Father and mother to give their children a dowry, in the hearts of Xiahou and countless ancient people, it is a matter of course, he never dreamed that one day he would spend his daughter's dowry silver because of life difficulties, and his heart was already heavy when he moved one or two hundred taels, if he was allowed to use his daughter's dowry to eat and drink, he might as well die headlong!

Xia Lihe regretted and didn't persuade him, but he was also happy for the original owner, after all, there were also ancient people who sold their daughters or sisters for money, and the Xia family was reluctant to even touch the original owner's dowry, doesn't it also prove that they are really good to the original owner, and they are still worried about them when the original owner is dying?

"Okay, let's not talk about the money, but what do a few people in the family eat and use, is only those few acres of land enough? The daughter doesn't have to go to the mountains, or plans to take a look near Shi Ming to pick up firewood, if there are herbs for the eldest brother and the second brother to take to the county to sell, how much can they fill some of the family?" Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

If the Xia family is still in the capital, the third lady of the Xia family said that she wants to go to the mountains, it has to be a sunny and good day, not only must dozens of people accompany her, but her two sisters-in-law also have to follow, and may invite the daughter of the third and fifth official families again, and the mighty can travel.

But the current Xia family really can't think back to the past, the world is the biggest, Xia Baihe said the difficulties at home, Xia Hou was really moved by her, yes, picking medicine can be exchanged for money, as long as the three girls go once, pick some that can be sold for money, next time you can let her two brothers pick it like that!

Just to teach them what to pick, and not to let the little daughter work all the time, Xia Hou thought about it and finally relented.

As long as Xia Hou agrees, the rest of the Xia family can't say anything against it, but the eldest brother and the second brother of the Xia family are very embarrassed to face Xia Lily, as if they can't let their sister raise them at home, and they owe her.

"Not only the Xia family, but also the entire Xixi family has women working in the fields, but it is still okay to send food to the fields. You Shi reminded Xia Lily, who didn't understand the rules of the croppers, not to step on the ground.

"I'll go to the bottom of the mountain and see. Xia Lily was glad that there was no rule that did not allow women to enter the mountain.

Xia Lily has noticed that You Shi went out to deliver things with a hat, Master Yuan came to work at home, and Huang also asked Yaya to bring her a hat first and then let her out of the house, so she wants to enter the mountain, and hats are indispensable in the line.

"This is the land of our Xia family, Shi Ming, you take your third aunt into the mountain, be careful not to go far. Xia Hou was glad that their family's field was right at the foot of the mountain, and it was not connected to other people's land, so no one noticed that the Xia family had another person coming.

Xia Lily first looked at the four acres of land allocated to the Xia family, bud rice, cabbage, green onions, radish, the Xia family is quite powerful, and the crops planted on each acre are not the same, but unfortunately the crops in each acre are not good, small and not spiritual.

Is it not good to divide the land, or is the Xia family's level of vegetable cultivation not good? Xia Lily remembered You Shi's reminder and didn't go to the field to take a closer look, she obediently went to the mountain with Xia Shiming.

These acres of land really belong to the foot of the mountain, and after walking more than two hundred meters to the other side of the mountain, when Xia Lily turned around and could still see Xiahou and his son in the field, Xia Shiming had already begun to look down for dead branches.

Xia Lily looked into the mountains again, and there was a forest five hundred meters ahead, and the forest was about four or five hundred square meters, and then it was all dense green, which should belong to the road to the depths of the mountain.

"Third aunt, are there herbs here?" Xia Shiming understood that herbs were more valuable than Chai He, and he hoped that he could learn to collect herbs and reduce the burden on his family as much as possible.

"Yes, but we are not in a hurry to collect medicine, Shi Ming, can you let the third aunt diagnose your pulse?" Xia Lily walked to Xia Shi Ming's side.

Xia Shiming's face suddenly changed, and he was very flustered: "Third aunt, I'm fine...... No need ......"

"It's been two days since I went home, well, plus today is the third day, the first day everyone said that your illness is about to be cured, and I will treat you as if you are almost cured, but I haven't seen you take medicine once in the past three days, I asked my sister-in-law, she said that you don't like to take medicine, you want to vomit when you eat, you said you don't need to take medicine and you're almost better, she stopped taking medicine, and I specially wanted to come to your prescription to see, prescribe medicine to replenish qi and blood, sister-in-law said that you haven't been in the city to see, it was the eldest brother who relayed your symptoms to Lang Zhong in the pharmacy, Lang Zhong thought that you were sad and sad because of family changes, so he prescribed the medicine. ”

"The medicine at home has been eaten, and yesterday the second brother went into the city, but I didn't ask him to bring you medicine, not because I believe like your mother that you can't take medicine, and you can get better without medicine, I don't plan to continue to catch it because the prescription is not right at all, and you don't take it, but also because you know what kind of disease you have, and the medicine is not right, right?"

Xia Lily deliberately said slowly, and the more she said that Xia Shiming's head hung lower, and then she was worried that this child would dig a pit and bury herself!

She has no experience in being a confidant sister to her child, and if her little nephew dares to make trouble, it is all suppressed by force by the big bun, and although her little nephew is a bear child, he is the best at reading people's faces, and he will not hide his heavy heart.

