Chapter 86 8 Pigs
"Aunt Shen, Aunt Shen," Zhuge Ling rushed into the yard as soon as he got off his horse.
"Here, here," Shen was chatting with Zhang Chong's wife Gao Ying in the courtyard. Gao Ying and Zhang Chong had discussed buying a piece of land in Shitou Village and building a small courtyard so that the two families could take care of each other. Gao Ying was asking Shen about the vacant land next to the courtyard when she heard Zhuge Ling shouting in a hurry.
"What's the matter? You look so anxious and flustered," Shen asked with a smile.
"Aunt Shen, hurry up. I'm going to propose marriage early tomorrow morning. Hurry up and tell me what I need to prepare." Zhuge Ling urged.
Shen was stunned. How could this kid propose marriage after just one trip? So she asked, "It's not that easy to propose marriage. It's almost dark now. It won't be in time tomorrow. Which girl is so lucky?"
Zhuge Ling suddenly felt a little embarrassed, and after a long pause, he said, "You know this girl, she is Shen Bi from Shenjia Village."
Shen was so shocked that she couldn't recover for a long time. How come this guy and Bi'er fell in love with each other? Shen couldn't help but laugh in her heart. It was really a marriage made in heaven.
"Okay, okay, you and Bi'er are both good kids. But you are too impatient. Getting married is a lifelong event. It's already afternoon and nothing is ready. What are you going to use to propose marriage tomorrow?" Shen glanced at Zhuge Ling with a reproachful look.
"Mother," Shen Zhi had heard their conversation and walked out of the house, "You take him to the town to find a matchmaker first. Song Rou and I will go up the mountain to catch two wild geese before it gets dark. Leave the rest to me and I will make sure everything is prepared."
Everyone started to act immediately. Even the third uncle's wife took out two taels of silver and gave it to Zhuge Ling. Zhuge Ling was touched. Since his parents passed away, no one has treated him like their own child like the Shen family.
Shen Zhi took Song Rou up the mountain, and they beat whatever they saw along the way, accepting everyone who came.
"By the way, Xiaozhi, when you were not at home this morning, a eunuch from the capital came to deliver a secret decree. The Prince of Huainan and his followers have been secretly detained. Now my father and the others are no longer in danger. The emperor will issue an order today to restore their official titles and reward them according to their merits. My father means to wait for the emperor's order to come down before returning home with a legitimate reason." Song Rou described the scene in the morning to Shen Zhi.
Shen Zhi nodded, "Your father is right, but they have been in the basement for so long and it's a bit suffocating. There are still many empty rooms in our backyard. Let's go back and clean up and let them move up to live, so that they can breathe some fresh air outside."
"Xiao Zhi, you are so kind. If my father and others hadn't met you, they might have lost their lives." These days, Song Rou often heard her father and others discuss the torture they suffered while imprisoned, and her heart ached.
"Sister Song Rou, why are you so polite to me? They are great heroes. You don't know how proud I am that I could save them. If you really want to thank me, please prepare more of that Poria cocos cake for me when you return home. Last time, your grandmother asked me to bring it back for my third aunt's wife. I secretly ate a piece and it was so delicious that I still savor it till now." Shen Zhi felt like his saliva was really about to fall as he spoke.
The two looked at each other and smiled.
"Look! Wild geese." Song Rou pointed to the sky, and a flock of wild geese happened to fly by.
Shen Zhi took out the tranquilizer gun he carried with him and shot two wild geese with two shots. Song Rou quickly ran over to pick up the fallen wild geese. Shen Zhi tied their wings and threw them into the backpack.
"Come on, let's pick some more persimmons. My third uncle loved the ones we picked last time." Song Rou pulled Shen Zhi and walked towards the persimmon tree they had picked last time.
"Humph, humph," when they walked into the persimmon tree, they found a group of wild boars lying under the tree, probably resting there.
Shen Zhi quickly took out the tranquilizer gun, and before the wild boars could react, they were shot one by one by Shen Zhi and fell unconscious. Shen Zhi took out a rope and tied up all four legs of the wild boars.
"Sister Song Rou, go back quickly and call everyone in the basement over. Ask them to help carry the wild boar back. It has been locked up for so long, it's time to let it out and move around."
Song Rou was counting the number of wild boars, a total of eighteen wild boars, all of them fat and strong. "It's over, there are eighteen of them, and there are eighteen pigs. If we ask them to move them, will they think we are calling them pigs?" Song Rou patted her head, feeling so embarrassed.
Shen Zhi burst out laughing and waved his hand to signal her to go back and get help. After Song Rou went down the mountain, Shen Zhi climbed up the tree and picked persimmons.
But within half an hour, the people in the basement rushed over. These people had been locked up for so long, and now they were finally free, and they were like wild horses running wild, running around happily.
"Wow, so many wild boars. When Rouer said that just now, I thought she was exaggerating." General Song exclaimed.
"Come on, brothers, let's each carry one back." General Song shouted to the people behind him, and everyone ran over, looking at the wild boars on the ground in shock. Each wild boar weighed at least three or four hundred pounds.
Everyone squatted down, and each person carried a wild boar and walked back.
Zhuge Ling was not there, and Shen Zhi could not carry the remaining persimmon. Fortunately, Song Rou came back with a trailer and two large baskets. The two climbed up the tree and picked all the remaining persimmons and put them in the baskets.
Half an hour later, the two men easily went down the mountain and returned home with a wild boar, two large baskets of persimmons, and a lot of pheasants on their trailer.
Shen and Zhuge Ling also came back. The town's matchmaker had been invited. It was Zhu, a famous matchmaker in the surrounding area. Zhu had a very good reputation. Most of the marriages she arranged ended in a happy ending. They had already made an agreement with Zhu to go to the town to pick her up tomorrow morning.
Shen also took Zhuge Ling to the town to buy wedding cakes, candies and other things for the engagement.
Shen Zhi came back and told them that he wanted to let the people in the basement live in the backyard, and everyone agreed. Shen Zhen volunteered to clean up, and the third aunt also said she would go to help.
The wild boars were left to the men to kill or chop as they pleased. Anyway, the weather was cold now and the meat could be preserved. At worst, it could be made into bacon or sausage.
Shen Zhize took this opportunity to go to the space and placed orders for wedding wine, wedding tea, wedding cigarettes, red dates and the like, and also bought a lot of various fabrics suitable for the elderly and young people, all in double quantities, and even prepared a box for the betrothal gifts.
Shen Zhi placed these things separately in a guest room and put them in a box after sorting them out.