Han Yuniang led Meiyu to live in Jiang's house and served Hanyu's confinement. Originally, the old lady of the Jiang family was supposed to serve, but Han Yuniang was not at ease. The Jiang family has nothing to eat, what do they use to serve their daughter's confinement? If she is allowed to serve, I am afraid that most of the things sent by everyone will have to go into other people's stomachs. Anyway, it's not too busy at this time, so I'll work hard and wait here for a month. Waiting for Hanyu to get out of confinement, I took her back to Li's house to live for a while, and then came back until the house was ready.

Jiang Yonglin watched his mother-in-law and sister-in-law cooking and washing diapers after being busy here, and he was very upset. He wanted to help, but his mother-in-law said that he should hurry up and prepare to build a house. At this time, it is estimated that it will be built before the autumn harvest in August, and when it is cold, the house will be almost dry and inhabitable.

So, Jiang Yonglin hurriedly chose a place and prepared stones, wood, etc. Naturally, the money to buy tiles is not enough, and there is no rush to remove the billet. After thinking about it, I can only use yellow mud to smash and ram, this one is good, and I can live for more than ten or twenty years. Maybe when the year is better, it's time to rebuild.

After choosing a place, they started digging the foundation, and the people of the Li family came to help, and there were also people from the village to help. Yun Xue also let Yun Zhen come over, it would be good if she could help a little.

It's just that the little couple with children, they don't need to build too big, and three houses are enough to live in. When the children are older, they may be able to build a new house.

So, in a vacant lot to the west of the village, everyone was in a hurry to build houses. And Han Yuniang is not idle, in addition to serving her daughter's confinement, she also has to cook for these helpers. At this time, if you give money to others, they may not be willing to come, if you say that you are in charge of food, many people are more willing to come to help.

Anyway, the eldest son and the old man of the Jiang family also went over to help, which made the Li family's heart feel a little better. So, this cooking work, with the help of the old lady of the Jiang family, is not so tiring. Yonglin's family didn't have so much food, so there was no way, and the Li family sent a lot of food for urgent use. Yonglin also said that when the autumn grain comes down, he will definitely return it.

After more than ten days of busy work, the house was finally put on the beams, and there was less work left, and there were not too many people. So the helpers dispersed, and they went to do what they had to do.

In mid-July, it is the time of the Red Hammer Market, that is, the time for the people who put the mountain to go up the mountain to dig ginseng. People near Changbai Mountain, generally at this time, there will be many people going up the mountain, in the vast forest, to find the hope of getting rich.

There are three treasures in the northeast, ginseng, mink, and indigo. Later, it gradually transformed into ginseng, mink, and deer antler horn. But no matter how it changes, ginseng is at the top of the Three Jewels and cannot be shaken. It is precisely because of the extraordinary value of ginseng that many Northeast people flock to it in this season with the dream of making a fortune.

During the Qing Dynasty, in order to prevent the people from indiscriminately mining, the Qing government adopted the method of issuing ginseng certificates to control the number of people entering the mountains. But in the time and space where Yunxue is located, there is no such measure. Fortunately, at this time, the population of the Northeast is not very large, and not all of them have the ability to go into the mountains to release ginseng.

Some people from the village organized themselves and were about to enter the mountains. When you go into the forest and release the mountain, you usually have to gang up a lot of people. One of them chooses an experienced person as the leader and leads them into the mountain. In the process of releasing the mountain, all the people should listen to the instructions of the leader.

It's best to put the mountain to be veterans, and no one wants to take the first person up the mountain. Han Yong used to go out every year and never participated in this kind of activity. And Yunxue also went to release the row last summer, and she hasn't done anything about these. However, she didn't go to the row this year, and Yunxue found Ganoderma lucidum in the mountain again, which made her even more willing to go up the mountain. In this season of releasing mountains, where can she endure it?

Yun Xue and Yun Zhen had the heart to go into the mountain with others, but they were afraid that they would dislike them. In the end, it was decided that the three sisters and brothers would go into the mountain alone.

Yun Ni also knew that there was no possibility of changing what the eldest sister decided, so she helped Yun Xue prepare all the things she needed to go up the mountain. It's not a matter of one or two days, but a long time, so you have to bring food and things for accommodation.

The three siblings each carried a lot of things, and then went into the mountain. When the three first children entered the mountain, where was it so easy to meet ginseng? On the first day, they didn't see anything.

When it was dark in the evening, Yun Xue found a good place and cut down a few small trees with a quick axe. Then they put it up, and put some bark and other things on it, and made a simple shack. Then the three sisters and brothers used a small pot, cooked some soup, and ate it with dry food.

"Eldest sister, why is this axe still called a quick axe?" After all, Tianfu is not a native of here, and he still doesn't know much about these.

