Chapter 5: Rush to the market
Liu Zhimo saw a large piece of watery mushrooms, and the exhaustion of his body was swept away, he walked up to Li Qingling and asked her which hairy nests were edible?
Li Qingling squatted down and taught him how to identify mushrooms, some mushrooms are very similar, but they are poisonous and cannot be eaten, so they must be seen clearly.
There are a lot of mushrooms here, and it didn't take much time for the two of them to fill up their backs.
Looking at these mushrooms, Li Qingling picked up the basket on his back, turned his head and asked Liu Zhimo if he would come tomorrow? She wants to pick some tomorrow and dry them at home, and eat them whenever she wants, not afraid that they will spoil.
"Tomorrow is the day of the market, and I'm going to town." His book was copied and he was going to take it back to Shopkeeper Xing.
"Rushing to the market?" Li Qingling's eyes flashed, she also wanted to go to the town to have a look, to see what could be earned, the family had no money, and there was no money to buy oil if she wanted to, "Can you call me when you go tomorrow?" I want to go to town too. β
Liu Zhimo nodded: "Yes, but you have to walk, and the hour should be early." "The family is in difficulty, and in order to save two pennies for the ox cart, he can only choose to walk.
I still remember the first time he walked to the town, he walked for three hours, and the soles of his feet were blistered, and then he got used to it, and his speed was much faster.
Li Qingling said that there is no problem at all for walking, even if she wants to take a car, she has no money!
She now has a deep understanding of the sentence that a penny is forced to kill a big man, and it really can't be done without money.
"You're okay!" Liu Zhimo adjusted the strap of the back basket, "Let's go, go back." β
He was tired from carrying an empty basket when he came, and he was very worried about carrying such a heavy basket when he went back.
Li Qingling obviously took this into account, so when he went back, he walked very slowly, and stopped from time to time to take a rest, and Liu Zhimo's heart warmed for her thoughtfulness.
He remembered that his father asked him before he died, would he like to marry Li Qingling?
At that time, he guessed what his father meant, which was nothing more than to help his three siblings find a backer.
So he didn't have much opinion, so he nodded immediately, but he had watched his father and mother live a life of affection and fragrance with red sleeves since he was a child, and he also thought that he would marry a literate wife in the future, but the reality is not the case, and it is inevitable that there will be some regrets in his heart.
At this moment, there is no such regret in his heart, he feels that it is good to have a wife who can support each other and be considerate of him!
"Huh..."Li Qingling suddenly put down the basket and ran to a tree and squatted down, Liu Zhimo didn't know what she was going to do? Ask her what's wrong?
She didn't answer him, she dug the soil with her hands, but he couldn't, so he walked up to her and saw her digging a weed.
He also squatted down, wanting to help her, but was stopped by her, "Oh, don't move, I'll come, this is a good thing, it's worth it until you dig it up." β
Hearing this, Liu Zhimo had no choice but to withdraw her hand and stay aside to watch her dig carefully, digging for a quarter of an hour before she excitedly dug out the weeds.
"Look, it's wild ginseng." She held the ginseng up to him and showed him, "Good luck today." β
Although the year is only more than 20 years, it is worth a little money, and she will take it to the town tomorrow to sell it, and after selling the money, she can buy some oil and rice to eat at home.
It's indeed ginseng, when my father and mother were sick before, he bought it for them to eat, but...
"How did you meet?"
Li Qingling carefully put the wild ginseng into the back basket before he answered, "I used to go into the mountains with my father to hunt, he taught me." As he spoke, he picked up some pine needles and covered them, and also covered Liu Zhimo's back basket, so that when people saw them, they only thought that they were carrying pine needles, and would never have thought that there were mushrooms under the back basket.
Liu Zhimo was very convinced of Li Qingling's words, Uncle Li was indeed a good hunter, he often went up the mountain, and it was not surprising that he would know some herbs.
The two of them got back on the road, stopped and stopped, and when they walked to the shallow forest, they happened to meet Lin who was going up the mountain to collect firewood, she saw Li Qingling carrying a basket on his back, and immediately walked over, "Xiaoling, what are you carrying?" β
Li Qingling's eyes flashed with disgust, and he called out to his aunt, and flashed her approaching hand, "Hold some pine needles." β
Lin Shi flashed dissatisfaction, she stretched out her head to take a look, it was indeed pine needles, pursed her lips, and glanced at Liu Zhimo ambiguously in a blink of an eye, "Xiao Ling's marriage is different, picking up pine needles and leaves together." β
Li Qingling hates Lin's gossip face the most, she is the one who likes to gossip everywhere in the village, and now she sees her with Liu Zhimo, and when she turns around, she gets her shameless gossip everywhere in the village.
Although she didn't care much about those words, Zhao did.
"He's my fiancΓ©, and it's right to help my family with some work." Li Qingling smiled and replied generously, "By the way, auntie, when will Sister Baozhu get married?" Didn't you look at each other a few days ago? Is it done? β
Li Baozhu is her lobby sister, fat and lazy, eats a lot, and completely lives up to her name "pig", she is fifteen years old this year, and she has not yet decided to marry.
This matter has become a headache for the Lin family, and her face is not good-looking when Li Qingling provokes her sore spot so aggressively.
