Without Aunt Wu bouncing outside, the entire Qingshan Village was much cleaner, and the villagers were preparing for the New Year in an orderly manner.

And Gu Ye went into his pharmacy and concocted medicinal herbs in full swing. She was going to send a batch of medicinal herbs to Jimin Hall a year ago. Her pharmacy, which was originally a utility room for the family, was later sorted out to store pharmaceutical tools and some crude drugs. After the wooden house was put to great use, it has begun to take shape after several repairs and expansions.

Because except for Gu Ye's master and apprentice, the others almost didn't go in, so how many medicinal materials were stored, Gu Xiao's grandfather and grandson were not clear. Gu Ye smuggled a batch of herbs into the space, and the others didn't know.

In addition to cooking and laundry, Aunt Yan was also given the task of cutting medicine. Her knife work is very good, her techniques are sophisticated, and the herbs she cuts are even and meticulous, which is even more perfect than Gu Ye's cutting after practicing for more than a month, and she often holds a knife at a glance.

With her help, Gu Ye was much more relaxed, and the progress of concocting medicinal materials was naturally much faster. But after five or six days, the crude drug in the pharmacy was almost concocted. Gu Ye stole into the space and made a batch of children's medicines.

Gu Ming has not been idle these days, going to Uncle Gu San's house every day to read with him. Originally, when his mother was alive, she began to send him, who was only six years old, to Gu San's house to read and write. When Liu entered the door, Gu Ming had been studying for two years. It wasn't until Liu was pregnant with Xiaozhuang that Gu Ming was not allowed to study in order to save money for his son.

In the past three years, Gu Ming has been taking advantage of the gap between work to review the knowledge she has learned before, and from time to time she goes to a private school to steal teachers, or learns from Zhang Lihu and Li Hao, and she has not lost much of the words she knew before. However, compared with those children who have been studying with Gu Sanbo, it is still a little difficult to keep up with the progress.

Fortunately, he is smart and studious, and he can endure hardships. Gu Sanbo opened a small stove for him from time to time, and Gu Ming's progress quickly caught up. In addition to studying, he has to practice with his grandfather every morning and evening, and in winter, he sweats all over his body when it is more than ten degrees below zero outside. The belief in his heart is supporting him - he wants to be the champion of martial arts, he wants to support his sister and become her support!

Witnessing his sister's pharmaceutical talent and business acumen, he felt that he had to speed up his pace, otherwise he would not be able to catch up with his sister's footsteps and would be left far behind! Therefore, whether he is practicing or studying, he works hard.

In fact, like Gu Ye's pharmaceutical talent, Gu Ming is also a rare genius in martial arts. Otherwise, Gu Xiao would not have let his hard-won grandson embark on this path. With Gu Ming's efforts, his kung fu can be described as a thousand miles a day. Gu Xiao saw it in his eyes, and a trace of appreciation flashed from time to time in his stern expression.

On the twentieth day of the lunar month, Gu Sanbo's private school took annual leave. Compared with the snowstorm last year ago, this year's God is too cooperative, the sun has been shining before the holiday, and many villagers in Qingshan Village have decided to go to the town together on this day to purchase New Year's goods for the last time.

Gu Ye packed the concocted medicinal materials one by one on the first day, and prepared to send them to the town with everyone the next day. In addition, there were still ten days before the Chinese New Year, so she stopped by to inquire if there was any news of the Master. Alas...... I wonder if he can come back to celebrate the New Year with her!

Still set off before dawn, Gu Xiao and Gu Ming led a horse alone, and Gu Ye was wrapped in a thick sweater and sat on his grandfather's jujube red horse. On each side of the saddle hung two bamboo baskets containing medicinal herbs for the Jimin Hall.

Seeing these two tall horses, the people in the village couldn't help but be a little greedy. Li Hao rushed over and said enviously: "Gu Ming, what about your family's original two mules?" How did you change to a horse? ”

Gu Ming explained: "Those two mules were lent to us by Jimintang. Last time, my sister went to the border to save people, and she passed by the town and went back. The horse my sister rode was brought back by my grandfather. The other was given by Major General Chu. ”

"Major General? Is it Grandpa Zheng and your sister who rushed over to save them despite the cold? Grandpa Zheng saved his life, and Sister Ye'er became seriously ill because of this, so it was nothing to take him a horse. Li Hao saw the black horse led by Gu Ming, he looked more docile, licked his face and said, "Gu Ming, can you let me hold it for a while?" ”

"Yes! The horse is obedient, you go ahead, and it follows on its own. Don't mess with the reins, my grandfather said: even the most docile horse has a temper. Gu Ming couldn't help but admonish.

Li Hao carefully took the reins, followed Gu Ming's example, and walked forward with slightly stiff steps. The horse was very good-tempered, and it was led by a stranger, and it only paused slightly, glanced at Gu Ming gently, and continued to walk forward.

