Wu Shi grabbed Gu Shigui's cuffs distressedly, checked his wrist, and saw that his skinny skin was red, and seeing that Gu Qingzhu was protected by Zheng Jialu's support, even if he grabbed it hard, he was afraid that he would not be able to succeed.

"You wait for me, on the morning of the first day of February, I will come on time to collect grain and oil, if there is half a little missing, see how I clean you up!" Wu shouted hatefully, put down this cruel sentence, and left with Gu Shigui one after another.

"Are you alright?" Zheng Jialu looked Gu Qingzhu up and down.

"I'm fine, thanks to Uncle Zheng for coming in time, let's sit at home now." Gu Qingzhu put Zheng Jialu into the house.

Zheng Jialu waved his hand and pulled the half-worn gray jacket on his body: "No, the people from Xiaojiaba are just right to send a message and say, please ask me to come over and help for two days, I will hurry up, I will arrive at noon, you can play together." ”

Without taking two steps, Zheng Jialu turned back and said softly: "If your grandma and second uncle come to trouble you again, remember to go to the village chief to make the decision, don't resist, so as not to suffer in vain!" ”

"I see." Gu Qingzhu replied in a low voice.

Zheng Jialu nodded, then said nothing more, and walked quickly.

Gu Qingzhu pulled Gu Zhaodi back to the kitchen and asked with some confusion: "Why did you and Uncle Zheng come so coincidentally?" ”

"Didn't we say yesterday that we were going to help the big girl dig bamboo shoots, I just walked outside your yard, and I heard the sound of your grandma's noise, you know that I don't have the ability to quarrel, so I can only find my father, and I happened to meet him on the road and was about to go out." Gu Zhaodi rubbed the corners of her clothes and said shyly.

"Thank you so much, I thought I was going to be robbed again like the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve." Gu Qingzhu gratefully held her hand.

"Your second uncle was forced to pay debts, he did it himself, he was cheeky to borrow money from various families in the village, but who dares to lend this kind of lazy gambler? Every family has found an excuse to push it away, he can harm you, once or twice, my father said, the village style has been damaged by such people, and the village chief will definitely not ignore this crooked trend, let alone stand by! Gu Zhaodi pulled her backhand and comforted.

Gu Qingzhu left Zhaodi to eat a bowl of noodle soup, instructed his younger siblings a few words, and the two of them took the guy and went out.

The bamboo garden of the eldest girl's family is much larger than Gu Qingzhu's family, for a few days in a row, the three girls are digging bamboo shoots, Gu Qingzhu continued to sell bamboo shoots in the restaurant, and slowly groped out a little way, the eldest girl and Zhao Di also learned well in the vegetable market, and it was difficult for the women to steal, and the three of them sold the winter bamboo shoots day by day for a lot more than usual.

Sun sat on the bed every night and counted the money, but she couldn't count it, she was laughed at several times by the eldest girl, she was the most careful in her life, although she was illiterate, but she drew the family's income and expenditure for a year on a piece of paper, others couldn't understand her paintings, only she knew that Gu Qingzhu helped her family sell the bamboo shoots at double the price of previous years.

In this way, Qingshan's medicine expenses have hope, and the debts that the family carries, pick up the most important ones to repay a few small amounts, as a reward for Gu Qingzhu, the Sun family often let Qingchuan pick up Qingying to play with during the day, and always leave her for lunch.

Qingying is just a six-year-old girl, she can't eat much, at most one or two nests and a bowl of gruel are full, and in Sun's hands, it's just a matter of adding an extra scoop of water.

The three of them went to the creek to dig earthworms, went to the foot of the mountain to pick up loose balls, and played until Gu Qingzhu came back, and then they were reluctant to go home.

Sister A and Little Sister are not at home, Gu Qingsong often eats some leftover porridge in the morning, freeing up more time to warm books, he has a lot of strength in his heart, he secretly made up his mind, even if he doesn't go to school, he will go to the children's exam next year, and he must get into the top three, this is Sister A's wish, and it is also the head of their family.

In the end, it was spring, the sun was warmer than in winter, the weather was fine for several days, the mountain wind blew on people's faces, it was no longer as painful as scraping bones in winter, and the men went to work in the field, and they were already about to take off their cotton jackets and hang them on the branches.

Several restaurants in Nancang County that cook home-cooked food, at first just with the mentality of trying it out, bought Gu Qingzhu's winter bamboo shoots, but I didn't expect that the diners liked the freshness of the winter bamboo shoots very much, and the shopkeepers rushed to ask her to send them every day, and the bamboo shoots of the eldest girl's family were almost sold, Gu Qingzhu also introduced other people in the village to sell them, and they didn't hide their privacy at all, and others thought of her well.

The sky is not sunny for a long time, after a few days, the sky began to rain trickle, this rain is not big, there is no lightning and thunder of the big shower, just thin, dense turns, day after night, oblique wind and drizzle do not stop.

This is the long-awaited rain festival of the farmers, the spring rain is as expensive as oil, Gu Qingzhu was trapped at home by the rain for several days, but her heart was happy, she looked through the rain curtain, it seemed that she could see the mulberry strips, the tea pile got the rain in time, and the branches and branches contained a winter's eagerness to break out of the wall.

