The groom was kidnapped on the wedding day? Fine! I'll marry someone else.

Xu Yu thought that the herbs must be spread out and dried early, otherwise they would go bad, so he woke up at dawn the next day. Unexpectedly, when he walked out, he saw everyone busy in several other courtyards.

Some people were helping her weave bamboo mats and drying trays for drying herbs, some were spreading the herbs on the spread-out drying mats and trays, and even the children were helping to drag back the cut bamboo from the bamboo garden.

They were too loud and the adults asked them to lower their voices.

"Don't disturb your sister Xiaoyu. Let her sleep a little longer."

Xu Yu felt warm in his heart and greeted everyone loudly.

Zhang Hongmei, who was sitting there cutting bamboo strips with a knife, looked at her and said, "Why are you up so early? Go back to sleep for a while. I'll call you when it's time for breakfast."

"No need to sleep. We need to take out all the herbs and dry them out in the sun, otherwise they will go bad."

"Doctor Huang has come over to arrange how we should dry the herbs. Your father and the others are over at the drying yard."

Because Xu Yu and his friends collected so many herbs in the mountains this time, even if they filled the yards in front of several houses to dry them, they still couldn't dry them all, so everyone decided to dry the more common herbs in the drying yard, and put the herbs that were more difficult to collect in the yards at home to dry.

After Xu Yu finished washing up, he also went to the drying yard.

Because the Xu family made so much noise, many nearby villagers came over to watch the fun.

Everyone was shocked when they saw Xu Yu and his team go into the mountains and collect so many herbs.

Of course, I was more curious about what they encountered when they went into the mountains.

"You've been gone for so many days, you must have gone very deep into the mountains. I heard there are a lot of poisonous snakes and ferocious beasts in there. Did you encounter any?"

Xu Yu deliberately exaggerated and said, "We did, we did. The venomous snakes and insects there are deadly! Luckily, Grandpa Huang is a doctor and I'm his apprentice. We made a lot of medicine to repel venomous snakes and insects, and we narrowly avoided them. As for the wild beasts, luckily Brother Yi and his eleven comrades all have jungle survival experience. They helped us avoid many of them. Even if we did encounter them, with their skills, we would have had to unite to defeat them."

Someone asked, "After you entered, was there no one bitten by poisonous snakes or insects?"

"Yes, a man was bitten and almost couldn't come back. Luckily, Grandpa Huang and I were there."

Xu Yu simply stopped and described to everyone the danger at that time, and of course, he also made up some terrible experiences.

The villagers who came to watch the fun were shocked and admired their courage.

This made the Xu family and Dr. Huang look at Xu Yu several times.

After drying all the herbs here, Xu Yu and his friends returned to their yard to dry them. There were still many people coming to watch the fun.

Someone asked, "You went in to gather so many herbs, but didn't you bring back any game?"

"Our main purpose was to go into the mountains to collect herbs. It's too dangerous there, so we'll avoid going there if we can, so we didn't catch many."

"How much is not fought?"

"It's enough for our family to have a meal and for Brother Yi's family to build a house."

"Is this all the meat Jiang Yi gave you?"

"What? He and his eleven comrades picked it all up. Do I have to be so shameless as to ask for half? I can't do such a shameless thing."

"..."

With Xu Yu's antics, she answered the villagers' questions randomly and quickly sent everyone away.

After dinner, most people went to work, but Xu Yu, Zhang Hongmei and others stayed at home to dry the herbs.

Xu Yu and Zhang Hongmei discussed in detail how to dry these herbs, especially some of them had to be cut before they dried.

Zhang Hongmei said, "Just do whatever you want to do. As for cutting the herbs, wait until everyone comes home in the evening. We can work together for a few hours and we'll be done in two days."

Xu Yu was so touched that he put his arm around Zhang Hongmei's neck and said to her face, "Mom, it's great to have your support."

Zhang Hongmei smiled and said, "You are doing serious work, we will definitely support you. If you are not doing serious work, I will not support you."

"It must be something serious."

Xu Yu whispered her plan in her ear.

Zhang Hongmei just listened with a smile, and finally said, "Be low-key in everything you do, and don't let anyone use you as evidence to report us."

Xu Yu nodded at her.

Jiang Yi arrived just as they had lunch.

Everyone invited Jiang Yi to have dinner together.

Jiang Yi shook his head: "I've eaten."

Then he said to Xu Yu, "Xiao Yu, I went to the blacksmith shop this morning and made you a knife for cutting herbs. Take a look at it."

Xu Yu immediately walked out with the bowl in his hand in surprise and looked at the herbal cutting knife in his backpack.

Others also came out with their bowls in hand to watch.

Xu Yu was even more surprised after seeing it: "I'll try it after I finish eating."

"Take your time to eat. Tell me what you want to cut and I'll help you try."

Xu Yu was not polite and took him to a drying tray and pointed at the rhizomes inside: "This, cut into this small size."

