Chapter 6: Ascending the Mountain
The village chief's family was very grateful to Xiao Ming, the village chief's wife was a cheerful person, knowing that her family's situation was not good, so she asked her daughter-in-law to take twenty eggs and a bucket of rice as the consultation fee, and insisted that Xiao Ming accept it.
When they returned home and put their things away, the two sisters and brothers warned Xiao Yu for a while, telling him to stay away from Liu Baogen in the future.
When everything is cleaned up, when it is time for lunch, every household in Liujia Village has two meals on weekdays, and the same is true for the Xiao family, but after Xiao Ming came, he insisted on eating three meals.
After half a month of repair, the wasteland in the front and back yards of the door is basically waiting, the vegetables are planted, Xiao Ming also dug up a lot of medicinal herbs and planted them, after the watering of space water, the growth is gratifying, especially a few fruit tree saplings have grown to the height of Xiao Yu, the little bun is happy, and the first thing he does when he gets up every day is to water his fruit trees.
These days, Xiao Ming rarely goes out to be a bell doctor, but there are often people who come to see her, which has increased her family's income a lot.
Xiao Ming got up early every day and put some space water in the water tank, and with the improvement of diet and life in the past few months, the health of the three people gradually improved. His face was bloody, and his body was much taller. The three of them were wearing clothes made by their former sister-in-law, which were obviously shorter.
At the dinner table, Xiao Ming sandwiched chopsticks and vegetables for Xiao Yu and said to Xiao Han: "Third brother, I'm going to go up the mountain tomorrow to see if there are any suitable medicinal materials, dig some back, there are not many medicinal materials at home." "There are more patients these days, and the medicines collected at home are almost used.
"Up the mountain? That's not going to work, there are a lot of beasts in the upper mountains. Xiao Han hesitated, on weekdays, the villagers often encounter fierce beasts when they go around to pick some mushrooms, there are few people who go up the mountain on weekdays, and when the eldest brother is alive, he often goes up the mountain to hunt, and now the mountain is basically rarely populated, and he doesn't want his sister to be eaten.
"Don't worry, I'm just looking at the periphery, I don't dare to go to the mountains." Xiao Ming assured. She knows that her younger brother looks thin and small, but he is completely a little adult, if he doesn't agree, he really can't go.
"Let's not go, how dangerous it is in the mountains." Xiao Han was still reluctant.
He knows that his sister has completely become a medicine idiot since she became a doctor after the doctor, and even a small herb has to be dug up on weekdays, and now she has planted a lot of medicinal materials at home.
"There are no medicinal herbs at home, and besides, it is easy to get the flu in this season, so I need to prepare some medicine." Xiao Ming continued, trying to convince Xiao Han.
"Oh well! But I'll go too, just to pick up some firewood. Xiao Han had to agree, he knew that if he didn't agree, his sister would also steal it.
"Alright, let's leave early tomorrow morning." Xiao Ming said.
"Auntie, I'll go too." Xiao Yu said that he also wanted to finish.
"The mountain road is difficult, you can't go, you write the big characters tomorrow, go see Xiao An, and bring him the medicine by the way." Eat at your grandma Song's house at noon. "Xiao Ming has already made arrangements. Since the living conditions were better, Xiao Han began to teach Xiao Yu to read and write, write some simple words on the ground, and let him practice, and now Xiao Yu can read "Thousand Words" by heart.
The next morning, the two sisters and brothers set off, but no one went up the mountain in winter, and the mountain road was difficult to walk. After a brief break, the two of them went into action.
After a winter of trimming, because it was the edge of the mountain, the surrounding trees were not high, and some weeds grew on the ground indiscriminately, and the dry branches of the dead trees were scattered everywhere, and no one came to pick them up.
"We're around here, don't go far." Xiao Ming commanded.
One of them collected firewood, and the other dug medicine, and they gained a lot.
Xiao Ming squatted on the ground, just dug the pit where the herbs had been dug a little deeper, took out a hundred-year-old ginseng from the space and put it in to hide it. I heard Xiao Han's shouting.
I walked over and took a look, and found that under the dry branches, there were two dogs, one big and one small, the big dog's eyes were closed, as if it was dead, and the dog's stomach had blood stains that had been bitten, and I was afraid that it was bitten to death by wild beasts.
The puppy is not big, and it is only a few days old, crawling on the big dog, it is weak, and its eyes can't be opened, but it only makes a faint whine to indicate that it is still alive.
"Sister, this dog is so pitiful, her mother died." Xiao Han picked up the dog and fed him some water.
The puppy has black fluff all over its body, without a trace of variegation. The little cute one looks cute and tight; Maybe it was because of drinking the space water, his eyes opened, and he stretched out his pink tongue to lick Xiao Han's fingers.
"Well, let's take it home and raise it, so that we can have a companion for Xiao Yu when we are not at home on weekdays, and we can also take care of the family when we grow up." Xiao Ming said, thinking that their family is small, weak and weak, and has no combat effectiveness, so it is good to raise a dog to watch the yard.
"Good! Xiao Yu definitely likes it. Xiao Han nodded and agreed, in fact, he also liked it tightly. Carefully put it in the small basket.
The sister and brother dug a pit and buried the dog's mother, collected the firewood, and prepared to go down the mountain.
"Wait a minute, I just found an herb, it's very similar to the ginseng in the book, let's go take a look," Xiao Ming said as she ran to the place where she buried the ginseng, almost forgetting about her.