Girlfriend's Fortune

Chapter 5 Chapter Five

After selling half of the baskets of mushrooms, Song Qiu looked at the unsold chili peppers and was not in a hurry. If they could not be sold, he would take them back. At worst, he would go to town tomorrow.

There are few people in the town who grow vegetables, and they have to buy vegetables to eat, so they are much easier to sell.

Aunt Mayfow had some eggs left, but soon someone came to exchange eggs with Aunt Mayfow with a liter of brown rice.

The market price of a liter of brown rice is about six cents, while eggs cost two pennies. Aunt Mei Fu counted twelve eggs for her.

This kind of bartering at fairs is also common.

Just now, someone exchanged six eggs for Song Qiu's catty of mushrooms.

The Song family didn't raise chickens, so Song Qiu also wanted eggs in exchange.

The sun was pulling up slightly from the east, Song Qiu was still thinking about going back to pick up the mushrooms, and he didn’t stick to it until the peppers were sold. Seeing that Aunt Mei Fu’s basket of eggs had been sold and exchanged, he followed her to pack it up I'm done, and I'm going home with a basket on my back.

Passing by the only meat stall in Jishang, Song Qiu thought that since she was ill, her grandma hadn't eaten meat for a long time, so she bought meat for three Wen.

Nowadays, pork is twelve renminbi a catty, and three renminbi can buy four taels of meat, which is enough to stir-fry a whole plate.

Song Qiu went back to the village with Aunt Mei Fu, just when she arrived at the door, her grandma also came back, just like when she went yesterday, the man from that family brought her back in a donkey cart.

Otherwise, Mrs. Yuan wouldn't go if Xiao's house is so far away.

Seeing that Song Qiu was carrying a basket on his back, and there was still a scale pole in the basket, old Yuan said, "You went to Daji? Why didn't you wait for the milk to come back?"

Song Qiu opened the door and went into the courtyard, smiling and said: "I happened to meet Aunt Mei Fu, I went with her, the mushrooms I picked up yesterday are all sold out!"

The grandfather and grandson entered the kitchen and sat at the dining table. Song Qiu happily took out the copper coins sold today and handed them to the old Yuan.

"There are 48 catties of mountain mushrooms in total. One catty was exchanged for eggs, and the other catty was sold for pear blossoms. The total we sold was [-] Wen, but I took three Wen to buy meat."

"Okay, grandma will cook meat for you later." Old Yuan took the money bag and counted out three coins from it to Song Qiu, "This is from Lihua, you should keep it."

Every year, the kid in Lihua asks them to help sell some things to save some money for himself.

Old Yuan put down the money bag, then put the basket she brought back on the table with a smile, lifted the blue cloth and told Song Qiu to look at it,
"Grandma also earned a lot of money yesterday. The family is generous. They finally gave birth to a son. For the joy, they gave me sixteen big bucks! There are also ten red eggs."

Song Qiu looked at her, and seeing her grandma so happy, couldn't help but burst out laughing, "The grandma is really amazing!"

Old Yuan Shi is a midwife, and her skills are not bad. People from all over the world have picked up babies for almost 20 years. She has a good reputation, and everyone is willing to invite her.

However, most of the people who ask her to deliver babies are from rural families, and the families are not very rich. To deliver a baby is at most ten big bucks and two eggs.

Some families are even poorer. If they emptied their pockets, they could only take out one or two dollars at most. When they collected a handful of beans, her grandma accepted it with a smile without saying anything.

It is such a kind-hearted and diligent woman, but God has the heart to torture her.

I lost my husband in my early years, and finally brought my son to marry a wife, but within half a year after my granddaughter was born, my son also got the same disease as his wife, and passed away at a young age.

The old Yuan gritted his teeth and took care of his son's funeral, persuading his daughter-in-law to remarry, so she could raise his granddaughter.

But the daughter-in-law refused, and worked hard every day, determined to drag her daughter to grow up and support her mother-in-law until her death.

However, the daughter-in-law's family tried to persuade her to go back and remarry so that she could get another dowry gift, but when she refused, the two older brothers came to the door to kidnap her.

After some commotion, it was thanks to Zhang Laodou next door and his son to force them back.

The days are considered dull.

But the good times didn't last long, before the granddaughter grew up, the daughter-in-law became exhausted and fell ill, and fell ill in bed. Old Yuan took out all the savings in the family to buy medicine for her treatment, but within a year, the daughter-in-law died. Passed away.

Then only the old Yuan and his granddaughter were left to depend on each other.

The old Yuan gritted his teeth and lived frugally and dragged his granddaughter to 13 years old, but at the age of [-], his granddaughter became seriously ill. After seeing several doctors, they said that it could not be cured. .

Old Hu only felt that the sky was about to fall, and he just wanted to go with his granddaughter so that their family could be reunited in the end.

The old Mrs. Deng next door was thinking of helping her when she couldn't survive, and couldn't bear to see her ashamed, so she gave her an idea, let her go to Songshan Temple with someone to give to the Buddha. Kowtow, kowtow to Master Yuanfa.

When the old Yuan heard this, he felt refreshed, and went to Songshan Temple with his granddaughter on his back at night.

When she climbed to the outside of Songshan Temple, it was already dawn, and the temple gate had just opened, but she couldn't move anymore. She saw the Buddha in the temple from a distance and kowtowed down.

This time, before entering the gate of the temple, the granddaughter woke up miraculously.

It was at this moment that Song Qiu woke up from Yuanshen's body, and when she opened her eyes, she saw the compassionate eyes of Buddha looking at her.

Although she woke up, Yuanchen's body was too weak, her grandmother carried her home, and she lay on the bed for a full month.

Her grandma was afraid that she would get sick again, so she gritted her teeth and lent her money to buy her a big tonic decoction for her to eat, and then she recovered.

Song Qiu didn't know if the Buddha was really merciful, but she could come here from the next century and become her grandmother's granddaughter, this is the manifestation of the Buddha.

She just needs a grandma, and her grandma just needs a granddaughter, and the two depend on each other to live forever.

Looking at the amiable round face of her grandma, Yuan Shi, Song Qiu seemed to see her grandma.

Her grandma was also surnamed Yuan, and before she came here, she passed out from crying in front of the mourning hall of her grandma who raised her, and woke up here.

Perhaps all of this was arranged by the Buddha.

It was still early, Song Qiu ate two red eggs, and then went up the mountain with a basket on his back.

Old Yuan stayed at home and blanched the mushrooms she washed yesterday, drained them in a Shau Kei and put them in the yard to dry.

Sun-dried mushrooms, keep the mountain mushroom season and then sell or eat by yourself.

Going into the woods, Song Qiu called out to Lihua, and Zhang Lihua, who was picking up fungi, hurriedly responded loudly.

Song Qiu followed Sheng Mao over, and handed her a red egg, "Eat it, are you going to pick this early in the morning?"

"I've already carried it back, it's amazing!" Zhang Lihua smiled triumphantly, and took the egg over, "Grandma Yuan is back?"

Song Qiu said: "Well, I'm back, the mushrooms I carried today are all sold out, should I give you your three papers or save them for you as usual?"

"It's better for you to keep it for me. I'm always working and have no place to put it." Zhang Lihua peeled the eggs and fed them into his mouth, then lowered his head and began to pick up the mushrooms.

After Song Qiu asked about it, he picked up the mushrooms seriously.

(End of this chapter)