Then, he told the last time he drove to the sea, how he saved the prince of the county, and how he sent people across the reef beach.

When the old man heard this, his eyelids, which had been drooping, finally raised his head, and he nodded slowly: "Hmm! You're right, it's our fishermen's duty to save people who have fallen into the water. It's rare for nobles to remember this, and we can't do anything to repay us. In the future, don't mention this stubble. ”

didn't expect his old man to have this kind of insight, Yu Xiaocao has a new understanding of this grandfather who is usually taciturn, but enjoys the highest voice at home.

Yu Dashan's face finally turned clear, and his tone softened: "Second brother, I didn't expect you to have this blessing, you can save a prince by rushing to the sea." Although we don't want nobles to reciprocate, but people's kindness is not easy to refuse, right? Take a look, what good things did the prince give you? ”

Old Yutou's gaze also looked towards the burden in Yu Xiaocao's arms.

This is a thank you gift from the general manager to my father, what is the matter with you? Yu Xiaocao was very dissatisfied in her heart, but she was full of helplessness. No matter how good things are, after the eyes of the two of them, what else can they do?

She sighed secretly, and opened the small but weighty burden in her hand—inside was a neatly stacked ten ingots of silver with white flowers, and a jade pendant that she had picked casually. It seems that this thank you gift was also prepared in a hurry, although the texture of the jade pendant is good, it is not a top-notch product. It is estimated that it is usually used to reward decent people.

"A noble person is a noble person, and it is a hundred taels of silver when he makes a shot. Look at this jade pendant, it is worth at least one hundred and eighty taels. Gee! The third child has the restraints for the next ten years! ”

Yu Dashan was dazzled by the silver of the white flowers, and this jade pendant like a grease was not something that people like them could see.

Yu Xiaocao pouted, was this silver in exchange for her father braving the wind and waves and dangers to save people? How did it become a ten-year shackle for uncles in these mouths?

Lao Yutou stroked the mutton fat jade pendant with his rough big hand, glanced at his second son, and made a decision: "This jade pendant is not something that money can buy." In the future, no matter how difficult it is at home, it is not allowed to sell it. It is regarded as a family heirloom and passed on to the eldest son and grandson of the Lao Yu family, leaving a memory for the children and grandchildren. ”

The expression on Yu Dashan's face froze. The eldest son and grandson of the old Yu family? But nothing is wrong with him! No one in the family knows that although he Yu Dashan has changed his surname, he is not the blood of the Yu family.

This Zhang family is the old Yu Tou's house, and Yu Hai's deceased mother is a cousin. When Zhang's new widow was kicked out by her in-laws, Yu Hai's mother kindly took her in. Later, after Yu Hai's mother fell ill and passed away, Lao Yutou continued to fill the house with Zhang's family.

This boss Yu Dashan was brought over by the Zhang family, and he was only two months older than Yu Hai.

The eldest son? Isn't bypassing him just Yu Haiwei? Such a good piece of jade pendant, didn't it fall on the old second-hand in the end?

Yu Dashan was unwilling, but he had no position to say anything. It is better for the jade pendant to fall into the hands of anyone than in the hands of Yu Hai, who has no blood relatives with him. But he knew very well in his heart that the decision made by the old man, even if it was his powerful mother Zhang, could not be changed.

Yu Xiaocao is much more mentally balanced at this time, the eldest son and grandson of the old Yu family, isn't that her eldest brother! At least this good thing was not done in vain, so there was a jade pendant as a comfort.

It's a pity that the hundred taels of snowflake silver, if only she had a quick hand and took out one or two ingots. Yu Xiaocao bit her little hand in her heart and her eyes were tearful: One hundred taels of silver, it's not a small amount.

Back at home, Yu Xiaocao saw the silver of the white flowers and fell into the cheap grandmother. 's waist bag, so distressed that I can't lift my spirits. Liu Shi looked at the child's wilted appearance, and couldn't help touching her forehead, for fear that the child would be sick again.

To say that the past three or four months have been the most comfortable days for the Liu family in the past seven or eight years. Although the work at home is the same, although the scolding every day has not diminished. But her daughter, who has always been sick and crooked, has not been sick once in the past few months, and can run and jump like other children in the village, and has also learned medical skills from Dr. You.

Now, don't worry about eating well, you can finally fill your stomach. The children learn to catch prey under the trap, occasionally catch one or two, and eat barbecue meat outside to fight tooth sacrifices. The children are also filial and always don't forget to sneak a bite for her and their father.

Looking at the children's increasingly ruddy little faces and fleshy little bodies in the bath, she felt that the days were getting more and more rushed.

"The daughter-in-law of the mountain, the daughter-in-law of the sea. It's frosty today, and it's time to get the sweet potatoes out of the cellar tomorrow. Zhang put away the hundred taels of silver, and finally had a smile on his face.

Yu Hai felt sorry for his daughter-in-law, put down his rice bowl and said, "Otherwise, we won't go to sea tomorrow, and a few old men will be able to take sweet potatoes home in one day." ”

Zhang's face suddenly pulled down again when he heard this: "There are only three acres of dry land at home, when I was young, I could clean it up alone, so why delay the business of going out to sea to fish?" Before it freezes, hurry up and go out to sea a few more times. ”

Yu Xiaocao glanced at her cheap grandmother and thought: How much does this old lady love money! If you have that one hundred taels, even if you don't go to sea for a year, you won't be hungry! This ability to slam the door is about to catch up with Yan Jian Sheng and Grande.

