For a few days in a row, Liu Bicao took Shen Mei up the mountain to find herbs, and brought back some taro, and the family has also changed its taste in the past few days, and is eating taro. Liu Bicao pondered that one day she could go to the town to sell herbs for some money to buy some meat and come back to the children at home.

"Bicao, why haven't you gone to rest yet?" Shen's mother couldn't sleep at night, so she got up with her clothes draped and saw the willow grass sitting in the yard.

"It's still early, mother, and Brother Jin Qian hasn't come back yet." Shen Jinqian went to the mountains to hunt for prey two days ago, and came back in two or three days as he said before leaving, and Liu Bicao kept counting the time.

As the two were talking, they heard the sound of knocking on the door, Liu Bicao's eyes lit up, and she hurriedly ran to open the courtyard door.

As soon as I opened the door, I saw Shen Jinqian standing outside the door, with an angular outline, a slender and tall figure but not a rough figure, wearing a coarse cloth shirt, Liu Bicao couldn't help blushing, fortunately it was at night, and she couldn't see it clearly.

"You're back." Liu Bicao said and reached out to pick up Shen Jinqian's mobile phone, but was dodged by Shen Jinqian, Liu Bicao put her hand down, pulling the corners of her mouth a little lost, "Come in." ”

In addition to three pheasants, two large rabbits, and a roe deer, there was also a live female rabbit, and Liu Bicao could tell that the female rabbit was pregnant with cubs.

Rabbits are born fast, grow fast, Bicao takes the female rabbit to the chicken pen, keeps the raw rabbits, and so on during the New Year, you can take it to the town to sell, some rich people in the town like to eat fresh rabbit meat.

"I'll go to town with you tomorrow, I'm going to take the herbs and change them, and I'm going to buy some things and come back." Liu Bicao followed Jin Qian into the house, Shen Jinqian didn't speak, just nodded.

Early the next morning, Liu Bicao got up early, prepared the family's morning meal, put it in a pot and heated it, and mixed corn and bran to make a few cakes and wrap them so that they could be eaten on the road.

"Sister-in-law, let's go." Shen Jinxin picked the newly picked apricots and plums in the yard and waited for the willow grass with Shen Jinqian.

There are two apricot trees, a peach tree and a plum tree on the hillside behind the house, and the Shen family picks the fruits and sells them in the town during the ripe season, which is also an entry for the family.

There are more than 20 miles from Shanghe Village to the town, and it takes more than an hour to walk, and everyone takes things with them, so they take an ox cart to the town at the head of the village.

When they arrived in the town, it was still early, and the group went to the restaurant in the town first, which Shen Jinqian often went to, and he was also familiar with the shopkeeper, and it didn't take long to sell the game he brought.

"Shen family boy, in the future, you can just send the game to me, here is the money this time, you can take it." The shopkeeper was a cool middle-aged man, "This is your daughter-in-law, you kid is blessed now." ”

As soon as Shen Jinqian came out of the restaurant, he gave the money to Liu Bicao, a total of three hundred and forty-seven dollars.

"Brother Jinqian, now is the time for everyone to come out to buy vegetables, you and Jinxin will go to that street first, and I will go to the pharmacy first." Liu Bicao looked at the sky.

"No, eldest brother, you accompany your sister-in-law to the pharmacy, I'll sell it myself, and you can come to me later." Shen Jinxin said and walked away with the burden.

"Bi girl, you're here." As soon as I entered the pharmacy, Dr. Wang greeted him.

"Doctor Wang, I'm here with the herbs." Bicao went in familiarly, walked to the medicine cabinet, and put down the back basket.

The boy at the pharmacy immediately stepped forward to take it and took out the herbs to weigh them. "Sister Bicao, thanks to you, otherwise we would have to go to the mountains to find herbs by ourselves." ”

Dr. Wang still followed the old rules, took a few green grass questions, and taught a few new ones. "Yes, there is progress." Doctor Wang's eyes were full of satisfaction with Bicao, "If this continues, your medical skills will not be worse than your grandfather in the future." ”

Shen Jinqian heard Doctor Wang say this, but he glanced at Liu Bicao, he didn't expect that Doctor Wang, who had the best medical skills in the town, would say this to Bicao, but he had underestimated her before.

By the time Liu Bicao and Shen Jinqian went to find Shen Jinxin, there were not many apricots and plums left. It took a while for them all to be sold.

"Boss, how is this meat sold?" Liu Bicao walked to the meat stall and asked. The elderly and children in the family have not smelled meat for too long, and it is time to make up for it. Shen Jinxin's eyes lit up when he saw Bicao buying meat, after all, he was only a thirteen or fourteen-year-old child.

