Chapter Twenty-Six: Five Taels

Since Zhou took Jiang Baoqing to Cattle Village, Jiang Daya has been sitting still, holding a child's clothes in her hand and sewing them, and she has made the wrong stitches in several places.

Jiang Erya came back from delivering food from the field, poured a bowl of water for herself, and when she saw Jiang Daya's distracted appearance, she smiled and said: "Eldest sister, don't worry, if your brother Chengyuan has you and the baby in your belly in his heart, he will definitely not be able to pull the five taels of silver to marry." It's not that I said, in our ten miles and eight villages, who marries a girl and has to accompany a dowry of five taels......"

didn't seem to hear the dissatisfaction in Jiang Erya's words, Jiang Daya simply put down the child's clothes in her hand, and sighed heavily: "Don't blame Brother Chengyuan, it's all Brother Chengyuan's mother, and there is only silver in his eyes...... Alas, our mother will go this time, if only Brother Chengyuan and his mother could relax. ”

Jiang Erya's eyes rolled around, and she also sat down beside Jiang Daya with a worried look: "It's not." Our family just spent five taels of silver to invite half an immortal for Brother Cai'er, but there are no five taels of silver to make a dowry for the eldest sister......"

"What!" Jiang Daya still just found out that it cost five taels of silver to invite Jiang Youcai's goddess, she was shocked, didn't the family keep saying that there was no silver? How can you ask the goddess for Brother Cai'er and you will have silver?!

Five taels! A full five taels!

Jiang Daya was so stunned that she held back a mouthful of blood.

Jiang Erya blinked: "...... Speaking of which, Brother Cai'er's illness is also very strange, and I don't know if I have eaten something bad......"

Jiang Daya's heart was pounding, and her throat and eyes were a little dry.

She didn't even dare to look up at Jiang Erya, and her mouth vaguely echoed Jiang Erya's words: "Who said it wasn'......"

Jiang Erya seemed to think of something, and asked Jiang Daya innocently: "Eldest sister, what kind of medicine did you ask me to buy from Mrs. Guo?" She seemed to have suddenly discovered something, her eyes widened, and she asked in a panic, "Eldest sister, don't you let me buy the medicine from Mrs. Guo and accidentally let Brother Cai take it...... I'll just say, I'll just say why you had to bring good food to that fool last night, and that fool is fine today......"

Jiang Daya was so panicked that she covered Jiang Erya's mouth all of a sudden.

Because she was too panicked, Jiang Daya only felt that her lower abdomen was a little painful. She gritted her teeth and whispered to Jiang Erya: "Erya, you, don't talk nonsense, I accidentally spilled that medicine...... Last night, I asked you to send winter melon pork rib soup to that fool, yes, I wanted to please that fool and make that fool voluntarily sell himself......"

There are a lot of loopholes in this rhetoric, where will Jiang Erya believe it. However, her original purpose was not to expose Jiang Daya, she dragged out her voice: "Oh...... That's right. ”

The throbbing pain in Jiang Daya's lower abdomen seemed to have passed, and she relaxed a little in her heart, and pulled Jiang Erya even tighter: "Good Erya, don't tell me about letting you buy medicine...... I'm afraid my family will think too much. ”

Jiang Erya's face was full of sincerity: "Eldest sister, what are you talking about, we are a family, how can I betray you?" ”

Jiang Daya looked pleased, went to the kang for a long time, found a money bag sewn in linen, took out five cents from it, and stuffed it to Jiang Erya: "Take it to buy candy to eat." ”

Jiang Erya took it and smiled sweetly at Jiang Auntie: "Thank you, eldest sister...... But I don't really want to eat sugar, I liked a peach blossom powder just released this year at Zhao Xianglang's before, it's very good-looking. ”

Jiang Daya almost spurted out a mouthful of blood in her heart.

She also took a fancy to that peach blossom pollen...... It's too expensive, it costs a full forty yuan, and she has never been willing to buy it.

You must know that this penny is all saved by her after so many years of picking and searching!

Jiang Daya's hand holding the money bag was almost unstable, she looked at Jiang Erya who was smiling, her heart bit her teeth, and poured the money bag directly on the kang, her hands trembled, and she counted them one by one, there were still thirty-two coins in total.

Jiang Daya couldn't bear to look at it anymore, so she pushed it all to Jiang Erya: "It's all for you, you take it, buy peach blossom powder." ”

Jiang Erya smiled like a flower, unceremoniously dialed all the copper plates to herself, and put them in her sleeves: "There are still a few missing, but we are sisters, so naturally we don't care about the money, sister, I just go out by myself." He went out with a smile.

Jiang Daya took a deep breath, clasped her hands, and sat by the window anxiously, looking out of the window, waiting for Zhou to come back with good news.

When the sun was about to set, Zhou and Jiang Baoqing came back.

Zhou's face was as usual, and he was even at the door of Jiang's house, talking to the villagers passing by about this year's harvest.

Jiang Daya saw it from the window, her eyes lit up suddenly, in her opinion, Zhou's was so relaxed, it must have been a family negotiation.

Jiang Baoqing looked at Jiang Daya's smiling face behind the window in the courtyard, Jiang Daya saw that it was Jiang Baoqing, smiled and narrowed, the corners of her mouth twitched, and she looked impatient, and waved her hand as if she was bored, as if she was driving away some filth.

Jiang Baoqing ignored her, withdrew his eyes and entered his own adobe house.

Not long after, Zhou entered Jiang Daya's house, and I didn't know what he said, and a terrible "I don't believe it!" came from inside the house! It's just that the shout was quick and short, and it stopped abruptly, as if someone had covered his mouth all of a sudden.

After that, there was no sound in the room.

In the evening, Zhou took advantage of the night to go out, and when he came back, he went straight to the stove room, took out a paper bag from his arms, added water to boil it, boiled it into a bowl of black things, and took it to Jiang Daya's house.

The movement in Jiang Daya's room sounded for most of the night, and it gradually weakened in the second half of the night.

Jiang Baoqing was lying on the earthen kang, with shriveled straw under him and a roof with exposed mud straw above his head. When there was no movement outside, she slowly fell asleep.

In the next few days, the Jiang family was very calm, and no one came to trouble Jiang Baoqing. Jiang Baoqing spent a few days of peace, getting up every morning before dawn to pick up firewood for cooking, and then going to the deep mountains and old forests to dig some wild vegetables, climbing along the way is considered exercise.

Once she even caught a skinny pheasant in the bushes by mistake, although it was thin and shriveled, it was also an extremely rare meat, Jiang Baoqing felt that the light in her eyes was about to burn the pheasant bald. She wiped the neck of the chicken with a sharp stone edge, bleed, and washed the pheasant on a small branch of a stream that flowed through the deep mountains, made a fire, and lost its hair, and found some wild vegetables with seasoning effect nearby, squeezed out the juice, wiped the pheasant meat, skewered the branches, set up a grill, and roasted it deliciously.

The fragrance was so fragrant that Jiang Baoqing's body, which had not seen meat for many years, was uncontrollably drooling.

Because she was in the deep mountains, Jiang Baoqing was very calm, wiped her mouth, and continued to roast the thin pheasant.

Later, when Jiang Baoqing couldn't eat it anymore, most of the roast chicken went into Jiang Baoqing's stomach.

The remaining small half of the roast chicken and chicken skeleton Jiang Baoqing didn't waste it, they were all sorted out, wrapped in a cloth and brought back.

That bit of chicken can be added to brown rice to make chicken porridge, and the chicken skeleton can be used to make soup!

It's a rare nourishment.

Jiang Baoqing sighed with emotion.