“Not just rice, there’s meat too.”
Guan Xiaorou rubbed the little girl’s hair.
“Sister, I want to eat rice too!”
The little girl wiped her drool. “I don’t need to eat my fill, sister, just give me one bite.”
“Sister brought rice, at noon I’ll steam rice for you, soaked in meat soup, you can eat as much as you like.”
Guan Xiaorou took the cloth bag from Jin Feng’s hand. “Come, go to the inner room, I’ll get you something delicious.”
Afraid of forgetting, the candied haws had been put into the bag last night, pressed to the bottom.
“What delicious thing?”
The little girl’s drool kept increasing as she wiped.
“You’ll know when you come.”
The two sisters whispered and went into the inner room.
Jin Feng often saw illustrations of spinning wheels in textbooks, but this was the first time seeing the real thing, he was just about to go study it when several people entered the courtyard cursing.
The two leading ones were precisely Guan Xiaorou’s older brother Guan Zhuzi and sister-in-law Tian Sanya.
In the inner room, Guan Xiaorou had just opened the cloth bag, hearing her older brother and sister-in-law’s voices, she quickly ran out.
“Money-losing goods, why did you come back?”
Tian Sanya’s face turned as black as the bottom of a pot upon seeing Guan Xiaorou.
“Sister-in-law, I came back to see mother…”
“What’s there to see about an old undying one?”
Tian Sanya said. “I think you came to scrounge for food, right?”
The Guan family now only ate one meal a day, usually around eleven o’clock, then had to hold out until eleven the next day to have food.
Earlier, while working in the fields, she heard Guan Xiaorou had returned, her first thought was that the money-losing goods came back to scrounge for food.
How could that be?
Without another word, she pulled her husband and ran back at the fastest speed.
“Sanya, Xiaorou and her husband really came to see us, not to scrounge for food.”
Guan Liushi carried the teapot and also entered the main room. “They even brought gifts.”
“Who in our village doesn’t know, the money-losing goods married the most useless bookworm in Xihe Bay, what gifts could they bring? At most a handful of wild vegetables!”
Tian Sanya spoke more and more harshly. “Scholars have the most wicked minds, definitely thinking of bringing some wild vegetables over, to make us return the favour with grain!”
“Sister-in-law, you can hit me or scold me, but you can’t talk about my husband like that!”
Guan Xiaorou had been bullied by her sister-in-law for two years, already having psychological shadows, but hearing her say bad things about Jin Feng, she still mustered the courage to retort.
“What if I talk about him? If you can’t listen, then get out!”
Tian Sanya also saw Jin Feng. “You are that bookworm, right? Since you chose this money-losing goods, don’t regret it, and don’t think of taking advantage of our family, if you’re sensible, quickly take her back to Xihe Bay, don’t wait for my brothers to come chase you away, that way no one looks good!”
“Sanya, you shut up!”
Guan Liushi saw Jin Feng frowning, quickly gave her son a look. “Zhuzi, control your wife!”
Unfortunately, her son had the same thoughts as Tian Sanya, completely ignoring his mother’s reminder.
“Old undying, you’re really confused, this money-losing goods is no longer part of the Guan family, and you’re still protecting her!”
Tian Sanya was so angry she put her hands on her hips, cursing loudly. “I really had bad luck for eight lifetimes marrying into your Guan family, not a single good person in the family, either a disaster star or a short-lived ghost… short-lived ghost, what are you looking at, I’m talking about you!”
When a shrew curses, she doesn’t make any sense, Guan Xiao’e had already shrunk into the corner in fear, but still couldn’t escape, cursed by Tian Sanya until she didn’t dare lift her head, scared and trembling.
At first it was just slight trembling, then it got worse and worse, her hands and feet also started convulsing!
“Xiao’e!”
Guan Xiaorou quickly hugged her sister, anxious and flustered, yet not knowing what to do.
“I said you’re a disaster star and you don’t believe it, just entering the door and you’ve jinxed the short-lived ghost into illness!”
Tian Sanya cursed more excitedly.
The neighbours who came to watch the excitement also pointed at Guan Xiaorou.
“Husband!”
Guan Xiaorou didn’t care about others’ pointing, lifted her head and looked at Jin Feng with pleading eyes.
Jin Feng stepped forward a few steps, lowered his head to look at the little girl.
Eyes tightly closed, face pale, body convulsing, teeth not clenched, no foaming at the mouth, not epilepsy…
Then thinking of Guan Xiao’e’s long-term hunger state, Jin Feng immediately guessed low blood sugar.
He rushed into the inner room, took a handful of sugar frosting from the cloth bag, dissolved it in water, carefully fed it into the little girl’s mouth.
Everyone didn’t know what Jin Feng was doing, even Tian Sanya stopped her tantrum, curiously watching.
Not long after the sugar water was fed, the little girl slowly woke up.
“Oh, she’s awake, awake!”
“Didn’t they say Guan Xiaorou married a bookworm, how did he become a doctor?”
“How would I know?”
The neighbours started discussing in low voices.
“My son-in-law is not only a doctor, but also a tiger-slaying hero!”
Seeing her little daughter was fine, Guan Liushi held her head high, proudly said. “That tiger on the back mountain that scared you all to wet your pants was killed by my son-in-law!”
“Third sister-in-law, boasting isn’t done like that, that tiger was over a zhang long, more than thirty strong lads in our village couldn’t hold it, with your son-in-law’s build, not even enough for the tiger to slap once!”
Immediately, a neighbour who had seen the tiger refuted Guan Liushi.
“Third sister-in-law isn’t boasting,”
The village head of Guanjia Bay pushed through the crowd and came in. “This morning I went to the fields by Xihe to check the crops, met Liu Qingyuan from Xihe Bay, he told me the details, the tiger was killed by Xiaorou’s husband alone.”
“Village head, with his build, how could he kill a tiger alone?”
The neighbours still somewhat didn’t believe.
“Liu Qingyuan said, Xiaorou’s husband is a divine archer, used only three arrows to shoot the fierce tiger dead, more than half of Xihe Bay saw it!”
The village head said. “You all should properly thank him, if not for him killing the tiger, who would dare go to the back mountain to dig wild vegetables, who knows how many would starve to death this year!”
After speaking, he bowed and made a salute to Jin Feng. “Many thanks, hero.”
“Many thanks, hero!”
With the village head leading, the villagers could only follow and salute.
“Forget it, as long as you don’t chase me and Xiaorou away.”
Jin Feng was very angry about the earlier matter, rummaging through the cloth bag to find candied haws for Guan Xiao’e, without even lifting his head.
“Ah, what the money-losing… Xiaorou carried on her back really are gifts!”
“The third family really has great luck, finding a tiger-slaying hero as son-in-law!”
“Sanya really, such a good son-in-law, earlier still chasing him out!”
“The people from old Tian family only know to look down on people with dog eyes, now stupid, right!”
The neighbours looking at the gifts taken out one by one from the bag, their attitudes suddenly turned 180 degrees.
Tian Sanya, who was forking her waist and throwing a tantrum earlier, also had a face full of daze.
Jin Feng found the candied haws, stuffed the whole package to the little girl. “Xiao’e, your illness will be better if you eat more sugar, your sister said you like candied haws the most, here, try it.”
“Thank you, brother-in-law!”
Guan Xiao’e took the candied haws, tightly hugging them to her chest.
“Zhuzi, quickly make your wife apologise to your brother-in-law!”
Guan Liushi still felt sorry for her son after all, quietly tugged at her son’s sleeve.
