While waiting for the brother and sister, Gu Jianing wandered around the snack stalls and ate some.
Meanwhile, brother and sister Qin Tian and Qin Qing rushed home in a hurry. As soon as they entered the house, they went to the room where they kept the herbs and started searching.
When Granny Qin heard the noise, she started calling for help.
"Is it Xiaotian? Is Xiaoqing back?" The old man was lying on the kang, his voice sounding a little old and weak, accompanied by a cough. On the stove next to him, Chinese medicine was being decocted.
Grandma Qin knew that today was one of the three big market days a month, and this day was the favorite day for her grandchildren.
Two days ago, I was talking about taking the Cordyceps I collected to sell. How come I’m back now after only being gone for a short while?
Could it be that someone else came in?
But Grandma Qin thought it was unlikely. She could tell that it was her grandchildren who were moving, and they seemed to be running in a hurry.
"Did something happen?"
Is it because no one is willing to buy Cordyceps that you are back?
Grandma Qin felt sad when she thought about her two young children who couldn't even read and couldn't eat enough, and who had to go to the mountains to find herbs to sell and buy food for them in such a cold and snowy day.
If she hadn't been afraid of dying now and her two children being bullied, she would have hanged herself with a trouser belt long ago.
As she thought about it, Granny Qin was overcome with grief and was about to shed tears.
Just at this moment, Qin Qing ran in.
The little girl crawled to the edge of the kang, her gray face full of joy and her tone full of excitement and excitement.
"Grandma, grandma, my brother and I met a fairy sister. She is such a kind person..."
Qin Qing, who was rather shy in front of outsiders, was a little chatterbox in front of Grandma Qin. Her words aroused Grandma Qin's curiosity, and the tears that had yet to flow stopped.
"What's going on? Who did you meet?"
Qin Qing hurriedly told Gu Jianing about how he bought all the Cordyceps for them.
"…She needs other herbs. My brother and I have most of them here. We'll go back and find them and give them to her."
"Grandma, you haven't seen her. She is really a very beautiful man and a beautiful sister. She is like a fairy. She is a very good person."
At this time, Qin Tian, who had already found several bags of herbs, also ran in and squatted in front of Grandma Qin's kang with bright eyes. "Grandma, after we sell the herbs, we can buy food. I saw that there are many people selling food at the market today."
"Okay, you have met a good person, hurry up and don't waste time. You must thank him well, okay?"
"Grandma, we know."
Qin Tian poured out the Chinese medicine on the stove and put it aside. "Grandma, remember to drink it when it cools down a bit."
"Then my sister and I will go deliver the herbs."
The brother and sister were still thinking about Gu Jianing who was waiting for them at the market. They were afraid that she had waited for too long, and of course they were also afraid that she had left.
"Okay, go ahead, go ahead, grandma remembers it."
Without much delay, Qin Tian and Qin Qing each took two bags of herbs that were larger than theirs and left home.
Granny Qin looked at their small figures and finally tears fell.
But now I have some hope in my heart, but it is a pity for the two children.
Here, when Qin Tian and Qin Qing, brother and sister, were carrying several bags of herbs back to the market, Gu Jianing was drinking a bowl of mutton soup from a stall.
It was a big bowl with a lot of tender stewed mutton. The mutton seller was a middle-aged man who had great skills in stewing mutton. The mutton didn't taste fishy at all.
In the middle of winter, a bowl of hot and nourishing mutton soup warms me up.
Yes, it’s more expensive!
In front of this stall, only Gu Jianing is eating. Others who pass by and smell the food are really delicious, so delicious that it is meat!
But it is too expensive and not many people are willing to buy it.
Some people buy only a little and don’t dare to buy much.
While eating, Gu Jianing talked to the uncle and found out that the sheep was shot by his family in the mountains.
She also learned that the control over the supplies on the mountain was not so strict. It was not that everything on the mountain was public property. If you could get something on the mountain, it would be yours.
Especially in winter, when supplies were scarce, those who could go up the mountain to look for things were all from families that were not well off.
We can't deprive them of the little things they have found with great difficulty in the middle of winter.
Wouldn't that mean people will starve to death?
So, just turn a blind eye.
Gu Jianing learned that the market situation in the northwest is generally loose.
She thinks this is good.
"Sister, we have brought all the herbs you requested."
Just as I finished the last mouthful of mutton soup, a child's tender voice rang out beside me.
When she turned around, she saw two children carrying more woven bags that were bigger than theirs, looking at her with bright eyes.
It seemed as if he had been running and he hadn't even caught his breath yet.
"Did you run back and forth?" It's only been a short while since you came back.
Qin Tian put down the heavy bag and said carefully: "I'm afraid, I'm afraid you'll wait too long."
Gu Jianing's heart softened all of a sudden. She took the woven bag and looked at the herbs inside. They were well dried and of good quality.
While looking at Gu Jianing, he asked, "How do you sell these?"
Qin Tian and his sister looked at each other, then carefully quoted a few prices. These prices were lower than what they usually sold at the market. They were afraid that the price was too high and Gu Jianing would not want it.
Gu Jianing knew the approximate price and knew that the price offered by the siblings was already quite cheap, and that these herbs were of relatively good quality.
"Okay, then let's go with the price you mentioned." Gu Jianing agreed without bargaining.
Qin Tian and Qin Qing looked at each other, and a smile appeared on their lips unconsciously. "Thank you, sister, thank you. Don't worry, we have prepared these herbs very well."
"So it was you who concocted it..."
The atmosphere among the three of them was pretty good. After chatting for a while, Gu Jianing got to know the family background of the two boys, which was the same as she had imagined.
Their family was in financial difficulty, with only a sick grandmother to depend on. The knowledge of finding and preparing herbal medicines was taught to them by their grandmother.
It is also the basis of their survival.
"If you still have herbs in the future, collect them in a week and send them to me at the Northwest Military Region. Just tell the soldier on guard to look for Captain Sheng's wife." Considering that herbs might be needed in the future, and that the brother and sister left a good impression on Gu Jianing, Gu Jianing planned to cooperate with them for a long time, which could be regarded as helping them.
"Really? That's great, sis. Thank you, thank you."
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