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

Chapter 9

After a long time, Jiang Sanlang spoke again: "Chun Niang, how did Ying Bao know you had a younger brother at that time?"

Chun Niang paused, and said: "I heard from the old man that children have spirituality since childhood, and when they grow up, those spirituality gradually dissipate, which is not unusual.

He also said that the younger the child, the more you can tell whether the mother's belly is a boy or a girl. I guess, I must be carrying a boy. "

Jiang Sanlang chuckled, "It's true, Mother asked Yuan Bao last time: Is your third aunt a younger brother or a younger sister? Hehe, I hope it's a son and a daughter. After Yingbao, there will be a younger brother to protect her, and a younger sister." keep company."

The two chatted for a while, and gradually fell asleep.

Yingbao didn't sleep, and blinked in the dark.

Rumors still arose.

It is estimated that the family will hear the wind soon.

Yingbao sank her consciousness into the cave, lowered her head to check her wrist.

I don't know if it is an illusion, but the color of the birthmark seems to be lighter, but it is still clearly recognizable.

The size of a copper coin and the shape of a plum blossom are very peculiar and unforgettable at a glance.

Yingbao was worried.

It has been scrubbed for several months, and the birthmark has not changed much. It can be seen that it cannot be washed away with Wudingzhi and pool water.

Then, there are only two other ways, either to cut it with a knife or to burn it with fire.

Seeing that his younger brother was about to be born, he would soon become the focus of the whole village, so he couldn't delay any longer.

Can……

Both cutting and scalding were painful, and she was afraid that she would not be able to do it.

But if you are afraid of this little pain, you will only have more pain waiting for you.

It's the kind of pain that bruises all over the body.

Otherwise, just wait until the weather is cold before doing it. In that case, the wound will be less infected.

The next day, Yingbao got up early, dressed and washed herself, and still wrapped her wrists with a cloth belt.

Go to water the saplings first, and continue to cover them with wicker baskets.

Then go to the chicken coop to pick up two eggs and put them in the egg basket.

Then he picked up the small basket with a small shovel in it, and took the two hens out for a walk.

Don't go far, just wander around near home.

"Yo, it's Cherry Blossom." Second Aunt Wang was carrying the toilet and was about to go to the river to wash up. When she saw the little doll in shorts and a jacket, she asked with a smile, "Why are you going so early?"

Ying Bao blinked her eyes, raised her head and said softly, "Second Granny, I'm going to dig earthworms and feed them to the chickens."

"Oh, what a good boy."

Second Aunt Wang rolled her eyes on Yingbao, and her eyes stopped on Wazi's wrist, "Huh? Why are both wrists wrapped in cloth, are they hurt?"

"No." Ying Bao said solemnly: "It looks good on you."

In order to coax her daughter not to take off her wristband, Chunniang also bordered two strips of cloth and embroidered the pattern of plum blossoms wrapped around branches.

In fact, Chunniang didn't know that even if she didn't coax and embroider flowers on the strips, Yingbao would still wear them all the time, so as not to give others a chance to discover the birthmark.

At this moment in the previous life, Yingbao was still an ignorant and ordinary baby, who didn't know what the mother meant by wearing a wristband for her, and didn't follow her mother's instructions seriously, and ended up attracting that family.

Second Aunt Wang smiled, and asked in a low voice: "Ying Bao'er, tell Second Granny, did your father and mother beat you? Did you not give you food?"

Yingbao rolled her eyes secretly, and said softly: "Father and mother like Yingbao the most, so they don't fight, and they also leave the best food for Yingbao. Parents say that Yingbao is their favorite, who dares to bully, parents Just hit her!"

Second Aunt Wang's face darkened, and the corners of her mouth twitched, "Yo, this little mouth is really good at talking." She turned around and left.

Yingbao sticks out her tongue towards her back, and takes the two hens to Xiaohangou.

Seeing no one around, he took out the jar of earthworms from the cave and threw it over.

The earthworm smeared with Wudingzhi was also taken out, shoveled into several sections with a shovel, and fed to the hens.

The two hens rushed over cooing, and quickly ate up the joints of earthworms.

Then he tilted his head left and right, and couldn't stop looking at the master, as if he still wanted it.

The earthworms poured out of the jars were crawling around, but were ignored by the two chickens.

Even if the little master shoveled off some of them and pushed them forward, the hen just took a few steps back and ignored them.

Yingbao was thoughtful, and picked a handful of Wudingzhi from the stone wall of the cave, and handed it to the hen.

The hen was very excited, she stretched her neck to peck quickly, and bit Yingbao's fingers back and forth with such light force that it made her giggle.

Yingbao then spent the whole day observing the two hens.

Seeing that they were all the same, I was relieved.

