Lucky Peasant Woman: Raising kids and making wealth

Chapter 46: Thinking about Su Wanqin

Translator: NekoCat
Editor: Shanniel
Proofreader: Koreok

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In the afternoon, Gu Chunzhu locked the wooden door and went to fish for shrimps, she also sent the two children outside to play.

There were many people fishing for shrimps by the river. She was close to sister Fu and told her the secret of fishing shrimps. However, shrimps are still not so easy to catch.

After catching two bowls. Gu Chunzhu decided to go home.

Sister Fu had no children at home, her father and mother-in-law also passed away last year. She stayed by the river all day and only caught 3 bowls of shrimps. 

When Gu Chunzu went home, she saw a man guarding the yard.

At first glance, she thought it was Su Wangqin but as she got closer, she found that it wasn't. She retracted the smile on her face.

"Hello sister-in-law, I'm Lao san." 

This man can blend well in the dark. Gu Chunzhu remembered that he is a hunter so it's unavoidable.

"How many shrimps have you caught? I'll count them for you." Gu Chunzhu felt the key hanging from her neck and opened the door. She took out a ceramic bowl from the kitchen and scooped it out, about four and a half bowls. She rounded it up to five bowls for him.

"Today, sister-in-law sent money over when I was away. My mother took an extra copper from you... Every winter, my family would starve, so my mother inevitably..." 

As a son, he didn't tell his mother what was right or wrong. Gu Chunzhu got what he meant.

"It's OK. I'll take yours and Sister Fu’s. I guess there'll be fewer shrimps in the rivers in the coming days since it's winter." Gu Chunzhu waved to show that she didn't mind.

Every family has a scripture that is hard to read. If life wasn't so hard, who would covet one or two coppers.

But at the insistence of Lao san, today's shrimps counted as four and a half bowls.

When he was about to leave, Gu Chunzhu said, "sprinkle some rice grains before fishing for shrimps, it can attract them." She taught him the method of fishing shrimp. This man is serious like Su Wangqin, really like birds of the same feather flocks together.

Gu Chunzhu gathered the shrimps and went to make dinner. The pig skin and tofu under the eaves was ready. Gu Chunzhu cut it into pieces, mixed it with vinegar and soy sauce, and added a little sugar then reheated, she also cooked cabbage soup. The three of them managed for the night.

Su Wanqin isn't here tonight.

Accustomed to his help in cooking and boiling water, Gu Chunzhu felt the need to have six more hands. 

When the children went to bed, she took a clean bath for herself.

As the fire burned in the charcoal pot, Gu Chunzhu felt so cold especially since Su Wangqin wasn't here and it lacked some warmth.

That night, she had a nightmare. 

Chen Chong came to settle accounts with her and she strangled him again. When she woke up, she was dripping with cold sweat. 

When did she become an evil woman?

When the sky outside was already bright, Gu Chunzhu ate gruel and went to town with a bucket of shrimps on her back.

"Little sister-in-law came late, this Niuping has opened early today." 

Uncle Zheng complained to Gu Chunzhu, "look, where did he get three buckets of shrimps today?"