Chapter 56 The Thorn Egg Effect
The villagers of Xiaoshi Village went crazy for money, so they went to Dashi Village in a group to pick thorn eggs, which caused a sensation in Dashi Village.
At first, when people from Dashi Village saw many people from Xiaoshi Village coming, they thought they were visiting relatives. After all, many people from Dashi Village had in-laws with Xiaoshi Village.
As a result, they rushed straight to the mountain to pick thorn eggs, leaving everyone confused.
Li Hui was originally going to the mountain to pick mushrooms, but when she saw so many people coming, they were doing nothing but picking thorn eggs. She asked them curiously, "Auntie, why are you picking these?"
Without thinking, the aunt said, "The village chief will take this."
An older woman next to her nudged her with her hand and signaled her with her eyes not to say anything.
Li Hui also saw it, but without asking any questions, she left quietly and hurried down the mountain to go home.
As soon as she entered the door, she shouted, "Dad, big brother, something big has happened."
Li Wen, who was in the house, was so frightened that he ran out quickly. Seeing that his daughter was fine, he angrily said, "Why are you making such a fuss, kid?"
This Li Wen was none other than the village chief Li who had previously invited Xie Shuangbai to eat noodles in the town, a slightly plump old man with big eyes.
He was now glaring at his daughter unhappily; she had really frightened him just now.
"Dad, I was picking mushrooms when suddenly a group of people from Xiaoshi Village came. They all ran to the mountain to pick thorn eggs and said that someone was buying them!"
Li Hui told everything she had found out.
Li Wen didn't think it was a big deal. Even if something grew wild, people had to pick it.
"That mountain is not unique to our Dashi Village. Anyone who wants to pick the fruits can do so."
"Dad, you don't understand. If they can pick them, so can we. We can sell them for money anyway!" Li Hui said anxiously.
Li Hui's second brother, Li Shu, came out of the house and agreed with his sister's words:
"That's right, Dad. Although we didn't explicitly say that the back mountain belongs to our Dashi Village, we have never crossed the line to the back mountain of Xiaoshi Village. Today they crossed the line to pick thorn eggs, and we didn't say anything. Why can't our Dashi Village pick them?"
Li Wen thought for a moment and said, "Okay, if everyone wants to pick them, go ahead and pick them. You two brothers go and ask what's going on. If they really want to pick them, we'll organize the villagers to pick them too."
Li Wen was also thinking that if these wild things could be sold for money, it would be good for the villagers to have more income. After all, winter is coming and fewer people will starve to death.
For a while, Dashi Village was also in an uproar. Everyone knew that the free prickly ash eggs on the mountain could be sold for money, so they all rushed to pick them, fearing that they would miss out if they were a step late.
"Wei family, why are you still sitting here? Why don't you go pick the thorn eggs?" a woman asked anxiously.
"What are you picking that for?" the woman with a sallow complexion asked in confusion.
"You don't know! Word has spread throughout the village that Xiaoshi Village is collecting prickly pear eggs. If you go too late, you won't be able to pick them. I won't say anything more, I'm going first!"
The woman said no more. She carried the backpack and the cloth bag and trotted towards the mountain, afraid that she would fall behind.
Wei Changfeng, who was reading in the house, also heard her words. He stood up, took a piece of rag, and went to the yard to get a backpack, and also went to pick the thorn eggs.
The woman who was sitting down quickly stood up and said, "Changfeng, what are you doing? You want to go too? You can't go! If anyone has to go, it's me. Just stay home and read. I'll be back soon!"
As she spoke, the woman in patched coarse clothes quickly took the backpack and headed up the mountain.
Wei Changfeng held onto the backpack tightly and looked at her mother distressedly: "Mom, you are not feeling well. How can I watch you go up the mountain and remain indifferent? Besides, I am grown up now and still have the strength to pick thorn eggs. Just wait for me at home."
Having said that, he took the backpack and ran away without waiting for the woman to react.