"What kind of offspring to look at, don't be foolish and ruin the reputation of the jewel." Lin scolded Li Qingling loudly.
"Isn't it? I obviously heard my grandmother say, "The village next door..."
"You heard it wrong, no." Lin interrupted Li Qingling's words loudly again, and she turned around and picked up a load of firewood and walked down the mountain quickly.
After this experience, I think the Lin family will not speak ill of her.
Li Qingling turned her eyes to Liu Zhimo, who was looking at her with a smile, shrugged her shoulders, and said innocently: "You have to do this to people like her, otherwise, she won't know the pain." β
Liu Zhimo smiled and hummed, saying that he had learned.
Li Qingling: "..."
When she got home, as soon as Li Qingling saw Zhao, she pulled her into the house, pulled away the pine needles, and carefully took out the wild ginseng.
"Mother, look, I dug up a wild ginseng, and I plan to sell it in the town with Brother Mo tomorrow, so that I can buy some rice and come back."
After eating mushrooms for several days in a row, she was a little scared and urgently needed a little rice to change her taste.
I looked at Zhao's belly again, if I could sell it, I would buy some meat and come back to make up for the baby in my belly.
Zhao looked at the wild ginseng in surprise and then looked at Li Qingling, "Your girl is really lucky, you have dug it up, since you dug it, you can make your own decisions!" β
"Wow, sister, you're amazing." Li Qingfeng raised his head and looked at Li Qingling with admiration, "Sister, are you really going to the town tomorrow?" β
His eyes showed a desire to go too, when his father was still there, he took him there twice, he remembered that the town was very lively, a lot of things were sold, he didn't buy things, it was okay to go and see.
The desire in Li Qingfeng's eyes was so obvious, Li Qingling couldn't see it, and thought about it for a while, tomorrow in addition to selling wild ginseng, she would go to the town to see if there was any work that could make money, so it should be no problem to take him, so she satisfied him, "If you can get up tomorrow morning, I'll take you there." β
As soon as the words fell, Li Qingfeng rushed over happily and hugged her neck tightly, "Sister, thank you, I will definitely wake up early." β
Zhao was a little worried, "Why don't you go Xiaofeng, there are a lot of people in the town, it's quite chaotic." β
Li Qingfeng's face collapsed suddenly, he was afraid that Li Qingling would not take him with him if he heard Zhao's words, so he hurriedly spoke, "Sister, I will follow you obediently, promise not to run around, you can take me there!" β
"I didn't say I wouldn't take you there!" Li Qingling glanced at him, raised his head and comforted the Zhao family, "Mother, don't worry, Brother Mo and I will tighten Xiaofeng." β
"Mother..."Li Qingfeng took Zhao's hand again and called her coquettishly.
Zhao thought that there was ink, so he had to nod, and Li Qingfeng was happy again.
He was so happy, he couldn't stop talking all night, or Li Qingling threatened him to go to bed quickly, and if he didn't sleep, he wouldn't take him with him, so he obediently shut up and went to sleep. When he arrived at Yin, he woke up automatically and woke up Li Qingling.
Li Qingling almost threw this grinding spirit out, she looked at the still dark sky, grinded her teeth and asked him why he got up so early?
He blinked and said that his father used to get up so early to go to the market.
She exhaled, reached out to cover his eyes, and told him to continue sleeping, waiting for Brother Mo to come and get up again.
"But..."
"If I don't sleep, I won't take you there." Li Qingling could only use this trick to threaten her, she was still very sleepy now, and she really didn't have the energy to deal with him.
Li Qingfeng flattened his mouth aggrievedly, "Okay then!" β
felt that she hadn't slept for long, Liu Zhimo came to her house to call her, she was still vague, but Li Qingfeng got up with a bone, answered loudly, and then reached out to push Li Qingling.
"Sister, sister, Brother Zhimo is here, get up quickly."
This bear child...
Li Qingling sighed, resigned himself to his fate, and got up in the middle of the night to go to the town, which was really not easy.
She combed her hair, ran out to wash up quickly, wrapped the wild ginseng in a handkerchief, put it in her sleeves, carried the basket, and was told by the woke Zhao family before taking Li Qingfeng to follow Liu Zhimo to the town.
Li Qingfeng was very excited to ask Liu Zhimo at first, but after walking for two hours, he was so tired that he couldn't do it, he grabbed Li Qingling's hand and kept calling sister.
It's already very good to be able to hold on for two hours, and Li Qingling didn't force him anymore, let him go into the back basket, and she carried him away.
Liu Zhimo saw Li Qingling's small body, so he proposed that he carry Li Qingfeng, this time, Li Qingling refused, "It's okay, I'll just carry it, he's very light." β
When he saw that she insisted, he didn't force it, but only asked her to carry it for him if she was tired.
Li Qingling hummed, but she didn't shout tired all the way, Liu Zhimo was still afraid that she would be reckless, and if she wanted to change his back, she said no.
Don't look at her small size, but she has been used to doing farm work since she was a child, and Li Qingfeng's weight is really not a problem for her.
When he arrived at the gate of Mao'an Town, Li Qingling put down the basket and shook Li Qingfeng, who had been asleep for an hour, "Xiaofeng, wake up, we are in town." β