General, Madam Called You To Farm

Chapter 67 – Satisfaction (1)

“Jie1, what did the doctor say to you in the room?”

1Jie (姐) : Older sister

On the way back, Su Ergou asked Su Xiaoxiao.

Su Xiaoxiao gasped, “Before answering your question, I think we need to find an ox cart.”

-Ox cart

She had walked too much today, and her chubby legs could not move anymore.

Su Ergou hurriedly said, “Jie, just wait for me here. I will go to the market and hire an ox cart!”

This was the only way to go, her chubby body really couldn’t stand the torture anymore. 

Su Ergou went to the market. Today, Old Li Tou didn’t come to the town. It was an ox cart from another village.

After that Su Ergou successfully forgot the topic he asked before.

It was afternoon when they returned to the village. 

At the entrance of the village, several villagers were gathering water around the ancient well. When they saw Su Pangya and Su Ergou coming back from outside, they did not make a fuss over nothing2 like a few days ago.

2make a fuss over nothing : being overly surprised at nothing remarkable. 

This family seemed to have suddenly changed their characters, especially Su Pangya. The villagers also saw her go to the mountains to pick up firewood, and they also saw her go to the river to wash clothes. She even went out early and returned late all day long. It was said that they had gone to do business in the town.

“The last time I saw her riding in Old Li Tou’s ox cart, she paid for it!”, said Aunt Wu. 

“I saw it too!” The Sun family’s daughter-in-law said.

Aunt Wu said again, “Hey, what do you think…is going on? Why did Su Pangya seem to be a different person suddenly? It can’t be because she is possessed by a ghost, right?”

“What nonsense! Have you ever seen a ghost who possessed a body like that?”

It was Mrs. Zhou who was speaking. She was a married woman in her early thirties, but she looked somewhat older than her actual age, like she was in her forty. 

Aunt Wu, said: “Then how did she—”

Mrs. Zhou snorted, “What else can it be? Of course it’s because they have such a good husband! If it was me who had such a handsome husband, I wouldn’t be so lazy to work!” 

The villagers burst into laughter.

They were all laughing, but Su Pangya’s husband was indeed really so handsome. Just by looking at him could make people’s hearts bewitched. 

The Sun family’s daughter-in-law said, “How come Su Pangya’s life is so good?”

Mrs. Zhou said, “What’s the use of a good life? A fresh flower stuck into the cow dung!3 It’s really a pity for that charming young man.”

3A fresh flower stuck into the cow dung (idiom) : a beautiful or talented woman married to an ugly or untalented husband. 

Everyone deeply agreed.

“I don’t allow you to say that about my husband.”

Su Pangya’s sorrowful voice suddenly rose from behind the crowd. Then she looked up to the sky and sighed.

“If my husband is cow dung, then what about your man? Is it a cesspit?”

Everyone: “……”

Su Xiaoxiao, who successfully silenced the villagers, left in a good mood.

Su Jinniang came over while carrying a basket on her arm.

She called out everyone for the greetings. Seeing everyone’s expressions who looked so bad, as if they had eaten bran and swallowed vegetables.4 She couldn’t help asking, “Is there something wrong?” 

4to eat bran and swallow vegetables (chinese idiom) : means to eat rice bran and swallow wild vegetables. Describe the poverty and hardship of life. From Xu Guangyao’s “Plain Fire”. 

Mrs. Zhou looked at Su Pangya’s retreating chubby back and rolled her eyes coldly: “It’s Su Pangya!”

“What’s wrong with Daya?” Su Jinniang asked.

The old Su family was a family with good manners. Su Jinniang had never called Su Xiaoxiao the nickname Su Pangya like other people in the village. She always called her Daya.

Mrs. Zhou was swearing while talking: “She can’t understand people’s words. It was so obvious that she was the cow dung, but she really thought that she was the flower! I also don’t know how much money they have spent to buy such a son-in-law to live in! She doesn’t even think if she is worthy or not?”

The Sun family’s daughter-in-law teased her: “She is not worthy. Do you think your daughter is worthy?”

The villagers laughed again.