The five female dolls of the Yue family are all women who have not left the cabinet, even if they are cousins, it is not good to stay here overnight.

The uncle's house in the east couldn't vacate the land, so the eldest cousin He Shugen and the second cousin He Shuzhi had to go to the west to run Sheng's house for a few nights.

The corn cobs that were harvested were already four or five percent dry, and they were basked in the spicy sun for four or five days, and it was almost the same. With the help of two cousins, the five sisters worked together to dig up the dried corn cob into corn kernels, which could be sold even if it was a job.

During this period, the third aunt came to make trouble several times, but unfortunately all of them ended in vain. After making trouble like this a few times, she saw that she couldn't take advantage of it, so she didn't come again.

Runsheng has a distant relative in the town named Sun Changsheng, who is a meat seller. He recognized the owners of several grain stores, helped guide the line, and gave a good price. Carambola asked the two cousins to help each other, loaded the grain into the cart, and pulled it to the town to exchange it for money.

The corn kernels are two hundred and eighty pounds in total, eight pounds a pound. Sweet potatoes are five pounds a catty, and star fruit is sold for four hundred catties. The sum of the two kinds of grain is four taels and two hundred and forty dollars. In addition, there is still more than 200 catties of sweet potatoes left in the cellar at home for his own family to eat.

In exchange for the money, each of the five sisters in the family bought a pair of cotton clothes to wear in winter, and two half-bed quilts, and spent almost the same. I added some dishes and chopsticks to my home, bought some papier-mâché windows, and bought enough coarse grain for ten days, and more than four taels of silver, and only a few hundred wen remained.

Cherry and Mi Tao took advantage of the good weather and a little yellow mud to plug the broken door panel at home one by one, even if it temporarily solved the problem of heating in winter.

It wasn't until the money was exchanged for a cotton jacket and quilt that star fruit dared to ask the two cousins to go back to Beihu Village.

Although the more than 200 catties of sweet potatoes in the cellar were not enough for the five sisters to spend the winter, they finally had food. And the clothes and quilts for the winter are also complete, and the star fruit can be regarded as a temporary relief.

For the rest of the food, I will slowly find another way, so I don't need to be in such a hurry.

On this day, she planned to spend the afternoon at the reed bank southwest of the village.

Reed Beach is not the name of a village, nor does it belong to any village, it is a beach formed by the Nanxiang River to a small flat source. And because the beach was large and long, and overgrown with reeds, it was called the reed beach.

The beach is shallow and clear, and there are many stones, and there are many small fish and shrimp. In addition, because of the lush reeds, there are many river birds and wild ducks that live here. Take two more trips, and if you're lucky, you'll be able to pick up some bird eggs and duck eggs.

"Big sister, I'll go too!!" Cherry tugged at the sleeve of the star fruit. Not long after she came to this world, she lay at home for several days due to her injuries. Now why should I go out with my eldest sister to have a look, learning more about this world is only one of the purposes, in addition, she went out and saw it, so that she could think of a way to make money.

"What are you going to do? You are at home with Walnut and your second sister and third sister to learn female popularity, how can you make a few dollars when you have nothing to do and embroidery. The remaining few hundred dollars were taken to the embroidery workshop to make a pledge, and the sisters finally got the embroidery work.

"Look at me, how do you embroider with your hands like this?" Cherry flashed her hand. There is still a burn on the back of her right hand, which is actually eight or nine years old, and she deliberately sticks to the herbs she pounds every day, so as to escape the schoolgirl's popularity.

I heard that the fire broke out at Miao Dawei's house in the village, when he was tired of playing with his second daughter and was sleeping on the kang. Out of nowhere, a fire was lit, and it burned. Fortunately, Miao Dawei came home at that time and rescued himself and Erni. I hurt my hand and face, and I had a large burn on my belly. But Erni was disfigured, her whole face was burned, and she is still lying on the kang. Speaking of which, I haven't seen her yet.

"You can't embroider, just look at it. You also know that you have injuries on your body, it's okay to stay at home honestly, don't run around with injuries. Mi Tao poked her forehead angrily.

"Good eldest sister, good second sister, can't you just ask me to go? One more person and one more pair of eyes, I went to pick up a few more duck eggs and came back, and we boiled eggs to eat at night. How long has it been since we've eaten eggs? "Smack her lips, she hasn't eaten a full meal since she came to this place, let alone eggs, fish and the like? Not to mention meat. I don't dare to think about it now, and my saliva is watering when I think about it.

"You're slippery! There was a fire, and people became weird," Mi Tao said, but he took off his clothes and put them on Cherry: "It's windy on the river beach, you be careful of catching a cold." Also, when you get to the ground, you are only allowed to pick up eggs, not water. Your injuries aren't healed yet. ”

"Good second sister, you are the best." Cherry pouts and gestures to kiss

Mi Tao hurriedly jumped away: "Not only is it weird, but it will also be numb." ”

"Hehe, forget it, your second sister has said it, then you can go." Carambola was also relieved, found another bamboo basket and handed it to Cherry, and while leading her out, she advised: "You have to follow me closely when you arrive, and don't run around." Although they are all shallow, there are also places where the water is deep. ”

Walnut watched the two walk away at the gate of the courtyard.

