Stepmom's Farm Life

Chapter 26 My Lady, I Was Wrong

Dinner was ready, and Liu Jinbao ran over to call Qin Yao and the others to go to the old house for dinner.

"Grandpa, Dad, my mom fried a pot of twice-cooked pork, so we have meat to eat today!" Liu Jinbao said excitedly, even happier than on New Year's Day.

Because the meat today is even bigger than last year's Chinese New Year.

Grandma said that today, thanks to Third Aunt, if we want to eat, we can eat as much as we want.

So mother fried half a piece of pork and filled a whole pot with it. Just thinking about it, Liu Jinbao couldn't help drooling.

He was afraid that if he arrived too late, the meat would be eaten by Dalang and Erlang, so he urged his father and grandfather to leave quickly.

"Third brother's family, let's go over and eat. Let the eldest brother stay here to look after the third brother. Come back and let him take over after you finish eating." Old man Liu greeted Qin Yao.

Qin Yao shook her head. "No, I'll stay here. Dad, you guys go back and ask Dalang and the others to come back early after dinner. Just bring me a portion."

As he said this, he went back to the house, found a bowl, handed it to Liu Jinbao, and asked him to give it to Dalang so that he could bring some food over later.

Old man Liu thought that she was deeply in love and had no idea how much Qin Yao ate. If she went, she wouldn't be full, and if she ate too much, there wouldn't be enough for others. It would be better for her not to go and cook a pot of rice at home and have a good meal.

Zhang has been in charge of the family for more than ten years, and what she is best at is measuring rice. She knows how much each person in the family eats every day, and how much rice and dishes each person eats at each meal. Everything is fixed in a fixed amount to ensure that everyone in the family is about 70% full.

If it is the busy farming season, those who work in the fields can eat more.

This craft has now been passed down to the He family, who are even better than the Zhang family and can cook even the best rice crust.

On the first night Yao Niang arrived, she had a meal with Liu Ji at the old house and felt that she had broadened her horizons.

Seeing that Qin Yao insisted, Old Man Liu didn't say anything else. He called his two sons, put away the medicine he got from the doctor, and told Qin Yao to remember to change it for Liu Ji twice a day, then went home.

The noisy room finally quieted down. Qin Yao breathed a sigh of relief, rolled up her sleeves and got busy.

First, take out the oil lamp I bought today, light it, put it on the stove, and then make a fire to cook.

She cooked a pot of thick white rice porridge. The aroma was very faint at first, but as the fire increased, the aroma became stronger. The fragrance of rice surrounded the house and drifted into the nose, making people hungry.

Qin Yao pulled out a piece of firewood, turned down the fire, and put the rice on the stove to cook slowly over low heat. While the porridge was not yet cooked, she went into the side room and moved the six bags of grain to the main room, and then re-made the beds for the four children in the house.

The straw was thrown out of the door to be used for making fire, and the hard and smelly bedding was moved out and placed on the pile of straw at the door for the time being.

He took out a newly bought straw mat and spread it on the bed board, then covered it with a second-hand old bed sheet and a newly bought thick quilt. The whole bed looked brand new.

There was still some space in the side room. Qin Yao hesitated for a while between sleeping in the main house and setting up another bed in the side room, and decided to stay in the side room.

The main house does not have good privacy because it serves as a dining room, restaurant and warehouse.

As there was someone lying there, Qin Yao made a bed on the floor in the side room.

The straw that had just been cleaned out was moved back and spread in the corner against the wall. A coir mat was placed on the straw, and a bed sheet was placed on the coir mat, and then a quilt was placed on it, which was also comfortable.

After the bed was made, Qin Yao sorted out the remaining quilts and piled them on the bed, waiting to make them again after the furniture and the house were built.

After thinking about it, he took a thin quilt to the main room and threw it directly on Liu Ji.

Liu Ji, who was almost freezing to death, was pleasantly surprised and quickly pulled it over himself to cover himself.

His original clothes had been blown away by Lin Erbao and others. He was wearing a tattered linen shirt when he came here. He continued to wear it after Liu Bo wiped his body clean.

