A Western Doctor’s Happy Farming Life[1] chapter 49

Seeing that this couple was kind of sincere, Song Qinghan pondered a while, he neither rejected nor showed his agreement, saying, “Well, I can’t make that decision, I should negotiate with Dahu at first. So I will wait for Brother Laifu to come back first. If you guys don’t have any other issues, I will leave now!”

Bidding farewell to Zhuer, Song Qinghan came home with Laifu’s escort along the way. But at the moment he walked into the yard, he could feel something strange diffused in the air.

“Dahu?” Where are you?” shouted him.

Searching all around in the yard, Song Qinghan failed to find any trace of Wu Dahu.

How odd! Wu Dahu was still in his recovery, where could he go? If the man was out for picking Song Qinghan up, they should have met each other on the street.

Just as Song Qinghan was about to go out for Wu Dahu, he was blocked by a giant bear right outside the door all of a sudden.

“Ah!”

Song Qinghan shouted, retreating to the corner of the wall, and then he took a long gaze at the bear in front. Well, that was a dead one, and Wu Dahu was right behind it.

Wu Dahu didn’t expect that Song Qinghan would come back so soon, he scratched himself on the head, explaining, “Laifu just told me that he got a business in the fur market, and mentioned the bearskin to me. So I went back to the mountain to find the corpse of it. And I found it is still tied up on the tree. I can’t lose this chance, so I pick it back.”

As he was explaining, he outstretched his arms showing the dazzlingly white gauze on his chest. He wanted to prove that he didn’t tear his wounds out of the strength.

With a sullen face, Song Qinghan was about to lecture this man again. But then he came to find it was just flogging a dead horse since everything was with peace, he just uttered in such a caring tone, saying, “Don’t care more about the bearskin than yourself. How worthy of it? Do you know how it costs when you got hurt? We don’t have any income these days, instead we have to pay for everything for a livelihood, including the medicine fee. Don’t you think that your health is more important than everything? It’s just a bearskin, if we are bound to lose it, we will. But what if you meet another beast or monster along the way, have you considered that ever?”

Nodding, Wu Dahu seemed to be guilty about all the matters, he pondered a while and then came to ask, “Are we facing a shortage of food supply at home? I will head to the town tomorrow.”

Shaking head, Song Qinghan answered, “You don’t have to. Laifu will help us out. You just stay at home for your recovery. You can’t go anywhere before you are recovered.”

“And, if Laifu comes again to deliver us the stuff I ordered. You just go and stuff the coins in his hands. I just helped remove the threads, nothing big. And that’s kind of minor operation. They don’t have to pay us back for that. Moreover, they did send us those two rabbits, didn’t they? That’s enough.”

Wu Dahu couldn’t help but look at the cage right at the corner after Song Qinghan mentioned the rabbits, saying in a surprise tone, “We’ve got a brood of bunnies?”

Song Qinghan accompanied with Wu Dahu to the cage, pointing at those five little bunnies which were cuddling up in a pile, and saying with a big smile, “Yeah, the female rabbit gave birth to them few days ago. Well, we’ve got busy days this period, I almost forget about that.”

These fluffy and adorable bunnies wriggled right there just like five little elves. Seeing these tiny animals, Wu Dahu came to a laughter in recalling the fact that Song Qinghan once said he would raised them to eat them.

Before they came back inside the room, Wu Dahu tentatively took a glance at Song Qinghan, saying in a seemingly begging look, “The flesh of this bear will certainly be rotten and gets the skin decomposed if we don’t tear it off in time. Maybe I should…”

Song Qinghan was about to refuse Wu Dahu’s attempts at first, but he also knew the factual truth about that. What’s more, if they just placed a dead bear in the yard and did nothing, the corpse of the bear would surely smudge everything. And for the second reason, it was all about Wu Dahu’s care and thought which he couldn’t deny. In these thoughts, Song Qinghan nodded, answering, “Fine, just take everything slowly. If you feel any pain on your wounds, just come inside. We don’t have to rush to cut the skin off.”

Hearing that, Wu Dahu came to smile big in response, and then he took out a dagger, squatting and commencing handling the bear in a rather sophisticated move.

