Chapter 175: Fifty Stone Rice
But no, after the housewarming banquet that day, Du Mei fell ill, and he didn't have time to sort the gifts or anything.
"If there is anything else to eat, give some to the eldest girl and the Chunhua sisters to try. The rest, you look at it and put it in order, and hand it over to your mother for safekeeping. Du Mei looked at her three younger sisters, and her eyebrows stretched and explained.
"We know." Du Ying should go down.
"Those medical books that Uncle Zhong Yu gave you, I helped you put them on the table yesterday." Du Tao continued.
"Okay. By the way, I have a purse in that drawer, you can bring it to me and take a look. Du Mei suddenly remembered, pointing to the drawer.
It was too much of a hurry that day, and Fengxian gave her a purse, which she stuffed in a drawer, and was so busy that she forgot to open it to see. Du Tao found the purse and handed it to her, Du Mei unbuckled the rope, reached out and touched it, and really took out a silver ticket.
"Five hundred taels!" Looking at the denomination, Du Mei suddenly felt a little confused, this is a lot of money. I knew that Feng Xian was so generous, she must not be able to accept it casually.
Du Mei put the silver ticket back into the purse, pressed it under the pillow, and collected it, but it was not good to return it, so he had to slowly return the favor in the future.
At noon, Du Mei's spirit was better and he was able to eat some thin porridge, Zhong Yu came to diagnose and treat again, and saw that his condition had improved greatly, so he gave back the needle.
"Uncle Zhong Yu, I want to learn acupuncture with you in the future." Du Mei said softly with half-open watery eyes.
"Okay, when you're ready, I'll teach you." Zhong Yu said mildly, Du Mei on weekdays is always in a hurry, coming and going like the wind. It's rare to be like now, weak like a kitten, and it's distressing to look at.
"How's the plum?" Xu slept for a while, thinking about Du Mei in his heart, and he couldn't sleep well, so he simply got up. Seeing Zhong Yu coming, he asked quietly.
"She still brought the cold this time in the spring, and now although she is holding down the momentum, she still needs to slowly recuperate, if not, the next time she encounters a cold, she will have an attack." Zhong Yu packed up his things in the hall and said in a deep voice.
"This girl has an idea, she only relies on her youth, and she doesn't know how to be afraid." Xu rubbed his hands and said helplessly.
"I'll prescribe some warm prescriptions, and take this opportunity to trap her and let her take care of her." Zhong Yu knew Du Mei's temperament in his heart, and he had no way to deal with her.
"Hey, I'm so tired of you, Dr. Zhong." Xu said very politely.
"Meizi recognized me as an uncle, if you don't dislike it, I should call you sister." Zhong Yu beat the drum in his heart, can the young lady recognize him as a younger brother.
"It's all Meizi's fate, otherwise, how can people like us climb high to you." Hearing his words, Xu Shi was a little surprised.
"Sister, don't be so polite to me, just call me Zhong Yu." Zhong Yu's heart was horizontal and he called out directly. He called her very well, as if he was born to call her that.
"Ahh Yes... Bell...... Zhong Yu. Xu stared and stammered instantly.
"Sister." Zhong Yu smiled, this smile swept away the haze in his heart for more than ten years, and he finally kept the clouds open and saw the moon.
Zhong Yu took out the medicine prepared in advance from the carriage, and personally suffered it, guarding the small stove, smelling the fragrance of the medicine, in a trance, as if he could live like this for ten or eight years, and he would not get tired of it.
For dinner, Zhong Yu ate at Du Mei's house, sitting in the new kitchen, three girls chattered around Zhong Yu and asked long and short questions, he felt for the first time that this kind of noisy fireworks was ordinary happiness.
Xu was with Du Mei in the house, her heat had just subsided, her body was weak, and she always woke up from her dreams, and her dreams were full of fragments, like broken dishes, and she could no longer piece together a whole one.
After one night, three rooms
There is news that yesterday's joke has come true. After more than ten years, Xie is pregnant again, and it has been three months. The villagers were amazed, and naturally they couldn't make fun of Xie and Sanjin.
Sanjin gave great care to the upcoming child, and he had already begun to think of a name for the child. Xie Shi does not have to do anything at home, only concentrates on raising the baby, and because of this, Xie lives in the condemnation and uneasiness of conscience every day.
Ma Rong thought that Xie was pregnant with his child, and he served him carefully every day, working hard and complaining, even if Du Jie was unreasonable and difficult, he laughed it off and ignored it.
To say that the last thing this family wants this child to be born is Du Jie, he hates this child and feels that it is a great shame and insult. As long as he thought that this child would call him brother in the future, he hated to kill Ma Rong.
Du Mei will raise it for three days, and it is already very good. Whenever she wanted to go out, Xu always stopped her with a tiger face. Du Mei had no choice but to find a cool place to study medical books. Fortunately, the eldest girl and the Chunhua sisters knew that she was sick and often came to visit her.
Just after the end of the day, a carriage drawn by two tall horses entered Dujiagou. Ordinary carriages are full of sitters, but this carriage is full of neatly stacked bags of hemp.
The villagers rushed out to watch, and it was a strange strong man who drove the car, and Ye Qing sat crookedly on the sack, escorting him all the way.
The carriage stopped outside Du Mei's courtyard, Ye Qing jumped down and patted the dust on his body, Du Mei had already opened the courtyard door when he heard the sound and welcomed him in.
The strong man looks like a bee waist and ape, his face is as heavy as the sea, and his aura is too raw to be approached, so the villagers only dare to look at it from a distance, and they dare not come forward to check what is being transported.
