7 Chapter 7
Li Xiaohan took the lead and walked forward, Li Xiandong and Wang glanced at each other, and hurriedly raised their heels.
As soon as I entered, I saw an early shop, Li Xiaohan touched his stomach, and the multigrain cakes in the morning had already been digested, "Dad, mother, we are also hungry after a morning journey, eat a bowl of noodles, we have to rush back later, don't be hungry." ”
The Wang family has never been to the city a few times, and he only thought about Sanqi before, but now that Sanqi is sold, he is feeling uneasy, how dare he want to eat in the city.
Although Li Xiandong has come to the city a lot, he has come to the city to sell straw sandals and work as coolies, so in order to save money, he naturally does not eat in the city, and takes two multigrain cakes from home as a meal.
For a while, no one made a sound, and they didn't dare to think that they would dare to eat in the city, and Li Xiaohan had already stepped into the restaurant first.
This is a shop that mainly sells noodles, a large pot of thick soup is boiling, the aroma is overflowing, and there are several layers of steamers stacked on the stove next to it, and the yellowish steamed buns on the steamer are smiling.
However, it was past breakfast time, and lunch time had not yet arrived, and there were not many diners in the shop, so the shopkeeper quickly greeted him: "Girl, how many?" Come, sit here, what do you want to eat? ”
Li Xiaohan sat down next to the shopkeeper's guidance, and asked skillfully, "Three, what do you have to eat here?" ”
"There is a bowl of somen noodles with four texts, meat sauce noodles with six texts, steamed buns with two texts, and meat buns with four texts. Our meat sauce noodles are a must, do you want to try it? ”
"Then let's have three bowls of meat sauce noodles and three steamed buns." After Li Xiaohan finished speaking, he turned his head and whispered to Li's father and Li's mother: "Father, mother, we have separated, and life will definitely get better and better in the future." I haven't eaten well before, so we can't go hungry, and taking medicine can cost a lot of money. ”
Li Xiaohan is telling the truth, although the Li family is a middle-class family in Pingshan Village, but there are people in the Li family who study, and there are more places to spend money.
Moreover, the eccentricity of the two elders of the Li family, the heavy work of the family is all arranged on the head of the big house, if it weren't for the fact that Li Cairong is about to reach fourteen and has not yet been admitted to the first child's examination, it is estimated that Li Xiandong and Wang's two strong laborers will not be released.
Therefore, Li Xiandong and Wang's bodies are actually very indebted, and Li Xiaohan suspects that the two of them will not be able to have children, and there is also this reason.
Li Xiaohan himself is also thin and thin, thirteen years old, not as tall and strong as those ten-year-old children in his previous life.
Therefore, the whole family should eat well and take care of the body, after all, the body is the foundation of everything.
Moreover, what Li Xiaohan didn't say was that in addition to being full, Li Xiaohan also intended to observe the food level of the world, if you can't farm, is it okay to set up a food stall?
When she first entered the city, she saw that some of the carts came in with kitchen utensils, and they should have entered the city to set up food stalls.
She lived alone for many years in her previous life, and she was okay with cooking, so it was a big deal to shirk and say a word about her grandmother's apparition.
Life is not easy, and you need to be versatile.
Li Xiandong and Wang were stunned by what Li Xiaohan said, and nodded busily. When I heard this price, my heartache was particularly heart-wrenching, but I didn't dare to say it.
Moreover, the money that had just been sold for Sanqi was still hot in Li Xiandong's arms, which was a little exciting to think about.
Money is the guts of people, and there is nothing wrong with this sentence from ancient times to the present.
Li Xiandong and Wang did not object, so Li Xiaohan sat down and observed the surrounding environment.
Her calm and calm posture attracted Wang to peek all the time, "Daddy, our Xiaohan is different from us, it's good." ”
Wang whispered, I don't know how to describe it, anyway, she thinks that her daughter, as if she was dreamed of by her mother-in-law in front of the grave, her daughter seems to be getting better and better.
In the past, Li Xiaohan was also bold, and the little people had a lot of ideas, but it was not like now, anyway, it was good.
"Like our mother, magnificent." Li Xiandong also whispered that when Luo died, Li Xiandong was already seven years old and remembered, "Our mother used to be from a big family, and she fled to our Pingshan Village to marry our father." ”
"No wonder my mother-in-law entrusted her dream to Xiaohan, not to the two of us, so that's the case." The two found a reason for Li Xiaohan's change and felt more at ease.
After a while, the hot noodle soup was served.
Li Xiaohan picked up the chopsticks and sandwiched a little meat sauce first, the Li family raised pigs, Li Xiaohan knew that this dynasty already had the method of castration, so the smell of pork was not heavy, but this meat sauce was just right and tender, and the sauce was fragrant, no wonder the shopkeeper dared to say that it was a must; The noodles are strong, and it seems that the master who kneaded the noodles is skilled; However, the soup base is slightly light, and it is estimated that the price is here, and there is no way to boil the soup with big meat......
