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

Chapter 31 Valuable
After tidying up, Yingbao and her parents and brothers went to pay New Year's greetings to grandparents.

Walking on the road, I saw two children jumping on bamboo poles.

The heads of the bamboo poles were covered with colorful paper horse heads, which were exactly the two bamboo horse covers given to Yuanbao and Huzi by Yingbao.

"Haha! Drive! Drive! Hurry up!" Yuan Bao took the tiger and ran away for a while, attracting the surrounding children to follow.

There were several children in the village who had the same horse head, so they lined up proudly and competed to see who could run the fastest.

Those children without horse heads could only follow behind on a bare pole, lonely and imposing.

Ying Bao wanted to laugh, and suddenly thought of trying.

But this is a boy's game, and girls cannot and are not allowed to play.

When you arrive at the uncle’s house, first kowtow to your grandparents, then to your uncle and mother, and when your second uncle arrives, kowtow to your second uncle, and then to your parents again.

Surviving this rush, Ying Bao was knocked out of her head.

Dani and Erni didn't give in too much, they both kowtowed.

After the New Year's greetings, the uncle Zhang Luo ate dumplings and rice cakes.

The dumplings are stuffed with shepherd's purse and pork, which are very delicious. Yingbao is a small person, and after eating seven, she can't make it to the limit, so she can only give up with regret.

Rice cakes are made of glutinous rice and red beans, with honey added inside, sweet and glutinous, very delicious.

Yingbao took a piece of red bean rice cake in his hand, and went out to play with Sister Dani and Sister Erni.

There are very few games that girls can play. Most of them stand on the sidelines and watch the boys run around, and watch them ride bamboo poles into two teams and play the game of two armies.

After watching it for a while, Yingbao lost interest and proposed to go home and sleep.

She still has a lot of work to do in the cave, and she can't settle down at all.

So she bid farewell to her cousin, went home on her own, climbed up the kang and got into bed.

The days of the first day of the new year are idle and happy. Apart from eating and drinking, the villagers rush to each other to congratulate each other on the new year.

Only Ying Bao lived a hard life, he had been busy for a whole day in the cave, and his palms were worn bald.

Alas, next time you must not plant so much food, relying on yourself to work alone, and not asking others to help, you will be exhausted.

The next day, Yingbao went with her parents to visit her grandmother's house ten miles away, had lunch there, and hurried back in the afternoon.

In the evening, I met my aunt's family who came back from the county again, and harvested a silk flower.

My aunt was in her thirties, with a withered complexion and not in good spirits. She only brought her youngest son with her when she returned to her natal home this time, who was about the same age as Yuan Bao.

Yingbao was not familiar with her aunt's family, and seemed to have only met her once in her previous life. Even though she later settled in the county, she never thought about looking for her.

Busy and busy, a first month has passed.

In February, the dragon looked up, and the spring rain fell for a few days. When the rain passed and the sky cleared up, the ice and snow melted before you knew it, and the weather turned warmer.

On the five mulberry trees in Yingbao Cave Mansion, more than a dozen golden ears the size of an adult's palm have grown, like golden pig's brain flowers, very beautiful and gratifying.

Carefully cut off one flower and put it in a pottery bowl. The root is divided into several parts by cherry treasures and planted on more than a dozen dead mulberry trees.

Before planting, these mulberry trees have been drilled by her with scissors, and filled with finely divided wheat stalks and rice husks.

After that, sprinkle water once a day and wait for them to re-germinate and grow.

On this day, Yingbao took Youyou and Dani Erni to pick up vegetables in the field, walked into a small forest, took out two golden ears from the cave and put them in a basket when the two cousins ​​were not paying attention.

"Let's go home." Dani straightened up, picked up the basket and said, "I've already picked up half of the basket."

Ying Bao nodded immediately: "Go home."

Erni also agrees.

The three little sisters each walked back with their baskets on their shoulders. After passing a small river ditch, Dani soaked the baskets in water to wash the ground vegetables.

After washing, the ground vegetables are tender and tender. When you go home and cook them with bean dregs, they are delicious and satisfying.

