I almost did the splits twice just now, and the muscles on the inside of my thighs are starting to feel sore.
Thinking of him grabbing her collar like a pet, Yan Funing couldn't help but mutter, "Fu Ciyi, I'm telling you, you have to be gentle with girls, otherwise you won't be able to find a wife."
"I have a wife."
"Okay, no more chatting today."
As she was chatting, her eyes turned and she saw a familiar object at the root of a rotten tree, so she walked quickly over.
Fu Ciyi followed her footsteps, and as they got closer, he also saw a large Ganoderma lucidum at the base of a rotten tree.
Yan Funing smiled and patted his arm: "It really comes without any effort!"
Fu Ciyi frowned slightly: "In the past, I always searched on cliffs."
Ever since she first found it on the cliff, he had been looking for it on the cliffs. Who would have thought that it would also grow on tree trunks?
"It was winter, cold and dry. The cliffs didn't get much sunlight, so they were naturally dark, and that's why there were Ganoderma lucidum. I forgot to tell you, Ganoderma lucidum likes damp, dim environments, like dimly lit mountain forests. They grow at the base of trees or on rotten wood."
Yan Funing used a shovel to gently cut off the Ganoderma lucidum from the root and put it into the basket.
The two of them walked around and didn't find any other Ganoderma lucidum, so they set off to go back.
When they got home, it was already noon.
In the yard, Li Xinheng had made two bamboo stools and was now weaving boxes.
Meng Li and Fu Beimo were polishing the sharp spikes on the bamboo stool. Caiyu was holding a small stool and concentrating on watching Li Xinheng weaving.
"Your craftsmanship is really good!" Caiyu gave a thumbs up.
Li Xinheng glanced at her quickly and said, "I also made the bamboo plate that holds the scallion pancakes at noon."
Caiyu couldn't help but nod: "Amazing, awesome!"
Hearing the footsteps coming back, everyone looked up.
Seeing his brother and sister-in-law coming back, Fu Beimo excitedly shouted, "Did sister-in-law pick something good?"
Yan Funing showed them the things in the basket.
Everyone's eyes lit up.
Li Xinheng said, "There's one in the morning, and this one in the afternoon is even bigger. It's worth a lot of money."
Fu Ciyi discussed with him: "I plan to buy a carriage with the money I earn, but we don't have much space in our yard. If we really buy a carriage, I'll probably have to ask Xinheng for help with the stable."
Li Xinheng said happily, "Then I can drive a carriage from now on?"
"I don't know how much a carriage would cost. If I did buy one, Brother Li would naturally drive it."
Yan Funing carried the basket to the main room and picked some freshly picked Ganoderma lucidum for her mother-in-law.
In the courtyard, Li Xinheng patted his chest and said, "The stable is a piece of cake. We have some open space at home where we can build one. My mother can feed the animals normally, including the pigs, cows, and horses."
Driving a horse-drawn carriage is more impressive than driving an ox-drawn cart.
The matter of the stable has been settled.
At this time, the sharp thorns on the two bamboo stools were cleaned, and Caiyu and Meng Liduan returned home.
Yan Funing went with her. She wanted to see what was missing from Caiyu's residence so that she could help buy it when she went to the town tomorrow.
Soon, three people arrived.
Yan Funing looked at Caiyu's room. There was a bed and a box placed on a wooden bench, with nothing else around.
"Why isn't there even an oil lamp?"
Caiyu said, "Indeed, there isn't one. Ali got a broken bowl and made it look like an oil lamp. To save oil, we didn't light it. We just used a fire stick to shine."
Hearing this, Yan Funing went to Meng Li's room and saw a broken bowl on the windowsill.
She knew Meng Li's family was poor, but she never thought they could be so poor.
"Ali, why don't you say anything?"
Meng Li was placing a bamboo stool at the head of the bed. Perhaps because the ground was uneven, the stool was shaking a little, so he was using bamboo strips to pad the legs of the stool.
As soon as he heard the sound coming from the door, he turned his head: "Sister-in-law, what's wrong?"
"Miss, why is there no oil lamp in our room?" Caiyu whispered.
Meng Li smiled embarrassedly: "Yes, sister-in-law, don't listen to Caiyu's nonsense, there is clearly an oil lamp."
Yan Funing pointed at the broken bowl and asked, "Does that count?"
"Of course it counts. We don't have to take the imperial examinations." Meng Li said gratefully, "I eat the same as everyone else and wear the same clothes as Bei Mo. Sister-in-law, I'm very satisfied!"
"You can't even light an oil lamp, and you're still satisfied? Caiyu, you too, come back to me. I actually let you..."
Yan Funing's eyes were red and her voice was choked.
"Miss, I just want to go back to you. I don't care about anything else." Caiyu shed tears.
Yan Funing nodded: "I know."
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On March 21st, Fu Ciyi was going to school to teach.
Yan Funing went to the restaurant, bought some things, and also sold the Ganoderma lucidum.
The two of them took Caiyu and boarded Li Xinheng's ox cart to the town.
When they arrived at the market, the ox cart passed by Liuji Restaurant. Li Xinheng first dropped Yan Funing and Caiyu off, and then sent Fu Ciyi to Qingshan School.
Liu Song and Zhu Rouyu were delighted to see Yan Funing coming over.
"Is my daughter's legs healed?" Liu Song couldn't help but ask with concern.
Yan Funing nodded: "Okay."
As Zhu Pork Yu carried pork into the restaurant, he laughed resoundingly: "The vegetables grown by the young lady are so tender, my wife praised them highly." He picked up four pig's trotters and said, "Take them, young lady. Eat whatever you want to nourish yourself."
Yan Funing declined politely: "The vegetables are not worth much, Uncle Yu can keep the pig's trotters and sell them for money."
Liu Song laughed: "He still wants to eat the vegetables you planted."
"This..." Yan Funing was very embarrassed.
Zhu Rouyu handed the pig's trotter to her, but when she refused to take it, he gave it to the round-faced girl who was following behind her.
Caiyu held the pig's trotter and whispered to Yan Funing, "Miss, look."
"Just take it. We'll bring some food to Uncle Yu tomorrow." Yan Funing said gently.
Shopkeeper Feng came over and asked, "Young shopkeeper, who is the girl next to you?"
"Her name is Caiyu." Yan Funing began to introduce, "This is Uncle Liu, the restaurant owner; that is Uncle Yu, the butcher; this is clerk Feng..."
Caiyu called out to everyone one by one, and after a round of calls, she introduced herself: "The little shopkeeper you are talking about is my young lady, and I am her maid."
"Maid?" Feng couldn't help but repeat.
"That's in the past. Now she and I are sisters."
They chatted for a while, especially the guys who gathered around Caiyu.
When Li Xinheng drove over, he saw this scene.
Immediately, his thick eyebrows knitted together and he raised his voice: "Miss, Caiyu, don't we have to go to the mysterious mansion?"
Yan Funing turned around and said, "Let's go later. I'm going to the market to buy some things first."
After saying this, he took a step forward.
As soon as she left, Caiyu followed.
Li Xinheng proudly raised his eyebrows at Feng and the others, and followed Yan Funing and Caiyu.
Coming to the old lady selling seeds, Yan Funing bought two bags of vegetable seeds, a bag of edamame seeds, and a bag of gourd seeds.
It cost twenty cents.
Then he went to the incense and candle shop and bought three oil lamps, twenty candles, and a handful of wicks.
A total of four hundred and ninety-five coins.
Yan Funing took out half an ounce of silver and said, "Give me five cents."
Seeing her naturally red lips, the shop owner pursed his own lipstick-coated lips and said, "It's only five cents. No need to give me the change."
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