"He can do anything. He used to rely on hunting to support the family." Su Yan boasted with a smile.
If it weren't for Qin An's protection, how could she have lived so peacefully?
No matter how difficult or painful it is, as long as he has her in his heart and this family, she will not abandon him even if the knife is placed on his neck.
When he knew that the widow could not marry, he felt uneasy every night and could not sleep.
Zhang Xiu looked at her and said seriously: "Madam, you know everything."
It is most suitable for a man like me to marry a woman like madam.
Su Yan smiled and said to Erdan, who was standing in the sun watching Qin An kill the pig, "Erdan, stand in the shade, or you may suffer from heat stroke."
Erdan obediently moved to the side, his eyes bright, "Daddy, can I touch you?"
Qin An glanced at him, then moved away to let him touch it. Erdan carefully touched the bison's tusks and quickly retracted in fear.
He couldn't help but smile, "Daddy, its teeth are so long."
"Um."
Qin An saw that he liked it, so he pulled out the teeth with a little force, washed them clean and put them aside to dry in the sun.
He worked quickly. After cleaning it, he cut it into pieces, leaving two pieces aside and marinating the others with pickling salt and chili pepper.
Su Yan came over to help him, and Qin An took a little spice with chopsticks and fed it to her, gesturing for her to taste it.
Su Yan tasted it and said: "That's it, you can start training now."
Qin An looked at her with satisfaction, "I'll make it for you later."
"It's done." Su Yan helped him finish it together, then smoked it and then sat down to rest for a while.
Qin An sat on the threshold of the main room, with his bare feet on the ground, holding a carved fang that was dried in the sun.
Erdan was squatting next to him and watching, holding his father's trousers in his hands. He barely stood and watched. The sight of his two heads made people want to laugh.
Su Yan came out with sugar water to feed Qin An, and couldn't help laughing and said: "It's not hot even if you squat at the door."
"It's a cool day today, can I make dumplings to eat?"
Hearing this, Qin An raised his eyes and looked at her, "Sit down and rest for a while. I'll knead the dough later."
"It's nothing to do. Just do it. We have a few people here." Su Yan took the bowl and put it on the stool next to her.
She touched Tuantuan's little head and said, "Follow mom and go in."
"Let him stay here, I'll watch."
As Qin An spoke, he stretched out his legs to hold his son between his legs, so that he would not worry about him falling.
Su Yan didn't say anything, and went to the kitchen to get some flour and a clay pot to knead it, and then the others sat down to make dumplings.
Before I had packed a few bags, I heard a woman outside shouting, "Su Yan! You damn girl, why didn't I drown you? You don't care about your parents, you are so cruel!"
As soon as I heard the voice, I knew it was my mother, Li Guiju.
Before Su Yan said anything, Qin An stood up and walked out, staring deeply at the disheveled woman at the door.
"If you curse again, I will hang you from a tree."
Li Guiju immediately gave up, but now the family had no money, the crops were not doing well, and the whole family had to starve to death.
She sat down on the ground and said, "You live in a big house and eat meat. Your father and I eat chaffy vegetables every day and almost starve to death."
"You are not afraid of retribution. I don't care. You have to give me money now, or I will die in front of you."
He bared his teeth as he spoke. No matter how cool it is today, the ground is not cool either.
At this moment, Su Yan had already stood up and came out, standing at the door and saying, "You can die if you want. At most, I will let the Taoist priest walk around the door."
"No matter how much you scold me, I won't give you a penny, let alone retribution. Even if you get retribution now, I won't give you a penny."
"Why didn't you say you would be punished when you sold your daughter?"
Li Guiju cursed regardless, "You were born to me. I can sell you if I want. You should take care of me."
"I won't take care of you." Su Yan was not angry and her tone was very calm.
Li Guiju suddenly choked: "..."
"Your son-in-law has a bad temper. He will be beaten later. Don't blame me for not reminding him."
After Su Yan finished speaking, she closed the door. Before closing the door, she glanced at the villagers who came to watch the excitement.
Everything is good in the village, except that the people are too talkative.
"Su Yan!!! Your ragged hooves..."
Before Li Guiju could finish her words, Qin An opened the door violently. She was immediately frightened, stood up quickly and ran away.
The man glanced at the onlookers and said fiercely: "What are you looking at?"
Now the onlookers also ran away.
These two people are simply the "bullies" of the village.
Su Yan couldn't help laughing, glanced at the tall man, and then went into the main room to make dumplings.
Tuantuan was holding the pig's tusks and gnawing at it. Qin An picked him up with one hand and strode to the kitchen to wipe his face.
The cute look made him soften his eyebrows and said in a low voice: "Just like your mother."
