"Tingzhi, have you seen Qiangnan?" Aunt Wang looked anxious and came to knock on the door without even putting on her clothes.
"Qiangnan? No." Song Tingzhi thought for a while, "What happened?"
"Let your aunt come in first. It's not cold outside!" Xu Sanniang knocked on Song Tingzhi and pushed him aside without any knowledge or experience, and asked Aunt Wang to come in and talk.
Song Tingzhi touched his nose, feeling guilty for a moment, and followed his mother in.
After entering the house, Xu Sanniang first poured a cup of hot water and handed it to Aunt Wang to warm her up.
"Qiangnan hasn't been in a good mood these days. I'm worried, so I go to check on him often. But when I went to see him this morning, I found no one in the room. Even the bed was cold. I looked around but couldn't find him, so I came to ask Tingzhi if he knew anything about him."
Aunt Wang drank some hot water before telling the story.
"Maybe he went up the mountain?"
"Impossible. Qiangnan rarely goes up the mountain. He's not like Tingzhi who can move freely in the mountains. This kid only knows how to farm and occasionally help others with things. He definitely won't go up the mountain."
"Oh..." Xu Sanniang couldn't think of any solution and could only comfort her.
Aunt Wang sat for a while and then left. She wanted to go to other people's homes to ask, maybe someone knew where Song Qiangnan had gone.
After Aunt Wang left, Xu Sanniang and the others were no longer sleepy and started to pack up and prepare for the day's work.
After Song Tingzhi returned to the house, he told Jiang Cheng what happened. Jiang Cheng didn't know what to say for a moment.
The two of them were silent for a while, and Jiang Cheng said, "Don't think about those things. Maybe Brother Qiangnan wants to go out and make some money. He will be fine."
After all, he was Song Tingzhi's playmate who grew up together. Song Qiangnan's whereabouts were unknown, and Song Tingzhi was listless for several days. The Song Bo family was even more depressed.
But life still has to go on.
The weather gradually became cooler, and everyone in the village wrapped themselves in thick cotton clothes. Their words were full of heat, and even Xiao Hui was reluctant to come out of his nest.
By the way, Xiao Hui has grown to the size of a human calf. Sometimes when Song Yu wants to play with it, he brings it to the kang in the house, where it is warm and comfortable.
Everyone was wearing the underwear that Jiang Cheng had made for him at home, so Jiang Cheng planned to go to town and buy some more to make clothes for the New Year.
"Come with me to town tomorrow and I'll buy some things." Jiang Cheng walked to Song Tingzhi, who was processing the prey he had caught in the mountains yesterday.
"Okay! I'll sell the prey on the way and get some silver to spend the winter."
"Don't go up the mountain from now on. It gets dark early today, and I'm worried."
Every day when Song Ting went up the mountain, Jiang Cheng felt uneasy, so he decided to express his concerns today.
"I won't go up the mountain after the snow starts. I'll make some extra money these days so you, your parents and the others can have a good New Year."
Song Tingzhi washed his hands, wiped them, touched Jiang Cheng's head, and promised.
"The money at home is enough for us to have a good New Year." Jiang Cheng was still not very happy.
"Don't worry, I will take care of my own safety. How can I bear to let you be a widow..." Before Song Tingzhi could finish his words, Jiang Cheng covered his mouth.
"You're talking nonsense. If you leave before me, I will take the child and find someone else to marry!" Jiang Cheng glared at him and said something harsh.
"Where is the child?" Song Tingzhi teased.
"It will come sooner or later, don't you want it?" Jiang Cheng said with certainty.
"How could that be? I like all the children you give birth to." Song Tingzhi kissed Jiang Cheng.
"Stop talking nonsense, I'm going to cook."
After saying that, Jiang Cheng broke free from Song Tingzhi's hand and went to the woodshed.
In the afternoon, Jiang Cheng went to find He Xiaomi and took some of the wood carvings he had carved, preparing to take them to the town to help him sell them. By the way, He Xiaomi had already paid back five taels of silver since he started carving the wood carvings.
If the wood carving is carved finely, it can be sold at a good price. With He's father helping at home, he has more time to think about it.
"Thanks for helping me these past two months." He Xiaomi took out a purse from the house and put it in Jiang Cheng's hand. "This is what I lent you before. Now that I have some extra money at home, I'll return half of it to you."
"Don't worry, you can use it first. You just earned some money, there's no need to pay it back so early." Jiang Cheng pushed the purse back.
"Take it, otherwise I won't be able to explain to my mother." He Xiaomi stuffed the purse into Jiang Cheng's hand, then pushed him out and closed the door.
"You really are..." Jiang Cheng looked at the closed door in front of him, sighed, and said nothing. He took He Xiaomi's wood carving and went back.
After arriving in the town, Jiang Cheng first sold the wood carvings, and then accompanied Song Tingzhi to find Qi Yu and gave him some wild goods.
Afterwards, the two of them went to Butcher Zhu and gave him the prey. They exchanged it for silver according to the old rules, and then accompanied Jiang Cheng to the fabric shop to buy things.
"Why don't you just buy ready-made clothes and take them back? This will save you the trouble of going back." Song Tingzhi saw Jiang Cheng going to the place where the fabrics were placed as soon as he entered the door, and hurriedly pulled him back.
"Ready-made clothes are so expensive. Although Dad is in much better health now, he still needs to take medicine. How can we waste money on these things?" Jiang Cheng looked at Song Tingzhi with disapproval and reasoned with him in a low voice.
"Just listen to me this time. It's okay to make some summer clothes, but winter clothes are thick and difficult to sew. It would be better to buy ready-made clothes and have some free time to prepare for the New Year." After Song Tingzhi said this, he pulled Jiang Cheng directly to the ready-made clothes section for him to choose.
"Sir, which one would you like?" When the waiter saw someone coming, he hurried over to ask.
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