When the two sisters returned home, they first put the top layer of pigweed into the house, and then poured the medicinal materials into the corner of the wall to dry.
Xiang Jin realized that the medicinal materials they had dried before were completely dry. If they continued to dry them, they would probably become brittle. So she asked Xiang Nan to find two snake cloth bags in the house.
It's time to collect these medicinal materials.
Xiang Nan nodded obediently, and Xiang Jin gathered the medicinal materials into a pile.
After putting the medicinal materials into the snake cloth bag, Xiang Jinti weighed it in his hands. It didn't seem to weigh much, only a few pounds or ten pounds at most. Moreover, there were two bags, one for money grass and one for car front.
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Alas, it seems that this medicinal material is really worthless. She and her mother tried so much last time, it must have weighed at least seventy or eighty kilograms, and the result was only harvested so little.
"Sister, how much can we buy this?" The little girl looked at the two bags in her hand and looked at her expectantly.
"It's not much, only about four or five yuan." According to the prices she saw last time at the place that collected medicinal materials in town, Desmodium chinensis cost more than 60 cents per pound, and Plantago chinensis cost more than 30 cents per pound.
Xiang Jin replied as if he was calculating the weight.
The little girl's eyes suddenly lit up, "Wow, can it be sold for so much money?"
Xiang Jin's eyelids twitched, "How much is four or five dollars?"
The little girl nodded politely, "Yeah, yeah, there are a lot of them, you can buy more than a pound of meat."
Hearing what she said, Xiang Jin suddenly laughed, reached out and poked her forehead, "Foodies know how to eat!"
The little girl touched the painful place where she poked her, grinning stupidly.
Xiang Jin sighed, "Yes, it's good to be able to buy more than a pound of meat. It's better than spending extra money to buy it."
The little girl nodded vigorously again, and Xiang Jin said to her, "Xiang Nan, if not, we will bring back some more herbs in the future, and then try to give the craftsman who repaired the house the money he spent on buying vegetables and meat.
Earn it back?"
"Yeah, yeah," the little girl nodded vigorously again.
"Juyun, are you there?" At this moment, someone suddenly shouted outside.
Xiang Jin asked Xiang Nan to take the two bags of medicinal materials back to the house, and then she went to the entrance of the hospital to have a look.
Then she saw a middle-aged woman in her forties holding an old ox standing on the path beside the courtyard dam, looking in.
Just when she didn't know how to address the person in front of her, the other person spoke first, "Xiang Jin, where is your mother?"
"Oh, my mother went to the fields to pull grass." Since I don't know what to call her, I'll just keep it vague.
"Hey, Lady Chunhua, is it our turn to raise cattle?" Xiang Nan put down the medicinal materials and ran out of the house jumping.
What's the meaning?
Xiang Jin felt doubtful in her heart when she looked at the old scalper held by Xiang Nan's hand, which she called Chunhua Niang, but she didn't dare to show it on her face.
Then Chun Hua Niang said, "Oh, not yet, there are still two days to go. Didn't I just let the cows come to your side, and then I just wanted to ask you something."
Xiang Jin asked, "What happened?"
Lady Chunhua was a little embarrassed, as if she didn't know how to open her mouth.
Xiang Jin said, "It's okay. Just ask, Lady Chunhua."
"Oh, okay," the Chunhua lady said apologetically after hesitating for a while, "Girl, don't mind it. Didn't you hear that your mother and your father divorced? I just wanted to ask.
From now on, will you raise the cows here or will Lao Xiang’s family raise them?
Lao Xiang's family, that is, your milk, came to us two days ago and said that they no longer raise this cow, they want to withdraw their shares, and they want us to refund them 200 yuan.
But we just thought, this cow was locked up by your mother Yang Juyun with our family for 200 yuan. Now your mother comes to us to withdraw her shares. What's going on?
So, we don’t agree for the time being, and we just want to ask you clearly first, so that we don’t refund the wrong money when the time comes, and it would be bad if we all have something to say to each other.”
"Oh, so that's it?" Xiang Jin finally understood. Lao Xiang's family was carrying them to withdraw the cattle stocks. He had two hundred yuan, so he called Xiang Nan and said, "Go to the fields and call mom back. Ask her what is going on so that we can give the Spring Flower Girl an answer."
"Well, okay!" Xiang Nan ran away in a flash.
Xiang Jin asked Chunhua Niang to come in and wait, but Chunhua Niang refused, saying that she would leave it on the roadside nearby for a while to let it eat a little full, and then come over when her mother came back later. .
Xiang Jin nodded and did not insist on the invitation. After the other party left, she took a bamboo basket and went to the garden to pick up sweet potato leaves so that she could eat them in the evening.
Ever since she saw Fan Chunhua leading the cow over to their side of the bay, Mrs. Zhang had been standing on the edge of her courtyard dam, with her feet propped up and her neck stretched out, keeping an eye on what was happening on their side.
