In the village, Zhang family.

Wang found the clothes that Zhang Dahua could no longer wear, altered and mended them, and planned to give them to Daya, Erya, and Sanya.

The three maids' clothes were all patched, and they didn't even have any spare clothes. Wang felt a little sad.

"Oh, Sister Wang is busy?" Zhao Heigou's mother, Liu, poked her head in and walked in.

Wang raised her eyelids and took a look. "What's the matter?"

Liu walked up to Wang, pulled a chair and sat down, "Sister Wang, why is your Hu Lan back? There's a wound on her head. Was she beaten and kicked out by her husband?"

"Tsk, tsk, tsk..." Mrs. Liu shook her head, tsk-tsk-tsk a few times, and then said, "Your Hu Lan is so... she hasn't come back to see you for a few years. Now that she's been beaten by a man, she knows to go back to her parents' home?"

"If you ask me, you shouldn't have let her in. Who doesn't need food these days? She has the nerve to come back with three mouths to feed."

Wang put down the work in her hands and looked up at Liu. "What does my Hu Lan's return have to do with you? Did my Hu Lan eat your rice? It's like a dog trying to catch a rat. You are meddling in other people's business."

"You..." Liu was furious. "Why are you like this? I'm doing this for your family's good. Your old Zhang has a lame leg, and your family will rely on Da Jun alone to support it from now on. And you plan to let Da Jun support Hu Lan's family of four?"

"Get out of here..." Wang pointed at the door and cursed, "Why do you care about my family's affairs? Do you have such good intentions?

If you have nothing to do, go to the fields and dig wild vegetables. Your daughter-in-law is so sick, and you still drag yourself to dig wild vegetables. How can you eat if you do nothing?"

"Isn't it her duty to do so? I am the elder, she should respect me."

Wang didn't want to talk to Liu anymore, so she just picked up a broom and chased her away, "Go away, don't come to my house anymore..."

Wang was sweeping the floor with a broom, and the dust flew all over Liu's face.

Liu cursed, "A dog bites Lu Dongbin, who doesn't know a good heart... I wonder how your family will live in the future?"

"Even if my family starves to death, they will never go to your house to beg for food... Go away..."

…

When the sun was about to set, Zhang Hulan and her friends also went down the mountain.

We dug up half a basket of Polygonum multiflorum, about thirty or forty pounds, and also dug up more than ten pounds of Pueraria root.

At the foot of the mountain, Li and her friends also had a good harvest.

We harvested the most sea sand, filling up a whole basket.

There weren't many plantains and selfheal, but I did pick up a lot of cicada shells, but they weren't very substantial.

When she got home, Zhang Hulan took out a dustpan and spread out the sea sand in it to dry. The plantain and selfheal also had to be dried before they could be sold.

Wang saw that Zhang Hulan and her friends had dug up a lot of things, so she asked, "Ni'er, how much can these things be sold for?"

Zhang Hulan didn’t know the price of the medicinal herbs here, but she thought it shouldn’t be too little.

"Mom, I don't know the exact price, but it should be a few hundred coins, right?"

"How many hundreds of coins can it be sold for?" Wang and Li's eyes lit up. "You can earn a few hundred coins in half a day. Can you earn so much?"

"It's hard to say for sure. I'll find out tomorrow when I ask the owner of the medicine store."

Zhang Hulan took out the kudzu root and said, "Mom, wash it and cook it tonight."

Wang asked, "What is this?"

"This is Pueraria root. It can be used as medicine or cooked and eaten."

Wang said, "Since it's medicine, keep it and sell it for money."

"Mom, my brother Xiaojun is very tired from climbing the mountain. How can he not eat enough? My sister-in-law is pregnant and she has to eat for two people. Only when everyone is full can we have the strength to earn more money."

After hearing what Zhang Hulan said, Wang said nothing more. It was true that only when you are full can you have the strength to work.

For dinner, some people still had half a bowl of wild vegetable rice porridge, but each person also had an extra piece of kudzu root.

Zhang Hujun took a bite and his eyes lit up, "This is delicious!"

Daya and the others also took a bite and found it somewhat sweet and delicious.

Li asked, "Big sister, are there many of these things on the mountain?"

Zhang Hulan smiled, she knew what Li meant, "Sister-in-law, there are a lot of these things on the mountain, some places are covered with them, let's dig some more and store them.

I don’t plan to sell this stuff, I’ll save it for food. I don’t know what will happen in the future. If it doesn’t rain today, I probably won’t be able to buy food even if I have money.”

Old Man Zhang said, "Daniel is right. We need to store more food. We don't know when God will be merciful and send rain. If it doesn't rain for another month, there will be no harvest of millet this year."

Old man Zhang sighed heavily, "Alas... I don't know how many people will starve to death this winter and next year..."

Zhang Hujun said: "Luckily, my eldest sister is back, otherwise our family wouldn't be able to hold on for much longer!"

Wang and Li both looked at Zhang Hulan. They felt the same way. Zhang Hulan had only been home for two days, and the family seemed to have changed a lot.

Dad agreed to see a doctor to treat his leg, the family had a few more taels of silver, and now they found something to eat. They all felt that Zhang Hulan had brought good fortune back home.

Tonight everyone's stomach is much fuller than usual.

San Ya touched her belly and squinted her eyes and said, "Mom, my belly is so full!"

Zhang Hulan touched Sanya's head and said, "Mother will try her best to make sure you have enough to eat every meal in the future."

San Ya said, "It's good to have a full meal once in a while, don't be too tired, mother!"

Zhang Hulan was so distressed. Look at how sensible this girl is...

After dinner, Daya rushed to wash the dishes again, but this time Zhang Dahua got there first, "Okay, I'll do it, you guys go play for a while."

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