9. Iron rooster

Xie Xuan pulled Zhou Xiaoxiao to the side, and secretly took out two pieces of candy from her pocket and stuffed them into Zhou Xiaoxiao's hand, "Sister Xiaoxiao, eat it, don't let Zhou Xiaozhu see it." ”

Zhou Xiaoxiao was very moved, and quickly hid one of them in the inner layer of the jacket, and the other carefully peeled off the oil paper and put it in his mouth.

"Little sister, why do you pick mountain goods with that iron rooster, and you are not afraid that their family will take advantage of your family?" Xie Xuan finally got to the point.

"Originally, we met halfway, but who knew that their house would stick to us, and my father was embarrassed to open his mouth to drive people away." Zhou Xiaoxiao said honestly.

"Then will you go back to dinner at noon today?" Xie Xuan asked again.

"If we don't go back, we brought dry food and waited for the evening to go down the mountain."

"Oh......" Xie Xuan squeaked and chewed the maltose sticky in her mouth, thought about it for a while, and asked again: "Then when you came over, did you meet anyone else?" ”

"That's not true, this mountain is so big, it's unlucky for us to meet the Iron Rooster family." Zhou Xiaoxiao said helplessly, she was reluctant to chew the sugar at once, chew it all at once, chew it all at once, melt the sugar in her mouth, and said to Xie Xuan with a smile: "What a strong osmanthus flavor, it's delicious!" ”

Xie Xuan came back to her senses, and when she saw Zhou Xiaoxiao's happy expression, she couldn't help but feel a little disgusted for herself, she was just to inquire about the news, but the little girl in front of her was sincerely grateful to herself.

"Little sister, when you are free, you can come to my house to play with me!" Xie Xuan also said sincerely.

Just as the two were talking with a grin, they heard an arrogant voice behind them: "What are you two stealing food?" ”

Xie Xuan and Zhou Xiaoxiao looked back, but it was Wu Feihu, the youngest son of the iron rooster Wu Qingxi, who was two years older than Xie Xuan.

"What do you mean by stealing food? The two of us are eating in the bright light! Besides, what's your business with what we eat? Xie Xuan rolled her eyes, she really hated this bear child in her heart.

"Why don't you call it stealing? Eating behind my back is called stealing food, take it out for me to see! Wu Feihu looked at the candy that the two of them were chewing, and he drooled a little, but he didn't dare to arouse the attention of adults loudly, so he threatened in a low voice: "Don't give it to me, be careful that I will beat it in the future!" ”

Xie Xuan frowned, and felt a little displeased in her heart, such a young child knew to threaten people, and he didn't know how ordinary adults taught him.

Just as he was about to speak, he saw Xie Zhiyuan and Xie Zhicheng walking over, "Wu Feihu, are you bullying Xuanxuan again?" ”

When Wu Feihu saw Xie Zhiyuan and Xie Zhicheng, his momentum weakened, but he still didn't show weakness, "Why am I bullying her, it's the two of them who steal food behind people's backs!" ”

Xie Xuan laughed, took out a few osmanthus maltose, and distributed them to Xie Zhiyuan and Xie Zhicheng, squinted at the bear child in front of him, deliberately bit the sugar in his mouth and creaked, and demonstrated: "Big cousin and little cousin, let's eat it here in the open, see what he can do?" ”

Xie Zhiyuan and Xie Zhicheng were about to take the candy handed over by Xie Xuan, when they saw Wu Feihu snatch the candy from Xie Xuan's hand with lightning speed, turned around and ran.

"Ahh

Xie Zhiyuan and Xie Zhicheng were suddenly anxious, and the two of them stopped in front of Wu Feihu with one arrow step, and pushed him hard, Wu Feihu immediately shouted for help: "Dad, come on, their brothers are bullying me together......"

The adult who was originally gossiping got up and came over, Wu Qingxi saw the Xie brothers surrounding Wu Feihu, his face changed a little, and he said to Xie Qingshan in a weird manner: "Uncle Xie, the so-called father-son soldiers who go into battle, fight tiger brothers, your Xie family's style is really good!" ”

Xie Qingshan and Xie Pingtian felt a little unsightly when they heard this, and they were about to reprimand Xie Zhiyuan and the brothers.

"Grandpa, it hurts me so much when Wu Feihu caught me!" Xie Xuan hurriedly complained with a bitter face, stretched out his hand, and showed the two red marks on his hand that were scraped by Wu Feihu's fingernails, "We were eating candy just now, Wu Feihu wanted to rob us of the candy to eat, and if he didn't give it to him, Master Gai Ming'er would beat me when he wasn't around." I don't give it to him, he still grabs it, and my hand hurts so much! Before Brother Zhiyuan and Brother Zhicheng moved a finger against him, he sued the wicked first, why is he so bad! "I wanted to squeeze out two tears to increase the effect, but I couldn't squeeze it out, so that's it.

When Xie Qingshan heard this, he hurriedly came over and looked at Xie Xuan's little hand, and sure enough, there were two red marks on the palm of his hand, although there was no bleeding, but Xie Xuan's body was weak at the beginning of his serious illness, and he must have been very painful. He rubbed Xie Xuan's little hand distressedly, his face was a little unsightly, and he looked at Wu Qingxi, "Qingxi, this kid of your family is amazing now, he is about to become the overlord of our Gangshang Village, when he was young, he could still say that he was small and ignorant, but now he is eight years old, he has learned to grab things, how can he get it when he grows up?!" ”

Wu Qingxi was embarrassed by Xie Qingshan's words, slapped Wu Feihu in the face, and scolded sharply: "I'll let you rob people and things, and pickle things without arguing!" It's useless...... I can't do anything...... "Wu Qingxi's mother-in-law hurriedly went up to stop her.

