Chrysanthemum said admiringly: "That's not easy. Doctor Qin, if the fists and feet you practice are not a secret, you might as well teach my family Zhang Huai. As you said, one is to strengthen the body, the second is to defend oneself, and the third is that if he can be like you, he can catch some prey by going up the mountain, so won't our family often have game to eat in the future? Let my brother learn along. ”

Hearing this, Aoki and Zhang Huai both laughed.

Aoki smiled: "Chrysanthemum, you said such a long list, why do I think the third point is the most important?" ”

Chrysanthemum smiled: "It all matters." Don't talk about the side, just say that if you can punch and kick a few times, you won't suffer a loss next time you meet the 'Yan'er Bad' in the yamen, right? Of course, it is better to have game to eat. ”

Qin Feng nodded and smiled: "Then when I practice in the morning, you two can just practice with me." It's not very difficult, the important thing is to persevere, if you can't practice for a few days and then throw it away, it won't work. ”

Aoki and Zhang Huai nodded together, and said that they were afraid that they would not succeed in the morning, they were very busy, and they studied first and practiced in the evening.

After a few laughs, Zhang Huai and Chrysanthemum came back to eat, and asked in wonder: "Why did Doctor Qin catch so much live game, and didn't kill and eat it, cut open his stomach and sew it up, what are you tossing?" ”

Chrysanthemum smiled: "I think it's a practice." They have to be skilled in helping people to pick bones, sew wounds, etc., and if they help people do it clumsily, then they won't toss people to death? Isn't it much better to use brutes to practice hands first, and then help people move knives? ”

Zhang Huai nodded and sighed: "It's not easy to do any line, and you can't do it without care." We have to explore for a long time to grow crops before we know how to fertilize and how to irrigate; I've been working on that fungus for so many years, and I haven't found a better way, but it's just that it's just more ripe. ”

Chrysanthemum smiled and said, "What's the hurry?" Maybe one day you suddenly realize that it is so easy to grow better and more fungus! ”

Huaizi led her into the courtyard and saw that He had already set up a small table and a small bench. When I was ready to have dinner, I asked Chrysanthemum again, "Why didn't you see that girl from Yunying today?" Didn't she say she was going to be with you all the time? ”

Chrysanthemum smiled: "I'm not a little baby, why do you want her to accompany me all day long?" She went to the village to help people with the sick. The more she helps people see diseases, the more she has experience, and the more skilled her medical skills are, isn't it better for us? These babies are looking for a stable wife, in fact, it is the best and most stable to ask her, but everyone is still not familiar with her. So we're going to help her preach and preach. ”

Huaizi pouted and said, "I don't know why, I just don't worry about her, I believe in Qin Fengli more." ”

Chrysanthemum sat down at the table and laughed, "Aren't you just angry—she caused you to fall that year." Doctor Qin is no longer capable. It's not good to help me deliver the baby, and it's better to have Yunying by my side. ”

Zhang Huai listened for a moment, and then said: "When the time comes, pull a curtain in the room, and I will accompany him to wait outside the curtain, just in case." ”

Chrysanthemum squeezed his palm with emotion when she heard this, and said softly: "Don't worry, Brother Huaizi, I'll be fine, I promise to give you a big fat boy." ”

At this time, He came out with a stack of bowls. Let Zhang Huai go to the backyard and call Zhang Dazhuan to eat. Chrysanthemum was busy helping to serve the dishes and add rice and set the dishes and chopsticks, Qin Feng had eaten at the Zheng family for the past two days, so he didn't call him.

After eating, Zhang Huai took the hand of the chrysanthemum and walked around the front and back yards, looked around the peach trees, and pointed out that the peaches on this tree were bigger, and the peaches on that tree were more. The cherries are also going to be red, and so on, and the jokes are endless.

The chrysanthemum looked at the leafy peach trees, the main trunk was only about four feet high, and after the top was cut off, three or four branches were born, which grew horizontally; The green and white peaches between the branches and leaves were the size of a small gourd's fist, but they were not yet red. Peaches are not densely knotted. This is because it has been groomed by chrysanthemums - some of the densely growing peaches have been removed.

The plums and apricots also bear fruit, and the green fruit makes people's cheeks sour when they look at it.

When night falls, the bamboo forest outside the courtyard wall rustles, the shadows of the trees near and far are longing, and the faint fragrance of flowers in the air is mixed with the smell of grass, and even the green taste of peach and plum. It's just that there is no bright moon in the sky - it has been spring rain for a long time. It's rare to have a clear sky and a clear moon.

Huaizi half-supported and half-hugged the chrysanthemum, feeling that her body was a little heavy, so she asked softly, "But your legs are sore?" Let's go back. After walking for a long time, go wash first, lie down for a while, and then eat a bowl of vermicelli to sleep. ”

Chrysanthemum nodded and agreed, she now eats less and more often, and before going to bed, she has to eat a bowl of potato vermicelli, which is made with fresh mushroom soup.

Huaizi has been very busy recently, and she has less time to accompany chrysanthemums.

Because he wanted to rush the affairs of his family, he could send Zhang Yang to participate in the government examination and the hospital examination. If the government examination is over, Zhang Yang and Xiaoshi will no longer rush back, so they will live in Huzhou City to study their homework and wait for the hospital examination, and everything will be taken care of by Ding Xuezheng and Li Changfeng.

