57. Daily Life of Peasants in Imperial Examinations (2)

Perhaps it was because children have good recovery ability, and because he asked Li Baojun to go outside with him every day to find a place to cook loaches, Duan Qingen's health soon recovered at a visible speed.

Since he stopped coughing and no longer had the strength to walk after getting out of bed, Grandpa Duan and Grandma Duan stopped buying medicine for him. Perhaps because he no longer spent money lying down, Aunt Duan, who had been fiddling with things from time to time, said less sour words.

Li Baojun was as diligent as ever. Even if Duan Qingen told her that he was almost well, she still insisted on catching loaches in the stream every day when she was cutting grass for pigs, and asked Duan Qingen to eat them after cooking.

The loach was cooked without salt or oil, so the taste must be bad. Although Li Baojun was young, she could cook. Although Duan Qingen did not change his expression every time he ate, she was still worried that her husband would not enjoy the food. Sometimes when she went up the mountain to collect firewood and saw wild vegetables, she did not take them home like before, but secretly hid them and cooked them for Duan Qingen.

Duan Qingen always pretended to be full and let Li Baojun eat with him, so as not to let other children who were keen on running around the mountains find the leftovers.

Of course, they did not use pots to cook. At this time, the pots used by every household to cook were the most important items. Duan Qingen was sick during this period and could not go to the teacher who taught him. The villagers basically could not read, so he had no way of knowing in which year the pot for cooking appeared.

However, according to what he occasionally saw villagers talking about, they said that city people eat hot pot in winter, saying that meat and vegetables are added together, not to mention how delicious it is, they can also try it in winter. Duan Qingen can also roughly guess that many things in this dynasty appear in disorder.

Disorder is good, without order, there is no fear of disturbing order.

On this day, Duan Qingen and Li Baojun slipped out together again. The children in the village are not so precious. Even if Duan Qingen was carefully raised by the third room, he would not be restrained if he wanted to go out to play. He just asked Li Baojun to take him to the mountains to collect firewood.

As the only scholar in the family who did not go back to work in the fields when he grew up, Duan Qingen had never worked since he was a child, and of course his three cousins ​​had basically never worked.

So he told Duan's mother that he wanted to go out to collect firewood together, and Duan's mother just thought that Duan Qingen was bored at home and wanted to go out to play, and agreed happily.

Anyway, although Li Baojun is young, he is indeed steady and capable, and Duan Qingen is not the kind of naughty child who likes to do all kinds of things, so Duan's mother is still very relieved.

So, the two little ones were able to sneak out, hide behind the stream and start cooking in a stone pot.

They did this during this period of time. They found a concave stone, dug a hole in the ground, put some firewood on it, put some firewood and hay at the bottom, and then put water in the stone pot, and just used it as a pot.

Anyway, the stone is very thick, and it doesn't burn strongly.

At first, Li Baojun ate the loach in small bites when Duan Qingen asked her to eat it together, for fear that she would eat too much and her husband would have nothing to eat. Later, she found that Duan Qingen's appetite was so small, and it would be a waste if she didn't eat, so she also ate it in big mouthfuls.

Loach is a tonic food, which is good for the health of the elderly and children. It is not known whether the loach of this era is wild and natural, but the effect is visible after eating it.

In less than a week, Duan Qingen went from having to hold on to the wall when walking to having the normal physical strength of a child. Li Baojun's face, which used to be yellow due to malnutrition, has now become white and rosy, and even her eyes look a little brighter than before.

She is a good child. Although loach tastes good, she always feels uneasy as if she has done something wrong. When she first found that loach is indeed delicious and can improve physical fitness, she carefully suggested to Duan Qingen to tell her family.

"If everyone eats it, won't everyone be healthy? Especially grandma, I think her waist is not very good recently."

Although Li Baojun is young, she remembers a lot of things and knows that if Grandma Duan hadn't bought her, she would have starved to death.

At that time, she was small and could not walk fast, so she could not keep up with the team. There were also people in the crowd staring at other people's children and secretly snatching them away to eat when others were not paying attention. Her parents had six children in total. The youngest sister starved to death on the road. Later, the second brother disappeared one night. It was not known whether he got lost at night or was stolen. Her parents had no choice but to put a straw tag on her when they walked to this area.

