The White-Bone Demon of the Farm is as rich as a country
Chapter 7 Harvest
Because selling fruit took quite a while, it was already near noon when she got back to the village. Thinking of her younger siblings anxiously waiting for her at home, Ru Yue quickened her pace.
As soon as he left the town, he saw Uncle Qingshan's ox cart slowly preparing to return to the village. Looking at the dazzling sun, Chu Sheng no longer cared about the smell of the ox cart. It would save time than walking back to the village on foot.
"Girl Yue, it's getting late. Just take your uncle's ox cart back to the village." Meng Qingshan greeted Chu Sheng cheerfully and honestly.
"Okay." Ru Yue answered and took out two coins, "Uncle Qingshan, this is my taxi fare."
"No need. Life is really not easy for you and your sister." Meng Qingshan drove away in the ox cart.
"Hey, Brother Qingshan, my family is having a hard time too, why don't you forgive my money as well?" a harsh voice shouted.
Ru Yue turned her head and looked at Meng Sanlaizi's wife who was always hanging out with Meng Lao Da's wife Hu. She was a person who would either take advantage of others or suffer a great loss. She was a well-known ruffian and pauper in the village.
"Look at what my third sister-in-law said. The children have just separated from the family and don't even have tiles to cover their roofs. Haha, they all live in the same village." Meng Qingsong is a simple and honest man. He is not good at speaking and can only chuckle.
"My house is leaking and I don't have the money to fix it. You have to forgive me for my car payment too."
"These children from the third family were separated by their grandparents. They don't have a house or a piece of land. Where did they get the money? You still want to argue with her. Don't you feel ashamed?" Grandma Meng Si, who is senior to the village, scolded.
"You don't have money, yet you take the bus? You don't have money, yet you can come to town?" Meng Sanlaizi's wife didn't dare to confront Meng Si's grandmother directly, but she still grumbled, "No wonder the old Meng family kicked them out. Who knows if they really stole the family's money and went out to spend it."
"You, why, why do you say that..."
"Uncle Qingshan, don't be anxious. We can't just bite back if the dog bites us, right?" Ru Yue said slowly, "This is my car money. Please keep it. Don't get angry with someone who is so short-sighted. It's not worth it." Then she put the money into Meng Qingshan's big palm.
"You little bitch, who are you calling a dog? Who are you saying is short-sighted?" Meng Sanlaizi's wife relied on her tall and strong figure to tear Chu Sheng apart.
Ru Yue glanced at her sideways, causing the shrew to tremble in her heart for no reason, but she still kept cursing, "You have a mother who raised you but no mother who taught you. Today I will teach you how to behave on behalf of your dead mother." As she said that, she was about to pounce on her.
"That's enough. If you don't want to ride in the car, get off." Grandma Meng Si was so angry that everyone fell silent. Ru Yue still held her bamboo basket in silence, but Meng San's wife, the beggar, would glare at Ru Yue fiercely with her triangular eyes from time to time, as if she wanted to gouge out a piece of her flesh.
The oxcart lurched along, finally stopping in front of the thatched hut at the village entrance half an hour later. Seeing her brother-in-law standing anxiously at the door, Ru Yue thanked Meng Qingshan and Grandma Meng Si, then hurriedly jumped off the cart and ran over. From behind, she heard the yelling of Meng San's wife, "You little bitch, just wait for me."
"Sister, sister, you're back." The two children also came forward. "Sister, we were so worried about you."
"Don't worry, I'm fine." She comforted her brother and sister-in-law while walking back to the straw hut. "You must be hungry. I brought some delicious food for you."
The hut was simple, but it was kept tidy by the two children.
She took out the meat buns and shared them with her younger brother and sister. She couldn't remember how long it had been since she had eaten meat. Seeing the two children taking small bites of them, reluctant to finish them all at once, Ru Yue felt inexplicably sad. "Hurry up and eat. Sister bought a lot. Have a bite for lunch first. Later, sister will make meat soup for you."
"Really? Sister." Xiao Ruxue showed an expression of disbelief.
"Sister, did you really make money?" Anping asked the right question.
"Eat quickly, we'll talk after you're done." Ru Yue teased her sister-in-law mysteriously.
The two children didn't delay any longer and started eating the meat buns with big mouthfuls, with satisfied smiles on their faces.
When Chu Sheng placed one and a half taels of silver and the remaining two hundred and ninety-three copper coins in front of the two little guys, the two children looked at each other in disbelief. They stretched out their little fingers and gently fiddled with the coins, as if the money would disappear if they exerted a little force.
"Sister, is this really ours?" Xiao Ruxue asked bravely and cautiously.
There was also a glimmer of anxious hope in Anping's eyes.
"It's ours. We bought it in exchange for the honeysuckle and the good fruits we picked that day."
"Sister, let's go up the mountain now." The two little ones shouted in unison. Ru Yue finally saw the childish innocence and anxiety on their faces.
"Don't worry, it's late today. Sister will take you up the mountain tomorrow morning." Ru Yue smiled and comforted the two, "Don't worry, we will make a lot of money, build a big house, send Anping to school, and buy Xiaoxue'er a lot of beautiful clothes..."
"Well, we'll be richer than grandpa, grandma, uncle, and mom." Little Ruxue nodded her head and said in a baby voice, "We'll live better than them, right, sister?"
"I definitely will." Ru Yue looked through the broken door with a firm gaze, promising as if she were taking an oath. This was a promise not only to the two children, but also to her original body that had taken over her body.
At dawn the next day, Ru Yue and her two siblings went into the back mountain again with bamboo baskets and hatchets.
