Chapter 35 The Cannibals Attack
Su Qin curled his lips and ignored her.
Shui Ling went out to search around and found Gong Qianyu at the edge of the bush. He was angrily beating the bush with a branch, looking like a victim.
"Hey, Gong Qianyu, let me tell you, it's not that simple to be my man. You have to follow the male version of three obediences and four things. If you can't do that, I won't marry."
Gong Qianyu looked back at Shui Ling, bit his lip and asked, "What is that?"
Shui Ling chuckled, "That means obeying your wife's orders, blindly following your daughter-in-law's mistakes, waiting for your daughter-in-law to dress up, being willing to spend money, enduring your anger, and remembering your daughter-in-law's birthday."
Gong Qianyu blinked and tried to analyze these outrageous words carefully.
He found that it was so difficult that no man could do it.
But... this also proves that not everyone can covet his little wife. If he does it...
If your daughter-in-law asks you to do the work, what can't you do? If your daughter-in-law said something wrong, it must be because you didn't explain it clearly and made her misunderstand. Then you should make it clearer.
A daughter-in-law's dressing up is part of observing her appearance, so why can't she wait? Isn't it natural for a daughter-in-law to spend money? Why can't she be willing to part with it?
If your daughter-in-law is angry, she must have done something wrong. Then if you change it, she won't be angry anymore. What is there to be intolerant of?
It is natural to remember your daughter-in-law’s birthday, what else is there to say?
After thinking about this, he relaxed his frown and nodded seriously, "I can do it."
"Ah?" This time it was Shui Ling's turn to look at him in shock.
Gong Qianyu smiled slightly and said, "It takes time to see people's hearts."
"Okay, but don't talk to me about the three obediences and the four virtues in the future. I know what I should and shouldn't do. Besides, I'm a child now. Do children understand?" Shuiling said with her hands on her hips.
"Yeah, I understand." Gong Qianyu nodded obediently.
Shuiling blinked her eyes, Gong Qianyu was so cute like this, and the anger in her heart disappeared instantly.
She smiled and said, "Then it's settled."
"But..." Gong Qianyu looked confused, "Why did you give candy to Uncle Wei's son?"
Shui Ling was startled. It turned out that this was the root cause. She explained patiently: "Look, Uncle Wei brought so much food and farm tools. This was not given to us by the imperial court because of pity."
"Those were bought by the county magistrate or Uncle Wei. It doesn't hurt if we can be friends with them. After all, reciprocity is a favor."
Gong Qianyu thought for a moment, and realized that her mother seemed to deal with interpersonal relationships in this way, so she nodded, but still said awkwardly: "Is there anything unique to me?"
Shui Ling blinked, stood up on tiptoes and kissed him on the face, "This is unique to you." After saying that, she giggled and ran away.
Gong Qianyu touched her cheek, smiled silly, and walked with the same hands and feet.
Now that the villagers have the brown rice and whole grains sent by Wei Chenglin, they are very happy and feel that they can spend this winter safely.
However, in the evening, the clan leader took advantage of everyone going to the dining room to prepare a meal and announced an announcement.
"Everyone, listen up. The country on the other side of the river has been hit by a snowstorm recently. There are now a lot of bandits, especially the red-eyed people who have started to eat people. We must be wary of them coming across the river."
Everyone trembled in fear. If you eat people, don't you become a wild beast?
What Shui Ling was thinking was, "What the hell is this place? There are cannibals."
The patriarch said: "I will organize people to stand guard and keep an eye on the other side of the river no matter day or night."
Shui Zheran stood up and said, "Grandpa, how about we build a greenhouse with adobe bricks on the top floor, burn a fire inside, and then people can stay inside and it won't be cold."
"Okay, hurry up and take it out. Put our gong on it too. If anything happens, just knock it." The clan leader nodded.
Shui Ling suddenly realized that God did not want them to live and work in peace and contentment. When they were exiled, they thought they would be fine in another place, but in the end they didn't even have a house to live in.
After digging the cave and thinking it was safe, twenty more people with foreign surnames were sent.
Once everything is settled and food is available, it will be too difficult to deal with the red-eyed tribe's cannibalism.
In the following days, everyone started frantically looking for food and stocking up on firewood and charcoal.
Shuiling Fishing collects all the fish brains and bones and boils them into glue. Some of them turn yellow, but when brushed on the mosquito net, they can become translucent. In this way, they can be embedded in the windows of the watchtowers on the top of the mountain to block the wind without delaying observation of the outside world.
In a blink of an eye, it was time to harvest the cabbage. Due to the sparse planting of the cabbage and diligent care, each cabbage grew to ten pounds.
The patriarch's lips never dropped, and he happily watched the cabbage being put into the warehouse all day long.
They dug a cellar in the kitchen specifically to store food.
After picking the water spinach in the depression a few times, we began to save seeds. The water spinach grown in bamboo tubes on the top of the mountain was divided among the family, and they could take care of themselves and eat it during the winter without others coveting them.
When it snowed for the first time, the clan leader said worriedly: "If the river freezes, people from the other side will come over, and that will be a difficult time."
Shui Zheran nodded, "Yes, I have made some success in taking them to practice fighting skills during this period. I hope I can resist those barbarians."
When Shui Ling had nothing to do, she ran to the watchtower on the top of the mountain to check whether the window paper needed to be replaced. After checking around, it was OK and there was no need to replace it.
Today is Gong Qianyu's night watch. He put a few pieces of charcoal into the stove and said, "You can go down when the temperature gets low. It shouldn't be too warm at night, as it will make you fall asleep easily."
Shui Ling pursed her lips, watching the sunset gradually sink into the horizon, and said worriedly: "Do they have a boat? What if they can't wait for the ice on the river to come?"
Gong Qianyu laughed, "Look, how fast the water here is? If there is a boat on the other side, it will rush downstream before it comes over."
"Yeah...that's right." Shui Ling scratched his head, feeling stupid.
The two chatted for a while, and Shui Ling casually looked at the window and noticed that there were orange-red light spots moving quickly upstream of the river.
"What are those?" It can't be an animal's eyes.
Gong Qianyu frowned and said, "I don't know, could it be a will-o'-the-wisp?"
Suddenly, the blood in Shui Ling's body froze like ice water pouring over her head. She said in a trembling voice: "They are bad people. They can't cross the river, so they took a boat from upstream and came down the river to dock with us!"
Gong Qianyu took a closer look and immediately went out with the gong and struck it hard, causing everyone below to get excited.
"There are bad guys going down the river, everyone takes out weapons to defend their homes!"
Shui Zheran's eyes turned sharp, he took the machete and walked out.
Su Qin took a look at the babies and put them into the cradle in the office. The cradle was dug out from the underground garage and was a family heirloom that Shui Ling used when he was a child.
She quickly put on her white coat, prepared surgical tools and medicines and was ready.
Half an hour later, three wooden boats docked, and dozens of red-eyed weirdos jumped out. Each of them had buck teeth and canine teeth, their hair was curled close to their scalp, and their bodies were covered with thick fur but their arms were exposed.
Everyone had a gleaming sword in their hands, and the leader was shouting loudly, looking very excited.
Chapter completed!