Chapter 6 Frog Oil
Wang left, and left without leaving a word.
"Min'er, what do you think of this?" The second girl, Aunt Zhang, looked at Zhao Min'er with some embarrassment, and said that it was really embarrassing for this child, her mother died, and her father was demented. The grandfather and second uncle of the family didn't care, and scolded the people who went to them, how could they do such a thing. This big mess has fallen on the shoulders of this ten-year-old child, how can it be, don't say anything else, just say that the money for this funeral is neat.
"Auntie, there are few people in the village who can talk about my father, that is, you and my Uncle Zhang. Now I have to trouble you to help us Zhang Luo......" Zhao Min'er was very moved in her heart, at this time, the people who could take the initiative to help were their benefactors, thinking of this, she pulled Zhao Ling'er to kneel in front of Zhang Qiang and his wife, and said with tears in her eyes:
"We will never forget the great kindness of Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang for the rest of our lives, and we will definitely repay you in the future. Just in front of you...... I have to ask the two of you to bother a lot......" Before Zhao Min'er finished speaking, the couple hurriedly pulled them up, and said with disgust in their mouths:
"What are you doing here? It's all from the villagers, how can you watch your family have something and not help? Aunt Zhang heard Uncle Zhang say this and agreed.
"No, if we can help, we will definitely help, just now your Uncle Zhang sent someone to choose a place to dig a pit on the mountain, this is nothing, we don't have anything else here, there are a lot of places suitable for burial. It's just that this coffin ......" Aunt Zhang couldn't say anything anymore when she said this, most of the people in Hongsongtun were barely fed. Even if his family is doing well, it is not enough to do anything with less than three taels of silver.
"How much does a coffin cost?" Zhao Linger understands Aunt Zhang's difficulties, and now she can't care about pretending to be a child.
"Even the worst one has to be ** two, plus the funeral, how can you get twelve or three taels" Sure enough, no matter what era this death is not so "easy to die", it seems that she has to try her method.
"Uncle Zhang, Aunt Zhang, you go and help Zhang Luo first, and you are in charge of this outside matter. This silver matter, our sisters and sisters will discuss it again, do you think? Zhao Min'er sent Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang out of the room, held Zhao Ling'er in her arms, and said in a deep and powerful voice:
"Ling'er, my mother is gone, Dad...... It's your brother......" Zhao Min'er really can't go on, this family will never be a family again. Zhao Shu was locked up in his family's warehouse by the village chief because of the two elders injured, saying that he would wait until the Wang family's funeral was completed. It is estimated that this punishment must not be light, you must know that in ancient times, filial piety was greater than heaven, and Zhao Shu injured his own grandmother. Fortunately, Zhao Shu is still young and can be disposed of by the village head, and if he is fourteen years old, he will be sent to the government to eat a lawsuit. Ling'er understands that the Zhao family, the Li family, and the Li family's father Li Dabai are not making trouble now, because the village chief is subdued. After the Wang family is buried, those people will definitely not let Zhao Shu go, and it is not clear what position the village chief will stand on at that time.
"Sister, don't worry, we will have a way, and our family will be fine." Ling'er knew Min'er's mood, in fact, she was also worried, but the primary problem now was silver. Just as Ling'er was about to talk about Lin Frog, Min'er spoke.
"Ling'er, you go to town with me in a while, and then you come back with the silver yourself, okay?" Min'er asked softly.
"Sister, should you want it?" Zhao Ling'er is not really only three years old, and immediately understood what Min'er meant, I heard the second aunt say before that the flower building in the town accepts girls all year round. At that time, she thought that she was a child who could not understand, so she often said that she would send their sisters to exchange gifts for her son or something. Now listening to Min'er's meaning, she wants to exchange herself for silver. Not to mention that she has a way now, even if she doesn't and will definitely not let Min'er sell herself, it will be even more uncomfortable than killing herself.
"Well, if you don't go, I'll go. When the time comes, hire an ox cart and you bring the coffin back. Min'er looked at Ling'er firmly, she knew that Ling'er was still too young to support a family, but now there was no other way. She didn't dare to let others follow, for fear that something would happen in the middle, and she wouldn't worry about letting Ling'er come back by herself, I don't know if the place called Hualou could let her bring her sister back?
