The whole village is starving, but I have a full warehouse of meat in the mall

Chapter 6: Sishan caught a rabbit.

However, Sishan's eyes were fixed on the rabbit meat, so it was not suitable to sell it now.

"Mom, what happened?"

Gu Xiaohui came running hurriedly with a basket of vegetables. She slipped and almost fell.

Jiang Wan hurriedly helped her up. His eldest daughter-in-law was pregnant and her pregnancy was a little obvious. He was reluctant to find a doctor to check her pulse and didn't know how many months she was pregnant.

But no matter how long you are pregnant, you should not go up the mountain. If you accidentally fall, you may lose the baby in your belly.

"Si Shan caught a rabbit." Jiang Wan picked up the rabbit, "We're going to eat rabbit meat today."

Gu Xiaohui's face was filled with joy. Her family hadn't eaten meat for at least a year, but she definitely wouldn't get a share of such a small rabbit. But as long as she could smell the aroma of rabbit meat and drink a mouthful of corn porridge left over from the morning, she would be satisfied...

In the past, I couldn’t even have a mouthful of porridge, and the wild vegetable porridge could only fill me up a little. These past two days have been like a dream…

She couldn't help but say, "Mom, I can skin a rabbit. I can make a scarf for you with the whole fur."

Upon hearing this, a bloody scene emerged in Ye Sishan's mind.

He could no longer control himself and tears started streaming down his face.

Gu Xiaohui was startled: "Sishan, what happened?"

Ye Sishan wiped his tears with the back of his hand, unable to utter a word. His mother liked to eat rabbit meat and even made a scarf out of rabbit fur. If he disagreed, would his mother return to her original appearance...

He likes to have a full meal and likes his gentle mother. He is afraid that if he doesn’t let his mother eat rabbit, she will get angry and take all the delicious food at home to his uncle’s place…

Jiang Wan comforted him, "Sishan, you caught this rabbit, so you will have two more pieces of rabbit meat than them later."

Ye Sishan cried even harder. Mom, let her eat it if she likes it. He won’t eat it anyway!
Jiang Wan thought that he was just frightened by Wang Daniu and his gang, and planned to go back early to reward the boy with braised rabbit.

The group of four went back home.

Gu Xiaohui's basket was full of wild ferns, Ye Sishan's backpack was full of milk mushrooms, but Jiang Wan's basket was empty.

Gu Xiaohui thought silently, her mother-in-law really came here to watch them work...

On the way down the mountain, I met many villagers. I had a bad reputation in the village and was not popular, so I saved myself a lot of trouble.

When I got home, the sun was high in the sky and it was almost noon.

There was a bucket of water in the yard of the house. It must have been brought back by the second son and then put down and went to fetch more water.

"Mom, let me skin the rabbit first." Gu Xiaohui walked over swiftly.

Jiang Wan said seriously, "Pregnant women cannot see blood. It's not good for the baby in the belly. Go and boil some hot water first."

What a joke! She was going to the mall to exchange it for a big rabbit, and if her eldest daughter-in-law skinned it, she wouldn't be able to sneak away.

Gu Xiaohui was a little flattered.

After she became pregnant, she did all the heavy work. She was the one who killed the last hen in the family last month. Her mother-in-law never thought about the child in her belly...

She felt that her mother-in-law was really different, and the way she looked at her was also slightly gentler...

Jiang Wan carried the rabbit to the backyard and quickly exchanged it for a big fat rabbit weighing eight kilograms. He made a net profit of 12 cents from the sale and purchase.

While Gu Xiaohui was still making a fire, Jiang Wan killed the rabbit with a knife and then began to skin it.

She was good at business, but she was not good at skinning. She tried her best but failed to get the skin off. The rabbit's fur was covered in blood... "Mom, I'm back!"

Ye Dahe's voice was like a savior, and Jiang Wan quickly called him to the backyard.

She stuffed the dead rabbit into her eldest son's arms and said, "Fourth son, I caught a rabbit. You skin it first."

Ye Dahe went to pick up some dry grass and twisted it into a rope. He hung the rabbit by the neck and then started to peel the skin from the rabbit's mouth downwards...

Jiang Wan couldn't bear to watch the bloody scene any longer, so she turned around to prepare other food.

For a family of seven, it is definitely not enough to eat just one rabbit. Rabbit meat stewed with vermicelli is delicious, but vermicelli seemed to have not existed in that era.

"Four mountains!"

she shouted.

Ye Sishan came over crying, his face full of tear marks. He wiped his face with his little hand and it was dirty.

Jiang Wan scooped up some water to wash his face, and said helplessly: "Wang Daniu and his gang won't come to steal rabbits again, why are you crying?"

Ye Sishan sniffed, held back his tears, and sobbed, "I won't cry anymore..."

Anyway, the rabbit is already dead, and no matter how much you cry, there will be no more rabbits.

"Here are two cents. Go to grandma's and exchange them for some food."

Jiang Wan took out a copper coin from his waist bag and put it in his hand. "It's better to bring back a piece of wild ginger to remove the smell of the rabbit meat. If you don't have that, just bring back a cabbage. It smells delicious. Do you want to eat it?"

Ye Sishan imagined it and his saliva started to flow out. He quickly swallowed it back.

Rabbits are his good friends, and he firmly resists rabbit meat.

He walked towards the old house with two cents in his pocket.

The Ye family's old house is at the outermost edge of the village. The Ye family has three sons and one daughter.
The house was quite large, with five rooms in total, which was larger than Jiang Wan's six rooms. It stood squarely next to a big locust tree, and there were vegetable plots in front of and behind the house. In this dry season, only the Ye family had a large population, so they could arrange for several people to line up to fetch water to keep the vegetable plots from drying up.

Ye Sishan pushed open the gate and walked in, shouting, "Grandma!"

It was broad daylight and not even dinner time, and only Old Lady Ye and the Ye family's daughter-in-law were at home in the Ye family's old house.

Old Mrs. Ye is drying wild vegetables. It's a bad harvest, so she has to dry more wild vegetables in advance and store them while there are plenty of them on the mountain, to avoid leaving more than a dozen people in her family starving.

"Sishan, why are you here?"

Ye Sishan said, "My mother asked me to bring back some wild ginger or cabbage."

Upon hearing this, Ye Er's wife's face fell. The eldest sister-in-law had taken thirty taels of silver and more than ten acres of land and went out to live alone. She had agreed to have nothing to do with the old Ye family anymore and even signed a written agreement.
Now he actually lets his youngest son come to the old house and ask for food openly. How can there be such a shameless person in the world!

Old Mrs. Ye's face was not looking good either. "Your mother is a lazy bum. In the spring, everyone grows vegetables, but she doesn't. She sits with her legs crossed and gossips everywhere. Now, everyone has some food in stock, but your family still wants to dig pig fat to eat. There are ferns on the mountain, but she insists on doing this to make a fool of herself!"

Old Mrs. Ye cursed and pulled out a cabbage from the field.

Due to lack of water, the cabbages were very small, so the old lady pulled out two radishes and stuffed them into Ye Sishan's hand.

Ye Er's wife's heart was bleeding. Her eldest sister-in-law had gone so far, but her mother-in-law was still partial to her family. Wasn't it just because her eldest sister-in-law could give birth to a son?
Thinking of this, Ye Er's wife felt bitter. She only gave birth to two daughters, and was a sinner in the old Ye family. She couldn't hold her head up in the entire Lotus Village. No matter how partial her mother-in-law was, she couldn't say a word. Who told her that she couldn't give birth to a son as well as her eldest sister-in-law...

(End of this chapter)