Even if she was a servant or a girl in the building, it was good to be alive.

She still remembered that her mother hugged her and cried, asking her to live well and listen to the master's words. She also remembered how hungry she was at that time, how she was afraid and huddled in her parents' arms and dared not go out.

Therefore, she cherished her blessings. Even though Aunt Duan always scolded that the family was not well-off and there was one more mouth to feed, she also remembered that when she first arrived home, it was Aunt Duan who took her to take a bath and took out her young clothes and altered them for Li Baojun to wear.

She was full of gratitude to Aunt Duan, and even more so to other people, especially Grandma Duan who saved her from the sea of ​​suffering. In the eyes of this child, she was almost like a deity.

But she knew that she was not her biological daughter, so she didn't dare to get close to Grandma Duan. Every time she told someone to do whatever she was told, others didn't notice it.

Duan Qingen had been asking her to wait a little longer. Now that he had eaten almost everything and had recovered, he made a decision: "Let's cook another pot and put it in the bamboo tube. I'll go tell grandma."

"Okay!"

Li Baojun didn't ask Duan Qingen how to tell grandma that they had eaten poisonous loaches. In her eyes, Duan Qingen, her husband, was always omnipotent.

So the two children quickly finished today's loach. Li Baojun cooked another pot and even put in the wild vegetables that he had saved and planned to eat tomorrow. In the end, it became a thick bowl of loach soup... which didn't taste very good.

After all, they had no salt, oil or seasoning, so it was already very good to cook it like this.

Li Baojun had to go up the mountain to chop wood, so Duan Qingen said goodbye to her and went home with the bamboo tube.

It's not too busy at this time, but the adults also have to work in the fields. The older children help to chop pig grass and collect firewood to take care of their younger brothers and sisters. The younger ones or the ones who are favored at home run around the mountains and play. Old ladies like Grandma Duan basically cook at home.

After all, cooking is the job of the head of the family. Generally, only the highest female authority in the family, that is, the mother-in-law, can have the confidence to know how much rice to put in and what dishes to eat.

Even if the daughter-in-law enters the kitchen, the mother-in-law usually watches from the side and will not leave for a step, for fear that the daughter-in-law will steal food while she is away.

When Duan Qingen went back, Grandma Duan had just finished her work and was fanning herself with a palm leaf fan. When she saw Duan Qingen coming back, her eyes immediately smiled.

The old lady likes children with sweet mouths, not to mention that Duan Qingen's mouth is not ordinary sweet. Since he recovered from the illness, he would pull Grandma Duan to say sweet words whenever he had the chance.

What about buying a big house for grandma when she makes money in the future, buying twenty little girls to serve her, and hiring someone to cook for her, and putting a table full of delicacies from the mountains and the sea.

And what about studying hard to pass the imperial examination, and then the whole village will know that she is the grandmother of the top scholar, and everyone in the village will envy her.

If a serious old noble heard these, he might laugh, but for Grandma Duan, a country old lady who has never read a book and has basically never left the village, asking for a royal decree and letting her become a royal decree is not as happy as being envied by everyone in the village.

Of course, it’s not that being a royal decree is not happy, it’s just that those are too far away, and Grandma Duan, an old lady, doesn’t have that good imagination.

In short, whether it’s asking for a royal decree or letting herself hold her head up in the whole village, the childish words of Duan Qingen, the little grandson, make Grandma Duan smile.

Although she used to be better to the third wife, it was out of pity for her son's difficulty in having children. In the future, Qingen might be the only child, so she naturally had to take good care of him. If something happened, the third wife would be left without an heir.

But in fact, she treated all four grandchildren the same. After all, they were of different generations, and she was busy all day. Children liked to play with their peers, so who would come to her as a grandmother?

Usually, they didn't have any emotional connection, so Grandma Duan's love for her grandchildren was naturally based on "this is my son's child".

After Duan Qingen had emotional connection with her, Grandma Duan loved this little grandson more and more every day.

It's fine if the old man doesn't show partiality, but if he does, no one can stop him.

Grandma Duan was alone at home today. She smiled and waved to Duan Qingen to come over. "Qingen, let's have egg soup today. Grandma will serve you a bowl. Drink it up before going out to play, okay? Don't tell others. If you tell them, you won't have chicken soup to drink in the future."

