nucmednet Chapter 141 It's so easy to talk about
Chapter 141 It's so easy to talk about
The Li family looked at each other, thinking that what Xia Qingyue said made some sense.
"Qingyue, come here, I have something to tell you." Li Benfu pointed to the main room.
"It will take you several hours to walk up the mountain. I'll go and fry some egg pancakes for you to take with you on the way." Chen Yuzhen ran into the kitchen.
Li Weikang and Li Weisheng ran into the kitchen to help.
In the yard, Chen Youmao said, "Dad, I'm going to Xiaoyu's house next door to explain the situation in the town. They may not know about those things yet. If I tell them, they can prepare early."
"Oh, it's time to talk to the Fang family. Then go and come back quickly."
Chen Youmao walked out of the house quickly.
"Zhibai, come, sit down at home and have a rest and drink some water." Chen Dawei entertained Han Zhibai with a smile.
Han Zhibai looked towards the main room, waiting anxiously, not knowing when she would come out.
Over there, in a main room around the corner from the main hall, Li Benfu put the backpack he was holding on the ground, bent down, and took out some things from it with both hands.
After seeing what it was, Xia Qingyue was slightly stunned.
"Qingyue, we were not with you when Brother Dasong and Sister-in-law passed away, and we have never visited their graves to pay our respects. I feel so guilty.
I saw some paper money and incense in the shop today, so I bought some. I would like to ask you to burn them for us as a sacrifice."
"Thank you for your concern!"
Xia Qingyue put away the things, took out three ingots of ten taels of silver from the small cloth bag and handed them to Li Benfu.
"Uncle, I want to ask you for a favor. Take this money. If there are goods coming to town in a few days, use this money to buy them. I live in the mountains and it's not that convenient to go there."
The Li family didn't have much money, and she couldn't go down the mountain in time to buy the goods when they arrived in the town, so she came up with this idea.
So much money, Li Benfu looked at her in surprise.
He held out his hands and took the money, as if it were a treasure, "Okay, once I have food, I will give you more."
The two focused on talking about the main things they wanted to buy.
After finishing the discussion, Xia Qingyue walked out of the main room and saw Han Zhibai sitting on a low stool under the eaves, with his posture straight and holding a bowl of water.
Han Zhibai heard the noise behind him, stood up and looked back, and saw her stepping over the threshold and walking out, his expression gradually softening.
"Let's go up the mountain."
The two people and the dog were about to leave the Li family's house when Chen Yuzhen ran out of the kitchen with a basket of vegetables and stuffed it into Xia Qingyue's hand. "It's freshly fried and hot. It's perfect for eating when we take a rest on the mountain later."
"Thank you, auntie and uncle. You don't have to come out to see me off. I know the way."
It was lunchtime and every household was busy preparing lunch. They didn't meet anyone on the path, so they went straight up the back mountain.
After climbing over two mountains, they stopped to sit on the grass to rest. Xia Qingyue opened the basket, which contained two pairs of chopsticks, a large bowl filled with pancakes, and two bamboo tubes of water.
"Come, eat something to fill your stomach."
The vegetable basket was placed between her and Han Zhibai.
Han Zhibai waited for her to pick up a pancake with chopsticks before he picked up his chopsticks.
"Aunt said that the pancakes above don't have salt in them, so they're for Heihei and Xiaobai." She picked up a few pancakes and fed them to the two little ones.
Seeing them eating happily, the two of them started eating too. They were both hungry, so they concentrated on eating.
After filling their stomachs, each of them drank half of the bamboo tube of water and gave the rest to the two little ones.
After a short rest, Xia Qingyue set off on her journey. She looked up at the sky from time to time. It was sunny when she was eating just now, but now it was cloudy again.
Han Zhibai spoke up: "Except last year, it rained a lot at this time of year in previous years, and it rained intermittently until the beginning of next month."
"A long drought is not good, and too much rain is not good either. I hope this year will be smooth sailing."
As they were almost near the raspberry land, she remembered something, "Han Zhibai, can I buy some of those iron arrowheads from you?"
Han Zhibai, who was walking with Xiao Hei, slowed down his pace and looked at her with a sidelong smile, "Okay."
He is so easy to talk to.
She pointed forward and said, "Then let's go a little further and unload my things."
When they arrived at the place where the two had agreed to deliver water, Han Zhibai unloaded Xia Qingyue's things, including the box containing the iron arrowhead.
Xia Qingyue took more than thirty iron arrowheads and took out more than six taels of silver from the cloth bag and gave them to him, "To rent Xiao Hei to carry the things, and to buy arrowheads."
Han Zhibai did not move. "I bought a lot of things, and Xiao Hei carried even more. Besides, it's on the way, so you don't have to pay me. The Iron Arrowhead doesn't cost that much."
"Take it quickly. Are you stupid? I secretly asked the blacksmith about the market price of iron arrowheads. I know the price." She frowned and forced the silver into his broad palm.
"You deserve this money. How can I feel good if you don't accept it?"
Hearing this, Han Zhibai slowly tightened his hand holding the silver, "Okay, I'll take it."
"Go back and stock up some dry firewood. I'll go down the mountain to buy some more things later. Are you still going down?"
He nodded without hesitation.
"Then let's make an appointment to meet here and go down the mountain together. If it doesn't rain in the next few days, how about we meet the day after tomorrow?"
"can."
"Okay, you go first." Xia Qingyue waved goodbye to him.
Han Zhibai stared at her, then reluctantly looked away, his steps heavy as if they were weighed by a thousand pounds. "Be careful when you go back."
"Yeah, you too."
After Han Zhibai and the others walked away, Xia Qingyue put all the things that could be put into the backpack, and carried the big things like the hoe in her hands.
There were a lot of stuff, so we followed the old method, hiding some of it and making three more trips to bring it back to the tiankeng.
On the last trip back to the stream, she went down to collect the two fish cages. It was still early, and she had to go out to find dry firewood later, so she was afraid of forgetting to collect the fish cages, so she put them away now that she remembered.
In the afternoon, she spent several hours in the woods beside the stream looking for dry firewood, carrying it back in batches.
It was gradually getting dark. After she finished her last load, she stacked the firewood. It looked messy and ugly, but she liked to do things right the first time.
There was a layer of dry firewood in the open space specially used for storing it. It was not much, and if we could find more for a few days, it would be enough for three or four months.
She was very tired from running around during the day, so she simply cooked some rice and made a stew for dinner.
After eating, I cleaned up the kitchen, poured the ten or so kilograms of rice I bought today into the rice jar, and sorted out the rest of the things.
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At dawn, before the morning dew had covered the sky, Xia Qingyue knelt in front of the grave of the original owner's parents, lit candles and burned paper money.
She burned the Li family's paper money and incense sticks first, and made it clear that they were their sincere wishes.
What was burned in the end was the paper money she bought.
Paper money will burn when it comes into contact with fire, with bright flames and billowing black smoke.
She knelt in front of the grave and kowtowed three times. "I hope you can rest in peace down there. If you don't have enough money, please send me a dream."
After the worship, Xia Qingyue took the newly bought machete and went out to chop firewood.
She took out some egg pancakes. She didn't come back to cook at noon. After a simple meal, she continued to chop and carry firewood.
In the afternoon, when she was very busy, Han Zhibai and Xiaobai came to the dense forest.