Wings of Hung Chien - Chapter 4

Si Hongcang returned home and sighed a little while looking at the simple thatched cottage.

Old-fashioned wooden bed with straw underneath and patched sheets. The thin quilt above is also a patch cover patch, and the batting inside has been caked, and there is no feeling of softness. The pillowcase was made of stain-resistant blue sackcloth, pressed as rigidly as a brick.

There is an old wooden box on the bedside, next to a mottled and unrecognizable cabinet, on which are neatly placed some of the four treasures of the study and a few manuscripts of the old inkstone that is not very complete and old enough to lose hair and missing corners. . When it comes to the manuscript, the fonts on it are very similar to the characters written in the predecessor. She should have copied it. She had read the contents of the manuscript earlier, but I didn’t expect it to be almost the same as the Four Books and Five Classics of ancient China.

This is also a study and sleeping place.

In fact, she had already listened to Wazi’s words. In this ancient etiquette society where men and women are incompatible, the customs and public opinion and the criticism of the neighbors that Yun Ruo has encountered must be far deeper than the need for her.

If you can’t go back to your previous life, then you have to find a way to improve your current life first. You can’t live like this. But what can we do to get out of such a poor life?

well! In such a beautiful place, how can we live like this? You shouldn’t even think about it!

According to the family’s limited land, firstly, there are only three acres of land, two acres of paddy fields, and one acre of dry land. The second is that the output is not high. After paying the tax, the rest is only enough to add some important household necessities, and you have to keep some rations!

On weekdays, there is no other income. After the eggs are sold, I have to buy daily necessities. If one of them gets sick, it will be over.

Si Hongcang thought, what about now? I heard the bear-like aunt before saying that if you raise a pig, if you keep it for a year, you will get 5 taels of silver. Just catch the little piglets and raise them, and then do other things when you get the money. Tomorrow morning, the auntie’s family, who was like a bear, came back to raise two piglets on credit. Well, wait for the mother… um, the rooster has a nest and then hatch some chicks, and there will be chickens for sale later.

As long as people work hard, they can always find ways to save money.

I also have to ask the bear-like aunt to teach me to make a few fish baskets and shrimp nets. Do it yourself, don’t you have enough food and clothing? Take care of your belly first.

She was lying on the bed, looking at the thatched roof out of focus, and kept calculating in her heart.

Um! Thinking about it this way, there are so many things to do, one by one.

While planning slowly. Suddenly, a small collision sounded into Si Hongcang’s ears, thinking, what animal would have broken into her backyard at this time?

Originally, she didn’t care much, but the slight rustling in the backyard outside made her very excited and curious. Her body has nothing else, but her hearing is different from ordinary people.

If there was something for her to remember, it should be a very subtle rustling sound, and I don’t know why it made her feel uneasy. Although she has a soft personality, it doesn’t mean she is timid. So, she quickly got out of bed and rushed to the backyard.

When she came to the backyard, she suddenly felt that there seemed to be a sweet smell in the air.

Si Hongcang turned his head to look, but was really frightened! Under the moonlight, a strange woman stood very close to her, only three steps away. The man stared straight at her, and he didn’t seem to be breathing, but Si Hongcang still caught the fleeting surprise and doubt in her eyes.

She thought to herself, why did Si Hongcang come here? Is it suddenly? Is it by chance? Or by reason?

And Si Hongcang seemed to have guessed what she was thinking, so he said to her, “I came out because I heard a voice in the backyard.”

“Your ears are very smart. My name is Bai Yi.” She had two swords on her body, one was dripping blood in her hand, the other was dripping blood on her shoulder, of course, “Can you borrow water?”

“Okay, the well is here, I’ll take you there.” Si Hongcang hurriedly led her through the vegetable garden and tried his best to fetch the water.

But Si Hongcang was playing too slowly, Bai Yi took the rope in her hand as soon as he stretched out his hand, and quickly brought the water up. Start drinking from the well. The rest was poured over the body, washing away the blood.

“Do you have any clothes?” she asked indifferently, as if her shoulder blades were not her own, she pulled out the sword without frowning, and blood spurted from the wound immediately.

“I’ll get it.” Si Hongcang turned and rushed into the room.

Picking up the clothes from the closet and rushing towards the well… Of course, he turned around suddenly and embarrassedly.

Bai Yi was very generous, stripped off and flushed water by the well. Although she is a woman, she will still be embarrassed. In fact, she didn’t see anything… At most, she looked at the back. A martial arts master is a martial arts master, look how beautiful that exquisite curve is! …but it is also fatally beautiful, and it might come flying with a sword.

“That, clothes.” Si Hongcang said calmly, she squatted down carefully, and put the clothes and towel on the stone, “Place them behind you, I’ll go back to the house to tidy up, it’s getting late, you can stay at my house first. already.”

