his tongue and breathing hard, which made everyone laugh.
Ning Zhao stuck out his tongue and said:
"Mom, it's so hot, so hot, what is this, it's delicious."
Seeing this, Ning Wan also picked up a piece of food with chopsticks, blew it hard, put it in her mouth, ate it, nodded and said:
"Mom, it's really delicious. The meat is very crispy."
Jiang Yuwei was surprised that Ning Wan could speak in continuous sentences and even describe the meat as being crispy. Sure enough, it was not that Ning Wan couldn't speak before, but she was suppressed by Chen Guixiang and Sun in the Ning family and dared not speak.
Jiang Yuwei looked at her two children in front of her, feeling very satisfied. Such a warm life was a luxury for her in her previous life. Although her body was tired now, her heart was extremely rich.
After the family of four finished their meal, Jiang Yuwei thought that it was going to rain today, and she had to go into the mountains to pick some mushrooms tomorrow, so she had to get up early and went to bed early.
next morning
After getting up, Jiang Yuwei put the pork shanks she had bought yesterday into the pot and boiled them. She also took out the braised food for lunch and cut it up, and put the pickled vegetables she had prepared last night on a plate. After giving Ning Huaizhi a few instructions, she took half of the pot cake and went out.
As soon as Jiang Yuwei went out, she saw Aunt Zhou and greeted her with a smile:
"Aunt Zhou, are you going to work in the fields?"
Aunt Zhou saw that it was Jiang Yuwei and hurriedly walked up to her and said with a smile:
"Your uncle Youcai is taking his two sons to the fields. I saw that the mushrooms on the mountain have sprouted after the rain, so we are going to pick mushrooms today."
When Jiang Yuwei heard that Aunt Zhou was also going to pick mushrooms, she hurriedly said:
"What a coincidence! I'm also going to pick mushrooms today. Let's go together."
Aunt Zhou saw this and stepped forward, took Jiang Yuwei's arm and said with a smile:
"Okay, I know where there are lots of good mushrooms. You can follow me today."
Jiang Yuwei nodded and followed Aunt Zhou to the small hill at the entrance of the village. When they got there, they saw many women picking mushrooms. Aunt Zhou and Jiang Yuwei were not to be outdone, so they squatted down and started picking them up.
"Hey, look, there are people coming on the village road."
A woman's sudden words attracted everyone's attention. Jiang Yuwei also looked towards the village road, and saw a man driving a ox cart carrying large and small packages towards the village. A woman with a curvy figure was sitting on the ox cart.
A sharp-eyed woman shouted:
"Isn't that Xu Qianqian, the eldest daughter of the Xu family? Why are she so packed up? Is she going to move back to our Ningjia Village?"
"I heard that her husband's family died in the mountains while working there, leaving her as a widow. I guess they couldn't make it in her husband's village, so they came to live with her family."
"Ah, it's also a hard life."
Everyone was talking about this, but Jiang Yuwei was not interested in this person and just lowered her head to pick mushrooms.