Song Qinghan moved a stool out and just sat behind him, watching his hubby tearing the bearskin in such a masculine way.

It was the first time for Wu Dahu to handle this kind of gigantic animal with its flesh and skin all in a large quantity. But it seemed that Wu Dahu still showed a great confidence over the matter, like an unknown master with peerless kung-fu who secluded in a world of isolation. Without any sloppy and clumsy movement, he got his action smooth and quick, tearing the bearskin like he was just performing an artistic behavior.

A quarter of an hour passed and half of the bear’s skin had been peeled off. Fortunately, probably it was because of the cooling-down weather, the flesh of the bear showed no sign of being rotten at all. It could be said to be a flawless flesh despite the freshness of it.

Seeing some beads of sweat was lingering on the forehead of Wu Dahu, Song Qinghan came to frown, saying, “Okay, time to rest. By the way, are we going to make this flesh into dry meat?”

Taking a pause, Wu Dahu held a handful of water in both hands to clean his face and then his hands. Standing up and looking up and down on the flesh of the dead bear, saying, “Is it a good idea to deliver parts of it to the villagers? Ah, and Village Head is included. Since his husband set you up, we haven’t seen him for a long time. I wonder how he is now.”

This time Song Qinghan didn’t show any opposite opinion over it. Instead, he would think that it was quite a good idea because there was a large quantity which was totally enough for them in at least one month.

Yes, that’s what they’re going to do! But before they took action, Song Qinghan forced Wu Dahu to take a good rest. About half and hour later, Wu Dahu got out of the room and commenced sorting out the bear meat, dispensed them in sacks and then put them all in his basket.

With everything was done and packed, the couple stepped out their house, heading to the Village Head’s mansion.

Outside the mansion of Village Head, Wu Pinglang came to a shock when he saw the two, especially when he found out the serious injuries on Wu Dahu, he was utterly astonished, saying with a face of frowning look, “Dahu, tell me the truth. Was it because of Xiang Tiange? If he is the culprit, you have to confess. I will get the justice for you since I got a guarantee paper from him in which he had promised me he would never bother you again.”

Moved by Wu Pinglang, Wu Dahu didn’t expect that this Village Head would not only help him resolve the problem, but also won him a security guarantee. He came to explain, “Village Head, it wasn’t Xiang Tiange. And I think he will never ever trouble us again. Don’t worry about that. As for the injuries, I was scratched by a bear, but I did kill it. The injuries were kind of serious so I just took some days for recovery. I went up to the mountain again today to get that bear back. Though it’s not a flesh of freshness, I still would love to share you some.”

As he spoke, he placed the basket on the ground and then stretched out to pick the largest slice of the flesh up, delivering it into Wu Pinglang’s hands.

Wu Pinglang subconsciously refused, “You don’t have to do that. These are all exchanged with your daylights. You should make them into dry meat and try to sell them in the bazaar. Anyway, I am alone in this mansion now. It would be a waste if you insist upon giving it to me.”

Taking a pause in his action, Wu Dahu pondered a while, and saying, “Your husband…?”

With a smile of bitterness, Wu Pinglang shook his head, saying, “He’s fine, and he wasn’t under arrest. But I just can’t let him be more capricious anymore. Being capricious will just bring him down. So I forced him to go back his hometown for mediating his own faults.”

That’s why Wu Pinglang looked so slovenly that way, thought Song Qinghan. He came to draw a conclusion that without a femina male at home, this Village Head’s life was no longer delicate as before.

Pondering for a while, Wu Dahu persuaded, saying, “Since he got the lesson, he would have realized his faults, I think. Why don’t you just take him back now? I believe that he will be more well-behaved in the future within your principle and will never post a threat to us.”

Wu Dahu said so, but that wasn’t an utterance out of his kindness. Instead, he could foresee that Wu Pinglang is bound to make up with Mei Xilin, sooner or later. So currently if he could say something good, Wu Pinglang somehow would owe him one.