In the end, Liu Bicao bought a total of two catties of pork, 32 yuan, two bones, one five yuan, and two ten yuan. I bought two catties of coarse salt at the grocery store, and went to the embroidery room to get the thread and embroidery patterns.

When I got home, there was no one in the family, Shen's father went to the field, Shen's mother went to visit the door, and Shen Mei took Shen He and Shen Jinyan to the bottom of the mountain to pick up firewood and cut pigweed.

Liu Bicao saw that it was not too early, and after putting the things in place, she went into the kitchen. First, the meat that I had just bought was cut into small pieces, salted and placed in the cupboard.

I took a few taro and cleaned it, scooped some brown rice and put it in the pot to cook. I took a bone and put it in the water, patted the ginger again, cut the green onion and added it to it, and added the mushrooms and fishy vegetables I found in the mountains a few days ago.

Waiting for the things in the pot to cook, Liu Bicao went to the vegetable garden behind the house and picked two cucumbers and some beans, ready to make a mixed cucumber and fried beans.

"Sister-in-law, what delicious food are you cooking, it's so fragrant." As soon as Shen He got home, he smelled the fragrance, and ran to the kitchen with his legs, hugging Liu Bicao's legs. The little girl has been very fond of Liu Bicao these days.

Liu Bicao, who couldn't walk, smiled and pinched Shen He's face: "Sister-in-law will make soup for you." As he spoke, he patted her on the head, "Go out and wait, and you can eat when your father and mother come back." ”

When Liu Bicao came out of the stove room with vegetables, she saw her younger brother standing in the yard: "An'er, why are you here?" ”

Liu Boan stood a little cramped in the courtyard, grabbing the hem of his clothes with both hands, and smiled a little uneasily when he saw his own sister: "Brother-in-law asked me to come over for dinner." When it came to the last two words, the voice became smaller and quieter, and Liu Bicao didn't hear it clearly.

Shen Mei was a cheerful girl, and when she saw that her sister-in-law didn't hear clearly, she explained it to Liu Bicao herself.

It turned out that Shen Jinqian knew that his family was open meat today, so he went to Liu's house to find Liu Bo'an, and the Wang family thought that his family could save one person's food, so what did he disagree with, so he immediately let Liu Boan follow Shen Jinqian to Shen's house.

"Daddy and Mom have eaten." After a while, Shen's father and Shen's mother also came back one after another, and Liu Bicao brought dinner to the table in the courtyard. I don't know when the family saw the meat last time, Shen's father and Shen's mother were fine, and the children kept staring at the bone broth and swallowed their saliva quietly.

Shen's mother saw that Liu Boan was a little uneasy and uncomfortable, so she scooped a bowl of bone broth in front of him, "It's the time to grow your body, eat more." As he spoke, he added some beans and fried meat to his bowl.

It is said that half the size of the child, eat the old man. In the Liu family, the Wang family has always let Liu Boan drink the thinnest porridge, and he has to work in the field, so he has a full meal. Not to mention eating meat, but any bit of meat has entered the stomach of Liu Dabao, Wang's biological son. Hearing Shen's mother's words and seeing the meat in the bowl, Liu Bo'an couldn't help but have red eyes, lowered his head and snorted, afraid that people would see the tears dripping into the rice.

Shen Jinxin is usually very arrogant, but when he saw Liu Boan like this, he patted his shoulder with the hand that didn't hold the chopsticks.

After eating, Shen Jinqian sent Liu Boan back to Liu's house. Liu Bicao took out all the items in the town today and put them on the table: "Dad, my mother sold a total of 347 wen for Brother Jinqian today, I sold a total of 124 herbs, and Jin Xin sold a total of 76 wen for the fruits I sold, and there are still some leftover for the food I bought at home." Mother, you take it. ”

Mother Shen looked at Bicao and nodded, she was very satisfied with Bicao.

"Bicao, this money is earned by you and Jinqian, you two take it yourself, and you also take the money for the fruit sold by Jinxin." Mother Shen immediately spoke.

"Mother, I married Brother Jin Qian, and the family I know has been hollowed out, and besides, this family is to be headed by the mother, you should take this money, we have to use it to find the mother." Bicao has no mother since she was a child, and having a father is the same as not having a father, and Shen's mother and Shen's father have also grown up watching Bicao since they were children, so Liu Bicao treats Shen's mother and Shen's father as filial piety as biological parents.

Father Shen was even more satisfied with Bicao when he heard Bicao say this: "Daughter-in-law, you save this money yourself, you are the boss, and this family will rely on you a lot in the future, and in the future, the family will take out a small part of the income for your mother as the family's expenses, and you will save the rest." After speaking, he took some big money and gave it to Shen's mother.

Seeing this, Shen Jinqian and Shen Jinxin didn't say much, and took the rest of the money back and put it on their own.