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Chapter 721
Just by the sound of it, this fourth uncle and fourth aunt seemed to be quite nice.
Enthusiastic, yet respectful, and loves to help people.
Although a bit more eccentric, every place has different customs and rules, and it can’t be said that everyone is the same.
Jenny couldn’t make up his mind.
The good news was that the others weren’t doing anything right now, and while there were some small indications that something wasn’t right, as long as they didn’t do anything particularly overly harmful to them, she wouldn’t even want to go around randomly wronging people.
Thinking that, she couldn’t help but soften her attitude a bit.
Walking up to Fourth Uncle, who was smoking a dry cigarette, he smiled, “Good morning, Fourth Uncle.”
Fourth Uncle turned to look at her and narrowed his eyes, “Morning, your fourth aunt’s breakfast is almost ready, go help her bring it out and eat it together.”
Jenny nodded and helped the leggy Mo Nan sit down on the bamboo chair next to him before turning to head into the kitchen.
Country places, even for lunch and dinner, don’t have much to offer.
Besides, it was just a simple breakfast, so Jenny didn’t hold out much hope.
Unexpectedly, however, Aunt Si seemed to be a very capable and refined woman, and I saw that the breakfast was not only very rich, but also beautifully prepared.
There was light wheat porridge, steamed steamed buns with white flour, and a few deep-fried fritters.
Such breakfasts, if you put them in the city, can only be described as very simple and common.
But in a place where you can only improvise or even eat in the morning, it’s just plain delicious.
Jenny’s eyes lit up as he looked at the fragrant wheat porridge and fritters.
Not to be outdone, I exclaimed, “It’s so pretty and smells so good!”
Fourth Aunt smiled apologetically, as if it was the first time in her life that she had been complimented.
“It’s just a little bit of very ordinary breakfast, I don’t know if you’re used to eating it, but try it first.”
Jenny even nodded and helped her carry out the breakfast together, and after that, everyone sat around the table and began to eat.
During the meal, Uncle Four asked intentionally, “I only knew your nickname before, Xiao Qi, right, what’s your first name?”
Jenny was stunned, subconsciously locked eyes with Mo Nan, and then replied, “My name is Jenny.”
She didn’t hide it anymore, really, even if she said the name Jenny now, she reckoned that no one here had ever heard of it, let alone knew it.
Sure enough, I saw Uncle Four nod his head slightly and said, “Your family doesn’t know you’re out traveling, right?”
That’s a little more subtle than the question.
Jenny and Mo Nan looked at each other again before tacitly replying, “I don’t know.”
“And your original home of your own, is it far from here?”
Jenny Jing smiled, “It’s far away, thousands of kilometres away.”
“So far.”Fourth Uncle’s look flickered slightly, then he smiled and said, “Then your family doesn’t know about your accident this time, right?”
Jenny laughed again, “I don’t know, it happened so suddenly, the phone these are gone, and there’s no way to notify them.”
She said, and asked a particularly sincere question, “Uncle Four, where can I call near your side ah, I want to make a phone call back to report safety.”
Uncle Four touched the messy beard under his chin and said, “Phone call, that’s more trouble, have to walk for a day and night, to the next town, there is a phone to call, but some time ago, the front of the mountain road landslide, the road is closed, it is not possible to pass.”
Jenny frowned at the words.
“Slipped waves?”
“Yeah, that’s unfortunate, the part of the road to that town is all blocked off, you’ll have to get out, at least a month from now.”
Jenny and Mo Nan both fell silent at the news.
Neither of them spoke, and there was something preoccupied about them.
Uncle Four narrowed his eyes as he saw this, and smiled again, “Don’t worry, we’re going out too, so that road will open sooner or later, but it’s just a matter of time, and this girl’s leg will take a long time to heal, so it’s not like she can leave in a short time.”
Jenny forced a smile and said, “That’s true, but we just feel that it wouldn’t be good to trouble you guys too much by staying here for too long.”
“All right all right.”
The fourth uncle even waved his hand, “you are just two girl dolls, how much can you eat, if you really feel bad, usually help your aunt to do some work is also fine.”
Jenny and Mo Nan were unable to say anything more as they saw the situation, so they both nodded their heads and agreed.
After breakfast, Uncle Four went out.
Jenny and Mo Nan were left behind to help Aunt Si work.
The so-called work is just picking beans and drying radishes.
Compared to Fourth Uncle, both Jenny and Mo Nan liked this silent and seemingly much more talkative Fourth Aunt more.
After all, she looked, despite her appearance, just like the people here.
But the things she does, like the exquisite breakfasts and the occasional appearances of her demeanor, are completely different from the people here.
