Chapter 290 The vicious female partner escapes to farm (41)
The three brothers of the He family came here to deliver herbs for the last time. They said that snow had begun to fall in the mountains. The mountains were blocked by heavy snow and it was difficult to walk. They would not be able to deliver them again until the snow melted in spring.
Xu Yin gave them the herbs for this trip and the money for the pepper saplings from the last trip.
When the three brothers saw that there were thirty taels of them, they blushed and declined:
"This is too much! We haven't even dug a few pepper saplings."
Of course Xu Yin knew, but without them, the tall pepper trees in the mountains behind the military camp would not have the chance to be transplanted to her family's medicine field.
"No matter what, I want to thank you! You deserve this money. You broke your legs just for a word from me. Thank you for your hard work!"
What's more, the three brothers also gave her a piece of bezoar, two pheasants, a pair of hares, and a pack of dried wild mushrooms as gifts that year.
Xu Yin was greatly surprised when she saw the bezoar.
This natural bezoar will be a rarity for future generations.
Of course, you can't take it for free, but you can give them money, but they refuse to accept it.
"The silver our benefactor gave us is more than enough to buy a cow, not to mention this ugly pimple."
Seeing that they refused to accept it, Xu Yin packed two catties of salt, two catties of rock sugar, and two pieces of cotton cloth as a return gift.
The three brothers refused to accept it to no avail, so they had no choice but to accept it.
On the way home, I couldn't help but feel glad that they came here at a different time from other mountain farmers, otherwise they would have made other people jealous.
Thirty taels!
In previous years, they would be happy if they could save three taels during the Chinese New Year.
This year I took thirty taels home, not including so many return gifts.
"Brother, are these candy bars worth a lot of money?"
"The cloth is also worth a lot of money."
"My benefactor is so good to our family!"
"My benefactor is kind-hearted and doesn't want to take advantage of others, but we can't push ourselves too far. In the spring of next year, we will pick more herbs for our benefactor."
"Uh-huh!"
Xu Yin took the bezoar and half of the herbs sent by the three brothers into the system warehouse, and kept the rest at home.
Occasionally, people would come to her with headaches and fever, and she would prescribe the right medicine according to "The Complete Book of Jingyue" and "The Illustrated Book of Chinese Herbal Medicine" and let them take it home and decoct it.
In the village at the foot of the mountain, the prescription for ascariasis given out last time has cured many people, and they often come to her for prescriptions.
Unknowingly, she became the barefoot doctor in the area.
But in fact, she doesn’t have any medical skills at all. She’s so ashamed!
…
Sweet potatoes, after the potatoes were bottomed, Xu Yin turned over the soil and scattered a handful of winter cabbage seeds that are not afraid of cold winter, so that they can be eaten one after another during the Chinese New Year.
Waiting for spring bolting and harvesting, just in time for spring plowing.
Ginseng and other old herbs should be covered with a layer of thatch straw to prevent them from freezing.
After finishing all this work, she stayed at home and rushed to make new clothes for the New Year.
Two days before the Chinese New Year, Li Yuanjin picked up Erlang and returned home.
"Is it cold?"
Seeing that the two of them were cold when they entered the house, Xu Yin hurriedly took out the sweet potatoes that were simmering in the stove, covered their hands to keep them warm, and then went to the kitchen to cook a bowl of pickled vegetable, mushroom and chicken noodle soup for them.
I figured they would be back in the next two days, so I killed a chicken this morning and made a pot of soup stock.
It has chicken soup as the base and winter bamboo shoots and mushrooms for freshness. It's so delicious.
The two of them buried their heads in eating and snored.
Xu Yin gave Erlang a chicken leg and Li Yuanjin a chicken wing.
Li Yuanjin raised his eyebrows: "Madam..."
Xu Yin didn't wait for him to finish: "There is also a chicken leg for Third Sister to eat."
"..."
Li Yuanjin suddenly laughed and put the chicken wings in front of Xu Yin: "What I want to say is, madam, you eat it."
"..."
Li Yuanjin insisted on giving it to her, so Xu Yin took it and gnawed on the wing meat while asking how they were doing.
