"Oh, I wanted to pick more when I came back, but I didn't expect that they were all plucked by others in a short time."
Aunt Qian looked at the bare toon tree and beat her chest.
Mrs. Wu was also very sorry: "It seems that we can't eat toon buds this year."
"Yes, I don't know who is so wicked that he didn't leave a single one." Aunt Qian walked around the tree and angrily asked several people to go home.
Chang'an saw that her aunt and Aunt Qian looked so sorry, and she was a little curious about how delicious the toon buds were.
She came up to the toon tree and smelled it carefully, and she smelled a strange smell.
She quickly stepped back and covered her nose with her little hand.
It doesn't smell at all, but why is it called toon?
Goudan also came over to smell it, wrinkled his nose and said, "It smells bad."
"You little kid, you don't know shit!" Mrs. Qian poked her son's forehead: "Wait for me to find a handful and mix it with sesame oil at home, and I'll see if you will eat it."
Goudan said stubbornly: "No!" "
Well, you keep your word, whoever eats it will be a little turtle." Mrs. Qian smiled.
Goudan laughed loudly: "Mother, you are such a coward!"
Qian:...
"You little brat! How dare you mess with your mother?" She stretched out her hand to slap her son.
Goudan ran away with a big laugh, and Chang'an and Huahua ran after him.
The two children returned home first, pushed open the wooden door, and Chang'an hurried to the bucket to fetch water to wash her hands.
She was exhausted this morning, not only physically, but also mentally.
In fact, after identifying wild flowers and weeds for a whole morning, little Chang'an only remembered the names of the weeds, and was confused about the effects and had no idea what they meant.
But even so, she was still happy, because some weeds and vegetables were not even known to her aunt and Aunt Qian, but she knew them.
After washing her hands and face and drinking some water, Chang'an climbed onto the kang and went to sleep.
Wu also returned home, and seeing that her little niece was asleep, she went to clean up the wild vegetables.
It seemed that there was a large basket of wild vegetables, but there was not much left after blanching them in water. It was estimated that it would only be enough for the family to eat for two days.
After cleaning up the wild vegetables, Wu sat down to continue peeling the seeds of the wood jellyfish.
After peeling a pot, she put the seeds of the wood jellyfish in a pot and scalded them, then took them out to cool, and then rubbed them vigorously with linen cloth to remove the scattered flesh and membrane skin on the surface. The
polished wood jellyfish were black and shiny, with a warm luster, which was very beautiful.
She picked out the plump and round black beads of the same size, and just waited for the holes to be punched before they could be strung on the beads.
Unknowingly, it was already afternoon. Seeing that the sun was setting, Wu quickly put down her work and went to the kitchen to cook.
At this time, Chang'an was listening to the little goldfish's lecture in his dream:
[You performed well today and learned a lot of plants. I have compiled those plants in a booklet. You can take it and observe it slowly. Make sure to recognize all the words on it. ]
A book flew to Chang'an, and the book opened automatically. The flowers and plants on each page were lifelike and swayed in the wind, just like real ones.
These flowers and plants were just learned in the morning, and Chang'an recognized them at a glance.
But Changan didn't recognize any of the densely packed words at the bottom of the picture.
"Do I have to recognize all these words?" Changan scratched his head.
[Of course.] The goldfish, who had transformed into a little man, sat on a reef, brushed his long hair, and his tail swayed gently in the water.
When the little doll heard this, she hurriedly shook her head: "I don't recognize them."
There were so many words that she felt dizzy just looking at them, and she couldn't recognize them. The little goldfish sighed and said slowly: [I didn't ask you to recognize all the characters in one day, just recognize a few characters every day.]
Chang'an still shook her head.
She didn't want to recognize characters at all, nor did she want to study, because recognizing characters was really difficult, so she should learn something else.
[Don't you want to save your daddy?] Seeing that the little kid backed out again, the little goldfish had to use its trump card: [Don't you want to eat meat every day?]
These are the little kid's wishes.
Chang'an was stunned.
Yes, how could she forget to save her daddy?
"Can I save my daddy if I recognize a lot of characters?" Little Chang'an looked at the little goldfish in the pond with hope.
The little goldfish patted its tail and said ambiguously: [Sincerity can move mountains and open rocks. If you work hard, you will get what you want one day.]
Seeing that the little kid was ignorant, the little goldfish continued: [The more you learn, the more luck you will have, and your daddy's fate will change because of your luck.
Chang'an was still confused, but he probably knew that the little goldfish wanted him to learn a lot of skills so that he could save his father.
"Okay." Chang'an agreed reluctantly and began to recognize words. The
book is very magical. As long as you poke the words, the words will automatically speak.
Chang'an poked several times in a row, and finally only remembered five words. If
these five words are put together, he can recognize them, but if they are staggered or separated, he can't recognize them.
Fortunately, the little goldfish didn't care, and finally rewarded the little baby with a small green bead and let her eat it on the spot.
The small bead is very sweet, like maltose, and Chang'an felt a little unsatisfied after eating it.
When I woke up from the dream, it was almost dark outside.
Song Sanshun had returned and was cooking in the kitchen with Wu.
"Uncle." Chang'an ran over, threw himself on the stove and asked his uncle to hug him.
Song Sanshun put a handful of grass into the stove, held his niece on his lap and continued to talk to his wife: "That thing was exchanged for 26 taels of silver. I spent one tael to buy some rice and flour for my father-in-law and mother-in-law to take back."
This time he asked his father-in-law and mother-in-law to go with him. After exchanging the gold, he bought some food and sent it to his father-in-law's house.
After that, he gave the silver money to his father-in-law for temporary safekeeping. He went to Tieniu Town again and went around the famous gambling house in the town. He quietly told the story of Song Jizu's family buying good land and revealed the address of Song Jizu's uncle and father-in-law's home.
There are all kinds of people there, and I believe someone will go to Zhao's family to make relatives soon.
But it's not good to let his wife know about this, lest she worry about this and that.
"So much money was exchanged?" Wu was surprised. She felt like she was dreaming that her family suddenly had more than 20 taels.
Song Sanshun smiled. He was also in a daze at the time. It was the first time he got so much money when he was in his twenties.
Wu smiled and asked while making pancakes: "How is Chonglou's health?"
"I'm much better now, but I'm still a little weak and can't do heavy work." That's why he decided to buy some fine grains for his brother-in-law to make him better soon. His
father-in-law and mother-in-law are both kind people who can endure hardships. They never take the initiative to trouble their son-in-law. Even when the family is penniless, they never ask their son-in-law for a penny. If it weren't for his brother-in-law's illness, his family wouldn't be so poor.
Wu was relieved when she heard this. She finished making pancakes, covered the pot and asked: "What are you going to do with the remaining money?"
She was worried about where to bury it. What if a thief broke into the house?
She had to go out to work every day, either picking firewood or digging wild vegetables for farm work, and she also had to go to the pond outside the village to wash clothes. How could she feel at ease with so much money hidden at home?
Song Sanshun thought about it and said, "I want to buy a piece of land in the south of the village to build a house, and then buy the wasteland next to the wild bamboo forest."
It was just on the edge of the village. Although it was remote, it was far away from his father's family.
He was sure that as long as Song Jizu's money was swindled away, his father would definitely chase his family out of the old house to support Song Jizu.
Rather than fighting with his father for this broken house, it would be better to sell it first. (End of this chapter)