Chapter 9: Short

"Big thorn cabbage." The two said at the same time.

"It's just a medicinal herb." Liu Meibao said with a smile, walked over and picked a narrow leaf, rubbed it vigorously with his hands, and then reached out to apply it to the blood stasis at the corner of Zhou Liangyu's mouth, "It can stop bleeding and disinfect."

"Really?" Zhou Liangyu asked in surprise.

"Yes, it's written in the book." Liu Meibao said with a smile, "You see, not everyone can dig herbs, and not everyone knows where they grow." ”

"In other words, scarce is expensive... Everyone knows that firewood can be used, so it is cheaper, but the herbs are different, and there are fewer people who know that there are fewer people digging it, so the price of the natural sale is high. Zhou Liangyu said suddenly.

Liu Meibao smiled, "That's the same thing." ”

"After that, my sister will guide you, let's all go dig up herbs." Zhou Liangyu smiled and clapped his hands.

Qingya clapped her hands again and again, and the sluggish atmosphere in the courtyard disappeared a lot because of this joke, and everyone subconsciously didn't want to mention Zhou Liangyu's beating, so they all followed this story.

Song Sanniang, who didn't speak on the side, coughed.

"Qingya is going to light the fire, let's roll noodles and eat them tonight." She said suddenly.

As soon as these words came out, the three people in the courtyard all stared at them.

"Don't want to eat?" Song Sanniang glared.

It should have been a year since I had eaten white noodles, just hearing this, Qingya's saliva was dripping, and she didn't care about speaking, but she was afraid that the next moment Song Sanniang would regret it, so she rushed to the stove pit on the side, and slashed the fire sickle.

Although it is just a simple white noodle with some wild vegetable foam that almost does not see the oil flowers, this is also the best meal Liu Meibao has eaten since he crossed, and the green girl on the side almost swallowed the chopsticks with a bowl of food.

"Let's eat more, tomorrow we will dig herbs, dig herbs for white noodles, and then we can eat noodles every day..."Zhou Liangyu said.

"Also, change some eggs, it's called beautiful when there's an egg in the noodles..."Qingya said vaguely while holding chopsticks.

"Then use the leek flower boiling pot.." Zhou Liangyu continued with a smile.

For the first time, the dinner table was so cheerful and lively, Song Sanniang, who had been silent, suddenly put down the dishes and chopsticks, got up and ran into the house, and then a muffled cry came out.

The cheerful atmosphere at the dinner table suddenly disappeared, and then the young girl sobbed and cried, and Zhou Liangyu lowered her head and remained motionless.

Just a year ago, this meal of white noodles was in their house, and even the servants didn't look at it, but now they can eat it as excited as the New Year, and this taste is indescribable.

When the night was thick, Liu Meibao sighed softly, picked up the bowl and slowly ate her own food.

I'm glad she's still alive to sit here and eat, that's how lucky life is.

The next day, Zhou Liangyu inquired about why he was injured, and he was washing clothes by the river in the west of the village.

The reason is that Zhou Liangyu said a few days ago that the Li Chang's family wants to find a long-term worker, doing this long-term work can get two cents a day, and take care of a meal, at least for half a year, for the villagers, this is undoubtedly a big job, and can even feed a family, so when they heard that Zhou Liangyu may be selected, some people were not convinced.

On that day, several children from the village stopped Zhou Liangyu and threatened him not to go to the chief's house to work, but Zhou Liangyu naturally refused, and the children saw that the threat did not work, so they simply took action.

That's why Zhou Liangyu was beaten, and the Zhou family was left with this single seedling, how could Song Sanniang swallow this breath, so she went to the home theory of these children, but she was angry again.

The family threatened to drive them out of Yong'an Village if they didn't know anything else.

Liu Zhixian's crime was to flee after hearing the enemy, and his brother-in-law, that is, Zhou Liangyu's father, was convicted of colluding with the Tartars.

"Bully!" The young girl angrily slammed her clothes.

"Forget it, it's not a good job, it's too hard." Liu Meibao said, while shaking the clothes in his hand in the river.

It was the first time she had washed clothes by the river, everything was so curious, and her movements were naturally rusty, and when she was a little embarrassed to retrieve the clothes that had been taken away by the water, she remembered the woman's eating and laughing.

"Sure enough, it's a delicate girl, and it's like embroidering flowers when you wash your clothes...", a woman laughed.

This was met with laughter.

This is indeed the truth, Liu Meibao also laughed, and didn't care.

Qingya snorted, muttered a few words in a low voice, and quickly washed a few clothes in front of Liu Meibao and put them in a wooden basin.

"Let's go." She pulled Liu Meibao and said in a low voice.

Liu Meibao shook her hand in the water, nodded and picked up a wooden basin.

The eyes of the rest of the women looked at the backs of the two girls unscrupulously.

"Thin as a stick, what can you do?"

"Can you give birth to this small body?"

Everyone commented and said, focusing their eyes on a middle-aged woman, who was still looking at Liu Meibao who was far away.

"I said sister-in-law Xie, I heard that the chief has the intention to be his daughter-in-law?" A woman asked with a smile.

The woman who was called Sister-in-law Xie came back to her senses and retracted her gaze.

"I had this intention... But the previous paragraph didn't say that he was sick and dying..."The woman shook her head and said, "I see where there is a sickness in this appearance, and it is quite strong..."

This confirmed the news, which made the surrounding women a little envious.

The Li Chang's family is a good family in their eyes, with so many fields, as well as several cows and horses, and they can eat white noodles three times a day.

Why is everything cheap for this outsider, first the kid of that family can always get a job, and now the girl is taken care of again.

"What's strong, a gust of wind can blow it, and it is estimated that it hurts to hold a needle..."

Immediately there was a chorus of echoes.

Sister-in-law Xie didn't speak, just smiled, washed the clothes in her hand three times and two times, and said to everyone that I would go first, and then hurriedly walked to the village with a wooden basin.

Behind him, the women's discussions about what kind of daughter-in-law should marry continued, and Sister-in-law Xie pursed her lips disdainfully, what do you people who can't take care of eating and drinking know, where do you know the preferences of the rich, and the girls of other people's families, if they don't suffer from the crime in the family, don't even think about the lintel of the inside.

Sister-in-law Xie thought in her heart that she would go to the entrance of the village, call out to the child who was running away with her bare buttocks, stuff the wooden basin for him to send home, and she straightened out her wrinkled clothes and went to the inner chief's house.

"Don't think about farming..."

After listening to Liu Meibao's thoughts, Song Sanniang, who had been silent since yesterday, suddenly spoke.

"Why?" Liu Meibao couldn't help asking.

Zhou Liangyu and Qingya, who were eager to listen to her, also looked at it puzzled.

A trace of self-deprecation appeared on Song Sanniang's mouth, and she stopped the warp cloth, "It's said to be wasteland, if we go to plant, then it's not wasteland." ”

Qingya was still stunned and didn't understand, but Liu Meibao and Zhou Liangyu did.

"And what if we make this wasteland ours?" Liu Meibao thought about it and asked again.

"Impossible." Song Sanniang bit off a knotted cotton thread in her mouth and said, "Don't even think about it." ”