Because they saw such good gains yesterday, the two little ones were full of energy. They had walked for more than an hour before, and today they arrived near the water source in more than half an hour.
Thanks to her cleverness and caution from her previous life, Ru Yue did not sense any danger, but to be on the safe side, she asked her brother and sister-in-law to stand away from the trap and she moved over carefully. However, the trap had already been destroyed.
"Ah! A wild goat." Ru Yue shouted, "A Sheng, come quickly, look, we have caught prey."
The two children came over and were very excited to see such a big wild goat.
"Sister, can this be sold for money?" Xiao Ruxue asked with stars in her eyes, as if she saw not prey but silver.
"Sister, it seems to be still alive." The calm Anping immediately saw the clue and asked nervously, "What should we do?"
"Don't worry, being alive is a good thing. It's so hot now, and once it dies it will be hard to store." Ru Yue tried to comfort him, "Even if it doesn't spoil tomorrow, it won't sell for a good price. This is better."
After discussing it, the three siblings decided not to rush to get the wild goat out, but to go and see if there were any gains in the places where they had set traps.
Passing by a honeysuckle bush, thinking about how much she had sold it for, Xiao Ruxue became restless again and wanted to pick some. But thinking about the prey waiting for her, she ran away, looking back every few steps.
Before they reached the destination, they heard a flapping sound. The three siblings looked at each other and smiled. They really got something out of it!
Ru Yue set more than ten traps not far away. Although not all of them caught prey, she still had a good harvest. Three rabbits and two pheasants were struggling there.
Ruxue saw a snow-white rabbit in the middle and liked it so much that she reached out to hug it. "Ah!" She screamed and startled her brother and sister.
Ru Yue was quick-eyed and quick-handed. Relying on her experience from her previous life, she rushed forward and pressed down on the snake that had bitten Ru Xue. The snake was as thick as two fingers and was black with white ring-shaped patterns.
"Oh no! This is a highly venomous coral snake!" Ru Yue was horrified and hurriedly stuffed the snake into a bamboo tube. She grabbed her sister's hand and sucked it vigorously, then spat it out. She continued sucking again. After several times, the blue-black color on the wound disappeared, but the hand was still severely red and swollen. She tore a long strip of cloth from the hem of her clothes and quickly wrapped it around Ru Xue's forearm, tightening it to prevent the remaining poison from spreading.
The sudden situation frightened the two children. Even little Ruxue herself forgot to cry after screaming and just stared at her sister busying herself.
"Anping, take good care of Xue'er. Don't let her move around, or the poison will spread faster." Ru Yue said as they walked. "There must be some snake venom-curing grass nearby. Don't move. Wait for me to come back."
Ru Yue was extremely worried, but she was also secretly glad that although the coral reef snake was highly poisonous, she was familiar with it and knew which herbs could be used to specifically detoxify it.
Ru Yue hurried away, turning around the bushes and losing sight of her sister-in-law. She quickly slipped back into the space. The last time she came in, she had seen the silver grass and black flower. That grass wasn't particularly useful, but it was incredibly effective against Bungarus venom. Not wanting to waste any time, she quickly filled a bamboo tube with spiritual spring water, plucked two silver grass and black flower plants, and fled back out of the space.
Although the snake venom was sucked out in time, the weak little Ruxue had already fallen into a confused state. She relied on her brother and was sensible enough not to cry or make a fuss, for fear that he or she would worry.
Ru Yue hurriedly smashed the two grasses with a stone, cleaned her sister's wound with spiritual spring water, smeared the herbal juice on the wound, and wrapped it with cloth strips. Only then did she breathe a deep breath.
"Sister, is Xue'er okay?" Anping asked worriedly.
"Don't worry, this herb is specifically designed to cure snake venom. Xue'er will wake up soon, but the wound will hurt for two days."
After all this busy work, the brother and sister were exhausted, so they leaned against each other and waited for their sister to wake up.
Fortunately, little Ruxue woke up not long after, blinked her big eyes and looked at her brothers and sisters, grinning. This made Ruyue and Anping completely relieved.
After all this trouble, it was already noon. Ru Yue shared the five large meat buns left over from yesterday between the two of them, and poured bone and wild vegetable soup into their bowls. The three of them began to eat leisurely.
"Let's collect all the prey and go down the mountain. We can pick honeysuckle after Xue'er's injury heals, okay?"
"Sister, my injury is not serious anymore. I can still pick flowers." Xiao Ruxue hurriedly raised her injured little hand to show her brother and sister.
"We've already got a lot of prey, and it's hard to take the flowers back home," Ru Yue consoled her sister. "These can already fetch a good price. If we get more, I can't take them to town to sell. Besides, the venomous snake that bit you could fetch a fortune."
Little Ruxue blinked her big eyes pitifully, looked at her brother, then at her sister, and nodded her head reluctantly.
After lunch, the three siblings packed up the prey and restored the traps and locks to their original state. Seeing that it was getting late, Ru Yue called her younger brother and sister-in-law to prepare to go down the mountain.
This trip into the mountains yielded quite a few gains, but it was still very difficult for the three young and frail people. Although little Ruxue injured her hand, she was still weak after the detoxification. Anping did not share her sister's burden and was only responsible for carrying her younger sister. The three rabbits and two pheasants went into Ruyue's bamboo basket without a doubt. This was not a big deal for Ruyue in her previous life, but it was a great pressure for her who was frail and injured now. Fortunately, the wild goat was only injured and could be led down the mountain.
Space is indeed a good thing, but it's a pity that it can't be seen in public! Ru Yue sighed inwardly, alas, there is really nothing she can do about it.
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