The Spirited Daughter-in-law and the Mountain Man

She retorted, “Are you that generous?”

..Didn’t you say this is called living frugally?” He was unhappy, “Don’t call me

a petty cat.”

“What should I call you then?”

“Didn’t I already say it? Either Third Brother or husband, your choice.”

Not bothering to argue, she turned her head to ask Xiao Yishan, “Second

Brother, what vegetables are we having tonight?”

Xiao Yuchuan straightened her head, making her see herself, “You have to ask me what vegetables. Although I only made thirty copper coins yesterday afternoon, I especially went to town to buy a jin of pork for you.”

Su Qingyue stopped talking. It took two hours to walk to town, which equated to four modern hours. It took eight hours for a round trip.

No wonder he hadn’t made it back in time for dinner last night.

“Is it worth going so far to the town just for a jin of pork?” She asked casually.

Xiao Yuchuan chuckled unconcerned, “As long as I can add some vegetables to my wife’s dish, it’s worth walking any distance.”

Her heart felt stuffy after hearing that, “Let’s just eat the pork you bought then, where is it?” Initially, she wanted to ask Second Brother too, as she wanted to eat the wild rabbit meat he had hunted.

She felt that if she said she wanted both rabbit and pork, both Second Brother and Third Brother would agree. With their poor conditions, it was better to save as much as they could.

Xiao Yuchuan took out a big bowl from the stove cabinet. The bowl contained a piece of pork rubbed with salt, “It was too late when I came back yesterday, so I marinated the pork with salt.”

Thinking that Second Brother had worked too hard hunting in the mountains, she said, “Just cut the whole jin and fry a big bowl.”

Yuchuan laughed, “Alright, wife. Won’t you say your husband is stingy for only buying one jin, not getting more?”

She said, “I can’t be more generous without money. You say you made thirty copper coins yesterday afternoon, yet I haven’t made even half a copper coin in so many days. I’m even poorer than you.”

Upon hearing that, Xiao Yishan disagreed, “Qingyue, you’re a woman; you can’t be expected to make money. Second Brother will work harder to hunt in the future so you can have a better life.”

‘ Su Qingyue was very touched. However, Xiao Yuchuan was her husband, and it would have been more appropriate if he had said that. She thought about how her husband, Second Brother, and Fourth Brother hadn’t divided their family, so if any of them made money, the whole family would benefit, and it didn’t matter who said it.

Xiao Yuchuan also said, “Wife, you don’t have to worry about making money. Second Brother and I will work hard.”

“Then what do I do?”

He winked at her, “You’ll be in charge of giving me a chubby baby.”

“Second Brother is still here.” She glared at him, “You have no shame, talking like that.”

“What does it matter if Second Brother is here? Are you shy now, wife?” “I won’t talk to you anymore.” She simply walked out of the kitchen.

Xiao Yishan watched his wife talk to Third Brother in a somewhat coquettish tone, feeling envious. He always felt that his wife didn’t treat him like her husband…

With a heavy face, he directly picked up the stove pot and walked to a large stone next to the fence in the yard. That stone was usually used to sharpen knives, and since there was nothing to hold the rotten rice, he scraped it directly onto the stone with a spoon. When Third Brother called Zhou Fuquan to take the rotten rice to feed the pigs later, he could just rinse the stone with water.

Xiao Yuchuan took the pot from Second Brother, “Second Brother, you continue dealing with the wild rabbit. If you don’t finish, the rabbit meat will spoil.”

Xiao Yishan took a wooden washbasin and fetched water, then went to the yard to wash the wild rabbit meat. His cold gaze occasionally swept over his wife standing under the eaves and outside the window of the secondary bedroom.

It was getting quite dark, and even though the stars and the moon were out, it was still a visible figure without a lamp on..