After picking up the daughter of the lucky star, the whole village prospered

Jiang Sanlang, Li Dayong and Li Eryong quickly cut [-] pepper vines and handed them over to Chen Changsheng and the others.

He also kindly gave them ten more, and then picked up the silver.

Turning around and seeing the little girl watching all the time, she asked with a smile, "Are you done picking the apples?"

"Yeah." Yingbao looked at the pepper garden, saw that the vines were much thinner, and planned to water them with the pupil spring again. "Father, who else wants to buy pepper seedlings?"

Jiang Sanlang thought for a while and said, "That's too much. The village officials from several surrounding villages have all come to make appointments, but our family doesn't have enough pepper vines."

No matter what, I can't cut my pepper vines bald, so I can only let those people line up and wait for the new vines to grow.

Yingbao nodded and turned around.

When Dad and the others cut the vines, they cut at most two small roots from a pepper tree, so it did not affect the flowering and fruiting of their own pepper.

Fortunately, pepper, like kudzu, is a perennial vine that can grow for years, so she doesn't have to worry about replanting next year.

The question is how should I take out the pepper vine seedlings and give them to my father to sell?
She is short of money, not only for her, but also for her parents.

During this period of time, the family bought a house in the county seat, bought a shop, added repairs, made furniture, shelves and counters, etc., and bought a lot of household items, basically spending all their savings.

Even though the parents later sold a batch of golden ears, they were all thrown into the courtyard of the county town.

The dividends from myself and the eldest brother were also spent in the shop one after another.

Because the thatched huts at the back of the shop were to be rebuilt, she wanted to convert the low and damp thatched huts into several large tiled huts with blue bricks, which is convenient for living and storage.

So for her monthly dividends, she asks the big hall brother to help her buy bricks and tiles to pile up in the yard, and start work only when there are enough materials.

After coming out of the pepper garden, I saw a few children walking on horseback on the martial arts training ground not far away.

And the younger brother Jiang Wu has already practiced against Master Zhang on the plum blossom pile.

Yingbao stood not far away with two puppies watching.

Zhang Meng punched very fast, but Jiang Wu was not slow to dodge. He even kicked Zhang Meng coldly, but because of his short calves, it didn't hurt at all.

Yingbao looked at it for a while and then looked at the children on the field.

There was five-year-old Chen Bozhong, and several dolls with faces, probably children from neighboring villages.

Huzi is not here, he has to study and read in the school, and only in the afternoon is free to practice martial arts.

And my younger brother practices martial arts in the morning and goes to school to study in the afternoon.The two brothers staggered, and Master Zhang Meng facilitated one-on-one teaching.

"Sister!" Jiang Wu and Master Zhang Meng finished their practice, jumped off and ran towards his sister.

"Let's practice sparring." The little baby made an attacking gesture towards her sister.

"Okay!" Yingbao took down the satchel and threw it to the guards Dahuang and Xiaohei, and she and her younger brother fought against each other.

Relying on her height advantage of being more than a year older than her younger brother, coupled with her experience in dancing in her previous life, her speed and reaction ability are not weak, she is on par with Jiang Wu, and has a faint upper hand.

But after all, he hadn't practiced two-person boxing much, and in the end he was knocked down by his younger brother.

"Not bad!" Master Zhang Meng came and asked with a smile, "Do you want to learn together?"

Yingbao nodded: "Yes, but I still have to go to the medicine hall, so I can only come to learn occasionally."

Zhang Meng: "Women practice martial arts just to protect themselves. You can learn more moves against the enemy. I heard from Jiang Wu that you practice basic skills every day?"

"Ah."

"Then I'll teach you a few tricks to deal with the enemy." Zhang yanked Jiang Wu over and pointed at him, "Women are weak, so you can pinpoint the enemy's vital points and defeat the enemy with one blow."

As he spoke, he gestured to Jiang Wu, "The enemy's vital parts include the head, throat, chest, abdomen, ribs, and crotch. A blow to each of the vital parts will temporarily disable the opponent's ability to move."

As he spoke, Xu Xu made punches, kicks, palm slashes, knee punches, elbow thrusts and other movements on Jiang Wu's body.

Then he waved to Yingbao, "You and Jiang Wu should practice against each other."

So, Yingbao and her younger brother practiced one move after another in the martial arts field until noon, until Chu Chu called for dinner.

Due to the long distance, several children from neighboring villages brought food to Master Zhang Meng at noon, and Chu Chu helped cook the meals at ordinary times.

Occasionally, Jiang Wu also eats here, but today when my sister came back, A Niang cooked delicious food at home, so naturally he and his sister would not stay for dinner.

"Yingbao, stay and try my fried loach." Chu Chu asked to stay.

Yingbao looked at Chuchu, then at Zhang Meng, and shook her head: "No, I'll go home and eat."

Seeing that Ying Bao really refused to stay, Chu Chu picked two melon leaves and wrapped some fried loach for Ying Bao and Jiang Wu. "It's fried in lard, it's delicious."

In the morning, she and Dani Erni went to soak pepper, caught a lot of loaches in a small mud pit by the Chuan River in a bamboo basket, and gave some to Chunniang when she came back.

Ying Bao was not polite either, and went home while eating.

Looking back at Chu Chu again, she saw that she and Zhang Meng were sitting opposite each other to eat at the table, and from time to time they took a piece of food with chopsticks and sent it to Zhang Meng's bowl, and Zhang Meng accepted it freely.

There are several children sitting around them, and the scene is almost like a family.

The 16-year-old girl is bright and beautiful, and she seems to be a perfect match for Zhang Meng at the moment.

And this one is unexpectedly young after shaving all the stubble off his face. He looks only 28 or [-] years old, and his appearance is considered heroic. It's a pity that he is missing several fingers on his right hand.

Yingbao thought all the way back home.

Chun Niang had already cooked the food and was about to go out to call her children back. When she saw the two of them coming in, she brought the food and placed it under the grape arbor in the yard, calling them to eat.

Today I made braised fish, stir-fried leeks with shrimps, deep-fried loach, winter melon soup, a few boiled salted eggs, and a pot of white rice.

Ying Bao and her younger brother washed their hands and faces, sat down at the small dining table, and took the bowls and chopsticks from A Niang.

"I'm going to soak some soybeans after dinner, and cook them in sauce at night."

Chunniang said to her husband while eating: "You take some time to go to the town to buy more salt, and I will mix it with sauce later."

Jiang Sanlang: "Didn't you buy salt yesterday?"

"Where is that little salt enough? I want to dry it more, and I can eat it until next spring."

"Oh, then I'll go in the afternoon."

After eating, Chunniang cleaned up the dishes and washed them, Yingbao wiped the table with a rag, and fed the two puppies some winter melon soup with rice.

Chun Niang washed the pots and bowls, and picked out the silt and bad beans in the soybeans under the grape trellis.

Yingbao also moved a stool and sat down to pick it up together, listening to A Niang's chatter while picking it up.

"I went back to the county to see Xiaojie, and he asked why you didn't go to see him."

"Then I'll go back and tell Grandpa Li to adjust the rest time to the first or fifteenth day of the new year, and I'll go to the county with you at that time," Yingbao said.

Chun Niang nodded: "Alright, let's go together on the first day of next month."

In the evening, Yingbao took the two dogs to water the pepper garden alone, and then went to the martial arts field to practice fighting skills with Jiang Jie.

With Master Zhang Meng constantly guiding her, she made rapid progress.