Outside the house, Old Lady Huang saw Danruo open the door and said as usual:
"Clean up the kitchen first, then go to the river to wash clothes. Remember to go to the mountain to find some balsams for your eldest sister to paint her nails, but don't delay making dinner."
After saying that, he went to the matchmaker's house to find a marriage for Huang Yingying, not worrying at all that Danruo would resist.
Because the original owner had always been timid and obedient, this was the first time that he had stayed in the room without cleaning up after dinner.
Danruo looked at the two large basins full of clothes.
Inside were clothes belonging to Old Mrs. Huang and the first, third, and fourth wives of the Huang family.
The first wife and her husband have a son and a daughter, the third wife and her husband have two sons, and the fourth wife has only the fourth uncle. It takes more than ten people just to do the laundry.
Although He, the stepmother of the original owner of the second house, was fierce but hardworking, she was the one who took care of the clothes for the second house.
The original owner was also asked to cook for more than ten people every day. She really didn't treat the original owner as her own granddaughter.
Danruo ignored these tasks, took a backpack and went up the mountain.
She avoided the crowd, found a secluded place, caught a pheasant, and roasted it in a cave.
Although it was a bit tasteless without seasoning, this was the most meat the original owner had eaten in more than ten years.
She was very thin and had good facial features, but before she was fourteen she often had to work in the fields, so she was very tanned.
He often hunches his head and speaks little, making him seem inconspicuous.
Last year, it was because Old Mrs. Huang was dissatisfied with her inability to pay the bride price that she refused to let her go to the fields and asked her to stay at home but do all the housework.
Dan Ruo used her spiritual power to nourish this body, and then continued to use special materials to darken the skin color. She is currently staying in the Huang family. If she is discovered and punished, she will probably be sold the next day.
I had a good sleep on the willow tree, enjoying the warmth brought by the afterglow of the sunset, and then got up and went back to Huang's house.
On the way, she met Mrs. Huang's arch-enemy, Mrs. Yang. She deliberately bent down to adjust her shoes so that she could see a corner of the things in the backpack.
Sure enough, Old Lady Yang attentively gave Danruo a handful of candy and then asked her where she had been.
Danruo honestly told Old Lady Yang the place, and then Old Lady Yang praised her as a good child and watched her leave.
I thought I would ask my husband to go there and take a look tomorrow. The thing in the girl's basket just now looked like ginseng.
Danruo continued walking towards Huang's house. As soon as he entered the courtyard, he saw Old Mrs. Huang angrily throwing a bench at him.
Danruo dodged to the side, and the dog in the yard suffered.
He screamed instantly.
Old Mrs. Huang didn't expect Danruo to dare to hide, so she walked towards Danruo angrily with a broom.
The original owner's younger brother Huang Tianquan stood in front of Dan Ruo and begged:
"Grandma, this is the only time my sister has been lazy. She has never been lazy before. Please forgive her."
Old Lady Huang pulled Huang Tianquan away and raised her eyebrows:
"I have to teach this damn girl a lesson today."
Danruo took out the things in the backpack. Coincidentally, the neighbor had heard the noisy commotion at the Huang family and had already walked to the door of the Huang family.
"Sister-in-law, is there something wrong at home?"
Old Mrs. Huang hurried forward to coax the neighbor away, then looked at what was in Danruo's hand. Wow, this is ginseng.
Fourth Uncle Huang immediately stepped forward and said, "Mother, with this ginseng, I'll go back to the county and sell it for silver. This time I'll definitely pass the imperial examination and become a scholar. Then you'll be the wife of an official."
Huang Tianbao, the eldest son of the wife, also hugged Mrs. Huang's other arm and acted coquettishly:
"Grandma, if I can exchange the ginseng for silver, I can marry Li Niang. Then she will have a rich dowry, and your eldest grandson will be rich. I can give you delicious food and drinks every day."
When Old Mrs. Huang thought about her future life, she couldn't stop smiling. Neither her eldest grandson nor her youngest son refused.
He smiled and said, "I'll go sell it next time there's market, and we'll see how much silver I can get then."
Several people had already figured out how to spend the money from selling the ginseng, and hadn't thought about finding the original owner of the ginseng at all.
However, Dan Ruo sneered in his heart, this was certainly not ginseng.
This is Phytolacca japonica, which looks very similar to ginseng but has the opposite effect.
Phytolacca is not only poisonous but also unsaleable here.
Old Mrs. Huang would definitely not be willing to give ginseng to her family members, nor would she let other people in the family sell ginseng.
She only had to wait for the big market in the county six days later, and then there would be an ox cart at the village entrance that would run back and forth for three cents, so she could go and sell her goods.
The six-day time gap is enough for a lot of things to happen.
Seeing Dan Ruo lowering her eyes in deep thought, Huang Tianquan had something in mind, and then he bravely asked Old Lady Huang:
"My sister found this ginseng. I should give her some of the money from selling it. My sister is fifteen years old and the sleeves of her dress are half too short."
The original owner wore old clothes that Huang Yingying didn't want anymore. It was normal to pick up your sister's clothes to wear in that era.
But Huang Yingying was short, and her old clothes were too short for the original owner.
But given the original owner's status in the Huang family, it was naturally impossible for her to make new clothes for Huang Yingying and let Huang Yingying wear the ones she left behind just because she was taller than her.
Old Mrs. Huang ignored her and asked Danruo directly how and where she found the ginseng today, and asked her to take some uncles from her family to look for it again tomorrow.
Dan Ruo shook his head, his face sincere:
"I really can't remember. I just remember that I went to the wrong place and then took a lot of detours. I'm not sure I'll be able to find the place tomorrow."
"But if I were well fed and warmly clothed, maybe I would remember it."
Upon hearing this, Old Mrs. Huang suppressed her heartache and did not leave any food for Danruo. She asked the eldest daughter-in-law of the Huang family to steam an egg custard for Danruo and served it to her.
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