Chapter 587: Ginger Soup
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
“It’s finally raining.” Li Qingshu’s mother was sitting in the carriage, hiding in the straw cape, and she was quite happy.
“That’s right,” Liu Guixia and He Jinshan were also very happy.
It hadn’t rained for more than two months, and they all missed the cooling weather.
It was good that it rained, so the crops would not have to be watered by the river water all the time.
Although he felt that the rain was good, the rain got heavier and the ox cart was starting to slow down. Soon, the road became muddy. Xue Erfu’s ox cart even got stuck in a pit because one of its wheels sunk into the mud. The pit was filled with water and it slipped, so the ox cart couldn’t get out.
It was also because of the accumulated water that the hole could not be seen, causing the wheel to sink in by accident.
Xue Sifu hurriedly stopped his ox cart, got off, and went to push Erfu’s ox cart.
It was useless even if he pushed it by himself. Liu Guixia also got busy, and Li Qingshu’s mother and He Jinshan’s mother also got off the ox cart to help push it. Xue Dagui was also embarrassed, so he got off the ox cart and pushed it.
Seeing that Jiang Yue and Xue Yan also wanted to get off the ox cart, Liu Guixia was afraid that the two precious children would get sick in the rain. Children had weak immune systems, so she shouted to Jiang Yue and Xue Yan in the rain, “Don’t come down! Just stay right there!”
She even waved her hands non-stop, telling the two of them to sit properly.
Seeing that the ox cart was about to be pushed out of the pit, Jiang Yue and Xue Yan obediently sat in the carriage and let the straw cape cover them tightly.
The bamboo hat and straw cape were both big, so the raindrops that fell on them dripped down along the edges. Jiang Yue and Xue Yan looked like they were sitting in the heavy rain, but in fact, they were not getting wet at all. They didn’t even get a drop of water on their faces. It was just that the rain was too heavy, so the surroundings were wet.
Several people pushed the wheel. Eventually, it came out of the pit. However, Liu Guixia and the others had been drenched by the rain.
When the carriage was about to reach the village entrance, they ran into Xue Yifu and Li Hehua, who were worried sick and had come to pick them up in their bamboo hats and straw capes.
Li Hehua said that there was ginger soup at home, and asked Li Qingshu, his mother, and the others to have a bowl before leaving.
When the ox cart arrived at the entrance of the house, Li Hehua carried Jiang Yue into the home. The straw cape was so big that it covered her feet when she was carried. The rain could not reach her feet, and she returned home just like that.
Xue Yan was also a bit flabbergasted, because Xue Yifu was carrying him into the room as well.
However, even though Jiang Yue and Xue Yan were dry, Li Hehua still stuffed a bowl of hot ginger soup into their hands, “Drink this, quickly. It’s to get rid of the cold.”
“Yes, thank you very much.” Xue Yan and Jiang Yue both said their thanks and began to drink the hot ginger soup slowly.
The ginger soup did not taste good at all, but they did not frown when they drank it. Their expressions were very calm.
Li Qingshu’s mother, He Jinshan’s mother, and Xue Dagui each drank a large bowl of ginger soup and hurried home.
Fortunately, Xue Yifu noticed that the weather wasn’t good today, so he didn’t cook under the shed. Instead, he had gone to the cornfield with Xue Dafu and Li Hehua in the morning to harvest the corn. Then, before it rained, he tied the corn into knots. Not only did he hang them under the shed, but he also hung them on the walls of the corridor. The walls were now covered with yellow corn cobs.
Jiang Yue drank the ginger soup as she stood quietly at the door of the central room. In the corridor and under the eaves, she looked at the rain that was still pouring and at the glistening yellow corn cobs hanging under the shed..