Chapter 19: Xiucai's daughter
Sister Qiu sat on the ground with a pig-eating basket on her back to rest, the beautiful scenery in front of her face was not attractive to her at all, she was full of thoughts about how to take the Jia family out of this house, compared to being unreasonable, she was really not as experienced and experienced as Mao. Jia is still young, not yet 30 years old, and at the age of the 21st century, it is nothing more than a career that has just started.
As for herself, the Rong family, who has only heard in the rumors, has a marriage contract with her, is not worried, Sister Qiu is unconscious, people will want to marry her own son as a daughter-in-law, as long as she leaves the Mei family, when she grows up, find a loyal man who is full of heart to her to marry, and support the Jia family for the rest of her life.
She is a Nizi of a wealthy family, An An divides the farming, and wants to earn a little money, and she is satisfied with the richer life, as for the life of a rich family, she has never thought about it. As a person, you can't think of things that don't belong to you, these Li'er Qiu sisters have seen everything very clearly in their previous life and this life.
Sister Qiu's heart was twisting and turning, and suddenly she heard a sound of pace behind her, followed by a familiar voice, "Sister Qiu, are you eating pigs and grass here?" ”
Turning her face back, it was Lin Zhun standing behind her with the big seal, Lin Zhun was still covered in clean and neat clothes, pulled the palm of the big seal, and looked at him with a smile.
Lin Zhun's smile in the sunlight was warm and warm, and Sister Qiu couldn't take her eyes off it for a while, and after a while, I was afraid that the person who came to the door to pick up the matchmaker would step through the threshold of Aunt Chunhua, Sister Qiu thought with a smile in her heart.
"yes." Sister Qiu stood up from the ground and nodded.
Dayin glanced at the back basket behind Sister Qiu, it was already full of pigs and herbs, children are naturally playful, and couldn't help but pull the palms of Sister Qiu and Lin Zhun and said coquettishly: "Brother, Sister Qiu, our pigs and herbivores are all over, let's go play for a while!" ”
Lin Zhun scratched his little brother's little nose and said with a smile: "You know how to play, how many pigs have cut grass?" ”
Dayin scratched his head and smiled badly, he came out with his eldest brother to cut pigs and eat grass, he played more and did less, and the eldest brother was silent on the side, and he quickly cut a basket in a moment. Dayin looked at Sister Qiu expectantly, "Sister Qiu, let's go have a while!" ”
Sister Qiu also didn't want to go back to this time, in the past two days, Mei Yindi muttered about the quilt at night, had a fever and headache, couldn't get up from the kang, and simply didn't do anything, Mao's tiger entered the west room with a tiger face, touched Mei Yindi's head, and came out without saying anything, Sister Qiu was very suspicious that Mei Yindi was evading to do work, and deliberately made herself sick, if she went back to Mao's ironclad and supported her to do this and that.
"Okay, where are we going?" Sister Qiu said with a smile that she is only a 10-year-old little girl now, and it is her nature to love to play.
As soon as Dayin saw that Sister Qiu was with him, he immediately smiled, pointed to the gutter full of green onions and weeds on the side, and said: "Go there to play, last time I heard from the donkeys that they found a lot of wild red eggs in it, as well as fat and big rabbits, they stole the dry firewood at home and roasted it, but it was delicious!" ”
As he spoke, Da Yin swallowed his saliva, and the child's expression of amazement and yearning inevitably made his own comparison with exaggerated ingredients.
"That's not okay." Although Sister Qiu also wanted to pick up some wild red eggs and go back to the hiding house, if the Mao family didn't want her to eat again, she and the Jia family also had spare food, but after thinking about the advice of the adults in Xiaohe Town, she hesitated, "The adults all said that there are snakes there, what if they bite someone?" ”
Seeing that Sister Qiu wanted to go, Lin Zhun smiled and said: "It's not in the way, the adults say so, and there are a lot of people playing in the gutter. ”
Since Lin Zhun, who has always been steady, has said this, it means that there is no problem, Lin Zhun took out a sickle from the basket and cut a few handfuls of long-stemmed grass, and rolled it into a straw rope for Sister Qiu and Da Yin to tie the trouser legs of herself, and picked a few sticks to defend herself.
Because few people come, the grass and trees in the middle of the gutter are basically born and grow freely, and there is a thick layer of dead branches and fallen leaves on the ground, and the temperature of the humidity is obviously much heavier than the open land above.
The servants walked for a quarter of an hour, all the eyes were oily and green, or the big seal was sharp, in a place with dense weeds, I saw a pheasant nest, open the grass, there were white eggs in the pheasant nest!
Dayin was overjoyed, and carefully picked the red eggs into the basket and covered them with pigs and herbs. "When we get out, we'll roast red eggs and eat them!" The little boy who is less than 10 years old happily announced.
Sister Qiu looked at the empty pheasant nest with pity, and the poor pheasant mother came back to see that the children were all gone, and she didn't know what her anger looked like. Just thinking that she could eat fragrant roasted wild red eggs, the pity in Sister Qiu's heart disappeared very quickly, she has been here for so long, even a little oil star is very rare, there are wild red eggs to eat, where to care about "protecting wild animals".
