After half the basket of mountain mushrooms was sold, Song Qiu looked at the unsold peppers and was not in a hurry. If he couldn't sell them, he would just take them back. At worst, he would go to town tomorrow.
There are few people in the town growing vegetables, and they have to buy all the vegetables they eat, so it will be much easier to sell them.
Aunt Meifu also had some eggs left, but soon someone came with a liter of brown rice to exchange for eggs with Aunt Meifu.
The market price of a liter of brown rice is about six cents, and two eggs cost one cent, so Aunt Meifu counted twelve eggs for her.
This kind of exchanging things for things on the market is also a common thing.
Just now, someone exchanged six eggs for Song Qiu's pound of mountain mushrooms.
The Song family didn't raise chickens, so Song Qiu also wanted eggs in exchange.
The sun was slightly rising from the east. Song Qiu was still thinking about going back to pick up mountain mushrooms. He didn't hold on to the peppers until they were sold. Seeing that Aunt Meifu's basket of eggs had been sold and exchanged and all was gone, he followed her to pack them up.
Okay, put the basket on your back and head home.
Passing by the only meat stall in Jishang, Song Qiu thought that she had not eaten meat for a long time since she was ill, so she bought meat for three pennies.
Nowadays, pork costs twelve cents a pound, and you can buy four taels of meat for three cents, which is enough to stir-fry a plate.
Song Qiu followed Aunt Meifu back to the village. As soon as she arrived at the door of her house, her mother happened to be back. Just like yesterday, it was the man from that family who brought her back in a donkey cart.
Otherwise, Mrs. Yuan wouldn't have gone if Xiaojiachang was so far away.
Seeing Song Qiu carrying a basket on his back with a weighing rod in it, Old Yuan asked, "You went to the market? Why don't you wait until you come back?"
Song Qiu opened the door and went into the courtyard. He smiled and said, "I happened to meet Aunt Meifu. I went with her. All the mushrooms I picked up yesterday were sold out!"
The grandfather and grandson entered the kitchen house and sat at the dining table. Song Qiu happily took out the copper plates sold today and handed them to old Yuan.
"There are a total of eighteen kilograms of mountain mushrooms. One kilogram was exchanged for eggs, and the other kilogram was sold to help Lihua. The total we sold was forty-eight kilograms, but I took three kilograms to buy meat."
"Okay, I'll fry the meat for you later." Old Yuan took the money bag and counted out three coins from it and gave it to Song Qiu, "This belongs to Lihua, so you should keep it."
That kid from Lihua asks them every year to help him sell some things and save some money for himself.
Old Yuan put down her money bag, then put the basket she brought back on the table with a smile, lifted the blue cloth and asked Song Qiu to see it.
"I also made a lot of money yesterday. The family is generous and they finally gave birth to a son. I was so happy that they gave me sixteen big bucks! And ten red eggs."
Song Qiu watched and couldn't help but laugh out loud when he saw her breasts were so happy, "Her breasts are so amazing!"
Mrs. Yuan was a midwife with good skills. She had been attending births from all over the country for almost 20 years. Her reputation was so great that everyone was happy to hire her.
However, most of the people who asked her to deliver babies were from the countryside, and their families were not very wealthy. Delivering one baby cost at most ten grand and two eggs.
Some families were even poorer and could only afford one or two dollars at most after emptying their pockets. When they gathered a handful of beans, she accepted them with a smile without saying anything.
She is such a kind-hearted and hard-working woman, but God has the heart to punish her.
She lost her husband in her early years and managed to raise her son and marry her. However, within half a year after the birth of her granddaughter, her son also contracted the same disease as his wife and died at a young age.
Mrs. Yuan gritted her teeth and settled her son's funeral arrangements, persuading her daughter-in-law to remarry and raise her granddaughter.
But the daughter-in-law refused, and worked hard every day, determined to raise her daughter up and provide for her mother-in-law until the end of her life.
The daughter-in-law's family tried hard to persuade her to go back and get married again so that she could get another dowry gift, but when she refused, her two brothers came to ask for her kidnapping.
There was a lot of commotion, but thanks to Mr. Zhang and his son next door, they were forced to retreat.
The days have become calmer.
But the good times didn't last long. Before her granddaughter had grown up, her daughter-in-law fell ill from exhaustion and fell ill in bed. Old Yuan took out all the family's savings to treat her illness and buy medicine. But within a year, her daughter-in-law died.
Passed away and passed away.
So only old Yuan and his granddaughter were left to depend on each other.
Old Yuan gritted his teeth and lived frugally to raise his granddaughter until she was thirteen years old. However, when she was still young, her granddaughter became seriously ill. She saw several doctors and they all said that it could not be cured. She was so angry that she could not get out.
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Mrs. Hu felt that the sky was about to collapse, and she just wanted to go with her granddaughter so that their family could be reunited.
The old Mrs. Deng next door remembered the kindness he had given her when she couldn't survive, and couldn't bear to see her despair, so he gave her an idea, asking her to carry someone to Songshan Temple to give to the Buddha.
Kowtow, kowtow to Master Yuanfa.
When Old Yuan heard this, he felt energetic and carried his granddaughter to Songshan Temple at night.
When she climbed up to the outside of Songshan Temple, it was already dawn and the temple door had just opened, but she couldn't climb anymore. She saw the Buddha in the temple from a distance and bowed down.
This time, before entering the temple gate, my granddaughter miraculously woke up.
It was at this moment that Song Qiu woke up from her original body. As soon as she opened her eyes, she saw the compassionate eyes of the Buddha looking at her.
Although she woke up, her body was too weak. Her mother carried her home and she stayed in bed for a full month.
Her grandmother was afraid that she would get sick again, so she gritted her teeth and borrowed money to buy her a lot of tonic decoction for her to take, and then she got better.
Song Qiu didn't know whether the Buddha was really compassionate, but the fact that she could come here from the later century and become his granddaughter was the manifestation of the Buddha.
She just needs a grandma, and she just needs a granddaughter. The two of them depend on each other to survive.
Looking at the amiable round face of her grandmother Yuan, Song Qiu seemed to see her grandmother.
Her grandmother's surname was also Yuan, and before she came here, she cried and fainted in front of the funeral hall of the grandmother who raised her, and woke up here.
Maybe all this was arranged by Buddha.
It was still early, so Song Qiu ate two red eggs, then carried the basket on his back and headed up the mountain.
Lao Yuan stayed at home, blanched the mountain mushrooms she washed yesterday, drained them in a dustpan and put them in the yard to dry.
Sun-dry the mushrooms and keep the mushrooms before selling them or eating them yourself.
Going into the forest, Song Qiu called out to Lihua, and Zhang Lihua, who was busy collecting fungi, responded loudly when he heard the call.
Song Qiu followed the sound of the cat and handed her a red egg, "Eat it. Is this all you picked up this early in the morning?"
"I've already carried it back. It's awesome!" Zhang Lihua smiled proudly and took the egg and said, "Grandma Yuan is back?"
Song Qiu said: "Well, I'm back. The mushrooms I carried today are all sold out. Should I give you your salmon or save it for you as usual?"
"You should keep it for me. I'm always working and have no place to put it." Zhang Lihua peeled the egg and put it into her mouth in two mouthfuls, then lowered her head and started picking up the mushrooms.
After Song Qiu asked, he began to pick up mountain mushrooms seriously.