After dinner, Wang pulled Zhang Hulan aside and asked, "Ni'er, how is the wound on your head? Did you see a doctor when you went to the city today?"

Zhang Hulan touched her head and felt a little pain in her scalp. The weather was so hot that she was a little worried about inflammation, but she forgot to ask the doctor to check it out that morning.

Zhang Hulan said, "It's okay, Mom. I'll go to the city tomorrow and ask the doctor to check on me."

Wang stuffed the three taels of silver into Zhang Hulan's pocket and said, "Keep the silver for yourself. I will return it to you at home."

"Mom, you keep it. Daya and I are all staying and eating at home anyway, so just consider it as food money."

"Your father told you to keep it, so you can keep it, lest he gets angry again."

Zhang Hulan took the silver, thinking that at worst she could use it all to buy food the next day.

Except for Old Man Zhang and Mrs. Wang, all the other members of the Zhang family went out again with sickles and hoes.

When they reached the foot of the mountain, Zhang Hulan pointed to a thin vine on the roadside and said to the children, "Do you see this? This is the sea sand. There is yellow powder on the back of the leaves. Cut it if it's like this."

Then he found a plantain, "This is plantain, dig it up with the roots."

"This is Prunella Vulgaris, which is also dug up with its roots."

Then she added, "You all know cicadas, right? There are cicada shells on the trees. You can poke them off with a stick and sell them for money."

"Can cicada shells be sold for money?" Li asked.

"Yes, the mountains are full of treasures. It just depends on whether we can find them."

"Sister-in-law, you and Dahua and Daya can go to the foot of the mountain to look for the herbs I mentioned. I will go to the mountain with my elder brother and Xiaojun."

Li nodded, "Then you should be careful."

Zhang Hulan, Zhang Hujun and Zhang Xiaojun walked into the mountain. Zhang Hujun said, "Sister, you have really changed a lot."

Zhang Hulan's heart skipped a beat. "Shit, will anyone find out?"

Zhang Hujun continued, "They say that a mother is strong, and I believe it. Your sister-in-law has changed a lot since she first married me. You must have suffered a lot over the years, right?"

Zhang Hulan breathed a sigh of relief and said, "For the sake of the children, we must hold on no matter how hard it is."

"You too, you don't come back even when you have something to do. Dad has a bad temper, but he still cares about you in his heart. He is just too stubborn."

"But now it's all right. I'm back. From now on, we will live a good life together as a family and be filial to our parents."

"As for you, you don't have to worry about not getting married in the future. Although you don't have a son, Xiaojun will be your son in the future. Let him take care of you in your old age."

Zhang Hulan asked, "Brother, what's going on with Hu Bing and his wife? Mother seems to have something against them?"

Zhang Hujun remained silent.

Zhang Hulan said, "Brother, I am living at home now too. You need to tell me what is going on at home. How did Hu Bing and his wife make mother angry?"

Zhang Hujun sighed, then said, "The second son didn't marry a good wife."

Just with this one sentence, Zhang Hulan roughly understood what was going on.

Zhang Hujun went on to say, "Since the second son got married, his wife has been taking things from home to her parents' home every few days.

At first, my parents didn't say anything. After all, I had just married into the family, so it was okay for me to visit my parents more often.

But when the second son's wife saw that her parents didn't say anything, she became even more excessive.

At first, I would bring back a few cabbages, then eggs, and later I would bring bags of food from home to my mother's house.

Later, her parents couldn't help but say a few words to her. As a result, the second son's wife ran back to her parents' home and said that her parents bullied her.

The second son is also a good-for-nothing. After he got a wife, he forgot about his parents and listened to his wife in everything.

When the second son's wife ran back to her parents' home, he followed her to the Xiang family. He stayed there and did not come back, working for the Xiang family every day.

Later, my mother went to call them back in person.

My father broke his leg some time ago and our family was in financial difficulty. When the second son heard that his father-in-law had caught a cold, he immediately ran over.

Dad broke his leg, but I’ve never seen him take it so seriously.

Dad didn't say it, but I know he must be sad in his heart."

Zhang Hujun was also furious. This second brother was too rude. If you didn't know him, you would have thought his surname was Xiang.

Zhang Hulan said, "You didn't say anything about Hu Bing's behavior?"

"Why didn't you tell me? I've told him several times, but he never listened. Whenever I told him, he said his wife's family wasn't easy either, so what's wrong with helping out a little more?"

Zhang Hulan snorted, "Hmph... Wait until he comes back and see how I deal with him."

Zhang Hujun said, "Big sister, don't say anything. Your situation is different now. If you say something to him, he might say something unpleasant to you."

"It's okay, brother. Wait until they come back and see how I deal with them. If they dare not be filial to their parents, I think they will rebel."

Zhang Hujun didn't say anything else. He also wanted to deal with Zhang Hubing.

"Brother..." Zhang Hulan suddenly shouted again.

Zhang Hujun turned around and asked, "What's wrong?"

Zhang Hulan said, "Brother, I won't live with my parents for a long time in the future."

When Zhang Hujun was about to speak, Zhang Hulan continued, "Brother, don't be angry. I didn't mean anything else."

"I've thought about it a lot, but it's not appropriate for me to live at home for a long time. Xiaojun will get married in the future, so what's the point of me living with three children?"

"I've thought about it. When I make some money, I'll build a house in the village and set up a daughter's household. I'll also support my parents and won't let my eldest brother bear the burden alone."

"As for Tiger Soldier, we don't count on him. As long as he doesn't make our parents angry again, that's all."

"You..." Zhang Hujun was a little angry.

"Brother, what I said yesterday was not a joke. I really want to find sons-in-law for Daya and the other two. At least I won't let them be too far away from me, so I must build a house for them."

Zhang Hujun was depressed, "Go talk to your parents yourself..."

…

"Brother, here..."

Zhang Hulan pointed at a vine not far away and shouted.

Zhang Hujun asked: "What is this?"

"Polygonum multiflorum, dig it quickly."

Zhang Hujun forgot what he had said to Zhang Hulan before and immediately picked up his hoe to dig up the things that could be sold.

After a few tries, I dug out a few things with black-brown skin.

This Polygonum multiflorum plant is not very old and is only the size of a fist.

Zhang Xiaojun picked one up and looked at it again and again, "Auntie, can this thing really be sold for money?"

Zhang Hulan nodded, "Of course."

"How much does this one cost? Is this thing edible?"

Zhang Hulan quickly said, "You can't eat this, it's poisonous."

"It's poisonous?" Zhang Xiaojun quickly threw away the Polygonum multiflorum in his hand. "How can you sell it if it's poisonous?"

"It's poisonous when it's raw, but it becomes medicine after it's processed." Zhang Hulan said, "Do you think the medicine you take normally is not poisonous? Medicine is three-quarters poisonous, but as long as it is used properly, it becomes medicine to cure diseases."

"Oh, you know so much, little aunt!"

This was the first time that Zhang Xiaojun took the initiative to talk to Zhang Hulan after returning home for two days, and it was also the time when he talked the most.

Next, Zhang Hulan was responsible for finding the vines of Polygonum multiflorum, while Zhang Hujun and Zhang Xiaojun were responsible for digging.

Some that grow in the soil are easier to dig, but some that grow in cracks in rocks are more difficult to deal with.