Jenny sometimes had an illusion.
That is, perhaps this fourth aunt, who is not even from here, may not be.
But out of thin air, she wasn’t too good to ask, so she had to keep the suspicion to herself.
By late afternoon, Uncle Si returned, and brought back a barefoot doctor.
The barefoot doctor Mo Nan recognized, the one who had treated her leg last time, was here today to change her medicine.
Such a country place could not be expected to have any particularly good medicine, it was all some herbs they had prepared themselves and applied to her using earthly methods.
It’s a good thing that Mohammed used to get injured all the time when he was training, too.
It’s a lot of injuries, and you’re not half a surgeon.
Like some superficial wounds or broken bones that she can treat herself.
She knew all about which medicines were available and which herbs would make the wound heal faster.
So, when the doctor is applying the medicine to her, she also asks a few more questions and considers the medicine’s viability in the answers they give.
Good thing the barefoot doctor here was good, giving her herbs that she recognized and made sure were useful for the broken bones.
After changing the medicine, Uncle Four went out with Dr. Barefoot.
Fourth aunt brought in a clean towel, Mo Nan was a little embarrassed for always bothering her to get these things for herself these past few days, thanked her, and pulled her down to sit down for a few gossips.
“I just saw you making up a kind of bracelet, what is that?”
Auntie Four sniffed and took out the red rope that was half braided in her pocket.
“Is that what you’re talking about?”
Mo Nan nodded his head repeatedly.
It was a beautiful sight to see the red hand-strings woven into a neat and workmanlike band.
Chapter 722
Fourth Aunt explained, “It’s a way of playing in our hometown, which means that every year on your own birthday, you knit yourself a red string as a blessing for good luck.”
Jenny Jing also couldn’t help but lean in and smile, “It looks so beautiful, is that what everyone here does?”
Fourth Aunt froze, then shook her head.
“No, the people here won’t.”
“Huh?”
They both looked a little surprised and wide-eyed.
At this time, Uncle Si came back in.
The fourth aunt even lowered her head, not continuing what she had just said.
When Uncle Four saw the three of them sitting there, he asked, “What are we talking about?”
Jenny and Mo Nan looked at each other, and then at him, and smiled, “Nothing, we are just saying that the doctor who just went out, the craftsmanship is really good, Mo Nan still said that his legs hurt before, and as soon as he finished changing the medicine just now, it didn’t hurt anymore.”
At her words, the fourth aunt’s fingertips trembled slightly.
But she didn’t speak.
Uncle Four laughed at the news.
“Of course, we’re a few villages, we’ll look for him if we have any ailments, and if he can’t cure us we won’t need to look for anyone else.”
Said, and said to the fourth aunt: “Tonight, make two more dishes, give these two girls a good mending, sick well, always hurt the vitality, mending also recover faster.”.
Fourth Aunt nodded and turned around to go out.
After giving these instructions, Fourth Uncle also went out, and only then did Jenny and Mo Nan let out a sigh of relief.
Dinner was indeed very well cooked.
In the meantime, a number of neighbours from the village came over to visit.
Knowing that they had two young girls from outside the house, everyone came over like they were looking at a western mirror, all of them.
There were fewer people who knew the news before when Mo Nan was alone.
Later, after Jenny was sent over, I don’t know who spread the word, probably the young man who drove the cattle cars that night.
Everyone came over to see it out of curiosity.
Jenny found that many of them were men in their twenties and thirties.
Looking at them was like a pack of hungry wolves seeing a delicious, tasty sheep.
This is an extremely uncomfortable feeling, to say the least.
But Jenny and Mo Nan were guests from afar, and it was hard to bring it up.
I could only barely smile and sit there dryly greeting them.
They didn’t leave until it was time for dinner.
Uncle Four came back from outside looking happy, and even had a few more glasses of wine at dinner.
After dinner, Jenny and Mo Nan went back to their room.
They rested in the room for a while, and Jenny showed her the injury on her leg, and after washing her face at night and sleeping, Jenny suddenly felt some discomfort in her stomach.
She climbed up and said to Mernan, “I’m going to go to the bathroom, so you’re on your own for a while.”
Mo Nan nodded, afraid that she would be afraid at night, after all, there wasn’t even a single light here, so he asked, “Do you want me to stay with you?”
“No need.”
Jenny waved his hand.
She knew that Mo Nan’s legs were not easy to move, where she was willing to call her up to keep her company.
Mo Nan saw the situation and didn’t insist.
Jenny got up from the bed, put on her slippers, and headed downstairs.