Early the next morning, Yu Xiaocao was trembling in Zhang's sharp voice, and put on a patched flower cotton jacket. It's only October (lunar calendar), and it's already a thick frost, and if you don't wear cotton clothes in the morning and evening, you can't stand the cold.

"Little sister, you can sleep again, I'll help my mother dig sweet potatoes." Yu Xiaolian got up quickly, and seeing that she didn't look awake, she hurriedly stuffed her into the quilt again.

The temperature in the quilt is really nostalgic, but the real eight-year-old Lori has gotten up and gone to the field, and she, a person who is 30 years old, really has no face to rely on.

Yu Xiaocao, who washed his face and rinsed his mouth, yawned for a long time, followed his mother listlessly. Turning her head to look at the fat aunt Li who was also yawning with a face of, she suddenly felt a lot more balanced in her heart. Look, it's not like none of us can't get up from the kang.

After walking along a narrow and winding path for about two quarters of an hour, I saw the world covered with green sweet potato vines. The eyes are full of dark green, lined with the clear blue sky, coupled with the smell of earth, and take a deep breath of cold air. Yu Xiaocao suddenly felt a lot more energetic.

"Sister-in-law of the mountain, second sister-in-law, come to sweet potatoes!" A simple face, with a warm smile, greeted the group.

"Uncle Santang, good morning! You're here to dig sweet potatoes too, right? "Yu Xiaocao has a good impression of the third cousin of the eldest grandfather's family, when she first wore it, she was still carried home by others.

Yu He touched her head with a smile, looked at the small hoe in her hand, and quipped: "Yo, our little grass can also be used by a little adult." Uncle Santang's sweet potatoes have finished rising, and I will come to help you if I look for them again. ”

"No, just three acres of sweet potatoes, and it's all over in one day. Her third uncle, you go and get busy with you. The Liu family politely refused in front of Li Guihua. Grandpa Xiaocao has a lot of land, and he is busy at this time, how can he delay others?

Li Shi glared at the concubine fiercely, there is a ready-made labor force that does not work, and you should be tired. You said you were tired, why did you take me with you?

Yu Xiaocao saw the sweet potatoes dug up by others piled up on the side of the road, and remembered the sweetness of roasted sweet potatoes, sweet potato balls, and sweet potato cakes in his previous life, and couldn't help but be eager to try it. She picked up the little pickpocket specially prepared by her father and was ready to start work!

Taking advantage of the gap between her mother and the third cousin to talk, she opened the green vine of the sweet potato, looked for a place with a thick vine to start, and went down with a head, and sure enough, she saw a half-pulled sweet potato. Yu Xiaocao was so excited, although he had land at home in his previous life, he planted wheat and soybeans, and never planted sweet potatoes. Only occasionally go to the sweet potato field and rummage through some fish that have slipped through the net.

Yu Xiaocao carefully hollowed out the soil around the sweet potato with a pickaxe, digging deeper and deeper underneath, and digging bigger and bigger, for fear of damaging the sweet potato, she simply gave up the pickaxe and used her hands to dig the soil. Finally, she felt that the sweet potato was loose, so she held the sweet potato the size of a volleyball, and pulled out the big sweet potato with a fierce force, like a turnip.

Yu Xiaocao sat on the ground with her buttocks, fortunately, there was a sweet potato vine as a mat, and her butt didn't hurt much. She didn't care about patting the dirt off her buttocks, and hugged the big sweet potato dug up by herself: "Mother! Look!! I dug up a big sweet potato!! ”

Uncle Santang also looked at it, and showed a surprised expression as if he was pretending: "Yo! Xiaocao really has the ability to dig out such a big sweet potato with the first pick. Not to mention, this head can be called the king of sweet potatoes."

When Yu Xiaocao was holding her "spoils" and was overjoyed, the sound of the little mending stone dragging the ground appeared in her mind again:

[What's the matter? Did you forget? The first two months were a bit dry, and you took my bath water to dilute it and water the fields. Without the credit of this divine stone, how could such a barren sandy land grow such a large sweet potato? 】

"It turns out that Lingshi water can promote the growth of crops!" Yu Xiaocao, who was born as a farmer, moved in his heart. In the future, if you plant some out-of-season vegetables or something, won't you be able to make a lot of money?

【Out-of-season vegetables? What is that? The little mending stone that received the information in her mind was full of surprise in her tone.

Yu Xiaocao dug sweet potatoes and said, "That's it...... Spring vegetables can also be grown in winter. ”

[It's not difficult!] As long as it doesn't snow, this god stone can ripen a batch of vegetables in ten days. If the little mending stone had a tail, it would have been up to the sky a long time ago. Although the mana of the Dumb God Stone only recovered one meter, it was more than enough to speed up the growth of plants.

Yu Xiaocao dug out the small sweet potatoes around the big sweet potato one by one, forcibly suppressed the joy in his heart, and said: "With this word to you, the aura in Grandpa You's medicinal materials is close to you." ”