Chapter 40
Zhao Jin'er smiled and said, "I have to trouble you if I have something to do."
Mrs. Qin thought she had heard wrongly, "Are you proposing to a beast?"
"It's like this. It was willing to drag me and Pearl down the mountain in the first place because I promised to be its wife. We can't break our promise!"
Zhao Jin'er took Old Mrs. Qin's arm and said coquettishly.
"Is there still this problem? You have to give it a good wife. It can be regarded as a life-saver for you and Pearl."
It is better to catch the sun than to hit it. Mrs. Qin felt that her life was good today, patted the grain and grass on her body, and went to the house of Sun Guangping, the only "donkey household" in the village.
The person who opened the door was Sun Guangping's daughter-in-law Qian.
"Hey, isn't this Mrs. Qin? Your family has harvested rice. Shouldn't you be busy these days? Why do you have time to come to my house to visit me?"
When the gong was beating to warn of hailstorms, Sun Guangping planned to follow suit and harvest half of the crops, but Qian tried his best to stop them and harvested not a single crop.
Mr. Qian had been feeling upset these past two days, and when he saw Mrs. Qin, she felt extremely sore.
Mrs. Qin felt uncomfortable when she saw her unkind expression.
But thinking about bowing his head and marrying a wife, he had to put on a smile and said, "I'm not here to visit for free. I want to borrow my nephew's wife's donkey to use."
In a village of Mrs. Qin's generation, Sun Guangping would always call her aunt when he saw her, and Mrs. Qin would also call her Qian's nephew-in-law.
Mrs. Qian didn't know that the Qin family had acquired a strong male donkey for free. She thought that Mrs. Qin was borrowing the donkey to work, and she immediately became ashamed.
"Old aunt, you are not kind. You know clearly that my family will have no harvest this year and the food rations for people and animals are in question. You still come to borrow my donkey to do heavy work. Are you deliberately trying to make us jealous?"
Mrs. Qin endured her anger and said nicely, "I'm not going to work. My male donkey is in heat and I want to borrow your female donkey to breed with."
"What, did your family buy a donkey, or a male donkey?"
Qian's pinkeye suddenly broke out.
Didn't the old Qin family just marry the consumptive third child to a daughter-in-law?
I heard that after spending a lot of money, I still had some money left over to buy a male donkey!
Now he has harvested all the rice before the hailstorm, so how come his family has suffered so much?
Old Mrs. Qin eats more salt than young people eat rice. When she saw Qian's condition, she knew what she was thinking.
If I explain to her that the donkey was picked up, I'm afraid her pinkeye will get worse.
He simply didn't answer vaguely and just asked, "Is this possible?"
When breeding livestock, the ones who benefit are the female animals. Generally, people who raise female animals will either share the cubs equally with the male animals, or pay a small breeding fee.
But this male donkey of the Qin family is purely in heat, so Mrs. Qin is too embarrassed to mention this.
Qian should be happy, but her eyes were so red that her brain was so stimulated that she fainted.
The ghost said by mistake, "It's okay to breed. When your rice is ready, I'll give my family two stones as a reward."
"What?"
Mrs. Qin suspected that there was something wrong with her ears. She had lived for more than fifty years and had never heard of breeding donkeys and having to pay female donkeys.
"Pull him down!" Mrs. Qin couldn't bear this tone, so she waved her hand and walked away.
In the three or four villages next door to the left and right, the ones with female donkeys were not her Sun Guangping family.
If you take a male donkey out for a walk and talk about the appearance of your own donkey, you will be able to have ten donkey wives, and you may even end up with a few donkey calves!
Sun Guangping walked out of the house and asked his wife, "Who are you arguing with and what are you arguing about?"
Qian pointed at the back of Mrs. Qin and said, "The Qin family bought a male donkey and they want to breed it with our female donkey. I asked her for two stones of rice, but the old lady couldn't bear to part with it."
When Sun Guangping heard this, his face turned red with anger, and he raised his hand and wanted to hit Qian.
Chapter completed!