Gu Qingzhu took advantage of the rain to embroider Luopa at home, while Gu Qingsong had a lot of time to warm up his books, and whenever he saw the proudness, he always had to read aloud uncontrollably, Qingying played with her little tiger puppet in the tranquility and grace of Sister Ah and Brother Brother's spirit, or whispered to the little turtle across the sand.

After the rain, the sun rises again, the farmers can't wait to carry the hoe to work in the field, after a few days of rain baptism, the mountains and forests and fields glow with fresh breath everywhere, the green cabbage in the cabbage leaf surface rolls water droplets, even the bamboo leaf old tea is brighter a lot.

Gu Qingzhu can't wait to see the growth of the tea garden, her tea tree is cultivated by her mother Wang from the south to bring the tea seed, three years to grow into a small seedling, in order to better grow the tea tree, Wang has always only picked one season of tea in early spring, until Gu Qingzhu was ten years old when he was in charge, the tea tree really entered the peak production period, and it can be picked in spring, summer and autumn.

Three years ago, Gu Qingzhu opened a few terraces on the top of the original tea garden, and cultivated new branches with cuttings, and the harvest can begin this year.

She went to the mulberry garden again, in order to pick conveniently, the mulberry garden will cut off useless branches and weak branches every winter, leaving only a few strong branches, Gu Qingzhu looked at it carefully, and the bud mouths on each branch were obviously bulging, obviously the new power that had accumulated throughout the winter was about to move.

In the winter leisure, Gu Qingzhu has already fattened the tea garden and mulberry garden, but she still has to go to the garden every day to see, loosen the soil, and find different changes in the buds every day, which makes her have a more certain future for the future.

Before last year, she was the same as the people in the village, she was selling fresh tea, but the tea was delicate, not to mention, more than ten miles of mountain road running down, the tea was not only soft and unsightly, but also covered by the back of the basket person, and the aroma of the tea changed its taste, so the fresh tea leaves of Gujiaao could only be sold to the tea shop in Cuiping Town.

But no matter the year is apologetic, who has never sold a good price, in the season of wind and rain, the tea is good, but always have to be picked by the tea shop in every way to reduce the price, if you catch up with the bad luck of the year, suffered from natural disasters and insect pests, tea production is reduced, not to mention, a family gets up early and is greedy for dark, and can not earn half a year of food, but the tea is not picked and does not work, which will affect the harvest of summer tea and autumn tea.

Far away in Nancang County, more than 20 miles away, there is a big tea market every year, merchants gather, the price is fair, but such a long way has long blocked the life of the people of Gujiaao, just imagine, who will collect the fresh tea mixed with the smell of sweat!

Gu Qingzhu tried hard to make money last year, and never gave up any opportunity to try, when she collected the third spring tea, she really carried fresh tea leaves to the Nancang County Tea Market, but every shopkeeper who collected tea just looked and smelled, but they all regretfully refused to accept it, until he met Han Shouyi of Sansheng, he has been doing this for 30 years, and he is so experienced that he really took a fancy to Gu Qingzhu's tea, when he knew that she had run dozens of miles to come, he was very surprised, and it was unexpected that in addition to Mujia Tea Mountain, there were better tea trees in Cuiping Town.

Han Shouyi would not make a loss-making deal for the owner, so naturally he did not buy Gu Qingzhu's tea, but he made a bold decision and made an exception to bring her into the backyard tea workshop and gave her a small handful of steamed green loose tea.

On that day, Gu Qingzhu opened her eyes in the workshop, stayed for two hours, and kept the process of making tea firmly in her heart, she was extremely smart, knowing that Han Shouyi was helping her, helping her sell the tea from the mountains into Nancang County, and harvesting a price several times higher than that of Cuiping Town.

Gu Qingzhu took out all the money he had earned before, and even took out the last bit of savings left by his father, and bought a complete set of tools for making tea cakes.

These tools, especially the heaviest gauge, the gauge is cast in iron, there are circular grooves inside, and the lid is made of bluestone, which can be closed on the gauge, both of which are real weights.

The people in the village are not optimistic about Gu Qingzhu making her own tea, Gu Jiaao's ancestors have followed the old principles for generations, how can they be easily broken by a teenage girl, this is simply wishful thinking, the whim wasted the tea, and the grandmother scolded her like a madman, in such a one-sided predicament, only the younger siblings and the eldest girl Zhaodi stood firmly on her side.

With tea-making tools, Gu Qingzhu made tea in the kitchen at home, and the taste of the meal, the smell of burning oil from pine hair, and the smell of stone iron all destroyed the aroma of tea, making it lose its natural color, which was still far from that handful of steamed green loose tea.

After several failures, she finally realized that tea making needs to be a clean place, no fragrance and tasteless firewood, as for the raw taste of the standard, she can only use ripe tea leaves to repeatedly press and pat, dip the tea juice into it, and slowly boil it.

There was no suitable place at home, Gu Qingzhu wanted to build a shack in the tea garden, she had a new idea, so she went to cut bamboo, Zhao Di helped cut thatch, and the eldest girl called her eldest brother and Zheng Changlin.

Gu Qingzhu tried twice more in the shack, and made the same steamed green tea cake as in the Sansheng Tea Workshop, and finally caught up with the last spring tea.