My wife is so cute when she's not awake.
"Why are you like me?" Su Yan came in to scoop out water.
"look."
Qin An protected Tuantuan's head with one hand, bent down and kissed his wife, and then left with satisfaction.
Su Yan glanced at his back and whispered, "Don't teach your son bad things."
After a while, Goudanfu came to the door in a hurry, "Sister, are you okay?"
"It's okay." Su Yan shook her head.
Goudanfu breathed a sigh of relief and smelled the smell of bacon, "Does your family smoke meat?"
"If we don't have any left at home, just smoke it and keep it." Su Yan thought of something and gave her a piece of pork and liver.
She added: "Wild boar meat, feel free to eat it."
Goudanfu reached out to take it, "I got so angry when I talked about the wild boar that it destroyed all the vegetables in my vegetable field. I asked my guy to guard the field at night, but he didn't dare."
"I'll ask my wife to check it out tonight," Su Yan said smoothly.
Qin An also wants to go hunting.
"Sure, be careful."
Goudanfu came close to Su Yan's ear and said helplessly: "I have it again."
Su Yan: "..."
She looked at her and didn't know what to say. Even if she could give birth, having too many children would always hurt her body.
Moreover, her daughter is not even one year old, and there is no one in the family who can help.
She was the only one who suffered.
"Can you handle it?"
"If you can't bear it, you have to live. I'll buy whatever your family eats." Goudan's mother said.
"I don't know, I'll get one for you."
Su Yan went out for a while, then quickly came in with her things and warned: "If you are pregnant, do less work. Your body is the most important thing."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! If it were not difficult to say, she would have wanted to persuade her not to have this child.
Goudan’s mother gave birth to a child, and her health was much worse than hers. There were times when she felt dizzy while working, and her face turned pale.
Goudanfu knew it, so he pulled up a stool and sat down, "To be honest, I don't really want it, but I'm here anyway."
"No matter how good we are now, sometimes he gets very angry. After that quarrel, he deliberately wanted me to have a child and trapped me."
"He said so himself, why don't he worry about it?"
"Yesterday, he went behind my back and gave his mother money. Before I said anything to him, he just said a few words to me. I used to hope that he would be nice to me, but now I realize that this is what he is doing at his age."
"I feel like I'm aging very fast this year, and I have a lot more wrinkles on my face. Compared with you, I look like your mother."
Su Yan stretched out her hand and patted her back, comforting her: "You will grow as you age, and I do too, but it's not obvious."
Goudanfu's life was considered good in the village, but in her opinion it was already very bad.
If a man in his own family doesn't care about others, no matter how much money he has, it won't make him any better.
But there was no way to reconcile with Li, and Heli was just like her, unpopular with others.
"You don't need to comfort me. I know in my heart that it's better to be a girl. If your parents care about you, you can do whatever you want."
After talking about it, she wiped away tears feeling a little aggrieved.
Although the days were getting better and better, she became more and more uncomfortable.
In the final analysis, Jiang Caifu still doesn't know how to be content, and it's also because he has money now that he feels a little uneasy.
How many men can always be nice to their rotten wives?
"Be kind to yourself, buy the clothes you need, put the cream on your face, and don't please others, you will feel better yourself."
Qin An, who was at the threshold of the hall, caught a glimpse of Goudan's mother leaving from the corner of his eye. Not long after, Su Yan came over to serve dumplings, "Mr. sir, follow me to the kitchen."
Qin An put down what he was doing and followed her in, saying in a low voice: "What's the matter?"
"The motherfucker is here again. Brother Jiang doesn't care about you." Su Yan sighed.
She asked curiously: "What are you guys thinking in your hearts?"
The man subconsciously looked up at her and said, "Daughter-in-law, I didn't think about anything."
"I didn't tell you, I just asked what you thought." Su Yan didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Qin An came over and placed dumplings, "I don't know."
Seeing his daughter-in-law working so hard all day long, he felt distressed and anxious. He had no time to think about anything else.
He only cared about that matter if it was his wife, but he never thought about it if it wasn't his wife.
"You can give Brother Jiang a beating these days."
Su Yan is not a nosy person. Goudan has helped her a lot, but she can't stand it anymore.
"The more you talk, the less likely he will listen."
Qin An understands the psychology of men. The more people talk about it, the more shameful it becomes.
Instead, he was resentful towards his wife.
She thought it was true. A man always wants to save some face. She thought for a while and said, "Mr. Husband, take him to a flower bar."
"When the time comes, I'll probably be able to scare him by telling him that those women have the disease."
Of course I have to tell Goudan's mother about this.
Qin An frowned subconsciously and said in disgust: "It stinks there."
