"Xiao Xia, where did you get so much money?" Xiao Wang glanced at the door, then tried to keep his voice to the lowest possible and asked in a serious tone.

"I dug this ginseng in the mountains, and the money was to buy a purse and some pheasants and rabbits in exchange." Xiao Xia didn't dare to tell them the truth, they weren't just ten years old Xiao Chun who was so easy to fool and believe everything.

"You dare to go up the mountain to catch rabbits, why haven't you been eaten by wild beasts?" Xiao Wang's first thought was the safety of his daughter, which moved Xiao Xia very much.

"Mother, don't cry, I don't dare to go deep into the mountains, just go around the mountainside in the west and catch a few, and secretly sell them for money, don't be angry."

Xiao Wang rubbed the soft hair on Xiao Xia's head and sighed. "I'll send these to your grandmother with your father in a while, we haven't separated yet, and we can't praise the private money ourselves."

"What......" Xiao Xia was directly dumbfounded, who was her mother brainwashed, and she couldn't even find the selfishness that everyone had.

"Mother, can't you send it to grandma!" Xiao Chun hurriedly stopped it, this ginseng cost eighty taels of silver, Xiao Xia didn't tell her father and mother the truth because she was afraid that they would worry, but she knew.

"Then what's the matter, Xiaochun, Xiaoxia, you will also marry in the future, you have to listen to your father in your mother's house, and you have to listen to men when you get married, but you can't be selfish. ……”

Xiao Xia didn't want to listen to her mother brainwash her, so she looked at Shen Zhong seriously. "I earned the silver and ginseng myself, didn't the silver of the Shen family's girl belong to me? Why did my mother let me give my grandmother the money I earned?"

Xiao Xia glanced at Xiao Wang, who was wiping his tears next to him, and continued to attack Shen Zhong. "Dad, do you remember what Dr. Hua said! If my mother's body is not well maintained by ginseng, I am afraid that there will be no years to survive. With this ginseng Niang's body can be good, and there will be a fourth child in the future, the name of the fourth child must be called Xiaodong, just by listening to the name, you know that it must be a boy. You don't want a son anymore? ”

The son is definitely Shen Zhong's ultimate weakness, as long as it involves his son Shen Zhong will definitely compromise. "Then let's keep it! Ginseng gives your mother a good tonic for your body. ”

"Dad, am I doing the right thing?" Xiao Wang's ideological education does not allow her to do this, but she can't object to what a man decides, and her heart is entangled at this time.

"Mother, don't cry, take good care of your body and give us a younger brother, and my father and grandparents will be happy."

"There is an old man who has not yet mended his body, but when he is a daughter-in-law, he first uses the precious object of ginseng to mend his body." Xiao Wang felt guilty.

"Ginseng is used to cure diseases, and it is not ginseng fruit, who can eat it and live forever? Grandparents don't need it at all now that they are healthy, but mother, you have a younger brother that our family needs the most, otherwise when will my father be able to straighten his waist in the old Shen family? Xiao Xia's sentences poked Xiao Wang's heart and lungs, she could only nod with tears, giving birth to a male baby is a death hole for two people, one poke and one accurate.

Xiao Xia finally made sense, and hurriedly went to the town to buy pots and bowls and other things, did she really want to use a pot with the pig, so she wouldn't be able to eat.

Xiao Xia picked up the silver again, but she didn't dare to hand it over to Xiao Wang's family for safekeeping, for fear that she would figure it out and send it to Mrs. Jia for a while, and who would she find to cry. "Dad, let's go to the town to do it, otherwise we won't have to cook dinner."

"I'm going too, I'm going too." As soon as Xiaoqiu heard that his father was also going to the town, he made a fuss about going, and Xiaoxia and Xiaochun both looked at Shen Zhong and waited for him to make a decision.

There was only a little food, and there were no pots and pans, so let them start a fire alone, and only Mrs. Jia did it. Shen Zhong didn't expect his wife to find out about his embarrassment, and in the end, he only brought Xiaochun and Xiaoxia, and he didn't have time to hang out in a hurry to buy things, and it was really a burden to go down Xiaoqiu with his age.

Of course, Xiaoqiu cried, Xiaoxia coaxed softly, and promised to take Xiaoqiu to the town for a good walk this year, so that the little girl was coaxed.

While it was still early, Shen Zhong took his daughter to rent an ox cart from the village and went to Gushan Town. Xiao Wang naturally stayed at home and took Xiaoqiu to feed the pigs.

When he arrived in Gushan Town, Xiao Xia pulled Shen Zhong to buy two pots first, one large and one small, one for cooking rice and one for cooking, and bought a porcelain pot for stewing soup, as well as white dishes, large bowls, cutting boards, knives, etc., which used three hundred copper plates, and the distressed Shen Zhong frowned, but Xiao Xia said that this is a necessary supply, and it can't be borrowed from the upper room! Shen Zhong could only nod stiffly.

Then there is oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, rice, and white noodles, and I bought some of them. When buying rice and white noodles, Shen Zhong said that he didn't agree with anything, Xiao Xia bought a little bit on the pretext that he wanted to taste it without eating it, thinking about the pitiful appearance of his three daughters, Shen Zhong compromised again. I found another stall selling meat and weighed half a catty of pork belly and two big bones, and finally returned with a full load.

When the father and daughter arrived home, they attracted the attention of the entire Shen family, and the big bags and small bags couldn't be seen but they must have spent a lot of silver, and Mrs. Jia immediately called Shen Zhong away.

"Dad, hurry up! Seeing that it was getting dark, hurry up and put the pot on the rack so that we can cook. Xiao Xia watched Shen Zhong walk into the main house, and stood in the courtyard and shouted.

Xiao Wang watched the two sisters move into the Westinghouse with large bags and small bags, and they kept talking about spending too much money.

Xiao Xia let Xiao Chun look at things, she stood at the door of the main house, waiting for her father to come out, just Shen Zhong's sawed gourd, it is estimated that it is not easy for Mrs. Jia to ask anything.

Sure enough, after a while, I heard Mrs. Jia shouting 'Get out of ......', and then Shen Zhong came out with his head down.

Xiao Xia looked Shen Zhong up and down for a while, and opened his mouth with a smile; "Dad, hurry up and set up the pot!"

Shen Zhong nodded, there were two more rooms in the west wing, and there were sundries in the outer firewood room. Shen Zhong put the stove in the firewood room, a ready-made house, Shen Zhong was quick with his hands and feet, this little thing, the men in the village would be able to build it in a while.

"Mother, I'll help you." Xiao Xia actively participated in the cooking work for the first time, and she only went into the Shen family's big kitchen twice.

"Mother, I'll help you too, I can light the fire." Koharu holds a basket of meat and bones.

"I'll help too." Xiaoqiu is also happy, she has meat to eat today, and she drools when she thinks about it.

"Good ......"

Xiao Wang's hands and feet are nimble, and she revolves around the pot every day, cooking rice is very simple for her. Wash your hands and noodles, and half of the white noodles in the coarse grain noodles, and pinch a few nests in two strokes. In fact, Xiao Xia really wants to eat white rice, but don't be too high-profile on the first day, the Shen family can't eat white rice once a year.

Stir-fried wild vegetables with pork belly, this kind of wild vegetables Xiao Xia can't be named, but I have eaten it on the Shen family's table before, and it is very crisp and delicious with a bit of bitterness. The bones were used to make soup, and Xiao Xia carefully cut a thin slice of ginseng and put it inside, stewing it in a jar. After a while, the fragrance of white noodles, the meat in the dishes, and the rich aroma of bone broth all wafted out, and the courtyard of the Shen family was full of fragrance.