Cherry turned around and made a victory gesture towards Walnut: "Walnut~~ Be a girl at home, I'll get you eggs to eat!" ”

Walnut grinned: "Hey~~"

Reed Beach is located in the southeast of Xiaomiao Village, adjacent to Qujia Village in the north, Dazhao Village in the east, and Xiaomiao Village is sandwiched between the two villages. Place is not far away, less than a quarter of an hour.

On the way, he met Li Chang Miao Tianmin, and he greeted the two sisters warmly: "Yang'er, Ying'er, are you going to pick up small fish on the reed beach?" ”

"Well, Uncle Tianmin." Carambola responded with a smile: "Let's see if you can be lucky, pick up a wild duck egg, and make up for Sakura." If you pick up too much, you will send two to Miao Sange'er to eat. The grain harvest a few days ago was thanks to Uncle Tianmin. "In those days, the third aunt looked for the government, and no one paid attention to her when she was looking for the uncle, and she even went to the chief's house to make a fuss. Fortunately, the elder is upright and has suppressed this matter.

Miao Tianmin waved his hand with a smile: "My Miao San'er doesn't eat wild duck eggs." If you catch a wild duck, it's true that you can leave him a duck butt. As he spoke, the smile on his face was put away, and he looked at the star fruit seriously: "Besides, I am talking about that matter, it should be like this, you don't have to think about it." Yang'er, it's not easy for you to take your five younger sisters by yourself, if you have any more difficulties, just come and tell Uncle Tianmin. ”

"Hey." Star fruit nodded, waved to Miao Tianmin with a smile, and continued to walk forward with the cherry.

"How can there be people who don't love eggs and butts?!" Cherry just held back to not laugh. God knows, she is going crazy with the taste of eggs, and some people still don't love it.

"Don't laugh. Third Brother Miao is Uncle Tianmin's baby bump, if Uncle Tianmin hears it, he will be unhappy. Star fruit said seriously.

After walking for a while, the two reached the reed bank.

I saw clumps of reeds undulating with the wind, and there was a shoal or a stream of shallow water in between, and there were mostly stones underneath, and everywhere there was a slight 'whooshing' sound from small water flowing through the stones. The reeds were joined by the water, and when I looked up, I couldn't see the edge.

"Let's go, follow me. If you see duck droppings, be careful, there may be duck eggs. Star fruit admonished, and took the lead in pulling up his pants and entering the beach.

"Oh" Cherry hurriedly followed

"Sakura~Come here~~" After walking for a while, I heard an excited call from the star fruit in front of me.

Cherry ran up and saw that it was a small beach formed by the falling water level, and a lot of small fish and shrimp were trapped in it.

"Wow~ There are fish!" In a fit of excitement, he stepped on a crooked stone under his feet and lost his balance all of a sudden

Star fruit was frightened and threw a bamboo tree to help her: "Be careful!" ”

Kankan stabilized, and the star fruit fell angrily: "I told you to be careful, you still have injuries on your body......" Before she finished speaking, her voice was drowned out by a 'hulala' sound.

It turned out that the bamboo tree that flew out fell to the surface of the water, and the 'plopping' sound startled the wild ducks in a deep beach nearby. The frightened duck fluttered its wings and quickly spread out, and after a while it was gone.

"Oh my God......" Cherry opened her mouth, "so many wild ducks?" "At this moment, there must be at least thirty of them.

"Look at you like this, as if you've never seen it." Carambola smiled and stepped forward to pick up the bamboo basket: "You can't get wet, just stand here and help me carry the basket, I'll surround these small fish and shrimp, we can really eat a river fresh at night." ”

"Sister, there are so many ducks, let's catch them, eat and drink!!" The eldest sister only said that there were wild ducks on the river beach, and I thought that I could only see one or two by chance, but I never expected that there would be so many!

"I think you're crazy about meat. Is this mallard easy to catch? As soon as a man approached, he went into the deep water, which was slippery and tight, and was harder to catch than a rabbit. Star fruit shook her head, concentrating on the small fish and shrimp in her hand.

"I have a way!!" The thing she was most proud of in her previous life was that she was the deputy director of the Forestry Bureau.

In her previous life, she was an orphan with no father, no mother, no brothers and sisters, and she relied on her own part-time work to finish college. But when it was distributed, it was assigned to a poor ravine. She had no choice but to lead people to open up the wasteland to grow grain, open mountains and plant trees, and when she had nothing to do, she worked hard to conceive the tools and machinery that the mountain people could use. Later, he was finally promoted because of his outstanding performance, and he was promoted to the position of deputy director of the local forestry bureau step by step.

A dignified deputy director of the Forestry Bureau, can't catch a few wild ducks? She is not one of those who relies on relationships to go to the top of the backstage, but her position has come out of her own blood mark step by step.

Cherry was a little excited.

With so many wild ducks, if you can catch them and sell them, you can sell them for a lot of money. I heard Brother Akiyama say that at this time, the prices of wild animals in the town are very good. It just so happened that the food at home was not enough for the winter, and it just so happened that the sisters hadn't eaten meat for a long time......