Chapter 9: Heartache

Yun Ying, who was busy on the side, kept sewing and threading in her hands, and smiled without raising her head: "Yes, Miss, my mother and Yun Xing's leather jackets have been planned for a long time, didn't Uncle Tan call back two green goats last month?" My father packed up the sheepskin early in the morning, and bought a few horses of material last time I went to the county seat, and when I made the cloak for the young lady, I was going to start making sheepskin jackets. Miss don't have to worry about this, she won't freeze us. ”

When Rong Yunhe heard this, he didn't say anything anymore, and slowly paced up and down the smooth bluestone pavement in the house.

She walked with a cup of tea, felt slightly tired, and stopped walking, and then under Yun Xing's advice, she crooked on the kang and started to daze, Yun Xing was next to Yun Ying to help divide the line, hand the scissors, and beat the hand, but then heard a low shout from downstairs: "Yun Xing, Yun Xing!" ”

Yun Xing listened, hurriedly put down the ball of silk thread in her hand, stood up and first agreed, and then said to Rong Yunhe: "Miss, this is my second brother." He went to the field early in the morning with my father, Uncle Tan and eldest brother to watch the vegetables, and he thought he was back. I'll go down and have a look. ”

Rong Yunhe nodded, and Yun Xing ran away.

After a while, I saw her running in with a wicker basket that looked heavy, panting, and I don't know where this thin little person had the strength to carry such a heavy basket.

Yun Xing held the basket in front of Rong Yunhe, and said with excitement on her face: "Miss, what do you think this is?" ”

Rong Yunhe looked at it fixedly, she had also been to the northwest in modern times, and naturally recognized that this was a specialty of the mountains, with soft dates, mountain pears, walnuts, pine nuts and hazelnuts and other mountain goods, full of baskets, and water droplets hanging on it, looking like they had just been washed.

She smiled and said, "Isn't this a mountain product?" It's winter now, where did you get so much? ”

Yun Xing nodded excitedly, and quickly brought a celadon stilt plate with her hands and feet, picked out some of the cleaned mountain goods and picked them into the stilt plate, and replied: "My father, Uncle Tan and my eldest brother and second brother got up and went to the field when it was not dawn today, took a look at the growth of the vegetables, and then picked a lot of radishes and white siads back from the snow.

On the way, Uncle Tan saw that it was still early, so he said that he would go to the mountains to take a look while the snow was not very heavy. Lest the snow keep falling and it will be difficult to enter the mountain again.

After all, as soon as the snow rises, I am afraid that the snow in the mountains will accumulate thicker and thicker in the future, and the weather will get colder and colder.

No, it's also our luck today, not far into the mountain, they picked up this basket of mountain goods, as well as a large basket of mountain mushrooms, wild vegetables and mushrooms, Uncle Tan also hit a deer, two hares and two pheasants back, enough for us to eat for a while.

My mother and Aunt Luo have been chattering about it these days, looking for some wild things to make up for the young master.

It's just that this snow, the difficulty of entering the mountain has increased a lot, and there are fewer prey in the mountain, not to mention, many prey are still nesting in the cave to hibernate, the hunters in this village into the mountain are basically empty-handed, but we are lucky, today this trip got so many things.

Last time my father and Uncle Tan went to the county seat, the shopkeeper of the leather shop also said that the leather has not been easy to collect recently, and his shop is particularly out of stock, so the price of fur has risen a lot.

My father thought about it, and said that he would keep the hare's fur and use it ourselves; The skin of the deer and the feathers of the pheasant can be kept, and the next time I go to the county seat, I can sell them, and I can get a dozen taels of silver, which is several times more than the original autumn! ”

Rong Yunhe knows that this Pingqiao Village is located in Yanbei, next to the mountains, and there is naturally no shortage of rich animals and plants in the mountains.

The villagers in this village often go into the mountains on weekdays to find some mountain goods, dig up some mushrooms and wild vegetables, and earn some scattered silver money to subsidize the family.

And because it is located in the frontier, adjacent to the Turks, many people still have Hu blood, so the folk customs are quite strong, regardless of men, women and children, basically have some kung fu, and archery on horses is not a problem.

Therefore, those middle-aged men who are good at kung fu and accurate archery will go hunting in the mountains in a group during the slack time, and when they are lucky, they will catch a few prey, which is enough for a large family to spend a month.

Even if you're a little less lucky, it's no problem to catch some hares and pheasants to go home, and you can add a dish to the table.

After all, everyone's life is also difficult now, and meat is rarely seen on weekdays, and it is a rare delicacy for everyone to be able to eat hare meat and pheasant.

The fur of the hare and the feather of the pheasant can be sold to the fur shop, which is also a rare income.

If you are lucky, you may be able to find some precious medicinal herbs in the mountains, such as mountain ginseng, snow lotus, Ganoderma lucidum and white fungus.

If these vintage medicinal materials are sold to the county medical hall, the silver taels obtained are enough for this ordinary family to spend a year!

And Luo Cailei's husband Tan Yingyuan has a good kung fu, and often takes Cai Ershun into the mountains to hunt on weekdays.

Some of the prey caught here either directly allowed the family to eat meat and fur to make a big jacket to keep out the cold in winter, or the whole prey was directly sold to the leather shop in the county town in exchange for some silver taels to subsidize the family.

Occasionally, they would also come across some rare medicinal materials, which were usually brought back to Rong Yunhe for medicine and body tonics.

It's just that this year's winter in Yanbei seems to have come exceptionally early, and the weather has become extremely cold after a few days in September.

It snowed again for the past two days, and the mountains were covered with snow in winter, so it was difficult to find any useful mountain goods and medicinal herbs, and it was even more difficult to find prey.

So usually at this time, almost no one in the village runs into the mountains anymore. First, the harvest is less, and secondly, the danger is relatively large, in case of an avalanche, it will be necessary to put your life into it.

I didn't expect to have such good luck today, so that Tan Yingyuan and them could gain so much.

Yun Xing was also tired after running for a long time, picked up the small teacup on the side and drank a cup of tea in one go, before continuing: "On the way back, passing by the river, my second brother remembered to get up and see the fish he raised in the river a few days ago. ”

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