Brothers Jiang Sanlang and Li Dayong and Li Eryong quickly cut enough 500 pepper vines and gave them to Chen Changsheng and others.
He kindly gave them ten more coins, and then picked up the silver.
He turned around and saw that his little girl had been watching, and asked with a smile: "Have you finished picking Pingjiang?"
"Hmm." Yingbao looked at the Yidong Pepper Garden and saw that the vines were much thinner. She planned to go back and water them with Pupil Spring to replenish them. "Dad, who are there who want to buy pepper seedlings?"
Jiang Sanlao thought for a moment and said, "That's a lot. The village chiefs from several surrounding villages have come to make reservations, so maybe we don't have enough pepper vines."
No matter what, you can't cut off your pepper vines, so you can just let those people line up and wait for new vines to grow.
Yingbao nodded and turned around.
Dad and the others always cut the vines in time. They only cut at least two small roots from each pepper plant, so it does not affect the original flowering of their own pepper plants.
Fortunately, peppers, like kudzu, are perennial vines that can grow for many years, so she doesn't worry about replanting next year.
Question: How should I take out the pepper vine seedlings and give them to my dad to sell?
She is short of money. Not only is she short of money, but her parents are also short of money.
During that time, my family bought a house in the county and a shop. They renovated it and made furniture, shelves and counters. They bought a lot of household items and basically spent all their savings.
Even though my parents later sold a batch of golden ears, they were all thrown into the county's houses.
My own and my cousin's dividends were also spent in the shop one after another.
Because the thatched huts at the back of the shop needed to be renovated, she wanted to change the low, damp thatched huts into several large brick and tiled huts to facilitate living and storage.
So she used her monthly dividends to ask her cousin to help her buy bricks and tiles to stack in the yard, and she would start construction when she had enough materials.
After coming out of the Pepper Garden, I saw several children doing horse walking at the martial arts training ground not far away.
But his younger brother Jiang Wu was already practicing with Master Zhang at the plum blossom pile.
Yingbao stood not far away with her two puppies and watched.
Zhang Meng punched very quickly, but Jiang Wu was not slow to dodge it. He kicked Zhang Meng very coldly, but because his calf was short, it didn't hurt at all.
Yingbao watched for a while and then looked at the children in the field.
There is a five-year-old Chen Bozhong, and there are a few strange-looking babies, probably children from neighboring villages.
Hu Zi was not here, so he wanted to study in school and become literate so that he would have time to practice martial arts in the early afternoon.
My younger brother practiced martial arts in the afternoon and went to school in the afternoon. The two brothers were staggered, so Master Zhang Meng taught one at a time.
"Sister!" Jiang Wu and Master Zhang Meng finished practicing together and jumped to the east to run towards their sister.
"Let's practice together." The little baby made an attack gesture towards her sister.
"Okay!" Yingbao took the satchel and threw it to Dahuang and Xiaohei for guarding. She and her brother were in the wrong lap.
Taking advantage of her height advantage of being more than one year older than her brother, coupled with her lifetime experience in dancing, her speed and reaction ability were both equally matched with Jiang Wu's, and she had the upper hand.
But after all, he had never practiced two-person fighting, and he was knocked down by his younger brother Yidongzi at first.
"Not bad, not bad!" Master Zhang Meng came over and asked with a smile, "Do you want to learn with me?"
Yingbao nodded: "I think, since he really wants to go to the medicine hall, he can come to learn from time to time."
Zhang Meng: "As a woman, I practice martial arts to protect myself. I can learn more about the enemy's moves. I heard Jiang Wu say that I practice basic skills every day?"
"Um."
"Then he will teach me some moves to deal with the enemy's legs." Zhang Meng pulled Jiang Wu over and pointed at him: "Women are weak, but I can pinpoint the enemy's legs and defeat them with one blow."
He said while gesticulating with Jiang Wu, "The enemy's vulnerable parts include the head, throat, chest, abdomen, ribs, and crotch. If any part of the enemy's body is hit, the enemy's legs will temporarily lose the ability to move."
As he spoke, Xuxu began punching, kicking, slashing, kneeling, and elbowing Jiang Wu.
Then he waved towards Ying Bao, "I'll try practicing with Jiang Wu."
However, Ying Bao and her younger brother practiced each move at the martial arts field until noon, until Chu Chu called for dinner.
Several children from neighboring villages brought food to Master Zhang Meng's place at noon due to the long journey, and Chu Chu helped cook the meals on weekdays.
Occasionally Jiang Wu dines here, but when his sister comes back tomorrow and Aniang cooks delicious food at home, he and his sister will naturally not leave anything behind for dinner.
"Ying Bao, Liu Dong, try the fried loach he made." Chu Chu said to persuade Liu Dong.
Yingbao looked at Chu Chu, then at Zhang Meng, and shook her head: "No, he goes home to eat."
Seeing that Ying Bao really refused to keep anything, Chu Chu went to pick two melon leaves and wrapped some fried loach and stuffed them for Ying Bao and Jiang Wu. "It was fried with lard. It's stale."
She had gone to pick peppers with Dani and Erni earlier, and used a bamboo basket to catch a lot of loaches in a small mud pit by the river. When they came back, they gave some to Chun Niang.
Yingbao was not polite, took it and ate it before going home.
Looking back at Chu Chu again, I saw that she and Zhang Meng were eating on opposite sides of the table. From time to time, she would pick up a piece of food with chopsticks and put it in Zhang Meng's bowl, and Zhang Meng would accept it easily.
There were several children walking around, and the scene looked like a family.
The sixteen-year-old girl is bright and beautiful, and seems to be a perfect match for Zhang Meng at the moment.
But Zhang, who shaved off all the stubble on his face, turned out to be surprisingly young. He looked to be in his mid-twenties, with a handsome appearance and temperament, so he was told that he was missing several fingers on his right leg.
Yingbao thought about it all the way back home.
Chun Niang had already prepared the meal and was about to go out to call her children back. When she saw the two of them coming in, she brought the meal and placed it on the east side of the grape shelf in the yard to invite them to eat.
Tomorrow I will make braised fish, fried leeks with shrimps, fried loach, winter melon soup, a few boiled and cut salted eggs, and a bowl of red rice.
Yingbao and her younger brother washed their legs and faces, walked to the small dining table, and took the dishes and chopsticks from their mother-in-law.
"After dinner, he asked for some soybeans to be soaked. In the morning, he would cook the beans and dry them in sauce."
While eating, Chun Niang said to her husband: "I will go to Zhenzai when I have time to buy more salt. I will come back and ask him to mix it with the sauce."
Jiang Sanlang: "Didn't you buy some salt?"
"How can that little salt be enough? If he wants to dry it more, he can eat it until next spring."
"Oh, he will go in the afternoon."
After the meal, Chun Niang packed up the dishes and washed them, while Ying Bao wiped the table with a rag and fed the two puppies some rice soaked in winter melon soup.
Chun Niang washed the pots and bowls and sorted out the mud and bad beans from the soybeans in the east of the grape rack.
Yingbao also moved a stool and picked it up together, listening to her mumbling while picking it up.
"He was going back to the county town to see Xiaojie. He asked me why I didn't go to see him."
"Then he goes back and tells Grandpa Li to adjust the bathing time to the first or fifteenth day of the lunar month, and then go to the county seat with us," Ying Bao said.
Chun Niang nodded: "Okay, let's go together on the first day of the lunar month."
In the evening, Yingbao took the two dogs alone to the pepper courtyard to water the water, and then went to the martial arts training ground to practice fighting skills with Jiang Jie.
With Master Zhang Meng beside her, she continued to guide her, and she made rapid progress.