This is also Grandma Duan's partiality.

-Looking for opportunities to stuff food into the mouth of her most beloved grandson.

Every time, she was like a thief, afraid that the other two families would see it. After telling Duan Qingen to eat quickly, she took him to rinse his mouth to avoid being smelled by others.

Today, she made egg soup, thinking that although Qingen looked better, he still needed to replenish his body. This is why she rarely took out eggs to make soup during the non-busy farming season.

Egg soup rarely appears on the table for farmers. After all, although they raise chickens, pigs, and some even raise ducks, they are all used to sell for money.

Eggs are something that will only be taken out when someone in the family is sick/confinement/gift-giving. Otherwise, they are usually kept by my mother-in-law, waiting to be sold in the town for money when enough is saved.

Grandma Duan occasionally feels that her family is working hard, and she still takes out eggs to make egg drop soup, which is considered generous. Most families in the village have chickens laying eggs every day, but the whole family can't taste the taste of eggs all year round.

Only during the Chinese New Year can meat and fish be brought to the table, and even then, adults are reluctant to eat a few bites, and almost all of them are given to children.

But children are greedy cats. They will only want to eat more after eating once. Sometimes they are so greedy that they almost dream of eating meat. This kind of thing has happened in the Duan family.

When Grandma Duan announced that there would be egg drop soup at noon this morning, Duan Qingen's three cousins ​​cheered directly, and they were so happy that they were floating when they walked.

Duan Qing'en was not like that. Firstly, he usually restrained himself from showing his emotions because of his studies. Secondly, he had been eating loaches every day recently. Even if the taste was not very good, it was meat after all. He was not that craving for meat.

Grandma Duan was about to get up and serve him soup, but he immediately grabbed her and said, "Grandma, wait a moment, I'll give you something."

"What is it?"

Grandma Duan thought her grandson had picked up some interesting rocks outside and showed them to her. It was not like her grandson had never come to her like this before, so she could just fool him.

But this time, the one she wanted to show her was Qing En, a good grandchild. She planned to praise him a few more words to make Qing En happy.

Duan Qingen took out the bamboo tube directly and handed it to Grandma Duan: "Mistress, this is good stuff. Eat it quickly."

"What?"

Grandma Duan looked at the small pieces inside strangely, "Why does this look like snake meat? Qing'en, have you caught a snake? Don't catch that thing, some of it is poisonous. It will bite you." , you will be dead!"

Duan Qingen and Li Baojun had previously made a simple process of the caught loach and cut it into small pieces. At first glance, it looked like snake meat.

"It's not milk, this isn't a snake, it's the black fish that looks like a snake in the creek."

"Fish?" Grandma Duan was stunned for a moment and didn't react. After she found the fish her grandson was talking about in her memory, she was so frightened that she trembled and pulled Duan Qing'en over.

"Did you eat it?? You can't eat it!! That thing is poisonous and can kill people!!!"

"Hurry up, I'll take you to the doctor!!"

"Hey, hey, milk!"

Seeing that the old lady was about to drag him out with her feet, Duan Qingen quickly stopped her and said, "This thing is not poisonous. It is just a rumor that everyone spreads around."

Grandma Duan looked confused: "What goose? Whose goose is it?"

"No, no."

Duan Qingen had no choice but to explain it to the old lady in simpler terms, "Originally this thing was not poisonous, but someone happened to eat it before he died, so everyone said it was poisonous."

"He died because he ate this thing!"

Grandma Duan covered her little beating heart and squatted down to look up and down Duan Qing'en to see if there was anything wrong with her: "Qing'en, did you really eat it? How are you feeling now? Are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere?"

"I've been eating this food for seven days, and I really have nothing wrong with it." Duan Qing'en coaxed Grandma Duan in a childish tone: "Grandma, don't worry, I've read about it in a book. This fish is called loach. It is a kind of fish that likes to dig into the mud. It is not poisonous and does not bite people. After eating it, it is a tonic for the elderly and children, and it can also treat hidden diseases in men. "

Grandma Duan was really frightened when she saw what her grandson said so convincingly. She shook her head and endorsed it.

Although the village does not highly recommend studying for the imperial examination, after all, in their minds, the probability is the same as winning the lottery. Failure to pass the examination is the norm. How can you be so good that you can become a high official just by studying.

