"Oh, okay." Tong Xiaoye felt that waiting like this was not an option. Xuan Jinyan's face had always been bad, pale and frightened, and she was taciturn. She had not recovered from her cold before. Will it become more serious if it continues like this?
?"Then I'll try."
After saying that, he stood up, patted the dirt on his body, smiled and said to Xuan Jinyan: "Sister, I'm going to take a look. Just wait for me for a while. If it's done, I'll come over and call you."
I deliberately didn't mention Xuan Jinyan's name because I thought it would be better to do less than to do more.
Entering the yard, in fact, the yard is just an open space surrounded by some fences. There are no flowers, but some fruits, peaches and plums. There are some green plants wrapped around the fence. I can’t guess what they are. There are small flowers in bloom, light yellow.
, not big, and has no aroma.
The kitchen is just a small house with a simple stove. There is a big pot with a few cabbages piled on it. The outer leaves are withered and yellow. They must have been stored in winter. There are a few white radishes. There is a plate with only cabbage and no meat in the pot.
A corn tortilla.
There was no fire in the stove, but it was still warm. It must have been used in the morning.
She looked around and found with some frustration that she had to chop wood by herself! She smiled bitterly and weighed the ax. It was really heavy. She carried a few pieces of wood to the kitchen door, looked at them, raised the ax and dropped it. The ax was too heavy.
The chop missed the mark, missed the wood, and almost hit me!
There seemed to be a faint chuckle, which startled her. She immediately looked around and didn't see any strange faces. She probably heard it wrong.
Arrange the wood again and lift the ax to chop.
"Xiaoye, what are you doing?" Xuan Jinyan watched in astonishment as Tong Xiaoye raised his ax and struck the wood on the ground. Either the strike missed or it was halfway struck and the ax could not be pulled out.
Tong Xiaoye smiled and said, "I'm chopping wood. There's no more firewood in the kitchen. If I want to heat up some food, this is the only way. However, it doesn't seem to be easy."
I don't know why, but the rooster seemed to remember Xuan Jinyan's grudge. As soon as she appeared, the rooster started jumping up and down in the chicken shed. Then, while Tong Xiaoye and Xuan Jinyan were having a conversation, he actually roosterd himself.
He jumped out of the shed and pounced directly on Xuan Jinyan.
Xuan Jinyan happened to have her back to the rooster, so she didn't notice that Tong Xiaoye's eyes were so wide open that he hurriedly picked up a piece of wood from the ground and threw it out. It was a coincidence that it hit the rooster on the head, and the rooster suddenly fell to the ground.
, there was no movement for a long time.
"Is it dead?" Xuan Jinyan stared at the rooster on the ground in shock.
"Probably not." Tong Xiaoye frowned, "But if it dies and the aunt really eats me, it seems to be very important here. But, I finally know what chicken tripe is-"
Xuan Jinyan looked at Tong Xiaoye in astonishment, and then couldn't help but laugh softly.
Tong Xiaoye was a little strange, were her words really so funny? Auntie would laugh, and so would Xuan Jinyan. In fact, she was just telling the truth.
After a while, the unconscious rooster woke up and stood up again. Tong Xiaoye tried to open the fence of the chicken shed, and the rooster walked in obediently.
"So it turns out that roosters bully the weak and fear the strong?" Tong Xiaoye was actually scared. She kept holding the ax in her hand and looked at the rooster with great vigilance.
Xuan Jinyan smiled bitterly and said softly with some sadness: "I thought, at least we should plant some flowers and plants, have a swing, and watch the sunset and drink a cup of tea."