In the early spring of February, the grass grows and the warbler flies, the weather gradually warms up, and the breeze blows, and there is still a trace of coolness.

Unknowingly, Jiang Xiaonian has been here for more than two months.

Wangjia Village is surrounded by vast mountains, and almost all the people in the village are surnamed Wang, so it is named.

At this time, the sky is already clouded, and the village can already see the curling smoke, indicating that people are about to let go of their fatigue after a busy day and enjoy this exciting dinner.

Jiang Xiaonian sorted out the dead branches she had picked up, and there was a basket of fish grass next to her, and there were a few bird eggs in her back basket.

The dead branches were taken home as firewood, and the basket of fish and grass was to be given to the fishermen in the village.

Since five days ago, Jiang Xiaonian took the initiative to find Aunt Song of Wang Yuhu's family, saying that he could send fish and grass to their family every day.

She didn't ask for any payment, and cutting the fish grass was just by the way, and it didn't take much effort, but Aunt Song was embarrassed to take her for nothing, and occasionally gave her a little thing to take back.

The day before yesterday I was given a small bundle of fine twine, and yesterday I was given two eggs, and Wang Yu's family is a relatively wealthy family in the village, and these things are nothing to their family.

Aunt Song also saw that Jiang Xiaonian was very sensible, and she was more generous to her.

However, for the Jiang family, every stitch and thread must be used thriftily, and these things given by Aunt Song can be subsidized a lot.

Especially those two eggs, when Jiang Wei saw them, his eyes were straight, and he swallowed saliva one by one.

On the same day, Zhou Huihui boiled the eggs, one for Jiang Xiaonian and one for Jiang Wei.

Jiang Xiaonian looked at Jiang Wei's gobbling up, and his heart was full of satisfaction, he was the happiest to be able to bring happiness to this family.

At this time, she was waiting for Jiang Wei to get out of school and help her bring back the dead branches, so that she could make time to go to Wang Yuhu's house to deliver fish and grass.

And today, she also has an unexpected harvest, when she went to the forest to pick up dead branches, she accidentally found a nest of birds' eggs, she was overjoyed, and climbed directly to the tree to dig out the bird's nest.

She thought how happy Jiang Wei would be if she saw these bird eggs.

After standing in place and waiting for a long time, he saw Jiang Wei walking towards the foot of the mountain from a distance.

"Brother! I am here! She waved at him and shouted.

Jiang Wei's mood was a little low, and he walked by himself, not hearing Jiang Xiaonian's shouting at all.

It wasn't until he got closer that he suddenly heard her voice and hurriedly agreed.

Jiang Xiaonian sensed that something was wrong with him, and asked while handing the bundled dead branches to his hand, "Brother, what's wrong with you?" He didn't look very happy. ”

Jiang Wei sighed, shook his head and said, "It's okay." ”

Jiang Xiaonian thought that he might be hungry, so he mysteriously took off the basket on his back, sent it to him, and asked expectantly: "Brother, look, I climbed a tree today and took out a bird's nest, and there are four eggs in it!" What do you think? Gluttonous? ”

Jiang Wei's eyes lit up, and he immediately put the depression behind him, stared at the back basket with surprise and said, "Sister, when did you learn to climb a tree?" I see that most of the trees in this forest are pine trees, and there are no branches in the straight one, how did you climb up? ”

Jiang Xiaonian put the basket on his back and said, "I learned it recently, in fact, climbing a tree is very simple, you are a scholar, of course you can't." ”

As soon as he heard the reader, Jiang Wei's expression darkened again.

He hung his head and carried the straw rope tied to the dead branches, walked in the direction of his home, and said, "Sister, I'll go back first, and you will come back quickly after sending the fish and grass." ”

Jiang Xiaonian's two thin arms dragged the basket of fish grass to Wang Yuhu's house, the grass was not heavy, but her body was too thin, and the long-term malnutrition made her look like a child of about five years old.

Wang Yuhu's house is not far from her house, not far from this mountain, and it sits in between, so she didn't take the fish grass home first and then send it.

Five or six minutes later, she dragged the basket to Wang Yuhu's house, his family's living conditions are among the best in the village, just from the house can be seen, and Jiang Xiaonian's family is completely different, the house is almost all made of wood, and the top is green tiles, the courtyard walls are made of stone, there are several rooms in the courtyard, used to raise pigs and chickens, the eggs given by Aunt Song last time are from their chickens.

And the fish pond they owned was at the back of the house, and it was surrounded by a fence with a stake inside the fence, and a dog was tethered to it, so that some unscrupulous people would come and do the things of roosters and dogs.

The reason why his family can be so wealthy is inseparable from Wang Yuhu's flexible brain and diligent hands and feet, of course, there is another key point, the people in his family are in good health and never get seriously ill.

When it comes to illness, I have to mention Jiang Xiaonian's brother Jiang Wei, I heard that he had a serious illness when he was a child and almost died, after Jiang Mengliang sold all the family property, he still couldn't make up for the medical expenses, and how he was cured later, Jiang Xiaonian didn't know, but that year, she was born.

Jiang Mengliang took the whole family from his hometown to join his father, who was a teacher in Shuangxi Town, but he didn't expect that the old lady turned him away, and he didn't even see his brother.

The old lady is from Xiucai, a total of two sons and two daughters, the eldest daughter Jiang Lixin has been married, her husband's family is not bad, she is the owner of a restaurant in the town, and the youngest daughter Jiang Liren is still in the boudoir at this time.

At that time, the Jiang family was for Jiang Mengliang's eldest brother Jiang Mengcheng to study, and there was no other spare money for Jiang Mengliang, Jiang Mengcheng was also competitive, and his academic work has always been one of the best in the private school, and later he was admitted to Xiucai, and the old lady put all his energy and family money on cultivating Jiang Mengcheng, so that together with the two old ones and the younger ones below, they all sneered at Jiang Mengliang.

In fact, Jiang Mengliang also wanted to study, but he could only watch his brother go to school, while he followed the rest of the village to do some chores.

After Jiang Mengcheng was admitted to Xiucai, he married the daughter of the Li family in the town, and since then, together with the old man and the old lady and Jiang Liren, they have all gone to live in the town, and at that time, he and Jiang Mengliang separated the family, leaving a pile of broken copper and iron and a few adobe houses for him, which is regarded as the property of the divided family.

After Jiang Mengliang defected to no avail, he had to take the last bit of silver left to buy a piece of land in Wangjia Village near the town, and there was a small bamboo forest behind this land.

Until three years ago, the old lady of the Jiang family found Jiang Mengliang again, saying that he was their son in the end, no matter how hard life was, he couldn't forget to honor his parents, so the honest Jiang Mengliang promised to honor them two taels of silver every year, so that the family was so poor that they couldn't open the pot.

Fortunately, Jiang Mengliang and Zhou Huihui are both diligent people, so they did not starve to death, but they just suffered these two children, and they were yellow and thin.