Quick Travel to the Clouds

Chapter 328 Protecting Family and Benefactor 3

Yun Chu washed up and took his clothes to the river to wash. While he was washing clothes, Zhang Juping from the village also came to wash clothes.

When Zhang Juping saw Yun Chu, she immediately walked over to her side to wash clothes and asked in a low voice, "Yun Chu, is Mr. Lu easy to talk to?"

Zhang Juping is fourteen years old this year, which is the age when a girl is in love. She likes Lu Yuanjing very much.

In addition to Zhang Juping, many young girls in the village like Lu Yuanjing.

However, Lu Yuanjing was in poor health and seldom went out. When he went out, everyone could only watch him from afar and did not dare to approach him to talk to him.

Because although Lu Yuanjing was thin, his face looked unattainable.

"I don't know. I haven't said a word to Mr. Lu."

Zhang Juping nodded slightly and said, "Lu Xiucai doesn't look like someone who can chat with others."

Zhang Juping fantasized that it would be great if she could marry Mr. Lu, then she would become the scholar's wife.

No need to do farm work every day.

While Zhang Juping was fantasizing, Yun Chu quickly washed the clothes and left.

When Zhang Juping came to her senses, she found that Yun Chu had already finished washing and left.

Oh, Yun Chu washed so quickly. She was still thinking about chatting with her about Lu Xiucai.

Yun Chu returned home and hung up the clothes. Seeing that it was still early, she took her carrying pole and sickle, and went up the mountain with a basket on her back to chop firewood.

This person is very strong and can chop a load of firewood in less than two quarters of an hour.

Carrying a load of firewood and a basket on his back, Yun Chu hurried home.

When he got home, he chopped the firewood into pieces and stacked them under the eaves.

When it got dark, the family had dinner and went to bed to rest.

In the middle of the night, there was thunder, wind, and heavy rain.

The heavy rain lasted all night and stopped at dawn.

Because it rained all night, everything became muddy.

Yun Chu changed out of his good shoes, put on straw sandals and went out.

She took the fish basket and prepared to go to the river to catch fish. It had rained all night and the water level of the river rose rapidly and the current became turbulent.

Heavy rains cause water quality to deteriorate, with silt and debris being washed into the water, reducing its transparency and clarity.

However, this did not affect Yun Chu's enthusiasm for catching fish. Yun Chu found a suitable place to put the fish baskets and set up four fish baskets.

After setting up the fish basket, Yun Chu went to cut grass with the basket on his back.

We raise chickens and ducks at home, and we cut grass and cook it to feed them.

After noon, Yun Chu came to the river to collect the fish baskets. All four baskets were filled with fish.

And there were quite a few of them, a total of eleven fish.

There was too much fish to eat, so Yun Chu carried the fish to the village and asked if anyone wanted to buy fish.

Lu Yuanjing was reading at home when Yun Chu's loud voice reached his ears.

He put down the book, opened the back door, and saw Yun Chu carrying a wooden barrel from afar, and two aunts were talking to her beside her.

Afterwards, the two aunts each bought a fish and went home. Both of these aunts had women who had just given birth at home, so they came to buy fish.

Lu Yuanjing was just about to call Yun Chu when Yun Chu came over with the fish in his arms.

He tied two fishes to Lu Yuanjing with a straw rope and handed them to him, "Mr. Lu, take them and nourish your body."

"Thank you, Miss Yun."

"You're welcome. Thank you, Mr. Lu, for your guidance." In the morning, Mo Zhongli came to Lu Yuanjing to ask some questions.

Lu Yuanjing took the fish, and Yun Chu continued to sell the fish.

Unable to sell them, Yun Chu took the fish back home.

And tonight’s dish is the leftover fish. Yun Chu killed the fish and marinated it with wine, ginger, onions and salt for a while.

After washing it and waiting for it to dry, Yun Chu started to cook the fish.

Stir-fry the ginger and garlic with animal oil, then add sauerkraut, soybean paste, a little soy sauce and sugar, add the fish head and stir-fry for a while, then add water and boil.

