dtnovels Chapter 111 2 Best of All
Chapter 111 2 Best of All
"Okay! Little girl, don't bargain next time!"
"Okay, okay, Yueyue wishes the shopkeeper great wealth and prosperity!!"
After An Yue finished speaking, she put on the backpack with great effort and walked towards the town entrance.
All the bottles and jars in the backpack probably weigh several dozen kilograms in total.
An Yue finally arrived at the town entrance carrying the baby on her back.
Li Wu was waiting for someone at the entrance of the town at this time. Seeing An Yue carrying a full basket of things on her back, he hurried forward to help.
"Yueyue, why did you buy so many things?"
An Yue smiled and said, "Uncle, there is no staple food at home. We are going to starve!"
After putting the backpack on the ox cart, An Yue sat on the cart and continued, "So I thought about buying more to take home. It's time to plant the crops, but we can't go hungry!"
"Yes, yes! You have to do farm work to eat enough." After helping An Yue put it away, Li Wu sat back in his original seat, looking at the entrance of the town with narrowed eyes and said.
After a while, a few women came from the entrance of the town and greeted Li Wu from afar.
It is said that three women make a drama. These women were laughing and chattering together, making it particularly noisy.
They put the backpacks on the ox cart one by one and sat on the cart one by one.
Li Wu asked: "Are you all seated? Let's get ready to go!"
An Yue was sitting on the ox cart and could only hear a few women talking about the gossips of the Dong and Li families after dinner.
An Yue heard that they were just chatting, so she decided to ask them about the situation in the village from the side.
She saw that the woman A sitting next to her seemed to be wearing new clothes. The bright yellow color looked very nice.
So, she deliberately asked, "Aunt, your clothes are so beautiful!"
Woman A subconsciously touched her clothes and replied with a smile: "This is a new dress I just bought today. I spent 150 coins on it!"
Several other women also reached out, touched the cloth, and said, "It's a nice dress."
Woman A showed a little pride on her face, and An Yue said quickly, "Auntie is so beautiful, she should wear good clothes worth 150 coins."
"After wearing it, my complexion becomes much rosier and more radiant."
Woman A smiled shyly when An Yue said this, "Whose little girl is this? She is so pretty and her mouth is as sweet as honey."
Li Wu turned around and said, "This is the girl from An Tianshun's family in our village. Her name is An Yue."
Woman B sighed and said, "If that's the case, then I can recognize her. Our two families are not far from each other. She is the girl from Uncle Tianshun's family."
Woman C said: "I heard from my mother-in-law that Brother Tianshun and his wife had been living in harmony after their marriage. It's a pity that they died young and left behind a pair of children. The two children are so pitiful." After the woman finished speaking, she couldn't help but shook her head with regret.
Woman B continued, "They were a model couple of the younger generation in our village. It's such a pity."
"Alas! How pitiful! Before the couple's bodies were even cold, the old couple of the An family drove the siblings out of the An family."
Woman A said: "They say blood is thicker than water. How could these old couple be so cruel as to kick two little kids out of the house in the middle of winter!"
An Yue sat aside, originally wanting to inquire about other situations in the village, but the topic unknowingly shifted to her own family. She was unable to get a word in for a while and was a little unsure of how to respond.
Woman B turned around and asked An Yue curiously, "Yueyue, now that your grandparents don't care about you and your sister, how are you going to live?"
An Yue raised her head and took a closer look at woman B, and discovered that she was the young woman from the Wang family who lived not far from her home. She was an excellent embroiderer.
An Yue evaded the question and said, "Sister-in-law, my sister and I used to live at my grandfather's house, and we just returned to the An family after the Chinese New Year."
Woman B said to An Yue with a smile: "Yueyue, if you need help in the future, just come to me."
Afterwards, several women chatted about other gossips and soon arrived at Baili Village.
An Yue arrived first. Li Wu took An Yue's backpack off the ox cart. An Yue handed the silver to Li Wu and said, "Thank you, uncle."
Li Wu got on the cart and prepared to continue driving it. An Yue suddenly asked, "Uncle, next time Yue Yue is going to the town to deliver something, could you make a special trip?"
Woman B said jokingly, "As long as you give enough money every month, I think your uncle Li Wu will be happy too."
Li Wu turned around with a smile and asked, "When will Yueyue go to town?"
An Yue quickly said, "The thirteenth day of the first lunar month, Mao time."
"Okay, okay, uncle will be here on time then."
"Then I'll trouble you, uncle." Then Li Wu drove the ox cart to the west of Baili Village.
An Yue had already arranged a ride on the ox cart, and she finally felt relieved.
She picked up the backpack and walked slowly towards home.
When I got home, it was already noon.
An Yue put away all the oil, salt, sauce and vinegar she had bought, and poured all the rice into the rice jar. Then she started to cook lunch.
Lunch for one person can be as simple as possible.
She lifted the lid of the pot and saw that there was still a sweet potato left in the pot.
I thought I could boil an egg and make two bowls of corn porridge, and this lunch would be enough to get by.
After she finished her lunch, when she washed the dishes and put them in the cupboard, she took a special look at the seeds that had been soaked in the bowl yesterday. The seeds were now plump.
An Yue thought that after waking up from a short nap, she would go to the field to dig the ground and plant the vegetable seeds.
An Yue remembered that when she came to the An family's house to clean up before the New Year, the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren went to dig the boundary line in the field. There were many young seedlings of dandelions and plantain in the field. I guess they have grown up now.
——An hour passed.
After waking up, An Yue washed her face.
She filled a basin with wood ash from the kitchen, put the vegetable seeds in the basin, put the basin in her backpack, and walked towards the field carrying a hoe.
As soon as she arrived at the field, An Yue was pleasantly surprised.
Looking at the plantain, dandelions, amaranth, and chickweed all over the ground, although it looks messy, it is indeed pleasing to the eye in terms of its abundance.
People like it only because it is valuable. If it were just a weed, An Yue would be in a lot of trouble now!
An Yue put the backpack aside, swung the hoe and started digging the ground, or to be more precise, digging herbs.
The black soil is fertile and soft, and the weeds are larger and thicker than those on the ridges.
She quickly dug out a patch of land, then squatted down to sort them, placing each type of herb into a small pile.
An Yue thought that she could dig the ground to plant vegetables and dig herbs in the next two days without delaying either. It was the best of both worlds, and she was very happy.
The most important thing is that when the herbs are dug out with a hoe, some of the roots can be retained. Such herbs have higher medicinal value and can be produced in larger quantities.
An Yue couldn't help but sigh in her heart: