Ling'er with a basket on his back shuttled between the dense woods, although there are many trees in the forest near the village, but they are short and small, it is rare to find one or two slightly larger ones, which can only be used as firewood and not as wood, and it is impossible to make beams, even if there is a suitable one, it is very likely that there is an owner, and most of the cutting will cause trouble!

Ling'er estimated it and felt that there was nothing good in the forest, so she simply walked out of the forest and walked along the edge of the forest in the direction of the vast mountain, because the sun was good there, and it was easy to find wild vegetables and herbs.

Sure enough, she dug as she walked, and she harvested a lot all the way, until it was close to noon, she stopped to rest, nibbled on the dry food prepared by the old lady, looked at the basket full of herbs and wild vegetables, and carefully recalled the prescription given by the old man Xu.

Very good, Daddy's prescription has found twelve kinds of herbs, and four more are complete! When it comes to prescriptions, Ling'er can't help but thank Old Man Xu again, because the prescriptions he prescribes are obviously common herbs in the neighborhood, so it is so easy to find them by himself, and what a lot of expenses can be saved for the family!

Ling'er sighed, found an open place, poured out all the things in the back basket, carefully separated the herbs, dried them on the big stones, and collected them when she came back later, and then found a secret place to hide the wild vegetables, so that she could carry the empty back basket forward.

She stretched out and continued in the direction of the vast mountain. In peacetime, most of the farmers can be fed and clothed, and there are fewer people digging wild vegetables, and she will find a secret place to hide the wild vegetables before continuing to move forward, and when she really reaches the foot of the vast mountain, it is already about mid-afternoon, and her back basket has been filled for the fifth time!

Ling'er put down the basket, wiped the sweat on her forehead, and moved her eyes up little by little along the vast mountain, the high mountain is like a ladder leading to the heavens, majestic and mysterious, with no end in sight! And the mountains are full of trees, and the trees get thicker and taller the higher they go, and the strange cries that come from time to time in the forest sound a little terrible!

Ling'er looked back at the direction of Wangjia Village, the distance from here to his home is about three or four miles, and it takes more than 20 minutes to walk normally, and now there is at most an hour before it gets dark.

Ming'er should set off early, it is best to find a path that no one has traveled, and find a safe place to store the wood he has chopped, and then find a chance to move home when the snoopers are gone.

Ling'er made up her mind, made a mark on a tree she liked, and then walked all the way back, making a mark every 100 meters, and so on and so on for three quarters of an hour before arriving home. As soon as Ling'er got home, she put the basket and re-carried a big basket to collect the wild vegetables and herbs that had not been carried out, and was so busy until it was dark, and finally got all the fruits of today's labor home.

The old lady saw that the yard was full of several large baskets of wild vegetables, and she was so happy that she said that she would make wild vegetables into pickled vegetables or dried vegetables from tomorrow, and these large baskets were enough for the family to eat for a month!

Ling'er saw that the situation at home was still good, although there were still ill-intentioned people wandering around, and there were also troubled women coming to gossip, but it did not affect the family's life, and she was relieved, going out early and returning late every day, and doing her own things with peace of mind.

It's the beginning of October, and at the end of October, the mountains are closed, and the snow will start in November! After that, there will be a harsh cold deep winter, which will last until February next year, and there is not much time, so you have to plan well.

She spent five days digging wild vegetables while exploring the way, and the five days were very fruitful: first of all, Dad's herbs have been gathered, and Ling'er has prepared a pair of boils for Dad's father to eat according to Dr. Xu's formula, and the effect seems to be good, and the old lady is relieved to see that the prescription is effective.

Then, the baskets, baskets, dustpans, etc. that can be used at home are all filled with wild vegetables, and the old lady is now happy to wash and take care of wild vegetables in the yard every day; As long as Dad was in a little better spirit, he went to sit in the courtyard and slowly weaved a bamboo basket with the bamboo strips that Ling'er had prepared for him.

The most important point is that Ling'er has poked out a path from the dark bushes and woods leading from her house to the vast mountain, this road is basically unwalked, Ling'er plans to take this road to carry the wood cut down in the future, as for the storage location, it was chosen in the broken yard where Dr. Xu was originally intended to be settled.

Next, Ling'er planned to spend ten days to go to the vast mountain to cut down trees, and after the trunks were cleaned, they were carried back to the broken yard and hidden; The branches were bundled and brought home for the winter; If there is more, she plans to find a way to transport the firewood to a nearby town to exchange for some rice, grain and silver money, so that this winter will be settled!

The night before leaving, Ling'er told her father and mother what she thought, and both of them were a little worried when they heard the words, afraid that her little body would not be able to stand it, especially the old lady, who wiped her tears when she said it, and always felt that she was useless, so that Ling'er suffered! But at the moment, the situation at home is like this, and the couple has no other way but to let her go!

Before dawn on the second morning, the old lady got up, made the rice jar empty at home, cooked a large pot of white rice, and then cooked the only small ball of fat in the house, chopped it into minced meat, wrapped it in the rice ball, and wrapped it tightly in oiled paper.

After doing this, she was busy turning over her old clothes, picking out some sturdy and soft fabrics, and sewing handguards, wrist guards, and knee pads according to the size of Ling'er's hands, feet and limbs.

When Ling'er got up, she saw the figure of the old lady sitting in front of the window and engrossed in threading, and she was moved for a while, and she was even more determined to build the house as soon as possible.

At the beginning of Ling'erchen, he first went up the back mountain, and after confirming that no one was following, he ran into the woods and walked on the forest path he had found. When she arrived at the vast mountain, she laid out the same tools: axes, saws, wood knives, sickles, and long ropes, and arranged a string, and then began to select wood and do it.

Although her father taught her how to cut trees and how to use various tools when she was at home, it was still a bit difficult to actually operate. It took Ling'er a morning to cut down a piece of wood with a diameter of 20 centimeters, and although it was slow, she had learned a lot about the use of tools.

For lunch, the old lady prepared fragrant rice balls, and in the afternoon, the work was to trim the felled trees, shave off the branches, cut them into bundles to make firewood, and then carry these things back.

For example, the firewood is too long, one is twenty or thirty meters, one or two hundred catties, Ling'er is not difficult to carry, but walking in the winding grove is quite a hindrance, and finally Ling'er sawed the trunk into a few pieces before getting it back.

Then it was to move firewood, I didn't expect that a tree that didn't look big, and the shaved branches could be made into three solid bundles of firewood, which had to be picked up to the town, and it might be able to sell for fifty or sixty yuan! I thought chopping wood was hard work, but I didn't expect it to be so easy. Won't the problem of one's own livelihood be solved in the future?

Ling'er was happy when she thought about it, and happily carried the firewood like an ant carrying corn, but it was effortless but fast!

She may not know that the work she is doing today may not be finished in a day by an adult strong man! What's more, such a large bundle of wet firewood, at least one or two hundred catties per bundle, it takes a lot of effort to pick it up in the town, and it is not as easy for ordinary people to make money as she imagined.