Chapter 85 They Can Come In Without Your Permission
If you only earn wages, you will need to find other ways to make money to buy bedding after the new house is built. The quilt lining can be filled with reed fluff, but the outer cloth still needs to be bought with money.
As for the family’s clothes, each person only has one set of clothes, which makes it difficult to change them.
Sang Yongjing and Xie Qiujin have been digging in the past two days. The hems of their clothes are covered with mud and they have no time to wash them. They must have some cotton clothes for the winter.
Food is also a big problem. There are indeed a lot of wild vegetables in the mountains, but we can't just eat wild vegetables for the whole winter.
If you think about it carefully, there are many places to spend money. It is impossible to wait until you are short of money to sell sugar. There are not so many golden berries on the mountain.
The more I thought about it, the more I felt that the money was not enough, and I had to take the opportunity to make a lot of money.
Sang Yu's mind was full of thoughts and the expression on his face became more solemn.
Among the crowd of onlookers, there were those who had seen her the day before and began to whisper about her to the people around them.
"Aunt Wang, did you see that little girl? Yes, the one sitting there. I saw her when I came to see the doctor two days ago. She brought her brother to see me. I think he's lame."
"Oh, she doesn't look very old to me, and her brother shouldn't be that old either. How can she be lame at such a young age? How will she live in the future?"
"Who says it's not? Seeing the ugly expression on her face, it's probably incurable."
"Poor thing..."
After Sang Xingjia finished the acupuncture, Doctor Zhang came over to remove the needles and gently pinched his ankle to check.
After massaging, he advised: "You are taking good care of yourself. You can try to walk slowly without a cane recently. You can't use your legs for too long."
It's okay for someone like Sang Xingjia who injured his tendons, as the recovery time is short. But if you accidentally injured your bones, you will need to recuperate for some time.
The most frightening thing about that situation is that the patient has to stay in bed and won’t be able to walk even after his bones have recovered.
"Can I walk now?" Sang Xingjia looked delighted. He thought his legs were still powerless.
"Of course, but don't walk too much. After all, you are not fully recovered yet." Doctor Zhang quickly added, fearing that he would lose his crutches and walk normally once he went out.
When Sang Xingjia came out, he was still leaning on his crutches as usual, which confirmed the speculation of the aunties who had been talking about him, and they all looked at him with pity.
He walked to Sang Yu and called softly, "Little sister, let's go back."
Sang Yu was immersed in his own thoughts and didn't react at first. It was only when he saw who was standing in front of him that he realized what he had just said.
"Ah? Ah, go back, let's go."
Over there, Sang Yongjing and Xie Qiujin went to Qingxi Village with rice wine and a basket of vegetables.
The aroma of rabbit meat and garlic lingered at the tip of my nose. The taste I tasted yesterday was still vivid in my memory.
I had just finished a big bowl of porridge and side dishes, but just smelling the smell made me feel hungry again.
The two could only quicken their pace and ignore the fragrance as they walked through the vegetable market. The jar of wine in Sang Yongjing's arms attracted the attention of many people.
These days, you can tell how much wine someone has bought just by looking at the size of the wine jar. A jar as big as the one he was holding must contain two taels of wine. Most people would simply not be willing to buy it.
Being looked at with envy by people on the street, Sang Yongjing, who originally felt a little distressed, straightened his back immediately.
I couldn't help but feel proud. I was envious just by looking at the wine. You didn't know there was rabbit meat in the basket. We had rabbit meat last night, and it tasted delicious.
There were also those who were close to the tip of their noses and could vaguely smell the aroma of meat. They kept flaring their nostrils to sniff around, trying to find the source of the fragrance.
Although the basket that Sang Yongjing was carrying was covered with a layer of leaves, it was not covered very tightly to allow the hot rabbit meat to breathe, leaving several large gaps.
Soon someone noticed the rabbit meat in the basket, and looked at him with more envy.
Xie Qiujin vaguely felt that showing off like this was not a good thing, so she gently tugged at his sleeve and said, "Husband, let's send it over quickly, otherwise it will get cold later."
Her words finally brought Sang Yongjing, who had been somewhat complacent, back to his senses. Remembering that Sang Yu had said that rabbit meat was best eaten hot, he nodded and quickened his pace into the village.
It was still early when the two arrived. A light white mist was floating above Qingxi Village in the canyon, accompanied by a few wisps of smoke, creating a peaceful scene.
When we arrived at Shen Wenfu's house, the family had just gotten up. White smoke was constantly coming out of the chimney in the kitchen, and it seemed that they were still cooking.
Seeing this, Sang Yongjing was delighted and shouted from outside the bamboo fence, "Village Chief Shen, are you home?"
Shen Wenfu, who was sitting in the hall drinking tea, frowned slightly. Who would come to see him so early in the morning?
The family's nine-year-old daughter was very perceptive and peeked out through the window. After seeing the two people clearly, she recognized them as the Sang couple who had recently built a house next to the mountain wall.
She trotted over to Shen Wenfu's side and said, "Dad, it's the Sang family couple. They're carrying a jar of wine and a basket. They seem to be here to deliver something."
Delivering something? Shen Wenfu raised his eyebrows slightly, and guessed why they came.
He patted his well-behaved and sensible little daughter's head and said, "Rou'er, go and bring them in."
Chen Huirou responded obediently, but her steps were not as hurried as when she just came, and she walked out slowly.
Sang Yongjing and Xie Qiujin followed Chen Huirou to the hall and saw Shen Wenfu sitting in the main seat drinking tea.
When he finished his cup of tea and put it down, he seemed to have suddenly noticed them and said, "Hey, Brother Sang, when did you get here? Please take a seat."
Sang Yongjing: ...Just pretend. How can they come in without your permission?
He is not a simple-minded person, but he is not a fool either. Besides, Shen Wenfu never thought of covering up these things.
Sang Yongjing secretly complained in his heart but could not show it on his face. He smiled and said, "I have something to do at home, so I won't sit down. Thanks to the help of Village Chief Shen the other day, I didn't have anything special at home, so I weighed two kilograms of rice wine and made some home-cooked dishes. I just thought of it as a token of my appreciation. I don't forget that Village Chief Shen didn't mind."
As he spoke, he put the wine in his hand on the square table beside him, and then took out bags of vegetables from the basket one by one and put them on the table.
After Shen Wenfu finished, he glanced at the wine jar and rabbit meat, feeling satisfied, but he said, "Brother Sang, what are you talking about? I am just upholding justice, how can I bear this responsibility?"
"It's nothing expensive, it's all homemade, so don't refuse, Village Chief Shen. The rabbit meat is still warm, just eat it while it's hot. I have something to do at the house and can't leave, so my wife and I will take our leave now."
Fortunately, Xie Qiujin helped him review what Sang Yu had told him over and over again on the way, otherwise he would not remember what to say now.
Shen Wenfu, who hadn't intended to refuse, was waiting for him to say this. When he heard him say he was leaving, he finally stood up from the stool and said, "Since Brother Sang has something to do, I won't stay any longer. Come visit more often in the future."
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