She was lighter on her feet, and because her stomach hurt, she was so focused on getting to the bathroom that she didn’t notice anything else.
It was hard to find the bathroom and come out after using it, only to find that there was a starlight bobbing there not far away.
She was a little strange.
After all, this place, usually once everyone was asleep at night, there would be no more lights outside.
It’s also not like the big cities out there where people still have a bit of nightlife and stuff.
And that spark was not indoors, but outdoors.
They also didn’t build the toilets indoors in the countryside, they were all dry toilets that leaned over there behind the kitchen.
To go to the bathroom you have to come down the stairs, open the back door and walk a short distance to get inside the toilet.
So, after Jenny went to the bathroom, it was a long walk back.
But I didn’t expect to see someone standing outside Uncle Four’s house halfway across the street.
And looking at the reflection on the ground, there was more than one person, it was two.
That little bit of hidden firelight was probably a torch held up by one of them.
She walked over there curiously.
The stone building was a four-square, and the two men, standing in front of it, were around the corner in that direction.
Jenny was afraid that they would find out, so he didn’t dare to get too close, and only dared to move slowly along the wall, then pressed his entire body against it.
The two sides stood just around the corner from each other on a long wall.
Only a man’s voice sounded in the night, “Thirty thousand dollars!It’s too expensive!Don’t think I didn’t ask around, Auntie Ah Hua and Er Zhuang and the others said when they sent her over that the woman was married and had a child, not a chick, where would she get such an expensive one?”
It was followed by a rather older voice.
Jenny could hear that the voice was Uncle Four.
He seemed to be still smoking a dry cigarette, and made the sound of “bar,” “bar,” and slowly said, “It’s too expensive, you can’t either, the other one is a chick, also 30,000 yuan, or you choose that one?”
“I…”
The man trailed off and fell silent.
Uncle Four laughed twice.
“Greedy for someone’s looks, then you should pay the price of that looks well, we are all from the same village, that’s why I asked you first, if you want it, I’ll send the person over for that price, if you don’t, I’ll be cheaper for those villages next door.”
The man winced.
“But it’s too expensive, and you know how our family is, where can we come up with so much money all at once!”
Uncle Four was silent.
And then said: “The truth is not to lie to you, this person ah aunt and two Zhuang they sent over, my side just through a hand, the middle earns a little, to the time the deal is successful, I still have to share with them a big lump it!That’s a really good price to pay.”
He said, and asked, “Just say something, yes or no?”
The man said incessantly, “Yes, yes, of course I do.”
Uncle Four said, “That’s the number I was talking about, not a single child less.”
“This…” the other seemed to hesitate for a moment, then gritted his teeth hard, “Fine, I’ll be damned if I’m going to give it up!I’ll come back to you then when I’ve raised enough money, but the deal is, I’ve already booked it, so you won’t be able to bring anyone else to see it for a while.”
Uncle Four laughed twice.
“Don’t you worry!This month, the girl doll with the injured leg has to get well, and she can’t sell it until she’s well, so they’ll be with me for at least another month.”
“I don’t want to use force, but I’ll give them a good lecture this month, and if they’re smart, they’ll know they can’t escape, and they might just accept their fate.”
Chapter 723
The two of them kept their conversation low.
At this time, Jenny was standing on the other side and didn’t hear.
I saw that she was standing a short distance away on a small slope picking flowers, all kinds of yellow and blue and purple and pink to pick a large number of.
Uncle Four saw it and smirked in a dark way.
“What a naive, romantic little girl, picking flowers at this juncture.”
Aunt Four’s fingertips trembled a little, and she did not speak.
Jenny picked a good-sized bouquet of flowers and ran over, smiling, “Fourth Uncle, Fourth Aunt, do you think the flowers look good?”
Uncle Four immediately put on a smile, “Eh, nice.”
“Can I take this flower back and put it in your living room?”
“Fine, whatever.”
They didn’t think much of it, just thought it was because Jenny was a little girl with a heart of gold and liked pretty little flowers and plants and stuff.
But in fact, Jenny knew that the flowers were useful.
She didn’t just pick these flowers.
She’s all about picking flowers that, combined together, are capable of giving off an intoxicating aroma.
She originally didn’t know anything about this, it was taught to her by Gu Siqian during her years abroad, when she happened to pass by a garden during one of her missions.
It’s just that those flowers are just ordinary flowers to normal people.
It’s only when they are all combined and put together that it makes a difference.
She’d thought about it, and she and Mo Nan were now in a complicated situation.
Mo Nan said though that she could take down the old couple all by herself.
But she was injured after all, and it was best to try not to do anything if she could.
