boyutpedia Chapter 309: Jie Chunlei's News
Chapter 309: Jie Chunlei's News
"It's getting late. Where are you going if you don't go home?"
The couple spent an hour digging out the medicinal herbs from Banmu of land. On the way home, they turned halfway and Li Xiu carried the hoe and turned into another road.
Lin Dahe saw that the sun was about to set. Didn’t he agree to treat his elder brother and others to dinner tonight? Why didn’t he go back early? Where was he planning to go at this time?
Li Xiu threw down a sentence without even turning his head: "The grass in the vegetable field has grown so tall that it covers your feet. If you don't pull it out, you won't have any vegetables to eat this winter."
As for treating, who will treat?
The brothers helped others to get rich, but they didn't even think about helping their own brothers. As a result, they only planted half an acre this year and became a laughing stock in Xiaohe Village.
What can you do with half an acre of land? The money you earn is not even enough to cover the family’s food and salt expenses for a year.
If Lin Dashan had visited Lin Dahe alone before the New Year and discussed the prospects of this medicinal herb with him, would their family have only planted half an acre?
If they also planted five or six acres this year, wouldn’t they have enough money to build a new house?
The two sons in the family haven't found wives yet, and there's a reason for that. It's just that the Lin brothers are not united.
Lin Dahe frowned: "Aren't you going to treat us tonight?"
"Invite a meal, invite a meal, and all you think about is food! Invite a meal, and if the vegetables don't grow well, it will affect the whole winter. Are you thinking about this meal or not having vegetables to eat for the whole winter?"
Lin Dahe: “…”
It is true that women are difficult to please.
Married women are harder to serve!
Now his family is in menopause.
"I'll go pull the weeds in the vegetable garden, you go home and cook first." Lin Dahe made arrangements right away.
After hearing this, Li Xiu slammed the hoe on his shoulder into the ground and said unhappily, "If you want to treat us, go back and do it yourself. You think about your brother all day long when you eat, and I don't think he even thinks of taking care of you when he makes money!"
"Let's not talk about far away places. For example, when they planted medicinal herbs this time, they would rather bring other people from the village than you. Besides, when they recruit workers in the provincial capital, they would rather hire outsiders from the village than arrange some work for your two sons and let them go to the provincial capital to see the world."
Such an ungrateful bastard wants to treat us to a meal, what the hell is he thinking!
When Lin Dahe heard this, the first thing he did was to look around to see if there was anyone else who could have heard what Li Xiu said.
Fortunately, there were no outsiders around, but a few villagers came down the hillside. Lin Dahe said, "Ancestor, please keep your voice down. Don't let outsiders laugh at you."
Li Xiu didn't want outsiders to know her dissatisfaction and let it reach Lin Dashan's ears, so she snorted coldly, picked up the hoe and continued to walk to the vegetable field.
Lin Dahe returned to the village, put down his farm tools and went to the old house. When he arrived at the old house, he found out that the medicinal materials had been purchased and the villagers had already dispersed.
The door of the old house was closed. After asking, I found out that Lin Dashan and Lin Shu had gone door to door to settle money.
When he found Lin Dashan, he was sitting in his uncle's house drinking tea. Hearing the sound of cutting vegetables in his uncle's kitchen, he smiled and asked, "Uncle, are you cooking so early?"
The tribesman whom Lin Dashan can call Uncle San is not young. He is 78 years old this year and is considered one of the oldest elders in the village.
When Lin Dashan came back, he prepared a gift for his uncle. According to the custom in the village, treating him to a meal was considered a normal social interaction.
Uncle San smiled and asked Lin Dahe to sit down and drink tea with him, and his granddaughter-in-law helped pour the tea.
"We don't usually cook so early at home. We're inviting Dashan and Shushu to dinner tonight, so I asked my daughter-in-law and the others to cook earlier and prepare a few more dishes. It's just right for us uncle and nephew to have a few drinks tonight."
"Dahe, did you just come back from the fields?"
The smile on Lin Dahe's face froze slightly, and he nodded: "I originally wanted to invite my elder brother to my house for dinner tonight, and I rushed back after finishing the work in the fields, but I didn't expect my elder brother to come to your house."
"Dashan just came back, and his family hasn't prepared anything yet. I think it's fine for him to just eat at someone's house for a few days. It's too much trouble to go home. Today I invited him and his daughter to have dinner at my house, but he was reluctant at first, saying that he was afraid of bothering me."
"If you ask me, what's the problem with me? I'll let you eat at home, and the women in the family will be busy. Besides, you rarely come back in the past few years, so how can having a meal be considered a problem? I'm so happy."
Uncle San became more and more excited as he spoke. The happiest thing for older people is to have the younger generations chat with them. They can talk about old stories for days and nights without feeling tired.
"These years are different from the days of the collective. Now we have a household contract responsibility system. As long as everyone is diligent, there will be no shortage of food at home. Adding two more mouths to feed you is just a matter of adding two more pairs of chopsticks. Thinking back to the famine years ago..."