Yun Xue thought about it for a while, and told them some of the particularities of this mountain. "Let's go into the forest and put the mountain, the picture is an auspicious one. Therefore, everyone who speaks and does things must say some auspicious words. For example, an axe is called an axe. Knives are called knives. Rope, called fast as a rope. The stick we hold in our hands is called the Suo Bao Stick, which means to take it to find the treasure. ”

"Also, when you put the mountain, eating is not called eating, but taking food. Sleeping is called taking sleep, and resting is called taking a pile, both of which are auspicious words. In addition, after entering the mountain, unless you see ginseng, you can't talk casually. For example, if you come across mushrooms, if you say mushrooms, you have to pick them all up. It's still good, what if it's a snake, you have to hold the snake too, how scary is that? So try to talk as little as possible. Yun Xue preached one by one.

These are all said by the old people in the village, and Yunxue sometimes listens to one or two sentences occasionally. However, in the previous life, there were also many stories about Changbai Mountain, and the stories were all told like this.

Yun Zhen and Tianfu were fascinated by what they heard, and asked this and that from time to time. Some Yunxue knew, and some Yunxue didn't know very well, in short, the three of them talked for a long time, and then they were all sleepy. Yun Xue spread a roe deer skin mattress on the ground, and then everyone went to sleep.

"Eldest sister, are we going to call it Najue now?" Before going to bed, Tianfu said with a grin.

The forest at night is undoubtedly full of dangers. In the middle of the night, wolves howled in the distance. The wolf's howl is a bit peculiar, small when it comes out and big when it returns to breathe, and it sounds very creepy. Yun Xue woke up all of a sudden, she sat up and listened carefully. Suddenly, she felt as if there was movement outside the shack, as if there were animals wandering around the shack, which made her nerves tense. Fortunately, after a while, there was no movement outside, and then, a smell of urine wafted in from outside.

Yun Xue suddenly remembered one thing that the old man often said, there was an animal in the forest called a jackal dog. It looks like a wolf, but it's smaller than a wolf and about the size of a dog. This thing is very fierce and likes to live in groups, even if it encounters a tiger, it dares to fight with the tiger. When the wolf meets the jackal, he will also retreat. But this jackal does not hurt people, and sometimes, it will pee in places where people live. In this way, other beasts will avoid this smell when they smell it. If you can't get it, it's the jackal dog who just wandered around outside.

With this cognition, Yun Xue was relieved. At least tonight, no animal dared to come to their hut to make trouble, so they went on to lie down and sleep.

For the next two days, the three siblings walked around the forest with a treasure stick, but found nothing. They wandered around the woods during the day and found a place to sleep in their huts at night. And it seems that every night, there will be animals peeing outside their huts, and Yunxue will always smell a strange smell. But thanks to this taste, there really is no trouble for wild beasts to come to them.

On the fourth day, they were still walking through the forest. Yun Xue held a treasure stick in her hand and kept pulling the grass in the forest. This has two meanings, on the one hand, it is convenient to find out whether there is ginseng in the grass, and on the other hand, it can also alarm the snake in the grass without being injured by the snake.

But gradually, Yun Xue felt that something was wrong, and it seemed that there was a malicious gaze that had been staring at them. "Yun Zhen, pay attention, it doesn't seem right, there should be wild beasts around, like wolves." Yun Xue remembered the human-wolf battle in Layue the year before last, and this cold feeling was similar to when she saw those wolves.

They entered the mountain this time to release the mountain, so they didn't bring bows and arrows, only Yun Xue carried a small bow and crossbow on his body, which was for hunting to satisfy hunger. At this time, Yun Xue regretted it a little, she knew that she should have brought all the bows and arrows.

Yun Xue held the bow and crossbow in her hand, always paying attention to the movements around her. Sure enough, after a rustling sound, a pack of wolves appeared in front of the three siblings.

"Yunlin, take Tianfu up the tree, hurry up." Yun Xue shouted towards Yun Lin.

"No, eldest sister, you and Tianfu go up to the tree, and I'll deal with them." Yun Zhen was unwilling.

"Less nonsense, I'm bigger than you, and I'm better than you, I'll lure them away. The wolves are very cunning, they won't all follow me, you have to kill the wolves left behind as soon as possible, and then retreat, don't go to me. I'm fine. Yun Xue emphasized again, "Hurry up the tree, hurry up." ”

Yun Zhen was helpless, so he had to take Tianfu and climb two big trees. They are all children who grow up in the mountains and forests, and climbing trees is like walking for them.

Yun Xue, on the other hand, took a bow and crossbow, aimed at the wolf in the lead, and then shot a crossbow arrow.