Chapter 283: Xiaoying Village
At this time, let's save people first, a bowl of medicine is in the stomach, the patient's complexion is obviously better, not only the person is sober, but also the appetite is much better.
"I'll prescribe three more pairs of medicines, and I should be fine after taking them, but after all, people are damaged, and they still have to take care of themselves." The prescriptions prescribed by Imperial Physician Liu are all ordinary medicinal materials, not to mention that Shopkeeper Su didn't ask him for silver, but it was only a few taels.
The next day, he and Su Wang went to the yamen to go through the transfer procedures, and Manqing didn't want to take advantage of him, so he took the initiative to increase the price by 20%.
The restaurant still needs to be rebuilt, these are what Su Xing and they have to worry about, the pharmacy can't handle the transfer procedures for a while because the lawsuit is not over, and the investigation of the fire has to give people time, in addition to Su Da, he also left Ah Yuan to watch here, and he took Ah Shuang to the small camp village outside the city.
Manqing really wants to know, what happened to that little mountain, buying farm tools is all an adult's business,
The two drove a small carriage and ran happily to the suburbs, because they left early, Feng'er still had a hint of coolness,
"Girl, the mountain here is much shorter than the one in the north, and there must be no beasts in the mountain!"
Ah Shuang has been to Yaocheng, although it is also south, but it is closer to the west, connected to the sea, and the scenery of the south of the Yangtze River is very different.
"That's not necessarily, there must be a lot of water and grass here, there must be a lot of small animals, there should be more birds, there are so many rations, how can there be no beasts?"
The master and servant watched the scenery all the way, and soon arrived at the entrance of a village, only to see the three big characters of Xiaoying Village written on the boundary monument.
"This is it," Ah Shuang jumped out of the car first, and looked inside, where is there any shack, there is only a big grinding disc, have you been deceived? For ten copper coins, it's not enough.
A few children were playing at the millstone at the entrance of the village, and when they saw the living people, they looked at them timidly, and did not dare to come forward.
"Little sister, let's look for Xiao Shanzi, do you know where he is?" Ah Shuang took some jelly beans and coaxed them.
"I know, he's living in a shack over there." A little girl of five or six years old, who took her candy, volunteered to show them the way.
After walking a few steps into the village, I found that there was a dark passage, turned around, and sure enough, there was a straw shed.
"Brother Shanzi, someone is looking for you." With the sound, the grass curtain moved, and a little girl came out of it,
"Sister Yingzi, my brother has gone to the field." The little girl had white skin, small eyebrows and eyes, and looked only three or four years old.
The girl named Yingzi turned around and told them that there were Shanzi brothers and sisters living here.
"Little sister, sister gave you jelly beans, you take us to find my brother, okay?"
The little girl looked up at them a few times, nodded and said,
"I'll take you there, don't want sugar." Ho, quite ambitious, Ah Shuang tied the horse to their door, and the master and servant followed behind the little girl,
She did not go towards the village, but went to the other side of the mountain, and when she was almost at the edge of the mountain, she saw the little boy digging on the wasteland, and a short wooden handle attached to the hoe, which was really a farm tool bought for herself.
"Miss, you're here." The little boy wiped his sweat and hurriedly ran over, but he didn't come to him, so he saluted first.
"Call us sister in the future, are you clearing the wasteland? I'm afraid this kind of land is not easy to grow, right? ”
This used to be a river beach, and there was a lot of sand and gravel on the ground, and when I looked around, I didn't see any rivers passing by.
"This is the land that Uncle gave us, there is a title deed, it has not been planted for a long time, there used to be water over there, but now the river has been diverted, and it does not pass from here."
Man Qing remembered, someone said that night that the word separation, what about the parents of these two children? Are they orphans?
Xiao Shanzi saw their doubts, and said with a wry smile,
"Our father and mother are gone, I used to live in my uncle's house, and I have grown up and can support my sister, so I will be separated." Seven or eight years old, this is also called growing up?
"Didn't your parents have a house before? A separate family should also be divided into a separate house. ”
"My family used to have a small courtyard and eight acres of paddy fields, but the uncle said that he borrowed debts for his father's and mother's medical treatment, and those had to pay off the debts, but fortunately, he divided two coins of silver and this half acre of sloping land, with a shack, so that my brothers and sisters have a place to live."
"Don't you have a clan? Is there no witness of the family separation? "At this time, the power of the clan is more powerful than that of the government, and if the clan makes a mistake, it can be punished directly.
"Yes, the second grandfather is the patriarch, and he also said that day, my father's and mother's money for medical treatment is all from the uncle."
can be regarded as a good person who can give money for his brother, but he treats his young nephew like this, hehe, to what extent is his personality split? To be able to do this, this patriarch is really interesting.
"Your father and mother borrowed money to see a doctor, do you know who you borrowed it from?" Xiao Shanzi listened to her words and smiled bitterly,
"Sister, I've grown up, I can feed my sister, although this land is small, you can still have a harvest if you plant some millet grain, we rely on the mountains, as long as people are diligent, can we still starve to death?"
This kid knew it, she asked for a while, it turned out that when their father and mother were there, Xiao Shanzi had been in private school for two years.
Xiaoyingzi heard that they were going up the mountain, and took the initiative to take Xiaoyan'er.
"I took Xiaoyan'er home, my mother is rare for her." When Ah Shuang heard this, she took out some pastries from her arms and gave her a bag of jelly beans.
"We are your brother's friends, you can eat this separately," cheered the two little girls, who rarely ate these in a year, one piece each, in small bites, and did not forget to wave goodbye to them.
The mountains here are really not the same as those in the north, the ground is mostly stones, some wet, not too much mud, but the plants are still very lush, the small mountain carries a basket, and from time to time cuts and puts wild vegetables into it.
"Do you still want to go to school? I'm afraid that half an acre of sloping land can't support you, and in winter, there is no more vegetables on the mountain, what will you do? ”
"I'm not afraid, I'm growing up, I'll be able to feed my sister, there is no food on the mountain in winter, but my handwriting is okay, there will be many people in the market who need to write family letters, and you can earn food by setting up a stall, and it's impossible to go to school for the time being, but the books will not be lost, Mr. Ge likes me very much, if you don't understand, you can go to ask for advice once a month,"
Be ambitious! She was very curious about that uncle, such an ideaful nephew, wouldn't it be a pity to lose it?
My family was bullied, because I didn't have enough strength at this time, so I endured it, but one day I turned over? If the clan wants to borrow strength, it depends on his mood.
"The stream here is quite abundant, why did the river change its course because of the flash flood?"
"Because of some people's selfish interests, the river is diverted, and their land can be changed from dry land to paddy fields." This is not impossible, provided that the river was not used in the first place.
"Didn't the river irrigate the fields before?"
"Of course there is, but those fields are not owned by the patriarch, and those people can't afford to provoke him, so they have to find another way."