This is also just in case, for fear of harm caused by villains, even this time to Huzhou secretly set a date and prepare to set off secretly.

The next morning, he got up early and glanced at the chrysanthemum that was still sleeping: he was leaning sideways in the center of the big bed, one leg resting on one end of the pillow, and the other end was pressed under her stomach, and the quilt had already been kicked aside.

Ever since her belly was pregnant, Huaizi did not dare to come near her—she always slept soundly, tossing and turning at night—so she slept on the edge of the bed, and gave her the whole big bed, and let her roll over and over on the bed.

kissed the back of her neck, and by the way, helped her put a thin quilt on her chest, and then went out to clean up, and in the morning light, went to the mountain wooden house to harvest fungus.

In the early morning, the mountains and forests have not yet fully awakened, the birds have not yet begun to chirp and sing, and the morning dew on the blades of grass is ticking and falling, and it is like the sound of rain; The trees are luxuriant, with kudzu vines climbing everywhere, and moss of varying shades at the roots of the trees on the ground.

Huaizi hurried through the jungle, turning the branches and shrubs aside, until he reached a wooden house deep in the woods that was leaking on all sides, and he pushed open the simple wooden door, and saw the rotting wood arranged horizontally and vertically.

He removed the basket from his back, took out a pair of scissors, and began to pick up the fat fungus.

He tried many methods, but he didn't know how to increase the yield, and in the end he just cut the hole in the tree and sprinkled it with wood chips; Or they dig holes in trees and fill them with wood chips, so that they all have fungus.

Hurriedly picked all the fungus that had grown up, filled a basket full of it, pressed it tightly, and there were more than 30 catties before he went down the mountain. At this time, the mountains and forests are already lively, with birds chirping and streams murmuring.

Walking quickly back to the compound, he left the basket, and before he could drink a sip of water, Huaizi took another set of fellows on his back—a basket and a small basket, plus a nail rake for digging the earth, and turned around and went up the hill again.

This time, he went in the other direction, where there was a large field of wild berries, commonly known as "planting seedlings", and he was going to pick them for chrysanthemums.

The wild berry was a thorny shrub with small thorns on its branches, shaped like a strawberry, but much smaller, the size of a peanut, and the fruit was red and bright when it was ripe, and it looked like a red star from a distance, so he couldn't help but be happy, put down the bamboo basket on his back, and carried a small basket, and picked around the thorns.

The wild berry is extremely red and tender, you should pinch it and gently pull or pinch off the thin stalk below, if the hand is heavy, it will be pinched into a soft red mud; There was one that was so ripe that it broke through the skin and ran water at the slightest touch, and he stuffed it into his mouth, otherwise it would have been crushed in the basket and would have carried other fruits.

After picking most of the basket, Huaizi looked at the middle of the thorns, where the berries were big and red, but he couldn't get in. With a roll of his eyes, he hooked up the nail rake on the ground, and violently and rudely plucked open the thorn bush to open a passage out.

A red-skinned snake was startled, and quickly stretched forward, trying to slip deeper into the bushes. Huaizi quickly raked it down, smashed its neck, and pulled it out with its tail, which was a little thinner than the nail rake handle in his hand, and it was heavy in his hand, which was several catties.

He looked at the fat snake and thought to himself, wait for the family to peel the skin, and give the chrysanthemum stew soup to drink.

Suddenly, I found that the snake's belly was bulging - it was also pregnant. Woohoo! No one has ever eaten this snake egg! Forget it, it's better not to give chrysanthemums to eat. He weighed it in his heart, and did not feel guilty in the slightest for killing a pregnant snake, so he pulled a few sticks of fine grass, wrapped the snake tightly, and threw it into the back basket.

When he had finished doing this, he turned around and followed the newly opened passage to pick the wild berries among the thorns. Picking the fruits, which were obviously much larger than the surrounding edges, he was in a happy mood, and a smile tugged at the corners of his lips.

After picking the wild berries, he put on the bamboo basket on his back, picked up the nail rake, and walked to the next destination. He saw a lot of mushrooms along the way, and he didn't bother to pick them—he had more important things to do.

When I went up the mountain a few days ago, I saw an old tree root, which was very simple and extraordinary, because the chrysanthemum liked this, and said that I would dig some plants and come back to raise potted plants. So he wanted to take the time to dig up the roots of the tree and raise them under the courtyard wall.

It took a while to find the old root. Looking at the block, he was a little worried, but he was afraid that the back basket would not be useful, and if all the roots of this tree were dug up, it would definitely be a lot bigger.

It's really not going to be able to carry it back, he thought, so he threw off his arms and dug up.

After the chrysanthemum got up early, she vomited and tossed, and finally settled down, and saw Huaizi tilting her head, holding a small basket in one hand to support her waist, and holding the back basket on her shoulder with the other hand.

Seeing that he was struggling, Chrysanthemum hurriedly ran down the eaves of the porch, greeted him and asked, "What is this...... Woohoo! What a big root! It's so beautiful! You even got the mud back? How heavy is that? ”

She exclaimed in amazement and distress, took the basket he handed over, and smiled in surprise again: "Is it planting seedlings?" Are they all cooked? I didn't think it was time - it wasn't even planted yet. ”

She smiled and pinched a berry, gently bit off the flesh on it, clicked her mouth, and said, "Sweet and sour, it tastes good." ”