Chapter 58: Making a Wooden Box
Aunt Lei was stunned when she heard this, and after reacting, she hurriedly shook her head and said, "No, of course not." I also watched you grow up, you have a good temperament, and you are sensible, and your father is only because he saved me...... Where would I think that you are hard to defeat your father, those nonsense, I naturally don't believe it. I know you're helping us, but the medicine is a lot of money, and two hundred wen is not a small amount, and your family is also tight now, I ......"
"Since you don't believe those claims, that's enough, aunt." Mu Lingluo pressed her hand and said seriously: "It is true that our family of five lives in my aunt's house for free food and free accommodation, and you have never said anything about us and asked us for money." And Uncle Lei was injured, and now your family is also in worse condition, as neighbors, you can help us, can't we help you? I didn't buy that medicine for Uncle Lei, and it just so happened that Ah Mo could also use it, but it was just a mistake. ”
After a pause, Mu Lingluo smiled and said, "Fang Cai, I'm just telling Grandma Lei." I'll be upset if you mention that money again. I'm not just about to start a small business, the money will naturally come slowly, and you don't have to worry about our family. Moreover, if our family really encounters any trouble that cannot be solved, or if money is tight, will you and Uncle Lei really ignore it? ”
"Naturally, naturally not." Aunt Lei hurriedly replied, "If there are any difficulties in your family in the future, just tell your aunt." ”
Today, Mu Lingluo's help, she also remembered it in her heart. In the past, her mother-in-law and sister-in-law came, which time didn't she take away all the good things in the house, obviously the big house was better than their life, but they loved to take advantage of their three rooms.
A filial piety bent over, and they didn't dare to resist, plus her husband was also a filial piety, so he could only do what they wanted again and again, but it caused them to get worse and worse, and their family's life became more and more difficult.
If it weren't for Mu Lingluo's help to stop it this time, I'm afraid that the money from selling venison at home today would definitely have to be handed over, and she would have been slandered as unfilial, and her father-in-law's medicine would not have been saved.
Therefore, the gratitude in Aunt Lei's heart is self-evident.
Aunt Lei wiped her tears, hugged the Chinese medicine in her arms, looked at the basin resting on the ground, saw that it was full of sweet potatoes, and said with a smile: "Are you going to wash sweet potatoes?" Let's go first, I don't have anything to do here. ”
Mu Lingluo asked Mu Chanjuan to go over first, and he stayed to say a few words to Aunt Lei, "Auntie, I want to ask, do you know who in our village has good skills?" I wanted to make a small wooden box, but it didn't need to be too big, mainly for keeping warm baked sweet potatoes. ”
Mu Lingluo thought that iron in this era was too expensive, and she couldn't really copy it to make an iron sweet potato cart, the cost was too high.
So, she thought about it and prepared to make a wooden box with a charcoal pot in it, and put the baked sweet potatoes in it to keep warm, so as to ensure the temperature of the sweet potatoes and allow people to buy hot and warm sweet potatoes to keep the cold away.
"It doesn't need to be too big, it's probably that big, the main thing is that we can't lift too big, it's okay to be smaller." Mu Lingluo compared the size, "It's best to do it as soon as possible, I can catch up with the market in two days." ”
Su Zimo stood at the door for a while, and when he heard that Mu Lingluo wanted to ask someone to make a wooden box, he slowly stood up, "This is not difficult, I'll do it!" I can't ask for someone. ”
Mu Lingluo was stunned, "Will you?" ”
In fact, this thing is really simple, but it takes some trouble to put the brazier at the bottom. It's just that the Lei family doesn't seem to have this kind of strong plank, and she has to go to logging, so she wants to do it with special carpentry materials.
"No, it won't." Su Zimo replied indifferently, seeing Mu Lingluo frowning, he added: "But it's not difficult to watch, you can show you how to do it, and I can make it for you." The words were full of confidence.
"But there is no wood at home, so I still have to go and make a decision with the carpenter." Aunt Lei glanced at Mu Lingluo, "There are only a few people in the village who can do carpentry, this is early spring, the price of wood is even more expensive, and it is not very easy to buy, I will ask ...... when I go back."
