Translated by: Nekocat

On the table, there were a few bowls of brown rice porridge, with a small plate of pickled cabbage middle.

This Chinese cabbage was exchanged with shrimps from Uncle Zheng last time.

A Chinese cabbage has four or five pounds enough for a peel of three leaves at at a time to cook.

It has a little more flavor when mixed with the newly sprout leeks from the vegetable garden.

"How's your feet Xiaocheng? Are you cold?" Gu Chunzhu didn't dare to eat it first and looked at Xiaocheng's two medicated knees with teary red eyes, his slender legs looks like corn stalks.

Xiaocheng shook his head but Gu Chunzhu was worried, the heat in the stove was the remnants of the cooking and it might dissipate after a while.

Earlier, it was not cold in the sun outside but now it is, so she went to the back room and found the old cotton jacket she was wearing, wrapped it around Xiao Cheng's calf, and tied it.

Xiaocheng also obediently let her do it. An An held the chopsticks and said with a smile: "Brother now looks like a dumpling made by a big Zhuang Niang!"

"Alright done, let's eat obediently."

Gu Chunzhu said to herself.

She clipped the brown rice porridge with chopsticks and started drinking it slowly.

Halfway through the meal, people came to the yard again.

Su Wangqin went to take a look, and found that people are here to deliver shrimps, so he told them to sit and wait first and then went back to the house to eat.

Looking at Gu Chunzhu's questioning eyes, she looked at her and said, "They're here to deliver shrimps, I told them to wait. Let's finish eating first."

Gu Chunzhu looked at him with an amendable expression and continued to eat brown rice porridge.

With her smug expression, Su Wangqin's black eyes were stained with a little smile, but immediately lowered his head and drank porridge to deeply cover up this emotion.

When the family was almost done eating, Su Wangqin mentioned: "the restaurant in the county town should be visited every three days. Tomorrow we have to deliver the shrimps. Do you still accept the shrimps from this village?"

"Take!" Gu Chunzhu knew that Su Wangqin was afraid of what happened at the entrance of the village.

For the money! Why shouldn't she accept it! Of course, except once every three days, they will never be accepted on other days.

With Gu Chunzhu's permission, Su Wangqin went outside to count a few bowls of river shrimps for the waiting villagers

Gu Chunzhu put down the bowl and chopsticks, picked up Xiaocheng, and told An An: "Come on, your brother's leg was injured today so you should play in the house and don't go out. Mother will light charcoal fire for you."

"Okay!" An An followed Behind Gu Chunzhu

Going out of the kitchen, the villager saw Gu Chunzhu and rubbed his hands embarrassedly, "Sister Wangqin, I'm sorry about what happened before. We were also provoked by the Qiu family."

"Humph." Gu Chunzhu snorted coldly and said to Su Wangqin, "I can accept everyone's shrimp, but as long as there is a dead one to make up for it, you will take it back!"

"Okay." Su Wangqin turned over the shrimps with his hand, after confirming that they were not dead he put them on another barrel.

Seeing the villagers looking at her Gu Chunzhu simply raised her chin to let them all know that she's not easy to mess with and to help Qiu shi to embarrass her, does she owe them something or what?

She put Xiaocheng on the bed, covered his stomach with only the corner of the quilt, leaving his injured knee exposed to prevent the quilt from touching his injury.

An An also took off her shoes and obediently lay beside Xiao Cheng.

"An'an, don't make trouble with your brother, understand?" Gu Chunzhu pulled the quilt over and covered An'an. Looking at a pair of good-looking children, she let out a sigh of relief.

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