Traveling through the 1970s: The young wife loves to make trouble

Chapter 75: As timid as a mouse
Unfortunately, Li Yuegui had good intentions, but her son did not appreciate it.

"Mom." Grabbing Li Yuegui's hand, Wei Aiguo questioned her, "Why are you covering my mouth?"

Li Yuegui said in a gentle voice, "Okay, son, rabbit meat is not tasty. It's very tough. Let's go find your grandma and ask her to go to town tomorrow to buy a piece of meat and braise it for you. Okay?"

"You said pheasant meat was not tasty the night before last, it was very tough, but they ate it with relish." Wei Aiguo knew that this was just a coaxing move. "Today you said rabbit meat was not tasty and was also very tough. I don't believe you. I don't believe you anymore."

"The night before yesterday, you also told grandma to go to town to buy meat tomorrow and make me braised pork. But yesterday and today, all I ate was boiled cabbage and pickled radish."

"I went to ask grandma, and she said we didn't have meat coupons, so we couldn't buy meat. You're not keeping your word, and I won't believe anything you say anymore."

"Does our family have no meat coupons?" Li Yuegui shook her head in surprise, "I don't know."

"You still say you don't know, but grandma clearly told you." Wei Aiguo no longer believed what Li Yuegui said and shouted, "I don't care whether you know or not, I want to eat meat, I want to eat meat tonight, eat meat, I want to eat meat, I want to eat meat..."

Li Yuegui was stunned by her son's yelling. She really didn't know that her mother-in-law had no meat tickets left.

Wei Aiguo repeated "I want to eat meat" like a tape recorder, which was like a magic sound.

"If you want to chant sutras, go back to your own room and chant them." Tao Qiuyi was so disturbed that she threatened Wei Aiguo with a smile, "If you make trouble again, I'll sew your mouth shut."

Seeing that she said it with a smile, Wei Aiguo thought it was a joke and bravely retorted, "You dare."

Seeing that the situation was not right, Li Yuegui hurriedly grabbed her son and whispered in his ear to remind him not to provoke Tao Qiuyi.

But Wei Aiguo was not the one to listen to advice. Instead, he glared at Tao Qiuyi fiercely and started to argue with her.

"You are brave. I'll let you see if I dare." After saying that, Tao Qiuyi threw the bamboo joint in his hand to the ground casually, and the bamboo joint broke into several pieces with a bang.

With a flick of his toes, a bamboo joint was picked up and Tao Qiuyi reached out to grab it.

Li Yuegui and Wei Aiguo covered their mouths in shock, their eyes wide open.

Xiao Huai was no longer surprised and had no expression on his face.

Tao Qiuyi tested the bamboo's flexibility and found it okay, so she walked towards Wei Aiguo. Wei Aiguo's face turned pale with fear, and he pushed Li Yuegui away, ran into his house and closed the door.

Li Yuegui staggered a few steps before she stood firm, staring blankly at the closed door of her house.

"You're as timid as a mouse, yet you dare challenge me." Tao Qiuyi snorted and said to Xiao Huai, "Xiao Huai, take the backpack back to the house, and come with me for a while."

"Okay." Xiao Huai responded and took the backpack under the eaves back into the house.

Tao Qiuyi went to the kitchen.

Li Zi saw her come in and said with a smile, "Sister-in-law, the rabbit meat needs to be stewed for a while longer before it tastes good."

"Don't be in a hurry, stew it slowly. Xiao Huai and I are going out for a while." Tao Qiuyi said, looking around and finding the iron bucket next to the stone vat.

Li Zi saw Tao Qiuyi holding the iron bucket and thought she was going out to fetch water again. "Sister-in-law, the water in the jar is still full. You don't need to fetch it again."

"I'm not going to fetch water." Tao Qiuyi walked out of the kitchen carrying the iron bucket and saw Xiao Huai waiting in the yard. "Xiao Huai, take one of the baskets you made and follow me."

Xiao Huai responded, picked up a basket and walked out of the yard with Tao Qiuyi.

Wei Jingyuan was reading a Chinese medicine book in the house, without turning a page for a long time. He simply put the book down, put on his shoes, and walked out of the house with his crutches.

Seeing the bamboo pieces Xiao Huai used to weave baskets scattered all over the yard, and two broken baskets thrown aside, Wei Jingyuan walked over and put the two baskets together, then sat down on the straw mat. He picked out the bamboo pieces he needed and placed them where he could easily reach them, then took the basket and began to mend it.

After a while, Tao Qiuyi and Xiao Huai came back.

Xiao Huai was holding a green slate.

Tao Qiuyi was holding a bucket in one hand and a basket in the other. Seeing Wei Jingyuan sitting in the yard mending the basket, she blurted out, "Why did you come out?"

"It's stuffy in the room, come out and get some fresh air." Wei Jingyuan replied calmly.

"But it's cold outside!" Tao Qiuyi was about to ask him to go back inside, but then he changed his mind and realized that he had indeed stayed inside for too long, so he said, "Fix the two baskets, and then you can go back inside."

Wei Jingyuan responded and looked up to see the iron bucket and basket that Tao Qiuyi was carrying.

The iron bucket is filled with yellow soil, which is very sticky, and the basket is filled with green stones of different sizes.

"What are you going to do with these?" Wei Jingyuan asked.

"The room is too cold. Let's make a fireplace to keep warm." Tao Qiuyi replied, put down the iron bucket, carried the basket into the room where she and Li Zi lived, and soon came out with an empty basket.

Here, Xiao Huai had already placed the bluestone slabs on the ground, poured the yellow mud in the iron bucket onto the ground, and walked into the kitchen to bring out a basin of water.

Tao Qiuyi went out again carrying the empty basket and iron bucket.

"Xiao Huai, did she tell you what a fireplace is?" Wei Jingyuan asked Xiao Huai who was taking off her shoes.

"No," Xiao Huai replied, taking off one shoe and then the other. "My sister-in-law said that neither our room nor the room where she and Li Zi sleep have any heating tools."

"I changed the quilt last night, but she was still too cold to sleep, so I had to make a fireplace to keep her warm."

As Xiao Huai spoke, he poured the water in the basin onto the yellow soil and then stepped on it with his feet.

"Tread carefully and make sure there are no stones, sticks, or branches in the soil that may prick your feet before you step hard," Wei Jingyuan warned.

"I understand." Xiao Huai replied.

"She knows how to make a fireplace?" Although Wei Jingyuan had never seen a fireplace, when he heard her say it was used for heating, he thought it should be similar to a kang.

"She said she can't." Xiao Huai thought this was strange after answering, and added, "My sister-in-law said she can't make a fireplace, but she can tell me to make one."

"Order you to do it." Wei Jingyuan was shocked by this. "She can't do it herself, how can she order you to do it?"

Xiao Huai shook his head. He also felt that this was contradictory, but that was what his sister-in-law said.

There was nothing he could do, he just did whatever his sister-in-law said.

Tao Qiuyi came back carrying an iron bucket and a basket, and saw Xiao Huai stepping on the yellow mud with his bare feet. He immediately understood what Xiao Huai meant by the yellow mud needed to be mixed with water before it could be used.

It turns out that what Xiao Huai meant by mixing well was to step on it with your feet.

"Xiao Huai, there are pebbles in the soil, be careful when you step on it." Looking at Xiao Huai's red feet from the cold, Tao Qiuyi felt very uncomfortable. If he had known earlier, he would have mixed it like this.

She didn't use yellow mud to make the fireplace, but went to town to buy river sand and cement.

(End of this chapter)