Finally fooled around, the brothers and sisters dug a basket of sweet potatoes, let Mai Yonghai carry home, at noon Mai Xiaohuan washed the sweet potatoes, steamed a full pot, and after the meal, buried a few in the hot ash under the stove, and the brothers and sisters who ate were full of mouths and hands full of ashes.

"Dad, mother, let's go dig up all the sweet potatoes on the mountain!" Mai Xiaohuan ate the roasted sweet potato as she wished, full of memories of the taste, she rubbed her bulging belly and begged her father. What I thought was that even if my family didn't approve of this proposal, I would secretly bring some back and keep it for cooking.

Shan Cuihua saw that her children liked to eat, how could she disagree, but Mai Wang was worried about how to store it when she got it back.

Mai Xiaohuan told them to dig a cellar and put the sweet potato yard in it, not only can they be stored until next spring, but they can also plant it themselves!

How is this possible? Mai Xiaofang remembered her sister's strange statements again, and asked her again who she heard about sweet potatoes. Mai Xiaohuan had no choice but to lie again: "When I lived in the inn, I heard the proprietress talk about it, and she said that there are people in my hometown who grow this, and they can save a lot of food!" ”

While saying these words, Mai Xiaohuan prayed silently in her heart that she had made up a white lie, which she had to do to make her family live a better life. It's really just out of kindness, without any malice, and it won't cause any harm to others, God don't blame it!

The next day, Mai Yonghe and Mai Xiaohuan stayed to watch the house, and the others went to the mountain, Mai Yonghe took the tools and began to dig the cellar, he inherited the burly figure of his father, and there seemed to be inexhaustible strength in his body, and a cellar had begun to take shape when he had to eat at noon.

The people who went up the mountain left with lunch, and Mai Xiaohuan cut half a cabbage and fried the meat for the eldest brother to have the strength to work in the afternoon. Mai Yonghe silently took out the lean meat and put it in his sister's bowl, he only likes to eat fatty meat, chewing it is very fragrant, and it just so happens that his sister doesn't eat a mouthful of fatty meat, and the two of them are also the best partners.

In the evening, Mai Wang sent Shan Cuihua's mother and daughter home, and by the way, he called his eldest son and set up a car to pull sweet potatoes.

Mai Xiaohuan first brought a basin of water to her mother and second sister to wash her face and hands, then turned around and picked out a plate of warm sweet potatoes from the pot and put it on the table, letting them cushion their stomachs first.

A sweet potato was eaten, and Mai Xiaofang began to gush about the interesting things they encountered in the mountains today. Something stupid rabbit ran to the place where they were working and was caught, and something dug up a sweet potato thicker than my sister's arm.

"By the way, my father said that many people in the village in that place know that our family digs back half of it and leaves half for other people's families to feed the cattle."

Mai Xiaohuan, who was eating sweet potatoes in his mouth and hadn't swallowed them yet, didn't know what he should do, so let's not swallow it! Wasted things; Swallow it! Won't he become an old cow?

Shan Cuihua kindly comforted Mai Xiaohuan: "Your second sister is so brainless when she speaks, you can eat it when you should, we all ate sweet potatoes, can we really become cattle, in that case, it would be good, and it would save a lot of money to buy cattle!"

Be careful! Mai Xiaohuan put down the sweet potato in her hand, planning to wait for her mother and second sister to eat it after she didn't mention the old cow.

"Your dad said he saw this on another hillside a few years ago...... Sweet potatoes, no one else knows there, tomorrow he will go to look for them, if there are all these this year. ”

As long as the cellar dug by the eldest brother is spacious enough, Daddy can also find that place, and Mai Xiaohuan certainly hopes to get back as many sweet potatoes as possible.

Maiwan runs the mountains all year round, and this neighborhood is already very familiar, and it is easy to find another sweet potato. To Mai Xiaohuan's great surprise, there was a small piece of purple sweet potato around.

Others were busy digging sweet potatoes, Mai Xiaohuan ran to dig purple potatoes, and Mai's family spent two days digging all the sweet potatoes here and shipping them home.

The time has entered October, and the things on the mountain have been recovered, and Mai Xiaohuan still wants to go around, in case he finds Ganoderma lucidum!

Mai Xiaohuan, who ran for two days and didn't find a single Ganoderma lucidum, was ordered to keep the beans at home, Mai Xiaohuan begged to give him one last chance, if he still couldn't find anything, he wouldn't run crazy again.

Shan Cuihua had no choice but to agree, and Mai Xiaohuan went up the mountain again for a morning, but found nothing except a few wild fruits and dried fungus that fell to the ground. It seems that this year's mountain trip is coming to an end, and from tomorrow onwards, I will honestly help my mother and second sister work at home!

When she walked down the mountain, in order to avoid the uncle's house, she deliberately took a long detour, and before she got close to the main road, she heard a boy's angry scolding: "Are you pigs?" A bunch of stupid people, they can be lost with everyone, and I don't know what the hell this place is, what do you say to do! ”

Mai Xiaohuan didn't want to cause trouble, and planned to take a detour to avoid this group of people, but unfortunately the sound of her feet stepping on the dead branches was still heard.