The other children who went to the town with their parents to buy looked at Li Hao with hot eyes. The children in the village didn't have many children who had a good time with Gu Ming before, and some naughty children even joked that he and Gu Ye were motherless children. However, those children who had bullied his sister were all beaten back by Gu Ming. This is also the reason why these children, embarrassed to be like Li Hao, proposed to lead the horse.

However, the village chief's donkey became the target of the children's scramble, and the sharp noise almost surprised the donkey. In the end, it was the village chief who dignified the order in which each child led the donkey, so as not to fight.

The mountain road is long, even the mountain people who are used to walking the mountain road are gradually feeling tired, not to mention that many people have brought their children out, and the speed will naturally open up the gap. Li Hao and Gu Ming are used to running mountain roads, and they have drilled countless times a day in the back mountains. In addition, Li Hao has also practiced kung fu with Gu Ming for a period of time, and his legs and feet can keep up.

In the evening, Gu Xiao and Li Hao were the first to arrive at the "compound" in the village. Li Hao helped Gu Xiao's grandfather and grandson unload the medicinal herbs from the horses, moved them into the big kang room one by one, and diligently rushed with Gu Ming to feed the horses. Along the way, he got acquainted with Xiao Hei, and he had to touch its head inch by inch and stroke its back.

Not long after, the villagers also arrived at the "compound" one after another. However, there are really few people who are willing to spend money to enter the house, except for Gu Xiaoye and the village chief's family.

"That...... Ye'er-" Gu Ye followed behind her grandfather and was about to enter the house to rest, when she heard a cowardly voice behind her call her. When she looked back, it turned out to be Widow Li from the village, and behind the other party, a little girl about her age looked at her with a pair of clear eyes.

"Aunt Li, what's wrong?" Gu Ye has never intersected with Widow Li's mother and daughter. However, in the memory of the original owner, Li Xiuhong, the daughter of Widow Li, went up the mountain with the original owner from time to time. When the original owner was seriously ill, she also came to see her twice. Ever since she was passed on to her grandfather, the little girl didn't seem to have been to the door once.

In my impression, Widow Li was young and widowed, pulling two children by herself, and her life was difficult. The man in her family is close to the village chief's family, and if it weren't for the village chief's help, life would have been unbearable.

As for being good with the original master, Gu Ye felt that she could see through the little girl's mind - for those who were worse than herself, she did not hesitate to show her sympathy, and achieved a psychological balance by helping the weak. Once a person who is not as good as herself suddenly becomes "rich", her mentality is unbalanced, and she will naturally be estranged.

Widow Li looked up at the fire fox fur on Gu Ye's body, lowered her head quickly, and said expectantly: "It's cold outside at night, does Ye'er have cold-resistant clothes, borrow Xiu Hong's drape for a night." I'll give you back ...... early in the morning."

Widow Li looked back at the cotton clothes patched on her daughter's body, the cotton inside was already hard and clumpy, and it was not warm to wear on her body. Looking at her daughter's red and swollen hands and frostbitten ears, she couldn't help but feel sad and blamed herself. It's because she doesn't have the ability, and her children suffer with her......

Xiao Yezi of the Gu family, like her daughter before, couldn't eat enough and didn't have enough clothes, and the relationship between the two was good, so she should be able to understand her love for her daughter, right? Actually, Widow Li wanted Gu Ye to lend her big coat to her daughter to wear, because along the way, Xiuhong looked at the clothes on her former friend with envy and longing eyes more than once.

She didn't know it anymore, and she also knew that Gu Ye's fiery red body was something they could afford for the rest of their lives. The only thing she can do now is to be cheeky and borrow Dayu to let her daughter wear it for the night, so as to satisfy the small hope in her daughter's heart......

In Widow Li's opinion, since Gu Ye had entered the big kang room, this big kang was idle. It's all from the villagers, so you shouldn't refuse this little thing, right? Besides, when Gu Ye was down, her daughter was the only one who was willing to approach her and be friends with her. If Gu Ye refused to do this little thing for her friends, what would the people in the village think of her? I'll definitely think she's unkind!

Gu Ye stroked the fire fox fur on his body, and his deep eyes rested on Widow Li's daughter. That Li Xiuhong listened to Widow Li's words, looked up at her, her mouth moved, and her eyes fixed on the big curtain on her for a moment, but she didn't say anything.

There are also families in the village who are too poor to afford a wedding dress, and when their daughter gets married, they will borrow the wedding dress from the married girl who is slightly better-off, wash it and return it after they get married. That's no way around it! However, Gu Ye never expected that the clothes on his body would be borrowed one day.

Not to mention that this fire fox fur is brand new, even if she wears clothes that she doesn't like, she won't be willing to lend them to others. In Gu Ye's view, men and clothes are intimate and close-fitting, and they must never be shared with others!

Gu Xiao couldn't see the emotions implied in her heart from her granddaughter's inadvertent little actions, and hurriedly opened her mouth and smiled: "Yes, seeing that the Chinese New Year is approaching, and the water outside is dripping into ice at night, we adults can still stand it, and the children will suffer if they live outside." ”