Chapter 100 Why don’t you go and grab it?
Shang Wan took it and put the grass core into his mouth and chewed it carefully. It actually tasted sweet.
"When I was a kid, I went into the mountains with my dad, and I ate them as candy." Xiaohuan had a nostalgic look on his face, looking at the babies in the bamboo basket, smiling with crooked eyes.
Shang Wan spit out the chewed grass core and asked with a smile: "What kind of candy do you like?"
Xiaohuan shook his head, "I liked it when I was a kid, but I'm no longer greedy for it."
When I have no money to buy candy, I am so greedy that my dreams are full of candy. Imagining the sweet taste, my pillow will be wet with saliva when I wake up.
Later, when she entered the Lu Mansion, eating sweets was no longer unusual for her, and she gradually lost her craving for them.
"Let's go down the mountain." Shang Wan took the bamboo basket and put it on his shoulder, put his arms around the small ring, and walked down the mountain.
Xiaohuan turned her head and looked at the full bamboo basket, "Sister, there are many things, I will carry them."
"It's not heavy. How can I let my sister carry something while I'm free?" Shang Wan avoided her hand, "Aren't you looking for taro? Let's change the way down the mountain. Take a closer look to see if there's any."
Hearing this, Xiaohuan had no choice but to give up and look around intently.
"Xiaohuan, how much do you remember about what happened in Mipu?"
"I remember everything." Xiaohuan picked up a stick from the ground and knocked it on the grass.
Shang Wan asked: "Then Ge Shunliang invited your brother-in-law to the backyard for tea. Did your brother-in-law tell you and Shitou anything before leaving?"
"Explain?" Xiaohuan frowned and thought for a moment, "Brother-in-law only asked me and Shitou to be optimistic about Yuanyuan, and didn't say anything else."
Shang Wan said "Oh" and reminded her to be careful of the thorns on the bushes.
Xiaohuan turned to look at her and said doubtfully: "It's all over, sister, why do you still ask about this matter? But what's wrong?"
"Nothing is wrong, I just want to ask." Shang Wan jumped over the rocks, caught the bamboo shoots that came out with his backhand, and threw them back into the bamboo basket.
Xiaohuan always felt that Shang Wan was not asking casually, but seeing that Shang Wan's expression was normal, she didn't ask any more questions.
Maybe the place was wrong, and the two of them couldn't find the taro until they walked out of the forest.
Xiao Huan felt it was a pity, and Shang Wan comforted her, "Maybe there are none here. If you like it, let the stones be planted for you."
Xiaohuan really didn't have much hope in farming with stones.
Don't worry about Shitou being obsessed with it these days. If you get tired of it after a while, you may not even go to the fields to take a look.
Speaking of farming, she suddenly remembered something.
"Sister, I heard my wife said that we don't need to go to the government to register for land reclamation. The county government will send people to the village every two months to inspect the fields to see how the crops are, and we can register together at that time."
Shang Wan nodded, "It saves us a lot of trouble."
The two walked side by side, deliberately going around the two acres of land opened by stones to take a look.
The stones had been turned over, so he laid the hoe horizontally and sat on the hoe handle to rest.
Ale sat on a stone not far away, holding a tea bowl and sharing interesting things that happened recently with Shitou.
Shitou was concerned about his brother-in-law's studies and wanted to ask Ale about what happened at the county school.
A Le thought for a while and managed to find something new.
"There is a new teacher in the county school. His surname is Chu. He seems to be a few years older than the young master. The teacher is quite dignified."
Ah Le stood up, straightened his back, put one hand behind his back, imitated Master Chu's walking posture, and walked back and forth twice in a decent manner, looking very happy.
"I was so tired from studying." A Le's shoulders slumped, "I saw Master Chu and wanted to avoid him, but the young master told me to respect him more, saying that Master Chu is not a creature in the pond, and he must be a student in the county. Not long ago. The last time the young master was praised like this was Mr. Lu."
Shitou and Yourong Yan said, "That's right, my brother-in-law is a scholar at the age of thirteen. Looking at the whole Zhou Dynasty, how many people can be admitted as a scholar at the age of thirteen?"
Alle curled his lips so hard that he deliberately poured cold water on Shitou's head, "There are quite a few young masters from aristocratic families who are very promising, and some of them were admitted as scholars at the age of twelve."
The stone grabbed the dirt from the ground and threw it on his clothes. "Hey! My new clothes!" Ale jumped up and hurriedly patted the dirt clean.
Fortunately, it didn't rain last night, the soil was dry, and there were no marks on the clothes.
A Le rolled up his sleeves and was about to find trouble with the stone. When Shang Wan and Xiao Huan came over, he hurriedly put down his sleeves.
"Sister!" Shitou ran over happily, "Why are you here?"
Shang Wan smiled and said, "Let's see the progress of your farming."
She walked around the two acres of land and said to Shitou who was following behind, "Don't be in a hurry to plant things in this land. I will give you vegetable seeds in a few days."
"Okay." Shitou readily agreed and asked curiously, "Sister, what kind of vegetables are you growing?"
"Hmm..." Shang Wan thought of an excuse, "It's probably an improved version of Chinese cabbage."
Shitou was confused, "Improvement?"
"It just means better." Shang Wan remembered that the crop seeds produced in Lingtian would produce more than the original yield when planted in ordinary fields. This effect is only seen on baby cabbage. I guess it means it grows bigger?
Even Shitou, a novice farmer, knows whether vegetables are good or not, which largely determines whether the vegetables grow well or not.
"Sister, where did you get the vegetables?"
Shang Wan: "..."
Xiaohuan would not ask her such questions.
Facing Shi Shi's eyes that sparkled with knowledge, Shang Wan couldn't bear to deceive him and just said, "I'll tell you later."
It's easy to get rid of the stone. It will be later. Anyway, his sister will tell him.
A Le looked at her coldly, feeling that this young lady seemed like a different person.
It's obviously still the same face, and his voice hasn't changed, but his actions are completely different from before.
He couldn't help but ask Xiaohuan, "Do you feel that your young lady seems like a different person?"
"That's my sister." Xiaohuan glanced at him sideways, "How is my sister related to you?"
Ale:? ? ?
You choked him when you opened your mouth. How did he offend this aunt?
"I'm just talking, I don't mean anything else." A Le explained. Seeing Xiao Huan's unkind expression, he had to stop talking.
It was almost noon, and there was no work in the fields, so the four of us went back together.
Shitou grabbed the bamboo basket and carried it on his back. As he walked, he asked Xiaohuan what he was eating for lunch.
Xiaohuan told her the names of a few dishes, and when she got home, she grabbed Shitou and Ale and went to the kitchen to help her wash and cut them.
Shang Wan rolled up his sleeves and wanted to help, but Xiaohuan wouldn't let her get involved at all and told her to just rest.
Shang Wan had no choice but to turn over the herbs drying on the stone slab.
Qiao Yu'an came over to help. Just as he was thinking about how to speak, Shang Wan took the initiative and asked, "Want to buy some ointment?"
Qiao Yu calmed down and nodded honestly, "I think so."
“It’s said that good medicine is hard to find.” Shang Wan’s eyes curled up into a smile, “How much money are you prepared to pay?”
Qiao Yu'an thought that even for Lu Chengjing's sake, Shang Wan wouldn't be able to trick him, so she said, "Make a price."
"This is the number." Shang Wan stretched out a finger and shook it, "It's the same price."
"One thousand taels?!" Qiao Yu'an glared, "Why don't you go and grab it?"
(End of chapter)