“…” Bai Yi didn’t answer Si Hongcang, and just focused on washing himself.

Although it was too late for dinner, it was too early for breakfast.

Si Hongcang still spread out two eggs, used a pan that had fried eggs, patted a few cloves of garlic, sautéed a plate of fragrant spinach, and stewed a loofah.

When she moved the vegetable rice to the table that had a broken foot and a piece of wood wrapped around it like a tumor, Bai Yi had already taken care of herself and was walking over with wet hair. .

“Even though the food is simple, you still have something to eat.” Said, handing her a bowl of white rice.

Bai Yi was stunned for a moment before taking it, holding chopsticks, but did not eat immediately.

Si Hongcang was also in trouble, so he asked her, “Um…Is it not to your taste?”

She shook her head softly, and then wiped out all the food with a terrifying speed.

Si Hongcang looked at Bai Yi and thought to himself: She… how long has it been since she ate?

In the end, Bai Yi even drank all the salty rice porridge that Si Hongcang had saved for breakfast tomorrow, before putting down his chopsticks.

“I’ll pay,” she said hoarsely.

Si Hongcang, who was in a daze, woke up like a dream, and waved his hands quickly, “No, no, that’s not the case. I have enough food here! It’s because I didn’t calculate my appetite… Well, I think you are very thin…” She was incoherent. After a while, he calmed down, “You can eat as much as you want. I’ll cook again…”

“Enough.” Bai Yi packed up the dishes and went down the well to wash the dishes.

…so spontaneous. Si Hongcang scratched his head, went into the room to clean up, and took out a lot of quilts. This small thatched hut is very simple, with only a kitchen, a main room and a bed. There is no door between the main room and the bed, just a curtain to separate the inside and the outside.

“You’re the only one in this house?”

“Ah, by the way, that…Miss Bai Yi,” Si Hongcang shouted to Bai Yi who was putting dishes in the kitchen, “Are you used to sleeping on the inside or outside of the bed?”

Bai Yi’s cold eyes pierced over, “I’ll do it under the eaves.”

“You’re welcome,” Si Hongcang waved his hand, “Although the bed is a little crowded, I sleep well.”

“Although you are still young, you should always know that this man and woman are not kissing each other, right?”

“Ah?! I’m also a woman.”

“Are you female?”

“Would you like to verify your identity for you to see?”

“It doesn’t have to be.”

“Miss Bai Yi, how is your injury?”

“I’ve been on medication.”

“Are you still hungry?”

“Not hungry.”

“Want to drink water?”

“Not thirsty.”

The next day, Si Hongcang rubbed his eyes and climbed down from the bed. As soon as he walked out the door, he saw Bai Yi indifferently sharpening the rusted hatchet.

so amazing. She sighed inwardly. It’s been a month or two, and she still doesn’t know how to sharpen her knives, so she often makes jokes with women in the village.

“Miss Bai Yi, good morning.” She greeted with admiration.

“I’m not a lady.” She drenched the hatchet with water, “Just call it Bai Yi.”

“My name is Si Hongcang.”

“I didn’t ask you.” Bai Yi didn’t even look up. After sharpening the hatchet, he carried it into the bamboo forest behind the house.

When Bai Yi cooked a large bowl of white porridge and served omelette with chopped green onion and boiled spicy cabbage, he stared at the bamboo table and bamboo chairs that had just “grown” in the yard.

Bai Yi took it without a word and placed it on the bamboo table.

“I don’t have a saw, and I don’t have a hammer or nail…” Bai Yi muttered, his eyes lost focus.

“A hatchet is enough, what do you want?” Bai Yi went into the kitchen and brought out a whole bowl of porridge, not even a piece of cloth, as if it didn’t feel hot at all.

Si Hongcang took out the bowl and chopsticks in a daze, and looked at the flat and beautiful bamboo table in disbelief throughout the meal. This is really too powerful.

“Si Hongcang.” Bai Yi suddenly called her.

“Huh?” She looked up blankly.

“Your surname is Si Hong.” Bai Yi asked her with a strange look.

“What’s wrong with the surname Si Hong?” She couldn’t figure it out.

Bai Yi lowered his head and continued to eat without speaking.

She spoke very little, and Si Hongcang didn’t know what to say to her, after all, she didn’t know him at all. She has a lot of work every day. She has to go to the fields and feed the chickens and pick eggs. Because she takes a bath every day, she has a lot of clothes to wash every day. There is also a vegetable garden to take care of, and only one person needs to eat. When there are too many, we have to find a way to make pickles or dry vegetables.

Now is not the season for ploughing and plowing, and she also has to pick up firewood.

By the way, today she’s going to the aunt’s house like a bear to raise two piglets on credit.

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