I didn't waste much time today. The sun hadn't set when I got home. As I approached the foot of the mountain, I met many villagers.
"Did you go up the mountain to dig something good?"
Zhao Dagui doesn't know how to hunt, and he holds a small hoe with dirt in his hand and a basket on his back. He is not much different from a woman who usually goes up the mountain to dig wild vegetables.
"It's nothing, just some wild vegetables. My wife broke her leg two days ago and can't go up the mountain. There's nothing to eat at home, so I had to go."
In order not to be seen, Zhao Huanyu asked him to dig some ordinary wild vegetables and cover it on the way.
Hearing what he said, the man stood on his toes and took a look into the basket, and found that it was indeed wild vegetables, so he stopped thinking.
"Since it fell, you really need to take good care of it and don't suffer any illness."
After saying such an insignificant sentence, they left each other. In order to avoid more questions, the uncle and nephew got wind under their feet and quickly returned home.
As the eldest child in the family, Tieshan's grandmother was old and her mother's legs and feet were inconvenient, so she took Tie Gang and the two of them to cook in the kitchen. While they were lighting a fire, they saw his father and sister Xiaoyu coming back.
"Grandma, mother, father and sister Xiaoyu are back!"
Tieshan shouted inside, no longer in a hurry to light a fire, and hurried out to take a look.
Yuanshi and Gaoshi also came out, and when they saw Zhao Dagui's basket was full, the smiles in their eyes almost overflowed.
Zhao Dagui took out the wild vegetables covering it and displayed the polygonum multiflorum and medicinal materials in the basket in front of everyone.
"So many!"
Everyone exclaimed, as if they didn't expect that such a big backpack could be filled.
"We need to clean these things first. In order not to let anyone know, we have to have Uncle Lao go to the river to fetch water for use."
Zhao Huanyu spoke very politely, and Zhao Dagui agreed: "Okay, I'll go after dinner later and pick up more when it gets dark."
"I am coming too!"
Tieshan spoke next. His father had to go fetch water after a tiring day, and he wanted to help share some of the burden.
Zhao Dagui nodded: "Okay!"
Mrs. Yuan touched her eldest son's head happily and felt that his eldest son was really sensible.
After dinner, everyone except Tieshu, who had just walked, joined in the process of cleaning the medicinal materials. As for the children's study, they waited until the moon came up to light the oil lamp and studied for a while.
Yuanshi and Gaoshi moved the medicinal materials into the house and sat not far from where several children were reading. Then they cut Polygonum multiflorum into slices under the dim light and gave them to Zhao Huanyu and Zhao Dagui to place the slices on a sieve to dry.
The panax notoginseng I found earlier has been almost dried, and when the polygonum multiflorum and other things are processed, I will sell them together.
"Uncle, the processing process of Polygonum multiflorum is a bit complicated. It would be better to steam it with black beans. Do you have black beans at home?"
Zhao Dagui did not expect this, so he said honestly: "No, how much do you need? I will go to the town to buy some tomorrow."
"It's okay, I'll just go. I happen to have other things to do."
Zhao Huanyu smiled. She didn't know if Little Fatty Dun'er was back. She had to hand over the plan and design draft to him.
"good."
Zhao Dagui agreed and then entered the house.
After a while, he came out again with a handful of copper coins in his hand.
"If you take these, you should be able to buy a lot."
In this day and age, beans are not very expensive and are still affordable.
Zhao Huanyu instinctively wanted to return the money to him, but she heard him say: "Xiaoyu, take it, my uncle has no ability, and he can't bring out much. The family has no money now, but he will have it if he sells these medicinal materials.
"
He smiled naively, with a trace of embarrassment on his face, but his smile was sincere.
Zhao Huanyu accepted the money, which was only a few dozen cents. He could earn more in the future!
The next day Zhao Huanyu went out with Xiao Tiedou. When they met Er Mao waiting at the entrance of the village, the three of them walked together.
On the way, the two children ran around and made noise, talking about interesting things in the school, and showing off to Zhao Huanyu that their husband had praised them recently, etc. Soon they arrived at the county seat.
The two little ones were already very familiar with the way to the school. Zhao Huanyu did not go to see them off, but went directly to Zuixian Tower.
"Miss Zhao, you're here so early!"
The boy Xu Yuan saw her and came forward to greet her with a smile.
Zhao Huanyu asked: "Is your boss back?"
"I'm back, but it's still a bit early now. My boss may not be up yet."
Yes, it's just dawn now, so it's normal that the young master is still sleeping.
"Okay, I'll go shopping and write something first, and I'll come back later. I'd like to ask your boss to stop running around!"
After saying that, she turned around and left. Xu Yuan stood there speechless. Who is he? How dare he care about his boss's comings and goings?
This Miss Zhao seems to have overestimated him!
Zhao Huanyu went to the food store, where there were all kinds of beans. Zhao Huanyu couldn't help but lick the corners of her mouth, feeling greedy.
Mung beans can be cooked into mung bean soup to relieve the heat; soybeans can be made into tofu and ground into soy milk; red beans can be made into bean paste and bean paste buns...
With this thought, she bought a small bag of everything.
As soon as she paid the money and came out of the grain store, she saw Xu Yuan coming to see her.
"Miss Zhao, our boss wants you to come over!"
Zhao Huanyu nodded, feeling that the little chubby Dun'er was pretty good, so he got up after a while.
She followed Xu Yuan into the Zuixian Tower, and then went to Duan Kuo's exclusive box.
What she didn't notice was that when she stepped into Zuixian Tower, a person behind her happened to see her.
Li Qingshan squinted his eyes and looked at the figure from behind. He was sure that it was Zhao Huanyu. He immediately felt that it was coming to life. Could a person who could enter and exit Zuixian Tower at will be the kind of person without money?
That little girl played tricks on him before, he must teach her a lesson today!
A thought flashed through his mind, and he curled up his lips. He must get this little bitch's money!
Duan Kuo was eating breakfast when Zhao Huanyu arrived. When he saw her, he pointed to the bowl opposite and said in a familiar voice, "Have you eaten? I've prepared a bowl for you."
Zhao Huanyu took a look and saw that it was white fungus and lotus seed porridge. Although it looked very light, it was inexplicably very appetizing.
My uncle's family doesn't have breakfast in the morning, and only eats two meals a day. Since I was traveling with Xiao Tiedou and others along the way, I couldn't turn on the small stove, so I kept enduring it, and I was already hungry by now.
She put down her backpack and sat down to eat very rudely. The bowl was really small and was gone in a few mouthfuls. She raised her head and looked at Wu Gui beside Duan Kuo: "How about another bowl?"
Wu Gui was speechless. He was the young master's personal servant. How could he listen to a little girl?
But thinking that his young master might have a crush on this little girl and that this little girl might become his mistress in the future, he went to the kitchen to serve the pot with tears in his eyes.
Seeing that Wu Gui had even brought the pot, Zhao Huanyu called the boy up and drank three more bowls in a row before burping and putting down the bowl and chopsticks.
Duan Kuo laughed loudly and laughed at her without any concealment: "Black girl, you look like you have been hungry for eight lifetimes without eating!"
Zhao Huanyu rolled her eyes: "Brother, don't look at how big this bowl is! And it's all soup. It will be gone when you go to the toilet!"
"puff--"
Wu Gui, who was standing next to him, couldn't help laughing...