And here, Li Xiandong and Wang can't hold their heads up anymore, when have they ever eaten such delicious noodles.
This city is just different.
After the three of them finished eating, Li Xiandong took out the money and settled the bill.
"Dad, don't be heartbroken, this money is spent on us, not a loss." Li Xiaohan comforted Li Xiandong, who had a painful face when he paid.
"Hmm." Li Xiandong nodded sullenly, he is not stupid, where is the family's money spent, at most it is on his nephew who is studying, followed by his father Li Shengli and stepmother Chen, the third is on other brothers, nephews and nieces, and finally their family.
After eating, Li Xiaohan took him around again, and when he met an interested question, he stopped by to listen and take a look, and he had an initial impression in his heart, but he didn't have a specific idea yet.
Li Xiandong and Wang followed behind, very uncomfortable. Fortunately, Li Xiaohan was not in a hurry to get a result for a while, and after shopping for a while, he finally said: "Dad, let's go, Sanqi in this mountain is still waiting for us." ”
Sure enough, as soon as these words came out, Li Xiandong and Wang no longer had any worries, and their faces were full of fighting spirit.
At noon, the Li family of three returned home, changed into the coarse linen clothes they worked, then picked up the basket and plunged into the mountains of the back mountain.
Holding the three big steamed buns he bought in the city in his arms, anyway, the family was separated, the food was all distributed, and then they ate together, the housekeeper Chen was not happy.
The family of three plunged into the mountains, and everyone was even more excited because they made money by selling Panax notoginseng in the morning. With his vague memory, Wang found a place for fake ginseng.
It's a pity that it's not really Sanqi.
This wild and precious herb is not so easy to come by.
"Dad, mother, it's okay, how can there be so many mountains full of Sanqi, we have already sold it once for money. Pay attention slowly in the future, it is best to have it, and it doesn't matter if you don't have it. ”
Yes, after all, seventy-six taels were credited. Wang and Li Xiandong's fanatical hearts slowly calmed down.
"Dad, mother, let's go and plant the seeds we soaked yesterday in Dad's field." Li Xiaohan said, "In case this kind of seed can sprout, we will really make money on our own." ”
Listening to Li Xiaohan's words, Wang and Li Xiandong's depressed hearts ignited a burst of hope again.
Yes, if they can come up with three or seven seeds, then it will be a safe and stable job.
The three of them walked together to Li Xiandong's mountain.
Speaking of the mountains, the Li family had clan land at the beginning, but later the patriarch was sensitive to the imminent war, and then there was a natural disaster, so he simply gritted his teeth and sold the clan field, replaced it with gold, and the whole clan ran away.
And the results proved that the patriarch was right, but after fleeing to Pingshan Village, it was impossible to buy back a large piece of ancestral clan land, the money was not enough, and it was not the turn of the Li family, a family that had fled.
The ancestors of the Li family bought a large piece of mountainous land here as a substitute for the clan field.
A part of the mountainous land of the clan is mostly full of fruit trees or other useful timber, which is used as a commons, and the output is used by the clan to help the old and the young, and to educate the children of the clan.
If the Li clan encounters a major disaster at home, such as a serious illness, they can borrow money from the clan and return it slowly after getting through the difficulties;
There are also clans in the clan, whether it is the cost of the gentleman, the room and board of the school, and the book of learning words, it is also supported by the public, of course, the clan study does not support the death of studying, and the first child test at the age of fourteen is no longer supported.
Theoretically, the output of the Li clan's commons is the foundation for the sudden disaster of the Li clan, and at the same time, it is fully supporting the future and hope of the whole clan.
However, because the mountains are more difficult to manage than the fields, and the output is low, the other part is simply assigned to the men of the tribe to manage, and the output goes to the individual. In this way, the firewood used in the daily life of a man of the Li family, the furniture and wood used to build a house for marriage, and even the longevity timber when he died all came out of this land. There is also the income from the annual fruit production, which also belongs to the individual.
The ancestors are in the shade and benefit future generations.
Of course, on the other hand, it also aggravates the notion that a son must be born. After all, the Li family's mountainous area does not distinguish between women.
What Li Xiaohan said was the mountainous land that the clan gave to Li Xiandong.
To sow the seeds of Panax notoginseng, you need to dig a pit, apply bottom fertilizer, cover the soil shallowly, and then cover the weeds.
The three of them planted about a thousand seeds, and they were so tired that they almost couldn't straighten their waists.
In this way, Li Xiandong also held on to the forest tree and said, "Bring a wooden bucket tomorrow morning, and you have to water it." ”
He is a veteran of the crops, and the seeds are planted and need to be watered to germinate.
Li Xiaohan also understood that it was best to pour some fixed root water now, but they didn't bring buckets when they came out, and it was too conspicuous to go back.
Only tomorrow morning.