Mu Xiang smiled: "Don't be so unproductive, when my sister has money, I will buy cotton seeds, let's plant cotton, and there will be new quilts in the future. She smiled and laid the quilt for Mu Lang, and really put half a bed cover and half a bed for him.

At night, there were frogs, crickets, and strange bird calls in the bamboo forest.

Bird call?

Mu Xiang had already laid down, but as soon as he heard the bird's call, he immediately sat up and leaned on the window to listen softly. The strange cry, intermittent, but audible very clearly. After a few moments, Muxiang lay down again. It seems that tomorrow they will have roast chicken to eat, pheasant stewed with mushrooms, just thinking about it, will drool, but...... There is no oil at home.

"Alas, where can I get money," Mu Xiang sighed helplessly at the roof, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, there are no materials, no matter how fragrant and delicious it is, it can't be burned. After thinking about it, she still decided to go to the town early tomorrow morning, after all, she is also a modern person, and the living cannot be suffocated by urine.

The next morning, it was another sunny day.

Mu Xiang slept heavily last night, and slept until dawn, and the sun shone on the yard. Seeing that Mu Lang and Caiyun were still asleep, she quietly got up and got out of bed, combed her waist-length hair, and opened the door and went out.

Because of the bamboo forest, the air in the morning is particularly fresh, and there is a faint fragrance of bamboo leaves, and you can still hear the rustling sound of the wind blowing through the bamboo.

Mu Xiang stood under the eaves of the porch, looking at the empty courtyard, and always felt that something was missing. Also, which farmer doesn't have chickens and ducks in the yard, I went to Grandma Wang's house yesterday and saw a few old hens cooing in her yard. Although it is almost autumn now, the chicks cannot be caught, and no one raises chicks in the autumn, but you can buy a few hens to raise them back, and go back to us a few more rows of cabbage, and then prepare some corn, and you can feed. Even if you don't eat chicken, it's good to raise some eggs to improve your diet.

Thinking that there was still a lot to do, Mu Xiang stretched her arms, feeling full of strength. The feeling of powerlessness that I woke up yesterday morning was gone, there were so many things to worry about, and there were more urgent things to solve, so I didn't have the time to think about it.

Today's breakfast is still corn paste, no way, in addition to cornmeal, only those potatoes can be eaten, mushrooms can be cooked, but there is no oil, and you can't cook if you want to.

Caiyun was awakened by the sound of Muxiang sweeping the floor, and through the window, she saw that the eldest sister was one step ahead of her, and had already sprinkled water in the yard and swept it carefully with a broomstick.

This yard was originally a small yard for the Mu family to put things aside, Grandpa Mu Xiang was young, and he could do it, all the yards of the Mu family were paved with bluestone slabs, but because no one lived for many years, the soil in the courtyard here was a foot thick. The previous Mu Xiang, who lived in with his younger siblings, patronized and begged for a living, and did not take care of it carefully, Caiyun was also busy with Mu Lang, no one thought that the mud on the top was removed, revealing the bluestone slab underneath, and the yard looked not as broken as imagined.

In fact, Mu Xiang also saw that the house they lived in looked broken, as if it was about to fall, but it did not leak wind or rain, although the house was darker, but it was not like an ordinary adobe house, it was damp and wet. I don't know, is it the spirit of the Mu family who blesses them in heaven, or whether they have their own providence in the dark. When she has time, she must take her younger siblings to her mother and grandfather to go to the grave, the living don't know, the dead know, her soul lives in Mu Xiang's body, who knows, when and where, and she has to wear it back again! However, before wearing it back, it is not worth it to enjoy the life of another world.

Seeing Caiyun come out of the house, Mu Xiang called her over, "Wait for breakfast, I'll go to the town market, you watch Mu Lang at home, don't tell him to run around, wait for me to come back." ”

Caiyun said worriedly: "What are you going to do in the bazaar, we don't have any money, you don't want to find a job again, right?" "In the past, Mu Xiang, the only source of livelihood, was to go to the town to help, Yuhe Village is not far from the town, if you walk, it is only half an hour, and it is an hour to come and go, so many times, Mu Xiang always gets up before dawn, and when the moon comes out, he can go home. As soon as I came back, I was tired and lay on the kang, and I didn't even have the strength to eat, and I was very distressed to see Caiyun.

Mu Xiang saw her sister's worries, and shook her head with a smile, "I used to work like that, I was tired and couldn't make any money, so I'm ready to make another living, don't worry, I'm not doing anything bad, I just want to go and see again, if it's fast, I'll be back at noon." ”

"Oh, then be careful on the road, don't come back too late," Caiyun didn't say anything, the eldest sister used to go into the county seat often, back and forth, and she didn't think about anything else.

After breakfast, the dishes and chopsticks were washed with colorful clouds. Mu Lang was still playing in the yard, and sometimes he could hear the sound of the village children playing outside, and he just picked up the crack of the door, looked out a few times, and then closed the door. Looking at his lonely appearance, Mu Xiang was full of distress. When the situation is better in the future, we must let Mu Lang go out more.

Before going out, Mu Xiang returned to the hut, opened a crack in the wall and dug a few times, she kept the memory of Mu Xiang before, remembering that Mu Xiang hid all the money in the family here, all of which she earned as a helper in the county seat, in fact, it was not much in total, probably only a few dozen yuan, only enough to buy a pound of pork.

Of course, she didn't want to use the money to buy pork to eat, not to the point of being greedy. Now that the family has land, at least you have to buy vegetable seeds first, now is the season to plant radish, and winter cabbage, green garlic, cabbage, Chinese cabbage is indispensable, at that time, as long as you dig a cellar in the yard, you can store it for winter food. The price of these vegetables should not be too expensive, so she is ready to buy more. The piece of land she asked Li Dashan for earlier was the closest to the broken thatched hut, on the edge of the bamboo forest, and she turned around and asked someone to plow the land.

To get to the town, you have to walk from the village.

Mu Xiang touched the red bumps on his face, it seemed to be stricter than yesterday, such a face, if it doesn't scare people, it's not bad.

Although the sun had just come out, the countrymen were industrious, and some people went down to the field with hoes in the morning, and they would rush back for breakfast, and they all saw the fragrance of wood.

A woman was holding a child, standing at the door of her house, about to feed her, when she saw Mu Xiang's little face full of red bumps, she shouted at her in surprise: "Mu Xiang, what's wrong with your face, why are all red bumps?" She shouted loudly, and a young woman with thinning hair rushed out from next door.