"Did that old lady Fan Chunhua really just drive her cows over here and ask questions?"
The old man Xiang was a little impatient, "Oh, come here, come here. I have told you not to refund the money and cause this trouble, but you just don't listen?"
Mrs. Zhang was very displeased and said, "What do you mean you don't want to refund the money? It's two hundred yuan, are you willing to do it?"
The old man Xiang frowned, "What can I do if you don't want to give in? You paid for it?"
Mrs. Zhang put her hands on her hips and said, "Why can't I pay for it? Who can prove that the money is not the cow we gave to that ugly woman Yang Juyun to imprison?"
Xiang Xiang said to the old man, "Aren't you turning the facts upside down?"
Mrs. Zhang said with a proud look on her face, "What if I just turned the facts upside down? What if, what if the money is really refunded to us?"
The old man said sarcastically, "What do you think?!"
Mrs. Zhang said, "I just thought, what's the matter? Everything in the house has been taken and sold by that woman. From now on, I can't even eat chicken or duck eggs, let alone the New Year pig. Whenever I think of it, I can't swallow this feeling!
How dare you say that ugly woman, how dare she treat us like this?"
"Alas," Old Man Xiang sighed. He was not willing to give in, but what should we do? His parents and brothers were not easy to deal with. I didn't expect that their house was smashed to pieces that day.
Looking back at my two sons, they are two cowards. Later, they called the brothers to tell them about this matter. Not only did they not express anything, they also did not comfort them in words.
Moreover, they smashed it as they said. It was not a very valuable thing anyway. Once it was smashed, they could be replaced later. What’s the big deal? After that, the two of them found various reasons to hide in the county town and not come back.
After hearing those words, he only managed to save himself from being angry to death!
Yang Juyun and the others came back very quickly, because Xiang Nan met them halfway while walking, and then told her about the incident.
After Yang Juyun saw Fan Chunhua, she said, "Sister Chunhua, I paid for the money from my own pocket, and it has nothing to do with Lao Xiang's family.
So, don’t listen to their nonsense, and don’t return the money from the bull stock to them, and we have no plans to withdraw the shares, so we still have to continue to raise the bull stock.”
Fan Chunhua got the accurate information, and then said, "Let me just say, they haven't done any work in more than ten years. You have always been in charge of everything inside and outside here. Where did they save two hundred dollars?" Can I give you 1 yuan to keep the cow?"
Yang Juyun just smiled and said nothing, and then the other party said, "Okay, then I'll talk to the other companies when I go back, so that they won't be criticized by them."
Yang Juyun nodded to her gratefully, and the other party said it was getting late and she was going back, but Xiang Jin and the others did not stay.
But Xiang Jin was afraid that when she passed Lao Xiang's house, the old lady Zhang would stop her and make trouble, so she said she would see her off for a while.
Sure enough, as she guessed, just when Fan Chunhua was about to pass by their house, the old lady Zhang jumped out and blocked her way, saying that she would go to their Aijiawan tomorrow to collect the money, and asked her to go back and collect the money. Give this letter to those houses and ask them to prepare the money.
Fan Chunhua said, "Aunt Zhang, I just asked Ju Yun. She said that the money for the cattle confinement was originally paid for by her own pocket, but it has nothing to do with your old Xiang family."
Mrs. Zhang put her hands on her hips and cursed, "What the hell, that ox is obviously the money I saved for her to be imprisoned. Now she's saying that it was her money? She has What kind of money is that? She has so much money! She just ran an errand!"
A sarcastic smile appeared on the corner of Xiang Jin's lips, "Yes, my mother didn't have any money at the time, but by chance, my mother said that the cow was still hers. She went back to her parents' home to meet my grandparents and the one next door to them. A neighbor borrowed two hundred yuan to close it.
Now you are saying that you paid for the money, so when my grandparents come tomorrow, you can confront them and see who paid for the money?"
Hearing her mention her grandparents, Mrs. Zhang's face suddenly darkened, and then she stared and wanted to scold her, but then she suddenly remembered that she didn't take advantage of her the few times she scolded her before. So he changed his mouth again, "What nonsense are you talking about? That's obviously the cow I paid to lock up!"
Xiang Jin curled his lips and sneered, "If you want to talk about our family's money, just say so. I don't know how to laugh at you. Anyway, your family's jokes and scandals are quite exciting. I can’t afford to laugh at you anymore.”
"You? You little..." Old Mrs. Zhang glared at her fiercely and was about to curse, but the old man scolded her and silenced her, "Okay, then I'll give their mother some money." Just hurry up, our family won’t support you anymore!”
"Oh, okay!" After receiving Old Man Xiang's confidence, Fan Chunhua took the cow and left.
Xiang Jin glanced at the two of them, then turned around and went back.