After eating the wontons, Ding Wen'an took the things he needed from Ding Mancang to the county town, seasonings, grain, oil, cloth and cotton...... Ding Wen'an's cotton clothes have long been used as silver, and he doesn't want to redeem them, so he just makes a new one.

After buying enough supplies for the family, Ding Wenan bought another five catties of meat and one catty of pork ribs, and he asked the butcher to divide the meat into three pieces, two of which were one catty each. I went to the pastry shop and bought three packs of dim sum. Ding Mancang looked at the raw pork and couldn't stop sucking saliva. Ding Wenan couldn't help but laugh when he looked at Ding Mancang's gluttony, bought ten large meat buns, and took one and stuffed it into Ding Mancang's mouth.

Ding Mancang chewed the fat in the bun, and his tears narrowed into a slit with satisfaction.

Ding Wenan bought another roast chicken and took Ding Mancang and Xing'er home.

When he got home, Ding Wenan asked Ding Mancang to chop the chicken, and then had wild vegetable soup for dinner. Afraid that Ding Mancang would not be able to eat enough, Ding Wenan also took two meat buns for Ding Mancang to eat. Ding Mancang ate happily, and he felt like he was dreaming in the past two days.

After dinner, Ding Wen'an took a piece of meat and a bag of snacks, collected cloth and cotton for Ding Mancang to take home: "Let the fourth aunt help me and Xing'er make two sets of autumn clothes and a set of winter clothes, and the meat and snacks are thank you gifts." ”

Ding Mancang said: "You don't need meat and snacks, my mother will also make clothes for you." ”

Ding Wen'an: "That's not good, the fourth aunt herself is very busy, and making clothes for us delayed her time, how can you not give a thank you gift?" If you don't give the snacks and meat to the fourth aunt, I won't trouble the fourth aunt to help our father and son make clothes in the future. ”

"My mother's female celebrity is the best in the village, if you don't look for my mother, who are you looking for?" Saying this, Ding Mancang still accepted the meat and snacks, and returned to his house with cloth and cotton.

Ding Wenan took another piece of meat and a bag of snacks to the village chief's house to thank him for taking care of their father and son - mainly to build a good relationship, and to take the county exam in the future, the village chief will need his help.

On the other side, Ding Mancang returned home, handed the cloth and cotton to his mother, and took out meat and snacks.

Man Cangniang couldn't help complaining about her son: "How can you accept the thank you gift from Wen An." Or meat and snacks, how much does it cost? ”

Ding Mancang said: "Brother Wen An said that if you don't accept the thank you gift, I won't let you help make clothes in the future." ”

"But this thank you gift is too valuable." Man Cangniang looked at the meat and swallowed her saliva, and wanted to accept it, but thinking that the meat was so expensive and Ding Wen'an's family was so poor, she could only endure her greed.

"Give the meat and snacks back." Mancang's father spoke, "Although Wen An can hunt and make money, his family is already poor, so we can't ask for his things." ”

Man Cang hurriedly said: "Brother Wen An is not poor, Brother Wen An is rich." ”

"What do you mean?" Mancang asked. Ding Wenan is his junior, and he still cares about this nephew very much.

Ding Mancang said: "Brother Wen Ange dug up ginseng in the mountains and sold it for money, not only did he have money to buy gifts, but he also bought a lot of food, so he won't be hungry anymore." ”

"Ginseng?" Man Cangniang's eyes widened in shock, "Oh my God, Wen An's luck is too good, right?" ”

Man Cang's father snorted and said: "That's also because people have read a lot of books, and they can only dig up ginseng if they know what it looks like." Where is it like us, we don't understand anything, and it's strange to be able to dig ginseng. ”

"Oh yes." Mancang Niang thought so.

The next day, everyone in the village knew that Ding Wen'an had made money selling ginseng, although they didn't know how much money the ginseng had sold. Early in the morning, Ding Wen'an had just finished eating steamed buns with Xing'er and Ding Mancang, and a villager came to inquire about ginseng. Ding Wen'an thought that there were still two ginseng trees in the mountain that were about ten years old, so he drew the branches and leaves of the ginseng and the shape of the ginseng to the villagers to see who was lucky enough to pick the two ginseng trees.

After learning what ginseng looked like from Ding Wen'an, the villagers went into the mountains to look for it, and finally the husband of the sixth aunt, the sixth uncle, and another offspring found the two ginseng trees, and after selling them to the pharmacy, one of them exchanged them for five taels of silver. Ginseng has not been found since. The villagers also thought that the ginseng found by Ding Wenan was the same as the one found by the sixth uncle, and the money they got was about the same. Avoid the idea that some people want to see money.

Ding Mancang would report to Ding Wenan's house every day, Ding Wenan was responsible for keeping Ding Mancang full, and Ding Mancang contracted all the trivial chores in Ding Wenan's house - except for cooking, the rice cooked by Ding Mancang was really unpalatable, and Ding Wenan had to cook by himself every day. However, there are not many things in Ding Wen'an's family, and most of the time Ding Wenan teaches Ding Mancang radio gymnastics and archery, as well as some external kung fu. Ding Mancang has a stubborn temperament, although he is old, but he has a tendon to do things, Ding Wencang asked him to practice martial arts, he practiced martial arts, even if doing broadcast gymnastics made him extremely uncomfortable, he insisted on doing it.

Persistence paid off, Ding Mancang's body became much stronger, and six out of ten arrows were able to hit the bull's-eye when shooting. Ding Wencang bought a pair of bows and arrows for Ding Mancang, took Ding Mancang up the mountain to hunt, hunted the prey, and the two divided it equally. In this way, not only Ding Mancang can eat enough, but the father and son of the Ding family can eat meat, and the life of Ding Mancang's family has also become much better.

On this day, Ding Wenan took his son into the mountains with Ding Mancang, and it was about to be winter, and it would be rare to find prey in the mountains at that time.

Entering the mountains, the two of them did not hold bows and arrows to find prey at any time, they both used bows and arrows to hunt prey after encountering them, most of the time, Ding Wenan and Ding Mancang were picking up dry firewood and going home to store for winter fire. After a period of exercise, Ding Wen'an has a lot more strength, not to mention Ding Mancang, the two of them can pull a lot of dry branches back every time they go to the sky.

A gust of mountain wind blew, Ding Wenan sniffled, and smelled the smell of blood mixed in the mountain wind.

"Mancang, do you smell anything?" Ding Wenan asked Ding Mancang.

Ding Mancang also sniffled and exclaimed, "It smells of blood." Brother Wen An, it can't be that a beast is injured in a fight, right? Hehe, we can pick up a bargain. ”

Once when he and Ding Wen'an entered the mountain, they encountered a wild boar and two wolves fighting, so that both sides were defeated, they picked up the cheap, transported the wild boar and the wolf down the mountain, the wild boar was distributed to the whole village to eat, the two wolves were all sold for money to be divided equally between him and Ding Wen'an, and each of them shared six taels of silver. It was the first time he had earned so much money when he was so big, and when he took the money home, his parents and older siblings looked at him differently than before. He was generous, and immediately gave the money to his father, so that his father could repair the house in the family and put a long-life lock on his newborn nephew. Now his status in the family has improved a lot.