Qin An didn't go outside to change. He took the clothes and changed them nearby. The weather had gotten hot recently, so he wore a thin coat.
Su Yan took a look and said, "Ms. sir, it's going to be dark soon, so you'd better wear more clothes."
"It's okay, wife, I went to the mountains to cut firewood and came back at night." It's not that Qin An saved this little money, but the firewood he bought often easily exploded.
He looked at the ointment on the table and said, "The ointment in Fucheng smells good. I'll take you to buy it when Xiu Mu comes."
"I don't use this, I just want to make money. My husband, there should be wild daisies in the mountains. I want to pick some with you." Su Yan wanted to start picking some free flowers and study them.
"The money at home is enough." Qin An didn't want her to do other business. She was already tired, and she would be even more tired if she worked more.
Su Yan explained while changing into coarse clothes: "When the time comes, I'll hire helpers. Qi's family owns a balm shop, so I'll open one across from his house."
"They treat us like soft persimmons, and I want to pay them back."
Upon hearing this, Qin An understood what she meant. Just as he was about to say something, Su Yan said again: "Ms. sir, if you don't let me say this, I won't be able to sleep well."
Sometimes she is very tolerant, and sometimes she just can't. How can she be blamed everywhere?
Qin An came over and helped her tie her clothes, "Let's go."
The carriage stopped at the village at the foot of the mountain. There was a special place for horses, and people often came here to cut firewood or look for medicinal materials.
The two of them each carried a basket and headed into the mountains. During this season, wild chrysanthemums were growing everywhere. There were quite a few of them at a glance, and some of them were even trampled to pieces.
Su Yan took off her backpack and said, "Ms. sir, I'll wait for you here. Please be careful."
"Yeah." Qin An didn't go far, and started climbing a tree and chopping branches a dozen steps away from her.
The county does not allow trees to be cut down, so we can only cut down some branches.
Or you need to report to the county town to cut down a tree.
He was so strong that as soon as the machete came down, the branch fell to the ground.
From time to time, he would watch his wife bend down to pick wild chrysanthemums.
He had just changed a tree to climb, and in a blink of an eye he saw a scholar talking next to his wife.
He pursed his lips, then got down from the tree, took the machete and headed towards Su Yan.
As I got closer, I heard the man say: "Girl, can I draw you?"
Su Yan didn't even raise her head, she just took the time to pick it home and feed it to Tuantuan, "You can change to someone else."
The man refused to give up, "Girl..."
Before he finished speaking, a voice interrupted, "Daughter-in-law."
He looked up and saw a man holding a machete and wearing coarse cloth. He was instinctively frightened and took two steps back.
Su Yan raised her head and glanced at him. Just as she was about to ask him if he had done it, she saw that he was not carrying the basket.
Apparently seeing someone approaching her, she rushed over with a machete.
He was afraid that someone would abduct his wife.
She smiled and said to the man who just spoke: "You can draw my husband, he can do it."
The man's face turned pale, "I, I... I still have something to do." After saying that, he turned around and ran away in a hurry.
Qin An looked away, put down the machete and picked with her. After picking enough, he took Su Yan to wait for him above.
He cut it down, and Su Yan pulled it aside, took off the leaves, and put them under the basket.
If the leaves are burned, the wood will not be burned.
After seeing that they were about the same, Qin An came down from the tree. Some branches were so big that they couldn't be put in the basket on his back.
He was holding wood in one hand and a machete in the other. Even though he hadn't worked much for so long, he was still nimble.
Su Yan picked it up from the side and put it neatly into the backpack, but there were still some pieces that couldn't fit in.
Qin An brought ropes, tied them together and put them on the backpack, with one hand behind his back.
It was already dark by now.
He held Su Yan tightly with one hand and walked down the mountain.
When I rushed home, everyone was asleep.
Sun Erdan was sitting in the main room waiting for the two of them to come back. As soon as he saw the two of them, he ran over to help. Su Yan also followed him, otherwise he would always feel like an outsider.
Qin An put the firewood in the woodshed and piled it on the firewood pile, while Su Yan soaked in wild chrysanthemums in the yard.
Sun Erdan squatted next to him, "Mom, do you like Huahua?"
Su Yan glanced at him and smiled, "Oh, I want to make something with it."
Sun Erdan nodded obediently and stood up with her.
After dinner, Su Yan asked Zhang Xiu and the others to take the children to bed while she washed wild chrysanthemums in the kitchen.
Qin An wanted to help, but Su Yan refused to let him do it, "Your hands are so strong that I crushed him."
"Just sit and wait for me, or go to the study and read."
"I'm not going to see you today, I'm staying with my wife." Qin An didn't sit down either, but stood behind her and gently squeezed her shoulders.
He said in a low voice: "How do you know this?"
Su Yan didn't hide it from him, "I've done a lot of business in the past, and I've been cheated a lot. Now I think it's thanks to me, otherwise I wouldn't be able to make any money."
I used to think those days were very hard, but now I feel happy when I think about them.
Maybe it’s because life is so comfortable now.
Qin An turned his head and kissed her, and said in a low voice: "Daughter-in-law, you are so capable, why did you marry me?"
Su Yan laughed happily, "If I don't marry you, you won't repair the yard for me."
As soon as she said that, Qin An remembered that he was busy repairing the yard. He said a little naively: "I have never been in contact with women. I just thought that if I repair slowly, you can stay longer."
Su Yan laughed twice more, and while washing the wild chrysanthemums, she said: "You are capable, caring, and talkative. It is normal for me to marry you."
At first, I just thought it was a good fit and we could live together, but later I became more and more happy.
Qin An laughed and continued to press her shoulders, "Fortunately, I was thick-skinned at that time."
Su Yan said with a smile: "That's true."
She remembered something and said: "Mr. Sir, help me drill a small hole next to the steamer and insert a wooden pipe."
"good."
Qin An pressed it for a while, then took his own small steamer and sat at the door of the stove, then took a knife and drilled it little by little.
For a moment, there was only the faint sound of water in the kitchen and the sound of wood and knives clashing. The insects outside were chirping quietly as if they were afraid of someone.
…
At noon, Qin An came back with Sun Erdan in hand. When Sun Erdan saw Su Yan, he ran over and took out a few small purple flowers from his book bag.
"Mom, here you go."
Su Yan was stunned for a moment, then realized and picked him up with a smile, "Where did you pick it?"
"There is an open space next to the academy, and there are a lot of wild flowers growing there." Sun Erdan explained in a sweet voice.
Su Yan kissed the side of his face and said, "Thank you Erdan. If you have nothing to do, I'll pick some for my mother."
"Okay." Sun Erdan's eyes lit up, he was finally able to help his mother.
The little purple flower was the purple flower that grew everywhere in the village. It was a very small plant. Su Yan picked it up and put it in a wooden basin to soak. "Go and wash your hands and eat."
After Sun Erdan left, Qin An took two stemless peonies from his book bag and gave them to her. Probably because Sister Cui and Zhang Xiu were there, he went to the kitchen to wash his hands without saying a word.
Su Yan's eyebrows were bent with a smile, she put the peony in the wooden basin, lightly walked after the man, and then stretched out her hand to hold his big hand.