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Chapter 50 Catch the crickets

In the next few days, Jinghan and the others went up the mountain to break the tender buds, and then Zhiming took Wenhan to the town to sell them. By the way, they bought some things for home use. Sometimes, Wenhan would buy some delicious food back. There were eight children in the family, and they put in a lot of effort every day, so they naturally wanted to encourage them.

The sprouts can be sold for a short time, only eight or nine days, but they saved more than two taels of silver. Chen led Xue and Zhu to the town for a day to see Huixin. Of course, he brought some things, but he didn't have anything else, so he carried two hens and more than twenty eggs.

After returning from the Tao family, Chen's face had a little more smile. It can be seen that the Tao family treated Huixin well because Huixin had a child. In addition, the mother's family also had faces, so all the firewood was given to them. Huixin also brought something to see when she was pregnant. Where can the Tao family find out anything else? So Huixin is okay, and it's not difficult for her.

Zhiming went to the town these days, but he found out from the medicine shop in the town that he could collect some medicinal materials, so Zhiming took the time to dig medicinal materials into the forest. Jinghan asked curiously, and then Zhiming began to teach Jinghan to identify medicinal materials. In fact, there are many medicinal materials Jinghan knows. Jinghan has lived here since he was a child and has heard of many, so Jinghan learned very quickly. Zhiming seemed to have discovered a treasure and had to teach Jinghan to study medicine. Jinghan thought about it, and he would not suppress his body anyway, so he would learn a little. The merchants rarely hired doctors when they were sick, and they always fought at home. If they could understand some of them, they would be useful. Therefore, Jinghan had another job every day, which was to learn medicine and dig medicinal materials with Zhiming.

At this time, the forest can usually be dug in the fritillary and fine ginseng. The other medicinal materials are not too good and cannot be counted. Moreover, the poles of fritillary will turn yellow and fall down after a while, so Jinghan also seized the time to dig more fritillary. The medicinal materials dug out are all dried and can be sold when they are saved.

It’s time to pull the heads and weeds in the field. Zhixin and Zhiming led Wenhan and Wen Chengdu to pull the weeds. This pulling heads and weeds is the most tiring job. We have to kneel on the face of the pond and then use our hands to pull out the weeds between the drums. We also have to crush all the soil and rubbish on the face of the ponds with our hands, otherwise it will affect the growth of the drums, especially the pools are not well-kept, and we have to loosen the soil well. Everyone in the village has also come to work, so the Xu family naturally warms up food for everyone. Naturally, everyone is very grateful. Some people will bring some things from the house, but they are just onions and leeks. The Xu family does not have these this year.

One day, Lin Jiaxing led his wife and Zixuan to pull weeds, and actually brought five little gooses to the Xu family. Not long after he was born, the wool goose was swaying and cute. "Sister Xu, these are the little gooses I brought out from my family, and I give them five. There are some grass on this mountain, so it is not difficult to raise them. At that time, the male will kill them and eat them, and the female will keep them and lay eggs." Zixuan's mother said.

When Xue saw the little goose, they were all very energetic and were very happy. "Oh, these five little gooses also cost a few dollars. You can wait, I'll go get you money." At this time, a little goose also cost about ten cents, and five are no less, so how can you take advantage of others?

"Okay, sister-in-law, it's just a few little gooses, it's nothing. I know you don't have one, and if you have one, I won't give it to you. It's not easy for you to live in the mountains, I don't want your money." Zixuan's mother refused.

When Xue saw this, she didn't force her to give it to her, "Okay, if you say that, I'll keep it. When I have something good, I'll keep it for you."

Zixuan's mother hurriedly followed Jiaxing to pull weeds. The Xu family had already finished it, so Jinghan and Wenhan went to help the Lin family work. Zixuan's mother looked at it and hurriedly refused, "Wenhan, Jinghan, you should stop getting involved, this work is very tiring."

"Aunt, it's okay. Hasn't our family finished doing it? I have nothing to do when I'm idle. I'll help you with some so that you won't be able to do it." Wen Han said.

"Okay, then do it slowly, especially Jinghan. You are a girl, don't be too tired. This job is not easy." Zixuan's mother reminded.

Jinghan nodded. When she was pulling weeds at home, she also went to help. Besides, in her previous life, she did everything in the ginseng field, and was very familiar with these. While kneeling down on the side of the pond, she quickly pulled off the weeds growing on it with her little hands and loosened the soil.

Although Wen Han and Jinghan are both children and are not doing it quickly, adding two people can be considered as some help. So the Xu family did a lot of work today, and they took them out in just about twenty feet a day. From this point of view, they could finish them all in less than three days.

