"Not much, not much. My old man is hardworking. He has planted a large vegetable patch behind the house. My two sons are out guarding the reservoir, so we can't finish eating it all." The old lady stuffed the food into the hands of the two men.
The old man said, "Please clear out the things. We need to take the basket back. We can't use it at home."
Seeing that the two were honest, Li Tingyun accepted the things and went to the cellar to get a basket of chestnuts as a return gift.
"Why are you giving our things back to us? No, no!" the old lady said as she wanted to return the things.
"Grandma, there's a saying that goes 'reciprocity'. You can take it back and feed it to your child!" Li Tingyun stuffed the basket into the old lady's hands.
The old man nodded and said, "Okay, take it back. When our old pumpkin grows up, we'll bring back a few more for them."
"How dare you, old man!" The old lady glared at the old man.
hehe……
The old man smiled, said nothing and turned back.
The old lady thanked Li Tingyun and the others again before following them.
Li Tingyun and Xu Erhua could both see that the old man was walking very slowly, probably waiting for the old woman.
After the old lady went up, the old man held her hand, fearing that she would fall.
When Li Tingyun and Xu Erhua saw this scene, there was a hint of complicated emotions in their eyes.
Gu Xingwu stood behind them, looking at the old couple with a feeling of envy.
Not long after they put the things back into the cellar, several more villagers came, all to deliver vegetables to them.
Li Tingyun couldn't stop shouting. Several aunts put their things on the ground and turned away.
Xu Erhua looked at the large number of dishes and was worried that she wouldn't be able to finish them. The most important thing was that she was not familiar with many of them. She didn't know how to repay the favor.
"What should I do?" She became a little worried.
"It's okay. Ask Xiao Zhuang's mother and Aunt Daye when I go to the construction site tomorrow. I'll remember everyone then.
There are so many pumpkins and winter melons. I'll make some winter melon candy and pumpkin cakes in a few days and send some to each family." Li Tingyun looked at all the things and had some ideas in mind.
"That would require a lot of sugar!" Xu Erhua thought it must be very expensive.
"If that doesn't work, just make pumpkin pie. There should be sugarcane for sale in this town, and the price is not expensive. We can get some back and boil some cane sugar to make it." Li Tingyun felt that it was unrealistic to buy white sugar, and it would probably be better to buy sugarcane to boil sugar.
"Then let's go to the town with Brother He Fei and have a look. There might be something there," said Xu Erhua.
After things were settled, they classified the vegetables and some cabbages could be made into Northeastern sauerkraut.
If something can be dried, cut it and put it in a winnowing basket, and put the winnowing basket in the shed. You don’t have to worry about it getting wet even if it rains.
When they finished their work at twelve o'clock, they returned to their room tiredly to rest.
At three o'clock in the morning, Li Tingyun got up and went to Gu Xingwu's room, pressed his acupoints, and went to the mountain where there were pheasants alone.
After scouting out a good spot during the day, she found a few nets in the space warehouse, caught a dozen chickens and brought them into the space. When it was almost dawn, she hurried back home.
I couldn't sleep when I got back, so I changed my clothes and went to the kitchen to make breakfast for everyone.
She wants to take some chestnuts to the construction site today. Also, there weren't many medicinal herbs there yesterday, so she plans to go to the mountain near the construction site to have a look.
The old branch secretary also came early in the morning because of the chicken.
Li Tingyun cooked a big pot of chicken soup and put chestnuts in it to make it taste more fragrant.
As soon as the villagers came to work, they smelled the fragrance and were full of enthusiasm.
Li Tingyun and the others picked up a few pieces of chicken. She brought an extra kettle today, filled it with hot soup, packed three boxes of lunch, and prepared to go up the mountain with Heifeng.
"How about you take a day off today? You can't handle going up the mountain every day!" The old branch secretary felt sorry for the three children.
"Old branch secretary, if it doesn't rain in the next few days, let's go for a run. It's getting cold, and colds and fevers are inevitable. It's always good to stock up on some medicine." Li Tingyun said.
After hearing this, the old branch secretary thought that this was the case and didn't say anything. He told them to be careful when going up the mountain.
A few people took Heifeng to the mountain opposite the river where they usually washed vegetables. The mountain was quite steep, and their speed was slow at the beginning. After climbing for an hour, the road became a little easier to walk on.
The forest is dense with trees. This is the winter in the south. Even though it is so cold, you can still see green.
After entering the forest, Li Tingyun dug up several medicinal herbs, which were specifically requested by Old Tang.
She explained the uses of the medicine to the two of them and continued walking inside.
At this point, everyone slowed down. She told Heifeng, "Don't go hunting. Even if you do, we won't be able to take any medicine away. Try to help find some medicine."
Woof woof woof…
Heifeng barked twice and habitually circled around Xu Erhua. When it found medicinal herbs, it would pull Xu Erhua's trouser legs.
"Tingyun, Heifeng is so powerful, he even knows about herbs." Xu Erhua shouted excitedly when she saw the herbs that Heifeng found.
Li Tingyun looked up and said with a smile: "Even after Egg Yolk has been with you for a long time and has watched you do things every day, he will be able to teach you how to do it."
"I know. I will definitely teach Egg Yolk well in the future." Xu Erhua was very happy after hearing this, and continued to cooperate with Heifeng to move forward.
Gu Xingwu had never been to this forest before. After digging herbs for a while, he stood up and looked around, fearing that some big prey would appear and hurt them.
Li Tingyun didn't dare to keep working. He walked for a while, sniffed with his nose, and made sure that he didn't smell any wild animals before letting Xu Erhua go forward.
At the end of the morning, the harvest was better than yesterday. Li Tingyun dug up several medicinal herbs that he had never seen before.
Seeing these medicinal herbs, she seriously suspected that there was wild ginseng nearby because these medicinal herbs would grow near wild ginseng.
At noon, we found a place to make a clay stove, heated up the rice and soup, poured some soup into each person's bowl, mixed the soup with rice, and added two pieces of chicken. We had a very satisfying lunch.
In the afternoon, Xu Erhua was still digging other herbs when Heifeng discovered ginseng flowers.
This time Heifeng didn't pull Xu Erhua's trouser legs, but ran to Li Tingyun.
Li Tingyun saw Heifeng coming suddenly and realized that Heifeng might have discovered something, so she followed him quietly.
When she saw the ginseng flower, she almost kissed it twice out of excitement.
She suppressed her excitement and patted Heifeng's head, then looked at Xu Erhua. Heifeng wagged his tail and ran away in tacit understanding.
She turned her head and saw that neither of them was looking at her, so she quickly dug out the old radish in front of her and put it into the space.
Although this ginseng is less than a hundred years old, it looks like it should be about the same age. If it is placed in a space for growth, perhaps a miracle will be discovered.
Gu Xingwu also saw the ginseng flower. He heard that this thing could run, so he didn't dare to act rashly. He turned around and tried to pull Li Tingyun over.
As a result, Li Tingyun had just finished digging ginseng and was squatting there without keeping steady, so he sat down on the ground when he was pulled.
Hearing the noise, Xu Erhua ran over: "Liuli, be gentle! Tingyun's arm is so thin, don't pull it off!"
Gu Xingwu panicked when he heard Xu Erhua say that.
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