After Dr. Yang left, Tian Jing understood what Li's mother meant, "Mother-in-law, my health is very good. It's medicine that's three parts poison, and I won't drink it."
"Or will it fail?" Mother Li lowered her voice, "But two yuan a pair..."
"I also drank herbal tea. Let Li Min drink it by herself."
Li Min: "..." Can she say that whoever comes up with this idea will get the credit? But looking at her sister-in-law's smiling face, she didn't dare.
Li Zhengguo came back with seven packets of medicine, "From now on, I just need to boil it every day without drinking it, and just add water to boil it the next day. One pack will last for three days."
"But these are all money?" Mother Li felt distressed. She couldn't help it, so she might as well come and drink.
"Doctor Yang didn't take the money this time. They were all worthless herbs. In order to have a strong flavor, they also added Coptis chinensis."
Coptis? Mother Li didn't dare to drink it anymore, "Okay, I will make the medicine on time."
Li Zhengguo took Chen Suozhu with him to continue making furniture.
Tian Jing taught Li Min to knit a sweater, scolding him while teaching him, "You're so stupid, you pick it from bottom to top, not from top to bottom."
Chen Suozhu looked at Li Zhengguo. Seeing that Li Zhengguo didn't respond, he didn't dare to say anything, "Brother Li, I, my grandfather agreed."
"Let's talk about it some time later. It's not the right time now."
What Li Zhengguo didn't say was that his sister didn't seem to be interested in getting married. The news of his sister's break-up had not passed yet, so we would talk about it next year.
Chen Suozhu lowered his head and continued working. He would not give up.
Sister-in-law Niu came over with a basket, said hello to Li Zhengguo and Chen Suozhu, then stood outside the yard and called people, "Tian Jing, Tian Jing."
"Hey, here we come."
Tian Jing opened the courtyard door and saw Mrs. Niu carrying a bamboo basket covered with a piece of coarse cloth. She hurriedly invited Mrs. Niu into the courtyard, "Come in, have you changed the eggs for me?"
"Yes, I got it the day before yesterday. You guys came back a little late. Yesterday, your house was cutting the yard again. Didn't I postpone it until today?"
Sister-in-law Niu said as she and Tian Jing entered the main room. When she stretched her head, she could see Li Min on the kang, "Oh, Li Min, are you knitting a sweater?"
"Yes." Li Min raised her chin proudly, "My sister-in-law came back from buying wool, and it was so boring for me to sit on the kang with both sides."
"Let me see."
Aunt Niu put the basket on the table in the main room and went straight into the east room. She was even more surprised when she saw Mother Li sitting by the kang twisting twine, "Aunt Li, I see you are in much better spirits."
"What's a lot better? It's all better. Didn't you see me twisting the twine to make shoes? By the way, you're here just in time. Lend me some of the cloth shell boards you made. I'll
I’m anxious to make shoes for Tian Jing.”
Sister-in-law Niu looked at Tian Jing behind her, who was still wearing the same clothes and shoes, "Okay, I'll deliver them to you in the afternoon. When do you plan to build cloth shell boards? Do you want me to help?"
"Just this afternoon, you come and help me make the paste. The paste you make is the best. By the way, lend me the scissors for a few days."
"Okay." Sister-in-law Niu made an agreement with Mother Li and watched Li Min knitting a sweater. "It doesn't look difficult. Give it a try."
Seeing her sister-in-law nodding, Li Min handed the up and down needles she had just knitted a few times to Sister-in-law Niu. Sister-in-law Niu held the triangular yarn and needle and called Tian Jing, "Tian Jing, come and teach me."
Tian Jing just said it once, and Mrs. Niu got started quickly, "This up and down stitch is too simple, but the beginning you mentioned is still very knowledgeable. I am tall, short, fat and thin. It is really difficult to determine the number of stitches."
"Yes, if you knit it too fat, you waste the wool, and if you knit it too thin, you can't wear it. The upper and lower stitches have knitted about two inches, so you should draw a fat and thin mark on the waist."