The picture of Mei Xilin crying and bawling suddenly occurred to Wu Pinglang in his mind, he almost suffocated himself drowning in sorrow, and then with a sigh, he said in all earnestness, “We’ll see. But take the flesh back, I literally don’t need it.”

Noticing the decisive look on the Village Head, Song Qinghan took out another piece of flesh in a smaller size, delivering it to Wu Pinglang, and saying, “Take this. Mr Village Head, if you are afraid that a large size one is too much and probably you think it will be rotten soon. Then take this smaller one. And once we produce dry meat out of the flesh, we’ll deliver some for you. How about that? Or do you disdain over the fact that it has been laid aside for few days, and lose its freshness?”

Hearing that, Wu Pinglang pondered, but then still took over the small piece of flesh, saying, “Fine, since you insist on it, I will take it and have a bite later. But as for the dry meat, you don’t have to come again for that. Dahu got those serious injuries, you must suffer from a life of scarcity. You can sell them in the town for supporting your own.”

Nodding, Song Qinghan smiled to the Village Head. Wu Pinglang made a better impression on him.

He just hoped that Mei Xilin would sincerely learn from this matter. Otherwise, he didn’t deserve to be the legal husband of Wu Pinglang.

And then, the two left the Village Head’s mansion, heading to other families which were suffering from a poorer situation and delivering the flesh to all of them.

While walking on the road, Song Qinghan seemed to recall something in his mind, asking, “I wonder how Qin Aye has been! We also forget to take our clothes back.”

Wu Dahu consoled, saying, “It’s fine. Qin Aye will keep our clothes for sure.”

Just as they talked and walked, they showed up in front of the house of Qin Aye not long.

Wu Dahu shouted at the door just as he did before, but it took quite long for them to wait until the door opened.

When he caught a glance at Qin Aye who showed up in a limp look with a broken leg, he was astonished, saying, “Qin Aye, what happened to your leg?”

Qin Aye didn’t answer Wu Dahu’s question but got himself a shock, asking back in astonishment, “Dahu, what happened to you, you wrap yourself like a mummy”

Wu Dahu explained to Qin Aye just as he confessed to the Village Head, and then placed the basket on the ground, took out two pieces of flesh, walking directly to the kitchen inside, saying to Qin Aye, “If that’s too much for you. You just take them on fire toasting them until they become dry. And when you apply to eat them, just boil them.”

Qin Aye burst into laughter, lecturing to Wu Dahu, “Hey you poor little puppy, the salt I’ve tasted is far more than the rice you’ve eaten. You’re not a teacher for me to teach me like that. Oh, since you get me the flesh, I won’t charge you for the money of the clothes. It should be me who take the advantage for that.”

At the same moment, Song Qinghan had already taken out the cooper coins from his pocket, stuffing them into Qin Aye’s palms, and saying, “The flesh is just a present from us. How can it be offset by the coins?”

Waving hands, Qin Aye seemed to return the coins back to Song Qinghan. But since he got inconvenience to move because of his leg, he failed to chase Song Qinghan up, and even almost fell down.

“What the hxxk are you guys doing?!”

A voice of sharpness from a young man was just ringing outside the yard, with a seemingly slight rage within.

Song Qinghan looked at the young man who rushed to support Qin Aye, he explained, “We are here to deliver meat to Qin Aye and get our clothes by the way.”

The young man seemed to think of something and frowned, saying, “So you’re the husband of Wu Dahu? It’ all your fault to cause the broken leg of Qin Aye!”

Wu Dahu frowned, walked out of the shadow and asked in a serious tone, saying, “What? How?”

Obviously, Qin Aye seemed to try to patch up an upcoming quarrel, he patted the young man on his hands, shaking head and saying, “Youning! Shut your mouth and stop your irresponsible remarks. I got that out of my caution, Dahu isn’t involved in this matter.”

A tinder of righteousness seemed to sparkle right in the mind of this young man, and then it burned into a flame. Without any hesitation, the young man pointed at the clothes which Wu Dahu was now grabbing, gushing, “Qin Aye went to visit you by his own because he was afraid you were busy to come here since you never show up for the clothes. If he never tried to go visit you, how would he just fell down?”