When the water boils, add the fish and fish meat.

Then add fish fragrance leaves and the fish boiled in sauerkraut water is ready.

The whole family ate this dish. The four fishes were eaten cleanly, leaving only some soup.

The soup was put into a water tank and could be used to cook noodles the next morning.

The next day, Yun Chu got up early, kneaded the dough, rolled it out, and cut it into long strips with a knife.

After the noodles were ready, Yun Chu went to boil water.

When the water was almost boiled, Yun Chu went to wake up his mother and brother.

After breakfast, Mo Zhongli cleaned up the dishes and Yun Chu went into the mountains to hunt again.

When it got dark, Yun Chuti went down the mountain, leaving behind a few live rabbits and pheasants.

Raise wild rabbits and pheasants and kill them when you want to eat them.

Time passed day by day, and after Mo Zhongli's busy farming season ended, he returned to school for classes.

As autumn approaches, Yun Chu becomes busy.

Busy preparing firewood and food.

In winter, Yunshan Village is blocked by heavy snow, and it is not easy to go out to buy food.

Other villagers in the village were also preparing firewood.

Yun Chu didn't compete with other people in the village. She went to the mountains to chop firewood.

It took Yun Chu a month to chop a yard full of firewood.

Yun Chu also chopped firewood for Grandma Liu and Grandpa Li's families in the village.

Grandma Liu had two sons. The eldest son, Zhu He, served in the army and died in battle.

The second son, Zhu Li, died as a result of forced labor. Zhu He did not marry, but Zhu Li did. When Zhu He died, his daughter was only two years old.

As for his wife, she was taken back by her family and remarried.

Grandma Liu is fifty-eight years old this year. She has difficulty walking due to rheumatism, and her granddaughter is only five years old.

In the past, Uncle Zhu, Uncle Zhu II and her father often went into the mountains to hunt together.

Her father was also saved by Uncle Zhu.

When my father was alive, he took good care of the Zhu family.

Now there are no male descendants in the Zhu family, only the old, the weak and the young. Yun Chu feels that he cannot disgrace his father's loyalty, so he takes good care of Grandma Liu and the others.

I chop firewood for them in the winter and deliver meat or something like that once every two weeks.

As for Grandpa Li’s family, Grandpa Li is a widower and is sixty-three years old this year.

Grandpa Li also saved her father, and he was also very kind to her and her brother, often giving them wild fruits and candies.

Now that Grandpa Li is old, it is Yun Chu's turn to take care of him.

Li Changgen looked at the firewood in the yard and said, "Yunchu, that's enough. Don't send any more firewood tomorrow. With so much firewood, it won't be a problem to burn it until the beginning of next spring."

There is only one person in his family, how could he need so much firewood?

Li Changgen has no children, but because he saved Mogao, Mogao treats him like a relative, sending him game from time to time and inviting him to celebrate the New Year together.

He treated Yun Chu and Zhong Li as his granddaughters and grandsons.

Seeing Yun Chu chopping so much wood, he felt distressed, fearing that Yun Chu would be too tired.

"Hurry, take a break and drink some sugar water." Li Changgen handed the sugar water to Yun Chu.

This white sugar was sent by Yun Chu.

Yun Chu took the sugar water and drank it with a smile.

"Okay, I won't bring firewood tomorrow. I'll come and fix the tiles tomorrow to prevent them from leaking when it snows heavily in winter."

"Well, I can do the roof repair myself. I'm not too old to be immobile."

"Grandpa Li, I don't feel comfortable letting you climb up and down with your old arms and legs. If you fall, that will be bad." Yun Chu was worried and said in a firm tone: "Okay, I will come to check it tomorrow. You don't have to worry about the rest."

Yun Chu put down the bowl and said, "Okay, I'm going home first."

"Why go back? Just have dinner at my house."

"Okay." Yun Chu did not refuse.

After having lunch at Grandpa Li’s house, Yun Chu went home.