Chapter 7: Uncle Erba

All the onlookers had left, and only a few people were left. One of them looked old. Chen Jie knew that his name was Chen Erba, and he was an elder of his own clan.

He has a slight disability on his legs and makes a living by weaving bamboo baskets.

According to seniority, I should call him Uncle Erba.

Daqian was a country founded by a foreign race, so it implemented a policy of enslavement towards the local people. The most important point was that Han people were not allowed to have their own names, and had to use numbers instead of names, just like the numbers of livestock.

For example, Chen Jie’s original name was Chen Jiusi.

Second Uncle was leaning on a stick, his legs were not very agile, he came to Jiu Si and said: "Jiu Si, you are too impulsive, now is not the time for your uncle to be alive, you beat Lu San's wife like this, according to Lu San's temper, he will definitely find trouble with you."

"That Lu San is tall and close to the fishing gang. If you mess with him, I'm afraid you'll end up in trouble."

After hearing this, Chen Jie hesitated for a moment and said, "Well, I know Uncle Erba."

After hearing this, Uncle Erba said, "Well, it's good to know the situation. As for today's incident, I'll try to prevent Lu San from causing trouble for you."

After saying that, Uncle Erba patted Chen Jie on the shoulder and said, "You, be good, stop playing around with money, and live a good life with Yun Jin."

Then he limped away.

Uncle Erba left, and several people behind him also left one after another. However, they all said that Chen Jie was impulsive today, and he would have no good days if he provoked Lu San. Everyone in the village knew that Lu San was a scoundrel.

After everyone left, Chen Jie looked at Su Yunjin who was standing there in a daze. Their eyes met, and there was actually a bit of awkwardness.

Chen Jie was the first to break the awkwardness and said, "Are you okay?"

Su Yunjin said: "No, it's okay."

Chen Jie said: "That's good."

He then entered the house and saw the little kid Su Yunrui carrying a basket of wild vegetables and looking at him warily. Chen Jie ignored her and found a clay basin by himself.

I drew a bucket of water from the well in the yard, and then started to skin and clean the rabbit.

The movements are quite skillful.

Su Yunjin stood in the yard in a daze. The way Chen Jie handled the situation today was completely beyond her expectations. She thought that she would be humiliated by Lu Qinshi, but she didn't expect that her own husband would stand up for her. She had to say, it felt good to be protected.

"Um, Yunjin, go heat up the pot. Do you have soybean oil or rapeseed oil at home? Find it out. We're going to have stewed rabbit meat today."

Su Yunjin was stunned when he heard this, and then he saw Chen Jie processing the rabbit. After a moment's pause, he walked up to Chen Jie and said, "Well, beating up Mrs. Lu today won't cause you any trouble, will it?"

Chen Jie was stunned when he heard this, and looked up at Su Yunjin. Su Yunjin felt a little uncomfortable being stared at by Chen Jie, and touched his face thinking there was something on it.

Chen Jie then spoke up: "It's no trouble, just a poor guy who bullies the weak and fears the strong."

Chen Jie was really not afraid of this Lu San, because in the memory of his original body, this Lu San had never practiced any kung fu, and he was able to intimidate the original body Chen Jiusi just because he was taller than Chen Jie.

But Chen Jie was not afraid of these things at all. Before traveling through time, Chen Jie had seen people on the battlefield and fought frequently. He had rich experience in fighting. What's more, the most important thing was that he had the honor of learning self-defense and counterattack from Chen Hegao for a few days.

This allowed him to achieve profound attainments in this type of unconventional fighting.

Therefore, he did not take Lu San's so-called counterattack seriously. If it were a martial artist, he might think of other ways.

For example, when the other party is causing trouble for you, you can use a dump truck to run him over and kill him.

Of course, there are no dump trucks in this world, so can we design a rolling stone trap, or poison the opponent...

As long as you think about it, there is always a way.

But Lu San doesn't need it.

Chen continued to skin and remove the internal organs of the rabbit as he explained, and no longer paid any attention to Su Yunjin.

Seeing that Chen Jie ignored her, Su Yunjin hesitated for a moment, then returned to the house and washed the wild vegetables she had dug today. However, Su Yunrui was still a little afraid of Chen Jie and hid away from him.

I just watched Chen Jie skin the rabbit out of curiosity.

I thought to myself: “The rabbit looks so delicious!”

But she didn't dare to move forward, she was really scared of being beaten by Chen Jie.

Just like that, the whole yard fell into silence.

At this time, Uncle Erba came back from his uncle's house not far away, leaning on a cane.

An old woman came forward and said to Uncle Erba, "Your legs and feet are not good, and you are still walking around. You won't weave baskets today, so Huzi will be the only one to do the work."

After hearing this, Second Uncle said, "There's a lot of commotion at Jiusi's house. I thought I'd go take a look. My cousin has done us a favor, so I can't just ignore him."

"Guard, guard, Jiusi, that rotten gambler, has lost all of his cousin's huge fortune. How much can you get out of your small body? Can you fill his bottomless pit?"

Second Uncle also sighed, and the old woman sighed and said, "I just feel sorry for Yunjin. By the way, did the shrew of Lu San's family embarrass Yunjin?"

Uncle Erba said, "It's a dilemma. I wanted to take care of it, but Jiusi is back."

"Ah, that damn guy, is he helping outsiders bully Yun Jin again?"

The old woman said with her eyes wide open.

Uncle Erba said, "No, Jiusi helped Yunjin beat up that bitch!"

"what!"

The old woman's eyes widened in shock, and she immediately asked, "Has this damn guy changed his temper?"

Uncle Erba said, "It seems to have changed a little."

Then the old woman said, "Not good. The Lu San couple are a scoundrel and a shrew. If Jiu Si offends them, won't he be in trouble?"

Uncle Erba frowned and said, "Family, take out the fifty coins from home."

"Ah, what do you want the money for?"

Uncle Erba looked at the old woman and said, "Just take it if I tell you to."

"No, I saved this money for Hu Zi to marry a wife, so I can't give it to you."

"Hey, you loser woman, you don't listen to me anymore, take it out."

Uncle Erba suddenly shouted angrily with a very serious expression. Although Uncle Erba was a little disabled, if he really got angry, Aunt Erba would not dare to disobey him.

Following closely, Uncle Erba came into the yard with a stick and saw a boy of about seventeen or eighteen weaving a basket with rattan. He was trimming the branches of the rattan very quickly with a small knife in his hand, and he was very skilled.

"Huzi, go get five catties of sorghum rice and send it to your brother Jiusi. His family is out of food."

"Oh, all right, Dad."

The young man stood up, the sunlight shone on his body, his bronze skin looked very strong, which was the result of long-term shirtless weaving baskets.

The young man got up and went into the house, and then he heard the woman's yelling and cursing inside.

"We still need food. We can't live like this anymore. You two are heartless. Just use this money and food to fill that bottomless pit..."

Listening to the women's scolding in the house, Uncle Erba sat down where he was weaving baskets, picked up the cane and started weaving, muttering, "I can't just ignore it..."

(End of this chapter)