Grandma Duan thought so too, but although she thought it was a bit difficult for her grandson to become a high official, she admired scholars very much.

This is also the characteristic of most people in the village.

If you don't know how to read, you will believe what people who know how to read say.

Although Duan Qing'en is young, he said it was written in a book. Those who can write books are high-ranking officials. People with great abilities cannot make mistakes.

After her grandson's words temporarily gave her a dose of cardiotonic, Grandma Duan's heart finally stabilized, but she still had to ask clearly:

"Then you're not wrong, are you? How come this thing is just a tonic for the body? No one in our village knows about it after so many years."

"Everyone regards it as poison, and no one dares to eat it. Of course, no one knows. Even the children in our village know that this thing is poisonous when they go to catch fish, and they won't touch it."

Grandma Duan thought the same thing, who would eat that poisonous thing? Of course, if you don't eat it, you won't know it's not poisonous.

But after all, he was dubious in his heart: "Then how can you eat a fish and use it as a supplement? There are so many fish in the river, but no one can find any use after eating them."

"That's what this fish is like."

Duan Qingen pulled the old lady to sit on the bench and stood in front of her: "Listen to me, grandma, this loach has a nickname called water ginseng. Do you know what ginseng is? It's that kind of thing. It can kill you!"

"I know, I know, I know ginseng!"

I heard that someone from the village next to them went into the mountains, found a ginseng, and sold it for almost a hundred taels of silver. The whole family suddenly became rich, making not only the neighboring village envious, but also everyone in their village. I wish I could make such a windfall.

At that time, many men asked about ginseng and wanted to go into the mountains to look for it. However, no one could find ginseng, which is so easy to find.

Later, I heard that the family who had made a fortune from selling ginseng wanted to find another one to sell, so they went up the mountain again, but this time they were not so lucky. They met a blind bear and died directly on the mountain.

It was his wife who hadn't seen her husband come back for several days, so she asked the village chief for help and asked someone to go to the mountain to search for him, and then brought back the bloody body.

Since then, people who want to go up the mountain to find ginseng have stopped.

Aren’t they looking for ginseng just to exchange money for a better life? If your life is gone, how can you live a good life?

I didn’t see the family in the next village who had lost their man. They were left with a widow and an infant child. They all knew that her family made money selling ginseng, and they all knew that her family had no man. Those second-rate people always love everything. Go to her house to have a meal and enjoy the autumn breeze.

The widow couldn't bear it anymore, so she left her child and money in the village and remarried herself.

This kid's wife is gone, his life is gone, and he's looking for a ginseng.

Because this incident caused such a big fuss, Grandma Duan was very impressed, "How can this thing be compared to human ginseng? How much can we make if we sell it for money?"

As expected, he is an old man who has worked hard for this family all his life. The first thing he did after knowing the value was to think about money.

Duan Qingen shook his head: "People here think it is poison, and we won't get much money just by selling it."

When Grandma Duan heard this, her interest suddenly dropped by half, but she quickly came up with a good idea: "Can't you just tell others that this thing is not poisonous?"

Just after she finished speaking, she realized it herself: "No, this thing is everywhere, and it is not raised by our own family. If we tell others, we can only make a little money at most, but we will definitely not make any in the future. "

"And everyone can catch it. If there are so many, the price will definitely not go up. Let's talk about this ginseng. Isn't it just because there is so little that it is so expensive? At that time, people from the two villages went to the mountains to look for it and couldn't find it. If you grab a lot, it won’t be expensive.”

Duan Qingen really didn't expect Grandma Duan to be so business-minded. He figured it out by herself without saying anything.

This is also an unexpected surprise.

The seven-year-old boy had a serious look on his face: "Hey, anyway, this thing has been skinned and chopped into sections, or it has been chopped into pieces, so no one knows what it is. Let's add something else to it." , who would have thought that it is the little black fish in the river ditch. This thing is good for the body. It is good for the elderly to eat, and it can also strengthen the body of children. We just put it here, and we are not afraid of others buying it. If anyone If you ask, just say it’s your own secret recipe. It’s a secret recipe, so they definitely can’t ask.”