Erlang lived a good life at Mrs. Wen's house. She had food and clothing brought by her from time to time by the old coachman, so it was not a problem to have enough food and clothing.
But Li Yuanjin looked much worse: unshaven beard, sunken eye sockets, blisters at the corners of his mouth...
Xu Yin sighed inwardly and asked him: "Is the settlement not going well?"
"It went well." Li Yuanjin finished a bowl of noodles and sighed happily, "It's just that there were not enough manpower and it was too busy. It took more than a month of continuous work to complete the reinforcement of the river embankments in the two villages. The places with large gaps on the mountains,
Following Madam's advice, we planted trees and sewn sandbags as high as a wall. Madam, can these sandbags really block the flood?"
"The water level does not exceed the sandbags," Xu Yin said.
Li Yuanjin then decided to go back after the New Year and continue to gather soldiers from Xiu Mu to sew sandbags.
There were only two bedrooms in the house. Xu Yin and her third sister slept together, while Erlang slept in one room. Now that his eldest brother came back, he naturally shared a bed with him.
Li Yuanjin watched his daughter-in-law arrange herself clearly: "..."
When Erlang took his third sister out to meet some friends, and there was no third person in the room, he stretched out his long arm and surrounded Xu Yin: "Madam, we are already husband and wife."
The beard that had not been shaved for a long time rubbed against her neck, itching so much that Xu Yin almost begged for mercy:
"Hmm, so what?"
"We should share the same bed."
"..." Xu Yin choked for a moment, then spread her hands in embarrassment, "But there are only two beds in the house. If the two of us share one bed, the third sister will have to sleep with Erlang, but seven-year-old men and women have different seats..."
"I'll cut down the tree tomorrow and come back to build a small bed for Third Sister."
"..."
Early the next morning, Xu Yin thought she had gotten up early enough, but she saw Erlang coming out of the bedroom to look for his elder brother, rubbing his sleepy eyes:
"Sister-in-law, where is eldest brother?"
"Isn't he in the house?"
"I didn't see him when I woke up. Maybe he went to practice boxing. Sister-in-law, let me wash my face and warm up my book first. Master said that your memory is better when you wake up in the morning."
"..." Children who go to school are just different.
Xu Yin first boiled a pot of water, stocked up enough water for the family to drink that day, and then prepared to make breakfast.
There was a noise in the yard. She lifted the coarse curtain and went out to take a look. She was speechless and choked.
The bear man carried two thick bamboos back from the back mountain.
"Madam, I thought about it and decided to make a bamboo bed for Third Sister. It is lighter than a wooden bed."
Xu Yin: "..."
Are you coveting portability? Are you coveting speed?
He twitched the corner of his mouth, too lazy to pay attention to him.
Tomorrow is New Year's Eve.
This is your first New Year in this small world. You must have a good time no matter what.
She was busy in the kitchen for two days, setting the table for the next generation, and looking forward to the sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner.
"It's time to serve! Salted pork knuckles stewed with peanuts, starter chicken soup, three kinds of marinated meats, fish every year, pork belly with lees, and white-cut chicken!" Xu Yin announced the names of the dishes while serving the dishes, and finally fulfilled her promise, stewed white-cut chicken.
I specially set aside chicken legs and wings and made a fried chicken for Erlang and Sanmei, "How is it? Are you satisfied?"
"Satisfied! So satisfied! Sister-in-law, is this really our family's New Year's Eve dinner? Why do I feel like I'm dreaming!"
"Sister-in-law, there are so many delicious dishes!"
"I don't even recognize this, this, and this!"
“I don’t even know my second brother, let alone me!”
Xu Yin was amused by the two little ones: "Sit down and start eating! There is also a rice dumpling made with fermented rice in the pot. I'll get it out."
"I'll go get it!"
"I'll go get it!"
The two children volunteered.
Li Yuanjin took Xu Yin's hand and sat down unhurriedly, then took a long step, three steps at a time, squeezed into the kitchen, grabbed the soup spoon in front of the two younger ones, and glanced at the two of them.
: "I'll serve you!"
Erlang and Third Sister: "..." Big brother is so childish!