“…… Third Aunt...... You can see it...... "Fortunately, the original owner is the existence of a confidant sister for Xia Shiming, and he is willing to tell the third aunt many things that he doesn't dare to say to his father."

"I can see what kind of disease you have, but I'm afraid you don't know it yet. "Seeing that Xia Shiming is willing to say, Xia Lily will certainly not miss this opportunity.

What she said made Xia Shiming unable to understand, and he looked at her blankly.

The child's face was so thin that it was about to fall out of shape, and Xia Baihe patted him: "You can say that you don't need to take medicine for three or five days, but after a long time, do you think the whole family will turn a blind eye to you and can't see that you are getting thinner day by day?"

Xia Shiming lowered his head again, he could wear more clothes to cover up his body, but what about his face?

"You cough, sometimes you have chest pain, low-grade fever, your body is wet and cold when you fall asleep and wake up, and there is phlegm, I ask you, is the phlegm you spit out rust-colored, what do you do with it?" Xia Lily tried not to ask too seriously.

Xia Shiming, who she asked, probably understood everything, obviously the third aunt didn't have much contact with him in the past three days, especially at night, the third aunt even knew that he would wake up because of sweating!

Xia Shiming was still young, so he didn't think about Xia Lily as "thinking about things like a god", he thought that the third aunt really cared about him the most! He boldly asked, "Is it rust-colored?"

"It's not. Xia Lily didn't want to frighten him, "How did you deal with it?"

"Burn it, wrap it in straw paper and burn ......it quietly," he was afraid that his family would see him vomiting blood and then spend money for him, and of course he would "destroy the corpse and destroy the traces" if it would be exposed.

If it is burned well, it is better to burn the germs than to bury it, "Yes, it is done right," Xia Lihe patted him again to show praise, "Then now you can tell the third aunt, how did you get sick?"

"......" was actually praised, Xia Shiming was too surprised, but his heart suddenly rose in courage, maybe the third aunt really wouldn't blame him?!"Third aunt, can you keep it secret for me?"

"Of course, otherwise why do you think I waited until I entered the mountain to treat you?" Xia Lily saw that the child still had a heart disease, so she didn't consult him at home.

Thanks to Xia Lily's carefulness, and even more to the good reputation of the original owner, Xia Shiming finally withdrew his defense: "When we first came to Xixi, we raised two sheep ......at home."

It turned out that the Xia family was robbed and imprisoned, and the family was penniless, but the You family and the Huang family's family were fine, they were also rich and noble, how could the family come to see the daughter's accident, and quietly stuff some silver, and it was precisely by relying on this money that the Xia family did not suffer too much on the way to Jiangbei, and when they arrived at the residence in Xixi, Jiangbei, they could also buy some furniture.

Because the Huang family came with a big belly, experienced well-wishers reminded the Xia family that they could buy a few sheep and a few chickens if they had money, so that in the future, the children would have goat milk to drink and the mother would have eggs to eat, which would be much more cost-effective than buying zero outside.

You Shi gave birth to two children is experienced, she is worried that Huang will not have the strength to give birth, even if she can give birth smoothly, she is afraid that the milk is not enough, and she heard that there are insects in the field and grass in the mountains, and it is almost free to raise chickens and sheep here, so she bought two sheep and two chickens.

Women do not go to the ground is the custom in this area of Changlong County, the adult men of the Xia family want to farm, and the work of herding sheep and digging insects is naturally handed over to the eight-year-old Xia Shiming, he goes out with his grandfather every day, takes two sheep to find a place where the grass is lush, and then takes the jar to dig the insects, and waits for the grandfather to go home after they finish their work.

Since the Xia family has been down, the food has become very poor, even if they save a little bit of delicious food, they also have to be dedicated to the pregnant Huang family, when the eight-year-old Xia Shiming is growing up, he can't eat enough every day, every day he looks at the sheep and chickens can eat grass and insects, I really want to become a chicken or a sheep!

That day, Xia Shiming arrived at the foot of the mountain on the right, and was in the opposite direction that the people of the Xia family could not see, he sat by the stream and was stunned, because he was hungry, he really didn't want to move around anymore, but he unconsciously saw that there were small fish, small shrimps, small crabs and other things in the stream!

Xia Shiming suddenly remembered that his former servant told him that the children in the village often go to the stream or river to catch fish and eat, so can these also be eaten!

Xia Shiming, who was very hungry, really fished out some fish and shrimp from the stream, and made him feel even more lucky, in the morning he helped his mother make a fire, and the fire fold let him put it in his pocket, he hurriedly found some leaves and dead branches, wrapped the fish and shrimp and burned them for a while, and he didn't care whether they were cooked or not, and he hurriedly swallowed them in his mouth.

So how can you eat enough small fish and shrimp, Xia Shiming still wants to fish again, but he suddenly found that something was missing, what about sheep? !

The two sheep were lost like this, no matter how the Xia family looked for it, they couldn't find it, grandpa and dad lost their temper with him for the first time, and his mother also complained that he was careless, seeing this situation, Xia Shiming dared to say that he was greedy and ate alone, he only said that he went to dig insects and forgot.