The bedding Qin Yao slept on before belonged to the Liu family. It was not warm at all, and it felt heavy on his body. He was already injured and could hardly breathe.

In the past, he would have yelled like a big boss, but this time, he was very timid. He smelled the aroma of white porridge wafting in from outside and didn't dare to make a sound even though his stomach was growling with hunger.

He was afraid that Qin Yao would remember him and kill him while his family and brothers were away.

Qin Yao looked at his face covered with swelling-reducing herbs and shouted coldly, "Be careful not to dirty my new quilt!"

The quilt, which was originally covering the neck, was silently pulled down a little, revealing only a pair of black and white eyes on the face covered with medicine. He looked at Qin Yao pitifully and a little warily.

Just before she stepped out of the door, she suddenly summoned up the courage to speak:

"Ma'am...I was wrong."

Qin Yao paused, turned around, narrowed her eyes slightly and looked dangerously at the trembling man on the bed.

Under such a compelling gaze, Liu Jiqiang pinched the scar on his leg to stimulate the severe pain so that he would not lower his head.

He opened his only intact pair of peach blossom eyes and said sincerely:

"My dear, I really know I was wrong this time. I promise that from now on I will never live a lazy life again. After my injury heals, I will find a job and earn money to support the family, you and the baby, so that you can live a good life."

Qin Yao sneered and raised an eyebrow, "Are you sure?"

Liu Ji nodded his head like a rattle, "I, Liu Ji, swear to heaven, from now on, if my wife tells me to go west, I will never go east, and if she tells me to go east, I will never go west. If I disobey you, I will be struck by five thunders and die a miserable death!"

Seeing that Qin Yao's eyes were no longer so threatening, he quickly added, "My dear, I know that you risked your life to go into the mountains and hunt in order to earn money to redeem me..."

Qin Yao: "You think too much."

The man was stunned for a moment, and continued: "I was such a bastard before, I didn't know what was good for me, I am sorry to my wife, from now on, I will definitely treat my wife well, I will do all the dirty and tiring work at home, you just need to rest, that's all!"

He was too good at talking and in his excitement he pulled the wound on his face. The pain was so severe that Liu Ji gasped and almost cried.

Qin Yao sighed, "You'd better remember what you said."

"But, I remember Lin Erbao said just now, you said I was a vicious woman?"

Tears of pain welled up in Liu Ji's eyes and fell in fear and shock.

"My lady, you are innocent. I am sincere to you, and heaven and earth can bear witness to that. How could I possibly slander you? It must be Lin Erbao who framed me!"

Talking loudly caused more wounds to be involved, and tears were streaming down my face, mixed with the herbs. It was so ugly!

Qin Yao raised her hand in disdain to signal him to stop howling. Her eyes had already seen through him. "Tell me, what do you want to do?"

Liu Ji swallowed and unconsciously turned his head towards the kitchen.

Qin Yao walked out while saying: "From now on, every bite of food you eat, every thing you use, and the thirty-eight taels of debt you owe to Lin Erbao today, will be recorded in my account one by one."

"When you recover from your injury, find a job and pay me back."

Qin Yao particularly emphasized the tone of the latter sentence and repeated what Liu Ji said to him.

She took a bowl of porridge, sprinkled it with a pinch of icing sugar, brought it into the house and handed it to him.

Seeing this fragrant white rice porridge, who could still be rational? Without caring about the injuries on his body and face, Liu Ji climbed up, picked up the bowl and started eating.

While eating, he said, "I will listen to you, my lady. From now on, whatever you say is what I will do."

He gulped down two mouthfuls of the porridge, it was so hot and sour, but there was actually sugar added to the porridge, he was reluctant to spit it out, he swallowed it while inhaling.

Anyway, after he was full, he closed his eyes and said that he had forgotten everything after waking up from a sleep, but he didn't remember what he had promised her.

Little did he know that Qin Yao had already seen through his rogue thoughts.

If he doesn't remember, she has plenty of ways to help him restore his memory!

(End of this chapter)