Before leaving, Zixuan told Wenhan that he had recorded all the things taught by his husband, and left all the questions he had given. When his father brought them to Wenhan next time, Wenhan would not have lost too much. Wenhan was naturally very grateful to Zixuan. "Zixuan, thank you, I am afraid I can't go back to school for a while. With the things you said, I won't be able to leave the school." Wenhan was actually reluctant to leave the school. He would also take time to study these days, and would lead his younger brothers and sisters to read every afternoon. In this way, the children had some serious work.

As the days passed, the children's lives gradually became regular. Every morning, they practiced martial arts with Zhixin, after breakfast, went to the forest to pick wild vegetables, dig medicinal materials, after lunch, and after taking a nap, they had to follow Wenhan to recognize words and read books, and they lived a fulfilling life every day. Jinghan had originally recognized words, so he focused more on learning medicine from Uncle San.

That morning, Wen Han looked at his younger brothers and sisters and said, "Let's go, let's go to the riverside to see. At this time, the fish are biting the flood. Maybe we can get more fish back." The Xu family watched the garrison scene is very close to a river, which can be three or four miles away, just a big river. Jinghan and the others didn't know it either, but later they found that there was no well in the garrison scene, and Zhixin went to fetch water in the morning. After asking, he realized that there was actually a river here.

Jinghan naturally likes to go to the riverside to play. As Xue has soaked a lot of clothes and has to wash them. So everyone has carried the basin and the docks and other things together, and walked towards the riverside.

When they arrived at the riverside, Jinghan and Jingya helped their mother and aunt clean their clothes, while Wenhan led Wencheng and Wenxuan to go to the fish together. It was the most fun to wash clothes by the riverside. Find a few large flat stones, and then hold a wooden stick to beat the clothes hard. These clothes were soaked in wood ash water, which was almost the same as washing powder. At this time, there was no soap, washing powder, etc. People usually pour boiling water into the grass ash, and then wait for the water to cool down, soak the clean water on it. In this way, they could wash the clothes clean, which was a cumbersome and soak them in advance.

Jinghan held a hammer in his hand and beat his clothes over and over again, and the dirty water flowed into the river little by little. After the knocking, he gave it to Xue or Zhu, and let them pass in the river several times and wring them dry. The weather is good today, and it won't take long to dry it on the big stones by the river. So the stones by the river are full of clothes.

"Sister-in-law, the Dragon Boat Festival is here. My mother said that she didn't say how to celebrate this year's Dragon Boat Festival?" Zhu asked while working.

"I didn't hear her say that. I guess this year's Dragon Boat Festival is just like that. Our family is like this now, so how can we prepare any delicious food? Let's take care of it. Let's talk about it after two years." Xue shook her head. Today's life is already good. At least she still has a place to live and she doesn't lack food and drink, which is great. As for holidays, I dare not think about it.

"Oh, we have implicated everyone, otherwise, how could our family reach this point?" Zhu always felt sorry for his family, so he sold all the houses and land. The family ran to the barren mountains to see the ginseng.

"Okay, Yingzi, it's not your fault for this. We are all a family, so don't think about that." When Xue saw Zhu's appearance, she quickly comforted her. Jingwan, who was beating a piece of clothes and handed them to her mother. Zhu took the clothes and rinsed them back and forth in the water, so she had no time to think about them anymore.

After all, there are many people and the power is great. It takes not long to wash the clothes. Looking at the clothes dried on the big stones, everyone feels very fulfilled. Jinghan has idleness, so he runs to the shallow water and kicks the small stones with his feet. Unexpectedly, he finds citrus in the water. "Mom, there are citruss here, hurry up, let's catch citruss. It's better to cook them and eat them, or make citruss tofu." The people here already know citruss and knows how to eat them, so Jinghan said so.

Xue also lifted up a stone. Sure enough, there will be citrus under the stone, one by one, not too small. "Okay, grab it and cook it is good." In fact, the children like to eat these things the most. The children have never seen many meat stars in a while. This is meat at least, so it is good to get some to satisfy their cravings. As he said that, he started to turn over the stone and catch citrus.

There are really a lot of cicadas in the river. It didn't take long to catch a basin. "Okay, let's catch these today, enough to eat." Xue said.

Jinghan looked at the cicadas in the basin. They were so big that they could not see it in their previous life. In the past life, due to excessive capture and a large amount of pesticides, many cicadas in many rivers had completely disappeared. Only a few deep mountains and forests, and there were a few rivers to see wild cicadas. It was really a happy thing to be able to eat such a large cicada again. Jinghan recalled the fresh fragrance of cicadas in his memory and couldn't help but drool.
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