Just kidding. Old Mrs. Chen has only had a few days of good food and medicine, and her body hasn't fully recovered yet. How can we let her go up the mountain and do strenuous work?
If I get sick from exhaustion again, then all my hard work these past few days will have been for nothing.
"Mother, you should rest more. I'll take care of these things," Su Yun'er stopped Old Madam Chen.
“I just wanted to help you out. Seeing you going in and out every day, it must be hard for you,” said Old Mrs. Chen.
“Mother, you take care of Xiaoshu and Xiaocao, my brother and sister, every day at home, and you also clean the house. How can that not be considered helping me share the burden?” After Su Yun’er finished speaking, she helped Old Mrs. Chen back into the house and let her lie down to sleep.
Upon returning to the courtyard to check, they found that the firewood was indeed gone.
Farmhouses all use firewood for cooking; without firewood, even boiling water and cooking become problems.
Firewood doesn't necessarily have to be a particularly large piece of wood; dried plant stems and roots are also acceptable.
However, Su Yun'er wasn't very good at distinguishing which plants could be used as firewood, and because she was weak, the firewood she could carry back from the mountain wouldn't last long.
After thinking for a moment, Su Yun'er carried a bamboo basket and went out the door, but instead of going up the mountain, she went to the Song family.
When Su Yun'er knocked on the door, the Song family had just finished eating.
Upon seeing Su Yun'er arrive, Song Muqiang's wife, Li Lan, immediately became alarmed, thinking that Su Yun'er had come to ask for something again.
Who knew that Su Yun'er would ask Song Muqiang to help her get some firewood.
“Any amount of firewood is fine; I’ll pay the market price,” Su Yun’er said with a smile.
"Firewood? You came to my house to ask for firewood?" Li Lan was quite surprised. "And you're offering money?"
Hearing voices, Song Muqiang also came out to see what was going on.
“Eldest son, Chen’s wife said… said she’s coming to buy firewood.” Li Lan repeated Su Yun’er’s words to her husband, emphasizing the word “buy”.
"Buy firewood? Sure!"
Song Muqiang wasn't as surprised as his wife.
After interacting with Su Yun'er a few times, he had gotten used to her different ways.
I went to the city the day before yesterday and happened to run into the young apprentice at the clinic. I heard that Su Yun'er had paid back her medical bills several times.
"Sure, how much do you want? I'm going into the mountains to chop firewood this afternoon."
"Any amount is fine, we can keep it at home and use it sooner or later." Su Yun'er said, taking out her money bag and pouring out twenty copper coins.
"These twenty coins are a deposit."
In this world, a load of firewood costs 100 coins, which is not cheap. However, Su Yun'er has a spatial ability to support her, so she doesn't have to worry about income. Therefore, she doesn't feel particularly pained by the cost of 100 coins per load of firewood.
Song Muqiang took the money and agreed with a smile.
The villagers mostly rely on their own able-bodied men to cut firewood in the mountains, so he could only sell his firewood in the city. Now that he can do business right at his doorstep, it saves him a lot of effort, so Song Muqiang is naturally happy.
After leaving the Song family, Su Yun'er continued her journey into the mountains as planned, hoping to find hawthorns.
As soon as I reached the edge of the village, I heard the twins shouting.
Looking back, I saw that it really was Little Tree and Little Grass running towards me.
"Mother, why didn't you call us when you went into the mountains?" Little Tree gasped for breath.
Little Grass, panting, said, "Mom, didn't we agree to go dig for wild vegetables?"
"Weren't you two asleep? Why did you come here?" Su Yun'er asked. "Didn't Grandma stop you?"
When she left, the brother and sister were clearly sleeping inside.
"We couldn't sleep and wanted to ask Mom to tell us a story, but then we saw you walking past the door with a basket on your back. My brother quickly led me to chase after you."
"Grandma is asleep, she doesn't know, hehe."
Seeing the two children's kindness, Su Yun'er couldn't bear to refuse them, so she took them into the mountains with her.
The two children did find a lot of wild vegetables in the mountains, but not all of them were edible.
"Ding-dong—Alfalfa, also known as golden flower vegetable."
"Ding-dong—dandelion, an edible plant, also known as dandelion."
"The system did not recognize it."
"Ding-dong—plantain, edible."
With the help of the system's [plant identification function], Su Yun'er identified the edible plants and threw away the rest that were not edible.
"Little trees, little grass, look, these are edible, but the others that look like this are not. Don't dig up the wrong ones."
"Okay, Mother, we understand!"
Watching the two children carrying small baskets and running and jumping ahead of her, digging for wild vegetables, Su Yun'er felt both bittersweet and gratified.
What's heartbreaking is that they have to worry about making a living for their families at such a young age, while in my generation, children their age were still playing on their parents' laps.
What's comforting is that even though the twins were abused by the original owner for many years, they are still kind and good children.
Following her memory, Su Yun'er led the twins over a mountain and finally saw the red fruit not far away.
Su Yun'er walked over in a few steps, and when she saw the fruit, she heard the electronic voice in her mind.
"Ding—Red Sour Fruit. That is, the fruit from the host's original world—hawthorn."
It really is hawthorn!
People in this era lived in poverty and rarely ate sweets. Hawthorn is extremely sour and difficult to swallow without sugar, so few people knew how to eat it.
But this didn't stump Su Yun'er.
White snow sugar balls and candied hawthorn berries are both simple and delicious snacks that are easy to make.
Alternatively, you can boil it into hawthorn jam, which you can eat directly or use to make hawthorn fruit leather.
Alternatively, you can slice hawthorns, dry them in the sun, and then either steep them in water to drink or add a few slices when stewing meat to make the meat tender and juicy.
In short, there are many ways to eat it.
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