CHAPTER XIII

"Sister, did you buy a watch?" Yu Tao saw the watch in Yu Panpan's hand and asked in surprise, you must know that the current watch is not cheap, and it is not something that ordinary people can afford to wear.

"My master sent it in wool." Master is a good excuse, a lot of things can be pushed on him, anyway, he is far away in the imperial capital, no one will look for him to confront him, she can't help this watch, she won't look at the time according to the sun like others, so she had to take a mechanical watch out of the villa, this is still the equipment issued by their unit in the previous life, between the particularity of the work, their unit will issue new watches almost every two years to replace the old watches, and I don't know how many watches have been eliminated before Yu Panpan comes back, but Yu Panpan has collected all the eliminated watches, to commemorate their glorious years; Now it is the most primitive watch that is worn on the hand.

"Sister, your master is so good to you." Yu Tao was envious, but he was not jealous, he was even happier for his sister.

Back home, Yu Panpan didn't cook rice, but each person cooked a bowl of noodles and fried a poached egg, and the three of them ate very fragrantly, and the two brothers ate cornmeal steamed buns in the morning, and rarely ate soup noodles.

After breakfast, Yu Bo saw that there was not a lot of firewood at home, so he took the initiative to say that he was going to chop firewood, originally Yu Panpan had prepared firewood for the winter very early, but Yu Grandma passed away and used a lot of firewood, Yu Daming's family did not even have a firewood, and later Yu Panpan was injured again, so there was less firewood for the winter, and she wanted to wait for a while to chop firewood, because she is now a sick person, still on sick leave, and is not suitable for heavy work.

The two brothers each have a firewood knife and a flat pole, Yu Panpan is carrying a basket, there is a small hoe in the blue, the three sisters and brothers walked towards Dalong Mountain, their Hunan Province is located in the central and southern part of Huaxia Kingdom, it is a hilly area, there are small hills everywhere, only Dalong Mountain is a big mountain range in this region, the resources in the mountains are very rich, but there are fierce beasts in the deep mountains, and ordinary people only cut firewood, hunting and picking wild fruits on the periphery of the mountain, in Panpan's memory, I don't know anything else, but there must be wild boars, and there are quite a few, Every year on the eve of the autumn harvest, the brigade will organize militia to guard the crops at the foot of the mountain with guns and gongs, if a single wild boar is killed with a gun and sold to the purchase station, if a herd of wild boars goes down the mountain, it will be driven away by a gong; Yu Bo didn't want Yu Panpan to follow him to the mountains, but Yu Panpan was not at ease, mainly because he was worried that they would encounter wild boars; She must follow, otherwise the two brothers will not be allowed to go up the mountain, so Yu Bo has to compromise.

After walking for about 20 minutes, the three sisters and brothers arrived at the foot of Dalong Mountain, Yu Panpan asked Yu Bo to take his younger brother to chop firewood at the foot of the mountain, the firewood here is thicker than the firewood on the hills near the house, and it is also more and safer, and the half-grown children in the production team are chopping firewood here; Yu Panpan continued to walk up the winding mountain path, there was a camellia forest on the mountainside, the tea seeds on the tree had already been picked, Yu Panpan dug up more than a dozen small camellia trees, and cut down some dead trees, and put them into the space while no one saw them. Further up, cut more than a dozen Nanzhu in the Nan bamboo forest, dug a few bamboo whips into the space and went down the mountain, but no longer along the path, but from the bushes, so that you can dig some herbs by the way: Banlan root, turmeric, lily, Yu Panpan saw what to dig what, and later dug a nest of gastrodia, saw that from time to time there were pheasants flying by, and hares ran by, so he used stones to stun two pheasants and three hares, in order not to be conspicuous, Yu Panpan only left some banlan root and turmeric plus a hare in the basket, and the rest was put into the space by her.

Coming down from the mountain, it was already more than one o'clock in the afternoon, Yu Bo and the two brothers chopped two loads of firewood with the scriptures, and after seeing Yu Panpan, they tied up the firewood, the two brothers carried the firewood, and Yu Panpan carried the basket and walked back.

