"Mom, that little bastard Ye Ming actually had the nerve to hit you in front of so many people!
He's ruined our family's reputation. We can't let him off so easily."
Wang Da Jiao was sitting on a stool, her face covered with snow she'd grabbed from outside.
Even so, her face burned.
"You heartless person, how dare you say that? Why didn't you stop that little bastard when he hit me?"
"And you don't need to tell me about this. I won't let him off so easily either!"
Hearing Wang Da Jiao's words, Ye Qingshan's face broke into a lewd smile.
"Then, Mom, shouldn't we ask that little bastard for medical expenses?"
"If he hit you, it's not too much to give you some medicine, right?"
Ye Qingshan was clearly eyeing Ye Ming's money.
"Yeah, I was planning on that, but not right now."
"I don't even know where that little bastard lives now. That little bastard Liu Qiang must have found him."
"Tomorrow, the three of us will go find Liu Qiang,"
Wang Zhaodi said from the side.
"I'm not going. If you do, you go." "
If it weren't for the fact that you, Wang Da Jiao, are an elder from the same village, would I have married your useless son?"
"Now you coax me back and ask me to go out to work and block people in the middle of winter?"
"You guys are dreaming."
Wang Da Jiao looked at the wife he had spent one or two taels of silver to marry and felt so angry. He
had thought that Wang Zhaodi would be in good health and work efficiently.
With Ye Ming, a beast of burden, he could make more money, but he didn't expect to marry a poor old woman.
Not only does she not do any work, she also doesn't lay eggs. After marrying her for so long, she still hasn't conceived a child, not even a girl.
"If you go, I'll share some of the silver with you!"
Wang Zhaodi agreed to go and block Ye Ming after hearing that there was silver to share.
At this time, Ye Ming was outside the yard.
"Brother Ming, are you up? The snow has stopped. "
Liu Qiang shouted excitedly, holding a hunting bow in his hand that he got from nowhere.
It looked even more worn out than the one Ye Ming used for cover.
But the bowstring made of cow tendon was new.
"Who is it? Can't you let me sleep so early in the morning?"
The quilt was very comfortable in the winter morning, so comfortable that Ye Ming didn't want to get up.
But Su Xiaorong got up and made breakfast after she got used to it.
Originally, Su Xiaorong had no habit of eating breakfast.
In her original home and even when she was married to the original owner, she often only had one meal a day.
If Ye Ming hadn't said that she couldn't take good care of herself and couldn't have children, she wouldn't even cook her own portion.
She cooked a few bowls of white rice porridge and a plate of roast chicken left over from last night.
After she was done, she heard someone calling her husband's name outside the door and opened the door.
"It's Brother Qiang. My husband hasn't gotten up yet. Come in and warm yourself by the fire."
"Hehehe, okay. "
As he spoke, Liu Qiang was taken into the kitchen.
It was called a kitchen, but it was actually a combination of the living room and the kitchen.
There was an old wooden table in the not-so-spacious thatched house.
In the corner, there was an earthen wall made of mud and stones,
and there was also a stove made of mud. The small earthen pit in front of the stove was where people roasted their fires.
As soon as he entered the door, Liu Qiang saw the white porridge and the plate of roast chicken on the table. He
couldn't help but complain in his heart that Ye Ming was a spendthrift and still owed money to Wang Dajiao, but he bought such good food.
But he didn't say it out loud, after all, this was Ye Ming's own family affair.
It was not appropriate to say it in front of his wife.
"Brother Qiang, have you had breakfast?"
"If not, let's eat together."
"No, I've eaten."
Liu Qiang's eyes were almost straight. He could eat white porridge occasionally.
It was this roast chicken, except for a small piece he had during the Chinese New Year some time ago.
He never tasted it again after that.
"Okay, Brother Qiang, you roast the fire here and I'll go call my husband."
"No, I'm up. "
Ye Ming had packed up by now.
He simply greeted Liu Qiang and casually took a piece of cloth as a towel to wash his face.
"Brother Qiang, have you eaten? Do you want to eat something?"
Liu Qiang shook his head.
After Ye Ming finished eating, Liu Qiang went straight to the point.
"Brother Ming, the snow has stopped today. Do you want to go up the mountain to hunt?"
"It's almost the beginning of spring, and there will basically be no heavy snow in the future."
"There will be no time for hunting when the spring plowing starts."
Originally, Ye Ming also planned to go up the mountain to try his luck today. Since Liu Qiang is here, it's not a bad idea to take him with him.
At worst, he can find an excuse to send him away later and give him some prey.
Just think of it as repaying part of the favor, and continue to take him with him when he does business in the future.
"Okay, wait for me to get ready, and we'll go up the mountain later."
Hearing that Ye Ming was going to continue going up the mountain to hunt, Su Xiaorong's face showed a trace of worry.
"Husband, are you going up the mountain again?"
"Well, I want to save enough money for Wang Dajiao's separation as soon as possible. "
Don't worry, nothing will happen this time with Brother Qiang accompanying us."
"Don't worry, sister-in-law, I'll just go out for a walk with Ye Ming, and we'll be back before sunset regardless of whether there are any prey or not."
Su Xiaorong knew that this was the only way for Ye Ming to make money at the moment.
It was useless to persuade him, if only she could find a job to share the pressure on her husband.
"Well, then you guys should be careful and come back early."
"Don't worry, you'd better wait for me at home."
"Well, I'll cook dinner and wait for my husband to come back."
Ye Ming went back to the house to get his hunting bow and put on his green military coat.
"Brother Ming, where did you buy this coat? I've never seen this style before."
"When I went to the city yesterday, I met a soldier who said that the barbarians were wearing it. I bought it because it looked warm."
Ye Ming made up an excuse to get out of the way.
Liu Qiang had never seen Manzi before, so he wouldn't know how to lie to him.
"Manzi is dressed so well. Judging from his height, he must be a noble. He must be quite expensive." Liu Qiang touched his clothes and noticed that the fabric was softer and warmer than the ones worn by the masters in the city when he worked there.
"Brother Qiang, we're going into the mountains. Try not to talk. Or you'll scare away the prey," Liu Qiang nodded.
The heavy snow had just stopped, and it was time for small animals to go out for food.
Not long after they entered the mountains, they saw two grouse hopping in the snow.
"Brother Qiang, is your aim okay?"
"Don't worry. I practiced a lot the other day, so there's nothing wrong with it."
"Okay, we'll each shoot one. I'll take the left one, you the right one."
After a brief discussion, Ye Ming began to draw his bow and shoot.
These hunting bows, left behind by the original residents, required some strength to draw, but Ye Ming had plenty of strength.
The bowstrings vibrated with a sound, and two arrows pierced the grouse. Ye Ming pierced his target with a single shot.
However, Liu Qiang's bow was not strong enough, and the arrow sank into the grouse's body but did not take it away.
The frightened grouse was about to run away with the arrow. Seeing this, Ye Ming immediately made a snowball and threw it at the grouse, knocking it unconscious.
Liu Qiang, who was originally disappointed because the prey had escaped, was dumbfounded when he saw this scene.
"Fool, I don't understand. How can you have such strength? You can knock this pheasant unconscious with a snowball at fifty steps!"
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