The fake daughter married into the mountains and had meat to eat every day during the famine

At the beginning of the morning, the sound of roosters crowing began to be heard in Lushan Village, but it was still dark outside.

Song Yuntang turned over and stayed in a daze until noon before getting up.

She yawned. Although she still felt a little uncomfortable, she felt much more relaxed than last night.

When Jiang went out with the clothes that had been soaked in the basin last night, she was frightened when she saw her pale face and hurried forward to snatch the basin from her hands.

"If you don't feel well, just take a rest. There's nothing wrong at home, so there's no need to be stubborn."

Song Yuntang stretched out her hand, wanting to take the clothes and wash them herself, but this time Jiang did not agree with her.

"Be obedient, or mother will be angry."

Pursing her lips, Song Yuntang could only say "I understand", but she did not go back to her room. Instead, she washed up a little, pulled down the basket hanging under the eaves, and took out the tools for making pills from it.

Jiang rubbed her clothes and said, "You child, didn't I tell you to rest? Why are you busy again?"

Song Yuntang forced a faint smile.

"Mom, I'm much better now."

Jiang didn't force her to do anything, but just said softly, "You know more about pharmacology than mother. After all, those pills were made by you. You should be careful these few days. Don't hurt yourself. It won't be worth it."

Song Yuntang nodded, "Don't worry, mother. The pills I'm going to make today don't have any blood-activating ingredients. I'll be careful and won't hurt your body."

Since things had come to this, Jiang didn't say anything more.

"As long as you know what's going on."

After washing and hanging up the clothes, Jiang brought the hot steamed buns to the table and served each person a bowl of rice soup.

The only thing in the bowl in front of Song Yuntang was not rice soup, but two poached eggs with five dates in the egg soup.

Xu Wencheng got up, washed his face hastily, and came to the table. He saw Song Yuntang's pale face and worried expression.

"Sister-in-law, what's wrong with you? Why do you look so ugly?"

Song Yuntang coughed lightly and said a little embarrassedly, "Nothing, I just feel a little unwell."

He picked up the chopsticks on the table.

"Then you have to rest well at home today."

Song Yuntang hummed, "I had no intention of going out today."

She picked an egg and put it into Jiang's bowl.

"Mom, have one too."

While breakfast was still in my mouth, Erniu and Changgenren had already arrived outside the yard.

"Wencheng, have you eaten?"

"almost."

After Xu Wencheng finished speaking, he stuffed the steamed bun in his hand into his mouth desperately.

Seeing this, Jiang took two steamed buns and went out to share with Erniu and Changgen. "Wencheng is still eating. You should have a steamed bun too and wait for him for a while."

Erniu and Changgen had only eaten porridge and pickles in the morning, and their stomachs were not completely full. But when they saw the big white steamed buns, their eyes lit up.

"Thank you, Auntie." He turned and looked into the house, "Wencheng, don't be anxious, take your time to eat."

After Xu Wencheng swallowed the steamed bun in his mouth in a few bites, he drank the rice soup in the bowl.

"Dad, Mom, sister-in-law, I'm done eating. You guys take your time."

After saying that, he ran outside the house, hitched the mule cart, padded it with a piece of rag, and together with Erniu Changgen, moved the lotus roots piled in the corner of the courtyard wall onto the mule cart.

He said goodbye to everyone in the house and drove out on the mule cart.

Jiang looked at Song Yuntang and said, "Wencheng is a very impulsive kid. If you lend them the mule cart, I'm really worried that he might lose it. Buying one would cost dozens of taels of silver."

Song Yuntang smiled lightly and said, "Wencheng is not a child anymore. Mother should trust him. If all else fails, there are still Erniu and Changgen."

Jiang waved her hand.

"How do you think the three of them got together? Those two kids are the same type as our Wencheng."

Xu Yongwang smiled and said, "Don't worry, Wencheng is a bit careless, but he's not someone who doesn't know the seriousness of the matter. Over the years, the only problems we've seen are minor. When we weren't around, he never made any mistakes."

Jiang sighed, stood up and started to collect the dishes.

"My son has grown up, and as a mother, I can't always keep him under control. It's inevitable that I worry about him. Just like Qingye, I don't see him often after he went to the county town. I always miss him."

Song Yuntang stood up and helped Jiang clean up the dishes.

"The yard I bought in the county town has four or five rooms. If Mom misses him, we can drive a mule cart and stay there for a few days."

When Jiang heard Song Yuntang talk about the yard in the county town for the first time, she was quite surprised.

"Such a large yard must cost a lot of money, right?"

I originally thought they would rent a yard in the county town, but I didn't expect they bought a yard.

Song Yuntang smiled and said, "We were lucky. We happened to rescue a child that day. It was the daughter of the owner of that courtyard..."

She briefly recounted what happened on the day she bought the yard.

After hearing this, Jiang pounded the table in indignation.

"How could such a thing actually exist in this world? It's already a great blessing for a daughter-in-law to continue to support those parasites after her husband's death, and yet they actually want to steal her money and kill her! Even a storybook wouldn't dare to write such a thing!"

Song Yuntang tilted his head.

"Mom is also reading a storybook?"

Jiang waved her hands a little embarrassedly and said, "Well, it happened when I was young. At that time, I saved a few dozen coins and bought two books to satisfy my craving. These things are not cheap. After getting married, I dare not spend money on them."

After she finished speaking, she took the bowl and went to the kitchen.

Song Yuntang sat back under the eaves and made pills.

After rubbing three hundred pills, she stretched and felt a warm current flowing under her body. She quickly took things from the house and went to the toilet.

……

Xu Wencheng and the other two arrived home at 3:00 p.m.

Before returning, the three of them had a simple meal in the town. Since the borrowed mule cart belonged to Song Yuntang, they also used the money they earned to buy her two bags of roasted chestnuts.

The three of them spread out the money they earned from selling lotus roots today on the dining table and counted it.

When they went there, they didn't bring a scale, so they sold the lotus roots according to their size, with large ones costing two cents per piece and small ones costing three cents for two pieces. In this way, they sold more than five hundred cents.

In the end, when the money was evenly distributed, each person got 178 coins.

After the three of them put the silver and money into their own purses, they excitedly fetched water to wash the mule cart.

Although we used an old cloth as a cushion when we went there, the carriage was still stained with river mud due to so many lotus roots, and it smelled fishy.

My sister-in-law didn't say anything, but they couldn't pretend not to see it.

If my sister-in-law is unhappy, she might not lend them the mule cart in the future.

Song Yuntang took a short rest at noon and now he feels much better and his face is not as pale as in the morning.

Seeing the three of them washing the mule cart while discussing their plan to go to the lotus pond to continue digging lotus roots, a look of contemplation flashed in her eyes.

"If you want to make money, you don't necessarily have to dig lotus roots yourself. The weather is getting colder now. Digging lotus roots is dangerous and you can easily catch a cold. Why not think of a more relaxing way?"