Two people dressed as family members ran to the edge of the forest to take a look, and easily found Mai Xiaohuan hiding behind a tree.

"We have something to ask you, and if you answer well, there will be a reward."

Who to fool! Just by listening to the voice just now, you can know that their young master is not a good talker. It is very likely that he is a child who is spoiled by his family, and if he answers a sentence that does not meet his wishes, he may get into trouble.

It doesn't seem to work if you don't go with them, neither of them has to do it together, as long as one of them stretches out a hand, they don't even have the ability to resist. Mai Xiaohuan pursed her lips and said carefully: "Two uncles, I'm afraid I can't help you, the farthest I grew up to be a few miles away is the county seat a few miles away, no matter how far I have heard of it, my family is still waiting for me to go home for dinner!" I'll go first. ”

Mai Xiaohuan saluted the two of them and raised his legs to leave, when he heard the sound of "rustling, rustling" footsteps in front of him. There were ten people walking towards this side, led by an eleven or twelve-year-old boy, with a pink and fair face, wearing a dress of exquisite materials, he stood opposite Mai Xiaohuan, staring straight at her.

It would be nice if I listened to my mother and second sister this morning, I didn't find anything on the mountain, and I wanted to go home and get into trouble, so I was really unlucky to get home.

"Young master, why don't we go to the county seat first and then find a way!" The person who was talking to Mai Xiaohuan just now said respectfully to the boy.

As if he hadn't heard him, the boy circled around Mai Xiaohuan, and took her bamboo basket to look closely, and saw that there were some black and dry things inside, and pushed it away in disgust. When he saw Mai Xiaohuan, he was neither like the maids at home who only knew how to stammer herself, nor was he like the little village girl who heard others say, trembling and scared when she saw people.

He seemed to have discovered something interesting, and he only cared about studying Mai Xiaohuan, and he had already forgotten about not being able to catch up with his cousin and getting lost.

"Isn't your family very poor, seeing that you are as thin as a wooden stick, even my maid won't wear this clothes, while Young Master Ben is in a good mood now, you can beg Young Master Ben to buy you and take it away, and you won't have to worry about food and clothing in the future."

Mai Xiaohuan looked up at the boy opposite in surprise, is being so willful when you have money? Buying a maid is as casual as buying a chicken and a duckling, as if being a maid in his family has to receive favors, it's really ......

"Isn't it very moving, kowtow and thank you for being exempt, Sanhe, you go with her and give them home...... If you buy it for the maid, it's only five taels of silver, and you can give ten taels, and we'll meet at the entrance of the village in front of us. ”

You can buy it if you say it! Mai Xiaohuan took two steps back and refused: "This young master, I know that your family must be very rich, but my father and mother will not sell me to be a maid." If you want to go to Pingliang County, you can walk straight along the road for half an hour, and that's all I know, and I will leave. ”

I didn't see that he was still a sharp tooth, the boy was a little more interested in kidnapping Mai Xiaohuan, and he introduced himself: "My surname is Tang, I am from Qingcheng County, haven't you ever been out of the county?" Come with me, not only can you get out of the county, but you can also enter Qingcheng County! ”

Tang, why do you seem to have heard this surname somewhere? Mai Xiaohuan shook his head while thinking about Young Master Tang's origin, he was not really an eight-year-old child, even if he took out a hundred taels of silver now, it would be impossible for him to follow him. Selling himself to become a maid, he doesn't even have freedom in his life, how can he bring his whole family to get rich!

This time, not only Young Master Tang was surprised, but even the entourage around him was surprised, the Tang family was very good to his subordinates, which was well-known in Qingcheng County.

Not to mention that in the poor and remote countryside, there are countless families in the county seat and Qingcheng County lined up, waiting to send their girls to the Tang family as maids! Not to mention that the monthly silver is more than that of other families, when they are fifteen years old, their families are allowed to take people out to marry, and the Tang family will give a rich dowry, such a good thing is difficult to find with a lantern, this maid refused without hesitation, it was really beyond everyone's expectations.

"You...... Do you know I'm helping you? Young Master Tang smiled angrily, the little village aunt is the little village girl, although she looks quite clever, her vision is still too short-sighted. Just when he was very disappointed with Mai Xiaohuan's performance, thinking about whether to leave here first, or continue to persuade him, and give this poor girl one last chance, he heard a call from afar: "Xiao Huan, Xiao Huan, where are you going, it's time to go home for dinner".

"My family has found it, goodbye!" Taking advantage of the stunned people around him, Mai Xiaohuan relied on the advantage of his petite body to squeeze out of the crowd and run away.

This is okay, the little girl who dares to play tricks with herself hasn't been born yet! Young Master Tang took a big step and quickly caught up with Mai Xiaohuan, and Mai Xiaofang's figure also appeared in front of everyone.

"Xiao Huanhuan squats down, and the second sister will help you fight away the bad guys." Mai Xiaofang swept the stone in her hand, and skimmed it over to Young Master Tang, what she liked the most and what she was best at was to throw bad people with stones.

Mai Xiaohuan couldn't help but wail in her heart, second sister, I know that you are my own sister, but some people really can't fight! If we hit this bad-tempered young master, our family can't afford to pay even if they smash the pot and sell iron!