Listening to his reprimands, as if there was something in the words, everyone felt a little uncomfortable in their hearts, seeing Wu Feihu's ghost crying wolf howl, and gradually left several slap prints on his face, they all stopped, Wu Qingxi just stopped.

Zhou Laomai took the opportunity to beckon his family to leave quickly, wanting to get rid of Wu Qingxi's family who were following them like kraft candy, Wu Qingxi still wanted to follow, so he called his wife and Wu Feihu to hurry up.

When he walked past the place where the Xie family was resting just now, he saw Wu Qingxi seeing a moist soil on the ground, as if it had been turned over freshly, so he sarcastically said angrily: "Yo, this is digging treasures in the barren mountains and mountains!" ”

The Xie family changed color together.

After a pause, Xie Qingshan didn't say in a good voice: "I haven't seen buried in a pit!" Only the pickled goods are everywhere, and they don't have to ask people to walk and step on them! ”

Xie Xuan cheered in her heart for her grandfather's witty reaction.

Wu Qingxi pursed his lips and beckoned his wife and Wu Feihu to leave.

Seeing that the figure was far away, Xie Qingshan told Xie Pingtian and Xie Ping'an to dig quickly, and after digging, throw the vine branches and leaves into the mountain stream, and don't bury them in the pit.

Xie Xuan couldn't help but admire, but the old man was thoughtful.

At noon, I ate some dry food casually on the mountain, and continued to look for it in the afternoon.

I didn't find He Shou Wu in the afternoon, after all, Shou Wu was not all over the mountains and fields just waiting for them to dig it, but there was also an unexpected joy, but I found Huang Jing and Sha Shen, Huang Jing tonified the spleen, moistened the lungs and rejuvenated; Sha Shen dispelled cold and heat, cleared the lungs and suppressed cough, these two medicinal materials have a nourishing effect, although the price is not as expensive as He Shou Wu, but it can also be sold for a few dollars.

There are also those wild vegetables that are everywhere, such as dandelions, bitter dices, mugwort, wild chrysanthemums, which are wild vegetables and also have some medicinal effects, which are often eaten by farmers on weekdays, although they can also be called medicinal materials, and also have some healing effects, but because the number is too common, it cannot be sold at a good price.

Xie Xuan finally felt that it was still useful for her to follow her father everywhere in her previous life to inspect the wealth project and learn about the cultivation of various Chinese herbal medicines, the cultivation and processing of agricultural products.

Busy and busy, before they knew it, the sun was already in the west, and a few people covered the chestnut hazelnuts they had beaten halfway on the medicinal herbs and went home.

Along the way, Xie Zhiyuan and Xie Zhicheng looked excitedly to see if they could find the medicinal materials that Xie Xuan taught them, not to mention, it was really Xie Zhiyuan to find a clump of forsythia, happy Xie Zhiyuan jumped back along the way, and the envious Xie Zhicheng walked home, his eyes were still glued to the ground and he looked around.

When they got home, Xie Wang and Lin had already cooked the meal, fried the eggplant with the meat residue left over from yesterday's boiling oil, put some chopped garlic to enhance the flavor, and steamed the sorghum rice. This is a good meal, there is a meat taste, there is dry rice, usually farmers do not dare to eat every day, that is, yesterday made a fortune, plus they have to go up the mountain to collect medicine for several days, Xie Wang is afraid that they will suffer losses so they do this.

Xie Qingshan looked at the sorghum dry rice in the pot, and said: "Child, pull some noodles for Xuanxuan, and then spread two eggs, Xuanxuan's illness is good, her body is weak, and she has to run with us to Shandong, so you have to make up for it!" ”

Naturally, the others didn't have any opinions, but Xie Zhiyuan and Xie Zhicheng drooled a little when they heard it, but the two of them also knew that Xuanxuan was injured a few days ago, and this time she had the credit again, and she deserved it.

Xie Xuan was washing his hands, and when he heard Xie Qingshan's words, he said: "Grandpa, my health is much better, just eat the same as you, what is it like for me to open a small stove alone!" ”

"You have made a great contribution to our Xie family, even if you open a small stove every day, you should do it!" Xie Qingshan said with a smile, but he also felt sorry for his two grandchildren, so he said: "Then do more, Zhiyuan and Zhicheng have also made a lot of efforts today!" “

Xie Zhicheng jumped up happily, Xie Zhiyuan was two years older after all, he was more stable than Xie Zhicheng, just smiling.

ran like this for a few days in a row, although almost all the ups and downs were carried by Xie Qingshan's father and son, but her body was still very weak at the beginning of her serious illness, and after a few days, her body was a little unbearable, and she always felt very tired and had no strength, so that Xie Qingshan and Xie Wang's husband and wife hurriedly wanted to take her to Liu Yiti, and she comforted them that they were tired and wanted to rest.

Xie Qingshan let her rest at home, and the three of them, father and son, just took Xie Zhiyuan and the brothers there, anyway, they recognized a lot of medicinal materials.

She was not idle at home, she wanted to teach Xie Wang and Lin how to concoct Shou Wu, so that the price could be higher when it was sold.