A few days later, Jiang Sanlang finished harvesting Beishan ramie, picked it up to the pond behind the house, and threw bundles into the water to start retting.

The ramie had to be soaked for several days before it could be peeled, so Jiang Sanlang finally had a few days to spare.

"Yingbao, do you want to go to Beishan?"

Jiang Sanlang still remembered that his daughter was going to Beishan, and he was going to fulfill her little wish today.

"Think! Think!" Yingbao held up her little hand, happily letting her father hug her.

Jiang Sanlang laughed loudly, and came over with a pannier, "Ying Bao'er is sitting in the pannier, and Dad is carrying Qingxing."

"Yeah!" Of course Yingbao had no objection, and happily stood in the back basket.

Beishan is about three or four miles away from Dongchen Village, and the vegetation is denser than Xiaonanshan.

Jiang Sanlang pointed to a forest and said to his daughter: "This piece of land belongs to our family, and next to it is your uncle's and second uncle's. Your grandfather's land is near Xichen Village, which is a bit far from here."

Last year, he went to pick cherries in the old man's field, and when he passed a cemetery, he heard a baby crying.

So he ran over to check, and saw a little baby in the grass, covered with mountain ants, biting the baby's face.

The baby shook its head helplessly and cried loudly, very pitiful.

Thinking of the scene that day, Jiang Sanlang couldn't help but feel heartbroken.

Fortunately, the baby's recovery ability is amazing. Within a few days after being held back, the redness and swelling on the little face subsided, and no scars were left.

"Go, Dad will take you to see our mulberry trees." Jiang Sanlang walked towards a mulberry field with his daughter on his back.

Although the villagers in Chuanhe Town are not good at raising silkworms, every household has planted some mulberry trees.

This is a rigid rule of the imperial court, which not only requires each household to plant a certain number of mulberry and elm trees, but also trees that are easy to grow, otherwise the penalty will be doubled.

Jiang Sanlang stood on tiptoe, pulled a mulberry branch and handed it to his daughter, with several purple mulberries hanging on it.

Yingbao narrowed her eyes with a smile, picked the biggest and purplest mulberry fruit and stuffed it into her father's mouth, "Eat it."

Jiang Sanlang accepted it with a smile, found a few more trees, broke off a lot of branches with mulberries and put them in the basket, and told his daughter, "Don't be greedy, let's take it back for your mother to taste."

Eating less of this stuff can stop diarrhea, but eating too much will cause diarrhea, so Jiang Sanlang doesn't let his daughter be greedy.

"Yeah, take it back to your mother."

As Yingbao said, she still picked a few ripe ones and secretly collected them into the cave to save seeds.

Hey, her fruit saplings are the same again.

The father and daughter wandered around in the forest and found many wild fruit trees, such as chestnuts, wild peaches, and wild pears.

The fruits produced by these wild fruit trees are not only small, but also the taste of the flesh is not good, so the villagers are not very interested, only children will visit once or twice.

Jiang Sanlang took his daughter around for a long time, only to find a few overripe yellow apricots, opened them and found that there were worms in the yellow apricots.

Shaking his head, he asked his daughter, "Can we go home now?"

Yingbao was reluctant to leave, she wanted to see if there were any mulberry fungus, that is, the snow fungus that grows on the mulberry tree.

That thing is very valuable, if it is dried in the sun, it can be sold for 20 taels of silver a catty in the big pharmacy in Fucheng.

Suddenly, two short-tailed deer turned out from behind a clump of trees, blinking their eyes wide.

"Father, deer! Deer!"

Ying Bao excitedly tugged at her father's collar, pointed to the side and softly reminded her.

Jiang Sanlang saw it too, and was even more excited than his daughter. "Father saw it. Well, let's go home quickly and hunt with your uncle and uncle."

Turn around and leave.

The mountain deer was alert, and had already gone into the woods and disappeared.

Jiang Sanlang hurried home, handed his daughter to Chunniang, took bows and ropes and went out.

Beishan hasn't been to Yamaga for several years, and I didn't expect to come to a group this year.

The wife at home is about to give birth, and she is worrying that she has no money to prepare, but she did not expect to meet a god-sent opportunity today.

Jiang Sanlang went to the old house to talk with his eldest brother and second brother, and the three of them quietly left the village with water bags and some pancakes, bows and arrows on their backs.

Mountain deer are not easy to hunt, they are very clever, and they will disappear into the woods before you draw your bow fully, so you have to drive them to the open area first, and then hunt them.

It took a lot of work before hunting, searching, driving, rounding up, at least it would take a day or two.

Some hunters go into the mountains for ten days and a half months just to hunt back one or two big animals, such as deer or bears.

(End of this chapter)