The village suddenly became much emptier with fifty or sixty fewer men.
However, unlike the anxiety last time, this time every household is full of hope and looks forward to selling the medicinal herbs smoothly.
Although they would still receive wages for transporting the medicinal herbs regardless of whether they sold them or not, the fact that they couldn't sell them would affect the next time. They clearly understood the difference between earning money once and earning money multiple times.
After two attacks, the old village chief and Shui Qing dared not be careless. The governor and guards continued to work day and night, and they prepared lime, powder, stones and other supplies in case of emergency.
In the days that followed, every household was busy planting medicinal herbs, making dried potatoes for preservation, feeding livestock, building walls... Families with many members had already started making adobe bricks for their new houses, trying to build them during the off-season.
The area around Shuiqing was suddenly unusually quiet.
All eighteen men, including Feng Damancang, went out. Ding Heli, Hu Wenhua, and Fan He also went out. Hu's parents, along with Da Ni and Er Ni, went to tend to the forest every day. The family was much smaller, and the place seemed empty.
The herbal medicine shop has been shut down and will not reopen until autumn. With dozens fewer people coming and going each day, it has returned to its former tranquility.
Fortunately, Qin Yilin and Ding Jiajia have some free time now. Qin Yilin no longer needs to go out to collect herbs, and she occasionally brings Ding Jiajia over to chat.
Qin Yilin is not a good cook, and she doesn't like her daughter's cooking either. Coming over to talk to her is also a way of improving her meals.
However, she wasn't just freeloading. Shui Qing didn't want money, but she could give her medicinal herbs!
Summer mosquito repellent powder, mosquito repellent sachets for each member of the Fan and Hu families, blood-activating and stasis-removing pills, and even health supplements were all provided. We were determined not to let Shuiqing suffer any losses.
While chatting and waiting for dinner, I was busy grinding the prepared mosquito-repellent herbs into powder. Looking at the empty and quiet courtyard, I sighed, "It's so quiet all of a sudden, and I'm not used to it."
Shui Qing lay on a large recliner, slowly rocking back and forth in the sun. The February or March sun felt warm and comfortable on her skin. After hearing Qin Yilin's words, she came back to her senses and smiled, "Hurry up and enjoy this rare moment of peace and quiet. You won't be able to enjoy it next year."
Qin Yilin clearly misunderstood, glanced at her daughter cutting large red fabric in the room, and asked in a low voice, "It shouldn't be that fast, right?"
The Hu family has just acquired the land, and the house hasn't even been built yet. It will be at least the second half of the year before the house is built and the furniture is installed.
Although it was agreed that the betrothal gifts and the wedding date could be arranged at the same time, the wall over there wouldn't be finished in a short time. Wouldn't it be safer to wait until it was completed before getting married and moving in?
The wall over there is bigger than the one in Shanshui Village, and it will take at least two or three months to complete. With so many things involved, if even one of them isn't finished, things will have to wait. Jiajia and Wenhua's wedding is estimated to be at least until the end of the year.
Once I have a baby, I can carry the pregnancy for ten months, and it will be just as peaceful this time next year.
Could it be that the Hu family wants to hold the wedding as soon as they return?
Shui Qing immediately realized that Qin Yilin had misunderstood. She took off the sun hat covering her face and joked, "What are you thinking? I'm talking about business!"
Realizing she had misunderstood, Qin Yilin rolled her eyes at her, "What business? We women don't need to go out to deliver goods, and the herbal medicine shop can only start producing after the autumn harvest. There's nothing to be busy about."
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