Chapter Seventy-Three: Busy
In the end, this farce was suppressed by Zhou Yaosen, and of course, in the end, Li Rucui and Zhou Jifu must have been scolded, Zhou Jiguo and Zhou Sining were beaten, and both sides were beaten, and then they dispersed.
If you think about it, there are pros and cons to this trouble.
Let's talk about the disadvantages first, that is, Li Rucui can't look down on Zhou Daya's daughter, and even Zhou Jifu has a grudge against her, although Li Rucui looks amazing, in fact, it is the surface, and she will scold two sentences when she is powerful, for Zhou Sining, it doesn't hurt or itch, and she doesn't like to worry about her, but it's different with Zhou Jifu. The man was like the maggots she had in the back of the toilet, not biting, but responding to the diaphragm. After that, she could only be more cautious, for fear of letting Zhou Jifu catch the handle.
The good thing is that she goes to the mountain every night to cross the road, and no one in the Zhou family is troublesome to her because of this, and after the Zhou family tried the bellflower she made, they didn't like it, saying that it had a strange smell. Zhou Sining was very happy that she didn't have to feed the Zhou family in the future, so she dried and bundled the bellflower at home and asked the male protagonist to take it out and help her sell it.
During this time, Zhou Sining was completely busy, and it was really busy from morning to night.
In mid-June, the weather began to heat up, and the cicadas hiding in the ground came out of the ground and ran to the trees to call.
Zhou Sining earned all the hard-earned money, not to mention the money he picked up for nothing. So she would get up half an hour early every morning, and then carry the cloth bag she sewed to the field or go around the mountain, and every day she would come back to pick up a bag full of cicadas.
Of course, she didn't dare to hang out for too long, after all, she still had a job in the Zhou family. After serving the Zhou family after eating breakfast and sending them away, she would quickly wash all the dirty clothes, and then go to the back mountain to dig herbs non-stop with a basket on her back.
Yes, she doesn't go to turning stones during the day now, after all, she can't catch ten scorpions in a day, but if she uses this time to dig medicinal herbs, she can dig dozens of catties in one morning.
She listened to the male protagonist's suggestion, this season is mainly to cut mint and mugwort, don't look at their cheap purchase price, and it is relatively easy to get. Cutting mugwort is much easier than digging astragalus, and it can be cut off by bending over with a sickle.
And now is the season when the grass grows and the warbler flies, and the mugwort and mint on the mountain grow very luxuriantly, and she can go home with three baskets full in the morning.
When she came home in the morning, she could not be idle, she had to cook the meal first, and then wash the mint and mugwort that she had cut back in the morning, and the mint still needed to pick the leaves, and when she had finished processing, she would climb up and put these herbs on the roof to dry.
This is the good idea that the male protagonist thought of for her, the corners of her mouth twitched when she first heard it, and she complained about this idea in her heart, but the implementation was unexpectedly smooth, and the Zhou family saw it as if they didn't see it.
Sometimes she will wonder very much, thinking that the aura of the male protagonist is so good, and she will blind them one by one.
In fact, Zhou Sining didn't know that the Zhou family was not blind, they all saw the extra things on the roof, but the male protagonist did his homework in advance to let the Zhou family know that the eldest sister was listening to him and drying Chinese medicine at home. Of course, the male protagonist didn't say that these Chinese medicines were to be sold for money, but said that it would be good for the body to soak these Chinese medicines in water and drink them in winter.
This is not Zhou Yaosen thinks that it is not a matter of spending money and trouble, Dabao is willing to toss, let him toss, the rest of the Zhou family looks at the patriarch with this attitude, of course, it doesn't matter, anyway, it has nothing to do with them.
So Zhou Sining actually dried several batches of medicinal materials like this, and every time the medicinal materials were almost dried, she would pack them up and let the male protagonist take them out to help her sell them.
No one in the Zhou family paid attention to it, nor did they notice that the medicinal materials on their heads had been changed several times, and they thought that they had always had the same batch of medicinal materials on their heads.
At noon, after serving the Zhou family and his wife after eating, Zhou Sining could get a little respite, rest for a while, and wait until the afternoon to get up with everyone, carry the basket and go to the mountain to dig medicinal herbs.
At night, I have to take a flashlight to catch scorpions in the mountains, and in order to hide people's eyes, I will still dig some bellflower or something. In short, as long as you go out, there is no time to come back empty-handed.
However, the tired body also brought her rich rewards.
Although the purchase price of peppermint and mugwort is much lower than that of Chinese medicinal materials such as astragalus and parsnip, the purchase price of peppermint is only nine cents per catty, and the purchase price of mugwort is even lower than four cents per catty.
However, as long as this thing is found, it is a large piece, and she can cut back dozens of catties every day, even if it is dried, it is not old or young, so this income is still very considerable.
is close to the income of the scorpion, plus the cicada also sells well, and she has a steady income of three or four yuan on this day.
It's just that no amount of income can solve a problem......
Zhou Sining straightened up, the hand that didn't hold the sickle reached behind him and beat his waist, sighing in his heart, if you don't say that every grain is hard, people who haven't really held a sickle will never experience that kind of hardship.
On this hot day, bending over to harvest, not to mention that the backache makes people unbearable, let's just say that the beads of sweat that fall down and fall to the ground every few minutes can hold a pot together.
Zhou Sining looked at the full mint in the back basket, and decided that it was better to be kind to herself, she needed to rest now, or she would be exhausted and die of heat.
Thinking that she couldn't ask for money or die, she put the sickle in her hand on the back basket, and sat on the ground regardless of whether the ground was clean or not.
This is really, she ran all over the mountains and turned over the stones before, and the amount of exercise was greater than this, but she was not as tired as these days, she felt like her waist was about to break, so she quickly reached out and beat her waist again.
She rested for a while, calmed down, stood up, picked up the scythe and continued to fight with the piece of mint in front of her.
When she couldn't fit it in the basket anymore, she stopped, squatted down, picked up the heavy basket, and walked home slowly.
Youping saw the figure slowly swaying by on the trail from afar, frowning at the mint in her back basket.
A few days ago, I saw the eldest girl of the Zhou family walking home with a basket full of mint, she was quite curious at that time, and went to ask a mouth, thinking that her family did not have enough firewood, or her mother deliberately embarrassed people, so that the eldest girl and the little girl, alone every day to go home with so many weeds. The answer she didn't expect was that her pigs love to eat mint, so the big girl would cut it so desperately.
She didn't believe it at the time, after all, mint has a strange smell, no one in the village likes to eat, so that some old people will go up the mountain to pick some mint leaves in the summer, go home to soak in water and bathe, I heard that it can relieve itching. I've never heard of pigs like to eat such things.
However, although she didn't believe it, but in the spirit of giving it a try, she also went home with a basket of wild vegetables, but her pigs didn't like to eat it at all, and finally the weeds in the basket could only be dried and kept as firewood.
Now seeing Zhou Daya carrying this weed home one after another with such a tireless pleasure, she couldn't help but fall into deep contemplation.
Could it be that someone in the Zhou family has a skin disease, and he is embarrassed to come out and say that this is why the big girl cut so much mint back? Well, it must be the case, only this reason makes sense.