And Jenny’s kung fu was actually a half-assed one, one of those that worked when it didn’t.
You can’t underestimate the people who often plant crops in the ground, they are very strong even if they don’t have much fighting skills themselves.
Jenny wasn’t sure that he would really be able to protect himself and Mo Nan in any real situation.
So, she needed to prepare herself and Mo Nan more before the situation was that bad.
This is roughly what is meant by being prepared.
She was picking these flowers back now to quietly drain them and grind them into a powder, which would then make a powder that could be used to create a temporary psychedelic effect.
Although it was hard for her to say how much power these powders could produce because of the limited materials, it was better than nothing.
If I can’t, I can still use it as a lime for my eyes.
Jenny thought so, and ran off to pick another large handful.
Fourth Aunt sighed inwardly as she watched her pick happily.
I think this girl is also really quite poor, it is said that there are two children at home, and now trapped in this mountain, probably never get out, and I do not know what to do with those two children.
She was sympathetic, and looking at Jenny’s vivid appearance, it was as if she had also seen herself many years ago.
But that’s all the compassion she has left, after all these decades of hard work.
It was okay to let her sigh, to let her volunteer to tell Jenny the truth about them, or even to help them?
That’s impossible!
She had escaped back then, so she knew how scary the mountain really was.
It’s usually hard to get out without a local guide.
Even though she had now lived in this mountain for almost thirty years, she had never actually gone out of her own village once, even once, for the number of times.
It’s impossible to say that Uncle Four hasn’t put his foot down on her over the years.
But in their minds, a woman doesn’t need to go out, so she doesn’t have that opportunity.
Besides, her kids are in their twenties now, and here people are halfway into the ground.
She’d come to terms with it, too, and resigned herself to this life.
So, she wouldn’t have those thoughts of trying to escape anymore, she would just look at Jenny and Mo Nan and not feel sorry for them.
Thinking so, she waited until her fourth uncle had finished eating, then she walked over to Jenny and said, “Girl, we’re going back, have you picked enough?”
Jenny ran over with a big bouquet of flowers and a smile, saying, “Enough is enough!Fourth Aunt, look at these flowers, they’re nice to look at, and when the time comes, you’ll be able to put a little bit of them everywhere in the house, and the house will become nice to look at.”
Uncle Four sneered from a short distance away and whispered, “What’s the use of looking good?It’s not topping the food.”
But it was relatively quiet, and Jenny didn’t hear it.
Fourth Aunt looked at the delicate valley owed dripping flowers and barely smiled, nodding her head, “Pretty.”
I said, and gave her the basket in my hand, “You can put it here and carry it back together.”
Jenny nodded, put the flowers inside, carried the basket herself, and waved back at Uncle Four, smiling, “Uncle Four, we’re going back then.”
The pale man nodded.
On the mountain road back, Jenny memorized the way again.
Mentally memorize the terrain around you, and which places have the more iconic fields of trees.
She looked not far away, at the rolling mountain range, and asked curiously, “Fourth aunt, that mountain looks so beautiful, have you ever been there?”
Fourth Aunt looked up and shook her head, “Never been there.”
“You know Fourth Aunt, we came over here just for tourism, when we travel, we like to choose that kind of big mountain range, it’s energetic to climb, if you have time some day, will you take us over there to see it?”
The fourth aunt was silent and said, “No one lives there, and you can’t get through.”
“Huh?”
Jenny looked surprised.
Fourth Aunt paused, as if she was a little unsure, then changed her mind and said, “I don’t know, I heard someone say that there are all forests over there, didn’t you see that the hill is full of woods?There are wolves inside, you can’t go there.”
“So, Uncle Four hasn’t been there either?”
“No.”
“So if you guys usually go out, where do you go?”
“We don’t have time to play.”
Fourth Aunt’s tone wasn’t too good, and Jenny followed behind her and raised her eyebrows.
As if she also realized that her attitude was problematic, Fourth Aunt paused for a moment before saying, “I mean, after all the farm work at home, where would you have time to go on a trip?We’re not like you city dwellers who are still in the mood to think about trekking in the countryside and climbing mountains and such every day, we’ve had a hard time trying to survive.”
Jenny gave an “oh”, a look like a natural, world-weary, petite lady.
“Fourth Aunt, then I’ll take you out when I have time, let me tell you, the world outside is wonderful, there are big villas in the city, and playgrounds, and many beautiful parks, by the way Fourth Aunt, have you seen the ice sculpture?”
“Our side, ah, every winter, there are beautiful, beautiful ice sculptures, all kinds of shapes, what snow white princesses and seven fairies, it’s like a fairy tale kingdom.”
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