Villagers usually pick up ground vegetables after the rain in early spring, wash them and dry them in the sun, put them in baskets, and hang them on the beams of the house as spare food.

Occasionally grab a handful and soak it, cook it with wild vegetables, and it can also handle a half meal.

Dani took the little cousin's basket and was about to help wash it, when she suddenly saw two strange mushrooms in the basket, she asked curiously, "Baby Ying, what are these?"

"Golden ears." Ying Bao answered truthfully.

Dani was surprised: "What golden ears? Where did you pick them, isn't it poisonous?"

Ying Bao shook her head: "It's picked in the woods, it's not poisonous, Yo Yo likes to eat it, so we can eat it too."

Yoyo turned her head to look over, blinking her big eyes with an innocent face.

Dani picked up the golden ear and put it under her nose to smell it, "Hey, it smells a little sweet."

Golden ear has a faint medicinal fragrance, like the taste of sweet-scented osmanthus.

Erni took it over and sniffed it, wrinkled her nose, and put it back: "It doesn't smell good." She didn't like this scent.

Yingbao wrapped her two golden ears around her skirt, shook her head and said, "This is medicinal material, it's very valuable."

The two little girls were noncommittal, washed the land and vegetables, and took the little cousin home.

Once home, Yingbao handed the two golden ears to Chunniang, "Mother, shall we cook this and eat?"

Chun Niang picked it up, looked at it, and frowned: "What is this? Who told you that you can eat it? Bao'er, if you eat something you don't know, you will be poisoned. We can't eat it blindly."

Yingbao paused, and made up a lie, "These are golden ears. The old lady of Xicun said that golden ears are worth a lot, and they sell for tens of taels of silver a box in the city."

"What?" Chunniang immediately widened her eyes when she heard the word valuable, "Which old woman in the West Village?"

Yingbao scratched her head, "I don't know her name."

Chunniang automatically went to Xicun to treat Wu's mother, who was the mother-in-law of the midwife, Aunt Wu.

If Granny Wu really said that, it is really possible. After all, Granny Wu's deceased wife used to work as a clerk in a drugstore in the county town, and her family first made a fortune by buying and selling medicinal materials.

Moreover, her fourth son also knows a little about the art of Qihuang, and even her fourth daughter-in-law is a well-known midwife in the village.

Chun Niang took a look at the golden ear again, and muttered, "Is it really so valuable?"

Now the family is short of money.The last time Jiang Erlang reconciled with Li, the 15 taels of silver were borrowed from Jiang Da and Saburo, and his parents also collected some, and they even sold two sheep at home for this.

It's only been two months, and although Jiang Erlang stopped taking the medicine, he couldn't afford to pay back the money for a while.

And Jiang Sanlang said, it's not too late to wait for the second brother to have money.

So Chunniang is poor, and the poor can't even afford thirty coins.

But these things cannot be told to the little girl.

"Mother, why don't you let Dad take it to the pharmacy in the town to have a look, what if it's really worth it?" Yingbao added fire.

Chunniang's thoughts moved slightly.

That's right, let my husband take it to the pharmacy for identification, what if it's really worth it?
"Yes, just two," Chunniang hesitated.

Ying Bao knew what Mother was worried about, and said quietly: "I can find a lot more."

She gestured with her small hand, "So many."

"Really?" Chunniang's eyes lit up, "That lady will go and have a look with you."

Ying Bao shook her head and said, "No, I'll get it now."

As he said that, he ran out of the yard, sneaked into the small woods at the door, and ran out after a while with two mulberry sticks in his arms, and handed them to Chun Niang.

Chunniang was stunned.

There are more than a dozen golden ears growing on the two black mulberry sticks, each of which is bigger than a fist, so beautiful that it is outrageous.

"This..." Chun Niang carefully held the mulberry stick, for fear of accidentally breaking one.

"When your father comes back, ask him to take it to Granny Wu in Xicun to see if it's really valuable."

Cherry Po: .
Do you know what it means to shoot a rock at your own foot?

"No! Let's go to the town, Mr. Li must know more than Mrs. Wu."

Chunniang was right when she thought about it, she nodded in agreement.

(End of this chapter)