Seeing how filial her son was, the woman couldn't help crying. It was she who harmed her son. If it weren't for her body, her son wouldn't be able to go to school. It was all her fault!
She sat in the yard and cried, feeling guilty.
The aunt next door knew her family's situation and when she heard her crying she tried to persuade her: "Changfeng from the Wei family is filial and polite. You will definitely be blessed in the future. Crying will only make you weaker and make Wei boy worry even more."
As expected, she stopped immediately after hearing this, looked at the old woman and said, "Auntie is right, I... I can't let my son get hurt. I need to get better. I can't cry anymore..."
The old woman next door saw her like this and could only sigh, blaming the Wei family man for dying too early, leaving behind an orphan and a widow.
The village chief Li Wen finally found out the truth.
Wang Dadi's family in Xiaoshi Village collects thorn eggs. The price is 1.5 jin for eggs with thorns and 1.2 jin for eggs without thorns.
The men in Dashi Village went to the mountain to pick thorn eggs, while the women were peeling the eggshells skillfully at the foot of the mountain. As the saying goes, work is not tiring when men and women work together, and now the whole village is busy.
But the people from Xiaoshi Village were dumbfounded. Their Dashi Village had a large population and strong fighting power. No matter how many thorn eggs there were in the back mountain, they could not withstand the picking. The nearest mountain had been picked empty.
The aunt from Xiaoshi Village who let the cat out of the bag kept regretting that she had caused them to pick less.
Xie Shuangbai, who was at home, had no idea that his action of asking Aunt Cui to collect the thorn eggs had mobilized the people of the two villages. He was concentrating on feeding the sleeping man and child spiritual spring water.
The child could clearly see that there was blood on his face, and the man was much better than when he was rescued, but he was still not conscious. He relied on feeding them spiritual springs every day to keep them alive.
As for the medicine prescribed by Old Man Li, he asked my younger sister to boil it once a day and pretend to feed it to them while he poured it out in the space.
He felt that the effect of this medicine was not as good as the spiritual spring water, and Old Man Li could not see any problems, so he did not feed it to them.
The little baby called for his mother in his dream again. Xie Shuangbai was very curious. What would the wife of this handsome man look like?
Judging from the child's genes, the other half should be good, or at least a pretty woman!
On the other side, Wei Changfeng also followed the villagers to pick prickly ash eggs on the mountain. Although he brought a rag to pad his hand, he was still pricked by the prickly ash eggs.
He wiped it casually with a rag, and was seen by Li Hui who was not far away. She ran over, took out a handkerchief and handed it to Wei Changfeng.
Wei Changfeng was startled and quickly dodged Li Hui. He picked up the backpack and ran to the nearby tree to pick thorn eggs, staying far away from her for fear that the villagers would see what had just happened.
But in Li Hui's eyes, she was being rejected. She was so angry and heartbroken that tears welled up in her eyes.
This scene was seen by Li Shu. He wanted to argue, but was held down by Li Hui. She cried and said:
"Brother, what are you doing? How can I face people in the future if you do this?"
Li Shu saw his sister looking so aggrieved and said angrily, "You can choose anyone else, but you have to choose a poor scholar. His mother is not in good health. If you hadn't helped his family so often, he would still be here picking thorn eggs. I think you are an ungrateful person!"
Li Hui was unhappy because she had been helping the Wei family secretly and no one knew about it.
She said angrily, "Brother, don't talk about Wei...Changfeng like that. He doesn't know anything about this. Besides, it was my wish."
Seeing that his sister was still arguing with him for that boy, Li Shu was so angry that he didn't want to talk to her anymore. He just said, "You'll cry later, and don't look for me and my brother when you do!"
After saying that, he went to pick the thorn eggs angrily, leaving Li Hui alone and sad.
Huang Youcai also got the news and sent a lot of people to pick the thorn eggs. When everyone saw that people had come from their family, they were so angry that they stared at him with their eyes wide open.
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