"This chicken intestine grass is bitter. If you want to eat it, just pick some and take it home. You won't be able to eat it all if you pick too much."
After Lin Anru finished work, he saw his children with their butts sticking out. He thought they were catching grasshoppers like the other children in the village, but when he got closer, he found that they were actually picking wild vegetables.
It's just that their taste is not very good. There are a lot of wild vegetables on the edge of the field, and they picked the bitterest and hardest to find one.
"Dad, my sister said this is a herb. It's not for eating, but for exchanging for money." Lin Boyu looked up and answered impatiently.
Liu, who was following behind Lin Anru, had an idea: Can it be sold for money?!
"Can it really be sold for money?" asked Liu.
"I don't know." Lin Shiyu shook her head. "I only know they are herbs. I need to take them to a pharmacy to find out if they can be sold."
In ancient times, Lin Shiyu had no idea how herbs were purchased and sold, and she couldn't guarantee anything.
Liu was a little disappointed when she heard this.
"If they are herbs, just pick more. When I go to the county town to hand in the books in a few days, I will ask the pharmacy if they will accept them. If not, we can keep them for our own use." Lin Anru said optimistically.
If it can’t be used as medicine, it can be eaten as a vegetable, right?
"You three mothers, pick the weeds here first. I'll take the weeds home to dry and come find you later." Lin Anru instructed.
The grass pulled from the rice fields is basically taken home to be dried and used as firewood. Some lazy people will just throw it on the edge of the field.
Although it is convenient and quick to throw the grass on the edge of the field, the grass that has just been pulled out will soon grow again around the edge of the field and slowly grow into the field, and eventually you will have to pull it out again.
"Didn't you make an appointment with the village chief at noon to finalize the house matter? Are you in time?" Liu asked.
Lin Anru explained, "It's still in time. My second brother is accompanying his second sister-in-law back to her parents' home today, so the time to go to the village chief has been changed to the afternoon. There's still time for two round trips, and I can also take you to see the location of your new home."
"Okay, then you go back. I'll watch here." Liu waved her hand with assurance.
Lin Anru went back and rushed over immediately.
The family of four picked two full baskets of grain at the edge of the field before returning home.
The villagers of Yamada Village who were busy working in the fields couldn't help but feel curious when they saw the family squatting on the ground working for a long time.
When I got closer, I saw that he was making fun of the wild vegetables.
Some kind villagers thought they didn't understand and pointed to other tastier wild vegetables for them to dig. However, more villagers just shook their heads and left after watching.
When the Lin family divided up yesterday, everyone in Yamada Village knew that their family was not as wealthy as rumored outside.
Therefore, few people talked behind their backs about their family members going out to pick wild vegetables.
Especially since the ones digging wild vegetables were Lin Laosan's family, a man who owed half the village money.
When she got home, Lin Shiyu asked Liu to wash the coriander, take a handful and boil it in water to drink, and dry the rest in the shade for storage.
After everyone rested for a while, Lin Anru led everyone to the land he had liked.
"Dad, I don't dare to go in. Xiaopang said it's haunted." Lin Boyu looked at the grass in the yard that was half a head taller than him and shook his head desperately.
It was a desolate yard with broken walls and overgrown weeds.
"My child's father?" Liu didn't believe in ghosts, but the place in front of her was indeed scary if she looked at it for a long time.
The main reason is that this is the most remote place in the village, and there have always been rumors of ghosts. On weekdays, there are few people passing by here, making it even more desolate.
"That's all just rumors spread in the village. It's getting more and more outrageous. There's no such thing as a ghost." Lin Anru comforted his wife and children.
"How can such a rumor be spread?" Liu murmured to herself.
Lin Anru was standing next to her. After hearing what she said, she explained to her: "So here..."
Shantian Village is a village with a variety of surnames, with the majority being the Lin surname, and the rest being people of various other surnames.
The people living in this yard are just a miscellany.
A family of four, an old woman, a couple and a child.
The old woman is hardworking, the wife is virtuous, the son is smart, and the pillar of the family is even more amazing. In addition to being very strong, he also has a skill - hunting.
Everyone who lived near his house knew that the aroma of meat wafted out of his house every now and then. During that time, the children in the village liked to smell the aroma of meat outside his yard at mealtime.
There are many families in the village who are waiting for this child to grow up so that they can marry their daughters to him and get some money from him from time to time.
But this idea was quickly dismissed.
The hunter died in the mouth of the big beast.
When his mother found that he had not returned at night, she felt that something had happened, so she asked the villagers to go into the mountains to help look for him.
But it was too dark at that time and the villagers did not dare to go into the mountains. Only a few brave villagers searched around the outside of the mountain, but they did not find anyone.
During the day the next day, they organized another group of people to go in and search.
The person was found, but only a few tattered pieces of clothing and some bones were left.
The pillar of the family passed away. The hunter's mother was sad for a while and then decided to raise her grandson well.
But the hunter's wife didn't want to do that. She wanted to take the child away and remarry.
How could the hunter's mother let her only grandson leave?
At first, she did not allow her daughter-in-law to remarry with the child, but eventually she was allowed to remarry but the child had to stay.
But her daughter-in-law insisted on taking the child away, and the two began to quarrel.
During the quarrel, her daughter-in-law let slip that the child's biological father was someone else.
The hunter's mother was devastated and tore her daughter-in-law apart, dragging her to the village chief to seek justice.
On the way there, the two were struggling, and the hunter's mother was knocked to the ground by her daughter-in-law.
His head just hit a sharp stone on the side of the road and he died on the spot.
The hunter's wife was horrified and hurried home to pack up her valuables and ran away with her child along the path.
The villagers of Yamada Village tried to stop the people after hearing the news, but they failed and finally just left them alone.
The main thing is that this family doesn’t even have any relatives, so who can we bring his wife back to seek justice for?
So the people in this courtyard dispersed.
If it were just this, we could only say that the hunter family had bad luck and met the wrong person, and it had nothing to do with this courtyard.
The first thing that became associated with this yard was the first day after the hunter's mother died.
The hunter's wife and child, who had originally left with their child, suddenly appeared in Yamada Village.
The mother and son were lying at the entrance of the village with their faces turned blue and their eyes bulging.
No one knows how they died. Anyway, the villagers said that there was nothing unusual about the position they were lying in the night before.
It was precisely because the two of them died that the villagers thought it was a problem with the house.
Because the house is unlucky, anyone who lives in it will have a bad death.
Also, because the hunter's wife and child died on the seventh day after the hunter's mother's death, he thought it was the hunter's mother who came back to take revenge.
As the rumor spread, it became known that the yard was haunted.
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