He said, putting his face close to Grandma Duan, "Look at me, am I much more energetic than before? This is what I eat. Look at me, I am energetic no matter what I do these days."

"And Junjun, does her face look much better? I asked her to eat it. Her face is particularly bloody now."

Duan Qingen didn't say anything, but Grandma Duan really didn't realize that the face of the child who was in front of her every day had become so good. She looked at Duan Qingen carefully, and the more she looked at it, the more she felt:

"Yes, you look more energetic than before."

"Now there is a problem." Duan Qing'en clenched his little fists and diligently turned behind Grandma Duan to beat her back. While beating her, he said: "Look, only we ourselves know whether this body is good or not, and Loach is not the only one who knows." If you eat our food for a day, it will definitely not have much effect. What if someone gets better and refuses to admit it and says it has no effect. "

"Let him go ahead and make money, so who cares about him!"

Duan Qingen: "Then what if this person deliberately goes around saying that our products are not good and ineffective, and people believe him and stop coming to our house to buy? This is not worthwhile."

Grandma Duan now completely followed her grandson's words, directly skipping the question of whether the loach was poisonous or not, and turned to how they should use this loach to sell money in a proper and considerate way.

"Then what should I do? You can't give him money to shut up. People like this are second-rate. If you give him money once, he will see that you are easy to bully and he will come back next time."

"So, let's make the efficacy of this loach visible to everyone, and let everyone know that our loach is good. Then, even if someone says bad things, won't everyone believe it?"

Grandma Duan was a little confused, "But weren't you just talking about this mud, mud or something like that? Doesn't it take effect slowly? And it's just a tonic for the body. It's impossible to say, ah, take it all at once. This one suddenly makes me look several years younger.”

Duan Qingen chuckled behind her and leaned into grandma's ear, "Don't tell me, it can really cure diseases."

"And even if you're not sick, it can make you better."

Grandma Duan was confused as she listened to her grandson murmuring about what diseases this loach could cure.

The next second after listening, her wrinkled face turned red.

He stood up suddenly, grabbed Duan Qing'en and was about to spank him: "You, you bastard, ah, where did you learn all this nonsense?"

Duan Qingen was not panicked at all, nor was he afraid of being beaten.

He only raised his young seven-year-old boy's face, his eyes full of confusion: "What's wrong, grandma, these are all written in the book."

"In the book! In the book..."

The angry Grandma Duan paused. She looked down at her grandson again and saw the innocent confusion on Duan Qingen's face. She seemed to be wondering why she suddenly became angry even though she was talking so well, and she let go of her hand.

Yes, Qing En is only seven years old. He is just a child. What he can understand is not just what is written in the book, but what he comes here to learn.

"Really, why does your husband give you all the books to read...this kind of book is not serious, don't read it next time, you know!"

"Isn't that just a medical book? Why isn't it serious?"

Grandma Duan couldn't explain what she was hesitating about, so she could only vaguely respond: "It's just not serious anyway, just don't look at it."

Duan Qing'en, a seven-year-old pure boy, nodded obediently: "I understand, I won't read it anymore, but that book does not belong to my husband. My husband took me to the bookstore and I dug it out myself."

Grandma really couldn't talk about this topic anymore, so she coughed a few times and said, "No matter where the book is, don't read it."

"Then you should eat this loach grandma first. Junjun also specifically told me that your waist has been bad recently and you should feel better after eating this."

Even if the topic was awkward just now, Grandma Duan's heart will inevitably warm up when she hears these words.

Her waist has been uncomfortable recently, and everyone at home is busy with work. She herself is not someone who likes to yell when something is difficult, so she didn't say anything.

These days, the old man was the only one who noticed that she was not feeling well and showed some concern. No one else, whether it was his son, daughter-in-law or the three monkeys, paid any attention to her.

At this moment, I can’t help but sigh in my heart.

Her sweet grandson is still considerate, and her granddaughter-in-law is also considerate.

"Okay, I have to take a look at this thing again. You can go play with it first. If you can make money, I will buy you candy."

"Hey! Then I'm going out to play."

Duan Qingen really ran out happily like a seven-year-old child.

In the yard, Grandma Duan looked at the loach soup in her hand, but she still didn't dare to drink it. After a moment of hesitation, she carried the bamboo tube to the chicken coop and picked out the skinny and least diligent hen that laid eggs. I took out the chicken and fed two pieces of loach meat into it.

