Chapter 71: The reborn of paranoid boss cannon fodder wife
Chapter 71: Love the House and Its Crow
Xiao Cheng is determined to go down the river to beat bamboo.
The water in the small river is not deep, less than a meter, clear to the bottom. Stepping in, the muddy bottom is not shallow, barely reaching the knees, and the water level reaches the tall and strong thighs.
As Xiao Cheng calmly walked upstream, the counter-flowing water separated from his legs and gently dispersed on both sides, creating a serene scene.
Bai Lu sighed in relief, holding the black coat he took off, hanging it on the fence by the vegetable garden.
Then, using the hatchet brought by Xiao Wei from the kitchen, she split the small bamboo whips bundled on the ground.
Picking up five or six bamboo sticks, she walked upstream.
Xiao Wei also dragged three bamboo sticks, following behind.
Naturally dried long bamboo and flowering bamboo are heavier than dry bamboo damaged by disease or ant infestation. They are thicker inside and out, making them less prone to soaking and rotting when inserted into the water.
Xiao Cheng took the dried bamboo handed to him by Bai Lu, raising an unexpected eyebrow. She actually knows how to choose bamboo...
As each bamboo stick was inserted into the water, the flow noticeably slowed down but did not stop. There were tiny gaps between the bamboos, preventing the water from becoming stagnant.
Half of the bamboo was used just to intercept the upstream flow.
When they reached the downstream, Xiao Cheng continued walking downstream without stopping, covering more than twenty meters through the center of the vegetable garden.
It seemed like he wanted to intercept a longer distance, but a little further downstream would lead to Wang Cuihua's backyard.
Wang Cuihua's backyard also faced this small river.
"We can stop here; going further down will be someone else's backyard," Bai Lu didn't want to deal with Wang Cuihua's staring eyes again.
However, Xiao Wei thought she misunderstood something and explained, "The small river is public property, not someone's territory. We can encroach a bit more; she won't stop Big Brother."
Of course, she wouldn't stop "Brother Xiao Cheng."
She was eager for "Brother Xiao Cheng" to encroach further.
Bai Lu rolled her eyes in her heart.
Seeing her slight displeasure, Xiao Cheng took a few steps back and said to Xiao Wei, "Bring me bamboo."
Xiao Wei was dumbfounded.
Looking at Bai Lu standing by the small river with bamboo in her arms and then at his empty hands, Xiao Wei wondered why Big Brother didn't ask Bai Lu for bamboo.
Just now, Bai Lu said the bamboo was too heavy, and she didn't need his help. As soon as he picked it up, Bai Lu took it away from him.
Now, suddenly, Big Brother asked him for bamboo?
Xiao Wei ran back with question marks all over his mind, panting with all his might, and dragged five bamboo sticks over.
When he arrived, he found that Big Brother had already taken the bamboo from Bai Lu and was steadily inserting it into the river.
Xiao Wei: "..."
So, the bamboo in his hands...
"Give it to me," Bai Lu smiled and took it, saying softly, "Rest for a while. There aren't many bamboo sticks left. I'll go get them."
Xiao Wei looked at his Big Brother's cold face and thought it might be better to be more diligent.
"It's okay; I can still carry them."
After saying that, he ran back at lightning speed.
When he came back, he dragged five more large bamboo sticks.
Bai Lu took the bamboo in a daze, and his petite figure "whooshed" back again, as fast as lightning.
However, this little lightning was tripped by the weeds by the fence halfway, almost falling.
Stumbling like a drunkard, his left and right feet collided a few times, and then he returned to normal, continuing to run to get bamboo.
A playful smile flashed in Bai Lu's eyes as she handed the bamboo to Xiao Cheng. "Xiao Wei is so obedient and diligent. He already knows how to help us with many things at the age of seven."
Xiao Cheng's hand receiving the bamboo paused.
Raising his eyes, her clear and clean eyes were still pure, without any impurities, as if she was just casually complimenting, with no other intention.
Xiao Cheng lowered his eyes, took the bamboo, remained silent, and continued to insert it into the river.
The water in the river, stirred by the strong bamboo, created some ripples, splashing onto the riverbank.
The relationship, like frozen ice, thought it could be repaired with just a few bamboo sticks. It's not that easy.
Bai Lu sighed.
She turned around with Xiao Wei to get more bamboo.
After inserting bamboo sticks upstream and downstream, they probably enclosed a distance of several tens of meters. Now, it not only provided enough living space for snails but also allowed fish to be raised.
Bai Lu happily washed her hands. However, when she looked up, she saw the big shot destroying the flowers.
"Wait a minute, that seems to be pink roses."
On the opposite side of the river, there were several clusters of lush wild roses, not yet in bloom but already with many flower buds. Without any surprises, they would bloom next month, along with the chestnut trees.
At this moment, still standing in the water, Xiao Cheng on the riverbank, at some point, took a hatchet. His well-defined forearm was about to exert force on the base of the wild roses.
Hearing Bai Lu's words, he paused for a moment.
Turning around, he looked at her with indifferent eyes, and calmly said, "Do you like it?"
Bai Lu hesitated for a moment, nodded, and said softly, "Pink roses are beautiful when they bloom. They have already formed flower buds now. At most, next month, and even later, they won't bloom until the month after. When pink roses bloom, cut some and put them in a vase. Placing them in the house can make the air fresher, and the faint fragrance can fill the whole yard."
Xiao Cheng looked at her without saying a word.
After the incident with the bamboo, Xiao Wei didn't want to talk anymore. However, thinking about the last time Bai Lu was scared and jumped, he hesitated and reminded, "The flower bushes grow too densely, and it's easy to hide snakes and insects."
"The flowers are on the opposite side. Now that we've inserted bamboo into the river, soon the flower branches will climb along the bamboo. By then, they will reach the vegetable garden..."
The vegetable garden would hide snakes.
The rest didn't need Xiao Wei to say. Bai Lu's feet were already getting chilly, and the hairs on her body stood on end.
Subconsciously shaking her head, "No, no."
"There are plenty of beautiful and fragrant flowers in the world. The rapeseed flowers in the vegetable garden are also beautiful and fragrant when they bloom. Soon, the broccoli and chestnut flowers will bloom, even more beautiful. You can see them by just opening the window. Forget about the rose flowers."
"After cutting the snails, I also added some salt. Now they should have spit out all the mud. I'll go back to clean the snails. Let's go back quickly."
Bai Lu didn't want to stay a moment longer, rubbing her arms with chicken skin bumps, turning around, and leaving.
She wasn't attached to the pink roses at all.
In fact, just now, she was just reminiscing about her home.
Just recalling the beautiful pink rose wall in her grandmother's vegetable garden.
Remembering when she was a child, her mother asked her to stand in front of the rose wall, and they took many happy photos together.
Grandma's rose wall had no snakes or pests. There must have been measures taken to repel snakes and insects all along.
The small river here is too long, flowing through the entire small town. It can drive away the upstream but not the downstream.
Forget it... Anyway, there's no going back.
Flowers, just forget them.
Xiao Cheng watched the girl's hurried departure, a deep thought flashed in his eyes as he put away the hatchet at the flower root.
"Go to the storage room and get some snake repellent powder."
Xiao Wei was assigned another task.