Su Zimo raised his eyes and looked at the stretching mountains and forests not far away, "No, isn't there a ready-made one there?" ”
"You're going to go up the hill and cut down the wood yourself?" Mu Lingluo's eyes widened, "You still have injuries on your body, didn't I tell you that you can't work hard?" Don't move now. ”
Su Zimo heard her words of concern, his heart was happy, and his face was still expressionless, "I just hurt one shoulder, and the other one is fine, don't worry, it won't take me any effort." If you're worried, come with me to the mountains!" ”
Mu Lingluo saw that his eyebrows were confident, and pursed his lips, but he didn't insist, but he would still instruct: "If you feel unwell, you can remember to tell me." However, it's not too early today, you should rest first, your injuries should be better tomorrow, and you will go again tomorrow morning! ”
She had long heard that there were many herbs in the mountains, and she wanted to see them too. Moreover, with her watching, Su Zimo will not mess around regardless of his body.
Su Zimo nodded.
"Then I'll borrow you some carpentry tools and come back! There is no wood, but there are tools. Aunt Lei smiled, "You guys are busy first, I'll go and see my house first, I guess he also heard it, I'm afraid I'm also in a hurry." With that, he took the two stickers of Chinese medicine and went back to the room.
Mu Lingluo took the deer into the water to go to the river to wash, and took Su Zimo's changed clothes together. Su Zimo originally wanted to be together, but he really couldn't help him, so he could only go to recuperate his injuries first.
Mu Liang took Lei Dazhu and Lei Xiaozhu to play in the backyard, just now the Lei family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were menacing, and they all hid in the backyard. At this time, when they saw that the crisis was resolved, they were all relieved and began to play in the backyard again.
"Da Zhu, what's wrong with you?" Mu Liang saw that Lei Dazhu's face was gone, and he hung his head with a long sigh and asked puzzledly.
Lei Dazhu said in frustration: "Although grandma and aunt didn't succeed today, I'm afraid I have a grudge against Sister Aluo and my mother, I just secretly looked at them as if they were going to eat people." I'm so worried! ”
When Mu Liang heard this, he also frowned slightly, but he turned to think of his own second sister, and he suddenly had confidence, "It's okay, my second sister won't be bullied, your mother is so good, she will definitely be fine." Okay, don't be bitter, isn't your dad okay now? ”
"Yes, thanks to Sister Aluo, I will also learn from Sister Aluo in the future." When Lei Dazhu heard this, his eyes lit up.
Just now, when he heard Mu Lingluo's words, he scared his difficult grandmother and aunt away, and he was full of admiration.
Mu Chanjuan is really a leader in her work, and when Mu Lingluo went with the pot, she saw that most of the pots of sweet potatoes had been washed by one-third.
"My sister is moving so fast." Mu Lingluo praised.
Mu Chanjuan wiped the water droplets from the corners of her forehead and said with a smile: "It's not that you don't know, your sister and I can only do some of this kind of physical work, like those money-making ideas you think, my sister can't even think of it." That," she glanced at the deer brought by Mu Lingluo, smelled the stinky and fishy smell, and couldn't help but say, "Why did you bring this, you don't really want to eat it, right?" ”
Mu Lingluo found a good place, squatted down steadily, and when she heard this, she took out the deer in the basin and went into the water, and raised her good-looking eyebrows: "Sister, don't look at its bad appearance, the taste is all good, and when the time comes, I'm afraid you will all call it your favorite food." ”
She reached out and touched the river, only to feel that the river water was really cold, she took out the deer water one by one to wash, she was worried about the fishy smell, and saw a few verdant ginger growing next to the river, probably because it grew in a pile of weeds, and it was not conspicuous, so no one found it.
Mu Lingluo was pleasantly surprised to dig out the ginger, and saw that the ginger was still a small and delicate new ginger in the early spring, she didn't dislike it, she just washed it and threw it in the wooden basin, rubbed the ginger leaves and washed them with the deer water, and sure enough, the fishy smell went away a lot.
Mu Chanjuan scrubbed the sweet potatoes and said curiously: "How do you feel that there are a lot fewer big mussels in the river, weren't they all quite a lot before?" It seems to be gone overnight, by the way, Ah Luo, didn't you come here to do laundry yesterday? Who can you see? ”
Mu Lingluo's heart jumped, her eyes rolled, and she smiled stiffly, "That, could it be that these are someone else's and can't be fished?" ”
Before Liang'er said that no one eats these river mussels, that's why they can grow so big. How to listen to what Chanjuan said, it seems that there are still people who pay attention to these.