"Sister, let's not go, as long as you listen to me, we can make money to buy a coffin for my mother without going to that kind of place." Ling'er was really moved, what a sensible and kind sister Min'er is. If it is replaced by someone else, she may be sold on the grounds that no one can take care of her at home, after all, she is young and the price is high.
"Sister doesn't want to go to that place, but now ......" Min'er didn't know what a three-year-old doll could do, but looking at Ling'er's eyes, she couldn't help but believe her.
"Sister, I can't tell you for a while, we can't afford to delay now." Ling'er felt that she couldn't explain it anyway, so she had better do it first and then talk. So, pulling Min'er with two buckets and a kitchen knife, went up the mountain from the back door. Min'er didn't understand what Ling'er was doing in her heart, but after thinking about it, since she was so sure, she would try it. My mother used to say that she was a live horse doctor for dead horses, and she might have become it. It's better than going to that kind of place, although she doesn't know what that place is for, but Erya heard her mother say that it's a place that eats people and doesn't spit out bones, so it's not a good place to go.
"Sister, catch your mother quickly." Ling'er took Min'er to the place where she found the forest frog yesterday, carefully squatted beside the "frog road", and motioned to her sister and her to learn to catch the forest frog. Speaking of frog road, it is not actually a road, but a place where frogs hibernate in order to enter the river. Ling'er grabbed a female frog in her hand and showed it to Min'er, so that she could recognize it and catch it. Anyway, Ling'er grabbed this thing and felt straight back to sour water, but now she didn't have the kung fu to be pretentious there. The children who grew up in the mountains recognized the appearance of the forest frog, although they didn't know why Ling'er let him catch it. But seeing Ling'er's anxious look, she didn't ask much and quickly followed.
"Sister, you catch it here, I'll go over there." Ling'er poured the forest frogs caught by Min'er into his bucket, and it was estimated that there were more than forty of them in most of the buckets, so he took a kitchen knife and walked downstream. After looking at the distance and making sure that it would not affect Min'er catching the frog, he walked to the edge of a large flat rock. I saw that she quickly buckled the barrel to the ground with the mouth facing down to prevent the female frogs from escaping. Then tilt the barrel into a small slit, put your little hand in it, grab a female frog, and use the stone as a cutting board to quickly remove the frog oil. Carefully dry the frog oil on another large stone so that it is not too fresh even if it is not dry. Because the tools are not up to hand, and the speed at which she takes them out, the forest frog oil she takes out looks very average. Anyway, the quality of this thing does not affect the efficacy, and besides, we can't guarantee the quality, but we can guarantee the quantity.
"Ling'er, are you still arrested?" Min'er came to Ling'er with half a bucket of female frogs, and when she saw the corpse of the forest frog on the ground, she unconsciously returned a sip of sour water. I thought to myself that I was glad I didn't eat breakfast, otherwise I would have to vomit it all at this time. Ling'er looked at the big stone next to her, put Min'er's bucket upside down and handed her her empty bucket and said:
"Sister, it's almost enough for you to grab more than half a bucket." In fact, Ling'er wanted to get more forest frog oil, but it was already the right time to see the time. (10:00) You can't just be greedy, otherwise you won't be able to come back before dark. Hopefully, she can succeed, otherwise, she really doesn't know what to do. Soon Min'er came over with half a bucket of female frogs.
"Sister, I'll just be here alone. You go home now and quietly bring Aunt Zhang over, don't let people find out, even Uncle Zhang can't do it. Seeing Ling'er's serious expression, Min'er naturally did as she was told, nodded and ran towards the back door of the house with the empty bucket.
The two of them can't go to town by themselves, they have to have an adult with them. Hey, I'm dressed as a baby at first. Anyway, Aunt Zhang is a good person, and her mouth is quite strict, so it's okay to tell her, so she can be repaid.
"Ling'er, what are you doing here, still sneaking around?" (Northeast dialect: mysterious, sneaky) Aunt Zhang is getting more and more unable to understand these two children, can't it be stimulated by a sudden change?