Nijo is used to it. A few days ago, Rokujo was even saying he was the best...
"Hey, sister, we have to go back~" Time flies. After playing happily for half a month, the kids started packing up and preparing to go home.
Since their little sister Xiaolu often fell asleep, the other children had no chance to play with her and left with a little regret after two days.
But looking at their bulging school bags, they didn't feel any regret or sadness at all. Besides their clothes, they were filled with snacks stuffed for them by their grandma, aunt, and great aunt. So many!
There are still two big bags at my mother and uncle’s place!
"Hehe~" Little Tiger was so happy sitting on the train, holding his schoolbag. Originally, his mother and grandmother didn't want him to come over to play this year, but his father wanted to bring some wine for his grandfather and aunt, so he came over.
Second Aunt told her father to come back in a month. Because making snake wine takes some time...
Making snake wine does take some time, as you have to catch snakes and prepare it, which takes some time. When they arrived at Sanshi Island, Cheng Zhenzhu asked Cheng Zhenbao to take the remaining two jars away first.
After two weeks of observation, she found that snake wine with the addition of the star fern was more effective in treating joint pain. Her older sister said that the wine without the "twigs" was more effective.
"This one with added herbs is for mom and dad, and this one without herbs is for big sister. Just drink one or two small cups a day. Too much will cause deficiency. Tell big sister to take it easy..." Cheng Zhenzhu instructed.
Cheng Zhenbao thought of his fierce elder sister and nodded in agreement, "Well, don't worry, I'll let mom tell my elder sister..."
Because of something at home, Cheng Zhenbao didn't stay long, and the next morning he set off with his second sister's instructions. Little Tiger happily saw him off, and when he returned he played with his brothers and sisters.
The world's joys and sorrows are not shared. Little Tiger was happy, but Liu Tiao was deeply depressed. He went to see his big apple today and found it had turned into a wrinkled little apple...
"Brother Fat Tiger, here's a big apple for you." Now, Liu Tiao was not reluctant at all.
"Is this the big apple you said you would give me?" Little Tiger confirmed in disbelief.
"Yeah!" Rokujo nodded seriously.
Well, now the depression is contagious. But wrinkled apples are sweeter. After hearing this from his aunt, Little Tiger split the apple into eight pieces: two for his aunt, two for him, and one for each of his brothers.
Liu Tiao finished the sweet apple pieces in two bites and regretted it very much.
Seeing this, San Tiao decisively increased the speed of eating the apple...
The day after Cheng Zhenbao left, Cheng Zhenzhu took Little Tiger and a few other children to town for a trip, bringing back a dozen glass jars. Her older sister and father had said snake wine was hard to find, so she decided to make more. Perhaps she could sell a few and make some money.
Cheng Zhenzhu used snake cages to get over twenty snakes out of a dozen jars. Two snakes per jar. Of course, the children didn't see these snakes. The feather-splitting star fern, however, is only available in spring, and there are no more on the mountain now. They'll have to wait until next year...
A month later, when Cheng Zhenbao came to pick up Little Tiger, more than a dozen jars of snake wine were already ready. Cheng Zhenzhu moved two jars outside and put the rest in storage.
"Zhenbao, these two bottles are newly made. Put them in for later consumption. Let Mom and Dad drink the first two bottles first. Those bottles have been soaked for several months and are more effective..."
"Well, okay." Cheng Zhenbao scratched his head and took out forty yuan. "Second sister, do you have any extra snake wine? When I came here, my eldest sister said that my brother-in-law's boss wanted to order two cans, and she asked for twenty yuan each for you. If you have any extra, take it. If not, I'll wait for you to finish it..."
Huh? There's this thing too. Her elder sister really helped her this time. She was only planning to sell it for fifteen! "And, I'll go get it from the room." Cheng Zhenzhu collected the money, went into the main room at the back, and pretended to carry out two jars of wine.
"This wine is quite substantial, quite heavy indeed," Cheng Zhenbao sighed as she weighed it. But twenty yuan a can was a pretty good price. Her second sister was a skilled winemaker, quite the craft, and her parents could rest assured.
"Zhenbao, thank you for carrying these over... Oh, and thank Big Sister for me."
"What's so hard about that? It's just a ride in the car... Oh, my elder sister said that if you want to thank her, you can send her some fish maw and some dried squid."
"Okay." She always noted which item was for which family when she sent things home. For example, fish maw, which is good for replenishing qi and blood during pregnancy and nourishing the body, was mainly sent to her pregnant sister-in-law. She hadn't expected her eldest sister to ask for it, either. She had some anyway, and her eldest sister had been so helpful. Now that she wanted it, she could just give it to her...
So, in addition to four cans of wine, Cheng Zhenbao also took a dozen pounds of dried squid and fish maw, mainly for her eldest sister, on the train. He was accompanied by little Hu Zi, who was carrying a schoolbag full of snacks.
This kid really didn't want to go home. As soon as he got on the train, he was already thinking about going back next year. And to pack more snacks, he even left his clothes behind, saying he'd wear them next year so he wouldn't have to bring extra clothes.
He's smart...
It was already the end of August when Little Tiger left. Summer vacation was almost over. Ichijo and Nichijo played for a few days before heading off to school.
San Tiao and Liu Tiao stayed at home with Cheng Zhenzhu. Cheng Zhenzhu was afraid they would get bored, so she took them out for a walk every now and then to relax.
Suddenly, the plot of the book gave her another hint. It was a few fragments, scattered paragraphs, but none of them were good.
It mentioned that the male protagonist Lu Jiamu was seriously injured during a mission, and that mission was related to cultural relics.
Cheng Zhenzhu suddenly felt like a storm was brewing. Ever since the last time that the educated young Gu mentioned she was going back to her husband's family, they had stopped writing letters. Now, she had no idea what the situation was like back there...
This is a book. Why did the hero and heroine of the book suddenly become so hard and unfortunate? This did not match some of the things she remembered at all.
Lu Jiamu had only begun to gain some clues about the cultural relic mission in the 1980s, after the children had reached their teens. How could it be connected to this mission now? Could this tiny butterfly of hers have triggered such a huge change?
San Tiao is an empathetic person. He can clearly sense that his mother is worried, so he grabs Liu Tiao every day and tries to find ways to make her happy.
Cheng Zhenzhu was instantly healed by the two little kids, and her heart was filled with joy. No matter what, Xiao Gu Zhiqing and the others were the hero and heroine, and they would definitely turn danger into safety!
However, a few months later, instead of receiving good news, she received extremely bad news.
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