I feel so good after dressing up as a peasant girl

The two little ones were eating the meat buns with happy faces, but Li looked at the meat buns, then at the hatchet, and then at the things she asked Gu Wenxuan to buy.

"You...you didn't ask Jingzhou to pay for these meat buns and hatchet?"

Gu Wenxuan spread her hands, "I didn't let him buy it. He took the initiative to buy it."

Jia Guizhi frowned, "This axe is not cheap. He spent so much money on you. Will your Aunt Bai be happy when he goes back?"

Gu Wenxuan smiled, "He said that when my Aunt Bai heard that he was going to buy me a birthday present, she not only gave him a few extra pieces of silver, but also repeatedly warned him not to be stingy and make me unhappy."

The Gu family fell into silence.

After a while, Gu Yongming asked Gu Wenxuan with a complicated expression, "Did he buy you a hatchet as a birthday present?"

This gift was quite interesting! He had thought that the child would give velvet flowers, powder, scented soap, cloth, or something like that.

Gu Wenxuan shook her head. "No, he just bought me an axe as a birthday gift. He will give me other gifts later."

Gu Family: ...

After another strange silence, Gu Yongming said to the old couple of the Gu family, "Dad, Mom, should we prepare some more gifts for the Bai family for the Dragon Boat Festival?"

The old couple of the Gu family, who also felt guilty, agreed immediately. Old Man Gu said to Li: "Give some money to Yongming and ask him to find time to go to the town to buy some rice, flour, cakes, pork, etc."

Li was about to nod, but heard Gu Wenxuan say, "It may be a little too late. Jingzhou bought two live fish for our family. I guess they will come to give us a festival gift tomorrow."

After a pause, she continued, "His family has prepared a lot of things. Instead of asking my father to go to town to buy them tomorrow, it would be better for me to go into the mountains with my parents early tomorrow morning."

Jia Guizhi was impatient. "What are we waiting for? Let's go into the mountains right away tomorrow morning before the sun sets."

Gu Yongming nodded, "That's it, we won't eat for now."

The old couple of the Gu family did not stop them. Li said, "I'll get you some dry food for the journey."

As she spoke, she packed three meat buns and six mixed flour pancakes stuffed with wild vegetables for Gu Yongming, Jia Guizhi and Gu Wenxuan.

Gu Wenxuan took out a bamboo tube and filled one tube of boiled water for herself and her parents.

Speaking of which, the habit of boiling water before drinking was taught to the villagers by Bai Chong. Originally, the villagers were too lazy to do this troublesome thing. It was only after two children in the village contracted an insect disease and almost died from it that most of the villagers took Bai Chong's reminder to heart.

Because Bai Chong was the one who cured Gu Yongming's injury, the Gu family has always believed in Bai Chong's words. Ever since they separated from the old Gu family, they have only been drinking boiled water. This saves Gu Wenxuan from racking her brains to help them change their living habits.

The family of three climbed up the low hill next to the woods as quickly as possible, facing the slanting afterglow of the setting sun.

This kind of low mountain has sparse forests and relatively flat terrain. In addition, there are frequent human activities here, so there are no large wild animals staying here.

The only things they need to guard against are poisonous snakes and insects.

The three men had hung snake repellent around their waists early on, and were constantly hitting the grass with long sticks in their hands, while their eyes were constantly scanning the front and sides, looking for wild rabbits and pheasants foraging for food.

It was just evening at this time, and the hares and pheasants that had come out to look for food were preparing to return to their nests to rest, just like the birds. The three of them walked on the mountain for a long time, but could not find any hares or pheasants in the grass.

Fortunately, they all know how to identify a rabbit's nest. After finding a familiar small hole, they will search around and find all the other entrances and exits of the rabbit hole. Then, they will smoke one of the entrances and exits, and the rabbits in this nest will have no way to escape.

After the rabbits were smoked out, they picked out the male rabbits, tied them up and put them in a backpack. Then they released the female rabbits with cubs or still breastfeeding, as well as the tiny rabbits that were just born.

They smoked several nests of rabbits in this way until only a faint light remained on the horizon. Then the three of them carried the five fat rabbits they had carefully selected down the mountain and went home.

It is worth mentioning that while looking for a rabbit nest, Gu Wenxuan and Gu Yongming also accidentally discovered a pheasant nest.

It was not known whether the pheasants in the nest heard the noise and ran away in advance. Anyway, the two men only found a total of about thirty pheasant eggs in the two pheasant nests made of dry grass.

"Let's keep the pheasant eggs for our family. We have a basket of fresh eggs saved at home. It would be more decent to use that as a return gift." After counting the things that Gu Wenxuan and the other two brought back, Li discussed the return gift with her son and daughter-in-law.

Jia Guizhi nodded, "My mother sent me some brown sugar, white flour, millet, bacon, etc. You can add some as you see fit."

Gu Wenxuan only said that the Bai family had prepared a lot of things, but did not tell them exactly what they were, so the Gu family planned to wait until tomorrow to react and see how valuable the other party's gifts were, and then make adjustments based on their discretion.

Lin Shuzhen, who was sewing by the light of an oil lamp, said, "I still have two packets of tea left from my parents' home, and two large and two small pieces of fabric. I'll give them all to you later."

Lin Shuzhen was exiled to Xingzhou with her parents, brother and sister-in-law. Her family was merely affected by the infighting among high-ranking officials in the court, and her father did not really do anything against the court's laws. So in the first two years, the Lin family had relatives and old friends who secretly took care of them on the way to and at the place of exile.

It was not until the fall of the previous dynasty and the outbreak of war that the Lin family was forced by the situation to completely cut off contact with the relatives and old friends who had secretly taken care of them.

But even so, with the abilities of the Lin family, they still lived a better life than other exiles and ordinary people like the Gu family.

In order to support their daughter and grandson, Lin's father and mother would ask their son to send some things to the Gu family every once in a while.

The old couple of the Gu family were embarrassed to take advantage of their in-laws, so not only would Li let Lin Shuzhen deal with every gift from the Lin family, but the Gu family would also give the Lin family some mountain products and furs that were easier for them to obtain but relatively rare for the Lin family.

The return gift was paid by the public, and Lin Shuzhen had no nerve to use all the things given by her natal family to support her own family. Therefore, every time her natal brother sent food, she would give it directly to Li, and those things that could be preserved for a long time, such as cloth, tea, wine, etc., she would take them out when needed at home.

For example, now that the Gu family wants to give a return gift to the Bai family, she contributed the cloth and tea sent by her parents' home.