After saying this, he gestured with his hands.

Jiang Yi nodded.

Xu Jianping hurriedly brought Jiang Yi a small stool and an empty drying tray.

Jiang Yi placed the cutting knife on the empty drying tray, sat down and started cutting.

Xu Yu also tried it and thought it felt good, so he stood by and watched Jiang Yi cut it while eating.

Praise him while watching.

Xu Kui then got down to business: "Xiao Jiang, how are the beams in your house doing?"

Jiang Yi replied, "The beams have all been put up. We'll put up the rafters this afternoon and tomorrow morning."

(Note: A house needs a beam in the middle, and rafters on both sides. The wooden beams under the eaves of rural houses that support the tiles are scientifically called rafters. Under the rafters are beams, which means that the beams support the rafters, and the rafters support the tiles.)

"So, it should be finished the day after tomorrow."

As soon as Xu Kui finished speaking, Xu Jianping smiled and said, "Then you and your sister will be able to go to the county town to get a marriage certificate soon."

Hearing this, Xu Yu's mouth corners couldn't help but curl up slightly.

After Xu Yu and the others had finished their meal, Xu Kui asked the two old men to go to other courtyards to look after some herbs.

Xu Kui told Jiang Yi, "I observed today that a scoundrel from our village has disappeared. He must have gone into the mountains, but no one has noticed him so far."

Jiang Yi said, "Besides Li Puppy, there was another scoundrel in our village, but that scoundrel has also disappeared."

Hearing this, Xu Jianping continued, "The scoundrels from our two villages are gone. The person who came out should be from another village, right?"

At this point, he asked Jiang Yi, "Have you ever been to Li Puppy's house? Has anyone touched his house?"

"Not yet. I checked it when I went back last night."

"Have you ever looked inside Li Puppy's house? Maybe he still has some good stuff."

"I looked for it. There was over a hundred dollars in it."

Xu Jianping suddenly felt like he was working himself to death every day but was still not as good as the idle rich scoundrels.

So he said with a bit of sourness: "I didn't expect that a scoundrel who does nothing can be so rich."

Xu Yu said to him: "Then you can become a scoundrel too, maybe you can become rich too."

Zhang Hongmei, who was sitting next to him, glared at him and said, "If you dare to act like a scoundrel, I'll break your legs."

Xu Jianping: “…”

Xu Yu couldn't help laughing when she saw his expression. When he glared at her, she asked Jiang Yi, "Brother Yi, did you take the hundred yuan?"

"No."

He usually wouldn't take this kind of money.

Xu Yu said to him, "Why not take it? If you don't take it, it will benefit the man who killed his companions. Even if you don't want it, you can find a chance to use it for the benefit of the village, or let Comrade Zhu and the others take it back and donate it to the army. Even if it's a small amount, it's better than nothing."

Jiang Yi felt that what she said was right. After thinking about it for a while, he nodded and said, "I'll let Zhu Juncheng and the others take them away when the time comes."

Xu Yu smiled at him.

The others looked at each other and said nothing.

Xu Kui only said: "We still need to find this person as soon as possible."

Jiang Yi hummed and said, "I've asked someone to watch Li Puppy's house. If I find someone going in, I'll know immediately. I'll also ask people to help search in other villages."

Xu Kui felt relieved and then asked another question: "Did you sell those things last night?"

Jiang Yi: "Pull it out. Someone over there will help sell it."

“Is he reliable?”

"He's reliable and also my comrade."

"That's good."

Then Xu Kui asked again: "When do you plan to go into the mountains again?"

Jiang Yi clearly had a plan: "The house will be finished the day after tomorrow afternoon. I want to go into the mountains in the evening and try to come back the day after tomorrow evening."

Xu Jianping was excited when he heard this: "Jiang Yi, what do I need to prepare by then?"

"Bring tools with your ability."

Xu Jianping thought for a moment before nodding.

Xu Kui did not object, but just told them to be careful when they went in this time.

After they finished talking about the main business, Xu Yu asked about the tiger baby.

Zhang Hongmei is also very concerned.

Jiang Yi told them: "After we returned, we had a good talk with Dingdang. He agreed to help take care of the tiger cub. The tiger cub would sleep with him at night. When the tiger cub was hungry, he would drive the sheep over for the tiger cub to feed."

After hearing this, Zhang Hongmei couldn't help but sigh: "This Dingdang is so spiritual."

Xu Yu asked curiously, "Don't sheep struggle?"

They let the sheep feed the tiger cubs, and two people were required to hold the sheep down, otherwise they would struggle and the tiger cubs would not be able to get any milk.

"They don't dare." Jiang Yi said, "They have no choice but to do whatever Dingdang tells them to do."

Xu Kui couldn't help but praise him: "Dingdang is indeed a retired military dog."

Xu Yu was even more impatient to see how Dingdang took care of the tiger cub.