Greeting Du Mei, Ye Qing waved his hand silently, only to see the strong man effortlessly carrying a hundred and ten pounds of sacks, and entered the yard with vigorous steps. The newly built courtyard wall of Du Mei's house was more than one person high, and the courtyard door was closed, so that nothing could be seen.
Onlookers speculated about what was being shipped. Some say it is food, it can be seen that the posture of the strong man is not very difficult, besides, so much food, how much money does it cost! Du Mei, who has just built a house, really hides a cornucopia?
Later, everyone guessed that it was rice bran and wheat bran, and only these two things, which were light and cheap, could also be used to feed ducks, so they came to the conclusion that the villagers slowly dispersed.
The people in the courtyard didn't pay attention to what the outsiders thought, Du Mei beckoned Ye Qing and the strong man to drink herbal tea and rest, the strong man didn't say a word, just sat and poured tea.
"Sister Meizi, are you really sick?" Ye Qing looked at Du Meiqing and asked in surprise.
"It's okay, it's all right." Du Mei waved his hand and said nonchalantly.
"I've got something for you." Ye Qing said mysteriously.
"Ward off evil spirits?" Seeing him take out a small thing wrapped in a handkerchief, Du Mei said with a smile.
"Well, the monk has opened the light." Ye Qing replied with a heartfelt matter.
"What is it?" Du Mei took it, lifted the veil, and a delicate dagger was revealed.
The dagger was very small, with blue gems on the handle, but the blade was glittering. Du Mei's fingers were slender, and he held it in the palm of his hand, and he couldn't see it at all. It's more of a toy than a murder weapon.
"Don't think it's useless, it's forged from thousands of years of dark iron, and the iron is like clay. As far as I know, there are only two in the world. Ye Qing said with a serious expression.
"It's so valuable, why did you give it to me, you keep it for yourself." Du Mei wanted to return it.
"This is only for you girls
Evil use, put under the pillow at night, evil people dare not get close. Ye Qing hurriedly waved his hand.
Because Du Mei was sick, he spread falsehood, and he really thought that he had fallen into evil. The master was so anxious that he couldn't find it, so he deliberately opened the private treasury to find it, and asked the monks in the temple to open the light, and it was only delivered yesterday, so he was ordered to send it today.
"I just accidentally suffered from the cold, those evil words are all nonsense from the villagers, don't take it seriously. Still, thank you very much. Du Mei didn't believe that this little gorgeous dagger could really sharpen iron like clay, but Ye Qing was enthusiastic to send it away, if she didn't accept it, it would inevitably brush off his kindness, so she had to accept it.
"Rice, I bought fifty stone first." Ye Qing glanced at the old house and turned to the topic.
"Did you buy it well?" Du Mei asked with concern.
"As you said, the price is slowly rising, and the quantity is also tightening." Ye Qing frowned.
Ye Qing bought these paddies, he did not alarm Chu Lin, he only bought them in the grain stores with good connections in the market, and the grain dealers did not reduce the price because he bought too much, on the contrary, the price continued to rise.
"This is all expected by me, you can quickly contact me to buy some more." Du Mei was a little anxious.
"Well, there are still thirty stones that have already paid the deposit, and they will be transported to Qinghe County in the next two days." Ye Qing comforted with a clear heart.
The waterway of Jiangling City is developed, and the merchants who come and go from the south to the north choose the waterway, but the connection is relatively slow, and it takes one day from Gangneung City to Qinghe County, and then to Sheshan Town.
"When you arrive in Qinghe County, you can pick it up in person, don't wait to transport it to Sheshan Town, the target is too big, and the price may be variable." Du Mei bit his lip and said.
"Okay, got it." Ye Qing nodded.
"Is there enough money?" Du Mei then asked.
"Enough. One hundred and fifty two hundred stones, more than enough. Ye Qing said confidently.
"It's not limited to this, if you have it, I'll go in, I still have money." Du Mei suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and a thought jumped out of him.
But before Du Mei could grasp it, the thought disappeared in a flash. I can't afford to be sick, and I can't even use my brain. Du Mei smiled self-deprecatingly.
"Don't worry too much, take care." Ye Qing looked at Du Mei's originally fair skin, which was now almost transparent, and said a little worriedly. I want to know, I don't know how to lose my temper.
"Don't you dare, don't you see my mother trapping me at home all day long and raising me as a medicine jar." Du Mei smiled helplessly and glanced at the kitchen. Medicine was boiling in the kitchen, and the smell of medicine wafted out.
"I'll go back first, you can rest, don't worry outside. Niu Er and Hei Jiaolong are almost as good as they are, and they have slowly come out for activities in the past few days, and others do not suspect him. Ye Qing knew that she was worried too much, so she naturally paid attention to her.
"Okay, when I'm better, I'll come to the house for dinner." Du Mei didn't keep it, her mother had worked hard enough for her alone, so don't make trouble for her.
With fifty stones of grain in the house, Du Mei's heart is finally more stable, and the three younger sisters are also well-behaved, no matter how coaxed outsiders, they only say that it is rice bran and wheat bran. The villagers also believed it, although some people didn't believe it very much, but they also forced themselves to believe it on the grounds that Du Mei didn't have so much money.
The sun rises and the moon sets, the days are comfortable, Du Mei is locked up at home by the Xu family, raised with medicinal juice and food, and he is slowly getting better.
On this day, she was playing with juniper at home, when she heard the villagers running around in a hurry, and she didn't know what was going on.
"Sister, it's not good, it's not good, something is wrong!" Du Tao and Du Gui, who were sweating profusely, carried baskets and hurriedly broke in. 2k reading web