Lin Shu propped up his cheeks, listening to the story with great interest. When he was a child, there was not much entertainment in the village, and his favorite thing at night was to listen to the old people telling stories.
Now is no exception.
Whenever talking about the hardships of the past, the old man’s favorite thing to do is to teach children not to waste food.
What I feel most deeply is that children nowadays live in a free environment and have never suffered any hardship since childhood. They are the happiest.
Were you happy as a child?
Lin Shu recalled that he naturally did not feel that his childhood was very happy. He had to cut grass for pigs every day and help adults in the fields. It didn't matter how many work points he earned, as long as he could earn work points.
She felt that her son's generation was happier than hers.
Like your next generation, who have never done farm work since childhood and are born into the city, with no worries about food and clothing, this is happiness.
"Uncle San, since my brother is having dinner at your house, I'll go back first." Lin Dahe looked outside and saw that it was getting dark. He stood up and said to Lin Dashan, "Brother, don't cook for yourself tomorrow. Come to my house for dinner."
"Don't bother my sister-in-law. Lin Shu and I can handle a few bites."
After returning to the village, Lin Dashan really didn't want to trouble the villagers.
Sometimes, the villagers are most concerned about human relationships. Sometimes if you give them a little benefit, they will worship you as an ancestor.
During the time that Lin Dashan and Lin Shu returned to the village, they never cooked at home. It was always the villagers who invited them to dinner.
Now that the medicinal herbs have been sold, the villagers have money in their pockets and are vying with each other to invite the father and daughter to their homes for dinner.
In the next few days, Lin Dahe wanted to invite Lin Dashan to his home for dinner, but the villagers did not give him the chance.
Every day, Lin Dashan and his daughter are arranged clearly by the villagers, including whose house they will eat at noon, whose house they will eat at night, and who will help make breakfast.
When the purchase of medicinal materials was nearing completion, the village's miscellaneous tasks of purchasing medicinal materials were handed over to Lin Dashan, and Lin Shu took the opportunity to go into the mountains.
There are many mountains around the river, most of which are yellow soil and have lush vegetation. There are also many kinds of medicinal herbs.
Not long after entering the mountains, I found a golden Forsythia on the side of the road.
Forsythia suspensa is a good plant that combines ornamental and practical uses. It is also called Huangshoudan in some places.
Because its flowers are a very rich yellow, they look very beautiful and golden from a distance, so some people call it Huang Shoudan.
Forsythia is a bit similar to Winter Jasmine, except that Forsythia has four petals while Winter Jasmine has six.
Forsythia, osmanthus, clove and jasmine belong to the same family, Oleaceae. They have a long history of use in my country. When combined with honeysuckle, they are excellent herbs for clearing away heat and detoxifying.
Lin Shuqi entered the system and was about to continue walking into the mountains, but he heard a noise not far ahead. Just as he was trying to figure out what caused the noise, he heard the fluttering sound of pheasants.
Looking at the pheasant flying away, I felt quite sorry.
In autumn, many herbs can be harvested on the mountains. There is a system cheat, so don’t be too relaxed when harvesting herbs.
The only thing you need to pay attention to is that in this season, Lin Shu is not the only one digging herbs on the mountain. There are still people in the surrounding villages who know something about herbs and will go up the mountain to dig some herbs themselves and dry them for later use.
"My dear, you are from Xiaohe Village, right?"
In a valley, Lin Shu met an old man from the next village. He also came up the mountain to collect herbs, and the basket he was carrying on his back was already filled with a lot of herbs.
Lin Shu found the old man familiar, but couldn't remember who he was. In addition, he spoke in the local dialect, so he smiled and said, "Uncle, do you know me?"
"Of course I don't know you. If I'm not mistaken, you should be Lin Dashan's daughter." The old man was tired from digging herbs, and happened to meet someone to chat with, so he found a stone and sat down.
"Yes, my father is Lin Dashan."
"I'm from the Jiejia Village next door to you. If you tell your father about the old Gaotou from Jiejia Village, will he know who I am?"
Lin Shu took a breath, plucked up a lot of fir tree needles from the ground nearby, and sat on them. "From what you said, you should know my dad."
"More than knowing each other, I also know that you were engaged to our Jie family's Chunlei when you were young. I heard that you broke off the engagement with him and later married to the city. Why are you back to the village? And you came to the mountain to dig herbs."
Old Gao glanced at the medicine hoe in her hand and asked.
Lin Shu explained the reason for returning to the village. "Uncle, this year the villagers who followed the path of growing medicinal herbs have made a lot of money. If anyone in your village is willing to grow them next year, you can come to our village for consultation."
"Growing medicinal herbs, it seems that you are doing well now, but Chunlei is far behind you." Old Gaotou didn't seem to be very interested in growing medicinal herbs. Instead, he lamented about Jie Chunlei's current situation in front of Lin Shu.
The corner of Lin Shu's mouth twitched. She didn't expect that Lao Gaotou's focus was not on growing medicinal herbs, but actually mentioned Jie Chunlei's current situation. To Jie Chunlei, Lin Shu just treated him as a stranger. Whether he was living a good or bad life now had nothing to do with her.