Seeing the hens that were put back clucking and screaming in fright, Grandma Duan hid the bamboo tube in her and her husband's room like a hidden treasure. After making sure that everything was safe, she went back to continue cooking. .

Grandma Duan didn't tell anyone about it all day long, and she specifically told Duan Qing'en and Li Baojun not to tell anyone either.

Waiting until night, after washing and scrubbing was finished, it was getting dark, and the whole family was getting into bed to get ready for bed. Grandma Duan then pulled Grandpa Duan into the house.

Grandpa Duan was rinsing his mouth outside. He also learned this from his little grandson. It is said that a gentleman should dress up properly and a person should pay attention to his image outside. He looked at his little bean-like grandson who was seriously brushing his teeth with a branch. I thought it was fun to rinse my mouth, so I also learned this trick. I would rinse my mouth at the door of my house every day before going to bed, and when someone passed by, I would show off and say "a gentleman is a gentleman".

Most of the people in the village are illiterate, including Grandpa Duan, but this does not prevent him from using the new vocabulary he learned from his grandson to show off to the villagers.

He was not happy to be dragged into the room by Grandma Duan, "Why are you dragging me along? I haven't finished rinsing my mouth yet."

Grandma Duan shushed him, "Please keep your voice low, I have something to tell you."

"Really, so talkative."

Grandpa Duan saw that she really seemed to have something to say to him. Although he felt that Grandma Duan could not say anything big, the couple had been together for so many years and he understood his wife, so he could only let it go reluctantly. Holding the mouthwash bowl and branches in his hands, he walked over and closed the door.

Then he came back and whispered: "Okay, we can't listen outside. Just say what you have to say."

Grandma Duan then whispered in her husband's ear everything Duan Qingen said to her during the day to Grandpa Duan.

"It's really fake."

Grandpa Duan really didn’t believe it.

"It's true. Did you see that our Qing'en was sick and coughing for the past three days? After eating this, he felt completely fine. He even ran out to collect firewood this afternoon. When he came back carrying firewood, he didn't sweat at all. And he said he wasn’t tired.”

"And Junjun, you don't know what that child was like before. She was very skinny and looked sluggish. Look at her now. If she wasn't wearing coarse cloth, at first glance, she would have thought she was a girl from a rich family. Woolen cloth."

When Grandma Duan thought about how much money these things could make and how much better their family could live, she became extremely excited. She pulled Grandpa Duan and said, "I tried it today and fed that loach to our chickens... …”

"What?!!"

Grandpa Duan stood up suddenly in shock, and Grandma Duan quickly pulled him to sit down: "Please keep your voice down, I didn't feed all the chickens, I only fed one, and the one that never laid eggs ate more." of."

After hearing this, Grandpa Duan relaxed a little, but he still complained: "Not even a chicken. A chicken can be sold for a lot of money. Qing'en is just a child. If you say you believe him, you can You can’t do it with our chickens either.”

"What would I do if I didn't use our chicken? Why don't you find an ant on the ground and try it? Then the ant must obey my wishes and eat it."

Grandma Duan complained in a low voice: "Qing En is a good boy. He has read a book. How can he tell lies? What he said is all from the book, so can what is in the book be false? "

"I'm telling you, this opportunity to make money is right here. Our four grandsons will all have to marry wives in the future. If we have this money..."

Grandma Duan explained everything, and Grandpa Duan began to feel excited after listening to it.

Who doesn’t want to make money and live a good life, especially if he has a large family like his children and grandchildren, he must always think about his children and grandchildren.

But he was still more rational in the end: "Well, you feed that chicken this mud every day, what kind of mud is it?"

Grandma Duan: "Loach."

"Yes, loach, you feed this chicken every day for a month. If it doesn't die in a month, we will do this business. Otherwise, if this thing eats someone dead, we will have to pay for the lawsuit." Also, tell Qing En not to talk nonsense, no matter whether he makes money from it or not, he can’t talk nonsense.”

"Okay, don't worry, I've already told him, and I'll talk to him again tomorrow."

"Okay, go to sleep, I have a lot of things to do tomorrow."

Grandma Duan's house became completely quiet.

