The Xia family returned to their previous ordinary life.
During this period, the Xia family did two things, not big or small. One of them was that they went to the market again.
This time they brought a lot of goods to the market, including uncommon mountain products such as red dates and walnuts, each weighing several kilograms.
There are also their dried tea leaves and wolfberries, and the Ganoderma lucidum that Xia Manni found last time.
What was left were various dried herbs, which filled up a whole cart.
In order to reduce the burden on their brothers, Sanwa and Sinier did not get on the car but walked with them below.
When they went to borrow the cart this time, the neighbor lady was openly and covertly asking for some payment. The eldest and second children were a little angry, but Xia Manni didn't care. This was much cheaper than buying a cart.
She said to the eldest and second child, "Eldest and Second, you must remember that there is no such thing as a free meal. If there is, it is only for relatives. So it is normal for Auntie to ask for money. We can't take it for granted that others lend us money. If you do so, you will definitely suffer in the future."
After listening to this, the eldest and second child nodded and no longer had any complaints about the matter.
This time the journey to the market was much slower than before. When they arrived at the market, they saw the fat man who robbed them last time.
"Uncle, we're here." Before entering the city, Xia Manni instructed the eldest son to take the second son to say hello to the fat man.
No fighting, no acquaintance. We all have to hang out in this market in the future. It is always better to have one more friend than one more enemy.
The fat man didn't expect that the family from last time would come to the market to sell things again. Not only did they come, they also sent their two children to greet him.
The fat man still remembered the feeling of being beaten last time. The last time he carried the tall guy back, he was extorted for some money by the tall guy's family and was also beaten by his own wife.
His wife said that if he dared to offend someone with connections again, she would throw him out and leave him alone.
"Hey, no problem, no problem. Little brother is here to sell goods again." The fat man said politely to the eldest and second sons. He looked at them and saw that they had brought a lot of goods, and there were so many kinds.
"Yes, uncle, we'll get busy first." Big Boy said goodbye to Fatty politely.
"Okay, okay, let's go." The fat man waved his hand politely.
Then the eldest and second child pushed the cart away, followed by Xia Manni and others.
"Hey, Fatty, is this your kid? He looks very energetic." The small vendor next to him curiously asked Fatty about the identity of the group of people just now. They are selling goods at such a young age. This family is really something.
"Ah, stop asking about things that are not your place." The fat man ignored the others. He didn't dare to tell them about the beating he had suffered.
This time they not only set up stalls to sell goods, but also went to herbal medicine stores and tea shops to sell tea and medicinal herbs.
The last time they set up their stall, many people remembered Xia Manni and her friends. This time, they sold all their goods in a short time.
Including the goods Xia Manni had delivered to the herbal medicine store and the tea shop, they actually got ten taels of silver this time. The Ganoderma lucidum got five taels of silver, but because it wasn't a very good variety, they only gave five taels.
This time, Xia Manni bought a few books as usual, and also bought a few brushes. Before, she used to burn charcoal to let the children write on bamboo slips, but this time she bought brushes so that they could write on bamboo slips with brushes.
This time when they returned home, no one blocked their way.
The second thing was that Xia Manni opened up a vegetable garden in the backyard of the Xia family, which was rarely visited.
She planned to plant all the cabbage and radish seeds she had bought before. The temperature here is much warmer than in the north, so cabbage can still grow after autumn.
Xia Manni led the children to plow the soil, sow seeds, and finally water them, waiting for them to grow cabbages and radishes.
The news of the Xia family's vegetable plot spread throughout Shizai Village within a few days. Few people in their village ate vegetables in the winter. It wasn't that no one had considered growing cabbage, but in the end, none had succeeded.
Many people laughed at Xia Manni for not knowing how to farm and wasting her time.
Later, Xia Manni found out that they had planted them in the fields near the farmland and had not tried it in the yard.
Xia Manni had previously observed that the soil in the yard was harder than the soil in the field, which meant that the soil in the yard was not as moist.
She felt that this should be more suitable for the growth of soil-grown vegetables such as cabbage, but she did not dare to brag and could only wait until the cabbage grew out.
By the time they finished these two things, the Xia family had undergone earth-shaking changes under the leadership of Xia Manni.
The yard had a new dog, a chicken, and two rabbits. In the side room, there were several sacks of rice, half a sack of mountain produce for the family to eat, dried bamboo shoots, sweet potatoes, chestnuts, walnuts, eight smoked rabbits, and a dozen pickled fish.
Xia Manni gets up early every day to check it out. Although one check doesn’t mean much, going to the warehouse to count the items every day is her happiest thing.
If nothing else, there will definitely be enough food until next summer.
Apart from this, the biggest change in the Xia family is the children.
Da Wa's health gradually improved, and many of the uncles and aunts in the village said that Da Wa had become stronger. Every day, Xia Manni taught several children, and they were no longer illiterate.
There were many times when Erwa could recite a few sentences whenever he passed by the village private school. This story spread from one person to another, and it became known that the second fool of the Xia family, who could kill a snake at that time, had now become well-mannered.
Gradually, people began to eavesdrop at Xia's house in the evening.
Potato kept calling at the door for several days in a row. Finally, Xia Manni had no choice but to take the children into the house to study.
With the arrival of winter, Xia Manni changed her daily study time to the early morning, and continued to study what she had learned that day in the evening.
Their daily training volume gradually increased, and even Si Ni'er could keep up with the progress.
"Tomorrow is the winter solstice. Mom will make dumplings for you." Ever since she discovered the wild boar last time she went up the mountain, Xia Manni has never taken the children up the mountain again.
Every day at home they either study, exercise, feed the rabbits and chickens, or water the vegetable garden in the backyard.
The children were very happy when they heard that they were going to eat dumplings. The last time they ate dumplings was during the Chinese New Year. At that time, their grandfather was still alive, but their mother was no longer there.
"Bang, bang..." Suddenly, the sound of gongs came from the village.
Xia Manni felt something was wrong, so she took the children and went outside to see what was going on.
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