Chapter 291 The vicious female partner escapes to farm (41)

The three brothers from 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, they declined with a blushing face:

“This is too much! We haven’t even dug up a few pepper saplings.”

Of course Xu Yin knew, but without them, the tall pepper trees in the hills behind the military camp would not have had the chance to be transplanted to her family’s medicine field.

"No matter what, I want to thank you! You deserve this money. You've worked hard for me to say a word!"

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 to see the bezoar.

This natural bezoar will be a rare thing in 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 the offer 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 were separated from other mountain farmers, otherwise they would have made other people jealous.

 Thirty taels!

　　In previous years, during the Chinese New Year, they would be very happy if they could save just three taels.

This year I took thirty taels home, not including so many return gifts.

“Brother, is this candy 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.

 Everyone would come to her occasionally with a headache or fever, and she would follow the "Complete Book of Jingyue" and "Illustrated Book of Chinese Herbal Medicine" to prescribe the right medicine for them, and let them take it home and decoct it.

In the villages 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.

 In fact, she doesn’t have any medical skills at all. Ashamed!

 …

 After the sweet potatoes and potatoes were cooked, Xu Yin turned over the soil and scattered a handful of winter cabbage seeds that were not afraid of the cold winter. They would be able to eat them one after another during the Chinese New Year.

Waiting for spring bolting and harvesting, it will be 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 these tasks, she stayed at home and rushed to make new clothes for the New Year.

 With two days left 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 quickly took out the sweet potatoes that were simmering in the stove and covered their hands to keep them warm. Then she went to the kitchen to cook a bowl of pickled vegetable, mushroom and chicken noodle soup for the two of them.

I thought they would be back in the next two days. This morning I killed a chicken and made a pot of soup.

 Chicken soup base, winter bamboo shoots and mushrooms add freshness, it’s so delicious.

The two of them buried their heads in eating and snored.

Xu Yin gave Erlang a chicken leg and gave Li Yuanjin a chicken wing.

Li Yuanjin raised her 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."

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　leglegleg Since Li Yuanjin insisted on giving it to her, Xu Yin took it and gnawed on the wing meat while asking how they were doing.

Erlang is living well at Mrs. Wen's house. She has food and clothing that she asks the old coachman to bring from time to time, so it is not a problem to be fed and clothed.

Li Yuanjin, on the other hand, looks 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 are not enough manpower and it's too busy. It took more than a month to complete the reinforcement of the river embankments in the two villages. There are large gaps in the mountains. Following Madam's advice, we planted trees. The sandbags were sewn together as high as a wall. Madam, can these sandbags really block the flood?"

“The water level should 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 are only two bedrooms in the house. Xu Yin and her third sister sleep there, while Erlang sleeps in one room. Now that his eldest brother is back, he will naturally share a bed with him.

Li Yuanjin looked at his wife’s arrangements for herself: “…”

While Erlang and his third sister went out to meet friends, 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, making Xu Yin almost beg for mercy:

 “Hmm, so what?”

 “We should sleep in the same bed together.”

“…” Xu Yin choked for a moment, and 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 will cut down the tree tomorrow and come back to build a small bed for my 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 it is better to wake up in the morning and remember better."

　　　…”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 for the 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 came back from the back mountain carrying two thick bamboos.

"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 just trying to be easy? Are you greedy for speed?

　　Twitching the corners of his mouth, he was too lazy to pay attention to him.

 Tomorrow is New Year’s Eve.

 This is the 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, preparing a table for the New Year's Eve dinner, which was quite decent and sumptuous for the time being.

"It's time to serve! Salted ham and pork belly stewed with peanuts, starter chicken soup, braised three-way combination, fish every year, pork belly with fermented 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 At that time, he 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 serve it!”

 “I’ll serve it!”

 The two primary schools volunteered.

Li Yuanjin leisurely led Xu Yin to sit down, then took a step forward with her long legs, squeezed into the kitchen with three steps and two steps at a time, grabbed the spoon before the two little ones, and glanced at the two of them. : "I'll do it!"

 Erlang and Sanmei: “…” Big brother is so childish!

 (End of this chapter)