From that day on, Grandma Duan secretly fed loaches to the thin old hen every day. Sometimes she fed them cooked, sometimes she fed them raw, sometimes she fed them without peeling them off, and sometimes they peeled them off again. Anyway, it was back and forth. Back to the experiment.

As a result, under her intense observation, she found that not only was nothing wrong with the old hen, but she also seemed to have gained a lot of weight, and she was also very energetic. Every time she fed the chickens, she was very energetic.

She muttered and discussed with Grandpa Duan all night long.

The next day, Grandpa Duan went to the city. When he came back, the Duan family was surprised to find that there was a large bowl of broth on the dinner table.

Grandpa Duan said with a serious face: "I went to the city today and met an old Taoist priest. This is a method he gave me to replenish my body. From now on, our whole family will drink it."

After saying that, he looked at Father Duan again and said specifically: "Especially your third son, drink more."

Duan's father was surprised that he could actually eat meat, and at the same time he was touched that his father cared so much about him. He responded with a naive smile: "Hey! Dad, you should also eat more."

Everyone in the Duan family was shocked that Grandpa and Grandma Duan were so generous and allowed them to eat meat. But the meat was already in their mouths. Who had time to ask this or that? They all kept their heads down and ate.

Li Baojun and Duan Qingen sat together to eat. They had been eating for who knows how many days, and they were not as greedy as the others. They inevitably ate more slowly than the people next to them.

Grandpa Duan occasionally raised his eyes and saw it, still sighing in his heart.

This grandson's daughter-in-law is really the right one. She looks just like the people in the city just like his grandson.

The Duan family ate loach meat for half a month.

Duan's father has been walking in the wind lately. For no other reason than he has been eating well recently, his originally low interest has gradually become more enthusiastic. During this time, he and Duan's mother have become very close to each other, and their relationship is very good. Much better.

Because he took a ride to the city to see a doctor, the villagers were listening when the doctor spoke. Basically half of the village knew that it was difficult for him to have a child, which made Duan's father walk with his head down for a long time. , for fear of embarrassment, and later I didn’t know if it was due to psychological factors. Even if the doctor told him that it was just a difficult time for the child and nothing else, he still didn’t have much interest in the couple’s activity of creating a baby.

Later, Duan Qingen, his son, was born, and he raised his head in the village.

Just because he doesn't have much interest, he sometimes feels inferior and anxious, feeling that he is still different from a normal man.

But the harmony with his wife during the recent period has made Father Duan rejuvenate. Although he is an honest man, he also wants to save face. In the past, when the men in the village gathered together to talk about topics that were not suitable for women to hear, he did not dare to get close to them. , for fear that people would ask him how he was doing.

It's fine now.

Yesterday, his wife praised him for being so awesome.

Duan's father walked forward with his head held high, feeling proud in his heart. He was also distracted by thinking about how to reveal to others how powerful he was without leaving a trace.

How to reveal it? He usually doesn't talk about this kind of topic with these people. Wouldn't it be very abrupt to say this suddenly?

I walked all the way and thought all the way.

Before they even reached the place, two or three men saw Father Duan. Their eyes lit up and they walked over to him: "Third Brother!!"

They went directly to Duan's father, looked around and asked mysteriously, "Did your father ask an old Taoist priest for a recipe? What can you do after eating it?"

Father Duan: "Huh?"

"That's it, you know." One of the men became anxious and pointed at Duan's father with a wink, "Why are you pretending to me? To tell you the truth, I'm not very good either. I'm not afraid of your jokes. I don’t dare to say it, third child, we have grown up together, do you think you can help me because we are both sick? Don’t worry, I won’t use your recipe in vain, I’ll give you the money. !”

Duan's father finally understood. Although he didn't know why everyone knew it, he was worried about how to get into the topic of regaining his glory, and he immediately picked up the conversation happily.

"You're talking about this. Yes, my father came back with a prescription. Hey, I really tormented my wife a lot during this period. She was talking about me yesterday..."

A group of men just started chatting in the field.

Within half a day, the Duan family came up with a recipe that could help men regain their prowess, and the news spread throughout the village.

There is also the village next door.

And the village next door to the village next door.

The author has something to say: Nine thousand seven! !

Good night, little angels, some random little cuties will give out red envelopes, okay?