Chapter 291 Vicious Female Supporting Escapes to Farm (41)

  The three He family brothers came to deliver the herbal medicine for the last time a few years ago. They said that it was snowing in the mountains, and it was difficult to walk due to the heavy snow.

  Xu Yin gave them the herbs from this trip together with the money for the pepper saplings last time.

  The three brothers saw that there were as many as thirty taels, and declined with red faces:

   "There are too many! We didn't dig a few pepper saplings at all."

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

   "No matter what, I have to thank you all! You deserve the money. You have worked so hard for me!"

   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 mountain mushrooms.

  Xu Yin was pleasantly surprised to see Niuhuang.

   This natural bezoar will be a rare item in future generations.

  Of course you can’t take it for nothing, but if you give them money, they are determined not to accept it.

   "The silver taels that benefactor gave us are more than enough to buy a cow, not to mention this ugly lump."

   Seeing that they were determined not to accept it, Xu Yin packed two catties of salt, two catties of soil rock sugar, and two bolts of cotton cloth as gifts in return.

  The three brothers refused and had no choice but to accept.

   On the way home, I couldn't help but feel lucky that they came here differently from other mountain farmers, otherwise they would make other people jealous.

   Thirty taels!

  In previous years, when they came to celebrate the New Year, they would be happy if they could save a couple of taels.

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

   "Brother, is this candy worth a lot?"

   "The cloth is also worth a lot of money."

   "Grandfather is so kind to our family!"

   "Benefactor is kind-hearted and doesn't want to take advantage of others, but we can't push further. In the spring of next year, we will gather more herbs for Engong."

"Uh-huh!"

  Xu Yin put the bezoar and half of the herbs sent by the three brothers into the system warehouse, and kept the rest at home.

  Occasionally, when everyone comes to her with a headache, she will follow the "Jingyue Complete Book" and "Chinese Herbal Medicine Illustrated Book" to prescribe the right medicine and let them take it home and decoct it.

  In the village at the foot of the mountain, many people have been cured by the ascariasis prescription given last time, and they often come to her for prescriptions.

  Unknowingly, she became a barefoot doctor in the surrounding area.

  In fact, she has no medical skills at all. Ashamed ashamed!

  …

  After the sweet potatoes and potatoes were removed, Xu Yin turned over the soil and sprinkled a handful of winter cabbage seeds, which are not afraid of the cold winter, so that they can be eaten one after another during the Chinese New Year.

  Wait for spring bolting and harvesting, just in time for spring plowing.

  Ginseng and other long-year herbal medicines should be covered with a layer of thatch straw to prevent freezing.

  After finishing all this work, she stayed at home and rushed to make new clothes for the New Year for big and small.

   Two days before the Chinese New Year, Li Yuanjin picked up Erlang and returned home.

   "Is it cold?"

  Xu Yin saw that the two of them were cold when they entered the room, so she hurriedly tong out the sweet potatoes that were simmering in the stove, covered their hands to keep warm, and went to the kitchen to cook a bowl of chicken noodle soup with pickled vegetables and mushrooms for them.

   Counting that they should be back in the next two days, they killed a chicken this morning and drank a pot of soup.

  Chicken soup as the base, and winter bamboo shoots and mushrooms to enhance the freshness, not to mention how delicious it is.

  The two buried their heads in their mouths and ate.

  Xu Yin picked up a chicken leg for Erlang and a chicken wing for Li Yuanjin.

  Li Yuanjin raised an eyebrow: "My lady..."

  Xu Yin didn't wait for him to finish: "There is another chicken leg for Sanmei to eat."

   "..."

  Li Yuanjin laughed suddenly, and put the chicken wings in front of Xu Yin: "What I want to say is, eat it, lady."

   "..."

   Li Yuanjin insisted on giving it to her, so Xu Yin took it, and asked about the recent situation of the two of them while gnawing on the wing meat.

  Erlang's life at Master Wen's house is still good. With the food and clothes she entrusts the old coachman to bring from time to time, it is not a problem to eat and wear warmth.

   But Li Yuanjin looked much worse: unshaven, sunken eye sockets, burning blisters at the corners of his mouth...

  Xu Yin sighed in her heart, and asked him: "Is the reclamation not going well?"

"Successful." Li Yuanjin sighed comfortably after eating a bowl of noodles, "It's just that there are not enough people to keep busy. It took more than a month to complete the reinforcement of the embankments of the two villages. The places with large gaps on the mountain, According to my wife, I planted trees. The sandbags are also sewn to the height of a wall. My lady, can these sandbags really block the flood?"

   "The water level should not exceed the sandbag." Xu Yin said.

  Li Yuanjin then decided to go back after the Chinese New Year and continue to summon Huumu soldiers to sew sandbags.

   There are only two bedrooms in the house, Xu Yin sleeps with her third sister, and Erlang has one. Now that his elder brother came back, he would naturally share a bed with him.

  Li Yuanjin looked at his daughter-in-law who arranged herself clearly: "..."

  While Erlang took the third sister out to meet his friends, and there was no third person in the room, he stretched out his long arms and circled Xu Yin: "Lady, we are already husband and wife."

  The beard that hadn't been shaved for a long time rubbed against her neck, itching so much that Xu Yin almost begged for mercy:

   "Hmm, so?"

   "Should share the same bed."

   "..." Xu Yin choked for a moment, and then spread her hands in embarrassment, "But there are only two beds in the house. If we share one, the third sister can only 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 the third sister."

   "..."

  Early the next morning, Xu Yin thought she woke up early enough, but saw Erlang come out of the bedroom rubbing his sleepy eyes to look for his elder brother:

   "Sister-in-law, where's brother?"

   "Is he not in the house?"

   "I didn't see him when I woke up. Maybe I went to practice boxing. Sister-in-law, I'll wash my face and read the book first. The master said that the memory is good when you get up in the morning."

  “…” Children who go to school are different.

  Xu Yin boiled a pot of boiling water first, stocked up enough water for the family to drink that day, and then prepared to make breakfast.

   There was a sound in the yard, she lifted the coarse curtain and went out to have a look, speechless.

  Bear man came back from the back mountain with two thick bamboos on his back.

   "My lady, I thought about it and made a bamboo bed for Third Sister. It's lighter than a wooden bed."

  Xu Yin: "..."

   Are you greedy for lightness? You are greedy for speed!

   The corners of his mouth twitched, too lazy to talk to him.

  Tomorrow is New Year's Eve.

   It's the first big year in this small world, so let's have a good time.

  She was busy in the kitchen for two days, setting up a table for the next generation's regular and extremely sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner.

"Let's serve! Stewed peanuts with salty hoof, chicken soup with head dish, three kinds of marinated meat, fish every year, pork belly with distiller's grains, and white-cut chicken!" Xu Yin reported the name of the dish while serving the dishes, and finally fulfilled her promise, stewed white-cut chicken At that time, I specially set aside chicken legs and wings, and made 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 am I so dreamy!"

   "Sister-in-law, there are so many delicious dishes!"

   "I don't know this, this, and this!"

   "Second brother doesn't even know each other, let alone me!"

  Xu Yin was amused by the two children: "Sit down and eat! There is also a rice ball in the pot, I will serve it."

   "I'm going to serve!"

   "I'm going to serve!"

  The two young ones volunteered.

Li Yuanjin led Xu Yin to sit down unhurriedly, then took a long-legged step, squeezed into the kitchen in three steps at a time, grabbed the spoon before the two little ones, and glanced at the two of them. : "I come to Sheng!"

  Erlang and Third Sister: "..." Big brother is so childish!

  (end of this chapter)