The harvest of wild red eggs also boosted the morale of the servants, but then they wandered around the gutter for a long time, and they never found a pheasant's nest again, and the rabbit did not see a single one.
"Donkeys talk big and deceive people!" Da Yin pouted angrily, obviously there were not so many bird eggs to pick from rabbits, but the donkey bragged, saying how many red eggs he picked and how many rabbits he picked.
Lin Zhun saw that it was almost noon, and it was not early, so he patted the back of the big seal on the head and said, "Go back, let's pick it again when it is empty in the future." "The pheasant's nest is very secretive, and it's good luck to be able to pick up wild red eggs.
When the servants went back to the road, they walked faster than when they came, and when they walked on the road, Dayin inadvertently glanced at the grass on the side, and immediately exclaimed, Lin Zhun hurriedly turned his head to protect Sister Qiu and Dayin, and Dayin pointed to the grass and shouted: "Long Dragon!" Brother, there is a long dragon! ”
Long Dragon is a dialect of Little River Town that means snake.
Lin Zhun immediately took the wooden stick in his hand and struck it vigorously at the place where the big seal was fingered, but after a few beats, the white snake in the grass still did not move.
"Are you dead?" Sister Qiu preached.
Lin Zhun took a few steps closer, took a look, calmed down for a moment, and smiled at Sister Qiu and Dayin: "It doesn't matter, it's not a long dragon, it's a long dragon skin, don't be afraid." As he spoke, he used the long wooden stick in his hand to pick out the long dragon skin.
The snow-white and almost transparent skin is very well preserved, and it may have only been taken off for a long time, and at first glance, it looks very much like a snake lying there.
Because of this "fake snake", Dayin consciously lost face in front of Sister Qiu, and the face of the little man was damaged. ”
"Wait!" Sister Qiu hurriedly stopped the big seal, and said with a smile: "You can't tear it, this snake skin is a good thing!" ”
"Something good?" Da Yin fell, and glanced at Sister Qiu with Lin Zhun.
Sister Qiu smiled and shook her head, showing two cute pear vortices on her face, "Snake skin, it can be used as a Chinese medicinal material, take it to the hospital and sell it, someone will definitely buy it." "Snake skin is a good thing, it can cure a lot of diseases, it can be used to soak in wine, it can also play a role in health care, strengthen the body, not to mention such a long snake skin, more than one meter, iron is worth money.
Da Yin glanced at the long white snake skin on the wooden stick, his eyes were full of joy and disbelief, and he said, "Can you really sell it for money?" ”
"Yes, yes, yes." Sister Qiu nodded hurriedly, and in order to increase the credibility of her own words, she said again: "When I was in the city, I passed by those Xu Pharmacy Houses and saw that someone was collecting this. ”
Lin Zhun picked the snake skin into the pig-eating herbivore basket behind Sister Qiu, covered it with pig-eating herbs, and said: "The city is far away from us, and there is a pharmacy in the town. ”
Sister Qiu thought that the Jia family would go to the town every two months to visit her eldest brother, so she nodded and said, "Okay, if we sell the money, we will divide it equally." ”
"No, no." Lin Zhun shook his hand and said with a smile, "If it weren't for you, we wouldn't know that this long dragon skin can be sold for money, and it would have been lost a long time ago, and this money is what you deserve." ”
Dayin also hurriedly accosted, "That's it, if it weren't for Sister Qiu, I would have torn this long dragon skin and lost it, and we won't take the money if we sell it!" ”
Sister Qiu knew that the two brothers of the Jiang family were living a hard life, and they wanted to help themselves, but now she is really difficult, and the family is still carrying the money owed to Lao Xiucai's father to do white things, so Sister Qiu is no longer polite, nodded and said with a smile: "Okay, when the money is sold, I will buy sugar and we will share it." ”
On the way back, Sister Qiu was afraid that the Mei family would find out about the snake skin, so she put down the back basket and pressed the snake skin to the bottom, covered with pigs eating grass, and when she returned home, she wanted to hide the snake skin in the east room.
It's not early, it's too late to bake red eggs, the servants walked to the village, and discussed waiting for the meal, Aunt Dayinyang Chunhua boiled wild red eggs, and then called Sister Qiu to come and eat boiled wild red eggs.
Sister Qiu naturally has no opinion.
As soon as the servants reached the entrance of the village, they saw a large number of people surrounded by the big eucalyptus tree at the entrance of the village, and the shrill weeping voices of women came from the crowd. The servants hurriedly squeezed in to see, in the middle of the crowd, two women, one in their forties, the other in their twenties, holding a male baby crying to death, tears and nose watery faces.
The villagers who were watching on the side sighed for a while, "Eh, it's too late to invite Lang Zhong for this time, take two hours to go back and forth from the town, and wait for Lang Zhong to come over, I'm afraid it's too late......"
"It's a good baby, why can't it?"
"Go home and prepare to do things, buy a good coffin, and ask the baby to have a good baby for the rest of his life."