Su Yan smiled and said: "You are so smelly right now. Go and wash it. The clothes have been found and placed on the stool."
Being "disgusted" by his wife, Qin An hugged her from behind and kissed her a few times, "A few days ago, you disliked me for being old. Now you dislike me for being smelly. Why will you dislike me a few days later?"
"I hate your handsomeness."
Su Yan gently patted the back of his hand, then took the spatula and gently pushed the dumplings in the pot.
She added: "It's just right to eat after washing it."
As soon as she finished speaking, someone slapped her cheek and said, "Let Sister Cui cook and rub my back."
…
The temperature suddenly dropped during the night and it began to rain heavily. The crackling sound startled Su Yan, who yawned and looked outside.
It was pitch black.
At this time, a big hand reached out and patted her quilt gently, and the man said hoarsely: "Don't be afraid, just go to sleep."
Su Yan moved into his arms and fell asleep not long after. When she woke up the next day, she found that the ground in the room was a little wet.
She looked up at the roof. There were water stains on the tiles. It rained heavily yesterday.
When I left the house, I saw Qin An repairing the kitchen tiles on the roof.
"Slower."
"good."
It rained all night, and the dry and cracked ground in the village was somewhat restored. Su Yan felt a lot more relaxed. If there was no drought, life would be much easier.
"Sir, please come with me to the mountains to look for mushrooms later."
"good."
Qin An on the roof responded.
After it rained, there were many people working in the fields, but few people came to the mountains. Su Yan was holding a basket in one hand and a wooden stick in the other to pick up loose hair.
There are a lot of mushrooms that pop up after the rain, but they are not big.
After searching, I arrived at the cave. I don't know who had opened the door, but nothing inside was left.
Fortunately it's not a valuable thing.
Su Yan sat on the stone pier, took off her shoes and looked inside. There was a lot of scum inside.
Just as she was about to shake it a few times, Qin An took it and removed the dregs inside. After doing it, he squatted down and put on her cloth shoes.
"I'll go over there for a while and wait here."
He put down his backpack and got into the grass cage under Su Yan's gaze. After a while, he bent down and got out, with a few strands of hair hanging out from the weed branches.
Somewhat embarrassed.
He came over and handed her an exploded wild melon, "Eat it."
Even though he often did this, Su Yan was still a little moved. She frowned and was reluctant to eat by herself: "Take it back and share it with the two children."
It’s not that I’m trying to be thrifty. You can’t buy wild melons even if you have money. The pulp inside is very sweet.
Qin An didn't say anything, but squatted in front of her, spread the wild melon apart, and handed it to her mouth, "You eat it."
"I'll eat half of it." Su Yan lowered her head and took a bite, but Qin An still insisted that she finish it.
After eating, he threw away the wild melon rind.
Just as he was about to stand up, Su Yan grabbed his wrist and said, "Sit down."
When he sat down, she stood behind him and tied his hair again.
The couple stayed in the mountains for a long time. When they came down from the mountain, they heard women in the village yelling at each other, each word getting louder and louder than the last.
We still can't stay here too long, otherwise Tuantuan may be led astray.
As soon as I got home, I heard Tuantuan crawling around on the ground, saying "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy!!"
He can only shout these two words.
Su Yan was probably teasing him, so she held Qin An's hand and said, "Your father is mine."
Tuantuan stuck her butt out and started to want to come over. After taking two steps, she sat down on the ground and immediately opened her mouth and started howling.
Su Yan, a mother-in-law, not only did not feel distressed, but was amused, "Why are you crying when you fall? Little crybaby."
As he spoke, he walked over and picked him up.
Tuantuan struggled for a while, refusing to let her hold him, swaying, and then ran towards his father with some caution.
Qin An knelt down and picked him up, then threw him up. He giggled and drooled.
At this time, the sound of gongs and drums came from the village, which scared Qin An. Qin An raised his hand and patted him gently, indicating that there was no need to be afraid.
The sound of gongs and drums gradually became louder and finally stopped at the entrance of the courtyard.
The mayor stood at the door and said happily: "Qin An, you have become a scholar."
Hearing this, Su Yan's eyes lit up and she couldn't help but feel happy. Before she could say anything, she exclaimed: "Oh my god, I'm going to be a scholar!"
"The ancestors have appeared!"
Su Yan couldn't laugh or cry for a moment, so she invited the mayor to come in and said, "Come in and sit down."
The mayor was not polite to them. He sat on a stool in the main room and took out the list of names from his arms and gave it to Qin An.
He praised: "You are the first. This is the first time in our town that such a good scholar has been admitted."
"The Yamen has rewarded me with one hundred taels of silver. It will come down in a few days."