parentshiftbook Chapter 421: Remarried Widow 14
Chapter 421: Remarried Widow 14
The family suddenly had over thirty chicks, which made Ya Ya and Sanqiang overjoyed.
While Yuan Chun was cooking lunch in the kitchen, Ya Ya and Sanqiang ran to the backyard vegetable plot to catch bugs. The two children pulled weeds, washed the fresh grass clean, and threw it in front of the chicks.
Seeing the chicks eating happily, the kids watched with joy as well.
In the afternoon, the two kids didn’t even bother with pigweed; instead, they dug for wild vegetables and caught bugs to meticulously find food for the chicks.
After school, Da Qiang and Erqiang would also run to the mountain to help catch bugs for the chicks. Under the careful care of these kids, not a single chick died, and after a month, their little wings had grown out.
By the time the team finished the spring planting, it was already the end of May, and the weather was getting increasingly hot. Yuan Chun went to the town’s supply and marketing cooperative and bought some flawed cloth, making each of the children a summer shirt.
As for herself, she found a couple of summer shirts from previous years to wear.
She also found an excuse to take out three summer quilts from storage, while the few thick quilts she’d recently bought she washed and aired out and then stored away.
After the spring planting, the team had a three-day break. Yuan Chun spent two days busily washing and airing things at home. On the last day, a few close sisters from the village came to invite her to go mushroom picking on the mountain.
Aunt Li’s youngest daughter-in-law, Zhao Chunhua, said, "I know a place by the riverbank that grows a lot of mushrooms every season. While it’s the farming off-season, we should pick more, dry them, and then eat them in stewed chicken with mushrooms for the New Year."
The eldest daughter-in-law of the team leader, Sanfeng, said, "The place you’re talking about isn’t near the Lion Forest to the east, is it? I’ve been there; they do have a lot of mushrooms, but that area doesn’t belong to our village. I think it belongs to the Shunfeng Team. If we go there and run into their team members, we might get chased away."
"Let’s just go and have a look. It hasn’t rained these past two weeks, so there aren’t many mushrooms on the mountain. It’s only because that place is by the river and wet, which is why mushrooms grow there. If we don’t go, others might pick them all." Grandma Li’s youngest daughter-in-law, Wang Pan Di, said.
"Then let’s go, but it’s a bit far. We won’t be back by noon."
"I brought two cornbread rolls."
"I brought two vegetable pancakes."
"Yuan Chun, you should bring some food too. If you can’t make it back by noon, send your children to my house. My mother-in-law can watch them for the day," Sanfeng said.
Not feeling comfortable leaving five-year-old Ya Ya and three-year-old Sanqiang at home alone, Yuan Chun sent the two kids to the team leader’s wife to watch them. She packed two vegetable pancakes, carried her backpack, and went to the Lion Forest with her three village sisters.
Yuan Chun thought that after the Cui family suffered retribution last time, they wouldn’t come after her again. Little did she know, the Cui family hadn’t given up.
As Yuan Chun squatted in the valley collecting mushrooms and digging for wild vegetables, gradually, she and the sisters got scattered. Soon, she heard footsteps.
Because the footsteps were light, she thought it was one of the sisters coming over to join her in mushroom picking. Unexpectedly, the footsteps stopped behind her, and then a surge of unease hit her. She instinctively dodged to the side.
She saw a man miss his target and fall to the ground.
The man got up, glaring at her in humiliation and annoyance, stammering, "You... you actually dodged. I... I saw a bug on your back and wanted to catch it for you. I... I had no ill intentions."
"That’s the oldest trick in the book," Yuan Chun thought as she let out a cold laugh. Then she gave Second Cui a kick, sending him flying. "Catch your damn bug. You’re catching a bug by pouncing on me? Damn you, you perverted old bastard..."