Chapter 63:
The next day, Luo Zhi’er got up at the crack of dawn and woke Miaomiao.
“Miaomiao, wake up quickly, go up the hill with Mother to collect mushrooms.”
Miaomiao was groggy, rubbed her sleepy eyes, and upon hearing Mother say they were going up the mountain to collect mushrooms, sat up and obediently dressed herself.
Miaomiao’s movements reminded her of herself just now, and her face blushed a little…
Li Sanmao had already gone out with Li Daqiang and Old Li Tou.
Before leaving, Li Sanmao had shaved off his beard with a razor.
He had even planted a loud kiss on her forehead, scaring her so much that she didn’t even open her eyes, rolled over, and showed him the back of her head.
The man straightened her up: “Wife, open your eyes and look at me! Your husband is going out!”
Snoring started up…
The man chuckled lightly, his voice slightly hoarse and magnetic, pinched her chubby face with his hand, and said with ill intent: “I know you’re awake, do you want your husband to kiss you again?”
Luo Zhi’er frowned, secretly hating this damned Li Sanmao for tugging her so painfully!
She certainly wouldn’t blame it on there being too much fatty meat on her cheeks, that a gentle tug hurt like hell…
She immediately opened her eyes, “Husband, what did you say? Huh… is it dawn? What happened?”
In a daze, she stretched her arms and kicked her legs, rubbed her eyes, and opened her eyes!
Face to face, big eyes staring into big eyes, “Thump! Thump! Thump!” Luo Zhi’er’s heart skipped three beats.
“This… this is…”
A strikingly handsome man’s face appeared before her eyes, magnified…
The room was dimly lit, with a lard lamp burning, the man was up early in a blue garment, ink-black hair draped over his shoulders, not yet wearing his outer garment.
Tall and sturdy build, exposing chest skin the color of bronze, facial features with distinct and profound contours, like a sculpture.
At this moment, his deep and profound eyes gazed at her tenderly… appearing wild and unrestrained, devilishly sexy…
The man gently stroked the corner of her mouth with his hand, his thumb cool with the chill of morning dew in the air…
“You… who are you?”
Luo Zhi’er was so scared her pupils shrank, she quickly pushed him away, wrapped herself tightly in the quilt, and shrank into the corner, the man’s chiseled features cracking slightly…
“Wife…?”
“Li Sanmao? You’re Li Sanmao?”
Luo Zhi’er finally reacted, exclaiming in shock.
Incredulously looking him up and down, this guy had shaved his beard?
Just shaving a beard, how did he change so much?
It seemed like he had also tidied his hair neatly, it shocked her too much… this, this was her man Li Sanmao?
Hey! Had she picked up a treasure? Luo Zhi’er gaped, looking at him.
“Wife, you’re drooling again…”
“What?”
“You drooled in your sleep…”
“Uh… and eye gunk…”
Luo Zhi’er suddenly remembered what he had been wiping just now? She grabbed the pillow beside her and smashed it at him!
“Ouch! Wife, are you trying to murder your own husband!”
Li Sanmao caught the pillow in one hand, his wife’s strength was really great…
“Li Sanmao!”
“Wha… what?”
“Wife, did you just drool? Look at you, you’re already a mother, how do you still drool in your sleep?”
Luo Zhi’er was so angry she panted heavily! “Li Sanmao, shut your mouth!”
Li Sanmao scratched behind his ear, “If Wife says to shut up, then I’ll shut up!”
“Hmph!”
“Wife, don’t be angry, it’s not good for your health! This is the medicine you bought yesterday, I’ve boiled it for you, remember to drink it, I’m heading out!”
Li Sanmao looked outside and instructed her.
Luo Zhi’er looked where he pointed, on that old and tattered dressing table was a bowl of steaming herbal decoction…
This dressing table was the one Old Luo Tou had bought for Luo Zhi’er before, which he had carried over…
“You got up to boil the medicine?”
Luo Zhi’er looked out the window, it was still pitch black, had the rooster crowed yet? The medicine was already boiled? She didn’t know what time this man had gotten up?
“Mm… Wife, then your husband is off, don’t go too far collecting mushrooms today, be careful! Especially watch out for snakes, bees…”
To be honest, he was a bit worried, last time they went out, his wife got stung by a horsefly, her face still a bit swollen even now, and she had fainted yesterday!
There were all sorts of messy things up the mountain, but he couldn’t go with her…
“San Mao, ready yet?”
Li Daqiang’s voice from outside the door.
Old Li Tou had an injury on his face and didn’t want people to see, so they set out early before dawn.
The field needed some manure carried over, Li Sanmao would take some along and then go set traps under Big Black Mountain…
“Hey, coming.”
“I’m off, you sleep a bit more!”
Li Sanmao put on an outer garment and went out looking travel-worn.
“Li Sanmao!”
Li Sanmao turned back, looking at her puzzled.
“Be safe!”
“Hey!”
Li Sanmao’s heart felt warm.
Luo Zhi’er tied Miaomiao’s hair neatly, inserted the pink hair clip she bought yesterday, “Wow, Miaomiao is so cute, where did this little fairy come from?”
“Mother, you always tease Miaomiao.”
Miaomiao smiled sweetly, knowing her mother always joked with her, her little face blushed a bit…
With her hair tied up, this girl had a bit of chubbiness to her face these past couple days, looking more and more like her.
There was no way there would be dry rations at home for them in the morning, Li Daqiang and the others probably hadn’t eaten much either, Luo Zhi’er brought a bamboo tube of water and flint.
She found a bamboo woven basket for Miaomiao to carry on her back, found a bamboo basket for herself, and put a snake skin bag in the bamboo basket.
Just as she got it ready, Zhou Shi got up, saw the mother and daughter up and preparing to go out, and felt annoyed inside…
“Fat hoof, all day thinking up ways to slack off, running out to play, leaving all this work at home for old me to do alone!”
Luo Zhi’er threw down the bamboo basket, looked at her coldly: “Alright then, Mother, I’ll listen to you and not go collect mushrooms today, stay home and work!”
She turned around, pulled Miaomiao to sit on the bench by the main hall door…
“What?”
Zhou Shi was furious to death, she had just complained a couple sentences, and she was giving up on herself, not going, how could she sneak food for Fifth Brother then?
If they didn’t go, what about the goods at Yumian Tower? When the old man came back he wouldn’t curse her to death?
“What are you sitting there for, hurry up and go up the mountain to collect mushrooms for me!”
Luo Zhi’er snorted coldly, pulled Miaomiao, and left…
Zhou Shi watched the mother and daughter’s backs walk far away before starting to mutter and curse…
Luo Zhi’er didn’t care what she cursed, this Zhou Shi controlled everything at home, yet as wife, mother, her man and son got up early to work up the hill, and she didn’t even prepare a bite of dry rations…
A few big men working on empty stomachs, how long could they last? She only remembered her Gui’er, Zhenzhu…
Luo Zhi’er still wanted to avoid the villagers, so the mother and daughter climbed up the secluded back mountain all the way.
Tall dense weeds hid the two of them, Luo Zhi’er held a stick in her hand, tapping and beating.
The sky gradually brightened, the sun rose in the east, Luo Zhi’er saw scattered wild strawberries in the weeds of the wasteland, picked some and ate them with Miaomiao to fill their empty stomachs.