Li Min: "..." Why doesn't her sister-in-law stop yelling?
After knitting for a while, Sister Niu returned the needle and thread to Li Min, and Wada Jing went to count eggs.
"Tian Jing, they all want rice. Even if they only have a few handfuls, they can make some rice porridge for the baby."
"Is broken rice okay? There's a lot of sand. I'm very busy now and don't have time to pick it up."
"Okay, as long as it's rice."
There are sixty eggs in the basket.
Eggs cost 6 cents each, rice at the grain station cost 13.40 per pound, and exchanging food stamps cost more than 10 cents per pound, but she bought it on the black market for 50 cents per pound.
"Sister-in-law Niu, to be honest, I bought it on the black market for fifty cents a pound. If I hadn't traveled a long way and wanted to take care of the people in the village, I wouldn't have exchanged grain for eggs in the village."
"Let's see, if six eggs are exchanged for one pound, if there is sand in the rice, I will pay some compensation. If I exchange it in the future, it won't be at this price."
"Of course, of course, I can't ask you to advance the money. This time there is rice and sand. If you pay this price, it is already a bargain for them."
I gave more than ten kilograms of broken rice to Mrs. Niu and asked her to find a scale to weigh it. The rest was brought back in the afternoon, along with some vegetable seeds.
Li Zhengguo completed the four-story wooden frame box.
Tian Jing and Li Zhengguo sifted the soil, and then put the wooden box and the soil together in the sun to dry.
When Mrs. Niu came over with leftover rice in the afternoon, she saw this wooden frame box and was very surprised. "This saves a lot of space, and it won't get in the way if it is placed in a corner of the kitchen."
"That's what I think."
"Tian Jing, you have all kinds of strange ideas in your mind." Sister-in-law Niu looked at Tian Jing with admiration, "Tomorrow, I will call my family to ask Brother Zhengguo how he did it."
"Okay." Tian Jing agreed on Li Zhengguo's behalf, "I'll teach you and I'll teach you."
This afternoon, Sister Niu and Mother Li were making cloth shell boards.
Tian Jing grows her vegetables in wooden boxes.
It's a pity that Li Zhengguo, a knowledgeable person, can't use her powers. However, she secretly saved two seeds of each and went up to the mountain to cultivate them tomorrow, preparing to plant them in the shed on her own land.
In the evening, Li's mother asked Li Zhengguo to light more lamps for her. She wanted to make Tian Jing's shoes quickly and rush for clothes. Tian Jing had no clothes to change, and her rags had also been torn into pieces.
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When she got up early the next day, Tian Jing received the shoes given to her by her mother Li, "Thank you, mother-in-law. From now on, don't waste your time and do it during the day."
"good."
After breakfast, Tian Jing looked at the new shoes and decided to wear them after coming back from the mountain.
Carrying the Hsinchu basket on her back and saying hello to Li's mother and Li Zhengguo, Tian Jing walked out of the courtyard, only to find that there was a fourth and fifth family to the west, and these two families were accountant Li's two sons.
Tian Jing frowned, ignored it, and left directly from the west room. In the countryside, each house would be separated by one or two meters. If the private land was not opened in front of each house, the distance between neighbors should be the private land.
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It wasn't until Tian Jing's back could no longer be seen that Li Aiguo lowered his head and continued to surround the foundation.
This time when we went up the mountain, Tian Jing watched the hares and told her that she wanted to make the lining of her mother-in-law's cotton coat.
It's already early winter, and it will soon get completely cold. It's time to prepare my mother-in-law's cotton-padded clothes and trousers. Li Min's cotton-padded clothes should be able to cope with this year, right? Isn't there not enough cotton?
Use a hatchet to skin the two hares. The rabbit meat and rabbit skins are carefully rolled up with vines and placed at the bottom of the backpack.
There was red mushroom fruit on it, and on top of the red mushroom fruit were mother-in-law dices and bitter hemp vegetables. After closing the lid, Tian Jing quickly went down the mountain. She wanted to go back to wash her feet and change her shoes.