EBE Chapter 170 Blood Bubbles on One Hand
Chapter 170 Blood Bubbles on One Hand
Li poked her forehead, "Why are you talking to your uncle?"
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "I'm just letting him play. It's for his own good."
After saying that, she buried her head in her work.
In the whole afternoon, except for drinking water, she did not rest much. She kept asking Li to rest in the middle. Li did not have her strength, so she worked for a while and then rested for a while. Half of the eight beams were sawed by Zhou Guo alone.
Her hands were no longer as delicate and tender as when she first came out. From fleeing, holding knives, chopping people, and practicing martial arts, blisters appeared on her hands one after another, and calluses had already formed on them.
But when she finished sawing these eight beams, her hands could no longer hold the saw. The palms of her hands were covered with blisters, and some had broken, causing her excruciating pain. Halfway through sawing, she tore a piece of cloth from her clothes to wrap her hands, otherwise she would not be able to do the job.
However, this old dress had been torn left and right by her and was no longer in shape. This dress was picked up from Zhou Xing. It was a bit long, but now it is finally not too long anymore and is in tatters.
Li uncovered her hands, which were wrapped in cloth, and stared blankly at her bloody palms, crying out of pain, "How...how did it become like this?"
The voice was trembling.
Zhou Guo endured the pain and said, "It's okay, Mom. Don't we have some medicine at home? Just apply some when you go back. It will be healed in a few days. Have you forgotten that I also get blisters on my hands when I practice martial arts? I have to continue practicing after applying the medicine. Master said that calluses will form when the skin is broken, and after calluses form, blisters will not form again."
"How can it be the same? When I was practicing, I only saw one tree at most. It's not that serious. It's because your mother is incompetent that you have to suffer." Li blamed herself. How could she let the child saw so many trees by herself? Although the child was strong, she had never done any work since she was a child. Her hands were delicate and tender. She couldn't bear to do such work for an entire afternoon.
She wanted to slap herself twice, "Come, sit down and take a rest, don't do anything, I will do the rest."
Zhou Guo sat down obediently. She really couldn't do it anymore. She had to saw down eight trees. Not only did her palms get blisters, but she had also used up most of her strength. No matter how strong she was, it was limited.
The others watched her working without much rest for the whole afternoon. Her hand holding the saw never left her hands. Not only did she work hard, but most importantly, she was fast. She sawed out eight trees almost by herself in the afternoon. Li worked for a while and rested for a while, which was about the same as them.
Wang Fugui was extremely envious and muttered, "Why isn't this my daughter? She is filial, capable, and opinionated. She is much better than my son."
"What are you thinking about? I thought she was my daughter. It would be a blessing for any family to have a daughter like her. Look, the Zhou family will definitely have a bright future. Their ancestral graves are filled with smoke."
Because of Zhou Guo's hard work, the men behind him seemed to work harder. Although they could not compare with him, the difference could not be too big. They could not let people say that there were so many big men but no one was working and they were just waiting for the little girls to do the work. How could they put their faces aside if such words got out?
Everybody worked hard, and in the second half of the afternoon the others sawed six trees together. Together with Zhou Guo's eight trees, there were fourteen trees in total. They had finished sawing all the trees, and were just waiting for the next harvest tomorrow.
The people who picked mushrooms in the mountains have not returned yet. Some men have climbed up the trees to chop dry firewood, while the others are picking mushrooms below, sorting them out as they go. They put them into a pile and tie them up with vines to make a bundle of firewood. When the adults go out, they carry them at the end of the pile.
The children are not tall enough, so they can only carry the smaller ones.
Zhou Guo felt that the bundle was not enough yesterday, so he carried a big bundle on his shoulders when he went out. But after carrying it from the mountain to home, there were red marks on his shoulders. His tender shoulders had never done any work.
"Mom, please give me a bigger bundle like you did yesterday." The bundle they had yesterday was probably enough for their family to use for five or six days.
Li didn't even raise her head. "You are not allowed to carry firewood when you go down the mountain today. Your hands are like this, but you are still carrying them. Doesn't it hurt?"
Zhou Guo wanted to say it didn't hurt, but the burning pain in her palms reminded her that no one would believe her even if she lied, so she just had to bear it.
The firewood was all tied up and the sun had already sunk a little lower when the large group of mushroom pickers hurried back from the mountains, carrying their loads on their backs.
"Oh, we finally got back. We were lost in the mountains and walked for a long time. Fortunately, we met Dacang and his friends, otherwise we would still be wandering in the mountains!" The women couldn't help but tell about their experiences as soon as they came back.
"I told you it wasn't that road, it wasn't that road, but you didn't believe me. So what happened? Once you entered, you couldn't get out, right?"
The camp, which had been somewhat quiet, now became unprecedentedly lively. The chattering of the women made it look like a village.
Zhou Guo looked at Zhou Dacang and the other two. They had a sack and a basket, both full, almost the same as in the previous afternoon. If the master picked up one more sack, they would have picked more than four sacks of pine mushrooms today. They certainly couldn't finish eating so many pine mushrooms, but they didn't seem to have time to sell them.
"Hey, what's wrong with your hand? Why is it like this?"
"Ah?" Zhou Guo came back to her senses and saw her uncle and two brothers squatting in front of her, staring at her tattered palm with frowns, looking worried.
"It's okay, it's just a blood blister from working. I'll just apply some medicine when I get home." She said, turning her palm down, which looked a little serious.
Zhou Mai turned her palm over, and the bloody palm stung several people's eyes.
Zhou Dacang was so distressed, "I wouldn't have gone if I had known. This is not your job. The blisters on your palms are all broken. It must be painful."
Zhou Guo said, "I told you it's okay. Why don't you get blisters when you're working? I also got blisters when I was practicing knife skills. I'll just apply some medicine when I go back and it will be fine. After two days of hard work, everyone's hands are like this, with blisters."
"Well, everyone has blisters, but not as many as yours. It's good to have blisters. Once you get calluses, you won't get blisters when you use a knife again." The old man's ambiguous voice sounded above their heads.
Several people immediately looked up and saw that he was carrying a large sack on his shoulder and a string of prey hung around his waist, including hares, pheasants, and something that looked like neither dog nor pig.
Zhou Guo recognized it at a glance. It was a badger. This badger was really big, probably weighing about 15 kilograms. She had never eaten it, but its oil was good stuff. This badger could probably produce more than two kilograms of oil.
She looked at the big sack that the old man put down and realized that he had probably caught this badger on purpose, and the oil extracted from it was just right for frying pine mushrooms.
She had seen it before, but Zhou Dacang and his group had never seen it before. They all came forward and surrounded the badger that the old man had unloaded, looking at it, "What the hell is this? It looks so weird."
No one recognized it, only Wang Fugui looked at it for a while and said, "This is a badger."