None of the brothers and sisters in the school mentioned anything else, and naturally they didn't tell Cao.

"Because of a lot of homework, I got out of school late..."Gu Hai explained to Cao Shi the reason for his late return.

"It's okay, listen to Mr. and study hard." Cao was busy with needlework in his hand, looking at his son and smiling lovingly.

"Mother, look, that's my sister's firewood..."Gu Hai patted his head and grinned, "It's just less, when my homework catches up, we can fight more..."

Cao Shi smiled when he heard this and said yes.

"I still have homework, mother..."Gu Hai looked at the dishes and chopsticks in front of him and said with some embarrassment.

Before the Cao family was about to get up, Gu Bainiang walked out of the kitchen and took a few steps to clean up.

"Brother, go quickly." She laughed.

After cleaning up and sitting under the pomegranate tree in the courtyard, Gu Bainiang, who was shrouded in the dark night, looked at the dim light in the two rooms, and only felt that this was the most beautiful thing in the world.

"Eighteen mothers?" Cao didn't see his daughter come in for a long time, so he came out to ask worriedly.

Gu Bainiang hurriedly stood up, walked out of the thick night, and called out to her mother.

Cao Shi breathed a sigh of relief when he saw her, and beckoned her to come over, "The night dew is heavy, don't sit in the yard." ”

Gu Bainiang nodded and smiled at her mother.

Looking at her slightly reddened eyes, Cao sighed in his heart, this child is crying again, is he thinking of her father? However, it's been so long, how suddenly again....

"Eighteen mothers.." Cao Shi stroked her soft hair and lovingly put her on his shoulder, "There is still a mother, don't be sad." ”

Gu Banniang held back her tears, reached out to hug her mother's waist, and said gratitude.

The mother and daughter hugged each other quietly for a while, Gu Bainiang's mood calmed down, and her eyes fell on the two large piles of firewood in the corner of the house, she remembered that it was Gu Hai yesterday.

"Mother, didn't the firewood be sold?" She stood up and asked in a low voice.

Cao Shi sighed, ".. There are many people who sell firewood....." After saying that, he patted his daughter's head again and comforted, "... I'll go again tomorrow, how can the business go so smoothly, if you want to sell, someone can't buy it, it's okay, it's okay, everyone is like this..."

It turned out that it was not easy to sell, Gu Bainiang was silent, she didn't know the price of firewood and rice, and she didn't know how difficult it was to make a living if she didn't make a living.

In order to save lamp oil, the mother and daughter went to bed early, and the light in the next room was on until dawn, and the next morning, everyone was swollen and couldn't help laughing when they looked at each other.

"Brother, no matter how much you pull down your homework, don't be in such a hurry, it's not good to burn your body." Gu Banniang said with a smile.

Gu Hai stretched out his hand and scraped her nose, "Look at your eyes, sister, don't be afraid, my mother and brother are here, even if you have a nightmare, don't be afraid!" ”

He patted his chest, which was not strong, "No more, brother, I'll run to your dream to beat them away!" ”

Gu Bainiang smiled, and said that there would be Brother Lao.

"Mother, don't worry too much, it's not that there is no endless road, our family will definitely be able to get through it."

Looking at his son and daughter's confident face, Cao nodded and smiled.

The decision was made, but how to make money as soon as possible is a big problem.

After chopping firewood for a while, Gu Bainiang, who was panting, wiped her sweat on the rocks, looked down at her hands with some broken skin, and then looked at the small pile of firewood scattered under her feet, and couldn't help but smile self-deprecatingly.

Her body was too weak, and it seemed that she couldn't exercise for a while and a half, so she turned her gaze to the bottom of the mountain, and the school surrounded by green books appeared and disappeared from time to time.

"Huh..."Gu Banniang's gaze stopped under a mountain rock, and a green grass swayed in the wind.

She couldn't help but smile on her face, "This is Yuanzhi....."

The smile slowly became a little sour, the Shen family had several shops, including a medicine shop, which was assigned to them by their mother-in-law to operate, at the beginning the business was very poor, because of a concoction master and improved, the business became bigger and bigger, and finally the name of Shunhetang resounded through Jiankang.....

Gu Bainiang bit her lower lip, without them, without them... He is him, and I am me.

Shen Anlin is not at home all the year round, the expenses of the whole family are pressed on her, all her money is pinned on hope and that medicine store, she has no other ability, only soft and friendly, treat the guys in the medicine store leniently, and often stay in the medicine store, for medicinal materials, she slowly understood a lot, that life, the only thing she got from the Shen family except humiliation was probably only this.

Medicinal herbs..... Gu Banniang's eyes couldn't help but light up, she stood up from the mountain rock, and slowly walked to the front of Cong Yuanzhi.

"This Yuanzhi is really good..."Gu Banniang muttered to herself, stretched out her hand and pulled it out.

As the sunlight gradually slanted, Gu Hai called Eighteen Niang a few times in the forest, and heard his sister's crisp response.

"Let you wait, don't go up the mountain first, you just won't listen....hey? What are you doing pulling so much grass? Gu Hai's gaze fell on the grass next to the pyre.

Gu Bainiang was shaking off the soil on the root of Yuanzhi, and said with a smile, "Sell it." ”

"Sell?" Gu Hai was puzzled, "These grasses? ”

"Brother, this is not a grass, it is a medicinal herb, it is a far-sighted ambition." Gu Bainiang stood up, walked slowly along the mountain road, and looked around.

"Hey, don't go around..."Gu Hai hurriedly called her.

Gu Banniang didn't look back, and waved her hand, "Brother, you chop wood, I'll pick some more." ”

At the end of the work at dusk, Gu Hai, who was carrying two large bundles of firewood, looked back at his sister from time to time, and his eyes fell on the basket she was carrying, which was already full of herbs.

"Is this really a medicinal herb?" Gu Hai couldn't help but question again.

"That's right, Yuanzhi, the stems and leaves are like big green and small," Gu Banniang said with a smile, "There is a record in Shennong's Materia Medica, go back and show it to my brother." ”

Gu Hai knew that his sister read a lot, and she didn't have to read for fame, so she dabbled in a wide range of things, and she didn't doubt it, so she waved her hand and said, "I don't have time to watch that... I'm afraid you'll admit your mistake. ”

Gu Bainiang smiled, she would not admit her mistake, she had been dealing with these medicinal materials for four years, until her mother-in-law took back the medicine store..... she bit her lower lip, although the medicine store poured a lot of effort into her, but when her mother-in-law opened her mouth, she did not hesitate at all, parents are the greatest, filial piety is supreme, isn't it? But why, after Shen Anlin found out, he looked at himself even more ...... That is, from that day to turn away, until the success of the book with a letter of resignation returned....

What did she do wrong? What the hell did she do wrong?.

"Eighteen mothers? Eighteen Niang, what's wrong with you? Gu Hai's anxious voice sounded.

Gu Banniang came back to her senses, "It's okay, it's okay." ”

Gu Hai still thought that she was tired, or the mountain wind was blowing, in short, she was worried, and after eating and cleaning up, Gu Bainiang took advantage of the dawn to sit in the yard to clean the herbs she had picked back.

Cao Shi was doing needlework on the side, watching her busy with a smile, asking a few words from time to time, and three or four homing birds fell from the trees, chattering and jumping in the yard to pick up food.

Cao Shi looked at it, and couldn't help but stop what he was doing, and a little surprise appeared on his face.

Gu Bainiang was holding a mallet, beating those washed Yuanzhi roots lightly and heavily.

"Eighteen Niang, are you going to smash this?" Cao couldn't help but ask.