"Panpan, let's go chop wood." On the way, I met a few old ladies who were beating pigweed, and I couldn't help but feel pity when I saw Yu Panpan with a bandage on his head and a hat on his head and going to chop wood.

"Hello grandma, I didn't chop firewood, it was Xiaobo and Xiaotao who cut it, they were afraid that I didn't have firewood, so they took advantage of the Sunday rest to come back and cut some firewood for me." Yu Panpan explained.

"Xiaobo and Xiaotao are really sensible, and they know that their sister is heartbroken." The old lady looked at the two brothers who were carrying the firewood and nodded.

"Both of them are very good, they know that I am injured, they go to the hospital to accompany me every day after school, and when they come back, they come back to help during the break, and they rush to do everything at home." Yu Panpan said with a smile.

"What a good boy, as filial and sensible as my sister." Old ladies like filial people, and Yu Panpan's meticulous service to her grandmother after her illness won the praise of most of the old people in the team.

"Over the years, my sister has suffered a lot, but this time she suffered a big sin, the doctor said that she must recuperate for three months before she can work, and she can only do heavy work after six months, otherwise it will be difficult for the body to recover, and it will leave sequelae, we can help a little, reduce the burden on my sister, and let her recover as soon as possible." Yu Bo couldn't hide the sadness in his heart, and burst into tears as he spoke, he didn't expect their eldest aunt to be so ruthless that she almost beat their sister to death.

"If you don't die, there will be blessings in the future, I hope that my life will be smooth in the future, and Xiaobo should not be too sad." The old lady saw Yu Bo crying and hurriedly comforted her.

"It's okay, Grandma Chen, let's go back, my sister has been out for too long, we have to go back to rest." The three siblings said goodbye to the old ladies and went home.

Back at home, Yu Panpan asked Yu Tao to light the fire, while he washed rice and cooked rice, and Yu Bo helped wash the vegetables, and now there are no other vegetables, only cabbage and radish vegetables, when he came out of the space in the morning, Yu Panpan brought some cabbage out, although it was better than the one in the field, but Yu Bo They were boys who were more careless and didn't often live in the countryside, so they didn't find any difference.

After cooking, Yu Panpan caught the biggest fish, knocked it out, and then cut the fish into scales, put the fish slices on ginger, green onions, salt, and cooking wine to marinate, and cut the fish head and fish bones into pieces and put them aside.

There were only three people, and Yu Panpan didn't cook any other dishes, a dish of boiled fish and a small cabbage with garlic and rice, and all three of them were full.

"Sister, don't cook rice in the future, it's okay for us to eat sweet potatoes." Yu Bo saw that she had cooked rice in Yu Panpan twice, and she didn't put any sweet potatoes in it, and she was very uneasy, for fear that her two brothers would eat all her sister's rice, and she would have to eat all the sweet potatoes.

"It's okay, my sister can make money, just buy it after eating, my sister has no other skills, it's okay to let you eat a few meals of rice." Although it is not allowed to do business now, some bold people secretly sell things in the city, and a small-scale black market has been formed, many things can be bought in the black market, but the price is more expensive, Yu Panpan is not afraid of revealing the filling, she doesn't like to eat sweet potatoes, and she doesn't like to eat sweet potato rice, in her past and present life, she has eaten too much red and sweet potato rice, since she returned here and found the space, she never thought about using sweet potatoes as a meal, and occasionally eating a baked sweet potato as a snack is okay. Although the rice planted in the space is not yet ripe, there are still two bags of 50 catties of rice in the villa, which are the Mid-Autumn Festival materials issued by the bureau before returning, in addition to two boxes of peanut oil, a box of fresh lychees, a box of fresh longan, a box of mangosteen, a box of sugar oranges, a bag of grapefruit, and a few bags of cuttlefish and squid; But Yu Panpan didn't dare to take out those things for the two brothers to eat, so he could only let them eat some rice.