"Youyan doesn't have to go to the ground, just let her follow Mingyue up the mountain to collect mountain goods." Mrs. Zheng has always treated the little girl who is not out of the cabinet at home very preferentially, although Zheng Youyan is a niece, but in the Ming family, she also enjoys the same transcendent treatment as the former Mingju Minghe and the current Mingyue.

Zheng Youyan knew her grandmother's temper quite well, so although she didn't think it was a big deal to go to the ground, she was very smart and didn't refute Mrs. Ming.

"And Youfu and Erlang, you two should also go up the mountain with you." If it weren't for the lack of manpower, Mrs. Ming would not have sent her underage children and grandchildren to do heavy work in the fields, because she felt that this would break the child's body and bones.

In the previous three days, Erlang was only responsible for harvesting crops in the field, carrying and lifting such heavy work, and the old man Ming directly assigned his three sons and the eldest grandson, who was already fifteen years old.

Now with the addition of Ming Ju, Ming He, and Zheng Dachang, and most importantly, with the donkey cart brought by Zheng Dachang, Mrs. Ming immediately decided to send Erlang and Zheng Youfu to the mountains to do some light work.

So from this day on, the Ming family began the busy daily routine of adults going down to the field to harvest crops, children going down to the river to fish, going up the mountain to cut grass, digging wild vegetables, digging herbs, picking mushrooms, picking wild eggs, picking wild fruits, and checking whether traps and rabbit traps have trapped prey.

Until the beginning of October, all the grain of the Ming family was put into storage, all the herbs dried by Mingyue were sold to the town medical hall, all the hares, pheasants, and big fish that they got back were sold to the town restaurant, and all the grass cut back, all the mushrooms picked up, and most of the wild fruits picked up were dried and put away, and the Ming family ended nearly 20 days of hard work.

All the Ming family, as well as Ming He, Ming Ju, Zheng Dachang and others who came to help the Ming family, everyone was black and lost several pounds.

This is thanks to Mrs. Ming's careful service of fish and meat, tofu and eggs every day.

Like those poor families who can't eat anything good even in the autumn harvest, after this whole autumn desperate harvest, the adults and children in the family have all lost weight to skin and bones.

On the sixth day of October, on the night when the Ming family finished harvesting the grain, Mrs. Ming prepared a first-class banquet to entertain her son-in-law and nephew.

Pork belly stewed with cabbage, pork ribs stewed with beans, chicken stewed with mushrooms, eggplant stewed river fish, braised rabbit meat, stir-fried fat sausage, boiled liver tip, braised pork heart, scrambled wild eggs, minced meat and tofu, stir-fried meat with celery, cold spinach, plus the most expensive wine in the town.

The staple food, Mrs. Ming, prepared cabbage, oil residue, and pork belly as filling, and white flour and sorghum noodles as skin white fat dumplings.

The family sat in two groups, the upper landlord's house and the west house, and the men, the women and children of the family, all of them were eating and laughing.

The next day, that is, on the seventh day of October, Mrs. Ming prepared two identical gifts for her daughter to take back to her mother-in-law's house.

Two domestic fat rabbits, four fresh river fish, two catties of fine pork belly, a basket of wild eggs that Mingyue picked up on the mountain, a basket of dried mushrooms, a basket of sweet and delicious wild fruits, a basket of various vegetables from the backyard of the Ming family, and a basket of red beans, soybeans, mung beans, millet, and millet that are separated in a cloth bag.

Ming Ju and the others were mentally prepared for Mrs. Ming's generosity, and in previous years, they came back to help, and Mrs. Ming also sent them a lot of things every time.

At first, they would refuse desperately, but later found that they couldn't refuse at all, so Mingju and Minghe had to complain about their mothers every time.

However, an assertive old lady like Mrs. Ming, even if Mingju and Minghe say smallpox, she will not change her original intention.

Mrs. Ming believes that everyone in this world has an account in their hearts.

People respect me, I respect people, others treat her well, she also has to appreciate it.

If she asks her daughter and son-in-law to come back to help every time, but she doesn't say anything afterwards, then how will she meet her in-laws in the future? How will her two daughters gain a foothold in her in-laws' family?

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Sending away Mingju, Minghe and others, the strong laborers of the Ming family began to cut stubble, and Mingyue, Mingxu and other juniors continued to work up and down the mountain.

Before winter, they have to pick up a last wave of mushrooms and wild eggs, pick a wave of late-ripening wild fruits, store enough hay to feed the rabbits, prepare as many wild vegetables as possible, and feed the chickens and pigs with bran in the winter.

In addition to these worthless but essential things, they also had to dig up as many herbs as possible, catch more pheasants and hares, net more fresh river fish that sold well, and collect more delicious nuts that were not available in the market.

"Now that the autumn harvest is over, other families in the village have their eyes on mountain goods and river fresh, we must speed up."

Mingyue is not the kind of person who will only work with her head bored, although there are many things to do, but she still tried to plan a rough routine.

"The eldest brother and San Lang are responsible for netting fish and mowing grass, the second brother is responsible for checking traps and rabbit sets every day, and then there are wild fruits and nuts, Shiro and Goro are responsible for digging wild vegetables, and by the way, you can also pick up mushrooms and wild eggs, Jiayan and I will concentrate on digging herbs, and strive to help our milk save ten taels of silver before winter."

This is not a bright moon that is too ambitious, and she still has at least a month to use between now and winter.

With her and Yu Jiayan's ability, they were completely sure that they could use the more than a month before the winter to save ten taels of silver.

Even Mingyue prepared a budget of two taels of silver to improve the life of her family every now and then, otherwise she felt that she could save at least twelve taels of silver.

"Do you have a different opinion? If you have one, you can bring it up now. Although Mrs. Ming said that she wanted everyone to listen to Mingyue's assignment, Mingyue never thought of being an authoritarian dictator.

She still prefers to discuss with her friends and do things together.

"I'm okay with that." Da Lang and Jia Yan spoke at the same time, but Erlang hesitated and looked entangled.

"What are you guys twisting on?" Mingyue raised her hand and rubbed Shiro and Goro's heads, "If you want to say anything, just say it directly." ”

Erlang a few you look at me, I look at you, no one will say it first, and in the end, the youngest Gorou failed to withstand the great pressure from Mingyue, he looked at Mingyue's face and asked in a low voice: "Sister, if we want to save money, can't we eat delicious food?" ”

Mingyue couldn't help laughing, "I thought it was a big deal!" ”

She stretched out her hand and pinched her fifth brother's little face, which was finally rounded and lost, "Don't worry, meat and sugar cubes are indispensable to you." ”

Gorou smiled, and Jiro, Saburo, and Shiro couldn't help but cheer.

Mingyue secretly laughed, "Don't be too happy, if you want to eat well, you can't be lazy when you work." ”

"Don't be lazy," a few of the boys scrambled to pat their chests and promise, "we'll definitely do our jobs." ”