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“Second Brother, you can’t get off the bed. You are too heavy for me to carry.
Let Fourth Brother do it.”
“Alright.” Yishan didn’t say anything else.
Xiao Qinghe moved to the edge of the bed, laying down on Su Qingyue’s back, his hands resting on her shoulders. Her shoulders were thin, her body so slim…
He really couldn’t figure out how such a frail wife could be so strong.
He felt both delighted and ashamed, increasingly feeling that he was not worthy of her…
Su Qingyue carried him to the chair by the kitchen stove, before going out into the yard to fetch a bundle of firewood.
Xiao Qinghe took the initiative to pick up the flintstone and prepared some dry grass to start a fire.
Su Qingyue looked at his handsome face, feeling that he was more silent than usual, “Fourth Brother…
“Hm?” He turned his head to look at her. “Do you know the first thing I thought of doing when I made some money?”
He thought for a moment, “Buy rice, buy food?”
She smiled, ‘You’ll find out in a few days.”
After he started the fire, she fetched a bag of refined rice from the storage room and poured it into the rice vat.
Xiao Qinghe looked at the white rice, “The Xiao Family hasn’t eaten refined rice for over four years.”
She froze, “From now on, our house will eat refined rice every day.” Even eating ordinary rice was a luxury, how pitiful.
As she scooped water from the water jar to wash the rice, her gaze unintentionally swept over his disabled legs once more. Such a promising young man would never be able to stand again, and it was truly regrettable.
“Ow…” The little bastard entered the kitchen.
Su Qingyue looked at the little fellow, “I almost forgot, I said I would make you meat stew today. I’ll ask around to see if anyone has meat for sale, and I’ll cook some meat for lunch. I’ll also go to Aunt Zhang’s house to buy a couple of vegetables. We’ve finally bought food for half a year, we won’t have to worry about food for the next six months, so we should celebrate by buying something good to eat.”
Qinghe nodded, “I’ll watch the stove fire in the kitchen.”
Su Qingyue went to Aunt Zhang’s family, but no one was home.
As she left, Zhang Shun’s wife spotted her and said, “Su Qingyue, are you looking for Aunt Zhang?”
“Yes. I wanted to buy some vegetables from her.” Su Qingyue recognized that the woman’s husband was the one who bought the snake meat that bit Second Brother.
“I just pulled some vegetables from the field, I can sell you some.” Zhang Shun’s wife said.
“That would be great.” Qingyue bought three cents worth of vegetables and heard that the hunter Li Yibao caught two wild pheasants today. So, she went to the Li Family.
The Li Family was also south of the village, quite close to the Xiao Family, just over a hundred meters away.
When Su Qingyue reached the entrance of the Li Family’s courtyard, she inspected their house. It was also an adobe house, but the roof was covered with tiles instead of the Xiao Family’s thatch. The Li Family’s courtyard wasn’t as big as the Xiao Family’s, but the adobe house seemed much newer than the Xiao Family’s.
“Is anyone home?” She asked.
Li Yibao came out of the kitchen, “It’s the Xiao Family’s wife.”
Su Qingyue estimated his age to be around forty or fifty and called out, “Uncle Li, I heard you caught two wild pheasants, can you sell me one?”
“Sure.” Li Yibao agreed readily, “As a hunter, I mostly hunt to save some silver taels. It’s too wasteful for my family to eat it all. I’ll go to the kitchen and get it for you.” He then called into the house, “Wife, the Xiao Family’s wife is here to buy a pheasant, bring out the scale.”
“Alright!” A middle-aged woman responded from inside.
Su Qingyue waited in the yard..